Pennsylvania UFO Sightings in 2001

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Red and blue circluar shaped object with white flashing light in the center. It was about 1:30 AM on December 28, 2001 and I looked out the window of my house and saw a red and blue circle shaped object. It was extremely bright and had a white rim around it.

Inside of the circle there was a white flashing light. About five minutes later a second identical object was seen near it. Every once in awhile it would seem like it was getting further away.

This was seen across the street from my house. The second object was in between a tree. But the first one was completely clear.

((NUFORC Note: We suspect a twinkling star may have been the cause of the sighting. PD)).

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8 to 11 spherical objects in a straight line moved southeasterly. Cheltenham Township - just north of Philadelphia, PA at approximately 9:45 am on December 21,2001 I was walking my dog when something in the sky caught my eye. It was a string of spherical objects, approximately 8 to 11 of them.

They were in a perfectly straight line moving in a south westerly direction. They were about the height of commercial aircraft. they were larger than stars and smaller than the sun.

I saw them for about 45 seconds, and then they just disappeared. The sky was blue with no clouds near the objects.

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Mysterious circle made of clouds around the moon To Whom It May Concern, My name is ((deleted)), I am not really sure whom I should contact to report this properly, so if you are not the right department, can you please be so kind and tell me where should I report this. On November 30, 2001 Saturday evening about 2330 hours in Langhorne Philadelphia, PA, my girlfriend and I were walking her two dogs and I looked up to look at the moon which was nearly full and was located almost directly above us. I noticed that there was a mysteriously looking circle of clouds around the moon.

If you would look at the moon, the radius of the circle would be about the size of a pinky. Its colors were also unusual to see in a dark sky, you could make out colors of red and green, sort of like a fading rainbow. We also noticed that it changed its diameter a couple of times on a small scale.

Immediately I called my mother who lives in Northeast Philadelphia, and she confirmed seeing the same thing. To my surprise when I called 3 of my friends in Brooklyn, NY, they said that they saw the mysterious circle as well even though they were about 80 miles away from where we were. Inside of the circle there was no sign of other clouds at all, but outside of it there were some scattered, but the circle itself was separated from them.

It finally started to fade away around 0200 on Sunday morning, December 1,2001. My girlfriend's sister had also noticed this phenomena who was in Northeast Philadelphia at the time. I was also wondering where I can find out if more reports were made regarding this event.

I am aware that reports were made in the past years of mysterious clouds appearing, and some thought it was UFO's. I am looking forward to hearing back from you. Sincerely, ((name deleted)) ((NUFORC Note: We suspect the witnesses were observing a "Moon dog," caused by ice crystals in the atmosphere.

PD)).

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I saw a bright green flash of light fall form the sky very rapidly. I saw one big bright green light fall from the sky. almost like a flare.

but it was big. I was driving along Rte. 66 between Greensburg & Delmont, & there was no exit near or I would have followed it.

It looked to me to be a meteor or a chunk of debris from something. only glowing extremely brightly green. It looked like something out of a dman movie.

It hit the ground probably 5 - 10 miles away from the Road. It was VERY bright. I stopped the car to look around & up in the sky.

saw nothing else. I didn't know if we were under some sort of attack or what. Stuff doesn't just usually fall from the sky.

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A storm was moving in that evening, and we watched what first looked like someone shining a spotlight into the sky. This is what we thought it was until we realized that these lights were moving very rapidly behind the clouds in the west and north. These lights, sometimes alone sometimes multiple, seemed to be chasing each other "playing or dancing", changing colors from white to red, then yellow, then green and blue.

The colors were not bright, but muted or pastel. My husband had the impression of children playing tag. They moved fairly fast from south to north, skimming the edges of the clouds at the edge of the storm front, "peeking" through the clouds in the north, but most of the activity was in the western quadrant.

We live in an isolatd forest area 12 miles from town. These lights continued intermittenly for aprox 6 hours. Myself, my husband and two house guests also observed the lights.

