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Pennsylvania UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 135 UFO sighting reports in Pennsylvania from 2002 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (30 reports, 22.22% of total).
- August is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (19 reports, 14.07% of total).
- Friday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (26 reports, 19.26% of total).
- 08/04/02 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (6 reports, 4.44% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (59 reports, 43.70% of total).
Pennsylvania UFO Sighting Reports in 2002
This is a sampling of 20 Pennsylvania UFO reports from 2002, 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).
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hovering craft takes off quickly, loss of time I went for my morning jog, when I saw this strang light. There were three lights. They just hovered in the air for about 1 minute.
Then the lights went out, and in only 4 or 5 seconds the dark object cleared the intire distance of the sky. When I arived home I became shocked to find that I had lost ten extra minutes. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous.
PD)).
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Photographic Evidence of Small, Black, Anomalous Formation moving away from direction of wind On December nineteenth, 2002, a little after four p.m., while driving in the southern portion of York, Pennsylvania, my wife and I spotted an unusual looking small (thirty meters wide and two meters in height) black "cloud" in the Northeastern sky.
When we first noticed the "cloud," it looked to be only a hundred meters off the ground and less than one hundred fifty meters from our position, in the car. I stopped the car and got out of the vehicle to take a photo of whatever the black object was and by the time I snapped the photo (twelve seconds after our initial look at the thing) the black anomaly was approximately four hundred meters away. I then re-entered the car and looked to see where this black object had gone.
It was nowhere to be seen! (Only six seconds had elapsed since I had taken the photo.) It really didn't look like a real cloud, at all. It looked more like a beginner's attempt at making a digital cloud.
It moved toward the Northeast, even though the direction a nearby flag was blowing indicated that the surface wind was moving in a straight West to East direction. That was also the direction a line of upper (white) clouds were moving. Besides the small, black, cloud-like formation there were no other clouds in the sky except for the line of clouds that occupied an elevated height.
The black mystery object was the only one of its kind in the sky. There were no planes or weather balloons or helicopters in the sky. The sun was near to its time of setting.
Other than the above-mentioned clouds, the sky was blue. I'm not sure what else to tell you about this incident except that my wife had seen a nearly identical small, black, cloud-like formation just the day before. We still haven't gotten the film developed.
Are there any special instructions on where or how this film should be developed? Also, any suggestions on which web sites would wish to be informed of this event? Hope to hear from you soon.
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Pennsylvania: New Wilmington I was returning from a meeting at church in my car when I saw three objects in the Western sky. It appeared that a beam of light came from the vessel. Two other craft that were traveling close to the ground were following it.
The other craft appeared to be some sort of helicopters but there was no sound either from them or from the lights in the sky. ((FOLLOW-UP INVESTIGATION BY MUFON INVESTIGATORS)) 100 Date: 12/10/02 110 Time: 18:00 130 Sighting City: New Wilmington 140 Sighting State: pa 190 Description: This case was deemed a possible hoax. The claimants/witneses could not be reached.
Investgated by Rick Dell'Aquilla -Assistant State Director for Ohio MUFON George Pindroh - UFO investigator Chuck Eppolito - UFO investigator Email addresses are: Rick Dell'Aquilla - [email protected] George Pindroh - [email protected] Chuck Eppolito - e-mail address unknown Case submitted to NUFORC by Donnie Blessing - State Section Director Ohio MUFON e-mail- Rdonolin@cs.
com ((NUFORC Note: We express our gratitude to the MUFON investigator, Rich Dell"Aquilla, ASD for MUFON/OH, and to Donnie Blessing, SSD, and William Jones, SD for MUFON/OH, plus the other investigators listed above, for following up on this case. PD)).
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TWO UFOS OBSERVED I was driving on the Charleston Road with my friend when I saw two definite aircraft hovering in the West. It appeared a beam of light eminated from one of the objects. They disappeared after the beam ceased.
((FOLLOW-UP CORRESPONDENCE FROM MUFON INVESTIGATORS)) 100 Date: 12/8/02 110 Time: 19:45 130 Sighting City: Sharpsville 140 Sighting State: pa 190 Description: This case was deemed a possible hoax when claimants/witnesses could not be reached. Investgated by Rick Dell'Aquilla - Assistant State Director for Ohio MUFON George Pindroh - UFO investgator Chuck Eppolito - UFO investgator E-mail addresses: Dell'Aquilla - [email protected] Geroge Pindroh- pindroh@en.
com Chuck Eppolito - e-mail address unknown Reports submitted to NUFORC by Donnie Blessing - State Section Director Ohio MUFON E-mail [email protected] ((NUFORC Note: We express our gratitude to the MUFON investigator, Rich Dell"Aquilla, ASD for MUFON/OH, and to Donnie Blessing, SSD, and William Jones, SD for MUFON/OH, plus the other investigators listed above, for following up on this case. PD)).
