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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
January 6, 2015 · 5:50 PM · LIGHT
Easton, PA
My girlfriend and I were driving on Old Mill Road in Forks Township. We noticed a big bright light in the sky and thought it was Venus. Upon closer examination, the light had a weirdness about it. It hung in the air in a way that suggested it was in the atmosphere and not a star or planet. After telling my girlfriend to film it, we drove past trees that covered our view. After making a turn on Wagonwheel, we regained a full view of the sky but the object had disappeared.
January 5, 2015 · 7:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Drexel Hill, PA
Looking towards Philadelphia, we saw four lights drifting down from the sky as if they were connected to parachutes. Please let us know what it was! Witness provides no contact information. Possible hoax? PD
January 1, 2015 · 6:00 PM · OTHER
East Stroudsburg, PA
It looked like a plane but it change it shape and lts color became pitch black but the lights were still there when it came out of the woods it was big still changing shape, then it went up the road it did a zigzag and it took off fast.there were to white lights behind it which follow it. No sounds were heard. Note, when I try to walk my dog about an hour before this happen, she did not move at all. She was looking at that part of the woods. So I went back inside with her. There are new homes being built their.
December 31, 2014 · 7:30 PM · LIGHT
McKean Twp., PA
Saw a large bright light shine and go out quickly. As it went out a smaller light seemed to shoot out from it. The smaller secondary light resembled a meteorite streaking across the sky and seemed to just burn out. Streaked across the sky for around three seconds. Very strange. I've seem many meteorites or "shooting stars", but never saw one emerge from another ball of light that lit up and blinked out stationary as a smaller one seemed to come from it. The sky was very clear and plenty of stars. The lights were brilliant white just as a normal looking "shooting star" but one just "turned off" and the other seemed to burn out as it streaked across the sky. We were on our way to the store when we saw it in our driveway. When we got back home it was cloudy and overcast w no stars in sight. And a half moon or better so it was quite bright out. These objects seemed very high.
December 30, 2014 · 4:00 PM · CIRCLE
Drexel Hill, PA
Driving back to the office I noticed two spots in the sky. It wasn't until I was stopped in traffic that I realized that they had not moved. I brought it to my associate's attention and he said he noticed the same thing. The sun was setting to the left of them. They were circular in shape. They had a glow to them much like clouds would with the sun behind them. There were no clouds in the area. They were vertically straight and did not move apart or closer. They were too big to be stars but much smaller than the sun and moon. The objects did not appear to move for the 4 minutes we drovein that direction. After making a turn and losing sight in some trees, we could not locate them again. Nobody else I talked to saw anything.
December 29, 2014 · 7:30 PM · CIRCLE
York, PA
Observed multiple objects in the sky over York, Pa.. Orange circular shaped objects, moving at a faster pace then a normal aircraft. Objects moved and changed direction as well as stayed in place during time periods. Multiple people observed the occurrence. At one point, there were 5 which were specifically sighted, other people claim that they saw more. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 29, 2014 · 6:30 AM · TRIANGLE
Philadelphia, PA
In the back of our home in the Roxborough section of Philadelphia. It was still dark, and I went to let the dog out because it was barking abnormally. It never barks at this time, I simply thought it had to go relieve itself. I opened the door and I heard a loud buzz, looked up and saw three lights in a triangle form. They moved east very fast, but still within my sight line, then back west very fast and stopped in the air, I actually rubbed my eyes and looked back, screamed for the dog to come back, then went up to get my wife, she saw the same thing, this time we watched from our second floor balcony. And they were making strange movements, nothing like an aircraft I have ever seen or known about. Very odd experience. We recorded it on my wife's cell phone.
December 27, 2014 · 8:45 PM · FORMATION
Nazareth, PA
The second and third lights (the two farthest from me) appeared to have three or four smaller lights before going back to one. The lights then vanished above the clouds from third to first. A similar formation of three lights was observed on 12/24, but just took it as three planes flying in a row.
December 27, 2014 · 12:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Philadelphia, PA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_g8YbADR1r8&feature=youtu.be UFO flotilla over Philadelphia, PA, December 27, 2014.
December 23, 2014 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
New Castle, PA
Out for a walk with dog that cold, clear and vey calm night. Stopped to let dog do his business and looked up and saw orange, red ball of light moving from north to south. I thought why would someone be lighting Chinese lanterns on a night like tonight, then I ruled out not a plane or helicopter. No sound at all, and did not seem real high, maybe as high as helicopters normally fly. Then I looked north and saw another one coming, and then another, that was 3, they were in a straight line formation, then as i look north, i see 2 of them coming in a vertical formation, spread apart maybe 3 or 400 yards apart and they come overhead. No sound and dont seam to be real high, as im watching i can see a couple jets way up in sky. Then, as the 2 vertical ones went by another, one come overhead, and I watched it speed up to catch up with the 2, and when it went in between the two it glow went out. That's when I couldn't believe what i was seeing. After that, 2 more went over, and as they going away from me, their light just seemed to disappear as they got so far away from me. I know for fact not Chinese lanterns, not an airplane, and definitely no helicopter. Had to ufo's or some kind of government project, just wish someone was with me when i saw them, dog had no clue. Went on internet that night and saw similar video of what I saw.. Made hair stand up on back of my neck! Very unexplainable.....
