Ephrata, PA, USA
Looked like a saucer, many different flashing lights, made a strange buzzing sound and seemed extremely close to my house.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (122 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-11-27
- Where
- Ephrata, PA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 40.180, -76.179 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-ephrata-pa-2011-7ae28b
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 10 reports logged in Ephrata, PA.
- This case is one of 188 Pennsylvania reports filed in 2011.
- Disk craft made up 3.8% of 2010s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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