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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
May 20, 2018 · 4:00 PM · SPHERE
Nahma, MI
Fishing on Lake Michigan, headed back to launch, a glowing white sphere the size of a basketball emerged out of the lake and followed me for 5 minutes. It floated obove the surface and followed me till I was safe on shore, then floated away up in the sky..
May 20, 2018 · 1:00 PM · DIAMOND
Russell, KS
Diamond blue white illuminated stationary object . driver and passenger Observed object while traveling too Denver for many miles hovering above the prairie. The photos on phone of the object are not reflections the sun is almost high noon. And the shadow proves that is so.
May 20, 2018 · 1:00 PM
Johnstown, PA
At first I didn't see anything, and they sounded directly over head, but then a second later I saw them as they were about to exit my field of view. By the time I saw them it was too late to grab my cell phone. But I think they were too high anyway for a cell phone camera to see them clearly. They were traveling ea! stward, at the same speed, in tight formation. All three were different colors and different in shape to the others within their formation. They were at least as high as any commercial airliner. Higher than the cloud layer and flying fast. I'm eager to find out if someone else seen this formation and possibly knows for sure what they were or if they were of some other origin. I mean, I don't ever hear the jets that are leaving the chemtrails, but I sure heard these. And they were easily as high as that. They weren't planes. I don't know what they were but I sure know what they weren't, and they weren't planes, or meteors. They were under intelligent control flying in a tight triangular formation towards the east.
May 20, 2018 · 12:12 AM · LIGHT
Covington, NY
Out to the west side of the house there was a very bright light showing in the distance through the woods. It hovered as if it was spotlighting something. It made me wonder if it was some kind of helicopter that was using a spotlight. I got out the binoculars but had a hard time seeing fully with the leaves just coming out on the trees. All I could see is that it was very very bright and moving very succinctly. Woke up my husband and he caught a brief glimpse before it disappeared. We do have helicopters that fly by here regularly but I opened the window -- there was no engine noise like there would have been for something like that or even an airplane. All I can say is, it was attention getting as it is not the normal lights seen around here. Been an hour now and no bight light... I'm submitting report in case others do as well.
May 20, 2018 · 12:00 AM · RECTANGLE
Calhoun, IL
There was three people that saw this and there was two planes went by it and then disappeared right before our eyes. The light was bright then dim then disappeared then came back did the same thing then it disappeared and then it came back for the third time.
May 19, 2018 · 10:00 PM · CIRCLE
Wheeling, IL
4 white lights moving from the center of the circle towards the perimeter and then back to the center. I took a few videos with my cell phone but can see better with naked eyes.
May 19, 2018 · 10:00 PM · CIRCLE
Grand junction, CO
I saw 9 small bright orange light all fly right over me, no noise and disappear in the sky, one right after the other
May 19, 2018 · 9:53 PM · CIRCLE
Shelton, CT
I’m on may 19th at 10pm I was driving and coming upon a sharp corner on birds eye rd in shelton, ct. this is often a very dark drive (backroads) and along my right side is usually just a dark field. No towers or streetlights in this area, that I have ever seen in day or night. On this night, however, there was a flashing light, that almost seemed like a strobe light in the sky for about 2 minutes. It wasn’t just a flashing light though, it was EXTREMELY BRIGHT, and lit up the normally blackened area.
May 19, 2018 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Blanchester, OH
Finally after about 20-30 seconds of amazement, the lights did a quick fade to sky. my friend's house is on tucker road and the lights appeared to be somewhere over fayetteville.
May 19, 2018 · 9:15 PM · CHEVRON
Memphis, TN
Driving west on North Parkway with my GF, in between East Parkway and Watkins. We had been watching this thing for a couple of minutes. This was certainly no drone, plane, helicopter, Chinese lantern, satellite or anything of conventional explanation. Almost chevron shaped but straighter with a less defined apex to the angle of the shape. Very bright, totally silent, and appeared to be on fire but there was no trail or tail and it moved at a very steady but slow speed. It could not have been a drone because we watched it vanish somewhere over downtown Memphis or maybe even over the river into Arkansas. Our phone was dead and we left the charger at home. No clouds for it to vanish into. When it was right above us it was so much brighter than anything else in the sky. I've never seen anything like this. I would say it was a fireball but the shape was wrong. Also...the entire object was illuminated as if glowing brightly or on fire as opposed to something that had lights on it.
May 19, 2018 · 3:19 PM · RECTANGLE
Monroe, OH
Observer was driving down Hwy 63 and noticed a large, rectangular object in the sky. At first It was thought ito be a sign being flown above a building, but as the witness neared the highway, it was realized that the object was moving across the sky. The next thing thought was that of a sign being pulled by an airplane, but there were no other aircraft in the sky. The object was moving in a straight, smooth line. When the witness got to the light before the left turn onto I-75, a short video was taken. The movement was seemless and straight with no flapping edges or moving parts. Eventually the turn at a stop light which had changed to green, caused the object to be lost to sight.
May 19, 2018 · 2:10 PM · CHEVRON
Fresno, CA
On May 19, 2018, i went outside and noticed the clouds looked different. The day was clear with some clouds but these clouds looked like solar flares so i took a few photo's. I forgot about the pictures I took then a few weeks ago I showed my friend the photo's he said, "what's that?" I never saw a craft in the sky but it sure is in the photo, I submitted to MUFON Case#93848.
May 19, 2018 · 10:45 AM · OTHER
Wapakoneta, OH
On Saturday morning, May 19th, 2018, while driving my motorcycle North on I-75 in Ohio I observed an object moving from west-north-west to east-south-east at a very high speed. There was no jinking or other manoeuvre. The flight path was completely straight. I did not note the mile mark, but it was at least an hour out of Piqua, and before the turn to US 30, where I would eventually link up with I-90. I was travelling about 75 mph, and the object moved so quickly, I felt I was standing still. My field of view was about 160 degrees and the object traversed that in about one second. There was no sound (although to be fair, there was a fair bit of wind noise despite the fairing and windshield). It was difficult to gauge height as the object’s shape was nothing with which I was familiar. But to hazard a guess, probably less than 1000 feet. But if I had been in my car, the roofline which not have let me see it. It was below the clouds (but it was not overcast – there was plenty of sunshine). There was no sonic boom, so I could conclude the object’s speed was less than Mach 1, but the speed with which it traversed my field of view meant to me that it was travelling between 250 to 400 mph. The object was all gray, similar to USAF aircraft colours, but darker. I could not see engines, nor any obvious wing shape. There were no lights, there was no trail, it emitted nothing, it stayed the same shape. The sketch of its outline below is from memory (a day-and-a-half old). (the sketch would not paste in this box - I will send the sketch to Mr. Davenport's e-mail address.) My outline is poor - the front was a smooth curve (in other words, no implied cockpit – and I did not see one). A few minutes later I spotted an airplane making a turn off in the distance to the West a couple of miles at least. No idea what type – but it had wings and moved as an aircraft moves, and it appeared to be very low. The object I saw was definitely not a commercial aircraft, private propeller driven aircraft, business jet or a missile. It was not a helicopter, nor was it a civilian drone, nor was it a bird, nor a bug, nor an imperfection in my visor – it was up, nor a floater. I am ex-military (Canadian army officer) and I had just been to visit the USAF National Museum for the Memphis Belle exhibit – nothing there would look like what I saw, even the experimentals, when in the air. Nor would any of ours. I suspect it was a large drone of unique design – but I thought no unmanned air-breathing vehicles were allowed flight over populated areas? Or maybe it was a new experimental manned aircraft and I just could not see the cockpit. Others must have seen it, so I hope my description and others, helps narrow the identification down to a few possibles.
May 18, 2018 · 10:00 PM · CIRCLE
New York City, NY
(( Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD))
May 18, 2018 · 9:45 PM · TRIANGLE
Dover, PA
Was flying pretty low but not enough to see area between the lights
May 18, 2018 · 3:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Snohomish, WA
Heard jet/airplane sound then two lights came into view. They were pretty bright yellow as it was in the clouds on cloudy night. They were making the clouds light up brightly like a camera flash on and off quickly, and constantly. The lights did disappear after a few seconds. I thought holy ((one word deleted, that's powerful when i saw it in the clouds. (( One of three reports from the same source. Possible hoax?? PD)
May 17, 2018 · 11:20 PM · LIGHT
Pisgah Forest, NC
There appeared to be a couple of aircraft in the sky at the same time. I heard nothing unusual.
May 17, 2018 · 9:45 PM · LIGHT
Everglades, FL
On the evening of May 17, 2018, I was on my sailboat anchored in the Little Shark River in the Everglades of Florida. The evening was very dark with a glow on the eastern horizon caused by light pollution from the Miami area of the southern tip of Florida. The stars were out and bright and the sound of high flying planes was slightly audible along with the blinking lights of their flight overhead. At approximately 2145 I saw bright flashing lights approaching from the west and I said "here comes the light show". I thought at the moment it was a helicopter, maybe up from the Keys doing a night training flight. I quickly realized that was not the case. The lights, which were flashing in a one-two strobe effect were very bright and materialized into a string of lights on what was probably 4 or 5 craft. They were flying in a "follow the leader" pattern. There was no sound. Their altitude was hard to judge because of the blackness of the night and the brightness of the lights, but my guess would be under 5 thousand feet. Their path was straight out of the west, then a sharp turn to the south, then a sharp turn to continue east and out of sight. The whole passage was less than one minute. This was witnessed by two other adults on my boat I consider myself to be a qualified observer. My background includes many years in aerospace engineering along with close work with astronaut trainees.
May 17, 2018 · 9:00 PM · DISK
Rio Rico, AZ
At approximately 8:30 to 8:45 p.m. on Thursday May 17, 2018, I was in my backyard in Rio Rico, Arizona. I was on the phone with a friend from San Diego. I witnessed several strange anomalies in the western sky while I was on the phone with her. Things like, what looked like silvery/white lights that at first I thought were airplanes but could not possibly have been because they were not blinking. Solid light. They were stationary for periods of time and then would move up, down, then move in a straight line then move diagonally and up and down then completely disappear like someone flipping a light switch. This went on for around 30 minutes on and off. At around somewhere between 9:00 to 9:30 p.m., the unthinkable occurred. I had my eyes fixated on the more North Western part of the sky, and it was very dark out because the new moon had already dipped below the horizon, but several stars were visible in the night sky, and in the EXACT location where my eyes were looking, a huge, I mean GARGANTUAN formation of lights appeared in a long BAND. It just appeared as though, again, someone had flipped a light switch. Like, it was not there and then suddenly THERE! It seemed extremely close to me, like no more than a football field away up there. It was stationary, did not move from its location, however, it did many odd things that will be difficult to describe, but I will try. The object was perfectly visible to me and the experience lasted, to the best of my recollection, for about 10, maybe 12 or so seconds. A rather long time! During this time, the following occurred very quickly: The band of lights looked somewhat like an engagement ring, with a big light in the center and three slightly smaller lights on either side for a total of 7 lights. They were perfectly visible and SQUARE…but perhaps not entirely square, more on the rectangular side, yet almost square. Then…the band of lights did a really odd “morphing” type of thing (for lack of a better way to describe it), where it seemed to become “one” long band of light for a split second and then when it returned to separate rectangles again, the object seemed CLOSER to me. It did this 3 times and on the 3rd time, it seemed ever so much closer to me than when it appeared the first time and I CLEARLY saw a slight shadowy structure around the rectangular band of lights! But it had no color…just a darkness that seemed to fill in the spaces and it looked very “saucer-like” in an obscure way. THEN...I became acutely aware that it was aware me ME, all in a couple of seconds of time before it did the fol! lowing: each of the lights blinked of and on in a nonsensical way, then all of the lights were back on and then in a flash, it completely disappeared. I used to listen to a lot of Linda Moulton Howe back in the day, so I immediately had the presence of mind to assess how large the object would be if I held something in between my thumb and index finger and stretched my arm out as far as it could go, up against the night sky. So, if you had one of those clear plastic Bic Pens, with the blue cap on, and took the cap off, and held it in the aforementioned manner, THAT is how big this damn thing was! It was HUGE. One more tidbit: Last year, in 2017, at around the same time of year as I recall, my husband and I saw a LOT of anomalous activity in the very same sky where we lived then, and now. I had another experience with the same kind of “engagement ring” band of light, but it was fully in the Western sky as opposed to the NW. But, this band was only 5 lights and they were a fiery brilliant orange color. The ones from last night were totally white. And like last night, the experience from last year also caused me a strange feeling of “it is aware of me” because it was coming towards me, just like last nights experience. To conclude, I know a few people in this area, who have also seen many strange anomalies in our Rio Rico Arizona skies. I did not report last years events. But the one that happened last night was so huge and so blatant and so incredibly amazing that I felt I really needed to share it. It is a couple of days later as I write this and it is still bothering me to know that I saw what I saw. I feel very strange. It made absolutely no sense at all. It left me with the feeling that something had occurred on an inter-dimensional level. There was no sound. My mind does not know how to process this. Thank you for your time and consideration. PS! A side note I almost forgot to include! I tried to film it with my iPhone, but the video button portion was completely missing! I tried to use the photo feature, but when I pressed it NOTHING HAPPENED! I quickly gave up because I did not want my eyes to miss anything. After the event was over, and my poor friend on the other end of the line had to listen to me kind of freaking out and asking me a ton of questions about what was happening, the camera feature in my phone would still not work at all and the video button was still missing. After I ended the call, I rebooted my phone and still, the video portion of my phone’s camera was NOT THERE…and nothing worked. At bedtime, at around midnight, I plugged my phone into the charger and fell asleep. I had a horrible nightmare about the event and when I woke up, it was the first thing on my mind. When I unplugged my iPhone from the charger, the first thing I did was go straight to my camera and lo and behold, the video ! button had returned and everything worked as normal. Just FYI!
May 17, 2018 · 10:30 AM · CHANGING
Pontoon beach, IL
3 glowing dots that moved in formation of crescent type shape 20 seconds and glowing yellow orange. Dots were originally whitish-blue. Finally split and only one dot visible.
May 17, 2018 · 3:30 AM · LIGHT
Irvine, CA
When I opened my eyes there was what looked like a small star in the sky at about 80 degrees. It looked like it was about 5 to 10 miles away. The object was moving in place in small movements side to side and up and down. The lights were brighter than a small star. The object was moving in place, but moving in a downward trajectory. When it was at about 20 degrees I lost track. It was up for more than 30 minutes.
May 17, 2018 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Miami, FL
It was a rainy night they came from behind rain cloud in formation of 4 in arrow formation followed by 2 off to left flying same speed going SE, lost sight when another cloud hid them again.
May 16, 2018 · 8:57 PM · OTHER
Apache Junction, AZ
Not as big as moon but bigger than Venus very white bright light big. Lasted less than 2/3 minutes. It was freaky and exciting all at once. Not anything I have ever witnessed. It was east of Apache Junction just south of Superstition Mountains out towards Florence, Az. or Superior, Az. What a sight.
May 16, 2018 · 8:35 PM · CIGAR
Rutland, VT
My youngest and I were reading in my bedroom, and she said “look, green lights!” We all looked out and saw green lights moving so softly at first, hover then turn red. Disappear for a moment, then zoom a little, hover, changed colors four times. Seemed to be in a small area for 2 minutes. There was no sound, but it looked fairly close. When it disappeared, it was so fast that I knew it was not a helicopter, It was amazing. My son was ecstatic to have seen something like this. I’m 35, active in my community, weary of UFO sightings, but certainly not a skeptic.