West Chester, PA, USA
6-8 Bright reddish orange fire balls in the sky
Report quality: Moderate66/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (47 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-09-19
- Where
- West Chester, PA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 1 Minute
- Geo
- 39.961, -75.608 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-west-chester-pa-2009-c9bb17
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…
Local cluster
September 2009 was a busy month for West Chester, PA: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 38 reports logged in West Chester, PA.
- This case is one of 166 Pennsylvania reports filed in 2009.
- Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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