Triangle over Whitehall, PA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
A little after 5am, I witnessed a silent black triangle fly across the sky over my house. The sky was very clear and I noticed a bright light in the western sky that at first I thought was a star but it seemed too big and bright and yellowish instead of white. It did not seem to be moving at first but then I noticed it was moving and coming in my direction (eastward). It had 2 rows of semi-large bright lights in the center, 8 of them I believe (these were the ones that made me think it was a bright star at first). It had smaller red lights on the corners and a row of similar size white lights along the back edge. The smaller lights were blinking randomly. The object appeared to be about the size of a commercial airplane and moving at a similar speed, but had no wings and there was no sound at all.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #135985). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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