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August 13, 2017 · 3:30 AM · TRIANGLE
Kenmore, NY
I was out on my balcony having a smoke before bed and noticed that the sky was very clear. While looking up admiring the view, I noticed many faint, pinpoint jade green lights in an elongated triangular formation. This is difficult to describe...the lights were fading in and out, it almost looked as if the tiny lights on this massive object were pulsing or something. Every few seconds a very faint orangish yellow light would sweep across it, almost like a spotlight. I kept rubbing my eyes because I was so boggled by this sight and just couldn't believe what I was seeing. I tried to take pictures but my phone camera wouldn't suffice. I went back in to my house to do a search online to see if someone might have reported this, or even better if I could find a video of it. I went back outside to look again and it was still there. It was stationary and this is really blowing my mind. Many nights I've noticed the color-changing orbs flashing in random areas amongst the stars, they come and go frequently, but I've never been alarmed by them, as I am so used to seeing them. And no, they aren't stars or satellites. This thing with the green lights was definitely a massive object sitting way up in the sky. It also seems a lot further away than the pulsating orbs, seeing that the lights were like pinpoints up there. It's quite extraordinary, and I have been racking my brain trying to find some sort of information about it. Of all the things I have witnessed in my life, this is worth reporting. What the hell can it be? It's driving me mad.
August 13, 2017 · 12:30 AM · OTHER
Rosston, IN
I'm a 59-year old male pharmaceutical scientist, living just north of Indianapolis, Indiana. My daughter is 20 years old and is a student at Ball State University, living at home this summer. On Saturday August 12 we drove about 10 miles north of our house to get away away from city lights and watch the Perseid meteor shower. We ended up in Rosston, on East 100 North about a mile east of US 421. It's a gravel road. We arrived about 10:30 pm and set up chairs on the south side of the road, facing north. Over the next 2 hours we saw about 2 dozen shooting stars. At about 12:30 am (Sunday, August 13) I noticed a faint point of light to the north of us, about 60 degrees up from the northern horizon, traveling slowly south. It was white and didn't blink. I was watching it trying to think of what it might be when my daughter pointed it out to me, so she'd noticed it independently. After watching it for another 20-30 seconds, a strange thing happened. An image began to appear over it. It went from invisible to brightly lit over the course of about 5 seconds, was at full brightness for about 5 seconds, and then faded back to invisibility over the course of about 5 seconds. When I could no longer see the image, I could still see the faint dot which continued to travel slowly south. The image that appeared was shaped like a traditional 4-sided kite, but with the top and bottom truncated. I could clearly see the left and right borders, but couldn't see a border on the top or bottom. The left and right borders were brightly lit with white light along their edges, and the area between the borders was illuminated with white light, but not as brightly. The light filling the area of the shape stayed within the area, it didn't appear to bleed beyond its imputed borders on the top or bottom. The left and right sides were mirror images of each other, making this symmetrical and giving me the impression of an orderly structure to the object. If you hold your hand out to arm's length and put your thumb and forefinger about half and inch apart, that's how big the image looked to me. My daughter saw it a little differently. She also saw the object appear and get brighter, stay at maximum brightness, and then fade, and for the same length of time. However, she didn't see the structure I did, which surprised me because I saw it clearly. In addition, after the object was no longer visible and I'd just lost track of the faint white dot that started this story, she suddenly got agitated and started describing to me what she was seeing. As she describes it, about 30 seconds after the lighted object had faded to nothingness and she was watching the faint white light, she saw a second dot of light suddenly appear next to it, and then saw 2 more dots suddenly appear above the first 2. They then started undulating up and down, the upper row and lower row moving toward each other and then away from each other, but along a path that she described as part of an arc. The movement wasn't vertical, it was angled. She saw this for 15-20 seconds, and then they disa! ppeared. As it was happening she was pointing to where she was looking as she described it, but I couldn't see it. We left just after that, mainly because this incident had scared her and she wanted to get out of there.
August 13, 2017 · 12:00 AM · SPHERE
Cincinnati, OH
Witnessed a bright reddish orange sphere of light travelling from North to South. NO SOUND. About 800 feet up. Moving slowly. I checked the "Missing time experienced" box below because on the morning of Aug. 9th I lost 3 and half hours that I just can't account for. I am unaware of a connection but mention it in case.
