North Coventry, PA, USA
bright star-like object hovered over wooded area for at least 45 min. ((NUFORC Note: Possible sighting
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 4500s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (102 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-12-29
- Where
- North Coventry, PA, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 1 hour 15 minutes
- Geo
- 41.798, -72.372 · fallback
- Slug
- teardrop-over-north-coventry-pa-2008-a869a9
Part of a wave
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
- North Coventry, PA shows up 3 times across the archive.
- 193 reports came from Pennsylvania in 2008.
- In the 2000s, 1.1% of reports described a teardrop — the all-time rate is 0.9%.
Report
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