UFOMYST
CaseFlash2010

Swarthmore, PA, USA

blue-green explosions? light up sky in Swarthmore PA

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (52 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2010-02-22
Where
Swarthmore, PA, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
~15 seconds
Geo
39.902, -75.350 · exact
Slug
flash-over-swarthmore-pa-2010-6e9930
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

  • One of 4 documented reports from Swarthmore, PA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Pennsylvania logged 171 sightings in 2010.
  • Flash sightings ran at 2% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).

Report

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