UFOMYST
CaseCircle1978

Reading, PA, USA

3 bright lights together ,broke away from each other,flew off in diffrent directions. ((anonymous report))

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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (85 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-06-01
Where
Reading, PA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
2-3 minutes
Geo
40.336, -75.927 · exact
Slug
circle-over-reading-pa-1978-d02c5d
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Reading, PA shows up 80 times across the archive.
  • 18 reports came from Pennsylvania in 1978.
  • In the 1970s, 10.5% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Report

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