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
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
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.