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September 9, 2017 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Monroe, OH
Between the hours of approximately 10:30 pm EST and 10:45 pm EST, I observed a tight procession/single file flight of what could have been anywhere from eight to twelve red lights flying in an unremarkable yet "eerie" manner from the NNE to a SW direction. I am not discounting the possibility that these could be aircraft perhaps heading towards either Florida or Texas for hurricane relief operations - but these "aircraft" had only a red light(s) as far as I could discern, and there were a lot of them following each other in a "one by one" procession. They flew over neighboring Middletown, Ohio, which is next door to Monroe - at a relatively low altitude. They did not originate from the proper direction of Wright Patterson AFB - but from farther North. There were no unusual flight behaviors that would differentiate them from typical aircraft - but I could not hear any noise that I could directly associate with them. The scene struck me as being very creepy. Neighborhood dogs were barking - but I was unsure if this was because of the objects - or because I was standing on my porch and they heard me making remarks such as, "Oh my God!" - and "You must be ((word deleted)) kidding me!".
September 9, 2017 · 10:00 PM · FLASH
Blyton, IL
My family and I were standing in our field looking at the cloudless, 2/3 full moon, southwestern night sky when all of us said, "Did you see that?!" We all saw a very bright, white flash in the northeast sky. What was weird was all of us saw this flash out of the corner of our eyes so that attests to how bright and spread out the flash was.
September 9, 2017 · 10:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Boonville, MO
We were traveling East on Hwy 70 around the 100 to 106 Mile Marker. We were in the passing lane, when the craft came across both lanes (from the North) at a very very low altitude (Just above the tree line). We all look and our first thought was a Drone, as we own one, but then quickly realized the size was too large for a drone. It was triangle in shape with three lights, one at each corner that was the color of white and blue. The craft climbed altitude quickly in a southward direction. We were able to see the craft for several minutes. I immediately downloaded a flight tracker app and opened, but no crafts matched the location and path. I also checked the stats for take offs at the closest airport in Booneville, MO, but on airplanes were reported at that facility for the date and time.
September 9, 2017 · 10:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Redding, CA
Twinkling stars?? PD
September 9, 2017 · 9:37 PM · SPHERE
Macedonia, OH
At 9:37 pm my husband and I were sitting in our backyard having a bonfire, when the first of five round, bright "things" flew overhead. It was low, bright orange, silent, and moving in a straight line at a high speed. Then as soon as it reached a certain distance, a second one followed. Same speed, color, and sound moving in the same direction. This continued 3 more times. All the same. We tried to video it, but it is hard to see. When we are able to slow the video down and zoom in, you can see the sphere changing colors.
September 9, 2017 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Newfoundland, PA
About thirty minutes ago, just before 9:30 p.m. I spotted three small round orange lights in the sky in upside down triangle formation (Two lights on top, one on bottom) near my home in Newfoundland, PA. I was pulling off the main road onto my road and spotted the lights just above the tree line. I drove downhill to the bottom of the road to follow the lights which were visible on and off through the trees and were moving southeast. I lost sight of the lights at the dead end of the road. Then I drove out onto route 447 north (as going south nothing would be visible due to tree cover) to see if I could spot them again. I saw two of the three lights barely visible just above the horizon, for about 20 seconds before they disappeared. There could have been some spotty cloud cover, so perhaps they just disappeared behind clouds, although the stars were visible when I was back at my house. Tobyhanna army depot is south of the area about 10 miles. I don’t know if this could somehow have been connected with that depot. Witness is a ((specialty deleted--medical specialist)).
September 9, 2017 · 8:30 PM · LIGHT
Southport, IN
I turn my head to the left and RIGHT above our store in the strip mall was a bright red light in the shape of a saucer (I personally didn't see the actual craft itself) I said "what the hell is that?" Which made my co-workers turn to look.. In that instant, 3 of the 4 of us seen this bright red light slowly moving from the east to the west above our store. It then turned slightly to its right and then COMPLETELY disappeared right before our eyes. As if it turned into a portal or went behind a veil. It LITERALLY disappeared!! We all started jumping up and down with excitement because we KNOW what we just witnessed together!! There was no mistaking what it was. There was no tracer of light, there was no sound whatsoever!! It wasn't a firework (no sound and this light was too big for that). It definitely wasn't a drone of any sort because as I said, this bright red light LITERALLY disappeared before our very eyes.
September 9, 2017 · 8:08 PM · OTHER
Myrtle Beach, SC
The lights seemed to be rising out of the northeast. A little left of where the sun rises. Solid orangish lights from far away. I thought they might be rising flares or low flying large planes. But there were no sounds or blinking lights. There were approx 3 separate groups of the same lights with 3-4 in each group. As they got closer and overhead, the light would fade out. Then it would light up 3 to 6 time as it flew overhead. Sort of like a lightning bug. But it was above the clouds, which were at least a couple thousand feet. When overhead, they were more white than orange. They seemed to be moving faster than a jet if it was 35,000 feet. But only moving as fast as a fast small plane if it was a few hundred feet. They covered way too much area, too fast and too high to be a drone, unless there are some serious long distance ones out there. No blinks no sound at all. They were rising 3 or 4 at a time. And I might have seen 8 to 12. Over a 2-3 minute pe! riod. The lights were heading south west with no erratic movements, other than fading lights. There was some sort of fast jet that flew over just prior to me seeing the first lights in the distance. That was why I looked up in the first place. It didn't sound like the normal commercial planes that frequent Myrtle Beach.
September 9, 2017 · 8:00 PM · CIRCLE
Orlando, FL
On the night of September 9, 2017, around the evening hours of 8-9, I went to take a photo of an eerie moon peaking and hiding behind clouds. It was a calm breezy evening, basically the calm before the storm. When I took the photo, it was the night before the great hurricane Irma. Central Florida (East Orlando) where the photo took place was forecasted to be hit pretty bad by the hurricane on September 10, 2017, in the am hours into Monday morning September 11, 2017. The photo I took the evening of September 9 showed an eerie moon and a bright light right above the moon in the sky. When I took a picture of the moon with my cell phone camera I noticed the bright light above the moon. Living North of OIA Orlando International Airport, I see actual planes or helicopters all the time and this image did not look like anything I could identify in normalcy. As you zoom into the picture the bright light has almost a mushroom shape on top. Interestingly, the area of Central Florida where I live was supposed to be pummeled by the storm, but fortunately my neighborhood and the adjacent neighborhood had minimal damage. Some downed trees and general debris from wind. It almost seemed that what I saw that evening in the picture (possible UFO), contributed some how to lessened damage within the radius of where the object could be seen in relation to the hurricane. I will attach the image with this statement. I'm a Psychology Graduate, and my husband is an Electrical Engineer.
September 9, 2017 · 7:30 PM · SPHERE
Parker, CO
I was at a friend’s birthday party in Parker CO on 9/9/17. To be honest, I’m not exactly sure of the time, but I’m guessing it was between 7:00pm–8:00pm because the sun was starting to set. Most of the people at the party were in the backyard listening to music and getting ready to eat some BBQ, while a few others were inside watching a college football game. When the BBQ chef loaded up the platter of meat from the grill, pretty much everyone moved inside to eat as the wind picked up a bit. But I stayed outside with the birthday girl because I just lit up a smoke. Anyway, I was looking up at the sky and telling my friend how much clearer the sky was in Parker as opposed to Denver because of all the light pollution we get living in the city. Just as I said that, I spotted a satellite moving from East to West. I pointed it out to my buddy and told her something along the lines of, “see, you can see satellites on clear nights like this.” She agreed and that was that. About 2 minutes later, I was still sky gazing and I see what I think is another satellite coming from the same direction and heading in the same direction as the first one. I again pointed it out to her, but just as I did, I immediately realized that this light was much brighter, larger (3x’s the size as the first one) and much faster. I said, “Whoa, that’s no satellite! That thing is moving way too bright and way too fast to be a satellite.” She immediately said, “Yeah, that’s completely different from we what we just saw!” We talked about it for a couple more minutes and then we jumped to talking about her new house. We saw no other UFOs that night. Here’s where things get REALLY weird and make no sense. On evening 10/30/17, I was watching MNF and something told me to pick up my phone and view the photo gallery (I’ve only had this phone since August and I didn’t have many pictures on it. But I recently saved a throwback photo that my best friend texted to me on 10/23/17, and I immediately saved it to the gallery. At the time I saved the photo I knew what exactly what was on my phone as there weren’t many pictures saved on it), and so I did. I discovered a photo that wasn’t there when I last looked on 10/23/17, so I immediately opened it up. It was a strange picture of a man that I’ve never seen before. Not knowing who he was and not knowing where this picture came from, I went to the gallery data on the phone and it said that the picture was taken on 9/9/17 at 7:13pm. I didn’t remember taking any pictures at the party, and I only remember taking my phone out 2 xs’s to check the time, but I did not take any pictures, nor had I seen this man at the party. There were around 20 people at the party and I knew almost everyone there, but the guy in the picture was not someone I remembered seeing there that night. I sent the picture to my friend who owns the house and I asked her if he was at the party that night. She said that she had no idea who he was and then asked me, “And what is that light??” There’s a weird light in the center of the picture that looks like a small orb flying through the air. The weird guy is at the bottom of the photo and you can only see his face, which is scary looking! My buddy and I thought maybe he was in front of a window, but we were merely guessing because the photo doesn’t offer much detail to explain where it was actually taken. I have shared it with a few co-workers, but two of the people I showed it to said that it looked like it had been taken outside and not inside. Those two people are a sheriff’s deputy and a probation officer. Interestingly enough, I think they’re right.
September 9, 2017 · 6:12 PM · CIRCLE
Long Beach, CA
I was at the soccer field at California State University/Long Beach, when I noticed a small white dot in the sky not moving at all. It looked like it was very high up and did not look like anything I have ever seen before in the sky, as it was very still and was not shiny. It was next to a crescent shaped cloud (within the crest, south east from where I was), which I found interesting because I found video footage online of the same object I saw, sitting in the crest of a cloud that looked just like the one that I had seen, which also occurred in Long Beach. I spotted the object while doing sit-ups, and stared at it for about 45 seconds. I switched positions to do a different exercise and took my eyes off the object for about 5 seconds, when I looked back the object was no where to be seen. And that's when I started to actually digest what I may had just seen. I stopped my workout and scanned the area of sky I originally saw the object, for about 5-10 minutes. I was baffled that it had just disappeared so quickly after I looked away for a brief moment.
September 9, 2017 · 1:00 PM · CIGAR
Atlanta, GA
It did start to look like it was drifting farther away from the greyhound bus, but not because were were on the highway, but because it was drifting directly away from the highway, going Eastward, even though it was pointing North/South.
September 9, 2017 · 12:04 PM · TEARDROP
Florence, KY
Laying in hammock watching clear sky and object appeared suddenly. It was silver, silent, tear drooped in shape and hovered over us for about two minutes, before we finally decided to get out of the hammock to investigate. We are 100% certain it was not a plane because a plane actually flew under it while we watched hover. Ha! That provided size perspective relative to the Boeing 737. It seemed to be about a quarter of the size of the plane. We could also hear the planes engines but this craft was silent. Its movements we odd. It seemed to be able to move side to side a little. It even seemed to shoot up at one point. Then it finally took off at a high rate of speed. It was so strange. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 9, 2017 · 9:00 AM · LIGHT
Williamson, NY
Seen a light go across the sky higher than a plane would be in a faster pace, and seen two more about 15 min later heard no sound
September 9, 2017 · 7:00 AM · SPHERE
Sheffield, MA
The crystal (looking) circle object was seen while walking our dog because he barked. The object was about the size of a VW Bug. The thing was over a cornfield near Boardman and Covered Bridge Ln. It shifted gradually but in what looked like controlled and precise movements. This was at a height veering from 80–20 feet before rising and virtually dissolving into the sky.
September 8, 2017 · 9:45 PM · TRIANGLE
Rothbury, MI
I initally saw one very bright light that looked like a very bright satellite. My girlfriend then said," look, there's a 2nd one flying with it. And then we saw a 3rd light. The three lights were flying in,a large triangle formation in a Northern direction. The sorthernmost light was much brighter than the other two, bit then quickly the front light became the brightest. After about 30 seconds the lead light shot across the sky. It looked just like a dim shooting star. The other two lights quickly faded away. I have no explation as to what earthly objects or craft/crafts would be capable of what we witnessed.
September 8, 2017 · 9:41 PM · SPHERE
Zionsville, IN
I was letting the dog out in front of house and looked at the stars. I noticed a bright white light originated from the northwest moving quickly to the northeast. It moved at a constant urgent speed it began brighter than a bright star, and as it traveled, it went bright to dim and smaller until not visible. Like a passing ball would seem bigger as it got closer and then smaller as it got further away. It made no sounds and no trails.
September 8, 2017 · 9:30 PM · SPHERE
Murray, UT
MY VEIWING REPORT: On Friday evening 9/8/17, at approximately 9:45 PM, I was looking at what I thought was a beautiful blueish moon, when with an unbelievable speed the moon (or orb as it seemed to turn out to be) flew from south to north into the clouds as witnessed by my adult daughter also.
September 8, 2017 · 8:30 PM · LIGHT
Syracuse, NY
I saw two pair of orange lights at the same distance from each other over the city of Syracuse meandering over the clouds before they were not seen anymore.
September 8, 2017 · 7:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Alliance, OH
I spotted 3 bright orange circular objects floating together hovering over a field. The object didn't have any sound, and were moving slowly in formation, in a gliding side to side motion.
September 8, 2017 · 6:25 PM · EGG
Albuquerque, NM
First, let me say that this was not a UFO in the sense of something alien, but it was definitely something falling from the sky (Unidentified Falling Object) on September 8, 2017, at 1825. I was driving north on I-25 a few miles south of the Sunport exit. All of a sudden, this object fell out of the sky in front of me to my left. It came diagonally across the highway at fairly close range. I was driving past a collection of large white oil storage (?) facilities that were on the left. The object seemed to fall between the highway and those tanks. It was hard to judge size but perhaps two fists in size might be a good guess. It appeared to be shiny metallic but was not on fire or glowing in any way. Made me wonder if a piece had fallen off a jet flying in that area. If I had time, I might want to drive back there and look on the ground to see what I might find.
September 8, 2017 · 5:00 PM · DISK
Baltimore, MD
I witnessed and have numerous pictures of white dots that moved like satellites, but in multiple directions, but even and steady like satellites. Not balloons, not birds. White dots. Very very high up. May have been triangular in zooms. 12 then 3. Pictures show changing formations of dots. They started to move west and disappeared. They are currently on my instagram "lanadelmama" in two posts that are blue skies (to identify which posts.)
September 8, 2017 · 10:00 AM · OVAL
Lyons, NE
APPROXIMATELY 10A.M., WHILE WORKING, NOTICED A WHITE ROUND FIGURE IN THE SKY. CO-WORKERS WITNESSED THIS AS WELL. SHAPE DID NOT MOVE FOR SEVERAL HOURS. AT ONE POINT, WHILE LOOKING AT THE SHAPE, IT DISAPPEARED. THE OBJECT WAS GONE FOR A TIME LONG ENOUGH TO CALL THE REPORTING CENTER. WHILE ON THE PHONE, THE OBJECT RE-APPEARED. NOT SURE IF IT WAS THE ANGLE THE SUN WAS HITTING THE OBJECT OR IF IT MOVED MOMENTARILY. CALLED FRIENDS AND COWORKERS AT DIFFERENT LOCATIONS TO CONFIRM WHETHER OR NOT THEY WERE ABLE TO SEE IT. THEY COULD SEE AND DESCRIBE THE OBJECT AS I SAW IT. BY APPROXIMATELY 3:30, THE OBJECT WAS GONE. THE OBJECT WAS EASILY SEEN FROM THESE THREE COORDINATES: 1) LAT-41 56'16.31"N LON-96 27'42098"W 2) LAT-41 43'52.06"N LON-96 30'5.32"W 3) LAT-41 47'2.32"N LON-96 13'12.51"W We spoke with the witness via telephone on two occasions, and he seemed to us to be exceptionally serious-minded, and unusually capable as an objective witness. PD
September 8, 2017 · 8:45 AM · SPHERE
Houston, TX
I was traveling to work along Beltway 8 East in Houston, TX, this morning, Friday, 9/8/17, at 8:45am, and noticed an extremely bright light high in the clear blue sky. The illuminating light was spherical and grew in size, somewhat changing shape, then decreased in size, then completely disappeared in an instance. It did this three times within a period of 3 minutes or less. It definitely was not an airplane; there was never any definite shape that formed, no white trail of smoke, no clouds around it, no sound (though it was very high in the sky). I called my husband immediately to share what I had seen, as I was perplexed as to what it could be and very excited, it sounded like other UFO sightings I’ve heard described. I’m trying to find out if there are other local reports of people witnessing the same thing.