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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
August 10, 2023 · 11:30 PM · SPHERE
Castle Shannon, PA
My fiancé and I were talking smoking a cigarette, out of no where the sky above and right behind us lit up kinda how lightening does but this was not lightening at all. We saw some type of bright white/blueish light either go up or down it was hard to tell and then just took off into the night sky faster then you can blink and it was gone. It also made a noise when the beam came down that sounded similar to something you would here in Star Wars when they take off with hyperspeed. I still have chills it was an amazing experience and also very unexpected. My fiancé and I both tried to debunk what we had just witness and he is not a believer in aliens or ufo but he is not because what we saw was no natural nor created on this world it just can’t be. This is a real and true statement. I wish I could find out if anyone else heard or seen what we saw in our area but most people are afraid to talk about things like this because of the fear of being judged or called a liar unfortunately
August 10, 2023 · 11:00 PM · CHANGING
Gap, PA
Saw a slow moving white glowing orb to the west of the front of my house, it got brighter and yellow/orange as it moved closer. I stepped outside onto my front lawn in awe thinking I was witnessing a shooting star or meteoroid and eventually it appeared as three bright light with many other smaller lights on a large low flying triangular craft that went over our house and jetted off quicker than I could get anyone in the houses attention to come see. We went out to the backyard to look and saw no sign.
August 9, 2023 · 11:15 AM · TEARDROP
Irwin, PA
I was in my pool on a raft looking at the sky, large clouds that day. Wind was 5-7 mph from the west. I saw a black object about 150 ft from the ground, traveling east to west against the wind , approximately 100 mph in a straight line until it flew behind a large tree out of sight. It had the sun behind it so I couldn’t make out much detail on my side. It was the size of a large bird like an eagle and shape was like a wing of a plane looking from the side , very aerodynamic. It shot through the sky in a very straight line neither going up or down from its flight path. No sound at all. No lights. Nothing like a drone , no wings or propellers that I could make out.
August 6, 2023 · 9:30 PM · SPHERE
Carlisle, PA
I was looking across the field that’s in front of my house, and right above the mountain range (Appalachian mountains) were 3 red dots that appeared to be in the formation of a large triangle. The lights were moving slowly and independently of each other. I quickly went back inside to grab my mom to show. By the time we went back outside (only a minute later) one of the lights was gone. We watched the last 2 lights slowly move and then fade away, possibly as result of there being heavy fog and clouds rolling in. In total it lasted maybe 10 minutes or so. We had tried to take a video, but couldn’t capture it in time. I am 24 years old and frequently observe the sky and like to take pictures of the moon and stars, but I’ve never seen anything like this before. The map image included shows exactly where we were standing. The small red dots indicate roughly where I saw the lights.
August 5, 2023 · 1:00 AM · OTHER
Vandergrift, PA
(Name deleted): "Each time, I got cold with chill, experiencing goosebumps all over my body. I saw a large white light accompanied by four big, medium, and four small grey and blue crafts. One of them was flashing colors: red, orange, yellow, lavender, turquoise, royal blue, changing as it pulsed in the sky. I managed to take a few pictures, but your page says the file is too large. I can't shrink it anymore. I'd be happy to show them to an investigator or supervisor. The same ships follow a certain fly pattern, appearing and disappearing while flashing in a strobe pattern. It's super quiet until I hear a large boom; it startles me as if I were dreaming in bed. When I look up, I see the center orb turn bright orange followed by multiple blue flashes occurring at the exact same time, and then poof, they disappear.
August 4, 2023 · 10:32 PM · CIRCLE
Mifflinburg, PA
I was taking the dogs out before heading to bed. I was standing on my patio and something caught my eye. I looked up and watched a small ball of light come in from the northwest then slow quickly, turn sharply and head east. No sound emitted from the object. I have seen these light quite often around my house and where I used to live in Mill Hall
August 2, 2023 · 10:38 PM · RECTANGLE
Probable conventionalPottstown, PA
As soon as the light from the moon brighten the clouds around the object, the object disappeared. Sorry I did not see this with the naked eye but I really felt this was so weird that I wanted to report it. It almost seem like one of our space rockets but moving in a quiet motion and facing sideways. If you can zoom in this video you can probably see like the thrust of the rocket at one end. [NUFORC annotation: Camera Anomaly - Probable]
July 31, 2023 · 3:29 AM · SPHERE
Newtown Square, PA
I was outside watching the meteor shower and recorded what I thought was then a meteor but upon watching the footage back I realized it was not. The object looked like a spherical shape and was pulsating and changing colors rapidly while flying in almost zig zag patterns at high speeds. It eventually flew away extremely fast and was gone within the matter of a few seconds
July 30, 2023 · 9:50 PM · CIGAR
Trevose, PA
A few nights ago, while driving, I saw a cigar shaped sparkling object gliding through the sky from left to right, about 200 to 300 feet above me. I had my eyes on it for about 30 seconds. The weirdest thing was that there was no visible object attached to these sparkling dots or lights. I pulled over to quickly capture a video, but my car is extremely dark due to tinted windows and the area itself is filled with hills and trees and lost sight of it at that point. I continued driving and found myself in disbelief as I sat at a red light, questioning what I had just witnessed. About 10 seconds after making a right turn, I spotted the object again half a mile ahead of me, only to see it disappear over the tree line. The best way to describe what I saw is try imaging 3 or 4 large birthday sparkling candles in a row flying across the sky. It makes no sense.
