UFOMYST
CaseLight2014

Philadelphia area, PA, USA

((HOAX??)) A fireball UFO ascends from ground level into outer space.

Report quality: Low6/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Brief witness text (58 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2014-09-28
Where
Philadelphia area, PA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
—
Geo
—
Slug
light-over-philadelphia-area-pa-2014-d295f7
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

  • Philadelphia area, PA shows up 2 times across the archive.
  • 382 reports came from Pennsylvania in 2014.
  • In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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