CaseFormation2013

Bethlehem, PA, USA

Driving home in a rain storm on Route 22. Saw five orange colored lights in sky going from an east to west direction. Did not observe a

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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-07-13
Where
Bethlehem, PA, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
2-3 minutes
Geo
40.626, -75.370 · exact
Slug
formation-over-bethlehem-pa-2013-bbd2a7
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…

In context

  • This is one of 34 reports logged in Bethlehem, PA.
  • This case is one of 307 Pennsylvania reports filed in 2013.
  • Formation craft made up 3.5% of 2010s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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