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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
September 25, 2017 · 10:00 PM · OTHER
Washington, PA
They are still with me.....My family was coming back from Pittsburgh to Ohio and my kids and my friends son saw it exactly the same time with my own 2 kids in the back seat and shouted at my wife in the passenger seat that the moon was moving by flashing out and reappearing in different places. My wife then screams and shouts at me to stop and pull over I said impossible until it flashed in the front of my windshield and flashed and reappeared in different places in front and close as it appears to look like the moon but there is a weird light behind it that shows a shape of it's appearance...it looks exactly like the moon as it's shine and no one has spoke about it like no one had seen it except us....now I can see theses UFO flying shapes everywhere there to fast for my phone to capture and there in a formation that changes but there linked together they show me they link in any formation horizontal vertical ways but they show me in full view but there tra! nsparent white and each one is round and extremely fast and close range with no wind behind them no sound they won't let you picture them and there pointing to the east always going east except for the moon jumping around for me to especially see to have me witness it then it was gone we moved back to Florida and now I have weird emotions that have me go out side and witness them I had a friend also witness this he is a veteran and I was emotionally drawn outside and we witness it together now I ignore my emotion's I feel like it saying go east and worse my friend also said the sky of stars was in a triangle pointing to the east as the UFO's kept flying in that direction... I'm 49 years old wife is 37 son 10 daughter 8 young friends son 6 my friend is 40
September 25, 2017 · 8:13 PM · TRIANGLE
Grand Haven, MI
Large triangular craft with red, blue, green light on each corner flying west to east just over tree line in upright position, then maneuvered flat. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 25, 2017 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Fort Wayne, IN
The evenings of September 25th, 26th, and the 27th, I and my fiancée witnessed a ball of light in the sky. The first night I was by myself outside on my back porch and I saw a ball of light move from the southwest to what seemed like the northeast and it faded away in like five seconds but it was not a meteor cause of the speed it was moving at which seem very slow and it wasn’t a plane. The next evening, I was outside with my fiancée and we were out around the same time as I was the night before 8:30 and we both saw a light like I did before except moving from east to west. We saw it for about four or five seconds then it disappeared. We thought that was cool and said it was interesting and as we said that it reappered for like a second heading in the direction. The third night was the weirdest cause around the same time on the 27th I and my fiancée were sitting and I asked her if I should ask Yahweh to send a ufo for us to observe and she said sure. So I stretched my arms out and ask Yahweh to seen a ufo. We sat there for five minutes and she went inside. I stayed for a few more minutes and just as I was about to go inside I saw it in the corner of my eyes. I turned to see a white flashing light blink several times so I yelled for my fiancée to come back outside and she made it in time to see the light. It flashed about 8 more times not in a pattern but once then three times then two and it started to faded away and it was gone. Yeah, I know it sounds weird, but that’s my story, and I’m sticking to it.
September 25, 2017 · 7:50 PM · LIGHT
New York City, NY
UFO spotted on 9/25/17 at 7:30pm in New York City over the Hudson River, approx 1 mile north of the George Washington bridge. A red light in the sky, not moving, not blinking. I watched it for 15 minutes, then it finally moved. It dropped rapidly to a lower altitude, the light changed from red to blue. Then it stopped, changed back to red, and quickly flew West toward New Jersey.
September 25, 2017 · 7:35 PM · FIREBALL
Stafford Springs, CT
As we got under it, it appeared to have a glowing pale light underneath but was still a bright red all around and looked round like a ball or slightly oblong and kept slowly moving as we drove the opposite way under it. My fiancé was driving too fast and the road was busy so we didn't get a chance to turn around before we couldn't see it anymore. Maybe someone else saw it too because a lot of people were driving at this time.
September 25, 2017 · 7:35 PM · SPHERE
Escondido, CA
A shooting star appeared to enter the atmosphere and became a grey sphere travelling at high speed from west to east at around 19:35. It was silent, left no trail or sonic boom, had no lights or blinking lights of any kind. It went from directly above to the eastern horizon in 3-4 seconds. As it left the sunlight that's when we could see the shape and greyish matte color as the object grew larger in size and disappeared into the darkness of the night.
September 25, 2017 · 7:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Union, NJ
I was looking just to the south of the Northern Cross and saw a distinctive, triangular shaped light brightly flash just once. It illuminated long enough to realize the direction of travel as south/southwest. Made no sound. Did not exhibit the typical red/green/clear strobing lights of typical aircraft. This is the second time this summer I've seen strange lights in this same area of the night sky. In all the years I've been "looking up", I've seen satellites, 2 comets, run of the mill aircraft, blimps, whatever, but never anything like this.
