Philadelphia, PA, USA
cluster of lights in good formation traveling high in the sky over South Philadelphia, Pa.. ((NUFORC Note: Possible hoax?? PD))
Report quality: Low5/100
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
- Moderate witness text (91 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2006-11-15
- Where
- Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 5 MINUTES
- Geo
- 39.952, -75.164 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-philadelphia-pa-2006-ecc750
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 203 reports logged in Philadelphia, PA.
- This case is one of 131 Pennsylvania reports filed in 2006.
- Formation craft made up 3.1% of 2000s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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