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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
January 7, 2015 · 8:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Edmonton (Canada), AB · Canada
At 20:00 MST this evening, I was lying down, when suddenly I heard a sound outside. It was oscillating and loud. It lasted about 10 seconds. Then it abruptly stopped. I saw no lights through the curtains, nothing to indicate what was there, or if it left or not. I can think of nothing that could make that sound. And there were no other noises, or engine sounds. I'm retired, but I have a science background, and I have a lot of experience studying the sky. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and he sounded to us to be quite sincere and sober-minded. PD
January 1, 2015 · 1:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Kakabeka Falls (Canada), ON · Canada
My wife awoke me to witness three flying objects in the sky south east of our home. They were flying at around 500 ft +/_ , flying at first in formation then one branched off while the other two sort of hovered in a general area of the night sky. These objects were red and slightly orange in colour. They began to move east away from our home towards Thunder Bay and all at once just vanished into thin air, one minute I was watching them, and I turned to my wife for a split second, and when I looked back out to the sky they were gone.
January 1, 2015 · 12:20 AM · CIRCLE
Chilliwack (Canada), BC · Canada
I looked up out our glass door from our bedroom and saw a Orange circle it was so Bright slowing moving to the left I yelled omg what is that, my Guy got up looked and was shocked as we watched it move slowly across the sky for 25 seconds then disappear.
December 31, 2014 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Calgary (Canada), AB · Canada
It's New Year's eve, my boyfriend and friend were outside when he started calling my name to come quck!! I ran outside thinking its another owl in our tree, i saw immediately it was 2 bright glowing round lights moving slowly, seemed quite low, not a plane, moved diagonally, silently across the sky, we watched until one disappeared and the other until out of site, then another one came from the same direction and i called for my daughter and mother, who came outside and saw it too. Ive been googling to see if anyone else has seen it/them here in calgary alberta canada, seems theyre being seen everywhere around the world!! Very freaky!!! And exciting!!
December 31, 2014 · 6:07 PM · SPHERE
Spokane, BC · Canada
I have felt like speaking about this after seeing some strange shit in the Cascade Mountains in Washinton State. I seen multiple orbs and potentially a critter...take that as you may.
December 30, 2014 · 12:00 AM · CHANGING
Bluffton (Canada), AB · Canada
Source provides no information about the incident. Hoax?? PD
December 29, 2014 · 7:00 PM · CHANGING
Moncton (Canada), NB · Canada
I went outside to have a smoke and noticed some strange lights behind my house. They were lined up diagonal to begin with. After realizing it wasn't a plane I called out my daughter to see and had her bring my camera. The object appeared to move solid at first but then started to just change shape. I wound up taking a video of it at the start then photographs. It was in a triangle at one point. I reported it to the local police station as well. At first they tried to say it was a display for a buisness. I do photographs every evening of stars and have never saw anything like this before. They wound up sending an office to investigate but I do not know the outcome as of yet. I have photos and video that I can send upon request as well.
December 28, 2014 · 7:45 PM · FIREBALL
Kanata (Canada), ON · Canada
In the clear night sky were more than 12 orange fireballs coming from the east going southwest, floating in a line with erratical spaces between them, some slowing down while others were trying to catch up. There was a building obstructing my view so they were not visible once they reached that point. I was on my terrace so there was nothing that could be called a reflection of anything. I actually ran in and took a picture, but it just looks like little white dots in the sky.
