UFOMYST
CaseCircle2021

Philadelphia, PA, USA

Several round white object sight near my flight traveling in opposite direction at a high rate of speed.

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (104 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-07-19
Where
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
3- 5 seconds
Geo
39.952, -75.164 · exact
Slug
circle-over-philadelphia-pa-2021-9bf50c
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

    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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Philadelphia, PA has 203 sightings on file here.
  • 2021 brought 136 reports from Pennsylvania.
  • The 2020s skewed 11.9% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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