NUFORC UFO Sighting 188172
Occurred: 2025-02-17 19:00 Local
Reported: 2025-03-08 08:27 Pacific
Duration: 23 minutes
No of observers: 1 - Military

Location: Bradford, PA, USA
Location details: East Main Street Bradford PA

Shape: Changing
Color: White
Estimated Size: 100 to 300 meters
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: From the south east looking west by north west
Angle of Elevation: 19
Closest Distance: 2 to 3 miles
Estimated Speed: 30000 mph
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Electrical or magnetic effects

Moving oblong orb moving

From the south west observed a craft moving up and down, left and right above the mountain over west Bradford PA with a Coorsponding power outage. The craft moved up to the north and disappeared.




Posted 2025-03-08

NUFORC UFO Sighting 187256
Occurred: 2025-01-26 22:00 Local
Reported: 2025-01-27 14:54 Pacific
Duration: All night
No of observers: 1 - Military

Location: Bradford, OH, USA
Location details: Bradford OH 45308 over the school and in town

Shape: Sphere
Color: Lights red, blue whi
Estimated Size: No idea
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: Northeast
Angle of Elevation: 45
Closest Distance: 500-800 yards
Estimated Speed: Slow, steady
Explanation: Drone - Possible
Characteristics: Lights on object

Possible drones but do not know why there are so many or why they are out every night.

I think these are drones, but they are often out every night. I do not see them in the day time. They have multi colored lights like blue and red. It doesn't appear to be a helicopter because a helicopter would not hover all night long. They are pretty high up, but I can see the lights when I look at them through the binoculars. I reported this to law enforcement, but they did not call me back to state what they found. They go up and down, and they will shift positions to the other side of the house.

Posted 2025-02-01

NUFORC UFO Sighting 186367
Occurred: 2025-01-02 20:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2025-01-03 03:17 Pacific
Duration: 45 minutes approximately
No of observers: 1

Location: Bradford, OH, USA

Shape: Light
Color: White and orange
Estimated Size: Idk
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: Directly above and southeast
Angle of Elevation: 45
Closest Distance: I don’t know
Estimated Speed: Highest one was fast other was slow
Explanation: Drone - Possible
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

2 were very high up like a satellite but was moving oddly & 2 were low & hovering/moving slowly.

A strange quiet plane flew over very low getting my attention on the sky. Then noticed 2 lights very high similar to satellites moving towards each other. Then the lights stopped moving for a bit. As I was staring at them they started moving oddly unlike any satellite I’ve ever seen. Then one started moving north. As it was moving the light got very bright briefly. Almost like a spotlight. I then turned towards the southwest sky and saw one bright white light hovering/moving very slowly east and it was lower like a small plane might fly but it did not move like a plane.

After a few minutes a bright reddish orange light just appeared near the white light. It hovered and had minimal movement. After watching a few minutes I lost track of the white light and the red light disappeared. I looked towards the southeast and saw that the white light appeared again. It moved very slowly towards the northeast and I lost track of it as it went low behind the tree line. None of these lights moved like any aircraft I’ve ever seen. The two lower crafts could have possibly been drones as they moved slowly.




Posted 2025-01-08

NUFORC UFO Sighting 182608
Occurred: 2024-08-12 01:30 Local
Reported: 2024-08-12 01:26 Pacific
Duration: 2 hours
No of observers: 2

Location: Bradford, AR, USA
Location details: Back yard

Shape: Orb
Color: White shiny
Estimated Size: Not sure
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: Roughly northwest
Angle of Elevation: 45
Closest Distance: Not sure
Estimated Speed: Faster than a plane


25 orbs over Arkansas

Saw approximately 25 orbs hovering in the north western sky the objects would move horizontally and vertically and faded in and out the Objects did not move erratically but seemed to move in a controlled manner this difference was noticeable from the meteor shower that was taking place simultaneously as week as a sudden emergence of the aurora it was strang the objects started appearing after the northern lights appeared we captured some video and photos







Posted 2024-08-22

NUFORC UFO Sighting 173461
Occurred: 2022-12-18 01:00 Local
Reported: 2022-12-17 23:45 Pacific
Duration: still on going
No of observers: 2

Location: Bradford, TN, USA
Location details: Location of me or the object?

