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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
July 19, 2018 · 9:20 AM · SPHERE
Beach Haven, NJ
Three red orbs, approximately two miles off shore. All three orbs moved in formation and then all three disaperared one at a time in rhythmic fashion. Then, one reappeared and remained bright red (currently). Event is ongoing. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 19, 2018 · 1:00 AM · CIRCLE
Clear Lake, CA
Around 1 am on 07/19/2018 I was outside having a smoke with my kids father when we saw a large round bright green light shoot across the sky. It started rather slow and then it picked up a sudden pace and headed off toward Hidden Valley Lake area. It was a distance away from where we stood but it made no noises and as the speed picked up the green light flickered. The speed was to fast for a helicopter and to big to be an air plane. We talked about what it might be and decided possible a falling star but now as of 07/20/2018 many others have reported a similar sighting with someone reporting their house cameras caught it all on film.
July 18, 2018 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Greenwood, IN
In July of 2018, my daughter noticed a light in the sky, maybe a mile from our house. It was stationary for about 10 minutes then slowly moved off to the north. We couldn't see where it went because of the trees. The next night, I was on the back porch, letting my dog out, and noticed another light moving at a very slow pace. I called my daughter and her friend and my grandaughter and they wittnessed them also. There was no blinking lights and no noise. They were just bright. The following night i went out the front porch and witnessed the same thing. This time they were further north, over the south end of Indianapolis.
July 18, 2018 · 11:00 PM · FLASH
Monessen, PA
I was looking out at the western sky, from back deck of house and a bright round "flash"ball appeared in the western sky. It was cloudy and overcast and the stars were mostly not visible due to the cloud cover. I have a pretty good knowledge of what various aircraft look like at night and the sounds that they give off,along with how thwy are capable of moving and how quickly they should move across the night sky. this was soundless, appeared for a second and then suddenly the same exact "light" is then, i am estimating, popping up 3-5 miles away, BRIGHTLY again,then vanishes,and is way over in the opposite direction in a different spot...This will go on for four to six times then i saw a vague streak and in a matter of seconds the "flash" id over the horizon and gone. my wife and i have seen this phenomenon at least 5 times already,this month and cant get a photo or video cause i dont know where its going to pop up when it reappears ! each time. its incredibly fast,quiet, and unexpectedly bright considering the clouds almost completely obscure any satellite or prominent stars from being clearly seen at all. I did not know how to answer the quantity question, because its unclear to me if its one item jumping around the sky or a group of them less than in this instance.
July 18, 2018 · 10:00 PM · CROSS
MN
I have short video. First appeared as distant light moving around fast in the distance. Then approached me on the hwy driving 65mph in a reverse fly same speed as me shining a bright blinding light. I flashed my brights at it and it sped off on a flash. Came back around a min later and did a fly by then quickly disappeared
July 18, 2018 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Tuscaloosa, AL
After a few minutes the light would seem to come closer again and glow bright orange. This happened several times. There was no sound coming from this object. The movement from this object was smooth, not jerky. It did move across the tree line slowly, but the moving in and out, far away, and then close was strange.
July 18, 2018 · 9:50 PM · LIGHT
Fort Collins, CO
21:50 - While driving west on Harmony Rd., about 2 miles east from I-25, I observed a light appear very high on the horizon. It was falling as it began to illuminate, so my immediate thought was that it was just a shooting star. However, before I could finish that thought the light came to a very abrupt stop and became a steady in its intensity. This of course caught my attention. I was on a call at the time and began to tell the other person what I was seeing. As I crossed over the Harmony & I-25 overpass, heading into Fort Collins, I once again observed the light drop another 5-10 degrees closer to the horizon; going from what appeared to be a semi-fixed position, rapidly dropping, and then coming to another abrupt stop. It was still fairly high on the horizon. Soon after stopping it began to increase in intensity and then rapidly dim. It went through 3 or 4 cycles of this behavior. On the last cycle it went completely out and looked like it had disappeared. After about 1 minute it came back in exactly the same spot but only at about half of its previous intensity. About 30 seconds after it had appeared again I observed it shoot out what looked like a missle towards the ground, at a 45 degree angle. The “missle” came out of the north side of the object. The light coming from the projectile disappeared when it got about halfway to the ground. 21:56 - At this point I was near the Harmony & Ziegler intersection still heading west on Harmony. At this point I observed the light once again drop at a rapid raid and abruptly stop about 5 degrees above the mountains. It appeared to be just north of horsetooth rock. 22:00 - Earlier I had told the person that I was on the phone with that I would pick them up if the light was still visible by the time I got to their house. I wanted someone else to see what I was seeing. I arrived at 22:00 and we drove to a nearby park on Boardwalk to observe the light. 