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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.
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November 29, 2017 · 4:25 AM · OTHER
Philadelphia, PA
Saw a vertical line of light. It didnt seem to move much at first. It began blinking turned to the right and held a diagonal position for a moment before turning into 2 dot lights then reforming a vertical line. Of light. From my position it was on about 4 inches but it's a clear night and I know what I saw was not a plane or anything. It stayed in the sky for 10 or so minutes and one by one all of the lights dimmed leaving one light on making it look like a light or star. It was still there when I went to search for information about it. When fully lit up, it looked like a vertical bar of light like a fluorescent light bulb.
November 28, 2017 · 9:10 PM · TRIANGLE
Northwood, NH
Low flying line of lights, hovering as we drove west on rt 4. Triangle shaped object overhead. A light on each corner, under side was golden and grid like. Object excel erased upward and disappeared from site. This a second sighting of same object in same general location.
November 28, 2017 · 8:45 PM · TRIANGLE
New York City (Brooklyn), NY
At approximately 8:45pm (20:45) on Tuesday 11/28/17, I stepped onto the back porch of a house in Brooklyn for some air (7th Street between 5th and 6th Avenues). My girlfriend and I were visiting the location; however, I was by myself when I stepped outside. I witnessed a silent triangular craft fly over. It was heading in a generally northerly direction, at an angle roughly perpendicular to the way the houses sit. There were multiple lights lining the sides, but not the rear of the craft. As such, it appeared to be a triangular craft, which could also look like a boomerang. This is my eighth sighting report to NUFORC: 2/6/97: Mesa, AZ 4/26/09: Brooklyn, NY 5/14/11: Brooklyn, NY 7/10/11: Brooklyn, NY 7/26/11: Eastern U.S. skies 7/30/12: Brooklyn, NY 8/21/13: Brooklyn, NY 11/28/17: Brooklyn, NY
November 28, 2017 · 8:43 PM · TRIANGLE
Sacramento, CA
There were 3 very dim lights in a triangular pattern, with a dark silhouette of a triangle surrounding it, flying near the power lines. I followed it for about 20 ft, but it went too far. No sound at all. Not mistaken for birds, or drone, or anything that I can think of besides a craft. It was about the size of a car.
November 28, 2017 · 8:20 PM · TRIANGLE
Sturbridge/Warren, MA
I was driving east bound on the mass pike, maybe half a mile before mile marker 71, as you're cresting the top of a hill about to go down into a valley. I saw weird looking object, as what appeared to have a rhombus shape. With 2 inner circles that were emulating a whitish tan color. It also had blue lights at the top and bottom, and teal lights on the side (which appeared to be lighting the circles I spoke of... possibly). It also had 2 bight white flashing/pulsating lights in the middle. I've included a quick drawing, https://i.imgur.com/chiUAqR.png the 2 inner pulsating lights i just spoke of aren't shown. But there would be in the very middle between to the circles. The reason it caught my eye so much is the rapid speed it was moving in the horizon (right to left going east bound, so I would assume/guess north to south). I was going about 70MPH, and traveled only about .5 miles before it had traveled across my field of view. I was able to get down to the valley floor on the pike(about 3-5 miles away from where i made visual.) And looked to my right (south?), and I could still see its flashing lights off in the distance. I dont know what it was, my only two guesses where either a low flying twin prop plane, or a low flying Chinook (since its dual propeller, which could explain the 2 circles i saw). Having seen these two possibilities many times in night and day, neither really satisfied me as an explanation. However, both could appear as fast moving if they where close to the ground. It just seemed faster than that though. I have a decent knowledge of US military aircraft and civilian aircraft. To which I am just dumbfounded by what I saw, as I cant explain it.
November 28, 2017 · 2:50 PM · OVAL
Clifton Park, NY
Above the Chevy dealership in Clifton Park I saw a reflective object in the sky. At first, all I saw was the light shining off the object and I thought it was a plane. Once I was alongside it, I saw that it was not moving. It looked like an egg shaped metal sphere about 500 feet high. I was driving so I could only glance at it.
November 28, 2017 · 1:00 AM · LIGHT
Orland, CA
What we saw was not the pictures showing. We saw what appeared to be clouds or some type of fog spinning in a circle. In pulsating in and out. With the picture shows in the video are eight lights in the sequential order, as if there entering the mortuary across the street from my house. We stood there and watch them for approximately 5 minutes walked underneath them to see if we could see beams of light coming from the top bottom or sides. We saw nothing like that they appeared to be individual lighted crafts of some type.
November 28, 2017 · 1:00 AM
Willowick, OH
This light appeared to be in the shape of a half circle. There seemed to be two distinct lights but grouped very close together. The light remained there for around 20 minutes until it slowly began to turn upright and began to vanish slowly. It looked as if it was vanishing under a black silhouette. Once the object disappeared an incredibly strong gust of wind blew out toward the lake for around 10 seconds then stopped suddenly. There were no morning reports of a vessel that caught fire and sank. Before the object vanished I was able to take a picture I will attach to this report. A photo was submitted to NUFORC, which appears to show three reddish lights, oriented more or less horizontally. We do not know what the lights were. PD
November 27, 2017 · 11:30 PM · CIGAR
Cherry Valley, MA
It was approximately 11:30pm, Monday, 11/27/17, when I was sitting outside on the back deck of the house which is about 30 feet up from the ground and overlooks the treeline of the woods. I was looking up at the stars and the bright moon during this clear night, when initially I saw what I thought was a shooting star, but was much bigger, fly horizontal on the horizon and then down into the trees. This was a silent night until right before I saw a craft appear. It drove the birds and bugs mad. I didn't think anything of it, until about 2 minutes later, a large cigar-shaped craft appeared from the treeline and fly towards the house almost silent but was making a noise, but from the size of this thing it should have been loud like a plane. It did not have wings or propellers. It was close enough where I was able to get a good visual, but it did have 2 lights on the bottom of each end that were white, which made it hard to make out any fine details. It was about as big as a fire truck and I would describe it as being almost the same shape. It was so low that I was afraid it would hit the house. It flew up and only ended up about 20 feet above the house. I watched until it disappeared behind the other side of the house and when I went around to check if I could still see it flying in the distance, it was gone, when it should have been viewable because it wasn't going very fast. After this incident, I sat outside for a few more minutes longer, watching the same part of the sky where I observed this craft appear from, when about 5 or 6 small, but bright lights, that I can only describe as looking like stars, but slightly larger, each appeared one by one and then travelled in the same direction of this craft. They did blink on occasion intermittently as they travelled. After these bright star like objects were out of my viewing range I saw another (what appeared to be) shooting star in the same part of the sky that I saw the first. And that was when I decided to go inside because at that point I had had enough. I cannot explain this. I am not a "believer." I am a nurse and a mother of two children. But after this incident, I went online to see if anyone else witnessed what I did, which lead me here. I believe that there is something going on that is unexplainable, whether it be new experimental military technology or something else. What I saw was not any kind of craft I've ever seen before.
November 27, 2017 · 11:00 PM · OVAL
Rochester/Byron/Salem Corners, MN
I was siting in my parents bed, when I couldn’t sleep one night, I was looking out the window when a dot with many circles around it it was very small and colorful but it was moving around all over in triangles and lines and squares it was weird I watched it go for a while then a few minutes later a single bright green light went across the sky real fast. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 27, 2017 · 10:39 PM · FIREBALL
Slidell, LA
Last night, on November 27, 2017, I noticed a bright flashing object in the sky. It appeared to be a star that was pulsating rapidly. I was standing outside of my garage working on my motorcycle. This was around 1030 in the evening. So, I went in the house and grabbed my father, ((father's name deleted)). I said you have to come out and see this. We both walked out and said that’s really odd. It looks like a star, but I’ve never seen a star flash so early Brightly. So I used my Star Walk app on my iPhone to see if I can figure out what it was. It didn’t show anything in particular. At least it didn’t show in that area of the sky. It was located south east at about 120°. So I went in and grabbed my telescope in my Canon T3 I. I hooked up my camera to my telescope pinpointed it and took rapid succession of photos. When I zoomed in on it and used the LCD screen of my camera, you could see the flashing of colored lights. They were like flames all around it. They were streaking out from around it. I tried to take video through my camera, but for some reason, when I went to take the photos and video of the card, the video was not there. It could’ve possibly been operator error, but I am a videographer,
November 27, 2017 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Vandling, PA
We suspect that the object may have been a "twinkling" star. Sirius?? PD
November 27, 2017 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Eucha, OK
I had gone out to look at the moon When I looked into the sky, I noticed a very bright light, it seems to have something shadowing it on both sides Then I noted a set of lights appear next to the light I was watching and all of a sudden, those lights moved away from it at an extreme speed flying away, it turned its lights on and off a few times and then it disappeared Within seconds, another set of lights also took off with great speed next to the light I was watching. then they turned off and on their lights within seconds they were gone out of sight Then the original light I was looking at slowing moved away and disappeared Witness provides no information; elects to remain anonymous. Hoax?? PD
November 27, 2017 · 7:45 PM · LIGHT
Sterling, VA
At approximately 7:45 PM EST, I saw a single point-source of light traveling due north near my house, approaching the Potomac River, which is a short distance from my house. It was about the size and intensity of a single aircraft landing light, and appeared to be flying at standard approach altitude for Dulles Airport, which is also not very far from where I live. At first I thought it was an aircraft either leaving or approaching Dulles Airport. I then noticed that the object had no navigation lights of any sort. If it had been an aircraft, I would have been able to see the standard green and red lights at its apparent altitude. I thought at first that it might have been a satellite, but ruled this out quickly, because it was too large, and traveling too rapidly. When the object slowly changed direction, and began to fly due east, I definitely knew it was not a satellite. After about five minutes, the object suddenly disappeared from view, which furt! her aroused my suspicion. The only other possibility was a drone, but I do not believe it was one of these either, because of its flight path, its apparent altitude, and its sudden disappearance.