Three of us are of American Indian decent. My husband and I also observed a similar light object, orange and yellow and red, in Aug 1996, in the west sky at aprox 8 pm EST. I am having a hard time describing what we saw, because the words don't fit the vision.

If you could imagine a flash light being shown through a prism, so that as the light moved it also changed color, only on a much larger scale. There was no definate shape, just and eliptical light source. Since the sun had already set, I ruled out the possibility of sun rays through the clouds producing a sort of rainbow, but rainbows don't flitter across the sky from south to north.

My husband's impression was that the movement was not random, but controled.

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it moved about more than 200 mph it was really low to the ground didnt make sound and had lights me and my dad were coming home from boxing and we were coming in our town when we seen this thing floating in the sky we stared at it and it was less than 20 feet off the ground it took us less than 3 seconds to get to are house and it was gone.

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Craft were in a "V" formation at 10,000 feet, and 3 timesw the speed of an airliner. Individuals were observing the Leonid Meteor Showers. At one point, lights appearedin the east, estimated at 8 to 10 thousand feet, moving east to west.

Estimated to be 150 feet diameter, same size as jet airliner. The distance was covered in ten seconds. Airliners usually take 30 seconds to cover the distance.

Lights were white, not as bright as the stars. No noise or emmissions observed. The observers counted 7 to 9 circular lights in a "V" formation.

They maintained a steady course, speed and altitude. The observers consisted of members of one family.

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Triangle array of egg shaped objects. I saw three metallic egg shaped objects fly in a triangle formation, they looked to be spinning very fast.

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Two disc shaped objects were witnessed on the date seen above. The two objects were blackish and silver hovering over rowhomes on Garden St. The two objects moved slowly over the houses until they abruptly stopped and hoved.

The two objects hoved over the street for about 2 minutes before they started to move south tward Philadelphia moving away from the three witnesses. After the two objects started moving away from us.We withnessed the objects for about four more minutes until no longer visible to the eye.

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Monolith in front of the almost full moon On October 30th 2001, while at work, my boss told me he heard on the radio that it was the first full moon on Halloween in 80 years which I found that to be interesting. I was done with work at 9:30 PM and waited for my co-worker, as she was my ride home that night. It was about 9:45 PM when we exited the building facing east.

After about 10-15 steps out I remembered what my boss said and looked up to appreciate the moon the day before it was full. When I did, my stomach immediately sank and I stopped dead in my tracks. My immediate impression of it was that it was a missile or rocket coming straight down (this was fairly soon after 9/11 and anxiety was still high).

But as my mind began to register what my eyes were seeing, I noticed that it had no exhaust or visible emissions, no lights or sounds and it was not traveling downward but growing downward, the top portion of it remained fixed in the sky. All I could do was raise my arm at first to motion my co! -worker to stop walking (she hadn't yet noticed). My eyes glued to this thing I finally muster out "what is that? What is that? Look!" She stops walking and I now have her attention and point to the moon.

"Do you see that? What is that? Do you see this? What is that?" There was a slight haze but it was clear out at the time and this object was solid. It casted a faint shadow from the moonlight, it was physically there in the sky. I would best describe it as a very thin black rectangle or a thick black line in plain sight in front of the full moon.

It was growing downward and looked like a solid banner slowly unraveling. We were standing there in complete awe and silence, just watching it. It then stopped "unraveling" (still in front of the moon) and right after it did, another line or thin rectangle appeared a little below where the first object ended and did the same "unraveling" the first object did.

All the while maintaining a stat! ionary point of origin from where it appeared. So at first it ! started to look like exclamation point (!) But the point continued to elongate downward. The objects did not move other than appearing and "unraveling" the entire time.

The moon was well above the tree line and no power poles or clouds were even close to it. I did not see any other aircraft in the sky. As the 2nd object started to stretch past the bottom of the moon.

My coworker started to become very unsettled and distraught over what we were watching and needed to get home to her family asap. She was so shaken up from it that she asked me if I could drive her car for her. I wanted to stay and watch it, as long as I could but I couldn't deny my coworkers request to drive, seeing how shook up she got.

