Plains, PA, USA
2nd sighting of circle ship (with escorts) in same location in 2 years.
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (71 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-07-26
- Where
- Plains, PA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 41.275, -75.850 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-plains-pa-2009-ddc18d
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…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Plains, PA reports filed in July 2009.
In context
- Plains, PA shows up 8 times across the archive.
- 166 reports came from Pennsylvania in 2009.
- In the 2000s, 8.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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