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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
April 17, 2018 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Lakeland, FL
At about 21:00 on 04/17/18, my fiance and I were walking our dogs near Lake Parker in Lakeland when I noticed what looked like an orange orb stationary in the sky. The craft seemed to be hovering above the CD McIntosh, Jr., Power Plant from my perspective. I stood and watched it for a few minutes and pointed it out to my fiance to confirm I wasn’t seeing things. She confirmed that she could see it to and that it was not moving. After watching it for a couple minutes, the glowing orange orb emitted a bright white light (resembling a spotlight from a distance) for approximately ten to fifteen seconds, before changing back to an orange amber glow. My fiance and I brought our dogs into our house and I went to the window to keep watching it. By the time I got to the window, the object was travelling west at what looked like the speed of a commercial airplane. No blinking lights on wings or anything that would identify the object as an airplane or helicopter could be seen on the object.
April 17, 2018 · 11:00 AM · EGG
Burnt Hills, NY
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 17, 2018 · 9:00 AM · SPHERE
Fort Lauderdale, FL
Flying from BWI to FLL. On downwind for 10L, aboard Spirit flight 301. I was sitting at a window seat just enjoying as always (I fly a lot) and I noticed something off of our left wing. First thought it was a drone. This "thing" was about 20 feet off the wing. There was some forward motion to it because we didn't pass it quickly. It was a small sphere with two smaller "things" next to it. Then it just went away, not disappeared but just went away.
April 16, 2018 · 11:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Boulder, CO
I saw a triangular shaped craft with 3 very dim lights one each end flying rather fast west over north boulder. It flew in a straight direction but seemed to vanish at an angle I assume is 45 degrees from my vantage point. It was a dark color but was visible because of its dim lights. It seemed to be flying low and if so was very silent and not very large so there was no possibility it was a drone.
April 16, 2018 · 10:30 PM · CHEVRON
Port Charlotte, FL
Unexpectedly an object of Triangular Shape about the size of a 737 came across the sky roughly ½ mile to our west and approximately 1000 to 1500 feet and traveling very fast and silent. The craft made no noise on a clear and clam night as a front had recently come through. The craft showed no Navigation lights but had several “Puck” type lights under each wing. I believe there were about 6 or 7 that ran the entire length of the craft. The object transitioned the area in about 5 seconds and airliners doing the same distance to the local airport only slightly higher than what we saw take about 17 to 20 seconds. The “Tail” of this object appeared blurry as though it maintained some type of distortion in that area. I am a former airline pilot and Naval Aviator and I consider myself somewhat educated on airplanes and their characteristics. This gave both my wife and I “goose bumps.” I reported this sighting to MUFON and they blew it off as a B-2. I have seen many B-2’s over my time… many. Their engines produce noise and the airframe has a similar but not the same geometry. MUFON stated it was a B-2 on its way to MacDill. I was a young Naval Aviator …21 years old and full of myself. I would never have risked my career by running 1000 feet above a very populated area with no required navigation or landing lights. MacDill is about 67 Miles to my North…. Running through this densely populated area with no lights other than these dim puck type lights under the wing would be a court martial offense in this day and age. I think MUFON did not do a proper job in their analysis. I would be very interested in what you think. Recently I was watching a program called Unacknowledged and at the 1;26 minute mark….. or close to it, they show a craft that is a very close approximation to what my wife and I saw.
April 16, 2018 · 10:25 PM · CHEVRON
Port Charlotte, FL
My wife and I were on the deck of our home in Port Charlotte, FL. It was a very quiet evening with the cold frontal passage earlier in the day so the night was quite clear. At about 10;35 PM this V -shaped craft passed overhead with extraordinary puck-type lights underneath. Roughly 7 lights under each (wing.) The lights were dull and did not appear to be used for illumination. The craft displayed no navigation lights as required by the FAA and was in an airport control zone at the time of observation. There was absolutely no....NO sound. There was no airframe noise as you would hear even from a glider. I have submitted this report to MUFON and another organization but with no satisfactory answer. As a former Navy Fighter Pilot and 33-year airline pilot, I have never ever seen anything like it. It also had a strange misty look along what would be the tail area like something that was "decloaking" in a Star Trek movie. I will not forget it. I would sure like to know what it was. I have seen many B-2's and they all make noise unless they have improved engine noise suppression, and I have never observed puck-type lights under the wings of a B-2. That was MUFON's explanation. I do not buy it.
