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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
November 23, 2017 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Mandeville, LA
Orb of light, looked like star but then shot NE like a large shooting star, but looked like they hit "light speed" after a short distance, making a ripple effect. Thanksgiving vacation to Fontainebleau State Park. Thanksgiving night between 10:00-11:00 pm, I was sitting with some family around fire pit looking at the stars. Seen a bright light I figured to be a star, but then all of a sudden, it created a streak of light going East, unsure about distance but it looked very far away, after the streak it created a bright light and a ripple and disappeared. Very similar to what you would see on a movie when the ship goes tp light speed, but this was very real.
November 23, 2017 · 9:39 PM · CIRCLE
Wilmette, IL
White round light flying quick, like a shooting star, but closer to the earth. Flew with a low quick sweep east to west, then shot up to disappear in the sky. It was a very unusually clear night sky with many stars and
November 23, 2017 · 7:45 PM · TRIANGLE
Montana City, MT
3 orange lights in a triangle shape - large distance between them. Saw as object moved under rain clouds. Distance between lights did not change as object changed direction. Faded out or disappeared into low cloud deck.
November 23, 2017 · 7:32 PM · CIRCLE
Vancouver, WA
Bright golden/yellow object, traveling from South west, heading North East..looked golden in color, no sound, maybe space debris? Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 23, 2017 · 7:11 PM · OTHER
Deer Park, WA
It was in the East skies slowly moving toward the West skies. My 5 year old sister was with me. It sort of looked light the Little Dipper. May have been the constellation of Auriga. Little Dipper should not have been in the region at the time, though. We also heard buzzing noises. It was over a field, not the mountains. They're was an assortment of red, green and blue lights. Maybe a satellite, but doubt it. They just slowly moved across the sky. There was only one object. This is all of the information I was able to collect before it disappeared. It kind of faded away, not just disappeared. It freaked me out so I thought I ought to report it.
November 23, 2017 · 7:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Palm Desert, CA
The phone really doesn't capture since the object appears much larger and hovered over the hills. You can tell it was technology not from this world I did some research and this isn't far from Joshua Tree that lays on the 33rd parallel the same as the great priamids.
November 23, 2017 · 7:00 PM · FIREBALL
Portland, OR
Seen while facing north: a big yellow fireball light fell at an angle towards the west horizon like a shooting star, but then, as it disappeared a tiny light from the ground shot straight up from where the fireball disappeared and faded away.
November 23, 2017 · 7:00 PM · FIREBALL
Lanham, MD
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 23, 2017 · 6:44 PM · SPHERE
Quakertown, PA
As I was pulling into my girlfriend's neighborhood, and I finally parked my car, I witnessed a flashing object out of my rearview mirror. I got out of my car and began video taping this UFO the size of three football fields. The light blinked and flickered in an abnormal pattern the craft changed direction and had a tail that was connected over my girlfriend's house. The space craft than disappeared under a cloud and I slowly watched it disintegrate under the cloud as if it was leaving through a vortex. As the object was hovering over my car in disappearance the object was triangular diamond shaped, and covered all of the stars in the sky from my view.
November 23, 2017 · 6:15 PM · CIRCLE
Stratford, CT
I was out walking my dog and happened to look straight up at the clear night sky and witnessed 2 white star-like objects moving slowy toward the ESE. The best way to describe these is that they resembled two large stars the size and brightness of Venus. After about 2 minutes the first object suddenly dimmed out and disappeared, followed 10 seconds later by the 2nd object dimming out and vanishing as well.
November 23, 2017 · 5:20 PM · SPHERE
Stockton, CA
On Thanksgiving dusk, I was with my inlaws in the back yard of their house in Stockton Ca. I was telling them oddly enough about a documentary about aliens - when I stopped mid sentence having noticed the orange orb in the sky that seemed to appear out of nowhere. I alerted my inlaws and they got up and saw the same thing. It was glowing brightly and was orange red. It was maybe 15000 feet, silently moved across the sky for about 1 minute. My inlaws and myself watched it until it suddenly disappeared. It seemed to be heading south west. I fumbled trying to get my phone out and take a picture or video, but I couldn’t get it out in time before the Orb was gone.
November 23, 2017 · 3:30 PM · FORMATION
Glen Allen, VA
As I was driving went behind trees when appeared again there were only 3 then they disappeared as well. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 23, 2017 · 3:50 AM · LIGHT
Alameda, CA
I live in Alameda, California. I saw something in the middle of the night last night that I feel compelled to report to you. I have been unable to sleep at night this past month, and have become used to lying awake in bed while it is dark, and then falling asleep as day breaks. I have attributed this to stress, as my stress levels this past few months have been off the charts. I have recently started sleeping with the windows open, since the cooling breeze off San Francisco Bay comes through my bedroom window. As I live on the third floor of the building, it is uncomfortably warm most of the day, so I welcome the cool breeze. There is another building approximately 20 feet away out this same window that is about 4 feet taller than this one, I am thus afforded a bare horizontal “strip” of sky, starting above the building next door, ending with the top boundary of the window, covering a span of approx 10 degrees of sky, as the primary view out my bedroom window. Most nights I simply lie there and stare at that strip of sky, which, frankly, is quite dull. At most, I catch a plane or two slowly circling in its low-altitube path toward the Oakland International Airport, which is about five minutes from my apartment building. There is the occasional star that will break through the haze, or be plainly visible on clear nights, but I have never seen anything unusual, until last night/this morning. During the wee hours (approx 3:50am) this morning (11-23-17), I was lying there, staring out the window, unable to sleep again. It was fairly overcast last night, with a faint star sometimes shining through the overcast haze as it would thin at times, and then becoming invisible again. This is usually what I see, other than the occasional plane on its low-altitude path to OAK airport. At approx 3:50am, my jaw dropped open as I saw a single bright white light ZOOM past, completely in my view. It went by in literally a split second, but I clearly saw it. My window faces a few degrees NW of true West, so this object would have been travelling a few degrees NE of true North. Its path was completely horizontal, ie: it went in a line parallel with the top of the next building. There was NO sound. It was completely silent. It was obviously low enough to be below the overcast haze. It was uncharacteriscally bright. It also travelled faster than anything I have seen before. It literally ZIPPED past my window, flying horizontally, in the span of a second . It was there, coming into my view from the left, travelling to the right, and was gone. This is only the second sighting of something I had no explanation for in my life. It was flying faster than any aircraft I have ever seen, including fighter jets. Much faster. And there was no sound as it went past, ruling out a fighter jet. And it was a single, bright white dot of light. No red, no blue, no green, no blinking. Just a steady white light travelling horizontally, faster than anything I’ve ever seen before. As far as altitude or distance, my only frame of reference is that it was below the layer of haze, but above the roof of the building next door, obviously. And it was brilliantly bright white. My overall impression was that it was flying fairly “low”, compared to how high the planes coming into OAK usually fly. I have not seen any other reports from early this morning, so I have no idea if anyone else saw it and said anything about it. It was gone before I could even begin to clamber out of bed to see if I could see it off to the right. Thank you for taking the time to read this. As I said, this is only the second time in my life that I have seen something in the sky that could not be explained away by conventional explanations. The only other time I’ve seen something inexplicable was entirely different. It happened in 1999, when I lived in Austin, Texas. I lived in the country at the time, and was taking a walk down our long dirt driveway to make sure our front gate was closed. It had to have been between 10pm and midnight, but I do not remember the exact month and day. I want to say it was in the middle of summer. Our property was oriented squarely on the East/West axis, so our driveway was a 400 foot straight dirt road along our North border, running exactly East-West, with the gate at the road being on the Eastern boundary. It was an overcast night, so the cloud ceiling was obvious, as the city lights a few miles away bounced off the haze and created bit of a pinkish glow to the clouds. Glancing up slightly so my eyes took in the Eastern horizon I saw a large, unmistakeably rigid “V” shaped bank of oddly cohesive clouds moving directly from North to South, about 15 degrees above the horizon. It was like watching a “fuzzy pink V of clouds” move silently in a straight line. It was not moving fast, but steadily and silently. It disappeared behind a bank of trees on our property and i was not able to follow it any further. No sound, no lights emanating from it, but rather a true “V” that seemed to be made of clouds, moving silently and steadily, and what seemed purposefully, from North to South, at a consistent rate of speed. This was not “clouds being blown aimlessly by the breeze”…there were no other “low” clouds below the ceiling of the overcast sky. There were absolutely no “lower” clouds present at all, besides this “V”. This thing moved steadily, as if propelled at a consistent rate of speed. I remember thinking, “Cloaked craft made to look like clouds?” at the time. I was heavily into UFO research during that period of my life, and had, of course, read/seen the reports of “V-shaped craft”, but this thing was not your typical “big black V”…it had no lights, and it had to have been huge…covering at least several city blocks in the span between the “tips” of the ends of the “V” shape. It was not a solid triangle, but instead a “V” or “boomerang” of pinkish fuzzy clouds moving below the obvious cloud ceiling above. I never saw it nor anything like it again. Sorry to have squeezed two sightings into one report, but actually remembered the Austin sighting after detailing the one. Thank you again. I check your site regularly for new reports. Yours is the most measured and least “hyped and sensationalized” of all the “ufo reporting” sites out there, and I commend you on your method of reporting.
