Pennsylvania UFO Sightings in 2006

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I was home alone and looked out the window to see if it was raining and i saw 3 lights in the sky really near the clouds, going above the clouds at times. They were flying in circles, not sure if it was 1 object changing lights or three different ones but probably 3. After about 10 minutes I only saw 2 spot lights in the clouds.

Freaky!I'm never gonna forget this, BTW it didn't make any noise. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).

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((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. We would like to have the witness re-submit his report, using one report form per sighting. PD)) Lights in the sky and a shiny object that went behind a cloud, cloud disappeards after a while I work in CampHill, get back from work at various times of the day since I have flexible work hours.

I drive from my office on Erford Road to N. Front St across the Harvey Taylor bridge. I've had 3 experiences that I found strange worth reporting, particularly after reading some of the reports from Harrisburg, PA.

1) About 2 weeks back from (12/29/2006), driving back from work around 7'ish in the evening, I had just entered Harvey Taylor bridge and I was looking at the sky in front towards the state capitol and I see a set of lights in the sky, bright white lights in the distance off to the right side of capitol. My first thought was that it must be lights up in the mountain and then realized the mountains are to my left and I was still wondering what the light was, continuing to drive looking at the road and the sky, by the time I was getting towards the Front St. intersection I could see the lights were turning right to left and just disappeared.

By the time I got to the intersection and had a red I was thinking it must have been a plane since there's an airport close by, but I've never seen that many lights and they were very bright and gave the appearance it was in far off and it disappeared, since I have to use 2nd st to get to my apartment on Front St and there are buildings on 2nd I couldn't see anything more. When I parked my car at the apartment I scanned the sky in the direction in which I had seen the lights hoping to see something but there was nothing, and I thought nothing of it. 2) Today (12/30/2006)I was coming back from my weekly gorcery at Giants (Camp Hill), I was driving back on Harvey Taylor bridge, I had just entered the bridge and again a set of lights this time towards the left side of capitol and a lot closer than what I saw last time.

I could count about 6 distinct bright white lights, I couldn't make out any shape as I continued driving I'm looking at the sky and the road ahead, it's impossible to stop on Harvey Taylor without getting yourselves killed because a lot of people speed, I had covered about 3/4th of the bridge and the ligths as far as I could make out were stationary and then the lights just disappeared. I kept scanning the sky for anything a plane, anything that could explain the lights as I was driving on 2nd and again when I got to my apartment and parked. I usually see planes in the evening sky from probably the airport close by but they are identifiable becuase you see them, there are the lights which are not unusually bright and you can see them move steadily and then you hear them and if you keep looking you can see them go away from you.

I have lived in this area for close to 4 years now, I think I have a fairly good idea of the Harrisburg skyline, I usually bike or walk and many I've taken my bike across the brige to look at the skyline from the other side of the river. I think I can say those lights were not from any building, even though the lights I saw was low in the sky. I'm not an expert and I have nothing to gain from this, just found it a little strange and I thought I should report.

Coming to the third experience, I have not too much to report. I live in a high rise apartment on the front st, overlooking the river with my apartment windows giving a beautiful view of the mountains in the distance. Some time in the past 2 weeks (it was a weekend because I was home) probably around 2-3 PM, I was going in to the kitchen to make some coffee.

There's a small window in the kitchen facing the mountain, I just instinctively looked outside, and saw a small patch of wispy clouds in the sky over the mountains, probably what made me stop and continue looking at the clouds was a shining disc like object just at the edge of the clouds. I kept staring, thinking that I should go to my living room window because it gives a better view but I couldn't move and kept staring and I saw the object disappear behind the clouds. I went in to my bed room pulled out my binoculars (I've got a 15*70 Porro Prism Celestron) from the shelf and to look the clouds hoping the object would reappear.

