CaseCylinder2008
Philadelphia, PA, USA
lastnite i saw a cylinder in the sky orange in color no tail 06/29/08
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (69 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-06-29
- Where
- Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 39.952, -75.164 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-philadelphia-pa-2008-9d4a26
Wave
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 203 reports logged in Philadelphia, PA.
- This case is one of 193 Pennsylvania reports filed in 2008.
- Cylinder craft made up 1.6% of 2000s reports, vs 1.6% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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