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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 10, 2017 · 6:50 PM · OTHER
Salt Lake City, UT
On I-215 on the east side of Salt Lake City, a cluster of about 10 blue/white closely spaced (could fit in a nickel at arms length) lights moving quickly from east to west. I could observe for only about 5 seconds as I was driving on the freeway. First impression was a meteor. Not very bright and did not notice a tail.
December 10, 2017 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Santa Clara, CA
Looked up to see flashing blue/green light moving overhead, the light flashed about once a second. After observing for a few seconds it stopped in mid air and flew straight up, turning white with a red light just below it. After flying up a distance it stopped and flew back the way it came at a fast speed, changing from white back into blinking blue/green. It disappeared momentarily and reappeared a few seconds later a little farther, about 6 miles away. It hovered high up still blinking for about 20-30 seconds and then vanished. No noise was heard.
December 10, 2017 · 5:50 PM · LIGHT
Naperville, IL
First observed from the downtown Naperville area, a small red light that appeared stationary above a Walgreen's located at the intersection across from the parking garage where my car was parked for the evening. It was about 5:50 P.M. on a clear evening; no stars were out yet and no planes or other aircraft were observed for the evening. The light was clearly artificial, but there hadn't been any typical air traffic; the light was out of place. I was across the street from the Walgreen's, waiting for the traffic light to change so that I could get to my car in the parking garage, observing. It wasn't moving when I first observed it, yet the light was blinking to no apparent rhythm: sometimes it would blink rapidly, other times it blink once, then stop blinking for several seconds before starting again. It would flash red, then appear to vanish, only to blink red again. I was curious, and flashed the flashlight on my phone at it, mimicking its own flashing. It flashed back, and then stopped flashing for an extended period of time. When the light finally turned (after I took a quick series of photos) I crossed the street and headed the down the block towards the garage. However, I noticed something odd; the red light wasn't behind me as it should have been if it was still stationary. If it had just been hovering I should have passed it by, leaving it behind me. I should have had to look behind me in order to keep it in view, not in front. Curious, I stopped walking abruptly. In that short instance of my pause, I caught it moving a few degrees more to the west before it stopped. I took more photos and kept walking. In front of the garage, across from the municipal center, there is a relatively empty, small parking lot. I stopped there and flashed my flashlight once more in a series of rapid bursts at the light; there was no response this time. Once more the light was stationary. I took the stairs up to the fourth floor (where my car was), and looked out the gaps between the floors. The light was still there, stationary, blinking slowly. I took another series of quick photos. Leaving the downtown area to get home, I hoped out loud that I wouldn't see it coming after the car. I don't recall seeing it after I left. I don't know if it was still there when i pulled out of the garage, but I know for sure that it didn't follow me back to my house. I’ve seen a lot of air traffic in my neighborhood, but I have never seen anything like it. This light was way too high in the sky to be a plane or a helicopter, not to mention that I’ve never seen one act or move like this light did. Later discovering a video I took with my phone that I hadn't noticed before, I saw another object come out of nowhere during the last two seconds of the video. Green, and flying out of nowhere exactly that I pinpoint, it was much larger than the red light, didn't blink, and wasn't noticed while I filmed. I don’t recall seeing that object/light before the viewing the video. Zooming into the photo shows a weird green shape.
December 10, 2017 · 5:37 PM · OTHER
Turlock, CA
I don’t think this was a ufo, but rather some secret VERY quiet aircraft of some sort that passed near overhead at around 5:35 pm. (Dec 10. '17 ) heading northwest. I went outside to grab a smoke, and almost immediately I saw off to the north east a craft rather low but seemed much larger then a Cessna and this made me curious about it, and I listen for the engine noise, NONE! No sooner then that I began to feel a pressure wave in cycles ( about 2 per sec ) but NO NOISE, and here’s where it got strange, I live 300 yards from a major highway and the sound from the traffic also was muffled during these cycles …. Quiet – then normal –quiet – normal repeatedly, I could feel a pressure on my ear drums very similar to going deep in a swimming pool, the same kind of pressure the same deadening of sound….. I estimate that the sound of the highway traffic dropped by 80% during these cycles so it was very evident this craft was doing something to cause it. I watched the aircraft head away with my ears paying close attention to the traffic noise and after the craft was ¼ ~ ½ mile away the normal traffic noise returned and the pressure on the ear drums went away. Its speed was that of a Cessna, but there was enough visual indicters showing that this was larger, a helicopter of some sort, Drone?
