State Report
UFO Sightings in Pennsylvania
7,713 sightings on record from 1917 to 2023, drawn from the National UFO Reporting Center databank.
Total sightings
7,713
Share of US total
3.6%
Peak year
2013
582 reports
Top shape
Light
1,441 reports
Years active
106
Sightings by decade
reports / decadeTop shapes reported
all-timeLatest 20 sightings
most recent on record| Date | City | Shape | Duration | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-16 | Reading | disk | 15 minutes or so | Definitely caught my attention never seen something like that and flying in that matter plus as metallic glowing some... |
| 2023-12-16 | Tunkhannock | flash | Quarter of a second. | I saw a bright blue flash in the Eastern sky. 2 other people saw it as well. |
| 2023-12-14 | Harleysville | sphere | 1 minute | Spherical object moving with bright flashing lights |
| 2023-12-12 | TATAMY Borough | circle | about 2 minutes | Flash then light |
| 2023-12-08 | Pittsburgh | chevron | Approximately 5 minutes | My husband and I saw and took a video of a very large, chevron shaped craft with a straight row of lights across the... |
| 2023-12-08 | West Goshen Township | orb | 1 to 2 minutes | Amber light. High altitude |
| 2023-12-06 | Red Lion | light | At least 20 minutes | This is the second sighting of this object in the same location. It appears as a white pulsating light |
| 2023-11-28 | North East | orb | About 3 minutes | Seen on 95 south in northeast philly |
| 2023-11-19 | North York | triangle | Maybe 15 seconds | Black triangle object with 5-7 dimmed lights moving in deep space |
| 2023-11-14 | Flying Hills | cross | Still there. | 5 objects with white lights hanging in straight line and one with 3 red lights hanging in straight line moving quickly. |
| 2023-11-12 | Nixon | disk | 4 seconds | Driving at night and saw a green lit object drop down and zoom off |
| 2023-11-11 | Slippery Rock | triangle | Two minutes | Triangle shaped craft that moved like nothing I’ve ever seen. |
| 2023-11-11 | Pittsburgh | circle | 4 to 6 hours at least | a drone or what appears to be an aircraft of some sort has been hovering every night at the corner of N. Craig and baum... |
| 2023-11-11 | Polk | triangle | I don’t know exactly how | I walked out of my garage looked up at the sky and saw a triangle of three lights two green and one white . |
| 2023-11-05 | O'Hara Township | oval | Extremely fast Streak | I looked up a saw a giant flash in the sky. |
| 2023-11-05 | Mount Morris | orb | 20 seconds | Large extremely fast moving orb moving across the sky that stopped in midair, turned, and continued in the direction |
| 2023-11-02 | Lemoyne | cigar | about five to ten seconds | Saw a fast-moving, glowing white tic-tac shape in the sky |
| 2023-10-21 | York | changing | 2 hours | What appeared to be a full moon abruptly moved across the sky from 180 * SW to 200* stayed until 10:30pm then abruptly... |
| 2023-10-14 | New Brighton | unknown | just a few minutes | I found this photo on my trail camera its a squence of 3 photos this is 1.My Am and Pm are reversed on my camera |
| 2023-10-12 | Felton | light | 45 seconds | Bright blue lights with a flashing red light |