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PA · USA
Red/yellow pulsing flashing light. Very bright light up clouds. Appeared to be larger than 2 football fields. Then the flashing just st
Slippery Rock · PA, USA
Enormous flash of light on a totally clear night. It was so bright it made it look like it was daylight for one full second.It was not
Hillsville · PA, USA
Sky flash without apparent cause. No storms within 100 miles.
Pittsburgh · PA, USA
Supermassive flash of light over Pittsburgh area. ((anonymous report))
Philadelphia (suburban area) · PA, USA
Blue lights seen in sky of Philly!
Carlisle · PA, USA
Sky lit up dark blue around 7pm.
Monessen · PA, USA
Yellow bright light balls appearing and disappearing ,then reappearing , miles away in night sky.
Reading · PA, USA
A white flash of very very bright white!
Lancaster · PA, USA
Blue dome-shaped light off of the horizon.
Leola · PA, USA
moving stright in A line.
McMurray · PA, USA
Bight flashing lights underneath a heavy cloudy sky. Extremely bright and flashing. No stars visible tonight. This was large and was
Williamsport · PA, USA
Standing on my deck looking across the river I multiple flashes that were super bright and unform. Very short lived.
Starview · PA, USA
Bright flash, followed by fireball.
Warminster · PA, USA
My husband was outside looking into the sky when he saw what he thought was a UFO. He quickly came in the house to show me and ask what
Allentown · PA, USA
Could have been a planet, but it seems odd rising in the northern sky. ((NUFORC Note: We suspect a "twinkling" star. PD))
Northern Allegheny County · PA, USA
Red flashes of light traveling NNW followed by an unlit helicopter at night.
Reading · PA, USA
Wishing on a star. Moving star.
Waynesburg · PA, USA
Yellow/amber lights flashing in clouded night sky.
Beltzville · PA, USA
Bright flash in sky.
East Stroudsburg · PA, USA
Thought they were airplanes. Around 5:00 am, sky was black. I could be wrong but crafts were able to disappear.
Damascus · PA, USA
A purple light shot across the sky in a wave-like manner.
Lafayette Hill · PA, USA
Outside our house with my children when suddenly we seen a bright blue flash and when we looked up a rectangle shape object flew past.
Philadelphia · PA, USA
Bright flashing light in sky then strobes of flashes from ground.
Newtown · PA, USA
3 flashes with projectile trail leaving each....probable ASAT test..but whose...?