CaseUnknown2009
Philadelphia, USA
It was a strange light that was followed by a mysterious noise.
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (63 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-01-07
- Where
- Philadelphia, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 39.952, -75.164 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-philadelphia-2009-93ad86
Wave
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
- This is one of 2 reports logged in Philadelphia, USA.
- This case is one of 7 USA reports filed in 2009.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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