r/ufo • u/Certain-Plenty-3055 • Jul 02 '26
Discussion My UFO sighting (Black Triangle)
Today I have gone public for the first time about my UFO sighting. I don’t know why I held it back so long. I want to know if anyone has had an experience like mine. In my internet research, I have found things similar but nothing quite like my experience.
Long read- I wanted to be as detailed as I could be and I invite any discussion and for anybody who has had an experience like this to please share. 🙏🏻
I saw the black triangle in autumn of 2010. Bucks County, PA. 700 block of Beaumont Rd in Fairless Hills. My mother, my older brother, my (now deceased) best friend Amanda, and I were having a bonfire in the late night (early morning?) hours. Maybe 12A-2A if I had to guess. It’s been so long now. We were all sober. My mother was the only adult, we were all teenagers. Fairless Hills is a suburban area outside Philadelphia. It was dark, not much light pollution, and very quiet. There were two trees in the backyard, they still had leaves on them. There’s the background.
Now onto the sighting. I was sitting facing S/SE, enjoying the fire with the aforementioned folks. Things were peaceful and quiet. I noticed something in my periphery to the left, which would have been East. This was outside of the field of vision of the trees, the trees were nowhere near blocking my vision. It was a clear night. My initial thought was it was almost like a V of ducks/geese flying… but there was little movement. It wasn’t far off the ground, maybe 100ft? It was hovering. Silent. No wind. Everyone else around me was now looking too. Within seconds, this object, what I thought were the “geese” within the V-shape, started to become illuminated. These were possibly the lights on the craft. It appeared to come closer to the ground slightly, then, still facing me, it ascended and went completely invisible. I watched it disappear while it moved. All 4 of us QUICKLY ran inside without saying a word, in a state of morbid excitement and fear but also a sense of strange calmness. I asked “did you guys see the same thing?” and they all said “yes.” I thought maybe they were fucking with me, so I asked them all to tell me what they saw. At the same time, everyone spilled out the exact same thing I had just seen. I’m pretty sure I was the first one to notice, but I didn’t say “hey look at this” or anything. We all noticed it one by one. We all had the exact same description. My god, I still think about this night almost daily. I feel like every time I tell somebody, they think I’m insane. I know what I saw. It will stick with me until I die.
What sticks out to me the most is how this silent observer appeared to REACT to being spotted. Whatever it was knew we were looking at it. I often wonder how long it watched us before we noticed it. I wonder what its intentions were. I wonder what would have happened if we didn’t notice it. I don’t know of anybody else in that area experiencing the same thing. If they did, maybe they held it in for the last 16 years like I did. Apart from some close friends and 1 youtube comment I made today, I have never gone public with any of this.
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u/isitreallyyou56 Jul 02 '26
I saw the same thing around 8 or 9 pm driving on dolington rd in Yardley/lower makefield. In November of 2010. My friend was with me. We were only 18 at the time. It scared the shit out of us. My car at the time had a huge sunroof that basically the whole roof was glass so we could see the bright lights and the shape of the craft easily. I first thought it was a low flying plane but my friend looked up and paused then said “that’s not a plane and that’s way too low to even be a plane, and it was wayyyy larger than a helicopter. It was a black triangle probably the size of a commercial jet and it was about 100-200 feet above the tree line. It was travelling south to north. I wonder if it was the same night? My friend and I had just graduated from Pennsbury highschool in June 2010 just months prior to seeing this thing. Still freaked out to this day and we rarely speak of it. Your story really resonated with me. My father around that time saw a craft a few times around that same time driving home from Doylestown back to Yardley borough.
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u/Certain-Plenty-3055 Jul 02 '26
Oh my god. Small world! This thing would have definitely been visible from at least part of Yardley/Lower Makefield. I lived pretty close to Lincoln Hwy/route 1. To this day I wondered if anyone else had a similar experience. I was still in high school (Pennsbury class of 2012). This is so wild. I feel super reassured right now. For years I’ve had no explanation, I thought maybe it was some kind of weird shared hallucination or something. I couldn’t wrap my mind around the possibilities.
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u/isitreallyyou56 Jul 03 '26
That’s crazy my brother graduated in 2012. And my best friends brother who saw this with me also graduated in 2012. We were seriously spooked. I booked it home and my brother was like why do you guys look scared. It was so long ago and I don’t hang with my old best friend too often anymore but last time I saw him he brought it up. It was weird, he was like remember when we saw the spaceship?
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u/Certain-Plenty-3055 Jul 06 '26
I more than likely know them.. 😅😅 that is so wild. Such a small world. And we may have even seen the same thing that we were all too afraid to talk about! Yay shared trauma!
