CaseUnknown2006

Beaver, PA, USA

Very bright white ball in the eastern sky viewed while eastbound PA turnpike at 7:03am December 16,2006. ((Missile launch.))

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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (104 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2006-12-16
Where
Beaver, PA, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
20 seconds
Geo
40.695, -80.305 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-beaver-pa-2006-0e5e93
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

  • Beaver, PA has 7 sightings on file here.
  • 2006 brought 131 reports from Pennsylvania.

Report

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