UFOMYST
CaseFireball1977

Houtzdale, PA, USA

Object seemed to want to distance itself from our presence.

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (59 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-07-15
Where
Houtzdale, PA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
40.825, -78.351 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-houtzdale-pa-1977-099cf0
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

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In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Houtzdale, PA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Pennsylvania logged 12 sightings in 1977.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 2.6% during the 1970s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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