Philadelphia, PA, USA
Barbecuing on the deck Saturday night and was shocked seeing red flair like objects traveling at about 30 mph in no certain formation.
Report quality: High73/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-04-30
- Where
- Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 39.952, -75.164 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-philadelphia-pa-2016-d752b2
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
- Philadelphia, PA has 203 sightings on file here.
- 2016 brought 202 reports from Pennsylvania.
- The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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