April 16, 2018 · 10:05 PM · OVAL
Glendale, AZ
Orange/red ball floating across the sky from west south west to north north east. Was not a fireball, but rather a fairly bright object. At very end of sight, appeared to have a long tail from the end of the light. Began seeing when directly above. Never have seen anything like this. Too slow for a comet. But moving faster than a small plane. Elevation seemed somewhat higher than a small plane. Moved at same speed. Did not ascend or descend. Very small haze around the ball. Did not leave trail while moving.
April 16, 2018 · 9:38 PM · CIRCLE
Altoona, IA
Star like object solid light travelling NW 2137-2139. It flew over a normal plane travelling at regular altitude speed that was heading SW. The ISS is currently east of Africa over the ocean. I know there are more satellites but this was bright, traveling quickly, and seems to be much higher than a plane travelling @ several thousand feet. Interested in seeing what this was. I've reported a similar sighting to mufon Iowa, but the report system there isn't working. Large circle, bright as a star, slightly larger than the brightest stars you will see in the night sky, and appears to look like it's floating, almost to flying in a perfectly straight path. Never changed direction, probably a satellite, but still very cool.
April 16, 2018 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Houston, TX
Looking out door, noticed a bright twinkling white light. Too large and close to be a star, then noticed flashes of red and green. Object was stationery.Used binouclars for better look. There was 1 large white light with several smaller white lights clustered around it with flashing red & green. Not a plane, after 20 min it slowly began to rise up. I saw it as rose from the bottom of electric wire line to star level. Stopped watching after an hr or so.
April 15, 2018 · 11:00 PM · OTHER
Joshua Tree, CA
My friend and i were on her porch, when i noticed a orb of light. I thought it was just 1 but when i looked through the telescope it was a bunch of lights that were close together. When i focused in it, looked like they moved individually and the a piece broke away from it and just took off.
April 15, 2018 · 9:32 PM · LIGHT
Little Falls, NJ
I was dropping off a friend after dinner and as we closed our conversation, we noticed what appeared to be lightning in the sky on a rainy night. However, the lighting flash did not end immediately the way lightening does, and the sky was not white. Instead, we noticed the neon green lights to appear like a spotlight in the distance, converting the entire sky into a neon green/blue color. As the lights turned brighter, there was an energy burst which shut off all the street lights and building lights like a domino effect. The lights restored two seconds after the energy wave burst. We kept looking back at the green/blue sky and quickly after the sky restored to its regular darkness. The building electricity resumed, but the street lights took three minutes or so to turn on after the event. The event happened so fast and there was no audio whatsoever from the event. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 15, 2018 · 9:00 PM · CHEVRON
Cherry Creek, NY
Started as 2 bright red shapes at night on the other side of the valley hovering in the sky. Combined the came apart and disappeared. Reappeared a minute later and now there were 3. Moving and hovering up and down, then across slowly, then lights turned off.
April 15, 2018 · 6:33 PM · SPHERE
Hutto, TX
Noticed two orbs, at a very high altitude, rotating vertically around each other. Seem to be metallic. Unfortunately, the rotation stopped by the time I thought to start recording. Continued to hover in a vertical formation between the two objects. Unsure if connected or two separate objects. Hovered for a very long time. Eventually disappeared. Unsure what I saw, maybe weather balloon. Just thought the rotation of the two objects and then the objects staying in a vertical orientation for so long seemed odd.
