UFOMYST
CaseTeardrop2010

Hellertown, PA, USA

Orange tear drop object spotted in eastern pa July 4 2010, 11:15 pm.

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (68 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2010-07-04
Where
Hellertown, PA, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
Few minutes
Geo
40.580, -75.341 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-hellertown-pa-2010-c98faa
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 8 documented reports from Hellertown, PA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Pennsylvania logged 171 sightings in 2010.
  • Teardrop sightings ran at 0.8% during the 2010s (archive average: 0.9%).

Report

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