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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 25, 2015 · 6:45 AM · CIRCLE
Stewartstown, PA
Lens flare, caused by photographing the Sun. PD
August 23, 2015 · 11:15 PM · FIREBALL
Port Matilda, PA
It was like a street light but it flickered like a flame it was yellowish-orange to gold in color. I was very confused but anxious too. It hovered for a short time, but when I blinked it just vanished out of thin air. Mother does not believe me and cats were not scared, for it was not a street light on the highway. I went outside to check out the area but there was no evidence that something was there, it was no car though. Yours sincerely, Anonymous We suspect that the report is a hoax. We telephoned the source of the report, and spoke briefly with a young woman who simply claimed that it had not been she who submitted the report, and abruptly hung up. Hoax?? PD
August 22, 2015 · 9:58 PM · LIGHT
Slatington, PA
Light moving in all different directions at different elevations. It may have been more than one but it was pulsing. Like a strobe light with no pattern. I was driving and we saw it. It was pretty intense.
August 22, 2015 · 9:50 PM · LIGHT
Muncy, PA
At or around 21:50 EST, we saw 3 orange colored lights in an inverted pyramid shape. It was located to the left of the big dipper. It appeared to be moving slowly towards our direction. About 20 seconds later the bottom right light flickered out. Then about 20 seconds after that the bottom left did the same thing. Then, the very top one flickered out, came back on slightly then disappeared completely. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 22, 2015 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Baldwin Borough, PA
When my family and I arrived at our Baldwin home, just after 9:00 p.m., we spotted a string of at least five orange lights flying equidistant from each other in a linear formation over Pittsburgh. The lights came from out of the north and arced toward the west, where we lost sight of them. No sound was heard coming from the lights, and they were low enough in the sky that we would have heard engines if they were a standard aircraft. What we witnessed bears a similarity to a report filed on this site on 10/11/14 21:15. We also live in the vicinity of the Allegheny County Airport. I'm not looking for ET, just a plausible answer. I don't believe this was the ISS or its re-supply ship.
August 22, 2015 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Williamsport, PA
My wife and I witnessed 4 lighted objects in the sky at approximately 9pm tonight over Williamsport PA. The objects were west of our vantage point moving slowly across the the sky from a North to South direction. At first we thought they were a formation of 4 helicopters, but there was no noise and no strobe lights. -just a dimly flickering firey orangish redish color. The 4 objects were moving in unison with 2 together slightly ahead of the other 2, which were together. From our vantage point the 4 objects formed what looked like a rectangle if you were to connect the dots. They then slowly (about 10 seconds) became dimmer and disappeared. I'm an engineer and commercially licensed pilot, my wife is a Lawyer. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 22, 2015 · 8:35 PM · SPHERE
Mechanicsburg, PA
Witness 2: We were driving in our car heading towards 1st 114. My mom asked what's that off to the right. I saw a pinkish orangeish sphere hoovering in the sky over interstate 81 and rt 114. I saw it for about 5-7 seconds. We turned right on to 114 but the object disappeared. Witness 3: I was driving east bound on rt 944. My wife asked what was in the sky off to my right. When I looked I saw an orange pink fiery sphere static in the air over interstate 81. I observed it for 5-7 sec. I continued on rt 944 for 20 sec then turned right(south) on rt 114. 114 crosses over 81 after 1/4 mile. By the time we got to 81 the sphere was gone.
August 19, 2015 · 2:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Hawley, PA
On the morning of August 19,2015 Approximately 2:00am, Me, my brother and good friend were with our family at our vacation home located in Hawley Pa. We were in the backyard hanging out around the fire pit drinking beers, the night sky was beautiful and clear, you could clearly see stars and if you really paid attention you could catch shooting stars. All 3 of us are now very intently paying attention to the beautiful sky looking for shooting stars, while staring at the sky I notice what looks to be a bright star, very high in the atmosphere but closer then what a star looks like, I kept staring at it and even pointed it out to my brother and friend, while we continue to stare at what we think is a bright star, it then just disappears almost like a shooting star yet the entire time it seemed stationary until it zipped off, all 3 of us immediately start yelling at each other saying “OMG did you see that, I can’t believe we just witnessed something like that” In the aftermath we noticed a blue/green trail just sitting in the atmosphere approximately where the UFO was sitting, and seemed to linger for a while, we told our parents and were not believed. Because of the distance we could not tell what shape or color it was.
