When MUFON researchers requested radar records pertaining to an event on March 13, 2013, they were preparing to log a garden-variety sighting report for eastern Pennsylvania. What they got instead were indications of a startling near-collision in mid-air outside Lehigh Valley International Airport (ABE).
“Needless to say, we didn’t expect this,” says Dan Medleycott, Pennsylvania State Section Director.
To wit: At about 8:50 p.m. on 3/13/13, a man and his daughter in Bethlehem, Pa., saw what they described as “at least 100 or so” round bluish objects moving in formation from north to south, in addition to a less well organized formation trailing the first. The orb-like UFOs then accelerated “from 0-80 mph” before disappearing. With winds on that evening clocked at 11 mph from the west, MUFON scratched sky lanterns from the suspect list.
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