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Occurred : 9/19/2009 20:00 (Entered as : 091909 20:00)
Reported: 10/11/2009 4:00:04 PM 16:00
Posted: 12/12/2009
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Shape: Changing
Duration:15 sec
A brief, bright light in Western Pennsylvania.

On september 19, 2009 at a few minutes before 8:00 PM, in Cheswick, PA. - north of Pittsburgh - I saw in the southeast near Jupiter a very bright light with a hanging illumination like a Degas ballerina skirt.

It was near jupiter, about ten degrees east. Four people from the Amateur Astronomers Assn. of Pittsburgh also witnessed this event. It lasted only fifteen seconds.


((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))