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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 24, 2017 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Stuarts Draft, VA
The object started to decrease in size. I almost gave up on it when it shot off in the opposite direction insta Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 24, 2017 · 7:20 PM · FLASH
Onion Creek, WA
Iridium 37 at 19:21 hrs. PD
September 24, 2017 · 7:00 PM · CIRCLE
Follansbee, WV
9/24/17 around 7pm. My wife and I were traveling on RT2N, between the Market St Bridge and Veterans Bridge. As I pass the Market St Bridge, I notice 2 small Green Lights hovering above the road, about 85ft up, just sitting there. I drove directly underneath of it, both of us were leaned forward looking up at it. It appeared to be about 5ft in diameter. As I pass underneath and merge to get onto the Veterans bridge now heading E into Steubenville OH I am looking back at it the whole time. As I get onto the bridge it starts moving slowly across the water maintaining its height traveling SE into OH. I tried to slow down as much as possible without causing a safety issue with the traffic, until It was out of sight. It was too big to be a personal drone. No way our local small-town news has any type of weather drone of that significance. Who knows, just super weird. Coordinates of where it was hovering 40.376016, -80.603570 Witness indicates that the date above is approximate. PD
September 24, 2017 · 6:30 PM · SPHERE
Lebanon, OR
It was an orb in the sky pretty far up. Wife thought it was drone for personal use, but it did not move for 10 minutes, and then seemed to leave around the time some planes were flying by. The original reason to look in the sky was the sound of a fighter jet, and in looking to the sky for the jet, seen the orb. Light clouds did pass over it and it remained for a while. Then dissapeared .
September 24, 2017 · 6:14 PM · UNKNOWN
Phoenix, AZ
Me and my coworker were outside smoking and we were headed back inside when I decided to take a picture of the sunset... so I took the picture, and I began to walk back inside the house when I looked down at my phone and noticed the object off to the right, I looked up at the sky to see what it was and nothing was there. So I made a video to prove that we weren't crazy
September 24, 2017 · 4:30 PM · SPHERE
New Windsor, MD
While walking outside to do farm chores just after dusk, I happened to look up at the sky, as I usually do, to look at the moon or passing aircraft. At that exact moment when I went to look back down a flash of white caught my eye and I saw 4 round balls glowing bright white, like a LED bulb in brightness. These lights were in a diagonal and were just above the horizon and shot straight down and disappeared. A house in the distance obscured whether they reached ground level. They appeared suddenly in a 4 orb pattern then extremely fast they went down and disappeared. I continued to see normal planes flying high with normal lights but this was definitely different. I have seen shooting stars and meteors, but this was completely different and larger. So in conclusion...4 bright lights in a diagonal line moving extremely fast downward at angle. Just after dusk. Looking at the southern sky. No clouds, no storms, no lightning. Just regular sky with passing airliner traffic and suddenly 4 bright round lights. Lasted 3 to 4 seconds at most. No time to even grab the phone for video. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 24, 2017 · 3:00 PM · LIGHT
Lower Southampton, PA
It was a clear blue sky and a jet-like object (a small light) directly overhead, moving faster than anything I had even seen that far up, raced across the sky. Not a satellite because it did a couple zig-zags. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 24, 2017 · 10:03 AM · CIRCLE
New Hope, PA
Driving on the bridge in New Hope, Pa., decided to take a picture of the water. Once I got home I looked through all the pictures I took that day and noticed the one with the water , at the top left corner was a shining circle and seemed like a cloud on it. My phone is an iPhone 7 so when you take a picture you get about 5 seconds of video. I zoomed in and held the screen down and it was moving around with rings around the circle. This was at 10:03 am. We have yet to see the photos. Possible lens flares?? PD
September 24, 2017 · 5:46 AM · CIRCLE
Batesville, AR
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 24, 2017 · 5:30 AM · CIRCLE
Olympia, WA
I went around a corner and was blocked by trees. About a minute later, I could see the sky again, but the lights were gone. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 24, 2017 · 2:00 AM · OTHER
Cleveland, OH
I looked out my window at 2:00am witnessing a bright light in the sky between an opening through the leaves of a large tree in my backyard. The light was larger than any star in the sky. It was larger than any visible planet. As I watched it, I noticed it was moving. With the help of the leaves, I could tell the pace of the movement more easily, because it disappeared behind the leaves. It moved faster than stars in the sky, but much slower than airplanes, satellites, etc. So, I grabbed my good camera and tripod and ran to my back porch. I found openings between leaves and branches by standing, kneeling and in between then adjusted my tripod, zoomed in 30x, and began snapping pictures. It seemed to first be moving upwards in the sky. So I would have to adjust my tripod higher up. Then it started on a slow path downward on what I believe was about a 150-160 degree angle. Eventually it seemed to stop and go straight downward, at a 90 degree angle, for the remainder of the sighting. I ended up having my tripod go from all the way down, to all the way up, then all the way down again. I almost felt like the object wanted to observe something on the ground, maybe the nearby airport, or maybe the NASA Glenn Research Center, within 5-7 miles south of the objects. It moved slowly enough for most to not think twice when seeing it, maybe thinking it is just a large bright star. Although it was definitely larger and closer than even the largest star that can ever be observed in the sky, from the ground that is. I have been studying UFOs and E.T.s for a year now, since my first sighting. So I definitely noticed that I was seeing something different here. I see things all of the time but this is by far one of the coolest sightings I have had. I focused on this object that usually remained red and blue in the pictures pulsating fast in a pattern of red, white, blue. What I found very strange, were these smaller copper/silver colored objects that appeared only in the photos near the main object. I did not see these objects myself at all, but they were obviously there. Then I noticed another object very similar to the main one I was already snapping photos of. This one however, seemed to be blinking fast between the main colors of orange/red, white and yellow rather than red, white and blue. The last photo attached is of the orange object. I observed these objects between 2-3am. I do not know of a man made or known space object that moves the speed and direction that it did and looks like the pictures I have attached. The whole time I felt that I was witnessing something really special.
