Philadelphia, PA, USA
a friend and I saw a diskus shaped UFO, a black ring with a silver inside which was missing an inside, then just suddenly vanished.
Report quality: High73/100
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: 28s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-06-18
- Where
- Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 25-30 seconds
- Geo
- 39.952, -75.164 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-philadelphia-pa-2004-983fa4
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
June 2004 was a busy month for Philadelphia, PA: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 203 reports logged in Philadelphia, PA.
- This case is one of 137 Pennsylvania reports filed in 2004.
- Disk craft made up 6.5% of 2000s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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