November 27, 2017 · 6:53 PM · LIGHT
Raleigh, NC
I saw 2 bright lights hovering over 401N on my way home as I got closer they never seemed to move just got brighter. Came to a stop at a stop light it never moved. Got a little video as driving towards it but that’s it. It was weird never seen anything like it.
November 27, 2017 · 6:00 PM · OTHER
Dawson, AL
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 27, 2017 · 5:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Lexington, SC
I was on my way home from school at about 5:30 pm EST, when I saw what looked to be a star to the West of where I was. This confused me, since the sun had not completely gone down yet, and the 'star' was as bright as Polaris on a dark night. About 1 minute passed before a cloud covered the 'star'. When it emerged about 1 minute later, it was glowing a bright red. It had not moved from its position the entire time, so it didn't seem to be a plane or jet. About 30 seconds passed before a cloud covered it again. The cloud completely passed after around 10 seconds, but the 'star' had completely vanished. I asked someone in the car if they saw it, but she didn't seem to notice it. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 27, 2017 · 3:45 PM · UNKNOWN
Chattanooga, TN
While doing errands on a sunny afternoon, I took note of the faintly lit moon in the sky at 3:45 p.m.. I then noticed a metallic cigar or rectangular shaped object to the west of the moon, traveling northwest at a slow speed, and low enough to see it was not an airplane. It was hard to distinguish its shape. I pulled the car over for a focused view, but still could not determine its exact shape. Then I saw a second object traveling close to it, in the same direction. The objects moved closer together and seemed to merge. I turned my car around to follow them and by the time I got turned they were gone. My family is generational Air Force. I am a former flight attendant, and I have been an observant sky watcher for many years. This is my second daytime sighting; the other was in central California. I have also observed 2 orange-colored orbs moving southwest from my area of the city’s ridge.
November 27, 2017 · 11:20 AM · CIGAR
Chelsea, AL
First saw 2 white cigar-shaped objects flying parallel to each other, but not touching. I thought they looked like missiles, but they were travelling pretty slowly. They disappeared into the sunlight and I didn't see them after that. About 20 minutes later, I saw a third white cigar-shaped object of similar size in the sky. It was moving until it, too, disappeared after just a couple of minutes. I was certain it was different from a plane or helicopter.
November 27, 2017 · 8:55 AM · FORMATION
Pittsburgh, PA
Saw 4 objects in half of a "V" formation, approximately 500 feet apart, and altitude of around 1000 feet above ground, traveling northeast at around 150 knots. No sound noted. Color and shape alternating between white sphere to multi-angular shape with color changing between lead grey to shiny sun reflecting silver. The leading object always appeared in the angular shape. Size of craft estimated to be 20 foot diameter. Witness provides no information; elects to remain anonymous. Hoax?? PD
November 27, 2017 · 8:30 AM · CIGAR
Jackson, TN
I noticed a silver/metallic cigar-shaped craft near the 45 bypass and Vann Drive area. It was moving very slowly and did not appear to be an airplane. There were no wings, no propellers, and it moved very slowly. The sky was completely clear and I was parked where I had a good view of it. It headed South West.
November 27, 2017 · 5:40 AM · LIGHT
Ruskin, FL
On 11/27/2017 at around 5:40AM, I took my dogs out back, so that they can go. I looked up to the sky, as I always do, and it was beautiful. There were very little clouds and the stars could be vividly seen. Suddenly, I realized one of the stars in the distance appeared to be moving from west to east. I thought it was a comet, but there wasn't any trail behind it. Moreover, this star/light move very fast. I didn't want my wife to think that I was telling stories so I called her to see for herself. By the time she came outside, the star was moving towards the east. I pointed my spot light to the sky to who my wife what I was looking at looking at. Immediately, she thought it was a "shooting star" until another star began to move int he opposite direction towards to west, at the same high velocity. I don't think they were commercial planes, because we see them all the time. In fact, there was a plane passing by while the other star moved to the east, and it was much slower, with flashing lights. The incident lasted for about five minutes. So, my question is; was the Military (macdill AFB), conducting any experiments in the skill this morning? If so, do we have aircraft that is capable of such high speeds and able to fly at such high altitudes? Note: This is not the first time, I am seeing this phenomena in that part of the sky; this is the first time I had someone else, my wife, to witness it with me. Could there be a logical explanation for this? I'm sure it is going to happen again. If it does, I will take recording of it. Witness provides no information; elects to remain anonymous. Hoax?? PD
November 27, 2017 · 1:30 AM · CHANGING
Spanaway, WA
So I went inside grabbed my binoculars saw it was odd then went back inside for my camera and new batteries. two pictures batteries die, replaced them took two more pictures and they die too. After a half hour and 3 sets of batteries I got twelve pictures. Very strange colors so bright and changing shape and subtle movements. I have lived near my local military bases forever no plane or craft looked like this. I watched it til it disappears around 2a.m. .
November 26, 2017 · 11:40 PM · CIRCLE
Armonk, NY
My son sighted a bright red /orange glowing round object sitting right over horizon from his bedroom window. He thought, initially, that it looked like a full harvest moon but the real moon was a crescent in another part of the sky. I was able to see it as well and then we took pictures of it before it disappeared from sight a few minutes later.