Lancaster, PA, USA
August 8, 2006 Lancaster, PA at 1 pm I saw a steel blue oval shaped object traveling rapidly in a straight line in front of the clouds
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: 25s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-08-08
- Where
- Lancaster, PA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 20 TO 30 SECONDS
- Geo
- 40.038, -76.306 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-lancaster-pa-2006-6625e4
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
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In context
- This is one of 52 reports logged in Lancaster, PA.
- This case is one of 131 Pennsylvania reports filed in 2006.
- Oval craft made up 4.7% of 2000s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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