August 16, 2015 · 8:15 PM · CHANGING
Williamsport, PA
815pm apx I walked my dogs and found a plant upset, so I bent to fix it. I have a lot of injuries so it wasnt possible. To this, I lamented by lying down on my steps. As I looked into the northwest sky, I saw a red and white object (thought it a plane) zip over to my rt and absorb another bright white object then it reversed in a downward motion and grabbed yet another smaller dimmer white object then it began to blink red and white and bleu lights. I screamed for others to come as I had no phone. Finally my neighbors 2 downstairs came out and argued over what it could be as it sat high in the sky not movinhg almost like mimicing a star. My son brought out this laptop and a phone. I dialed and reported to no avail the local police arrived and saw the trail it left when it moved but this time it only manuvered a bit, so he said it wa a twinkle and that it was just a star ofc Slausknofski spelling?? He was German and I never took my eyes from the object the ent! ire time it was over us then after a lot odd manuvers it slowly moved northwest toward areas known as Old Lycoming, Trout Run, Rock Run it finally crested a mountain where it painfully hoovered for 20 or more minutes before finally disappearing from our sight. A roomate from downstairs came in at the last hour and sat with me while we called the pentagon they asked if this phenomon worried us??? They proceeded dropped our calls repeatly transferred us to the fbi, a defense something or other they dropped the call too. I just kept calling and watching as the object seem to release the smaller white light. It udulated it zigzagged it did rt angles then made little circles.My nephew also saw these same three become one in the southside of the river. It reminded me of surveying a job in a helicopter. But I have never seen three copters attach and detache as it surveyed. It scared me it unnerved me. Also, in this almost 5 hour display a fireball, comet or whaterver shot out from the eastern sky like it was over our trees, the object was! 30,000 to 40,000 ft from us, or so it seemed. Soon after the fireball a meteor or shooting star came from same direction but higher same trajectory thought. The other thing to note is this object stayed in a dark cloud mass the entire time. You could see aircraft passing it in all directions Finnally it hoover slowly oh painfully slow over th Mountain and I gave up my vigil. I was in a lot of pain after all the standing and arguong but I never once lost sight of the object. I even contacted our moronic local police to inform them the object had moved from our sight. The thing did alot of stuff and 6 of us saw the really inexplicable movements the ofc saw it move saw the like I would call an expulsion of fuel every time it moved it trailled a stream of three or more lines like a rocket? Now, I am being critized, made fun of and will probaly be involved in a physical altercation with the idiots across from us who have three or more adults anda abunch of kids like 6 or more they were all out there as soon as a cop car showed up. They saw it, my 35yr old male neighbor is now saying it didn't move but my son saw it and he isnt the sort to say something because of in fact the exact opposite We did attept to photograph with cells but it was so far away. I contacted WBREchannel/NBC but they were too bus WNEP channel 16/ABC and got the same story. At 1227 am I gave up it was gone and no one seemed to care, Shake my head... --
August 16, 2015 · 12:30 AM · OTHER
Connelsville, PA
While camping near Indian creek saw a group of 3 lights which alternated from bright white to Orange to yellow gold which floated at treetop level from right to left up and down in a irregular pattern for nearly 4 hours. Was hard to judge size or shape due to tree limbs obscuring view at times. Object seemed to rotate clockwise several times during this event but always had three lights visable from my viewing angle. Made a dull whooshing noise like a gentle breeze blowing even though there was no wind that night. Have military aviation background and knowledge of aircraft from military and civilian services but this objects motion and lack of sound made it unique enough to warrant my alerting other campers to it's presence. Several other campers vame to my vantage point to verify, though several were intoxicated at the time of the event. Not sure if it matters here, but earlier in the day, Saturday, 08/15/15, there was an increase in military helicopter activity in the same area, and again the morning of Sunday, 08/16/15, there were several Apache helicopters flying around the area, as well.
August 15, 2015 · 9:00 PM · OTHER
Carlisle, PA
On August 15th 2015 around 9 pm my daughter and I were in the living room watching TV when what sounded like a helicopter went over our home. I looked out the window and I could see a long craft that looked to be transparent with a red lights on each end. I told my daughter to follow me outside so we could get a better look . Once outside, I thought I would be able to see the bottom of a craft, but neither of us could make out anything but the lights. It looked to be just a long transparent craft that sounded like a helicopter. It was very low. My husband and I tried to look up drone pictures but couldn't find anything that looked like this. I'm sure other people had to of seen it and would like to know what it was if anyone has and information. We see tons of odd things where we live and I know they some times have air shows. My husband also witnessed a large orange orb in 2006 floating above our home. We had just moved in. He said it made no sound. Floated off and never seen anything like it again. In 2014, my family witnessed silver cylinder like crafts that seemed to be equally paced one in front of the other. I lost count at how many were line. At first I assumed it was a airplane but I would have no idea why they would be lined up or the reason for so many.
