UFOMYST
CaseCircle2017

Philadelphia, PA, USA

((HOAX??)) Four people saw an orange dot moving in different directions. ((anonymous report))

Report quality: Low21/100

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (61 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2017-05-20
Where
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
39.952, -75.164 · exact
Slug
circle-over-philadelphia-pa-2017-cc5798
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

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In context

  • One of 203 documented reports from Philadelphia, PA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Pennsylvania logged 179 sightings in 2017.
  • Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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