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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
February 17, 2023 · 12:30 AM · CHANGING
Catasauqua, PA
It was about 12:30am and I went out to the parking lot to smoke. There was a strange hum in the sky behind me. There was nothing in the sky I could see but, the strange sound sounded about a block away and lower than a helicopter. I Heard Something flying above!!! No shit!! Called police and they gave me a number to call. They said to go here. Don't think I'm gonna sleep tonight.
February 12, 2023 · 7:40 PM · CYLINDER
On route 22 heading towards Blairsville. Near Johnstown exit, PA
We were driving on Route 22 towards Blairsville PA. It was somewhere between 7:30 and 7:50 PM. It was a long cylinder shaped object that had many small golden lights. They looked like the small golden sparkles that come out of a firework except they didn't sparkle. It moved to our left for about 30 seconds then faded out. My wife and I both saw it and she noted the Johnstown exit. We have driven this before at night and never saw this. It was impossible to tell how high it was or how big it was. There was no reference. It was fairly high in the sky and not close to the ground at all. I just want this reported so someone knows.
February 12, 2023 · 7:38 PM · CIRCLE
Oil City, PA
Several circular crafts were viewed emitting a yellow orange light traveling Northeast at hight of a typical Jet airplane. No sound was noted.
February 10, 2023 · 6:48 PM · CHANGING
Pittsburgh, PA
There were 3 very bright lights low in the sky hovering with vibration sound that got loud then low loud and low they were formed as a triangle shape in the sky 1 of the disk shot a blinding beam on the ground seconds later the 3 disk shot together so fast as if they almost recked into each other took off so fast it vanished we was trying to call the news by the time we got threw to them and camera crew got there it was too late that this happened so fast and the news told us they had several other calls come in on this sighting it was so awesome to see I have goose bumps and tears in my eyes righting this because this was awesome to see you had to be there to believe it on god it was amazing we are not alone in this world
February 8, 2023 · 6:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Port Allegany, PA
1 noticeable light that sparked into 5 lights creating a triangle moved slowly across the sky then disappeared. The process repeated itself as it kept moving.
February 8, 2023 · 5:30 PM · CYLINDER
Saint Marys, PA
I was driving along Washington Street in St. Marys and I saw a large, low hovering object in the sky. It appeared to be cylinder shaped with “wings”. It had multiple lights on it in a row and the lights flashed on and off. It was in my sight for about a minute until I drove too far away. There were others in my area that had reported seeing this as well in different parts of St. Mary’s.
February 6, 2023 · 6:45 PM · RECTANGLE
Glen Mills, PA
Object first appeared as a light shaped like a rectangle. It began shape shifting, changing color, and folding into itself as I was taking a picture of it before it disappeared into thin air.
February 2, 2023 · 6:14 AM · SPHERE
Allentown, PA
Witnessed an orange orb move quickly across the sky traveling northeast. Only one orb witnessed before it disappeared. Sighting lasted only about 5 seconds.
February 1, 2023 · 10:29 PM · SPHERE
tyrone, PA
I was outside trying to locate and view the green comet, but I couldn't find it. The moon had a beautiful halo, and although I know they aren't super rare, I took 3 pictures with my Samsung galaxy z flip3 (doesn't have a very good camera, but it was cold, so I took 3 photos and went inside.) I took 3 pictures from 2229pm-2230pm and went inside. When I got into bed, I pulled the pictures up and noticed a blue spherical object in all 3 pictures. It is in the lower part of the image below the moon, but traveling west to east. I got dressed and ran back outside with a good camera, (this was probably 5 mins later) but it was nowhere in sight. I thought it was a satellite, however I have asked several friends and people online what they think, and they say that it is too low to be a satellite. Now with the chinese balloon thing, I thought I should share. If you have any thoughts about what it is, please let me know! I would live to know what I caught a photo of! There was no noise, no movement noted by me just with the naked eye, all I saw was what is in the photos. Lens Flare
February 1, 2023 · 6:48 PM · LIGHT
Baden, PA
While skygazing for the 'green comet' I witnessed two lights, seemingly connected though it was too dark to see if they actually were. There was no noise from the object, the lead light was a very dim white, followed by an extremely bright white light trailing a fair distance behind the lead light. The light approached from the north and slowly curved and turned east, it was moving slowly, almost like a blimp, and seemed to be fairly large if it was a single object. No aircraft were visible on the ADSB Exchange or Flightradar24 at the time, and local traffic control streams from like ATC didn't mention any objects (This object would have been in the controlled airspace for Pittsburgh International.) To determine I wasn't crazy I made two relatives come outside to view the object, they confirmed they could also see it. After about five minutes or so the lead light faded, turning a dim red before vanishing, the trailing light doing the same several seconds after. Neither light was near the horizon or any object that would have obscured them. Planes are normal here (especially large military tankers) but they're always loud, this object was completely silent. I took a photo with my phone but the phone camera is poor quality, but I'll attach it anyway. Depicted is only the rear brighter light, the smaller light isn't visible in the photo.
January 28, 2023 · 8:39 PM · CIGAR
Littlestown, PA
My daughter and her friend were driving at night on a back road and saw a pill shaped object hanging in the sky above the road. It looked like a radio tower with no tower. They had to drive under it and it did not move. Her friend rolled the window down to look up and there was no sound. The object had no tail, no wings, and a row of glowing lights around the edge of it.
January 24, 2023 · 9:50 AM · UNKNOWN
Lehighton, PA
Went on back porch. Wife said "look!" I looked where she was pointing and saw a small bright sort of roundish but not disc shaped "craft". No wings or anything being followed close by a jet. High speed high altitude. Jet had contrails behind it object didn't. They flew above a cloud I could see the object through the cloud but not the jet. Object suddenly changed direction. Jet came out of cloud seemed to lose sight. Jet seemed to spot it again over the tree line and turned sharply to follow leaving an angled contrail in the sky. Object was heading west ward. While in cloud suddenly went north with great speed lost sight as it went past the pine trees across the street. After a 15-20 seconds another jet came by from a southward direction and followed the direction of the object and jet. A 3rd jet came and did the same. I would say the object looked similar to some of the more recent reports that have been recognized by Military as unknown aerial phenomena.
January 23, 2023 · 6:30 AM · LIGHT
Rohrsburg, PA
I saw what I thought was the international space station but it was slightly less bright. I've seen the ISS many times. Then I noticed another dimmer light in front of it that appeared to be leading it. I thought it was star link but there were only 2 lights with nothing visible in between them. The lights were as far apart as the big dipper is long. I checked the ISS flyover times and none were scheduled at that time. I have seen other satellites before but never one following another. They never blinked and they were traveling from north to south. I also saw this same event 5-8 weeks before this but I don't remember the date. I do know I saw that at 5:40 AM when I saw it and it was traveling from northwest to southeast. During both these events it was dark and the stars were bright.
January 17, 2023 · 10:20 PM · UNKNOWN
Pittsburgh, PA
Tonight we observed what seems to be an unidentified flying object. My dad and I were watching adventure time when we heard a loud and abrasive rumbling from above. It was dark out, and we were unable to get a clear read of what the objects body might look like, but there were red and white, blinking white lights. The craft seemed to be shaped, not unlike a disk with its red lights, blinking on top, and below the central part of the ship. The white lights seem to blink, left and right on the craft edge. The craft circle back a three times or perhaps it was multiple crafts crafts, each time quieter and higher in the sky. Drone?
January 16, 2023 · 6:50 AM · LIGHT
Shiloh, PA
This morning saw two bright lights in the sky about half a mile to a mile apart from one another. They also didn’t look too high up. The first one I saw was in front of me on Derry Road facing North West, in the same location from my last report. At first, I thought it was a plane until I noticed it wasn’t moving. I didn’t think much of it until I turned onto church road, now facing North, and noticed another one in the sky about a mile down the road, and it wasn’t moving. Fortunately, I was able to get a couple pictures of the second one while sitting at a light. When I turned my focus back to the road, a minute or two later I looked back in the same spot the light was at and it was no longer in the sky. A couple minutes later I got to work, pulled out my radar app, and there wasn’t any commercial planes in the sky in the area. The only ones were one I saw in the sky that was thousands of feet high and one facing south that was going west. While I was at work, I get a message from my friend who he claimed to have seen a bright metallic object in the sky hours after my encounter.
