UFOMYST
CaseFireball2014

Altoona, PA, USA

Roman candle-like fireball streaking across Altoona sky.

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (56 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-12-03
Where
Altoona, PA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
2-3 seconds
Geo
40.519, -78.395 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-altoona-pa-2014-4d5d73
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

  • Altoona, PA has 24 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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