UFOMYST
CaseLight2018

Philadelphia, PA, USA

~3 orb-like lights kept circling in random form, & then moving away, together. ((NUFORC Note: Adv. lights? PD))((anonymous report))

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (78 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-03-03
Where
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
39.952, -75.164 · exact
Slug
light-over-philadelphia-pa-2018-4fc861
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 203 documented reports from Philadelphia, PA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Pennsylvania logged 94 sightings in 2018.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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