NUFORC Sighting 161584

Occurred: 2021-01-10 20:00 Local
Reported: 2021-01-12 13:26 Pacific
Duration: 5 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Philadelphia, PA, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

V/Triangle-shaped, silent craft near Philadelphia on 1/10/21

While stargazing one evening, as I do with family nearly every night, I witnessed a massive V-shaped craft silently traveling north to southwest for roughly 5 seconds. I cannot gauge how close it was in 1000s/ft but it appeared very large and I cannot express how dead silent it was as it flew past. I have never seen anything like that before which prompted my searches for similar experiences.

The V was dark colored with dim running lights along the edges. Most interesting, in addition to its silence, was that it appeared like light was bending around the body of the V (imagine a triangle shape where the “V” was visible like a silhouette but the stars behind it were visible though stretched/distorted as it flew. It seemed to appear exactly when near-perpendicular to my vantage point and then it disappeared once at a certain viewing angle.

No photos were taken as it was a brief moment.

Posted 2021-01-19