Philadelphia, PA, USA
Witnesses in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania reported six disk-shaped craft that drew people out of their homes to look up, observed for three to five minutes in July 1947.
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (167 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1947-07-05
- Where
- Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 3 to 5 min
- Geo
- 39.952, -75.164 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-philadelphia-pa-1947-91b1c5
Part of a wave
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In context
- One of 203 documented reports from Philadelphia, PA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Pennsylvania logged 3 sightings in 1947.
- Disk sightings ran at 27.3% during the 1940s (archive average: 5.9%).
Report
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