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Witness reports, held as-reported. Each entry keeps its source, its coordinates where the record has them, and its place in the larger pattern.
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August 16, 2014 · 8:00 PM · FIREBALL
Easton, PA
Two separate sets of orange fiery orbs flying together from horizon and moving vertically into the sky disappearing into a dark cloud. There were two sets of them about 8-10 total... We have seen these on and off for over a year now. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 16, 2014 · 2:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Allentown, PA
Reddish orbs/triangle and boomerang shapes seen. Together about 3 at one time; all seen at night looking towards west of Cumberland gardens area. One will disappear and another would reappear simultaneously back and forth on and off. Flying in wavy or up and down patterns.sometimes they will just stay in one area and then take of and disappear just to reappear in another area with no noise at all. One time they flew about 8 in all from Leigh street area heading towards the mountains here in Cumberland gardens flying over homes. Two of them used some sort of stealth once they got close to the homes and you can make out is a shadow once they flew over looking triangle in shape over the homes. I have been noticing more of these objects, especially at night over the past 2 years living here, for about 21 in all.
August 13, 2014 · 8:02 PM · TRIANGLE
Seneca, PA
So I was in the parking lot of 2099 hill city road, in Seneca Pennsylvania. You would say we are out in the sticks. In fact the darkest place on the eastern seaboard is just an hour northeast of us. Time was at dusk. Approximate 8:00 - 8:30 .. I was on my lunch break, working nightshift. Our shift was from 3:30 - 2 am with 30 minute lunch. A 10 hour shift. I was parked facing south with a row of pines directly to my right... or my west. Kicked back in my car with the drivers chair reclined, I was just relaxing looking out my sunroof. At the time I think I had a phone similar to a blackberry? So cell phones weren't exactly what they are today. So my year may be off. Anyhow I was sending texts... messaging chicks... probably daydreaming as I'm staring out my sunroof on a nice late summer evening. As I peer out my sunroof, the clouds look.. funny. Weird enough that it caught my attention. They appeared to be moving faster than usual. Now remember I'm parked right next to a row of big pine trees, and the clouds are moving from west to east as they normally do here. So as I saw them moving fast, I kinda tried to angel myself better to get a better look, but really couldn't... I mean I'm peering out a sunroof. A few seconds go by of me trying to focus ... and a light in the clouds finally passes by my sunroof and I instantly try to kick my door open. I actually got so excited I forgot to use the handle...and kinda jumped up face first into the side window. Anyhow I finally get my door opened, step out of my car . And see it. A huge ... flying triangle craft... about the size of 4 maybe 5 football fields flying LOW. well below the clouds. It was completely silent besides the sound of air being displaced by the size of it. It had a few lights scattered about. Not necessarily on the corners. And I remember the back of it was flat like a star destroyer. It was not flying fast by any standard of ours. I stood there for a few minutes and watch it fly off into the horizon. A few points that I took notice of: it was perfectly camouflaged. Had I not been looking up, I would have never had known it was there. It was dusk.. So it did not create a shadow, and it was completely silent. The thing was so big that it took up my entire field of view when directly above me, and I would NOT have saw it. I have no idea what this craft was. If it was military… the application of an aircraft like this would make no sense. If it was alien, it could have harboured an entire army. I yelled at one point "what the f©%k is that?!?" To the only girl standing outside on our lunch, and she didn't even bother to look up. That is how perfect this craft fit it's environment. I was stunned. I didn't even want to try to take a picture because I didn't want to take my eyes off of it. I did think about it, but I was more "just enjoy this moment" type mindset. To this day I have never seen anything the size, shape, or anything coming close to it, flying as low as a helicopter would.
