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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
March 12, 2018 · 10:55 PM · CIRCLE
Beechcreek, KY
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
March 12, 2018 · 9:30 PM · TEARDROP
Tijeras, NM
We saw a bright slightly oval shaped flash of white light it got brighter then disappeared over a few seconds, it didn't move in any direction and just faded. It was long enough for a "Whoa what was that"?
March 12, 2018 · 8:14 PM · UNKNOWN
North Little Rock, AR
I look up at a small light moving across the night sky. It looked like a satellite moving across the sky but brighter. It flew above my house. I took a picture. Zoomed in on picture and it those not look like any satellite, ISS or aircraft I have ever seen. It did not have Nav lights and looked like it was orbiting earth. Moved southeast fast.
March 12, 2018 · 7:47 PM · LIGHT
Lancaster, PA
Hadn't seen anything personally while taking photos of snowfall outside of Infinito's (pizza buffet), but when I went back through my gallery this morning I saw that I had captured some peculiar lights amongst the falling snow. Appearing to travel from right to left, these neon lights didn't seem to match the color of any signage from the surrounding area, nor was it emanating from any nearby police vehicles (no cars were being used anywhere nearby for that matter). Finally, because the pictures had been taken from outside the restaurant (top of awning visible in first photo), there was no possibility of it being reflected from anything inside the restaurant. I'm a 20 year old college student who has taken a few digital photography courses, but I've never captured anything as unusual as this. It would be something beyond my capabilities as a photographer to stage the photos using an editing program because of the snow that covers the image. I've never taken drugs/used alcohol, but I was feeling a bit disoriented (I had accidentally taken the bus a stop past mine and had to backtrack a mile and a half to my destination). I'm looking to keep my identity anonymous, so I have nothing to gain from reporting the experience, and I myself am not a believer in these sorts of things, but having a first hand experience that I can't rationalize perplexes me. The only reason that I'm taking time to report the incident is that I feel it could be explained by someone more qualified, or else useful to the people that keep track of these strange occurrences.
March 12, 2018 · 4:05 PM · CYLINDER
Arizona (above; in flight), AZ
My wife and I were returning to Baltimore from San Diego on SWA flight 612 on 3/12/2018. We had been in the air for approximately 90 minutes (4:00 PM PDT) so we were at our cruising altitude of 36,000 to 40,000 ft and I would guess we were somewhere over Arizona in a NE direction. We were sitting on the right side of the plane in row 5 or 6 and I was sitting in the window seat. I looked out the window and I noticed a strange form that was flying alongside the plane and appeared to be looking at me. It was dark/grayish (almost black) in color and while it had defined boundaries to it shape it appeared to be fluidlike in substance. It was traveling alongside the plane and at the same time it was moving in an undulating fashion of up/down and side to side as a snake slithers but mixed in with that was the up/down of a roller coaster – moving in all directions at once. The form had facial like features and appeared to be looking at me. Best guess is that it was less than 100 feet from the plane and there was no observable noise that was heard during this event. The form gathered itself vertically and pulled itself from a length of seven feet into a form that was 12-18 inches in length. It was in the shape of a cylinder much like a gallon of paint and the facial portion of it was still looking at me. It maintained this form for approx. 2-3 seconds and then it turned southwest and disappeared at rocket speed in less than two seconds. I was unable to snap any photos and had no knowledge than anyone else observed what I had observed. I did tell my wife, who was sitting in the aisle seat that I had seen something strange out the window. My thought was that I would speak to the pilots when we landed at BWI and inquire as to whether they had seen what I had seen. Upon landing @ BWI, I realized that the pilots had paperwork/reports to file and would be tied up for a while in the cockpit and that I couldn’t hold up the line of passengers who were ready to get off the plane after being inside it for almost five hours. As we stood up to leave the plane, I did tell my wife that I wish that I had gotten a picture of what I had seen. At this time, the two ladies that were in the row behind my wife and I heard what I said about wishing that I had taken a picture and they excitedly said to me “You saw it too”! I replied yes, I had, and we chatted briefly. They agreed with what I described and saw the same phenomenon that I have detailed here. Here is where I made another mistake by not getting the name of either one of them. I have a close friend who is a retired SWA pilot. I spoke to him last night, 3/18/2018, and he is going to try to attempt to learn the names of the pilot and co-pilot of SWA Flight 612 on 3/12/2018. If he is successful, he will contact them and hopefully give them my contact info or in a worst-case situation, detail to them what I have described here. Occurred approximately 4:05-4-15 PM PDT. I wrote the below description in the notes of my phone within 10 minutes of the above described incident. "Something strange/weird out plane window. Looked like flock of martins (birds), or huge swarm of bugs. Couldn’t get phone unlocked to get picture. Was moving as big black blob, but suddenly swooped up & was gone in an instant the opposite direction that we are heading. Was near our same altitude. Women sitting behind us confirmed what I saw. We talked about it as we were getting off plane. Described same thing that I saw." We spoke via telephone with the witness, and he seemed to us to be quite serious in his demeanor, and sober-minded. We suspect he is an excellent witness, based on our conversation with him. PD
