UFOMYST
CaseFireball2010

New Castle, PA, USA

Witnessed 12-15 larger-than-stars orbs hover over New Castle, Pa, then slowly dim a few at a time.

Report quality: Moderate69/100

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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (98 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2010-09-25
Where
New Castle, PA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
90 seconds?
Geo
41.004, -80.347 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-new-castle-pa-2010-bc0bbe
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…

    Open wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

3 reports came out of New Castle, PA in September 2010 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • New Castle, PA has 24 sightings on file here.
  • 2010 brought 171 reports from Pennsylvania.
  • The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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