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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
October 24, 2014 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Lansdale, PA
i say 3 red and 3 green lights it moved back and forth and stood still as well it was so weird i cant believe my eyes and i can bet it was UFO. i also have the video clip too.
October 23, 2014 · 7:00 AM · CIRCLE
Newtown, PA
four white circling circles in the shape of a rectangle that converged into the middle and then back to four circles. And I might sound crazy but it followed me down 413, once home only saw one circle circling above me. Advertising lights?? PD
October 21, 2014 · 8:30 PM · CIRCLE
New Kensington, PA
Red round object moving north to south east. looked like flames shooting out of top and bottom. Sometimes the flames would move to front an rear of object
October 17, 2014 · 10:30 PM · CIRCLE
Glassport, PA
This isn’t the first time that I’ve seen something like this. I was standing outside on Friday night and I saw something out the corner of my eye. So I looked and I saw a faint circle of light going clockwise. Then I saw another light going counter clockwise. It was going on for about ten minutes.. It looked like it was ether in the clouds or above them. It was very cloudy that night. Then, this airplane flew towards the lights then turned away from the lights then after a couple minutes the lights disappeared. The whole thing lasted for about 15 minutes.
October 17, 2014 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Thorndale, PA
I spotted a bright red, glowing, spherical shape in the northern sky from Thorndale, PA, around 10:00 PM on Friday night, October 18th. The glowing sphere would dim and brighten regularly. It appeared to stay stationary or slowly either drifting northwards. I observed the object for several minutes trying to determine what it was. The size of the object was way larger than any plane or helicopter that I normally see following a flight path from west to east in that area of the sky. The object was also much brighter than any lights I have seen flashing from any conventional aircraft. Therefore I was able to rule out the source of the red glow being from a plane or hovering helicopter. However, it was difficult to gage the exact height of the object and I started guessing at other possibilities, in case the object was closer to the ground than I could actually tell, such as a hot air balloon, a flare, or other hoaxes I know of revealed on UFO type TV programs. Nothing I could think of matched what I saw, and as I studied the object my depth perception was putting it much higher in the night sky than any of the other possibilities that ran through my mind. The closest match I have ever seen to this object is related to giant, colorful, glowing circular clouds produced from rocket launches, or intentionally created by a rocket for research. I have seen these before and that was my first inclination as to what the object was. However, 2 things changed my mind about that theory. 1) the object was in the northern sky. I have only seen rocket launch related phenomenon in the southern sky, particular from NASA from the southern DelMarVa peninsula. And the other is that this object had a bright light that would dim and brighten, and regular intervals, consistently At this point I decided the object was too unfamiliar and I became too excited and decided to show my wife and ran into the house and woke her. As we went to the window to view the object it was gone. I have since checked the news for any reporting of the object to find out what it was. I have found nothing and so decided to file this report in the hopes of someone providing an answer as to what it was, or just someone else confirming they saw it too.
October 17, 2014 · 1:00 AM · FIREBALL
Philadelphia (northeast part), PA
As I was walking home from the Chinese store with a friend, we seen A big bright GREEN ball ascended in to the sky really fast. Stopped for 2 seconds, Then flashed green real bright. Then flew away faster then anything I ever seen before. I was freaking out. Because I am very aware of UFO's n always watch alien documentaries all the time, and I once saw something I thought was a UFO. But this was very close, only about 3 blocks away I'd say. And its just so (I can't even explain the feeling) to actually witness it first hand, and so close. So had a really bad feeling about it. Why in Philly? A largely populated city where a lot of people are still out at 1 am. That means they are started not to care if see. Which I believe is either a very bad thing. Or a very bad thing. No good can come of this. I even posted on a social media about it to see if anyone else seen it. And my friend said he did. I didn't even give a description of it. I just asked if anyone s! een that in the sky, and he said "I seen it. It was a greenish light rite. It flashed and I was waiting for the boom. I almost ((deleted)) panicked . I'm just so overwhelmed and needed somewhere to vent where I wouldn't sound crazy. Cause like they all say "I know what I saw"
October 14, 2014 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Macungie, PA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 13, 2014 · 10:40 PM · UNKNOWN
Sarver, PA
I didn't even have to glance up to see 4 bright orange lights spaced evenly apart in a horizontal line traveling slowly and steadily in a south/sw direction. I should have seen them prior to my turning around, according to the direction in which they were flying. If it was one object, it was bigger than any plane I've ever seen, and didn't seem to be as high as planes normally fly at night, or as fast. I ran in to get a camera and when I came back out my friend who was with me said he saw a bright red light shoot out the "back" at a much higher speed in a north/nw direction. This red object was blinking and traveling much faster than a plane (which I was trying ! to convince him it was). It either got too far away to see, lost in clouds, or disappeared. We lost visuals on the original 4 lights over a tree line. There were no sounds from either the blinking red or orange lights. I just want a logical explanation! Thank you!
October 12, 2014 · 8:45 PM · DISK
Erie, PA
I live in Erie, Pa on Sunday evening, October 1,2 at approximately 20:45 pm I went out back to smoke a cigarette. It was cloudy out very dark grayish clouds.While looking up at them I noticed they huge disk just below the clouds slowly floating over while rotating to the right. I had the back lights out so I got a pretty good look at it it was dark like the clouds kinda grayish like it was blended in with them. The shape was as if you took 2 frisbie turned one upside down and glued them together. It was almost silent but you good hear like a electrical kind of sound very slight. It floated off in a southwest direction.
October 11, 2014 · 9:15 PM · CIRCLE
Jonestown, PA
Orange bright light that went across the sky at a slow pace. Flickered out after two minutes and disappeared
October 11, 2014 · 7:44 PM · LIGHT
Pittsburgh, PA
We live in Pittsburgh west of the Allegheny County Airport (located in West Mifflin). My wife, walking the dog in our yard, noticed a string of uniformly spaced red lights at altitude (as one would expect a Life Flight helicopter to be) spanning at least 40 angular degrees. She called me to the yard, and I also observed them. I observed (at times using binoculars) that they appeared to be rising, in a spaced fashion, one after another, from a single point in the southeast and heading to the southwest. We estimated they were rising in the vicinity of the airport. One plane observed was perceived by us to be lingering in the area, but the plane, a commercial airliner or cargo plane, subsequently flew over our house, so the perception of lingering must have been due to a great initial distance and we observed it flying into the area. Towards the end of the event, we perceived helicopters to be flying in the area of the airport near the point we witnessed the lights ascending. The lights were red, similar to radio tower lighting. The light to the southwest most point merely extinguished, and being distracted, but not seeing the others, they too apparently went out. My initial assessment is that they were some man made thing, such as "Sky Lanterns" lifted by balloon or the heat rising from a candle, but problems exist with this theory. 1. They were launched near the County Airport, which I would suppose to be forbidden for a legal launch, as interference to or confusion of air traffic may ensue. 2. To suppose that they were equipped with electrical power for lighting or being equipped with a candle should have provided the most recently launched light with the ability to travel from the southeast launch point to the southwest extinguish point before itself extinguishing, this clearly did not happen. I returned to the house and alternately listened to a scanning radio for the police frequencies in my area of Pittsburgh and to Aircraft Frequencies collectively. Nothing was heard to indicate that any others had called to report this incident, nor were pilots, in their very brief communications, mentioning it. I subsequently noted an establishment across the street from the County Airport as having a Grand Opening sign, but I'm not sure how old the sign is. I drove past the County Airport travelling to work, on following days, but did not notice anything to account for the lights. We perused the media for a hint of a man made cause, but found none. We found this reporting page as a result.
October 9, 2014 · 7:09 PM · CIGAR
Boalsburg, PA
There was a bright orange line in the sky, not very big. If you held your thumb out full extension, it would be approximately the size of the tip of your finger. It was an orange faded color in the back, and three bright orange specks inside of the faded orange. Object stayed stationary, disappeared after approximately 2 minutes The lights did not flash, nor did the object move. So it could have not been a civilian aircraft.
October 8, 2014 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Quakertown, PA
I was sitting on my fire escape, looking up at the stars. I saw what appeared to be two stars close together. But one of them started to move slowly east. I thought it would dip below the roof-top across from me, but it didn't. Instead, it arched upward as it accelerated and disappeared into space within about two seconds.
October 8, 2014 · 7:09 PM · CIGAR
Boalsburg, PA
Bright orange craft, three bright dots in center. Floating, did not move. Immediately disappeared after about a minute or so.
October 8, 2014 · 7:50 AM · DISK
Cranberry Township, PA
My daughter and I were sitting at the redlight on the intersection of rt. 19 and Rt. 228 , when she say the man next to us in his car, with his window rolled down and pointing at the sky with unbelief on his face. I rolled down the window and looked where he was pointing. I saw 2 balls of gold light that floated with no noise. My daughter and I were frightened and said that is 2 UFOs! then she said mom, are you sure its not helicopters, I said yes because there is no noise at all. As the balls approached and were directly above us we looked and saw then that they were 2 very distinct saucers that we could view from underneath, they were rotating within the gold light. Very scary to us! the light changed and we had to move with traffic. We are unsure of how many people viewed the 2 UFOs, but we know at least he man in the care beside us saw it too.
