Gettysburg, PA, USA
My son & I were driving from Gettysburg, back home to Littlestown, PA. We saw 8 lights (very bright) in the sky. I asked him what that
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-01-13
- Where
- Gettysburg, PA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 39.831, -77.231 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-gettysburg-pa-2009-ea3d9f
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 15 reports logged in Gettysburg, PA.
- This case is one of 166 Pennsylvania reports filed in 2009.
- Triangle craft made up 10.1% of 2000s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.
Report
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