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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 4, 2015 · 8:58 PM · OVAL
Lancaster, PA
Upon later reviewing my camera footage I saw a silver pod behind objects. I have photos which I'd be happy to send as well. Witness provides a minimum of contact information. We have attempted to contact her, in order to obtain confirmation on a few details of her report, but we have not been successful in contacting her. PD
August 3, 2015 · 4:00 AM · FIREBALL
Cranberry twp (7 Fields), PA
Giant green ball of fire the size of an automobile flew straight down into woods. Witness elects to provide no contact information. PD
August 1, 2015 · 11:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Glenmoore, PA
I was sitting on my front porch in Southeastern, PA, facing southeast at approx.11:30 pm on 8/1/15. Their was a nearly full moon and the sky was mostly clear with no discernible surface wind. The high clouds were moving very slowly, almost imperceptibly suggesting light winds aloft. I was watching distant lightning (50-60 miles away) from a storm passing near the Cape May/Delaware Bay, NJ, area that I was also watching on my Accuweather radar app. I saw a bright red object flying by to my right, and assumed it was an airplane, since I live directly under the approach route for Philadelphia International Airport. Immediately, I saw an identical red object about 1/4 mile behind the first object, and slightly to the right of the first object. This second object appeared to be gaining on the first object and moved to the right. It looked like 2 planes flying in a loose formation. I judged them to be about 2 miles away. I would estimate their airspeed at somewhere around 200 mph. I am a 19 year licensed pilot, and I immediately noticed 2 unusual things about the objects; they were completely silent and they weren't "strobing." This is unusual because all aircraft are required by the FAA to have a green position light on the right wing, a red position light on the left wing, a strobe light on the underside of the aircraft, and a white position light on the tail. These objects I observed were just glowing a steady red. Also, I see aircraft at this distance every day and there is always audible engine noise, especially with 2 planes that close together on a quiet night. These objects were silent. I immediately picked up my binoculars and was able to observe the objects for about 10 seconds. They were glowing steady bright red, then they slowly faded for about 3 seconds before completely disappearing. About 10 seconds after this I saw 2 more identical objects flying in exactly the same area of sky at the same speed and at the same distance from each other. I watched them through my binoculars and they disappeared in exactly the same location as their predecessors. I have an app on my Iphone, Flight Radar 24, that shows all the air traffic in the sky. I immediately looked to see if their was any traffic in the area at that time and it showed nothing at all within miles of that area. I have another Iphone app, Sky Guide, which shows where all the satellites are in the sky and it showed nothing at all above my home. I see satellites, meteors, and objects like the Intl.Space Station all the time. These 4 objects were very different. So I'm really perplexed. What did I see?
August 1, 2015 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Langhorne, PA
I saw about 50 orange color lights, clustered together, but with no particular shape. They did not change formation or move in any way. I was able to drive down my street, pull in driveway, and run in to get my family. They came out and saw what I saw. The difference was they had started to extinguish so there were not as many. I would say they were gone in about 4 minutes. Some of them were close to each other while others were further apart. They all seemed to be the same size and color. Very bright.
August 1, 2015 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Harveys Lake, PA
On Saturday evening, August 1, 2015, at approximately 9:30 pm, I was standing on my deck in the rear of my house and noticed a small light in the woods. In the area where I saw the light, there are no houses or structures, and the mountain that I live on drops off back in that area. There were no sounds or noises and the motion detector lights on my home stayed on the entire time. I watched the light for approximately 2 to 3 minutes then went into the house and got a family member to come out and watch it also. We watched the light as it got larger and appeared to come toward us. We both went back into the house and I called 911 from my cell phone to report the light. We were watching the light through the kitchen door window and it just disappeared. After a few minutes we went back out and saw the light again. This time the light seemed different, but I can’t explain it. Then the light became two lights, then into several lights. The lights then combined back i! nto one light and then dimmed out to nothing. I filmed this with my cell phone as well. The copy is not as clear the original on my cell phone.
