Philadelphia, PA, USA
Smaller craft came out of a slit in the sky above the roof tops in a residential neighborhood. It was a darker brushed metal color.
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1978-06-01
- Where
- Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Geo
- 39.952, -75.164 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-philadelphia-pa-1978-d6533d
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In context
- Philadelphia, PA shows up 203 times across the archive.
- 18 reports came from Pennsylvania in 1978.
- In the 1970s, 6.5% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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