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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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January 7, 2018 · 4:06 AM · OVAL

Capon Springs, WV

The coordinate according to Google Earth are 39.1349532, -78.4735764. Looking North East above Bear Ridge. Any suggestions on what this was???

January 7, 2018 · 2:30 AM · LIGHT

Dallas, TX

Youtube video: https://youtu.be/rbV34hCo3eo

January 7, 2018 · 1:00 AM · SPHERE

My wife and I were on vacation in Sarasota Florida on that date and, before this story was published, I told my wife and daughter the same story. I gave them more details and described what the lights looked like while hovering over the (totally black) Gulf of Mexico. It was an amazing sight. The website asked for input from others who might be able to solve the question of the light source. As a result, I provided a full recounting of my experience. That was two weeks ago and I've not heard any feedback. My questions are: was any source/explanation ever found? Did your observatory cameras pick up anything? Is any follow up planned? Did anyone else report the incident? These lights must have rotated with the earth because I saw them in exactly the same position until 4:00 AM that morning (4 hours). How is that possible? I'd appreciate any input you might have.

January 6, 2018 · 11:55 PM · LIGHT

Uhland, TX

January 6th close to midnight adult female standing on porch saw string of red lights over cow pasture about the height of a three story building. Lights were bright red and not blinking. They were circular and connected by red lite lines. There were about 8 or 9 circular lights making a very large hook like pattern in the sky. Visible about 20 seconds, then all vanished at the same time. East of Uhland, Texas, estimated red lights to be about a football field in length and maybe 1/4 mile away. Neighbor, male-former police officer out walking his dog saw them too but from shouting distance to him the lights were many colors. From my porch they were solid red.

January 6, 2018 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL

Logan, UT

We spotted a strange firey light low in the sky that almost looked like an airplane that was on fire. My husband thought it was a meteor but it was traveling to slow. It was coming directly at as, it was about a half mile or less from us. There was no sound coming from the object what so ever. It suddenly stopped and hovered in the same spot for about 45 seconds then went straight up and completely disappeared with seconds.

January 6, 2018 · 9:00 PM · UNKNOWN

Rocksprings, TX

Was out on the hunting lease with another person waiting in camp for the other two guys to get back from dropping off their meat at the processor. We decided to turn the lights off in the cabin and sit outside to see if we could see any shooting stars as we were about 25 minutes outside of the city limits. Then the guy who i was with started to say that he was seeing something moving in the horizon. I didn't believe him for the first 15 minutes. (Thought he was trying to scare me since the lights were off). But eventually I gave in and looked over to see what he was talking about. Then I saw what he was talking about. It was several miles away. Looked like a rather bright star but was right on the horizon moving around in a very irregular flight pattern. While watching, it also started to slowly change colors that alternated between: Green, Red, and Blue. Couldnt see anything through the binoculars as even with those it was too far away. Woke up early that morning (about 9 hours later) to go out to the deer blind and all the stars were covered by clouds except that one and it was still moving in its irregular pattern going up down left and right. Got some video on my cell phone but it is hard to focus at night.

January 6, 2018 · 8:30 PM · CHANGING

Sand Springs, OK

It was about 8:30 in the evening when I went to take my dog out to use the bathroom. As she was doing her business, (I star gaze every night and am very aware of the stars/planes that are in my area) I noticed the skies were UNUSUALLY dark and couldn't make out a single star. As I searched the sky for for any visible stars, I spotted an extremely bright light in the northeast, somewhat low in the horizon. It seemed to change shapes (if that makes any sense) and blink erratically. It was changing shape from a circle to a horizontal dumbbell-like shape and seemed to blink from yellow to a whitish like light. At first I thought it was stationary, so I positioned myself near a tree so the branches would could be in the line of vision so I could gauge any movement. It seemed to slowly move to the east, and be at least a mile out, so I couldn't tell the size. Then, after observing it for about 30 seconds, it just blinked out. I walked to the backyard to see if I c! ould find it, but it was definitely gone.

