CaseCone2012
Ephrata, PA, USA
Gold Metallic cone shape object in the sky above Ephrata
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (56 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-07-01
- Where
- Ephrata, PA, USA
- Shape
- Cone
- Duration
- moments
- Geo
- 40.180, -76.179 · exact
- Slug
- cone-over-ephrata-pa-2012-3e7577
Wave
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…
In context
- Ephrata, PA has 10 sightings on file here.
- 2012 brought 297 reports from Pennsylvania.
- The 2010s skewed 0.4% cone reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.4%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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