UFOMYST
CaseFireball2005

East Springfield, PA, USA

Bright blueish white 2 foot diameter ball of light in Erie County.

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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (66 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-12-13
Where
East Springfield, PA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
15 seconds
Geo
41.965, -80.407 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-east-springfield-pa-2005-414bae
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 6 documented reports from East Springfield, PA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Pennsylvania logged 106 sightings in 2005.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 5.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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