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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 22, 2017 · 5:00 PM · SPHERE
Dana Point, CA
Someone shot or launched two rockets or orbs from a house over looking the ocean institute in Dana Point north of Doheny. From this house on top of the cliffs overlooking the parking lot there was a noise and smoke then a flying object flew slowily out to sea very high in the sky. This object had only two beacons of light pointing back behind it at the house and smoke it left as it flew over the ocean. Another object followed it quite a ways behind it then went more north over the ocean. It was a glowing orb more orange and not as bright. It grew dimer and fell as the other orb continued at a slightly more southern angle and flew over the sea and disappeared into the atmosphere. Missile launch from Vandenberg AFB. PD
December 22, 2017 · 5:00 PM · CIRCLE
Santa Margarita, CA
Driving El. Camino Real westward towards Santa Margarita, CA. (approx. 4 miles away from town) during a busy traffic after work. Nearing dusk, clear bright darken blue sky with a noticeable large white cloud (west) that was a form of a circle with an opening in the middle with light-faded cloud beams coming out of it, below were 2-small very bright circles that seem to move/change shapes that got my attention to pull my car over and take pictures and a video. After viewing the photos with enlargement, I can see the different formations that start as a circle, flattens out in a rectangle, and then to crescent shaped with opposite directions. 1-disappears before the other. The large cloud appeared approx. 10 mins longer after the shapes were gone. Rocket launch from Vandenberg AFB @ 5:26 p.m.. PD
December 22, 2017 · 5:00 PM · CIRCLE
los angeles, CA
2 circular glowing objects appeared out of cloud in sky flying south leaving trail. One continued south at steady average speed. One appeared to burn up and fall into Sunset Beach area. Missile launch from Vandenberg AFB. PD
December 22, 2017 · 4:38 PM · LIGHT
Los Angeles, CA
Two objects moving slowly from North to South. At first they were close then separated one eventually disappeared the other continued South. UFO? Missile test? Rocket launch. PD
December 22, 2017 · 4:00 PM · CYLINDER
Duncan, AZ
Missile launch from Vandenberg AFB. PD
December 22, 2017 · 3:21 AM · CIRCLE
Baldwin Park, CA
Time of event may be flawed. If so, the witness may have observed the missile launch at 17:26 hrs. PD
December 22, 2017 · 1:00 AM · OTHER
Aurora, CO
I WAS WOKEN UP BY MY DOGS AND OPENED THE CURTAINS TO MY ROOM WIDE OPEN. IT WAS CLEAR SKIES AND THE MOON WAS BRIGHT, I HAPPENED TO LOOK SOUTH EAST OF MY WINDOW AND TWO lighted OBJECTS MOVING UP AND DOWN AND SIDE WAYS. I THOUGHT MY EYES WERE PLAYING TRICKS ON ME, SO I put my glasses on to take a better look and it was still moving around. The left one was moving more then the right one. I felt that I must be crazy, so I woke my boyfriend up and told him to look up towards the SE skies and he was looking at the the lights moving oddly as well. He went back to sleep because he does not like to be woken up like that, but I kept looking at the lights until I fell asleep. This has not been the first time I have seen lights move around like that. About 2 years ago it happened similar like that but no one one believes me. When this occurs I get a massive headache and feel nausea. Possible sighting of a planet?? PD
December 21, 2017 · 10:05 PM · CIRCLE
Reno, NV
3 perfectly spaced out lights in a circular formation making what appeared to be a dark saucer-like shape. Flying vet fast and very low. Very weird, loud, consistent sound coming from the sky while it was passing.
December 21, 2017 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Southington, CT
My husband & I coming back home from dinner. Noticed light from corner of my eye in car close to home. Cloudy a bit but saw from sky dot red & occasion green. The red light dot in sky dropped straight down then back up at high speed. It also moved from left to right fast then again straight down from view. Stayed out for a bit to see it again but nothing. Hard to see even more because cloudy, plus trees and houses.
