CaseOval2020

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
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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 days

Report

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