Size of Object(s)

Approx Size of a LARGE jumbo jet

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

100-150 yards

Shape of Object(s)

Triangular..but difficult to tell

Color of Object(s):

Unknown

Full Description & Details

Every year, the city of Scranton, PA holds it's annual Italian Festival. My wife and I, who at the time lived in Bloomsburg, PA were on our way back home. We were travelling Southbound on Interstate 81 near the town of Avoca, PA when my wife who was driving asked me what she was looking at high in the sky. I saw 3 extremely bright lights HIGH in the sky...maybe up around 30,000 feet or so. I quickly dismissed it as an airplane seeing as the Avoca International Airport was nearby...though the lights did look rather strange. I know planes have lights too, but I had never seen one so bright...and without the slow blinking lights on the wings. We continued our drive for around 15 minutes and came around a bend in the highway in which our view of the sky was blocked by trees. As we turned the corner, we had to squint because some object was right there around 100 feet off the northbound side of the highway. It had 3 very bright white lights on what I can only guess was the front of it. It was an odd kind of white light too...very pure. At first I thought I was witnessing a plane crash or something because it was only around 50 yards off of the ground. My wife was startled by this thing and I told her to just keep driving. I noticed other cars weaving a bit so I'm guessing they didn't know what to make of this thing either. Still thinking this was a plane on its way to the Avoca airport which the craft seemed to be facing. One thing was wrong with my thought though. This plane wasn't moving forward. It wasn't moving at all. If it were coming in for a landing, I believe this thing would have shot right past us, but instead, we passed IT. I stuck my head out of the moon roof of the car as we passed the thing and got a pretty good profile (as good as the clear night sky would allow me that is) Is seemed pretty slender from what I could gather and it had this weird blinking reddish light on the side facing me toward what I'm assuming was the rear of the craft. It wasn't a slow blinking light as would be on an airplane, but this was a very fast strobing red light and was very faint. If I had to estimate the number of blinks in a minute, I'd say approx 200-300 or so. I know this thing didn't move because it was in the sky directly over a well-lit warehouse with a cell phone tower in it's lot which were all perfectly visible. From the time that we turned the bend in the road until the time when it disappeared from my sight behind some more trees further down the road, the object remained in the same place. It did seem to be getting lower in altitude slowly though, but no horozontal movement that I could detect. There was no sound that I could detect either, but admittedly having your head stuck out of the sun roof of a car while going 65 mph on a busy highway would probably muffle most sounds. But an airplane only yards off the gound? I don't know. I think I would have heard something...or felt vibrations. I heard and felt nothing. I could only guess at an approx shape, but between the front lights blinding me, and the night sky, it was difficult. I would guess triangular or rectangular.

People laugh at me when I try to tell them my story. Telling me I saw an airplane going to the airport. But ask my wife and myself, we'll tell you that we saw something else. Not saying it was necessarily an "alien spacecraft", but it definitely was not any airplane that I'm aware of.

Witness Background

28, B.S. degree in Computer Information Systems.

Other Comments

I'd love to know if anyone else reported this.

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