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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
November 12, 2022 · 10:32 PM · UNKNOWN
Perkasie, PA
At about 10:30 pm on November 12, I was on my way home from a friends house and as I was coming up on Miller Tire and auto in Perkasie I saw a bright orange light that looked much like the sun setting, but much smaller. maybe looked about the size of a basketball maybe slightly larger. It wasn’t too high, but not too low either. The hovering orange light was in eye shot just above my rearview mirror, and to the left. It was just floating and moving fairly slowly in alignment with my car. I sped up to see if I could see it better through my sun roof, and as I looked up, it dimmed and vanished without a trace.
November 4, 2022 · 9:10 PM · TEARDROP
Lafayette, PA
Heading south on Route 219 near Lafayette, PA around 9:10pm. Saw a large glowing green/yellow “tadpole” shaped light suddenly appear several hundred feet above the tree line of the forest jump from the left side of the forest over the highway and disappear as it was descending in an arch trajectory above the tree line of the forest on the right side of the highway. It appeared and disappeared within seconds, no sound was heard or trail in sky seen.
November 4, 2022 · 6:45 AM · LIGHT
Stroudsburg, PA
As me and my coworker are driving down the highway on the way to work, we were talking about ufos and had our eyes on the beautifully clear early morning sky full of stars. As we are approaching the Wind Gap exit we both notice a bright ball of light hovering above the mountains. As soon as we both noticed the object the UFO/UAP immediately shot straight down towards the ground at unbelievable speeds. No noise and no explosion as we surmised that the craft went straight down to the ground, disappearing into the trees of the mountain.
November 3, 2022 · 11:50 PM · CIRCLE
Pottstown, PA
Been seeing things since middle of Sept. First time was a bluish color oval floating around in the sky-changed positions a few times. Second was triangular in shape and red/white lights moving erratically up and down, side to side. Last night was a bright white ball-I thought it was a comet or shooting star at first since it had a long white "tail-" but then it moved at such a fast pace in a straight line and not downward, then disappeared. I have never seen anything like this ever. The speed of movement made me realize this was something else. This happened last year at this time also. In the fall. By winter, the lights and balls disappear till next fall.
November 3, 2022 · 12:23 PM · CHANGING
Monroeville, PA
Something Strange in the sky-Monroeville, PA-11/3/2022-12:23pm I am a 60 year old registered nurse. I have lived in Monroeville since the 90s and have worked at the same hospital (forbes hospital in Monroeville) since 2006. Right now I work part time. I don’t drink and I don’t use substances. I have NEVER seen anything in my life that I couldn’t explain. I don’t believe in ghosts and I believe that other beings and worlds can exist out there in the universe ( you can’t prove that they DON’T exist), I have never actually seen anything myself. I have never known anyone who has seen anything either. Sure I enjoy watching “Ancient Aliens “ and “Finding Bigfoot” once in a while, but I don’t go around looking for stuff. I left my house (about 2 minutes away from the sighting). It was a bright sunny day, sky was a bright blue, no clouds in the sky. I was driving east on Ramsey Rd in Monroeville towards Haymaker Road. In the attached map, it is at the green dot where I saw the object. I looked to the left towards the Gateway Heights pool entrance and it was hovering in the sky, I would surmise somewhere over where I have drawn the circle on the map. It was low to the ground and what drew my attention was that it was COMPLETELY still. I thought that it was a plane that was about to crash. I slowed my vehicle til I came exactly to the pool entrance, then I stopped to continue to observe. It was a boxy shape, that’s what made me look twice. Not rounded like planes or helicopters are. It was completely dark gray, no shading or variation in the color, no shiny metal looking , the sun was not glinting off it at all. A dark monochrome matte gray. could not see any windows, wheels, rotors, vapor trail or contrail. What came to my mind was that it looked like a plane a child would build out of lego bricks. All the angles were square, even on the “tail section”. And the front nose of the object looked like one of