Penetanguishene (Canada), ON, Canada
Round glowing red/orange Fireball moving from east to west then changing to black over Penetanguishene, Ontario..
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (113 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-12-25
- Where
- Penetanguishene (Canada), ON, Canada
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 44.783, -79.916 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-penetanguishene-canada-on-2012-6061f1
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
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In context
- One of 3 documented reports from Penetanguishene (Canada), Canada in the UFOMYST archive.
- Canada logged 304 sightings in 2012.
- Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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