Corsica, PA, USA
Extremely bright oblong object sighted in sky, 7:30 pm, in rural area, viewed app. 3", moved away pulsing
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (105 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-01-27
- Where
- Corsica, PA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 41.181, -79.202 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-corsica-pa-2005-b0d1b3
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
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Corsica, PA.
- This case is one of 106 Pennsylvania reports filed in 2005.
- Oval craft made up 4.7% of 2000s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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