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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 21, 2017 · 6:00 AM · UNKNOWN

San Antonio, TX

Stationary white light pulsating at about 10 degrees for 10 or so minutes.

December 21, 2017 · 4:45 AM · LIGHT

I was in my stateroom on a cruise ship in international waters heading home to port Everglades in florida (I live in Georgia so I put the location in Georgia), when at about 4:30 am I woke up and went to the bathroom to get some water. When I came back I watched tv for a while (maybe 10 minutes ) and noticed a bright light shining through the glass door and curtains to the balcony. I assumed it was a light house or some other light because it was moving back and forth. When it went on for about 30 seconds I went out to the balcony and attempted to investigate, when I opened the balcony door I noticed that there was a solid circular object with a bright light scanning the ship hovering about 5 feet off the water about 10 feet in diameter and around 50 feet from the ship. During its scan, it hit me and dropped in the water, sank, and turned off all lights. I went inside scared and lied in the bed for a bit and headed back out to see if it had came back but I saw nothing and we were close to land and starting to dock. As I was sitting out there my younger sister walked onto the balcony asking if I was ok and where I had gone.

December 21, 2017 · 4:12 AM · DISK

Olympia, WA

I was driving around Rock Candy Road looking to see if there were any good places for star watching. I wanted to find a good spot in my area for viewing the space station, away from lights. I wake up early every day for work and just couldn't fall asleep after I woke up so decided to go for a ride since the sky is clear today. I did not know if there was a gate to get into Capital Forest, so I drove to check it out. Just past the parking lot for the trailhead there was a bright flash, everything illuminated like lightening, but there were no clouds and no storms anywhere close. I stopped my car and got out to look at the sky and grabbed my iPhone. I saw a black round, maybe disc object maybe 100 feet from me, about 40 feet above the trees. It made no sound. My iPhone was completely black, then after a few seconds I saw the apple logo and realized it was rebooting. I never shut it down, it did this on its own. The object was only visible by the fact that it block out the sky and made no sound at all. It moved to the WSW and behind some hills and I couldn't see it anymore. I got very emotional afterwards and started crying. I am very skeptical of these sorts of things and have no idea what the object was.

December 21, 2017 · 2:25 AM · SPHERE

Billings, MT

On Thursday 12-21-2017 at 2.25am Looking west from west end of billings, MT. I Noticed a stationary bright red orb about 30 degrees above the west horizon, below the estimated 3,000 foot cloud cover, with very light snow falling. After about 10 seconds it traveled about 20 degrees to the south & stopped rapidly, holding a fixed position for 6 to 8 seconds. It then moved about 30 to 40 degrees to the north & rapidly stopped. The light stayed on with the same intensity as it continued moving to fixed positions, moving back & forth in the western sky. Then it blacked out & reappeared at different locations, no light visible now as it moved locations in less than a second. Continued this behavior a few times it darted around north to south. Last viewed it holding position a few seconds, then rapidly ascending at about 45 degrees, into the cloud cover. Red light changed slightly to red orange becoming much brighter as it ascended into the cloud cover.

December 21, 2017 · 1:35 AM · LIGHT

Wilton, CT

Took dog out on dark north facing side of house. Clear night with beautiful stars out. I notice one slightly different in character. It looked like a star but was clearer, brighter, and had reflection rays around it. The rays were in a chevron pattern on either side but you had to look carefully to notic. The tops of the leafless tree branches were eye level and it was moving. It was very high up as the movement was slight. I hugged the movement against branches and other stars. It moved around not directional. Sort of like a ballon would....a little to the left, a bit up, then back down, then a minute still, then over to the left again, then to the right. It might have been some sort of balloon but I thought i’d report it. To my eye it looked like it could have been made up of several likes on one object. Facing due north it was around 10-11 o’clock, in the northwest central sky (I don’t know how else to say it). It was still there when I left. It was not f! ast moving. If it was moving directionally I would have thought it was a satellite.

December 21, 2017 · 1:00 AM · LIGHT

Freehold, NJ

Walked outside to smoke and sky watch. Looking east because because it was my best view on a stary night I sky watched as I slowly smoked my cigarette. Not really a sky nut where I know where every star is located, but not uninformed either Finished my cigarette and turned and walked to the house. As I was walking to the door I looked up and noticed orions belt. Stopped dead in my tracks because I was just skywatching orions belt dead east. Walked back into the yard to look and there was orions belt. I stood there and ask myself why there is two belts and just then what I originally thought was the belt started to tilt and them started to move. I put my phone on video and started to film but didn't think it would pick it up. I ran inside to wake my brother for an eyewitness and then continued to film not knowing my phone actually filmed it. Well to say the least next time I will stick to the phone because what i did capture was good video and I'm disappointed cause I could have captured the whole event.

