Light over Downingtown, PA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Once again, for the third time this week I have seen the exact same phenomena in the night sky above my apartment’s parking lot. Each of the previous two sightings occurred in relatively the same way and I have filed a report each separate instance, however I would like to once again describe what I witnessed for consistency’s sake. Around 10:50 PM I (as I often do) decided to take a walk around my apartment complex to look at sky/stars . It probably goes without saying, but with the frequency with which I had witnessed strange phenomena from earlier in the week (7/26 and then 7/27) I was really eager to be able to see and document this phenomena so I have been going out for walks daily. Thankfully the sky was much clearer this particular evening and as I turned around to face the area of the sky which I had witnessed the phenomena before, at 11:00 PM on the dot exactly I had seen it again. Essentially the experience had occurred in the same way as it had the previous two times this week. I was facing North/North West and adjacent (left) to the Big Dipper, I had seen a white light which had a similar size/shape and brightness as many of the stars in the area. However, after focusing on this specific light I noticed that this light was slowly moving towards the South. Though it appeared to be moving slowly from my vantage point, it must have been moving pretty quickly due to how small it looked. I once again tried to look for any sort of flashing navigation lights and saw none, nor did it have any discernible features of a man-made craft - it did not make any sounds whatsoever. Each of my other experiences with this phenomena only lasted 10-15 seconds and normally ended in the light just disappearing as it was traveling from N/NW to East. This time however, the light was going from N/NW towards the south and instead of simply disappearing into the sky, I felt like I was able to see it actually traveling diagonally upwards and then I lost sight of it. Unfortunately every other time that I have witnessed this light, I was profoundly startled and was unable to capture any really discernible photo/video evidence. However, I was relatively prepared this time and was thankfully able to obtain a whole minute video of this phenomena (which I will be sending along with my report). Due to this being the third time that I am reporting this, I can understand a certain skepticism that some might read this with and felt that it would be important to do some de-bunking of my own before just making the report - I do not believe this was the International Space Station, as it does not fly over my area at that time of night, and I do not believe that it was a satellite. I do not believe that this was related to comet Neowise, as I was able to witness that earlier in the month and it was an entirely different type of event because I was able to see the comet’s tail and it was traveling in the exact opposite direction of this light. I appreciate the ability to document my experiences through NUFORC and am hopeful that this might provide some insight to the general UFO phenomena.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #158065). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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