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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 11, 2016 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Shrewsbury, PA
A bright white object that was stationaly slowly started to move. This looked about as bright as the north star. This had a upward flight pattern of about 45° in the air. After traveling slowly for 30 seconds, it faded away and was gone.
August 11, 2016 · 10:00 PM · OTHER
York, PA
Then a helicopter like craft appeared about 10 feet in front of me. I yelled for my fiance, but as soon as I did, boom it was gone. I know what I saw. Also, from a distance there was a flashing white light that lite the sky up, while many flashing red and white light crafts where flying in the sky. I have no clue what was going on, but I have never seen something like this before. It was incredible. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 10, 2016 · 10:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Home, PA
Layers of illuminating green light in the shape of a triangle moving very fast toward the ground.
August 7, 2016 · 11:55 PM · UNKNOWN
Elliottsburg, PA
Me and my sister saw four orange lights in a row illuminating the windows of the craft with a white light circling the exterior. It stood in one position then moved north from South East. Then it hovered. Then it moved behind the mountain and we didn't see it again
August 5, 2016 · 9:00 PM · TRIANGLE
New Hope, PA
The caller seemed very genuine and in awe over the sighting. I felt compelled to report it.
August 4, 2016 · 8:30 PM · EGG
Upper St. Clair, PA
Just before sundown, a bright white object was seen in the sky. It was larger and brighter than a star or planet, as if it were closer. It appeared round on the left side but less defined on the right (I think because the sun was shining on the left side of it). It seemed stationary in the couple minutes we watched it, but when the sun went down and we looked again, it was gone.
August 4, 2016 · 8:20 PM · LIGHT
Pittsburgh, PA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 3, 2016 · 2:45 PM · RECTANGLE
Pittsburgh, PA
The object was a large dark square, or rectangle, that had a smaller object slightly above and ahead that was reflective silver when sun hit it. The object drifted high above the Allegheny River near Oakmont Pa. And was witnessed by two people, while driving on Pa. Turnpike .
August 3, 2016 · 12:20 AM · TRIANGLE
Saylorsburg, PA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. We have corrected the date above, to reflect an early morning sighting, but we cannot be certain of the time. PD
July 31, 2016 · 8:45 PM · CIRCLE
Pittsburgh, PA
It was just before dusk and my mother noticed 3 black objects in the sky. At first she thought they were birds when she realized they weren't she called me to come take a look. We watched them for about ten minutes until they were out of sight. There was one in the front that appeared to be higher then the other two. Two of them were traveling at the same height and were in a straight line with one in the front and the other one behind it. They seem to stay the same distance apart for the entire time we saw them. They were traveling northwest. The objects made no sound and had no lights on them. We live in the South Hills of Allegheny county outside Pittsburgh. I was able to get a picture of the three objects.
July 28, 2016 · 9:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Cambridge Springs, PA
Moving North/Northeasterly I observed an object that was below clouds moving slowly and made no noise. It took about 2 minutes to cross the visible sky from the point in which I saw it. I wondered if it was a satellite, but it was below the clouds. It had no flashing lights and at one point moved so slow that I thought it was almost hovering. I`m guessing between 3-5 thousand feet but was definitely below the clouds.
