Fireball over Tarzana (Los Angeles), CA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I only caught the tail end of the anomaly, as it flew down below the tree line about a quarter of a mile from me. The thing that brings me here today to report this is I’ve never seen anything like it, and I’m a big astronomy and space nerd. It was a massive blue/green meteorite type fireball that I would have to roughly judge to be five to ten feet in diameter. The tail of the fireball was very small. It was all very bright. I heard no light or sound when/if it landed or made impact. Nothing remarkable happened after for several minutes. It was too brief to capture a photo.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #172537). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2022-10-14 → 2022-10-31