Great Bend, PA, USA
the object that i saw in the sky, that was the size of a blimp at one mile,(and this was at least 6 miles away) disapeared in 2 seconds
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-08-23
- Where
- Great Bend, PA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 3sec
- Geo
- 41.972, -75.743 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-great-bend-pa-2008-9a7bd4
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 Great Bend, PA.
- This case is one of 193 Pennsylvania reports filed in 2008.
- Oval craft made up 4.7% of 2000s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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