Sphere over Lebanon, PA
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The report, as filed
We saw two round bright white objects in the daytime sky. They did not move from the spots above our house, for more than 45 minutes. They looked very small due to how high in the sky they were. My husband has pictures of them on our digital camera. One did appear to split in half, then the two parts merged back together, it happened within a second of the split. The other moved a little closer. At times it appeared that the spheres had "tails", but would always resume their spherical shape, and did not move from their positions in the sky. When an airplane was moving in their direction, they moved out of the way of the airplane, then back to their original position. In one of the pictures that my husband took, it appears that there is a line of lights down the center of the sphere.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #149500). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2019-10-02 → 2019-10-19
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