July 26, 2016 · 9:21 PM · LIGHT
Mechanicsburg, PA
Son said blue light outside window. Went to check and saw bright vivid blue/slightly purple /bright light in sky over Mechanicsburg, PA, area (South and slightly West of Enola). Got camera and tried to take pics. Approximately 9:40 p.m., light dropped out of sky downward and lit up bright white. Upon review of security camera, it was apparently there since at least 9:20 p.m.. Nothing mentioned on news. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 26, 2016 · 5:30 AM · LIGHT
State College, PA
I feel foolish for not submitting this sighting the day I had witnessed it. But seeing the recent reports in the northeast about three lights travelling so close together around the time of my sighting, I feel compelled to submit a report of what I saw. I don't remember the exact date, but it was around the last week of July, perhaps July 26th. However, I do know that it was between 5:30 and 5:40 A.M., because this is the time that I go to work. Details: As I was headed northeast on I-99, I noticed three bright lights in the northern sky, only several degrees above the horizon. These lights remained very close to one another in a vertical formation, never separating more than about one degree from the other. The movement of the formation was very slight, but there was definitely movement. The lights were bright white, almost silvery. I could not distinguish a tail or anything of the sort. As an amateur astronomer, I know for a fact that they were not planets because they were well north of the ecliptic. Conditions: Seeing conditions on this morning were clear. During this time frame, it had been very hot in my area, with highs from the upper 80's to the mid 90's, and lows from the mid to upper 60's. If you could mark my position on Shiloh Road, looking toward the northeast drawing a straight line, the line would pass over Pleasant Gap, State Game Lands 295, and Williamsport. There was no way for me to guess the distance of the formation. Hopefully, someone saw the same thing and can corroborate this sighting. If you did see something that closely matches the details of my sighting, don't be shy and *don't be afraid* - REPORT IT. Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
July 24, 2016 · 12:00 PM · SPHERE
Irwin, PA
I took a picture of the sky above my pool. I did not notice anything until later that week reviewing my pictures I saw this. I felt I should pass on the pictures. ((NUFO
July 23, 2016 · 3:30 AM · UNKNOWN
LaBelle, PA
I witness a bright light in the sky moving slowly towards me. I then witnessed a second object rise from the river very slow and silent.the first object gradually faded. The second kept gaining altitude and gradually faded.
July 22, 2016 · 6:45 PM · CYLINDER
Pittsburgh, PA
As I was exiting my car in the driveway I saw a commercial airplane overhead making it's way to the Pittsburgh International Airport west of the city. While looking at the plane I noticed a bright object below the plane traveling SE to NW, very slowly. The object had no wings, was completely silent, and reflected the evening sun on what appeared to be a highly reflective surface. Feeling the impulse to get a better look, I ran into my house to get my field binoculars for a closer look, but by the time I got back outside to the front of my house, it was nowhere in sight. In my opinion, since it was traveling so slowly, it boggled my mind to have flown off so quickly by conventional methods. This leads me to the conclusion that it wasn't anything conventional.
July 18, 2016 · 8:00 PM · CHANGING
Collegeville, PA
Clearly a UFO, 3 dots in a line with a faint outline of standard UFO shape. Hovering in the same spot for about a minute, then started moving in one direction, switched directions, and transformed into a plane. I couldn't believe it. ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) Honestly, I still do not believe it to be a plane, based on the way it moved. It was clearly stationary for about a minute before it headed towards the moon, stopped, and went the other way. Also, the only air ports around here house small personal planes. Thank you for responding. I do appreciate it! ((END ADDENDUM)) We suspect that the object was a C-17 military transport a/c. We just witnessed a C-17 in the night sky on the night of July 21, 2016, and noted that it had three landing lights, one in the center, and two toward the tips of the wings. PD
July 17, 2016 · 6:30 PM · CIGAR
Huntingdon, PA
Cigar shaped object low in northeast sky moving quickly towards south. Silver appearance, no wings or jet stream.
July 14, 2016 · 9:45 PM · UNKNOWN
Lititz, PA
UFO SIGHTING on July 14, 2016 – DESCRIPTION: This is the full description of the event I personally witnessed. The event took place on the night of Thursday – July 14, 2016. The start time was about 2145 hours Eastern Daylight Time. My iPhone 6s recorded my first photo being taken at 09:48:09 PM-EDT. The events duration was about 15 minute--until about 2200 hours EDT. My location was in Warwick Township, Lancaster County, PA. My observation coordinates again per my iPhone were as follows: 40 degrees 7’ 56” North - by - 76 degrees 19’ 4” West - & - Elevation 390’. I was facing West at about 305 degrees from true North. The object appeared to be located at a very high altitude. It also appeared to be at a considerable distance from my location. Only 2 mall white dots seen – suddenly a red laser type beam went from near the 2 lights towards the northeast then laser went off and white lights were again all that remained – so then they moved east passing way overhead very slowly – with no noise! It passed behind building & went out of sight.