August 15, 2015 · 7:30 PM · CIRCLE
Easton, PA
My wife and I were walking our dog at dusk when I noticed what I thought at first was a plane. We live in a plane throughway so we are use to seeing planes go overhead. I have lived in this area for 40+ years, what caught my attention was that there were no flashing lights just a ball of red. And there was no sound at all. When it flew past us we joked about the what we may be seeing, as it very slowly flew east toward New Jersey. When from the same direction as the first one (west) three more red ball crafts flying in perfect vertical order slowly, quietly, flew in the same direction! Then they seem to stop going west, and started to accent straight up until they were no longer visible. We looked at each other and ask ourselves what the heck did we just witness? Unless we have some super quiet, super slow, new aircraft I don't know.. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 13, 2015 · 8:00 PM · OVAL
Marrietta, PA
I was walking home from a friends house when I noticed 3 people pointing in the sky yelling look so i was about 10-15 ft away from them and I looked up in the sky and there was a oval shaped "Thing" floAting above us it was about 30-40ft above the telephone pole it had a glass looking ring around the oval so there was a ring in the middle of the oval it had a shinney look to it that's how it caught my attention it had green lights coming from the rear end it looked like the lights where the way it moved so the people where standing there and the guy yells to his friend take a pic I took my attention off the ufo and look over at him he was pulling out his phone as I looked back up the green lights where getting brighter and it made a humming noise then the lights being it's form of movement moved the ufo dipped down a little lower then shot straight up and alls I saw was a green light trail in the sky and it was gone and all was left was a green str! eak in the air We are unconvinced that this is a serious report. We will contact the source to confirm. PD
August 13, 2015 · 12:15 AM · TRIANGLE
Mechanicsburg (near), PA
I was riding passenger while my girlfriend was driving North on I-81, around Mechanicsburg/Harrisburg (Near Exit 57). I saw what appeared to be a falling star, but when I noticed it, it stopped IMMEDIATELY. I mean, on a dime. It then swooped over the car, and went from an altitude of about 20 ft to 200 ft or so, and then zipped up into the night sky. I couldn't find it after looking again. August 12-13th, 2015. Around midnight, but before 12:30.
August 11, 2015 · 11:00 PM · OVAL
Elkins Park, PA
hexagon [blue], with hexagon design on body observed as it was very large and texture was desernable. blue haze surounding object. It appeared to come from space into viewable atmosphere and lowered to where i could desern texture of the the external sides. dropping below distant tree line and became unobservable, short period of time it reappeared and shot up to night sky and dissapeared. i was out watching sky for peilads meterites that night in a very dark area. i did not believe in UFOs at the time, now im wondering why are we being lied to , is goverment concelling ET info .
August 11, 2015 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Thomasville, PA
I witnessed two helicopters flying in an erratic fashion, stopping, changing direction frequently. From a distance, I could see that there were additional steady illuminated red lights that could not belong to the helicopters. The two helicopters seemed to be travelling too close to one another and had their searchlights on, which seemed odd so I continued to observe. When they flew above me, (approx 200-250 ft) I saw that the searchlights were spotted on the red lights and the red lights did not attach to any aircraft. I witnessed two helicopters, each "chasing" a red orb. The orbs sped off due east and the helicopters followed. I attempted to continue my observance by vehicle but could not keep up.
August 9, 2015 · 4:00 PM · CHANGING
East Pittsburgh, PA
I was walking across The George Westinghouse Bridge when I saw a gun metal gray colored cigar shaped ufo then it changed shape into a sphere then it was gone. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 8, 2015 · 9:50 PM · FIREBALL
Lancaster, PA
Husband and daughter all witnessed 2 orange fireball like lights traveling up in sky slowly, then out of nowhere came a third following in the same path, after about 2 minutes they became smaller and less bright, then disappeared in the sky
August 8, 2015 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Slippery Rock Township, near New Castle, PA
On the evening of 8 August 2015 I was at Cooper's Lake Campground for a large (~10,000 attendees) annual event. I was in camp alone, approximately 50 feet from the northern shore of the lake. At approximately 9:30, as I was speaking on the phone, I saw a light source over the lake. It had no discernable shape, but was fairly "large" as point light sources go; lacking any other external clues, I would estimate it at no more than a hundred yards from me. It was reddish, but not the "stoplight" red of aircraft signals, having a distinct purple/pink tinge. It made no sound and moved quite slowly, but there were two small course changes; the night was essentially still at ground level, so there was no significant wind for it to be moving against. I watched it for approximately three minutes, mentioning it to my conversational partner, before it abruptly disappeared. At first I thought it was an airplane, but it was too large and the wrong color. It was also the wrong color to be a live flame, as in a floating lantern, and seemed to be course-correcting under its own power. Of course, I had no good size cues to judge from, so my estimate of its distance may be extremely off and the lack of noise may have been because it was simply too far away. At this point, my best hypothesis is a toy drone; though those were specifically disallowed by the rules of the special event, people have been known to break the rules.
