CaseOval2008

Washington, PA, USA

Ball of flame moving toward earth, seemed to bounce off and turn south

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (70 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-06-19
Where
Washington, PA, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
4 seconds +_
Geo
40.174, -80.246 · exact
Slug
oval-over-washington-pa-2008-b236d6
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…

In context

  • One of 19 documented reports from Washington, PA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Pennsylvania logged 193 sightings in 2008.
  • Oval sightings ran at 4.7% during the 2000s (archive average: 4.3%).

Report

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