Driving home, I tried to continue watching it the best I could but soon lost sight of it in the trees and hills on the way home. Once home I was able to get a good view of the moon again but when I did, I didn't see the objects any more. We must have watched the objects for ! about 5-10 mins before leaving the work parking lot and about 10 to 15 mins to dive myself home.

I was so excited at the time over what I saw that I wrote down some notes and drew a diagram to help better describe and understand what happened once I got home. I scoured local news for days but never heard anything about it. I told my friends and family, who were skeptical and made light of it.

Some of my friends later got confirmation from my coworker of what we saw that night. But it still scares her and she doesn't like to talk about it in detail. Although some time has passed since then, I still remember this event very vividly, as I have never seen anything like it before or since.

I have since stopped telling people about it out of fear of ridicule, discrediting myself and disbelief (even I am skeptical of other people's ufo stories and sightings). I've only recently came across my notes of what I witnessed that night and wanted to tell my story one more time. I do not! know what these things are but I am certain what I saw.

They ! were sol id and they were there in front of the moon. They made no noise and had no lights. They sat motionless in the sky and changed its shape.

I witnessed the 2nd object literally appear and grow from nothing. I am an educated person and I cannot come to a proper explanation of what it was. It really defied my logic.

I know about helicopters, meteors, contrails, chemtrails and weather balloons. I am aware of various, bizarre weather phenomena. Drones have not yet been made public.

I rarely drink and I don't take drugs. I was of sound mind on that night and I am of sound mind now as I write this. What I said here happened and is is 100% true.

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UFO at a Steelers game. I remember watching a Steelers football game and the camera focused on a diamond shaped object. The announcers didn't know what it was.

Anyway I stumbled onto this site when I did a search on this and I see that someone else reported it as well. What I remember about the details is different than him. He may be more accurate than me.

It was a long time ago. We both agree that it wa a Steelers game though. His is dated 10-21-01 or close to it.

Just thought I would add this because I did see the same thing. ((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. PD)).

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Traveling on a darkened backroad (no assisted lighting) about 5 miles into my journey I noticed the lights above the power plant seemed awfully bright. I peered up into the sky and noticed 3 stars next to each other, then i looked again and realized there were about 7-9 of these stars? encircling the power plant.I stopped the car to get a better look, and in the center of this was a plane at highspeed which seemed tobe escorting or being escorted by 2 other craft (not sure if they were planes or not).

Around these encircled stars? there were small aircraft encircling them flying at what appeared to be leisurely pace. About 5. Everything was at a very high altitude.

I tried my best to observe as I drove on, but then they were out of sight. Less than 30 minutes went by before I was returning on that same route , the airplanes were still flying steady around the power plant and the stars? had disappeared. I drove on another 2-3 miles and was just peaking at the roads ridge, as if out of a space movie there were 7-9 stars? in a jagged V formation stretced out in mate to be about 5 mles.

Now I was just a little creepd out at that point, and in the blink of an eye they vanished. I did a few inqires and naturally no one saw a thing. This was my second sighting in 3 days, in my life, I was not scared in anyway and infact almost found it comforting, as I am located 60 miles south of Manhatten and about 80 miles east of Three Mile Island.

I am hoping since this was right after the attack on America that our government or Allies were out there watching these vulnerable sights. I do know of 2 people who have witnessed some activity very near the same area. Also days later I was telling this encounter to an associate and they asked if there was any interferrance with my radio during this sighting, yes there were actual total segments of song interrupted by what seemed like aCB but I did not make out any language.

This person lives i! n this v icinity and was experiencing radio interferrance in that time table. The other people will be writing in to verify their sightings.

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Fireball Reported From Various Locations of Pennsylvania During the evening of 10-02-01, I received reports that fireball sightings were reported from Warren County, PA near the New York line. One witness I interviewed, said that she saw a huge blazing orange ball of fire moving north. During the evening I learned that other similar reports originated from Armstrong and Mercer Counties.

