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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.
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January 18, 2018 · 7:05 PM · DISK
Timberlake, OH
Tonight, on January 18th at approximately 7:05pm EST while sitting in my hot tub and looking up at the stars/sky, I observed two objects flying sort of erratically from east to west almost side by side. Then, all of a sudden, they changed direction and headed south. I tried to turn off my hot tub to see if I could hear anything, but couldn’t. These objects had lights, maybe reddish. I can’t be sure of their shape, but I would say round or oblong. It’s hard to say because, even though the sky was dark, it was still early in the evening and there was some steam from my hot tub. I’m not sure how high they were flying, but I’m going to guess no more than cruising altitude for a commercial airliner, but it is really hard to guess their altitude. For reference, we have very tall, mature trees in our village and these objects were much much higher than them and where I’m used to seeing airliners fly. For background information, I live about a ½ mile from Lake Erie near Eastlake, OH. There are no street lights in my village. I often sit in my hot tub and look up at the stars and watch the planes flying into CLE Hopkins and Lost Nation airports. I have also seen a fireball or meteor not to mention many shooting stars. I was honestly in disbelief of what I was seeing and was saying to myself ((deleted--"What is this?”!. I observed these objects for maybe 10-15 seconds before they disappeared to the south. In my mind, I was trying to make sense of it and whether it could have been a couple of drones but I guess they’d have to be real good pilots to pull off that maneuver at night let alone daytime. Still, I can’t be sure of what I saw but it was very abnormal from what I’m used to seeing, so I wanted to report it just in case anyone saw the same thing.
January 18, 2018 · 6:45 PM · TRIANGLE
Rollinsford, NH
Our family was in the hot tub in our backyard when I jokingly said look at the UFO. But as the aircraft flew over us we actually thought it could be. The shape was a triangle with the front space open, so sort of like a boomerang but more triangular. Each of the points had a light. One was blue, one was a greenish, and the back one alternated red and white. It flew pretty low and slow, we could not hear anything. The reason I am posting is that the shape was unlike anything I had seen for aircraft. The triangular shape was open in the center and the two points were at the front and one point at the back. There was nothing between the two front points either. It was strange enough for us to think we needed to post here!
January 18, 2018 · 6:00 PM · RECTANGLE
Saint Paul, MN
My wife and I were driving through Saint Paul, heading west on highway 36. As we were crossing the Rice Street exit, we saw 2 black rectangular prism shapes in the sky to the south. There are a few airports in the area, so planes are constantly flying overhead. We both asked out loud, "What is that?" As we looked closer, we noticed the crafts were extremely low - I'm guessing less than 1,000 feet. They were larger than a plane (I'd estimate twice as big in each dimension - length, height, width). The crafts, originally appearing to move southeast, turned counter clockwise and headed northwest. They moved slowly. By this time, the two crafts were moving directly over our vehicle. It was evening, so the sky was darker. I tried looking for dark shapes extending off the objects to indicate wings; I might have just assumed it was a plane had I seen them, but there was only the rectangular prism shape. One craft flew with its body oriented diagonally, while the other was straight length-wise. Both objects had a short line of lights on the bottom. I vaguely recall a few white lights and a blue light: A line of 2-3 white lights, then a blue light, followed by another white light. The lights did not blink. As they flew over us, they separated. One flew more north and the other headed northwest. I pulled off the Lexington exit and stopped in a parking lot to take another look in their direction, but they were no longer in sight.
January 18, 2018 · 6:40 AM · TRIANGLE
Cambridge, MN
Four crafts with blinking light at each peek flying at various heights. In military’s so well aware this wasn’t normal.
