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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 17, 2017 · 12:30 AM · CIRCLE
Newtown, PA
Driving home, I saw around 12:30 AM, a large, far off purple circle shaped light. It didn't appear to be moving, but hovering. Then, as soon as I saw it. It seemed to speed off in a flash and disappeared in an instant. I saw its trail of light disappear too. It was a clear night, and there were no street lights. I saw it from Durham Road, just leaving the Acme parking lot.
October 17, 2017 · 12:00 AM · RECTANGLE
Marlborough, MA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 17, 2017 · 12:00 AM · CIRCLE
Dora, AL
Numerous multicolored flashing lights, circular in shape and very quite flying in random circles
October 16, 2017 · 10:34 PM · LIGHT
Spout spring, VA
I saw an orange light moving west to east. Object seems to change direction occasionally. Did not hear jet engines, or propeller. Altitude was approximately 5000 ft. Object was south of me. Object did not make any sudden moves during its flight. I am sure it wasn’t a meteor it was moving too slow. Only a single light was seen, no flickering, was a lot larger than any aircraft light I have seen. Light didn’t appear to luminate like a search light used on aircraft.
October 16, 2017 · 9:42 PM · SPHERE
North Dayton, OH
I don't know whether what I saw this night was real or something I worked up a bit in my head. Since August 2017, I have seen red/orange orb UFO's flying near, and even directly above, my home in north Dayton. But on this night in October, an approximate date and time, I was outside alone and saw from the west the now-familiar bright red glow (which, as it begins to move into view, appears incredibly large) as if one of the objects was about to approach from due west as was their most common direction of approach. But this night the bright red glow did not seem to be moving, or moving west to east; instead, it appeared to be stopped 600 hundred or so yards west of me, low enough that it was actually hovering only around 10-12 feet above the ground in a neighbor's yard. While the the object appeared just as large as had all prior objects, this particular one was not only stationary, lower (at under treetop level), there were two other unusual occurrences. First, there were shadows which seemed superimposed over the brilliant red light. These shadows moved like humans except with jerkier movements; two or three were tall while one was short. Second, while there was (as always) no sound produced by the object, while these shadows seemed to move in front of the red light, I heard what I can best describe as "whispered internal static" -- it was not something heard aurally, but more like feeling vibrations and recognizing these as speech, somehow. Though the red orbs have never made me the least bit nervous before, this night, after the object again lifted into the air following its traditional path of flight, I watched it only until it was about halfway through the route before going inside. I wasn't nervous as much as I was confused by what I'd seen. I didn't trust myself and so I almost immediately decided it must have been neighbors with a Chinese lantern. If it was, the lantern was as large as a one-story, 1800-square-foot house and the neighbors' shadows were somehow being projected as exceptionally tall, except for the one smaller one. And, when I truly looked, there were no neighbors outside any house but mine that night; but, for some reason, that explanation made the most sense to me at the time. Before I came into the house, as I watched this orb first lift above tree level while moving northeast, then straighten its path to move directly west-to-east, a family member came outside. I told him the neighbors were setting off Chinese lanterns. "That's not a Chinese lantern," he replied. "And what neighbors?" I have started to occasionally see these red orbs nearby again, starting in February; they had been absent since that last prior sighting in October. And no, it was not a Chinese lantern; but, everything except the orb itself I'm going to say could have come from my imagination.
October 16, 2017 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Overland Park, KS
My kids and I were outside in our driveway at approximately 9:00pm on 10/16/17. My daughter drew my attention to many pinpoints of light flying overhead. They appeared to me to look and move the way a satellite appears in the sky however, they did not appear as if they were at height altitude because the pinpoints looked brighter and just seemed like they were not that high in the air. As I stated they tracked like a satellite, we’re moving in the same direction and not uniform. They moved at different speeds with some passing others, The speeds were not that fast while some moved faster than others. No audible sound. There were probably no more than 5 in any given ‘row’. This phenomenon was observed for at least one minute as we just looked up in amazement as they passed up. This event scared my 12 year old daughter. I have never seen anything like this and could only compare the points of light to how a satellite looks in the sky having only seen one at an! astronomical meet. I told my daughter that this is what a UFO is. It only means that we don’t know what it is, not that it must be alien. At that time I could only guess that could have been drones which I also found hard to believe. A coworker told me it could have been re-entry debris form a satellite or something. I have just today discovered that the Pentagon has developed drone swarms. I would expect a drone swarm at night to look like what we saw. The problem is there are no Air Force bases that close to Overland Park,KS and I have to wonder about fuel/battery life. Also, why over this suburban community. I do not believe in ghosts nor do I believe aliens are flying around among us. I don’t know what they were but I believe there is reasonable explanation.
