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Pennsylvania UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 10 UFO sighting reports in Pennsylvania from 1993 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "triangle" (5 reports, 50.00% of total).
- June is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (3 reports, 30.00% of total).
- Tuesday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (3 reports, 30.00% of total).
- 03/06/93 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (1 reports, 10.00% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (4 reports, 40.00% of total).
Pennsylvania UFO Sighting Reports in 1993
This is a sampling of 20 Pennsylvania UFO reports from 1993, presented as they were submitted other than paragraph breaks added for easier readability where necessary.
You can click the 'Report' link to view the original report along with any photos that may have been submitted to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC).
Full Report Text:
A triangular shape moving northeast,, non transparent, silent, it had three blue/white lights and a red light . My husband brothers and I had returned upstate to Tiadaghton State Forest for the first day of doe season. The night before was a crisp clear cold night.
We were standing around the fire, talking, listening to music when my brother called us to, "Come look at this!" We went to where my brother was standing and looked to where he was pointing into the sky across and above Rock Run. We saw an extreamly large triangular shape moving over the ridge of the mountain across from us (McIntyire Mt.).
My husband quickly went and turned the radio and generator off. The triangular shape continued to slowly follow the top of the mountain. We could clearly see stars in the heavans until this shape moved between us and the stars.
The form was a solid mass that blocked the light from the stars. We all noticed that this huge thing made absolutely no audible sound. I saw that it had three bluish white lights, one on each corner.
My brothers also noted a red light. I did not take notice to a red one. It's hard to put to scale how big this was, but I can tell you my opinion is that it was at the very least the length of two football fields long and one half of that wide.
It dissappeared over the mountain and that was the last time we saw it. It was unnerving to say the least. ((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate.
PD)).
Full Report Text:
I was about 10 years old at the time, I remember playing outside in the snow, and eventually laying on my back looking up at a clear, starlight, sky. fter about 5 minutes I focused on a group of 3 stars, forming a triangle. Not much later one of the stars "moved" and joined 2 other stars, thus creating a larger triangle.
The same pattern went on for about 15 minutes, creating 10 larger triangles. By this point I was afraid to see anything else and ran inside my house. This is not the only time I have seen such an event, but this is the earliest that I am able to recall.
Observer background: For most of my childhood I was "involved" with aliens. Most of which seemed to be the form of dreams, or what I thought were dreams. Being someone who is sensative to paranormal-like experiences I thought it a good idea to share the above experience.
Not much along the lines of UFOs has happened in my life since becoming a teenager years ago, though I do find myself drawn to UFO/extraterrestrial investigation on a regular basis. I have noticed changes in thinking patterns in the last 3 or so years, though these do need to be looked into on a more personal basis. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate.
PD)).
Full Report Text:
Travelling alone, bottom of 2 mile hill, witnessed blue light cresting top of hill behind, within 10 seconds was in my rear window Witnessed blue orb cresting hill behind me 2 miles, within 10 seconds was intensely bright in my back window travelling 55 mph. Watched in rear view mirror then turned physically to look, intense blue light on top of trunk in back in window. Slowed car down and orb made immediate right turn 90 degrees to right over ravine and fields.
To my recollection stopped car, pulled over, got out to look. Left Sharon at 11.35, happened at 11.
50., arrived home at 12.40 instead of 11.
55.
Full Report Text:
In July 1993, I saw a "light" in the western part of the sky in my county. Let me tell you about me; I was a police officer on In July 1993, I saw a "light " in the western part of the sky in my county. Let me tell you about me; I was a police officer on duty that night & worked my way up to Councilman, Chief of police, then Mayor & retired.
I went to the southern part of town to a Ballfield (which is in a flood zone). I put my spot light on the object in the sky & flashed my spot light on it several times & the object stopped moving. I flashed my spot light 3 times in a row.
The object started to move towards me & made no sound what so ever. I left my police car & positioned myself in the woods. The object came down over the "ballfield" & I said to myself, "How large it was (circle type)?" It was very humid that night & the object was very huge & covered the ballfield.
It did not ground & a light came on & I saw three human type persons dressed all in white. There was no sound coming from it all. It hovered for about 2 or 3 minutes & the light from inside the craft went off & the object went straight up into the sky.
I never told anyone about this for fear of being fired & made fun of. I thought I would share my expierence with you, knowing you would not laugh at me!If you would like to contact me you may. My email I ((address deleted)), or phone me at 724 ((telephone # deleted)).
Thank you for listening to what I saw that night. Everything is still clear in my mind… Thanks again.((name deleted)) ((NUFORC Note: Source of report indicates that the date is approximate.
PD)).
Full Report Text:
Massive Black Triangle over Salisbury It was a hot night. Myself and two other friends were standing on one of my friend's front porch. I had grown bored of the conversation and was looking at the pine trees to the south.
