◆ CASE FILEThe facts, corroborated
The Star That Stopped over Dravosburg
At 11.15 on the night of 4 July 1948 John Jamnicky Jr. and his wife, sitting on their lawn in Dravosburg, Pennsylvania, watched what looked like a star cross the sky, stop three times and change course before it vanished. He wrote to the War Department five days later and the letter was passed to Project SIGN. This is the record of what one couple reported, not a verdict on what moved over the Pittsburgh district.
◆ THE SHORT VERSION
- The Star That Stopped over Dravosburg is a reported UAP case in Dravosburg, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, 4 July 1948, 23:15 DST.
- A Dravosburg man and his wife reported a light like a star that crossed the sky, stopped three times for up to fifteen seconds, changed course and vanished.
- When it stood still, his letter says, you could not tell it from a star.
- He wrote to the War Department after reading of two women's daylight saucer sighting about two and a half miles away, and the letter went to Project SIGN.
- No reply or evaluation appears in the released file.
- For this case Fractured Realities holds 1 distinct source, 1 corroborating primary document and 1 claimant on its resolved list.
- The archive grades it L4 · OFFICIAL RECORD — a released government record names who saw it, the top of our scale, though no independent testimony sits beside that record.
Counts are resolved totals of what sources say, computed 2026-10-03; the reported details above are claims in the record, not findings. A record of reports, not a verdict on what happened.
EVENT DATE
4 July 1948, 23:15 DST
LOCATION
Dravosburg, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania · United States
COORDS
40.35°N 79.89°W
INDEPENDENCE
L4 · OFFICIAL RECORD
SOURCES
1 distinct
CLAIMANTS
1
STATUS
Known from released government records
NUMBERS COMPUTED 2026-10-03 · RESOLVED COUNTS, NOT A VERDICT