the lego bricks that are slightly angled at one corner ( like to use for a roof when you play) I kept watching for about 2 minutes, it remained completely still, also completely silent. Also no lights (but it was bright out so I might not have seen them). I also mentioned the sky was blue, well around the object there was some kind of weird haze, not mist, but it made it look like I was looking at a black and white movie ( like how the object was so solid gray) that doesn’t make sense but that’s what I thought. At this point I saw a car coming behind me in my rear view mirror. When I glanced back over at the object, it appeared like it was tilting toward me . And it almost looked like it changed shape and became triangular. Also the color changed from the matte gray to a shiny silver metal color ( like stainless steel) and I could see windows along the length of the triangular portion. The sunlight was glinting off whatever the windows were made of . It made me think of glass when the sun hits it. It was still silent, no vapors. The car behind me got closer so I resumed driving to the light at the corner of Ramsey and Haymaker Rd. (black dot on attached map). I light was red. I stopped and deliberately looked at the time on my dashboard. It said 12:23pm. I drove to the nearby church parking lot entrance (pink dot on map) so I could turn around and continue to observe. I got to the church parking lot and looked out over the area , and the object was completely gone. And the haze was gone the sky was a pristine bright blue. When I got home from my errand, I starting googling planes and military planes. the only thing that is close is the big Chinook helicopter, but the thing I saw was boxier (at first ) and the only slanted angle was the slight one at the nose ( I attached a line drawing I did when I got home). It was also silent, and I saw no rotors. Also it was really big, seemed bigger than even those big military helicopter. Also, helicopters don’t “tilt” and change shape.
November 3, 2022 · 1:35 AM · DIAMOND
Pittsburgh, PA
I am not sure if it was a meteor that I happened on or what it was, but I have never seen anything like it. I walked out of the electric vault at Pittsburgh International Airport, and there was immediately in the thick fogged sky a very clear and defined pinkish-purple diamond that appeared to be sitting in the sky. When I looked at it, it suddenly moved very quickly down and back and was gone. It did not appear to have lights... the whole thing seemed like a light but with different steps back.
November 2, 2022 · 7:23 PM · LIGHT
Lititz, PA
I was getting gas, saw a light. There was no plane on my plan tracker. I thought nothing of it. I looked and it was gone. I drove back & saw it again, a 5-10 miles away. I drove toward it, videoed it. Then it took off over me & to the right. It was high up. Just a light to me
November 1, 2022 · 7:23 PM · LIGHT
Hellam, PA
High in the night sky were 4 linear yellow/white lights traveling together. Then a dim light came off of it and went downward leaving a faint trail. That downward traveling light then then turned into a blinking red light. The 4 linear lights kept traveling and then faded away. The blinking red light continued downward a bit longer until it was out of sight.
October 30, 2022 · 7:24 PM · CIRCLE
Reading, PA
Sighted formation traveling west to east in northern sky. 4 red non blinking lights in a large triangular formation. Watched and recorded on iPhone for 2 to 5 minutes. One by one they seemed to fade as if to be rising straight up out of sight. Last one appeared to accelerate for a few seconds and finally follow the others upward and out of sight. There was no noises as I first suspected a helicopter formation, but were silent and appeared to be several thousand feet in sky. Amazing sighting!
October 30, 2022 · 12:30 AM · LIGHT
Valley View, PA
This is actually the third time I have witnessed this same phenomenon in about a 2 month period. Im driving late at night, west to east, between Gratz Pa and Valley View Pa. Directly above the south mountain ridge, I see one light appear, followed by a second light. They stay stationary for 5 mins or so, then one vanishes and then the other. They appear to be miles apart. If your not watching, they almost look like stars. I do not have pictures or videos due to me driving.
October 29, 2022 · 6:38 PM · TRIANGLE
Lancaster, PA
Observed 4 hovering orange lights in a triangle type formation while I was driving on rte 462 in PA looking SE beyond the Mellinger Mennonite Church.
