CaseCircle2020

Mount Carmel, PA, USA

Saw a white white circular shape float across the sky for about a mile, then went behind a tree waited for it to come out the other sid

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-10-01
Where
Mount Carmel, PA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
40.797, -76.412 · exact
Slug
circle-over-mount-carmel-pa-2020-d35c89
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

  • This is one of 4 reports logged in Mount Carmel, PA.
  • This case is one of 316 Pennsylvania reports filed in 2020.
  • Circle craft made up 11.9% of 2020s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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