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Western Pennsylvania I was in the Sharpsville High School parking lot when I heard a sound. A small vehicle landed in the parking lot. At that point I do not remember anything until a period of time later.
The next thing that I remember is that I was sitting in a room with two other people. I do not think they were aliens. One was a woman with a mask on and a small tank.
She kept repeating, "Thank you Jesus". The man told me his name was Joe. He also did not remember how he got there and was quite irritated.
They took me from the group and took me into a room. The last thing I remembered was seeing a tall man and a small man. The small man looked like he had on some kind of uniform.
The small man called the other grayman or graban. I did not remember anything else until I was brought back to the parking lot. ((FOLLOW-UP CORRESPONDENCE FROM MUFON INVESTIGATORS)) 100 Date: 12/8/02 110 Time: 19:45 130 Sighting City: Sharpsville 140 Sighting State: pa 190 Description: This case was deemed a possible hoax when claimants/witnesses could not be reached.
Investgated by Rick Dell'Aquilla - Assistant State Director for Ohio MUFON George Pindroh - UFO investgator Chuck Eppolito - UFO investgator E-mail addresses: Dell'Aquilla - [email protected] Geroge Pindroh- [email protected] Chuck Eppolito - e-mail address unknown Reports submitted to NUFORC by Donnie Blessing - State Section Director Ohio MUFON E-mail Rdonolin@cs.
com ((NUFORC Note: We express our gratitude to the MUFON investigator, Rich Dell"Aquilla, ASD for MUFON/OH, and to Donnie Blessing, SSD, and William Jones, SD for MUFON/OH, plus the other investigators listed above, for following up on this case. PD)).
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bright light follows, ascends, reappears in rural, PA Driving home early Sun. morning, I was on of two passengers in a small pickup. I was admiring the orange-tint on the horizon when I noticed a bright star-like light up high and behind our direction of travel.
At first I thought it must be a bright star, but within seconds I studied it and determined there were no stars visible like this. It was too bright and too low; it had my full attention. After a couple of minutes I further determined it could not be stationary because it remained the same distance from us.
I insisted the other passenger observed this light with me. Then it made a sudden ascension staight up very, very high into the night sky until the light became tiny and then gone. The ascension was rapid, but not "lightspeed.
" My excitement level rose. Almost immediately, I noticed it right in the very same place behind and above us. I continued to press the other passenger to focus on it.
Within the next couple of minutes, it ascended straight up again. I did not see it rise as high as the first time, but I was sure the other passenger saw this movement. Again the light reappeared in its same location.
Shortly after disappearing I don't know to where. We must have been the only vehicle on those rural roads that time of morning. It followed us until we were almost in the town of Carlisle, PA.
I,ve had about three unexplainable experiences in my life which baffle me to this day. One very involved experience took place in the FL panhandle; I ended up in Tallahasse. Crazy stuff happened over a significant amount of time.
When it started it was day, night when over. Anyway, anyone interested I'll share all the different experiences I've had.
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Triangle Shaped Object 3 White lights Red in Middle at times And Silent Me and My Girlfriend were heading toward Philadelphia on Rt. 13 in Bucks County Croydon Pa. When we stopped at a red light and in the distance we saw three lights white in color in a straight horizontal line.
Which at that point in that distance didn't seem like much? My girlfriend said it was moving toward us but there were tree's in front of us though no leaves were on the tree's it was still hard to get a good description of the object. Then we got the green light and started heading toward the object which stayed in that area for at least 2 minutes before we started heading down Rt. 13.
I saw the speed of it as it started to accelerate not super fast but enough to where we couldn't gain on it and then the weirdest part happened it moved across Rt. 13 with the horizontal lights staying horizontal so basically it didn't turn like you would think it should have being a normal aircraft instead it strifed or slid across the sky right across Rt. 13????? Then I noticed it slowed down considerably and started to kinda slowly descend and when I got to the light at croydon train station it was like 60 to 70 ft away from my car and then I was astonished because I will admit although I believe a lot of things I am a skeptic and I saw it with 3 white lights in a v triangle shape with a red light in the middle which was not always on it seemed at times to be off and it didn't make a sound just sitting there in the sky?????(that is not normal for huge engines of man made avionics) then I had to go because I got the green light and it started to move away from us but it was weird how it turned because suddenly the two lights were facing us which told me it just turned and it didn't really move to do this???.
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STRANGE EXPERIENCE MY SON CECIL WANTED ME TO FILE THIS REPORT WITH YOU. I COULDN'T SLEEP AND WENT INTO MY BACKYARD TO PRAY. I WAS SURROUNDED BY A BEAM OF LIGHT.
THE NEXT THING I KNEW WAS BEING ALONE IN A ROOM. I HAVE A LUNG PROBLEM AND I THINK I PASSED OUT. WHEN I AWOKE I WAS WITH TWO MEN.
