UFO Sightings in Pennsylvania
4,650 UFO sightings reported in Pennsylvania since 1947, peaking in 2014 (382 reports); most often described as light.
- Total sightings
- 4,650
- Span
- 1947–2022
- Peak year
- 2014 (382 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Light
1947–2022 · peak 2014 (382 reports)
Top cities in Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
1947–2022 · peak 2014 (20 reports)
Pittsburgh
1950–2022 · peak 2013 (21 reports)
Reading
1966–2022 · peak 2012 (8 reports)
Allentown
1960–2022 · peak 2014 (9 reports)
Erie
1969–2021 · peak 2012 (11 reports)
York
1968–2022 · peak 2007 (5 reports)
Harrisburg
1965–2022 · peak 2014 (8 reports)
Lancaster
1975–2021 · peak 2011 (5 reports)
West Chester
1973–2021 · peak 2009 (7 reports)
Easton
1998–2019 · peak 2014 (6 reports)
Johnstown
1951–2019 · peak 2012 (5 reports)
Bethlehem
1965–2022 · peak 2015 (5 reports)
State College
1968–2021 · peak 2012 (5 reports)
Williamsport
1957–2020 · peak 2002 (4 reports)
Wilkes-Barre
1973–2020 · peak 2014 (4 reports)
Mechanicsburg
1973–2021 · peak 2015 (5 reports)
Millerton
2012–2021 · peak 2020 (16 reports)
Downingtown
1985–2022 · peak 2007 (3 reports)
Pottstown
1965–2021 · peak 2000 (2 reports)
Altoona
1951–2020 · peak 2014 (4 reports)
Hermitage · PA, USA
10/17/09 Hermitage Pa 4 asterisk lights 1-2 minutes stationary in staggered grid posted 10/ 19/09
Emmaus · PA, USA
A bright light, pulsating, changing color and moving slowing, while coming to a complete stop and then starting to move again.
Collingdale · PA, USA
Bright white fast flashing light turned to solid white light then arched off fast toward Philadelphia
Bethlehem · PA, USA
On the way to school, my son saw a cigar shaped object in the sky.
Penfield · PA, USA
Bright orange non-blinking ball
Meadville · PA, USA
((HOAX??)) SPIDER ALEIN, 20 legs waist high showed itself to me. ((NUFORC Note: Student report. PD))
Troy · PA, USA
Orange light traveling westerly then turning south and up increasing speed over Troy Pa.
Corry · PA, USA
Bright light and beam vanishes into thin air
Natrona Heights · PA, USA
Unidentified flame flying low over natrona heights
Philadelphia · PA, USA
What did I see, a shooting star or is it something that moves faster then a plane!
Hanover · PA, USA
Bright white light in cloudless sky approximately 20,000 ft. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
North Huntingdon · PA, USA
White focused beam not moving, no sound, no origination point and not reaching the ground. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Evans City · PA, USA
Triangular object in the sky in Evans City pa ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
West Grove · PA, USA
West Grove PA 9/19/09 Chester County 19:50 ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Mount Penn · PA, USA
Light appears, searches, than disappears into a mist. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Auburn · PA, USA
bight light appeared in sky shinning a beam down for 30 seconds ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
West Chester · PA, USA
A white circle of light with a lighter, cone-shaped light underneath it; the circle disappeared the cone shape faded to a "cloud"
Lititz · PA, USA
Saw a bright disk shaped light that omitted a steamy substance and then dissapeared. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Westover · PA, USA
09/19/09 Westover, PA Light with beam coming out of it. lasted about 1 min ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Mount Jewettt · PA, USA
Bright white triangle off to the lower right of Jupiter. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Elysburg · PA, USA
Cone of light eerily appears to Knoebel's Amusement Park goers on the way to the parking lot.((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Plumsteadville · PA, USA
bright circular light shining down toward the ground. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Pittsburgh · PA, USA
A brief, bright light in Western Pennsylvania. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Gibsonia · PA, USA
Strange coned shaped light setting still and silent in the eastern night sky. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Jim Thorpe · PA, USA
beam of light hovered for 30 seconds vanished into thin air. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))