Marcus Hook, PA, USA
Minutes after fireworks I had noticed an orange fireball in the sky. It was moving fast and it skipped speed a few times.
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (121 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-01-01
- Where
- Marcus Hook, PA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 39.819, -75.419 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-marcus-hook-pa-2021-073f5b
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
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In context
- One of 4 documented reports from Marcus Hook, PA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Pennsylvania logged 136 sightings in 2021.
- Fireball sightings ran at 3.1% during the 2020s (archive average: 6.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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