December 21, 2014 · 4:30 PM · CHANGING
Warren, PA
Large dome-shaped, metallic object. Half of it appeared to be in some kind of weird flux, with odd angles. I was driving and my girlfriend in the passenger seat. We were at about the same altitude on the other side of the valley, so it seemed that we were witnessing the side of the craft. It was hovering above the hill on the opposite side of the river valley. We were driving on route 69 heading east into Warren, PA. We only saw it for about 15 seconds and it was at dusk so there was room for error, but we are both confident of what we saw to this day. Really weird side note, we both had this strange feeling about 5 seconds before we actually saw it. It was felt like fear, but good. Like excitement but deeper and extremely brief. She will tell you the same thing. So I know that sounds bonkers, but that's the experience we had. The craziest thing about this event is that it wasn't the first UFO sighting I have had. Another one happened about 2 years prior in the SAME LOCATION. Me, my brother and two of our friends all in the same car. We witnessed a large black Triangular craft in the exact same location! We were driving North, and when we came around the last bend where the city limits are- we witnessed a large triangular black object, with 3 white lights in each corner, hovering directly above the road we were on, seemingly waiting for us because it was motionless until it was directly on our field of view through the front windshield. It then started to match the speed of the car (while rotating slowly) This lasted about two minutes, we never slowed down and it always stayed in our view like it wanted to be seen. We continued to drive north on Conewango ave watching in awe the entire time, before it suddenly shot off in northern direction at an incredible speed. No sound at all. I will be filing that report along with this one, I wonder if you have any database for multiple events in the same location. So with these two events the number of witnesses including myself is a total of 5, and we still talk about these events to this day. So glad I wasn't alone for either of these because I would probably have doubted myself!!! Any of these people will eagerly testify to these two events the way I just told them.
December 19, 2014 · 8:54 PM · CHEVRON
Bethel Park, PA
L shaped flight. Slow. Slow Left Turn. Very quiet for how low it was flying. Very large aircraft. Lights in front, left, right and rear. Red light in rear. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 18, 2014 · 8:03 AM · OTHER
Allentown, PA
This morning, I was driving to work in Allentown, PA, and I saw what looked like white Christmas lights (a series of white bulbs spaced fairly far enough apart that I could see them separately from a distance) flying in a few strands. They looked to be in an arrowhead formation like birds would fly in. If I had to guess, there were probably about 30 "bulbs" total. I could not see an airplane in front of it, although the location it was seen is fairly close to an airport. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 14, 2014 · 5:00 PM · LIGHT
Stewartstown, PA
2 bright orange lights about 200ft apart, approx. 500 ft high. Traveling south together, at a slow rate of speed, before fading out of sight There was no sound like you would hear on an airplane. it was pitch black, and cloudy, and could not see anything but the very bright orange lights.
December 13, 2014 · 10:00 PM · DISK
Shenandoah, PA
Standing outside with my friend, watching the geminid meteor shower, december 13, 2015, at about 10pm. My friend asked "What is that? Is it moving, or am I seeing things?" and pointed above our roof. So I looked up and saw what appeared to be a teeny tiny, but extra bright, version of the big dipper constellation. The tiny non-constellation was sitting in a place that I had never seen stars before, and where my friend confirmed no stars had been visible ever before. After we stared for a few minutes more lights turned on, and instead of looking like mini dipper, it then appeared to have 2 parallel slightly curved rows of about 7 lights each. The lights blinked or flickered individually, but not in any particular pattern. One light, in the middle on the upper row, that had previously appeared to be the start of the mini dippers handle, didn't seem to blink and was brighter than the others. It had been stationary (aside form the blinking), and we couldn't tell how far up it was, just that it was above the clouds. There was no sound coming from it, but I had been on the phone with my mom for about half an hour precluding the sighting and for the duration of it (relaying what I was seeing on the phone). My phone did break up quite noticeably when we were standing beneath it. After we watched it for maybe 10 minutes, the lights looked bigger (as if moving towards up) and then smaller (as if moving away), though staying in the same basic position as it had been the whole time. The lights very slowly got dimmer over the course of about 10 more minutes, until they disappeared completely.
