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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
October 24, 2017 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Albuquerque, NM
I was standing in the parking at 1005 Louisiana NE somewhere around midnight on 10/24/17, when I noticed a point of colorful light hovering high in the sky SE of my position; it was stationary and appeared to be changing color. I observed it for a couple of minutes and decided to go get a video camera to take some footage of it. When I returned to the parking lot, I noticed it was in the same position, and I took a couple of minutes of video of it and then went back into my apartment. It was still there when I went back inside. Possible "twinkling" star?? PD
October 24, 2017 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
Houston, TX
Witness provides no information about her presumed sighting. PD
October 24, 2017 · 10:35 PM · FORMATION
Savannah, GA
I was standing in my front yard with my bro. Talking about life then I gazed at the sky. There it was 3 red lights in a formation line blanking in a sequence. I said, "bro look in the sky. He was amazed then I tried to record it our camera couldn't pick it up. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 24, 2017 · 10:25 PM
Northfield, VT
Source of report provides not information about her sighting. PD
October 24, 2017 · 10:20 PM · CIRCLE
Milford, CT
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 24, 2017 · 10:00 PM · OTHER
Great Falls, MT
I saw a bright gold light in line with the lower handle of the big dipper. The light was station keeping for about one minute. The light increased as it sped east about one mile. Once again stationary. The light luminosity decreased and the light sped west until out of sight. a platform with two bright red lights appeared at the same location. Too far away to make out any details. So as the initial gold light sped west, the platform slowly moved eastward until out of sight. The speed of the platform was much slower than the initial gold light. Odd that the red lights illuminated and turned off in sync. Not like a rotating beacon and the red lights were quite bright.
October 24, 2017 · 9:08 PM · LIGHT
Gladstone, OR
21:08, October 24th, 2017. While in my backyard on October 24th, on a clear night, my wife and I observed a very bright yellow light in the N.W. sky. The object was at approximately 45-50 degrees above the horizon and it was the brightest object in the night sky. We both witnessed the object blink out. The light then came back on within a few seconds and moved around the area, changing direction abruptly, yet moving in a linear fashion, before going out again. My wife went inside to retrieve her phone to record the object, and our 15 year old son joined us in the backyard at this time. The light came back on, but very dimly, moving out of the area to the northeast. This time the movements were not abrupt, only linear and as it moved across the sky, it blinked. It appeared that there may have been more objects following it. Two minutes and four seconds of video footage were taken during the encounter.
October 24, 2017 · 9:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Apple Valley, CA
Witness provides no information about her apparent sighting. PD
October 24, 2017 · 8:45 PM · CIRCLE
Conway, AR
Three separate circles of bright lights that alternated lighting up. Changed location and formation quickly. Very bright. Looked like a streetlight up in the sky. Planes were crossing the sky and they looked like ants compared to these lights. Then suddenly they disappeared. I attempted a video but it did not work.
October 24, 2017 · 8:45 PM · OTHER
Hillsborough, NC
Flying very slowly in the Southern sky near the Aquarius constellation were a total of 4 large red lights in an "L" formation. 3 vertical with 1 to the side. It appeared to be very, very large and to be one craft that blocked the stars behind it. It flew very slow, silently and the lights blinked in no particular order randomly and without pattern. The round lights were very large. Suddenly a white light, like a vertical beam appeared below the single red light that was off to the side and the entire craft slowly dropped below the tree line and was gone.
October 24, 2017 · 8:30 PM · OTHER
Lincoln, KS
It was a very dark night, we had just turned south on to Highway 14 from X Road and approximately 2-3 miles down the road the driver said "look at that ufo in the sky". I saw numerous (what I think were 5 or 6 at minimum) large bright orange lights with what seemed to be bright LED like what "long" connecting lights. It was a pattern similar to a triangle or pyramid or similar and it was LARGE. We were all immediately talking at once and everyone saying "what is that" etc. I watched for possibly approximately 60 seconds as were ascending a large hill. I thought and it "appeared" as if once we came to the top of the hill I could see it better, but when we crested the hill it was completely gone. Literally within seconds. We could see for miles and miles from the top of this hill and there was NO sign of anything in any direction we had just seen.
October 24, 2017 · 8:30 PM · FLASH
Elkins, AR
Proceeding southbound near Elkins, AR, I witnessed what I thought was a bright star. When I glanced up, there was a grouping of about 7 lights in a lazy L shape with a grouping of 3-4 other lights to the east and west of the main grouping of lights. They were single, pinpoint white lights that lit up sequentially, in no discernible pattern, like randomly blinking Christmas lights. They were slowly moving, in formation, from west to east. Was hard to tell the altitude from the ground but most likely at least 40,000+ feet. There were no flashing strobes or red and green lights as found on airplanes. These were single lights. There was no sound. We drove our route home, towards the east, but my the time we reached the peak of our mountain, the grouping had disappeared. We continued to watch, as we live in a rural area with minimal light pollution but never saw them again. I am a private pilot with many night hours and I have never before witnessed anything like this. My partner was with me and we were both in awe of what we were seeing. I can only hope that someone else saw this and reports it, as well.
October 24, 2017 · 8:10 PM · CIGAR
Bonne Terre, MO
While fishing seen a very bright light, as bright a Venus, in the North sky. It was moving much faster than the three planes flying in the sky at the same time. It traveled towards the East and the light stopped glowing and we could see a very large cigar shaped object not making a sound as it passed over and continued traveling East until it was out of sight. Dogs around the area were barking very aggressively as it passed over.
October 24, 2017 · 8:00 PM · DIAMOND
Bordentown, NJ
I had just finished dinner and was standing in the parking lot talking to friend's. We were discussing the flashes in the sky, Wondering if the were wires burning or lightning. Then out of the corner of my eye I see something that looks like a shooting star, but much lower. It almost looked like it was a few hundred feet off the ground, it was silent and I could see a body shape like a hard edged bird but it wasn't clear. It had a single dim white light on what seemed to be on top of it. It was moving way too fast to be a drone or plane and there were no navigational lights. The weird part of this to me is I've seen the same thing when I was younger two different times but there were two of them side by side flying south to North direct over our house at the beach. My cousin tried to say they were birds or shooting stars.
October 24, 2017 · 7:59 PM · CYLINDER
Edmond, OK
I was walking my dog outside in North Edmond, when I noticed 3 small objects blinking red and green (which I have seen quite often), but out of nowhere a dark non-lighted slender cylinder object moved slowly across the sky in a snake-like fashion. It lasted for about 20 seconds. I was not able to get it on film because it was so dark outside and the object was also dark.
October 24, 2017 · 7:30 PM · SPHERE
Bainbridge Island, WA
The object was traveling North and appeared to be a pale green to white sphere with no tail. Just the object. This is the third time I have observed this object, I saw it there weeks ago from the Bainbridge ferry terminal at about midnight for about ten seconds traveling North East and two weeks before that in Poulsbo, Washington, for about ten seconds at around 2:00 am traveling south. The object is a pale green to white, brightly glowing sphere moving at a fairly high rate of speed with no other lights or sound, and it doesn't show a tail like a meteor or space junk.
October 24, 2017 · 2:50 PM · UNKNOWN
Sheridan, CA
I didn't see any trails in the sky to indicate a jet had flown by. Within a minute or two of the boom, a U-2 spy plane took off and flew straight up until it disappeared. It is worth mentioning my 5 year old didn't hear anything. Him not hearing it blows my mind because not only did I hear it I felt the ground shake. He must of been to busy throwing rocks in the water. It was really amazing, because I haven't heard a sonic boom since the late 90's and that was reported as the blackbird.
