Sphere over Elizabethtown, PA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
5 of us noticed the red orb at the same time. We all agreed it moved too fast for a landing airplane. There were no safety strobes or green and red wing indicators.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #176425). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2021-12-07 → 2021-12-24
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July 2, 2023 · 9:45 PM · LIGHT
Elizabethtown, PA
My wife and I were sitting on our back patio on the evening of July 2, 2023. As we were sitting and talking casually amongst ourselves, at around 9:45 the “motion” light on our backyard shed turned on. It immediately caught my attention as it’s roughly 30-35 feet from where we were sitting. My wife’s car is parked a couple of feet in front of the shed where the light shines off the front left side. At first I didn’t really think too much of it but I continued watching for just a moment. Then very quickly, I saw a very short “being” run from behind the shed out past a gap and behind the car from our perspective. Its skin color was a very tan looking color. It was barely taller than the hood of the car, which is a small sedan. So roughly 3-3 1/2 feet in height. Its body was small and slender and its head was bigger and more rounded. Its eyes were huge and took up most of its facial space. The eyes were black and very shiny. I could see two eyes looking towards me as it ran by like it knew we were sitting there. I felt as if we made eye contact as it ran by and I was genuinely left speechless for a moment. Immediately after it ran behind the car there was a flash of green light what seemed barely 15-20 feet in the air and that was it, it vanished into thin air. We never saw anything else and were honestly so freaked out we came back inside. After initially seeing the being’s eyes and the feeling that I saw them so clearly I felt like I had made eye contact with it. I had an overwhelming feeling of emotions and my eyes didn’t stop watering for a while. We couldn’t talk about anything else the rest of the night. Every time I even thought about the instance I got instant chills and still felt like I could see them so clearly in my memory. This is a first time encounter for my wife and I and really felt like it needed to be reported somewhere. Thank you for taking the time to read.
February 21, 2023 · 10:20 PM · OTHER
Elizabethtown, PA
Zoom in on photos. Stayed still then went straight up slowly still watching. Has moved to the right but it slowly disappearing higher in sky.
June 22, 2022 · 11:59 PM · SPHERE
Elizabethtown, PA
I have seen this ufo as a child for a week straight I haven’t seen it till a few years ago it looks so bright in sky like a star but it isn’t normal it’s too bright. So I took video and pictures of it when I started recording it started morphing like it saw me it scared the shit out of me literally I was shaking I felt like it scanned me all my hairs we’re standing up and my brain told me to run if you guys look at my proof man I’m telling you it will give you chills. I know this is hard to say it took me a long time to tell my wife I think something happened to me when I was 9 and when I was 17 there was these shadowy creatures small about four feet with three long fingers and they had big black oval eyes to also remember a bright blue light and like I was floating out of my house up into the sky but I feel like they did something put something in my nose I would get severe nose bleeds after this and I would get this weird triangular pattern of dots on different parts of my body every so often I believe I was abducted as a child and I remember being scared at night I was afraid to tell my parents because I didn’t think they believe me I want to get hypnotized to see what really happened I swear to god after that I have had dreams that came true I also had some other unique abilities nothing awesome but would get premonitions allot my wife can back me up on this I’ll take a lie detector test also to prove it whatever you need but I still want to know what they did to me and I still feel like they are watching me I do have 0 - rh - blood also I was afraid to tell anyone for so long now I’m not I don’t care if people think I’m crazy or not I know what I saw thank you this is freaking me out. One night the next day after seeing the ufo a year ago I was out with my dog and I heard this huge branch break off a tree but when I looked nothing was there lucky got scared I started running up to house and I could hear tree branches breaking like it was following me please I will take lie detector test to prove it I want to get hypnotized asap
October 21, 2016 · 10:15 PM · TRIANGLE
Elizabethtown, PA
While driving on south Market past the Lumberyard, I noticed a light passing through the clouds on my left. At first I thought it was the moon, until it jetted across the street and settled above the lumberyard. Through breaks in the clouds I could see obvious forward lights and a v shaped pattern of lights on the undercarriage. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 10, 2016 · 7:17 PM · FIREBALL
Elizabethtown, PA
I noticed a bright orange glow towards the east. Kept an eye on it for a minute then decided to use my video on my phone. I did capture a little, but my dog was pulling me around. It was only one object which traveled towards me then seem to arc around and head north east. It was slow moving and made no noise. If someone knows anyone at ATC at Harrisburg International. Have them check the radar at that time. I'm within 10 miles of HIA.
October 10, 2016 · 7:17 PM · FIREBALL
Elizabethtown, PA
I haven't determined who launched the lantern, but it was flying low, so I assume from Elizabethtown. My guess is the college. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD