CaseFormation1980
Shirleysburg, PA, USA
Sometime during the late 1970-s and early 1980’s, I can’t remember the time of the year. I was in my home in rural Shirleysburg, PA.
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1980-10-01
- Where
- Shirleysburg, PA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 40.298, -77.874 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-shirleysburg-pa-1980-5b20e5
In context
- Shirleysburg, PA shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 6 reports came from Pennsylvania in 1980.
- In the 1980s, 2.5% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.
Report
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