CaseFormation1999
Mechanicsburg, PA, USA
Linear formation of bright amber colored lights moving west to east at about the speed of a normal airplane, but it was not an airplane
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-11-16
- Where
- Mechanicsburg, PA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 20 sec
- Geo
- 40.214, -77.009 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-mechanicsburg-pa-1999-919455
In context
- One of 29 documented reports from Mechanicsburg, PA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Pennsylvania logged 72 sightings in 1999.
- Formation sightings ran at 2.7% during the 1990s (archive average: 3.3%).
Report
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