22:03 - We arrived at the park and we could see the light low on the horizon. It initially didn’t seem like it was moving but we noticed that if we used the tops of the trees as a point of reference then we could tell that it was in fact moving but very slowly. We made it a point to observe the few faint stars we could see and compare their movement to the light. It was clear that the light was moving much faster than any other stats we observed. 22:10 - Other than slowly move further north the light wasn’t doing much. It had drifted far enough north that it was behind a tall tree and we could no longer see it. At this point we left the park and I drove them back home. They did agree with me that the light was behaving very oddly but obviously hadn’t exhibited any of the crazy behavior like I saw a few minutes prior. 22:13 - After I dropped them off I called my mother who lives out east of I-25 near Harmony rd. I asked her if she could see a bright amber light low on the horizon, about where horsetooth rock would be. She said she did see a light and that it appeared to be flickering. I told her about my experience and she sort of laughed it off. I told her to keep watching because I wouldn’t be surprised if it did something else. I said good and hung up the phone. 22:15 - My mother called me back very excited because she said she saw the light move from the stationary spot she had first observed it at. She said it was getting very bright then then quickly dimming to the point where she couldn’t see it. This went on for about 10 minutes until it dimmed completely out. For about a minute she assumed it was gone but then gasped and said she saw it appear further to the north. Not unlike my experience she said it started to illuminate while it was still moving and then abruptly stopped. It then went back into its routine of getting very bright and then dimming almost out. It did this for about 5 more minutes until it dimmed out and never re-appeared. ~22:35 - End of event.
July 18, 2018 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Vance, AL
Bright white light moving from south to north at a significant rate of speed. It did not have blinking lights, or sound. It was too low to be a satellite, it seemed to be flying at an altitude similar to commercial aircraft. The object was as bright as Polaris, moving fast, without sound. I have a short video of the object.
July 18, 2018 · 9:15 PM · LIGHT
Davenport, WA
Exceptionally fast craft moving south to north. Tonight, July 18, 2018 sometime between 9pm and 9:30pm, my wife and I were sitting out watching the early stars and planets appear. The sky was clear. We were sitting facing due south. As we were watching the skies we saw a single light to the south that was moving rapidly towards us, to the north. We see both military and civilian aircraft all the time. We see them at great altitude (probably airlines coming from the east (maybe Chicago, New York, etc.) headed to the west (maybe Seattle). We also see low craft such as airliners that are leaving Spokane airport headed west, or airliners coming from the west headed to Spokane airport. Occasionally we see military aircraft coming and going from Fairchild AFB to the east of us. Except for exceptionally high altitude craft, we usually eventually hear some amount of engine noise. It is not unusual for us to occasionally see a satellite or the International Space Station cruise across the sky. I give all this background because I want to express that we know the usual aircraft that frequent our skies. What we saw tonight was not anything like what we have seen in the past. This single light, no larger than a bright star, was traveling very fast. My guess is that we watched it coming from the south to directly above us in maybe 10 seconds. We were not able to watch it as it continued north. Our assumption is that from the far south to the far north it would have traversed that distance in maybe 20 seconds. The trajectory was straight with no hint of deviance from its path. This light was solid and did not have any light strobes associated with it. There was no way to discern a shape or altitude, other than we could not hear even the faintest engine noise, giving us the impression that it was at a very high altitude. Never have I seen anything in the skies moving that fast.
July 18, 2018 · 9:00 PM · OVAL
North Las Vegas, NV
At 9pm pst over Lad Vegas. My wife and I saw a Bright orange light moving very fast over apprx the I-15 Freeway moving north. It was at about 10k feet and moving at about 400 mph. It moved level towards the North East and about 3/4 mile behind was an aircraft pacing the object and clearly a plane with Red/green lighting unlike the Orb. It then promptly went out of view behind other homes. Was Awesome !!!!
July 18, 2018 · 8:45 PM · CYLINDER
Peculiar, MO
Object was moving from northeast to south west very fast and extremely high altitude with no lights or jet trails. It was a very large cylinder type object with no noise from engines.
July 18, 2018 · 8:45 PM · OTHER
Albuquerque, NM
According to the primary observer on the ground, who has 20/15 vision, the object seemed to be black and bulbous, like a group of black balloons, emitting off-white smoke as it changed shape. The object was moving extremely fast, west to east, when compared to a high-flying jet. As the object passed directly overhead, a private jet with two green lights was observed to be travelling northwest above it. The second person on the roof of the house, with less than perfect vision, observed more of a black chevron shaped object.
