UFOMYST
CaseFireball2010

McDonald, PA, USA

Glowing object seen in sky over SW Pennsylvania on July 4, 2010

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (63 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2010-07-04
Where
McDonald, PA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
<1 minute
Geo
40.371, -80.235 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-mcdonald-pa-2010-196fc0
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • McDonald, PA has 4 sightings on file here.
  • 2010 brought 171 reports from Pennsylvania.
  • The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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