December 27, 2014 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Montreal (Canada), QC · Canada
Color red; up high in the night sky (no clouds). 15 est of downtown Montreal don't know approx. lets say 35000 ft small sphere uncloaked (appeared out of nowhere) and shot out into outer space in a blink of an eye. Trajectory was in an ARC fashion. Very weird definitely not a meteor
December 26, 2014 · 8:30 PM · CIRCLE
Cobourg (Canada), ON · Canada
Thought they might be some kind of lantern, but this is a rural area and the lights seemed to move in a coordinated way. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 20, 2014 · 12:45 PM · CYLINDER
Orillia (Canada), ON · Canada
Is pulled over and took a few pictures. We suspect a high-altitude jet, generating a contrail in a clear, blue sky. PD
December 18, 2014 · 5:00 PM · CIGAR
Connaught (Canada), ON · Canada
Around two years ago my father, Eldon called and reported a ufo sighting in Ottawa, Canada. Near thanksgiving time (canada). Ever since, we have kept our eyes out for sightings. Not to long ago, I was on the phone with my father while he was driving home from work. He was about an hour ways from where I am. He tells me he sees an orange line in the sky, he tells me to go outside and look so I do so. I look around for a couple seconds and I notice it. The thin, distinct orange line was located slightly above the sun's horizon (the sun was setting at the time). The line started moving to the right for around a minute, then just stayed in place. At this point I realize that what I'm looking at is not a jet, the line stayed the same size and remained very thin. Then, after the line sitting in place for around 10 seconds, another line from the same line started moving to the left. So, you have the same line remaining in the same spot, and then another line moving to the left away from that line. Now, the two lines were apart. At a bit of a faster speed then they were separating, the two lines start getting closer and closer together and now they are combined into one line again. At this point, I run inside to get my mother and we get outside and its still there in the sky, in the same spot. A couple seconds later, it slowly fades away. The line/lines are gone now. When they faded away, I also saw sort of like a magnetic force shot up through the sky. Thank you for reading my report.
December 17, 2014 · 9:15 PM · OVAL
Gardenton (Canada), MB · Canada
((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) I just looked at a star chart app, I think you may be right about Sirius... very sorry about that one, but 2010 i have my son as a witness for those 3 objects. ((END ADDENDUM)) Approximately at 9:15 PM/21:15 hrs I had walked by my window to get my phone off the table, my picture window faces east, I am very familiar with the night sky here as there is no light pollution, or yard light and live in a isolated area, I had noticed in the south east hemisphere a oval shaped object with blue, white, red and green lights, I noticed the colors as odd as one would see a car pulled over by law enforcement, it was that color of blue that caught my attention, but this was in the sky, I took my 3 dogs out as it was time to let them relieve themselves, so I had a few minutes outside to observe this, these lights were flashing, I am familiar with airplanes, this wasn't a airplane, I studied aerospace manufacturing in school, this hovered, and it was hovering for approximately 10 mins since I got there (outside) and until I brought the dogs in, I have a high powered scope on my rifle, and set my rifle on the table and found the object in my scope, I had zoomed in 20x on it, I supported the rifle steady with the Bipod as so I can observe movement, I observed the object approximately 7-8 minutes and it started to ascend in a south east direction until it dissapeared out of sight, I live not far from the U.S border, it was heading towards the Minnesota state area, but still ascending at a steady rate. This I believe was not man made, it was approximately a mile and half from my window, height in the sky unknown but if I looked above the treeline half a mile away it would be at almost a 35 degree angle from my line of sight. This is my second encounter, and I am an avid night sky watcher, this just happened and am reporting this whilst it's still fresh In my mind. Possible sighting of Sirius? PD
December 14, 2014 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Cochrane (Canada), AB · Canada
I went out on the deck Sunday night and first spotted a shooting star, I looked east and there was a very bright object in the sky that had colored lights, red, green and white, at first I thought it was a plane but the object did not move. I looked at it through binoculars and the lights were very distinct almost in a circular pattern but the object was too far away. It remained in the same position for the entire time I watched, which was about 45 minutes. Sirius?? PD
December 10, 2014 · 7:00 PM · FIREBALL
Gravenhurst (Canada), ON · Canada
The Foo fighter appeard out my eastern window floted north west between my building and the neighbors, I jumped up when my friend pointed it out, after the initial shock, amazement, curiosity, made me open the window to see if it was making any sound. Not a sound.It was very quiet outside being Sunday night in the winter. I watched it fly across the 100yd parking lot around the house and out of my line of sight. I then ran to my northern facing window, there it was floating assending north west, turned due north then shot up at great speed and disappeared. Iv seen 3 ufos in my life, I'm now disabled, was a drywall contractor,my friend doesn't like to talk about that night. Ps They are out there.
