Monaca, PA, USA
At approximately 9:45 PM on 7/24/2013, I came outside to walk my dog. I looked up into a clear sky and saw through the trees what look
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-07-24
- Where
- Monaca, PA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 40.687, -80.271 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-monaca-pa-2013-95c719
Part of a wave
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
- Monaca, PA has 6 sightings on file here.
- 2013 brought 307 reports from Pennsylvania.
- The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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