CaseFormation2004

Plymouth Borough, PA, USA

Sighting similar to cross-shaped light formations seen on 03/12/00 and 04/15/04

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (79 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-04-30
Where
Plymouth Borough, PA, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
30 min
Geo
Slug
formation-over-plymouth-borough-pa-2004-a065ac
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…

In context

  • Plymouth Borough, PA shows up 3 times across the archive.
  • 137 reports came from Pennsylvania in 2004.
  • In the 2000s, 3.1% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.

Report

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