UFOMYST
CaseFireball2011

Philadelphia, PA, USA

Orange size Fire-like Glowing Sphere in Pennsylvania July 30, 2011.

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (67 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-07-30
Where
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
1-2 seconds
Geo
39.952, -75.164 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-philadelphia-pa-2011-5a2580
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…

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In context

  • This is one of 203 reports logged in Philadelphia, PA.
  • This case is one of 188 Pennsylvania reports filed in 2011.
  • Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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