Fireball over Springfield, PA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #144385). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2019-01-06 → 2019-01-23
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February 5, 2022 · 7:45 PM · LIGHT
Springfield, PA
I was taking out the trash at work to the outside dumpsters of the building facing south towards the coastlines and if followed in a straight path, would my guess be, past Delaware. Potentially out in the ocean in the sky. It was a green light that just sat in the sky for about 3-5 minutes and could have been there longer than when I first stepped outside and saw it. I questioned if it were a plane at first but realized it was impossible because there was a plane in the sky pretty further east and I actually was able to compare the two. Once I had finished with the trash, and keeping a close eye on the green light, it had started to zip left and right. It obviously had no indication of being a plane or even some sort of radio or cell tower given it had started to move and was really high in the sky. Higher than any tower man would probably build. I just stared in amazement and astonishment because I’d never seen anything like it before. It zipped left and right and I could just tell it was probably all these weird directions that any flying object know to the public wouldn’t be a plane. Then it almost just rapidly descended downwards and disappeared. My guess is it was probably in the ocean off the coastline of Delaware and potentially a little bit further east than that sprightly. Not east enough to be past Philadelphia.
January 6, 2020 · 5:00 AM · DIAMOND
Springfield, PA
I saw about 4 in a row and another off to the side. They disappeared just about 10min later I tried to take pictures but my camera sucks.
January 15, 1975 · 9:15 PM · UNKNOWN
Springfield, PA
Six or seven white lights in a row that turned red, then back to white and quickly flew away