"The Williamsport Wave", 1992

On February 6th 1992, residents all along the West Branch of the Susquehanna heard very loud noises, and saw bright lights on a boomerang shaped item in the sky.

The Mufon UFO Journal described this as the Williamsport Wave.

“Were you among hundreds of area residents who appear to have experienced a close encounter with the ‘Galaxy’ last night?” the Williamsport Sun-Gazette asked in its Feb. 6, 1992, edition.

 Sightings were recorded in towns from Trout Run to Selinsgrove.

One witness reported seeing “four bright, white lines spaced far apart in a row and hearing a ‘rumbling’ sound.” Other witnesses said the objects “rumbled low enough over area homes to rattle the glass in some windows"

In  The MUFON Journal, February 5th 1992, by Samuel Greco described the sound as “the rumble of a heavily loaded freight train, to the rumble of Niagara Falls, to the rumble of a snow plow plowing the street, or to the noise of a loud diesel engine truck.”

John Reitz, of Sunbury, said the noise was so loud it drowned out his tv show, he described what he saw for a Daily Item Reporter:

"I ran out of the house and saw this thing shaped like a boomerang, with three bright lights.  It was about two or three times the width of a football field.  It looked like a search light at the tip, and there were other lights and about three-quarters towards the center point.  The thing was at a controlled speed.  Then picked up speed and went over Kerchner's Hill.  As it disappeared it illuminated the entire top of the hill.  You could see the outline of the trees."

An article in the Daily Item the following week reported that Lewisburg residents reported seeing four jets in tight formation at the same time.

George Jeremiah, retired from the Army and living near Montandon,  described the craft as "one of those new bombers that look like the Stealth".

Although no definitive answer appears to ever have been found, various officials offered several possibilities, including a cargo plane or jet, or a soviet space station.

In 2025 when I shared this post, Ross Garside commented:

"Myself, wife, 3 kids, a neighbor, a member of our church, & co-workers in Lewisburg, all heard, then saw this.

For Sunbury, it happened as dusk was occurring.

The noise was so loud, that when I ran from my home office in the basement, at first I thought it was a formation of fighter jets, due to aircraft red & green lights blinking, but it seemed to be a bigger object, & was too slow.

It was VERY loud (so loud, we all ran out to see what the racket was.), very low, very large, and quite slow, flying at dusk, so all that could be seen were triangular lights & a barely visible triangle outline.

It flew directly over our house, which is about a mile SE of Sunbury.

Every now and then I could make out a shadow of an outline as a large triangle, which I judged to be about the length of a football field,

yet it was flying too slow to stay airborne - for normal aircraft.

It pretty much freaked us out for years, until I dug up what I am pretty sure it was,

on the web.

I found out that a dirigible company (Aereon) had bought the rights to this Dynair military design that had its funding killed, and planned to commercialize it as a heavy-lift dirigible.

Typically, UFOs are considered silent (the TRB-3 term at this link is a triangular-reference-base-3-sided, type of UFO).

The large size is apparent, and the number of propeller-engines explains the horrific noise of it."

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