UFOMYST
CaseSphere2019

Lancaster, PA, USA

Changing color sphere emitted black smoke/mist into atmosphere.

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (63 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2019-09-15
Where
Lancaster, PA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
40.038, -76.306 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-lancaster-pa-2019-db67c8
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…

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In context

  • Lancaster, PA shows up 52 times across the archive.
  • 236 reports came from Pennsylvania in 2019.
  • In the 2010s, 7.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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