October 27, 2022 · 9:27 PM · CHEVRON
Tunkhannock, PA
Went outside, looked up to see what appeared to be the iss. The color was a little off, more yellowish. It also appeared a little larger than normal. Suddenly disappeared. Became suspicious of it being the iss. Pulled out phone to check current location of iss and it was off the coast of south america. The craft was traveling from the east toward the north northwest. It was probably about 60 degrees off the horizon at its highest point. Could be satellite going into earth shadow, but what is that big and bright if it is not the iss?
October 27, 2022 · 11:46 AM · OTHER
State College, PA
Key notes: • Sighting occurred at 11:46 AM, EST and lasted for approximately 30 seconds. • For about 20 minutes, there was an E-2 Hawkeye in flying relatively low over the area which is peculiar because this area rarely sees military aircraft with the exception of C-130's, Blackhawks, Chinooks and the occasional Apache. • Object was spotted almost immediately after the Hawkeye left the area. • Object resembled a dot or orb, rather high and very bright white, moving very fast from the east-northeast to the west-southwest. I would estimate that the size of the object would be similar to holding the pinhead of a needle out at arms length. • Object moved in a smooth straight line before it made a slight arc over Mount Nittany, then continued on in a straight trajectory • Object left no trail, made no sound, emitted no beams, did not change color, etc. The brightness remained consistently bright until it faded from view. I am an Air Force veteran and am familiar with military aircraft, having worked directly with the F-15C for over 3 years. I do not believe that this object was an aircraft reflecting sunlight because it maintained the same brightness throughout the sighting and it was moving faster than any aircraft I know. Nor do I believe it was a drone due to the significant speed. Nor do I think it was something like milkweed floating through the air because they milkweed simply doesn't move that fast. Trying to take a picture of the object would have been useless because it would my camera would not have been able to resolve the image. Besides, it was simply moving too fast to capture. If anyone in the State College area saw something similar to what I saw on October 27th, 2022 around 11:46, PLEASE report it. Through experience, I know that the more witnesses there are to a sighting the more credible it is. If contacted by NUFORC, please contact me by email only.
October 24, 2022 · 9:03 PM · TRIANGLE
Erie, PA
My girlfriend and I were going for a walk around our neighborhood and near the end of our walk i caught something moving very fast in the sky. It was a triangle of 5 lights moving north zipping across the sky. By the time I said oh my God did you see that it was gone. My girlfriend missed it so I was the only one to see it.
October 20, 2022 · 6:20 AM · SPHERE
Archbald, PA
I spotted the pulsing light and showed Mario I checked my phone app and it said it was nothing just showed Ursa Minor or Majors constellation. No satellite no star marklab is the only thing the app said. It followed us down and back and then disappeared in a blink. I've seen these orbs before but just now thought to report it
October 16, 2022 · 7:11 PM · DISK
DOYLESTOWN, PA
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October 15, 2022 · 8:31 PM · CHANGING
Kittanning, PA
There have been several of these every night it started out with only a few and now more are coming one is very bright and doesn't change colors the others do change colors and line up
October 12, 2022 · 1:00 AM · OTHER
Philadelphia, PA
An object with a red light was slowly flying parallel over the Ben Franklin bridge in Philadelphia, approximately 1 mile from where i was standing. I did not pay much attention to the object until it passed behind a building and immediately came back from behind the building. My first thought was that it was too quick to turn around after passing behind the building and it did not seem to be flying backwards. It continued slowly flying back to its original position hovering over the Ben Franklin bridge for about 1 minute. Then it suddenly flew toward me and stopped about 20 feet in front of me. The time it took to fly from its position over the Ben Franklin bridge to the position 20 feet in from of me took less time than it took for me to blink. As it flew toward me my eyes started to blink but before they closed i could see a tail behind the object created from the speed of the object and the red light. The tail created by the light reminded me of the light tail created when at the circus and you spin the light they give you around and it created a line of light. As it hovered in front of me for some reason i could not clearly see the object, which i thought was strange. It was fuzzy and i could see almost like an outline and the red light was on the bottom of the craft, but no navigation lights. There were no wings and the object seemed to be the size of a small bus, and it hovered in silence. As it started to fly away i could see now that the red light was the outer rim of an opening with a bright white light in the middle surrounded by the red rim. I live in an apartment building in the middle of my floor with maybe 8-9 apartments on each side of me and on the 27th floor with another 4-5 floors above me. As it flew away from a standing position i noticed that it did not arch up as most crafts would require and just raised and flew away. At 20 feet away i would think it would have arched up and needed more room to fly away to pass over my building. I read that many sightngs are attracted to military sights so i overlaid the location on a map with military facilities in the area. And to my surprise it matched perfectly. My sighting seemed to be in the middle of 5-6 military facilities. Not sure if its related but following the sighting i was in a bar with my girlfriend and a man walked into the bar and sat next to us. i look over and said hi but he did not immediately acknowledge me. He first looked at my girlfriend and said nothing, then looked back at me and started to say things about me that nobody knew except me and my girlfriend. It looked like he read my girlfriend somehow before turning back to me. Shocked i denied to him any of the information he said at which point he looked at me and said "your girlfriend thinks these things". I continued to deny and he said "I underestimated you". This statement surprised me because i think in order to estimate someone you would need to know the person. i do not think people estimate strangers. I know for a fact that my girlfriend has never seen the person. I have thought about this incident constantly and more interested in talking to someone that can ask me questions than reporting.My background is computer technology and i am very detailed I know that nothing can fly 1 mile in less than the blink of an eye.
October 10, 2022 · 4:00 AM · CIRCLE
Wyomissing, PA
Seen out bedroom window on a full moon sky on the morning of October 10,2022 Off to the right of the moon was an object that had lights moving in circular fashion much like the icon when waiting for a program to load on computer. I took a picture from the bedroom window but felt the window screen was obstructing the image. I went out to our side yard to take a video. On video you can appreciate that the color of light alternated. I moved the video so you could appreciate the distance from the moon.
October 8, 2022 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Berwick, PA
Bright blue dot in sky around 8:00 pm est near berwick Pa appeared approximately 8 times near the moon and Neptune . It blinked and moved in eradicate Positions definitely not straight line. It then disappeared in approximately 30 seconds. It was located in the south east sky.
October 4, 2022 · 9:15 PM · DISK
Tyrone, PA
Object flew over head for several seconds
October 1, 2022 · 7:03 PM · TRIANGLE
Newville, PA
I had just left the local grocery store ( Saylor's Market ) and was walking home. I had just checked my cell phone before leaving the parking lot to see the time was 6:54 PM. I wanted to time my walk home. It was drizzling light rain and the sky was a pale grey color with lots of cloud cover. That was when I noticed an object which swiftly moved in the air above the road ( HWY 641 ) and sort of slid thru the sky with no audible noise I could detect. I would say that the lights on the object looked to be rows of lights that flowed from red to white to green very rapidly, similar to LED lights, they filled the entire triangle shape of the thing. The object was clearly below cloud cover and had a sharply triangular shape. I estimate the object to have been only several feet wide?
September 27, 2022 · 12:15 PM · DISK
New Wilmington, PA
Father was cutting grass. He worked 30 years as a aircraft mechanic. Seen a shadow fly over him. He looked up and seen a saucer flying with no sound or exhaust. He quickly took out his phone and took a photo. (Zoom in between house and garage).
September 26, 2022 · 9:40 PM · SPHERE
Pottstown, PA
I thought I might be seeing chinese lanterns at first, turned out to be something different. I watched two orange orb's hovering in the sky separated by possibly 100 - 200 yards from my stand point. Also there was a bright white light to their 2 o'clock position shining brightly what would seem to be 7 to 15 miles east of them. The orbs then proceeded east bound after hovering and maintained a perfect separation from one another. No flashing lights as per a plane or helicopter, nor was there any type of noise production.