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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
July 20, 2017 · 3:00 AM · CYLINDER
Kutztown, PA
Above route 222 in broad daylight, mid day, I saw an object white in color that almost blended in with the bright blue sky and clouds. Looked to be the size of a midsize sedan. It moved at speeds no man-made aircraft including drones, move to my knowledge. It increased and decreased altitude in a split second, hovered in place and went from one end of the horizon to the other several times before vanishing. No sound was observed from the object. No exhaust trail was seen. It was near the newer Sheetz in Kutztown. I believe it was just before the construction of the route 222 roundabout that is there now.
July 20, 2017 · 2:15 AM · OTHER
Everett, PA
At approximately 2:15 am, in the Eastern sky. There where twelve perfectly spaced orbs. It looked like if you would have placed lights by putting one light on each side of every rung. They were that perfectly spaced apart. The orb/lights appeared one at a time. They appeared to be perfectly round and all the same size. They lasted for approximately 20 minutes and disappeared in reverse order that they appeared. They looked similar to the ones that were on your you tube video in Michigan. Except for the formation. (( Witness indicates that the date above is approximate. PD)
July 17, 2017 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Nazareth, PA
Last night, my neighor and I saw 5 glowing lights in the sky around 11:00pm. At first we thought they were plane's and the light were not blinking they were sold and low. they vanished one at a time, then they were just gone. I forgot to mention that there were no sound at all. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 15, 2017 · 9:40 PM · SPHERE
Greensburg, PA
While walking the dog in our back yard, I saw a bright orange-red light appear over the western horizon, traveling toward the east. The light was bright and steady, not pulsating, and the object made no sound. I watched it travel across the dark sky, trying to determine what it could be. Then another identical object appeared from the same area as the first one, and followed the same path. One object was trailing the other. When both objects were clearly visible at the same time, I ran to the house to ask my husband to come outside quickly. For two to three minutes, we both watched these two orange-red spherical objects travel from west to east, although they seemed to be not perfectly round, and looked to be somewhat flattened on the top. There was a distance between them but they followed the same trajectory. The trailing light passed into a small thin cloud and disappeared first. Then the leading light passed into a larger, more dense cloud and dis! appeared second. Then they were gone. After that, the sky seemed clear except for a passing airplane. I resumed walking the dog and then to our surprise, about two minutes later, another orange-red light just like the first two appeared, again from the same area on the western horizon and traveling eastward. My husband was still outside and witnessed it, too. About 30 seconds later, there came another light from the same place. This set of lights traveled approximately the same path as the first set, were also a distance apart, and both lights also passed into thin clouds and disappeared, but this set disappeared almost simultaneously. They didn’t travel as far as the first set did before blinking out. The objects did not have lights on them; the spheres themselves appeared to glow brightly. None of the four objects appeared to be at an extremely high altitude. The lights of the passing airplane appeared to be much smaller and not nearly as bright as the unknown objects. Several stars were also visible in the night sky. My husband and I are both retired. He is a former auto maker and maintenance technician. I was a medical technologist. We have lived at this address for over 7 years. We walk our dogs every night in the back yard and this is the first unusual sighting we have had.
July 14, 2017 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Erie, PA
Hovering neon green light, appeared to stay in one place. witness was in a moving vehicle and stated that the light appeared to be in one stop the entire ride, or moving very slowly. shape of light was ovular, disk like, or circular. light seemed to be lower to the ground, lower than an airplane.
July 12, 2017 · 10:38 PM · TRIANGLE
Carlisle, PA
Last night, at around 10:15PM, my boyfriend and I went outside to smoke a cigarette. We were sitting in a golf cart on the driveway talking. He looked over at me, and saw lights behind my head that weren’t like normal plane lights. When he pointed it out, I turned and looked. What I saw next is hard to explain. The object that was moving in the sky was very large, and no more than 500 feet in the air, and it was silent. A normal plane, at that height, would have been so loud. We were in an open driveway, in a middle of a field, so the night was quiet. We would have heard it if it was a normal plane. This object was so low, and moving slowly. When we noticed planes in the sky later, they seemed to be moving so fast compared to how slowly this object had been moving. The lights themselves were so different from anything I’ve ever seen before. The object looked like a triangle shape, but the sky was dark as I’m assuming the object was as well. But on each side, in the middle, there were blinking lights. They were blinking both red and white. We watched as this object turned, and as it changed direction I saw more lights. Either on the bottom or top of the object there was also a circular pattern of lights, that seemed to be rotating. There were at least 10 lights all together, if not more. We watched for about 5 minutes as this object made its way overhead before disappearing above the tree line. My boyfriend and I were talking, and I was trying to reason with him logically. We’re in Carlisle, PA. There are plenty of military bases around. Carlisle is a huge shipping port. Etc, etc. Then we stood up to go inside. As we got out of the golf cart and turned to enter the house, we saw a light so bright just hovering then, above the field. At this point, I almost couldn’t move. This light also was maybe 500 feet in the air. It hovered in one spot, but not completely still. It seemed to almost dance in the sky. It was only one light I could see. But it was so bright, it had beams coming off of it, almost like it looked like a pinwheel. It was so bright, it made everything else feel dark. I couldn’t even see the tree line in the distance. It didn’t fly away, it didn’t do anything. That is when my boyfriend grabbed my arm and pulled me in the house. He was scared and wanted to go inside, but I couldn’t look away. This experience lasted only maybe 2 minutes in its entirety before I made it into the house. But once I got inside I realized more. This light was also silent, and for how close and bright it was, it would have had to have been making a noise. Even small drones you can hear in the air. But this was completely silent. We went to tell his brother and friends, and when we told them it had just had happened, they ran outside to see if it was still there. Within 5 minutes, by the time we had made it back outside, this light was gone and there were no traces of it. When we walked back outside, the sky was brighter and back to normal. It seemed almost like a different atmosphere outside. This also, is happening at a time when a lot of strange things have been happening to me. I have RH- blood, and joke about being an alien pretty frequently. But, I’ve recently been waking up with strange bruises that are very small (less than half an inch) in diameter, and are in a straight line. I’ve had objects move literally while my back is turned, along with my phone acting strangely. All of this, along with what we saw last night, is starting to add up.
July 10, 2017 · 11:00 AM · CYLINDER
Newville, PA
On Monday, July 10, about 11AM ET, my wife and I were driving on I-76 Pennsylvania Turnpike westbound, MM 225 near Newville, PA. The sky is clear and sunny, visibilty is very good. I am in the drivers seat. Our speed, and other traffic, is 80 mph. Earlier I had seen a sign "Speed Monitored By Aerial Surveillence," so I was watching. To the southwest, my left, through the front windshield, I saw a helicopter. It was a white, familiar-looking police helicopter, hovering at an altitude that appeared normal for police traffic helicopters, and less than a 1/4 mile south off the Interstate. Mountains rise up about 10 miles ahead, and I could see a small white airplane in the distance, banking to my left. I looked at the helicopter, and noticed a long straight black tubular object (1) (the top surface reflecting the sun) above it, at approximately twice the altitude of the helicopter. I comment to my wife, "What do you think that is?" My first thought was a large solar balloon. The tubular object appeared to be more than twice as long as the helicopter and about the same diameter as the cabin of the helicopter. The black tubular object was not a rigid cylinder and would fold to form a V shape, both arms about the same length. At one point, I saw (2) one of the arms fold again about 1/4 of the length from the end. By now, I am looking directly out of the drivers side window, due south. A second white helicopter has appeared, and both helicopters maintain their altitude beneath the object. The three aircraft do not appear to be moving away, but hovering. The white airplane that I saw earlier, is now in view, south of the Interstate and at some distance beyond the helicopters and appears flying a circular path around the object, as I can see some top surface of the wings. Moving past the event, I see the tubular object straighten out briefly and then refold (3) into a V. It's still south of the Interstate, behind us and then lost to my view. I was in the passenger's seat. When my husband called my attention to the object, it was south of us, and I looked out of the driver's side window (I had already noticed one helicopter), I first thought it was a small flock of birds flying closely together. When I realized it wasn't birds, I paid more attention. It looked like (4) a translucent object floating without form, sort of like a jellyfish, but it had some kind of black large pieces to it that I took to be the birds originally. I thought perhaps it was a large clear weather balloon that was descending. I was not able to see it for very long, being on the opposite side of the car. It quickly disappeared from my view.
July 10, 2017 · 12:30 AM · TEARDROP
Richland, PA
focusing my telescope at the moon I saw a black black craft that wasn't a satellite crossing the edge of the moon, It was kind of like a coke can shape with an L shaped top and seemed to be missing a square piece off the bottom of it. It was darker than space if it wouldn't have been crossing the moon I'd never have seen it. Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 8, 2017 · 10:15 PM · SPHERE
Edinburg, PA
On Saturday night July 8th, 2017, my husband and I witness at least 8-10 orange orbs. We have a limited view of the sky due to the trees in our neighborhood. I saw them first. The first two very close together and I wonder why 2 planes would be flying that close together. They were very bright orange. You know how a small plane looks when it is flying towards you. Like that, only bigger and brighter and orange. They were not moving towards us. But from north to south. When I saw the 4th one, I said to my husband what is that. He jumped up from his seat and said, “I do not know”. We moved off the porch and into the yard and saw at least 4 more. He says no planes or helicopters have orange lights. Way too high to be fireworks. No noise. We don’t know what we saw. He is a ufo believer. Me, I don’t want to know. This happened in Edinburgh, PA looking west toward Ohio. 10:15pm to 10:35pm
July 7, 2017 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
West Mifflin, PA
Driving home through West Mifflin, PA, we were stopped at a light at the intersection of Route 885 and Lebanon Church Road. It was a very cloudy evening, and the sun was going down, but it was still bright. Our kids (ages 19 and 11) started yelling to look at the UFO moving through the clouds! The entire sky was cloud covered, so my husband, my mother and I had trouble finding it. At first I thought the kids were just messing with me because they know I believe in UFO’s and no one else in the car did, so I didn’t look. However, the panic and excitement in their voices along with the frantic pointing made me think this might not be a joke. Due to the amount of heavy cloud cover, I was still unable to see it. They took the cell phone and made a clear live picture of it moving very quickly in a straight line. I have to say, when we looked at it, you can clearly see a perfectly round sphere moving quickly through the clouds just as they said. Other than its shape being a perfect sphere, the color was odd. It was the same color as clouds but slightly lighter. Not metallic, not white, almost translucent. That along with the perfect round shape and the fast movement made it visible against the back drop of the darker blue cloud. It could have easily gone unnoticed if you were not looking in its direction. This was not an airplane. My husband, the complete skeptic said, “I don’t know what it was, but I know it wasn’t a plane. It certainly was odd and something to consider.” We spoke via telephone with this witness, and she sounded to us to be quite sober-minded. We suspect that she is a highly reliable witness. PD
July 5, 2017 · 8:14 AM · CIGAR
New Kensington, PA
He is an ex-Air Force officer and is quite familiar with planes. He doesn't believe it is a plane in the background; I believe it could be. I thought I would send the picture for your review.
