CaseLight2021

Shippensburg, PA, USA

Extremely bright white ball of light moving above tree tops less than 1/4 mile away. Made sudden movement. Disappeared and came back.

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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-08-13
Where
Shippensburg, PA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
15 seconds
Geo
40.051, -77.520 · exact
Slug
light-over-shippensburg-pa-2021-259b4d
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

  • Shippensburg, PA has 8 sightings on file here.
  • 2021 brought 136 reports from Pennsylvania.
  • The 2020s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Report

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