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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.
114,092 entries
August 8, 2018 · 4:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Boonville, MO
it was gray, no wings like a airplane, low flying,but fast, look like missiles shape, only one. you heard no sound from it, seen passing over the ciy buildings. For some reason, witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
August 8, 2018 · 3:10 AM · SPHERE
Compton, CA
I saw a blue orb about 5ft by 5ft maybe 5ft infront of me and my manager he was driving me home I wrote in the locations the path it was at an intersection after leaving the free way from the restaurant I don't live there anymore so it's okay and it was maybe floating 2ft off the ground i dismissed it as balled lighting but years later found out balled lightning doesn't stand still so I was told to report it
August 8, 2018 · 2:36 AM · UNKNOWN
Layton, UT
A flashing lighted ship with red, greens, whites and yellows appeared in the Northwest sky and moved in a zigzagged line from West to East over the Ogden, Utah, area, disappearing over Snowbasin Ski Resort. It was moving faster than our local fighter planes, it moved up, down, closer and further as it went across the sky, and there was no sound accompanying it.
August 8, 2018 · 1:00 AM · OTHER
Cottonwood Lakes, High Sierras, CA
I was sleeping under the stars in my sleeping bag in a high lakes area in Golden Trout Wilderness just below Mt. Langley near one of the Cottonwood Lakes (maybe 3 or 4). There were 14 of us in our party, part of a boy scout backpack trek. I was the furthest out, about 50 to 75 feet away from the 2 nearest me in their tents. We were camping at about 11,000 ft elevation. This was just before the Perseid Meteor Shower and I was having trouble sleeping, going in and out for a couple of hours from 10:30 PM to 12:30 P.M. I was looking at the night sky and did see several shooting stars during this time. I noticed a couple of strange things. One, I could hear a sound in the woods that appeared to be coming from an electrical appliance. I knew it wasn't natural. It was low and very subtle but it was there. I also noticed at some point, don't remember if before or after the incident what appeared to be a star go dark before my eyes. It was there, then the star was gone. The light of the star disappeared before my eyes as I was looking at it. I just thought to myself what the heck was that. Some time after 12:30PM, I will guess about 1:00 or so this is what happened. I was so rattled by the event that I didn't even look at my smartphone to see what time it was. I heard what I can only describe as a very high pitched electrical humming sound. It started to grow in intensity, so much so that I thought my eardrums were going to rupture. I didn't experience any pain, but the sound was intense. As I opened my eyes, there was a wave of pinkish, orange, purple light all around me. I was surrounded by granite boulders and foxtail pine trees, but I thought the whole night sky was dancing around me in these wave-like color tones. I was scared, because I knew this was not natural. In my head I said to God, "Dear Lord, please help me." And then everything went back to normal in an instant. I don't think this lasted more than 10 seconds or so. In the morning, I shared my experience with the adults in the group. None of them heard or saw anything. They thought is was bizarre. Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
August 7, 2018 · 11:00 PM · CROSS
Syracuse, NY
the object looked like a plus sign with one larger light in the center and three smaller lights to each of the four sides of the plus shape. At the end of each seemed to look like a faded headlight. I first saw it about 11:15 PM and by 11:38 PM it seemed to have just up and disappeared. Then half hour later it was back, watched till the clouds came in maybe 20 more minutes and couldn't see anything.
August 7, 2018 · 9:30 PM · FIREBALL
Sparks, NV
(( Probably a sighting of the ISS. https://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=25544⪫=39.5349&lng=-119.7527&loc=Sparks&alt=1344&tz=PST PD))
August 7, 2018 · 9:08 PM · FORMATION
Austin, TX
Triangular formation of three solid orange lights appeared in the southeast sky on a cloudless evening. After observing for 30 seconds, we noticed a fourth orange light trailing the three that made the triangle. The three that made the triangle looked like they "turned" and we thought it was coming out way and were hoping they would pass overhead, but then they all faded. The fourth "trailing" light remained visible for maybe 15 seconds after the first three were gone.
