West Chester, PA, USA
Strange irregular shaped object, possibly some kind of baloon, sending photo.
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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (77 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-09-04
- Where
- West Chester, PA, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 2-3 minutes
- Geo
- 39.961, -75.608 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-west-chester-pa-2016-372ff7
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
- West Chester, PA shows up 38 times across the archive.
- 202 reports came from Pennsylvania in 2016.
- In the 2010s, 6.3% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.