Bucks County Judge Clyde W. Waite injured in incident at his home Monday

EDITOR'S NOTE: This article has been updated to include new information.

Bucks County Judge Clyde W. Waite was injured Monday night at his Newtown-area home in what he first called an attack but then later said might have been a hallucination, citing conversations with detectives about the incident.

Waite originally told The Inquirer and Daily News early Wednesday that he was attacked in his home, just weeks after he was profiled in the newspapers.

"It may very well be that I saw something that wasn't there," Waite said Wednesday afternoon. "I might have seen a figure and ran out [of his home]."

Larry King, a spokesman for the Bucks County District Attorney's office, said he could not comment on the ongoing investigation, but that there would be no reason to doubt Waite's account of his Wednesday discussion with county detectives.

King confirmed that a police report had been filed Monday night, but said it would not be made available at this time.

Waite, a Republican senior county court judge and the first and only African-American judge in the county, initially said he did not know of anyone who would want to harm him.

In the earlier interview with the Inquirer, the judge said the incident occurred around 9 p.m. Monday. Waite said he was on the phone with a friend who is an Allegheny County judge, talking about the state Supreme Court's new Congressional map and a Philadelphia judicial conference set for Wednesday.

"In the middle of the conversation, there was an exclamation from me and the phone went dead," Waite said, recalling his fellow judge's account of the call. "The next thing I remember I was running across a field to my next-door neighbor's home."

The Allegheny County judge was not immediately available for comment.

Waite said he was bleeding from a gash on his head. His left eye was swollen shut, he said, and the cell phone in his hand was mangled.

Newtown Township police directed inquiries about the incident to the Bucks County District Attorney's Office.

Waite said nothing was amiss at his home – no broken windows or other signs of forced entry – and nothing appeared to have been taken. But he said the doors to his home had been unlocked. Waite said he lives alone.

Doctors told Waite he is expected to recover from his injuries.

Colleagues were handling his caseload on Wednesday, Waite said, and he planned to return to the bench Thursday.

Bucks County Court Administrator Stephen Heckman confirmed that Waite was set to return to work.

"I always found the man to be sharp as a tack," Heckman said. "My concern is for how he appears tomorrow … [But] I don't anticipate it being a problem."

While Heckman said he did not have the court schedule in front of him, he was not aware of any trials on Thursday and indicated Waite will likely be hearing cases involving bench warrants and bail matters.

The district attorney's office said Wednesday afternoon that it would have no additional updates on its investigation.