CaseSphere2012

West Natcoke, PA, USA

Round, shiny object moving in a strange way with at least thirty objects.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (73 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-06-23
Where
West Natcoke, PA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
Slug
sphere-over-west-natcoke-pa-2012-d3f91b
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

  • One of 1 documented reports from West Natcoke, PA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Pennsylvania logged 297 sightings in 2012.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).

Report

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