The clouds was not too much and the sky was really clear and blue, just a little and wispy, but I could see nothing but the clouds. So I put my binocular down, pulled my chair to the window and just sat there staring at the clouds, the strange thing was the clouds disappeared totally, usually you see the clouds moving with an air current but this just disappeared and the sky was totally clear. I sat there in my chair looking out the window and after a while I just went back to my routine life.

I am an amateur astronomer and I look at the sky with my naked eye and at times with my binoculars (harrisburg city is not the best place to look at night sky). I have no idea about what I saw, just that it was not normal that I'm used to. I am an engineer and I work in a field where my main skills are problem solving, I would rate myself as a person with a scientific outlook.

I did not bother to look at the exact time and I did not even bother to note down the date, becuase I still hope that there is a simple explanation and maybe what I was just something very ordinary and easily explained, probably it was just that I found it strange. What brought me to this site was to try and see if there was anyone reporting anything like this in Harrisburg and google search brought me here, I thought for a long time before I decided to post what I saw.

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Circular craft can be seen at the intersection of Cherry Lane and Shellhammer Road Apollo PA My girlfriends sister and her boyfriend first spotted three bright white lights that moved in a circular motion above a cemetary in West Labanon PA near Indiana 12/27/06. They studied it for a bit and when they got into their vehicle to drive away, it seemed to follow them. They came to my girlfriends house in Apollo 12/28/06 saying "you guys have to come see this".

All four of us got into my truck to go check this out. Near the intersection of Cherry Lane and Shellhammer Road in a feild, we spotted the same image they had seen. Three lights moving in a circular motion.

It was very creepy. All the dogs were barking hysterically. We looked away due to another car coming on the road, only to discover that the object was not there, but further away.

The object seemed to dissapear rather slowly until there was nothing spotted. ((NUFORC Note: Possible advertising lights?? PD)).

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12/28/06 three lights circling at different speeds we saw 3 lights in the sky circling like a grand opening for a new buisness. however, we realized we live in the sticks and that would be most likely impossible. we eliminated the possibility of christmas lights due to the location and the slow traveling movement.

it looked like three lights going in a circle chasing one another. two catching up to the first like bumping into, then back to a uniform circle, then repeating the same fast- slow pattern. at 20:20, we were near the lake within a quarter mile away and realized there was nothing new in the little town nearby to have a grand opening.

as we walked toward home, we realized the lights were now over nothing but a field. we saw that the light seemed to have moved slowly since the location at the lake in a east- north-east direction. we went in.

((NUFORC Note: Possible advertising lights?? PD)).

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this formation has been flying around in a circular motin for about 1 hr. it is a hazy circular form and the objects are flying in a circular motion. sometimes it is as if they catch up with one another and appear to touch.

it is a very spectacular sight.

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A triangular formation of 6 white orbs flew together, then separated and reformed formation again. I had just gotten the kids to bed and stepped out onto my deck to smoke a cigarette. It was a very clear night and I was looking up at the clear starry sky when a triangular formation of white, orb like lights flew over my house from behind me.

There were three orbs extending down the left side of the formation, and two down the right, with one at the point. They made NO noise and flew in perfect formation while turning to my right as they appeared to be doing a large U-turn. At what seemed to be the apex of their turn, the last orb in the uneven left side separated from the formation and maneuvered itself precisely into the same position on the right side of the formation.

I realized then that these orbs of light were totally independent objects flying in one perfect formation. I was now trying to focus even more intensely on whatever these orbs were and began to notice that their was slight variations in the intensity of light being generated by the orbs. The formation continued on its flight path and disappeared from sight when the house blocked my view, completing almost a perfect U-turn.

I never heard any noise coming from these objects, and had no real way of judging the distance between them and myself. A major highway is within sight of the house from the deck. The path these objects appeared to take almost makes me wonder if they saw the highway and decided to turn around in the other direction.

I stood there for sometime waiting for them to come back, hoping they were flying in a circle so I could see them again and be more prepared for what I saw the first time. But nothing came within sight for the next 30 minutes I stood there waiting. In the days to come, I contacted a customer of mine who is an Air Traffic Controller at the Lancaster Airport.