August 12, 2017 · 11:30 PM · CHEVRON
Jalama Beach, CA
Eight of us are sitting around a campfire watching Peseid Meteor showers on Saturday night, August 12, 2017. UFO appeared from the north traveling south in a straight line. Its shape was best describes as a chevron or a flat line with tails like this [. It covered the entire length of the night sky in about 3 seconds. Four of the eight exclaimed immediately, “Wow, did you see that?” Two of the people who saw it said it zig zagged in the middle of its path and then continued on in a straight line. The other two, myself included, did not notice any deviation from its north to south trajectory. There was no tail like we were seeing from the larger meteors we saw. Its size was also much larger than any of the meteors. There was no sound. The color was white with a slight blue tint. The light we saw also appeared to pulse brighter and darker as it traveled across the sky. My initial thought and reaction was that we were seeing a military spy plane traveling at a high rate of speed, yet after processing it in my brain, the distance and speed it traveled far exceeded anything written about possible USA spy planes i.e. Aurora.
August 12, 2017 · 10:45 PM · LIGHT
Short Gap, CT
Bright flashes seeming in a zig zag pattern each flash was of different intensities. Also seemed to move backwards with its zig zag pattern. There were about 7 to 8 flashes. The flashes were of a white light in some flashes were extremely bright while others were not as intense.
August 12, 2017 · 10:30 PM · FLASH
Mount Pleasant, OH
I witnessed a bright flash in the Northeastern sky, followed by a second bright flash a few seconds later. I was watching for meteors directly above in the Milkyway, since it was a clear night. The flash was so bright, I saw it out of the corner of my eye—a big ball of white light. It immediately grabbed my attention. I traced the object across the sky for over 10 minutes. It moved in an irregular pathway at an inconsistent speed, flashing at irregular intervals. Sometimes it appeared to stay in one place for a few seconds. Some flashes were very bright—brighter than a satellite or planet, some flashes were very faint, and many of the flashes were brighter than the stars and comparable with a planet or satellite. All the flashes were white light and of varying durations, the longest being about half a second. The flashing object moved in an unpredictable, zig-zag pathway across the sky, moving from the Northeast towards the West/Northwest. After about 10 t! o 15 minutes, I lost it through the trees. The object had to be very high in the atmosphere, if not outside the Earth’s atmosphere. At one point, I witnessed a jet airliner fly directly under the object as it flashed, so it was much higher than an airplane. It made no noise that I could discern, but the heavy amounts of background noise could have drowned it out (diesel generators). Its irregular speed and pathway rules out the possibility of it being an orbiting satellite or high flying aircraft. No civilian aircraft or space craft could fly like that. I do not believe it was any space debris falling back down to earth, as it would have left a trail and been a consistent glow. I suppose it could have been some piece of highly-reflective material being tossed around in the upper atmosphere (but what and how did it get there?). There’s no way it was a coincidental set of meteors. Something that is also possibly related. Around 9:30 PM, my cat went completely nuts. Chasing none existent beings around the room like she went crazy. As soon as I opened the door to go outside and look for meteors, she abruptly burst outside and ran around the yard. A few minutes after I had lost sight of the object, she ran up to the door perfectly normal again. I am a person of science, but I cannot logically explain what I saw to any degree of certainty. The entire event freaked me out, along with two other co-witnesses. None of my colleagues have believed my account of what I saw. I know what I saw, and I know it was not normal or something that will be easy to throw aside. I know that this was in the most literal sense: an Unidentified Flying Object.
