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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 20, 2017 · 2:15 AM · FIREBALL
Dixon, CA
On the morning of Nov. 20, 2017, I woke up at about 2:15 am to let my cat out. I looked up and through the neighbor’s trees I saw what I thought was the moon only orange-ish...like it was smoked covered. I was facing east. I then noticed this was not the moon but an orange light. It looked like an orange ball of fire. This ‘light’ started to move slowly, like at small plane speed, going north. It stayed on a fairly horizontal course, just quite slow. I kept listening for the sound of an airplane engine but it was dead silent. I followed the light (still at my back door) until it went out of my range of sight and behind more trees on our street, so I ran to the front of my house and looked out the front window – now facing north. The light appeared to be going even slower now – I could see it through the tree tops for about a minute, then it came into plain sight. It appeared to just hover, then move slowly, then hover...I couldn’t tell if it was the ! atmosphere that made it look like it was moving oddly, or if it actually was moving oddly. A few times it looked like it was getting larger, like an object on fire gets larger. I was expecting it to fall to the ground and crash, but it just slowly moved, hovering oddly. The light then seemed to move upward in elevation, like it was moving north, and slowed a few times in its ascent. It became smaller and a few times disappeared, showed again, and then finally faded out. The oddest thing was there was absolutely no sound. This all lasted about 7 minutes. I went back to bed and a few minutes later I did hear a small plane fly overhead – this made the absence of sound with this ‘light’ all the more obvious. I was going to ask a friend who was in the Air Force if he knew of drones or something that would explain this, but I haven’t had the chance yet.
November 20, 2017 · 12:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Warren, MA
I could only hear it. It was a slow moving craft that sounded like a dryer machine with no propeller sound. It made three trips around my area.
November 19, 2017 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Reno, NV
From my rooms window at night after work, as I was getting ready to go to bed I noticed, what I had initially thought was the red beacon hilltop light on the hill from the tower. (These beacon lights are on the tops of the foothills near Reno). I realized however, that’s not what it was, and it began moving up, and down bobbing in the air (I estimated it to be about 1,000 feet off the flat ground, since it was bobbing just above the hilltop. This is typically where I recall seeing the red beacon light on a nightly basis after work. I sat still on my bed, and watched it, I noticed it had a slightly different glow to it, and then it started to strobe intermittently remaining bright red, but differently than the hilltop beacons, which I had not been able to notice for some strange reason at this time. It’s strobe got larger until it discharged, a huge amount of red light all the way to the valley floor, arcing it downwards, as well as upwards, it did this ! massive strobe twice only. It slowly, kept its bobbing motion up and down, it lightly diminished in brightness until it completely went out. I had the feeling that someone else must have seen this, as it was so bright. Not sure who was intended to see it, but it looked like performing some type of intermittent communication. This could NOT have been a “Drone”, it had lots of palpable energy behind that output of light.
November 19, 2017 · 9:32 PM · CIRCLE
East Los Angeles, CA
The skies were super clear tonight. I saw 3 circular flying objects all of them were orange and hovering slowly moving east bound, almost looked like they were stopped because of how slow they were going. The whole object was lit up orange, then they disappeared into thin air, didn't fly away, they were just gone.
November 19, 2017 · 8:33 PM · FIREBALL
Salem, OR
What first appeared as two orange/amber street lights, two objects started to increase in height up to about 50 ft pulsating in brightness and changing in shape from what appeared to be similar to softball size all the way up to 6 foot in diameter. They we're dancing around a tree like neurons or protons do so around a nucleus of an atom. Movements didn't appear to follow wind patterns, there was no sound and appeared to move with intelligence changing direction and speed gracefully and swiftly. They increased speed very rapidly heading North towards Portland at the same time as they dimmed down and disappeared as fast as they showed.
November 19, 2017 · 8:00 PM · FIREBALL
Jennings, FL
While traveling south on i75 near fl/ga line we saw a fireball falling from se to sw. It flared and a piece broke off and fleww away from main portion which flared again and went out.
