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Sightings
Witness reports, held as-reported. Each entry keeps its source, its coordinates where the record has them, and its place in the larger pattern.
4,416 entries
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 10, 2020 · 7:47 PM · TRIANGLE
Hilltown, PA
Large fireball entered atmosphere with windblown fire until parachutes opened and landed about ¾ mile apart. Shaped like an Elon Musk capsule. 1 landed in a wooded area Called NASA, they don’t care about their trash.
September 8, 2020 · 7:00 PM · CHANGING
Forest Hills, PA
On or about September 8, 2020. I was on my porch in Forest Hills, PA at sunset. I always have binoculars nearby. The sunset was beautiful and the clouds were pink. I noticed what appeared to be a white line in the sky. Kind of like the contrail of a plane. It was traveling horizontally and seemed little bit unusual. I watched it for a short while then it made an abrupt turn upward. I picked up the binoculars and saw that it became like a rocket with a large plume behind it. As it traveled upward, I watched it as the sun lit up the plume to pink. I could see that at the top it was cone shaped just like a rocket. I watched it until it disappeared into the cloud cover. I searched the internet for anyone who might have seen the same thing. How can a rocket take off in mid air? Can you tell me what I saw that day?
September 7, 2020 · 9:05 PM · SPHERE
Erie, PA
Bright orange circle in sky looked on fire, was flying very fast and as it turned in east direction, it slowed down and then flickered out and was gone.
September 7, 2020 · 7:25 PM · CIRCLE
York Springs, PA
Went into my house and got my binoculars and could not identify what it was. Object was perfectly round with brighter areas at top and bottom. Towards the bottom, there was a darker area. These features are noticeable in my photos. I immediately then went and got my Canon 7D camera and put on my largest telescoping lens, 300mm. I just had it serviced at Canon, so I know I could get a good picture. I have 40 pictures showing the features. Time of pictures was from 19:25 to 19:32. After taking most of the pictures, I went and got my neighbor. He looked at it through the binoculars. He also agreed he did not know what it was. We watched it for several minutes. We did notice it was moving really slow. Neighbor went back inside his house to contact someone with a telescope. I walked back to my driveway to use my truck as a prop to take more pictures, (about 10 second walk). I turned around and looked up and the object was gone.
September 7, 2020 · 7:00 PM · CIRCLE
Orrstown, PA
circular bright lights on the outside occasionally one light sticking down lower from center, very slowly moving no exhaust fumes, pretty high up have crummy phone pictures. This is the second time we have seen one above our house. 5 years ago it was much closer, treetop, it was also seen in September at around 7pm. no noise.
September 6, 2020 · 2:30 AM · CIRCLE
Thorndale/Downingtown, PA
Driving from Lancaster to Downingtown,we observed at Downingtown & thorndale exit to Manor Ave exit approximately three UFOs two red circular objects and one white object the white object was a saucer and the two red objects were circular with lights going around them. They hovered over the highway for a few minutes and took off, up route 322
September 5, 2020 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Birdsboro, PA
My wife and I were having a fire in the backyard, I looked up to the NE and saw a bright red light right above the treeline and we watched as it slowly dipped down through the trees. I kept an eye on the area and saw it peak back up for a few moments two more times, then the next time it went back above the trees and then dropped low much quicker than before. I kept watching for more activity but never saw it again. There were fireworks in the area, but none at this time, no sounds of drones or aircraft either.
September 4, 2020 · 9:30 PM · OVAL
Bloomsburg, PA
Clear night sky with stars, but an unusual shaped glowing object Illuminated brighter than the stars. Mesmerizing glowing dark/royal blue color the shape of a elongated saucer/surfboard with a slight raised tail or 3D lining. The blue illuminating lights were so bright and entrancing.
September 4, 2020 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
East Stroudsburg, PA
Over our lake the first craft was a sphere that was slowly moving up and down changing light patterns. The second craft at first appeared to be an airplane in the distance but did not move, instead, the lights seemed to change with the original craft, as if communicating somehow. We saw the same 2 crafts over 2 hours later from a second location about a mile away
September 4, 2020 · 9:30 AM · DISK
Bloomsburg, PA
Circle or saucer, 200-300 ft up in the air, stationary hovering no movement. 3 large royal blue lights curved to fit the saucer. Bigger than a helicopter smaller than an airplane. Spotted at approximately 9:30 pm in Bloomsburg, PA, over gas station by the Columbia County Jail. The encounter was less than a minute but once we circled back around to find the hovering un-identified object it was gone. It was higher than a drone could go but was brighter than the stars. It looked like glowing led lights 300 ft up in the air. Very large!
