CaseCircle1996
Butler, PA, USA
huge round black object with huge lights spotted in sky over Butler Co. PA
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 (74 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-06-15
- Where
- Butler, PA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 10 min.bu
- Geo
- 40.861, -79.895 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-butler-pa-1996-d2d648
In context
- Butler, PA shows up 20 times across the archive.
- 37 reports came from Pennsylvania in 1996.
- In the 1990s, 6.7% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
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