Bradford, PA, USA
The object was an orange/red circle that did not move for about 60 seconds until it faded away. ((anonymous report))
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (95 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-06-18
- Where
- Bradford, PA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 90 seconds
- Geo
- 41.956, -78.644 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-bradford-pa-2016-d506ce
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…
In context
- This is one of 6 reports logged in Bradford, PA.
- This case is one of 202 Pennsylvania reports filed in 2016.
- Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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