September 25, 2017 · 7:30 PM · OVAL
Armada, MI
Just finished mowing lawn and was about 7:30pm EST, not quite dark but dusk. Was looking at drones as it was clear out and could see some stars starting to appear. Was talking with buddy, checking out for drones as it was near Armada Center Rd and North Ave in Armada. Turned to south and freaked out. Saw symmetrical disc-shaped object, grey/charcoal surface not sure. About 1-3 miles away, couldn't tell. Low altitude just hovering. Then bright light appeared from rear of vehicle and it took off in a straight path eastward. Whole event lasted about 5 seconds then gone. Amazing, will never forget it. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 25, 2017 · 7:27 PM · OTHER
Lancaster, KY
At 19:26 on 9-25-2017, I observed a white cloud-like object about 10 degrees to the right of the waxing crescent moon. At 10 degrees to the right of that object was a plane with a contrail. I was in Lancaster, Kentucky at that time. I called my brother in neighboring Lincoln County and asked him to go out to observe the object. He was about 3 miles south of my location. While on the phone the object became very bright. This was caused by the angle from the sun. I have seen this occur when planes fly toward the western horizon after sunset. The object and the plane were moving east to west. They appeared to move about the same speed. However, the plane did not reflect any sunlight. My brother did not see the object brighten. It lasted a few seconds. Finally he was able to get outside and find the object with binoculars. His description is as follows: The object appeared to have a large, low dome above an undefined structure below. The "dome" reflected a yellow glow from the setting sun. I followed the object with binoculars for a minute or so until it just vanished from view. I'm not sure if the object just ceased reflecting sunlight, or if it moved off at a very high rate of speed. Total time of my observation was about two minutes. Finally, I tracked the object from the Lancaster location until it became a pale white dot on the western horizon and vanished. My observation was naked eye and lasted about 5 minutes. It did not appear to be a plane. Hopefully someone else saw it and can identify it. My brother and I are amateur astronomers and have been for 45 years. It was not a plane. We are very familiar with the night sky. We are located in Central Kentucky and we observe many flights of aircraft daily.
September 25, 2017 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Los Angeles, CA
I'm not sure if these lights are anything that can be easily explained, but after a quick web search I didn't find anything so here it goes. As soon as it gets dark enough to see planes' lights in the night sky, I see about 5 bright lights in the sky at plane level. They've been showing up for a couple of days now. From my window, I see a lot of planes take off. These lights are in their path. They twinkle like stars and are white or yellowish, but sometimes not all of them are there and I have seen them very slowly move. Their formation also changes. I think they're too high up to be airport lights of some sort and stars don't move. So what are they? I live in South Central LA.
September 25, 2017 · 5:11 PM · DISK
West Chase, FL
It was early evening before sunset when I was in a restaurant looking out of the window of truly unusual sky. First there were chevrons in the cloud formations then there appeared a huge diamond shape and then it changed in to enormous square. About ten minutes later when I looked out again there were strange lights in the clouds but I thought they were caused by the setting sun. I did not notice anything else unusual in the sky, most definitely not any UFOs. I took all together 11 photos with my iPhone 6s through the window of the restaurant, the type you can't see in from outside. Yesterday over a month later was the first time I looked at the photos and was astounded what I saw. I first noticed couple of bright discs in the first photo and when I looked through the rest of them I saw up to a dozen of these discs in intervals around what appeared like the "mother ship" a large UFO shaped like a stack of pancakes on plate with a shining blob of butter on the top. In some of the photos you can also see some black forms but I think they may be black vultures, but then again I can't remember if there were any as it was over a month ago. You can see the faint shape of the "mother ship" in the bottom left of the most of the photos but in at least three of the photos you can see it above right of the traffic sign.
September 25, 2017 · 9:00 AM · CYLINDER
Dawsonville, GA
This was a short experience. I was driving home from taking my kid to school. I looked up and saw a small line in the sky. There were clouds but they weren't close to the object. As I was driving, I glanced down at the road as I rounded a curve and the object was lost behind trees. When I re-emerged, it was gone. It was unlike anything I have ever seen in the sky before.
September 25, 2017 · 2:35 AM · CIRCLE
Mansfield, MO
Source does not indicate a date of the sighting, so we have assigned an artificial date, and will attempt to contact the witness for confirmation. PD
September 25, 2017 · 2:15 AM · LIGHT
Colfax, IA
I pulled over on I-35 and looked over my shoulder and scene two more flashes and a span of two minutes, both flashes lasted a couple seconds and let up the entire Southern Horizon. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 25, 2017 · 12:00 AM · CIGAR
Douglasville, GA
I showed my best friend and that's when we say it start dropping rapidly to the ground, before disappearing behind treeline on I-20 east near exit 34. I am still baffled alone with my friend.hope to find some kind of explanation. This isn't my first Ufo sighting.
