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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
June 18, 2014 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Quakertown, PA
Bright light was high in the sky. Going faster then a plane, but slower then a shooting star without any red light signals. Went across the sky and slowly dimmed and vanished. There was not a sound to be heard. My grandmother and I were sitting in the pool and were stunned. There was no possible way this object was a plane of any sort. The object had no shape; just a bright light. We spoke via telephone with this witness, and he sounded to us to be eloquent and serious-minded. We suspect that his report is a sincere one, and that it is accurate. PD
June 17, 2014 · 9:38 PM · SPHERE
Butler/Unionville, PA
This evening June7th 2014, at 9:38 pm (21:38pm) I spotted a Low Flying Fast moving Color Changing ORB UFO Fly over my house and stopping over the woods to the East of me. I ran and got my Camera and started getting some Video. The Light was in the sky for over a hour and a half only slightly moving a few times. at 10:01 (22:01) Several Jets flew by the orb There was & Jets total that I counted that flew in from different directions flew by and around it then they all left. While viewing this orb with my eyes Fixated on the Sky, I observed what I call Star Orb UFO’S. I seen 9 Total at different elevations in the sky flying around also from 22:00 to 23:48pm on the 17th of june 2014. The sky above my house and round it where all clear despite 4 miles to the north there where clouds with lightning.and the Air was very charged. I posted video's on YouTube. http://youtu.be/VbTvFdR_w1Q
June 17, 2014 · 12:40 AM · OTHER
Scenery Hill, PA
My boyfriend and I had been sitting out on our front porch, looking up at the sky I had seen an orange like color that appeared to be a larger star. As we continued to sit and watch, it gradually got higher and closer. We continued down our front porch steps and it appeared larger, I ran into the house to get my phone to attempt to take a picture, the lights seemed to be too dim to be able to see. There were three lights on the object, one larger orange light, and two smaller red lights on the sides. Just the two red lights were flashing. The sky was quite foggy around it. It seemed to be "boomerang" shaped. It was smaller than a plane, and not the correct shape, nor sound to be a helicopter. It was flying way too low to be a plane, which is what struck me. It continued over near our house taking sharp turns, and out of sight within 30 seconds. We spoke with one of the two witnesses, and he sounded to us to be quite sober-minded. They are sure that the object was not the International Space Station. PD
June 17, 2014 · 12:00 AM · CIRCLE
Doylestown, PA
((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) It's difficult to be specific with just one sentence to write. Last night as I was going to bed I notice flashes of light outside. It looked light lightning lighting up the sky but there was no thunder that followed. It did rain within the next 30 minutes so I've dismissed it since as being heat lightning since that's what it looked like. I have a raised berm in my backyard which is lined with trees and evergreens, with a solid wooden fence behind it so my yard is very dark at night. I saw a solid white light that could be mistaken for a flashlight but I would say it was larger than that. If you put your hands together and make a circle with your thumbs and fingers touching, that is about the size it appeared to be. At first I thought someone may have been walking around my yard - My husband and I were just commenting about the neighbors installing a fence and now so there is no way to get into our yard except from the front of the house or through a neighbors yard so it's pretty private now. So I thought it was a flashlight, but it didn't move like someone was walking with it. It would appear and disappear, and then reappear many feet away. I thought it was strange but maybe still explainable. But then the light would appear at the top of the trees. That is 25+ feet in the air so it couldn't be a person holding a flashlight. And it wasn't like a flashlight was throwing light from place to place, because it was a very bright white light, like it was the source of the light and not from a beam of light. I watched for at least 5 minutes seeing the light appear and disappear throughout the treeline in my yard - for example it would appear close to the ground on the left and would shine for a few seconds, then the light would disappear and then 10 seconds later would appear to the right near the top of the trees 20 feet away. After about 5 minutes or so I saw a light light up the right side of my yard - like someone drove up my driveway and the headlights were shining light into my yard. I didn't hear anything though. It was a steady light and then eventually disappeared. Sometimes police will drive through the neighborhood, but the headlights wouldn't have been shining in my yard (FYI, my room faces the back of the house and I couldn't see the driveway). Maybe it was police? Maybe something was going on and they were looking for someone/something? I live in a pretty boring area and not much happens here at night though. I can try explaining away everything, but not the bright round white lights that kept appearing and disappearing and appearing again in a new location. Let me know if you would like any additional information. Regards, ((name ((END ADDENDUM))
June 16, 2014 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
North Versailles, PA
My wife and I saw 6 moving objects (one at a time over a period of about an hour) which start out looking like a bright star, then fade to red and finally disappear. They do not have any strobe lights like planes do. They are moving faster than what you see planes moving but not as fast as a shooting star. Most were heading west to east, one north to south and one was traveling west to east but turned 90 degrees and went north. Saw in the area close to the tip of the spout of the “Big Dipper”.