I asked him if they had any reports of strange lights in the sky Christmas Eve and was told they did not. He did ask why, and I briefly explained. His analytical disbelief in what I saw prevented me from sharing this experience with anyone but my wife and kids.

A few close friends were told whenever the topic of ghosts and UFO’s came up, which is how I received the link to this website. A friend of mine sent it to me and suggested I read up and submit my story. I’ve been a believer since that night and would love to know more, see more, do more.

It’s exciting whenever I think about it. Thanks for this website, as a place to examine what I do not totally understand.

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Car headlights in the sky Object appeared like car headlights as I peered horizontally through my skylight. (I was on the upper floor and didn't look up but sideways through the angled skylight.) At first I thought it was an odd reflection of a car on the street below, and for about 10-15 seconds I tried to get my bearings, figure out how in the world it was reflecting into this upward facing window.

I then realized it was a flying craft. I ran to the next skylight which I could stand directly below (inches from the glass) and continued observing the object. As the craft approached my vicinity, I noticed there were more than just the two "headlights" on the front.

There was a series of six lights on the bottom of the craft about midship, in a 2x3 rectangle configuration extending from fore to aft. From either side was a light on each of what may have been the tips of a very short wingspan. In total, there were 10 lights on the object, each off-white.

(Groups were similarly colored, and each group varied in color temperature only slightly.) There were no blinking lights on the craft, and no red or green beacons, as per federal aviation regulations. The object appeared to be about 50-100 feet above the treeline, due East, almost perfectly so.

I could hear the object clearly through the window. It made a loud, low whooshing/rumbling sound unlike any aircraft I had heard before - almost otherworldly, like something you'd hear in the movies. It traveled fairly slowly, perhaps between 20-50 MPH, although this may be a poor estimate.

Regardless, it was traveling FAR slower than a plane, and slower than I have seen most helicopters. It flew over me, almost perpendicular. When it had passed over me, I could see what appeared to be two thin poles jutting out of the front of the craft in the vicinity of the "headlights.

" As it eclipsed my view, I quickly darted downstairs and out the door to continue my observation. At this point, I had been observing the craft for about a minute and the trip downstairs took approximately 5 seconds. When I got outside and looked at the sky, I could no longer see the craft.

I have a clear line of sight in the direction it was heading and estimate it should have taken approximately 1-2 more minutes for it to evade my sight. I also could no longer hear the object. All said and done, I have never seen this lighting configuration before, and the sound it emitted was very odd - neither the sputter of a propeller nor the hum and hiss of a jet.

I've lived near airports - large and small - all my life, and I've seen and heard a lot of aircraft, and this one was unlike any other. Regarding this location, it is a heavily wooded and sparsely populated area and the nearest airports are 10 miles North and 15 miles South/South West respectively. There is, to my knowledge, no place within at least 5 miles to land an aircraft, even a helicopter.

((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).

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four yellow lights in the sky over Hershey Pa It was dark outside and we were in a chevy express van. we were pulling up to our house when i saw four yellow/ orange lights in the sky in a vertical. Then when we parked and got out the lights dissapeared.

they then reformed at an angle it looked like this / in the sky. The y once again dissapeared and came back in a horizontal line. the sky behind the lights was a littke darker then the rest of the sky and it pulsed blueish around th darker area.

we also heard an almost humming sound coming from the lights. All of us were struck with fear in a way. it was the creapiest night of our lives so far.

but as soon as we sent some one to get a camera the lights were gone and never came back. but minutes later jets flew over head. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that date of incident is approximate.

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very bright white ball in the eastern sky viewed while eastbound Pa turnpike at 7:03am December 16,2006. My wife and I were driving east bound on the Pennsylvania turnpike. the sun was just coming up and the sky at the horizon level was a deep red.

