CaseCircle2011

Hershey, PA, USA

((HOAX??) I was walking on the walk path on the left side of the hershey med cntr when i sall a bright light in the shape of a star.

Report quality: Low25/100

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  • Duration parsed: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (132 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2011-10-31
Where
Hershey, PA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
15 min or more
Geo
40.286, -76.650 · exact
Slug
circle-over-hershey-pa-2011-64871f
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…

In context

  • Hershey, PA shows up 10 times across the archive.
  • 188 reports came from Pennsylvania in 2011.
  • In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Report

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