CaseLight2004

Lancaster, PA, USA

Fast white light horizon to horizon 10 seconds flat

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 11s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (51 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-03-15
Where
Lancaster, PA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
10-12 seconds
Geo
40.038, -76.306 · exact
Slug
light-over-lancaster-pa-2004-8858c5
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

  • One of 52 documented reports from Lancaster, PA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Pennsylvania logged 137 sightings in 2004.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2000s (archive average: 20.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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