UFOMYST
CaseFireball2012

Rochester, PA, USA

They looked like orange stars, moving incredibly fast at high altitude, then went straight up.

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: 360s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (94 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-10-03
Where
Rochester, PA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
5-7 minutes
Geo
40.702, -80.286 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-rochester-pa-2012-1deb15
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

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Rochester, PA.
  • This case is one of 297 Pennsylvania reports filed in 2012.
  • 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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