I saw these lights around 7:45 PM 'till about 8:40 PM on 11/19/08 near Allentown PA. I think they started earlier but I didn't go out and notice them 'till then. I saw 7 very bright white ones. One green dim one in the distance. First I noticed one and it looked like a bright spotlight was shining straight up. I was driving and looked for a light source on the ground - none. I was not near town when I saw this one. Then I noticed there where other lights as I drove more. They were just randomly scattered every direction I looked. They looked like they all started at the same altitiude above the ground.. not very high up they started. They all were the same size wide. The pictures I saw online were of many together. The lights I saw were not close together. They were maybe a mile or more apart. There were some clouds near some of them and others had no clouds near them at all and you could see the stars above them. I parked my car and was standing almost directly below one amazed at how it just went so staight up and where it started on the bottom was so bright.

I have lived in Northern Vermont just by the border of Canada and have seen the Aurora very often. There was only one time I saw it look sort of like this and it was summer time. The shafts of light that time didn't stay in one spot like these PA ones. Those VT ones came down towards the ground and then went back up disappearing as they moved up. The PA lights just looked like a spotlight was up high suspended in the air shining white light upwards in shafts of light.

I thought it was just Aurora, but since then I was commented by someone that it looked like H.A.A.R.P. and now reading about that..I'm not so sure what I saw. It was a little eery unlike the awesomeness of the Aurora. It seemed to be like they were all just too much like each other all shining staight up and the same size. The Auroras I have seen move, sometimes very slow, but still move or change in some way. These PA ones stayed stationary (the shafts of light themselves), but the light inside them sort of seemed to flow about a little bit.

I don't know... but it sure was unusual.

I live in Pennsylvania, but I have never seen anything like that before, I haven't a clue what it is. But northern lights sounds believable.

[edit on 16-12-2008 by veryrandomannonomous]