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)
Doylestown · PA, USA
Giant blue glowing light, makes a few movements, shoots off into sky.
Lemont · PA, USA
Flashing light over lime quary
Pittsburgh · PA, USA
3 UFOs sighted over a nighborhood, moving in strange, irregular patterns.
Mont Clare · PA, USA
goldish orange bright light that was sparkling or flickering that disappeared completely in an instant.
Duncansville · PA, USA
Tonight is very dark I seen a bright light raying upwards. It disappeared like a tv screen turning off.
Bushkill · PA, USA
The light speed up fast and then followed behind us and then ziped away and was gone.but yet there was no sound.
West Chester · PA, USA
Light fading and dimming very slowly from behind moon to horizon moving very very fast
Olyphant · PA, USA
I saw the object at about 1:53 am EST hovering for about 3 minutes. The aircraft then took off at a moderate speed to the northeast. It
York · PA, USA
Rectangular UFO being followed by military B52 aircraft.
Canonsburg · PA, USA
large glowing orange ball of light seen over horizion of small town
Lancaster · PA, USA
6/19/2008 Lancaster PA duration .5 seconds caught on film. Object appears to be cigar shaped with a cone on the top.
Washington · PA, USA
Ball of flame moving toward earth, seemed to bounce off and turn south
Bushkill · PA, USA
Cigar Shaped Aircraft
Philipsburg · PA, USA
Noted star like object moving in relation to a telephone pole. It was moving in a westerly direction. There is no way to note speed
Shamokin · PA, USA
Reddish shaped object seen in Shamokin Pa 8 people are witness to what they saw
Shamokin · PA, USA
Reddish orange round object
Philadelphia · PA, USA
lastnite i saw a cylinder in the sky orange in color no tail 06/29/08
Warminster · PA, USA
Red Triangle UFO above a corn field (Bucks County flap). ((anonymous report))
McKees Rocks · PA, USA
7 discs in a v formation
Philadelphia · PA, USA
Clear plastic housing and white lights made from another world seen in city at 300-350 foot distance
Philadelphia · PA, USA
Boomerang-shaped UFO sighted over Philadelphia at dusk
Shrewsbury Township · PA, USA
A police officerfrom the Southern Regional Police Dept called to advise of an unidentified object falling thru the sky. He stated it a
Bloomsburg/White haven · PA, USA
strange lightning over a mountain
Philadelphia · PA, USA
V-shaped craft with 3 big, round, green lights
Houston · PA, USA
It moved across the sky and all of a sudden it disapeared