August 1, 2015 · 5:00 PM · CIRCLE
New Hope, PA
While traveling south on route 202, I saw approximately 20 bright, orange, circular lights traveling north east in a group. They flew in a slow, quiet group with no specific formation. A few stragglers came up behind the group and I was able to capture a photo on my phone of one of the stragglers. They eventually seemed to disappear. They looked very bright orange with a bright yellow/white center. Date may be approximate. PD
July 30, 2015 · 1:30 AM · SPHERE
Philadelphia, PA
My daughter, her husband, and I were sitting on her front step, at approx. 0130 on July 30, 2015. We happened to notice a strange looking star-like object, maybe 45 degrees from the horizon. We were looking north. It was faintly flashing blue and red lights. After observing it for a while, we started to notice tiny little lights going to and from it. We got out the telescope, but having never used it before, it took us a while to find the object. When we did, it appeared to be just a round white sphere. We didn’t see any little lights with the telescope. The object didn’t move for approx. 2-2 ½ hrs. As we were looking at the object, it took off at an extremely high rate of speed in an easterly direction. There is a tree across the street, and I tried to run down the sidewalk to see where it was going, but by the time I got to other side of the tree, it was gone. Might I add that I was not a believer until I witnessed that. I know that whatever I saw, was not from this world. Even if I hadn’t seen it move, it might be different, but I saw it go from a complete standstill, to moving like nothing I’ve ever seen mover through the sky.
July 27, 2015 · 10:00 PM · FORMATION
Atglen, PA
15-20 large orangish red lights or orbs of light witnessed hovering, or a better word would be stationary, for minutes before they vanished. A light on the "right" hand side of this extremely large cluster of lights slowly descended and then shot out to the EAST at a crazy high speed, moments after is when the lights went out. On the night of July 27th, at 10 pm Eastern Time, I was outside burning trash and yard clippings. Once I got the fire going in my burn barrel I had turned and began to walk to the house to get my kids to grab the marshmallows and stuff to have s'mores. While walking back to the house, a brightness in the north sky. I paused in my tracks for a few moments. When I realized there was no valid explanation for these lights, I dashed to the house and began to yell and bang on the living room window to get my 2 kids to come outside and see. I turned on my iPhone 5S and began to record. Unfortunately it did not pick up anything, except for the sound where my 13 year old daughter says, "I am so confused." My daughter, son and myself stood in shock as we witnessed these lights/orbs just sitting in the northern sky. We were throwing out ideas as to what these lights could be. Fireworks and Chinese lanterns are not a possibility as all of these lights seemed to be connected like it was one extremely large craft and the lights were not moving by the force of air/wind, nor were they falling so space debris or falling stars are not options either. When the lights "went out" we stood outside for minutes looking for them to reappear somewhere. After a few minutes, we all came inside and we each drew a picture of what we had witnessed. We did not speak about it beforehand and I told them we would not discuss until after we drew what we seen and compared drawings. Needless to say, the 3 drawings are nearly identical. From that night forward, I have spent quite a bit of time outside at night looking in the sky. When I used search engine to see if anyone else had witnessed this, I came across this website which have way too many similar sightings reported but none on that night. I can also tell you I witnessed a few more very strange occurrences since that night. I am puzzled as to what all this could be. There are no local Air Force bases that I can think of for this to be explained. Besides, these lights were way to big and not moving at all for these to be explained with what we know about today with aviation and Gravity.
July 27, 2015 · 7:15 PM · SPHERE
Berwick, PA
July 27th. Berwick PA. 7 miles south of the Nuclear Power Plant. Looking West slightly SW. Bright sky, cloud formations very odd for this area. Puffy funnel type cloud. Sunny sky about 7:15 pm. I was walking the dog and looked up and noticed how odd the cloud looked in relation to the rest of the sky. A bright silver object that looked like a lifesaver appeared to the right of the cloud and then it quickly darted back into the cloud formation. If I held my arm out the object would have been the size of a pencil eraser end. The center circle was well defined as was the outside edge. The shape was perfectly round. The inner ring appeared to encompass 2/3rds of the entire object. The center was darker. I saw small flashes in the cloud, not like lightening but like dots. I do not know if these flashes were from the object or from the sun glinting off of the object. I then took my camera out and took photos but I did not get a good photo of the big one I saw but! I did get one of a much smaller dark silver sphere. No birds or bugs were about, I think due to the 90 degree temp and high humidity. I will email the pic. P.S. the dog was not impressed. Photos show tiny speck. We are unable to determine what it is, but we have no reason to assume that the object is an authentic UFO. PD
July 24, 2015 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Reading, PA
I took the dog out around 9:00pm. I always look up at the moon and stars and when I did that night I saw a single orangish colored bright light to the west moving very slowly towards the south. I live close to the local airport, so my first thought was that it was a small plane in a landing pattern, but realized that this was a single bright orangish colored light rather than the bright white landing light or the smaller red and green navigation lights on planes. I then thought that maybe it was a helicopter but again eliminated that for the same reason. The sky was perfectly clear so there were no clouds to get a good reference of how high or far away the light may have been but I felt like it was maybe a thousand feet up and maybe a mile or so away. I heard no sound that would be associated with a plane or helicopter, but again I really wasn't sure how far away the light really was. As the light traveled slowly towards the south it got smaller and higher in the sky until it disappeared. I don't think it blinked out but rather just got out of my sight due to the distance. I was able to see it for about 5 minutes. I'm a retired supervisor and have lived close to the local airport for over 20 years, so I know what airplanes and helicopters look like, as they come and go from the airport during the day and night, and this light was like nothing that would be from a plane or helicopter.
