UFOMYST
CaseFireball2008

Erie, PA, USA

Fireballs slowly descend from the sky and disappear into Lake Erie

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (66 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-08-11
Where
Erie, PA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
> one hour
Geo
42.129, -80.085 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-erie-pa-2008-3b8700
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

  • Erie, PA shows up 62 times across the archive.
  • 193 reports came from Pennsylvania in 2008.
  • In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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