Mountain Top, PA, USA
Saw a bright star move from a stationary position to a full 90 degree downward to the right, lit up to 3x the size and took off.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (128 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-10-18
- Where
- Mountain Top, PA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 41.170, -75.877 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-mountain-top-pa-2016-d53d75
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
- One of 4 documented reports from Mountain Top, PA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Pennsylvania logged 202 sightings in 2016.
- Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).
Report
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