January 6, 2018 · 8:20 PM · CHEVRON

Batavia, OH

Faint lights appeared in the sky in the formation of a large chevron. They moved in sync like birds in flight at just above tree-line level. The entire sighting lasted about 5 seconds before the lights disappeared. If this was a craft, it was completely non-material as it was a totally clear night.

January 6, 2018 · 7:30 PM · UNKNOWN

Lyman, SC

Was at my daughters in a rural area so not much light interference. I went outside to have cig. For the past 40 plus yrs I've been a star gazer and always look at the night sky, it is dark at her house so I can really see the stars, I was looking to the NW at about 30 degrees and thought it was a star and kept looking at it trying to determine what star / planet it might be. (Orion was behind me in SE at about 70 degrees ) It just looked like a star but then it started making slight movements, up and down, side to side and little loop-de-loops I watched for about 10 min. and thought my eyes where playing tricks so I called my son-in-law out to see if he saw the same thing. Yes, he did! We both continued to watch the movements for at least another 30 min. Tried to video it but was to dark out to capture anything. I have no idea how far away it was or how many miles above the earth it was, so what seemed like slight movements to us, may well have been huge maneuvers. We were finally driven inside frozen by the cold.

January 6, 2018 · 6:34 PM · LIGHT

Brookshire, TX

It rose straight up and then proceeded to travel to the West/Northwest at about the speed of a news helicopter. Since this was a Saturday I knew it was not a news helicopter or any other chopper for that matter. They are rare in this isolated area. At first I assumed it was small drone. However, having experience with flying drones, I expected the familiar drone sound but the light/object was completely silent. Drones are very noisy. It flew right over me. It was probably about 300 feet in the air but it was hard to tell given that it was very dark, although the sun had just set. The light was colored between orange and yellow. Size was difficult to determine as it was just a ball of light. I could not really make out a shape or form. I thought about running inside for my binoculars but did not do so because the object would have been gone by the time of my return. The entire sighting lasted about 60 seconds. The weather was clear and very little breeze. There was the faintest hint of the setting sun but it was still very dark, almost night time. There was no alcohol or other mind altering substances involved.

January 6, 2018 · 8:25 AM · LIGHT

Fairbanks, AK

Looking south in the sky, from the Ralph Perdue Center, 3100 Cushman Street (& 30th Avenue), Fairbanks, AK; I saw two objects appear, heading west, while climbing. They looked as if they were on the same path, but one turned north briefly, then southwest, to again trail the other. I heard a 1.5 distant roar (like a rocket thrust), as they accelerated and disappeared. There was a star, slightly above and slightly to the east of them; whereas there was also a red stationary light below this star, whereas both of these remained... I came inside to search for this incident, but found this site first.

January 6, 2018 · 6:15 AM · TRIANGLE

Claremore, OK

large Triangle shaped object with a bright white circling light, stayed silently stationary in the sky, smaller more round object with dimmer white light hovered close by

January 6, 2018 · 5:15 AM · UNKNOWN

Chapin, SC

Bright light in long distance SW from my home moved about in early morning hours. In the early morning hours of January 6, 2018, I got up to go to the bathroom. I then looked out a back window to the view over our lakeside home (Lake Murray near Chapin, SC). I viewed the lake and sky. I saw a bright light in the sky, larger than visible stars. It was not the moon! I watched for a period of time and it did seem to move a bit downward and to the right. I observed for a period of time to ensure this was not an airplane or jet (or normal one at least). This viewing was approximately 5:00 a.m. and in a SW direction from the back of our home. Distance could not be determined - it seemed to be a good distance away. After observing for a period of time, I got my Panasonic DMC-FZ70 and took pictures through our windows - it was very cold outside. As I recall, there was no moon visible. I took a series of pictures from 5:15 a.m. to 5:24 a.m. Of course, at first, I thought my eyes or imagination were playing tricks on me. But, I really believe I observed something really unusual. I called for my wife to get up, but, she refused. I continued to watch to about 5:30 a.m. and then went back to bed. When I quit viewing, the strange light was still visible. I had thought about calling the Lexington County Sheriff's Department at the time of sighting or at least the next morning, but, I did not do this. Today, on January 18, 2018, I finally downloaded pictures from my camera. I had forgotten about these pictures. I do have a collection of 15 pictures - this camera has a relatively long focal length and some are at 215mm. Upon seeing these pics, I wondered what to do about this and I did a google search and found this website and amazingly found another report for that same day in South Carolina. However, that report was for some type of similar sighting that night. (1/6/18 19:30) In summary, I saw a very bright light, that to me was NOT a star or a normal airplane. It did appear to move about in a generally small area.

