CaseUnknown2017
Reading, PA, USA
Very fast object moving quickly back and forth in the sky.
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (58 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-02-23
- Where
- Reading, PA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 4 minutes
- Geo
- 40.336, -75.927 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-reading-pa-2017-190b98
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
- One of 80 documented reports from Reading, PA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Pennsylvania logged 179 sightings in 2017.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.