Bethlehem, PA, USA
Driving home in a rain storm on Route 22. Saw five orange colored lights in sky going from an east to west direction. Did not observe a
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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-07-13
- Where
- Bethlehem, PA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 2-3 minutes
- Geo
- 40.626, -75.370 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-bethlehem-pa-2013-bbd2a7
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…
In context
- This is one of 34 reports logged in Bethlehem, PA.
- This case is one of 307 Pennsylvania reports filed in 2013.
- Formation craft made up 3.5% of 2010s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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