June 15, 2014 · 11:37 PM · SPHERE
Butler/Unionville, PA
I was happy to find this site, I see UFO’s by my home and above it in Butler, PA, regularly. Ones with multicolored to plain orb ufo’s. At 11:37pm on June 15th 2014. There was a large saucer shaped object with white strobe lights going around it and a red flashing strobe type light on the bottom. This is the second time in a week, I have seen this object fly over my house. It seems to be going west to east or north west to south east. The first time it was on a different time and day it was moving at a high rate of speed. Yesterday on the 15th it was coming across my house in the sky. I was standing on my deck watching it fly over, over by the tree line is a field. I watched it moving across at a high speed the stop and just setting in the sky it sat there for a good 3 to 4 minutes, I quickly decided to grab my Canon T2i DSLR with 650-1300mm HD Lense Just inside my french door. I opened the door grabbed the camera turned around, it was gone, no trace in sight anywhere not a ! out of ordinary light anywhere in the sky to be seen other then stars.. I am on the look out for this object again. For the distance it was in the sky to the scale of a normal airplane at the same distance in the sky, I would say this object was at least 6 times the same of a normal 747. On a nightly basis, I see ufo’s very high up the look like stairs move across the sky, sometimes they make a complete stop then start again and some make complete angle turns impossible for our known aircraft. I photograph the moon a lot, I have not that I know of caught anything in my photos, but I keep attempting to photograph a UFO, it is my goal as a photographer to get one on film before i die.
June 14, 2014 · 10:45 PM · CIRCLE
Line Lexington, PA
There was a series of at least seven objects flying through the sky. The objects were small, circular, and orange. The objects all seemed to come from the same general location and move towards another separate but common location (From the NE to SE). The objects did not make any noise. They moved faster than a helicopter but slower than a plane. They all seemed to fade out of view around the same area but there were not many clouds in the sky. We tried to film the objects with a camera but were unsuccessful in really capturing anything worth sending in. Background of Witnesses – Teacher, Structural Engineer, Marketing Consultant, and Custom Clothing Entrepreneur.
June 14, 2014 · 10:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Chester Springs, PA
My county was having a block party so fireworks were in order at the end of the night. My house is close to the fireworks and up higher from where they were being set off so we could see them from our house. It was me, my brother, and my dad for the first few minutes watching the fireworks. After a while I started to get bored with them and ended up looking to the right in the sky. Immediately I saw a weird dot that seemed to be made up of different colors. I told my dad and brother and they saw it too. At this moment it was just staying in a single place, not moving left right up or down. After a couple minutes my dad ran in the house to get my mom and a pair of binoculars. He came out with the binoculars and we each took turns looking through them. It gave instant clarity to what we were looking at. What I saw was four separate lights shaped in lines; unfortunately I couldn’t make out a shape, only the lights. If I were to guess I would say that it was a d! isk. They almost looked like a crosshair in the sky with each line being a different color. It was hard for me to see the colors but what I could make out was white, red, green, yellow/orange. The thing is though is that at least one of them changed colors because I know I saw blue/purple at one point. After another couple minutes using the binoculars my mom came out. I had the binoculars at this point and almost right after my mom came out the colors starting slowly spinning. I stopped looking through the binoculars and saw that not only did it start spinning but it also went from multiple colors to all white, then all red. As it was doing this it started moving down and to the right until we lost sight of it behind a tree.
June 14, 2014 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Hatfield, PA
While walking into the store, my boyfriend and I noticed 4 lights moving across the sky. At first we thought they may be planes or helicopters until we realized they were too low. Then one of the lights stopped suddenly and dropped quickly towards the ground and out of sight. We watched the other lights for a few minutes. They appeared to be red-orange and almost looked as if they were glowing or on fire. They were all traveling in the same direction, slowly, and moving upwards. Before entering the store we saw 1 more light appear. We went into the store and when we left about 5 minutes later the lights were still there, just slightly further away. We got in the car and planned to drive to the other side of the parking lot to get closer. When we got across the parking lot the lights had already vanished. We looked over to where we had seen them at first and we saw 1 more light appear and follow the same path. I tried to take a video of the object on my phone but it did not show up well. The event was very strange, I could not come up with an explanation for what these lights were. Even my boyfriend who is skeptical was baffled.
