Shamokin (Coal Township), PA, USA
Saw a white flatish oval or cigar shaped white object for 5 seconds and then it disappeared. Clear blue sky with no clouds.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (123 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-07-15
- Where
- Shamokin (Coal Township), PA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 40.789, -76.559 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-shamokin-coal-township-pa-2008-94240c
Part of a wave
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
- One of 1 documented reports from Shamokin (Coal Township), PA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Pennsylvania logged 193 sightings in 2008.
- Cigar sightings ran at 2.7% during the 2000s (archive average: 2.5%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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