CaseFireball2015

Mount Joy, PA, USA

Medium sized circular red (fireball-like) object moving radically (up and down) through the sky slowly losing alt. before disappearing.

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-10-17
Where
Mount Joy, PA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
120 seconds
Geo
40.110, -76.503 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-mount-joy-pa-2015-fd9772
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…

In context

  • One of 4 documented reports from Mount Joy, PA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Pennsylvania logged 244 sightings in 2015.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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