2019-05-17 - Cedar Run, PA - Light

Brightest thing in night sky followed by obviously military aircraft at very low altitude

It was about 21:45 EST May 17, 2019 one mile SW of Cedar Run, Pennsylvania. I was sitting with my girlfriend at the dinner table listening to the radio getting ready to turn in. We have expansive plate glass windows facing SE offering a good view of the mountain opposite and a good deal of the sky above. It was a largely clear night, moon within 24 hours of full, high in the SW. She told me to look up to the South where I saw a silent highly luminous object (not reflecting but emitting light), the brightest object in the sky, so bright no shape could be discerned save that of any bright source of light (like a star), no larger than a small single engine plane. We watched as it crossed very slowly perhaps no more than a few hundred feet overhead moving in a unerring easterly direction. We exited the house to watch as it passed into the distance in complete silence. At more than a mile’s distance we began to hear the very low rumble of a jet engine, a sound th! at a commercial flight would make very far off on the horizon. To our surprise it was a four engine jet with minimal running lights moving in the same path as that of the still visible object. I say surprising because it was so low; low enough, I dare add, to actually read lettering on the wings if it had any to read in the daylight. It was NOT a commercial airliner - much too low and quiet for that. What’s more, the wings were far up on the fuselage directly behind the cockpit, meaning it was built for speeds beyond that of any commercial craft of that size. It WAS a military aircraft, and it WAS following at roughly the same speed and altitude as the object with no apparent intent to close the distance or intercept this UFO until both slipped over mountain on the eastern horizon.