January 18, 2018 · 1:02 AM · TRIANGLE
Roanoke, VA
I’m still having trouble processing what happened. I am composing this perhaps an hour or so after the incident occurred. So, a little prior to 01:00 I’m sitting on the couch reading a book. I noticed that the video I had on which was a (Bach Concerto) starts going in and out, along with the power. I really did not think much of it until my laptop started acting strange as well. My lap top was opened, running and unplugged, not connected to any power source. Yet the power was effected somehow, I’m assuming it was an Electromagnetic Interference of sorts. I proceeded to look out the front door to see if I could identify the light from my neighbors TV’s perhaps going in and out similar to mine, as many of my neighbors let their TV go all night, and you can see the glow projected on the curtains or blinds fairly easy. Didn’t see anything out of the ordinary. I happened to hear a crack (like a stick breaking) in my back yard. Keep in mind this is a City setting, lots of houses VERY close to each other. So I walk outside around to my back yard, and noticed my hair standing up. The best way I can describe it, is that it was a similar sensation you would get from the static electricity you’d get from a statically charged balloon. Looked around, didn’t notice anything in particular. Looked up and saw what I can only describe as a black triangle with 3 red lights just hovering approximately 400ft above my house. Completely quiet, there was no noise whatsoever. If I would not have look up towards the sky, I would never have even known it was there. So there was an odd electrical discharge that would occasional present itself then dissipate directly under the craft right in the middle. Similar to the electricity you would see from a stun gun, just not as bright, I don’t know exactly what it was but thought I would mention it non the less. Additionally, I heard some rustling way back in the yard and from behind my shed (could have been anything, even an animal) so I went back inside to get my pistol and a phone (because it has a camera), and by the time I got back outside (about 50 seconds) the object that was hovering above my house was gone. I’m still processing this. I thought I had only looked at this! thing for about maybe a minute, but after all was said and done somehow about 20 minutes had gone by. Never in a million years thought any of this was real, or that I would see something like this. I don’t really no what to say other than wow.
January 18, 2018 · 12:45 AM · UNKNOWN
Ravine, PA
Source of report indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
January 17, 2018 · 11:50 PM · LIGHT
Sidney, OH
While driving on a country road near the interstate, I saw a white bright fireball-like flare come straight down from the sky, leaving no trace it disappears close to the ground, I don't know how many people seen it but it was too bright to ignore
January 17, 2018 · 7:35 PM · TRIANGLE
Vero Beach, FL
Low intensity red lights in a triangle shape moving faster than anything ever seen in the sky. No sound. Witness provides no contact information. PD
January 17, 2018 · 7:10 PM · LIGHT
Oak Creek, CO
Flash of bright white light for 3 seconds,then light went to red, hovered for 4 minutes flashing red white. Took off fast till disappeared behind mountain.
January 17, 2018 · 7:00 PM · FIREBALL
Salton Sea, CA
A friend and I drove from Los Angeles area out to the Salton Sea area on 01/17/18. We were going out that way to shoot astro photography, so we had all our camera gear. On the way out when we were on highway 111 I believe, when we saw a group of fireballs in the sky. They illuminated one after another going in a line what seemed like 2 or 300 feet in the air. I think there were about five or six in the first cluster we saw. One would light up really bright just like a ball of fire, then as it was going out after 1 second or so the next would light up, so on and so forth. We were pretty astounded at the sight of them and couldn't figure out what it was. I was thinking some sort of oil pipe we couldn't see burning off fumes or something. We really had no idea. We kept driving another 30 minutes or so and arrived at the Salton sea area. We were in the Bombay beach ruins section. Soon after we arrived we saw another group of fireballs shoot through the sky. I set up my tripod and camera and started shooting continuously trying to capture the fireballs. I have included the one picture I got in unedited format, edited, zoomed and highly contrasted. I hate it when I see ufo images that look fake or terrible. I wanted to include all the high res pics and zooms and what not. Our night was already feeling pretty special from the fireballs when we heard a very low and loud sonic boom. We both looked at each other like "did you just hear that?" We kept shooting and over the night saw a couple more groups of fireballs and heard about 7 to 10 more sonic booms. All of this was seeming very strange. We decided to walk up to another part of the beach area. While we were in this area we saw two lights coming over the Salton sea towards us. It was very dark, the craft was silent. It was cigar shaped and had a green light on the front and a white light on the back. It was a couple hundred feet in the air and moved completely silently. Since it was so dark and it was moving I wasn't able to get an image other than the green and white lights. It looked and moved like a blimp, but we could not see it and the fact that it came after fireballs and sonic booms made it feel even stranger. I don't know if there is a military base out there or what was going on. I'd love to hear if you've had more sightings out there of if any of this can be explained.
