West Chester, PA, USA
A white circle of light with a lighter, cone-shaped light underneath it; the circle disappeared the cone shape faded to a "cloud"
Report quality: High73/100
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (129 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-09-19
- Where
- West Chester, PA, USA
- Shape
- Cone
- Duration
- 1-2 minutes
- Geo
- 39.961, -75.608 · exact
- Slug
- cone-over-west-chester-pa-2009-b5d10b
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…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 West Chester, PA reports filed in September 2009.
In context
- West Chester, PA shows up 38 times across the archive.
- 166 reports came from Pennsylvania in 2009.
- In the 2000s, 0.5% of reports described a cone — the all-time rate is 0.4%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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