Reading, PA, USA
Circle in the sky
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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
- Brief witness text (17 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-09-23
- Where
- Reading, PA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 40.336, -75.927 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-reading-pa-2019-ee9482
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 — 4 Reading, PA reports filed in September 2019.
In context
- Reading, PA shows up 80 times across the archive.
- 236 reports came from Pennsylvania in 2019.
- In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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