UFOMYST
CaseFireball2015

Washington, PA, USA

Western sky. Sunset. Five lights that moved in downward direction. They had short "tails," but no contrails. They disappeared.

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 (126 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-09-17
Where
Washington, PA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
Continues
Geo
40.174, -80.246 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-washington-pa-2015-e49c5d
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 →

In context

  • Washington, PA has 19 sightings on file here.
  • 2015 brought 244 reports from Pennsylvania.
  • The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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