July 24, 2015 · 1:00 AM · FIREBALL
Shunk, PA
Bright white glowing orb. Just above tree line in a wooded area. The orb flashed a lightning bright burst that lit up the area we were standing in. It was as bright as lightning. It was totally silent. It was a cloudless calm night. After the orb flashed it disappeared.
July 22, 2015 · 9:30 PM · CIRCLE
Southampton, PA
Saw a BRIGHT, gold, star looking object hovering above the trees. Assumed it was a bright star. Starred at it for 5 minutes. Then it moved up into the air quickly, and started flying away fast. Then a second one appeared and hovered above the same tree. Shot up and flew after the first. This happened a few times. In total 5 objects. Assumed they were planes and wondered why there was so many. Ran to back of the house and looked closely, only saw the last object which appeared round. Red and gold flashing lights all over the bottom which is how I could tell it was round. Vanished in the clouds.
July 18, 2015 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Scranton, PA
My girlfriend and i were on top of Montage Mountain in Scranton, PA, facing the main stage with the tent (not sure on the actual direction) when off to our left, high up above a mountain in the distance we saw a large glowing orange light that didn't blink traveling right from our point of view at an incredible speed for about 30 seconds, its speed in that direction then slowed down and the light began to shrink, as it decreased in size the color shifted from orange to red and then to white until it finally disappeared due to the Doppler effect that would imply that it was flying away from us.
July 18, 2015 · 10:22 PM · FIREBALL
Allison Park, PA
We were watching a movie in our backyard. I noticed 3 extremely bright orange lights behind the neighbor's trees. They each moved across the sky one after the other in the same exact path at a moderate speed. Not fast but not slow. There was no sound and they "twinkled"/ pulsated ever so slightly. We're close to a flight path for the airport but I've never seen anything like this. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 17, 2015 · 10:50 PM · TRIANGLE
Sinking Spring, PA
As I looked at the horizon across from my deck, I saw three bright lights in the sky, hovering in a triangular pattern, just above the tree line across from my subdivision. One by one the lights moved away from one another. One light shot off to the left, fairly quickly, but not so fast that I could not follow it's route. The second went up and faded away, and the third shot off to the right, fading away as though it also went off into a great distance. I swear to God that I tired to rationalize this in my mind as fireworks, or aircraft, or "something." But please believe me when I tell you that it could not have been any of those things. The three lights were obviously very high up in the sky, and not only did they hover, but they seemed to bounce around a little bit as they hovered there. Then they moved of! f in different directions, one by one, as I said. It happened in about one minutes time. I felt frozen in place, unable to look away for fear of missing this phenomenon. Folks, I'm not sure if I should feel blessed or afraid, but I saw it plain as day, no question. Did anyone else see this? I feel afraid and emotionally touched at the same time, because I truly believe I have seen something extraordinary here. I always thought this crap was nonsense, but not anymore.
July 17, 2015 · 12:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Johnstown, PA
I was watching one ufo that looked like a little white light in the sky above me fly in a westwordly direction when a triangle shaped fire flew by going north i watched this object even got it on video it did not seem to change shape or size just kept getting further away and after another 2-3 minutes it did what i seen many ufos do and thats get small enough to the point where it vanishes. After that i tryed looking for the first ufo but it was gone too. If that was a ufo it would explain why the white lights become red sometimes maybe they manipulate fire to help them fly like they can change from a white flame to a red or amber type color i just wish i knew what these things were.
