UFOMYST
CaseCone2012

Plum, PA, USA

strange orange light in sky

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (27 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-05-17
Where
Plum, PA, USA
Shape
Cone
Duration
3 min
Geo
40.500, -79.749 · exact
Slug
cone-over-plum-pa-2012-f7a51c
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

  • One of 7 documented reports from Plum, PA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Pennsylvania logged 297 sightings in 2012.
  • Cone sightings ran at 0.4% during the 2010s (archive average: 0.4%).

Report

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