Pennsylvania responds to UFOs over holiday weekend

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Many Pennsylvania readers responded to the story on related UFO sightings there over the Fourth of July holiday weekend,  including a few from other states.

Pennsylvania MUFON Director John Ventre asks that anyone who had a sighting here over the holiday weekend should report it to mufon.com.

Here are some of their comments. All comments are unedited.

Phil G - Around 9:00 PM on July 4th, myself and about a dozen others were sitting on my father in laws garage roof, watching the very illegal fireworks display from our magistrate neighbor. I looked south of us and saw exactly 13 orange lights, moving in a coordinated pattern in a south easternly direction. After reading some of the comments, this would be somewhere around the Hanover Township area. Oddly enough, this is our second "UFO" sighting in two years on the 4th of July. Last year, myself and roughly the same group of people witnessed an orange light traveling across the sky, which initially we thought to be a plane. The object then came to a complete stop for approximately 20-30 seconds, which grabbed our attention. It then continued on in its path, only to completely vanish and not be seen again. It should be noted that both nights were completely clear of cloud cover. Freaky.
Phil G - I did not mention my area in the previous comment. We reside in Old Forge PA, which is just south of Scranton.

Alison in PA - Guy on Youtube told me this about orange ufo like one in video called "Orange UFO Over USA ! " Under Rain ": ...(I saw same thing) Tonight, in (western pa) Crawford county PA. 7-5-09 at about 11:30 pm or so. grabbed camcorder and ran out in my socks.... was gone. Three of us saw it. --We saw same east of Pittsburgh on 5/13 & 5/18/09... moving erratically, 3 different places by us, chased it by cell towers, then it came up in front of house from below tree line, stayed, got 2 pics on camera before battery died-posted on Mufon.com 5/18/09 Westmoreland County. Dimmed, then flashing plane-looking craft came from it's location... Saw total of 7 ufos that night! Epidemic of orange, red or amber yellow ones all over world lately! See my UFO videos on youtube, channel name: seeingUFOsPA

CeliaPA - We live in Bethlehem and saw the same thing about 15 min. after the local fireworks show. There were 5 yellow-orange lights moving in a very controlled way and close to each other which is what got my attention. The lights were moving eastward and completely disappeared in a matter of 10-15 seconds. I'm glad to hear of other sightings.

Allentown PA - My boyfriend and I saw 4 orange, pulsating objects moving across the sky at around 9:30pm in Allentown Pennsylvania. No sound came from these objects, they seemed to be manuevered by someone/something. They floated across the sky, and eventually disappeared over the mountains.

WK - A red light in the sky was seen in Chester WV at around 10:45. It remained stationary at first, moved across part of the sky, and then the light began flashing as it made a very quick beeline in a different direction until it disappeared. It definitely didn't move like anything I'd ever seen before. A friend of mine has a video about 4 minutes long showing what I just described and witnessed (along with another person).

CG - Jennifer, you can email me at Cherylsspectrum@yahoo.com There were 8 of us that seen it that night. Talk to you soon!!

JOHN - ANYONE WITNESSING THE ORANGE REDDISH OBJECT ON THE EVENING OF JULY 4, 2009, MAY REPORT THE INCIDENT IN DETAIL TO: MUFON.COM AND FILL OUT A SIGHTING REPORT. WITHIN 24 HOURS A MUFON FIELD INVESTIGATOR WILL CONTACT YOU VIA THE METHOD OF YOUR CHOICE TO DISCUSS THE INCIDENT.

Jennifer - I was one of the witnesses in the Ellwood City sighting. CG - would love to chat with you and compare stories! I've been wracking my brains trying to figure out what it could have been...

Debbie - Wisconsin - We saw abunch opf them come right over our campsite at devil's lake state park in Wisconsin... it looked like little orange air ballons with candles? they were traveling south to north on july 3 at about 11pm.....does anyone know where they came from? did any else in Wisconsin see these?!?!

O. pineda - It's so strange, but I saw this same orange light in Chicago around 10:15pm on July 4th. I too thought it was flickering amber left from a firework, but it just continued on a linear path without ever dying out. I thought it was strange. Lost sight of it after it went over the house. I though nothing of it until now that I'm reading that other people saw the same thing!

honesdale, pa - Saw a bright white object around 3am the morning of july 5th camping close to honesdale pa. it looked like a brighter star that ascended into the sky from the trees. it was difficult to know how close or far away it was from where were were standing. it stayed in the sky for hours, sometimes moving, but in ways very unlike an airplane. a few times for a few minutes i could hear what sounded like a faint hum, but definitely not an airplane. we watched this for nearly two hours, astounded. i was with two others, and we feel that this object very much knew of our presence. later, smaller orange glowing objects appeared to the northeast of the white light, then one to the south west. they moved in the same patterns together. the white light stayed in the sky through the sunrise, the orange lights eventually disappeared when the sun was up. we wanted to see if the white light would disappear, but it outlasted us. has anyone had an elongated experience such as this?

West Chester PA - There's a good chance some of these are sightings of Chinese lanterns. You can view videos of these on YouTube.

smickle - We live in Washington state, and saw the exact same things at a friends 4th of July BBQ. We saw 4 of these orange objects while some neighborhood fireworks were going on. We had a bunch of eyewitnesses who were all baffled as to what they were. After the fireworks subsided, we were cleaning up the street and saw two more appear. They all moved smoothly, glowed orange, moved in random patterns, and all eventually disappeared as they took off "away" from us. The first 4 appeared from the east and looked like they eventually moved west. The last two we saw appeared 30 minutes after the first group of four. Because it stirred up our excitement, we had binoculars ready for the last two. Three of us were able to focus on them with the binoculars. From our naked eyes, they appeared to emit an orange glow almost reddish. Like a glowing ball of light. But seeing one in the binoculars, we were amazed that we saw each one had a minimum of 5 lights, in a symmetrical pattern.
smickle - Oh, and for documentation purposes... these were seen around Covington, Washington between 11:30pm and 12:30am Pacific time.

Jeanne and Chris - We saw one red/orange circular objest slowly flying southeast over Dallas, Pennsylania. We think it was a UFO.

Kathy McCombs - Finally, someone else has seen this! Myself and (found out later) a neighbor saw one of these orange globes up close. This was @ 3 am early last summer (2008). It was amber/orange, like it was a fire contained inside the big globe. I live in Meadville, 1/2 hr south of Lake Erie, PA. I would love to talk to anyone else that also saw this.

CG - OMG I live in Portersville, PA and witnessed the same as the witness in Ellwood City. It was very strange!!!

Becky H. - In South West, PA, Westmoreland Co., we witnessed two of these objects. They both moved in a straight path across the sky. They were very bright, and we thought at first they were hot air balloons on fire! Glad others saw it!!

Bethlehem PA - I was at a July 4th party with 20 people that observed groups of unexplained orange objets in formation after the fireworks display.

David Adams - The descriptions don't sound like fireworks. It seems more like knowing many people would be out at night looking up at the sky, the ufo fliers went into their attention-getting mode again.