October 24, 2017 · 12:15 PM · FIREBALL
Columbus, OH
I just got off work and was driving on Stelzer rd and it was raining, I saw a blue flash and then about 2 to 4 seconds later another Bright Blue Flash it lit up the sky, I thought maybe a plane crashed, but it was like a neon Blue so bright you could see the clouds and it was pitch dark. I have a coworker who saw the same two blue flashes. It was south over the horizon, I think it was two meteors that hit.
October 24, 2017 · 5:15 AM · CHEVRON
Huntsville, AL
I was viewing the clear sky this morning, as I was walking across the parking lot in Research Park. I was surprised to see a V-shaped pattern of lights going from North to South. There was one lead light and maybe 3-4 lights equally distanced down each side. It almost appeared that the body inside the object was translucent, it seemed that I could see through it. I heard no sound and it appeared to be effortlessly gliding across the sky. It passed over in five to ten seconds.
October 24, 2017 · 12:35 AM · EGG
Milford, CT
We suspect a hoax. Date is flawed; witness elects to remain totally anonymous, provides no contact information. PD
October 24, 2017 · 12:00 AM · OVAL
Kalama, WA
green ball looked the size of sun,traveling north east parallel with hwy 5 exit 27 north, after going pastus turned to orange and looked like it went down north of kalama ,when we got home my grandson saw three military helicopters circle north of kalama we are on the flight path to joint base Lewis McChord and see them often, they have the boom in the front, he saw them for about 10 minutes.
October 23, 2017 · 8:50 PM · TRIANGLE
Marshall, AR
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 23, 2017 · 8:30 PM · LIGHT
Mountain Home AFB, ID
I work on the flight line at Mountain Home AFB. We constantly have planes taking off and doing exercises at night. I am familiar with how they come in to land, the patterns they do, coloring of the lights, etc. On this particular night I was working on multiple aircraft and as I'm walking to one of them I noticed a bright orange light coming from the South West, which is directly in line with our runway. I don't particularly remember any of our jets going up prior to seeing the light but could possibly be a cargo aircraft. Normally our jets have bright white lights, but since this light was orange, I assumed it wasn't one of ours, or the bulb was just old and needed to be replaced. It didn't appear to be moving but normally their approach is pretty far so it could have been descending at a slow rate. Thinking nothing else of it, I continued to work on the aircraft for about 5-10 minutes and noticed the light was still there in the exact same spot. Perhaps maybe it made a go-around, but it never passed over the base to make a pattern like they normally do if they miss the approach or practice. The light stayed there for about 2 minutes after looking at it then disappeared. I told my other co-workers and they saw the light too, but jokingly played it off that they were aliens. About 5 minutes later the light appeared again but this time there were multiple smaller orange lights in a formation to the left of the larger light, in the exact same spot again. I couldn't tell if the smaller lights were all individual craft or part of a larger one. None of them appeared to be moving. I thought maybe they could be flares and they're just just practicing but it made no sense that 1, the lights all were the same color, 2. why would they pop flares while on approach to land? and 3. flares die out after about 5-10 seconds but these stayed eliminated for another 2-3 minutes. Then they all disappeared. This repeated 3 more times until it stopped. Nothing ever landed later that night, and found out later none of the squadrons were flying at that time. The light was bright enough at times I thought it was coming right towards us but it never moved from that single spot. There are no other larger airports around that can support aircraft with large lights like the ones I saw, except for 40 miles north west in Boise. Can't guarantee what I saw is concrete evidence of extraterrestrial objects but they were definitely out of the ordinary and I haven't seen the lights prior or after the incident. Normally jets practice in the same areas and do the same patterns for about a week or so so all the pilots can practice at it since we have multiple day/night shifts. Was really strange. Source of report indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
October 23, 2017 · 8:30 PM · FORMATION
Russellville, AR
Driving north on hwy 7 seen 4 "lights" in a square pattern. They were still one moment then all 4 disappeared then reappear a little east then back to the first place. When all 4 disappeared they went went straight up with a small light trail for maybe half second.