Dingman's Ferry, PA, USA
While working as a security guard at Wild Acres Lake in 1977 saw a bright rise off the ground, hover over trees and shoot off into sky.
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1977-01-15
- Where
- Dingman's Ferry, PA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 41.220, -74.871 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-dingman-s-ferry-pa-1977-8e6363
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In context
- Dingman's Ferry, PA has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1977 brought 12 reports from Pennsylvania.
- The 1970s skewed 11.6% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
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