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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 5, 2017 · 6:52 AM · OTHER
Dallas, OR
It was almost sundown. I was doing yard work in the back yard when I looked up. Noticed an odd flame looking orb gliding through the sky headed north. I watched it & took a video of it for almost 2 minutes as it cruised through the sky @ an elevation higher than a drone would be but way less than an aircraft. It was hard to distinguish the shape because it honestly looked like it was glowing bright orange & didn’t keep one specific shape. Very odd. It stayed flying linear until I couldn’t see it anymore but it was definitely the strangest thing I’ve ever seen. I know what I saw. My 2 minute video deleted itself once I went back to look at what I had captured & all I was left with was this short clip of the object. Note the trees to the left of the screen. It will give you an idea of how fast it was moving. Pretty incredible.
October 5, 2017 · 5:30 AM · CIRCLE
Clifton, NJ
When I woke up, around 5:30 am, I looked out the window and saw a bright object that looked like the moon, and the size of a penny or nickel when held in the hand, standing there. Initially I did not make much of it, one way or the other. But then it hit me that it might be a UFO. All of a sudden, it was gone, but it did not go away, it just disappeared, like a light that is turned off. It was still rather dark and I could not see whether or not there were any clouds in the sky. But when the sun came out, I realized that there was not a single cloud in the sky. Evidently, the object had just disappeared, like a light that is turned off. This took place in Clifton, NJ, to the west of New York City. (You can see the city from my apartment.) I do not know exactly the duration of the incident, because it was already "floating" over there when I woke up.
October 5, 2017 · 1:00 AM · OTHER
Westfield, MA
Saw bright light craft in sky almost looked like the shape of a sword with out the handle. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 5, 2017 · 1:00 AM · LIGHT
Augusta, GA
My wife and i were looking out window and noticed a light appear in the sky. It got brighter and didn't move for hours. The ufo was changing colors. (yellow, red, and blue)
October 4, 2017 · 10:43 PM · FLASH
Palm Bay, FL
A weird noise that shook the house like a distant sonic boom and then three zoom noises that you normally never hear, like something you would hear In a space movie almost like laser sounding and the sky got bright for a slight moment like 10 seconds. Then, a few minutes later, a few helicopters flew after it. My dog also has been crying nonstop before and after it and looking at doors like someone is coming, but I don’t see anyone or anything.
October 4, 2017 · 9:15 PM · RECTANGLE
Wilsonville, OR
I stepped outside to view the full moon around 9:00pm tonight,the 4th of October. I was standing alone looking up at the moon. It was quiet except for the distant muffled sound of the freeway. Suddenly, I heard an extremely loud, low pitched pulsing sound to my right. As I turned towards it two very large, dark rectangular objects appeared abruptly over the nearby tree tops. They were identical. Each one had a large red light and a few smaller white lights. Each was approximately the size of 2 RVS together. There were no propellers. I was standing in a wide open space and they flew right over it, lower than a helicopter would. As soon as they passed over me, I ran into the shadows of the trees and waited for my heart to calm down. I was shaken enough I needed to talk to someone and went to speak to a man who lives next door in a tiny house he has converted from a former MRI truck. It weighs 34,000 pounds! Why am I emphasizing the weight? Because this man was on the phone with his mother when he heard a loud pulsing sound and his entire tiny house truck began to shake. Not just vibrate, it shook. He came out and we discussed it at length. My ex-husband served in the Marine Corps for 21 years. I have lived on bases all over the world. I have never seen or heard anything like this, flying overhead before. ((ADDENDUM #1 FROM WITNESS)) Hello Peter, Turns out we have a helicopter airport nearby that specializes in heavy lift operations. They have Chinooks in their fleet. My partner believes that's what I saw last night. Still. . . no propellers seen on a night with an intensely bright full moon. Hmmmm. ((END ADDENDUM)) ((ADDENDUM #2 FROM WITNESS)) Peter the moon was extremely bright as they flew right over me, with the moon as backdrop and still I saw no propellers. Also only one, unblinking, red light. A few scattered small white lights, also not blinking. ((END ADDENDUM #2)) ((BEGIN ADDENDUM #3)) Yes I saw only one large red light on each and a scattering of small white lights on each. I did call the helicopter place and left a voicemail for a call back. ((END ADDENDUM #3)) We spoke via telephone with the witness, and she seemed to us to be both sincere, and serious-minded. We suspect that she is an excellent witness. PD
