Porter township, PA, USA
Bright light hovering, thought it was a planet but then it moved after 15 minutes.
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (82 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-02-20
- Where
- Porter township, PA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 40.934, -79.169 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-porter-township-pa-2017-67d453
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
- Porter township, PA has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2017 brought 179 reports from Pennsylvania.
- The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
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