July 4, 2017 · 10:10 PM · LIGHT
Prospect, PA
Three bright reddish lights, each separated by 2-3 minutes, appeared from north northeast heading south southwest toward the position of the moon. There was no detectable sound from them. The July 4th fireworks were going on at the Butler County Fair Grounds at the time and I assumed the first one was a firework going up but hadn't exploded yet. It never did explode and continued across the sky until out of view behind a tree line. My wife said she saw a fourth one appear from the same origin but headed due west. I caught only a quick glimpse of that one through some trees. They appeared larger than the ISS looks as it flies over, but not quite as bright. They were a bit slower than a Cessna at maybe 10000 feet (i.e. pretty slow), though the actual height and size were impossible to determine. I checked a satellite tracker on-line but could not find any satellites at all over my area at that time, much less three of them moving in such an odd direction for a satellite.
July 4, 2017 · 9:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Greencastle, PA
Then a very bright light blink green, then red, and cycled back and forth between these two colors for approx 15 seconds, then stopped, then went to a white flashing and departed in an eastern direction at what appeared to be a very fast speed. What struck me as being odd was that it was partially cloudy but the red/green flashing light was extremely bright, and with a much increased size compared to the flashing moving white lights.
July 1, 2017 · 11:00 PM · OVAL
Gallitzin, PA
I was thinking it was a drone but my husband said that there was no way that was a drone. I've never seen a drone so what do I know. It flew across right before our eyes and over the trees and kept going and I was somehow hoping it would come back in hopes that it was some sort of drone but it never came back. My husband is not afraid of anything but this scared him. It just turned dark when we saw this so it wasn't dark for too long. My husband said there was a small red light on it also but I didn't see that.
July 1, 2017 · 9:50 PM · LIGHT
Sinking Spring, PA
Went outback An saw what seemed like an odd star constellation that appeared to be brighter than the rest of the stars out, forming a perfect triangle, then the three lights slowly disappeared one by one
July 1, 2017 · 9:30 PM · CIRCLE
Effort, PA
Slow moving; 3 steady lights: 2 or more red and 1 yellow; very quiet
June 30, 2017 · 9:15 PM · LIGHT
Lancaster County, PA
Driving into the Shady Maple parking lot, and saw three orange lights emitting from something hovering off in the distance that seemed to have a dark haze emitting from it for a few seconds, until it disappears into thin air.
June 29, 2017 · 4:23 AM · LIGHT
Brookville, PA
PRELIMINARY REPORT, ON BEHALF OF EYEWITNESS: A professional, long-distance truck driver telephoned the Hotline to report a sighting of a large "cloud" of multi-colored lights, that appeared to be moving across the sky, but which were being obscured by a large cloud in the morning sky. The witness reported that he was unable to see the source of the light, but that it was quite dramatic in appearance. The witness volunteered to submit a written report, once he is off the road, and has access to his home computer. Rocket launch from Wallops Island. PD
June 26, 2017 · 1:30 AM · TRIANGLE
McMurray, PA
Awakened by the sounds of animals scratching to get into the house. Went downstairs and my mother was letting the dog into the house. Saw a large triangle silently moving through the sky. The triangle had pulsing lights on each tip. The craft turned on it side and rotated like a wheel. It shot across the sky and was gone.
June 24, 2017 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Ephrata, PA
Pretty weird.
June 21, 2017 · 8:00 PM · CIRCLE
Lansdale, PA
Lens flare, caused by pointing the camera at the Sun. PD
June 17, 2017 · 10:18 PM · LIGHT
Duncannon, PA
Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 17, 2017 · 6:00 AM · RECTANGLE
SECANE, PA
Structure and detail behind the clouds, took photograph in June 2017 and I was going over them in photoshop and found interesting evidence that we are not alone in the atmosphere, world, universe. Photoshop, I zoomed up and used filter to darken spacecraft. Pictures included.
June 12, 2017 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Donora, PA
Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD