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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 11, 2016 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Freeland, PA
I noticed an unusually bright light in the sky directly in my view outside my bedroom window. It was over Sandy Run/White Haven area. I noticed another dimmer light appearing over horizon. I called my son to see this and we stayed and watched over 5 different lights appear and proceed to take on a triangle formation, a half circle, and even a straight line going up to a huge cloud. The cloud was unusual too. It seemed to stay in one spot for over two hours. Also, the cloud seemed to glow slightly from within. The area of the sky where the lights were appearing seemed to glow from underneath. These lights would take cover in the big cloud when airplanes were approaching the area. It was creepy just watching these lights get extremely bright then dim then get bright then dim. I tried to take a picture with my cell phone but it was too dark not enough light. I posted on Facebook asking if anyone else in Freeland was seeing these lights besides us and apparently someone else seen them as well.
September 11, 2016 · 7:01 AM · CIRCLE
Warren, PA
Bright circle shape low. Not a plane.was there for about 3 min pulled over it was gone.
September 9, 2016 · 11:45 PM · CIRCLE
Ridley Park, PA
Round white light above the clouds moving in a circular pattern over and over again very fast. It was brightest behind the clouds. Too fast for any aircraft. It stopped when clouds cleared and came back when they re appeared. At the end it was just a flash of light passing through one cloud repeatedly in a straight line...like the cloud had a pulsing light inside it.
September 6, 2016 · 4:00 PM · RECTANGLE
Bangor, PA
object was traveling west to eastjust barely above the Treelinein a straight pathstraight up and downglidingeven though there was wind it did not affect itwhen it met up with my line of site where I was standingon a second-floor porchcouldn't see the light you wouldn't even know it was thereand as it was going it came into view the same way as when it was coming from the other directionmy sister moved off to the east but I can't see it anymore
September 5, 2016 · 8:00 PM · SPHERE
South Park Township, PA
The evening of September 5, my cousin and I once again found ourselves in the general vicinity of an incident from the previous morning. We were about 3 miles upstream from the previous morning, at a small swimming hole along Piney Fork Rd in South Park Township, PA. Just after dark we noticed what looked like flashlights descending the hill on the opposite shore of the small third-order stream. The hill is particularly steep and would not be anyone’s chosen route to the bottom of the hill, especially since there’s a bike trail atop the hill with a trailhead within sight from there. It became weird once we couldn’t see any of the people who would be carrying the lights, nor did we hear anything or anyone walking down the forested slope. I remember seeing four different lights, which somewhat resembled incandescent flashlights, only as they seemed to get closer there were no flashlight beams shining through any of the trees. These lights appeared to only ill! uminate a very localized area of leaves in front of them. Also, as they grew closer, one would be near the top of the hill again, their beam also unnaturally contained. My cousin and I got a little freaked out and walked to the road near my truck, only about fifty yards away through a small patch of riparian forest. We gathered our thoughts and decided to head back down to the creekside. “After all,” we said, “who cares who those people are, we aren’t on private property.” As we approached the creek it looked as though the “people” had finally reached the bottom of the hill near the water. My cousin had grabbed my 12-volt spotlight and a portable power pack from the truck and he shined all 20-million candlepower toward them, trying to see who they were and also as a type of passive intimidation tactic since we had no idea of the visitors’ intentions. After all, they had just chosen the most difficult way possible down the hill, which no s ane person would do in any normal c! ase. We got to the streambank and stood on the small beach. There was nobody there. After seeing the lights only moments before near the creek, nothing, nobody in sight. We were now even more freaked out. It felt as though they were hiding under cloak of darkness stalking us or something. Thinking we may be at the mercy of a team of psychopaths or something, we stood there quiet and in total darkness, no flashlights, just listening. As we stood there a township police car drove up to where I had parked, stopped and shined their spotlight on the vehicle and into the woods toward us. They wouldn’t have been able to see us if they wanted to anyway because of where we were at. The light went out and it appeared as though the police cruiser had parked and shut off their headlights. We assumed they were coming over to investigate or something. So a sense of both relief and irritation set in, because we now thought that maybe the lights were other police officers instead of killers. We also were kinda pissed because we were about to be harassed by so! me bored rural policemen for no reason…. But then I saw the police car cross the small bridge right upstream of our location and continue up the road. It was puzzling. We assumed there must have been two cars or something originally but one had left…. So we stood there, making sure to talk so they’d know where we were and that we weren’t a threat. But no flashlights, no footsteps in the woods. Suddenly the whole energy changed around us, and a very unsettling feeling overcame me. Mike also conveyed his feeling of unease. We stood there, and I heard maybe two very small sticks crack in the woods. There was also a beam of orangeish light shining down the streambank from the road up near the bridge, as if someone was looking for someone or something. But we hadn’t seen anyone leave the woods and it had been a long enough time since seeing the police car that the cops would have made their presence known, even if they had tried sneaking up on us. At precisely that moment, we sa! id screw this and gathered our stuff so we could dip outta the! re as fa st as possible. Still thinking that we were now surrounded by possible killers or freaks we walked to the road with the spotlight on full blast just in case someone had tried hiding, planning to pounce on us. But nobody was around. Just us. We put our things in the back of the Blazer, shined the spotlight around quickly, and were getting in the truck when the same lights appeared in the woods right where they had originally been. Only there was also a very bright yellow ball of light over there as well, in the treetops. Then