CaseFireball2021

Lansdale, PA, USA

3 fireball-type of objects ascending, traveling west to east and disappearing

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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
  • Moderate witness text (77 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-12-13
Where
Lansdale, PA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
40.242, -75.284 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-lansdale-pa-2021-b8c342
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…

In context

  • Lansdale, PA shows up 18 times across the archive.
  • 136 reports came from Pennsylvania in 2021.
  • In the 2020s, 3.1% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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