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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 18, 2017 · 4:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Salem, OR
I heard a buzzing sound like a swarm of bees and was looking up into the sky. I caught a glimpse of the craft moving sideways and tail lights that were red and aqua blue set into the craft just like an automobile. It was heading west and disappeared into the clouds.
November 18, 2017 · 1:50 AM · LIGHT
Agoura Hills, CA
Was driving westbound on the 101 through Agoura Hills and saw what appeared to be an enormous shooting star coming downward, due west, toward Ventura. Instead of fading away like every other shooting star I've ever seen, it jumped across the sky, seemingly several miles in less than a second, southwest, then froze somewhere just above the Santa Monica Mountains. I've never seen anything accelerate, cover that much distance, and then come to a halt so fast. It defied logic. I kept my eye on it for about two more minutes and exited the freeway at Kanan Road. It looked like a really bright star. It was moving ever-so-slightly over what looked like the middle of the Malibu Hills, maybe near Sandstone Peak, then disappeared behind them.
November 18, 2017 · 1:45 AM · TRIANGLE
San Gabriel, CA
Driving down 10 west freeway, multiple vehicles on the road (includes a big rig in front of me). What I thought was a helicopter N. of the freeway doing its circular motion, all of a sudden was drifting in a Southward motion, also had a streak of light behind it which in no way appeared to be a spotlight. I would like to say it was a triangle, but it looked more as a half triangle. Other vehicles noticed as well, since they started to slow down almost to a full stop on the freeway as well as myself, I would say anywhere from 10 to 15 vehicles on the road,. The object was getting more and more visible as it proceeded to hover over us. The big rig in front of me was somewhat panicked and pulled over in such a way that I thought there was going to be a pileup collision. The object was hovering faster, and brighter, then poof, the light dimmed suddenly, it took a mild SW bound turn and headed toward the clouds but it could still be seen as a faint light wit! hin the clouds. Hopeful there are more reports regarding this matter, and in NO WAY was this a plane heading for LAX.
November 18, 2017 · 1:04 AM · DIAMOND
Bethesda, MD
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 18, 2017 · 1:00 AM · SPHERE
Long Beach, CA
I was walking home (West) after watching a movie, there was a marine layer over head so I could not see any stars. Out of the right corner of my eye there was a what appeared to be a street light high about. I didn't think much other then a helicopter was approaching. As the light started to get bigger. As soon as I focused in the light jumped a crossed the sky under the marine layer about a mile in 1 second. In the process what actually caught my attention was when it moved across it lit up bright green, what appeared to be green flames with small sparks at the bottom. I could not make out a shape of the craft other then an orb. It then stopped becoming stationary, that's when my mind was trying to figure out what had just happened. I pulled my iPhone out and filmed. The object was no longer green but yellowish/white moving slowly south west. When it suddenly vaporized as if it went behind a curtain in the sky.
November 17, 2017 · 11:31 PM · FLASH
Myrtle Beach, SC
I was just outside walking looking for deer tracks and returned home for my last cigarette for the night as I sat on my balcony I witnessed a large initial light that turned into a line of three lights different colors as well which at that time I pulled out my phone and started to record what I thought was a ufo and it went to the right and back to that spot in less than a millisecond and then blinked a few times a went coming blank no longer appearing in the night sky. I have all this on video as well,to verify my story so that this occurrence is not overlooked. Extremely amazing but at the same time out of this world. I forgot to mention moments later fire trucks were dispatched for something I'm assuming as I heard the fire horn roaring in the quiet night.
November 17, 2017 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
North Phoenix, AZ
I have a video but poor quality.
November 17, 2017 · 5:51 PM · UNKNOWN
Newman, CA
Lights faded down to look like just another star. Then, headed on a path towards dim white light. Both then disaaperaed.
November 17, 2017 · 5:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Ocean View, NJ
Traveling South parallel to the Harden State Parkway between exits 24 and 17. Large triangular shaped aircraft. Opposing wing lights and one what’s flashing light in front. Moved quickly South towards Stone Harbor and the Wildeoods. There were small craft in the vicinity most like T from the Woodbine airport.
