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Witness reports, held as-reported. Each entry keeps its source, its coordinates where the record has them, and its place in the larger pattern.
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March 19, 2018 · 10:15 PM · FIREBALL
Hillsboro, OR
Each one slowly dimmed until they were no longer visible. There was one plane in the vicinity which seemed to be moving in the same direction. We got at least two videos, but they don't do them justice. They look like plain, small dots in the videos. In real life, they weren't so abruptly shaped. You might say there was an aura or haze.. There was no trail. I've seen youtube videos showing three dots in this very same formation (closest is lowest, second is highest, third is in between). Running car may have started revving a little harder/rougher.
March 19, 2018 · 8:40 PM · TRIANGLE
Steubenville, OH
Around 8:40 p.m. this evening my two son's and I were driving back from the mall, when my oldest son (12) points out something strange in the sky. I pass it off and tell him it is probably just a plane, helicopter or drone. I didn't see it at first. Roughly a minute and a half later I took see something flying above the Ohio river, I roll the windows down and shut the radio off. There was absolutely no noise, and it appeared to move the water a little bit. We can't take our eyes off of it. It begins to move in a strange way, towards/above my vehicle in that direction. (Because we live in the Ohio valley, there are many hills and wooded area on the opposite side of the river) we thought we lost sight of the craft About a mile down the road, my younger son (9) says that he sees it again, and we quickly realize that it is a plane ,but it was flying in the same direction or so we assumed(the red flashing lights ext.) We are baffled, because we knew it wasn't a plane we had just saw. Within seconds,my oldest son who is in the back seat on the drivers side, started screaming I see it! I spotted it and this time I could see its triangle shape, I see its blue/greenish lights around the perimeter of this craft. It is a little lower than it was when we first seen it. What happened next was insane, it either landed in a very heavy wooded area or disappeared into thin air. We were screaming and just in complete shock. I have seen strange lights before in the sky, but NEVER ANYTHING LIKE THIS. The final total of us seeing it was no more than 4 minutes. We live I'm Jefferson County, Ohio.
March 19, 2018 · 8:40 PM · TRIANGLE
Steubenville, OH
My Two son's (12 & 9) and I were driving home from our local mall last night approx. around 8:37 p.m.. My oldest son, who was sitting in the back seat, says to me, "Mom, there is something strange in the sky." I pass it off to be a helicopter or plane, seeing as though we see a good bit of air traffic coming and going from the Pittsburgh airport. We hit a red light getting ready to turn left (northbound towards home), when my second son, who is sitting in the front seat, reports to me he is now seeing a strange set of lights in the sky, my curiosity peaked, and I asked where they were seeing it? He says, "Right in front, right behind the tree line." We live in a valley, so there are a lot of heavy wooded area and hills, we also were about to be turning onto a highway that goes right along the Ohio River. What I see is a VERY bright light through the tree line, I make a joke and say, that it is probably just a helicopter looking for marijuana plants. I make the left turn onto route 7, and clearly see that this craft is "flying" above the river. In our depressed area, we have trains carrying coal that which the tracks line the river, as well as barges who travel on the river. We can see W.V. across the river and there are little run down steel plants and canning plants that once were up and running. I slow down on this highway going only 40 mph in a 55 mph zone watching it, I had noticed that the "bright white light I once saw, is accompanied by dim whitish lights around the front on the craft. We roll the windows down and shut the crappy pop music off that my kids insisted we listened to on the way home, and we hear absolutely nothing, but notice that the water is swaying like a boat had just traveled and disturbed the water. At that point we are shocked and nobody is saying much, we only hear the wind and my car driving down this stretch of empty highway. It did a drastic turn, something I've never seen a craft of any kind do towards the left, which would be directly over my suv. It is now out of our sight. I roll the windows up. My oldest son asks me what we seen, and I have absolutely no words to tell. I am only wondering where it went, and if we would see it again. We drive a mile or so down the road, and notice something else in the sky. This time we knew it was a plane heading to Pittsburgh with the flashing