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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 16, 2017 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Lake Stevens, WA
On Saturday night, Sept 16, 2017, I had stepped out onto my deck to look at the clear night, and was facing North West through the trees. I saw a bright orange star that was different, and I watched it to see if it was an airplane or possibly a satellite. As I watched it, I noticed a smaller ball of light drop out of the "orb" or what ever it was. It was like a ball of fire dropped straight out of the "mother craft" and went to the ground. I half expected an explosion, but heard and saw nothing. Then it dropped another ball of fire, which also seemed to drop straight down for a while. It seems it may have veered to the left before dropping out of sight. Several seconds elapsed when it began to drop fire balls on a more rapid succession. The larger orb/star/satellite/ began to move slowly towards the south into a more westerly direction and began to be obscured by trees. I actually checked the news for reports of explosions or other witnesses, but haven't found any yet. The idea that it was an airplane fighting fires is debunked, as there are no fires burning to the west, and it wasn't an airplane, as it stayed stationary for quite a while. It wasn't fireworks, though it kind of reminded me of some upside down fireworks. It was way too high to have been fireworks, and again, no sound was heard. I researched some other photos and it looks exactly like what some describe as an orange Orb, however, I haven't seen anyone else report it dropping smaller balls of fire from its center. These smaller balls all went straight down towards the ground, but it seems some veered off as they got closer to the ground. I didn't have a full horizon as there is a small hill in the direction I saw the object.
September 16, 2017 · 9:15 PM · FIREBALL
Westover, WV
Jjust (coincidentally) coming back from point pleasant, WV, while we got out of the car this bright orange light was shooting across the sky, not fast enough to be a meteor or comet, after a few seconds and shotting some pictures I went on my phone to see what it was (I was thinking it was a satellite and the space app could tell me what it was), but as I looked for it again all I saw was a white stream of light that quickly vanished.
September 16, 2017 · 9:15 PM · OVAL
Green Bay, WI
At about 9:00 PM, on the night of 9/16/2017, as I walked onto my deck, I noticed red lights in the sky moving North. They looked like red orbs with a less prominent white light at the bottom. They emerged from a cloud in a straight line either two or three side by side. They disappeared after entering another cloud. It looked like a caravan of some kind. Sometimes there would be a gap in the formation and sometimes only one light would emerge from the cloud. The last one I saw was a single light. This went on for about 15 minutes and there had to be over twenty or thiry of these lights. They were moving at about the altitude and speed (maybe a little slower) of a small aircraft. They were flying into the flight path of landing aircraft and I was glad no aircraft were landing at that time.
September 16, 2017 · 9:00 PM · CIRCLE
Pottstown, PA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 16, 2017 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Henderson, NV
While outside at a concert at Lake Las Vegas, a solid red light appeared from the north. There were no other lights on the craft. It seemed stationary. A minute or so later, 2 more red lights appeared and they all remained stationary in a triangular formation. Many people looked up verifying this was an unusual occurrence. One craft went to the west then seemed to just disappear, meaning you could not follow its direction. The other two craft seemed to get smaller then they too just disappeared. In other words, it did not track across the sky. I did take a picture. The light comes out white, but when I enlarge it, the shape is a thick oval.
