Appearance / Description of Object(s)

It was silver bright and shaped like a dumbbell. It was tilted almost vertical against the sky. The spheres at each end were reflecting a lot of light as if they were spinning or pulsating. It made no sound.

Size of Object(s)

It looked like this O=O and was about this size if it would be held and arms length. I estimate that it would be the size of a jet airplane.

Description of Area / Surroundings

A suburban area about 50 miles north of Harrisburg, Pennslyvania along the Susquehanna river where there are trees lining each side of the river. There is a power plant along the river which the object flew over. There is no military base in this area.

Full Description & Details

Saturday, August 5, 2006 4:23PM

My friend and I were driving down 8th Avenue in Shamokin Dam, PA. We stopped at the red light and as we waited for the light to change I happened to look out the window ahead of us, to the right, and I saw a silver object in the clear blue sky. It was very low and I thought it might be a balloon or a kite. It was shaped like a dumbbell (like this O=O and about this size if it would be held and arms length). It was tilted almost vertical against the sky. The spheres at each end were reflecting a lot of light as if they were spinning or pulsating. The traffic light changed and when we got to the Old Trail, directly ahead, we turned south toward Selinsgrove where we were going to a picnic. My friend turned into a parking lot so we could get a better look at the object, which started to rise as it moved very slowly north up the Susquehanna River that runs north to South along the Old Trail. My friend tried to see the object but he only has sight in one eye and could not focus in on the area that I was pointing to. After the object seemed to stop and hover for a minute or so it started to move south again. Its movement was quite deliberate, not at all like a balloon, and clearly was not attached to anything like a kite. After moving south for about 15 seconds it stopped and remained stationary. As it seemed to hover directly above it began to fade from silver to gray, like a shadow; then it disappeared. I don’t think it was rising out of sight because it did not diminish in size as it faded away. All this happened within 4 or 5 minutes.

Can sighting be explained as any conventional man-made or natural object?

It was clearly not a star or any other celestial body. I've never seen a bird shaped like a dumbell or a cloud that reflected bright silver. I don't know the shape of a weather balloon or if they can fade away like a puff of smoke without diminishing in size.

Witness Background

I am a retired secretary from the business office of a local university. I've worked as a hat factory seamstress, as a clothing seamstress, as a salesperson, and as an office manager in a manufacturing plant .

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

I saw a UFO in 1955 in daylight which remained stationery over my back yard in Sunbury, Pa. It was a silver disk with a dark round center and I saw it as if from its bottom as it hover directly over head. I watched it for about 10 minutes before a cloud covered it. The object was gone when the cloud finally passed over. Since then I have been very watchful of the sky and have read other accounts of sightings by other people.

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