UFOMYST
CaseFireball1997

Franconia, PA, USA

It was a very large bright white fireball with a long fire trail behind it was moving at a very high rate of speed in a NW direction it

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-06-13
Where
Franconia, PA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
40.308, -75.358 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-franconia-pa-1997-fe0425
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Franconia, PA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Pennsylvania logged 40 sightings in 1997.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 6.8% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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