March 12, 2018 · 4:00 PM · CIRCLE
Pueblo West, CO
Small white circle moving towards Canon City. I was taking pictures of last night sunset to add to my wall when I decided to film some of it. As I was filming a white light circle appear coming from above going from north to west towards canon city. I had my camera zoom at 83x power so I know was a few miles away.
March 12, 2018 · 9:50 AM · LIGHT
Eureka, KS
I was on my way back from my barns, after helping my mother pull a calf out of a heifer. When I got home, I saw something bright and orange in the sky towards the Eureka area . (I lived 20 miles north of eureka, so I was looking south.) I thought the light was just a bright star at first but then it blinked of and re appeared in a different spot it kept doing this in re appearing in different spots. I call my wife and kids out the house to witness what I was seeing. I even called my father who saw the same thing from 1 mile to the west of us. The night sky was clear with no clouds and I could see multiple jets flying very high. Compared to the jets flying in a straight line this was much father away and the distances between where it would appear and re appear made no since. In seconds this light would move randomly up and down by distances of at least 30 miles. When the light would fade out I could still kind of make out a low glow that let me know something was still there and I would see tiny lights flying fast around it. My daughter caught the object on her amazon freefire tablet. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
March 12, 2018 · 8:00 AM · FORMATION
Grand Junction, CO
Boomerang shaped craft, Red light in center, bright white lights on each side, hovering above grand valley. following in same pathway at a distance was a much smaller light, both eventually heading west.
March 12, 2018 · 6:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Binghamton, NY
I am reporting this here as recommended by someone who heard my situation. Woke up around 6am to the dog jumping on my bed and running in a circle before running away, never barking as she would if there was something or someone outside. I tried to go back to sleep but realized there was something lighting up my room. Again, tried to ignore the light thinking it was a neighbor going to work or something, but 20 minutes later I am still trying to get to sleep and the light was so bright I could see it flashing even though my eyes were closed. I got out of bed and crept around the dark room looking outside for signs of someone messing with me, or a car, etc - nothing. My only 2 neighbors at the top of this dead end hill were already gone for work. I realized the light was only on one side of the room, in the window , illuminating it in the same way a lightning bug would, except it illuminated the whole 5 feet of window space/frame. I looked all around inside the room, in the windowsill, and what I could see from the window, nothing but the uphill sight of trees with so much snow I can see anything that moves out there, but saw nothing and heard nothing. At this point I got scared, because I realized the only place it could be coming from that I couldn’t see, was directly underneath the window: a place I couldn’t see unless I went outside and I was too scared. The next day, though, I checked and there were no footsteps or marks in the snow so that wasn’t where the light was coming from. I have blue solar lights out there, but this light was green like christmas light green. The light was on steady for 10 seconds, off for 5, and it lasted so long that after not being able to find the cause I got into bed with a knife and just sat listening for sounds, to get up and react to, nothing but the light, and I fell asleep counting the seconds of the light pulses, strangely seeing it with my eyes closed. I live on the edge of a large uninhabited area that borders a rock quarry. Also close to the borderline between Binghamton, NY, and Conklin, NY, where I see there was a reporting 50+ years ago. A lot of military contract type of businesses (BAE, IBM, Lockheed, etc) so I haven’t thought twice about the military (looking) helicopter I see or hear 2-3 times a week but wouldn’t you know that the day after these lights scared me, Helicopter (or multiple) kept going over this house repeatedly, at least 10 times between 9 am and noon, to the point that I stopped paying attention. Just for the record, the only other strange thing here is once in awhile I hear a helicopter sound like it is right above but then there will be nothing there, absolutely no craft yet the sound as if it is close.