I was also told that emergency centers near Youngstown, Ohio received many sighting reports. A resident of Allegheny County, near Pittsburgh, had knowledge that police in that area also received reports of something moving across the sky. I also interviewed a witness from Latrobe, PA in Westmoreland County, who watched a big orange-red ball of fire "as bright as the moon" followed by a glowing tail which tapered off in thickness.

I am awaiting additional data concerning this event. I would appreicate being notified of any other fireball or aerial phenomena reported on this night from around the country. Stan Gordon-Researcher PA UFO/Fortean Hotline 724-838-7768 (24 hr.

s) [email protected] http://www.westol.

com/~paufo ((NUFORC Note: Our gratitude to Stan Gordon, well-known UFO investigator from the Pittsburgh area, for submitting this report. Please see report from Howell, MI, for 1939 hrs., 02OC01.

PD)).

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Picture from a recent trip in PA. Did not notice the object until I downloaded the picture I was with some friends in Pittsburgh PA on a bike trip back to Washington DC down the Alleghany Highlands Trail. We were being dropped off in Boston PA just outside of Pittsburg by the father of one of my friends.

We were staying at a bed & breakfast and I was taking some pictures with my digital camera. I did not notice the object at the time and only noticed it when I downloaded to my PC. The object appears directly above a bridge that is in the background of the picture that I will send to the e-mail address below.

((NUFORC Note: Photo was sent to NUFORC. Looks like a tiny black dot in the distance. It may have discernible shape in the original, but the digitized image is ambiguous.

It could be a plane, bird, or anything. PD)).

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a craft in the treetops a full moon, which made this very visible. Myself and my 15 year old nephew were driving south towards Easton,Pa. on a road that runs a mile or so through an industial park.

I then noticed about 75 feet off the road (which I went back the following day and realized it was an entry drive to a company and 75 feet off the road it had an area heavily shrubbed with mature trees (circular area) and then another 50 feet to the parking lot) 25 to 30 feet in air, in the shrubbed area , were some lites. We pulled into the drive and looked up out of our windows at what appeared to be a small dark triangular craft with 3 orange lites, hovering right above the treetops. This object made no sound what so ever.

Next it moved exceptionally slow(almost a glide) about 150 feet away and stopped. We gave it the logical reasoning that there is a private airport a quarter mile away and it was right after september 11 and the crop dusting warnings and we thought it was govermental craft we were unaware of monituring the area as we are only 60 miles from NY city. We watched sit still and then the orange lites (just one) blinked and it was gone.

Ofcourse we asked a few people in our area if they had heard or seen anything that nite, but they had not. ((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. PD)).

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Possible Central Pennsylvania Sighting ~09.25.01 might have been 2 baloons (not passenger baloons, hand-held circus-type baloons), not sure.

at about 2:00 pm est. I was in the north wing (radiology dept.) at Sunbury community hospital (Snyder county (central) Pennsylvania) where I work.

I am an avid "skyfisher" with my camcorder and enjoy sky watching. I was looking (as i do throughout the day) for "odd"/chemtrail activity but instead saw two unusual objects. The more stationary of the two was larger and seemed to exhibit no anomalous motion.

approximate range seemed to be about at least 2-4 miles. Clear blue skys (for once ;). The smaller object appeared to be moving southeast at about double the speed of the first.

The larger object appeard brighter than the smaller, mobile object. My impression was that of two mylar ballons catching the sun, but why at that range would one move consistantly away from the other at twice the speed, while the other remained relatively motionless? Since it's been 19 years since i last saw a "UFO" i called two associates who saw the same thing. Since one is a smoker and was going out for a smoke break i asked her to look for them from outside, to no avail.

She later asked me about the objects she had seen from inside but not outside, I had no aditional info. thus no response. ANYWAY.

Hope to correlate potential sighting with other PA skywatchers during this time. Somewhat skeptical of actual saucer since no overt contraindiction of modern Physics was observed. Peace! ((e-address deleted)) Are you going?.

