UFOMYST
Casesphere1997

Philadelphia, PA, USA

I sighted in daylight between 1 and 8 small, bright, round objects high in the sky over a period of 7 hours that flew from north to eas

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: 25200s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-08-17
Where
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Shape
sphere
Duration
7 hours
Geo
39.952, -75.164 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-philadelphia-pa-1997-68f9e8
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • This is one of 203 reports logged in Philadelphia, PA.
  • This case is one of 40 Pennsylvania reports filed in 1997.
  • Sphere craft made up 5.9% of 1990s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.

Report

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