August 7, 2018 · 9:00 PM · FORMATION
Millington, TN
The past year has been very surreal. We moved into an old plantation house in the middle of a cotton field.I have documented several ORBS on my phone shadows of people moving through the house, I have caught tons of orbs outside and triangular formation that looked like 3 separate crafts and they hovered in the same spot and came straight down to eye view of me with a cloudy haze surrounding them, as if to disquise the view of the crafts. There is also a LG craft that hovers above my house that is high and radiates a bright light that changes colors it is as if it is trying to blend into the stars. Whisp of cloudy white smoke often floats by me inside my house it is a uneasy errie feeling here and outside my animals have tore curtains down they bark at nothing well to the human eye it is nothing radio and lights come on and off and things in my house are moves come up missing then are returned days to weeks later in odd spots
August 7, 2018 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Eagle Pass, TX
Sphere like crafts were seen all over town by many witnesses. Some sightings started in day light and others were around 21:00. People reported seeing orb like figures in the sky that would quickly change directions and some would split into more all over town. Many of us tried taking pictures or video, but it didn't show up on camera. we also heard a lot of noises like if helicopters where nearby. And saw a large yellow orange sphere come down. Also during that time a lot of our pet dogs seemed very restless, and a lot of barking. (( We have sent a note to a local newspaper in Eagle Pass, to inquire whether their offices had received any report about the alleged incident. PD
August 7, 2018 · 8:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Madera, CA
Triangle lighted shape was flying extremely fast. Did a complete stop and faded out. Was amazed by what we saw.
August 7, 2018 · 10:00 AM · CIGAR
Waupaca, WI
I don't like that our times and dates for the sighting do not match.????
August 7, 2018 · 8:44 AM · CIRCLE
Boise, ID
I climbed to the top of the foothills by lucky peak to get a picture of Boise. I snapped 3 pictures in 1 minute and the middle picture had 13 grey circles in the sky only of over the city of Boise. Some were larger than other but they were all slightly blurry. They were moving incredibly fast.
August 7, 2018 · 7:34 AM · SPHERE
Santa Rosa, CA
Went outside to let my dog out and saw a large sphere of light. It shot out beams like a flashlight would do. It moved around for a bit then fell behind the horizon.
August 7, 2018 · 1:00 AM · FIREBALL
Poinciana, FL
No information provided by witness, who elects to remain anonymous, and who provides no contact information. PD
August 6, 2018 · 10:00 PM · DISK
Minneapolis, MN
I was driving from hwy 55 to where it merges to 94 west right near downtown, around 10pm. Saw a HUMONGOUS UFO very low, and moving slow downtown, it looked like it was going through the skyscrapers, ~300 feet or less off the ground. South-east side of the city. It had red lights and I might have told myself it was a plane except it was moving through the buildings, not above them. Was driving in the passenger seat so I lost sight of it after about 5 seconds. It was huge and caught my eye right away. Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
August 6, 2018 · 10:00 PM · OTHER
Cambridge, MD
Have pictures. To naked eye looks like a campfire with different colors. Intensity of light brighter than stars-- more like LED lights. Actual photo looks like a disk. Enlarged looks like a tall box partially opened. No obvious movement.
August 6, 2018 · 10:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Green, OH
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 6, 2018 · 9:44 PM · LIGHT
Helena, MT
This light was floating in the sky like a bubble, no sound no real direction. Funny thing was, when I started filming the light started to move away from my line-of-sight, and gave me the feeling is was consciously purposely trying to evade me. You will see the light at first is motionless, then it moved behind the tree, I had to run from my exterior back door to the end of the back yard propriety fence. Then it fades away.
