Wellsville, PA, USA
While walking, I noticed a shape in the low cloud cover. It appeared to be a saucer shape almost on edge. It looked mostly whitish.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1977-09-07
- Where
- Wellsville, PA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 40.051, -76.937 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-wellsville-pa-1977-dd5075
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In context
- One of 2 documented reports from Wellsville, PA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Pennsylvania logged 12 sightings in 1977.
- Circle sightings ran at 10.5% during the 1970s (archive average: 10.6%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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