January 15, 2023 · 3:30 PM · FIREBALL
Media, PA
I was standing on Meetinghouse Lane right before you get to Providence Rd, facing Providence road. NUFORC: Appears to be jets with contrails
January 6, 2023 · 8:10 AM · UNKNOWN
Waynesboro, PA
It ended up disappearing into the clouds, was only able to catch it at the last moment. There was only one and it flew straight up into the clouds. Couldn’t really see much detail because of the sunlight.
January 5, 2023 · 6:03 PM · CYLINDER
Nazareth, PA
My dog had woken me up so I got up to go to the bathroom and went back to bed. I was looking out my window and saw a blur of light so I reached and put my glasses on and saw what I thought was an airplane at first but it was too low. Then I saw it moving back and forth side to side really fast. I went to take a video but took a Live Photo on accident so after that I started taking a video and got it on camera going back and forth. I called my mom in to come and see it and about 7 seconds after she got to the window too it kind of disappeared into the trees if the woods on the other side of 33. It may have landed but it didn’t really look like it did it looked more as if the trees covered it.
January 3, 2023 · 11:30 PM · CIGAR
New Castle, PA
It was the third of the New Year, 5 years ago I seen the same thing 25 cigar shaped cylinders shot up in the sky at high speed just hovered back and forth then 20 took off and five stayed there for like 3-4 minutes hovered back and forth and they took off at supersonic speed I never seen nothing like it in my life. I swear I seen this on everything holy I believe
December 29, 2022 · 6:47 AM · FORMATION
Lebanon, PA
The lights were very bright in a v formation. They were pretty still. They were just to the south of route 422. It lasted less than 15 seconds. And the lights just disappeared instantly.
December 29, 2022 · 12:05 AM · SPHERE
Chadds Ford, PA
Low in the sky, an orb of light appeared and shot downwards quickly for less than a second and disappeared.
December 28, 2022 · 7:02 PM · CROSS
Shiloh, PA
For the past couple months I have been seeing strange lights in the sky, that I later confirmed myself were not air planes using a live radar application on my phone called Flightradar24. I live in York, Pennsylvania, specifically Shiloh township, and on the night of December 28, 2022, I went to my girlfriends’ parents’ house to pick my son up, to which he was sleeping. They told me I can let him sleep and go back to get him when he’s awake. I agreed with it and needed to go to the grocery store up the street anyways. As I’m leaving to get in my car, I saw a bright white light in the sky that looked like it was only a few hundred feet up. I thought was a plane until about a minute later, while I’m leaving the neighborhood, I noticed that the light didn’t move. I’m starting to get skeptical about it at this point. So, I turn right from manor road to get on Derry Road, I’m looking at the light and suddenly started moving Northeast. It wasn’t going very fast, but the way it was moving was strange. It was like it was moving perfectly straight, as if it was along an x or y axis, without going up or down. Eventually, I turned onto church road, and when I get to the intersection, the light was directly above me. I looked out my sunroof and I could kind of make out its shape since it wasn’t very high. The shape of it was a cross, like a plane, but the wings didn’t look like one and didn’t have engines of propellers. It just looked like a rectangular cross. Right before the intersection light turned green, the object above me started moving in the opposite direction from where it was going. I was trying to look at the object but had to pay attention to the road as I was turning. About a minute or two later I get to the grocery store, Weis Markets, and the light was now thousands of feet in the sky, going diagonally up towards the moon. It got so high it became a spec. I was fortunate enough to get pictures of it and in the photo there are two lights side by side. I also have a video of a light in the sky blinking behind the clouds, not moving, when I got back home. I am now reporting this case because I just witnessed another event this morning as I’m writing this, which I will be submitting another report. I also believe I witnessed something else before the date of this report, however I was unable to get a picture.
