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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.
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September 30, 2017 · 7:50 PM · SPHERE
Chester, PA
I was sitting in my car talking to my buddy who was facing me. As I looked up at his face to respond to him I saw a super bright electric blue perfect circle go flying by in the sky way above the cloud shelf. It was flying faster than anything I've ever seen in my life and I am 30 years old. I've seen plenty of shooting stars some in person and meteors in video. It was not like those at all. I am having a hard time describing what I saw, but I would say it was a perfect circle, it was electric blue very bright possibly the brightest thing I've ever seen. It flew faster than any man made object. It was flying at a million miles an hour, it was that fast and it had absolutely no trail behind it and no rays coming from it and it did not flash or flicker it stayed lit. It was flying from the north towards the direction of the moon. The only reason I lost sight of it was because of very thick cloud cover and then it was gone. I hope this is descriptive enough for others to envision what I saw. I am not a huge believer of UFOS but I'm not closed minded either. I don't know why we are so special that we are the only things that exist. But I can say this is the first and only time I have witnessed anything like this. I'm still having trouble understanding what I just saw. It is not man made in my opinion because the G's this thing was pulling due to its speed would surely kill anything from this planet. My background is that I am 30 years old a white male and work at a private golf club in PA. College educated and extremely mechanically inclined and I am an avid fan of cars mostly muscle cars. I own a supercharged Buick daily driver and a 68 Chevelle Complete and a 69 Camaro in progress. Okay so that's about it for me. I hope Im not the only person who saw this tonight in PA.
September 29, 2017 · 8:00 PM · SPHERE
Kennett Square, PA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 29, 2017 · 6:50 PM · SPHERE
Lampeter-Strasburg, Reading, PA
I was sitting in the away stands at Lampeter-Strasburg High School’s football field looking at the cloudless sky when I saw a small blue orb high in the sky fly for a distance and then disappeared. This took around 2-3 seconds. I cannot recall if it had entered my field of vision and then disappeared, or if it had appeared and disappeared within my field of vision. It made no sounds like a meteor does. The orb was light blue and had no discernible features. Based on where I was sitting, it flew from west to east. If I had to guess, it started at perhaps 60 degrees and flew downward to 30 or 40 degrees. It did not occur directly above the field but a little to the left (north). Three of my friends had also seen the anomaly, and it’s likely that more people in the stands had seen it. Upon talking with my great-aunt a day later, I found out that she and maybe some other people had seen a very similar phenomenon at Muhlenberg High School’s football field at approximately the same time. The event had occurred just before marching bands at both high schools were going to march onto the field for their pre-game show (around 18:50), so it can be concluded that they were the same event. It is also worth noting that the high schools are 32.08 miles apart. To my knowledge, the sightings at both locations were not caught on camera.
September 29, 2017 · 4:00 AM · SPHERE
Centerville, PA
I was able to locate it on my camera and while propping my elbows on my step ladder I managed to capture some great footage. I was a sphere shape and it kept changing colors
September 28, 2017 · 8:00 PM · CIRCLE
Windsor, PA
Two red glowing balls of light were traveling one behind the other right over a local annual event. The ball of light in back increased speed and passed the other than traveled in a downward motion and faded. The other continued to travel straight but faded away a few seconds after the other. I don't know if anyone attending the event saw them, as a band was playing, however I was across the street and saw them clearly for approximately five minutes.
