See The UFO Sightings Reported So Far In Bucks Co. This Year

UFO sightings never really left the news, but they’ve arguably never been more prevalent. Navy pilots recently spoke of seeing mysterious objects — with no discernible engine or exhaust fumes — flying at hypersonic speeds.

President Donald Trump recently said he was briefed on UFOs. A group of Senate lawmakers received a classified briefing this week about such objects. And let’s not get started on that strange Facebook video that seems to show a creepy-looking alien doing some sort of jig down someone’s driveway.

Virginia Democratic U.S. Sen. Mark Warner wants answers on UFOs, whether it’s “weather balloons, little green men, or something else entirely,” Rachel Cohen, his spokeswoman, told CNN. And the Navy has drafted guidelines to allow pilots to report UFOs, and so that the military can track them, though the military branch prefers not to use the term “UFO.”

In that spirit, Patch took a peek at the most recent UFO sighting in Bucks County as a whole using a database compiled by the National UFO Reporting Center.

Here are the reports logged so far this year in Bucks County by that agency:

• May 24, Yardley: Huge pentagon-shaped object, silver in color, 4 white lights underneath, red & orange light on either side, possible door open. Lasted 10 minutes.
• April 1o, Croydon: Weird triangles flying in different directions. Lasted "a few" minutes.
• March 12, Perkasie: Two yellowish/white lights. Lasted 5 minutes.
• January 25, Kintnersville: Up in the sky in one direction was a Christmas-tree like image with many colors. Lasted 3 minutes.
• January 17, Yardley: Blaring white light stationary in the sky slowly started to descend. Lasted more than 10 minutes.
• January 16, Levittown: A wide triangle formation in the sky with red oscillating or blinking lights. Lasted more than 20 minutes.

According to data compiled by the Center, there were nearly 500 sightings across the country in May and more than 300 in January, March and April.

The Navy seems convinced of the existence of UFOs, telling POLITICO in a statement there were reports of unauthorized and/or unidentified aircraft “entering various military-controlled ranges and designated air space in recent years.”

"For safety and security concerns, the Navy and the [U.S. Air Force] takes these reports very seriously and investigates each and every report,” the statement said.

And Ryan Graves, an F/A-18 Super Hornet pilot who reported his sightings to the Pentagon and Congress, told The New York Times last month he was one of multiple pilots who saw UFOs. The pilots began seeing the objects in 2014 and 2015 after receiving upgraded equipment.

Initially they believed they were getting bad readings.But the sightings kept happening, showing up at 30,000 feet, 20,000 feet and even at sea level. The objects could speed up, slow down and then reach hypersonic speeds.

“These things would be out there all day,” he said. “Keeping an aircraft in the air requires a significant amount of energy. With the speeds we observed, 12 hours in the air is 11 hours longer than we’d expect.”

Patch national staffer Dan Hampton contributed to this report.