Disk over Altoona, PA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
On September 24,2020 I saw one large object saucer with lights in sky size of a bus. It was at 10:43 p.m. at night flying across the sky at a slow speed. I had another person which witnessed the object in the sky. I took pictures of the object and did not notice the object showed up in a picture.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #160250). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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April 21, 2023 · 9:20 PM · DIAMOND
Altoona, PA
My neighbors and their daughter was sitting on our porch talking. Ironically, I always like to ask people if they believe in UFO's which i did and of course that started our neighborly debate. Roughly 1-3 minutes later we heard what was similar to a turbo'ed diesel engine. His wife looked at me and said what is that? Her husband turned and looked up the street waiting for a vehicle to speed down the hill. Their daughter went out on the sidewalk and said, well Bob, it looks like you might be right about UFO's. At that point we all ran down onto the sidewalk and saw a square object fly about 100'-150' over our house. The square object had lights in each corner of the square, with 3 of the lights being white, one being red. The square object seemed to fly with one of the corners being in the front. It did not fly with the flat side. My wife looked at her airplane app that tells what planes are in the sky and there wasn't any planes showing. The thing that bugs me the most is, four adults saw this, all of which had cell phones in their hand or pocket and we all just frozen and watch this object fly by. NOTES: As I thought about this all day, the only logical explanation I can think of is that the turbo engine sound we heard was a gas power drone taking off because we heard it and as the object flew over us, it was silent. However, this object was much larger than any civilian drone.
March 1, 2023 · 6:50 PM · CIRCLE
Altoona, PA
Driving home and it was my dad or boyfriend seen it (it was 2 lights but not sure if it was one object),we try to record in the car but window wouldn’t go down but we try and once home we could still see it and recorded it, seemed like it was staying stationary and at one point my dad went to grab his binoculars and light we could see went out,weird as if it knew he took out binoculars and once he put them back in house we could see the light again,not sure if it’s ufo or not but it seemed weird,also it stayed there for while at least 30 minutes and we just went inside and later on it was gone,also before we went in we could hear some type of helicopter but wasn’t sure which direction exactly I think it was coming from behind from what I can recall,had two more video it wouldn’t upload
August 24, 2020 · 10:19 PM · OVAL
Altoona, PA
I recorded Video on my iPhone an oval like shape in sky moving radically in different directions orange color I also took screenshots it was not a plane. Really don’t know where to take this footage. Traveling south to north.
August 25, 2019 · 1:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Altoona, PA
Unknown Object (1) flashing red/blue lights while slowly rising into sky before stopping and begin flashing a white light. This is when we (friend and I) noticed multiple objects blinking as well.
July 17, 2019 · 10:00 PM · CIRCLE
Altoona, PA
I saw an orange light pretty bright & big sort of just appeared at a point south of my house moved across the sky towards the north, after a couple minutes kept getting less bright then sort of dissipated, no sound at all. At first I thought it was a big plane or a drone, but then another appeared at the same spot and moved across the sky and again after a few minutes it got weaker and dissipated around the same area to the north like the other one had. I got my wife out of the house and she watched it happen 3 more times with me, we both were confused at what we were seeing. This happened 5 times over about 30 minutes then it stopped.
October 16, 2018 · 8:25 AM · CYLINDER
Altoona, PA
I was walking my son to the bus this morning, when we both saw a large, clean white, pill shaped, wingless object moving through the sky. Definitely faster than what you would see from a normal plane at that height but slow enough for us to get a good look at it. Not a lot of cloud cover. Headed in the Pittsburgh direction (west).