Altoona, PA, USA
Three people saw a formation of multi-colored lights travelling in one direction across the sky.
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (96 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-08-03
- Where
- Altoona, PA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 40.519, -78.395 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-altoona-pa-2017-24152a
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
- This is one of 24 reports logged in Altoona, PA.
- This case is one of 179 Pennsylvania reports filed in 2017.
- Formation craft made up 3.5% of 2010s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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