one more, an orange-lighted craft or orb, whatever it was flew across the road clearing about a quarter mile in front of us and probably no more than 200 feet off the ground.. We were frantic. We high-tailed it outta there as fast as we could! After leaving we drove up the road and stopped in a random neighborhood cul-de-sac off of Connor Rd. What appeared to be a formation of some type was to the left of the very bright half-crescent moon. It was comprised of singular, small lights but covered a very large area of the sky, not across but upward. The lights appeared as though they were stars, only they were red. I think they may have been trying to camouflage themselves in the sky amongst some real stars because not all of them were odd, just a handful. We sat there and caught our breath. Right before we were about to drive away my cousin pointed out a small white light in a tree near someone’s house. I didn’t see it as anything more than a high-mounted exterior light. So we didn’t really give it too much more thought. It may or may not have been an orb, who knows...We ended up stopping in Finleyville for cigarettes, then drove toward home. As we passed an old chapel/cemetery, Mike had a sudden urge to stop there ! for some reason. It’s weird because I had thought of it while still in Finleyville but didn’t say anything. The place we stopped is called “James Chapel and Cemetery”, and is located at one of the highest points for miles looking north. The top of Pittsburgh’s UPMC building is even visible. That’s a pretty far view for this area due to the topography. Anyway, we ended up sitting in the cemetery behind the church under the moonlight. The atmosphere was actually very comforting and serene, a welcome contrast to what we had been experiencing ever since leaving Piney Fork. Just being there felt safe and mellow. We ended up sitting in that old cemetary for a couple of hours. The vibes were good there, a peaceful oasis in the center of pure madness. It seemed as though the church had some type of repellant effect on them. We were still able to see many orb-like lights in the sky, but many more were either in the semi-distant treetops, along the power lines, and especially in the! area where we had come from. We were able to clearly see acro! ss the P iney Fork and Peters Creek Valleys from there. The amount of unexplained lights in that valley was astonishing. They were either white, orange, or yellowish in color. While sitting there I witnessed one of the orange lights split into two separate orange lights in the treetops. There were also some that would pulsate, becoming very bright for awhile, then dim, and sometimes even not visible, as if their lights faded out how a bad wire connection would fade out. They all did their things for varying amounts of time. The oddest part of our experience near this chapel and in the cemetery was how the orbs that had been moving seemingly became “frozen” in place or something. None of them came anywhere remotely close to us or even moved at all for that matter. Only pulsating, vanishing, or splitting as the one did. Once we left we took a different way home. We ended up seeing some nice things someone had left out for the trash, possibly a cleanout or something. So we stopped to look through it. This was about three miles from the chapel, at the intersection o
September 5, 2016 · 4:00 AM · SPHERE
Jefferson Hills, PA
My cousin and I went fishing at a local pond in Jefferson Hills, PA. The Iron Bridge Ponds was the spot, tucked in a valley along Peters Creek Rd. near PA 43. We arrived at the spot and my cousin Mike pointed out what he claimed to be “imposter stars” in the sky. They were in the area near Orion’s Belt. They flashed in many different colors, mostly greens at this particular sighting. We walked back to the ponds, which sit in between the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad line and the steep embankment carrying PA 43. Once we arrived near the water I noticed a white light atop the hill above said embankment, on the opposite side of the highway. At first glance it looked like a street light, but upon further examination I realized that it was not behind the trees, but rather within them. It was a bright white, similar to the color of a 6000K LED. As it hovered in the trees he pointed out a second light that appeared suddenly in the canopy of a small patch of woods along the opposite shore of the pond, roughly 100 yards away from us. Also white, this light was very dim in comparison to the one atop the hill, which had now moved down to t! he crest of the highway embankment. The embankment is probably 100 feet high and treeless. The light appeared to be an orb or orb-like, much smaller than any aircraft I’ve encountered. This was also the case with the second, dimly lit light.Atop the embankment, the first orb hovered silently for about 5 minutes before vanishing. Almost instantly it appeared in a different location about 200 yards north and roughly 150 feet in the sky over the highway. Shortly after, the dimly lit one in the woods below vanished, as if it just fizzled out or faded away. Eventually the original light made its way higher and eventually left the area after it reached a fairly high level off the ground. As the twilight approached we stood along the shore opposite of where we were when we witnessed the phenomena, but in the same general location. Heavy fogs would roll in and dissipate in very short periods and the cirrus clouds above were illuminated by the sun in a unique shade of pink. Shortly thereafter, just before the sun was about to peek over the horizon, another larger light, similar in color to a traditional incandescent light rose out of the valley about ½ a mile in front of us and advanced toward us over the treeline along the railroad tracks, which were about 75-100 yards away. It flew straight toward us silently, still ascending slowly. It flew over the pond and made a quick southward turn in front of us, probably only 200-300 feet above the water. As it turned, the sound of what I can only explain as a very quiet jet turbine, so quiet that most people wouldn’t even notice on a normal day It continued south, before ascending into the wispy layer of cirrus clouds! , then disappeared into the distance. Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
September 4, 2016 · 7:18 PM · OTHER
West Chester, PA
May have been some sort of balloon but a very strange shape and quite high up.I took multiple pictures during the short time visible before being blocked by trees. It had to have been quite large as it caught my eye at a long distance from my deck. I happened to have my micro 4/3 camera out with a 70-300mm zoom lens on it zoomed to the max and have a few pictures that are not 100% in focus due to the distance the object was quite small and moving making it hard for the camera to focus on.
September 4, 2016 · 1:00 AM · LIGHT
Donora, PA
Went out to take the dog out, looked up and seen a white fireball type going across the sky in a downward position, almost looked like a comet, but it was too close, went south to north direction. It went behind buildings and I couldn't see it anymore
September 3, 2016 · 8:25 PM · LIGHT
Sellersville, PA
Sept 3, 2016 at 8:15 PM. Objects were round, twice the size of a star, bright orangey color, there were about 15-20 of these things just gliding across the sky in multiple clusters and then would disappear.
September 3, 2016 · 5:00 PM · OTHER
Springesttbury, PA
On the night of 9/3/2016 me and some friends were loading up some furniture to drop off at another friends house and I looked up (not sure why) but, there was a dark shape that you couldn't even hear moving but, the Unidentified Object was the shape of the number 4 and the lights on it was a dull orangish red color that didn't flash but, we watched it for about 3 minutes heading towards Harrisburg and then we couldn't see it anymore as it floated off.
September 2, 2016 · 5:20 AM · CHANGING
Riegelsville, PA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 1, 2016 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Lehighton, PA
The first fireball was seen traveling from north to south. It looked like a semi-transparent red sphere with something yellow in the center. After it had passed by, a second followed the same path. It was identical in appearance to the first. At that time, I alerted the second witness. He only saw the second one and it was some distance away looking more like a strange star at that point.
August 30, 2016 · 8:00 PM · SPHERE
Pittsburgh, PA
3 red lights hovered in a triangular pattern, one by one, each light seemed to immediately disappear. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 28, 2016 · 6:00 PM · CIRCLE
Pottstown, PA
Girlfriend and I were driving back home from a get together. While we were driving we both noticed a very metallic circle/ ball very high up in the sky. Against the clear blue sky it was very noticeable, i.e. a metallic shine. When we noticed it a few seconds later it disappeared.
August 26, 2016 · 8:15 PM · RECTANGLE
Gilbertsville, PA
On August 26th, 2016, at approximately 20:15, three black rectangular objects each with a single light were seen in the sky at dusk. They were traveling in a straight line with 2 closer together and one lagging behind. The altitude of the objects appeared to be between what an ultra light aircraft would fly and what a small aircraft would fly. As the objects approached at a constant speed from the northwest, the lights went out. The objects were still visible and at least one appeared to be rotating. The objects passed by close without any sound or visible means of propulsion or lift. The closest airport to their path is the Limerick PA airport. We (the observers) are husband and wife. We are both engineers in their early 50s and neither has seen an unidentified object in the sky previously. As engineers, we have been trying to come up with a logical explanation of the objects but have not been able to do so. We considered such things as ultra light aircraft, weather balloons, drones, and gliders. None of these seemed to fit what we observed.
August 25, 2016 · 5:40 AM · TRIANGLE
McConnellsburg, PA
My uncle sent me a video of a craft he saw this morning. He says at around 0540 in the morning, his dog jumped up and was acting like it needed to go outside and relieve itself. Once he let it out, it ran to the corner of the porch and froze. He walked over to see what it was looking at and from several miles away he saw a light. It got closer very quickly. The video he sent me, shows a craft that is silent, and has three lights in the middle, with weird flickering lights or strobes to the side. My uncle claims he never heard it make a sound. He says the video caught it at around 400 feet in the air and that it had the mass of a 747. He said that he has a better video, but he can't load it via cellphone and he has no internet access to upload it. To say the least, this video is interesting.
