CaseFireball2017

East Stroudsburg, PA, USA

My husband and I were walking towards our time-share when I glanced up and saw a bright, almost burning object in the sky. I called my

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 450s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-12-08
Where
East Stroudsburg, PA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
~5-10 minutes
Geo
41.000, -75.181 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-east-stroudsburg-pa-2017-527da6
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…

In context

  • One of 11 documented reports from East Stroudsburg, PA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Pennsylvania logged 179 sightings in 2017.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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