UFOMYST
CaseFireball1978

Madera, PA, USA

Orange/yellow sphere of light without sound and traveled at intense accelleration with intelligence

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (99 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-06-15
Where
Madera, PA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
40.828, -78.435 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-madera-pa-1978-211055
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

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In context

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Madera, PA.
  • This case is one of 18 Pennsylvania reports filed in 1978.
  • Fireball craft made up 2.6% of 1970s 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.