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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
February 9, 2018 · 12:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Fredon, NJ
Ran to room in back of house. In near distance tree line it descended down to tree line again. So bright it lit up area around it. Light display was like bursts of laser like flashes in a vertical line. Stay in one spot for an hour. Then ascend and moved further away. It traveled in a straight line. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and we found her to be eloquent, and sober-minded. We suspect that she is a very good witness. PD
February 8, 2018 · 8:35 PM · TRIANGLE
Mena, AR
On the night of February 8, 2018, I was with a group of 3 other people outdoors on the grounds of the Board Camp Crystal Mine in the community of Board Camp, near Mena, Arkansas. The group and I were investigating anomalies that have been occurring regularly at the site for nearly one year. This is the same site investigated by MUFON nearly one year ago, and featured in the October 2017 issue of the MUFON Journal. One person in the group was training us on how to use specialty equipment in our investigation, such as a night vision scope and radiation detection device. At approximately 8:30 pm, I received a cell phone call from a friend who said, “Quick, run outside. We are following a triangular ship from Ink and it’s heading your way.” The community of Ink is located north of where I was located in the community of Board Camp, so we expected to see the object coming toward us from the north. Although I could not see the actual object itself, I could see the ! effect of the object as it approached and flew over. The night sky was clear and full of stars, so I could see that a portion of the sky and stars was blacked out as it flew over. It did not fly directly over my head but was more east of me. I did not see any lights on the object, only the black out and reappearance of the stars as it flew over. From the first time I began seeing the stars black out and reappear, the flyover lasted approximately 4-6 seconds and the object was approximately 1000 feet in elevation. The group I was with had heard dogs and coyotes barking earlier, but all sound stopped during the flyover. It was very quiet. I saw it pass over and the estimated size was probably 150-200 feet long. I was facing east and it was moving south. After it passed over, I caught the quick glimpse of stars blinking out and coming back to my right, which led me to believe the anomaly changed course from south to a southwest direction. After I received the phone call from my friend who first saw the anomaly in Ink, the people in my group and I were excited and immediately started scanning the skies. I also quickly texted another friend of mine who lives between Ink and Board Camp and told him to go outside to watch. Before the flyover, I had a radiation detection device in my pocket. It was set to the highest setting and was picking up normal background radiation indicated by an occasional beep sound emitted from the device. I noticed the flyover approximately 5 minutes after my friend called to notify me to look for it. During the flyover, the radiation detector in my pocket went off making a constant beeping noise, and the other 3 people in my group heard it, and were amazed and said, ”It must right overhead!" After about 6 seconds, the detector went back to normal. After the object flew over, it disappeared past the horizon. Immediately after the flyover at approximately 8:40 pm, I called my wife who was inside the house on the same property, and told her to call a friend of ours who lives southwes! t of us around the Cove and Hatfield communities located south of the city of Mena, to see if she could see it, after we determined it was possibly heading in her direction. Later, when my wife and I talked to our 2 friends who we had notified to watch, both confirmed they saw something in the night sky, either the blacking out and reappearing of stars, or they saw 3 yellow lights. My background is I am a US Army veteran, formerly worked as an investigator for the Department of Homeland Security, am a volunteer trained firefighter and certified instructor for Dept. of Labor. Due to the fact, the 3 other witnesses and I were looking in different directions for the object, the 3 witnesses did not see the object in the sky, but they did hear the radiation detector going from a standard beep sound, to a continuous fast beep during the flyover. They were amazed at the effect. I believe they would be willing to be a witness to the event, but at the time of reporting, I do not have their specific permission to state their names.
February 8, 2018 · 8:34 PM · UNKNOWN
Mena, AR
On the night of February 8, 2018, I was inside the house watching TV with my wife, when I received a text from a friend at 8:34 pm which said, to go outside and tell me what you see. My wife and I went outside and looked up. When I first stepped outside, I heard dogs barking at a distance to the west of us, which made me look up toward that direction. I noticed that the stars were being blocked by something, then they reappeared. I could tell the object was moving southwest because of the stars blocking out and reappearing. I could not tell the shape of the object for sure, but the width was a good 100 foot. I wonder if there were 2 objects because there were 2 stars toward the center of the width of the object, which seemed to black out and come back. I asked my wife if she saw what I was seeing which was moving southwest. I looked at my wife to see which direction she was looking and I asked her, “Did you see what I saw?” and that’s what we always do to! verify with each other. By the time I looked back up, the object was heading into the treeline. My wife and I realized later that night that a couple of TV shows we were recording at the time we were outside, had stopped recording for about 3-4 minutes. The next day we visited our friend who called us and shared our sightings stories. My background is I am an avid rock hound, retired from the sheet metal industry.