December 10, 2017 · 12:00 PM · CHANGING
Utah (above; in flight), UT
My husband and I were aboard a commercial aircraft flying from Denver to Las Vegas. About an hour into the flight, we noticed a dark contrail in the distance. As we were watching it, the dark linear shape stopped and changed shape into a vertical almond shape. At this point we both noted it had a metallic appearance with a light grey line through the center of the object. After about 15 seconds the object returned to a horizontal position and moved slowly in a northeast direction. We were able to see it move slowly away over the next few minutes. We asked the pilot and copilot if they saw anything as we were exiting the plane and they both said no.
December 10, 2017 · 4:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Dannemora, NY
At that point we were both up and we looked through different windows. My boyfriend saw a quick flash of light and the noise started to slowly go away. We didn't hear it again. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 10, 2017 · 3:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Amarillo, TX
I. Woke up an looked at my security cameras an. This. Is. What I saw I have. Seen this. Before. A large. Bright light which looks lime. The moon but noticed it moves slowly an yet too fast to barely be noticed take a look for your self. .I am only reporting this. I am scared they. Don't. Want me to. Indulge this.
December 10, 2017 · 2:12 AM
Ozark National Forest (near), AR
While driving back from Siloam Springs, we saw 3 red pulsating lights in the sky. We pulled over and began filming and taking photos. We got back in car and drove approx. 7 minutes down the road. Mysteriously we caught up to lights again. We took more photos, but the time that had passed was 34 minutes. Our videos and photos show nothing of what we saw with our eyes.
December 10, 2017 · 12:30 AM · LIGHT
Portland, OR
I saw three UFO's last night, 12/9/2017 (early morning actually). I am not sure what time it was when we saw the first two. What I observed was a bright light, North of our house moving West to East. At first, I thought it might have been the International Space Station (ISS). I opened our front door and ask my girlfriend's daughter to come out. I was in the doorway for 45 sec. to a minute. She came out and the first UFO had vanished and I thought I should still have been able to see it. When I looked again, in about the same position in the sky, there was another bright light moving at about the same speed, altitude, etc. We watched it for a few seconds and it disappeared. The two UFO's had been reflecting light from over the horizon and when they entered the Earth's shadow they could no longer be seen. They had no lights on them. I was out on the front porch a few hours later about 5:30 a.m. The view from the porch is mostly to the North and East. I looked up at the Moon and saw what I thought was a bright large planet close to the Moon's position, then I noticed the object was moving from South to North. Again, my first thought was that it was a satellite. I watched it for about 15 to 20 seconds and all of the sudden, it shot off, at a mind boggling speed, to the Southwest at about a 300 to 310 degree angle from the direction that it had been moving. I had one of those "Wow!!" moments. It disappeared quickly. After it made the turn, I only saw it for maybe two seconds. I think it had been reflecting light from the Moon and just disappeared into shadow as it changed direction.
December 10, 2017 · 12:30 AM · SPHERE
New York City (Brooklyn), NY
I just saw several orbs flying slowly in the Brooklyn sky. They were traveling from the west heading east in twos at first then one huge one came behind them. They were seemingly appearing out of nowhere. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 10, 2017 · 12:00 AM · OTHER
Lincoln, NE
I was outside and look around. The i look up and at first i thought it was a a drone but then I realized it was clear and had redish yellow lit circles and it looked kind of like clear jelly . I'm not really sure but it flew and it kind of moved in a way that a drone wouldn't move I just kind of flew over my house and head south
December 10, 2017 · 12:00 AM · FLASH
Sylacauga (Canada), AL
Several people in this area of the state are reporting flashing lights in the sky at night since 12/10/17. I have seen them myself and it was weird.. Everyone’s sighting has the same reaction. We all thought our eyes were playing tricks on us at first, but then it kept happening.
December 9, 2017 · 10:00 PM · FORMATION
La Verkin, UT
It was heading north turning west. went behind mountain. He ,his wife, and I all saw it.
