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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
August 1, 2014 · 7:00 PM · CIGAR
Franklin, PA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 31, 2014 · 11:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Audubon, PA
I was ordering some Indian food outside the place on my phone... and looking up at the sky... just like normal thing!! Suddenly, i saw this thing flying really fast.. above 10-15 stories high..!! it came really fast.. and then there was a sudden spark witha tail of light behind that object for just 2 second.... but that tail was very short... just like something burn up at that spot and than that object went away without any tail. Tail might be around 20-40 meters (including the height of the object from ground) of light and went away really quickly... really really fast..!! just like a lighting in thunder..! it was 2 apartment big kind of stuff (aircraft or may be any object..!!) i was thinking it of some sort of airplane... but it was way less than the height of any aircraft follows... and the size as well... the sky horizon was very broad to me... and it went away that fast that any aircraft can't go these days..!! this object was circular(disc shape) with looks...!! as i saw it going to the horizon towards mill grove (Nearest place i know... may be towards King of Prussia mall). I was thinking to take a pic or video of this thing... but couldn't..! it was really fast..!! if would have been an aircraft i could have done it really easily..!!
July 31, 2014 · 9:08 PM · LIGHT
Skippack, PA
About 9:05 pm on 7/31/14, I left my home & was traveling in a southeasterly direction to run an errand, when I saw two bright almost oval orange lights in the sky. These lights were not really high in the sky, nor directly over me, more like in the sky in front of me. I stopped my vehicle to look more closely, thinking it may be a meteorite falling from the sky. However, the orange lights did not blink or fall from the sky. They were moving through the sky almost horizontally. They were fairly close together, like military planes in formation, but the lights were bright & much larger, similar to the little red blinking light on an airplane...maybe as much as 5-10x the size. I opened my window on my vehicle, to ascertain whether I could hear any sound of an engine. I heard nothing but some traffic from a nearby intersection. Then I noticed a third identical light following the first two, though the distance between the last two was 3x the distance between the first two lights. I thought it was strange but after sitting in my vehicle looking up for ~1-2 minutes decided to continue to my destination a 1/4 mile away to see if I could still see them. I came to a red traffic light intersection where there were street lights. I stopped at the red light. At this time, I thought "Oh shoot, I should try & take a photo with my cell phone". The lights were farther away at this point & didn't appear as large, but I did snap a photo anyway. However, I thought it probably didn't turn out due to the glare of traffic & street lights. In addition, the orange non-blinking lights were much farther away by this time, & appeared more the size of the! red blinking lights on an airplane flying high in the sky, though they were still not blinking. I kept looking around to see if anyone in the other cars saw them & when a car coming the opposite way ran the red light, I believed they too might be pulling into the CVS parking lot to stop & look up at the sky. But they didn't. I pulled into the parking lot & turned away from the store & got out of my car to try & take another photo. This time, I saw 4 lights, though the one that had been first in line was so far away, it no longer appeared orange & not as bright as the other & were going northeast. I do not believe more than 4-5 minutes passed from the time I saw the first two orange lights until I took the 2nd & final photo. I went into the store to pick up my items & when I came out about 5-8 min later, I saw nothing in sky but a sliver of a moon in the opposite direction. I returned home & at this point, I told my husband that I saw strange bright orange lights in the sky, but was really confused as to what they could have been. This was the first time I looked at the photos I took. Surprisingly, the photos did not show the orange lights I saw with the naked eye but rather crescent shaped lights.
July 30, 2014 · 11:45 PM · FLASH
Lafayette Hill, PA
There was no sound coming from the object. It was approximately 30 ft. above us and lasted 20 seconds. We suspect that the object was not a meteor, given that a 20-second duration meteor is very long. PD
July 26, 2014 · 10:58 PM · FIREBALL
Slatington, PA
My daughter and I were taking our nightly walk and when coming down a hill three orange orbs came from behind the hill in front of us. We were looking south and they were traveling east. They were first traveling very close to one another. One took off south another east and the last just seemed to disappear. I got to pictures not very good though. This is the 5 the time in two year we and other witnesses have seen them over Slatington, PA. They were very bright orange. Very cool to see.