September 25, 2017 · 12:00 AM · FLASH
Brick Twp., NJ
Not sure what this was, but it startled me while I was driving. This isn't really the time of year for fireworks, and I didn't see any other flashes that might indicate that is what the flash came from. Also the way the flash started as a green haze and then culminated in a bright flash did not fit the behavior of any fireworks that I have seen. I'm interested in seeing if this phenomenon was witnessed elsewhere, even if it was not a UFO.
September 24, 2017 · 11:33 PM · DISK
Hyden, KY
Witness indicates that the date above is approximate. We have corrected the time. PD
September 24, 2017 · 11:30 PM · FIREBALL
Malden, MA
I was walking home from work around 23:30 when I turned left into my street and notice this light appearing in the horizon, at first it looked like a airplane catching fire but it wasn’t going straight down, so i thought it was a falling star… I was wrong again... The object made a U turn and started to fade away until it desapear completely. It didn’t flash, was slow, moved gently, and didn’t leave a trace.
September 24, 2017 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Lake City, AR
I walked to the front yard, and saw a large light crossing the sky. There was no sound, and no flashing lights. I went inside, got my phone and recorded it for a few seconds. When i enlarged the it appeared to be spinning. It then vanished in the distance. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 24, 2017 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
North Beach, MD
I did not really give this too much thought until I heard Peter Davenport on coast to coast radio during an interview. He stated how common these occurrences were. This is where my story comes in. I was walking along the boardwalk with my wife it was a clear warm night when I noticed an orange ball floating in the air over the bay, at first I thought it was one of those Chinese lanterns, but I did not see any flickering flame. This object was perfectly round and was moving very slowly, it came off the bay over the beach across the street. It was over some of the local stores when it just disappeared and I don't mean like a light shutting off it was like it went through a doorway.
September 24, 2017 · 8:50 PM · SPHERE
Knoxville, TN
Orange light appeared between the moon and Saturn in the southwest. It showed up about two minutes after the ISS passed over. Intensity was a bit brighter than the ISS but was about twice as large and orange colored. It moved at about the same speed to the northeast directly overhead and did not strobe or blink like an airplane might. After about a minute or two, the light disappeared. It did not slowly dim like the ISS arid but rather winked out. Looking at the small amount of video I took, I could not see the same color but did see a slight flash as it disappeared from sight.
September 24, 2017 · 8:45 PM · LIGHT
Mount Holly, NC
Our background: My apologies for the long report, but these things seemed to be related from our perspective. I am a Business Analyst, age 47, from the United States, and I have lived in this area of NC most of my life while working in South America, Europe and the United States. I worked in Lima Peru from 1998-2000, where I met my wife. She is also 47, and she left her profession as a Human Resources manager for the Peruvian government to come live with me here in 2015. My education is in Business Administration and hers is in Art History and Contract Law. We both became amateur archaeologists while living in and visiting Peru over the years, so we have seen numerous unexplained things in our lives, mostly surrounding ancient ruins and paranormal activity associated with them. We have separately seen UFOs once or twice in our lives, excluding one event at Lake Titicaca in Puno, Peru, where we discovered that a UFO was captured in one of our photographs near some pre-Incan ruins close to the Bolivian border. It was just a silver sphere in the background, over a small lake. When she came to live with me here in 2015 we had a short period of odd events in and around our home, mostly paranormal in nature. We tend to shrug off things like that as we are somewhat accustomed to it, but we did have one event while remodeling the house. An unseen force moved rapidly through our home while we were sleeping on our living room floor, waking us, disturbing papers and knocking over several boxes and objects around our home. We adopted a cat in 2016 who also reacted to unseen things in our home, but such activity seems to have ceased, mostly, since January of 2017. In January of 2017 we had a series of unexplained explosions or booming sounds in our area which are well documented online and by local authorities. The last one that we recall was January 19, 2017 when a huge fireball streamed over our area accompanied by a violent sonic boom that shook the entire area. This is also well documented in the media and online. Our ‘UFO’ Sighting on September 24, 2017: About 18:00, we were at my parents’ home at Lake Norman, NC. My mother and I took her dog out for a walk and noticed three passenger jets overhead. The sky was clear and blue. Two of the jets had heavy parallel contrails and one had none. We didn’t notice additional planes but more contrails appeared within minutes, perpendicular to the others. Within 15 minutes, the entire sky had become overcast with clouds that seemed to build from the contrails. The clouds were unusual in shape, having a sort of saw-tooth appearance. We joked about “chemtrails” a bit and went back into the house. My wife and I left to go home about 20:10. While travelling on Highway 16 East from Lake Norman to Mount Holly, about 20:40, we noticed an evenly spaced line of 4 bright yellow-orange lights with a larger similar light above them, in the direction of Charlotte, NC. We initially thought they were helicopters or planes, but a passing jet overhead looked completely different and had flashing lights. The formation we saw was not blinking and apparently did not move. I used my cell phone to call my mother and asked if there were any reports of an emergency or other activity in Charlotte, and she replied that she hadn’t seen anything on the news. I noted that my phone had an 81% charge after the call. My wife attempted to photograph the lights but the image was very washed out on her phone due to headlights from oncoming traffic. Approaching the junction of Highway 273 we noticed flashing yellow warning lights had been placed on both sides of Highway 16 for some reason, as if there was a hazard in the road ahead. Turning onto Highway 273 South toward Mount Holly we noticed several cars parked on the side of Highway 16 with no lights, maybe abandoned. Shortly after turning onto Highway 273, we lost sight of the lights due to trees obstructing our view, but both of our cell phones went dead and street lights went out for about ¼ mile around us. We both noticed a drastic temperature change and we became very warm in the car even with the a/c on. We arrived at our home about 10 minutes later and confirmed that both phones had zero charge, and we could not see the lights from our house, again due to trees. I plugged my phone into the charger and called my mother again, but her phone was apparently busy for the next half hour. I learned later that she had not been using the phone, so that remains unexplained. My wife and I discussed the possibility that the parked cars we saw had experienced a similar electrical issue earlier in the evening. We continued to experience hot flashes the rest of the evening in spite of a steady temperature in our home. We both began to feel nauseous around midnight, but it passed. This morning and afternoon (September 25) my wife has been vomiting and I seem to be fine, but we both stayed home as she is preparing to fly to Peru tomorrow to visit our relatives in Lima. My mother encouraged us to report our sighting after we had searched for any news of an event and found nothing. This may have been 5 objects or one really huge triangle with 5 lights. Thank you.
September 24, 2017 · 8:30 PM · SPHERE
Dayton, TN
This is going to be one of the more unremarkable sighting reported to you, but I felt it worthy of sharing just the same. On Sunday evening, 24 September, at about 8:30 PM, my wife and I were returning home from a restaurant when we observed an object in the sky traveling from approximately west, 15 degrees south toward the east, approximately 15 degrees north. The object appeared to be comprised of two white lights connected to one another and moving at a speed of approximately 5 arc degrees per second. I have no idea as to its actual speed since I was unable to determine its altitude. What I am reasonably certain of is the object was not an aircraft since there were no blinking lights, no red or green lights marking the wing tips, just a solid white light. There were high clouds present in the sky and our view of the object was blocked as it moved over the clouds. I would estimate the altitude of the clouds to be approximately 15,000 feet. The object emitted no audible sound as it passed us overhead. We did observe an aircraft to our east, moving from the south, approximately 15 degrees west, toward the north, approximately 15 degrees north, which is the direction we would surmise as an aircraft going from Atlanta, to New York City. Given the aircraft we observed at the same time was likely traveling at ~30,000’, the object we observed also appeared to be moving at the same rate—5 arc degrees per second. My first inclination is to surmise the object we saw was the international space station, but I hadn’t heard any announcements of its presence in our area, which is the usual case on our local TV stations, but if it were the space station there is one curious matter remaining unsolved: When the object we observed reached a point where it was some 30 degrees above the horizon, it was no longer visible to us. It seems to have disappeared at that point. While I will not discount the possibility that the object was blocked by some clouds we could not see, or that it might have been blocked by some other atmospheric phenomenon, the fact that it disappeared from our view is what has prompted this communication. If you do think we were looking at the international space station, I would appreciate your letting us know. Thank you!
September 24, 2017 · 8:15 PM · LIGHT
Edmond, OK
At first, I thought I was seeing a small part of a thin crescent moon, as it was a cloudy night. However, the light grew gradually and I realized it couldn't be the moon. The light was sort of gold colored. I feel like I remember seeing it shimmer, but I might be wrong. It didn't appear to be moving across the sky, or if it was, it was very slow or possibly moving towards me. It lasted about 45-60 seconds until I looked away and it was gone.