June 14, 2014 · 9:30 AM · FIREBALL
Philadelphia, PA
We suspect that the submission is an attempt to hoax. The source describes self in a fashion that seems incongruous. PD
June 13, 2014 · 9:10 PM · FIREBALL
Lansdale, PA
While driving on Line Street in Lansdale, near Lansdale Hospital, approximately 9:10 p.m., saw two fireball objects, or orange orbs, heading toward Main Street. They seemed to be moving slowly or hovering but then would pick up in speed. They would change directions, and then suddenly disappeared. Next, two more fireballs or orange orbs shot up and moved at a very fast speed but then seemed to slow down and float or hover. They made no noise and were about 500 feet high in the sky. We stopped our car and watched the objects move out of sight. All occurred in about two to four minutes. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 10, 2014 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Tyrone, PA
The light was moving in a foward, zig zag motion when I called a coworker out to look. I asked him if he thought it was an airplane, and we noticed the firey craft stopped moving in any motion, it was just still. Approximately 30 seconds later, the light ascended slowly, then literally "shot like a sling shot" into the sky. It went from being visible to out of sight in milliseconds. Was most definitely the most incredible, strangest event I have ever witnessed. I am a registered nurse, and very skeptical of anything " out of norm." I cannot say for certain it was a UFO, but I could have no other explanation as to what it was, mostly because of the motions it was taking and how irradically they changed. I wish I could've run and got my phone to take a video, but I couldn't take my eyes off of it in some weird attraction and awe.
June 8, 2014 · 10:16 PM · OTHER
Berwyn, PA
On Sunday, June 9th, I walked out my front door at about 10:16 PM, and immediately saw something the likes of which I have never witnessed before. Two objects that looked like they were on fire were moving toward my location (south to north) in the sky. The front one was the larger of the two and looked segmented - a bit like a large and a small "orb" joined together, and the second was quite a bit smaller and was a single orb. The front one had a red and orange glow like fireplace embers, although it was a constant glow and didn't change. I believe the second one was more orange. I yelled into the house for my wife and son to "come see this – quick"!! Within 15 or 20 seconds my wife came out the door and saw them, and said something about "fire". My son's girlfriend came out and saw part of the show, but I'm not sure how much. My son came out only after it was all over. The front orb proceeded at a relatively low altitude straight over my house and went out of range still fully visible. I realized afterwards that I never heard a sound of any sort emanating from it. The second one suddenly "blinked out." The way it disappeared caused the wife to say that maybe it had gone into the clouds (it was totally overcast and there was a low ceiling). Then she said "look - there's another." And I looked back to the location of the first sighting, and there were now three of the smaller orbs coming toward us on the same path. However, one after the other they "blinked out" just like the initial small orb had done. All in all the show may have lasted 5 minutes or a bit more. I had been on my way to bed, but the wife kept looking periodically during the night and didn't see any more.
June 7, 2014 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Huntingdon, PA
After a firework show at Raystown Lake, my friend and I started to look at the stars. We then saw the first orb which was flickering and orange in color. The orb floated north and then flickered and disappeared. We then saw four more additional orbs coming from different locations, floating and disappearing the same way. We noticed a faint beam radiating from the bottom of the objects in the sky. The glowing orbs were silent and they gradually floated across the sky before they gained speed and disappeared.
June 5, 2014 · 8:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Dormont/Pittsburgh, PA
My wife and I were on our deck last night around dusk, watching airplanes go by (we see planes on their way to the Pittsburgh International Airport). Out of nowhere I noticed an orange sort of glowing form in the distant sky, heading Southwest. It seemed very unusual, so I kept my eye on it, for about 2 minutes. Then, out of nowhere it stopped and immediately started heading Northeast! As it reached the middle of the sky (from our point of view) another similar glowing object appeared and the 2 of them crossed paths, and headed in different directions, where within a minute or so they disappeared from my view. This first encounter lasted about 5 minutes or so total. I stayed outside until it got darker while my wife went inside. Not too long after 9 PM or so I noticed a ball of white, dim light (maybe a teardrop shape?) moving horizontally across the sky, just above a distant tree line. The object then stopped completely, started pulsating white lights for about 10 seconds, then headed out of my view. All 3 of these objects were too far away to make out their shapes, but I would guess either cylinders or teardrops. And although they all pulsated orange and white lights, they also had a very solid aspect to them, like a craft. Not sure how to explain that. One of the greatest things I've ever had the chance to witness. I've always believed in this stuff, but have never seen anything first-hand! Wow!
