Light over Gettysburg, PA
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The report, as filed
UFO sighting on a Ghost tour in Gettysburg.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2003-11-18 → 2003-12-05
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September 30, 2023 · 9:00 PM · DISK
Gettysburg, PA
On the weekend of September 30- Oct 1 my wife ((deleted)) and I spent the weekend in historic Gettysburg, Pa, celebrating our 38th wedding anniversary. On the evening of September 30th 2023, at around 9 pm we were taking a guided walking ghost tour of the town. The tour guide had us stop at a few locations while he told his stories. On the last stop, the guide was standing on a side street and our group was either sitting or standing listening to him. My wife was sitting down on the curb and looking up at the guide who was doing his thing. She became distracted by a blinking object behind him in the sky- which was moving at a very fast rate of speed. She said it zigzagged- back and forth- and then pulsed left/ right, left/ right- before it moved across the sky at a constant speed. That was the part I caught very briefly on video from my I phone. I lost it in the tree cover in the parking lot after a few seconds. I also have 2 photos which I took before the video. It is difficult to see the object on the still shots unless you blow it up. It is near the center in both photos. When increased in size, it appears to be somewhat disc shaped with a reddish haze around it. There are a couple of other strange areas on the photos which may have something to do with the camera on my phone. We don't recall seeing those with our eyes, but they are interesting. If you increase the size of the still shots you can see lines under the lower clouds which do not appear to be clouds. Also a couple of bike handlebar( for lack of a better description) shaped objects higher up in the one photo. There's probably a logical explanation for all of this, but we don't know what that is. We thought maybe the blinking object was a drone, but after talking to one of our sons- who happens to be an aerospace engineer- he said they don’t move like what we described to him. The weird thing was that no one else in our group noticed this. We also looked online to see if anything was posted about this in that area, but came up with nothing. We are looking forward to have someone give us their expert opinion on this! Thank you
September 24, 2022 · 9:45 PM · CIGAR
Gettysburg, PA
So it was about 9:45 p.m. around the date of September 24th 2022. I was driving home from work I was on Swift run road I go that way all the time and out my windshield to the right of me I suddenly saw this Orange lighted thing at a diagonal and I immediately was like what the f is that all excited. I was going to pull over but my cell phone had died literally a minute before I saw it my phone battery was very low when I left from work about 10 minutes before that so I wouldn't count that as it drained my battery anyway I'm driving checking my reflections to make sure it wasn't something in my vehicle making these lights and it wasn't so I'm watching this thing as I'm driving and it's getting closer and closer and I passed almost under it and there it went behind a cloud as I passed it by then it was on my left and I could have sworn that I saw a faint Chrome reflection around the lights. Meanwhile because I can't use my phone or call anybody I'm screaming oh my God what is this oh my Lord I was going crazy I only saw it for at least 3 minutes but when I got really close to it it was huge I can't even say how big but it had started off from my perspective from the vehicle about 3 inches in size from a distance. When it was almost directly above me it was at least two school buses long from my perspective. After it went behind the clouds I flew home cuz I wanted to get everybody back in the car and see if it was still there so we did but by that time it had been 15 minutes and I didn't see it again.I'm just reporting it now because I thought about it again. I did just look at the home page of your site and I do not believe that it was a star link satellite chain because they were closer together and orange and I detected a faint glow of Chrome pictures attached.
December 29, 2019 · 12:30 AM · CIRCLE
Gettysburg, PA
Three bright white circular objects that appeared to be stationary. Sometimes I have seen flashing (?rotating?) blue and red lights, or bright circular white flashing lights. No green lights noted. No sound heard. Hard to tell height from ground, but they are high in the sky. Seem to be at 60-90 degree compass points from each other. I have seen very fast flying objects at different times as well. I typically stay up late in the night, and have seen these objects regularly over the past year (when sky is clear). Times vary but from 2100-0200 hours on various nights. Am not sure whether they are present (but not visible) during daylight hours. Multiple neighbors have also seen them. Reported to local police some time ago. My father was a pilot and I grew up flying and watching the sky. These objects are unlike anything I have ever seen before. They capture my attention because I can’t figure out what they are...I thought they might be military-related due to our location and close proximity to secure government sites. Now I am reporting to you, since there is news of “drone sightings” in other states. Pictures taken from cell phone showed tiny object in vast night sky. Did not seem to represent scale of what I am seeing with my naked eye.
February 18, 2017 · 12:00 AM · CIRCLE
Gettysburg, PA
I saw a circular object appear in the sky. It had green flashing lights, about six or seven. I couldn't make out the color of the object itself because it was so dark out. At first I thought it was an airplane until I realized how low it was flying and how fast it disappeared.
July 15, 2012 · 8:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Gettysburg, PA
Delta wing, no lights, walnut shaped pod on underside with rectangular row of ports with grenishgrayish glow
May 15, 2010 · 9:00 PM · OTHER
Gettysburg, PA
Loud noise with line of changing colors and disappearing!