Reading, PA, USA
the object was oval with red, white,blue lights blinking. It appereared slowly in the sky lights blinking going different directions. T
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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-08-24
- Where
- Reading, PA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 2 hours
- Geo
- 40.336, -75.927 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-reading-pa-2020-af08d4
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
- Reading, PA shows up 80 times across the archive.
- 316 reports came from Pennsylvania in 2020.
- In the 2020s, 3.5% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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