Deerfield, DE, USA
25 crafts flying low heading southwest. Very bright but with no sound...then disappeared in clouds 3 mins tops
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (110 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-09-15
- Where
- Deerfield, DE, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 42.171, -87.845 · fallback
- Slug
- light-over-deerfield-de-2015-5e6526
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 1 reports logged in Deerfield, DE.
- This case is one of 30 Delaware reports filed in 2015.
- Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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