CaseFormation2015

Somerset, PA, USA

Extremely bright lights on an object over 100 meters in length, seen hovering over Somerset, PA.

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 (96 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-02-17
Where
Somerset, PA, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
40.008, -79.078 · exact
Slug
formation-over-somerset-pa-2015-79dcab
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 4 reports logged in Somerset, PA.
  • This case is one of 244 Pennsylvania reports filed in 2015.
  • Formation craft made up 3.5% of 2010s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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