Atglen, PA, USA
Extremely bright light contained in a pyramid shape high in the early morning sky.
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (82 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-10-17
- Where
- Atglen, PA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 39.949, -75.974 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-atglen-pa-2020-acf177
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
- Atglen, PA shows up 3 times across the archive.
- 316 reports came from Pennsylvania in 2020.
- In the 2020s, 6.2% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
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.