November 19, 2017 · 8:00 PM · CYLINDER
Rutland, VT
On Sunday November 19th, 2017, my kids and I were heading home back to NY on route 4 when we noticed a large object hovering just south of us on RTE 4 heading west. We just drove though the city of Rutland and we were in the South Western part of the city. It was cylinder shape. Almost like a yo yo. It had two stacks of lights. Some were square and some were spherical. The lights changed colors mostly, almost like a color wheel. There was some overcast so the colors would dissipate in the clouds. My daughter had made and I had seen an object like that when I was 10 or 11. Now I am 50.
November 19, 2017 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Dixon, CA
I kept watching as we approached them, looking for a tower of some sort that they would be attached to. I assumed they were farming lights of some sort, but I kept my eyes on them for five minutes straight at one point. As soon as we got close enough, almost right under them, and I realized they were not farm lights and that they were not attached to any type of tower.. They disappeared.
November 19, 2017 · 5:50 PM · OTHER
Menomonee Falls, WI
When exiting the car to enter the apartment, 8 year old boy looks up at the sky to wish on a star then asks if the object in the sky was a hang glider. I looked up and saw a large, gray lined outline moving silently in the air around a low cloud level. The object had to be at least 200ft wide (tip to tip) shaped similar to { shape. It looked like nothing more that that, with evenly spaced ridges along the outline. It was moving a minimum of 50mph across the sky silently. I maintained a visual for about 1 minute before it was too far to see.
November 19, 2017 · 3:00 PM · SPHERE
Oxford, MA
Floating silver/white 3D ball. It was there, and then shrunk and disappeared in seconds
November 19, 2017 · 1:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Cleveland, OH
Two fighter jets flying at very high speed from Lake Erie south over a neighborhood just west of downtown Cleveland. They disappeared to the southeast. I, and some other ground observers, wondered what they were chasing, or where they were going. Weird. This is not a typical aircraft exercise area. No. No UFOs seen. Just in case someone else saw something at that time in the Cleveland area.
November 19, 2017 · 12:00 PM · OVAL
Royal Gorge, CO
Oval shaped extremely reflective craft moving very slowly see from royal gorge bridge and park. Appeared to land on the ridge of mountain.
November 19, 2017 · 12:00 PM · CIRCLE
Marysville, CA
I was in a parking lot in Marysville, CA with 2 friends when one of them noticed a few objects in the sky. They were quite high up in altitude and north of Marysville. I saw 4 circular objects moving very slowly in all directions. They were dark in color and depending on how they moved, they would turn shiny. Then there were 6 and the most I saw were 8 flying objects. The objects would flash a bright blue light occasionally. I had my phone and took a video but in order to see them you have to enlarge the video. The objects would fade in and out as they would slowly move around. The event lasted for about 4 minutes. The sky had some whispy clouds in it but otherwise a nice sunny day.
November 19, 2017 · 2:39 AM · OVAL
Anaheim, CA
Oblong shape with lights moving slowly across the sky at times it just sets there
November 18, 2017 · 10:50 PM · LIGHT
Olympia, WA
I just copied this directly from my Fbook Page: “I Just saw another UFO. It came very fast from 300 degrees WNW. I was a bright red light with a second that came on randomly. It came to a full bobbed left, right and backward then continued to a position almost directly above me then an abrupt stop again. Now a fast pulsing green light appeared on its left and the second red light came around from behind and dodged around a bit on the right side then disappeared behind it. There was a wispy cloud around it and I could see light reflecting from the cloud as if a search light was employed an moved as if it was looking for something around and above it. I didn’t observe the source of the light. But could see the beam coming from the top of the object. The object itself was obscured by the brightness of the red and green lights. It then staggered back toward where it came from and disappeared over the horizon. Again in 300 degrees WNW. My location was close to Briggs and Kettle View park and perhaps 5 miles from the local airp! ort. At first I believed it was going to turn and make an approach for landing and was just a high flying plane. I did notice it was absolutely silent but while it was above me I heard the roar of two jets on about after the second. Sounded like F15s. I have seen the Gov’s Lear jet come and go from this vantage point but never hear it power up or down unless it’s right above me. I grew up near Elmendorf AFB and that roar is unmistakable. my locale BTW is Olympia, WA. Did anyone else see this???by the time I got to my new Iphone and figured out the path to video capture it was over. I couldn’t take my eyes if it. I have seen thing in the sky a handful of times but this was by far the closest and most emotional for me. Please PM me if you saw this too.”
