UFOMYST
CaseCircle2012

Harrisburg, PA, USA

Large bright light shooting across the sky in a high to low trajectory. I believe it was too large to be a shooting star.

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: 3s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (121 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-12-25
Where
Harrisburg, PA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
3 seconds
Geo
40.274, -76.884 · exact
Slug
circle-over-harrisburg-pa-2012-5f3290
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Harrisburg, PA has 55 sightings on file here.
  • 2012 brought 297 reports from Pennsylvania.
  • The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Report

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