Light over Yardley, PA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Baseball sized light dropping from sky in front of me and shooting back up 11:11pm.
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 2012-10-31 → 2012-11-17
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July 25, 2023 · 4:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Yardley, PA
There are alien bird noises played by an alien speaker in our backyard. When we go outside to check if there are birds, there are none. It is also 90 degrees outside and the noises are heard at 5:00pm. I repeat there are no birds outside and these noises are coming from a kind alien who planted a speaker in our backyard. If you send some troops over I can show them the noises. The noises are electronic in sound and definitely not real birds. The speaker appears to be micro as I cannot find it, I need specialized equipment and a ladder to find it (it seems to be planted on our roof). The noises are included in the zip folder attached, and I repeat they are repetitive and electronic. [NUFORC annotation: Hoax - Possible]
December 24, 2022 · 8:40 PM · SPHERE
Yardley, PA
I was leaving my family Christmas Eve gathering and as I turned to drive away, a large orange orb rose up from the horizon line above a house across the street. It was probably much further than it looked. It did not blink nor were there any landing lights or any other light other than orange except it glowed with a ferocity almost like a fire. It moved at a quick pace but not super fast. It came towards me over the top of the house at helicopter height, completely silently, then continued to arc upward and away. I lost sight of it behind a tree line in my parent’s neighborhood. I simply turned and drove away. I don’t know why I didn’t take any photos or video. My phone was right near my hand and I easily could have. I just didn’t even think of it until it was gone. Other things of note: 1) I was completely sober 2) I am currently menstruating (John Keel has noted a correlation between menstruating women and sightings) 3) no one else on the block seemed to even notice anything even when I slowed down and lowered my window to stare at it for a minute. There were other people and cars. 4) there were stars and other aircraft in the sky at the time.
April 28, 2021 · 9:40 PM · UNKNOWN
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Yardley, PA
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May 24, 2019 · 9:41 PM · OTHER
Yardley, PA
My adult-aged daughter and I were driving on I-295 North toward Yardley, PA, and shortly after passing the Scotch Road exit #65A, we started to see a really bright light in the sky ahead of us. It caught our attention because the light was low, really bright and large, as if it were the moon; however, it was too low, too bright, too cloudy and late to be the moon. Also, it was staying fixated in one spot—it didn’t seem to move or change in size as we got closer to it. It was also NOT an airplane because it was approaching from the opposite direction of planes seen landing in this area at Trenton-Mercer Airport. I was able to get two images as I was driving and you are able to see an incoming airplane to the left of this other object--the airplane lights are super small in comparison to the unidentified light—and the lights of the airplane were getting bigger and clearer as we drove closer, unlike the other bright light. As we crossed over the Scudder Falls Bridge, the lights were to the left of us and we saw the object. It was hovering about 10-20 feet over the tree line directly over the bank of the Delaware River in Yardley, PA. It first reminded me of a drone about the size of a house but as we got closer, we saw that it was a solid silver colored pentagon shape. There was a small red line on one side and a small orange light on the other and then there were 3 or 4 super bright white lights under the object. It looked like a door was open on the side and white lights were lighting the inside. I saw steps coming down, but my daughter did not. She saw remembers something sticking up and out of the back end that looked like tail wing. We got off at the next exit and turned around to see it, but it was gone.
January 17, 2019 · 5:53 PM · FIREBALL
Yardley, PA
Driving home from Oxford Valley Mall, headed towards Yardley. It was a bright light, solid, and really bright. It didnt move, just stayed in place. I got a photo of it as I was driving into my neighborhood but it was starting to descend by that time. I thought it could have been a helicopter but there wasnt any recognizable movement and the light never flickered or changed direction. In fact it only started to disappear as my car moved. By the time I snapped the photo a house was starting to block it. I honestly do not know what it was.