December 27, 2022 · 6:45 PM · CHANGING
Morrisville, PA
Sighting: Bucks County, Pennsylvania, approximately 6:45 PM, December 27, 2022. Our backgrounds: I am in customer service now but a former musician who doesn’t do much with my art anymore. My partner is a former gifted athlete who was injured in a game and currently works retail. Both of us have experienced paranormal events before - both my partner’s mother and I have an affinity for the possibility of non-human life in the universe - and after years of not seeing anything, this is my second UAP sighting in a week but this one is way more intense than the last. The first was just an orange orb that passed by. The sighting: After work, my partner was outside my house smoking on the front walkway and poked his head in. He asked what planets we could see from the house, and I told him, and he asked: “are any of them bright green?” Dumbfounded, I went outside and looked up where he indicated, in the western (I think western) sky behind my house, towards the Trenton skyline. Whatever he had seen was gone and he was uncomfortable and uneasy and said, “it was right there.” It was a cloudy night with patches of clear sky. The clouds were moving pretty quickly, and revealed a big green star in the sky. Except it moved. I said: “I don’t think that’s a star”. A minute later it jumped altitude - I don’t know how high, I know nothing about altitudes aside from typical meteorological cloud heights (I used to study meteorology as a child) - but one minute it was in one spot in the sky and the next it was way higher and smaller. I got excited and tapped him on the shoulder to look, but it blinked out of sight. I scanned the sky to see if it would come back. Out front of the house, to the southeast, more clouds cleared and I watched a big blue/whitish light moving at plane height. “I think that’s a plane,” I said to him. Almost as soon as I said that, it stopped dead, changed shape slightly from a ball-like/light shape to something elongated and almost cigar shaped, back into a circle shape, and began to fly in a circle, vertically. I hope that makes sense - I mean in a circle vertically/counterclockwise I could see looking at it dead on not in a round/searching circle horizontally like a helicopter. Clouds covered it. I scanned the sky again - it appeared in the first location I’d seen it but further away, and traveled almost an identical path. It stopped dead again and hovered, reversed, then flew in a zig zag pattern. The cloud cover grew too thick and though I stayed out a little longer I didn’t see anything else. I was excited and whispering like “Hi! Come back!” very excitedly because I’d never seen anything like it before, and behind me my boyfriend was becoming more and more frightened/agitated and he actually dragged me back into the house. When we came back inside my boyfriend immediately threw up in the bathroom. My heart was beating like I’d just ran a marathon and I was elated. But within an hour I developed a terrible headache that I still have two hours after seeing the object. It has not gone away and I still feel a little nauseous. Before anyone asks, yes I’ve checked my carbon monoxide levels - we have new batteries in the detector and I tested it a week ago so it’s still working. We did not consume any hallucinogens, and he was smoking a non nicotine (non THC!) cigarette. (He’s trying to quit). I had no alcohol, had just drank water actually, and we had not eaten any of the same things that day yet - I work from home, he works outside of the home, and I hadn’t finished making dinner when this occurred.
December 24, 2022 · 8:40 PM · SPHERE
Yardley, PA
I was leaving my family Christmas Eve gathering and as I turned to drive away, a large orange orb rose up from the horizon line above a house across the street. It was probably much further than it looked. It did not blink nor were there any landing lights or any other light other than orange except it glowed with a ferocity almost like a fire. It moved at a quick pace but not super fast. It came towards me over the top of the house at helicopter height, completely silently, then continued to arc upward and away. I lost sight of it behind a tree line in my parent’s neighborhood. I simply turned and drove away. I don’t know why I didn’t take any photos or video. My phone was right near my hand and I easily could have. I just didn’t even think of it until it was gone. Other things of note: 1) I was completely sober 2) I am currently menstruating (John Keel has noted a correlation between menstruating women and sightings) 3) no one else on the block seemed to even notice anything even when I slowed down and lowered my window to stare at it for a minute. There were other people and cars. 4) there were stars and other aircraft in the sky at the time.