Emmaus, PA, USA
What appeared to be a white star circling a red circle. Object was not sporadic in movement.
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (92 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-07-15
- Where
- Emmaus, PA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 40.540, -75.497 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-emmaus-pa-2020-98f6d7
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
- Emmaus, PA has 8 sightings on file here.
- 2020 brought 316 reports from Pennsylvania.
- The 2020s skewed 11.9% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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