July 16, 2015 · 12:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Morrisville, PA
I was in my car at work waiting for my relief to arrive so that I could leave. My shift is over at midnight. The sky was completley covered in clouds, but I noticed a small spiral of clouds to left. Nothing major, it was more of a swirl than spiral. I thought, maybe HAARP? I took my camera out, put it on the night setting, got out of my car and took two pictures. I checked the preview to make sure the camera captured it because it was so dark and there's barely any lights in the area. I started looking around the sky and was shocked to see a huge dark object in the clouds, high above my car. The spiral was to the left of my car and the shape was pointing in that direction and directly above me. I kept thinking maybe it's just a break in the clouds and all I'm seeing is the night sky. But the fact that it had visible straight lines and what appeared to be, a sharp point, made me want to take several more pictures. It was not moving at all. There was absolutely no sound or lights. I don't know how low the clouds were but the object seemed huge. I don't know anything about cloud altitude, so it's hard to make an accurate guess of how high or big it was. I want to say the width appeared to be as wide as maybe 5 passenger jets side by side. I observed it for about 6 minutes until it seemed to slowly disappear and clouds filled in the area. Something was there, that I know. Witness provides multiple photos, which indicate a swirl in the clouds, and appears to be a subdued dark area in the cloud cover. We do not know what the object is. PD
July 15, 2015 · 1:00 AM · OTHER
York, PA
It was first time being in the town and was out on a late night drive with the boyfriends family when we came across a large ball of light out in a cornfield that was gamma ray green and hovering high as a billboard I asked the locals in the car what that was and they freaked out and said they didn't know there wasn't supposed to be anything out there and they hit the gas peddle and floored it away from there.
July 12, 2015 · 9:38 PM · SPHERE
Laurys Station, PA
Went out to let our puppy out. In the southern sky was an orange light. Too bright and wrong color to be a plane. Moving slower then the many jets that fly over our house on a daily basis and not flashing strobe lights. Was climbing and took a right hand, southern turn. No plane has ever done this and not a single flashing strobe light. The light got very small, very quickly. No sound at the approximate height. Should have heard something. The first time I have ever seen anything like this, very odd.
July 12, 2015 · 1:00 PM · OTHER
Clinton, PA
Their was some form of a craft above a house. Me and two other friends were driving to go see a girl. Their was this boxed shaped craft above a house pulsating some type of pulse down onto the house Strangest shit was we could seee the pulses and as we drove pass the house it was fucking odd cause it felt lien we were in slow motion My phone and my friends phones died and turned off. It feel like we’re were in slow motion I remember trying to say do you see that! But for some reason my words were coming out so slow. It had some many cryptic markings on it some the oddly seem to make sense to me and others that I can’t even remember! As we drove out of the vortex and came back into normal speed! Are phone turned back on about a quarter mile down the road! But the weirdest thing was on the way home from the girls house I swear to god to this day a mile of the road house drive ways mail boxes were gone I still ask people if they remember the house were the red mail box no one remembers any parts of this town I talk about except the two that were their and one of them is dead now! That’s only one of the times! But I’m not getting into the other one cause y’all aren’t taking me in to exsperment on me to find out if what I could tell you is true!
July 11, 2015 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
New Kensington, PA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 11, 2015 · 10:20 PM · CIRCLE
Chester Springs, PA
We have amended the time above, assuming that the sighting occurred at night. However, the source of the report elects to remain totally anonymous, and provides no contact information, so we are unable to confirm the time of the alleged sighting. PD
July 11, 2015 · 9:30 PM · FIREBALL
Allison Park, PA
Object was bright orange speeding quickly. I thought it was an airplane on fire. It definitely appeared to be on fire. It hovered overhead and then a second fireball appeared. Exactly same direction, location, etc to the first one. They both hovered overhead (my backyard trees blocked full and constant visual). One appeared to flash and the other stayed lit. Then they just disappeared from sight.
July 5, 2015 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Downingtown, PA
Witnessed three bright orange lights flying NE. My girlfriend pointed them out from our back porch saying ("What the heck is that?). The lights kept a consistent equal distance from each other in a diaganol straight line from the top right to bottom left, and flying to our left (NE). There was a fourth single light that they appeared to be following. That fourth light looked further away, higher in the sky, and dim in comparison to the other three. There was no sound and it was too dark to see if the three lights were somehow connected. The speed seemed to be about the same as an airplane would fly, but the height looked lower than a plane flying by. Later that evening our neighbor said he saw them too and thought they could be Chinese lanterns. My girlfriend and I believed they were something different, as they moved right to left in a consistent line with some speed. Before they were out of sight, they dimmed away, and two of them flickered before disappearing. I've never seen anything like this and do not know what is was. There was no red, green, or white lights like an airplane. Only orange round balls of light - strange...