UFOMYST
CaseFormation2012

Lake Ariel, PA, USA

Formation of very large silent red-orange elliptical lights over Lake Ariel PA 8/19/12

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (86 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-08-19
Where
Lake Ariel, PA, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
41.454, -75.383 · exact
Slug
formation-over-lake-ariel-pa-2012-ef0770
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…

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In context

  • This is one of 6 reports logged in Lake Ariel, PA.
  • This case is one of 297 Pennsylvania reports filed in 2012.
  • Formation craft made up 3.5% of 2010s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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