June 2, 2014 · 9:40 PM · SPHERE
Havertown, PA
I looked up at the big dipper and noticed a double star in Beta Majoris. It was unusual then it moved and I thougt it was a high flying aircraft, but it make a slightly arced trajectory around the star from the east and then headed due south. After looking at it for another ten seconds, it grew fainter and smaller and redder and then vanished. I can only think it red shifted and went into outer space. But it did so in the course of a second or two which would mean that it was traveling faster than anything know on earth. I'm a skeptic and a pragmatist, but I don't have an explanation for this one. What did I see? I am an amateur astronomer and long-time stargazer. I know my night sky and mathematics as well. I didn't know who else to contact. I know it might not seem that fantastic compared to some of the things you hear, but it's real and strange all the same.
June 2, 2014 · 11:02 AM · OTHER
Murrysville, PA
I photograph objects in the night sky regularly. I saw two object heading toward each other, assuming they were both jets however, when I looked at my photos one object looks like a jet while the other one doesn't. Would like an opinion of what the object is. We may post the photo to our website, but the two images are quite blurry. PD
May 31, 2014 · 10:00 PM · CIRCLE
York, PA
On Saturday, May 31, about 10 PM, my wife and I were sitting on our deck around a fire pit. There was a party going on at the house behind us. I got up to go inside when I looked up into the sky and saw a group of six or seven lights moving toward us from the south. They were moving in a Northerly direction not unlike conventional aircraft. The thing I thought was odd was their shape and color. They were all identical; circular, orange at the center with a yellowish ring around the edge with 2 very small flashing white lights opposite each other along the rim. As the group moved across the sky it seemed one was lagging on behind and caught up with the rest of the group. They had no sound at all. When they met together as a group right above us, they started to disappear one at a time, which I thought was kind of odd. It was a partly cloudy sky that night. I could see some stars so I don’t know if they climbed and went through clouds or exactly what happened. I don’t know what their elevation could have been.
May 31, 2014 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
McMurray, PA
My husband and I were having a small campfire just after it got dark. I happened to look up a little after 9:30 pm because there were fire or some sort of emergency sirens going off close by. Lower on the horizon I saw what looked like 5-6 fireballs in the sky. They were appearing and reappearing at random. I told my husband to take a look and the two of is watched them for almost half an hour. It was especially scary because of those fire sirens we were hearing. We turned on the scanner and it ended up no being related. It just looked like balls of fire burning up, but they barely moved. They would get brighter then die out. I'm not sure of the same ones were getting bright, dying out then brightening again or if they were all separate objects. Airplanes were flying in the same general direction and they looked nothing like this. There was no streaking across the sky like meteors. None of them shot up like fire works or anything. They were very far away, but you could tell they were very high in the sky and extremely bright. My husband and I both got on Twitter to see of we were the only ones seeing it. It was pretty visible. We used our iPhones to determine it was toward the southeast from us. They were just over and under the tree line from our view at our house. It was truly the most amazing unexplained thing I've ever seen. All the lights were completely gone by 10:00 pm.
May 26, 2014 · 3:00 PM · CIRCLE
Carlisle, PA
After working in my yard on Memorial Day I was sitting on my front porch at 15:00 looking due east at the horizon. At about 45 degrees east, north east I noticed an object in the sky. I thought it might be a bald eagle circling for its prey. However, the object was too high in the sky to be a bird. As I looked further I noticed the object was hovering above something, as if it was observing something. After noticing that the object was not moving, and having concluded it was not a bird, it suddenly zoomed off due east at fantastic speed. I have never seen any aircraft that operated like that before. It was either a government test vehicle (which I highly doubt) or a UFO. About one half an hour later I noticed two high flying jets going both east to west and west to east at a high rate of speed. Those both had contrails and were moving much more like traditional jets. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 25, 2014 · 9:22 PM · CROSS
Harrisburg, PA
Bright green lights and one red blinking light. Object moved towards me swiftly at helicopter height then abruptly stopped to change direction to its right. Then proceeded on in a spiral motion and disappeared behind trees.
May 25, 2014 · 9:15 AM · FIREBALL
Pittsburgh, PA
Observed Larger orange glow. Grabbed Binoculars, observed for another minute. Had to be over 30,000ft. Orange glow with small tail stopped very suddenly and was gone. The Orange glow was like a halo with a brighter spot in the middle.
May 24, 2014 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Berwyn, PA
Light was hovering in the sky right above my head....thought it was a satellite at first but it wasn't moving. It was too bright to be a star. I watched it for about 90 seconds before it just burned out. Never saw anything like that before...very strange!
May 24, 2014 · 9:35 PM · TRIANGLE
Fairview, PA
Almost looked like 3 orange fire burners.