red lights. I am telling the boys, that isn't what we just saw, there was no way in hell that was a plane. The strange silence was soon interrupted by the shreek of my oldest son who was now sitting on the driver's side (still in the back seat) "I see it mom, I see it" he screams, in excitement. I look to the left, sure enough it was there moving or hovering. This time I could see it better. It was a triangle shape, with the 4-6 smaller dim white lights on the front of the craft including the bigger bright white light on the tip, with blue and greenish lights surrounding the perimeter there were at least 9 separate ones, 3 on each side. It was dark, but the craft seemed to be a shiny metallic color it wasn't a huge craft, maybe a little bigger than my Honda pilot, just in a perfect triangular shape. It hovered for approx. 40 seconds, and then seemed to get lower. What is strange about this sight is, how fast it would be higher up into altitude and then drop down, it did this at least 3 times, so quickly. It would be in one place, and seem to move over without traveling. It was significantly lower than the plane at all times. It continued to move left without actually flying, before it was right above a semi big hill off in a wooden area. What happened next was the big kicker. It seemed to get very low and blend/land into the trees, but I didn't witness any debris or tree limbs flying into the air. The 3 of us all seen it, watched it land or whatever it was doing and turn the lights out or completely vanished into thin air. I've never experienced something like this, or seen it with my own eyes, and my 2 kids experienced it with me. (( We spoke with the source of the report, and we found her to be quite sincere, and seemingly quite sober-minded about her sighting. We suspect that she has recounted the details of her sighting quite accurately. PD
March 19, 2018 · 7:00 PM
Spring, TX
The object seen was high in the air, vertical, stationary, in the shape of a cigar. It was bright white in color. My daughter and I both saw it and took pictures. It did not move for at least 15 minutes. After we drove past it and got home 5 minutes later, I was not able to see it, although it may still have been there. Object appears to us to be a "contrail," behind a high-altitude aircraft. PD
March 19, 2018 · 3:30 PM · SPHERE
Nooksack, WA
On March 19, 2018, at around 3:30pm I was standing at my kitchen sink, talking on the phone with my mom. I was looking out the window above the kitchen sink while talking on the phone when I noticed light colored, metallic-looking objects in the sky. Initially, I thought they were birds as it is very common to see seagulls, bald eagles, hawks, and other birds where we live. At first, I thought the objects were seagulls. Then I noticed they were moving unlike birds and also moving in and out of the clouds. We had somewhat unusual weather that day with dark clouds in the sky above us, but sun shining in from the west. The sun reflecting off the objects against the dark clouds is what made them noticeable, as they were so small, I probably could not have seen them under normal weather circumstances. The reflecting sun is also what led me to believe they were metallic. As I watched the objects, I observed them moving up and down in and out of the clouds, as well as side to side. At that point they clearly were not birds. I’ve never see birds fly so high up as to go in and out of clouds at the altitude these objects were flying at. They almost moved in a playful manner, seeming to chase each other in and out of the clouds. I believe there were at least two, maybe three, but because they were moving in and out of the clouds it is hard to say with certainly how many; there were at least two, though. The entire event lasted maybe a minute, if that. I said to my mom on the phone, “Oh my god, I think I’m seeing UFOs!” Then they were gone. They disappeared into the clouds and I haven’t seen them since. It should be noted that we live very near to the Canadian border and I saw these objects to the north, quite possibly over Canada. At the time of the event I had a hard time making sense of what I was seeing. I was watching these object, expecting them to act like birds but they didn’t. When I realized they couldn’t be birds, my brain was trying to make sense of what I was seeing, but couldn’t and it was difficult to process while it was happening. Nobody else was with me and, to my knowledge, nobody else saw what I saw. I am a married, stay-at-home mom to three little boys. I have an M.A. in History, a B.A. in Humanities, and worked as an archivist before our first son was born. I own a small cookie decorating business on the side.
March 19, 2018 · 11:00 AM · FORMATION
Wheat Ridge, CO
Standing outside of my home and I see 3 lights in formation. After a while they disappeared and when I came back inside they showed up again.
