{"id":142283,"date":"2025-08-13T11:46:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T11:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/142283\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T11:46:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T11:46:11","slug":"what-was-spotted-in-the-skies-above-the-philadelphia-area-overnight-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/142283\/","title":{"rendered":"What was spotted in the skies above the Philadelphia area overnight Tuesday?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"What <\/p>\n

PHILADELPHIA<\/strong> – An ascending rocket or something from beyond our world?\u00a0<\/p>\n

That’s what people all over the Philadelphia area wondered on Tuesday night after spotting a mysterious, glowing orb in the night sky.<\/p>\n

What we know:<\/p>\n

A bright orb surrounded by a faint, glowing mist was spotted over the Philadelphia area on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

FOX 29 News viewers from Glenside to the Jersey shore submitted videos and photos of the mysterious orb throughout the night.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\" <\/p>\n

Viewers flooded FOX 29’s newsroom with photos and videos of the mysterious glowing orb. Experts believe the sighting originated from a rocket launch in Florida. <\/p>\n

It’s likely that the sighting originated from the launch of a Vulcan rocket in Cape Canaveral, Florida.<\/p>\n

The launch, which was part of a national security launch of satellites, could be seen as far north as Delaware.<\/p>\n

Air & Space<\/a>Philadelphia<\/a>News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA – An ascending rocket or something from beyond our world?\u00a0 That’s what people all over the Philadelphia…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":142284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[70350,5229,50,1448,2830,1311,159,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-142283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-air-space","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-pa","12":"tag-pennsylvania","13":"tag-philadelphia","14":"tag-science","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115021295509197604","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}