January 17, 2018 · 12:00 PM · OTHER
Roswell, GA
Always laughed at people who claimed to have seen but now it just got real! My sighting happened in the middle of the afternoon on a cold but clear day. Snow and ice was still on the ground from the light dusting of snow the night before. I had made a short trip to the grocery store to pick up a few items and on my way home I had to cut through a suburban neighborhood in order to avoid a minor traffic accident. I came to a 4 way stop sign in the middle of the neighborhood close to mine and noticed something in the middle of the street slightly to the left floating about 5 feet off the ground. The object was unclear at first until it moved directly in front of my car. At this point It was less than 6 feet from my face almost touching the hood of my car. Its movement was very aquatic like and it seemed to float like a jelly fish. It moved horizontally and vertically twice without tilting or pitching then returned back to center. It moved without effort, it had no propellers, props or blades; it had neither propulsion nor exhaust that I could see. This was not a drone! This looked biological with some type of energy about it. I can see EVERY DETAIL about it now! The entire object was between 8 to 10 inches long and maybe 5 inches wide. It protruded hair like fibers (thicker than hair) that held a type of energy that flowed through each fiber. It looked like a deep sea Jelly Benthocodon but more like a caterpillar. Both the top and the bottom were identical. (Hours of googling pics to no avail!). As it moved the fibers moved in slow motion. Everything seemed to move in slow motion at this point and I felt frozen in time. I was in shock and I couldn’t understand what I was seeing. I kept asking myself “what the hell am I seeing” As I moved to unbuckle my seat-belt it reacted to my movement in the car. Its movement was like a posturing movement of fright of flight. As I begin to open my car door it did a nose dive towards the ground then shot strait up towards the tops of the pine trees between 100 feet & 125 feet in less than 3 seconds. I could see it clear against the blue sky! It moved horizontally with the tree line for about 50 yards then moved straight up until out of sight. It moved out of sight in less than 3 seconds. At no point did it make any noise. Against the sunlight it had a metallic or sliver color about it. I stood in the middle of the street like an idiot yelling “I just saw an Alien”. I walked around the 4 way stop for 10 mins looking for any type of evidence of the encounter but came up empty handed. I looked around hoping someone else witnessed this but I'm sure I looked a little weird from a distance. I returned later that day to see if any surrounding homes had security cameras but no luck. Every day on my way home I cut through the same neighborhood hoping to see my caterpillar/jelly Benthocodon friend but no luck yet. This time I’ll have my phone!
January 17, 2018 · 5:50 AM · OTHER
Coventry-Bolton, CT
it looked like a fire ball or a shooting star and it was just steaming steadily across the dark sky in the early morning it was visible longer than 30-45 seconds but thats the length of time i saw it before i turned off the street i saw it on and could no longer see it behind the trees I was on route-44 boston turnpike between CVS and Sabrina Pools
January 17, 2018 · 3:19 AM · FLASH
Houston, TX
An flashing fast pacing object in the sky that constantly changed colors then causing my power in the home to go out, including cell phone
January 17, 2018 · 1:30 AM · TRIANGLE
Tacoma, WA
I was coming back from renting a video game and was driving south on Yakima Ave, I saw 2 green lights zip over the street, they were up pretty bigh. I thought they were an airplane cause I live by McCord AFB but they were going to fast,these things were moving. I got to 56th in Yakima and saw them turn to the south, as they turned I saw the outline of 1, it was a triangle,it wasnt a stealth, it made no noise. I turned right on 56th and watched as they flew away to the south west, the Planes landing at McChord never go that way, it was no plane I've ever seen and ive lived 3 miles from the base all my life, this was unreal. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and he seemed to us to be quite sincere and sober-minded. We suspect he is an excellent, and reliable, witness. PD
January 17, 2018 · 12:52 AM · OTHER
Corpus Christi, TX