Further east ,where the contrails originated,were erratic as it moved west. at this point we noticed a very bright light,like a burning magnesium ball, moving west and the up and then as if it burned itself out but only to reappear again as a white ball and then again burn itself out. The contrails were white against a red background and were there for quite a while.

We were driving from Cleveland,Oh to Johnstown Pa when this happened. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch from Wallops Island, VA. PD)).

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Tube shaped object, very large, dark grey. Left a white trail behind object, trail was shaped much like a lighting bolt with very sharp angles and inconsistencies. Disappeared in a type of white vapor, no flames or propellent were visible during its flight.

((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)) ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch from Wallops Island, VA. PD)).

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Object seen from dunbar PA in th e sunrise Round broght object seen leaving the ground in the sun rise leaving an extreamly bright trail following it that i have pictures of then the object dissappeared for approximatly 5 seconds then reappeared with no movement for another 3 seconds. Object was round with a round shape in front of it like a comet burning through the atmosphere ((NUFORC Note: We believe the correct date should read December 16. That was the date of the missile launch out of Wallops Island, VA.

We have changed the date above. PD)).

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At approximately 7AM I noted a spiral shaped or zigzag jet steam arising from the opposite horizon. The pattern was so wide and irregular it caught my eye. I never saw the shape of the object, but I did see the shape of the light coming from it.

It had a brightly lit front nose that was followed by a conical white light body. It disappeared and reappeared x 3, but the jet stream remained behind it. At one point it burst into bright fireball light and disappeared, but reappeared again.

I woke my husband and son to see it. By the time my son woke up there was only the wide spiraling jet stream. Mu husband saw the light object.

It reminded me of a comet, but appeared to be traveling parallel to the earth's surface and not toward it. It did not appear to be getting closer to the ground when it disappeared. It also reminded me of the space shuttle and one was launched Dec.

9. I also read that the military launched a new stealth jet yesterday. Any of these may be possibilities, but it was certainly special to watch.

I hope this helps. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch from Wallops Island, VA. PD)).

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Bright white comet like object traveling in a straight line in the northwest sky. I arrived at work late and my co-workers were outside looking at the sky. I looked up to see what they were looking at in the northeast section of the sky which was clear and observed a trail left like that of a plane or jet zig zagging towards the earth as though it was going to crash.

The trail went behind a tall building in the distance. We all just watched when suddenly an object appeared from the northwest part of the sky which was a bit hazy. The object looked like a comet.

It was round and bright white with a hazy white cloud wrapping around it and protruding from the back like a comet tail or meteor tail. It traveled in a straight line for about five seconds then just disappeared. My co-workers said that it was the same object they observed falling towards the earth and leaving the zig zagged trail.

((NUFORC Note: Missile launch from Wallops Island, VA. PD)).

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Extremely fast round metallic object with very erractic turns as it ascended. Was a clear morning sky. We were westbound going to meet freinds to go golfing.

As we approached Reading,Pa. we noticed a vapor trail that appeared to be vertical to approx. 15,ooo ft than appeared to take a 90 degree turn to the west.

The vapor trail was straight up and down but the horizontal vapor trail changed direction several times in an erractic succession. Upon meeting our freinds they were baffled as to what they saw. They asked us if we saw the vapor trail.

They were much closer to it than we were, in fact they were transferring golf clubs into another car in a parking lot when they saw what they described as a small round object launch extremely fast , as a rocket would launch, vertically.It than seemed to drop back towards them at which time it again rose very rapidly and than turned on a dime toward the west and quickly disappeared to the west. They described it as a round metallic object that was very hard to see due to its extreme speed.

What was apparent was its vapor trail off of both sides of it. They also said it was extremely silent. The desciption of their sighting was exactly what we saw from approx.

10 miles away. We were hoping that someone else also had this sighting, as it was very strange indeed.What bothers me is when something this apparent is not publicized ,it seems others must have seen it also.

