CaseOval1997

Edinboro, PA, USA

A friend and I had just dropped off another friend in a suburban neighborhood. My friend was driving, and I was in the passenger seat.

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-05-13
Where
Edinboro, PA, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
3-4:00 min
Geo
41.874, -80.132 · exact
Slug
oval-over-edinboro-pa-1997-28db40
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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    The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…

In context

  • This is one of 9 reports logged in Edinboro, PA.
  • This case is one of 40 Pennsylvania reports filed in 1997.
  • Oval craft made up 3.6% of 1990s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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