CaseOther2009

Hermitage, PA, USA

there were strange vertical horizontal lights in the sky.

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 28800s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (57 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-01-21
Where
Hermitage, PA, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
8 hours
Geo
41.233, -80.449 · exact
Slug
other-over-hermitage-pa-2009-e574b3
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…

In context

  • This is one of 11 reports logged in Hermitage, PA.
  • This case is one of 166 Pennsylvania reports filed in 2009.
  • Other craft made up 7.6% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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