August 6, 2015 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Hershey, PA
Eating dinner at the "Circular" restaurant in Hotel Hershey. At 9 pm I witnessed 4 lights that appeared to be a start of a firework display-however as one light went on-another followed and another and another. I finally said, "What the hell is happening outside?" Then all 4 lights shut off and vanished. The next moment 3 aircraft (fighter planes) positioned themselves in a triangular shape to appear as if to "corner" the suspect lights. As they "cornered" the lights -nothing was there. It was as if the fighter planes were chasing air. After about 5 minutes of circling the area, the 3 fighter planes took off.
August 5, 2015 · 11:45 PM
Tullytown, PA
I do not have a word processor. I will make this quick. For at least an hour there was bright flashing in the sky. I thought it was heat lightning, so I pulled over to watch. However it never moved from one focused location, which I found strange. I looked it up and found nothing. I recorded a short video but didn't have enough space for a longer one.
August 5, 2015 · 9:20 PM · LIGHT
Mechanicsburg, PA
My experience occurred on Wednesday, August 5, 2015. The sighting time was somewhere around 21:20 because I came into my house, explained to my dad what I had just seen, used the restroom and sent my significant other a text about the sighting at 21:26. I was driving home from work that Wednesday evening. My shift ended at 21:00. I was in the home stretch. As I turned onto a back road I saw some really bright lights in front of me in the dark sky. The light was bright white and almost like a starburst. It was brighter and larger than a light on any airplane I have ever seen. There were three lights clustered close together in a vertical line. The lights were hovering. As one light went out for a few seconds the top light lit up. Then the light that was out reappeared. This continued a few times. The lights would disappear and reappear randomly. I kept an eye on it for as long as I could while I turned into my neighborhood. When I parked in my driveway I could no longer find it. My sighting lasted no longer than a minute and a half. During this experience I did not hear anything. I was so unsure of what was happening that I forgot I even owned a phone… Therefore, I have no documentation. I had brushed my sighting to the side and forgot about it until today. My mom was listening to Coast to Coast Am talk show online when I got home from work. She was listening to the program for August 6, 2015. There was a segment about UFO sightings. She heard about a sighting in Palmyra, Pennsylvania, which is not too far from us. That sighting happened on the same day and around the same time. This is what provoked me to look further into what I saw. I googled “UFO sightings August 2015, PA”. I found a sighting posted to another website. This sighting happened in my same town, on the same night, and around the same time. Their sighting that night was nearly identical to mine.
August 5, 2015 · 9:16 PM · OVAL
Palmyra, PA
I was driving up Forge Rd. here in town on my way home. I went to turn left down my street and about 10 extremely big white/yellowish lights were hovering in the sky over a field. I saw about 10 lights in a half oval and the lights were diminishing one by one and then, all of a sudden, the last 4 or 5 light went out at once. I was under it off to the right and there was NOTHING in they sky no planes no flood light nothing. I called the Palmyra police and they laughed at me and I was the first to call they said. I went home went on facebook and my close friend saw it as well but he had 2 other people that could testify that we all saw the same thing. He posted something to Facebook a little video of the very end. I'm really freaking out. I have seen other pictures of sightings in Arizona and Florida and its the SAME thing I saw. I I'm very freaked out by what I saw and to know others saw what I did has me freaking out even more and this is why I am contacting you! !!!!! Source of report confirms that the time of sighting was 9:16 p.m., not a.m.. PD
August 5, 2015 · 1:00 AM · LIGHT
Reading, PA
Early morning, I was sitting outside and witnessed a oval like light in the sky just above the tree line. The light was clearly twinkling similarly to an airplanes signal, with red and white flashes. The object was stationary in the sky with spurts of erratic motion, never leaving the general vicinity of the original sighting. I clearly observed this unidentified object for a full 10 minutes. I am an intelligent person and cannot explain what I saw.