Philadelphia, PA, USA
Parent & Child Circles on Sky. ((NUFORC Note: Possible advertising lights? PD))
Report quality: Low32/100
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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (30 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
- 2012-03-24
- Where
- Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 2 hours
- Geo
- 39.952, -75.164 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-philadelphia-pa-2012-08758b
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
Philadelphia, PA logged 3 reports in the single month of March 2012.
In context
- One of 203 documented reports from Philadelphia, PA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Pennsylvania logged 297 sightings in 2012.
- Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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