Philadelphia, PA, USA
I saw 2 alabaster white perfectly round objects over our ball field as they hovered over us for about an hour ,then they were gone.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1954-07-15
- Where
- Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Geo
- 39.952, -75.164 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-philadelphia-pa-1954-479d19
Part of a wave
The Great French Wave
France, spilling into Italy, Spain, and Latin America
The densest close-encounter wave ever recorded: landed domed objects on country roads, paralysis beams, and small suited occupants, reported by farmers and gendarmes across rural France at a rate of several per night.…
In context
- Philadelphia, PA has 203 sightings on file here.
- 1954 brought 4 reports from Pennsylvania.
- The 1950s skewed 28.1% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.
Report
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