October 16, 2017 · 8:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Cincinnati, OH
Two lights (orange above and red below) moved faster than a satellite perpendicular to me and my daughter relatively high in the sky, then moved towards us more quickly, then turned and went away from us diagonally relatively slowly before disappearing. No sound. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 16, 2017 · 8:10 PM · TEARDROP
Forest Grove, OR
Three white dots not blinking but solid that were vertically in line and moved together as one with very little spacing between them so not sure if it was one unit or three separate ones. It just crossed through the sky west to east.
October 16, 2017 · 8:00 PM · FLASH
Bellbrook, OH
While stepping out to have a cigarette I look due east and saw bright orange lights that flashed like the front of the car from Knight Rider from left to right as soon as it flashed one time like that all the sudden it started immediately to the left of its original spot flashed like the front of the car from night rider from left to right as soon as it flashed one time like that all the sudden it started and immediately to the left of its original spot. This was a left to right sequence of lights all Orange. Then it disappeared and never flashed again.
October 16, 2017 · 7:40 PM · LIGHT
Las Cruces, NM
I don't know what I saw but it didn't seem like a flying object of any kind. I had just finished my run on Sonoma Ranch Boulevard between Lohman and Dripping Springs. It's very dark out there in the desert and I saw a bright light to the north, just below the Big Dipper and very close to the horizon. It had white and red light, with maybe green too. My night vision isn't very good so I tried putting on my glasses but that seemed to make it worse. I thought it was a planet or star and thought I would look it up when I got home. It wasn't moving so that's why I thought it was a planet or star. I looked down in my car for a minute because I was syncing my sports watch with the app, and then when I looked up, the light was completely gone, so obviously it wasn't a planet or star and that freaked me out a little. I wish I knew if there were aircraft in the area, but I don't know how to look it up.
October 16, 2017 · 3:52 PM · CIGAR
Wenatchee, WA
At 3:52 pm I was standing in the doorway of my garage, looking north. I noticed a cigar shaped, silver colored craft heading from east to west at a rapid rate of speed. It turned sharply and headed north. I was trying to rule out plane or bird as I witnessed the event. It was neither as it was moving so fast and turned on a dime, changing direction. I will be submitting an additional report immediately following this one involving another sighting 2 hours, later witnessed by myself and Husband.
October 16, 2017 · 6:15 AM · CIRCLE
Huntsville, TX
Driving to work, I noticed what I thought to be a pretty, bright star. As I was looking at it seemed to grow in size. So I watched it more closely, it was definitely beginning to move. It first seemed to move towards me (west), growing brighter, but I turned north, and it continued moving in a west direction. It got so low I could not see it through the trees any longer. After about a minute it began to ascend and grew dimmer again until I lost visablity.
October 16, 2017 · 3:45 AM · FLASH
West Chazy, NY
We were driving on the Highway 87, going north, and we noticed a bright white light behind us. It would flash white every second and seemed to be following us. The object looked like it was flying close to the road, as we saw it pass over a bridge. We thought about a plane on an emergency landing, but it stayed behind is for too long. We where driving at 65 miles/hour. The object was flying close to the trees and was following the curves of the road (left to right). We were 5 in the car and everybody saw it. We are all sober, as,well. It got really close to the car (100 feet), and then got further.
October 16, 2017 · 3:00 AM · FIREBALL
Port St. Lucie, FL
I have waited to post this simply because I didn't believe what I saw and after looking this up and seeing similar sitings I believe this was something to report. I was outside on my porch at 3am with 3 others when we noticed a large orange ball coming towards earth very quickly. You could tell it hit the earth's atmosphere because it gained a cone or "tail". It proceeded to come closer for about 8 seconds and then shot back up into the sky. It came down from the west and went back up in the east.
October 15, 2017 · 11:18 PM · OTHER
Greensboro, NC
I was driving towards town from the Kivett/Old Randelman area and first I saw a yellow/orange light that went across the sky from right to left but I was sure it wasn't a shooting star because of the speed and the fact that it almost looked like it appeared from a different dimension and disappeared within 4 seconds. Within a minute I was still driving in the same directions and I actually slowed down to keep focus on the road and sky back and forth and sure enough another light came to my sight, except this time it came from top to bottom and it was white for about 80% of the time, then as it looked like it got close to crashing or hitting ground, it turned into a few different hues of green and then yellow/white and it looked like it dissipated or hit water because there was no explosion or light where I expected to see it light up.
October 15, 2017 · 10:40 PM · CHEVRON
Orlando, FL
One object in a v-shape of lights. It looked like 6 lights on each side. They were not extremely bright from my view but very noticeable. It flew slowly and there was no sound. It looked like it was flying low but at a further distance. I'm around the airport area and see plenty of planes day and night and never anything like this.
October 15, 2017 · 8:30 PM · FLASH
Dallas, GA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 15, 2017 · 8:30 PM · CHEVRON
Gearhart, OR
It looked like a V shaped, very large flying object. It was silent and moving slowly. It turned from south to west while we were watching it and went behind a building so we couldn’t see it anymore. It had 5 large red dome lights that were solid on its undercarriage and then small red outline lights all the way around it’s V shape that were also solid. It seemed to turn off the outside lights where we were. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 15, 2017 · 8:15 PM · SPHERE
Douglas, WY
2 of my friends and I were standing on my balcony smoking a cigarette, when we all saw this extremely bright orb or sphere slowly come over a ridge in the South and as soon as it fully broke the ridge top it shot straight up into the clouds then quickly shot down to the top of another ridge in the West, hoovered for a minute then streaked across the sky to the South and then shot North as fast as you could turn our head's.
October 15, 2017 · 8:00 PM · SPHERE
Winder, GA
Object was seen at dusk. Not sure of the exact clock time. Facing east. Looked like a very large bright star. Stayed in one spot for about 4 minutes. Began to move away slowly from left to right horizontally. Then picked up speed rapidly and and began to climb upward in a slight ark. It went from being at a one o clock position on the horizon to being out of sight at the right side of the horizon in about 1 second. There was no sound. It definitely moved faster than a human could survive. Not sure if this is related, but, the next day, during the day, it was cloudless. In the same relative spot from my vantage point, small single clouds would form only one at a time and then disappear in less than 30 seconds or less. This was the only cloud formation in the sky. Very small clouds from my vantage point. Never saw anything like that before. Witness indicates that the date of the event is approximate. PD
October 15, 2017 · 8:00 PM · CIRCLE
Hillsboro, OR
At 8 PM pacific time, I was star watching with husband. We both noticed a "star" moving. We thought maybe an airplane but the speed and distance could not be an airplane. We saw 7 lights moving different directions, we followed the star for 20 seconds and the light would dim out, 5 seconds later, the light would brighten up, finally loosing sight 5 seconds later. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 15, 2017 · 7:30 PM · CIRCLE
Seven Hills, OH
I attached the original photo and the zoomed in photo.
October 15, 2017 · 5:24 PM · FLASH
Wheat Ridge, CO
I was sitting near my patio door inside, while playing a board game with my nephew. I notice there was a round circular object moving in the sky. The object is changing into a shiny star like figure and it was opening up and unfolding. I walked outside to get a better look and it was a spectacular light star that I was so overwhelmed by the changing form of the object. My little 5 year old nephew was also seeing it unfold and I told him to grab my cell phone from the sofa. He grabbed it and handed it to me so I could take a few pictures. The object split into two and changed into a black circular object and there was another light white circular object below it. It fades away into the clouds.
October 15, 2017 · 2:00 PM · CIRCLE
Houston, TX
Witness provides no significant data. PD