Three Pennsylvania UFO sightings on January 21 and 22 describe odd lights and shapes in the sky, according to testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) database.

Two of the cases involve red/yellow or orange flickering lights. A third object was described as having a green tint.

Earlier in the week, PA MUFON Chief Investigator Bob Gardner points out that there were many eastcoast reports of "falling balls of lights" that were the result of the Coma Berenicid meteor event on January 18 and 19.

The following are the unedited and as yet uninvestigated reports filed with MUFON. Please keep in mind that most UFO reports can be explained as something natural or manmade. If Pennsylvania MUFON Director John Ventre investigates and reports back on these cases, I will release an update.



PA, January 22, 2010 - red and yellow flickering circles. there were 4. 3 of them in a triangle shape. MUFON Case # 21596.

I was sitting at the dinner table with my husband, uncle and aunt. I was looking over my uncles shoulder at what I thought was a REALLY low plane. I realized it was not a plane! By now everyone turned around to see what I was looking at, and once we realized we ALL saw it, we ran outside to look.

It was three red/yellow flickering lights (in a triangle shape) following what really did appear to be an airplane. We then noticed another one (this one was bigger) coming up behind the others. I was able to run inside and take a few pictures of these. I switched my camera to video mode and with the naked eye it looked as though they 3 in the triangle faded out.

On film you can actually see them fade, then shoot off. These 3 were now gone, and the one that was following them continued to go in the same path. It was the craziest thing any of us have ever seen! We just kept saying how it was unbelievable. My aunt is a real skeptic and even she can't explain what it was. I called 2 local news stations, and nobody else had reported anything.

I was checking the internet to see if anyone else had reported seeing it and came across a YouTube video about a reporting in 2008 in Bucks County, PA. I see that you had looked into a sighting in Altoona, Pa and it looked JUST like what we saw! I hope you guys have info. about what this was and can let me know!(Like I said, I do have video and pictures, but have been advised not to just send them to people over the internet.)

PA, January 21, 2010 - An orange object flying on a SSE to a NNW flight path while traveling rt 347. MUFON Case # 21584.

I was traveling on Rt 347 south bound when I noticed a orange flickering object flying from SSE on a NNW direction. At first I thought it was a star but after stopping the vehicle I noticed it was moving a rate faster than a prop plane but slower than a jet. I could not tell how high it was or how big. I do not believe it was aircraft due to the color. AVOCA airport is not far away and I am used to seeing different types of aircraft. It was much different than any aircraft in the area. I only observed it for a short duration due to the fact that the road is on a mountain pass and no place to pull off the road.

PA, January 21, 2010 - Ultra-bright object high altitude, intense fluorescent-like light with slight green tint. Too intense to be reflected sunlight or aircraft approach lights. MUFON Case # 21582.

Ultra-bright object high altitude, intense fluorescent-like light with slight green tint. Too intense to be reflected sunlight or aircraft approach lights

Traveling to a school campus for an evening class SW down state 796 from Jennersville, PA toward the village of Kelton, PA. Noticed object at high altitude to the SE. Appeared to be stationary, however I was traveling at 50 mph so the object could have been as well.

Had the appearance of a luminous tear drop shape with a metallic, non-luminous extension from the point of the tear drop. Had the appearance of a very, very bright fluorescent light with a pale green tint and blurred edges.

At first I considered it might be an aircraft or a balloon reflecting the waning sunlight, but it was too intense. Would have to have been a parabolic mirror or something similar to focus that much light. Too intense to be aircraft approach lights, which would appear to be less stark with all the ambient light in the sky. Turned SE onto Pennocks Bridge Rd driving strait toward the object, which I could see just below the roofline of my car.

By the time I had traveled 1/2 mile down the road toward a bend in the road, the object abruptly vanished. I looked around to see whether I had lost track of it, or it had moved. There was plenty of light in the sky (not yet dusk) and it was nowhere to be seen. No contrail, no object with perhaps the light facing another direction.

There is no possibility that I missed it, the light was simply too intense. Perhaps someone was perpetrating a prank and hung a mercury vapor lamp on a balloon, however the sky was clear (only a few stratus clouds) and there were no other objects in the area. The only thing I noticed was a pair of short, vertical black smoke contrails to the W that I had not previously seen. However, these were in a different part of the sky from where the object was last seen.