UFOMYST
CaseChanging2016

Philadelphia, PA, USA

Eight fire ball shapes flying west , north, and straight up, but calm manner. They were focused.

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (96 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-01-31
Where
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
39.952, -75.164 · exact
Slug
changing-over-philadelphia-pa-2016-9c1cbf
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 →
Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Philadelphia, PA reports filed in January 2016.

In context

  • Philadelphia, PA shows up 203 times across the archive.
  • 202 reports came from Pennsylvania in 2016.
  • In the 2010s, 2.4% of reports described a changing — the all-time rate is 2.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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