Penn Hills, PA, USA
Several Brilliant Flashes of light in different colors followed by a flickering orange/red glow across the 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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (111 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-07-28
- Where
- Penn Hills, PA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 40.501, -79.839 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-penn-hills-pa-2013-3d796b
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
- Penn Hills, PA shows up 5 times across the archive.
- 307 reports came from Pennsylvania in 2013.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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.