March 19, 2018 · 10:20 AM · OTHER
Cincinnati, OH
March 19, 2018; Norwood, Ohio. 10:20 AM. The man was on his way to work, and was stopped at a traffic light, noticed the object moving. At first he thought it was a plane, but it had no wings. then maybe a blimp, but it was too small. It was pill shaped, white with a dark band from top to bottom. It seemed to be coming in for a decent and was moving at a good rate of speed. He thought this was odd because there were no landing fields in the area. It was not very high up and he lost view of it behind the nearby building. He estimate the size as 30 foot long by 10 feet high. He was very interested in the object and it seemed to move slow and silently but his next turn was away from its path. (MUFON CMS)
March 19, 2018 · 3:45 AM · CYLINDER
Taylor, MI
I think what ever flew by it was checking it out because it flew right between air traffic from metro airport. I took photo and video with my phone of it but you cannot see much detail in the object.
March 19, 2018 · 2:00 AM · OVAL
Vancouver, WA
2 in the morning, oval shape, over Vancouver, WA.
March 19, 2018 · 1:00 AM · OTHER
Owings, MD
While watching meteorites on the early morning of March 19, 2018 at around 12:30 AM I noticed there were very few planes in the air, as I live in a heavily air trafficked area of commercial planes, and military planes of various models from research conducted nearby at pax river naval air force base. On sunday night--Monday morning at approximately between 12:50 AM and 1:10 AM in Calvert County, Maryland, I witnessed an unidentified flying/ hovering object in the eastern north-east section of the sky at about 45 degrees from the horizon. I observed it through a trees branches with no leaves, and at first thought, that it was the branches cutting off a stars light. After about 30 seconds, i realized that it was much brighter then most stars and was indeed pulsing in a pattern. I walked about 40 feet closer to remove the branches through a large hole in the trees branches. A 2 bubble like orb of blue light was emitting multiple 1 and 2 second slow growing pulses over a second or two of time of a bright blue color. After about 30 seconds of me staring at it with my jaw to the floor in complete awe, a military fighter jet, likely a newer F35 from pax river research base flew over my house, towards the direction of the blue orb, with the jets direction offset to the west of the object by 10 degrees or so, at a very unusually slow speed that made it extremely quiet and at a very unusually low altitude. I see fighter planes around my house all the time, for my entire life and I have never seen a fighter plane fly at such a slow speed or such a low altitude with such a quiet dynamic. After a minute or two, the pulse began to change its tempo, when the plane came closer to it, though its hard to tell exactly how far away from it, the blue orb light compressed to a small white light. As the fighter plane got a mile or two past my house, and closer to the direction of the 'orb' the light compressed from blue into white and then a thin orange spike that looked like a meteorite trail that ex! tended upwards and began from the point of the light which then disappeared. The orange trail was very small and very feint, perhaps the size of a needle in the sky with a tail length about as wide as my thumb or a degree or two. This object was completely stationary in the sky and did not move until it began to disappear and was not on an orbit what so ever. I would estimate it was any where from a quarter mile to a mile or so in the sky. I have contacted multiple flight facilities, looking for any activity from experiments, but this was not a sounding rocket, or an experiment, or a satellite burning up in the atmosphere. It was completely stationary. I have studied ball lightning and I can assure that not only was this not ball lightning, but the atmospheric dynamics at the time was not conducive to ball lightning. This was not anywhere near the altitude of an elfing event nor was this a 'blue sprite'. The brightness magnitude during the peak of the pulses was around 2 times the brightness of Rigel and barely visible at the low magnitude of the pulses which were at patterns of about a second or two and changed over the minute or two I observed the blue orb. The glow did not give off diffraction spikes like stars and was a smooth glowing blue orb which had smooth gradients of pulses. The image shape was diamond orb like and gave off a rounded square edged shape at the height of its brightness in pulse. The speed in which it disappeared was very quickly at around a half a second or less once it became a smaller bright white light. I observed the object for around 1 or 2 minutes until it disappeared when the jet appraoched it. I have added photos of a sighting from Puerto Rico in 2017 I found after the event that accurately resemble the shape and dynamics as the orb had a 2 part-like dynamic to it during its pulses with a mild middle dividing line, that made the orb look a bit like two bubbles stuck together. These are extremely accurate photos to the agreement of what i saw to the point where i believe this is exactly what i saw. I contacted flight facility of Wallops and searched for flight or experiment anomolies but found no satellites or sounding rockets that could represent these dynamics or color wavelenghts.