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object

Was watching meteors and looking at sky when my brother noticed something behind what looked like a small cloud, it had a red glare

It would move back and forth, coming forward and then back again almost in a waving motion. It seemed to give off a red glare or some kind of bright light. Really could not tell the shape as it moved back and forth quickly.

Posted 2022-12-22

NUFORC UFO Sighting 156390
Occurred: 2020-05-10 20:42 Local
Reported: 2020-05-11 06:04 Pacific
Duration: >1 hour plus
No of observers: 1

Location: Bradford, MA, USA

Shape: Diamond
Characteristics: Changed Colo

pulsing diamond shape that changes to bright round shape every couple minutes, then back to pulsing diamond shape

Second night again capturing this on video. It looks like a bright star until zoomed in on it. It alternates from a pulsing circle shape and every couple minutes or so it changes into a pulsing diamond/square shape, then back to the pulsing circle shape. This is northeast Massachusetts. I seen it before a few time traveling on this path slowly traveling, and lasts about an hour or more as it moves slowly north west and eventually far north out of site it seems.



Posted 2020-06-25

NUFORC UFO Sighting 152428
Occurred: 2020-01-06 17:30 Local
Reported: 2020-01-07 17:30 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes


Location: Bradford, IA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

Object Hovering still with two white lights, one flashing. No noise.



Posted 2020-02-07

NUFORC UFO Sighting 142583
Occurred: 2018-08-08 21:30 Local
Reported: 2018-08-05 19:52 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Bradford, RI, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object

Whitish/ Circular Object

At approximately 21:30 I was outside on my deck. I happened to look up and noticed a bright light moving towards me from the shorelines direction. I ran inside and grabbed my phone and recorded the craft until the object faded away.



Posted 2018-08-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 145261
Occurred: 2018-07-14 22:00 Local
Reported: 2019-03-19 22:39 Pacific
Duration: Seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Bradford, IA, USA

Shape: Unknown


Strange Sound

First I want to point out, I’m not sure if the 14th is the exact date. It was a Saturday in July, but a I can’t remember which. My girlfriend and I were fishing late at a farm pond outside of Bradford. The pond is a ways off the road. You can’t see it from any roads or homesteads. Unless you are local, you wouldn’t even know it’s back there. It had gotten dark and the dog was still swimming and playing so I just threw in a catfish line, and we just stood side by side quietly just looking out over the pond.

It was a beautiful night when we heard the strangest noise. It kinda makes my hair stand on end just typing this. Something came from behind us moving really fast, and it was gone as quick as it came. It kind of sounded like a oversized bottle rocket, or a big arrow that was spinning making like a quick “ssshush” sound. I half thought something was going to blow up in front of me, and looked for some sort of smoke trail but there was nothing. The water didn’t even ripple. I turned to her and almost in sink we both said, “what ((words deleted)) was that?” I’ve lived around here my whole life, spent time out in the sticks a lot and never heard anything like that.

I half expected someone to be playing a trick on us but there was no one within miles, I pulled out my spot like in the truck and couldn’t see a thing. We both were kinda freaked out at that point so we grabbed the dog and took off. I didn’t tell many people this, and the ones I did reacted about like I would. They just laughed and said we were hearing things. Also, we weren’t drinking, no drugs, nothing to alter our minds. I don’t know if that was alien or not, but whatever we heard couldn’t be seen, moved very fast, and was not made by nature.

Posted 2019-03-21

NUFORC UFO Sighting 127961
Occurred: 2016-06-18 22:00 Local
Reported: 2016-06-19 07:41 Pacific
Duration: 90 seconds
No of observers: 3

Location: Bradford, PA, USA

Shape: Fireball


The object was an orange/red circle that did not move for about 60 seconds, until it faded away.

We were sitting on our boat in the middle of the bay relaxing. I was looking at the sky and noticed an orange light.