November 18, 2017 · 9:30 PM · FORMATION
Puyallup, WA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD
November 18, 2017 · 7:26 PM · CIRCLE
Ventura, CA
The front of the dish shape object had different color lights on it and three or four red strips of lights on the top of it... hovered for a long time. My wife got some pictures. They are only of the red glow from the object. A plane flew near one of the objects and the craft flew away from it…
November 18, 2017 · 7:00 PM · CHANGING
Haines City, FL
I was heading south on US-27 a few traffic lights before the orange factory in Haines City. It was roughly around 19:00 so the sky was pretty dark. I was stopped at a stop light and noticed what looked like a red smudge in the sky, almost like if you were to dip your thumb in maroon-colored paint, stick it on a piece of paper, and pull downwards about an inch. I noticed this smudge directly above my steering wheel, almost near the top of my windshield. I thought that was odd so I stared at it for the duration of my time stopped at the light. I called my wife, who was in the car behind me, and asked if she saw it too. She verified that she did see it and said that she would call me back because she was on the other line. The light finally turned green, and as I continued driving southbound, this red smudge had a blue light slowly manifest itself directly behind the smudge, close enough that it looked as if the light and the smudge were touching. After this blue light fully manifested, the smudge started moving west in the sky with the blue light getting brighter and brighter behind it and eventually forming two white lights with one both above and below the centered blue light. This happened over a period of 10-15 seconds. When the smudge stopped, it ended almost directly centered on the windshield in front of the passenger seat. As this smudge stopped, the smudge started to change color and shape. The smudge started turning from the smudge into a white, straight line perfectly vertical in the sky – the lights were still behind it, just not as bright as when it was moving. After a few seconds, I watched this now straight line turn into an oval shape that was similar in shape to what you see planets orbit lines look like in books and online. When this oval shape was fully formed, I watched it disperse into HUNDREDS of different colored lights. The weird thing was that these lights, mostly red, green, white, and blue, followed that same oval path that they dispersed from. Over the next couple minutes, I watched these lights start to spiral, similar to how tornadoes are shaped – thick at the top, but starts to taper towards the bottom – all spinning and eventually falling below the tree line. As I continued watching, the thick top mass of lights did, in fact, start to get closer and closer to the top of the tree line. I watched this event until it completely disappeared behind the tree line on the west side of US-27 just near W. Polk Ave. Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
November 18, 2017 · 6:00 PM · FIREBALL
Kissimmee, FL
Around 6pm, me and my cousin saw something weird “falling from the sky”. We couldn’t realize what was, and then, he called my brother. It looked like a big fireball falling. We joked by saying that looked like a comet, but then, it started to turn completely. And the smoke that was following the fireball just stopped and the impression of “a fireball falling” changed into a “light Flying “. I recorded and photographed.