I was wondering when the city had put a new arc light there. The color was the same yellow and the brightness the same intensity. I soon realized that this light was moving.
The object then went over out heads. It was a massive black triangle. My fist at arms length would not have covered the object.
I measured it using my clenched fist and the back end of the triangle was four fists wide. At the front of the triangle were two huge lights that projected beams into the night, and then down the front two sides were three smaller lights about the brightness of Jupiter in the night sky. The object moved slowly south to north, and what sounded like a huge diesel engine could be heard.
Knowing of the missing time phenomenon, I had checked my watch when I had realized what! I was seeing and then after. Four minutes had passed. I know that the object was a solid triangle and not a boomerang shape because the stars were blacked out.
Later, I would say the way it moved reminded me of a blimp. One item of note is the direction it traveled. Almost all of the air traffic in Salisbury travels east and west; Pittsburgh to Baltimore or New York or DC.
I found it odd that it was traveling south to north. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD)).
Full Report Text:
Summary : Huge triangular shaped object. Slow speed and low altitude. Passed directley over my position.
No sound except wind rushing past. NE direction and never swerved, swayed, turned or changed speed. Light shown on ground, briefly.
While coming home from working the 4-12 shift as a Police Officer, I noticed an "airplane" flying in the direction in which I was traveling. After driving a few miles, I noticed that the "airplane" was still on it's course. It should have been far away by that time.
I was curious, but soon forgot about it. As I was turning onto the final rode that leads to my housing plan, I noticed that the "airplane" was still there.The PLan where I lived was on the highest point in the area and as I got to the Plan, my visibility was practically unlimited except for some trees.
I could see the "airplane"better at this point and I suspected that it was a helicopter because of the slow speed. The "helicopter" displayed a search type light at the ground and I thought it was a medical helicopter looking for a landing zone. I've seen helicopters do this in my capacity as a Police Officer, and I was worried that someone might have been badly injured in my neighborhood.
While thinking these thoughts, the "helicopter" turned off the search light and continued in a straight line heading directly toward my housing plan.I hurried my vehicle to a point where I figured the "helicopter" would pass over, and I turned off my head lights. Then I shut off my engine and got out of the vehicle to get a better look at the "helicopter".
When I got out of the vehicle and looked up in the sky, I noticed that I was not looking at a helicopter, airplane, blimp or anything I could recognize. I was looking at a triagular shaped craft with a light at each point, smaller lights were dotted underneath as this was my point of reference, and no strobe lights like a commercial aircraft would have. The object made no sound, although it seemed to me that I could hear wind rushing past.
Faintly, albeit. The altitude was very low, a few hundred feet or less, and the speed was radically slow. The object was huge.
the night was crystal clear and warm, and I saw it but can't believe what I saw. It has taken me this long to report it. I told this story to Mike Frizzell of the Enigma Project and he told me to write to you.
Full Report Text:
sphere sighted at "top of the triangle" resturant in pittsburgh, pa. we(my wife and i)were having lunch/dinner at the "top of the triangle" restaurant atop the steel building in pittsburgh pa. it was a clear, sunny afternoon and we were sitting by the window enjoying the view.
we were talking and my wife (looking out the window) says what is that. i turned around and about 20 feet outside the window behind me there was a small sphere about the size of a soccer ball just hovering level with our floor. it was flat white in color.
at first i thought some little kid lost a balloon, but it wasn't asending as a balloon would have been. anyway, my wife says again,,,what is that. just then it starts moving slowly right past our window, makes a 90 degree turn and flys away on a level course until it was out of sight.
i tell my wife, i don't know what that was, but if someone was inside that thing they were only three inches tall!! ha ha. about 10 seconds after this thing was out of sight, a civilian type hellicopter flew swiftly by the building heading in the same direction as the ufo. another thing that i found strange was that the room was full of people and it didn't look like anybody else saw it.
how could that be!!! note; the date that this occured is a guess. all i know is that this happened before 1995. in 1995 we started having kids and the only resturants we went to until lately were mcdonalds , chuck e cheeses ect.
Full Report Text:
A FRIEND AND I WERE HANGING OUT. THE WEATHER WAZ VERY NICE WE WERE ON HIS ROOF OUT SIDE HIS UPSTAIRS ROOM LISTENING TO SOME MUSIC.WE COULD SEE THE CITY FROM THE ROOF AND WE WERE JUST TALKING.
I NOTICED A RED LIGHT IN THE SKY I SAID TO MY FRIEND DO YOU SEE THAT HE SAID YES WE BOTH THOUGHT IT WAZ A PLANE AT FIRST. IT WAZ AT A DISTANCE THE WAY IT MOVED WAZ VERY SLOW THEN IT JUST CAME TO A STOP FOR ABOUT 10MIN THE LIGHT GOT BRIGHT AND RED AND YELLOW. THEN IT STARTED TO MOVE SLOWLY LIKE GLIDE THROUGH THE NIGHT SKY.
