York, PA, USA
UFO large moved fast then slow moved 3 feet in sky in instant,40 miles from first site.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (87 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-04-26
- Where
- York, PA, USA
- Shape
- Cone
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 39.963, -76.728 · exact
- Slug
- cone-over-york-pa-2015-0b5f16
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
- York, PA has 59 sightings on file here.
- 2015 brought 244 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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