West Chester (outside, on Rte. 202), PA, USA
Driving north alogn Rt 202 I noticed egg shaped metallic objectmoving through the sky. It was highly reflective and shone brightly.It
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-05-05
- Where
- West Chester (outside, on Rte. 202), PA, USA
- Shape
- egg
- Duration
- 10sec
- Geo
- 39.961, -75.608 · exact
- Slug
- egg-over-west-chester-outside-on-rte-202-pa-1997-eb044e
Part of a wave
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In context
- West Chester (outside, on Rte. 202), PA has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1997 brought 40 reports from Pennsylvania.
- The 1990s skewed 1.1% egg reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.9%.
Report
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