August 12, 2014 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Morrisdale, PA
It was 8 pm on a clear night in August, although I can't recall the exact date in August. But I do remember it being very clear that night, because as I was standing outside the bingo hall with another person I had mentioned it to her and then looked to my right and saw 3 star like objects in a perfect triangle formation. What struck me odd about these lights was the fact that A) They were in a perfect triangle formation and B) They were a yellowish orange color and quite bigger than any normal star. But as we started to talk I thought "well, I guess it's just a strange looking star that I have never seen before," but then something very odd happened. The "star" closest to us which would've been the one at the top point of the triangle shape broke apart from formation and began to move slowly towards us. It continued to move like this, until it was right above us and out of site beyond the building. I was stunned. I don't know whether this w! as truly a UFO or not. But it was strange that it moved so slowly away from us after staying put for so long. So, I don't know whether anyone can offer me any explanations or similar accounts, but I would be intrigued to find out. Witness indicates that the date is approximate. PD
August 12, 2014 · 4:30 AM · LIGHT
Wilkes-Barre, PA
I saw an unusually bright star (object 1) which made me take notice, it was solid blue amd stationary. I thought there was nothing special after all, but then saw an inch away on the horizon, a set of double red lights (object 2). I watched the red lights begin fast blinking blue, then red, and travel in a non-linear path northwest-north until out of view. Then I saw a cut of light such as a shooting star right where I saw the light disappear, in the SW direction it came from, approx. 2-3 inch long. The same type of light appeared a about an inch from the star, and followed a similar path until out of view, north to northwest with no change in direction (object 3). My mother is on the computer, I tell her to come look, amd she witnesses the rest of the event. A bright blue fast blinking light follows a similar path until out of view (object 4.) These all happened at uneven intervals, number 4 appeared after approx. 10 minutes of nothing happening. Another bright blue fast blinking object appears, and follows the same path as the others did (object 5.) Then (object 1) BRIGHT blue solid light suddenly begins moving and following the same path, which shocks me, I thought it was only a star. Once it is out of view, one more set of double red lights appears (object 6) begins blinking red and blue, and follows the same path, potentially faster. I'd say each object took 45 seconds moving across the sky until object 1 moved, object 1 and 6 took about 30 seconds each. Several varying minutes passed between each object appearing, object one was constant in one place until it moved, the whole time of the event. I only had my tablet on hand and tried to take a video, but it was too dark.
August 11, 2014 · 8:40 PM · CIRCLE
Levittown, PA
Bright orange colored fiery lights.
August 11, 2014 · 12:15 AM · DISK
Allentown, PA
A flashing red light with a simultaneous white light, and was saucer shaped (a circular figure with a football shape through the center. Could also be described as a round diamond or much like Saturn with the rings, except a solid red flashing light.) I was looking at the stars at night when a blinking like distracted me. At first, I thought it was a plane, but upon closer inspection, the shape, colors, behavior and strangeness determine a UFO. The round object looked about 2 to 3 times bigger than a plane. It moved incredibly slow and hovered, and would slowly zig zag up and down and then would sit stil and move quickly along. The flying object traveled from the south of Allentown to the west. When trees were blocking the UFO, I ran to the front of my house and no longer saw it. After about five minutes, the UFO reappeared from my left (West) and traveled to my far right (North) within minutes before disappearing. The stars in the sky appeared to have a reddish "twinkle," and the night sky looked active with distant faint flashes of light surrounding individual stars (I swear I'm mentally sound…) But the one-second flashes almost seemed to be charging the UFO before taking off. Similar to lighting or electricity touching an object, each star was encompassed or surrounded by these static flashes of "light-energy." I took video but my iPhone couldn't focus in the dark. Really amazing experience. Witness provides little contact information. PD
August 10, 2014 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Red Lion, PA
Three silent glowing objects seen in total over a 30 minute period starting at around 9:50pm. The first was a red fireball that was traveling over the Winterstown area as seen from Red Lion near Route 24. It appeared suddenly and as it approached the woods in the distance it went completely black, I could make out an almost stationary triangular object illuminated by the full moon. It then continued to travel and as it drifted behind the tree line it again ignited a bright red. The second object was orange, rose from the horizon in the same area, went black as it rose and appeared to go up and around the moon from my perspective. It then went almost straight down and dipped behind the horizon. I was able to capture this on my cell phone on a short video. The third was again red and rose from a similar point of origin on the horizon. Although all three had slightly different origin points they appeared to be coming from the same area. This third and final object rose into the sky and flew in a large arch towards the main town of Red Lion. Again, this was caught on video. All 3 objects were accompanied by the sound of a dog barking in the distance, you can hear it clearing on the video of the third object. During the video my girlfriend and I are bouncing ideas off each other of what we are seeing. We feel it "could" have been Memorial lanterns, but at the same time with the lack of wind and their speed we are just unsure.