September 23, 2017 · 11:45 PM · SPHERE
Manassas, VA
My daughter was on the back deck smoking when she called my wife and I to come look. There were at least 100 orbs moving across the sky with the same trajectory, from NE to SW. If it was just one I would say it was a satellite but there were so many. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 23, 2017 · 11:45 PM · FIREBALL
Sioux City, IA
EXTREMELY bright ball appeared above me in my backyard. It lit up my back yard almost like the trees and yard were on fire. It was stationary and then moved toward the north. It looked like a ball of plasma.
September 23, 2017 · 11:35 PM · SPHERE
Corona, CA
I was standing in my driveway smoking a cigarette, facing the street. For some reason, I turned around and looked above my house, and in the distance, I saw the object. It looked like a horseshoe only sideways and it was all light and emitting a sort of glow around everything but the center. I screamed to my wife, “Look up at the sky!”, she was in the backyard letting my puppy out. She came out to the front yard when she heard me screaming but by the time she came out it was gone. It was moving very slowly over the horizon, the center of the object was a very bright orb, like a bright star, but the outer shape, the horseshoe-like tail was all red and leaving a trail, like a hazy glow. It glided by for about 20 seconds and in an instant, it flashed into nothing. It honestly scared me, my hairs all stood up and I was breathing heavily. When it happened, I brought out my phone to record it but when I checked it, nothing had shown up on the video. This has been the strangest thing I have ever seen in the sky. It was not a plane or a meteor or anything I have ever seen before. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 23, 2017 · 11:05 PM · FIREBALL
San Diego, CA
Red glowing ball was moving fast over the ocean in San Diego, CA. It was heading south west. There was no tail on the object. It did have white ripples coming off both sides of it. The ripples looked like air being moved. The width of the ripples were huge! The object was moving super fast. Never seen speed like that before. Rocket launch from Vandenberg AFB. PD
September 23, 2017 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
Redlands, CA
Object started as a red speck in the darker part of the sky personally I thought it was a red star until I saw it moving then it moved closer and started leaving a trail behind it and the after 3 minutes it just disappears. (( Rocket launch. PD)
September 23, 2017 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Chula Vista, CA
It was about 60 degrees above the horizon and I thought it might be a jet heading to Brown field. An airliner out of San Diego Lindbergh Field flew across its path, but I couldn't tell if the object was below or above the jet. The object cast a bullet shaped aura. I thought it might be a meteorite crossing the sky, but this thing moved much slower across the sky than any meteor I've seen before. As it moved across the sky to my left, the aura ceased and the point of light faded as if it had gone behind a cloud. There wasn't a cloud in the sky. At this point the light reappeared without the aura and then was gone after about 5 seconds. I don't know what this could have been. I watch the airliners fly out bout to the east over my house all the time. I have a commercial pilot license. I'm a federal law enforcement agent. I am in possession of all my faculties. But ((what)) was this thing. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 23, 2017 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
San Diego, CA
(( Rocket launch. PD)
September 23, 2017 · 11:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Riverside, CA
Flying at a fast speed.
September 23, 2017 · 11:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Mount Pleasant, SC
Sitting outside with friends when one of them said to look up. We saw a triangular shaped object with lights on each end move swiftly with no sound. It happened very fast and I was able to witness about 10 seconds of movement before it went out of view. Consider it my first UFO sighting. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 23, 2017 · 10:58 PM · OTHER
Los Angeles, CA
I was walking back home with my Grandma when I thought I saw a helicopter because it was so bright. I called it that, but I noticed it was going too slow to be a helicopter and too fast for a plane, additionally it was giving off a light that was large. The longer my grandma and I stared, the weirder it looked. It looked like a bright red dot with large crescent-shaped light blue tails that looked like a meteorite entering the atmosphere, but the tails were so far apart and were moving so slow I debunked it as that. I took my phone out and tried to get a photo, but it came looking blurry, I took a video and can see it somewhat better, but it soon disappears as if into thin air after a few seconds of taping. I stood there looking for it with my grandma for awhile and we tried to look for it. In the end, it had to be something akin to UFOs. Rocket launch from Vandenberg AFB. PD
September 23, 2017 · 10:54 PM · EGG
Whittier, CA
Rocket launch from Vandenberg AFB. PD
September 23, 2017 · 10:50 PM · SPHERE
Pasadena, CA
One red llight, encircled by a lesser orange colored illuminated orb, moving slowly from west to east (about 70 - 80 degrees above the horizon). Appeared to be somewhat ‘tethered’ to a helicopter or small plane which just passed in the same path, possibly five lengths behind. Rocket launch from Vandenberg AFB. PD
September 23, 2017 · 10:50 PM · FIREBALL
San Pedro, CA
A fireball or bright sphere crossed overhead from NW to SW for about 1 minute. There was a crescent shaped glow many times larger that followed the sphere. The sphere was in the middle and on the leading edge of this glowing crescent. The speed of travel was much slower than a meteor and seemed to be far higher than the passenger jets that are regularly seen to follow a west to east flight path to LAX. No aircraft were in sight when this incident occurred. After viewing the sphere for approximately 45 sec to 1 min, it had traveled to approximately 30 degrees above the SW horizon and then disappeared completely. I observed the sphere through 20x binoculars and it did not appear to have any vapor trail or disintegration occurring as it traveled. The crescent shape appeared to be uniform and fluorescent without ragged trailing. Both the sphere and crescent were emitting a brilliant white light during the entire event without diminishing intensity. Rocket launch from Vandenberg AFB. PD