UFOMYST
CaseCircle2017

Effort, PA, USA

Slow moving; 3 steady lights:2 or more red and 1 yellow; very quiet

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (67 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-07-01
Where
Effort, PA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
40.939, -75.435 · exact
Slug
circle-over-effort-pa-2017-2540dd
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

  • Effort, PA shows up 5 times across the archive.
  • 179 reports came from Pennsylvania in 2017.
  • In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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