Cylinder over Nazareth, PA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
My dog had woken me up so I got up to go to the bathroom and went back to bed. I was looking out my window and saw a blur of light so I reached and put my glasses on and saw what I thought was an airplane at first but it was too low. Then I saw it moving back and forth side to side really fast. I went to take a video but took a Live Photo on accident so after that I started taking a video and got it on camera going back and forth. I called my mom in to come and see it and about 7 seconds after she got to the window too it kind of disappeared into the trees if the woods on the other side of 33. It may have landed but it didn’t really look like it did it looked more as if the trees covered it.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #173741). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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