Light over Williston, VT
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The report, as filed
Fast bright moving light came out of nowhere
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2012-02-17 → 2012-03-05
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April 25, 2020 · 8:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Williston, VT
My fiancee and 2 friends were sitting out on our patio in our back yard in the evening at around 8:30 PM. It was a clear night and it was just getting dark enough so that more stars were beginning to be visible. I had my binoculars out, which I was using to look at the crescent moon and any planes or other aircraft that were in the sky. Everyone was just chatting and sitting in the patio furniture (I was standing up and periodically looking at the moon and scanning the sky). I saw what appeared to be 3 white lights traveling East (or Southeast) in a line. The front 2 lights were much closer together than the 3rd trailing light. There were no blinking lights and no red or other-colored lights. I stated I saw something to my fiancee and our friends and my fiancee and one of our friends began watching as well (the 4th person had their back to everything and was not paying attention or interested in he moment). The lights were completely silent and at the time we did not see any other planes in the sky and there were only a handful of stars/planets (in addition to the moon) visible in the night sky. I followed the 3 lights with my binoculars and watched them as long as possible - eventually they faded into the distance - they did not disappear behind the horizon or into the clouds - to me it looked like the objects were continuing on the same path they were on when I first noticed them. The lights traveled at a consistent speed except towards the end of the sighting when it appeared that they sped up, or were going up into higher altitude while still traveling East/Southeast without the rate of movement changing. The 3 of us who witnessed it were baffled.
February 23, 2020 · 5:00 AM · FORMATION
Williston, VT
I went out to my back porch around 5am. It was a clear starry morning. I glanced up and saw what could’ve been a satellite (60% brightness from zero to Venus). Then a second one 2.5 inches behind the first at arm’s length. But then I noticed a third, fourth, fifth; all moving in a precise straight lined procession due East. I woke up feeling quite groggy about a half hour before and thought I might just be feeling dizzy or something. I glanced toward the Eastern Horizon and could then see that the procession continued moving in a steady traffic in a perfect straight line. I swept my eyes in disbelief from the horizon to the edge of the roof above me. Heading from West directly East ,yet more continued at uniform speed in varying sizes and brightness. The flight trajectory of each light stayed on precise course but each individual unblinking silent star-like light wobbled slightly. More and more continued.At a single sweeping glance one could take in up to t! wenty five to thirty lights at once from my rooftop to the horizon. As they proceeded forward , mostly in single file but occasionally with a smaller light or lights keeping pace and flanking a single file larger light. The brightest lights were at 80% of what one would see looking at Venus. From the edge of my porch roof looking up at the steady stream coming from the West , a minimum , at conservative estimate , of ten to twelve newly appearing lights would appear per minute . I went inside feeling rather confused...I wanted to wake everyone up. I grabbed a terrible quality cell phone /video device and started whispering into it as I focused the video camera up at the procession for about two to three minutes but stopped because I felt it was not picking up the star-like lights in the dark predawn sky. The Eastern sky was starting to show the lightened approach of sunrise. I went inside after literally seeing 150 ; minimum within a fifteen minute period. I felt that this! was a spectacular event and so I went inside, turned on the m! odem ,an d my computer and then went back out on the back porch. The procession continued in its precise straight line showing the brightest lights still as they approached directly into the brightening Eastern sky. At that time I watched the last in line following the long trail of moving lights. No more continued. I went back inside expecting perhaps to see others posting reaction or even news headlines about this event. It was truly a spectacular procession like some mass exodus out over the sea from a “Star Wars” movie. With decades of experience closely watching many other jets , airplanes , satellites , natural phenomena I could estimate from the perspective and speed of the straight lined procession that the lights were less than ten miles up. It was truly a spectacular display.Had it been going on all night ? I only caught it in mid progress after an unknown amount of time since commencement. There could have easily been eight hundred visible lights ( who knows how many very ! small ones only viewable through binoculars?) per hour all in that perfect straight line travelling due Eastout to sea if they had been as uniformly spaced and paced within my fifteen minute count ( overall viewing approx. half hour ).
July 4, 2019 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Williston, VT
Just before the fireworks, looking west we saw a bright flashing, almost neon blue light moving across the sky. At first we thought it was a plane until it stopped mid air and hovered for 20 min. or so. It then reversed direction, disappearing and reappearing. Several times it increased its speed going much faster than a drone or airplane. It disappeared again only to reappear seconds later in the eastern sky. No sound what so ever. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 11, 2015 · 9:39 AM · CIRCLE
Williston, VT
small bright disk shape streaked north to south- too low for shooting star. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 19, 2014 · 9:10 PM · RECTANGLE
Williston, VT
Sighted a block of pure white extremely bright lights. The object was very high in the air maybe just below the clouds. The object looked to be far away but still came across as very large (maybe the size of 3 single-family homes) It sat stationary in the sky and the lights gave a large bright white star shape luminance. The object looked almost exactly like baseball stadium lights except much bigger and much higher. I lost sight of it when I went behind the tree line and when I drive by again it was gone.
July 9, 2014 · 9:15 PM · UNKNOWN
Williston, VT
At 9:15 pm on the east coast, i stepped outback onto my porch in Williston Vermont. As i looked ahead just above the tree line i noticed a flashing light. it was white, then red, then back to white, back to red, so on and so forth. At first i thought it was a plane far away because of the flashing lights, but after a second i noticed that it wasn't flying in a line, it was changing its direction very radically, it went from the right side of me towards the left, then went up, back towards the right, and then it was just gone. I sat and watched the part of the sky i had seen it in for about a minute more, thinking maybe it had just gotten blocked from sight by the clouds in the sky. but i never saw it again. i have no idea how far away it actually was. but from what i saw it looked to be a circle with flashing red and white lights. from the distance i was at it seemed to only move a few inches in the sky. the entire time i saw it was no more then fifteen seco! nds.