Philadelphia, PA, USA
Boomerang-shaped UFO sighted over Philadelphia at dusk
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (54 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-05-13
- Where
- Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 39.952, -75.164 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-philadelphia-pa-2008-fde67d
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…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Philadelphia, PA reports filed in May 2008.
In context
- Philadelphia, PA shows up 203 times across the archive.
- 193 reports came from Pennsylvania in 2008.
- In the 2000s, 10.1% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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