CaseDisk2005

West Chester, PA, USA

saucer object cutting through full moon, south to north

Report quality: Moderate58/100

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
  • Brief witness text (55 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2005-10-17
Where
West Chester, PA, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
5 seconds
Geo
39.961, -75.608 · exact
Slug
disk-over-west-chester-pa-2005-08017f
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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 38 reports logged in West Chester, PA.
  • This case is one of 106 Pennsylvania reports filed in 2005.
  • Disk craft made up 6.5% of 2000s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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