December 21, 2017 · 12:25 AM · OVAL

Mount Pleasant, WI

It first appeared as a very bright star with a haze around it, then we noticed it was coming in quickly, but first thought it may have been a plane because it had alternating flashing lights moving away from the craft as if on wings, but then it suddenly was about 200 feet above us and we realized it was moving slowly as if looking to land, we notice the odd oval shape, but two lard balls of light, one red and one blue opposite sides of the craft. I second guess it may be a drone until I look directly up at it and seen how huge it actually was. I screamed for my friend to whip the car around so I could get video of it, as he was turning around in a driveway we seen it gaining speed rapidly, but the time we turned in its direction to follow it, it was gone! There was little to no sound, more like a whisping of wind sound, and I wouldnt be surprised if it actually landed. It sure seemed like it was trying to retrieve something or find something.

December 20, 2017 · 11:00 PM

Seattle, WA

Witness provides no information about the incident. PD

December 20, 2017 · 10:14 PM · LIGHT

Berea, KY

At approximately 9:14 pm, my boyfriend, mom and myself observed a singular light in the sky. I went inside for my binoculars and viewed the object. To my surprise I saw a red and green light. When we first saw the object it was flying at about the height of what a helicopter would and then after about 30 min we realized it was slowly rising to about the height of what an airplane would fly at. Then we just went back inside.

December 20, 2017 · 9:20 PM · TRIANGLE

Somerville, OH

On Dec 20 2017 my dogs were acting like they heard something outside so I let them out and looked to see what had them wanting to go out. I saw nothing in the yard. As I waited on the dogs I looked up at the sky to look at the stars and to the left of Orion's Belt in the northeastern skyline, I saw two very bright lights, much brighter then all the stars in the sky, moving very slow. At one point they stopped for a long time. They stayed in the same spot for several minutes looked to be at least 10,000 feet high off the ground. There was no sound coming from them. At times they looked to change shape and color changing from white to green and back to white. They also would blink and at times white straight lines would come out of it going in all directions around it. Jets were seen at different times and could be heard 3 times. At this point I had my wife come over and look to see if she could see what I was seeing in the sky to the east of our home. We used bo! th a small telescope and a hunting rangefinder. The telescope didn't work well but with the rangefinder the lights were seen very well. They looked to be blinking white and green kind of like fireworks and a round bright white light circled one of the objects several times and then vanished. Knowing I had never seen this before I wanted to get it on film so I grabbed my phone so I could get it on film. Strange thing with my eyes I could see both but with camera only one would show up. I also took a short video. The one to the left vanished. It was a very quiet night and no sound could be heard except when the jets were seen. Later on when watching the video a strange sound could be heard at times. something like a pulsing sound. Also when examining the photographs two triangle shapes can be seen with a grey shape below them. The whole event lasted about 20 minutes.

December 20, 2017 · 9:00 PM · CIRCLE

Silver Lake, MN

Driving East on the 212 in MN we spotted a large object in the sky with 12 white lights evenly spaced around the parameter of the object. I estimate it had to be at least 1 mile in Diameter and 20 miles away. I estimate it was over Silver Lake but I could be wrong.

December 20, 2017 · 8:45 PM · CIRCLE

Portland, OR

Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD

December 20, 2017 · 8:05 PM · LIGHT

Sacramento, CA

A friend of mine sent me a short video on Snapchat of an orange light that was flying around in the southern sky. Looked at the video and walked outside to see if he was just trying to play a practical joke. When I looked to the south I saw exactly the same thing he sent me, a bright orange light quickly changing directions and leaving streaks in the sky. The streaks last about four or five seconds. One of my cats was outside at the time and was frantically trying to get inside as well as hissing at the object in the sky. The object was flying and changing direction too quickly to be a plane, a helicopter, or a drone. There was looked like a commercial airliner in the sky at the same time.

December 20, 2017 · 7:35 PM · TRIANGLE

Vernon, CT

On the night of December 20th between 7:35 and 7:40 pm, I was walking my dog and happened to look up towards the west and see movement. I thought it it was a shooting star or possibly a meteor shower. I had seen a shooting star two nights prior. I tried to focus to see if there were more when saw what appeared to be an outline of a black triangular or wing shaped object moving silently overhead. I thought it may be a flock of birds, but it made no sound was moving faster than flocks of birds that I had seen during daytime and the shape appeared to be steady. The sighting only lasted about 5 seconds. I lost the object when it flew towards some clouds. The conditions were partly cloudy with some illumination from the moon. Per intellicast the weather conditions were 33 degrees wind chill 25 visibility 10 miles and ceiling of around 5000. Per my phone compass, the shape moved west to east. From my perspective looking up, the “wingspan” was about 9 inches. The shape was below the clouds. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD

December 20, 2017 · 7:00 PM · CIRCLE

Eden Prairie, MN

Advertising lights that are broadcast by a nearby gambling casino. PD

December 20, 2017 · 6:30 PM · CHANGING

Richmond, KY

Witnessed two shapes that over a period of two hours stayed within range but stationary one higher and to the left of the other. They Changed shapes also seemed to have a bright bar like core but grew, red and almost blue lights at times. Shapes ranged from saucer like to oblong to odd pattern. Two planes flew towards at one point then backed off but the crafts did not move. I have witnessed similar crafts in Texas and here in Richmond before. Definitely a UFO. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD

December 20, 2017 · 4:50 PM · LIGHT

Collegeville, PA

Just saw strange lights in sky and snapped a photo with camera. See attached picture. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD

December 20, 2017 · 12:00 PM · DISK

Cordova, TN

I was driving into work like I normally do, except due to the holidays this was a rare occurrence. I usually leave for work at either 10am or the sun has already set by the time I get to this spot. It was between exits on I-40 before exit 18 and the bridge that goes over US-64. I was driving and I look up to see a large (but not huge, closer to medium size) alien ship. It was very shiny and the lid was either reflecting the sun (no clouds in the sky, very clear). It appeared suddenly (I didn't look up in time to remember which direction is had movement from.) it stayed still for a split second and disappeared out of my horizon because of the trees. It seemed to be close in the area to a plane, because that was what I tied it to at first. After seeing it, and because it was so sudden, I hadn't entirely decided it was real. I studied the plane I'd also spotted and caught a few glimpses of an object that I can't identify as what I'd seen just split second befor! e, but the object(s) I glimpsed weren't normal planes either. They looked like flying circles. But my eyes were unable to focus hard enough on them, because by this time I'm needing to merge with traffic. Witness indicates that the date of the event is approximate. PD

December 20, 2017 · 4:48 AM · SPHERE

Brooklin, ME

Apparent satellite rapidly orbiting south to due north in clear sky. Brighter and larger than what I usually see with naked eye.

December 19, 2017 · 9:30 PM · FLASH

Byron/Salem Corners, MN

Me and my two friends were driving back home from going to town to get groceries at the local store and out of nowhere a bright light flashed then shot straight down and circled then completely disappeared. There was only one bright light that did that in the sky. We are straight minded people who pay attention. We knew exactly what we saw and can’t forget what we seen

December 19, 2017 · 8:45 PM · LIGHT

Waterloo, SC

I am not sure what the bright object was. Just reporting a weird sighting. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD

December 19, 2017 · 8:00 PM · DIAMOND

Newark, DE

As my daughter was driving us home from shopping last night through White Clay Creek State Park, we noticed some strange lights in the sky, but they were too far away to tell what was going on. Once we got closer, we noticed they weren't really moving very fast. As we neared the object we realized it was not a plane and it was directly overhead of us. The object was HUGE! It was diamond shaped and each point had a light on it. It hovered above the trees very slowly but was moving. We could not believe what we were seeing! It was making a strange wah wah sound. As it was going in the opposite direction we were, we decided to turn around and follow it. We turned around and could not locate it. It was gone! We drove around for quite some time to try to locate it and as slow as it was going, we should have been able to easily find it, but we did not.

December 19, 2017 · 7:30 PM · CONE

Antioch, TN

While driving Southeast on Interstate 24 I saw a Conical shaped extremely bright white object that appeared moving from left to right in the vision of my windshield covering about 90% of the area of my windshield. It seemed to take 5 to 6 seconds to cross the windshield. The brightness illuminated the interior of my vehicle but did not affect my vision. I felt a warmth across my face as I saw it traverse across my field of vision. During the sighting, I could hear a very light static sound. It seemed to disappear once it had traversed my vision across the windshield.

December 19, 2017 · 6:47 PM · LIGHT

Sharptown, MD

My husband and I were inside our home when we heard a very loud low rumble from the sky. ( we have been hearing this same rumble for over 90 days since moving to this area, but we could never see anything day or night) This night, we ran out side and low and behold saw 6 or more blinking white lights all over the western sky. They disappeared and so did the rumble shortly after. About 30 seconds later the rumble came back very loud and this time had a weird electronic sounding pitch with it, above our heads and then seconds later the lights appeared again. They made different formations of half circles, triangles and angles. We checked the flightware/flight tracker radar to see if there were any planes in our immediate area, it tracks both domestic passenger flights and military. There were no planes in our vicinity for over 50 miles. We were practically up all night in awe talking about what we just witnessed. Witness provides no contact information. PD