November 17, 2017 · 5:00 PM · FIREBALL
Edenton, NC
11/17/17, at 5:00 pm, while driving to work from edenton nc to Windsor, nc I spotted a large streaming object in the southwestern sky. There was a sunset with lots of color in the pink range, the object looked like a comet with a long tail which was split, parallel, I thought I was seeing a meteor and thought it was breaking up as 3 small objects appeared below and falling with it. I pulled over 3 times to take pictures with my phone, I began to change my thinking this was a meteor when the 3 little objects stopped falling and from my vantage point hovered above trendline as the large object kept falling and then curved to the right, at the same time another object streaming the same colors, appeared above and seemed to be falling in the same trajectory. I was hoping to make it to the bridge over the chowan river, hiway 17, to get a clearer view but it had disappeared, all I saw were some jet contrails which were white as the sunset colors were leaving the sky. I have never seen anything similar to this, i was raised at china lake naval base where there was a lot of experimenting going on, aircraft and such. We were a short distance from Edwards air force base and I have witnessed rockets breaking up in the sky from Vandenberg air force base, seen a boiloid as it was decentragating in the mt sky, and have watched a space shuttle land, so I have some experience with weird sky stuff. Not to mention having seen the stealth bomber before it was official. The photos on my phone aren't very good but support what I saw, haven't seen anything reported on this yet, wanted to document before I forget. best wishes.
November 17, 2017 · 4:20 PM · CYLINDER
Beaver, UT
After crossing to the west side of I-15 the object changed direction to approach 6 or 7 military craft flying wingtip to wingtip toward the north. The object seemed to be approaching at such a speed that I felt sure it was going to crash into the military aircraft on the eastern end of the formation, but it came to a sudden stop as it got very close and continued to keep pace with the line of jets traveling north for a few seconds. It detached itself from the jets then approached more overhead toward Beaver, Utah when it entered a sparse cloud that was a little larger than the craft where it stopped then merely quickly vanished. The cloud wasn't affected by the vanishing of the object. The next day there was a lot of military aircraft forming a dome over Beaver County of various types of craft. This lasted for about two weeks during daylight hours, and I had the impression they were interested in trying to find information on the vanishing of strange craft of the day before. When I first saw the craft I remember thinking, "That thing has no wings." Thus was my surprise at first seeing the object. I also recall thinking there would surely be plenty of news about such an object as Beaver is a small town of about 3,000 population.
November 17, 2017 · 1:17 PM · FORMATION
Martinez, CA
Friday, 11-17-2017 at 13:17, I heard a loud, low flying helicopter, which prompted me to go outdoors & observe. The day is sunny, clear blue skies, wind NE prox. 8mph. The ‘chopper’ is flying north bound, about 45 degrees above the horizon, & is white with some black markings. High above the chopper, about 15k-20k feet, is a tight group of 8 white spherical objects, some dark underneath, about 1/8inch diameter as viewed from ground. The formation is not moving except for 3 which are moving in various directions, then the entire group proceeds to move slowly SW. I ran to get my camera, which took under 5-seconds, I fired up the camera & the objects disappeared. Gone, before my eyes, & unable to snap a picture. The chopper had passed, still heard distantly, however, I could not see the objects anywhere in the clear blue skies. They were not birds nor balloons. Sighting lasted about 1-2 mins. My background: 66yrs., careers in medicine, & construction/engineering.
November 17, 2017 · 11:20 AM · UNKNOWN
Los Altos, CA
Walking down my driveway, facing N/nw, I just happened to look up and saw what I thought was a large flock of birds circling, but seemed very high I could not make out size or type of bird. Than I began to notice that they would go from a dark to light color, but it was not reflective of sun, most of group was circling clockwise, but either side would turn whitish, not just group at “9 o’clock” position as if that how angled in turn, the 3 o’clock side would also go white. I pulled out my phone to record, and continued watching and the objects were fading in/out, then after about 2 minutes they all vanished. I went to watch the video and stupid me didn’t record!!! I did see a very high altitude plane fly over, maybe over 20,000 ft (lots of planes fly over to sfo, that pattern puts at 6000 over my house, so this plane much higher) but the object were definitely below this plane.
November 16, 2017 · 11:00 PM · FORMATION
Myrtle Beach, SC
My fiancé and I were sitting outside on our balcony having a smoke when I saw a row of 4 orange lights in the distance over his shoulder. I immediately told him to look, because it was very unnatural. As soon as he turned around they all went out, then the one that was furthest to the right went back on. Then the one next to it came back on. Then those 2 went back off and the third one came on and went off. Then the one that was furthest to the left cane on. My fiancé, who always finds a way to explain things rationally was a little shook up. He stood up and started scanning the sky and we were both asking each other what it was and both decided it couldn’t be explained. After about 30 seconds to 1 minute one single light popped on a little ways from where the original lights were, to the right and up higher than before. And it quickly went back off. The four lights that I saw at first appeared to be a part on one single object, they were in a perfect line! and didn’t move at all. It seemed like a saucer type object, but the line of lights was slightly tilted. They were not very far away, they appeared to be sitting about as high as a helicopter flies. If it has been daytime I believe it would have been close enough to make out the details of the object. The lights were a dull orange color, and much bigger and brighter than lights I’ve seen on planes. The light that appeared on its own had me thinking all the light may have been separate objects, but were just in some kind of formation. It’s hard to say. The entire experience was very eerie and unexplainable. Furthermore, this is the second UFO experience I have had in the Myrtle Beach area. The first one was 8 years ago at about 3pm, a bright clear day. I saw 3 huge bright orbs zipping around, almost like they were dancing in the sky. They were turning on and off, appearing and reappearing in different spots in the sky. I was driving when it happened, I pulled over and watch! ed the orbs for about 10 minutes with 4 other people. I was so! concern ed that I drove to the Myrtle Beach airport and reported what I saw. That has always stuck with me, and ever since that day I look up every chance I get. I don’t know what these objects are, but I know they weren’t anything the public has any knowledge of.
November 16, 2017 · 11:00 PM · OVAL
Pfafftown, NC
Looking out my window at what I thought to be a star, but it’s low. It’s just above the horizon, the other is higher and left which would be east. I thought I saw colors so I got the binoculars and the colors are changing red, blue, green. Then I looked up at a star. No color changing. Then I turned left and saw another round object turning the same colors. My husband saw the first one and said maybe it’s a reflection off the glass. So as we were on our way to bed, I said there are two. Weird.
November 16, 2017 · 10:00 PM · CHEVRON
Asheville, NC
Just outside of downtown Asheville I saw an unidentified craft in the night sky. I was outside of my apartment smoking a cigarette and looking at the stars, when I saw a rounded wing like shape (like a boomerang) enter the periphery of my view and fly across my field of sight. The object was moving extraordinarily fast and the entire sighting lasted a couple seconds. The craft had no visible lights and I only glimpsed it because it must have been flying at a low altitude (speculation). This object made no noise whatsoever. Signed, ((name deleted)) ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) ((To NUFORC Webmaster)), my name is ((name deleted)). I submitted a UFO sighting report on the nuforc.org website and accidentally had the zip code auto populated with an old address. the correct zip is 28804. After I sent in the report I clicked onto the home page and saw this account: Madison, Wisconsin, Tuesday, November 07, 2017, @ 7:35 p.m. (Central)- An adult male, who describes himself as former military, witnessed a dark-colored triangle-, or boomerang-shaped, object fly rapidly overhead in the night sky, exhibiting no navigation lights. Immediately after the object had passed overhead, a smaller object streaked overhead, apparently in pursuit of the triangular craft. The whole incident occurred in an estimated 5 seconds. This report is nearly identical to what I witnessed. Have there been many of these types of sightings? thanks. all the best to you, ((END ADDENDUM))
November 16, 2017 · 8:45 PM · CIRCLE
Florence, OR
