CaseLight2013

Smithport, PA, USA

The object was seen looking west bearing 265 degrees and about 10 degrees from horizon. Ruled out landing lights from aircraft due to

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-09-18
Where
Smithport, PA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
40.836, -78.876 · exact
Slug
light-over-smithport-pa-2013-ba322b
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

  • One of 5 documented reports from Smithport, PA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Pennsylvania logged 307 sightings in 2013.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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