Olyphant, PA, USA
Sighting of (3) flaming balls in the sky, which we initially thought was an airplane on fire that eventually disappeared.
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (121 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-04-27
- Where
- Olyphant, PA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 4 minutes
- Geo
- 41.468, -75.603 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-olyphant-pa-2012-f41abe
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
- Olyphant, PA shows up 5 times across the archive.
- 297 reports came from Pennsylvania in 2012.
- In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.