UFOMYST
CaseFireball2014

Allentown, PA, USA

I saw a red light in the shape of a circle appear in the middle of the sky.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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
  • Moderate witness text (75 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-08-07
Where
Allentown, PA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
1 minute
Geo
40.608, -75.490 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-allentown-pa-2014-db7d37
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

3 reports came out of Allentown, PA in August 2014 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Allentown, PA has 67 sightings on file here.
  • 2014 brought 382 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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