New Britain, PA, USA
bright, trianglular, glowing caft hovered above town and then sped away super fast!
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (83 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-12-04
- Where
- New Britain, PA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 1.5 minutes
- Geo
- 40.299, -75.181 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-new-britain-pa-2008-eaa51c
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
- One of 1 documented reports from New Britain, PA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Pennsylvania logged 193 sightings in 2008.
- Triangle sightings ran at 10.1% during the 2000s (archive average: 9%).
Report
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