CaseChanging2015

Bethlehem, PA, USA

It was very bright and shifted shape from round to an almost diamond shape, we took pictures, however it kept shrinking

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: 2400s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (119 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-12-11
Where
Bethlehem, PA, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
40 minutes
Geo
40.626, -75.370 · exact
Slug
changing-over-bethlehem-pa-2015-571d25
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…

In context

  • Bethlehem, PA has 34 sightings on file here.
  • 2015 brought 244 reports from Pennsylvania.
  • The 2010s skewed 2.4% changing reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.

Report

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