UFOMYST
CaseCircle2014

York, PA, USA

Bright white circular light/craft in sky shoots down to 200-300 ft above ground, hovers, than shoots back up at extremely high speed

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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (132 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-04-24
Where
York, PA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
15 seconds
Geo
39.963, -76.728 · exact
Slug
circle-over-york-pa-2014-7bacf0
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

  • York, PA shows up 59 times across the archive.
  • 382 reports came from Pennsylvania in 2014.
  • In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Report

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