CaseFlash2019
Hillsville, PA, USA
Sky flash without apparent cause. No storms within 100 miles.
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (61 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-08-02
- Where
- Hillsville, PA, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- Millisecond
- Geo
- 41.008, -80.497 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-hillsville-pa-2019-59cd2c
Wave
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
- One of 1 documented reports from Hillsville, PA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Pennsylvania logged 236 sightings in 2019.
- Flash sightings ran at 2% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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