Hilltown, PA, USA
Large bright cone shaped object like a large flashlight and then a cloud. ((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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (73 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
- Hilltown, PA, USA
- Shape
- Cone
- Duration
- 30sec
- Geo
- 41.770, -75.178 · exact
- Slug
- cone-over-hilltown-pa-2009-8f4b9b
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
- Hilltown, PA has 2 sightings on file here.
- 2009 brought 166 reports from Pennsylvania.
- The 2000s skewed 0.5% cone reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.4%.
Report
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