Philadelphia, PA, USA
Blue ball over Philadelphia.
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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
- Brief witness text (28 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-10-23
- Where
- Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 39.952, -75.164 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-philadelphia-pa-2013-2e133b
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…
Local cluster
October 2013 was a busy month for Philadelphia, PA: 4 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 203 reports logged in Philadelphia, PA.
- This case is one of 307 Pennsylvania reports filed in 2013.
- Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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