UFOMYST
CaseLight2016

Mechanicsburg, PA, USA

Bright blue/vivid purple blue light over Mechanicsburg, PA, area, 7/26/16, 9:30 p.m..

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 (85 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-07-26
Where
Mechanicsburg, PA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
40.214, -77.009 · exact
Slug
light-over-mechanicsburg-pa-2016-84554a
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 29 documented reports from Mechanicsburg, PA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Pennsylvania logged 202 sightings in 2016.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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