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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
May 24, 2014 · 9:30 PM · FIREBALL
Huntingdon, PA
On Saturday, May 24 at approximately 21:30 I walked outside to let my dogs in. I looked up into the sky because something had caught my eye. It looked like a bright red/orange fireball. It was not moving. I called to my family to come out. As my son and daughter came out it started to move slowly away from us, then it stopped again. Then it began to move from left to right, not a lot, but it continued like this for two or three minutes, then it finally faded away. Total time we saw it: about 10 minutes.
May 24, 2014 · 7:15 PM · CIRCLE
Harleysville, PA
One red disk/circle just flew overhead (east to west) while sitting outback looking at the trees and sky. It was so red and so round, so different than the planes and helicopters we see fly overhead, that we could not take our eyes off this object. Immediately grabbed iPad to see if anyone else has had a similar sighting. We have never seen anything like this, anything we would consider a UFO - like this.... Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 24, 2014 · 1:50 AM · RECTANGLE
North Versailles, PA
Dense cloud cover moving west to east. Object dark in color with no lights or sound, rectangular in shape and approximately 2X full moon-size projection on right side, approximately 25% size of total. Moving slowly on a continual path north to south below cloud cover.
May 23, 2014 · 7:45 PM · OTHER
Philadelphia, PA
Just approaching sunset, with still a decent amount of light in the sky, I happened to look up in the sky and spot an extremely vivid, pure solidly glowing (almost LED like) object. Very pure clean white shade. Its glow restricted itself from providing a defined shape, but it seemingly was that of of an extremely softened edges rectangle. It stood out even more in the fact that it was so far away and high, yet still was of a decent size and vividness. I pointed it out to my toddler, and then within a few more seconds, it went behind a cloud. I did not see it again, although I tried waiting for its to pass the cloud. ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) My apologies; this is my corrected time for the philadelphia sunset bright light sighting that was submitted only a minute ago. ((END ADDENDUM)) Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 21, 2014 · 8:00 PM · CHANGING
Erie, PA
Two bright orange objects low in the western sky at approximately 10:00 pm. They would hover next to each other then one would move up into the sky kind of stretching out as it did so then returning to previous shape. They moved around for over 7 minutes each time returning to approximately the same point as we first saw them. I went into the house to get my girlfriend ad when I came back out the neighbors said they just took off at an extremely high rate of speed.
May 21, 2014 · 6:20 PM · LIGHT
Morrisville, PA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 18, 2014 · 11:45 PM · FIREBALL
Waynesburg, PA
I was coming outside an apt...looked off to my right and seen this huge ball of fire moving across the sky....as it was coming closer it started slowing down....then came to a stop....and then started zig zagging back and forth for a minute or so....then disappeared
May 18, 2014 · 10:10 PM · LIGHT
Northampton, PA
Wave of 6 lights seemed to be at low altitude but not low enough to see a shape or the light emitted concealed the shape. There was now sound that we could hear and they seemed to be traveling at a cruising speed and were different sizes. The largest being the red one with kind of a haze to it. The next largest seemed to be red, orange, and yellow but flickering kinda like it was on fire but not. The second wave came in about 2 minutes after the first with 4 objects in the wave 2 of which seemed like duplicates of the red and the fire ball type in the first wave all seemed to be going in same direction from where I was standing North to South. The other objects seemed just like a white light but it didn't look like normal white light one did have a tint of green.
May 17, 2014 · 9:35 PM · CIRCLE
Blanchard, PA
On the evening of 5/17/2014, I had walked out of the back door of my house to let my dog out to do its business. When I looked up into the sky to see a what appeared to be very intense redish/orange ball of light coming out of the North heading due South across the sky. This object was flying at an altitude that appeared to be just above the mountaintops when I first spotted it. I ran inside an had my wife come out into the backyard to witness this event. The object seemed very rapidly ascend into the sky with the glow dissipating as it ascended. I was able to capture this event by recording it on my cellphone. When it reached a certain altitude, the object started to dim and appeared to flicker on and off twice, then it appeared to be a black craft triangular in shape very high in the sky. This craft then disappeared from sight. As I turned to go back into the house, my wife had called to me in a loud excited voice and exclaimed that another redish/g! lowing object was flying the same pattern and route as the first. We were able to also video tape this object as well. I had instructed my wife to retrieve our son's telescope but was unable to bring the object into focus with the telescope. We videotaped this object as it rapidly ascended and suddenly disappeared out of sight. During the videotaping, I was able to video an aircraft flying high above our house roof with its blinking lights to clearly show the contrast between the aircraft and these two objects that we saw and filmed. The very interesting but disturbing thing about this encounter is, that we had seen the same phenomenon approx. 3 miles East of where I live the later part of last summer while riding our motorcycle. We pulled off the road with 4 other vehicles and we all watched in amazement as 5 of these objects did aerobatics unlike anything we had ever seen. They like the two comparable objects we had seen tonight ascended rapidly and seemed to vanis! h into the atmosphere. I had made a report of last summer's sightings on the MUFON site. I had since been trying to make sense of this. I had first heard of this site from the Coast to Coast A.M. radio program. I started listening to Coast to Coast after the first encounter. I would very much like to have a follow up concerning these sightings and I will say that it sort of unnerves my wife and I, especially being that we have witnessed this phenomenon twice. Also of note, on both occasions, these objects did not make any discernible noise whatsoever the whole time they were visible.