August 10, 2014 · 8:15 PM · RECTANGLE
Hatfield, PA
We were in our backyard and about 8:15 and saw a light come into view over the roof of the house. At that point it was probably 4 miles away. At first it looked like fireworks. But then we noticed it didn't burst. It was moving over us maybe 1000 ft altitude or less. It moved steadily and fairly quickly from south to north.(took about 1 minute to cover the sky from horizon to horizon) When it was over us it was dead silent and was as bright as a road flare but not smoking and was much larger in diameter. (Looked as big as a helicopter, which come over our house all the time but make incredible noise) It moved off to the north and either burned out or the light was up inside and we couldn't see it. It didn't disappear, but was now a black object still moving steadily n the same direction. The impression was it was a drone like craft with a bright red flare on the bottom. The really odd thing was about 3 minutes later an exact duplicate did the same thing. Witness provides little contact information. PD
August 9, 2014 · 11:20 PM · SPHERE
Fair Oaks, PA
As I traveling home from work in Warrendale, Pa, on the red belt towards Fair Oaks,Pa, about 11:20 pm, this light appeared over top of a hill. The light as it drew closer towards my car was half blue and half red. The object that I was able see was spherical in shape. It disappeared very quickly behind another hill.
August 9, 2014 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Monaca, PA
Bright red light circle traveling quickly north to south in eastern sky - no sound.
August 9, 2014 · 10:23 PM · SPHERE
South Baldwin, PA
We just saw it getting smaller and smaller until it disappeared.
August 9, 2014 · 10:23 PM · FORMATION
New Stanton, PA
My wife and I just entered the PA turnpike, heading west at the New Stanton interchange on the evening of August 9th, 2014. We were probably only about 5 minutes on the turnpike while I (driving) noticed lights to my left (south of the turnpike). I was driving around 70mph, so the duration of viewing the lights was probably less than 30 seconds. The lights were low, very low and the surrounding trees obstructed my view and I could only see them in clearings of the trees. But my initial reaction was to try to process what I was seeing for a few seconds until I said to my wife, "What ((deleted)) am I looking at to my left?" She then noticed them too. It was dark out of course, so the lights, which looked orange/amber in color and seemed to almost look rectangular. I think there were about 7 of the lights, and they first appeared in a staggered formation, with some higher than the others. However, the further we drove, they almost started to form a triangular pattern, with the tip of the triangle being at the highest light and the formation widening as the other lights were lower and underneath. We could not tell if the lights were moving, but I think they may have been moving towards east, as we were traveling west. I had seen on tv and the internet about the "Phoenix Lights," and the lights I witnessed last night appeared very similar to that. I actually asked my wife if they could be falling flares, as I could not explain to myself what I was looking at. After about 30 seconds, we could no longer see the lights.
August 9, 2014 · 10:15 PM · FIREBALL
Wescosville, PA
Craft appeared to be low and dropping as though it was something on fire, and streams shooting downward from it. It was traveling south to north and then It seemed to pickup elevation and speed but continued to appear as though it was burning.
August 9, 2014 · 9:45 PM · TRIANGLE
Easton, PA
About 9:45 pm we noticed thes light flying in a straight line the they just kept coming all triangle in shape orange almost looked like they where on fire they just kept coming about 15 as soon as hit the clouds they where gone
August 9, 2014 · 9:30 PM · CIRCLE
Bristol, PA
A slow line of large bright red balls started from the horizon spaced out about 10 seconds apart. They slowly ascended across the sky getting dimmer as they increased altitude. As they reached a certain altitude, they quickly shot up fast, light dimming and disappeared. No noise was heard at all. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 9, 2014 · 9:00 PM · DISK
Penn Hills, PA
mr. davenport i would only like to reflect on my report of aug.19,@2100hrs.the two formations of three aircraft three minutes apart, and three single craft that followed also@ three minutes, all had a bright orange leading light, and all flew directly overhead. the height was approx. 2000ft, no engine noise,and a very definite view from the orange light reflection of a large disc on each of the aircraft. i only regret not hving a camera, but to be sure , it was a very vivid and actual sighting.the direction was northeasterly and well in radar scope of pgh.international airport,however,my inquiry negative opinions.
