Philadelphia, PA, USA
dark gray object over the city of Philadelphia for 2 minuets
Report quality: Moderate63/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (60 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-07-04
- Where
- Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 2 minuets
- Geo
- 39.952, -75.164 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-philadelphia-pa-2009-f5d7ec
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…
Local cluster
4 reports came out of Philadelphia, PA in July 2009 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Philadelphia, PA has 203 sightings on file here.
- 2009 brought 166 reports from Pennsylvania.
- The 2000s skewed 2.7% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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