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Pennsylvania UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 323 UFO sighting reports in Pennsylvania from 2020 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (59 reports, 18.27% of total).
- July is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (44 reports, 13.62% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (68 reports, 21.05% of total).
- 03/05/20 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (7 reports, 2.17% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (159 reports, 49.23% of total).
Pennsylvania UFO Sighting Reports in 2020
This is a sampling of 20 Pennsylvania UFO reports from 2020, 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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Pulsating orange orb in eastern sky My wife and I along with her son watched a orange pulsating light cross the sky It appeared in the northeast sky towards the horizon and traveled slowly towards the east. No sound, no erratic motion. About an hour later 23:30 there was a second object.
Same size Followed the same path. The airport is south of my location and I have never seen aircraft following that flight path.
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6-7 Orange/Red UFOs On New Year’s Eve, 2020, at about 6 p.m, I was with my mother driving to the bank on the way home. As I turned a corner on the street for a bank, i noticed bright orange/red things flying in the sky.
There were about three of them who traveled close together. I went to park and they were flying above us and disappeared before our eyes. Then two more appeared behind a McDonalds it seemed, but it was just so high in the sky.
They went to where the previous went and disappeared very very high above us. Two more then came and the same thing happened. My mom said it was lanterns and I knew it wasn’t.
I was recording and when I zoomed in I was amazed. It was a ginormous reddish-orange energy looking ball that was seemingly pulsating in and out to gain speed. It kind of looked like the bottom of a UFO like it was traveling sideways.
On the inside of the orbs there was another circle inside another circle. I have footage as well.
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Red lights hovering above Pittsburgh suburbs saw a red object approximately 30k ft in the air several miles off in the distance. I live in a flight path near Pittsburgh Airport and it was definitely not a plane or helicopter. It was moving slowly towards the SW then stayed in place for a minute or 2 above the Robinson Twp area.
It then appeared to move west and accended out of sight. The air force base and airport are both in different directions from where it was above.
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MADAR Node 44.
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1 sphere like round firework. Still. Turned into 3 spheres.
No sound until deep hum. No movement @1st. Then 3 from NW to SE.
It looked like a stationary firework display/like a patterned ball. But not moving or arc-ing. I thought someone had put up some sort of display on a tower but there is no tower over there.
I ran in for the phone/camera. Then the huge ball that was like a frozen firework started moving up, then forward, this direction. I kept trying to get photo but it wasn’t happening.
Then it was 3 round lights, 3-D, like almost a plane formation with port and starboard but also front , triangular like a plane, but still these round patterned globes it got closer, lower, no noise until a very low bass hum, not like an engine. Impossibly low in sky. Still these round 3-D static firework-like globes.
Then past where I could see. Nothing wrong with my eyes/I kept looking to see if there were auras around street lights. Nothing.
Freaked. Heart-pounding experience.
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Early in the am on night shift, I saw a bright green ball of light that looked like it was falling to earth. I do not think it looked like a falling star or meteor. It lasted a second or two and was gone.
Near route 422 Sinking Springs, PA.
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V-shape white lights moving through the sky before disappearing I was outside late at night with my dog and I saw a V-shape light formation moving fairly slowly through the sky. The V-shape was in a wide, roughly 90 degree angle and the lights were steady glowing white (they looked more like an LED light compared to a star). It was moving E to NE in the sky for about 20 seconds and then it disappeared before my eyes.
While I noted that it was a triangle craft, I am only assuming because I was only able to see the lights, and the sky was too dark to tell if there was a craft connected to the lights.
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Formation of UFOs, back and forth at high altitude. Over our home in Pottstown, I saw this triangle shaped formation far up in the sky. It wasn't very lit up.
At first I thought it's bird's or a cloud. Then it happened again, coming the other way, then again, but they would form a line or go into a circular type shape. This went on for hours, back and forth, high in the sky.
My videos and pictures are terrible. Even with my high zoom mirror less camera.
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Two orbs outside my house. I noticed these outside my cabin in the mountains of Ickesburg. The moved quickly in different directions.
They looked as if they were spinning in the middle.
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MADAR Node 44.
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Very large translucent triangle It was a sunny clear morning. The sun was still low in the sky behind me. I think this has a lot to do with what I saw.
I was sitting in my car in the parking lot of a local bank waiting for the it to open. I always watch the sky because I am a plane spotter and always have been interested in aviation. I know the usual aircraft that fly around.
Plus I live near a major airport so it’s the usual commercial aircraft. I put triangle shape in the description but it started out not triangle. I noticed a mass in the sky moving toward my location, coming from the west.
It looked like a flock of birds. That’s what I thought it was at first. The best I could describe it was, it looked like white birds flapping their wings.
Like white shimmering shapes. I watched this but I did take my eyes off it because, like I said I thought it was just birds. Again I think the sun angle had a lot to do with this.
This is where it gets fuzzy, I don’t recall the shapes getting close! r as I was partially watching but suddenly it was right over my car. I looked up and it was very bright but almost translucent. Then I was so shocked I could make out a triangle shape and a distinct outline of four bright white lights along the back.