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white teardrop I was on my deck talking to a friend on the phone. I saw what I thought were some very bright stars and as I looked at them I wasn't sure if they were stars, they seemed brighter and looked like they were grouped together in the shape of a perfect triangle. I am not much of a sky watcher so I just thought I had never noticed this before.

As I was looking at them one of them suddenly shot across the sky it looked like a white tear drop, then it was gone. This was too large to be a shooting star.what I had thought was a star I was looking at before I saw the white tear drop was then gone.

There was no sound and no colored lights. I have never seen anything like it and it was not like anything I have ever heard of. This was Sept 11/01 and you can be sure there were no airplanes in the sky that night.

((NUFORC Note: We suspect the witness means 0030 hrs. on 12SE01. We have altered the date.

PD)).

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Very slowly moving green, red and white lights flashing in the night sky. In the northen sky,50 degrees from the horizon.Both objects were flashing red, green, and white lights and moved slowly in a circular motion.

Then one object moved up to about a 60 degree angle, the other one went below the horizon. We observed for about an hour went to sleep thinking it must have been satelite or something and we'd look for it the next night, but it was not there. Take note there were to be no airplanes flying in the air this night because of the terrorist attacks.

We heard airplanes flying over before which drew our attention outside, these planes went in an opposite direction of the lights. We figured they were military aircraft, but these light did not appear to be anything we had seen before, they were very slowly moving, almost stationary,about the size of a very large star. ((NUFORC Note: Description appears to us to be not inconsistent with that of "twinkling stars," but that is only a guess.

PD)).

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Planes guided into the Trade Centers by UFOs. I can't believe not many people reported this. I saw two ufos hit the World Trade Centers.

Is America blind. The centers went down. I'm not talking about the planes.

I saw 2 sebarate crafts "watching" from the sky. In the confusion people might have missed it. They seemed to guide the planes into centers.

Maybe I'm going crazy, but they weren't just spectators. I saw them while watching the events unfold on TV.

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UFO SIGHTING ON 9 / 11 / 01 ---the night of the World Trade Center bombing. The reason i'm entering this report is, because i'm trying to see if anyone else out there in the same area as me, saw this occurance. It was 9/11 the date of the world trade center bombing.

i was hanging out with 2 of my friends talking about the incident that happen during the day., we were outside my house in the front lawn having a cigarette to close out the night before going to bed.when my one friend pointed out the fact that this is one of the only nights you'll ever see the stars with no planes flying around, cause all air-ways were banned due to the new york bombing.

, so were all looking up at the stars like wow.when i notice a brighter than normal star.i thought it was the north star, but then my friend pointed out otherwise, showing me the real north star.

so there we were watching this brighter than normal star twinkle, but it started to flash.it flashed a couple of times, and pulsed and then started to zig zag around in the sky.and there was no sound whatsoever.

(no engine noise, or anything).it would zig zag at extreme angles and then stop.and then zig zag some more.

and at this time.i noticed 3 different colored lights around it.blues and reds, .

couldn't tell if the lights were in a triangle position or circuler.but they where definitly spinning around the center "brighter star" that was flashing and pulsing.we were watching it zig zag around, when all of a sudden in a split second, it beemed across the oposite side of the sky.

We almost thought that it disspeared but then saw it flashing at the other end of the sky.By now, we were extremely excited and in shock.It pulsed a little more, then slowly disapeared like it was fading backwards.

then it was gone. About 5 seconds after that 2 fighter jets came roaring from the far side of the sky (it was loud and thunderous) and they circled the area twice before flying away. and this was all on the night where there was supposed to be NO airplanes in the sky at all.

and no aircraft allowed.so me and my 2 friends were completely amazed. then next day we told everyone.

and of course no one believed us.so i write here today to see if any other people in the southern philadelphia suburb area saw this or witnessed it too.i am completely serious about my report.

or i wouldn't have taken the time to write this.cause i am an extremely busy person., and it took me until now, to finally surf the net to try to find out if others had seen the same thing that night on 9/11/01.