At first I thought it was Mars as I frequently look for it when I take my dog for his evening walk.

I noticed it was much larger than usual so I told the other two individuals I was with and they started looking at it. We noticed it was 1 orange/red circle that flickered slightly. It was extremely high in the sky and was in the located east relative to a compass. We were watching it for about 60 seconds until it faded and disappeared.

10 seconds later, we noticed it came back into view but the color was not as strong and then faded away again. The object was not moving laterally and was close to 10 times larger than Mars would be on a usual night.




NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD


Posted 2016-06-24

NUFORC UFO Sighting 121481
Occurred: 2015-08-25 22:45 Local
Reported: 2015-08-25 19:54 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Bradford, PA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

Single red light flying over.

My wife called me out side and i saw a very bright orange red light, moving slow through the sky. Moving west to east. Just as it was going over my house, I lost it in the clouds.

Posted 2015-08-27

NUFORC UFO Sighting 109891
Occurred: 2014-06-01 20:11 Local
Reported: 2014-06-01 23:46 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 1

Location: Bradford, MN, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Animals reacted

Triangle shaped object with white blinking lights have a video

There were white blinking lights that seemed to be blinking in a triangle shape over the pond behind the house two of the lights were constantly blinking and the other 2 lights were unvisual to the naked eye but after watching my video of it you can see the other lights faintly blinking I only saw one object the lights were a white yellow color and everything else in the sky was black the blinks from the light were very bright.

Posted 2014-06-04

NUFORC UFO Sighting 69862
Occurred: 2009-04-27 15:30 Local
Reported: 2009-04-28 21:52 Pacific
Duration: 20 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Bradford, PA, USA

Shape: Other


Shiny, symmetrical, metallic object against deep blue sky on sunny day that really stood out

I was driving north on Main St. in Bradford, PA at around 3:30PM. It was an un-seasonably hot sunny day and the sky was a deep blue with a few sparse, wispy white clouds. I looked to my left, out the driver side window and saw a very distinct symmetrical, shiny, silvery metallic object hovering motionlessly in the western sky. My first thought was that maybe it was a helicopter because it was just hovering there and not moving, although its perfect symmetry and chrome-like appearance did not make that seem likely. The only way I could describe it would be that it was shaped like an acorn or upside down bell with the wider end up. I looked later on the internet for photos of “acorn shaped UFO’s” and was surprised to find that they were not that uncommon. The only difference was that the pictures that I found showed the object inverted, with the wider end facing down. I continued to watch the object for about 15 or 20 seconds and then to my amazement, it just faded away into the blue sky over the course of 4 or 5 seconds. That’s when I was convinced that I had seen a UFO. Weather balloons or helicopters don’t just disappear right before your eyes.



Posted 2009-05-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 65900
Occurred: 2008-09-25 20:00 Local
Reported: 2008-09-25 18:04 Pacific
Duration: 15 sec
No of observers: 5

Location: Bradford, VT, USA

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Lights on object

four large reddish orange lights for about 15 sec. then just vanished

Three people were already on my deck. my boyfriend and i went outside to smoke a cigarette and about 40 ft from us in the backyard behind the top of the trees,there was four huge redish orange lights they werent doing much only sitting there for about 15 sec. then gone. we didnt see them fly off. they just dissapeared. then about 3 min. later there was a bright white light pretty high up moving pretty quickly. then gone. I was so excited so i called my sister 30 miles away. and before I could say anything,she interupted me about a big white light in the sky. My daughter and her boyfriend told us they were the same lights they saw 2 nights before near our home but not in the same area. I didnt pay much attention to her the other night, because I believe in ufos but still am a little skepticle when hearing from a teenager.Not anymore!!!!