November 23, 2017 · 2:00 AM · OTHER
Brockton, MA
Woke up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom, noticed a bright light coming through the window of the bathroom which was located on the second floor. No light ever shines through that window, there are no street or flood lights in that area. When I looked out the window, I saw an extremely bright white light in the sky, unmoving, at about roof level, approximately a half mile away from the house. It seemed to be in the shape of a diamond with rounded edges. The way the light pulsated reminded me of the way light ripples across water. I had no idea what I was looking at. I could clearly see the stars above this object. It was definitely not a star or planet, it was much closer and larger than the stars appeared. My phone was charging downstairs, so I went to get it so that I could photograph the object. When I returned to the bathroom, as I entered, the light quickly went out. This occurred before I could get back to the window. When I looked out again, there was nothing. I have no idea what this was, or if anyone else saw it.
November 23, 2017 · 12:55 AM · UNKNOWN
Lenni, PA
I took Astro-photos back in November. I just realized the other day that there are multiple objects moving through the field of view. Not sure what they could be. Here is the url of the 18 images assembled into a video: https://www.flickr.com/photos/52623957@N02/39523150454/in/dateposted/ We have watched the video, and a number of very small objects appear to pass across the bottom of the screen, moving from right to left. We do not know what the objects are. PD
November 22, 2017 · 11:41 PM · SPHERE
Spanaway, WA
I was heading down 224th in Spanaway going from West to East at 11:41pm tonight, while talking on the phone to my husband. Out of nowhere, a bit to the left, there was a huge red ball falling at a high rate of speed. It looked like a huge red falling star, or a beyond huge flare. It wasn't blinking, or changing color, just huge and bright red sphere/ball falling from the sky heading East. It wasn't a plane, or helicopter, as there is a little airport close to where it was, but it was going beyond that and looked like it was going to land in the Classic Golf Course in Spanaway area, or a bit North of the golf course. I have never seen anything like it. It lit the sky like noting else I have ever seen. The car in front of me slowed way down and I was yelling at my husband to hurry up and go outside to look at it. Tried to find my phone, but couldn't in time.
November 22, 2017 · 10:00 PM · CROSS
Santa Paula, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 22, 2017 · 10:00 PM · CIRCLE
Cortland, OH
A circular balloon-like object hovered just below the clouds and ambled across the sky. It had luminescence around the edges, appeared to be a ring of dim light at one time. It stayed within sight for about 2 minutes, and then it gradually flew away out of sight. Spotted by 2 in Ohio. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD
November 22, 2017 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Newington, CT
There was another slightly shorter pause and then a double flash. It lit up half the sky. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD
November 22, 2017 · 9:00 PM · FLASH
Newington, CT
I pulled out my phone to record but it stopped happening. I did notice what sounded like the horns from inception far in the distance for the first two, but after the last one there was no sound. We’re very confused.
November 22, 2017 · 8:23 PM · CIRCLE
Helena, MT
Sitting on back patio looking North of Helena Valley. 5 or more red balls of light came together to form a perfect triangle. Before I could get to my phone for video proof, they broke formation, turned white in color and slowly ascended into the sky until out of view.
November 22, 2017 · 7:42 PM · UNKNOWN
Capitola, CA
Was facing SW and seen a dim patch of glow with haze around it. From where I was standing it seemed far and near. Observing it at first was like trying to look at a star when it's cloudy out. It started out small and white then it grew and expanded to bright white light and looked like a very large comet. Then it slowly faded back to a small glow haze, almost completely invisible. Within thirty seconds it started glowing again and more intense into a bright orange, and red color. Had a rounded blot shape which split into, which I could best describe as, "two odd shaped balls of energy." It got harder to see as it seemed it was getting farther away repeating the dim/high glow pattern. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 22, 2017 · 4:44 PM · DISK
Sacramento, CA
Driving on freeway and captured at least 4 saucers that resemble the "tic tac" ufo and a mother's hip in theclouds.
November 22, 2017 · 4:44 PM · DISK
Sacramento, CA
Driving on freeway and captured at least 4 saucers that resemble the "tic tac" ufo and a mother's hip in theclouds.