CaseFireball2022

Kimberton, PA, USA

Bright red craft with white streak flying away

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 1s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (46 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2022-01-08
Where
Kimberton, PA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
1 second
Geo
40.131, -75.572 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-kimberton-pa-2022-5be218
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…

In context

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Kimberton, PA.
  • This case is one of 49 Pennsylvania reports filed in 2022.
  • Fireball craft made up 3.1% of 2020s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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