July 26, 2014 · 3:00 AM · FLASH
Damascus, PA
The house where I was is mostly surrounded by woodland with a house every half mile or so. No houses are visible in the direction that the light was seen. As it was very late, no other houses in the area had lights on (indoor or outdoor).
July 25, 2014 · 10:07 PM · DISK
Mt. Lebanon, PA
Both of my parents, who are Russian immigrants, saw it while they were talking in the backyard. My mother has never seen a UFO in her life. She asked my father what it was. Apparently, he hesitated when he saw it, then proceeded to run back into the house yelling for me. I thought there was a medical emergency because he has never yelled like that before. He ran up the stairs and ran to the room across from mine. We both looked out the eastern window and I was in shock. In the distance was what looked like a rotating disc with lights around the circumference. It was moving fairly quickly, maybe 100 feet per second. The whole object was lit up and was clearly visible since it was the brightest object in the sky. All it did was move south. I live in a suburb and the object appeared to be above the local golf course. From my location, I estimated that it was about half a mile away because the object was briefly obscured by the trees on a hill on the golf course. I can't imagine it being any farther than that because that would mean the object would have to be unimaginably huge. I never believed in any UFO sightings because I always thought people photoshopped images just to gain popularity and scare people. Now, I am really not sure what to think. I am scared. So far, I told some of my closest friends via text message and they insist that it was a drone. I refuse to believe they make drones that big. Now I am pretty sure they all think I am becoming the crazy conspiracy theorist. I don't know who to talk to about this and I am currently trying to explain to my parents that society generally looks down upon people who claim to have seen UFOs.
July 25, 2014 · 9:50 PM · OVAL
Pittsburgh, PA
We have requested a more detailed report, and a report from the second witness. PD
July 24, 2014 · 9:30 PM · CHANGING
South Williamsport, PA
Observed stationary light of varying colors, orange, red which slowly became smaller until it couldn't be seen. At that time another yellow ball of indistinct shape became visible moving north. It became ball shaped changing colors, red, yellow, orange. It slowly over a period of a minute or so became smaller until it also was lost in the sky. At that time another ball appeared and repeated the same thing. It did not appear as a sky lantern as I have observed them before.
July 24, 2014 · 8:30 PM · OVAL
Blandon, PA
6 black objects, rising slowly, moving rapidly from west to east, very close. First one by itself, next three in formation, last two apart from the main group. All following the same trajectory. No sound at all. Flying against the wind as altitude increased. Watched until they disappeared into the clouds.
July 21, 2014 · 9:45 PM · OVAL
Jonestown, PA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 21, 2014 · 9:45 PM · SPHERE
Plum, PA
2 orbs with a orange glow traveling together, and then 2 other sperate orange orbs. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD
July 20, 2014 · 11:55 PM · FIREBALL
Bethlehem, PA
At 11:55pm on July 20th, 2014 I saw an orange light travel across the sky before suddenly vanishing. It first appeared on the horizon southeast of my location. It was moving northwest and looked like a ball of fire. After approximately 45 seconds, when it was directly above my location, it just disappeared. There was no noise. And there were no clouds in the sky.
July 19, 2014 · 10:30 PM · SPHERE
Kennett Sqaure, PA
I was out having on my deck and I looked up in the sky saw nothing but stars. A few second later, out of the corner of my eye I see what I first thought was a plane. {I see a lot of planes living in the flight path of Philadelphia airport.} I looked for the blinking lights did not see any. Then it grew brighter and brighter, then it suddenly went dim, but still seeing it for a few more seconds as grew dimmer and dimmer. I have never seen what looked like whatever it was left the atmosphere. I was looking east and saw the object to the north east .