February 8, 2018 · 8:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Mena, AR
I was driving on Polk Road 74, near Mena, Arkansas, at the Ouachita River Bridge about 8:30 pm, on February 8, 2018, when I sited a large triangular object in the night sky at about 1000 feet with 3 yellow lights at each point, about 100 feet wide and 150 feet long. I could not detect a color except it was black. At first, I just noticed a bright yellow colored light that I had never seen before in the sky. I thought the object was a large triangular aircraft, or maybe 3 planes flying in formation, but then I noticed that all 3 lights stayed together when the object moved, and that's when I started to think it was a UFO. All I could see was 3 yellow bright lights formed as the points of a triangle. I did not see a craft, but it was the 3 lights that appeared to be on the points of a black object. The object moved extremely fast, best way to describe it is when you're following an airplane, and it disappears behind a cloud, you expect to see the airplane again at an expected location when it reappears from behind a cloud, but this object did not act that way. The object seemed to move more side to side instead of a straight line. I saw it appear 3 times. It appeared, then disappeared, and unlike the airplane, it reappeared where I did not expect to see it. It was like it was moving in 2 directions at once. It was flying more of a southwesterly direction from my location. I felt a state of awe. I was driving and tried to follow it. The object seemed to be heading in a southerly direction toward a small community called Board Camp or Nunley where there have been other recent sightings. I called a friend, who lives there to see if he could see the object. He told me later that he did and would report it. The object just disappeared while I was trying to keep up with it during driving. I drove 5 to 7 miles trying to follow it before I lost sight of it. My background is I work for the state highway department. I am a volunteer trained firefighter and EMT.
February 8, 2018 · 7:40 PM · OTHER
Camden, DE
Something called me to look up at the sky. At first I thought I saw the big dipper, then I noticed a large low flying object. It consisted of about 5 dimly lit circles in a line with the exception of the second circle being placed slightly above the line. This is the best I can describe it without drawing it. This object looked like nothing I've ever seen before, and moved very fast across the sky. My boyfriend was also a witness to it.
February 8, 2018 · 7:30 PM · CIGAR
Salem, IN
While I was driving, I notice 2 lines in the sky. Both had 4 bright lights. One was moving to my left and went over top of my car while the other was heading in the same direction as me. They weren’t moving fast, but they also weren’t moving slow. Was definitely not an airplane or a helicopter as they were way too low to be either and too large..
February 8, 2018 · 7:15 PM · EGG
Aurora, CO
Was parking my truck walking back to my house, heading southeast. Noticed flashing light like orb it had to be Southwest it seemed in between cherry creek state park & colorado springs it was roughly around 7:15 to 7:45 what was I interesting was it was kind of clear in the sky but yet it seemed like there was a cloud or something around it what struck me that was off it went into a swirling motion it looked like like yin & yang sign them it started to take off heading south for a couple seconds leaving a trail of fumes like it was spraying something and it just disappeared after a few seconds of heading south there were no other colors just a soft whitish blue light that at first looked like a helicopter, but when it start doing that weird swirling thing I knew it was something else" yes I'm definitely saying it look like it went through some type of portal.
February 8, 2018 · 6:35 PM · SPHERE
Eastvale, CA
My mother and I went to take out the dogs and witnessed one UFO in front of our home. We wouldnt have noticed it we weren't playing with a new flighttracker24 app. We live near ontario airport and chino airport, so we were pointing it at the flight path to see where the planes were going. I then looked in the NE horizon of the sky and saw a bright white light over our neighbors house. My mother said that's not a plane. She was right. It wasn't a plane. We watched for a few seconds as it slowed down, dimmed, then vanished. After we went back to our pool area and looked up to see if there was anything else in the sky. That's when my mother and I witnessed 4-5 more of those UFOs appear, disappear, then appear in another part of the sky, dim, vanish, and dance around, but the UFOs weren't the weirdest part of this story. The helicopter immediately following the UFOs was the weirdest part. A low flying helicopter came out of nowhere and whizzed by in the direction of our sightings. It was so low and so close, my mom said "put the tracker on that'. She wanted to know if it was a police helicopter. The helicopter didn't register on the radar at all! This thing catches planes miles and miles away. It was right above us flying low. Sometimes the tracker won't tell us about a private aircraft or helicopter, but it ALWAYS shows up on the radar as private or N/A. This did NOT registering. Strange.
