UFOMYST
CaseOther2004

Mount Carmel, PA, USA

Slow moving shape in the sky that faded but retained shape as it did, moved S to N. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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 (83 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2004-08-31
Where
Mount Carmel, PA, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
half hour
Geo
40.797, -76.412 · exact
Slug
other-over-mount-carmel-pa-2004-566dce
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…

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In context

  • This is one of 4 reports logged in Mount Carmel, PA.
  • This case is one of 137 Pennsylvania reports filed in 2004.
  • Other craft made up 7.6% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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