UFOMYST
CaseFlash2010

Grapeville, PA, USA

Around 23:00 hours a pulsating bright light grew bigger and brighter before dimming and got smaller before disappearing.

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (120 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2010-07-18
Where
Grapeville, PA, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
40.325, -79.606 · exact
Slug
flash-over-grapeville-pa-2010-1089f4
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Grapeville, PA.
  • This case is one of 171 Pennsylvania reports filed in 2010.
  • Flash craft made up 2% of 2010s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.

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.