February 8, 2018 · 6:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Bolton, MA
Driving home from work at approximately 6:30 PM EST down highway 495 south in Bolton, MA, I saw some very bright white lights up over the highway ahead of me off to the left. I thought they were landing lights from a plane coming toward me. It was probably about 500' ft. up and moving very slow. From left to right it looked like a about four lights strung together in a row, but were wider than what looked like a typical smaller aircraft at a low altitude. As I got closer, the object kept moving off to the left, and then it seemed like there were three very bright lights moving together in a tight formation. I tried to think if maybe they were helicopters or maybe military planes, but they were too low, slow and tight together. Then, the light furthest to the left disappeared. Thinking it may be moving behind a cloud, I waited for the other two lights to disappear too. Not so. By now I had pulled up parallel to object which was to my left. The whole time I kept wai! ting to see the reveal of the flashing of the tell-tale FAA lights as I moved past the angle of the landing lights. Now having seen this object from more than one angle there were absolutely no flashing FAA lights whatsoever. I could now see that these three lights must have been something flying in formation. Then I saw a red light appear between the three white lights. Thinking this was now debunked I realized the red light in the middle wasn't flashing but slowly pulsing. Dimming and getting brighter. At this point I could see I was looking up underneath the craft. The three white lights were in the shape of a perfect triangle with the red light smack in the middle. I could make out from the backdrop in the sky that this was a solid, triangular craft. It was hard to see but definitive. The white lights on the corner of the triangle were rounded and not sharp. I could also see underneath the craft it had sort of dim metallic shine but it was faint. This object looked exactly like the photo of the Belgian wave black triangle seen in the 90's There were NO flashing FAA lights on this craft anywhere. I have been an amateur UFO enthusiast for years and have learned to debunk about 99.9% of most sightings. I am a skeptical believer and have maybe seen 2-3 interesting things in the sky before that I couldn't debunk but were unusual. This was a legit sighting of a UFO by definition. Please feel free to reach out with any questions.
February 8, 2018 · 6:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Kelso, WA
My husband and our friend and I were just smoking a cig outside, when our friend pointed out a red lifht in the sky and said “watch that light, it’s doing weird things.” So all three of us watched as it continued kind of like a plane, but faster when it slowed down to stop and hovered for approximately 5 seconds then started traveling the opposite way. Then it stopped again and just disappeared. We were all yelling “whoa! It disappeared” and just then it reappeared and did the same thing again but this time it flashed white 2 or 3 times before it took off the other direction again. We watched it until it disappeared again. Waited for 5 minutes for it to reappear again but we are on the clock and had to get back to work. When it came to a stop it almost looked as though it bounced..like a ball in semi slow motion when you throw it against a wall. My iPhone couldn’t see it to get a video.
February 8, 2018 · 1:15 PM · OVAL
Boulder Creek, CA
One oval object flew over Boulder creek town about 4 to 5 hundred feet reported by two boys age 10 witnessing from the towns Elementry school campus. One boy said it split into two as if one was above the other after it rapidly flew by above him. The two oval create positioned themselves on each side of airplane that was flying estimate over a mile away as they disappeared over the mountains in an easterly direction. The other boy only saw one craft around the plane because of the trees blocking his view as the plane and craft vanished over the mountain. School was in process and the one boy that witnessed the split into two after leaving the bathroom to return to class in his first few steps looked up to see a round craft heading very slow southbound with 4 holes underneath 3 w one red hole in the center he claims looked like a red laser (maybe power source) though couldn't describe the beam he said came out that didn't hit the ground like a laser beam but more of a laser light. Red anyway and was very low above the huge redwood trees and was directly over his head no sound either like it may have been 30 ft dia then it shot straight up and disappeared. He said it vanished before it went high enough to disappear. The first oval object had no holes underneath had to be traveling 60 mph plus and he felt when flew over was 20 ft in length and 12 ft -15 ft wide. To me this was an amazing account claims of sighting. I have throughly questioned these boys to see if the stories changed or if any inconsistencies on two separate days. They have not told anyone or kids at thier school as afraid of ridicule. I asked-the one boy that had the first craft fly over him low what did he think and he replied he thought it was a huge drone. Then he thought it was some craft from Lockheed which they have a facility within 3 miles up the mountain in Bonnie Doon in the near west direction. Then he felt they where trying to attack the plane. And ! the round craft he said it was mostly blocked by the tall tree! branche s. He didn't get scared e was just trying to make out what he was seeing. No others witnessed that round craft that shot up. I went to the school with these boys and they explained their sighting and all made sense.in perspective accounts of the observation points.
