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Sightings
Witness reports, held as-reported. Each entry keeps its source, its coordinates where the record has them, and its place in the larger pattern.
5,260 entries
August 13, 2020 · 3:56 AM · FORMATION
Victoria (Canada), BC · Canada
I viewed two rows of bright objects in the sky (not quite as bright as the ISS (-2.5) but about that size). There was eight objects in total (4 sets of 2). ________________________________________ O O O O O O O O _________________________________________ These objects were moving uniformly (as one unit) ENE. The objects were not like shiny stars but rather looked like what a satelite looks like in the sky. They were moving quite fast as they appeared about 80 degrees and faded from sight around 25 degrees, all in under 5 seconds. My wife and I were viewing the meteor shower and were shocked to see such a magnificently perfect sight.
August 12, 2020 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Brampton (Canada), ON · Canada
Waiting for a meteor shower to begin I was watching the sky with binoculars. I saw a dot moving incredibly fast. When I moved the binoculars away it was not visible to the naked eye. That dot moved across the sky and then stopped and made a J type turn and flew back the way it came. If flew from south to the north then back again. Then vanished. There were 2 planes in the sky at the time and this dot that flew had no night time flashing lights etc like the planes have
August 11, 2020 · 11:20 PM · CIRCLE
Saskatoon (Canada), SK · Canada
So last night I went out to watch the night sky for falling stars/meteorites. In the course of 1/2hr I saw at least 1dozen stars, that were travelling slowly and very very far up in space. These were small to see as they were very far away. I also saw falling meteorites with bright tail lights that would quickly fizzle out. The interesting part of the night that I experienced was at roughly 11:20pm. As I was laying in the park looking up into the night sky, I noticed what I initially thought was 5 to 7 geese flying in a V shaped formation, however as I sat up and starred more intently I realized it was not geese . There was no noise and no identifiable flapping of wings. The objects were circular in shape, and had a brownish hue, with very slight aura of diffused light around. There was no real identifiable tail light of bright colour, and this formation flew what seemed to be very methodical, and did not break its flying formation for the quick time that I witnessed it. (7seconds). This did not seem to be a satellite or a star or a broken up meteorite. I can only describe it the way I witnessed it. It flew from, Eastward to Westward . I only wish I would have had been recording with my cell phone. The only other object in the sky that appeared after my sighting was the local Police Traffic Plane that circles the town, I am wondering if they saw anything, it was very close to the time frame I am referencing.
August 9, 2020 · 9:45 PM · TRIANGLE
Ottawa, ON · Canada
My fiance and I were sitting on our balcony smoking and watching the sky since the Perseid Meteor shower will be at its peak this week. Since we are in the city there is quite a bit of light pollution so we really only see the brightest stars. We can see such constellations as Scorpius and The TeaPot. As I was looking just East of the TeaPot, I noticed a bright white light, like a star, in the corner of my eye. I looked towards it and realized it was not there before, it was not one of the usual stars we see. I now have my fiance’s attention and he is looking at it too. As we are watching this bright light it begins to move downwards and two more lights appear above it forming a perfect upside down triangle! They stayed in triangle formation and continued to move downwards in unison and gradually disappeared one by one as they appeared. It did not last long, maybe 30 seconds or so. I tried to take a picture of it but would not show on my crappy cell phone cam. It was the weirdest thing we have ever seen and we have no idea what it could have been.
August 9, 2020 · 1:30 AM · TRIANGLE
London (Canada), ON · Canada
Basically around 1:30 am observer 1 noticed a triangular craft move above north west of our seated area in our back yard. It was just below clouds . It was whispy cloud cover nit thick at all Moon was to our south east and it was about 3/4 moon It hovered went west past tree line and then came back hovered again and went east then out of sight Lasted about 20 minutes. He says it was size of quarter at arms length quote from observer 1 “ Triangular in shape its flight path was like a clothesline parallel and lights where violet green white yellow and I want to say like Amber not red not Orange” Observer two only observed the object after informed by observer 1. I noticed it above hovering north west of my position . First thought it was a drone . Because it sat in the one position with multi coloured lights blinking . The lights to me seemed to indicate a circular pattern or craft. It moved east and to me seemed to have a appearance of lights in circular pattern at each end of object . To me the object was translucent the shape like a helicopter. It made no noise of an engine but I thought I heard air moving . It went to the east and disappeared. The lights to me seemed like Christmas lights . Flashing twinkling . But I like an airplane not in a fixed patter. After I stopped watching I saw in the top of a tree in neighbours tree a bright white light blink out the size of soft ball . I thought fire fly them it occurred it was too big to be firefly . Several weeks before observer 2 saw in same location saw a yellow orange light travel upwards seemed steep incline . I took video and picture of that . It was northern sky
July 31, 2020 · 10:30 PM · EGG
Toronto, ON · Canada
An oval light, orange in the centre and fading to yellow/white flew north-west to south-east across the sky. Faster than an airplane, slower than a comet. It didn't fade in colour or intensity as it crossed the sky. Lost sight of it behind a building.
