CaseLight2018

Hamburg, PA, USA

Saw a bright, blinking light that I figured was Sirius, since it was in the same direction that the star would be. Glanced away, and it

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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-04-26
Where
Hamburg, PA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
2-3 minutes
Geo
40.556, -75.982 · exact
Slug
light-over-hamburg-pa-2018-8ea5dc
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

  • Hamburg, PA shows up 6 times across the archive.
  • 94 reports came from Pennsylvania in 2018.
  • In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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