Light over Trexlertown, PA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was driving east on Route 222 in central Pennsylvania, a few miles west of Allentown. It was around 7:30 PM yesterday (1 December) and nighttime, but the sky was clear and there was a full moon, so it was a bright night. Suddenly from the south I saw a massive beam of bright green light shoot up from the ground and into the sky. It held there for a moment, maybe ~2 seconds, and then just disappeared. This light was massive, I had a good view of the landscape and it lit everything up for miles around. My first thought was maybe some kind of spotlight or holiday lights, but immediately I knew that was impossible because of the magnitude of the brightness. It lit up everything and was much thicker than a spotlight.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #160908). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2020-11-28 → 2020-12-15
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