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
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
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
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.