CaseFormation2014

Nazareth, PA, USA

Three, solid, orange lights under the cloud ceiling. The second and third lights (the two farthest from me) appeared to have three or f

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-12-27
Where
Nazareth, PA, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
40.740, -75.310 · exact
Slug
formation-over-nazareth-pa-2014-a6a840
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 13 reports logged in Nazareth, PA.
  • This case is one of 382 Pennsylvania reports filed in 2014.
  • Formation craft made up 3.5% of 2010s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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