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CaseFireball2012

McKean, PA, USA

Balls of fire seen in evening sky, over Erie, PA, area.

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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
  • Brief witness text (55 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-05-30
Where
McKean, PA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
more than a minute
Geo
41.818, -78.558 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-mckean-pa-2012-f29305
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…

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In context

  • McKean, PA shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 297 reports came from Pennsylvania in 2012.
  • In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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