May 17, 2014 · 9:00 PM · CIRCLE
Finleyville, PA
I turned à corner and 6-8 lights appeared about cloud level. I am very familiar with aviation and know they were not planes or helicopters. They were low to thé ground and there was no sound. There was no body..just lights. Steady lights, no blinking. I have pics from my phone and short vidéo of one.
May 17, 2014 · 8:56 PM · UNKNOWN
Mechanicsburg, PA
My wife and I were traveling on Diehl Rd at Williams Grove Rd. At a stop sign we noticed a bright Red flickering object in the sky; both she and I noticed that it was moving steadily to the NE. I recall that neither of us was able to find the normal green and red alternating blinking of an airplane wing, only the orange-ish red that flickered like a flame. Jokingly we expressed that it must be a UFO and drove to the Gate of Heaven Cemetery on York St, to get a better view. When we arrived the object was completely gone, despite a totally wide open nearly cloudless sky, we were not able to track the object or see it in the distance. At that time I looked back, I saw what I believed to be two helicopters with red lights shining flying in the area from which we had just come. My wife and I immediately thought that they may be pursuing the object, and I thought I heard a faint sound of an engine, which my wife pointed out, was in fact an airplane flying di! rectly above us, compounded by highway noise. At that moment, I realized that the objects, though they were rising in the sky, didn't seem to be getting any closer. It was then that my wife and I realized that they were 2 of the same objects we had chased, and we started taking photos and video. The two objects were lit like fire, and flying in formation directly up. At one point the first object turned off its light, and I thought it had disappeared. The second object remained lit for a short time, but then also turned its light off. I was able to see the first object, totally blacked out traveling towards the left of us, it seemed very fluid and steady paced, but I noticed that it seemed to be almost an oval that was rotating very slowly. As I filmed it, it seemed to descend slowly into the field opposite of us about a mile away. We immediately jumped in our car and drove to where we believed it to be, but it was not visible, since it had gotten dark, and the second object was also no longer visible.
May 17, 2014 · 6:45 AM · CYLINDER
Wilkes-Barre, PA
I was driving south on Spring St in Wilkes Barre, when I noticed the moon was still out and hadn't yet washed away in the light from the rising sun. I kept looking up at it as I was driving, wishing I had a camera to photograph it - I enjoy amateur astronomy and I enjoy photographing the moon. Anyway, while I was stopped at a light on Spring St, I looked up again, and I thought I saw a fast moving commercial aircraft gliding between my view of the moon - I was just thinking about what a great shot that would make, when I realized that the plane had no wings - nor any discernible tail. It was a very long, cylindrical object, round at both ends, and it was moving VERY quickly. I've lived in this area my whole life, I KNOW what aircraft moving in and out of Avoca International Airport look like. Avoca would've been north of my position at the time - this object was moving due east - maybe east/south east. It glimmered and reflected light from the sun. It was a ! very smooth, metallic-looking object - the best description I just gave to someone a few minutes ago was that it looked like mercury moving across the sky. I continued onto where my wife works to pick her up, and I was transfixed with this thing. Now, this may have been a perspective thing, but I swear to God the thing stopped dead in the sky and HOVERED for a moment. I contemplated pulling over into the parking lot of Home Depot to get out of the car and look at the thing, but I continued on. When I began ascending the hill to get to where my wife works, it went out of my view behind the building. I had a good idea of its trajectory, so after I got my wife into the car, I drove to the other side of the parking lot to get a better view of the sky, and it was gone. NO aircraft moves THAT quickly. There was plenty of distance to the horizon versus the point in the sky where I'd seen it last. It was NOWHERE to be found. The sky was mainly clear, no clouds for it to have moved! behind. The thing was just GONE in a clear, blue sky.
