UFOMYST
CaseLight2008

Philipsburg, PA, USA

Noted star like object moving in relation to a telephone pole. It was moving in a westerly direction. There is no way to note speed

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (131 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-06-20
Where
Philipsburg, PA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
40.896, -78.221 · exact
Slug
light-over-philipsburg-pa-2008-460be6
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

  • Philipsburg, PA shows up 11 times across the archive.
  • 193 reports came from Pennsylvania in 2008.
  • In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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