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CaseFireball2016

Elizabethtown, PA, USA

I believe the sighting over Elizabethtown, PA, was a single Chinese lantern.

Report quality: Moderate61/100

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
  • Moderate witness text (76 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-fafd6b
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 →
Local cluster

Local cluster

3 reports came out of Elizabethtown, PA in October 2016 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Elizabethtown, PA has 6 sightings on file here.
  • 2016 brought 202 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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