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Bethesda · OH, USA
white oval light with wide light beam ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Joppa · MD, USA
Bright searchlight hovered at high altitude and then rapidly ascended from view. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Shandanken · NY, USA
a bright white light with a triange mist under it. silently went off. no sound, or movement noted.((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Amagansett · NY, USA
7:30 ish, Bright light with a bell shaped cloud over the atlantic off the cost of Amagansett. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Farmington · CT, USA
disk with bright sphere of light ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Hanover · PA, USA
Bright white light in cloudless sky approximately 20,000 ft. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Towson · MD, USA
A small sphere shape object appeared, with a triangle shaped light being emitted from the bottom. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Howell · NJ, USA
There was a circle of light with a bright light coming out of it. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Lisbon · ME, USA
Bright blue beam hovering, slowly descending to the ground. No sound at all, 6 witnesses
North Huntingdon · PA, USA
White focused beam not moving, no sound, no origination point and not reaching the ground. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Somerset · NJ, USA
Extremely bright cones shaped light shining down from the sky. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Suffolk · VA, USA
Bright light in sky. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Sanford · ME, USA
We were having a fire and saw a very bright cone shaped light above the tree line, it stayed for a minute or so then vanished.
Brookhaven Hamlet · NY, USA
White flood light like object in night sky with sparks coming down from it. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Putney · VT, USA
VANISHING BRIGHT WHITE LIGHT WITH CONE SHAPED MIST IN PUTNEY, VT. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Evans City · PA, USA
Triangular object in the sky in Evans City pa ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Sterling · CT, USA
Large glow of light that led down to a beam with no sound. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Dundalk · MD, USA
A dark sphere appeared southeast of dundalk, maryland then disappeared leaving a haze of smoke.((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Auburn · MA, USA
a white cone shape light in the sky. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Providence · RI, USA
I ran across information that seems to explain the beams. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Burlington · NJ, USA
7:50 PM, cone-shaped object, three spot-light type lights. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
West Grove · PA, USA
West Grove PA 9/19/09 Chester County 19:50 ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Bellingham · MA, USA
Strange light progressivly brighter, cone of light from below in Massachusetts, ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Pittstown · NJ, USA
two beams of light high in the sky. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))