I have never seen anything like it nor would I ever imagine ever witnessing anything so surreal. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch from Wallops Island, VA. PD)).

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Squiggly contrail and object (triangular shaped with haze) moving away at 90 degrees from eratic contrail. Looking out the window to the southeast I first noticed an interesting very squiggly contrail line. It was very well formed and concise and looked like it was fresh.

It started about 30 degrees above the horizon and continued down to the horizon squiggling the whole way down. I couldn't tell if the line was dropping in altitude or just going to the distant horizon. This eratic contrail line disipatted after 20 minutes from my first viewing.

It looked like it may have been from some kind of rocket that had no (or little) guidance system - just so erating and many times finely looping on itself. It also was 90 degrees to the norm of contrails that normally form this time of day as we have much commercial traffic heading west at this time of day. Shortly after first noticing the out of the ordinary contrail I saw what I thought appeared to be a comet moving not really fast to the east at about 90 degrees to the from the contrail.

Again at this time of morning everything is normally moving to the west. This is the object I observed for about 30 seconds, with my wife seeing it for about the last 15 of those seconds (it took time to get downstairs to notify her). The whole object was the size of about half my pinky nail held out at arm's length.

The object had a haze behind the direction of travel (all this contained in the size discription given). My wife and I watched it eventually fade away as it moved to the distance. My pictures I'm sending are of the eratic / squiggly contrail line.

((NUFORC Note: Missile launch from Wallops Island, VA. PD)) ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) This is to update my previous report: THE OBJECT HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED. It was a rocket that took off from Wallops Island, VA two hundred miles south of here.

The eratic contrail was from the exhaust from the rocket and the object was the rocket itself. Thgis has been reported to the local TV station. ((name deleted)) ((END ADDENDUM)).

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Grouping of 8 or more spherical lights hovered, and then disappeared a few at a time until they were all gone Myself and two others, all senior college students were on our way to the school cafeteria to have dinner. Our college is located in a small town, so there aren't a lot of lights in the sky. My boyfriend goes, "Guys do you see that?" And we looked up: There were at least 8, maybe 10 or 12, circular lights in the sky in a shape of a U or a V, but wider.

It looked like they were just hovering there for a few seconds. Then one or two would go out, then 3 more, and then finally they were all gone. At first we thought it was a bridge at our school, lit up with Christmas decorations fof the Holiday.

so we went out to look at the bridge, and the shape of the ropes that any lights could be on is like ^, whereas what we saw was more a V. And the size of the lights, and the amount of light they emitted, were larger than any Christmas bulb decoration. I have no idea what this could have been, I've never seen anything like it in my life.

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There were 3 red lights sitting in the sky. They would stay lit for a minute and then fade away only to light up again minutes later. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.

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5-6 Lights in a line on the rear of the object Returning home from work, I turned on the 11 o'clock news. The weatherman said the Geminid meteor shower was occuring that night, recommending the best time to view the event was before midnight. I went outside and looked up towards the E/SE sky.

It was a clear, crisp night, allowing the constellation Orion to easily catch my eye off to the right of my peripheral vision. After only a few moments of star gazing in that same direction, 5-6 reddish-orange/burnt orange lights appeared out of nowhere just above the few tall pine trees that border that side of the property. These lights shined as if they were large, bright stars, and appeared in a straight line with equal distances between each ("• • • • •").

I believe these lights to have been the tail side of the object, possibly part of a propulsion system. It sat in a completely still hover for only a couple of seconds and then quickly accelerated without a sound toward the E/SE, tilting as it appeared to turn slightly more south and gain in altitude till out of sight. It was quite an experience and I began questioning whether or not I had just seen what I thought I'd seen.

In the next ten minutes or so, I also got to enjoy more than a dozen meteors as well. I did a quick glance on nuforc.org and found the following entry that is very similar to mine.