March 12, 2018 · 3:30 AM · OTHER
Lewis Center, OH
I was driving southbound on 23 to pick up my son who works at White Castle. I glanced at the sky, and saw what appeared to be a giant squid type object that had legs dropping from it. Like I said, it looked like a squid. My hubby thinks it could have been a weather balloon. This occurred in between the hours of 3:30 pm - 4 pm. I got across the street to wal-mart to see if i could photograph it, and could not locate it. I need confirmation if anyone else perhaps saw this. It was flying above the shopping center district, North point in Powell, Ohio. I'm positive that it was some type of weather balloon. But, I want to make sure. I am huge into everything paranormal including UFO'S. Please confirm if this was indeed a weather balloon. I've tried to google weather balloons, and nothing pulled up in our county. I swear on a stack of bibles, I saw something squid-like going upwards into the sky, hence the reason that I searched for a weather balloon.
March 12, 2018 · 2:55 AM · TRIANGLE
Boise, ID
At approximately 02:55, I was standing outside, with clear sky, when from the South West a triangular object entered my field of view, moving from the South West toward the North East rather quickly, making no sound.
March 12, 2018 · 12:23 AM · CIRCLE
Gloucester, MA
The object was in the WNW sky at about 65 degrees. If you took 10 Sirius stars and made a circle of them you would have the approximate size and brightness. It looked predominately white, with red and other colors inside it. It zig-zagged in what seemed to be impossible turns, although it mostly stayed stationary. At one point, the circle changed shape with the top flattened out and it looked like a traditional flying saucer. Then it changed back into the circle. At the end of the sighting, I saw what looked like a plane coming directly toward the object. The object let the plane get close and then just vanished. I saw the craft briefly on 3-12-18 at 23:15 for maybe 20 minutes.
March 11, 2018 · 9:00 PM · CIRCLE
Chuluota, FL
4 orange balls in single line going from east to west. No sound.
March 11, 2018 · 8:10 PM · LIGHT
La Quinta, CA
While driving in a gated community in La Quinta, CA, at approximately 8:10 pm, I saw a dark amber round light, almost orange, hovering at the height of an approximately 20 to 30 story building. I thought it might be a light at the top of a black tower that itself wasn’t visible in the partially cloudy black sky (and that I’d never noticed before). I slowed at the next intersection and rolled down my windows (and turned off radio) to listen for an aircraft sound. There was complete silence, not even the sound I’ve heard with drones. I could see it wasn’t attached to any tower or anything. I waited for the object to move like an aircraft. Initially, it remained motionless. There were no other lights. I thought I could make out one side of the outline of an angulated black body surrounding the light. But I couldn’t be sure. I turned the corner, pulled over and pulled out my phone to videotape the object, as it was starting to progress toward the west. I was able to get brief video of the light. Then it ascended up into the cloudy sky (not laterally) and disappeared. My viewing lasted approximately 90 to 120 seconds.
