On October 27, 2012, Earthfiles reported about the “Unidentified Aerial Object As High As Jet Stream” seen by residents from Williams, West Virginia, to eastern Kentucky to northern Tennessee. See 102612 Earthfiles.
That Earthfiles report included an interview with amateur astronomer, Allen Epling in Virgie, Kentucky. He used his telescope to photograph and videotape the bizarre object, put the video on YouTube and national news picked up the mystery.
What no one knew was that only two days later on October 18, 2012, 700 miles northeast of Virgie, KY, a similar brightening and fading translucent aerial object showed up high in the sky above Gardiner, New York, 54 miles north of Manhattan between 3 to 5 PM Eastern.