Occurred : 12/2/2006 18:20 (Entered as : 12/2/06 18:20) Reported: 12/2/2006 7:38:20 PM 19:38 Posted: 12/7/2006 Location: West Dundee, IL Shape: Formation Duration:30-40 seconds String of 6-7 lights equally spaced apart, about 1000 ft up moving quietly West to East in the night sky. I was walking in my back yard, letting my dog out and getting some firewood. I looked up to see how the stars looked on this cool crisp night when I noticed what appeared to be a flock of "lit" birds.

but turned out to be a string of lights, approximately 1/3 high up in the sky. If I had to guess less than 1,000 ft up. My dog began barking but other than that the sky was dead quiet.

The 6 lit objects almost looked like stars but were a dull orange or pink tone and moved in perfect unison. This could have been one object. The object moved from West to East at a slow but steady pace.

I have tried to think about all possible alternatives and ratonalizing this but cannot determine what this is. It definitely was not a natural occurrance and has shaken me.

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UFO flying above Bridgeville and Scott Twp, Pa I had just left the Walmart located on Route 50 in Heidelberg. I was travelling south on Route 50 towards Bridgeville, heading home. Just about a 1/8 to a quarter of a mile up from where I turned onto Route 50 from the road that goes to Walmart's parking lot, I saw bright lights coming at a high rate of speed directly towards the road I was on and in my direction.

(ie- the lights were coming straight to me and the few other surrounding vehicles driving around me). At first sighting, it was about a mile or two away in the sky. I thought to myself that it was an awfully bright light for a plane, and I started looking for the FAA lights.

I didn't see any FAA lights on the plane. I then thought to myself to grab my camera phone and try to snap a shot of what I was seeing. I came up to the light on route 50 at Thoms Run Road.

It was a red light about to turn green. This is not more than a 1/8 of a mile from when I made first sight of it. At that point, the lighted craft was in plain sight, about hundred feet in front of me, and maybe and about three hundred feet to my right.

I'm not sure how high up in the sky it was, as it was moving very quickly, and I'm not very good at determining how high in the sky stuff is. At this point, the craft appeared to be somewhat circular in shape- the front of it facing me looked like a half circle or bananna kind of shape parallel to the horizon), and appeared to have lights surrounding the part of the craft facing me, but not on it's rear. These lights, about 7 or 8 ( a guestimation), all seemed to blend into one horizontal light around the front of the craft.

and much brighter than any aircraft I have seen before. Traffic then started moving again, and cars were going very slow, curious about what the object was. I snapped a picture of it at this point, and as it saved, the craft came very close to my car, directly above it.

At this point, the craft appeared to be triangular in shape, with a very bright light eminating from the center of it. Then the craft moved in a circle from where it was, went behind my car, and came back around. I snapped another picture of it when it came back around, moving in what appeared to be a complete circle.

and then it flew out of my sight in a north/north eastern direction- moving very quickly. I got two pictures on my camera cell phone, both show the date and time to be the same. That should tell you how quickly this was moving.

After seeing it, I did notice another airplane as I drove further down route 50, and it was much higher in the sky than the one I could not identify, and I could clearly make out the FAA lights. It is typical to see low flying planes here in Bridgeville, as we are close to the Pittsburgh Airport (about ten to fifteen miles away). The craft I could not identify was much lower than anything I have seen here before.

When I got home, I decided to take a better look at the pictures with my roommate. He is a paranormal investigator, and can, most often, disprove a lot of things that people can't indentify. After zooming in on the images, neither of us could identify what this object was.

My professional background is mostly in mental health, as a program director. My personal background- I have an interest in the paranormal, and volunteer heavily for a paranormal research and investigation group.

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4 stationary lights shift position, move and disappear. As I was driving down a road, I looked up and saw 4 little white lights in a horizontal row, stationary, slightly slanted up to the right. As I watched, they shifted almost to a vertical line, slanting greatly down to the left.

Then the moved together to the left about an inch in two seconds and dissappeared.