Sphere over Castle Shannon, PA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
My fiancé and I were talking smoking a cigarette, out of no where the sky above and right behind us lit up kinda how lightening does but this was not lightening at all. We saw some type of bright white/blueish light either go up or down it was hard to tell and then just took off into the night sky faster then you can blink and it was gone. It also made a noise when the beam came down that sounded similar to something you would here in Star Wars when they take off with hyperspeed. I still have chills it was an amazing experience and also very unexpected. My fiancé and I both tried to debunk what we had just witness and he is not a believer in aliens or ufo but he is not because what we saw was no natural nor created on this world it just can’t be. This is a real and true statement. I wish I could find out if anyone else heard or seen what we saw in our area but most people are afraid to talk about things like this because of the fear of being judged or called a liar unfortunately
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #177476). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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