July 30, 2020 · 10:15 PM · LIGHT
Kearney (Canada), ON · Canada
Around 10:15 around the constellation of Aries a light was travelling Northwesterly slowly then quickly over the cottages and went behind the trees and then continued over most likely over Big Clam Lake in Ontario. A little later there was a slight gargling like sound in the southeasterly horizon.
July 30, 2020 · 10:15 PM · SPHERE
Ottawa (Canada), ON · Canada
I went outside to water my plant and got looking at Jupiter, Saturn and the Moon. I spotted a spherical white light object that was moving fast from North to South. I thought it was the space station but I realized it was too bright. As it moved it wobbled. No other lights. I went in the house to get my binoculars then back into the house to get my camera but it was gone when I got back out. No other detail but the white light could be seen. No sound.
July 29, 2020 · 2:55 AM · SPHERE
Toronto (East York)(Canada), ON · Canada
East York, Toronto Ontario. I was standing on my balcony having a smoke, and I was looking up and saw a rather large white ball streaking across the sky heading north with a clearly visible vapour trail in tow. The white ball was about half the size of the Moon, it was flying lower than the altitude of a high-flying airliner, but it appeared considerably larger, and traveling at a speed which could only be matched by a very low flying fighter jet. The object was white like a fully lit frosted light bulb. For me, it was an awesome sight!
July 28, 2020 · 11:55 PM · LIGHT
Lethbridge (Canada), AB · Canada
Sitting outside in my friends backyard, clear evening, looking at satellites going by and suddenly there were 3 Faint lights traveling in a northbound heading, diagonal in orientation and far too fast to be a satellite and too low to be an aircraft without making sound or any other visible markings. There were no other identifying marks or lights. They where very faint indicating high altitude but traveling very very fast, seemingly to indicate low altitude. Confirmed sighting with friend who saw them as well
July 27, 2020 · 3:15 AM · FORMATION
Vancouver Island (Canada), BC · Canada
I was outside at about 3:10 AM, on an island north west of Seattle. Looking north - up at the sky - there was a bright star obviously a great distance away. Also, at what appeared to be at a similar distance was an interesting object. Had a look at the object as it just sat there for a couple of minutes before changing shape slightly. It was definitely a huge distance away, and very long. The object seemed to consist of maybe 15 to 20 round lights clustered together to form a lightening rod shape at first, then a straight line. I compared the size of one of the lights to the star and it seemed that they were of similar size. The lights were very near together but could see space between them at the top and bottom. There were many of these lights and they could be compared to the star, as the object sat. I walked away to place something indoors and the object was gone -but not the planet - when I returned.
July 25, 2020 · 10:44 PM · CIRCLE
Kitchener, ON · Canada
Weird circle shaped UFO seen in the sky by 5 witnesses. Movements were very erratic and fast, only one was seen.
July 25, 2020 · 2:00 AM · LIGHT
Austin (Canada), QC · Canada
At around 2 am, I was looking at the stars in the distance (opposite the lake) when I saw two bright, light blue lights pass over my house, high in the sky. It didn’t look like a shooting star, nor did it look like an airplane. It had a spherical, saucer shadow or form with the two blue lights on its end. It probably could have been a kilometer or two up from the ground, as it looked 2-3 cm wide from my point of view. It appeared, then passed for around 4-5 seconds before disappearing as if nothing had happened at all.
July 25, 2020 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Ottawa (Canada), ON · Canada
Four of us sitting in the backyard looking up at the stars. One of us was not looking up. An extremely fast moving white light shot across the sky moving from the north to the south and seemed to stop almost right over us. It was a very small white light almost thought to be a star, or satellite but moving way too fast. It stopped for a moment and then it went up into the sky, meaning it vanished but in an upward direction, not left or right or any direction, it went up. I immediately said to my husband and our friend "did you guys see that or am I seeing things?" and at the same time I said that, our friend said "what the heck was that?!" because both he and my husband had seen the same thing I just witnessed. When we came into the house, the ceiling light in my son's room was on. This is odd as we had turned it off when he fell asleep. This has been happening lately so could be unrelated.
July 22, 2020 · 11:30 PM · LIGHT
Port Elgin (Canada), ON · Canada
My friend and I were watching stars and satellites. We notice something piercing across the sky at an unimaginable speed. We were shocked and watched it soar across thousands of miles in what seemed like a few seconds. The thing was that this object did not move in a straight line. It would dart in one direction then change directions in a heartbeat on angles ranging over 90 degrees. In an instant a the light engulfed in a huge white flash that made both myself and my friend yell in shock and fright. There was a noise. Not a bang but a sound that could be more described as a whip. During the flash a trail went through the sky and the object was gone.
July 21, 2020 · 12:30 PM · FORMATION
Lethbridge (Canada), AB · Canada
Went outside and saw 6 huge triangle shapes blocking the sky above it. The were in a diagonal formation heading North. They were low flying, looked large enough to be 6 planes. They made no noise, and had no lights. They lightly reflected the lights from the city, but were dark enough to block out the night sky. They couldn’t be birds as they didn’t move other than gliding across the sky. When looking at the sky, if you put your hand up, they were the length of the tip of my thumb to the tip of my middle finger. Pretty large. They moved North in the formation, then sped up and got smaller. I think this means they were going upwards into the sky. It only lasted about 30 seconds, and they were gone by the time my sister made her way outside from 10 feet away. Our cats also ran to the balcony door and went crazy.
July 17, 2020 · 11:55 PM · CIRCLE
Bridge Lake, Lone Butte (Canada), BC · Canada
July 17-20, 2020, Lone Butte, BC: (after 11:55 pm) Myself and 6 friends were staying at a cabin up in Bridge Lake in Lone Butte Canada from July 17-20 and witnessed lights in the sky of different sizes and brightness and colours every night after 11:55 pm. We saw some divide from one light into three, hover and fly off. At one point two crossed paths hovered and continued in different directions, most of the sightings occurred crossing past the Milky Way or that general viewpoint. From our vantage point it seemed like they were the same size as the stars and very far above us and would cross the entire skyline moving in fast jerky movements, stopping and or shooting off at a fast pace. We managed to capture one on a cell phone, all you can see is a tiny dot moving across the screen and even though there was a full sky of stars the phone camera only shows the light which we though was strange even at the time. Here’s the video we got of a smaller one, we are convinced they were not bugs or satellites. Would love to know if anyone else saw anything that weekend. We enjoyed all the moments and it will remain a magical memory for all of us.
July 17, 2020 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Smithville (Canada), ON · Canada
We were observing comet Neowise with binoculars. We noticed a light moving east away from our view of the comet. It suddenly sped up and accelerated very fast, still heading east. At approx 75°above the NNE horizon, it slowed down and stopped. It's light flashed occasionally for several minutes and then we lost sight of it.
July 16, 2020 · 11:14 PM · SPHERE
Prince Albert, SK · Canada
Decided to get high on grandmas deck one time and seen a light in the sky moving in zig zag patterns.
July 16, 2020 · 10:48 PM · CIRCLE
Nanaimo (Canada), BC · Canada
Bright orange... thought it was the space station... drifted east and then dipped a bit south and flickered... no jet noise, faded out and disappeared
July 11, 2020 · 3:00 PM · CHANGING
Rankin Inlet (Nunavut)(Canada), NT · Canada
Me and my co-workers seen a white round object moving slowly but in different directions and heights around in the sky above us it seemed like it would turn sometimes and become very skinny like you almost couldn't see it anymore, a small bright light appeared what looked like to be right next to it but maybe a lot higher up in the sky for maybe 20 or 30 seconds and then disappeared again. One of my co workers could see 2 more of the white objects in different parts of the sky but me myself only noticed the first one.
July 11, 2020 · 3:11 AM · CIRCLE
Aidrie (Canada), AB · Canada
A bright light hovered in the west sky, it had red and green lights that blinked It slowly moved away westward the lights were many times brighter than any plane On occasion there could be seen a very small light approach it’s it faded into the far distance it appeared to zig zag fast but slightly
July 10, 2020 · 11:40 PM · LIGHT
Kaministiquia (Canada), ON · Canada
My 14 year old son texted Me to tell me to look outside to the south. He said there was 3 very bright white lights. He didn’t state what formation they were in, but he said they were close together and not moving. He also stated that he was really scared. When I looked south I couldn’t see anything but when I looked in the direction he is at, behind the tree and barely visible was a bright light. He tried to take a picture but while he was getting his phone aimed to take the pic, they disappeared and was no longer able to see them. The light coming from behind the trees that I had seen also disappeared. is clear tonight and stars are extremely visible and he was able to tell that they weren’t just stars.
July 8, 2020 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Owen Sound (Canada), ON · Canada
Very large, very bright yellow light came shooting up from the southeast and appeared quite low at first. It was dead silent,, which was strange so we watched (two of us out walking). It got over head and then headed straight west quickly for a bit, and then seemed to suddenly dim Significantly and go slightly red, and speed up even faster. Then it zipped off to the left/south (I guess could be Southwest but of course it was much much farther away by this point as far as I could tell. Super strange. We waited to hear any kind of aircraft sounds and there was nothing for the duration.