February 8, 2018 · 11:21 AM · SPHERE
Hawthorn Woods, IL
While taking Picture of the trees and sun, the bright item showed up far between the trees, however it moved up higher and observed next to the sun. Very bright round object
February 8, 2018 · 1:00 AM · OTHER
Sylmar, CA
Brilliant white object hovering on the southeastward of Sylmar. Object was recorded for about 22 minutes by a security camara.
February 8, 2018 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Burbank, CA
There are at least six lights hovering in the sky. They appear to have a body and then lights coming off the top and bottom. If I had to describe the shape, I’d say there is a V on top, a horizontal line in the middle and a dot or two dots on the bottom. Completely composed of light. I thought the first one I saw was a drone, but it wasn’t moving. Then I thought maybe it was just a very bright star, but it’s refracting light and there are different colors - blue, red, green, white - very bright. The closest one has been there for at least 25 minutes, but definitely not as bright as it was.
February 7, 2018 · 6:40 PM · CHANGING
Grass Valley, CA
Started as a star with an intense, dusty glow. After about a minute and a half, it started moving across the sky with a very large, bright dusty tail. After another minute the bright spot dissapeared and all that was left was the tail, which dissapeared after another 30 seconds
February 7, 2018 · 2:00 PM · CIGAR
Santa Ynez, CA
Driving out of Santa Ynez at midafternoon I came to a stop at hwy 154. I looked left, looked right, then looked left again. There was no oncoming traffic. As I robottically entered a right turn on the highway it dawned on me that something was wrong with the picture. Something uncommon caused me to have a glance back. Approximately 1.5 miles to the west, above Los Olives, was what appeared to be a blimp. These do fly the coast rarely. The shape, however, was closer to resembling a large jet without tail or wings. I immediately pulled over to get a better look. Upon closer inspection it became clear that this was neither blimp nor jet. Distance from me estimated at 1.5 mi. The shape was long and cylindrical, cigar style. The velocity was approximately 10 mph horizontal and northbound towards the mountains. The elevation estimated to be 500 ft. The color was indefinable neither light nor dark. Overall length estimated to be at least 1000 ft. It was much longer than its elevation. There was no noise associated. After 5 minutes of watching this apparently huge thing drift against the light wind for 5 minutes I left so as to make my appointment in Santa Barbara. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
February 7, 2018 · 12:45 AM · LIGHT
San Jose, CA
This evening, I and my husband saw three objects in sky. One of them was blinking red light and moved lower
February 7, 2018 · 12:00 AM · SPHERE
Mesa, AZ
Around midnight, my 2 children were walking from Frys on Alma School and Main Street. On the way home, the saw three very bright orange orbs lined up side by side perfectly. They were slowly moving together going East, without making a sound. After 4 minutes, one orb flew away from the formation going Southeast. Eventually the other two lights just vanished. We took a photo and a video as fast as we could.
