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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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November 16, 2015 · 7:30 PM · LIGHT
Harmonyville, PA
I experienced a very unusual observation in the night of November 16, around 1930 hours EDT, in an area about 45 miles northwest of Philadelphia near Pottstown, PA. The sighting took place while I was driving with my wife on Harmonyville Rd., North Coventry Township, Chester County Pennsylvania. The exact coordinates of the location are: N40.18741 degrees W75.74.242 degrees The sighting involved at least 11 bright orange lights moving slowly together, generally in a northwest to southeast direction, and lasted in the neighborhood of 5 to 10 minutes. I think there were a few more lights than 11, but I was counting as fast as I could because I did not know how much longer the lights would be visible and I wanted to be sure to get a rough count, at least, before they disappeared. The lights were all a bright orange, equal in color and brightness. They appeared to be randomly arranged, with no apparent rhyme or reason in their relationships to one another. They appeared to be more than a pin point of light as you see when looking at a star or planet with the naked eye. They appeared to have an actual dimension to them using just my unaided eye. The lights were all moving in unison in a northwest to southeast direction. They all moved at the same speed and did not change at all in their relationship to one another, as though they were physically connected. Nothing could be observed, however, connecting one light to another. It was the appearance an object would have if the orange lights were coming out of windows in an object that had windows but was otherwise invisible. But that isn’t is it? They were moving very slowly from left to right. When I first spotted them, they appeared to be stationary, but after I stopped the car to get out and look closely I noticed they were in fact moving at a steady slow speed. They had an observable speed such as you would see when looking at a high flying jet aircraft or man made satellite passing over head. The lights I saw were about 5 to 10 degrees above the horizon at the lowest and about 20 degrees at the highest. They appeared to be fairly close to me and absolutely were not stars, planets, man made satellites, flying aircraft or like anything else I have ever seen. The light farthest to the left, from where I stood, was on a magnetic heading of 100 degrees and the light on the right was on a heading of 125 degrees, so they covered an arc in the sky of about 25 degrees. As mentioned above, the vertical development was only an arc of about 10 to 15 degrees, so the lights collectively were a good bit wider than they were high. As we watched, the lights farthest to the right started to go dim and then became invisible as though they were either going into or behind a cloud or fog bank. We could not detect either, so I can not tell if they were going out or being obscured. Then, as the remaining lights approached the same area of the sky, they also slowly dimmed and disappeared. There was no sound whatsoever connected to the sighting, I was in a remote rural area and there was no other vehicular traffic or local noises, so it was a very quiet setting. I am a retired attorney with a rudimentary knowledge of astronomy, a private pilot’s license and in all my life I have never come even close to seeing anything even remotely like what I saw last night. My wife was with me and saw the exact same thing. I have simply no clue at all concerning what we saw, but, I am totally certain we saw exactly what I described above. ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) 11-20-2015 16:25 hours EST Dear Peter, I just submitted to you a UFO sighting report and want to follow up that report with the two attached photos which I downloaded from the internet to show better what my wife and I saw 11-16-2015. The pic with "163" in the name of the .jpg, shows what the random assembly of lights looked like to us. The arrangement of the lights we saw was different, but this pic shows better than my words what we saw. Also, we saw around 11 lights, not what is in this pic. The other picture, with "120411" in the title, depicts the actual bright orange color we saw and shows that the lights were more than a mere pin point of light in the night sky. What we saw did not appear to show as much dimension as this picture shows. I struck out on the weather. The flight weather service man does not have the past weather records, he only deals with current conditions and forecasts. He gave me two other numbers, but the bureaucrats are all out for Happy Hour, or whatever starts their weekends. If it is important to you going forward, I can try further on Monday when the offices are open. I enjoyed chatting with you and we both look forward to your call around 10 EST tonight. Sincerely yours, ((name deleted)) ((END ADDENDUM))
November 15, 2015 · 11:35 PM · CIRCLE
Glenmoore, PA
Flickering circle type thing outside my bedroom window well above airplanes (live in the descending zone of phl international) moving very slowly, flickering green and orangeish color
November 14, 2015 · 2:00 AM · RECTANGLE
Marietta, PA
Tonight, my father told me of an object in the sky, Very high up where anyone in PA or US in general could see most likely. Looks like a star, but much brighter, and flickering lights. Looked like it was at the altitude of a commercial jet. A friend of my father has a telescope, and Said its absoluely a rectangle. Multple checks on flight radar and sky app say that nothing is supposed to be there. My father lives about 2 hours from me, and he could see it clearly, as could i almost.