Sometimes I go out at different times of the day just to check out the sky for birds or planes and that kind of thing. One night approximately during the winter months of 2018 I noticed at a 45° angle in the southwest sky sometime around 1 AM in the morning and orange red colored wheel looking craft in the sky with white craft coming in and out. To the right of that we’ll appeared to be a red to gold colored rectangular outlined part of the sky where those craft appeared to be at war with each other. There were no lasers or explosions or anything like that. There was no sound. I had no camera that could capture any of this but many times I have my binoculars with me and I used those to get a better look. I was standing in the driveway of my home and really felt I couldn’t move or leave what I was seeing because it was so unbelievable. I felt for sure that something really crazy was going on in the sky and thousands of people had to be seeing the same thing I was seeing. But, the next day when I checked online and on television there were absolutely no reports of anything concerning this incident. I absolutely know what I saw and if anyone had seen what I had seen they would have been thinking an invasion was happening and a war was happening in the nighttime sky. I am a journalist and I don’t make up things like this. I did not report this to the site for some four years now because I saw similar lighting in a story online about some movement of lights that was captured by I believe someone in North Carolina. It seemed to jog my memory because for some reason I seemed to have put it out of my mind. So there is a possibility that there is some type of loss of time during the time I was witnessing this in the sky.
January 17, 2018 · 12:00 AM · DISK
San Diego, CA
We have amended the time above, in order to make it more logical. We are not convinced that it is a serious-minded report. PD
January 16, 2018 · 9:35 PM · FLASH
Fairbanks, AK
There were several bright green flashes (not Northern Lights), bright and short. Right above our cabin.
January 16, 2018 · 9:00 PM · CIRCLE
Loveland, CO
We suspect that the three stars the witness alludes to may be the three stars that form the "belt" in the Orion Constellation. Possible sighting of stars?? PD
January 16, 2018 · 8:35 PM · LIGHT
Chicago, IL
We witnessed a flash of red light streak across the sky from east to west in the southwestern sky, and then stop, flashing red and green lights with no discernible pattern. It moved erratically in the sky, sometimes with great speed other times slowly, way above airplane traffic then what seemed like below, then above again, at one point seeming like it might collide with an airlplane. It retreated, becoming so small it was a pinpoint high in the sky, then with the blink of an eye was close, large again, spiraling around as if it was going to crash, then traveled slowly earthward until we lost sight of it behind a 3 story building. This was against a dark, clear sky, illuminated with alley lights, and plane traffic lined up going into O’hare airport. There was a sound, like a whirring buzz or whine. We both felt pressure in our heads with the sound. We both still feel sensitivity in our ears.
January 16, 2018 · 8:25 PM · TEARDROP
Canton, OH
Driving on 77N, my husband and I witnessed a bright green teardrop fall from the sky.
January 16, 2018 · 8:10 PM · LIGHT
Flat Rock, MI
Bright light observer outside my window high in the sky. Heavy overcast with snow. Light was bright and moved across the sky at fast rate. Had to be below cloud line or just above. Light got brighter and brighter before just disappearing. This light moved across the sky at an extreme rate. Started slow then zipped across the horizon. Like I said, overcast with light snow. Had to be at a lower elevation.
January 16, 2018 · 8:08 PM · LIGHT
Lansing, MI
Driving and noticed bright light above driver side looked up at bright object, after hovering, it took off like a jet taking off from a destroyer with no sound. Lights on dash dimmed and other cars started swerving, then dash lights came back on. Lights were dimmer after incident.
January 16, 2018 · 8:08 PM · LIGHT
Ann Arbor, MI
Everyone with us was amazed, and everyone agreed that it did not look like lightening. Not to mention lightening and thunderstorms during the winter in Michigan are very rare. The light was also a bit green.
January 16, 2018 · 8:00 PM · FLASH
Gregory, MI
Myself and neighbors have witnessed a large flash of bluish-white light, coming straight out of the sky. I thought I heard a very low, slow rumble. There is no precipitation on radar. We have amended the time to reflect a sighting at approximately 8:00 p.m. (Eastern). PD