UFOMYST
CaseFireball2020

Dillsburg, PA, USA

Large bright red flash seemed to appear out of the sky at 30 degrees and fall into the horizon.

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (95 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-08-10
Where
Dillsburg, PA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
40.111, -77.035 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-dillsburg-pa-2020-54f628
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…

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In context

  • Dillsburg, PA shows up 10 times across the archive.
  • 316 reports came from Pennsylvania in 2020.
  • In the 2020s, 3.1% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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