December 21, 2017 · 9:15 PM · OTHER
Jacksonville, VA
I was driving home and as I entered my neighborhood, I saw what looked like a neon green "S" and as i passed the object it slowly disappeared as a sort of "tilt shift" effect. As if the object could only be seen from one angle and it was very large hovering in place making no noise. The object was maybe 100-200 yards inn the sky and maybe 12-14 feet long from my perspective. I am writing this as someone who does not believe in "ufos" and immediately tryed to debunked this as being a drone but there is no way that it was. I am sincerely spooked out by what I just witnessed because with my knowlage of physics, nothing that I just saw was possible in any way.
December 21, 2017 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Lancaster, SC
I live approximately 20 miles south east of Charlotte Douglas international Airport. I am an amateur astronomer and have a fairly large telescope. Being so close to the airport there are passenger jets that flight continuously from 6 AM until 12 PM daily. Over the past couple of months, I’ve seen this object three times, and I did manage to capture a video with my cell phone but it’s hard to see. I did buy a Samsung HD video camera just so that I can capture this object on video. The really strange thing about it is it flies slowly over our neighborhood and the only way I can describe how it looks is like a jiggly ball of bright white vibrating jello. Do you want another interesting thing is since I started seeing these there of been Apache attack helicopters fly over our neighborhood periodically, maybe three times per month and just the other day they came down over our neighborhood just above the tops of the houses like they were chasing something.
December 21, 2017 · 9:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Little Rock, AR
I was in my yard and it was dark, I saw something in back of tree line moving slowing, coming from the North. It came to a stop in a clear area close to where I was, had 3 large lights underneath, I believe. It hovered approximately 3 minutes and then made a slight angle and went a different direction. It seemed stopped at the edge of our property. Very strange. It was not a 'perfect' triangle, the back edge of the triangle seemed to have some indentations (it was hard to see as it was dark outside). It then flew East more quickly down the edge of our property and turned to right (South). I watched it behind tall pine and oak trees in our 20 acres of land. It then seemed to turn East and I could see no longer. It did not make any noise. I have never seen anything like it in my life. It seemed quite large and near the top of pine trees on our property. I don't think it was military vehicle. Witness indicates that the date of the event is approximate. PD
December 21, 2017 · 8:08 PM · LIGHT
Pleasanton, CA
I was outside in the backyard when I noticed a bright orange light in the sky. When I saw another light behind it, I called my daughter and her dad to make sure I wasn’t seeing things. We then noticed two more lights coming up behind them. The lights went sideways before it started to dim and disappear one by one. We didn’t hear any sounds coming from it.
December 21, 2017 · 8:05 PM · OTHER
Sacramento, CA
Missile launch at 5:26 hrs. PD
December 21, 2017 · 6:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Wethersfield/Hartford line, CT
I was with my wife,heading south, going to store in my auto. noticed a bright white flash of light in sky the about 6 city blocks from me .thought it might be a low flying helicopter.proceeded south and noticed 2 yellowish orange lights where the initial flash came from. I then pulled into store parking lot, almost under lights.grabbed my binoculars and got out of the car.looked up and could see nothing but blacker than the sky and still 2 lights.leaned down into car and said to my wife,do u see that?what the hell is that? Looked up,now 3 lights in triangle shape, hovering...still no sound, and had a Feeling it or they seen me....whatever it was ,was big,based on light pattern,and i would say it was about 400 yards in the air,i am not positive, but i would say 3 or 4 football fields in the air. still not seeing anything thru binocs but blacker than the sky triangle. i put binocs in car, look up and its gone....do a 360 and the only thing i see is a small rectangle of! light as bright as the first flash i seen, heading north/ northeast and getting smaller and smaller until it disappeared from my view in a heartbeat. still dumbfounded....not a big UFO guy. Didnt know who to report it too or if i should even bother. But i cant stop wondering what this was. can be reached by email provided if necessary. thank you.
December 21, 2017 · 5:57 PM · FORMATION
Beaverton, OR
Several stationary flashing lights were observed hovering over Hillsboro near the airport, Hillsboro Stadium area. Three of the lights were larger and brighter and more constant than the others, all flashing lights were on the same lateral level (distance from the ground). The other stationary lights would come and go with a cluster over Hillsboro, there were two on each end of the cluster and about the same distance from the cluster one which would have been over the Beaverton Tigard area. There were approximately 8 stationary flashing lights in the cluster. Video was taken with a time date stamp, the duration was 10 minutes. The lights stayed in formation, in that they did not change places.