August 24, 2016 · 8:30 PM · OTHER
Emporium, PA
It went from east to west, circled around and disappeared to the west finally. ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) Sorry. This is a sincere report. I got the date wrong. I was excited when filling it out. I have a few friends on YouTube in NE PA that said a bunch of Blackhawks were out looking for something also. Have you heard any reports about anything at all? Plane crash or ufo crash. It was last night when I seen that. I'm sorry about the screw up ((END ADDENDUM)) We have changed the date above. We are unconvinced that this report was intended as a seriou-minded description of a sighting. PD
August 22, 2016 · 10:26 PM · LIGHT
Philadelphia, PA
Walking home from dinner and drinks w/ friends at a local restaurant. Met my roommate before leaving campus to head back to our apartment together instead of alone as it was getting late. Walking back with my roommate, I saw a streak of light, that I thought was a helicopter crashing to the ground. I grabbed my roommate's arm and screamed to make sure she saw it, and she agreed that she also had. I had a drink with dinner and wanted to make sure I wasn't just seeing things, since she was totally sober, I knew what we had seen was real. As we crossed the street to get closer to where the object had "crash landed" and there was nothing in sight. On the object, there was a bright white light, that was streaked and almost had a tail, with a duller blue light at the end of the tail. It had a similar shape to a stroke of a paint brush or something like that. There was only one, but it was clear that it disappeared by the time it hit or got close to the ground. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 20, 2016 · 10:30 PM · FIREBALL
Jamestown, PA
My husband and I were leaving, walking along the shoreline of Pymatuning Lake in Jamestown, PA, when we saw three large reddish-orange glowing orbs in a triangle formation. He saw them first. They moved slowly over the lake, and at first, I thought they were newspaper lanterns. When my husband said that they were much larger than that, I began to watch them and realized they were not lanterns, nor were they anything we'd ever seen before. We estimate that they were probably around the Andover, Ohio, area, but appeared large to us, even though we were about seven miles away. As we watched, we saw fourth light, a smaller light trailing behind. They glowed, but the three larger orbs held formation while the smaller--more distant--seemed to try to catch up. They disappeared suddenly as they approached a tree line.
August 19, 2016 · 10:05 PM · TRIANGLE
Red Lion, PA
I went out to have a smoke. While standing outside, I saw these flashing blue lights, which caught my eye. At first i thought it was a small plane, but soon realized it wasn't. The craft was moving from the Southwest to Northeast and made no sound. As I followed it, the blue lights seemed to go out. I then saw a bright white and red light and realized the craft had stopped and turned in mid air. As I watched it, it then shot straight up 100-200 ft sat there for a few seconds, and then started heading back to the Southwest. It was not moving away as fast as it had come, and i noted the blue lights were not flashing as fast either. As the craft passed I could somewhat make out the size and shape. It was larger than a car or truck but not by much. The back was sloped where the blue lights were, and tapered toward the front of the craft. The craft was over some home across the street from my home and about 500ft high when it came from the Southwest. This was not an airplane or Copter. It stopped, spun around, shot straight up and moved with no sound. I am former Air Force so i think I can distinguish between what is, and is not, an aircraft. This craft amazed me and did things no craft I am aware of can do. The blue lights were so intense and beautiful. Like a blue you can't describe. If they were lights (?), they seemed to flash faster, or slower, as the craft's speed changed. I hope someone else saw this wonderful sight tonight! Keep looking up, From Red Lion, Pa.
August 18, 2016 · 10:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Slatington, PA
Around 22-23:00 near the town on Slatington, Pennsylvania, on the 16, 17 or 18th of August, 2016, my wife and I saw an object with 2 solid red lights and a flashing white light attached to it. It was headed west. It made a 90 degree turn to the south without slowing down. I wouldn't try to estimate the elevation or size of the object. The hard 90 degree turn is what made it mysterious. It could possibly be a drone, I don't think it was though. A few months ago we saw an aircraft at night in the same location, with the same red light pattern fly over the house and leave a long lasting contrail. Thank you for your time and attention.
August 17, 2016 · 8:15 AM · OTHER
Bethlehem, PA
I turned away for a second or two and seen it was gone. Almost appeared it was stopped to look at me on the roof of a bldg. I was was working on.
August 16, 2016 · 8:15 PM · OVAL
Biglerville, PA
My wife just happened to call me on the cell phone at the same time from home. I told her to look in the sky behind our house for 2 lights. She did report seeing both oval shaped lights. They seemed to be above the field behind our house, heading toward Biglerville. She said the 2 bright lights all at once changed directing, heading north, and disappeared together all at once.
August 13, 2016 · 3:25 AM · CIRCLE
Harrisburg, PA
Then, suddenly disappears. no glowing or debris like you would see from a meteor. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD