Ball of flashing, sparkling multicolored light
On the night of January 25, 2001 I awoke and had trouble falling back to sleep.
I got up and went to the kitchen for a drink. It was a bright clear night and I glanced out the kitchen window, where an unusually bright star in the southwest sky, perhaps 40-45 degrees above the horizon, caught my attention.
I had never seen such a sparkling, colorful star before! Red and blue light flashed from it, in a way similar to the flashing lights on police cars. I watched it, fascinated, for a short time and then ran for my binoculars (I don't have a telescope) but they revealed no details. The object looked like a ball of glowing light emitting sparks and spikes of colored light. It didn't move at all during the approximately 30 minutes I observed it, but a couple of times it appeared to fade slightly and then brighten again, and it was still there when I finally went back to bed. I haven't seen it since. I was prompted to submit this report after I read of a similar sighting that occurred in Telford, Pa., which is about 30 miles from Prospect Park.
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On the night of January 25, 2001 I awoke and had trouble falling back to sleep.
I got up and went to the kitchen for a drink. It was a bright clear night and I glanced out the kitchen window, where an unusually bright star in the southwest sky, perhaps 40-45 degrees above the horizon, caught my attention.
I had never seen such a sparkling, colorful star before! Red and blue light flashed from it, in a way similar to the flashing lights on police cars. I watched it, fascinated, for a short time and then ran for my binoculars (I don't have a telescope) but they revealed no details. The object looked like a ball of glowing light emitting sparks and spikes of colored light. It didn't move at all during the approximately 30 minutes I observed it, but a couple of times it appeared to fade slightly and then brighten again, and it was still there when I finally went back to bed. I haven't seen it since. I was prompted to submit this report after I read of a similar sighting that occurred in Telford, Pa., which is about 30 miles from Prospect Park.
((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. PD))
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Prospect Park
USA
30+ min.
30+ min.
39.88
-75.31
light
PA
Occurred : 1/25/2001 02:30 (Entered as : 01/25/01 02:30) Reported: 7/1/2002 8:01:25 AM 08:01 Posted: 7/1/2002 Location: Prospect Park, PA Shape: Light Duration: 30+ min. Characteristics: There was an aura or haze around the object, The object emitted beams, The object changed color
Ball of flashing, sparkling multicolored light