August 6, 2018 · 9:00 PM · OVAL
Buhl, ID
I am a PhD former chemistry professor, age 56, avid amateur astronomer since age 13 who knows the night sky and where and when planets are visible and can recognize constellations even from a few stars. Other witnesses include both of my children (experienced sky observers—son has seen other UFOs of different shapes recently; I have not) and several teenage and adult friends of my daughter present at the youth rodeo event we were all attending Monday evening. I had brought my 7x50 mm binoculars to better see events and to check to see if I could tell what phase Venus was in, and if I could see any of Jupiter’s moons. Sunset was at 8:53 pm, and I started to look for Venus to the west right afterward. A couple of minutes before 9 pm, I saw what I thought was Venus much higher (about 40° altitude) and further south than expected. It also seemed much too bright, maybe magnitude -5.5 or even -6. I looked at this strange ‘Venus’ through the binoculars and found not the partly illuminated planet, barely resolved at the low magnification I was using, but instead an elliptical bright white object in its place. (I would later compare the object’s horizontal dimension with the spread of Jupiter’s moons, and found the object to be slightly broader). The object’s long dimension was horizontal, and the right side had a brilliant white glint that always remained the brightest as high-altitude sunset progressed and the object began to turn yellow, then orange. I found the real Venus about 20° to the lower right of this object’s position a little after 9 pm, and Jupiter about 40° to the object’s left, about the same altitude as the object above the horizon about 9:10 pm. I discerned no net movement of the object as Venus got lower after sunset, but it did start to take on a distinctly yellowish hue about 9:10 pm, then much more orange at about 9:14-15. It had also faded to about the same magnitude as Venus by then (-4.3 or so). It rapidly faded from naked eye sight at 9:17 pm, presumably from the sun setting at its rather substantial altitude. The sighting was not over, though, as I was able to find the object, probably +4 magnitude in the still dusk-illuminated western sky with my binoculars. It was now brownish-gray, only slightly brighter than the sky behind it, but now the right brightest spot had a faint pure white light that reminded me of a white LED. At random intervals I noticed very faint white sparkles as if other white LED lights were flashing on and off all over the now rather non-descript ellipse. The slightly mottled appearance it had when most brightly illuminated by the sun, with the very close odd dark halo on the left, was no longer apparent. I was able to find it fairly easily over and over despite not being able to see it with my naked eye because it stayed in the same exact spot where I had seen it, neither moving with the wind, nor moving with the night sky. The last time I saw it was close to 10 pm, and it seemed much smaller and fainter at that point, but still hovering in the same spot with the faint white light on the right side still going on and off, but now almost too faint to see. Object overall magnitude was about +6 or fainter at that point, and only its larger size compared to the pinpoint stars could distinguish it from them. I tried to find it again after 10 pm, but was unsuccessful. I tried to find it again at the same time period of 21:00 to 21:30 on Tuesday August 7th, but I saw nothing out of the ordinary, under almost identical observing conditions. Sky conditions were cloudless with some smoke from distant fires visible near the horizon. I was downtown in southeastern Buhl at the rodeo grounds, and there were a lot of bright lights both in the arena and the spectator areas, so my nighttime vision wasn’t fully dark-adapted. So light pollution was a problem, but not terribly so as the arena was to the east and the object was to the west south west. My son confirmed the shape and overall appearance of the UFO. I considered the possibility that it was a weather balloon, but long dimension is usually vertical with the real ones I’ve seen in the past, and the slight prevailing westerly wind should have moved it from its starting point to much closer or even overhead. I concede the balloon explanation may fit, but too many strange aspects just didn’t fit a mere weather balloon, hence my willingness to make this report. The fact that the object remained illuminated by the sun for 24 additional minutes after local sunset should prove useful in determining its altitude, despite it being about 40° above the western horizon rather than overhead—I was very careful to note the exact time it started to rapidly fade from naked eye visibility. I personally don’t know to calculate the UFO’s altitude from these observations, but I suspect it was over ten miles up at minimum. We will attempt to establish whether the object might have been a high-altitude balloon. PD
August 6, 2018 · 8:30 PM · CYLINDER
Primghar (close to), IA
On the night of August 6, 2018, around 830 pm , I was driving on a remote highway of northwest Iowa. I just happened to glance up into the twilight sky (sun had just set) and was stunned to see a golden cylindrical object slowly flying far up in the sky right between two wind turbines. At first, I dismissed it thinking it was an airplane, but it was distinctly different. A golden glow and moving very slowly. I looked around the sky wondering if it’s a reflection of the setting sun, but it had completely set and there were no other clouds or anything at that level but clear sky. There were low dark clouds, but nothing at that level Imagine my shock to see a second similar object hovering in the sky to the far left of the sky right. It was very far away but distinctly the same size as the first one. It’s interesting that a few minutes prior to my sighting, My internet and gps conked on my iPhone and reappeared almost immediately as I passed the two objects Please let me know if anyone else saw what I did. Thank you
August 6, 2018 · 8:30 PM · CYLINDER
Primghar (close to), IA
On the night of August 6, 2018, around 830 pm, I was driving on a remote highway of northwest Iowa . I just happened to glance up into the twilight sky ( sun had just set) and was stunned to see a golden cylindrical object slowly flying far up in the sky right between two wind turbines At first I dismissed it thinking it was an airplane, but it was distinctly different. A golden glow and moving very slowly. I looked around the sky wondering if it’s a reflection of the setting sun, but it had completely set and there were no other clouds or anything at that level but clear sky. There were low dark clouds but nothing at that level Imagine my shock to see a second similar object hovering in the sky to the far left of the sky right. It was very far away but distinctly the same size as the first one. It’s interesting that a few minutes prior to my sighting, my internet and gps conked on my iPhone and reappeared almost immediately as I passed the two objects. Please let me know if anyone else saw what I did. Thank you
August 6, 2018 · 1:05 PM · OTHER
Norwich, CT
On 8/6/18 at approximately 1:05 p.m., I saw, what appeared to be a helicopter, free fall to hover over the trees about a quarter mile from my building, less than 1000 feet up. It moved side to side as if troubled with control. I thought it was going to crash. Then it turned sideways and the sun shone off it brightly. It was not a helicopter and seemed maybe bullet shaped, of bright chrome. It continued to attempt control then steadied itself for a few seconds before flying straight up above the clouds. I could still see it through a hole in the clouds and watched until it shot off to my right, traveling fast enough that the only reason I saw it again was because the sun hit the chrome once more, before it was out of view.
August 6, 2018 · 12:00 PM · CIGAR
Spokane, WA
At 12 noon I saw two white cigar shaped craft very close together high in the sky. One flew just ahead of the other, and they were close, about the width of a wing had they been airplanes. They flew west to east across the sky and flashed briefly in the Sun, but I still saw no wings or contrails. 40 minutes later I saw two similar craft fly back east to west in the same configuration. One emitted a thick white contrail and the other did not. They may well have all been airplanes. Now it is 14:24 and there are two contrails twisted like a double helix across the sky ESE to WNW. That's probably just a wind pattern. I don't really think these are extraterrestrial craft, but I'd love some answers. We can't provide answers, if the witness doesn't provide contact information. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous, and provides no contact information. Hoax?? PD
August 6, 2018 · 11:00 AM · CIGAR
Bismarck double ditch, ND
I was out at double ditch with a friend we were star gazing and noticed two lights running paraell to each other and they flared brightly which caught our attention,and they were moving together and this thing was friggin huge and it moved across the sky and went over our heads and at one point one of the lights like shot off three smaller lights which moved outward and placed themselves in the sky like stars. The two lights that were on opposite ends of this large long object continued moving across the sky toward the east till it faded from sight. The three objects that were ejected stayed stationary in the sky disguised as stars! What a perfect cover to conceal themselves as stars....was our thought.