UFOMYST
CaseFlash2017

McMurray, PA, USA

Bight flashing lights underneath a heavy cloudy sky. Extremely bright and flashing. No stars visible tonight. This was large and was

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (132 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-01-02
Where
McMurray, PA, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
4 minutes
Geo
40.278, -80.084 · exact
Slug
flash-over-mcmurray-pa-2017-005e51
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

  • McMurray, PA has 5 sightings on file here.
  • 2017 brought 179 reports from Pennsylvania.
  • The 2010s skewed 2% flash reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.

Report

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