CaseCircle2017

Rockledge, PA, USA

Saw a ball of light spring up from ground It was white with trials of smaller white lights. I was alone, and it scared me. It was fast,

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 12s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2017-05-15
Where
Rockledge, PA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
10-15 seconds
Geo
40.081, -75.090 · exact
Slug
circle-over-rockledge-pa-2017-d6cd83
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

  • One of 4 documented reports from Rockledge, PA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Pennsylvania logged 179 sightings in 2017.
  • Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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