March 11, 2018 · 7:45 PM · LIGHT
Tampa, FL
On Sunday March 11th, 2018, a fairly bright light hovering in the sky caught my attention. Upon further inspection, I can make out a disk shape in the sky basically parked in place. I'm always looking up hoping to see UFO's but I'm a semi-skeptical person. So I stare at if for a while. My little brother is fairly close to me, he follows my gaze and then rolls his eyes and says "Izzy relax, its probably just a plane." To which I respond, "No David, look. See behind that thing? Moving slowly with the light? THATS a plane" and I point at a plane clearly visible much much farther BEHIND the object, moving slowly, and clearly identifiable by its blinking red navigation light. This proved two things. The object was definitely parked in place, and it was not an ordinary aircraft because although the sun has set at 7:36, it was around 7:45 at the time and it was still bright out. NOT bright enough for a normal aircraft to have its "brights" on. The airplane cruising in the far distance only had a faint plane-shaped figure with no other lights on other than its red blinking navigation lights. We both agree that this is weird, and as he continues to go on with his business (he was washing our mothers vehicle at the time of the incident). I decide to take out my phone and take a video of it. At this moment two things begin to happen. My mother comes out of her adobe and I point at the UFO and tell her "mom look, it has NOT moved" and as I say those words I notice that there has been a change in the object. The previously bright shining constant light emitted from the bottom of the aircraft has turned into a single light circling around and around the base of the aircraft. After a few cycles, the light sequence changes yet again, but this time it does a sequential light signal pointing in the direction it is about to zoom to. After five sequences it zooms at an impossible speed silently. Video can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IIMh0mU6eI
March 11, 2018 · 7:25 PM · OVAL
Swampscott, MA
UFO sighting at about 7:20 to 7:25PM Eastern Time: I had just turned left onto my street which is a steep hill. My house is on the left side of the street. As soon as my car was turned and going up the hill, I noticed two flickering bright white lights with a pale orange light in the middle, all in a horizontal row, moving super-fast towards my street above the bare tree branches. It became so large so fast as it moved that I can’t even estimate how fast it was going to morph from the original size I saw to what it became. It moved in a smooth, forward, slightly descending south-east direction and then just abruptly stopped above the tree line between my house and the house next door. It hovered there motionless and silent (my car window was down). I’m not sure about its altitude but maybe about 200 to 400 feet. The sky wasn’t too dark and had random thick clouds, but the object was immobile in plain sight and not in any cloud. My stopped car was in the middle of the street in front of my house watching it move towards me right before the object stopped and hovered. I could clearly see a flat oval shape like an ellipse with three visible lights that had a weird quality…they weren’t like bright aircraft lights but had a more hazy flickering look and then became steady as it hovered. I jumped out of the car and just stood in the street watching it for about three seconds and then it seemed to almost evaporate! It literally became transparent in about 1-2 seconds as it suddenly moved in a sideways direction for a split second and then totally disappeared. I got back into my car and drove up the street to see if I could view it again above or behind other houses, but couldn’t find it. I was out there for about another minute when I saw something glowing and moving in one of the thick clouds off to the east about twenty times the height where it had first hovered. It moved around in an odd manner in that huge cloud then disappeared again. I ran into the house, put my groceries away which took about 2 minutes, and then ran back outside into the street looking in all directions. About five to six minutes later, coming north-east from the Boston direction, I saw a helicopter moving fast towards where I was and going east toward the ocean where I last saw the glowing in the clouds. The helicopter moved into a cloud and I could see its distinct very bright white search light coming from its front, and the helicopter seemed to be looking for something as it moved along towards the east. Then I lost sight of it because of the trees and my location on the lower part of the hill. I waited for another ten minutes but didn’t see anything else. The bizarre object I saw was NOT an airplane, blimp, or any other known craft. It was terrifying in its speed and disappearing or cloaking maneuver.
March 11, 2018 · 6:35 PM · CYLINDER
Anchorage, AK
A stationary cylinder shaped object was seen hovering just below cloud level. It was metallic looking with no exterior lights. At first I took it for a flock of birds, but then realized it was a single object of undetermined size. It did not move for approximately 1 minute, it then moved rapidly laterally to the West and then rapidly up into the clouds in a motion impossible for any aircraft.
March 11, 2018 · 4:15 PM · CIRCLE
Tampa, FL
I would not have believed my eyes, and attributed it to dirty sunglasses, but then my husband who was looking around as well looked up and entirely unprovoked said, "Do you see that?" It was then I knew we were observing something unusual. Moments later, they disappeared. I scanned the horizon left and right to see where they went, but there was no trace. I have a Master's degree, and my husband is also college educated. We work in professional, "corporate America" jobs. This was highly unusual and I felt warrants a report.
