Formation over Washington, PA
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The report, as filed
3 red lights in a triangle formation heading North then disappeared, no clouds.
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 2013-10-15 → 2013-11-01
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August 20, 2023 · 10:01 PM · LIGHT
Washington, PA
Saw bright red light in night sky, sitting stationary with the light not blinking. It then began to slowly almost bounce around in the sky, move to the west and stop again. Here the light blinked a few times, but not like an aircraft. The light would completely disappear for 5 to 10 seconds and then return. It then rapidly moved out over the horizon. It returned 15 minutes later and repeated the same behavior as before. Now, on the 24th, it returned again. This time it appeared in the West and after floating about as before it moved in a winding pattern that took it directly over my house. I could see no details other than a bright light, and strangely it made no noise whatsoever. It was maybe 500 feet above my house and if it was a helicopter or airplane I would have clearly heard it. It moved slowly into the East and vanished in some clouds. I have been an active star gazer since I was 10 years old starting with a three inch refractor telescope. And, before this I have never seen anything I could not explain like this. I've seen many amazing things over the years. But until now I could explain them all
November 23, 2021 · 7:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Washington, PA
Triangular craft with 2 red lights and approximately 5-7 green lights lower. It was hovering over the dam approximately 150' . My wife was on the phone in her truck( with me) following behind me. As soon as I saw it she asked me "what is that"? I immediately rolled down my window and heard nothing coming from it. It was a very large craft and the lights were very bright.
May 8, 2021 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Washington, PA
Last night 5/8/21, driving home around 9:00 PM, a couple of minutes from my house, I saw three red lights in the sky. They were a strange color of red, almost like a roadside flare color. I followed out on to a dark country road. Two of the lights disappeared. Then the last one disappeared. Then it reappeared, then another, then all three From my perspective, they were not in a line nor triangle and were at different altitudes. I estimate below 3 thousand feet, the height normally helicopters are seen at. The objects did not have any navigation lights and there was no sound. I tried to catch a movie. I thought I was taking a movie and even zoomed in enough to see a hexagonal structure in the center. It turns out I wasn’t recording. Too much inexperience and adrenaline. Anyway, I got home and sat in the driveway looking for them. While watching after about 3-4 minutes, I see the starlink line transiting, moving towards the east. I live just north! of Washington PA. What I saw was not Starlink, but that is an odd coincidence. Also, I worked for the USAF for 25 years and have seen many objects flying, but never one I couldn’t ID. This morning, searching around the internet, I found a picture that most closely resembled what I saw. I do so hope you have a report that discusses the same sighting.
September 11, 2020 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Washington, PA
Husband and I thought it was Mars we were looking at. Next thing we know the "star" appeared to get bigger glowing bright red then became smaller and smaller in size. It twinkled white then faded away. 3 minutes later a second one came from another direction and did the same thing. Never seen anything like this in my life! And I'm always looking up!
September 25, 2017 · 10:00 PM · OTHER
Washington, PA
They are still with me.....My family was coming back from Pittsburgh to Ohio and my kids and my friends son saw it exactly the same time with my own 2 kids in the back seat and shouted at my wife in the passenger seat that the moon was moving by flashing out and reappearing in different places. My wife then screams and shouts at me to stop and pull over I said impossible until it flashed in the front of my windshield and flashed and reappeared in different places in front and close as it appears to look like the moon but there is a weird light behind it that shows a shape of it's appearance...it looks exactly like the moon as it's shine and no one has spoke about it like no one had seen it except us....now I can see theses UFO flying shapes everywhere there to fast for my phone to capture and there in a formation that changes but there linked together they show me they link in any formation horizontal vertical ways but they show me in full view but there tra! nsparent white and each one is round and extremely fast and close range with no wind behind them no sound they won't let you picture them and there pointing to the east always going east except for the moon jumping around for me to especially see to have me witness it then it was gone we moved back to Florida and now I have weird emotions that have me go out side and witness them I had a friend also witness this he is a veteran and I was emotionally drawn outside and we witness it together now I ignore my emotion's I feel like it saying go east and worse my friend also said the sky of stars was in a triangle pointing to the east as the UFO's kept flying in that direction... I'm 49 years old wife is 37 son 10 daughter 8 young friends son 6 my friend is 40
November 10, 2016 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Washington, PA
My wife and I observed a hovering lighted object for 1 hour over the north sky in Washington, PA. It was bright and hovered in one position for 60 minutes. Multiple aircraft circled and observed aircraft. It disappeared suddenly. I am an Emergency Physician and well trained observer and this persisted for over an hour and was in Pittsburgh international airspace and multiple aircraft circled the object. Cellular service was disrupted during event.