July 18, 2018 · 7:25 PM · SPHERE
Montello, WI
On July 18, 2018, we had left a Montello, Wisconsin gas station where I had zeroed out the trip meter after filling up. My two teenage sons and I were heading back to our vacation cabin. At about 3 miles out of Montello, going south on Marquette County Highway C, I spotted an apparently stationary, dark and round, very unusual object over the distant tree line a mile or two away. It was perfectly round, dark and dull as smoke. I remember so well that it was as round as a BB. It was not swaying. It seemed to be hovering in place oblivious to wind and gravity. My son in the back seat asked for my cell phone so that he could take pictures of it. He took four pictures from back there. The pictures also recorded the digital instrument panel of our car. The car was traveling 42 miles per hour. The first picture was taken at 4.1 miles on the trip meter; the other three pictures occurred at 4.2 miles. My cell phone camera distorts distances. The tree line and UFO appear much farther away. To find them they are always in the center of the pictures. In the first picture they are between the lone tree and small group of trees in the foreground. The image upon magnification is pixelated and displays a more saucer-shaped UFO. Upon magnification the smaller companion looks more like a toy “top” shape with its narrow point aiming downward, but its behavior does not suggest a hot air balloon, due to the speed that it moved. The tree line in the pictures changes in the photos relative to our speed. The UFOs remain at the same angle to the car; in other words, stationary, compared to the trees. At 4.1 miles the smaller companion object is to the right of the larger stationary one. The trip meter is at 4.2 miles in picture 2 when the companion object is above the stationary UFO. Under magnification of the last two pictures, even though the mileage reading was still 4.2, faint dark patches suggest that the companion was left of the object. No such darkened pixelated areas exist in the first two pictures; in fact, windshield residue of a couple of water droplets are identifiable on the glass. To the naked eye the larger UFO stood out very odd and clear. My decision was to keep going, clear the tree line. In a few miles there would be an eastbound change in the highway also and a clear view to the south. But once we reached the tree line the road S-curved, and there were trees we could not see through. It was only a few more minutes until we had cleared all the trees of roadside forest and had a full view of the sky in all directions, including back to the north. The sky however was void of any unidentifiable objects in the sky. We looked for it as we drove east too, but the sky was empty of machines.
July 18, 2018 · 6:43 PM · CIGAR
Grantwood village, MO
I thought it was a plane due to alot passing but upon further watching, it came from the east and had what looked like short clouds behind it, then it when south as in south towards like it was headed to the land. It went in a cloud for a minute. Then it preceded to go down more into another cloud and it disappeared. It was white, long shaped, the front and and were round and when I say long shape it wasn't flying like a plane, literally the long ends where up and down facing sky and earth not straight away as a plane does.
July 18, 2018 · 6:05 PM · SPHERE
Warwick, RI
I was doing the backyard thing, grilling, approximately 6 PM, evening, sunny, blue skies, 80 degrees, when, out of the corner of my eye, I notice three orange balls of light approaching over my shoulder. These things weren’t little paper lanterns, you know, like the ones that you guys keep reporting on. These lights weren’t that stuff drifting way up there in the sky. Nothing like that, these suckers were big, okay, easily 50 feet in diameter, and they’re making their way slowly past me. I don’t know, maybe three or four hundred feet above me and off to my left. And I was thinking, shit, these things are for real. No sound, perfectly quiet, and they had this majestic, almost stately, quality about them. So I’m calling my wife, you know, because she’s gotta come out and see this, and I don’t know where the hell she is, the living room, the kitchen, whatever. So I just did the next thing that came to my mind and stood there and took off my oven mitt and saluted these things. Seriously, does the government have any idea what’s going on in the airspace above this country? I mean, these things looked like they were the ones in charge as they slowly made their way toward Greenwich Bay. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 18, 2018 · 4:37 PM · OTHER
Barnesville, MN
I recently saw a video on the internet about the black jellyfish ufos and I realized I may have seen one too. It was a hot cloudless day and I was working in the yard when I noticed a dark streak moving horizontally across the sky. I was alarmed because I thought maybe it was an airplane that was on fire and leaving a smoke trail. I watched it for a couple minutes until the trees blocked my line of sight. It was very far away and I could not make out anything but a black streak moving very slowly. I noticed it was retaining the same length as it moved horizontally across the sky, if it was smoke it would leave some sort of trail and if it was a plane on fire it would probably be falling down from the sky. Many airplanes fly over our property on their path to the fargo airport so I am used to seeing and hearing airplanes, this was no airplane and there was no sound. I told my husband and we listened to the local news to see if it was a plane crash, but there was nothing reported.
July 18, 2018 · 3:34 PM · FORMATION
In-flight (California), CA
We are on a direct Alaska Airline flight 3377 from Albuquerque to San Francisco and during the trip I like to take pictures of clouds. My wife then tell me have you seen those lights I said no but look back and there 3 objects each one with 2 bright lights that were above ground and were all line up. I took pictures with my phone. During the observation at one point one of the object would disappear, its lights were no longer be visible then it will reappear after no ore than 10-15 seconds. This happened twice during the observation, the second time it was a different object than the first time. The objects seems to remain in the same position not moving from one other. I have recorded a 4 minutes clip until I couldn't see any longer the objects from the plane window. We didn't advertised our observation to any flight personnel to avoid creating chaos on the plane. No one on our side of the plane seemed to have their window shade up to look outside (couldn't see all the way to the back of the airplane). We were sitting in seat A and B.
July 18, 2018 · 11:00 AM · OTHER
Tice, FL
A red UFO mimic jet #741 close call crisscrosses X with another silver UFO mimic jet right over my house a few thousand feet up. With binoculars it looked like the red mimic was the lower object in altitude. Both were silent, and the silver mimic had a 100 foot chemtrail. The red did not. GPS: Bellaire St. and Palm Beach Blvd. Nine total on the day. 16,110 total since 2008. The engines on the red UFO mimic were not as large as the ones in the picture I'm sending. Light shade of gray on the under-wings. We are uncertain as to whether this is intended as a serious report. PD
July 18, 2018 · 3:39 AM · SPHERE
South cal, CA
After mapping a fire using a flir sensor from an airplane, an object crossed the field of view in the far distance. Caught up with and recorded a high quality video. Video was dismissed as us technology. [NUFORC annotation: Drone - Possible]
July 18, 2018 · 3:30 AM · LIGHT
Lake in the Hills, IL
At 3:30am Chicago time I was getting out of my car to head inside from getting home from work. I sometimes look up and enjoy the view of the stars and I also do this because of when I get home. This morning I got out of my car and noticed what appeared to be a star. After observing it for a minute it split into 3 lights. One moving to the north, one to the East and one to the west. The brightest of the 3 headed north. The one that headed east I lost track of once it got into the tree line. After about what felt like forever which was actually about 1-2 minutes the 2 I could still see stopped. I ran inside to grab my camera to get a video of it. When I returned outside I noticed one of them heading west, south west and managed to get a video of it moving through the sky. I lost track of that one once it hit the tree line. The other two stayed in the same spot for a little while longer. The bright one that headed north would move then stop, then move again. It looked as if it was moving northward. The other one started to move back and forth as if it were shaking. ' After about 20 minutes, they stopped moving. I stayed outside for about a 30 minutes after the last sign of movement. After that finial 30 minutes passed there was no longer any movement in the sky as if it never happened.
July 18, 2018 · 2:30 AM · LIGHT
Santa Fe, NM
Woke up and noticed very bright star-like formation sitting at horizon level; looking out my back yard across open rangeland to north. Realized lights of “formation” too large, too bright, too uniform to be natural. Four vertical, 2 more extending to left at an angle. A kind of blackish void-like quality around them. Got up and watched them, looking away, looking back, for at least 10 minutes. Then it/they was suddenly gone. Apparently at quite a distance and, if so, object was massive.
July 18, 2018 · 12:00 AM · CHANGING
Sabin, MN
Changed shape..you can see in video I'm focusing on 1 but there was actually 3 in a triangle formation just hovering I'd say for about an hour over a farm field across the street from me. I even seen a airplane go by them that's how I knew they were not moving and then the one in the middle suddenly would descend
July 18, 2018 · 12:00 AM · DISK
Chantilly, VA
Live near Dulles Airport, looked out my window (I can see planes as they climb). No planes were taking off but as I checked each side of the house I saw (looked disk shaped) with colored lights and what looked like a ladder hanging off it. I saw four closer to the ground and two above the clouds. Thinking that this could be one of ours, and not trusting myself, I went out on my patio deck, that is where two came very close together (my perception of space) then about a few seconds later, one just shot off and up and disappeared. Still no planes at Dulles, I don't know if they were Black Hawks, weather balloons, needlessly to say, I did not sleep well and the pictures I took with my cell phone did not pick them up. I have a flip phone! So I sent the dark photos to my daughter and she zoomed in with her phone and caught the something in the sky!
July 17, 2018 · 11:30 PM · FLASH
Walker, MI
Walking out of a movie theatre when me and another witness saw a bright yellow/green stationary blinking light in the sky that in a matter of seconds it shot across the sky and disappeared. It was not a meteorite, satellite, or a plane. There was no sound. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD