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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.
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August 16, 2017 · 8:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Loudon, NH
Bright circular light appeared just above tree line. Remained still for 30 seconds. A loud engine sound was heard as light moved from west to east. As object passed over head, it was triangular shape. Bottom was gold colored and had 3 circular lights on bottom side. Object moved west in a straight line and disappeared from sight
August 16, 2017 · 8:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Loudon, NH
Flew in a straight line, just a bright light coming from the west. Light got brighter as it got nearer, but it stayed at the same elevation above the ground. Overhead, it looked triangular with a gold light shining from the bottom. Looked like it had bent up wings or something at the tip of the triangles. Bluish-gold color.
August 16, 2017 · 8:28 PM · LIGHT
El Centro, CA
So I live near a military base and I am quite familiar with all the aircraft that land nearby or conduct exercises. I can always hear them I can differentiate weather it's a helicopter, osprey, jet. I can also see their lights on them. This time though I couldn't here a sound or see any wing or tail lights. I'm not one to jump to conclusions, I stayed around for a couple of minutes to see, well, anything. To my shock,there was nothing that I know could of caused what I just witnessed. It was two bright yellow lights in the night sky, when out of nowhere in a straight line they became 15, 25, 30 lights. They were standing still for a while, then they disappeared, and one reappeared and the same thing happened again like 30 new bright yellow lights appeared. They were there for 15 seconds then finally they all vanished. For some reason I kept thinking that it was like a train of lights in the sky making not a single sound and with no smoke or clouds as far as th! e eye can see. We spoke with this witness via telephone, and he sounded to us to be quite serious-minded. We suspect he is a very good witness. PD
August 16, 2017 · 8:13 PM · UNKNOWN
Colorado Springs, CO
There was this thing that flew around the moon a few times very fast, and then shoot something at the moon. It left a small crater. I zoomed in on it with a 9 millimeter lens. The impact had some debris fly away when it hit. The debris had a pattern on it. The crater glowed for about 5 seconds. That was the last of it. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 16, 2017 · 8:00 PM · CIRCLE
Perkasie, PA
Approximately 8:45 pm, August 16, 2017. Location Perkasie Pennsylvania. Location Shadywood village. I was sitting outside, enjoying the coolness of the evening with two other apartment dwellers. By compass reading, I was looking 135 degrees to the south east above a small shopping center and the Bucks County Community College, upper campus, when I saw a very bright red light appear and moving in an easterly direction turned bright green and seem to stand still in the sky. The light was a steady light. Non-blinking. It moved in front of a tree about 200 yd in front of me and was blocked for a moment. Then still being green it slowly meandered on its seemingly easterly travel then made a upwards dart, via a straight line of travel. Once again it turned red and it seemed to me to be moving more in a southerly direction. It was at a low attitude so I thought but moved in a random zig zag for a short moment. Then the light went out. The lady's I was with seemed unimpr! essed but I know it had them going because it had me going and I was very vocal about it. It was a very cool thing to have witnessed. I did call the police but they showed little interest I recon they assume wackier old folks. That's on them. I have seen things before in the night skies I will chalk this one up as very cool. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 16, 2017 · 4:00 PM · CHANGING
Vernon, AL
We were driving down highway 17 from Sulligent, Alabama to Vernon, Alabama, at 4 p.m. central time. I noticed there was a object in the sky flying along over the treetops. The object was a blinding white cigar shaped craft. It then changed shape to a fat line. There was a slight glow around the object as well. It was flying slowly along going in the opposite direction that we were driving in. Then it vanished. My daughter saw it also.
August 16, 2017 · 10:00 AM · OTHER
Coventry, RI
Heading south on 95 saw 3 huge lights in a row in the sky, heading towards us n then hovers for a bit n then moved north west with turning. It was at a standstill n then just shot to side direction
August 16, 2017 · 3:00 AM · LIGHT
Garden City, KS
Also to the northwest right above the moon there was a cluster of lights shaped in a big skinny triangle. It had lights that would slowly dim then light up again. After all this happen we looked away for a brief moment and when we looked back the entire sky was covered in fog. I have video but it is not great quality. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 15, 2017 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Montrose, IL
Me and a friend were looking up and we both seen at the same time a light that was flashing, just a bit brighter than the stars and almost had a red tint to it here and there and was moving in almost a triangle form slowly. It was not flashing quickly, like a planes would. The object disappeared behind a tree that was in our way and didn't see anything for about another 5 min. Then we look up again and I don't know if it was a different UFO, but this one was streaking across the sky almost like a satellite looks, almost the same spot where we lost the other UFO, but this was having various speeds and disappearing ever so slightly heading east, north east, and as we were watching it out of the west and south there were what we think military planes looking for this object! There were 3 planes all together, and before all of this there were no planes in the sky! also before these events happened we seen the best shooting star with a pretty blue tail trailing off the end of it. The planes keep going over and around the spot where the UFO disappeared for about another 20 min. I really wish i had a camera with me at the time!
August 15, 2017 · 10:33 PM · FIREBALL
Cape Coral, FL
This is our second sighting, last one the green fireball in Nov. 2016, witnessed from Ft Myers to E. Coast of Florida. Very bright orange and no tail, which made it really surreal.
August 15, 2017 · 9:40 PM · FLASH
Henderson, NV
Saw a flash that faded out in about a second to North/North East every 10-30 seconds. It was bright enough to catch my attention (I wasn't looking up, originally). It was also higher than the planes flying by. Every flash was dimmer than the last. Wondering if it could have been a dieing star? I never seen one before and am not sure if you can with your naked eye. Hoping someone else saw it when it was maybe brighter or knows of any astronomical events. Thanks
August 15, 2017 · 9:30 PM · CIRCLE
Jensen Beach, FL
Around 9:30pm, I was leaving work with a coworker and standing outside, facing toward south west, not extremely high was a round craft which looked as it was lit from within a white/blueish color with a fog/haze around it, There was an airplane which was flying much higher and it was obvious it was a plane, we heard it and all. This was different. It didn't appear to be flying but hovering over the area, we saw it for about 3 full minutes and then it disappeared right infringement of our eyes. There was no sound or anything, it was also not a drone (our immediate thought at first) it was a large white round craft.
August 15, 2017 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Yountville, CA
9:30 PM PST 08/15/2017 Clear skies, no clouds, no moon. Minimal air traffic from SFO/OAK and local small aircraft. Naked eye star gazing, looking due East, which is somewhat void of anything bright. Travis AFB is just over the hills from my dark backyard view. The 18 new C-5's have been flying around the last few weeks and more than usual at all hours so I've had my binoculars handy. About 60 degrees above the horizon, looking due East, I thought my eyeglasses caught a very bright light reflection so I stopped scanning and focused on the area. 10-15 seconds later another bright reddish orange long flash and then darkness. I observed this 4 times and it jumped, not slowly moving...it jumped in a zig zag motion and flashed. I alerted my always skeptical gal to get outside to witness and she actually did. She saw a few flashes then jumps so I then grabbed my binoculars. Because it was NOT moving in a linear predictable manner or speed, I could not catch it with the binoculars, only naked eye. It seemed to be heading SE. It was far far brighter than Vega directly overhead and appeared as just a super bright flashing reddish/orange light unlike anything I've witnessed in 45 years of star gazing. About 5 planes traversed the night sky in a normal flight path and speed during the entire observation. I've reported before and this is my 2nd report with a witness. It was NOT a star, planet, meteor, plane, helicopter or satellite.
August 15, 2017 · 8:40 PM · SPHERE
Tobyhanna, PA
I live out here in the mountains (2000 feet up) , so it's perfect for night viewing and there's always interesting stuff out here it seems. I've seen meteors burn up several times.. but this was no meteor. It was a lighted object , just as faint as some of the stars out there. But it was moving. I couldn't believe my eyes at first, because it literally looked THAT far away, like it was one of the stars that are hundreds of light years away, But was moving from due south to due north. and then out of view. I got my cell-phone but the light from it was faint, and wouldn't even come into view on there. It was definitely not a meteor or asteroid because it moved in a straight line from south to north and never was there any fainting of the the solid light. It was of the same solid color (white or yellow) the whole time. No blinking or blinking lights of any kind either. Planes fly through here all the time, and this was no plane from this planet. It honestly just looked like an orb of light moving from south to north....but it was VERY far away it seemed. The light on the object may of been from the sun setting as well, as the sun set like an hour (or more) ago , but up that high, I could see how the sun could reflect things from that angle. There was also no sound. This was amazing and my first official UFO sighting. You can email me back if any questions, but otherwise I prefer to remain anon.
August 15, 2017 · 5:00 PM · EGG
Silverton, OR
I am not sure of an exact time as I didn't even know I had photographed this object, until I uploaded pictures from my camera. I was taking a picture of a helicopter that flew over. I carefully checked the picture I actually got of the helicopter and there is nothing else in the frame. The "UFO picture" was a total miss of the helicopter as I tried for a 2nd shot. I saw this white speck in that frame and enlarged it has more of an elliptical shape which drew me away from my initial assumption that it might be a balloon (it's way too early for one of the eclipse balloons). So I decided to keep the shot and send it to you. It was not the moon as that came up in a different quadrant of the sky, later that evening. It was difficult, at this distance to give many descriptors, including aura. There was no sound but the helicopter.
August 15, 2017 · 5:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Cold Springs (Bugtussel), AL
(( Witness indicates that the date above is approximate. PD)
August 15, 2017 · 11:00 AM · CHANGING
Seattle, WA
It was just after walking with my girlfriend to the bus stop. She needed to go further into the city for the day, so after that I walked to the nearby store to get something to snack on, and after that I wanted to walk my dog on nearby city trial. I had just started the trial, I had a feeling to look up and notice what to me appear to be a ball of light getting closer. I thought maybe it's just a plane flying by, and I was wrong, this was a pulsating Orb, it was changing colors from violet, to green and white. So I was to capture 50 seconds of film from my iPhone 6. Notice from the film, the Orb would disappear in some parts of the clip and negative photos show that the UFO is solid. When the object disappeared and reappear in frame. I notice I was the only person on the trail. It felt strange to witness something alone, and not to have another opinion or experience.
August 15, 2017 · 3:15 AM · LIGHT
Oakwood Hills, IL
On August 15th, at 3:15 AM, I had just gone to bed. I was lying in bed by my window waiting to see if I could see a meteor. I had a view of the southern sky. I saw a red light approaching from the west headed east at a very high rate of speed. The object then made a very abrupt U turn and headed back west at an even higher rate of speed. The object came back into view and darted around the sky for approximately 30 mins. Each time a plane would fly over the object would go away or not be visible. When the planes had passed the object would come back. This event lasted about 30 minutes.
August 15, 2017 · 1:15 AM · UNKNOWN
Portland, OR
I kept watching it and the way it flew looked like a plane that was about to crash because it was such a rough flight. It had two yellow flashing lights, and one or two red lights. Witness provides no contact information. PD
August 15, 2017 · 12:30 AM · FLASH
Georgetown, TX
On 2 separate occasions now I have observed an unidentified flashing object in the night sky. The first incident happened approximately 2 weeks before the date of this report, and this recent incident is what prompted me to file this report. The description of the object is as follows: A single white flashing light that is similar to a standard aircraft landing light in size, shape, color, and intensity. I often see standard aircraft in the area turn on their landing lights as they enter the airspace of the Austin and Georgetown area. Their color, as was the color of this object, is different than the light of the stars, and they appear much larger than any of the larger stars, like Vega, or planets you can see, like Jupiter. The activity of the object is as follows: The first incident appeared in the northwestern sky sometime after midnight around the first of August, 2017, as a white flash that I saw out of the corner of my eye, and that I initially thought was a standard aircraft. However, when I looked in the area where I saw the light, I could see no standard aircraft marking or navigation lights, no strobes, and no shape of any aircraft. I diverted my attention from the area, and then it appeared again, so I focused on the area and began to count to see if I could pick up some kind of regular interval. After about 19 seconds, I saw the flash, and measured the distance it had traversed to be approximately 4 fingers/125 mils/7 degrees from the southwest to the northeast. I continued to count, and the flash appeared again at 14 seconds, then at 16 seconds, and then seemed to lose intensity and disappear. I was only able to observe this object flash approximately 4 to 5 times, and it traversed approximately 600 mils / 33 degrees! of sky before it simply disappeared. The second incident happened around 0030 and was similar to the first, however, it occurred in the northeastern part of the sky, was only visible for 4 flashes, and only traversed approximately 125 mils / 7 degrees of sky before it disappeared. The location of the object was as follows: I observed these objects from Jarrell, TX, which is approximately 12 miles north of Georgetown, TX. The first incident in the western sky appeared approximately 540 mils/30 degrees above the line of the horizon in a northeasterly direction. The second, and most recent incident appeared in the eastern sky approximately 720 mils/40 degrees above the horizon in a eastern/northeastern direction. The objects appeared and disappeared instantaneously, and could not be tracked from horizon to horizon, as can the standard aircraft that fly through the area. Final thoughts: I would like to think it was a standard aircraft, but it exhibited none of the standard lights visible on most aircraft, nor could any shape or sound be identified, which is usually common, and the flight characteristics and intermittent use of light is completely out of character for any of the aircraft I observe operating in this area, or any rotary or fixed-wing aircraft I observed while serving as a jumpmaster for more than 10 years in the U.S. Army. I simply don't know what it was that I observed, or why it behaved in that manner. Witness elects to remain semi-anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 15, 2017 · 12:00 AM · OTHER
Las Vegas, NV
My girlfriend, best friend, and I sat and watched as over 30 low flying objects flew by in a line at less then 1000 feet. They were less then 1 mile in distance and 1000 feet in altitude and they made no noise. Also, in the direction they were coming from there was two lights in the sky. One was movingly and blinking on and off, and the other was solid red, and still in the sky. The 30 objects all seemed to be the same, but their light patterns differed.
August 14, 2017 · 11:00 PM · FIREBALL
Dallas, OR
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 14, 2017 · 10:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Austin, TX
Aerodynamics were way to fast to be anything I've ever seen in the sky. Movements to the left and right, up and down very rapidly made me know it wasn't just a plane. Another one to two objects appears and they all seemed to look they they were dancing diamonds in the sky. Tried to record, however, when I tried, the objects would disappear. Went back into the house to get a family member to witness as well. Objects started right back up five minutes later then then vanished into space three minutes later. Glad to know I'm not crazy.
August 14, 2017 · 10:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Woodstock, GA
Standing in the driveway with my girlfriend talking and smoking a cigarette when we look up through the tree line and see a bright flash of light. Just thinking it was lightning we ignored it, until I saw it 3 more times. We stayed outside for another hour until we went to get her mom. When we told her about it and she saw it she tried to pass it off as lightning but there are no clouds in the sky. She then told us that she saw the light when she was dropping s friend off 2 hours earlier. The light is in the same spot not moving just continuesly flashing consistently at 39-41 seconds per flash. We also noticed that there was an abnormal number of planes out. We started counting and counted 6 planes in 5 minutes all in the direction of the object and one flying low directly overhead.