UFOMYST
CaseTeardrop2016

New Cumberland, PA, USA

Bright red object spotted falling from sky at 22:06pm on 3-12-2-016 in Cumberland County, PA.

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 (93 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-03-12
Where
New Cumberland, PA, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
40.232, -76.885 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-new-cumberland-pa-2016-955a6b
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…

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In context

  • One of 4 documented reports from New Cumberland, PA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Pennsylvania logged 202 sightings in 2016.
  • Teardrop sightings ran at 0.8% during the 2010s (archive average: 0.9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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