April 15, 2018 · 6:23 AM · LIGHT
Livingston, TX
I live in the country in a small town and 190 is completely dark specifically in the area I was driving in while this incident happened. I wanted to report this because I know what I seen this morning. I hope someone else seen it to so I don't feel like a nut. It almost seem like it want me to see it
April 15, 2018 · 2:10 AM · LIGHT
Wasilla, AK
My wife and I just noticed something in the sky around 2:15 am. One faint light crossing the sky at a high rate of speed. Then the one split into three while weaving ever so slightly back and forth while continuing to fly east to west. About 30 seconds later going the exact opposite direction one light split into two. At approximately 2:40am I saw another 2-3 lights which divided into 5, again traveling east to west. The rate of speed and motion of these phenomena were definitely not satellites, shooting stars or airplanes.
April 14, 2018 · 10:00 PM · DISK
Prestonsburg, KY
My son called me as I was coming home at approximately 10 pm eastern time. It was very dark and cloudy, Stars where not visible. My son was very distraught, yelling that he had seen something and I needed to get home. I informed him that I was coming up the driveway and hung up the phone. When my husband and I got out of the vehicle my son told me that he had saw something and for us to hurry and get in the house. This is the description he gave me. “ I had walked up the hill to dad's building, I thought I heard a bee buzzing over my head, I looked up and saw a round object with 6 lights I think hovering about 6 feet over the trees. It may have been moving really slow, then all of a sudden, it took off extremely fast. It was gone in the blink of an eye.” My son was very shook up, he is 16 and a very reasonable kid. He was shaking and scared for his little brothers safety who was down the hill in our house. He said he just ran to the house and turned the lights off to not attract attention. He says this object was approximately 80 foot off the ground, hovering or moving extremely slow over a building on our property, he was under a porch on that building and when he walked out from under it it shot off within 4-5 seconds.
April 14, 2018 · 8:30 PM · OTHER
Scottsdale, AZ
Scottsdale, AZ 85260 - Near Shea Boulevard and 101 Loop (Highway). Approximately 8:30 pm Saturday, April 14th, 2018. At approximately 8:30 pm Saturday, April 14th, 2018 I arrived at my home, parked my car and stepped to the backyard. I am in a neighborhood that is dark, does not have streetlights and the properties are all close to 1 acre plus in size, the night is clear, still has some suspended dust particles in the lower atmosphere/sky that can affect the color like a filter. I unplugged the lights that illuminate a Paolo Verde tree in my backyard. I looked to the South West and saw the “Belt of Orion” the significantly identifiable constellation that I recall my children always pointing out to me. I was alone and enjoying the dark sky and the stars straight up and to the north. After seeing the “North Star” as directed by the “Big Dipper’s” outer ladle stars I turned back to view towards the South East and saw a magenta colored object with sequential lights, like a 1970 Ford Thunderbird with its right turn signal on, observed rolling from my left to right moving at a steady swift speed in a Southern and lower trajectory; maybe below 10,000 to 15,000 feet. The object seemed to stay on the same altitude in my field of vision. The lights were red and then bright white and the background of the lights lit up in magenta (magenta, somewhere midway between blue and red); it was very pretty and very different. The lights where arranged in similarity to a shallow bowl, curving upwards and at an apex point above there was a point that was not lit but visible with some opaque connection from the curved lit zone upward to that apex point. The sequential movement of the light created a visual image that made the object seem to be spinning, however it was very quick and this was unlike anything I have seen in the sky before. I witnessed the sighting for about 5 to 10 seconds, then ran into my house and gathered my binoculars which were very close to the screen door to view. I was excited to view the same outline however, the sequential movement of the lights changed to an “all on” or all illuminated pattern but, the apex point (at the top of the curved bowl shape) and the outline of a structure was more evident. I quickly went back into my house to grab my camera that can zoom and potentially capture an image. At first because the screen is very small and aligning the camera in the night with a moving object in the sky I didn’t think I captured the image. However, I do have something on the camera. It is very small and only visible for about less than 1.5 seconds. The camera shows a more blue in color but, I do not have a good way to review the video yet. On the counter between 6 and 8 seconds, the small spot in the field of view on the top half of the screen shows, what I believe is the moving object described above. It is very quick and very poor, the larger light was unfortunately one of my solar powered lawn lights. I am willing to share the video, the sighting in the video is on the higher side of the field of view than the garden light I ended up targeting instead for the remainder of the shoot.
