NUFORC Sighting 61988

Occurred: 2008-02-29 21:00 Local
Reported: 2008-02-28 18:27 Pacific
Duration: 2 min
No of observers: 3

Location: Celta, PA, USA

Shape: Fireball

fireball sighting report on Police/Fire scanner

I did not witness this myself.

Thursday evening, 21:00 hrs my scanner on channel 8830 Delta Vol. fire company, was alerted to a report of a large ball of fire falling to the ground and causing a surrounding fire.

Delta VFD responded and the 911 dispatcher said that the PA State Police had received 3 calls reporting a large ball of fire falling to the ground.

The 3 callers also reported that they thought they heard a low flying aircraft in the area just before the fireball was sighted.

I dont know what the flying object was:but I thought you may be interested.

The map corrdinates are appox. Lat 39.7 lon 76.3 elev. 397 ft.

NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD

Posted 2008-03-04