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)
South-central PA (a field outside small town) · PA, USA
Witnesses in a field in south-central Pennsylvania reported what first seemed like a plane crash in June 1970, though a cone-shaped object was involved instead, in a ninety-minute event.
Reading · PA, USA
A teenage witness in Reading, Pennsylvania, described a huge triangular craft with lights at each corner hovering overhead in May 1970, for about ten minutes.
Monessen · PA, USA
Probe Flourescent Bulb Sized Object.
Grande Summit · PA, USA
Witnesses in Grande Summit, Pennsylvania reported four lights moving very fast and silently across the sky for about five minutes in 1970.
Erie · PA, USA
bright circular object along Lake Erie
New Castle · PA, USA
This was in 1969 and I was only 16. There were eight of my family and friend that witnessed this event. 500 Lights On Object0: Yes
Johnstown · PA, USA
WHAT I SAW WAS MUCH LIKE THE SIGHTING IN MILLSTADT, ILL...ONLY ALL I COULD MAKE OUT WAS THE MOVING LIGHT FORMATION..SLOWLY MOVING HORO
New Castle · PA, USA
It was July 1969 on a clear summer evening in a rural area in western Pennsylvania. I was 16 years old and my brother was about 7. We d
Philadelphia · PA, USA
Strange globe sighting--1969.
Upper Dublin · PA, USA
Near Susquehanna Road in Upper Dublin, Pennsylvania, witnesses in July 1969 watched an orange sphere about one hundred feet across move just above the treetops for five minutes.
Whitemarsh · PA, USA
An orange-red fireball roughly ten feet across hovered silently about four hundred feet above Whitemarsh, Pennsylvania, for three minutes in July 1969 before vanishing.
Hawley · PA, USA
Witnesses in Hawley, Pennsylvania, described a circular object moving slowly above the treetops in July 1969 while emitting an audible sound.
Altoona · PA, USA
A witness in Altoona, Pennsylvania reported an object hovering with colored lights circling steadily around it, not flashing, in June 1969, during a ten-minute sighting.
Greensburg · PA, USA
Possible contact with Visitor as a child
Pittsburgh · PA, USA
A witness in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania reported a flat black, six-legged, basketball-sized object resembling a toy jack on the ground, apparently melting nearby snow in a squall, over five minutes.
Bullskin · PA, USA
A witness in Bullskin, Pennsylvania reported a disk-shaped object that angled itself to match their roofline, hovering silently close to the house in October 1968, during a two-minute sighting.
Sewickley · PA, USA
A witness in Sewickley, Pennsylvania reported a stationary, airliner-sized, wingless cigar-shaped object at high altitude in August 1968, during a two-minute sighting.
Church Hill · PA, USA
A witness in Church Hill, Pennsylvania reported a silver sphere flying at high altitude with two delta-wing fighter jets reportedly in pursuit, in August 1968, during a fifteen-minute sighting.
New Castle · PA, USA
A witness in New Castle, Pennsylvania reported observing three different types of disk-shaped objects during the summer of 1968 in western Pennsylvania, over the course of about one hour.
Corry · PA, USA
Observed pink/orange glowing ball "bouncing" along railroad tracks for length of @ 2 city blocks, then shoot straight up and disappear
State College · PA, USA
A witness in State College, Pennsylvania reported a bright oval object, roughly twice the size of a house, low to the ground in June 1968, during a brief two-second sighting.
Allentown · PA, USA
Craft and Crew sighted
Pittsburgh · PA, USA
Pilots, Air Force officers, and tower personnel reportedly observed a bright object hovering over a radar site near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in June 1968, during a thirty-minute sighting.
York · PA, USA
Egg shaped object lit-up like the moon.
New Kensington · PA, USA
Witnesses in New Kensington, Pennsylvania, reported a circular object hovering above the Allegheny River during a ten-minute sighting in the spring of 1968.