December 21, 2017 · 5:50 PM · TRIANGLE
Sciota, PA
On the evening of Thursday, Dec. 21, 2017, I was coming off my exit on Rt. 33 North (Lehighton exit) and as I was driving home on Rt. 209 north I looked up to see a very very bright light not moving -- thought it was a bright star since it seemed there were two bright stars next to each other but this one was much brighter, as I was trying to decipher what it actually was (cause it wasn't moving) I looked to see where the moon was and it was on the opposite side of the bright light so I narrowed it down that it wasn't the moon and it wasn't a plane since it wasn't moving. As I was staring at it since it was so bright it started to move in a dip or roll way so I saw that it was a "fat triangle" with three rounded tips to the triangle not severe points and at each rounded point of the triangle were sets of lights in a large circle with smaller partitions in the main round circle of light (each one of these large circle of lights were at each rounded point of the triangle). This thing still did not move but just dipped one way and stayed a few seconds that way then went back to the original way it was. At this point I had to keep going on the road so I don't know what happened after that.
December 21, 2017 · 5:37 PM · LIGHT
Vista, CA
Two objects swirling and giving off some kind of trail with a light beam following slowly behind it.
December 21, 2017 · 5:35 PM · LIGHT
Spring Valley, CA
We have corrected the time and date above. PD
December 21, 2017 · 2:15 PM · CYLINDER
Raleigh, NC
I was looking out of my window and saw what was clearly a plane with a short lasting contrail following the plane. I was inside so I’m not sure if there was a clear sound. Either way it looked like a normal plane. I first noticed it flying out of the southwest and it continued to fly into the northwestern part of the sky. Suddenly, I noticed a second flying object and it wasn’t leaving a contrail, it just flew into the area i happened to be looking at from a lower altitude. The second object appeared white but it may have been a different color since stuff up high usually looks lighter than what it really is but it looked kinda like a pill shape and continued to fly into the contrails of the airplane quickly. It wasn’t flying abrutly but it was making maneuvers that I think would be difficult for a plane to make. Then both of the objects moved out of my line of sight. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 21, 2017 · 7:44 AM · DISK
Anthem, AZ
My security cam in my backyard will send a series of 6 pictures to my email in the event of something flying in front of it. It usually does not detect birds unless they are very close up. I received a series of 6 pictures on my email 12/21. On the 3rd one, usually the 3rd is what is the trigger, I received the attached photo. The other five are blank, only the 3rd picture shows the attached. Is this bird? If so, it’s a really large one. If this is anything please contact me. Thanks!
December 21, 2017 · 6:30 AM · CIRCLE
PHONEX, AZ
The object was very circular, and it was piercing white.. The trail it had behind it was fanned out very wide and extremely bright...It was followed by , in the cloud, a bright, concaved light pointed toward the first object and the colors, as it fanned out toward the initial object, were the colors of the rainbow.. It lasted about 15min. max and several neighbors witnessed this with me.It traveled up from the west horizon and then it traveled at a steady trajectory and kept the same velocity as it went directly below the southern horizon...I captured this on my cell phone video...it is available.. Missile launch from Vandenberg AFB @ 5:26 p.m.. PD
December 21, 2017 · 6:25 AM · TRIANGLE
Ashford, CT
Driving to Worcester, MA, on I-84 before exit 72 Ashford/Waterford at 6:25 am, I noticed from a distance a large object in sky above 84 East. It seemed like a huge drone with white blinking lights on the sides and what seemed to be a green light in front. At first from a distance I thought it was a cell tower light until I got closer and realized it was hovering above the highway.
December 21, 2017 · 6:24 AM · UNKNOWN
Washington, DC
Saw a flying object with red, green, and white lights flying low over D.C. towards the Potomac, then changed direction NW back into D.C. The object made a strange buzzing noise, not the sound of a helicopter, which is why I paid close attention to it. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD