York, PA, USA
Saw multiple low flying planes over head which is odd for our area. As they were passing by we took notice to this very bright spot in
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-03-26
- Where
- York, PA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 39.963, -76.728 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-york-pa-2016-65b156
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…
In context
- This is one of 59 reports logged in York, PA.
- This case is one of 202 Pennsylvania reports filed in 2016.
- Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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