CaseUnknown2021
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Orange light seen moving over Philadelphia
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (42 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-08-15
- Where
- Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 39.952, -75.164 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-philadelphia-pa-2021-b1f6d6
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 203 reports logged in Philadelphia, PA.
- This case is one of 136 Pennsylvania reports filed in 2021.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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