UFOMYST
CaseFireball2015

Whittier, CA, USA

((HOAX??)) We saw 3 cylinder objects that look like a flame floating around the air among the fireworks.

Report quality: Low21/100

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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (93 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2015-07-04
Where
Whittier, CA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
2.5 minutes
Geo
33.979, -118.033 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-whittier-ca-2015-18e789
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

  • Whittier, CA shows up 62 times across the archive.
  • 814 reports came from California in 2015.
  • In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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