CaseFormation2013

Washington, PA, USA

3 red lights in a triangle formation heading North then disappeared, no clouds.

Report quality: Moderate61/100

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (79 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2013-10-18
Where
Washington, PA, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
40.174, -80.246 · exact
Slug
formation-over-washington-pa-2013-146bb0
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

  • This is one of 19 reports logged in Washington, 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.

Report

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