July 25, 2023 · 4:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Yardley, PA
There are alien bird noises played by an alien speaker in our backyard. When we go outside to check if there are birds, there are none. It is also 90 degrees outside and the noises are heard at 5:00pm. I repeat there are no birds outside and these noises are coming from a kind alien who planted a speaker in our backyard. If you send some troops over I can show them the noises. The noises are electronic in sound and definitely not real birds. The speaker appears to be micro as I cannot find it, I need specialized equipment and a ladder to find it (it seems to be planted on our roof). The noises are included in the zip folder attached, and I repeat they are repetitive and electronic. [NUFORC annotation: Hoax - Possible]
July 22, 2023 · 9:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Bellefonte, PA
Was on my 9th floor balcony at around 9:30 PM on July 22, 2023. As I looked up, I saw some craft with 3 blinking lights on the bottom. The blink frequency was around 1 second or less. The colors were red, and either blue and white or both white, and they were very bright. Since it was dark, I could not make out the shape too well, but the blinking lights lit the craft up enough I could tell there were no wings and it seemed triangular with maybe a dome on top. I say a triangular shape because the three lights appeared to be in a triangular pattern. I could tell this was flying fairly low, and I heard no noise at all coming from it. I watched it for about 10 seconds when it suddenly changed direction by 90 degrees and headed in the direction of State College. I watched it for another minute or so until it vanished over the horizon. I had a strange feeling in the pit of my stomach that this was not something I've ever seen before. There may be a terrestrial explanation for it though. I did have my camera with me, but I was so enthralled by watching it, I forgot to get any pictures at first. By the time I thought of it, it was far enough away I didn't think it was worth taking.
July 21, 2023 · 10:15 PM · CHANGING
Lewisburg, PA
On patrol and saw greenish light above a house
July 20, 2023 · 2:20 AM · CIRCLE
Lock Haven, PA
I saw flashing lights in the sky to the South-East and it just hoovered there for about 10 minutes with the lights changing colors going around in a circle then it shot straight up and vanished .
July 17, 2023 · 11:35 PM · SPHERE
Lancaster, PA
Was walking dog around 11:35 pm. Bright red light caught my eye I would estimate at 2 to 3 thousand feet high. Watched it slowly move across sky glowing red and sometimes orange. As I'm watching, wondering what the heck I'm seeing, it suddenly disappeared, as if it slipped into another dimension, like flipping off a light switch it just turned off. I stared at the spot hoping it would reappear. It didn't go into a cloud because where it disappeared there were no clouds, just starry sky. Very exciting and interesting. Don't know what it was,,,but I saw something and it vanished as I was looking right at it! No sound at all, completely silent.
July 15, 2023 · 10:40 PM · FORMATION
Fullerton, PA
Both me and my girlfriend were in the car driving home from a baseball game when we mutually observed 3 red/orange craft in the air hovering at about 500 feet in a stationary triangle-like formation. The 3 craft then began to drift slowly to the east, when 1 by 1 they began to fade into the night sky. My girlfriend was able to take a pretty good video as well as a photo of the event and has left us very convinced of what we saw.
July 14, 2023 · 11:02 PM · LIGHT
Probable conventionalBristol, PA
Observed bright object in sky. Not moving for approx 20 min. Remained in same location [NUFORC annotation: Planet/Star - Probable]
July 12, 2023 · 8:00 PM · OTHER
Willow street, PA
I looked across the sky and pointed out what I thought was the brightest version of Venus I ever saw. It wasn’t quite dusk, so it was a very easily seen object, but it was so shiny I believe and visible that it appears to be lit up like a planet however, it proved me wrong when it took a sharp right corner and went a different direction, and it started moving south west until it was in clouds and out of site. within 5 minutes it was back to the original sighting spot then slowly moved SW once more, hovered in the same spot for about 15 minutes and then it was gone by a weird pattern and planes started flying by my house very close to the object it was seen and they were flying information to three, but they looked like commercial airlines they did not let military leader that evening one plane that looked in military because it was extremely large like a cargo carrier flew over my house and that was the last we saw a bit about the set of three planes that were flying over. They were running every every minute and they did that for about two hours constant.
