UFOMYST
CaseLight1997

West Sunbury, PA, USA

BRIGHT LIGHT APPEARED ABOUT 200 FT IN AIR AND COVERED ME WITH A BRIGHT BEAM BEFORE STREAKING OFF OUT OF SIGHT

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: 38s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (109 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-08-15
Where
West Sunbury, PA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
30-45 SEC.
Geo
41.007, -79.896 · exact
Slug
light-over-west-sunbury-pa-1997-cc0db6
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • West Sunbury, PA has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 1997 brought 40 reports from Pennsylvania.
  • The 1990s skewed 16.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Report

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