York, PA, USA
3 nights same thing brightest object in sky moves hovers? ((NUFORC Note: Sighting of Venus?? PD))
Report quality: Moderate42/100
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: 2400s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (57 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2015-04-28
- Where
- York, PA, USA
- Shape
- Cone
- Duration
- 40 minutes
- Geo
- 39.963, -76.728 · exact
- Slug
- cone-over-york-pa-2015-d7702c
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
- This is one of 59 reports logged in York, PA.
- This case is one of 244 Pennsylvania reports filed in 2015.
- Cone craft made up 0.4% of 2010s reports, vs 0.4% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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