York, PA, USA
strange orange lights in the sky, fade in and out, disappear, then reappear several minutes later
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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (97 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-11-17
- Where
- York, PA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 45 minutes
- Geo
- 39.963, -76.728 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-york-pa-2009-c057a8
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
- York, PA has 59 sightings on file here.
- 2009 brought 166 reports from Pennsylvania.
Report
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