THEY WERE TALKING. I COULD NOT REMEMBER ANYTHING ELSE UNTIL I AWOKE ON THE GROUND IN MY BACK YARD. ((FOLLOW-UP CORRESPONDENCE FROM MUFON INVESTIGATORS)) 100 Date: 12/7/02 110 Time: 21:30 130 Sighting City: Hermitage 140 Sighting State: pa 190 Description: This case was deemed a possible hoax.
The claimants/witneses could not be reached. Investgated by Rick Dell'Aquilla -Assistant State Director for Ohio MUFON George Pindroh - UFO investigator Chuck Eppolito - UFO investigator Email addresses are: Rick Dell'Aquilla - [email protected] George Pindroh - pindroh@en.
com Chuck Eppolito - e-mail address unknown Case submitted to NUFORC by Donnie Blessing - State Section Director Ohio MUFON e-mail- [email protected] ((NUFORC Note: We express our gratitude to the MUFON investigator, Rich Dell"Aquilla, ASD for MUFON/OH, and to Donnie Blessing, SSD, and William Jones, SD for MUFON/OH, plus the other investigators listed above, for following up on this case. PD)).
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crescent lights about 6 or 7 lights in a crescent shape flashing.going from the east to the west then turning south until they were out of sight.
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The fireball was below the clouds I think I saw a Metorite. It was below the clouds very low on the horizon. It traveled South to North.
The Fireball was a greenish blue color. It had a tail that glowed whiteish after the fireball disapeared. I saw it for about 5 sec.
total. I caught it out of the corner of my eye as I was making a turn in my truck. Thanks.
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Supplememnt to original report dated 12/06/02 of sighting on 12/02/02 at 05:15 in New Baltimore, Pa USA.
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Was at computer facing toward window, when my attention was drawn to an extremely bright electric blueish light (similar to a welding arc in intensity/brightness and color) moving very low on horizon between 25 to 35 degrees off horizon, moving left to right (west to northeast) at a very high rate of speed and leaving an extremely long trail or tail. Only viewed for perhaps 5 to 7 seconds until it went out of view due to the house. I ran outside but by then it had burned out.
I suspect either space debris or meteor re-entering atmosphere, but was faster, closer, lower to horizon, brighter and with longer tail than any meteorite I've ever seen! The size and brightness would seem to indicate it was relatively close to my location, however no sonic boom was heard.
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"Silent" Triangular Craft with two white and two reddish/orange plumes illuminating mountain sides in darkness. At approximately 05:15 on Monday morning, December 2, 2002, while standing on a logging road situated on the SE side of Club Road located on the valley floor between two mountains just west of New Baltimore, Pa. and about 50 feet into the woods and looking NW I saw a "craft" somewhat traingular in shape but very blurred within 200 feet horizontally from me and within 200 feet above the ground from me.
It was flying extremely fast and "silent", no sound(s) at all. It had two plumes, one on each side and to the rear of it, of very bright, but not blinding, white light and also two plumes of reddish/orange light located in the inside of but seperate from the two white plumes but much shorter in length than the white plumes. The white light, I assume, illuminated the valley floor and the sides of both mountains as bright or brighter than daylight.
It was traveling from the SW to the NE at an approximate coordinates of N 40 00.182' and W 078 46.489'.
I only saw it for a second or two at most for a distance of maybe 3,000 feet until it flew out of sight and the entire area returned to darkness. A Nephew of mine saw something very similar while on another mountain at about the same time.
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A blue round light that had a blue tail and moved extreamly fast. it was a round blue shape that went across the top of the mtn. for about 5 miles it had a blue stream behind it that looked like it was about 100 yards long in 3 seconds in 5 miles I can not explain it.
It went from west to east faster than anything I ever saw. Bear Valley joins Short mtn. short is about 2 1/2 miles wide on top .
When I first saw it , it was standing still then when I told my buddies to look it streaked across the top of Bear Vally Mtn. It was the first day of hunting season and I know more people saw it other than us three.
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Appeared traveling south to north glowing moving slowly without sound. Green aura.
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I witnessed 3 disk shaped lights flying through the sky for 10 minutes, when a 4th appeared they began to fly in a predetermined patter At 22:00 hours 29 Nov 2002 I witnessed 3 disk shaped lights flying through the sky in no apparant pattern. At 22:10 a fourth appeared, the four then began to fly in what appeared to be a predetermined pattern in which they came together and flew apart changing every second sequence. They did this for approximately 20 minutes, then as they flew apart they flew up and disappeared.
The sky was cloudy and the best description I could give of them is that they looked disk shapped with the brightest portion as a line in the center. I did photograph the four of them and hope to have some good pictures to share. It was amazing.
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a moveing light shining through the clouds a light shining through the clouds moving fast in a circle appearing and disappearing.