December 9, 2017 · 10:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Hurricane, UT
Just after 10:00 PM, I observed a string of 8-10 flashing lights, spaced pretty far apart, which appeared to be lights on commercial jets. The altitude appeared similar to spotting an airplane at night, but I did not observe any red flashers. The lights traveled east to west, across my line of sight, while I was driving south on 700 East in Hurricane, UT. They traveled approximately the same speed as a commercial airliner would travel relative to my perspective. The lights appeared to be practically uniform in altitude, travel speed, direction, and distance between each. This seems uncharacteristic of typical aircraft travel, but I wonder if anyone has any insight as to what this could be or why (if commercial or other type jets) they would travel in this ‘straight-line’ pattern. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 9, 2017 · 10:00 PM · FORMATION
St. George, UT
Going from east to west went about 7 flashing lights all aligned at a 45 degree angle in St. George, Utah. It was like there was a shift of brightness moving across from side to side of the formation like there was bright part moving through them. When it was over me, they ranged about half of the sky, and got smaller as it moved out of view. Moving relatively slow across the sky. Took about 3 minutes to move out of sight. Woke my dad up to see them and we were both in awe because there was no other explanation. Got a video but pretty hard to see the lights.
December 9, 2017 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Bismarck, MO
We saw 4 orange redish lights hovering without blinking in the distance, west of our front yard. It appeared as if they were simply floating in place, but after a few minutes, they appeared to be getting smaller, as if they were flying west. 3 were flying in an irregular triangle formation and the 4th was a little ways off in the sky a little more northwest but exhibiting the same behavior. My roommate depicted it as possible army helicopters, or something similar, so we returned outside.
December 9, 2017 · 9:50 PM · LIGHT
Littleton, CO
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 9, 2017 · 9:30 PM · FORMATION
Broken Arrow, OK
Two bright lights in the sky that would flash simultaneously. Other planes were in the area that seemed to be chasing them. The lights would fade out of view once a plane got close, then would come back when the plane was far enough away. Me and my fiance saw this. Source of report indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
December 9, 2017 · 9:30 PM · FORMATION
New Braunfels, TX
I was turning onto 1044 and looked to the left and saw 4 orange lights in diagonal formation. I turned heading in the opposite direction for perhaps a half mile, then turned left onto County Line Road north, and looked to my left where I had seen the lights, and they were gone. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 9, 2017 · 9:20 PM · LIGHT
Helper, UT
About five to ten minutes later another set came by going East to West very slowly. All 25 people in my company came out to look and we tried taking pictures, but our cameras would shut off. My pictures seem to catch what seems to be electrical charges in odd shapes,
December 9, 2017 · 9:20 PM · LIGHT
Phillipsburg, KS
On Dec. 8, 2017, (sic. Dec. 9th) my husband and myself witnessed a distinctive row of red lights traveling SW of Phillipsburg, KS. They were lined up and flashing, moving at a slow rate of speed. Did not see any object just the lights there was at least a dozen red flashing lights no sounds of engines, just silence. Would love to know if anyone else has reported that sighting. (( We suspect that the time indicated by the witness is flawed, and we have attempted to contact her to confirm whether the sighting might have been during the evening. In the meantime, we have amended the time above. PD
December 9, 2017 · 9:20 PM · LIGHT
Vienna, IL
Multiple flashing lights in a straight line, like they were attached to one long object or multiple crafts flying in equal spacing, was seen flying north. Completely silent.
December 9, 2017 · 9:15 PM · FORMATION
Avon, CO
There were approximately 15 flashing red lights in a vertical formation. They were seen headed NW, and then shifted to W. The lights were flashing in sync, and appeared to have an effect of “falling” - as the lights traveled farther in the distance over the mountain, the blinking appeared randomized. When we first saw it, it looked like a cell phone tower, because off how straight the lights were; after it was in the distance, it looked more like a grouping, in no particular order. There was no detectable sound. Dogs in the neighborhood were barking loudly. Usually one barks at a deer or two, but to hear many dogs barking at 9:15pm was odd.
December 9, 2017 · 9:15 PM · FORMATION
Avon, CO
There were approximately 15 flashing red lights in a vertical formation. They were seen headed NW, and then shifted to W. The lights were flashing in sync, and appeared to have an effect of “falling” - as the lights Forbes farther in the distance over the mountain, the blinking appeared randomized. When we first saw it, it looked like a cell phone tower, because off how straight the lights were; after it was in the distance, it looked more like a grouping, in no particular order.