Cecil, Pennsylvania, USA
1993 May 4 · Cecil, Pennsylvania, USA · 1 sources
Witness was driving home from Senior Prom at night with his date and a sleeping friend in the back seat. On Riessing Road near State Route 50, after crossing a one-lane bridge with trees on either side, the witness noticed something anomalous in the sky. A very large rectangular object approximately the size of a football field was gliding slowly just above the treetops at 25-50 ft altitude, moving northeast at 30-50 mph. The object was semi-transparent — the witness could see stars through it, but the effect was like looking through old wavy glass. The object made no sound. After the witness stopped the car for a better look, the object stopped moving entirely. The witness then fled the scene, driving home in approximately 4 minutes (a trip that normally takes 10-15 minutes). Years later, the witness and his date independently recalled and confirmed the same sighting.
- Shape
- Rectangular
- Nature
- Unknown aerial object, possibly structured craft
- Sound
- None
- Weather
- Clear
- Site
- Rural road flanked by trees, near one-lane bridge, Cecil PA
- Size
- Very large — approximately the size of a football field (~91 meters)
- Duration
- 4 min
- Time of day
- Night
- Local time
- 0200-0300 hrs
- Theme
- other_unclassified
The unmodified record(s) the master event was assembled from.
NIDS-DOCNIDS-DOC:b101de61:128 fields
- city
- Cecil
- date
- 1993-05-04
- site
- Rural road flanked by trees, near one-lane bridge, Cecil PA
- shape
- Rectangular
- sound
- None
- state
- Pennsylvania
- country
- USA
- weather
- Clear
- date_raw
- 1993 May 4
- incident
- Witness was driving home from Senior Prom at night with his date and a sleeping friend in the back seat. On Riessing Road near State Route 50, after crossing a one-lane bridge with trees on either side, the witness noticed something anomalous in the sky. A very large rectangular object approximately the size of a football field was gliding slowly just above the treetops at 25-50 ft altitude, moving northeast at 30-50 mph. The object was semi-transparent — the witness could see stars through it, but the effect was like looking through old wavy glass. The object made no sound. After the witness stopped the car for a better look, the object stopped moving entirely. The witness then fled the scene, driving home in approximately 4 minutes (a trip that normally takes 10-15 minutes). Years later, the witness and his date independently recalled and confirmed the same sighting.
- svp_code
- CEI
- time_local
- 0200-0300 hrs
- trajectory
- Moving northeast, then stopped completely
- case_source
- NIDS
- size_meters
- Very large — approximately the size of a football field (~91 meters)
- time_of_day
- Night
- source_quote
- There was this thing the size of a football field just over the trees and it was gliding really slow... I could see the stars through it but it was like looking through an old wavy piece of glass.
- catalog_entry
- NIDS-DOC:b101de61:1
- location_text
- Cecil, Riessing Rd about 1 mile from State Rte 50, PA
- witness_count
- 2
- source_doc_sha
- b101de61746378f8424f51ac9388ba1fdf90e50fee6b4bae3b8ae67f2efd578f
- light_emissions
- Stars visible through object as if semi-transparent; no other lights noted
- witness_sex_age
- Patrick Gastgeb (male, high school senior at time of sighting); Carrie Velmire (female, his prom date); third person asleep in back seat
- duration_minutes
- 4
- witness_reactions
- Witness stopped car to observe; experienced fight-or-flight response; fled the scene at high speed; date exclaimed 'Oh my God!'
- witness_occupation
- High school student (at time of sighting)
- nature_of_phenomenon
- Unknown aerial object, possibly structured craft
- vallee_classification
- CE-I
- NIDS-DOCNIDS-DOC
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