Philadelphia, PA, USA
I noticed the large object, glowing orange. It was motionless soundless, I looked to identify but unsuccessfully. It did not move.
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: 1350s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (130 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2022-01-18
- Where
- Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 20-25 minutes, then cloud
- Geo
- 39.952, -75.164 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-philadelphia-pa-2022-61c5c7
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
- Philadelphia, PA shows up 203 times across the archive.
- 49 reports came from Pennsylvania in 2022.
- In the 2020s, 3.8% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.