CaseFireball1999
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Three round, orange, reddish balls hovering, moving, but not advancing forward. After 5 mins, one moved slowly off the the left.
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (128 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-09-24
- Where
- Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 10 mins
- Geo
- 39.952, -75.164 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-philadelphia-pa-1999-680726
Local cluster
Local cluster
Philadelphia, PA logged 3 reports in the single month of September 1999.
In context
- One of 203 documented reports from Philadelphia, PA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Pennsylvania logged 72 sightings in 1999.
- Fireball sightings ran at 6.8% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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