AND IN A BLINK OF A EYE IT I MEAN AT SUPER SPEED SHOT UPWARD IN TO THE SKY. BOTH OF US WERE SHOCKED AND A LITTLE CONFUSED WHAT WE SAW BUT IT WAZ FOR REAL I WILL NEVER FORGET WHAT WE SAW THAT NIGHT!!!!!!!!!.
Full Report Text:
Black triangle shaped disc appeared out of nowhere and was dark except for four attached lights,scary. Was going shopping and it was supposed to be a lunar eclipse. I wanted to get pictures of it.
After I took pictures I noticed this triangular shaped craft hovering beside me. It made no noise at all. Wherever I drove it followed me and my wife.
I tried getting a picture and it sped off. My photos did not take of the eclipse or the craft. All pictures were black.
I used a flash, so it should have taken. The craft was triangular with a light at the point and three consecutive lights at the base. I have been listening to am coast to coast and have found I am not the only one to see this type of object.
Any response would be appreciated. Thank you. ((name and e-address deleted)) ((deleted)) Street Pgh.
,Pa.15210.
Full Report Text:
Separate entities acting independently. One larger white light object, followed by smaller red light object. Relaying my experience of the approx timeframe for data.
Didn’t realize this was a thing until I read an article. I’ll never forget 100% what I saw that winter's night many years ago, watching out the car window coming going home from visiting my grandmother in Lancaster county, Pa. My dad saw it too and can confirm.
The white light would hover with the red light closely intact. The white light would very quickly and irrationally jump forward as the red light lingered behind a few seconds before similarly jumping forward to catch up. If not paying attention, you’d think it was a helicopter.
But these two entities were independent. The white light abruptly shoots out of sight while the red light lingered behind a few seconds then skyrocketed out of sight on the trail of the white light. When the red light took off, best way to explain, is that it lit up the cloud cover of the night as if you would imagine a lightning bolt would light up the night sky….
Except in red.
Pennsylvania UFO Sightings From 1993 By Shape
This is a standardized set of shapes a UFO report can be filed under.
Shape / Appearance | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Triangle | 5 reported sightings | 50.00% of all reports |
Light | 2 reported sightings | 20.00% of all reports |
Circle | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Orb | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Sphere | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Pennsylvania UFO Sightings From 1993 By Month
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the month the sighting occured in.
Month | Sightings | % Of Total |
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June | 3 reported sightings | 30.00% of all reports |
December | 2 reported sightings | 20.00% of all reports |
March | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
September | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
May | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
July | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
January | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Pennsylvania UFO Sightings From 1993 By Weekday
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the day of the week the sighting occured on.
Weekday | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Tuesday | 3 reported sightings | 30.00% of all reports |
Saturday | 2 reported sightings | 20.00% of all reports |
Monday | 2 reported sightings | 20.00% of all reports |
Wednesday | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Thursday | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Friday | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Pennsylvania UFO Sightings From 1993 By Date (Top 5)
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the date the sighting occured on, limited to the top 5 dates with the most sightings.
Date | Sightings | % Of Total |
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03/06/93 | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
05/18/93 | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
12/15/93 | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
06/15/93 | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
07/15/93 | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Pennsylvania UFO Sightings From 1993 By Time
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the time of day the sighting occured during. We took logical 4 hour windows in order to split the day into early morning, morning, afternoon, evening, night, and late night buckets for this analysis.
Time Of Day | Hours | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 4 reported sightings | 40.00% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 3 reported sightings | 30.00% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 2 reported sightings | 20.00% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
All Pennsylvania Cities with reported UFO sightings in 1993
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Pennsylvania, in 1993
City | Number of Reports | View Reports |
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Pittsburgh | 2 UFO Reports | Pittsburgh UFO Sightings in 1993 |
Salisbury | 1 UFO Reports | Salisbury UFO Sightings in 1993 |
Blairsville | 1 UFO Reports | Blairsville UFO Sightings in 1993 |
Columbia | 1 UFO Reports | Columbia UFO Sightings in 1993 |
Neshannock | 1 UFO Reports | Neshannock UFO Sightings in 1993 |
Economy Borough | 1 UFO Reports | Economy Borough UFO Sightings in 1993 |
Williamsport | 1 UFO Reports | Williamsport UFO Sightings in 1993 |
Philadelphia | 1 UFO Reports | Philadelphia UFO Sightings in 1993 |
Warren | 1 UFO Reports | Warren UFO Sightings in 1993 |
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Pennsylvania
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Pennsylvania.