CaseLight2020

Bear, DE, USA

On route 40 going east just past wrangle Hill Rd. Saw what I thought might be 2 planes, however 1 of the white objects grew larger and

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-01-05
Where
Bear, DE, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
39.629, -75.658 · exact
Slug
light-over-bear-de-2020-9f5a12
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

  • One of 20 documented reports from Bear, DE in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Delaware logged 27 sightings in 2020.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2020s (archive average: 20.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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