McMurray, PA, USA
03/21/09 4 lights circling approx 6 stories high in residential area. ((NUFORC Note: Advertising lights?? PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 2100s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (69 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2009-03-21
- Where
- McMurray, PA, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- approx 35 min
- Geo
- 40.278, -80.084 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-mcmurray-pa-2009-ca759a
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 5 reports logged in McMurray, PA.
- This case is one of 166 Pennsylvania reports filed in 2009.
- Changing craft made up 2.8% of 2000s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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