On Tuesday October 8th around 8:45PM I was smoking outside at work and saw a solid white light with a solid smaller red light next to it, no blinking whatsoever. For context, I’m located in Northeast Pennsylvania. This light was in the North-central horizon and rose straight up into the atmosphere, from the other side of the mountain, then flew straight towards the other side of the sky. Whatever it was, would’ve had to take flight from the South-central New York area, like Elmira area, maybe even as far as Ithaca. It was very quick moving and a fifth of the way through the sky within twenty seconds tops. I would’ve thought it was just a plane or helicopter, but it was completely silent and very large (from what I could tell from the lights), but still at least 3/4 as high in the sky as a plane normally would be. By the time it was this far, I started taking a video to send to my fiance because he watches military/science/conspiracy podcasts a lot and I figured he’d have some easy explanation. The aircraft was almost 4/5 of the way through the sky and almost to the SouthEast horizon within 45 seconds of video. After I stopped the video it reached the other end of the horizon that I could see. It flew across the entire sky, from behind the first mountain to beyond the next, in between 1.5-2 minutes. I’ve never seen a plane or helicopter completely silently move this fast. My fiance and I thought maybe a rocket launch, but nothing was documented to launch from that area and nothing was in the news of flying in our area or in that path at all. My fiance mentioned that it might’ve been a military jet? I wasn’t sure if anybody else may have seen it that night or might know about anything that would act this way? Where I work is on top of a hill and the skyline is completely clear besides rolling hills so I can see from southern New York all the way to central PA’s mountaintops, especially after the leaves fall. This thing rose straight up towards the atmosphere from the other side of South-central NY, then flew straight across the sky, and I lost sight when it got behind the hills of Scranton, about. Any ideas what it was? Or did anybody see this besides me??
by ChososDocMartens