October 8, 2014 · 5:30 AM · DISK
Ephrata, PA
On Oct. 8th, at around 5:30 am, my wife son & I went outside our home to view the blood moon eclipse. I decided to video it on my galaxy3 phone. The sky was black not a star, plane etc., to be seen. 11 seconds into my video, an object suddenly appeared, as if through a wormhole. Within less than 2 seconds it was gone. I did a frame-by-frame evaluation on my phone, and was AMAZED! It came out bright white changed to red & yellow with 5 visible lights always staying parellel to the moon. In some of the pics you can actually see a gray metallic saucer shape with the 5 white lights. Definitely is a U.F.O., and i am glad we witnessed it and videoed it.
October 5, 2014 · 7:24 PM · LIGHT
Dickson city, PA
Large yellow ball of light over south east horizon hovered for approximately 3 minutes then just disappeared.
October 5, 2014 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Selinsgrove, PA
Red orange light, hovering, then slowly moving.. No sound
October 4, 2014 · 6:05 PM · RECTANGLE
Levittown, PA
I was in the car with my 10 year old daughter. We were heading out to go shopping for a Halloween costume. The sun was just beginning to set, when we came to a red light, in the residential section of Fairless Hill. As we sat at the red light, a rectangular object flew just above the tree tops, to the right side of our car. The craft did not seem to make any noise. It was long, and dark gray in color. The underneath was completely covered by two, side-by-side rows of about 10 round, white lights. The lights reminded me of spotlights. I'm not very good at guessing the length or distance of objects, but my best guess would be that it was about 80-100 feet in length, and about 30-40 feet in width. It was so close to us that we really couldn't tell how tall it was. We mostly got a view of the underside. As it began to move away from us, it didn't seem to appear to have much height to it at all. The craft moved at a moderately fast pace, and disappeared behind the tree line across the street very quickly. My daughter and I both looked up and pointed to the object at the same time, and it was gone that quickly. The traffic light turned green almost immediately, and we traveled in the direction that we saw it disappear behind the trees. By the time we reached a clearing in the tree line (probably about 100 feet away from the light we were previously at), the craft was so far away that it could only be seen along the distant horizon. Neither of us could figure out how it could have traveled what looked like several miles, in less than a minute. Though it was almost out of sight at that point, we were still able to make out it's shape and lights, even from that distance.
October 3, 2014 · 10:30 PM · FIREBALL
Churchville, PA
About 10:30 on the night of Oct 3rd I saw a large red orange fire ball about 30 degrees in the southern sky traveling from east to west. It passed behind some trees and I could see it through the trees. When It broke into open sky again it appeared to jog to the right, (north) and then it gained altitude and disappeared. There was no sound, and no tail.I called three police dept. in our area no reported anything.
October 3, 2014 · 8:05 PM · FIREBALL
Airville/Pequea, PA
The wife first spotted approximately ten numerous gold or orange colored small balls or spheres directly overhead down to the horizon (neighbors roof) moving slowly from the south heading in a north direction. No pattern or formation just a random group. When I arrived on the porch there were at least ten in sight passing directly overhead with many more coming into view. Not a sound could be heard from these things. Two or three turned to the east. Most stayed on course passing overhead and out of view. At least two or three just vanished as they were coming towards us. One stopped a few hundred yards in front of me and ejected four tiny balls one at a time which fell in a spiral like motion but went out before reaching the ground. We have no idea how many passed over before she walked out, but we did see easily over twenty of them. I did get about 16 bad photos of the last two.
October 2, 2014 · 4:00 PM · FIREBALL
Avis, PA
Witness indicates that the date of the event is approximate. PD
September 28, 2014 · 10:23 PM · LIGHT
Monroeville, PA
very bright orange redish lights fling over head from east to west. they flew like a helicopter would. same speed but very low. the light was big and very bright. but they made absolutely no sound. they were silent.a helicopter would have been herd at this height, they were right above tree top. we saw one fly over about every minute. looked like a big orange and very bright light fly over new hospital in monroeville heading toward pittsburgh with no sound at all.
September 28, 2014 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Philadelphia area, PA
We saw a fireball hovering through the trees in the woods close to where I live. It was an oval shape and orange and pink and it was glowing bright. It then began rising and I ran after it into a baseball field to catch a better view and flew away from me and into the sky and then ascending into the upper strata. I kept my eyes on it as it flew to far away to see into the stars. Source of report fails to indicate the date of the event. We have assigned an artificial date. Hoax?? PD