Erie, PA, USA
((HOAX??)) Ufo visiting my neighbors.
Report quality: Low18/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (26 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2013-08-15
- Where
- Erie, PA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 5-15 minutes
- Geo
- 42.129, -80.085 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-erie-pa-2013-05d71f
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…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Erie, PA reports filed in August 2013.
In context
- Erie, PA shows up 62 times across the archive.
- 307 reports came from Pennsylvania in 2013.
- In the 2010s, 3.8% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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