Oval over Bristol, PA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Multiple clusters of strange orbs traveling at a medium speed over Bristol midnight New Years Eve.
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 2012-12-29 → 2013-01-15
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April 6, 2020 · 7:45 PM · UNKNOWN
Bristol, PA
The object was coming from the west, and was completely silent. It had a large white light that kept going back and forth, almost like an eye. It gave me the creeps and I froze, not wanting it to see me.. It suddenly vanished after passing over Bath Road. We proceeded to walk, and a second, identical object appeared following the first object. That one disappeared also! Again, I had that creepy feeling and felt like I did not want the object to detect us. They looked sinister. Unfortunately, I left my phone at home on the charger, so I could not take a picture.(MUFON CMS)
June 22, 2019 · 11:30 PM · LIGHT
Bristol, PA
After arriving home and parking my car in the driveway, I looked up at the shot in the direction of the Burlington Bristol bridge, and saw a very bright red ball of light, stationary. After about 10 seconds it started to move horizontally to the left, at which time I pointed it out to my friend with me. We both watched it then completely change direction and move right in the complete opposite direction. Silently. It moved behind some trees and we lost it. I called my father outside to see it, at which time it was not visible. It then came back into sight, completely stationary, directly in front of us, in the direction of FDR middle school. It had moved and covered some distance to arrive at this point. So now, all three of us watch this bright red object double in brightness, as though the initial red light had a twin attached to it. It then turned back down to normal brightness, as though there was only one red light again. After it became less bright, it then moved left and right, straight up and back down, moving in ways that defy our technology today. It then moved to the right, slowly, almost out of view behind the FDR gymnasium and the light began to fade as it moved. Another second or two passed and the object disappeared from view and we didn’t see it again. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
January 17, 2015 · 7:55 PM · LIGHT
Bristol, PA
An observation of two rapidly moving steady red lights moving from west to east. An approximate calculation determined that the lights traveled 125 degrees, 70 nautical miles in 10 to 15 seconds. The objects made no sound, and moved completely parallel to each other for the entire distance. They also left no trails.
August 9, 2014 · 9:30 PM · CIRCLE
Bristol, PA
A slow line of large bright red balls started from the horizon spaced out about 10 seconds apart. They slowly ascended across the sky getting dimmer as they increased altitude. As they reached a certain altitude, they quickly shot up fast, light dimming and disappeared. No noise was heard at all. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 4, 2012 · 9:15 PM · FIREBALL
Bristol, PA
It looked like a yellow/redish fireball and it looked like something was hanging down from it on fire. It went down the street behind u