CaseFireball2008
West Los Angeles, CA, USA
Red fireball over the sky of the West Los Angeles area.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 750s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (55 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-12-20
- Where
- West Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 10-15mins.
- Geo
- 34.046, -118.431 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-west-los-angeles-ca-2008-844126
Wave
Part of a wave
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…
In context
- One of 12 documented reports from West Los Angeles, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 709 sightings in 2008.
- Fireball sightings ran at 5.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.