The rest seemed to be reflecting the sun. I almost get the feeling I wasn’t supposed to see this. I reached for my phone to take a photo or video.
Somehow in the couple of seconds it took to reach for my phone I knew it would be gone and I looked back up with phone in hand and it was gone. Disappeared. I really want to know what this was.
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Fiery, bluish, rocket tail traveling the night sky at a super sonic speed, then disappearing; left a distinct smokey travel line. Traveling north in the vehicle I was driving on PA Route 168, at approximately 19:25 hours on Dec. 10th 2020, bordering Raccoon Creek State Park, I witnessed a very bright blue light travel east to west across almost the entire width of the night sky.
I can’t describe it as an aircraft because it flew well below where planes usually fly, about where low clouds usually float, and at such a super high rate of speed; way faster than any man-made aircraft. I did not see an actual object; just saw what appeared to be the fiery, sparking, bluish bright tail of some super-sonic object. There may have been a reddish, orangish tip, but the light I saw can be described as the tail of a rocket.
The windows were up in the vehicle I was driving and I did not hear any sound, which surprised me, given the fairly low altitude the object traveled. It only took about 3 seconds to travel across almost the entire night sky, and then I suddenly lost sight of it; much like it just disappeared. I actually kind of waited for an explosion or a ‘boom,’ but nothing.
After driving about a couple hundred yards from where I last saw it, I pulled off into the Nichol Rd parking lot of the state park and looked back to where the object flew over. To my surprise, there was a distinct line of what appeared to be smoke across the entire width of the clear, starry sky, exactly where this object traveled! Against the night sky, this smokey line it was visible to naked eye, as well as the stars in the sky, however my iphone could not capture this remarkable sight. This was the proof that something of sheer volume and speed had indeed traveled through our atmosphere.
Again, the altitude seemed! to be about where clouds are normally seen. I made a couple of calls to friends to report what I had witnessed. I stayed in this parking lot for about an hour; watching the sky and viewing the smokey line.
It took an extremely long time for it to start fading away. Even at the half-hour mark, it was still very distinct and visible. It did very slowly start to shorten and fade to the south after about an hour.
The only thing I could compare this smokey line to was what one of those “skywriter” crafts leave behind, but they are only seen during the day; their lines fade much faster; and they are flown at extreme high altitudes. This sighting was indeed like nothing I’ve ever seen before. Its shape, behavior, speed, and character was like nothing from this planet.
It left behind a distinct travel path which proved its flight through our sky. I just wish I could’ve viewed it longer; I wish I would’ve seen it coming and been ready with a camera; I wish someone else had been with me to share in this strange experience; I wish there were other reports of this and more evidence to prove what exactly this UFO was! Perhaps we’ll never know. I hope that the information I provided here leads to some more proof and discovery.
Thank you for taking the time to read my experience.
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White haze horizontal cigar/ sphere shaped object. Flying from south to north. Very high in sky no sound.
Consistent travel speed. I see these on occasion while on deck watching for shooting stars. Bare eye observation.
I'm a housewife and a bit of a nightowl.no drugs used. this is my first report.
I also see quick moving dark shadows on occasion. I observe sky approximately 3 nights per month. I will report from now on! This white hazy object was not my imagination.
Could it just be man made? Was very large and distant. Responses anyone?.
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unusal obect in the sky ON approx 1547,12/06/2020, While taking my taking out for the evening run, I happened to look at the sky and see what appeared to be a triangle shaped object ahead and above me. It was approx 300 feet in the air. From one side and actually 3 sides,I could see various colors .
Those flashing colors were on the 3 sides of the vehicle alternately from each side. I could hear no sound and it was moving at what appeared to be a slow pace. I quickly went into my home to get my cell phone to get a video of this event.
I tried to video tape it I did check my phone and it does appear I did catch the object on the camera from a distance. The object eventually came to a complete stop and hovered ,I watched this happen for approx 15 minutes and it was still there when I called in the report the UFO Reporting Site. ((name and contact information deleted)).
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Big triangle takes off at the speed of light. Heading on PA turnpike heading towards Bristol area, appeared to look like lightning in the sky. But skies were mostly clear.
A triangle shaped object appeared, lit up very bright and took off and disappeared into the clouds. The aircraft looked like it had 3 engines on the back and upon taking off left a long trail of lights until it was gone.What looked like lightning may have been lights off the aircraft.
As cliche as this might sound it looked like it was something out of a movie. From star wars where a spaceship gets ready for "light speed". I've never seen anything like it in my life.
Aircraft was a triangle shape and way to big to be anything from earth. At least that I've ever seen. I was able to make out the shape of the spacecraft from the lights but it appeared to have some type of cloak technology on it.
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Top-shaped object. Witness was unnerved by fact it was shining a search beam looking for something. Witness lives in wooded rural community in the Poconos off Route 739 with a pond nearby called Elm Pond.
Saw out her window an object bigger on top and getting smaller towards bottom like a top. Blue and red light on the lower part of object. Object was also emitting a white beam as if looking for something below.
