UFOMYST
CaseFireball2004

Hegins, PA, USA

Fireball

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (8 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2004-09-03
Where
Hegins, PA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
15 min
Geo
40.651, -76.498 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-hegins-pa-2004-c6842d
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…

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In context

  • One of 2 documented reports from Hegins, PA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Pennsylvania logged 137 sightings in 2004.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 5.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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