UFOMYST
CaseFireball2015

Port Matilda, PA, USA

((HOAX??)) It was like a fireball hovering, but it disappeared out of thin air.

Report quality: Low15/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (68 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2015-08-23
Where
Port Matilda, PA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
00:01:30
Geo
40.800, -78.054 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-port-matilda-pa-2015-303a70
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

  • This is one of 2 reports logged in Port Matilda, PA.
  • This case is one of 244 Pennsylvania reports filed in 2015.
  • Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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