May 17, 2014 · 12:03 AM · SPHERE
Trexlertown, PA
Out looking at Saturn and mars, noticed a red and white blinking orb above and left of the moon. Moved slowly left and right then hovered. Changed to solid red and shot up in a diagonal pattern, stopped, would drop down, stop, drop down, moved right then quickly to the left. Went back to basically the same area i started to see it at. Then dropped down close to the horizon, then was gone.
May 16, 2014 · 8:30 PM · LIGHT
Wilmington, PA
I was heading North on I-95 less than a mile South of Wilmington. I am quite sure, but not certain, that the object flashed brightly just before briefly going out of view behind a sign, from my perspective. Once my attention was focused on it, I was looking at a vertically oriented thin red-orange light that seemed to be suspended in the air. The top was maybe a bit larger than the rest. It was like a little piece of illuminated string hanging in the sky. It was way up in the sky by itself and seemed to be completely still. It was far away and I had to keep driving safely; I lost sight of it after 30 seconds or less. I exited in Wilmington to see if I could see it again. No luck.
May 15, 2014 · 10:25 PM · TRIANGLE
Hermitage, PA
Triangular shaped object with two white lights and one blinking red light in center came from the west very low and slow-moving. The lights turned south and dipped just below the top of the tree line but still visible and seemed to straighten into a line. It did not appear to be moving away at this point only changing shape (or perspective). Remained stationary for about 40 seconds, at which point I reached behind me to grab the binoculars and when i turned back the lights had disappeared. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 11, 2014 · 11:55 PM · FIREBALL
Erie, PA
I was walking with my boyfriend on Mercyhurst Campus. I looked up in the sky facing West, and saw this very large ball of light. By natural instict, I hit him and yelled, "Check it out a shooting star!" He turned around and missed it. It fell behind a building in a direction toward downtown toward Lake Erie. I thought I explained that it wasn't like a normal shooting star. It was MASSIVELY Larger. Another student was on campus by us and he looked at me asking if I saw that thing fall in the guy. I agreed. And we just looked at each other and he said, "Do you think it was a UFO?" I said, it clearly wasn't a shooting star. We both discussed and shared Identical description of the falling object. It looked at if a massive form of light was behind a cloud, it changed colors rapidly from like a lilac, to a turqouise, to a seafoam green sometimes more than one color at once, it was just fluidly multiple colors. The size was clearly bigger than! any manmade aircraft. It gasous size was probably the size of our sun during the winter sky. Like the size of one's thumbnail. Big. We both saw it fall in the same direction, down toward Lake Erie, but it fell behind the large building on campus. It moved quietly and at a constant speed, the direction appeared though as it was crashing, but it fell being the building. But I guess it best to sum up we saw: A large light source much bigger than a man made air craft crashing through the sky covered in a turquoise/violet/seafoam green light.
May 11, 2014 · 10:50 PM · OVAL
Pittsburgh, PA
It disappeared so I drove to the bottom of the hill and saw it again but in a different position. There was a plane flying low and another higher up I circled back up the hill and we spotted it again but in a different position to the extreme left of the original sighting again stationary in the sky. We snapped a picture with our phone. The first sighting appeared as a bright white light in the center with a sheer haze around it. The last sighting the haze appeared to have changed color slightly and looked slightly blue I wasn't sure if I didn't notice the color the first time or not.
May 10, 2014 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Stewarts town, PA
On a cloudy night, I was looking out in the sky, when I noticed a majestic light. The light appeared to be orange. I saw it for the three seconds it was there and it just disappeared into the night sky. It was a very very fast object. None of our aircrafts in the US can go this fast. I heard no noise from it. And I'm convinced it is a UFO.
May 10, 2014 · 2:00 PM
Greensburg, PA
A ball of white light went through my window fan and the fan speed went to a faster speed then the white ball went a quarter way through my room then into the roof. In my greensburg, PA, apartment. On may 10, 2014, around 2pm Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. Possible hoax. PD
May 5, 2014 · 10:30 PM · DISK
Collegeville, PA
2 green lights, 2 red lights; one object.
May 5, 2014 · 1:15 AM · CIRCLE
Lancaster, PA
((HOAX??)) Orange light moving in night sky.
May 4, 2014 · 9:10 PM · OTHER
Schwenksville, PA
Orange objects near Graterford Prison.
May 1, 2014 · 10:50 PM · CIGAR
Kingston, PA
Saw lights in the sky as i was driving home from work was making irregular movements couldnt have been a plane.
April 27, 2014 · 12:00 AM · SPHERE
Brookhaven, PA
Glowing hovering multi colored sphere hovering above main st school Brookhaven.