UFOMYST
CaseSphere2009

Lock Haven, PA, USA

Large, orange sphere spotted 2 miles north of Lock Haven, PA

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (60 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-01-13
Where
Lock Haven, PA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
2 min.
Geo
41.137, -77.447 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-lock-haven-pa-2009-047a18
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

  • One of 6 documented reports from Lock Haven, PA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Pennsylvania logged 166 sightings in 2009.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 5.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.5%).

Report

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