CaseCone2015

York, PA, USA

3 nights same thing brightest object in sky moves hovers? ((NUFORC Note: Sighting of Venus?? PD))

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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: 2400s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (57 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2015-04-28
Where
York, PA, USA
Shape
Cone
Duration
40 minutes
Geo
39.963, -76.728 · exact
Slug
cone-over-york-pa-2015-d7702c
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

  • This is one of 59 reports logged in York, PA.
  • This case is one of 244 Pennsylvania reports filed in 2015.
  • Cone craft made up 0.4% of 2010s reports, vs 0.4% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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