September 4, 2020 · 9:30 AM · OVAL
Bloomsburg, PA
Clear night sky with stars, but an unusual shaped glowing object Illuminated brighter than the stars. Mesmerizing glowing dark/royal blue color the shape of a elongated saucer/surfboard with a slight raised tail or 3D lining . The blue illuminating lights were so bright and entrancing.
September 3, 2020 · 8:45 PM · LIGHT
Cowansville, PA
Walking home from gas station around 8:45pm. About 1 mile from my home. Its just getting dark, so I'm looking at the sky when over the trees comes the brightest light i have ever seen it moved above me and over me towards the west. As I was watching this light it disappeared. So I just thought airplane moved into clouds but then I saw an airplane same direction but it was a snail compared to the light I saw and I could see it for a very long time after it passed. Also the airplane made noise and the light did not...i dont know what i saw but it was amazing to see
August 30, 2020 · 7:05 PM · CYLINDER
Avella, PA
It was a two tone silver and grey in color. It never seemed to move. I watched it for over 8 minutes. I turned my back to finish working at the site I was at and when I looked back up... it was gone! No where in the sky. Without a trace.
August 30, 2020 · 6:20 PM · SPHERE
Glendon, PA
The ufo was a little below the clouds round sphere like object very shiny no noise and flew past house and flew into the clouds and disappeared i tried to get a video but i struggled opening my phones camera.
August 29, 2020 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
East Berlin, PA
The time of sighting was between 8 and 9 pm, EST.
August 27, 2020 · 12:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Dalmatia, PA
It was nighttime and I was stargazing. When I looked up I noticed a light moving around in random directions rapidly in my area of sight. It then moved quickly in a direction and there was a big flash of light. The UFO disappeared. A moment later, the light showed up again in a different area in the sky. I believe there was another flash and it was gone after that. It was far in the distance so I do not know exactly what I was seeing. The people with me thought it was a drone and reflected off the sun but the sun seemed too far gone for that. It would be nice to have this explained by a professional.
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 24, 2020 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Littlestown, PA
My wife and I where out back when i seen a Small light moving at steady pace across sky. We see them all the time going in different directions sometimes following each other. This one slowed down powered up got real bright and shot up which it looked like my wife seen it go up but didnt see it power up brighter then any star in the sky.
August 24, 2020 · 12:00 AM · OVAL
Reading, PA
the object was oval with red, white,blue lights blinking. It appereared slowly in the sky lights blinking going different directions. Then the oval shape just stopped lights still moving. The lights on the street and local business gotten real bright .
August 23, 2020 · 4:30 AM · CROSS
Trafford, PA
Object was perhaps 3000 ft. moving from west to east across and over TRAFFORD/MURRYSVILLE valley. My house sits high which made me look straight out at it, about 4 miles. Object was rectangular in shape with a white lighted spire protruding from top. A bright lit yellow rod protruded from the bottom looking like : - - - - - - (the dash being yellow light, spaces between in black, only pointing straight down from bottom of craft). It was stationary when first seen then moved quickly eastward. No sound heard. Weather was clear, no clouds.seen with naked eye then, 7x35 binoculars.
August 22, 2020 · 6:00 AM · LIGHT
Waynesboro, PA
This morning about 600 am im sitting on the porch watching the sunrise. I see a silver object in the sky and think it Venus. It then shoots straight up. I Took the shot before it disappeared. I took a picture of it as it streaked upward.
August 20, 2020 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Centerville, PA
we were just outside on the deck having coffee and noticed what looked like a bright star in the sky. When we started watching it, it moved around and hovered, we first thought it was a military drone. More started appearing and they started to go into a formation, some were flickering red and green lights and the main big one was bright white.
August 18, 2020 · 9:45 PM · DISK
Bethlehem, PA
Disk shaped object blinking red and green lights was seen being followed by 3 low-flying planes with bright lights. A neon green ball of light fell from one of these crafts into trees and then they all flew away.