November 18, 2017 · 5:50 PM · CIRCLE
Mount Laurel, NJ
I was driving on Mt. Laurel road with my teen son and tween daughter heading towards route 38 and we were around the mt laurel library. Suddenly a very bright white light, almost like the Sun, appeared in the sky. It was so bright it lit up the sky orange. I thought it was lightning, since it was raining, but no thunder sound followed. Also lightning is linear zig zag, this was a circle. Then I thought the power lines short circuited due to rain but there were no sparks or smoke. It was over in less than a second. There were other cars on the road too..some slowed down and one car stopped. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 18, 2017 · 5:33 PM · CIGAR
Champions Gate, FL
I was driving home on I-4 Westbound (opposite direction of Daytona/Cocoa/Cape Canaveral) when I saw what looked like a large yacht surrounded by a fireball falling from the sky. I spent several minutes watching it before I began recording what became a 10 minute long video of this object descending. During the course of the video, the object changed directions twice, maneuvering horizontally while continuing in a vertical descent, as if course-correcting to land. At first the object had a long what I would call a fire tail that moved with the object and was not left trailing in the sky as a NASA Space-shuttle or airplane would leave. However, as the object descended further, the tail became much shorter. I recorded the object until it disappeared behind some trees. Over the past couple of years I have searched online to see if anyone else saw it but have not found anything. I was driving down a main stretch of road with many cars but no one else appeared to notice it (typical in this area for people to be oblivious of their surroundings). I have taken screenshots of the video and will email them, I plan to save the video on to a thumb-drive and mail it in. Background: I have lived in Florida my entire life (over 25 years) and have witnessed many space shuttle launches and landings. I live in a tourist area so there are always planes and helicopters flying nearby so I see those often. My spouse is a military Veteran so both I and my spouse (who has seen the video) are familiar with most military aircraft and were unable to identify this object as any of the aforementioned aircrafts. I am a college graduate with a Business degree who is working on my MBA and am an Executive Director. My spouse is a Financial Manager who has resided in Florida for over 20 years.
November 18, 2017 · 5:29 PM · LIGHT
Simi Valley, CA
Me and my mom were driving to the store and saw what looked like a shooting star but realized it wasn't since it was very slow moving and as it got closer to the mountains it got very large and very bright! It landed and made a bright flash near the building in the mountain that used to be Atomics International (there was a nuclear meltdown years ago).
November 18, 2017 · 5:29 PM · SPHERE
Henderson, NV
Object was traveling on a east to west trajectory. It seemed like a meteor in very low atmosphere entry, but object was perfectly round, with a very bright pure white streak as the orb appeared at the end of the streak on a very smooth and sharp motion. As if generated by a CGI system, although this happened in our eyesight over the southern part of Henderson near Highway 15. Flights going into Mcarran (LAS) were seen on approach at a lower altitude, flights seemed to be headed towards Lake Mead for their final turn and approach before landing, at the vantage point, it seemed object was 5 times the size of a Boeing 737. Object had very sharp and defined edges within the white streak of light, no debris field behind or around its side. Upon its final light emission a brilliant white orb could be seen at its end and light completely disappeared as if by a light switch, without any prior change is its coloration or brilliance. I have seen meteors showers, meteors, comets, and an avid astronomy amateur. Most people would dismiss it as a lone meteor or space debris, this object showed no hallmarks of being either. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 18, 2017 · 5:22 PM · FIREBALL
Kissimme/Champions Gate, FL
I was driving Westbound on I-4 at about exit 62, when I looked at the sky and saw what at first glance looked like a comet or shooting star. I began staring at the object as it didn’t appear to be moving very fast all and almost looked as though it was descending from the Earth’s atmosphere. It looked like a fireball and left a type of fiery trail. After watching the object slowly descend for about 10 minutes I then decided to grab my phone and begin recording. I appeared to be the only one who noticed it as the other people in the cars around me appeared to be focused on other things (mostly their cell phones). I continued to watch the object while filming and saw it what I can only explain as course correct as it stop descending and slowly turned righ and then continued to again descending downward at what looked like a 90 degree angle. After the object had descended for what I cie we was about 15 minutes or so the fireball and trail disappeared and it just! looked like a glowing metallic oblong object. I filmed for about 10 minutes before completely losing sight of the object due to an apartment building blocking my view.