UFOMYST
CaseSphere2015

Mercersburg, PA, USA

Mysterious orange lights over Mercersburg, PA.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (46 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-05-08
Where
Mercersburg, PA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
45 minutes
Geo
39.828, -77.903 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-mercersburg-pa-2015-db0ce3
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…

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In context

  • One of 5 documented reports from Mercersburg, PA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Pennsylvania logged 244 sightings in 2015.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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