Bethlehem, PA, USA
5 fireball objects in a V-shape formation flying low and slowly as witnessed by my husband and me.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 390s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (98 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-06-21
- Where
- Bethlehem, PA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5-8 minutes
- Geo
- 40.626, -75.370 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-bethlehem-pa-2013-d2bc0b
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
- Bethlehem, PA shows up 34 times across the archive.
- 307 reports came from Pennsylvania in 2013.
- In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
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