Macungie, PA, USA
Macungie, PA-8 staggered red lights in sky traveling slowly W to S over South Mountain at 9 PM 9/24/16.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (103 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-09-24
- Where
- Macungie, PA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 40.516, -75.555 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-macungie-pa-2016-b6e3df
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 5 reports logged in Macungie, PA.
- This case is one of 202 Pennsylvania reports filed in 2016.
- Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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