March 11, 2018 · 4:00 PM · CHANGING
Ocean Shores, WA
I did manage to take some pics on my phone and when I zoomed in on the pics when I got home, I noticed some odd results. There was some other odd occurrences also around this time. A huge ship that was close to the beach all the sudden was gone, which was off because they don't move that fast, a small prop plane was flying around and then all the sudden was gone and there was a commercial looking airplane flying over around that time and just seemed to be gone. Those things didn't seem to be too weird at the time but with the UFO sighting, it was a very eerie moment. It was like " Wait, what?", "What the heck is going on right now?!" kind of moment.
March 11, 2018 · 4:00 PM · SPHERE
Newark, NJ
we got a picture for memories.
March 11, 2018 · 2:30 PM · SPHERE
Los Angeles, CA
Landing at LAX approaching from the west coming in from the Pacific Ocean. Coming down through patchy cloud-cover while descending towards LAX, and over the city itself, there was a shiny, reflective, chrome-like sphere visible in between the clouds. It was not concealed by cloud-cover, it was in the open air between the clouds. It had some sort of appendage hanging from the bottom of it that made me think that it looked like a woman's shiny bauble earring, almost. Cannot recall exactly what was appended underneath but the object had a main, large, spherical, shiny body and then a second component below it. It was not nylon or a tether hanging from it; I don't think it was a weather balloon. We flew by it so fast that I did not take a photo of it and it struck me as incredibly odd, and very dangerous, considering that it was directly in the flight path to LAX, and at the same altitude as the 777 that we were in.
March 11, 2018 · 12:00 PM · OTHER
Haywood, CA
March 1, 2018; Haywood, California 12:00 PM. Witness was sitting outside an abandoned building on Mission St. near the corner of Industrial Pkwy, just chilling with a beer. He was looking down the Parkway towards the W when something caught his eye. It appeared to be at about treetop level, hovering toward Mission St. (eastbound) running parallel to the Parkway. What caught his eye was the unearthly glow of the thing and its straight and even path. "I almost dismissed it off as a lost silver balloon until I kept staring at it and realized it wasn't anything man-made. I even shouted to the houses near-by, "Hey guys! We've got a UFO here!!!" hoping someone would film this. I even stopped somebody on the sidewalk and asked, "What do you think that is?" (witness 2). The UFO was about a football field away or less, about the size of a compact car or slightly bigger. The object appeared to have two distinct features, one is a dull black/green rotating wheel with a broken triangle or arrow pattern tread design that was rotating in the direction of travel and at the same speed. It must have been going around 10-15 MPH up Industrial. The second and more vivid part was the center axis of the wheel which consisted of a glowing morphing mass of supernatural light or energy. As it was moving, the glowing mass would flash pink, silver-white, go dim or disappear and repeat but it was really weird to watch. It seemed to be in a distinct sequence. The glowing mass would also appear to elongate diagonally in a semi-diamond pattern and go back to a morphing mass. I was in total awe, witness 2 didn't seem to be really interested, but admitted it looked very strange after watching for around 30 seconds and left towards the shopping center on the corner of Industrial & Mission where this thing was floating over. It changed course when it got to Mission St. and started to run parallel to it and increased its speed some. I followed it down the sidewalk, it started to ascend and move further away. It kept increasing its distance towards the! NW to well over .5 mile. This whole time, it kept changing color sequence until it appeared as a silver star in sky. It ascended and hovered at one point, floated some more and came straight down and followed a path, at well over 2 miles away or greater. It finally took off toward the NW, appearing as a bright star. While it was leaving, I noticed a dim dot (part of it?) glow red and go after it at one point. It finally faded out. Wildest thing I've ever witnessed. As it was leaving, there was a Cessna in the area going to the E and must have seen it (potential witness 3). Also, there was a high-flying "contrail" plane going towards the west who couldn't have missed that bright star outside his window to the north (potential witness 4).(MUFON)
March 11, 2018 · 11:30 AM · FORMATION
Hagerstown, MD
Not sure if it was 7 or 1 it moved like one, it was 5 yellow lights in straight line and 2 lights on the left side forming a small v with the 5 light, it was so quiet which made me look up the sky, was coming from Leitersburg Pike going over my house and going towards I-81.
March 11, 2018 · 10:40 AM · SPHERE
Waltham (west of), MA
Looked like a large circle with fast moving colors sitting completely still for more than an hour. Finally started moving slowly.