UFOMYST
CaseFireball2014

Vista, CA, USA

My family and I were driving home from a Christmas eve at my dads house , when my wife said look at that. to my utter amazement I saw 1

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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  • Duration parsed: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2014-12-24
Where
Vista, CA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
33.200, -117.243 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-vista-ca-2014-08e268
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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Local cluster

Local cluster

Vista, CA logged 3 reports in the single month of December 2014.

In context

  • One of 41 documented reports from Vista, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 869 sightings in 2014.
  • 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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