December 7, 2014 · 4:20 PM · UNKNOWN
Carleton Place (Canada), ON · Canada
Around 16:20 in the afternoon, I was sitting in the passenger seat of my Mom's car, driving back home on McNeely Ave. after shopping. Looking out towards the East (Towards Ottawa), I noticed a bright orange light. At first I didn't think much of it, because a plane was also flying very close by this light as well. As we continued our drive along the highway, I kept watching this object, and soon relized it wasn't moving. It stayed perfectly still in that same location. After a couple minutes had passed, it suddenly changed colour to an extremely bright white light, which seemed to grow even more intense as the seconds past. Then, as if it had never even been there, it was gone. Didn't move in any direction, just vanished. It's hard to say exactly how far out towards the East it was, but my best guess would be over the country farm areas between Carleton Place & Ottawa. So perhaps roughly 10 minutes or so outside of town. It should also be noted, that roughly this far outside of town, in the South-East direction, is a military base that "no one is suppose to know about", but everyone does. Could it have been something from there? Possibly. Do I think that's what it was? Absolutely not. Over the years, I have seen many bright objects such as this, over roughly the same area. But it has always been late at night, on my way home from Ottawa. And they almost always, disappear as if they weren't there.
December 5, 2014 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Dartmouth (Canada), NS · Canada
Some were moving straight up into the sky and at least 4 of the lights were in a linear formation very close and moving in unison. I stayed and watched for at least 10 minutes and went back out to look and most are gone but some remain. Doesn't seem to be any pattern or shape of the lights.
November 30, 2014 · 1:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Grande Prairie (Canada), AB · Canada
I looked at the sky and saw what looked like a small trapped amount of rainbow in a cloud. I thought it was pretty, or visually appealing, and as I drove I could tell I was seeing slightly less and less of it. At its clearest definition, it looked like it was caused by the sun shining directly into a funnel-like shape in the cloud, I thought it was probably just some natural phenomena of the sun and color spectrum and shape of the cloud/moisture in it. Totally explainable but just beyond my understanding or comprehension of science/nature/or physics. Suddenly, as I pulled into a straight section of the highway, the colorful cloud disappeared and at a different location in the sky what looks to be about 4 feet upwards from the horizon, at a distance of roughly (going off of odometer distance at the time from Fox Creek 40-60 km, rough estimate I know, sorry). Anyways, it just appeared at this location ahead of me, with a short white tail much like a comets, but it was too short, it didn't look like any jet stream/tail that I have ever noticed before, and the object appeared to be falling at a rapid speed. I concluded it must have been a comet, headed somewhat towards my direction and that was why the tail appeared short, must have been due to my perspective/angle to the object. I had trouble making out the shape of it, but there was definitely some sort of head of the “comet-like object” that had sharp edges that stood out against the tail in the background of it. The next second, I look up, it just stopped its rapid descent and sat in the skyline, radiating a very small pink light in the distance ahead of me, about 1 foot up from the horizon from my current position, driving rapidly towards it at 100 km/hour. I am going back and forth between driving safely (as it's icy winter conditions) and watching this happen on the horizon, and it is easy for me to continue looking at the exact spot in the sky because i am driving in a straight line and there are structures in the distance in which to reference it by. When I next look up, there is a very short horizontal line appearing to the bottom right of the pink dot in the sky, that was NOT there a moment ago, and in the time span I watch it move (speaking from my driving perspective) what appears about a inch across the sky, then the next second I look up, both the pink dot and short horizontal white dash across the sky have vanished. I don't think I'm crazy, I have no history of hallucinating or psychological disorders, or even making up stories, though I do believe in the possibility of other life somewhere in the universe, but I don't believe I was desiring there to be so much that I made it up in my sub-conscious for whatever reason, at first I really was just scared that it was a comet or asteroid, and was actually going to hit the earth, until it stopped, and sat there, glowing pink. I do a lot of troubleshooting and observation due to my job, so it is easy for me to observe a process without involving any bias or personal feelings into it. And it was broad day light, I had just been driving for an hour on my way to work, after a good night's rest and a normal breakfast. I don't know what I saw, but there is no part of what I saw that resembled a plane, jet, or helicopter. We have changed the time above, to reflect a daytime sighting. PD
