CaseUnknown1996
Reading, PA, USA
Man sees VERY BRIGHT orange/red, distinctly round fireball STREAK across sky parallel to horiz. Long tail! Not meteor, he thought.
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (130 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-11-16
- Where
- Reading, PA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 5 sec.
- Geo
- 40.336, -75.927 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-reading-pa-1996-2b82b7
In context
- Reading, PA has 80 sightings on file here.
- 1996 brought 37 reports from Pennsylvania.
Report
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