CaseFireball2012
Forty Fort, PA, USA
Slow moving bright light
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 720s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (24 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-10-11
- Where
- Forty Fort, PA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 12 minutes
- Geo
- 41.279, -75.878 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-forty-fort-pa-2012-577acc
Wave
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 2 reports logged in Forty Fort, PA.
- This case is one of 297 Pennsylvania reports filed in 2012.
- Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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