UFOMYST
CaseCircle2008

Butler, PA, USA

it was a white orb with a red outline. it had a long tail that was white and red.

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (81 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-05-24
Where
Butler, PA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
2 seconds
Geo
40.861, -79.895 · exact
Slug
circle-over-butler-pa-2008-812c0e
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…

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In context

  • One of 20 documented reports from Butler, PA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Pennsylvania logged 193 sightings in 2008.
  • Circle sightings ran at 8.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 10.6%).

Report

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