UFOMYST
CaseFireball1978

Philadelphia, PA, USA

Ball of fire streaks eastward over Phila., lands in Atlantic Ocean one mile from Resorts Intl.. ((NUFORC Note: Meteor?? PD))

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (95 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
1978-05-29
Where
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
15 seconds
Geo
39.952, -75.164 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-philadelphia-pa-1978-409e08
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

    Colares & Operação Prato

    Ilha de Colares and the Baixo Amazonas, Pará, Brazil

    The most physically aggressive wave on record. Luminous objects — locals called them 'chupa-chupa' (sucker-sucker) — descended nightly over fishing villages, projecting beams that left burns, puncture marks, anemia and…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Philadelphia, PA shows up 203 times across the archive.
  • 18 reports came from Pennsylvania in 1978.
  • In the 1970s, 2.6% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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.