Erie, PA, USA
Cylinder object floats over no noise
Report quality: Moderate52/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Brief witness text (36 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-08-23
- Where
- Erie, PA, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 1:13
- Geo
- 42.129, -80.085 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-erie-pa-2013-7825cc
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
3 reports came out of Erie, PA in August 2013 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Erie, PA has 62 sightings on file here.
- 2013 brought 307 reports from Pennsylvania.
- The 2010s skewed 1.5% cylinder reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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