Posted 2008-10-31

NUFORC UFO Sighting 64384
Occurred: 2008-07-07 00:00 Local
Reported: 2008-07-07 12:26 Pacific
Duration: 1 hour
No of observers: 2

Location: Bradford, MA, USA

Shape: Unknown


Large jet like sound hovering in the neighborhood for an hour

Just after midnight, I heard loud sound like low flying jet approaching. It got louder, but then it did not pass as jet sounds usually do. Then it stayed in the area, likely within a mile of my house near Bradford college. It seemed to stay mostly in the same spot, but occasionally sound got louder or quieter, and sound direction changed about 10 to 20 degrees (on a compass). It was so loud my wife heard it with all the windows closed and Air conditioner on. I don't know why more people did not wake up. I couldn't see anything, although it was a little cloudy on the horizon. When I went outside I thought I could feel the turbulence in the air. Sometimes the turbine sound was joined by a high pitched whirr. But the turbine sound was a much lower frequency than that of large passenger jets, which made me think it had to be a very very large turbine. The sounds lasted for about 30 minutes, then went away, then came back just as loud around 1am for another 10 minutes or so.



Posted 2008-08-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 53592
Occurred: 2006-11-24 06:00 Local
Reported: 2006-11-24 15:57 Pacific
Duration: 2-3 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Bradford, PA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

When i first saw the object it looked like a satilite, due to the fact that it didn't flash like a plane, then it faded out after about 15 seconds it reappered and then faded out several times as it headed north, north west and eventualy faded out completly. this object faded out in regular intervals and it was far too slow for it to be an airplane.



Posted 2006-12-07

NUFORC UFO Sighting 40686
Occurred: 2004-11-06 18:00 Local
Reported: 2004-11-18 13:21 Pacific
Duration: 15 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Bradford, PA, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Left a trail

I found your site while researching whether anyone saw the "green fireball" on the above date. From my front porch vantage point, it appeared to be just that-- a slow falling green fireball in the Southern sky that resembled a Roman candle firework. I'm quite sure that it was a meteor.



Posted 2004-12-03

NUFORC UFO Sighting 42382
Occurred: 2004-06-01 19:00 Local
Reported: 2005-02-25 12:08 Pacific
Duration: 5 MIN
No of observers: 2

Location: Bradford, MA, USA

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Lights on object

Enormous and loud disk in the sky

One evening at about 7pm my best friend in high school and I were walking up a street right by the Bradford College. For some reason while we were walkin I glanced over my shoulder behind me. I saw something in the sky kind of moving slowly. I didn't think anything of it, figured it was an airplane. I turned back and continued walking, only getting a few more steps when what was in the distance behind us was right above us. It was enormous. It was disk shaped with diferent colored flashing lights around it. I remember that it kind of reminded me of the Simon game. It wasn't quite either, this thing was so loud it sounded like a whole fleet of airplanes. It hovered above us at tree height for about 1 minute then it was gone in a blink ok an eye.

I just want to let anyone know who maybe reading this, that I am certainly no quack. I am now 36yrs old a mother of a 7 year old daughter and an office manager.



Posted 2005-05-24

NUFORC UFO Sighting 14980
Occurred: 2000-11-19 17:00 Local
Reported: 2000-11-20 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 15min
No of observers: 7

Location: Bradford, MA, USA

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

A large, dark object holding a stationary postion, extremely high in the sky and then disappearing.

Driving South on Interstate495, I noticed a large dark object extremely high in the air. It held a stationary position. I pulled over to a rest stop. I had a video camera with me. We were coming from a party. I was not drinking. My wife handed me the camera and I got out to see if I could zoom in on it. My camera is not the greatest. As I zoomed in and it started to take shape, the veiw became distorted and shaky. I drew back the shot and got a good shot of the distance in height compared to the tree lining. A car pulled in and a guy asked what I was looking at. I pointed up to him and asked what he thought it was. He said a balloon or something. His friend thought it might be a helicopter. I said that a balloon would pop at that height and it would be moving. I thought that a helicopter wouldn't be able to reach that height. They both looked in the camera and said that they couldn't figure it out. Another car pulled in and a lady asked what I thought it was. The shape of the object, almost looked like a cluster of balloons. My four year old son could see the object also. I decided to get back into my car since the object was really doing anything. My wife asked if she could look through the camera, to see it up close. While she was looking at it, I notice a small plane coming towards us. I asked my wife for the camera so I could get both in the same shot. I figured this might be a good way to see the distance in height and size. The plane was alot lower and alot closer to us. I recorded the plane and zoomed in on it. When I drew back to get both objects it was gone. I panned around the area to see if it moved. I couldn't find it again. I don't beleive that the plane had anything to do with it because the plane was alot lower and seemed to be already passed it. We didn't notice any lights or sound. The sky was a light gray do to the time of the day.

Posted 2000-12-09

NUFORC UFO Sighting 29002
Occurred: 1979-05-18 10:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2003-05-31 06:45 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 5

Location: Bradford, PA, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

It was in the spring of 1979 (or 1978) one of the two years I attended UP at Bradford campus. I was on the way to an overnight camp in the wilderness with my backpacking class in a car that included my instructor and a roommate. We had left Bradford and were driving along a road that was parallel to the state park we were planning to camp in, and I noticed that there were two small jets (military?) flying at about 5000 ft overhead (leaving small jet trails), and there was a small circular metallic object following closely behind the second jet. I told my car mates there was a UFO and they laughed, but my roommate then checked it out by looking up out the window and confirmed what I saw, and my instructor pulled over to see it. We got out and the object stopped following the jet and hovered above us at about a mile up (not moving for about 5 or 10 seconds) and then within about 1 or 2 seconds slid back to the tail of the second jet. It was far away but we agreed it looked metallic and seemed to be nearly circular but with many edges like a polygon with many (20? or 30?) sides (I seem to remember it reflected sunlight helping me to discern it had edges and was metallic). It left no jet trail and did appear to be able to hover and then accelerate quickly to a speed that was many times that of the jets it was following. They were headed I believe North into the state park which I remember was about 200 square miles of wilderness. That was the last we saw of them. I do remember after returning from the overnight hike, we read in the news that there had been many UFO sightings in NY north of the park at about the same time we saw ours.



NUFORC Note:

Date is approximate. PD


Posted 2003-06-03

NUFORC UFO Sighting 83450
Occurred: 1956-08-01 23:30 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2011-08-25 23:22 Pacific
Duration: 20 seconds
No of observers: 0

Location: Bradford, AL, USA

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Changed Colo

moving sparkling white/ yellowish/orange/flat black sphere paused 20 feet over my head

I alone with two of my friends were walking home from our local burger hangout restaurant called Wills and Dovey that was located on the outskirts of a coal mining camp that I was born and lived in until moving from there at the begining of the summer of 1958. The restaurant was located approximately two miles from my house.

In the summer of 1955, we, me and my two friends, were half way home at approximately 11:30 pm on a Saturday night walking and discussing which girls in my town were pretty and their physical attributes and the ones we would like to makeout with. I mentioned this about the girls just to let you know that UFOS were no where near my thoughts at that time.

I was thirteen and half, my first friend was fourteen and my second friend was fifteen. That night the sky was chrystal clear for my town had no street lights that could have distorted my view of what I was about to witness. As I stated, we were half way to my house when a sparkling object 90 degree angle to my left caught the corner of my left eye. The sparkling white object was about fifty feet off the ground and about a quarter mile away and the size of Venus from my perspective located over or beginning of the negro quarters as we called it at that time.

When I turned my head to look at what had gotten my attention, the sparkling white object begain to move rapidly toward me, but not in a straight line instead it corrected its course to the right and swoopped around the backside of the rock dump then corrected its course to come to hover about twenty feet above my head the object size had grown from the size of Venus to the size of a beach ball and and the color changed from white to translucent yellow to translucent orange then there was a slight pause in the color change maybe one to two seconds then a stark color change going from traslucent orange to a cloudy smokey flat black to black the pause of flight was over it went up veritical at a rapid rate out of my sight.

Let me point out that once the object began to move, the sparkle stopped, but the object was white until it paused above my head. When the size and color trasformation occured. The object never emitted a sound at any time from movement to pause.

After the object disappeared, I turned to my friends and ask,"What was that", and their response was ,"What was what". Apparently I was the only one to witness this event.




NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD


Posted 2011-10-10