January 6, 2018 · 4:20 AM · LIGHT

Cumming, GA

Around 4:20am, I was headed north on GA400 towards my home. As I passed Exit 13, I noticed what appeared to be a shooting star. It was just a large ball of white light literally moving at lightening speed across the sky. So my first reaction was to make a wish, but as I'm watching it shoot across the horizon, it didn't disappear. It literally came to an abrupt stop, which completely startled me. Then right before me on the highway I then saw what appeared to be an aircraft of some kind, hovering ahead of me. It had red and blue flashing lights...I really couldn't make out a shape...and thats when it registered that this was definitely something else out of the ordinary. A few seconds later, it shot off into atmosphere at lightening speed and disappeared. Both objects moved entirely too fast to be anything logical such as a plane or a helicopter, or even a drone. In addition, the ball of light traveling lightening speed across the atmosphere and completely stopping, with a random hovering object then appearing...no explanation. Absolutely no explanation. This weirded me out enough to actually want to report it.

January 5, 2018 · 6:45 PM · SPHERE

Milliken, CO

It's not the first time I've seen these lights. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD

January 5, 2018 · 6:30 PM · FLASH

Lancaster, PA

Blue dome shaped flash of light at the horizon line was spotted from the quarry area towards the Lancaster Airport. We were traveling north on Erbs Quarry Rd and the light was off to our right. It flashed as a blue dome close to the ground and lasted for about 10 seconds before abruptly completely going away. We were driving in that direction but saw nothing further.

January 5, 2018 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT

Woodinville, WA

The light seem to appear to be silently floating around near the creek about 30 feet or so up in the air and as I got closer I saw there were two lights that appeared orange in color and seemed to be very small. I started recording with my phone and as I got closer one became bright very much like a small, but intense LED as if it turned to face my direction. I couldn’t tell if it had a light in front and perhaps rotated or if it just changed and became bright. Both ended up doing this off and on and continued to float through and around the trees from East to West. As I went back toward my house to get my wife to witness I saw a couple more in the neighbor’s field on the other side of our property as well. They were completely silent and ranging from about 20 – 40 feet off the ground, all moving from East to West. Although I heard no noise, I later found watching the video that the microphone did pick up a strange clicking type of noise when it was at its closest. I was a bit freaked out and went inside and asked my wife to come out and verify I was seeing what I was seeing. My behavior was scaring her a bit but when I pointed them out, she saw them and was also surprises and a little scared. I went back outside and to the neighbor’s house to show him as well. Over about an hour a saw perhaps a dozen of these lights. I’ve never seen anything like it in my life. Afterward I went back home and became very tired, falling asleep on the couch. Although I didn’t experience an loss of time nor did I touch or make any physical contact, my wife and kids told me the next day I was moving and twisting around on the couch hitting my head with my hands and that my head was sweating profusely. They said they tried to wake me but couldn’t. I felt like I slept very soundly and don’t recall any of that.

January 5, 2018 · 5:20 PM · LIGHT

Fredrick, MD

Very bright circular light- first appeared thinking it was a shooting star traveling west through the sky then stopped and shot straight up at an incredible rate of speed then disappeared.