August 9, 2014 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Douglassville, PA
THUS, DURING A CLOUDLESS, CLEAR, STARRY NIGHT, WITH VERY LITTLE WIND OR HAZE, WITNESSED A SINGLE GLOWING OBJECT COMING FROM THE SOUTH TOWARDS US, ABOUT 2 MILES AWAY, COMING NORTH, ESTIMATING ABOUT 2000 FEET UP, AND RISING SLOWLY, WHILE DROPPING A FEW SPARKS NOW AND THEN. IT LOOKED LIKED IT COULD HAVE BEEN A SMALL PLANES ENGINE BURNING SOME SAID, OR LIKE A NEIGHBOR SAID, A POSSIBLE BURNING 'CHINESE LANTERN', RELEASED BY SOMEONE ON THE GROUND. I TOOK A SNAPSHOT OF IT WITH MY CELL PHONE, BUT IT WAS TOO SMALL TO SEE IT, AND AS I WAS READY TO CALL 9-11 AND REPORT IT, IT THEN ROSE VERY HIGH IN THE SKY, GETTING VERY SMALL AND JUST VANISHED OUT OF SIGHT. TWO MINUTES LATER MY SISTER IN LAW YELLED OUT THAT A 'SECOND' LIGHT JUST LIKE THE FIRST ONE WAS ON A SIMILAR PATH AND IT DID THE SAME THING AS THE FIRST. AS WE ALL WATCHED IN EXCITED AMAZEMENT, AS THIS WAS NO COINCIDENCE WE THOUGHT, AS IT TOO ROSE SLOWLY 'UP' AND BLINKED OUT. WE ALL SAW A SATELLITE GO BY, SOUTH TO NORTH VERY HIGH UP. (MY BROTHER WHO LIVES THERE SEES THEM ALL THE TIME, HE TOLD US), AS WE ALL WATCHED THE SKY AS A GROUP FROM EVERY DIRECTION. NOTHING MORE WAS SEEN AND WE TALKED ABOUT PERSONAL OTHER "SIGHTING" THE REST OF THE EVENING. ...END.
August 8, 2014 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Dunmore, PA
Over Scranton, PA; viewed from Dunmore, PA. Observed in the middle of the burough. Spherical orange-red UFO heading slowly eastward. Shimmered similar to a flame. The UFO got smaller and smaller until it seemed to take off through the atmosphere and disappear.
August 8, 2014 · 9:45 PM · LIGHT
Gardners, PA
Several bright red lights moving slowly up in the sky - when one got so far ‘up’ another one would appear and follow the same path. At least four that we saw total, and only two at the same time.
August 8, 2014 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Pittsburgh, PA
In the Oakland area of Pittsburgh, 4 other people and myself watched 12 red/orange lights appear in the sky traveling from southeast to southwest until they were out of sight. The lights did not blink, I was able to make a cell phone video of it.
August 7, 2014 · 8:45 PM · FIREBALL
Allentown, PA
At first I thought it was a firework but It just stayed there for a while and then it disappeared by itself. It was like someone dimmed the lights. I even made a video but i couldnt get anything good because my camera just didn't focus. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 3, 2014 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Wilson, PA
Me and my boyfriend were driving on Rt. 22 Sunday night around 11 pm when we both noticed three orange/red lights in the sky. I thought they were the orange street lights on the highway at first, but as I kept staring I noticed that the three lights were forming an acute triangle and they were not moving very fast. I tried looking for a string or wire they could have been hanging off of, but I couldn't see anything. It was a cloudy night so I couldn't make out any stars or planes in sight. These three lights just sort of hovered above the 25th St. shopping center near Olive Garden. We started to drive underneath them and I had to turn my head back to look at them (which means they were not moving or they were moving very slowly). They were pretty bright lights and they did not flicker or flash at all. They were pretty stagnant as well; they didn't move around a lot and they kept the triangle shape consistent. Today 8/4/14 my boyfriend drove on Rt. 22 again and drove on the same exact spot that we saw the lights at last night, but they were not there anymore. They were too low to the ground to be air planes and too high up to be street lights. I tried for hours to try and come up with a logical explanation and I couldn't. I do not want to jump to conclusions, but it looked like all the stories you hear about UFO's.
August 1, 2014 · 11:00 PM · CIRCLE
Imperial, PA
We saw 2 circles then 15min later moves to 3 circles of light then ended up being 4 circles flying in a circle very fast very bright for up to an hour moving all around the sky.