NUFORC Sighting 90642

Occurred: 2012-07-07 22:50 Local
Reported: 2012-07-07 23:24 Pacific
Duration: 7 minutes
No of observers: 6

Location: Johnstown, PA, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Aircraft nearby

Fireball like object across Cambria county in Pennsylvania, US.

Single notably bright 'fireball' like circular/ball object through sky traveling from roughly directly west to directly east (give/take a few degrees), deep red center with white bordering light radius.

Effectively caused a slight glow or haze (aura?) around its main mass as it moved almost as if it was entering atmosphere or just moving fast at high altitude (No clouds in the sky for reflection that I could see, was a star filled night) There was some form of plane/airliner as well in the sky at a normal elevation I would guess near the object, yet the glow and 'size' of the object was effectively at least 7x larger and more notable) Thought it might just be some form of shooting star or debris until it made 4 roughly 90 degree looking movements, once to the south, then east, then north again, then continuing eastwards.

Was -no- sound from it, could not hear anything from the sky at all (no sounds of any planes/jets/etc) Could not see any changes/deviations of the light on the object, it stayed pure red at the center with it's white radius and the faint light/haze around it just flickered lightly as it moved straight across.

Lasted roughly 7 minutes, from one mountain side to the other (middle of a large valley town).

Posted 2012-08-05