UFOMYST
CaseFlash2015

Allentown, PA, USA

Could have been a planet, but it seems odd rising in the northern sky. ((NUFORC Note: We suspect a "twinkling" star. PD))

Report quality: Low35/100

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
  • Moderate witness text (70 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
2015-09-08
Where
Allentown, PA, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
90 minutes
Geo
40.608, -75.490 · exact
Slug
flash-over-allentown-pa-2015-e728f5
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Allentown, PA has 67 sightings on file here.
  • 2015 brought 244 reports from Pennsylvania.
  • The 2010s skewed 2% flash reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.

Report

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