March 18, 2018 · 10:20 PM · CHANGING
Georgetown, TX
I was enjoying the clear night sky, when I noticed 3 lights (light red in color) traveling in concert with one another in a straight line. It was night so I could not make out a shape, but it did appear that there was some sort of drag effect occurring behind each light, almost like blurring of the atmosphere. Given the relative distance from me, I would have heard an engine noise if it were a plane but it was completely silent, also the speed was much faster than any plane I’ve seen. About half way through the occurance the lights changed from a linear formation and configured into a triangle. The object(s) were heading from southeast to northwest. I am 30 years old, in good mental and physical health, have a doctorate and MBA and I am not known to fabricate or exaggerate stories. I was honestly very startled by this event and have no explanation for what I saw.
March 18, 2018 · 10:00 PM · CIRCLE
Fayetteville, GA
Circular craft was seen hovering in the clouds with bright beaming lights shooting from the top of the craft towards the sky. When we attempted to take a video the craft moved slowly backwards and disappeared into the dark clouds. Not sure if it is related but traffic lights were not working and the power was out over the area we saw it.
March 18, 2018 · 8:30 PM · CIRCLE
Largo, FL
I went to go to my vehicle at about 8 30 at night. I'm always scanning the sky to look for local aircraft in the sky. Well to my surprise I looked off to the south and saw two RED balls one on top of the other.. by a decent amount.. yet too close for aircraft to be flying.. So this caught my attention.. as I looked up.. Neither seemed to be moving.. they both were IDLE in the sky... I found this rather weird... then next thing I know the BOTTOM red ball started going upwards.. I thought I was about to see a mid air collision of some type... Next thing I know the bottom ball disappeared into the TOP ball.. then only saw the TOP fire red ball.. then the top one remained for another few seconds only to disappear. Was very ODD! We spoke to the witness, and he seemed to us to be quite sincere and sober-minded. We suspect that he is a highly reliable witness. We have corrected the date above, to reflect a sighting in 2018, not 2019. PD
March 18, 2018 · 9:15 AM · OTHER
Modesto, CA
On 3/18/18, at approx. 9:15am, my wife and I were traveling eastbound from Modesto, Ca to Oakdale Ca. I noticed an object in the horizon hovering with a short vapor trail. As I focused on the object I then noticed about 8 more similar objects lined up horizontally. I could not tell what the object looked like. As we traveled further eastward and about 5-8 min later the first object thrust upward rapidly and disappeared. Seconds later the 2nd and 3rd objects did the same thing. As they moved upward the vapor trail still was short but resembled an eye of a needle. They others that were still left were further away but continued to hover for another 5-10 min and were gone. We have looked at the photos, and the white objects appear to us to be contrails behind high-altitude aircraft, perhaps approaching an airport to the west of Modesto, perhaps SFO. PD
March 18, 2018 · 6:30 AM · DISK
Claire, MI
We were staring at it when suddenly half of the lights shit off followed by the other half as it became lighter until it was completely dark and silhouetted against the tree line until we lost it in the darkness.
March 18, 2018 · 3:30 AM · TRIANGLE
Orlando, FL
I was in my balcony of the house near University of Central Florida, I just lifted my head to see the jet hearing the jet noise, but then I also saw some other jet like flying object. It was moving faster than the jet, it was flashy seen at irregular pattern as it continued to fly. There was no trial left behind like jet.