July 10, 2023 · 9:49 PM · LIGHT
F68J+53P Sugarcreek, PA
While out for the evening, enjoying astrophotography and stargazing, a friend and I witnessed a glowing Amber colored orb that faded to looking like a quickly moving star. We also witnessed multiple others throughout a 3 hour period. With the exception of the orb they all looked like they should be a star. However, they moved very quickly, with the ability to stop and maneuver effortlessly. They were incredibly hard to track and film. There were no trails behind these flying lights. They were not drones or airplanes. There was no sound that we could distinguish. When we were getting ready to leave a very heavy helicopter was flying quite low literally directly overhead of where we were. This helicopter was larger than your rescue type aircraft being much wider and rounded. The blades on this helicopter were also very large. It didn't have very many distinctive lights on it, and it was solid black. The photo and video that I'm submitting is original, and has NO alterations.
July 8, 2023 · 9:30 AM · LIGHT
coatesville, PA
Standing on the side of my house looking southwest at about 7/8 at 930 I saw 2 red and yellow lights coming from the southeast heading in a north west direction. What stood out that the lights were bright and I noticed that there was no engine noises, and no blinking lights that aircrafts have. The first 2 lights were in a line about 6 seconds apart and as they passed by, again there was no noise and no flashing lights. As they passed by they were higher in the sky about 30- 40K feet up they disappeared into the atmosphere. About 30 seconds later another 2 came and did the exact same thing. About another 30 seconds 3 came out of the southeast. The first 2 were directly in front of each other and the first light started zig zagging 3 or 4 times in front of the second light. They separated farther apart and no sound or blinking lights and went up into the atmosphere. The third light following did the exact same thing as the first 2 sets. The last set did the exact same thing as the first 2 sets. There was a plane that flying and going east to west in which you could see the flashing lights and hear the engine. You could see in the upper atmosphere 2 other planes with flashing lights. I did get about 15 seconds of video.
July 6, 2023 · 7:50 AM · CIRCLE
Pottstown, PA
JBU555 was flying southwest bound on the arrival into DCA airport and reported a small object flying opposite direction 4-5000 feet above it. They said they've seen multiple drones in their careers but nothing like what they just saw. No other aircraft were operating in this area at the time of the report.
July 4, 2023 · 10:12 PM · OTHER
Mount Holly springs, PA
Started as a circle bright as day in the night sky to the north east slow moving was not the moon after 10 minutes, it began to flatten out ,at which point another craft or object separated from it and headed towards the ground/horizon the main craft that flattened departed in seconds literally vanishing , no red blue yellow or green light like those on planes drones or helicopters were observed , no reports of local military exercises in the area ,or plane crashes . It was not fire works the main object or craft climbed in altitude faster then any military jet ever observed it covered over 3000ft(rough estimate in seconds before vanishing no sonic boom or sound of after burners like those on military jets which can be heard over a mile away further when going away from point of observation. Animals which are normally heard at night were extremely quiet, horses across the way weren't making a sound also unsual.phone signal also was lost for about 20 to 30 seconds after the high speed climb.
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.
July 2, 2023 · 9:35 PM · SPHERE
Vandergrift, PA
I thought it was odd so I took a video of it from inside my apartment. I tried to run outside to continue but when I went out there it disappeared behind the storm clouds.
July 2, 2023 · 7:05 PM · SPHERE
Montgomeryville, PA
There was an urgent tornado warning happening, so my adult son and I went out in the backyard to take a look at the sky. There was darkness to the west where the storm was approaching, but as is typical with this kind of storm, relative calm on the other side of its front. There was an obvious object off to the southwest, very distant with a vapor trail, descending from the sky, quite far away. I immediately pointed it out to my son because it seemed odd, and we watched. The object was bright -- at some points, extremely bright. It did not have the appearance of a plane, but rather, a tiny ball of light at the tip of the vapor trail. It's hard to tell if it was falling or not; for a time I thought it was a meteor. I wondered if it was the sun reflecting off something metal (like a plan) but the flare was so bright, it exceeded any expectation of sun reflection, even though that in itself can be quite bright. While watching, I noticed a different object, much closer but high in the sky, and a bit to the right (closer to the storm off to the west). This object was NOT moving -- it was more stationary; it gave the appearance of floating. It seemed metallic and round; that's about all I could make of it. My son also acknowledged seeing the object when I pointed it out. Then it went away -- I couldn't see it, but he could. He continued saying he could see it, but I couldn't find it anymore. But I could still see the original trailing one. Then we both remarked that our eyes seemed to be seeing all sorts of strange things; we figured it was from staring into the brightness for too long. But, it must be said that this 2nd floating object was very distinct and not a remnant of brightness or anything like that. In the checkboxes below, I'll say that the object emitted other objects, in this respect. (i.e., the bright one with the trail, and the separate floating object). Eventually the trailing thing also just sort of dissipated, and it was over. I think it was about 2 minutes or so of observation.