Witness cant see pond directly but knows object was over pond. 4 houses are on far side of pond. Unable to determine actual size but apparent size was bigger than moon and bigger than basketball.
Just over treetops. Furthest object could have been from witness is 500 feet give or take. Object was stationary.
Did not see it come. Went to bathroom. Returned and object was gone.
Did not see it leave. No sound. Witness was unnerved by fact it was shining a search beam looking for something.
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It was obviously on fire yet no meteors were reported plus if it were a meteor it would be moving side ways this thing came straighdown It was moving faster than anything I’ve ever seen. It hit ground but yet never exploded saw it over the mountain top of the Lehigh valley tunnel.
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Saw a massive bright green beam of light shoot out of the ground into the sky I was driving east on Route 222 in central Pennsylvania, a few miles west of Allentown. It was around 7:30 PM yesterday (1 December) and nighttime, but the sky was clear and there was a full moon, so it was a bright night. Suddenly from the south I saw a massive beam of bright green light shoot up from the ground and into the sky.
It held there for a moment, maybe ~2 seconds, and then just disappeared. This light was massive, I had a good view of the landscape and it lit everything up for miles around. My first thought was maybe some kind of spotlight or holiday lights, but immediately I knew that was impossible because of the magnitude of the brightness.
It lit up everything and was much thicker than a spotlight.
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Tic-tac appears approx 200 feet above in Neshaminy State Park, noticed because light reflects off of it into my eyes. I tell my girlfriend to look and she sees it, and then it disappears and we look over toward the Philadelphia skyline, it reappears there, and then disappears again completely out of sight.
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MADAR Node 38.
Pennsylvania UFO Sightings From 2020 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 | 59 reported sightings | 18.27% of all reports |
Circle | 42 reported sightings | 13.00% of all reports |
Triangle | 34 reported sightings | 10.53% of all reports |
Other | 22 reported sightings | 6.81% of all reports |
Sphere | 22 reported sightings | 6.81% of all reports |
Unknown | 20 reported sightings | 6.19% of all reports |
Cigar | 13 reported sightings | 4.02% of all reports |
Disk | 13 reported sightings | 4.02% of all reports |
Fireball | 11 reported sightings | 3.41% of all reports |
Oval | 11 reported sightings | 3.41% of all reports |
Formation | 11 reported sightings | 3.41% of all reports |
Changing | 5 reported sightings | 1.55% of all reports |
Flash | 4 reported sightings | 1.24% of all reports |
Cylinder | 4 reported sightings | 1.24% of all reports |
Orb | 3 reported sightings | 0.93% of all reports |
Diamond | 3 reported sightings | 0.93% of all reports |
Rectangle | 3 reported sightings | 0.93% of all reports |
Cone | 2 reported sightings | 0.62% of all reports |
Cross | 2 reported sightings | 0.62% of all reports |
Chevron | 2 reported sightings | 0.62% of all reports |
Egg | 1 reported sightings | 0.31% of all reports |
Teardrop | 1 reported sightings | 0.31% of all reports |
Pennsylvania UFO Sightings From 2020 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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July | 44 reported sightings | 13.62% of all reports |
March | 37 reported sightings | 11.46% of all reports |
August | 37 reported sightings | 11.46% of all reports |
September | 36 reported sightings | 11.15% of all reports |
October | 27 reported sightings | 8.36% of all reports |
April | 25 reported sightings | 7.74% of all reports |
May | 24 reported sightings | 7.43% of all reports |
November | 22 reported sightings | 6.81% of all reports |
February | 20 reported sightings | 6.19% of all reports |
December | 18 reported sightings | 5.57% of all reports |
June | 17 reported sightings | 5.26% of all reports |
January | 16 reported sightings | 4.95% of all reports |
Pennsylvania UFO Sightings From 2020 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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Saturday | 68 reported sightings | 21.05% of all reports |
Thursday | 51 reported sightings | 15.79% of all reports |
Sunday | 46 reported sightings | 14.24% of all reports |
Monday | 45 reported sightings | 13.93% of all reports |
Tuesday | 41 reported sightings | 12.69% of all reports |
Wednesday | 36 reported sightings | 11.15% of all reports |
Friday | 36 reported sightings | 11.15% of all reports |
Pennsylvania UFO Sightings From 2020 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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03/05/20 | 7 reported sightings | 2.17% of all reports |
07/11/20 | 7 reported sightings | 2.17% of all reports |
08/08/20 | 5 reported sightings | 1.55% of all reports |
07/14/20 | 5 reported sightings | 1.55% of all reports |
02/23/20 | 4 reported sightings | 1.24% of all reports |
Pennsylvania UFO Sightings From 2020 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 | 159 reported sightings | 49.23% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 49 reported sightings | 15.17% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 48 reported sightings | 14.86% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 39 reported sightings | 12.07% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 17 reported sightings | 5.26% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 11 reported sightings | 3.41% of all reports |
All Pennsylvania Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2020
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Pennsylvania, in 2020
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Pennsylvania
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Pennsylvania.