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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
December 31, 2017 · 12:00 AM · CHANGING
Gilbert, AZ
My wife was on the balcony, saw something in the sky and called me outside. When I saw these orbs (4 to 7 at one time) hoverig, then ascending, then descending etc. I immediately got my phone and asked my wife to get hers. I knew these were orbs because of the way they moved. They almost danced in the night sky, one ot two changed from white to reddish, then green, yellow or gold and back to bright white like a star, at first in unison then some faded away, the others then continued to change their position until at the end there were three left which lined up vertically one over the other at which point they merged into one. When it appeared to be just one it changed into many colors off and on, changed shape and fizzled out and drifted away towards the east and down from our view point. I have seen other sightings in my life but none his impressive. We have over 40 pictures. we have viewed these on my PC using zoom of course and have discovered some things ! we had not noticed that night. These images shoe shape and structure, also lights and dark angles that were at first unseen.
December 30, 2017 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Port Saint Lucie, FL
I have never seen anything like it. My husband did take a brief video of the last 3 lights. I am unsure if these were crafts that had lights on them or if they were just lights but I don't see how they could have been just lights due to the way they moved. They made no sound and they were not anything man made in that you would normally see in the sky.
December 30, 2017 · 9:05 PM · LIGHT
Anthem, AZ
Several Red lights about 30 degrees above the horizon to the east of Anthem AZ. Seemed to be fairly stationary in th sky. Pulled over to get a better look and they slowly faded out from view.
December 30, 2017 · 5:45 PM · OTHER
Parker, CO
I was driving on Crown Crest Blvd nearing Parker Rd, facing west. I noticed a very large object in the sky to the slight northwest, about 1 o’clock. The object was moving at a steady and rapid rate in that direction. It appeared to be a relatively flat craft, with 2 sets of lights on the rear. These were flashing white lights, one on each side of the craft were blinking brighter than the other. I looked for green or red lights, similar to an airplane, but there were none in my view. The object was relatively large, much larger than a large plane. The shape of the object was difficult to tell. The color of the object was dark, so it was very difficult to see an outline. It traveled to the northwest towards the Rocky Mountains. I was traveling west on E470 shortly after my initial sighting. There was no noise that I could hear from this object. In 45 to 60 seconds, it had traveled outside my view. It appeared to disappear when it was very close to! the mountains. It was flying relatively low, which is what caught my eye when I first saw it. The sky was already dark at the time.
December 30, 2017 · 5:30 PM · RECTANGLE
Cedar Springs, MI
while looking through my orion space probe 130st telescope I got for Xmas I noticed a twinkling of multi color lights on a heading of 123 degrees from my house at about a 20 degree angle into the sky about halfway from the moon to the horizon. At first I thought it was a commercial jet but it rarely moved I'm sorry I am not more accurate but I am just learning to use the telescope I focused the target scope of the twinkling lights and then looked through the lens and saw a square of (16?) multi colored lights with light rays emitting from each of the equal sides I called my wife up and she saw the same thing. Today I used google earth to plot the direction and the local Ionia prison is about 45km away on the same degree heading. Maybe I saw prison yard lights but at that distance they were so high in the sky I don't know how that is possible. If you can help direct me to someone that might help me decipher what I saw it would be appreciated.
December 30, 2017 · 5:00 PM · LIGHT
Santa Ana, CA
Was driving south on the 55 freeway near the 17th street exit, traffic slowed significantly as a large bright orange and white light passed over the freeway. When I returned home I checked online to see if there had been any planned rocket launches by Space X, or any reported sightings, but haven’t found anything, not even on social media.
December 30, 2017 · 12:00 PM · EGG
Liberty Lake, WA
My husband was photographing eagles in a tree and discovered a UFO in the picture, we have had no rain or ice that day on our living room window, This is not a helicopter or airplane or anything we have ever seen before. We would like to share this photo with someone but we don't know who we can trust or what to do with picture.
December 30, 2017 · 8:00 AM · FORMATION
Sulphur Springs, TX
I was outside and saw about 15-20 fireballs flying in a weird design all stayed the same but moved really fast I ran inside the second I saw them and was like no way this is fucking happening wtf could that be other than a ufo and grabbed my cell phone but by the time i got the video recorder going the last of the lights disapeared behind clouds or something it was dark so i dont even know if there was clouds. It was to big to be man made ship,Could have been 20-30 missles or something getting shot somewhere but why over north east texas? Where would 30 missles be going in texas? I dunno man I wish I was fast enough to record it I never thought I would ever see anything I couldnt explain but damn sure did last night. The only reason Im on this site is because I was googling "12/30/17 weird lights/ufo over texas, but I dont seem to be able to find anyone else posting a picture or video or anything about it. I cant be the only one who saw this thing!
