Gallitzin, PA, USA
Our family of 3 were out on our backyard having a bonfire when all of the sudden we looked up and there was a low flying orangish Amber
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-07-01
- Where
- Gallitzin, PA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 40.482, -78.552 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-gallitzin-pa-2017-d4f578
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
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Gallitzin, PA.
- This case is one of 179 Pennsylvania reports filed in 2017.
- Oval craft made up 4.1% of 2010s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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