CaseFireball1996
Mansfield, PA, USA
Man saw orange fireball pass across the sky at very high speed from E to W. Approx. 1/4-1/2 dia. of moon. Very fast, bright.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (124 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-11-16
- Where
- Mansfield, PA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 sec.
- Geo
- 41.807, -77.077 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-mansfield-pa-1996-5fd3f3
In context
- One of 3 documented reports from Mansfield, PA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Pennsylvania logged 37 sightings in 1996.
- Fireball sightings ran at 6.8% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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