August 12, 2017 · 10:30 PM · FLASH
Mount Pleasant, OH
I witnessed a bright flash in the Northeastern sky, followed by a second bright flash a few seconds later. I was watching for meteors directly above in the Milky Way, since it was a clear night. The flash was so bright, I saw it out of the corner of my eye—a big ball of white light. It immediately grabbed my attention. I traced the object across the sky for over 10 minutes. It moved in an irregular pathway at an inconsistent speed, flashing at irregular intervals. Sometimes it appeared to stay in one place for a few seconds. Some flashes were very bright—brighter than a satellite or planet, some flashes were very faint, and many of the flashes were brighter than the stars and comparable with a planet or satellite. All the flashes were white light and of varying durations, the longest being about half a second. The flashing object moved in an unpredictable, zig-zag pathway across the sky, moving from the Northeast towards the West/Northwest. After about 10 to 15 minutes, I lost it through the trees. The object had to be very high in the atmosphere, if not outside the Earth’s atmosphere. At one point, I witnessed a jet airliner fly directly under the object as it flashed, so it was much higher than an airplane. It made no noise that I could discern, but the heavy amounts of background noise could have drowned it out (diesel generators). Its irregular speed and pathway rules out the possibility of it being an orbiting satellite or high flying aircraft. No civilian aircraft or space craft could fly like that. I do not believe it was any space debris falling back down to earth, as it would have left a trail and been a consistent glow. I suppose it could have been some piece of highly-reflective material being tossed around in the upper atmosphere (but what and how did it get there?). There’s no way it was a coincidental set of meteors. Something that is also possibly related. Around 9:30 PM, my cat went completely nuts. Chasing none existent beings around the room like she went crazy. As soon as I opened the door to go outside and look for meteors, she abruptly burst outside and ran around the yard. A few minutes after I had lost sight of the object, she ran up to the door perfectly normal again. I am a person of science, but I cannot logically explain what I saw to any degree of certainty. The entire event freaked me out, along with two other co-witnesses. None of my colleagues have believed my account of what I saw. I know what I saw, and I know it was not normal or something that will be easy to throw aside. I know that this was in the most literal sense: an Unidentified Flying Object. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD
August 12, 2017 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Spruce Knob, WV
Spruce Knob Lake WV, August 12, 2017 We were watching a meteor shower and witnessed a UFO. It was a square light, very very bright, and it appeared to open and close like a window or door. It moved across the sky slowly, somewhere between a very high passenger jet and a life flight helicopter. No noise was observed. It was brighter than anything else in the night sky. Weather was 50% clouds, and the meteor shower was hard to watch. This light was bright enough to see through wispy clouds. It moved across the sky and it closed, like a window or door. It would then reappear and move in a totally different direction, and it repeated this about a half dozen times. We had family members and friends in Nineveh Pa and Fairmont WV who also witnessed this light while observing the meteor shower.
August 12, 2017 · 10:10 PM · LIGHT
Pine Grove, CO
My wife and I were watching the Meteor Shower, we were laying down on a picnic table our feet facing about 45 degs on the compass which is NE. At around 10:15 pm, I spotted a flash of light at about 65 degs upward and about 30 degs on the compass. I estimate 3-4 secs later, it flashed again and I could detect it was slowly moving. Every 3-5 seconds it would flash again and continued moving toward 65 degs on the compass. It took about 15 minutes to travel from 30 degs to 65 degs, it became dim and I could no longer detect it. There were no other blinking lights, so, therefore, I conclude it was not a plane. What it was I cannot say.
August 12, 2017 · 10:00 PM · FLASH
Clarksville, TN
4 people saw a flashing, stationary light around 10:00. Flashing continued for roughly 10 minutes, then stopped.
August 12, 2017 · 10:00 PM · FLASH
Cincinnati, OH
On Saturday night, 08/12/17, my wife and I were standing outside of our home watching for the meteor shower. We sadly did not see any meteors, but witnessed something else. I caught a really bright white flash out of the corner of my eye first and directed my attention towards it. It more or less blinked in and out of view several times. I pointed it out to my wife whom was standing right next to me. She didn't see it at first but finally saw it. That was the first UFO that really had me scratching my head. Mind you it was a beautiful night out very little cloud cover and stars all over. After that initial sighting we observed probably 3 or 4 more in a span of about 5-10 minutes. I initially thought it possibly have been a satellite or something. They all just kinda flashed and disappeared and flashed again. I was astounded as was my wife. I really was hoping to find more reports of this because it was such a nice night and figured there would have been more people outside that night that may have seen them. I thought they possibly could have been meteors, but, I have never seen a meteor act that way, usually they are more like a shooting star to the best of my knowledge. All in all it was very bizarre. I just couldn't wrap my head around it and neither could she. Thanks for having this site. I just had to toss this out there and see if anything similar had been seen.
August 12, 2017 · 10:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Muskegon, MI
I was sitting with family & friends at the Unity Christian Music Festival on Saturday evening listening to music. At one point towards the end of the concert, I was looking skyward due to the meteor shower that would be visible later in the night when I saw 4 faint lights moving together in a Northern direction. 3 formed a triangle & the 4th was to the right... after a few seconds, the lone light started moving in an erratic pattern, then would come back to the side of the triangle. At first I thought it could be a drone taking pictures of the festival, but once the erratic movements of the 4th light started, I knew I was seeing something odd. Shorty thereafter, at least 30 Chinese lanterns became visible several miles to the East, then within 5 minutes, a helicopter took off & circled over towards the lanterns. There were many things to see that evening in the sky, but the 4 lights I saw were quite odd. They were about the same illumination & size of most of the stars that evening. The sky was clear that night as well, which allowed for clear sight. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 12, 2017 · 10:00 PM · FLASH
Clarksville, TN
4 people, including myself, saw a flashing light in the sky around 10:00 pm. It lasted fought five minutes from the time we first noticed it.
August 12, 2017 · 9:45 PM · LIGHT
Norfolk, VA
During one of its hovers, the red light seemed to split into 2 red lights, at which point the green strobing light was turned off. A plane passed by in the general vicinity, but above the light, and it seemed to react by suddenly dropping altitude very quickly. Once the plane had passed, the 2nd red light disappeared/turned off and the green strobe resumed. The light then drifted slowly in the sky momentarily and then accelerated towards downtown Norfolk at about the speed of a helicopter until it was out of sight. It could have possibly been a drone but the abnormal flight behavior, time of night, speed and distance covered made me skeptical of that. It’s hard to estimate the altitude of the light, however it was well below the clouds and normal flight paths of aircraft in the area. Our backgrounds: I am a graphic designer, she is a medical professional at a local hospital.
August 12, 2017 · 9:40 PM · FLASH
Cottontown, TN
The location is Walnut Grove, TN, which is just northeast of White House, TN, and approximately 30 miles north of Nashville. The sky was mostly clear with a few stray clouds and contrails, with no thunderstorm activity within a hundred miles of the area. At approximately 21:40 on 12 August, 2017, I observed a bright white flash of light in the north, northeast portion of the sky at approximately 45 degrees. It appeared as if a star had flashed on and off and the size comparison of the light was the same if not marginally larger than a star. As I continued to look in the sky I observed a couple of more flashes over the course of a minute, or so. I walked back into the house and told my wife what I had seen. I asked her and my 3 children to join me on the front porch to see if it continued and, if possible, to record and hypothesize what it could be. At approximately 21:45 the light flashes had moved from the original point in the sky to nearly directly ov! erhead. As we watched the flashes continued in intervals of several seconds. A couple of the flashes appeared as strobes or camera flashes. At one point a streak of light appeared in what I could only explain as a bluish white laser or fluorescent bulb in the sky in the same vicinity. The entire event lasted only about six or seven minutes from start to finish. My twelve year old tried to record our observations, but nothing of substance, other than our conversation about what we were seeing, was on the video. This is not the first time that I had observed an occurrence like this. Approximately a year ago in the same general area and the same time of year, I saw what appeared as a star flashing on and off every few seconds. A short time before this I saw a similar event take place on the southwest horizon from our property. Researching several videos on the internet to find a reasonable explanation for what I had witnessed, here is what I found: 1. Iridium flare – While a solid hypothesis at first, upon reviewing videos online and reading the description of what it is and how this appears, this does not look at all like what we witnessed. The flashes we witnessed were brighter, crisper, and strobed, while the iridium flare “warmed up and cooled down” over the course of a few seconds. The lights we saw literally were like camera flashes. 2. Air traffic – We witnessed several air craft traversing the sky while this was occurring, and since we are in the flight path of traffic in and out of Nashville International Airport, it was another good hypothesis. However, the aircraft lighting, many of which are now LED, did not appear the same as the lights we saw nor did they have the same characteristics as the lights we observed. 3. Lightning – There was no lightning in the area, and no thunderstorm activity. The sky was mostly clear and mild with good visibility. 4. Meteor – While this was the reason that I was outside watching the sky in the first place, this was not meteor activity. The flashes were predictable and were easily distinguishable from meteors. As I continued to research other UFO reporting sites, I came across a few others who observed similar flashes. These reports were from Michigan and Louisiana. Interestingly, the location where we saw the lights is nearly at (within a thousand feet of) the line of totality for the upcoming eclipse. Coincidence or not, this was very strange. We are very curious to know what this was and to know if more saw the same thing. Meanwhile, we will continue to watch the sky for more examples of this, and will report our findings.
August 12, 2017 · 9:40 PM · OVAL
Montville, NJ
Travelling west on I-80 near Exit 48, I observed two oval white glowing objects just hovering above the tree tops it was for approximately 3-5 seconds then as the car travelled the trees came into view. It was at approximately 21:40 hours. It appeared that one of the craft was in distress because it was blinking and the other was not. The were very close together.
August 12, 2017 · 9:38 PM · CIRCLE
Blairsville, PA
A Orange Bright Circular Object Appeared To the south of Blairsville. A loud boom was heard, and then a object very large glowing orange appeared coming up from the ground at a steady rate. The object came straight up, then headed southeast towards Johnston at very high speed. The object then just disappeared. Shortly after a helicopter flew over the area heading towards Latrobe Airport.
August 12, 2017 · 9:00 PM · CHANGING
Mayfield Hts, OH
Saw this bright orange light traveling from NW to SE, moving very slowly. It wasn't a plane, no flashing lights or beacons. Thought it might be one of those fire floating lanterns, but it was too big for that. After a minute of viewing it was almost overhead and the brightness of the object would waver, gradually getting smaller and less bright. Could not make out a defined shape. After a few minutes viewing it passed into a cloud, probably around an altitude of 5000-7000 feet (I know cloud formations, relative heights). A mystery. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 12, 2017 · 8:50 PM · UNKNOWN
Manlius, NY
Large quiet craft moving very slow, almost hovering at a high altitude. Had approximately 4 possibly 5 very bright orange/red pulsating lights, almost a slow breathing effect. The light brightness made identifying the shape of the craft impossible. Seen south west from Hadley Ln. Video captured. Night before, I saw a woman and child staring into the sky at the same location, but didn't think much of it until after seeing this the following night. Could possibly be a very large recreational drone, not sure how high they are capable of climbing as this craft went into the clouds. There were commercial airplanes in the skies as well but they were traveling much faster and higher. Their light flashes were also faster.
August 12, 2017 · 8:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Kissimee, FL
I was driving home from work on World Drive south of Highway 192 and noticed a stationary red light, with two smaller white lights flashing horizontally on either side of the red light in the center. The White lights on either side of the larger Red light were flashing at approximately half second intervals between flashes. When I first observed the lights, I assumed that it was an airliner approaching the nearby Orlando airport from head on. As I observed the lights I realized that this was an abnormal configuration for an airliner and continued to watch the lights for another 10 seconds approx. in this time the lights did not appear to move. The lights went out after approx. 20 seconds, as if they had been turned off.
August 12, 2017 · 7:00 PM · CIRCLE
Richmond, UT
Large circular object in the sky. I noticed a circular object in the sky that looked a lot like a star, but it was too early for a star to shine that bright. The sun was reflecting off of it, and when dusk came, the object slowly dimmed, until I could not see it anymore. Did not move at all the entire time it was visible. It was positioned to the southeast of Richmond Ut. I've seen the space station pass before, and satellites, but never something that is stationary for that long at that height, and that big. Took a video for about 2 minutes, when I first saw it around 8:30 at night.
August 12, 2017 · 7:00 PM · CYLINDER
Daytona Beach, FL
My husband and I watched what looked like a drone with a light under it over the ocean near the shore in Daytona Beach. It was moving south to north and then it turned heading east over the ocean until it left our vision over the ocean. We were wondering what we just saw when another drone-looking object came by going south to north on exact same path of travel and then also went east and finally left our vision over the ocean. I took a couple of distant pictures and the object when zoomed (fuzzy) looks more like a cylinder with metal rings around it. I just wish I had had a camera with a powerful zoom lens. The object is just a dot in the picture. I don't think a personal drone could have flown that high and far. Possibly military drone?
August 12, 2017 · 5:00 PM · LIGHT
Old Hickory, TN
While observing Perseids meteor shower, spotted a white light in the northeastern sky. The light was stationary and pulsed slowly, like a lighthouse or beacon. Occasionally, the light would flash quickly and very brightly. It appeared to be high in the sky, and we could not see the object itself. There was no sound. After about 10 minutes, it moved off slowly to the east, then abruptly vanished.
August 12, 2017 · 11:58 AM · OVAL
Hiawassee, GA
Also, when looking through the binoculars, the object had a light trail following it. I was far away over another mountain and had a red light that would flash on top for brief periods of time. It disappeared and about 4 plans were fly in the area! Very interesting experience.