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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
September 17, 2014 · 10:40 PM · FIREBALL
Williamsport, PA
Orange/White ball travels horizontal for approximately 20 secs. Changes to a vertical position for 20-25 secs. Disappears. SonicBoom/Explosion heard 8 secs after. Within 2 mins, 3 jet aircraft appear.
September 14, 2014 · 11:00 PM · FIREBALL
Mercersburg, PA
Its presence instantly alerted two coyote packs in the local area.
September 14, 2014 · 9:00 PM · CIRCLE
Shrewsbury, PA
Crazy circle in sky 3 different colors. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 13, 2014 · 10:34 PM · TRIANGLE
Allentown, PA
I was driving in West Allentown, PA not far from my home on Saturday, September 13th. As my girlfriend and I were driving she pointed to a huge set of white lights that were almost hovering or moving slowly (I was driving so maybe because I was also moving) over a neighborhood. There were seven lights, maybe nine, in an arrowhead type triangle formation, basically no flat third side of the triangle shape, as it went inward. I drew an interpretation of what I saw and can show you the drawing of light setups. Anyway, they were all bright white lights, and as we tried to find a place to pull over, the lights dimmed to about 25% of what they were. It blinked red once or twice before I stopped getting a clear view from trees and houses. After about 15-30 seconds we pulled over and it was completely gone. I looked towards the local airport direction and saw nothing in the sky and I could see the stars, moon, and very clear sky. It was weird not seeing anything in the sky only a minute after that, which makes me know it was not an airplane or helicopter. Also this formation of lights or underneath of something, was about 400 feet above us if I had to guess. Maybe even less. The time was 10:35 PM in Macungie/Wescosville area outside of Allentown, PA. Time stamp of 10:36 PM calling my friend, so well say we saw it at 10:34-10:35 PM Below is a picture of what I thought the light formation looked like. This is the best characterized way I can describe the formation. O O o O O o O The two little circles are smaller to represent that they were higher up, not making a full triangle, but more like an arrowhead shape.
September 12, 2014 · 10:46 PM · UNKNOWN
Linglestown, PA
3 bigger than aircraft BRIGHT orange objects coming over mountains from west, one proceeded east and 2 went south, There was no sound at all and they seemed to be moving faster than the average airplane. These objects were very bright.
September 12, 2014 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Pittsburgh, PA
Around 9:35 PM on September 12, 2014, as me and my daughter and her friend were leaving our high school football game when it was over, I looked up and observed three balls of round looking objects. Two were following in a straight line, and the third one was lagging behind than the one in the middle moved quickly to the one at the far left.
September 12, 2014 · 6:49 PM · LIGHT
Olyphant, PA
I was out for a smoke when I noticed a bright light out of the corner of my eye. I looked at it and it kept slowly getting brighter and brighter (about a 2 second period) while remaining in the same spot. The brightness was incredibly bright at it's climax (like a bright white spot light glow in the sky) It then suddenly accelerated nearly directly north and straight upwards and away from me and was out of sight in less than a second. It left a definite trail through the high wispy clouds. I then noticed the blinking lights of a jetliner north west of its location that must have seen this light as well. 10 minutes later two aircraft in formation flew at fairly low altitude over my home in the direction of where the light originally was and continued in formation north. These two aircraft in formation had an audible jet noise, solid white wing tip lights and blinking red central fuselage lights. I am no expert on aircraft but they appeared to be F-16's. I have also never seen any aircraft flying in formation in this area before.
September 9, 2014 · 9:32 PM · LIGHT
Harrisburg, PA
I live in Linglestown, Pennsylvania, and was watching television on the couch at approximately 9:32 p.m. (eastern time) on September 9th, 2014, when something caught my eye from the window. I stood up and looked out, and saw about eight yellowish-white dots in the sky. I then called my mother over to see them and by the time she got to the window, about half of them faded away. About three seconds later, they were all gone. Obviously I didn't know what they were, so I examined their placement in the night sky. They were too high up to be anything like fireworks or spotlights and there were too many of them to be airplanes or shooting stars. I had no clue what they could have been. After the initial shock of seeing what I thought was a UFO, I went outside to see if I could find the dots again. It took me about three minutes of staring at the sky to realize that nothing would be coming back. I then proceeded to go inside and get on the computer to research my finding. I looked and looked and came up with nothing. My mother then informed me that she had read about UFO sightings on PennLive (our local internet news source) recently. Hearing this, I knew that I had to tell a professional about my finding, so I found your webpage. Please help me to figure out what this was that I had just saw. Witness provides no contact information. PD
September 9, 2014 · 2:05 AM · LIGHT
Kulpmont, PA
My wife came home from work early in the morning and let the dogs out at 2 AM to go to the bathroom she observed a light in the sky moving iradically she ran upstairs screaming waking me up we both ran outside this thing was swooping from left to right to left to right at incredible speed she said when she was outside before she woke me she saw turn to an orange color and then turn back to white what I mean by swooping is it wasn't going straight across it was going like in a :-) pattern up and back one time when I got to the center of the pattern is shot straight up into the sky and reverse straight back down and went back into that swooping pattern while all this is happening I ran inside to get my camera to take a picture I went outside and the camera would not work I came back inside the house the camera would take a picture I went outside the camera would not take a picture in the meantime my wife caught her video working on her phone got the last 15 seconds of it loading behind the neighbors house and disappearing
September 7, 2014 · 8:42 PM · CIRCLE
Harrisburg, PA
Harrisburg, PA – 8:42 pm – Sunday, September 7, 2014 Giant red-orange round light of almost blinding intensity – approximately 10 miles north of city heading due north in a straight line – low altitude over North Mountains. Sighting lasted 5-10 seconds and then went out. No visible smoke trail. No sign of military or civilian aircraft in area.
September 5, 2014 · 11:24 PM · FIREBALL
Wexford, PA
2 adults and 1 child saw dark orange/reddish round "fireball" traveling across sky, moving from South to North above McKnight Rd. at approximately 11:30 pm. No sound heard. Did not flash or anything like that. It maintained a steady speed and even/equal brightness for around 2 minutes, then light dimmed (briefly) and then returned to original level of brightness, disappeared quickly traveling North. Seemed to have smokey ring around it. I haven't seen anything like it before. Very interesting. Tried to record a video clip but object wouldn't show up on video; however a still image was taken; and is somewhat visible. Would love to know what we saw! Comet? Meteor? UFO?
September 5, 2014 · 10:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Etters, PA
Saw object over Etters, PA in Western Sky. Could on see colors blinking Red,Green, Blue and White lights. Could only see the lights blinking for about15 minutes. While seeing object it appeared not to move. After about 15 minutes the object disapeared from sky. While watching a smaller white blinking light moved quickly from south to north. If this was a plane we have never seen one move so fast. Only a few seconds and small white blink light disapeared.
September 4, 2014 · 11:00 PM · DISK
Wyoming, PA
Saw a saucer shaped object with solid green light and flashing red light. Moved back and forth in the sky very quickly and quietly. Moved in strait lines and circular patterns. Stopped for about 15 seconds in mid air. Continued moving back and forth in the Eastern sky before stopping and then descending straight down in a strait vertical line going strait down until sight of the object was lost, as it got lower than line of sight. Estimated altitude about 3,000-5,000 feet.
September 4, 2014 · 8:25 PM · FLASH
Waynesburg, PA
A very overcast evening, the sun had just set and there were thick clouds on the horizon, low in the sky. The clouds were concentrated to one area. We saw a bright flash with no noise many miles away in the clouds. It looked like lightning or an explosion in the sky and it lit the clouds with an amber glow. There were 3 areas where it seemed the flash was occurring. It kept flashing repeatedly, around 20 to 30 seconds between each flash. The longer we watched the more apparent it became that this was not lightning. I have no idea what this could have been but there didn't seem to be any red/amber tint to the sky or clouds to explain the amber color of the flash. This occurred over a rural wooded area where many oil and gas drilling sites are located and the lights were much too high in the sky to be associated with the drills.
September 4, 2014 · 7:30 PM · OTHER
Langhorne, PA
Ok, so I was at band camp when at 7:30 multiple black 4 star pointed floating objects began to fly over the football feild. It looked like it had a small opening in the middle if the UFOs maybe for a camera. I don't know. Anyway there were 50+ of them. They moved across the football field in about 2 and a half minutes. They were floating at about 400 feet maybe 500. Some were dipping down and horizontal but still managed to stay at the same altitude.others were flat. They were about the size of a hubcap and pure black they looked like a 4 leaf clover but the leaves were touching. They looked to be no more than a few inches thick in width. I have no idea what I saw. Source does not indicate a date of the sighting, and provides no contact information. Therefore, we are uncertain of the date of the alleged sighting, and have assigned a date above, which is our best guess. We are uncertain as to whether this is a serious report. It may be a hoax. PD
September 3, 2014 · 9:34 PM · LIGHT
Hanover, PA
A second object with the same description as the first was on the same exact flight path as the first but at least 10 seconds behind the first object. The second object faded into the sky just like the first but disappeared past where the first faded away. Stars and distinctive aircraft are visible within the sky. These two objects were flying at the same speed of each other but faster than any aircraft. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 3, 2014 · 9:15 PM · CHANGING
Bethel Park/Castle Shannon, PA
Driving along Route 8,8 we noticed 4 bright orange color lights just sitting in the sky in a square shape. As we continued to drive the lights began to slowly move closer to each other. That is when we realized they were individual lights rather than lights from one object. Then they began to move in fast circular motion and more came. Started receiving facebook messages and video from others witnessing the same sighting. Dogs were barking continuously and eventually would just whimper in friends' neighborhood. We started seeing helicopters flying and police rushing toward the area. We never stopped. Just kept driving to get home.
September 3, 2014 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
York, PA
My mother, sister and I saw two red and orange balls of light in the sky staying still. After about 3 minutes, one of them began to fade away, then 5 minutes later, the second one faded away. After about 5 more minuts we witnessed a bigger ball of light rising along the horizon then fade after a few more minutes. While witnessing the lights, my sister and I experienced intense headaches. Also, our two cats were scared and stand-offish.
September 3, 2014 · 6:30 PM · CIRCLE
Auburn, PA
Lasted 3 minutes then it was gone.
September 2, 2014 · 5:50 AM · TRIANGLE
Trevose, PA
It hovered in one spot and had no helicopter blades!
September 2, 2014 · 1:47 AM · LIGHT
Allentown, PA
The object stopped and disappeared into light speed and vanished...it was amazing. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 1, 2014 · 11:56 AM · TRIANGLE
Minersville, PA
Saw triangler objcect appear and flash multi colors. Red, blue, orange, green. Before disappearing.
September 1, 2014 · 3:33 AM · TRIANGLE
Harrisburg, PA
The object was triangle. I was looking into the air, I noticed three orange lights.. in a triangle formation. I'd initially thought they were all separate, until I focused my vision and could see an actual ship. A ship with some kind of camouflage. I had seen this same ship in my dream, a lucid dream. The dream was a few seconds long. I was in the woods naked, for some reason.. Then I look up and see two saucer type ships, and that same triangular ship above them. My 7 my cousin often see these orange lights, and have heard cannon fire from a local military base shortly before/after seeing them.
August 31, 2014 · 9:45 PM · RECTANGLE
Hummelstown, PA
I witnessed a series of 5 lights, all rectangular in shape. The objects were flying low over the development I live in, and demonstrated the ability to hover, move erratically, and then disappear.