September 27, 2017 · 6:00 PM · CIGAR
Pottstown - Trenton, PA
Just after 6 o'clock September 27th, I spotted a bright red cylinder light strait ahead. We were at 2700 feet flying 121 mph with a ground speed of approx 90 mph against a head wind. I called Approach and let them know we have a aircraft 12 o'clock at the same altitude. Approach replied they do not see any aircraft on the radar. I told them that's great but were looking right at it. Just before it moved away to the east (same direction we were flying...into the wind) I asked my Daughter to get a picture before it disappeared. We have a still and video. The whole object was very bright red almost laser bright then went to white. It was pill shaped standing vertical. It did not change its heading or altitude it moved faster than we were traveling away from us to the east. We spotted it over Trenton moving east. Hurricane Marie was off the coast. It disappeared into one of the bands. Source of report elects to remain anonymous, and provides no contact information, so we are unable to contact him/her about the video or photos, which have not been submitted. PD
September 27, 2017 · 3:12 AM · OVAL
Philladelphia, PA
I went out with the friends from the Cafe and I saw in the sky a question mark formed due to clouds in the background of the moon, after I took a photo only then I saw a UFO.
September 27, 2017 · 2:00 AM · SPHERE
Adamstown, PA
I had just turned out the lights to go to bed when I saw what looked like a bright star which then began to move, so I assumed it was a plane's lights in the distance. Soon the light acted unlike any plane or helicopter ever could. The light moved very quickly down up sideways, across. Then it disappeared very briefly but reappeared in a different location. Even though all my windows and door was opened, I heard no sound. I could not sleep most of the night, trying to figure out any good reason what the light could have been. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 26, 2017 · 6:32 AM · LIGHT
Centerville, PA
So I went outside to walk my dog this morning and I witnesses a genuine UFO traveling North to South in the western sky. I hurried up and grabbed my high powered spotting scope to get a better view and saw a disk shaped bright craft traveling about the same speed as an aircraft except the entire craft was light up with only one red no blinking light. It made no sound and normal airplanes at the same distance in the same spot make a noticeable sound. That's when I ran and grabbed my stepson that enjoys UFOs as much as I do just to make sure I was seeing things correctly and he saw the same thing. We have both witnessed multiple UFOs before and knew that it was the only explanation. Truly a sight to see and it never gets old just like buck fever. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
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
September 24, 2017 · 3:00 PM · LIGHT
Lower Southampton, PA
It was a clear blue sky and a jet-like object (a small light) directly overhead, moving faster than anything I had even seen that far up, raced across the sky. Not a satellite because it did a couple zig-zags. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 24, 2017 · 10:03 AM · CIRCLE
New Hope, PA
Driving on the bridge in New Hope, Pa., decided to take a picture of the water. Once I got home I looked through all the pictures I took that day and noticed the one with the water , at the top left corner was a shining circle and seemed like a cloud on it. My phone is an iPhone 7 so when you take a picture you get about 5 seconds of video. I zoomed in and held the screen down and it was moving around with rings around the circle. This was at 10:03 am. We have yet to see the photos. Possible lens flares?? PD
September 22, 2017 · 9:59 PM · OVAL
Uniontown, PA
I have 28 years of military and commercial aviation experience as an aircraft technician and CH-46 Crew Chief, USMC. I know the difference between enemy aircraft, satellites, commercial and private aircraft, helicopters, military flares, their designated flight paths, and their colored lights and flashing patterns. While observing a low altitude airplane flying in a normal flight pattern at night, I noticed above it a glowing white satellite of unknown origin hovering at a high altitude, and then moving in unusual patterns never seen before in my life. It was like it was standing post, as if guarding me, moving sideways because it seemed to be following me over the motel that I am staying at. One of the best experiences I have had ever in my life. No pictures yet, as I am confident there will be more to come in broad daylight. ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) The following are responses to your inquiries: approximate time 21:59 Eastern Standard: date 09/22/2017: indeed, it was a satellite but of unknown origin, as satellites do not move in zig zag patterns, or hover at approximately 20,000 feet with an approximate oval diameter slightly larger than a star in the background: moreover, I use apps called "Star Walk 2" and "Star Guide" for night photography, and saw no listings of any known satellites in space that would fit on their maps. ((END ADDENDUM))
September 21, 2017 · 10:00 PM · CIRCLE
Templeton, PA
Me and my boyfriend were driving home and I looked in the sky there were 2 bright lights against the clear starry black sky, it literally looked like a cars headlights in the sky. Two round bright lights right next to each other brighter than all the satrs around. I asked my boyfriend if he saw them too and he did. You have to think I live basically on a mountain and we were in the valley before my home about to drive up the mountain, these lights were up way higher than any of the trees on the top near my house. Once we get to the top it's all fields and trees, we looked around the sky everywhere and by now the lights should have been right above us from where we first saw them a mere 4 minutes before, and they were gone, just disappeared without a trace .
September 21, 2017 · 5:25 PM · OVAL
Ransom, PA
I was taking my dog outside at 5:25 am. to urinate, it was a clear sky I was admiring the big and little dippers, when I noticed a oval shaped object zig zagging erratically! It would move slow then fast then dart to the left backwards then fast straight ahead back again then shot off north east then disappeared! So help me God!
September 20, 2017 · 1:00 AM · SPHERE
Pittsburgh, PA
This report is just a collective of UFO’s I have seen in the past 2 years on top of this instance. I shall start with this instance. I am a kind of guy that when he sees something unexplainable like this, he just considers it unknown yet strange. I have a balcony to which I go out to smoke. Being as how I live in the city it is very rare to see stars. So when I recognize something that reminds me of a star I stare at it (I love stars.) Every time I see an unidentified glowing object or “flying object" I stare at them to make sure I’m not crazy and or to validate the realness. I went out to smoke and I noticed the “star” I was looking at was indeed not a star. And it was seemingly moving against the laws of physics. As if it could go through time or something. As I noticed that one I had noticed 2 others doing the same thing. These bluish glowing orbs were moving short distances at breakneck speeds. I have noticed these same phenomena in the past. Even having intelligent adults look in wonderment. That is all that happened in this instance. The other must tell story is about a year ago during the late summer to fall months. I had just got to my girlfriends mothers house (I lived there) and on the horizon my girlfriend, her mother, and I had witnessed a giant (10 times bigger than the moon perceptually) orange sphere. It was almost exactly like the depictions of USO’s. Except there was no large body of water anywhere near me. My girlfriends mother just shrugged it off while I was so lost and curious. There is constant sightings of UFO’s in my area. We even had a woman In Pittsburgh last august make it on the news for seeing something strange In the sky. She calls the police and even the police think its weird. Wish we could know what the phenomena is or is caused by.
September 17, 2017 · 11:04 PM · CHANGING
Plains, PA
At 11:04 p.m. EST on 17 September, 2017, my mother yelled to me to look at the strange object in the sky. I grabbed my cell phone and went upstairs. We went to the deck in our backyard and she pointed out an object to the northeast in the sky. My first impressions were that it was changing colors and appeared to have multiple lights stacked in a vertical line. I suggested we get binoculars to try to get a better look at the object. I used a pair of 8-16x magnification binoculars; my mother used a set of old Navy ship binoculars (magnification unknown). My mother was the first to find the object in the sky and stated the object was moving in seemingly random directions for very short distances. She also noted it was changing shape and left a "tail" as it moved. I was able to find the object in my binoculars also and made the same observation. We watched the object for a period of time. We deduced it was not a star because of its movements and shape changes. The object was much brighter than the surrounding stars. We also assumed it was not a meteor because it did not follow a linear path. A plane was also ruled out for the same reason as a meteor. After a period of observation with binoculars I decided to try to video tape the object with my cell phone (Samsung Galaxy S6). I was able to do so and attached one of three videos I took. I also took 13 photos, one of which was attached. I tried to file this report last night, but the MUFON server because non-responsive (probably because of the size of the attachments. The attached video is 7 minutes long. I have 2 other videos that are about 22 minutes each (22+22+7 = 51 total minutes of video). During the event, I texted my sister and 2 brothers. My brother decided to drive over and observe the object. He arrived around 12:25 a.m. and left around 1:34 a.m. He observed the object the entire time. My mother and I both went into the house before my brother arrived. I came out to talk to him briefly before retiring to bed. We have seen UFOs on 2 other occasions from the same location with a number of witnesses. The previous sightings were of a clearly visible disc object (seen twice). During one sighting, the disc was escorted by 2 other crafts, with an additional object moving towards the group of three as if to intersect the travel path. Here is a link to the additional pictures and videos. This is my google drive. https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxDZrYioLeWnalU4R1hBWUNOSm8 I also included some daytime photos for reference.
September 17, 2017 · 1:00 AM · FIREBALL
Philipsburg, PA
We observed a large object burzt into flame in the night sky.
September 16, 2017 · 9:00 PM · CIRCLE
Pottstown, PA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 16, 2017 · 1:16 AM · LIGHT
Philadelphia, PA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 13, 2017 · 9:45 PM · FIREBALL
Bethel Park, PA
Left local pub while walking to vehicle noticed in sky a very bright orange red object in sky heading from the east to a westerly heading (this direction gradually changed to a south heading ). It was considerably bright and seemed to dim somewhat after changing its direction. I would guess its closest distance from to be a quarter to half mile ( maybe closer ). It made no sound. This object had no navigation lights, it was a solid orange red color for the duration of the sighting. It was absolutely positively not a Chinese lantern. The cloud cover was low--it was actually drizzling slightly during this sighting and right after I explained to my gf that this object was not on a standard flight corridor, a commercial jet (737-ish ) flew right under where this object faded from view-the airliner flew on a normal flight corridor that I see everyday and was very plainly visible with attendant navigational lights and was also flying under cloud cover at normal for this area altitude (1000-3000 ft ) about 15 miles from Greater Pittsburgh International. Its jet engines were clearly audible. /// I am former military and former law enforcement. This was definitely an unusual sighting and I'll be curious if anyone else saw this object tonight.
September 10, 2017 · 3:00 AM · OTHER
Quakertown, PA
I had fallen asleep around 11pm and around 2am I started having a dream that I was floating in the stars in mid air. Around 3am I woke up I found myself in my bedroom on my bed lying on my side. I saw a female alien 4 ft tall in front of me standing three feet away from me. I felt 3 male 6ft tall aliens behind me. As I woke up the female alien was approximately 4ft tall she blew in the dark the colors of a glitter turquoise, gray, silverish mix. Her eyes looked relaxed and small, but than I screamed and she shape-shifted and grew one foot taller and her eyes expanded upside down almond black. She than telepathically made my vision go away because she knew I was terrified. My body was paralyzed I couldn't do anything she was telepathically too strong but within 10mins they disappeared and I didn't watch them ascend etc. My eyes had been shut. We tried to contact the witness, in attempt to certify the report is a serious account of a real experience, but were unable to reach her. PD
September 9, 2017 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Newfoundland, PA
About thirty minutes ago, just before 9:30 p.m. I spotted three small round orange lights in the sky in upside down triangle formation (Two lights on top, one on bottom) near my home in Newfoundland, PA. I was pulling off the main road onto my road and spotted the lights just above the tree line. I drove downhill to the bottom of the road to follow the lights which were visible on and off through the trees and were moving southeast. I lost sight of the lights at the dead end of the road. Then I drove out onto route 447 north (as going south nothing would be visible due to tree cover) to see if I could spot them again. I saw two of the three lights barely visible just above the horizon, for about 20 seconds before they disappeared. There could have been some spotty cloud cover, so perhaps they just disappeared behind clouds, although the stars were visible when I was back at my house. Tobyhanna army depot is south of the area about 10 miles. I don’t know if this could somehow have been connected with that depot. Witness is a ((specialty deleted--medical specialist)).
September 5, 2017 · 3:50 PM · SPHERE
Fayetteville, PA
Fast moving white orb that pulsated twice as it flew through a cornfield right before a big storm.