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This object made a pin point turn moving very fast and darted out of sight This happened only about 10 minutes after I saw another object. This object was dimly lit though. It glowed a light orangish color.
It also had no blinking lights. It looked to be shaped like a disk that came to a point at front and rear. It was also very high in the sky.
It was very fast and moved from north to southeast when suddenly at one point the object turned at one point. It didn't turn gradually, instead, it "darted" off at about a 30 to 40 degree angle at a given spot. More like a slingshot.
After it changed its direction it slowed down and then just darted out of sight.
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Very high flying and super fast I was looking at stars with binoculars because the atmosphere was very clear. Looking south of my location in Reading, I saw what looked to be about as big as one of the stars I was viewing (it was super high so it looked as small as a star). usually a very high plane or jet would look to be moving slowly and take a while to cover such a distance viewing it from down here on the ground.
This object covered my area of viewing in a matter of seconds. It was not a meteorite. It was out of sight in about 5 to 7 seconds.
It was very white bright, with no flashing lights. It was moving in a northern direction. I was viewing the sky from my yard at the time.
Please see my other report that happened about 10 minutes later. I've seen other objects from this location in the past too.
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Someone is playing tic-tac-toe in the sky with contrails. Looking out a second floor window facing west. Was looking for a winter storm that's forecast for today, Sky has wispy clouds and the half moon is visible.
I noticed X's in the sky. As I watched, a large silvery jet at a fairly low altitude flew a pattern crossing a long branch of one of the X's. There was a passenger jet higher up, flying northwest, and the contrail was minimal.
There is definitely a storm coming from the northwest. What would be the purpose of this? I wish I had a camera, because the trails are perfectly straight and the pattern is very consistent. I kid you not, its tic-tac-toe boards in the sky.
Pennsylvania UFO Sightings From 2002 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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Light | 30 reported sightings | 22.22% of all reports |
Other | 13 reported sightings | 9.63% of all reports |
Disk | 11 reported sightings | 8.15% of all reports |
Circle | 10 reported sightings | 7.41% of all reports |
Triangle | 10 reported sightings | 7.41% of all reports |
Unknown | 9 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
Fireball | 8 reported sightings | 5.93% of all reports |
Cigar | 6 reported sightings | 4.44% of all reports |
Sphere | 6 reported sightings | 4.44% of all reports |
Changing | 5 reported sightings | 3.70% of all reports |
Oval | 5 reported sightings | 3.70% of all reports |
Cylinder | 4 reported sightings | 2.96% of all reports |
Egg | 4 reported sightings | 2.96% of all reports |
Rectangle | 3 reported sightings | 2.22% of all reports |
Chevron | 2 reported sightings | 1.48% of all reports |
Formation | 2 reported sightings | 1.48% of all reports |
Diamond | 2 reported sightings | 1.48% of all reports |
Cone | 1 reported sightings | 0.74% of all reports |
Flash | 1 reported sightings | 0.74% of all reports |
Pennsylvania UFO Sightings From 2002 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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August | 19 reported sightings | 14.07% of all reports |
July | 16 reported sightings | 11.85% of all reports |
December | 15 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
September | 14 reported sightings | 10.37% of all reports |
November | 13 reported sightings | 9.63% of all reports |
February | 10 reported sightings | 7.41% of all reports |
June | 10 reported sightings | 7.41% of all reports |
April | 9 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
May | 9 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
October | 8 reported sightings | 5.93% of all reports |
January | 8 reported sightings | 5.93% of all reports |
March | 4 reported sightings | 2.96% of all reports |
Pennsylvania UFO Sightings From 2002 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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Friday | 26 reported sightings | 19.26% of all reports |
Monday | 23 reported sightings | 17.04% of all reports |
Saturday | 22 reported sightings | 16.30% of all reports |
Sunday | 18 reported sightings | 13.33% of all reports |
Wednesday | 16 reported sightings | 11.85% of all reports |
Thursday | 16 reported sightings | 11.85% of all reports |
Tuesday | 14 reported sightings | 10.37% of all reports |
Pennsylvania UFO Sightings From 2002 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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08/04/02 | 6 reported sightings | 4.44% of all reports |
12/02/02 | 6 reported sightings | 4.44% of all reports |
11/29/02 | 4 reported sightings | 2.96% of all reports |
12/08/02 | 4 reported sightings | 2.96% of all reports |
04/17/02 | 3 reported sightings | 2.22% of all reports |
Pennsylvania UFO Sightings From 2002 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 | 59 reported sightings | 43.70% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 24 reported sightings | 17.78% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 23 reported sightings | 17.04% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 16 reported sightings | 11.85% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 8 reported sightings | 5.93% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 5 reported sightings | 3.70% of all reports |
All Pennsylvania Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2002
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Pennsylvania, in 2002
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Pennsylvania
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Pennsylvania.