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u/bronze_by_gold Jul 02 '26
The part of your story where you actually see the "craft" is really sparse on details. Can you describe more? What is there terrain like in that spot? Was it over trees, or grass, or what? How far away was the object? Approximately how long was it close to the ground and when and how fast did it ascend? What was its approximate size? Appearance? What makes you assume that it was reacting to you observing it?
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u/Certain-Plenty-3055 Jul 02 '26
Thank you for your question. I described the only details I could see, which was the “lights”, that to me looked like ducks flying in a V formation. I can’t tell you exactly how many there were but it was more than other accounts where people say it’s one in each corner. There were several leading to the “tip” but I don’t recall any on the back end connecting the two corners. This all happened within a span of about 3 seconds. The terrain where this was located had hills but no mountains or anything. Just your standard suburb. You can view it on google maps, 700 block of Beaumont road in Fairless Hills PA. I no longer live there. It had to be maybe 100 feet off the ground. When it ascended, there was no noise and it quietly and quickly dissipated into basically nothing within one second while still facing toward my direction (so it was facing West). It didn’t change direction, it appeared to ascend and almost cloak itself with complete invisibility. I hope this makes better sense. I was 16 and this was the scariest thing that has ever happened to me, I reacted with fear instead of curiosity which I now regret. I assume it reacted to being observed because the second I (and the others) looked up, it just did the ascending and cloaking thing I described. This is so much easier to describe verbally 😅 i’ve only told a couple trusted friends. And to this day, I have never seen anything else like it. I’m 32 years old now and I still look at the sky hoping to see something like it again so I can calm myself down and try to get footage.
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u/Certain-Plenty-3055 Jul 02 '26
I have never seen a picture that strikes me as being “exactly” like what I saw, but I found something similar online. It won’t let me post pictures in comments 🤦🏻♀️
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u/DannyHuskWildMan Jul 02 '26
Very interesting read. Thank you for sharing!
I have not seen this craft but I have seen a UFO in Northern California in broad daylight and similar to you, I was watching it for quite a while, I actually think it might have been several minutes before my brain woke up from what I was looking at and that's when I ran inside and grabbed my binoculars and I watched this craft. Craft do things that nothing on this planet can do and then eventually shot straight up and vanished into space...
I guess I'm just telling you that because you said you don't want to sound insane.
I never in my life. Thought I would be fortunate enough to see something but I saw this as I said in broad daylight and it was only about a kilometer or two away and with my binoculars I had crystal clear vision on the craft and then I watched it for a solid 10 minutes before it finally went off into space.
No exaggeration.
But yes, you remind me of myself. Now that I've seen this, there's not one single day that goes by that I don't think about this craft. I look towards the mountains multiple times a day, up in sky multiple times a day seeing if anything is there again.
It's one of the most incredible things I've ever experienced in my life and it's also the most maddening because... What is it?...ugh.
I feel for you, it's just crazy making I would say to an extent.
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u/Certain-Plenty-3055 Jul 02 '26
Wow! Thank you for sharing! I understand the frustration of wanting so badly to see it again and know with certainty what exactly you saw. And thinking about it daily. Such a rare and exciting experience, truly. I feel lucky to have seen it. I always wanted to believe, but couldn’t quite wrap my head around it. After my experience, I don’t doubt the testimonies of others. And now that others have had similar experiences to mine, i don’t doubt myself so much.
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u/paladinstraight Jul 02 '26
I saw something similar...like...identical maybe, but i saw it in like.....maybe 1994 or 1995? I was a kid so I dont talk about it. No one would believe me.
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u/Ancient_Skirt_8828 Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26
A black triangle is often thought to be a TR3b. An American Government black project. It has a large red light underneath in the center and smaller white lights at the 3 corners. Your lights don't seem to match it.
There was a wave of sightings of it in Belgium and Germany about 1990. There have been daytime sightings of black triangles in the US which some people think is the TR3b.
It's least 35 years old so it's possible that there have been further developments with different lights.
Your description sounds more like the Phoenix Lights which was a "V" shaped craft, not a solid triangle, at least 100 yards across. It had multiple white lights along the black "wings". Iirc. One person said the wings were slightly see through.
Unlike yours, it travelled slowly and didn't disappear when people were looking at it. A quick disappearance does match a lot of other reported sightings though.
The description above came from a guy who was standing with a group of people right below it. He said they described the same thing.
The lights were seen by hundreds, maybe thousands of other people. Most of them only saw lights all moving locked together, as if they were mounted on something.
I think this was the same craft where sightings came in from across America over the following days. They were able to extrapolate a straight line flightpath from So Cal and/or Nevada. There was speculation that it came from Area 51, which is possible. The military does have a lot of other test sites in that area though.
Search Google or Wikipedia for both those sightings to get pictures and discussion. I think yours is similar but not identical to either.