November 12, 2015 · 7:55 PM · UNKNOWN
Ephrata, PA
I was traveling towards Sauder Eggs and I saw what I believed to be an airplane with three very bright lights. I was watching as I moved toward it to see of it was traveling towards the airport. I thought it was moving very fast. Faster than a normal plane. Suddenly it changed direction and I lost sight of it. It reappeared right in front of me as I approached, the end of the road. It appeared to be hovering but I couldn't tell because it was soo bright. The lights were so bright they blinded me. It was very low to the ground. I got freaked out and turned right. I didn't see it again.
November 8, 2015 · 9:45 PM · CIRCLE
Pittsburgh, PA
Sunday November 8, 2015, I was driving south on I-79 on the curve between the Carnegie and Heidelberg/Kirwan Heights/Collier exits when a blue ball hovering in the sky caught my eye. When I focused on it, it fell quickly straight towards the ground and disappeared mid-fall.
November 7, 2015 · 8:18 PM
Philadelphia, PA
We observed red lights coming from the west. At first there were just two or three. Within 15 minutes there were at least 25-30 silently moving along and each group turned towards the south, where they changed formations and altitudes. We took some pictures and a video. These were NOT helicopters or any aircraft we recognized.
November 5, 2015 · 8:00 PM · RECTANGLE
Mechanicsburg, PA
A rectangular object hovering close above the Armittage Golf Course. Was making no sounds and had several lights. My radio started making sounds.
November 3, 2015 · 5:20 PM · DISK
Latrobe, PA
Object first appeared as a slow moving orange light. I first thought it was a plane but the light was orange and not flashing. Upon looking closer, I noticed it had a saucer type shape. It was moving slowly in a NE direction. A tree in my yard starting obstructing my view. In the couple seconds it took for me to move to the other side of the tree, it was gone. Also of note, there was something large moving in the woods below my house as I was watching the light. I could hear some branches breaking and dry leaves rustling. This could have been a bear though since I do sometimes see them around here. After seeing this, I called a friend and my cell phone was acting up. He said it seemed like what I was saying was being repeated several times in different voices.
November 2, 2015 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Philadelphia, PA
Seen these once before from my east-facing window. Three lights appeared in a triangle formation, faded in and out of view, changed to a straight line formation, and then faded away again. They don't move much once in formation, they just hover. Took several pictures as evidence, but of course they don't show much, as I couldn't see much myself.
October 29, 2015 · 7:04 PM · LIGHT
Mercer (RT 19), PA
Coincidentally, one other person saw same lights in portersville at 5:30pm and in Ohio at 1030pm. Also we went back out and drove toward where we saw the lights 45 min later and someone had ran into a cow on that road... Coincidence? I don't know
October 27, 2015 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Philadelphia, PA
At around 2200 10/27/2015, as my wife and I arrive home in our apartment complex, we were discussing our issues, when I see a light moving across the sky and dismissed it as an airplane. It had green, red, and yellowish/white lights running across it. Couldn't tell the shape because it was behind some trees in the distance. What caught both my wife and I's attention was that the lights returned to a position in the sky where we could see it behind the tree in a swaying manner. Not typical for an aircraft, and after spending 10 years in the Air Force (Edwards AFB & Pentagon), I knew that was not normal not even for a helicopter to maneuver in such an erratic manner. We lost sight of the object after it dipped down below the treeline in the distance. Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
October 24, 2015 · 5:30 PM · FIREBALL
Willow Street, PA
Looking toward the western skyline above the trees I started to observe round balls of light slowly moving in a southerly direction. Their colors varied from yellowish to orange to white. They did not make any sounds. A total of seven of them appeared and then faded away off in the distance toward the southern horizon.