December 13, 2014 · 8:30 PM · OTHER
Geigertown, PA
Not a sighting but a hearing of very strange booming sounds near Geigertown, Pennsylvania, Berks County. Heard very strange thunderous noises inside the house but ignored them. About 30 minutes later or so heard them again and went outside to listen. They were a very rapid succession of booms accompanied by flashes of light. They seemed to be coming from up in the sky. They didn't have the sound of fireworks as the sounds were in very rapid succession and there were lots of them...maybe 50 or so in the ten minutes i heard them. It does sound like a battle of sorts is raging in the sky. This is the third time over the course of a year I've heard them in this area. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 12, 2014 · 5:30 PM · TRIANGLE
North Wales, PA
I saw an very, very large green light headed my direction, getting louder and louder as it came. The object then proceeded to stop and hover near the middle of my street. After about 20 seconds, I noticed a red light on the side of the green one. The aircraft then made a hundred and eighty degree turn, and the lights spread apart. It stayed there hovering for about 2 minutes, and then a 3rd white light came of thin air. All three appeared to move slighty, as if conjoining, and then sped off in the direction it came. That was a spaceship if I've ever seen one! We spoke via telephone with the witness, and she sounded to us to be quite sincere. PD
December 11, 2014 · 7:00 PM · FIREBALL
Hatfield, PA
on a clear, cold night, I looked up and saw a bright yellow, orange fireball. It was low enough that I could clearly make out flames coming out of it in a downward direction. The best I could describe it, is a small, slow moving sun, about the size of a dime. My immediate thought was a hot air balloon on fire, but soon realized that was not what I saw. I had a full view of it for about 5 minutes. As it was nearly out of my field of view, it seemed to extinguish, and reappear. I have pretty extensive experience from the Marines, of what is normal, and what isn't. This was certainly a technology that I have never been exposed to.
December 10, 2014 · 5:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Warminster, PA
At approximately 5 am this morning (12/10/14) while walking my dog in my apartment complex, I noticed a bright light passing across the sky. Thinking it was an aircraft, I was curious that there were no red/green lights visible. My next thought was that I was looking at a helicopter. However, there was no noise. I then noticed two smaller lights following in formation behind the bright light. Again, no red/green lights or noise. Drones? Possibly but the lights were in a tight unmoving triangular formation. Even though whatever it was appeared to be three separate lights, I got the impression that I was looking at ONE object. While staring up at the sky, a car pulled around the corner and I started over to ask them to take a look, but didn’t want to lose sight of whatever it was above me. It was flying high, but not as high as an airplane. More like the height a helicopter would fly at. As I watched, clouds rolled in and over the moon and lights. When the clouds passed over, and the sky was clear again, the object was gone. There were no stars in the sky that resembled what I had seen. I was not frightened; yet neither did I experience emotions of any kind, which is unusual for me. My dog did not respond to anything, so just not sure what it was I saw. Very weird. Very weird.
December 8, 2014 · 7:00 PM · CIRCLE
Gibsonia, PA
3 unidentified, red-orange, round objects, traveling in an approx. south to west turn. The third in line disappeared leaving the 1st 2, then the middle one disappeared, the 1st one continued on then disappeared approximately :10-:20 seconds later. No jet engine or other sound was heard. Some light cloud cover. No "standard" aircraft marker (wing/flashing) lights. All 3 seemed to move at the same speed. Altitude may have been approximately 3 to 8 thousand feet but is unknown. Approx. 10-minutes later a "typical" aircraft (sounded like a turboprop of perhaps a jet) approached the vicinity from approx. south to north, seemed unrelated but ?
December 6, 2014 · 7:00 PM
Clearville, PA
Like a sonic boom. Shook the house. Nothing outside. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 5, 2014 · 6:45 PM · CHEVRON
Levittown, PA
3 chevron-shaped objects with flames flying too close together to be planes or jets. Two were near front and one behind a bit. The third one almost instantly caught up to the other two. They were flying like in a backward V formation. The third object emitted sparks from underneath. Then they made a sideways triangle. They then reversed their direction instantly and flew in opposite direction. And then became invisible (possibly entered a cloud).
December 3, 2014 · 8:00 PM · FIREBALL
Altoona, PA
Was on Plank Road by Wal-mart traveling north-west towards Altoona. Suddenly a bright, large blue-white 'fireball' shot across the sky in front of me, appearing to come from a large cloud, shooting down at about a 15 degree slope from the horizon, traveling west. I estimate whatever it was landed near the Logan Township/ Newburg area, or possibly even farther past the mountain. Did not make a sound. It was only visible for around 2-3 seconds before disappearing. Was very disappointed I didn't have time to capture video. I would describe it as looking like a large bluish Roman candle. It is quite possible that this was some sort of firework, but I've never seen a Roman candle that was large enough to be visible from that distance and also shot down from the sky. Also I didn't see any other lights or fireworks aside from the 'fireball' previously mentioned.
December 2, 2014 · 6:00 AM · FORMATION
Reading, PA
In all my life, I have never seen anything so strange. Watched it for about 5 mins, as it was. I wanna say was flashing but like light on an airplane or heli, but when I watched it just disappear right before my eyes, I knew that I just had seen something that wasn't a plane or helicopter. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD