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eight foot flurescant globe puts out lights then floats through antenna farm missing a dozen towers and a hundred cables

EVENT DATE
Oct 4, 1978, 7:30 PM
LOCATION
Philadelphia, PA, USA
CATEGORY
UAP
DURATION
twenty minutes

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DURATION (NUFORC)
twenty minutes
WITNESSES (NUFORC)
2.0
CHARACTERISTICS (NUFORC)
Electrical or magnetic effects

NARRATIVE

i was on the phone long distance to harrisburg   i was talking to a friend who was the gov. receptionist  she was at home   when suddenly all the lights went out in our neighborhood  i heard the emergency gas generator come on    it was highly unusual   to my knowlege  except for hurricane hazel in the 50's  and an april wet snow that knock down some lines  also in the 50's  this was a first   a local blackout during great weather my and i were star gazing out of our bedroom window  it was a clear warm evening  it was dark  you could see to infinity from our perch  above the tree tops   we could watch the planes come in from the west of the city   could see their incadesant lights ten minutes before they banked to the left and got ready to land at the airport  we could see the flight patterens that swirl around that part of the metropolitan area    there was no other air traffic in the area our window faced west  to our right the ground rose up suddenly to form the ridgeline that is now     avenue   from the right of center the ground fell away to form a shallow valley  surrounded by more rige lines      except for that old franciscan friery at the end of the block  that occupied a point of land directly in front of us     we could scan the horizen  for a hundred degrees or more i almost forgot the antenna farm  in roxboro  about seven miles away  to the west   about a dozen or so of them rose up 1500 feet or more  they were invisible except for the dozens of rubie like lights that warned pilots to stay clear except for those lights and the fire tower lights coutousy of the emergency generator  there was nothing but blackness   i glanced to my right  nothing but trees and roof tops as the ground rose up to block my view    i glanced to my left nothing but those antenna lights     i turned towards the center and  shazaam!  there is a globe of light  eight to ten feet in diameter  just floating silently  at the end of my block i started to describe the scene to my friend  over the phone     it was bluish white like some giant flurescant light bulb       i kept trying to see the aircraft that was supporting the light   some undercarrige or something   there was nothing  just this silent globe of soft flurescant light hovering 300 ft away   about sixty five feet off the ground    you could see the trees that surrounded the friery behind the object  you could tell the size and distance because you could see it was hovering over the corner of     and    one half city block away i kept talking to harrisburg  as the globe started to slowly move on a direct line to our vantage point at our windoe   ten feet  twenty  maybe fifty feet it came  then without stopping  the thing started moving to my left  accross the venue (?)  i saw the front and now i could see the side and back as it continued to "float" silently accross the shallow vally towards those red lights over atthe antenaa farm    we watched it for almost ten minutes  float ilently towards certain doom in the spires and cables that described the antenna complex  i think i said something about the "vehicle" getting clipped by the guide cables or hitting a tower   i thought we were going to see a crash   it kept going towards those damn lights the globe was about to smash into that juble of cable steel and towers when what seemed impossible happened  the globe glided harmlessly through the center of the antenna farm   right through the mid point   not over  not around but through maybe hundreds of cables and a dozen or so communication towers  without hitting anything it continued on  in the same fashion until it disappeared into the night  a few minutes later the electricity came back on    the next day the local newspaper reported that the blackout was due to a squirrel or something   the paper said the lights were out for 27 minutes over the next few years we saw other  more astounding ufo activity  in this half block area  wait til i  tell you about the pulsating red balls of light  pulsating in segments like an orange from deep purple to bright scarlet  seemingly undulating in a counter clockwise motion around the axis   they appeared on several occassions  each time getting a bit closer to us   it changed the way i understood reality i used to be a skeptic  i didnt believe in anything that could not be defined in the classic three dimensions

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