CaseCylinder2006

Meadville, PA, USA

Strange Lights Over Small Pennsylvania Town. ((NUFORC Note: Probably a sighting of celestial bodies. PD))

Report quality: Low32/100

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: 5400s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (44 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2006-11-22
Where
Meadville, PA, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
90 Min.
Geo
41.641, -80.151 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-meadville-pa-2006-89e0b3
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

  • Meadville, PA shows up 15 times across the archive.
  • 131 reports came from Pennsylvania in 2006.
  • In the 2000s, 1.6% of reports described a cylinder — the all-time rate is 1.6%.

Report

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