UFOMYST
CaseFlash1997

State College, PA, USA

Bright flash, long and slow disipation of a thick white trail

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (61 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-05-01
Where
State College, PA, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
20 seconds
Geo
40.793, -77.860 · exact
Slug
flash-over-state-college-pa-1997-0d1362
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • This is one of 34 reports logged in State College, PA.
  • This case is one of 40 Pennsylvania reports filed in 1997.
  • Flash craft made up 1.3% of 1990s 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.