Collingdale, PA, USA
Bright white fast flashing light turned to solid white light then arched off fast toward Philadelphia
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (101 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-10-26
- Where
- Collingdale, PA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- Seconds
- Geo
- 39.912, -75.277 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-collingdale-pa-2009-344a04
Part of a wave
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
- Collingdale, PA has 3 sightings on file here.
- 2009 brought 166 reports from Pennsylvania.
- The 2000s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
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