Fireball over Lehighton, PA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
It was moving faster than anything I’ve ever seen. It hit ground but yet never exploded saw it over the mountain top of the Lehigh valley tunnel.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #161267). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2020-11-29 → 2020-12-16
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January 24, 2023 · 9:50 AM · UNKNOWN
Lehighton, PA
Went on back porch. Wife said "look!" I looked where she was pointing and saw a small bright sort of roundish but not disc shaped "craft". No wings or anything being followed close by a jet. High speed high altitude. Jet had contrails behind it object didn't. They flew above a cloud I could see the object through the cloud but not the jet. Object suddenly changed direction. Jet came out of cloud seemed to lose sight. Jet seemed to spot it again over the tree line and turned sharply to follow leaving an angled contrail in the sky. Object was heading west ward. While in cloud suddenly went north with great speed lost sight as it went past the pine trees across the street. After a 15-20 seconds another jet came by from a southward direction and followed the direction of the object and jet. A 3rd jet came and did the same. I would say the object looked similar to some of the more recent reports that have been recognized by Military as unknown aerial phenomena.
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Lehighton, PA
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February 15, 2020 · 1:00 AM · OVAL
Lehighton, PA
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September 1, 2016 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Lehighton, PA
The first fireball was seen traveling from north to south. It looked like a semi-transparent red sphere with something yellow in the center. After it had passed by, a second followed the same path. It was identical in appearance to the first. At that time, I alerted the second witness. He only saw the second one and it was some distance away looking more like a strange star at that point.
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Lehighton, PA
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Lehighton, PA
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