Cigar over Titusville, PA
A conventional explanation is favored by the record but was never formally confirmed.
The report, as filed
While driving on PA route 27 west out of Titusville, PA a long line of lights was sighted on the horizon. I pulled over and took a video. The lights eventually faded. I have never witnessed anything similar to this. This was not a plane, it did not have a similar shape or lights. I would estimate it at hundreds of feet long. [NUFORC annotation: Searchlight - Probable]
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #165704). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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