July 12, 2016 · 10:35 PM · CROSS
Monroeville, PA
There were 3 things in the sky. The first one went over the church, looked like a standing up cross, not like a plane which would be a laying down cross,. It had tons of red lights and green lights on the sides lighting up the whole length. It moved very slow with no noise. Then a 2nd one came with the same kind of lights, but flying like one of our planes, not standing upright. Then the 3rd was like the 1st. The lights were bright, and flashing. The 1st object flew rather low and very slow, and made no noise, as the 3rd one also seemed to not make noise. But the middle one made noise similar to a plane. I know our planes have lights on them, but these had several lights, just guessing maybe like 20 -30 lights. I didn’t know what I was supposed to do. Sadly I did not have my phone with me to take pictures. The objects were flying from south east to south west, in a sort of curve around the area i was in.
July 12, 2016 · 10:17 PM · LIGHT
Verona, PA
Before we told the children to go inside we were all on are back deck with a perfect view of the sky. My girlfriend had told mentioned how clear it was so we all looked up into the sky. Within seconds we all seen what we had thought to be a shooting star, which then proceeded to act odd. It was a bright light with a trail that stopped in mid air and began to change direction was flying dead east then banked south east. The light would brighten then slowly dim out and slowly glided out into the horizen which is a tree line. No more then two minutes later, after getting the frazzled kids inside, another object looked like it was on its trail only this craft had 3 lights and had a shape of a triangle and made no noise what so ever. As it flew over us the front light disappeared and it also went of into the horizen. Approximately 3 minutes later, u could hear the loud roar of a military helicopter chasing after both crafts going in the same direction. After the helicopter was out of view the original ball of light returned. Slowly moving across the sky getting brighter and then dimming out moving in very odd directions then out of nowhere disappearing again. The sky at this time was full of blinking lights from aircrafts which looked like they were flying in grid patterns all across the sky. Everywhere you looked thats all that could be seen. 20 minutes into this a very bright light emerged from out of the tree line from the south west from the direction of our airport/ air force base. This aircraft mad obsolutly no noise and was very large and was shaped like a stealth bomber it banked and flew to the north. No more then 5 minutes later another air craft which looked and sounded the same came from the southwest only this time it went north east. 5 minutes later the ball of! light r eturned in the form of a bright flash. Other aircraft littered the sky and were flying at a high altitude. The ball of light was flying very close to these aircrafts which were in close formations around the object. It would fly in between them then very fast spin around them and gain distance. Then once again disappearing instantly. We never seen the ball of light again for the next couple hours which we observed the sky but the sky was still VERY active with other aircraft. This all took place until 12:45 wish when we went back inside.
July 8, 2016 · 12:00 AM · RECTANGLE
New Freedom, PA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 6, 2016 · 4:30 PM · OVAL
Warrington, PA
It did not pivot and turn. It just simply moved off after 4 or 5 minutes at a steady speed and height. It did not gather momentum, it simply moved off instantly to a certain speed. We were in a field behind Culcheth high school, and we can see a fair distance. It just kept going and we could see it go towards cadishead. My stepdad believe we had both witnessed a ufo, and i am of the same opinion. We had a friend with us but he did not land his drone. My stepmum also seen a large ufo fly over the flat in Stockton Health in May 2017. When i look out i could not see any craft but the sky was orange now this was at night! time around 9 pm. I could hear the craft this time and were we were is quite built up and we were on the first floor so you cant see in the distance due to all the houses. I walk over the road to the chippy to check if the noise was an air vent. It was not. It sounded like some sort of jet propelled enging. All the sky was orange and my stepmum said it was a strange shaped ship. Many thanks.
July 4, 2016 · 9:45 PM · DISK
Jacobus, PA
Ten minutes into the Jacobus fireworks a multi green light silent disc came up fast from the south and stopped over fireworks. Moved a couple times just like something joystick driven in a game. Hung out 10 min then went fast back south. Fifteen min later just reappeared, I did not see it come from anywhere. This time it was red and strobing & doing everything it could to look like a plane. Except planes don’t hover silently in the same spot for 10 min. Then went strait back south fast again for the last time.