March 18, 2018 · 1:47 AM · TRIANGLE
Linwood, MI
Just got home from a night of bowling (no drinking so totally sober), and as we were getting out of the van, I just so happened to look up at what I thought was a shooting star. When I realized the "shooting star" was much closer than I originally thought and was moving toward us I yelled to my son "WHAT THE HECK IS THAT???". He then looked up and and saw it. We were so freaked out we continued to yell to each other "WHAT THE HECK????? WHAT IS THAT!!!!".. it seemed to slow down as it got closer to us .. almost like it acknowledged that we had noticed it.. then within just a few short seconds, it took off "like a fish in water type movement" it was totally unnatural looking how it moved. Was just over the tree line, it seemed and about the size of one of those big green signs you see on express way overpasses.. when it was directly over our heads we could make out the shape.. it was FLAT OUT a Triangle shaped object with a triangle shape white light around the outer edges.. it made NO sound at all.. Dead silent. The stars and clear sky that night made it so that we could see the shape of it once it was directly over our heads with no problem. Scared the crap out of us.. still trying to explain it away but just can't. What the heck was it??????? I know what drones are and what they look and perform like... this was no drone in my opinion. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
March 17, 2018 · 11:30 PM · FLASH
Sartell, MN
My sister had her eyes closed, but It was so bright that she could see the brightness. My brothers curtains were closed and he could see the brightness as well. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
March 17, 2018 · 11:00 PM · CIRCLE
Everett, WA
Leaving work at Everett (Paine Field), I noticed a silent object at about 500 to 1000 feet up and traveling 50 to 100kts against prevailing wind direction. Object was traveling east to west, wind direction was north to south. Object was completely silent.
March 17, 2018 · 9:00 PM · OTHER
Nowhere, NM
My father and I and a friend would go to Colorado to see family and friends from Oklahoma we were driving in the middle of nowhere it was Texas and new mexico there are nothing but road lights and high way we'll I see a shooting star and I was happy well the start comes back in the same path then goes back the original direction I knew what had happened me and the other people in the car knew as well I was honestly frightened but we have were in a sedan with non state plates and dark tint so the craft could have thought we were government people in the area or something it passed by saw us then had to turn around then came back i just know what I saw and I am glad it went on about it's business. I don't think any time was missing it had to come back then went on it felt like being in the sea with sharks
March 17, 2018 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
St. George, ME
Looked like seven sisters cluster but brighter - with binoculars it was a spherical shaped structure with green and white lights. It did not appear solid, but rather open with lights, within and around the sphere. It moved very slowly from East of Orion's Belt, to the West horizontally on the plane as the evening progressed. Then it was gone. It did not go higher in the sky but stayed on the same plane some distance away. I saw a different UFO in the same place exactly 2 years and 2 days ago on March 19, 2016. That one hovered for about 25 minutes. This was clearly a different structure and very beautiful.
March 17, 2018 · 6:42 PM · SPHERE
Rowe, NM
On 17 March, 2018, I was taking sunset photos on top of Glorieta Mesa on State Hwy 34. I didn’t notice anything unusual until later that evening while I was viewing the photos. In one there is a glowing blue/green orb on the ground. Four minutes later the orb is rising up into the clouds.
March 17, 2018 · 1:12 PM · CHANGING
Tehachapi, CA
The object was very low about 150 ft strangely i do not remember it passing overhead even though it must of done so to get to the other side of the prison gate where it began to morph and lower or extend or leak a string like equally illuminated part of itself while the top of it was sphere like it shimmered made no noise and moved away slowly. And continued to move away while seeming to change from sphere to triangle to square. I watched until it was only a dot of light. I know that this object was not a balloon or a airplane And i am very intrigued and confused as to why i cannot recall it passing overhead i looked up the first time and it was 150 ft and just a bit to my left i remember it beginning to move but then i cant remember looking directly up i remember again when it was to my right and same height but farther away and beginning to shape shift. The area is a hilly mountain terrain prison in the middle of the tehachapi mountains.
March 17, 2018 · 11:43 AM · CIRCLE
Haines City, FL
As they started to get out of sight I jump in to my car to follow and after a few minutes of pursuit I lost sight, then a lone jet fighter came over slowly going in the same north easterly direction! Hmm! Later that day I reviewed my video I was recording and noticed only tiny specs that we never seen, because they where 10 times closer then what was found in recording!