October 4, 2017 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Crown Point, IN
UNEXPLAINED BRIGHT LIGHTS FLYING SLOWLY IN THE SKY OVER CROWN POINT, INDIANA. FIRST NOTICED DUE TO OUR DOG GROWLING AT THEM. THEY WOULD SLOWLY APPROACH FROM WHAT LOOKED LIKE A FEW MILES WEST OF MY LOCATION NEAR CROWN POINT HIGH SCHOOL, RISE INTO THE CLOUDS ROUGHLY OVERHEAD, THEN REAPPEAR FROM THE SAME DIRECTION A MINUTE OR TWO LATER, REPEATING THE SAME PATTERN. EACH APPEARANCE WOULD LAST PERHAPS 5 MINUTES OR SO. BETWEEN 3-5 WERE SEEN AT A TIME. THEY WERE COMPLETELY SILENT, NEVER BLINKING OR CHANGING INTENSITY REGARDLESS OF WHERE THEY WERE, AND IN DIFFERENT GROUPINGS EACH TIME (CLOSE TOGETHER, SPREAD OUT, RANDOM, STRAIGHT LINE, DIAMOND, CURVED LINE, AND TRIANGLE). AFTER APPROX. 30 MINUTES AND 5-6 APPEARANCES, THEY ROSE INTO THE CLOUDS ONE BY ONE AND WERE NOT SEEN AGAIN.
October 4, 2017 · 8:54 PM · LIGHT
Portland, OR
My husband and I were watching tv when we heard a helicopter. Within a minute or so it got very loud and the windows started to rattle. It was obviously a military helicopter flying low. We have experienced this on occasion, but never have the windows rattled like this instance. My husband and I looked at each other, jumped up and ran outside, looking north. It was a clear night and an almost full moon, which was in the eastern sky. What made this encounter interesting enough to report was not just the helicopter. We are somewhat in the flight path of PDX and have planes flying over, so I know how fast they go. When we went out, the helicopter was just flying over our house in a NNW direction. In front of it, also flying NNW, was a small bright white light -- low on the horizon and flying VERY fast. No sound could be heard other than the helicopter. Interestingly, there were two airplanes flying south higher then the light and the helicopter. They had typical airplane lights and followed the normal flight pattern we usually see from planes flying over. Again, what was noteworthy about this experience was the speed and low altitude at which the white light was traveling, plus the military helicopter following it (I don't know if I would say pursuing it). I don't know if the light was ET, but we would definitely call it a UFO because of the nature of the encounter. Maybe something military?
October 4, 2017 · 8:43 PM · FORMATION
Califon, NJ
Upon walking out in the evening to bring out the garbage, we heard a helicopter off to the south east. Looking up the valley from our home, towards Long Valley, we noticed a strange collection of lights on a craft that was hovering over the valley. A commercial airline was in the flight path above us to the west, heading towards Newark Airport. The lights on the hovering craft were unlike any lights we notice on the aircraft in the flight patterns around our home. My son turns to me and says, "Do yo use that?" and I am staring sayings "Yes, what is that?" as we studied it trying to figure out exactly what we were seeing it disappeared, almost like it was vacuumed up into thin air. We paused and completely dumbfounded, as it was unlike anything we had ever witnessed before. We waiting a few minutes and nothing, it was completely gone from the sky that our eyes could see.
October 4, 2017 · 8:25 PM · LIGHT
Orlando, FL
Witnessed a small bright white light moving from the northwest to the southeast at an incredible speed. It went from one horizon to the other in less than 90 seconds. Object moved in a straight line and never deviated. There was no sound involved. The object was not a satellite as it appeared to be roughly 20 to 30 thousand feet elevation and was moving above mach 3.
October 4, 2017 · 8:20 PM · TRIANGLE
Beaufort, SC
On 10/04/17, at 8:20 PM, I was driving on Broad River Blvd. In front of me, just at the tree line, was a massive triangle shaped UFO. It was black with three white lights on the front. It was moving very slow and there was no engine noise.
October 4, 2017 · 8:00 PM · DISK
Easley, SC
As my family and I were returning home from dinner, I observed an object in the sky with lights around the edge of the object, giving it a disk like appearance. I was heading SW on Three Bridges Rd, in a rural area between the cities of Greenville and Anderson, South Carolina. I first saw the object through a clearing of trees that line the road, directly in front of me. It appeared to be at least a couple of miles away, maybe 500-1000 ft in the air. There was an airplane that passed by in the vicinity, but this object was stationary, almost like it may have been hovering. I tracked it with my eyes as much as I safely could while driving to see if it moved at all. Having grown up bird and duck hunting, I used trees and other objects in the sky to try and triangulate the location as best as possible. The object wasn’t moving. I then approached an area that is heavily wooded and blocked the line of sight I had on the object. When I came out of the area, I saw the object in the same location, then all of a sudden, it quickly ascended in the sky to the point it disappeared. During the duration of the time I saw the object, I had feeling or sense like I was being watched by something or someone.
October 4, 2017 · 8:00 PM · RECTANGLE
Milford, CT
looking west watching commercial air traffic from nyc saw rectangle 4 red lights and a fifth in center object moved at high speed and right angles across sky it was below air traffic but at high altitude like a giant piece of plywood on end not flat rotated on end when it stopped and hovvered after about 15 to 20 minutes it raced of over horizon at high speed. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 4, 2017 · 6:40 PM · SPHERE
O'Fallon, IL
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 4, 2017 · 6:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Allentown, PA
Falling unidentified object from sky. Local police received many reports of falling craft, but upon investigation nothing was reported found.
October 4, 2017 · 3:30 PM · OTHER
Greenbelt, MD
Driving on 193 in Greenbelt. Noticed 3 very bright red trails and a forth up and to the right much bigger. Not in direction of BWI or National. Looked like heading to Andrews. Took pics on cell phone. They were all heading DOWN. I was waiting for an impact!
October 4, 2017 · 2:32 PM · DISK
Roanoke, VA
Sitting in my car at stop light at Cave Spring Baptist Church, I witnessed 2 saucer shaped objects flying too close to be aircraft unlike any flying object I have seen at the bottom of Bent Mountain. They flew horizontal over trees. The stop light took another 45 seconds to change, so I sped up to pull over to snap a photo but they were too far away and went behind Mountain
October 4, 2017 · 12:26 PM · CIRCLE
Woodland, WA
I was on my lunch break at a construction site on 300 N Pekin Rd in Woodland, WA, and decided to take some pictures of the clouds to the South of our site and after I looked at the picture there was an image in my picture that couldn't be seen with the naked eye.
October 4, 2017 · 11:20 AM · RECTANGLE
Lexington, TX
Loud rumblings shook house, very large black rectangles blocking out stars heading north, no lights. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 4, 2017 · 6:10 AM · LIGHT
Knox, PA
On 10-04-17, my daughter and I saw some strange lights in the sky and couldn't figure them out. My daughter and I are both adults who enjoy watching the sky at night. We are both detail oriented and I am a voracious reader. At approximately 6:10 AM, we were sitting on our covered patio. It was still dark, the sky was clear, and stars were very visible. The outside temperature was 51 degrees F. We noticed a very bright "star" stationary in the southern sky and our first thought was that the north star should not be in the southern sky. We located the north star, right where it should have been. We then realized that the light in the sky was much brighter than the north star. We noticed that the light had begun moving in a westerly direction. We have a lot of air traffic in our area, so we're familiar with the speed airliner lights appear to move in the night sky. This light was moving faster than an airliner. All of a sudden the bright light winked out. A few seconds later there were red and white blinking lights where the bright light had been. The lights would move west, pause for a second or two, then move west again. The lights paused and moved west 5 times. After the final pause, the lights then began moving straight up. They stopped long enough to blink twice, then began moving east at an even faster rate than the bright light had moved. We followed the blinking lights for nearly a minute, then they disappeared. We have witnessed strange lights in the southern sky on several occasions over the last few years. I finally decided to see if there could be an explanation for them. Summer of 2013, around the 4th of July, about 10 PM, I was on our patio, when I saw a bright light in the southern sky arc from the treeline. It reached what would have been the apex of the arc and simply winked out. Two seconds later another bright light followed the same trajectory from the treeline to the apex and winked out. Two seconds after that a third bright light followed the same path as the other two and winked out. Initially, since it was fireworks season, I assumed they were just fireworks. Then I realized that there was no noise, no flash, nothing. The lights just winked out. The lights were puzzling because fireworks, by their very nature, cannot maintain such precise trajectories, especially along an identical path.
October 4, 2017 · 6:05 AM · CIRCLE
Troy, MI
On Wednesday morning, October 4, 2017, at approximately 6:05 a.m. I had to take one of my three dogs outside on a leash due to major surgery he just had. Normally, I allow them to go out by themselves because I have a fenced back yard. While the other two dogs were running around the back yard, the dog I had on the leash just stood in the middle of the driveway looking around. While he was doing that, I was noticing how nice the stars were and the little dipper was visible. The cold front had not moved in yet, but I did notice some light clouds moving in. Something caught my dogs attention and he started to walk down the driveway to the back yard. We were headed North on the driveway. That is when I noticed a bright ball of light arcing from about ½ a mile from my driveway on the East side. It was about 300 feet in the air arcing East. Then it literally stopped for a few seconds in mid-air, and then flew straight up into the sky until I could not see it any longer. From my location the ball looked to be bigger than a soft ball and as bright as a led light. When we all went back inside the house 40 minutes had already gone by. The 40 minutes that passed from us going outside and going back in again is confusing. Our morning journey outside usually lasts 10 minutes. After we went inside I heard a helicopter near my house.
October 4, 2017 · 5:09 AM · LIGHT
Broadview Heights, OH
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 4, 2017 · 2:30 AM · UNKNOWN
Casper, WY
As I was heading east along I-25, at approx 2:30 am, in the middle of nothing. About 15 minutes east of Casper, WY, I was in the slow lane, there was a truck approaching me to the rear, he was faster than I, as I can only run 67 mph in a 80 mph. I was on the phone with my co-worker in South Dakota. I was talking through my stereo and just took a sip of my Pepsi and as I was looking up from setting it in my cup holder, I saw a, what looked like/resembled a human, standing either on the road in between the yellow line and the edge of pavement, or just standing off of it by the snow reflectors. It was all the way to the left of the left lane traveling east bound. As I looked up from my cup holder, I see something, looked as to it was standing straight up from bending at the waist, was facing at a 45 drgree angle to me. It was looking SE, I saw the back and then the right side as I passed. When it was almost straight up, its left arm shot up and stayed up, a lot quicker than it stood up. It was not fazed, that I sped by, like deer and antelope are, just kinda looking somewhere, doing something. It was all grey, flat, medium, dull grey. I thought about ppl on stilts, Halloween, etc. . Didn't see the hands to much, but the fist or whatever that shot to the sky looked big and clumpy. What I described to my co-worker on the phone as, was a really tall Statue of Liberty. Saw the left hand/arm, looked like was holding something, but clumpy and blurry from my speed. I got the worst hair raising chills ever, in my life. They were pulsing and in waves with every hair on my body standing up for about ten minutes. And that's just not me, I prey for zombies, but this scared the crap out of me. As I was approaching the first turnaround, I told him I was going to take it. He talked me out of it, and past the next 2 turnarounds. The truck that was fast approaching me from the rear, over the next hill I saw that he was about 3-4 miles behind me i! nstead of 1. He musta slowed down, these trucks take for ever to stop. When I got back to my baker dock that morning, I stood next to my drivers door. I'm 5'10" and the bottom of my semi's window is over 6'. I saw the 'Grey' then, and to see his shoulders and head as I passed, taken in corporate for height and distance, ten feet to left of my truck, it had to be 7' + tall. It looked like the Liberty Tax ppl that stand outside of the shop on tax season with their arm in the air. With the foam hat and all waving their sign. Again, this all happened in a matter of seconds. I got talked out of turning around, as per company, we are only 'allowed' to carry knives. But if it was a split second sooner, I coulde of stuffed my brakes and recorded the previous 11 seconds to the following 11 seconds and had it recorded. I did not see any overturned cars in the median or off to any side, that night or the following nights, as this is my current nightly route. There is quite a few more dead animals than normal with in maybe 2 miles both ways on the eastbound lanes than normal, but it is hi tins session.
October 3, 2017 · 11:00 PM · CIRCLE
Nakina, NC
Over the course of the last couple of weeks my boyfriend had been telling me to come look outside. I finally did the last time. And it happened again tonight. Tonight was even better. I could actually see what he was describing last time. So, there is this light that has been visiting our area that we cannot reason what it could be logically anything man made. The light has been seen at least 8 times by him and twice by me. The "light craft" hovers and then does zigzag formations, but never descends (as if a plane was landing). It's always at night when we see it, and then "light craft" stays for a while. Also, we have notice it happens that we see the craft after important/horrifying events for example the deadly mass shooting last night and now tonight. I think they are watching us.