UFOMYST
CaseFormation2012

Mercer, PA, USA

Four or five solid red lights slanted almost as a plane on its side following one single orange light/orb.

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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (106 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-10-04
Where
Mercer, PA, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
30-60 seconds
Geo
41.227, -80.240 · exact
Slug
formation-over-mercer-pa-2012-e71a16
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

  • One of 3 documented reports from Mercer, PA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Pennsylvania logged 297 sightings in 2012.
  • Formation sightings ran at 3.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 3.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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