CaseDisk1978

Allentown, PA, USA

SEEN 2 PALE GREEN FLYING SAUCERS OVER ALLENTOWN , PA ** JULY 4TH 1977/78 **

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (75 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-07-04
Where
Allentown, PA, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
1 MIN.
Geo
40.608, -75.490 · exact
Slug
disk-over-allentown-pa-1978-a85973
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • This is one of 67 reports logged in Allentown, PA.
  • This case is one of 18 Pennsylvania reports filed in 1978.
  • Disk craft made up 22.6% of 1970s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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