July 19, 2014 · 10:07 PM · SPHERE
Bernville, PA
Four of us were relaxing on the patio when one person said, “Is that a fireball?” Everyone looked through the trees (to the south) to see an orange object in the sky, and at first we all thought it was a fireball. However, this object was moving much more slowly than any fireball we’ve ever seen. It was travelling towards the northwest. Everyone left their seats and moved to an area where it would be easier to see, and I was able to get some video with my cell phone camera. This object was moving about as fast as most aircraft, but it didn’t have the blinking lights that we always see on planes and helicopters; just a very orange glow that kept getting bigger, then smaller, over and over. We heard no noise coming from the object. Eventually the object moved out of our range of vision, and that was the end of the event for us.
July 19, 2014 · 9:40 PM · SPHERE
Palmyra, PA
Saw orangish-red orb moving slowly in northward direction. No sound with the sighting. Appeared to emit or drop something that was the same color of the orb. The orb started to dim before going completely dark.
July 19, 2014 · 9:10 PM · CONE
Levittown, PA
I was night swimming with a friend, when my friend saw a red-orange object in the sky. It then glided across the sky for a few miles, and then faded away. We saw another, and it did the same thing then it followed a pattern of having two, one following the other, and then it had one, resulting in seeing 9 crafts.
July 19, 2014 · 8:30 PM · SPHERE
Willow Street, PA
July 19, 2014, 10 bright lights moving in formation through Lancaster County. Around 8:30 pm Saturday night these lights caught our attention moving just above the horizon looking northeast towards Gap, Pa from Willow Street, Pa. We first thought they were some type of military exercise since they started out flying in formation side by side. We first counted 3 distinct lights that were a Yellow/white in color moving in formation in a southwestern direction. Three of them moved into a triangle formation. Next to the triangle at this time 7 more lights appeared in groups of twos and threes and created a formation of 7 side by side. In the foreground, a plane flew by in front of these lights with a distinct flashing red light. You could distinctly tell these lights were not planes. The lights one by one began move upward and seemed to disappear one at a time, like when a plane flies into a cloud. My wife and I observed the lights for about twenty minutes before they disappeared. The perspective of how big or far away they were was difficult to judge because it was dark and beginning to get cloudy. From their distance we could not hear any sounds coming from them.
July 19, 2014 · 2:30 PM · DISK
In-flight (Pennsylvania; above), PA
In the background and unseen at the time, were three(3)objects that when zoomed in are unexplainable. We suspect that the three small lights in the photo probably are reflections of cabin lights in an overhead console. PD
July 18, 2014 · 9:40 PM · CIRCLE
Export, PA
Round blurry amber/orange object hovering silently moving left then right then towards us then away. It seemed to be a few hundred yards away. No pattern to movement, then it suddenly began to move very quickly away to the west and disappeared. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 17, 2014 · 9:52 PM · SPHERE
Erie, PA
My husband and I were driving when off to our left we saw four round orange lights low in the sky. They were in a zig zag formation. The lights were steady but we couldn't tell how low they were. One light moved off a bit. I pulled over to look at them but they were gone. They were nowhere to be seen. I am a retired govenment worker and he is the owner of a machine shop.
July 17, 2014 · 9:30 PM · FIREBALL
Mather, PA
1st on hovering a few feet above ground. All 3 moved upward, making one looping turn before disappearing, all in the same location
July 17, 2014 · 1:45 AM · UNKNOWN
Cranberry Twp., PA
I really cannot describe it in text I would prefer to do this over the phone if possible if you can please call 724 (number deleted) my friend and I have been watching odd aircraft fly over head and just a few minutes ago an object flew out of one of the aircraft, and I still can see it hovering at a distance and changing colors between white red and blue light flshes.
July 15, 2014 · 12:00 AM · SPHERE
Pittsburgh, PA
Four orange orbs ascended over southside slopes viewed from south Oakland disappeared over Oakland neighborhood. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD