Sterling, PA, USA
3 level yellow lights with 3 smaller blinking red lights below. back of triangle? tk 5 min to travel length of finger.15 mi. away.
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 (130 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-09-03
- Where
- Sterling, PA, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 41.341, -75.390 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-sterling-pa-2021-d850cf
Part of a wave
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 2 documented reports from Sterling, PA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Pennsylvania logged 136 sightings in 2021.
- Other sightings ran at 6.1% during the 2020s (archive average: 6.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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