April 14, 2018 · 8:15 PM · SPHERE
Walton, NY
Saw 3 red/orange glowing objects moving south to north. The first two stopped and then a 3rd one came up behind them. They looked like fire but there was no flickering like fire. Just a steady, bright orange/red light. There was a plane flying from west to east that was in the vicinity at the same time. I'm 50 years old and have never seen any thing like this. They were moving fairly quickly and were not planes, lanterns or balloons. They were less than 5 miles away and did not make a sound. I could only hear the aforementioned airplane and nothing else. Can't explain it.
April 14, 2018 · 3:02 PM
Newington, CT
Incident has been explained by a terrestrial cause. PD
April 14, 2018 · 2:35 AM · CIRCLE
Darien, CT
April 14, 2018; Darien, CT 02:35 AM. At home sitting on witness's roof terrace that has a view of Scott's Cove. Noticed an unusual bright light in the sky and its reflection on the water. Observer thought it was a star or planet so a photo was taken, then it started "zig zagging really fast and stopping for about 40 minutes or so" then flew out of sight. All of this is on on video but the background is too dark to see a reference point. (MUFON)
April 13, 2018 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Garner, NC
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 13, 2018 · 9:18 PM · TRIANGLE
Grove City, PA
We were stargazing and we suddenly saw a shadowy and seemingly transparent triangular/boomerang shaped object, with regularly spaced white patches. It moved steadily across the sky from SE to NE and made no noise. Before we had gotten over the surprise, another one, exactly the same and going the same direction appeared and moved across the sky just like the first. We have never seen anything like it and have no clue what it could have been. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 13, 2018 · 8:47 PM · CIRCLE
Bensalem, PA
My husband and I were on our deck talking, listening to music and looking at the stars. Directly off our deck in the direction of the tree line on the SE horizon, I noticed an object, and told my husband “come look at this.” The object wasn't moving like a plane or helicopter, as it kept going up down left right very fast. It had 4 round areas that were lit up and rotating (the individual circles were not rotating but the entire object) and a flashing light in the middle. It went out of sight for about 30 seconds then appeared again but this time it went way up in the sky then came above our heads. It had 4 circles but didn't rotate, the circles were blue with pink around it, it made no noise and we didn't noticed any flashing light in the middle. It hovered there for about 7-10 seconds. My iphone was on the table but by the time I grabbed it, turned it on and pressed the camera it had moved away from our house back towards the SE horizon (that's when i was able to take 2 pictures and 3 videos (2 seconds, 14 seconds and 1:22 minutes) I had the graph on the video and was trying to keep the object inside the middle box. I did move a few times when i was trying to look up at it towards the end. We were not afraid in the least, as you can hear from the video that my husband was yelling at it to come back. We waited for about 45 minutes but it never did.
April 13, 2018 · 8:45 PM · LIGHT
Galloway, NJ
@ 20:45 Walked outside and noticed what I thought were two bright stars next to each other in the sky, right then the one blinked out. I was a little shocked. It then blinked back on just below where it had been. Then it fired up a bit like an Iridium flare, but it wasn’t moving, then blinked out again and moved lower in the sky, blinked on again, then out, then on and back in the original position. I opted to run and get a camera when I got back out I only saw one faint light and a pale blue light dropping from it which I was unable to photograph in time. Then nothing there at all. Stayed a little while but they didn’t come back. Way to high to be drones. I do a lot of sky watching and hope someone else saw these, very cool.