November 26, 2014 · 11:55 PM · UNKNOWN
Fredericton (Canada), NB · Canada
Huge blue flash in the sky, most of the residence who was awake saw it....several more followed over the next few minutes. Very blue. ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) Potential sitting ((sic. sighting)) earlier may have been several tranformers exploding. ((END ADDENDUM))
November 23, 2014 · 9:15 PM · LIGHT
Orangeville (NW of city) (Canada), ON · Canada
I was driving northeast on highway 89, about 5 kms outside Mount Forest, and I noticed a white light in the sky Eastnortheast of me. I just assumed it was an airplane at first. Then it started shinning what looked like a spot light from the west side of the object. At first I thought it was an airplane`s landing lights. Then I realized the spot light was parallel to the ground not on a downward angle like all aircraft landing lights I have ever seen. This is when I started to get curious to what I was looking at. From my perspective the object didn't appear to be moving but I was moving at about 90km/h that may have skewed my perspective. It remained like this for about two minutes then the spot light quickly and smoothly turned about 90 degrees left from my perspective and was facing North. About 5 seconds later the bright object and the spot light it was emitting were just gone. As if someone flipped a switch. I was admittedly startled at this point. Then my GPS unit began to act up trying to re-route me North adding a long detour to my trip I tried to reset it a couple of times and ended up shutting it off. I knew where I was going and I knew the routeam I just had it on to track my arival time.
November 15, 2014 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
Walford, ON · Canada
I was 14 years old, and living with my grandma in the bush, there is glass sliding doors in the front entrance of the house which is facing a steep hill driveway made of gravel and dirt, not many neighbours it’s all camps down that road and mostly bush area as well as a lake. I felt drawn to look outside at the stars, no explanation just drawn to look and as I opened the sliding door my heart dropped. I have never seen anything like it. It was a perfect circle not moving just hovering like a giant orb right above the tree lines about 100 feet away from me. It did not have flames or fire around it it was perfectly white and round and looked almost like the shape of a full moon just up close instead of far into space. It was as close as the top of the trees it lasted about 60 seconds as soon as I called my grandma to look it didn’t fly away it just vanished. It changed me forever seeing that. The giant circle was about the size of a bus maybe bigger I couldn’t tell as it didn’t look 3dimensional I could not see the dimensions because it was so bright. The object has no sound at all and the dogs were barking because we did have three dogs at the time.
November 10, 2014 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Oshawa (Canada), ON · Canada
I went out side to have a smoke and I saw a bright medium green ball of light in the sky with a tail it lasted 5 seconds, it was so low in the sky that it disappeared behind my complex unit
November 3, 2014 · 8:45 AM · LIGHT
Whitecourt (Canada), AB · Canada
As we entered Whitecourt from the North, we noticed two lights in the sky. One was very obviously a helicopter as it moved slowly through the sky. The other we thought was a helicopter as it had a bright white light and smaller flashing red light. The bright white light changed to bright green and the object moved quickly through the sky circling in front of us. The smaller flashing red light at times swung out quite far from the main light and at times disappeared completely. As we entered the city, we lost sight of it, but then it reappeared and again circled around at various speeds.
October 31, 2014 · 6:30 AM · LIGHT
Rockland (Canada), ON · Canada
I was taking out the garbage that morning and glanced up at the sky and saw 3 blinking lights blinking one after the other in a horizontal line, I though it was a plane with a huge wing span until in a split second the line went from horizontal to a vertical line, then the middle light disappeared and the two remaining ones separated further apart then also disappeared, there was no sound at all. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD