Appearance / Description of Object(s)

I would have to guess that the object was a spere or a cylinder. The surface seemed to be matte black, probably like a stealth bomber surface but at the distance it is hard to say. no lights or atmospheric effects were noticeable nor where any features on the object, but again it seemed incredibly far away.

Size of Object(s)

due to the distance I couldn't state with accuracy but I would guess the object probably wasn't too huge. Maybe about the size of an automobile or a cessna.

Description of Area / Surroundings

Their was nothing extremely special about the area I saw the object. I was at an elementary school in a small town. There is an airforce base that isn't too far away, maybe 20-30 miles in Tobyhana PA. There is also a university with a small space observatory about 1/2 mile away from the sighting. The same university also has a small physical plant for power.

Full Description & Details

I may not have the date or year exactly right although I know it was in the 80's and I was old enough to clearly remember the day. It was warm and late spring and the sky was quite clear. While playing during recess I looked up into the sky for whatever reason and I saw a small black dot, almost like a gnat, sitting perfectly still in the air. I watched the object for a few seconds and then it rocketed out of view.

The acceleration was what really shocked me. It literally went from 0 MPH to a speed I couldn't comprehend. The coolest thing was that there was no gradation to the speed it was like going from 0 MPH to 1,000 MPH in less than a second.

There were no lights or anything of that sort that I could see but the object seemed to be very far away so details would be impossible to know. If I had to state a shape I would say it was either cylindrical or spherical although again that was hard to tell from the distance.

I asked other kids at the time if they had seen it but I had no luck. You really would have to have been looking at the exact right time and place as the whole thing only took about five seconds or so. I would love to hear if anyone else saw anything similar in the area at the time.

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

No man made object could move or accelerate at the speed sighted. It could have potentially been something like dirt on my cornea which I would be too young to know about but the movement of the object did not seem organic, nor did my eye feel as if there was anything on it at the time.

Witness Background

I'm a New York City based graphic designer that specializes in web and interactive design.

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

I believe that the chances of there being more intelligent life in the universe are better than the chances that we are alone. Of all the beings that are probable in the universe it is not unlikely that some of them would be more advanced than us. I believe about 1% of all the UFO sightings I've read.

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