UFOMYST
CaseFireball2019

Reading, PA, USA

Orange pulsating fireball of light silently flying west then slowly rising up and traveling north then disappears. It changed from red

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2019-09-01
Where
Reading, PA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
40.336, -75.927 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-reading-pa-2019-8c30b0
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…

    Open wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

4 reports came out of Reading, PA in September 2019 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Reading, PA has 80 sightings on file here.
  • 2019 brought 236 reports from Pennsylvania.
  • The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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