September 16, 2017 · 8:30 PM · SPHERE
Roanoke, VA
Three glowing yellowish orbs hovering near 81- not moving or making any sound- just emitting soft glowing light and disappeared as if someone flipped off a light switch. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 16, 2017 · 8:15 PM · LIGHT
Austin, TX
I first noticed a single red light in the northwestern sky, about midway between the zenith of the sky and the horizon. The light was steady and barely moving and was immediately unusual. The light then began to move to the west quite quickly and steadily. It continued like this, but in an unusual flight pattern, not like the normal ballistic trajectory of commercial aircraft. My immediate thought was that it was a helicopter. It would move west, then appear to pause (perhaps moving away or towards me) and then continue moving again. It was hard to gauge its distance, but I’d say it was 10-15 miles away. If that is true, then it was moving far faster than any helicopter I’ve seen fly at that distance. As it approached the western horizon, the red light changed to a white blinking light. This light was blinking regularly, so once again I thought it must be a helicopter. But at the speed it was going I began to think it was a fighter jet. It was just about at the horizon when it nearly disappeared and immediately another separate red light appeared just to the right of it. This red light was steady and even brighter than the first. The second red light began to move to the north as the first was nearly gone. The second red light was moving toward the north and just suddenly, what I presume to be the first light, reappeared now as a red light with a white blinking light. The two began to make their way northeast irregularly; sometimes moving steadily, sometimes pausing or moving away from me. The first red light seemed to now be following the second, and when they were moving laterally, they were moving quite fast. The only thing I know of that could move that fast at that distance is a jet fighter. But the maneuvers between steady lateral movements were far too acrobatic for a jet fighter. In less than thirty seconds, the two lights—both with a steady red light at what I perceived to be the front, and a white blinking light at the rear—cruised to the northeast and then quickly approached the northern horizon. Through trees I saw them pausing at the horizon as red lights and then disappearing below the horizon, not to reemerge again.
September 16, 2017 · 7:59 PM · FIREBALL
West Valley City, UT
At the redwood drive in facing east saw a light then it split to 2, thought shoot stars then bam it stopped met back with 1 st light then turned to 4 lights hovered for a few then went separate ways
September 16, 2017 · 7:50 PM · UNKNOWN
Salt Lake City, UT
At first looked like a comet or meteor breaking apart, very torch like falling slowly toward the north and east (over the U of U from my point of view). Looked like they were burning, and falling. They slowly spread into a diamond formation, continuing to head down, occasionally disappearing behind clouds. At one point some of them changed direction back toward the west, still heading downward. Sort of like a falling ember, but much larger and farther away. Lost site of the fourth one behind the trees, then they started blinking out. The last one I saw change directions again behind the trees. Possible nighttime parachute jump?? PD
September 16, 2017 · 5:40 AM · LIGHT
Tampa, FL
I was driving across the Gandy Bridge heading towards Tampa, when I saw a long green light traveling in a diagonal moving towards the Tampa side and then it just disappears like turning off a light. It was green and cigar is shape. I could not tell size or distance and I'm really good at that. Former land surveyor.
September 16, 2017 · 4:30 AM · UNKNOWN
Tulsa, OK
I went outside and saw a bright star like light. Thought it might be Jupiter, then the light took the shape of a crescent moon. Thought it was the moon behind some clouds. However, it was much larger than what the moon looks like in the sky. Then it transformed into a huge white light in the shape of a bowl. I could see a darker outline above the light creating a full round circle shape. I said what is that? As I was looking at it the light began to diminish until nothing was left visibly. Although the light was totally gone I could still see a dark round outline in the sky. I watched a few more minutes but could not see anything else. It was so huge! When I realized it wasn't the moon I knew I must be witnessing a UFO sighting.
September 16, 2017 · 1:16 AM · LIGHT
Philadelphia, PA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 16, 2017 · 1:15 AM · LIGHT
Bel Air, MD
It was late. I was outside on the side of my house. I was smoking a cigarette when I noticed a bluish light...it was bright enough to make me notice. Then in a matter of a second the light was coming from above the trees. It was so bright I had to squint my eyes. It lite up the two trees that were directly in front of me. I got up out of the chair I was sitting in and leaned over the porch balcony and nothing was there. It was dark again. I saw no cars coming in or leaving my development. It scared me.
September 15, 2017 · 11:20 PM · LIGHT
Vicksburg, MI
11:20pm. I decided to stretch my legs and I looked out my window to see if my father was going to arrive home. No one drove by, I could only see the light of my neighbor's house, but then I see a few blinking lights passing by. My first thought was a plane, until I saw it go in front of trees. Planes don't go in front of trees that you're fifty feet away from. It was composed of several lights, such as; red, yellow, orange. I could not see it's shape, but it simply hovered above the road very fast and went upwards, and it's also important to note that it was not an area that planes travel. No one plays with drones in this area, it's a busy road and nobody would be flying something they paid so much for over a road they could accidentally drop it on and have it get run over. It flew in front of dark trees until I saw it disappear out of my sight. I was only 20 feet away from the road. My best guess is that it was about the size of a smaller car. I wanted to chase after it, but mosquitoes are grossly overpopulated and the pine trees suck to walk on, and even if I went and grabbed my shoes, it would be out of sight and gone. I'm a very scientific person and I ruled out all possibilities of what it could be besides UFOs but this is my last resort. It hadn't caused me trouble and I'm a young guy, going on this site and seeing the last reported sighting on the home page was in my general area freaked me out a little.
September 15, 2017 · 10:10 PM · FIREBALL
Milwaukee, WI
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 15, 2017 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Wildwood, NJ
@ the beach, so i didnt have a phone or camera, so unfortunately no photo or video, but I am hoping the drones that I saw there may have captured it. On 9/15/17 Almost immediately as the 10pm fireworks at moreys pier began is when we first noticed this light. We were standing in the center of the dry beach facing the pier, boardwalk to the left, the first light or"star"(looked just like Sirius in the sky,same size and brightnesss and seemingly IN the sky) appeared directly above the top of the fireworks, then began making fast radical manuevers, up, down, left, right, shooting forward then coming to a dead stop and hovering for 10-15secs, then abruptly flew towards inland and as it began to move, two more stars appeared ahead of it, the second set of stars tumbling around and bouncing off of and merging with each other, making the same speedy moves in the same direction, the two tumbling stars just out ahead of the first star for another 10-15secs, until they just blinked out. *note that there were also drones flying at that moment behind us (big red and green flashing lights hovering obviously much Much lower in altitude) as well as the helicopters that flew by moments later, NEITHER moved as fast or maneuvered they way this Star did*
September 15, 2017 · 8:15 PM · CIRCLE
Stockton, CA
Spotted two orange color balls of lights traveling East at a very high speed. The lights merged and disappeared. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 15, 2017 · 7:45 PM · LIGHT
West Des Moines, IA
Walking out of a store, I noticed a very bright light, thought it was a plane as it was coming from the direction of the airport on the south side. At that time it was very low on the horizon and it was orange moving in a northwest direction. It was very bright, it didn't seem to be moving too fast and will guess it was a lower altitude than usual for a plane but possibly similar to a helicopters altitude. Unable to assign a shape to it except it may have had a cross or a + sign in the center of it. It was bright orange possibly a slightly red orange. It made no noise and the event lasted 30 or 45 seconds. It passed directly overhead. Have had telescopes in the past and many years ago saw an object very high in the night sky with binoculars in northern Minnesota that I couldn't identify, realized later it was a geo-stationary satellite .
September 15, 2017 · 7:00 PM · CIRCLE
Helena, AL
I was outside in my backyard at dusk and suddenly saw a single bright light in the sky. It appeared as though it was an airplane flying overhead toward me. The light was there for about 5 seconds and then it just disappeared. It was as if it went into a cloud, however it was a clear evening and there were no clouds in the sky. I kept looking for the “plane” for a couple of minutes, but never saw it again.
September 15, 2017 · 6:30 PM · CIRCLE
Longboat Key, FL
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 15, 2017 · 5:00 PM · CIRCLE
New York City, NY
(( Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD))
September 15, 2017 · 6:15 AM · TRIANGLE
Portland, OR
Just past dalles exit on 205 headed north, 3 white lights on each corner 1 red light in center. Size of small single engine plane. Moving very slow an low.
September 15, 2017 · 2:00 AM · OTHER
Lake Pend Oreille (north end), ID
My husband and I have not been able to find a report from anyone else that is similar to what we experienced. I'm posting in the hopes that someone will come forward. I don't have an exact date, by it was fall of 2017. We we're driving home to Montana in the wee hours of the morning (2 am) and were on the north bank of Lake Pend d'Orielle between Sandpoint and Trestle Creek, closer to the latter. We enjoy rockhounding and there is supposedly a popular site just off the highway through there, and even though it was 2am we decided to try and find this spot. We've hounded/navigated with flashlights many times and we were armed. We find what we thought was the correct pull off, get our gear together, and start hiking, despite heavy rain. Foolish, yes, but that's besides the point. The country is very steep, with lots of rock ledges and outcroppings, and pretty thick with vegetation, so the going is slow and careful. We had been hiking for about 15 minutes and had a view of the Lake and our truck in the turnoff below us when we see an officer pull in and light up our vehicle. We had been keeping our lights aimed low and pointed away from the road and lake so as not to alarm people down below. Anyway, the officer was at our vehicle for about 10 minutes while we stood in the dark watching, curious. He leaves, turns around and does another drive by several times, even turning on his spotlight at one point. At this point, I assume he is concerned that we are broke down and out walking in rain in a pretty isolated area. Curiously, he never lights up or seems to search the other side of the road, only the side we were on. My husband and I are reluctant to come down considering the effort it required to get as far as we had but we're discussing it when the officer apparently satisfied we aren't in the area, fails to come past again. We turn on our flashlights and briefly shine them down towards the empty highway and lake, looking at the terrain we had scrambled up. Now, this next part happens so fast, a couple seconds at the most and probably less then even one second, that it is only from discussing and writing down the event a few days later that I am able to provide as many details as I am now. We switch our lights to red light mode (less visible) at more or less the same time and haven't even finished turning back towards the mountain when we hear a projectile of some sort come from all the way across the lake, pass just over and between our heads, then up the side of the mountain and gone. This projectile was moving much faster than we thought possible. We are both experienced firearm users and this was not a bullet. It was larger, faster, and there was no sound of a weapon being fired. At all. Nor was there an echo of any sort, which given the location there should have been. Even our voices echoed. The only sound we heard was the air around it moving as the object came across the lake and over the mountain. It was about as loud! as you'd hear if a hard flung ball or rock barely missed your head as it went by but different in pitch. There was no light. Additionally, had it been anything man made or nature caused coming at us like that, there is no way it wouldn't have smacked into the cliff directly behind us or into any of the trees or rocks above us. It was only a couple feet above our heads and the terrain was very steep and very thick in addition to it's speed. Its just not possible. We actually heard/sensed it maneuver, with intent, through the canyon and then the trees as it went. My husband actually dropped to the ground in self preservation, while I, trying to process what that could have been but knowing it wasn't anything I'd had experience with, stood there in shock. His flashlight had turned off completely and mine had changed to strobe mode which I had trouble turning off. We crouched there for a couple minutes not saying much except what the hell just happened before deciding to abandon ship (pun intended) and get off that mountain. We knew we h! ad to tu rn our lights back on in order to do so safely despite our fear. Being him, he all the sudden says "screw it!", turns his light on the brightest setting it has (way bright too) and starts heading down with a purpose and in quick fashion. I followed using my light sparingly but not in red mode. We make it down in one piece and get on our way. When we got in the truck we checked the time and got mad chills- it was still only 2am give or take a few minutes. Two days later we decided to write down everything about it that we could, plausible or not, and compare. There were no discrepancies. In fact, the similarities on some things are eerie. Such as we both felt rather then saw that the mass of the object was about the size of a basketball but much more streamlined. It had energy within it, for lack of better words. It had intelligence. We both felt that it could have taken our heads off if that was its intent, but had instead given us a warning. There are other things but you get the jist. The phones we had at the time began to malfunction and glitch out and had to be replaced soon after, same as the flashlights we carried that night. Being Christian's and not into such things as UFO's, the paranormal, or supernatural, we are hesitant to put such a label on what happened. But that's our story, make of it what you will. Date of sighting is approximate. PD
September 14, 2017 · 11:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Hubert, NC
I was outside with my mother inlaw and husband. My husband and I were looking at the stars. I heard a thud noise. I turned around and looked over where the top of my mother inlaw's house. I saw 4 pinkish red lights in a line not that far from each other. The one at the top had little white lights drop from under it. I heard the thud noise again and 3 of them moved down. I couldn't see them anymore. The last one dropped some of those white lights and also moved down. After that I could not see them anymore.