CaseUnknown2015

Philadelphia, PA, USA

We observed red lights coming from the west. At first there were just two or three. Within 15 minutes there were at least 25-30 silentl

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 2400s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-11-07
Where
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
40 minutes
Geo
39.952, -75.164 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-philadelphia-pa-2015-a98447
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…

In context

  • Philadelphia, PA shows up 203 times across the archive.
  • 244 reports came from Pennsylvania in 2015.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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