CaseFireball2000
Mechanicsburg, PA, USA
explosion in the sky
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Brief witness text (20 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2000-09-09
- Where
- Mechanicsburg, PA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2 seconds
- Geo
- 40.214, -77.009 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-mechanicsburg-pa-2000-bc74f5
In context
- Mechanicsburg, PA shows up 29 times across the archive.
- 74 reports came from Pennsylvania in 2000.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
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.