Unknown over California, PA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
There were 3 objects in the shape of a triangle and generally stayed still and then the 2 on the bottom of the triangle would move outwards and inwards in a perfectly straight line. The one on top was almost completely still but would sometimes move a little bit up or down but only in a straight vertical motion like it was driving forwards and reversing. There was one outside of the triangle that circled around it a couple times and would go around the sky. I couldn't get a picture of it because it suddenly vanished like it turned invisible. None of these objects move liked planes they didn't circle around to reverse or move forward. They were these hazy white lights that would blink but not completely just dim. The haze around the object didn't dim when the light would dim it stayed the same. They were too far out to tell the shape. The first thing I did when I saw them was pull up nearest airplanes but there weren't any in the northwest direction it was in. They left no trails in the sky when they moved. The man on the hotline told me to download an astronomy app but the 3 objects were inbetween the 2 constellations it pulled up and it didn't register anything in the space it was in. I have no idea what I saw and I don't believe in UFO's. When I pointed my compass at it it said 341 N but it was a couple points more west like 1 or 2. My location was 40*3'50" N 79*53'37" W 880 ft elevation. I do not want anyone to know I'm affilated with this because I don't believe in this stuff and don't want to look like a crazy conspiracy theorist and have it affect getting a job. I want to pretend like I didn't see it.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #171722). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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