Somerset (Western PA; Highway 76), PA, USA
Orangish/Reddish Oval shaped craft. Hovering above Interestate 76. Was like looking up into a burning cauldron of fire.
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (119 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-12-31
- Where
- Somerset (Western PA; Highway 76), PA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 40.008, -79.078 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-somerset-western-pa-highway-76-pa-2012-520a29
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
- Somerset (Western PA; Highway 76), PA has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2012 brought 297 reports from Pennsylvania.
- The 2010s skewed 4.1% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.
Report
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