Phoenixville, PA, USA
Bright light inside an orange object, floating slowly overhead and not affected by the wind.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (92 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-11-08
- Where
- Phoenixville, PA, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 40.130, -75.515 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-phoenixville-pa-2013-b66264
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 21 reports logged in Phoenixville, PA.
- This case is one of 307 Pennsylvania reports filed in 2013.
- Rectangle craft made up 1.7% of 2010s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.
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.