Plymouth Meeting, PA, USA
My mom was upstairs in her room but came running downstairs and running out the door. She said there are strange lights in sky.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (127 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-03-02
- Where
- Plymouth Meeting, PA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 40.102, -75.274 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-plymouth-meeting-pa-2016-808b8d
Part of a wave
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…
In context
- Plymouth Meeting, PA shows up 9 times across the archive.
- 202 reports came from Pennsylvania in 2016.
- In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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