CaseFireball2016

Elizabethtown, PA, USA

Single slow moving fireball that changed direction.

Report quality: Moderate58/100

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (51 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2016-10-10
Where
Elizabethtown, PA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
4 minutes
Geo
40.153, -76.603 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-elizabethtown-pa-2016-62d483
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

October 2016 was a busy month for Elizabethtown, PA: 3 separate reports.

In context

  • This is one of 6 reports logged in Elizabethtown, 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.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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