January 5, 2018 · 4:50 PM · LIGHT

Hampshire, IL

I was facing south driving and Witnessed two elongated cigar shape craft that were self-illuminating near the middle of the sunset which was to my right (west). One was hovering to the west going northwest direction lower to the ground moving horizontally slowly. The other was simultaneously moving in opposite direction faster. Was identical size and also self-illuminating. No blinking lights on either looked like giant glow sticks but did not have a bright aura. No wings, gear or trails. Just long glowing cigar like craft rounded off on each end. The 2nd one was going south-east bound moving from the first one. It was moving faster and on an angle going upward away about 40 degrees. The first one remained on a horizontal pattern moving north-west. I tried to find a place to pull over from the highway but various trees kept blocking and no room on side of the highway. I knew of a parking area at the next intersection so chose to drive there to pull over o! n rte 20 and IL-47. I watched the 2nd one moving at the 40-degree angle start to speed off and then all of a sudden it moved so fast it was gone. I could still see the first one moving northwest but it also started speeding up but slowly. I turned onto the next street (rte 20) and then pulled over into a parking lot after the gas station. As I got out of the car to take a photo now facing westbound towards the sunset and Rockford, IL there was nothing left in the sky except the sunset. I scanned sky from north to west to south and back again. Nothing. No streaks, no lights, no planes. The distance and size of these things in the sunset is hard to estimate but one thing is for sure is they were huge. Football field length or larger. The glowing self-illumination is what shocked me. They were like a bright yellow-white light with pure white in center, no blinking, no radiance outward just self-contained.

January 5, 2018 · 4:00 PM · LIGHT

Williamston, MI

Saw what looked exactly like a big bright star driving down th highway at 4 in the afternoon. It didn’t move or anything but eventually disappeared after blinking a couple of times.

January 5, 2018 · 10:30 AM · CYLINDER

Milwaukie, OR

((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) Thanks Peter. Rain drop is my rational explanation also. It was amazing luck and an amazing sky that morning. Sincerely, ((name deleted)) ((END ADDENDUM))

January 5, 2018 · 4:44 AM

Alamosa, CO

I was awoken at 4:44 am on 1/5/18, I sat up in bed and had an overwhelming sense of being watched, after investigating my apartment and finding no one I noticed I could not find my dog, I then went to my bathroom and sat down on the toilet. Suddenly I was nude standing in what seemed to be a large cavern, in front of me was a 30 ft wide infinitely tall windowless doorless tower with a light emmting from behind the tower, the color of this light was of a hue I have never seen and therefore makes it very difficult to discribe. I can remember the way the floor felt on my bare feet, it was cold and damp and gritty. Then I was suddenly in my bed again and in my clothes, wide awake the entire time. My wife who was asleep noticed nothing until I woke her up by grabbing hold of her and pulling her close to me. I have had bouts of nausea off and on since and images of extraterrestrials make me very uncomfortable now. To the point of causing chills and anxiety. The whole experience seems to have lasted a little over an hour according to the clock when I got up after the entire thing it was 5:59am. Although the whole thing only seemed to last 10 to 15 minutes total time remembered.

January 5, 2018 · 3:20 AM

Appointee Falls, NY

My son and sister witnessed a creature at 3:20 in the morning while letting dog out.they came in running and screaming.they said the thing was 7-8 feet tall grey green elongated head,no genitals and when they startled it it ran at an impossible speed covering over 150 in two seconds and was out of sight.we're all scared and wanted someone to know.

January 4, 2018 · 11:55 PM · LIGHT

Maricopa, AZ

Object was orange-yellow in color. No noticeable aircraft markers or strobes. Seemed to drop in altitude and leveled off at tree level when I first noticed it. Object was traveling from north to south and looked to be just east of the 10-free way. No sound but distance may of masked if any. Moved rather quickly covering a distance from just east of Maricopa, AZ. to south toward Tucson, AZ. Lost sight as object moved beyond ground obstructions. I was standing in my back yard with patio light on and once I noticed object I turned the light off. Was over cast sky not sure of ceiling.