CaseSphere2009

New Kensington, PA, USA

Large object in the sky with jets shot up and disappeared.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (58 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-11-11
Where
New Kensington, PA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
5 seconds
Geo
40.570, -79.765 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-new-kensington-pa-2009-962820
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…

In context

  • This is one of 13 reports logged in New Kensington, PA.
  • This case is one of 166 Pennsylvania reports filed in 2009.
  • Sphere craft made up 5.9% of 2000s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.

Report

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