December 30, 2017 · 5:20 AM · TRIANGLE
Keizer, OR
((anonymous report))
December 30, 2017 · 2:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Eden, ID
Constant hover..blue and yellow orange beams that rotate from top to bottom white light is blinding bright
December 29, 2017 · 11:00 PM · FIREBALL
Broken Arrow, OK
December 29, 2017 at approximately 11 PM I had just returned from my office in Tulsa to my home in broken arrow While unloading my SUV I looked up in the air and I saw what at first I thought was a low cruising airplane - then I realized it was on fire so it couldn't be an airplane it was making no noise it was just cruising across the night sky. I wouldn't say it was floating, I would call it cruising… But it did seem to pause for a while over my driveway area… Was a bit intimidating and I got behind my SUV to observe it. I pulled out my camera and took a couple of pictures as it headed south and finally disappeared. I turned back to the north horizon and there was another object identical to the first- coming up over the house tops across the street. It acted in very much the same manner… A fireball making no noise -- it's seem to have a propulsion to it… Really like it was cruising. It also headed south and finally disappeared.
December 29, 2017 · 10:00 PM
Morgantown, WV
Bright white light with a greenish color, appeared in evening sky around Snake Hill Rd area & took off as quick as it appeared.
December 29, 2017 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Stroudsburg, PA
I was driving and saw 3 bright yellow lights that had a tail which lit up the sky and was shooting down right in front of me. First reaction was that these were jets, then they turned bright red and looked to be on fire and I thought they were meteors. They stopped and made a hard left and shot across the sky at a high rate of speed looking like they were going back up and disappeared. I took a photo while driving of the yellow lights and I pulled over took a video of the last fireball in the sky, which was moving at extreme speeds. A guy behind me also pulled over and got out of his car and was like I never saw anything like that in my life.
December 29, 2017 · 7:30 PM · OTHER
Murfreesboro, TN
Traveling south on Fortress near the intersection of I-24 and Fortress at approximately 19:30 Central Time, noticed (along with others) a very strange set of lights in the eastern sky over Murfreesboro, which appeared stationary in the sky at an estimated 5000 Ft AGL, moving in no direction. 30+ others noticed and stopped to take pics and video. I took only one picture and after blowing it up and cleaning it up, I have never seen anything like it. Workers at a local Sonic Drive-In stopped to watch too. At a distance, the object looked like two parallel V shaped lights vertical in the air. Upon closer inspection in a cleaned up picture, I can't really describe the shape of what appears to be a single connected object appearing as two objects from a distance.
December 29, 2017 · 5:32 PM · FIREBALL
Litchville, ND
On the 29th of December 2017, at close to 5:32 pm, I saw a Burning object skirting across the southern sky at about the 4 o'clock position flying above a cloud bank that was on the edge of the North and South Dakota borders. I live about 40 miles north of the South Dakota Border and Skies were clear. I was watching a few deer I feed in my farm yard and it was dark enough only to see them closely with a pair of good Binoculars. As I was watching them, I noticed a burning object in the top of the lens flying across the sky what I thought was about 30-40 miles away and left the most large contrail I have ever seen dark like the clouds it was flying over. It had a flame that looked like a burning oil well fire like you lit a farmers match but real black contrail. At first I thought it was something burning up coming into our atmosphere and coming or flying in a North East Direction, but it was flying parallel to the clouds then started to fly upward in a north east direction and once it got up in the sky the object turned into just a bright light no flames I could see any more. It flew up to a tiny spec and then was lost in the stars that were just coming out to see at an 11:00 position looking south. I could not tell any form. It was just luck I had seen this but was quite a thing to see. I live on a farm in a very remote area and have no light pollution. I reported this to a local radio station and he read my email on air. I wanted to see if anyone else had seen it and there were no responses. This would be my 3rd object I have seen over the years I have lived here. Always looking for our visitors in the skies.
December 29, 2017 · 1:00 PM · CYLINDER
Ganado, AZ
Caught accidently in photo of highway. Seemed plunging to earth. Contrail. Cylinder with four precise round appendages attached above rear parallel with body. Hazy, fuzzy.
December 29, 2017 · 10:00 AM · CHANGING
Waimea, HI
Last night on the beach, Polihale State Park, HI: A shooting star caught my eye, I pointed it out to two people who were with me. We saw the "shooting star" stop flaring and stop moving. Next to where it stopped, two "stars" that were near where the "shooter" stopped started moving away from each other, opposite directions and equal speed. The entire shape from "shooting star" to "moving stars" looked to form a "T". I looked down for a second to ask the people I was with if they were seeing what I was seeing, they confirmed. We looked back up and we couldn't find the lights again.
December 29, 2017 · 7:15 AM · FLASH
Frostburg, MD
I was driving on I-68 on top of a mountain a blue flash shot across the sky and was out of sight in a split second.
December 29, 2017 · 1:00 AM · CYLINDER
Harrisburg, PA
Driving down highway with girlfriend near three mile island (tmi) nuclear power plant within 5 miles. Cylinder shape metal object right over head and in front of us on highway. Sparkled in sun reflection. Tilted at about a 45 degree angle both poles of the object one pointed at sky other at the ground and was moving directly away from us opposite of the way it appeared to be pointed. Was moving oddly fast when we first noticed it moving away from us overhead like following the highway and then it increased speed rapidly and shot off and disappeared in a second. I followed it with my eyes or at least tried to it literally shot off and got tiny really fast showing distance and disappeared ahead in a smooth but sudden and lightning fast acceleration and was gone. Clear blue open sky sunny out at the time we saw it. Girlfriend and I both saw it.
December 28, 2017 · 11:30 PM · DISK
Brownsville, PA
On December 28, 2017 @ approximately 8:30 pm I noticed a very large stationary bright orangish yellow light in the southeastern sky so I hurried and got my spotting scope to get a better look. Whenever I returned and started to look at it through the scope it slow started moving north just above the trees maybe 50-100 ft. I debunked it being a plane or helicopter because there was no noise and no flashing four lights. It also wasn't a satellite cause it was too low. Fully zoomed in on it the shape of the craft was very distinguished and appeared to pulsate going dim to bright. I watched it for about a minute or two, until it was out of sight. Three hours later I was outside smoking again and noticed a similar craft moving from south to north but on the opposite side of the house. When zoomed in all the way I saw a disk shaped craft that appeared to be spinning while moving forward. The craft also had a rotating ring of lights dividing the craft in two.
December 28, 2017 · 11:00 PM · FIREBALL
Eagle, CO
I live in Eagle, CO. 12 miles East of Eagle-Vail airport. Eagle, CO. is 6600 ft above sea level. My living room faces N.E. and is on the 10th fairway of the Eagle Ranch golf-course. I was sitting at a couch having a cup of tea about 10:40 pm. All the lights in the room were out as it was a fairly clear night, yet with only a few stars in view. The couch where I was sitting faces N.E. (I have three fairly large windows) where the night sky is easily viewed. In that the airport is 12 miles West--there are times when airplanes can be seen preparing for landing. I do not know the 'exact' above ground landing preparation distance (ground to air height) as a plane would fly over the golf course coming in for a landing, but I can guesstimate it to be only a few hundred feet or so. In other words when planes come in from the East or the N.E. preparing for landing they can be easily noticed. I mention this because what I am about to describe 'came in' from the N.W. at approximately the same height / distance that an airplane readying for landing would be above the ground. As I was looking out the windows I had a clear view of a wide-sky and the top of the mountain peaks. The orange fire-ball appeared to arrive as if it were entering the atmosphere. It was quick-abrupt; in the sense that what is depicted in a Star Wars film (just viewed the latest: The Last Jedi)-where crafts would go to hyper speed and then abruptly hyper-drive and then appear at their tended location. The orange-fire-ball came into my view from the N.W. exactly like that. When it appeared before my eyes however, it didn't stop abruptly and stay, but stopped for a nano-second and then very slowly continued to travel a very short distance. During this time the fire/flame surrounding the object evaporated and the orange ball proceeded on a S.E. direction then made a very slight turn more eastward--the orange object then lost its complete 'orange color' as it glided towar! d the S.E. where a very small red light was noticed at the tai! l end an d just enough of a very faint outline of an indistinguishable total form would be difficult to describe. Yet, I could see a non-round/ball object in that it was definitely no longer a 'ball'. That's the only way I can describe it. However, it did appear to have more of a 'widened-non-ball' type of shape as it awesomely 'glided' toward the southeast and vanished--taking no longer than about 60 seconds or so as the small red light that seemed, when first noticed, to be at the tail of the object couldn't be seen anymore. It was awesome as it glided into the distance with a steady faster than an airplane's speed would be noticed when coming in from the E. or N.E. to land at the Eagle airport. The reason I saw some distinguishable area of the form was that as I was viewing it from behind there was a very thin yellow-white light that appeared to be a outline of the underbelly of a type of 'wing'? that gave me a reference point to watch it smoothly glide away! This is all I can rea! lly describe. The 'glide' was a kind of smooooooth straight and then light bounce type of motion that then just kept its path. It was very real. The reason I waited until this day (Jan. 7 2018) to post the siting is that I have the 'flu' for just over a week. Therefore, having enough time to recollect what I viewed.
December 28, 2017 · 10:48 PM · UNKNOWN
Tinton Falls, NJ
Rapidly falling bright white-blue light with tailing lights. Appeared to be heading directly for the ground approximately 10 miles out.
December 28, 2017 · 10:15 PM · RECTANGLE
Pilot, VA
Driving down the road seen large rectangular shape over hills with 2 bright orange orbits in each side about about 300 yards away, drove another 1 1/2 down road, approached closer, moving at a relative speed but not too fast, approached very close. 100 yards above my vehicle. Large than a plane (but not wings) rectangular shape with 2 orange lights horizontally on each side, with 4/5 flashing light when it was stationed I’ve my vehicle
December 28, 2017 · 7:00 PM · OTHER
Como, MS
On any clear night at Sardis lake anyone can spot a number of UFO's. They have been known to follow you and hover above you. The shapes are various but can be triangles, diamond, and spherical shaped.