UFOMYST
CaseFireball2019

Van Nuys, CA, USA

I was driving a little after a quarter to 1 am when I stopped at an intersection and saw something go in front my vehicle. I could see

Report quality: Moderate55/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2019-04-22
Where
Van Nuys, CA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
5 seconds
Geo
34.187, -118.449 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-van-nuys-ca-2019-a27b6b
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

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In context

  • One of 43 documented reports from Van Nuys, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 510 sightings in 2019.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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