UFOMYST
CaseFireball2012

Reading, PA, USA

3 Large Fireballs rose from ground in succession and followed each other West to East across sky into Heat Lightening near Reading, PA

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-07-04
Where
Reading, PA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
05:00
Geo
40.336, -75.927 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-reading-pa-2012-04145d
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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Local cluster

Local cluster

July 2012 was a busy month for Reading, PA: 3 separate reports.

In context

  • This is one of 80 reports logged in Reading, PA.
  • This case is one of 297 Pennsylvania reports filed in 2012.
  • 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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