11-16-2017, 8:45pm driving north on highway 101 from Florence, Oregon, to Yachats, I saw a large white disc off to the left of the car, out over the ocean. I was on the passenger side and could look at it for about 5-10 seconds. We were driving north along the edge of the cliffs - about 200 feet up from the water. The perfectly circular disc was evenly lighted, - not harsh or brilliant like a lighthouse light but evenly soft white. No glow to it. It was approx. the size of a half dollar at my finger tips when my arm is extended. It did not move and hovered just about 20° below my shoulder height when seated in the car - a mid sized Escape.... not the newer taller one - out over the water. We did not hear any noise. Trees got in our view so about 1 minute or less later we pulled into the parking lot of the Sea Lions Cave where I got out and could see most of the coast to Florence. All was dark and quiet - no sign of anything anywhere in the water or along the coast. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and she sounded to us to be exceptionally serious and sober-minded. We suspect that both she and her husband are highly reliable, and capable, witnesses. Please see a second report from the husband. PD
November 16, 2017 · 8:45 PM · CIRCLE
Florence, OR
My wife and I witnessed seeing a very bright white round light while I was looking down towards the ocean shore while driving north from the city of Florence on route 101. The light was much larger than any type of search light or light house, and was out over the ocean, not far off shore. This observation occurred around 8:45 on November 16th 2017. I was driving during the sighting, and was unable to pull over until we arrived at the Sea Lion Caves pull of area about 1/4 to1/2 of mile north of the area where I observed the white circular light. Once we pulled into the Sea Lion Caves parking lot we were unable to see anything in the direction were we first saw the light. We spoke with this witnesses wife, who also witnessed the object. We suspect that both husband and wife are exceptionally capable, and reliable, witnesses. PD
November 16, 2017 · 8:30 PM · CIRCLE
Maricopa, AZ
Tonight is the 3rd time I've seen these lights in the sky. I commute home from Scottsdale each day. I exit from the I 10 and I continue on the 347, a stretch of highway that enters into Maricopa City. Between Riggs road and Maricopa city, I will see these glowing lights in the sky directly above Maricopa or maybe further south but its in plain view as they are directly over the 347. I am positive other drivers heading home can see them also. The 1st time I witnessed, it looked like a Military flare, this caused for me to take my eyes from the road to the horizon, but then the orange color got brighter, hotter and pulsated. The light then disappears, a second later I saw that light to the east, it looked to be maybe over Queencreek?, the light was faint and then it started to glow brighter till it disappeard again. 2nd event was the day before Halloween, all the conditions are the same excepts the time was maybe 30 mins early around 730pm. I saw the orange fireball, but this time I can see it transfer a small amount of light into and another orange ball. This went across a large portion of the sky till 5 orange balls were attached to each other. Maybe the length of a few miles, then all the lights together increased in brightness then went out. Tonight at @845pm I saw the same 5 lights off to the east they flashed and them disappeared. Most people never see anything crazy in the sky. I am now seeing them on the reg. My guess is they are coming from Barry Goldwater base and the Gov has some pretty bad azz toys, but who really knows. Going to keep my phone handy and try too get some footage next time it's happens. I'm also glad other people are seeing them, makes me feel alot better about posting on the crazy UFO site. Wish me luck
November 16, 2017 · 8:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Biloxi, MS
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 16, 2017 · 5:15 PM · SPHERE
Brandon, FL
Lights zigged zagged north south then moved over treetops then zoomed north over highway making no noise then out of sight extremely quickly.
November 16, 2017 · 5:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Lancaster, OH
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 16, 2017 · 8:20 AM · CIGAR
Des Moines, IA
Saw what looked like an airplane without wings. No tail wings either, was low enough to see body of craft without wings, saw airplane further with wings easily visible. Crows around flew away, heard flapping of wings. Flew very fast pretty low but not as low as helicopters. Made no noise whatsoever, waved at it. As it flew east. Checked live flight maps shortly after, no sign of it on radars.
November 16, 2017 · 12:15 AM · OTHER
Milford, OH
6 balls of light following one massive ship. Main ship was very bright and slow moving. A very low pitch sound was heard by me and a few friends.