Allentown, PA, USA
3 small Strobing craft flew over PP&L building at great speed and headed over south mountain out of eye sight
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (109 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-01-14
- Where
- Allentown, PA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 15seconds
- Geo
- 40.608, -75.490 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-allentown-pa-2008-a023e2
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
- Allentown, PA has 67 sightings on file here.
- 2008 brought 193 reports from Pennsylvania.
- The 2000s skewed 5.9% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Report
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