CaseLight1997

Blairsville, PA, USA

Low flying aircraft hovering above elementary schoolIt was 11:35 pm and I was driving west from Bolivar Pa to blairsville on route

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (130 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-02-15
Where
Blairsville, PA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
5min
Geo
40.431, -79.261 · exact
Slug
light-over-blairsville-pa-1997-326fdd
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • Blairsville, PA has 4 sightings on file here.
  • 1997 brought 40 reports from Pennsylvania.
  • The 1990s skewed 16.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Report

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