February 6, 2018 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Cliff, NM
I live on a hilltop 5 acres, in an extremely rural area with a full unobstructed view of the sky. I am a serious, sober 56 year old man who loves staring into the night sky. This area has some of the clearest skies anywhere. Last night while sitting outside, I happen to look towards the southern sky over the Burro Mountains and noticed a strange "bubble" of light that quickly grew into a massive translucent bubble through which I could see stars. This "bubble" was emitted by a slow moving, unblinking, noiseless craft that appeared as a point of bright white light, and was dwarfed by the "bubble". (More precisely, it was shaped more like a light bulb). This "bubble" was softly illuminated but not by its source nor by the moon, which was absent. It was a crystal clear, cloudless sky and there is no light pollution here. The bubble could easily fit a dozen full moons within it. The craft eventually disappeared from my view! and the "bubble slowly dissipated. The way it was illuminated reminded me of bio-luminescence as there was no external lighting source other than the stars. It was not dissimilar to the big bubble from the Wizard Of Oz. Space X booster venting fuel?? PD
February 6, 2018 · 8:50 PM · CIRCLE
Livingston, CA
It was a white flashing light then it turned green then the green light fell straight down Green to the ground almost and then just disappear that's it
February 6, 2018 · 7:40 PM · OTHER
Loveland, CO
I live close to downtown Loveland and was standing on my front porch looking to the Southwest. I saw what at first looked like the white light of an airplane behind clouds. Then I realized that it was moving too slow for an airplane and I could otherwise see stars. This light traveled slowly across the sky from west to east and was shrouded in a fog of some type. That part of the event lasted about 5 to 6 minutes. Then as the light was over the downtown area, directly to the South of me, I noticed that it turned on a light from the rear side (I say rear because it was opposite of the direction it was traveling in). Very bright, strong, v-shaped light beam. Since it was much closer to me at that point and because it turned on a light, I was able to see the air disturbance. The fog was almost phosphorescent, also flaring out in a dramatic v-shape. Then all of it just kind of became indistinct (turned its lights down?) and disappeared completely. The fog it left in its wake became distorted and from the pattern of the fog (there was a stream going downward) either the craft went down toward Earth or shot straight up. Then at 8:08pm, with still no substantial cloud build-up, there was a sudden flash of light. At this point I was standing on my back patio, which faces East. The kicker is, I texted a friend who lives over by the foothills (about 11 miles west of me) and they had seen the craft as well. Her neighbor was outside on her porch and had also seen what she thought was the flare of fireworks at the time I saw the ‘lightning’ flash. Space X booster venting fuel?? PD
February 6, 2018 · 7:28 PM · CHANGING
Anthony, TX
Possible result of launch of Space X rocket from Cape Kennedy? PD
February 6, 2018 · 7:25 PM
San Lorenzo, NM
My husband and I saw a large bright aircraft in the southern New Mexico sky near San Lorenzo tonight, traveling east at around 7:20 p.m.. It was bright enough to be moonlight, but the moon was not up yet. It looked about the size of Saturn when it is closest to the earth, but it kept increasing in size, then we noticed two sections of lights on either side that looked like searchlights on a VERY high flying plane. We continued watching, then suddenly it shifted into something that looked like a rocket that had separated from its fuel source, then it “bloomed” into a large gaseous cloud that had two distinct sections that emerged out of the areas where the “searchlights” had been. The gaseous cloud grew to occupy a large section of the southern sky, then merged into one big balloon shape preceded by two distinct horizontal stripes of light as it reached the southeastern horizon. As the gaseous cloud faded, two of our neighbors came up and said they had also seen the whole event, from the bright light with “searchlight” beams of light emitting from it, through the visual separation into two sections, to the “blooming of the gas cloud” and its subsequent disappearance in the east, preceded by two stripes of light. Did SpaceX fall out of the sky tonight???? My husband has been an astronomy professor for the past 30 years and has never seen anything like this in the night sky. This is how he described it to his colleagues when he inquired if they had seen it: There was a strange elongated bright light to the west (near Fomalhaut at about 7:30pm. As it got closer it drifted to the south and then fired(?) rockets for a few minutes then they shut off. At first the rocket plumes (reflected sunlight I assumed) were short and out to the side of its travel. I interpreted these as some sort of lateral thruster or azimuth control. Then the rear engines lit off and created a huge plume (20-30 deg) across the southern sky (in Eridanus mostly so pretty far south even from here). Very bright, fan shaped and very pretty. After a while the plume disconnected from the bright point at its apex and then faded slowly away. The bright point( : ) continued in a SE direction and was lost below the southern hills from our house. I assume it was trying for a safe place to land. I hope it did not hit anyone. Please let me know if this was plausibly SPACE-X. Possible result of launch of Space X rocket from Cape Kennedy? PD
February 6, 2018 · 7:25 PM · CIRCLE
Claymont, PA
One night about two years ago, my mother,sister, and I went to a local KFC/Taco Bell next to a Home Depot along the I-95 highway. we went in a truck and I was young and wanted to ride in the truck bed, so I did. We were in line at the drive through, and as I was laying down face-up, I saw a single circle-shaped white object that looked like it was emitting a faint white glow. The object entered my field of view from almost directly South, going North by North-West. After about 1 to 2 seconds of straight movement, it began moving North-East. We were nearby to an airport at the time and I knew all the types of aircraft that flew in the area, along with their identifying lights. The object was going far faster than any other planes I had seen, and made a strange turn that looked like someone drawing a 113 degree angle, with a sudden change in course at the point of turning.