UFOMYST
CaseFireball2019

Philipsburg, PA, USA

Huge orange flash of light from satellite going over. ((NUFORC Note: Possible flare from an Iridium satellite? PD))

Report quality: Low32/100

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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (53 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2019-02-04
Where
Philipsburg, PA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
15 seconds
Geo
40.896, -78.221 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-philipsburg-pa-2019-9701bb
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…

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In context

  • Philipsburg, PA has 11 sightings on file here.
  • 2019 brought 236 reports from Pennsylvania.
  • The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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