Sugar Grove, PA, USA
Moving color changing lights in the night sky over forest. ((NUFORC Note: "Twinkling" stars?? PD))
Report quality: Low32/100
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
- Brief witness text (58 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2016-09-13
- Where
- Sugar Grove, PA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 3
- Geo
- 41.983, -79.339 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-sugar-grove-pa-2016-cb764b
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
- Sugar Grove, PA shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 202 reports came from Pennsylvania in 2016.
- In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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