Circle over Shamokin, PA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Fairly high in the sky my boyfriend and I spotted a bright orange light. It caught our attention as odd right from the start. It didn't have any blinking lights and wasn't making a sound. It first moved from North to South and then it reversed it's trajectory and came back South to North. It then hovered in the same spot before completely vanishing out of sight. It was there and then it completely was gone the next.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #163912). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2021-06-30 → 2021-07-17
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