October 23, 2015 · 7:30 PM · LIGHT
Butler, PA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 22, 2015 · 2:00 AM · CHANGING
Kennett Square, PA
I got up to go to the bathroom when a very bright "twinkling star" caught my eye. As I stared at it, I realized it was not a star, but a "star color" object that was dancing, jumping, changing shape, emitting colors, making trails, had smaller pieces break off and at one point formed a line and then was reabsorbed. It was at about 30-40 degrees from the ground looking east -- maybe a tad southeast. I woke everyone in the house up (4 of us) and we all observed this for about 15 minutes. It dimmed and faded away, but reappeared when we went back to bed. Given the meteor activity this week, we all thought that was what we were watching, but then realized that a meteor isn't stationary, but moves at a high rate of speed. Very exciting and disturbing at the same time.
October 22, 2015 · 12:00 AM · OTHER
Aston, PA
I was taking my trash out and see a very blue shaped ball, This ball came from the sky and came down next to me it changed. Colors from blue to yellow then mixed colors, it moved around me and would change shape. I was in fear but I could not move. Then it took off I was able to get pictures it is really crazy to see it change color and shape,
October 21, 2015 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Hollidaysburg, PA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 21, 2015 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Bensalem, PA
Orange ball, very low originally thought an airplane was on fire. Very low orange watched it fly overhead till out of site.
October 21, 2015 · 10:33 AM · CIRCLE
Williamsport, PA
I observed two objects travelling west to east. Both had an apparent size about equal to an airliner at 30,000 feet, but wings were not visible, and the apparent speed was roughly 10x faster than a typical airliner. No vapor trails whatsoever. Both objects were travelling in the same direction, but along slightly separate parallel alignments. One led the other by about 5 seconds. Both objects were observed nearly directly overhead, slightly to the north of my location. With the sun low in the southeast, it seemed unlikely that I was seeing a reflection of sunlight off the objects. Both objects were bright white against a slightly hazy blue sky. One object appeared round, and the other object appeared slightly oval shape and was rotating at about 2 revolutions per second. Weather conditions: clear with calm winds, about 45 F.
October 17, 2015 · 9:12 PM · FIREBALL
Mount Joy, PA
Medium sized circular red (fireball like) object moving radically (up and down) through the sky slowly losing altitude before disappearing behind trees and could no longer follow unexplained object. No regular aircraft within immediate area.
October 17, 2015 · 5:45 AM · OTHER
St. Marys, PA
I got a video of it changing lights and moving rapidly. At one point it had an aura of purple/blue light all around it, but only for a few seconds. Then saw a red craft moving in a zigzag motion a off to its right side.
October 16, 2015 · 8:58 PM · SPHERE
Avella, PA
Fire orange colored lights that moved around the outline of the shadow of a sphere, appearing and disappearing. Nowhere near the direction of the moon at the time.
October 15, 2015 · 7:15 AM · TRIANGLE
Ruffsdale/Mt Pleasant, PA
Observed a large triangular object hovering in place about 200 yards from the road over a field. The object was hovering at an elevation of between 200-400 feet and was very large. The object had blinking lights on the top and bottom and lights on the sides that stayed lite. Observed from moving car. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 14, 2015 · 9:35 PM · DIAMOND
Natrona Heights, PA
My children, their father and I we're on our way back from watching a movie at the movie theater. As we were driving we were close to home my significant other at the time and I saw a very bright big light in the sky almost like a big flashlight we were stunned because we couldn't identify that we never saw anything like that before. I rushed home and I parked in our parking spot and we got out of the car all four of us and it was approaching our apartment it wasn't very high up in the sky and it was very large maybe like the size of two football fields and it was diamond shaped we could see it but they were parts of the ship that seem to really blend in with the night sky it was almost transparent aside from the shape of The Craft. There were tiny very faint lights all around the craft and there was absolutely no sound at all it was huge we were kind of all Frozen there watching it I really wish I had been able to get pictures but I was kind of Frozen in place. My kids and their father went into the house and I watched it until I could no longer see it it was moving rather slowly no change in the atmosphere no sound the weirdest part about this experience for me was that I was obsessed about it all night after seeing that and the next morning I couldn't remember I had to fight to keep this memory I knew that it was something that I would definitely think about the first thing I woke up in the morning because I was obsessed about it the whole night before I had such a hard time holding on to the memory of this happening now I'm always looking in the night sky hoping that I see something again.
October 11, 2015 · 6:50 AM · FIREBALL
Hermitage, PA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD