UFOMYST
CaseCircle2010

Philipsburg, PA, USA

Night observation of bright, white circular light descending soundlessly in straight path from sky toward the ground.

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (117 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2010-10-31
Where
Philipsburg, PA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
c. 4 seconds
Geo
40.896, -78.221 · exact
Slug
circle-over-philipsburg-pa-2010-a339cd
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

  • Philipsburg, PA has 11 sightings on file here.
  • 2010 brought 171 reports from Pennsylvania.
  • The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Report

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