I was 11 yrs old. My Aunt and Uncle and I were driveing from Elmira NY to Bradford PA we were in the hills coming around a bend near a farm and we saw the object hovering over a farm.

It was near a barn and cow pasture and the object just was hovering about 100 feet above the ground. 
As we came nearer it did not move, it just sat in the air silent and still not moving at all. There were colored lights like fire just illuminating the object like liquid light flashing all sorts of firey colors, but it was contained as it were from within the object. 
When we were about 500 feet from the object we stopped the car and just watched it for awhile. It all of a sudden shot straight up into the sky untill it became very small, I never saw anything like it, it got to a certain point and then it did a 45 degree angle and it shot out accross the hills and disappeared.  It never made a sound at all.
I never saw anything like it before or after.
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