UFOMYST
CaseCone2009

Gibsonia, PA, USA

Strange coned shaped light setting still and silent in the eastern night sky. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))

Report quality: Low35/100

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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (77 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2009-09-19
Where
Gibsonia, PA, USA
Shape
Cone
Duration
45 seconds
Geo
40.630, -79.969 · exact
Slug
cone-over-gibsonia-pa-2009-0d25cd
Wave

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In context

  • One of 6 documented reports from Gibsonia, PA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Pennsylvania logged 166 sightings in 2009.
  • Cone sightings ran at 0.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 0.4%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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