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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
July 24, 2017 · 12:00 AM · OVAL
Custer, SD
Hiking along Devils Tower Trail Number 4, around midnight with a group of 6 people. We stopped for a break about a quarter mile up the trail from the Sylvan Lake trailhead. We noticed a small orange bright object hovering to the west. The object slowly hoovered from west to east traveling at about 10 miles an hour. It went directly over us and was about 150 feet above our group. Not a single sound just a bright orange object the size of a car tire. After about 2 minutes it disappeared into the night. Flying in a perfect line and not making a single sound as it cut through the air.
July 23, 2017 · 10:54 PM · OTHER
Van Nuys, CA
All in all what struck me the most was how slow and steady it was going which is something I never expected. It was as if it was doing a Victory lap or trying to be seen.
July 23, 2017 · 10:05 PM · LIGHT
Highlands Ranch, CO
We had just taken our dogs out for the last time tonight, and we were sitting in chairs on the patio. There were some clouds, but we could see planes and stars, and I was looking up at the stars, when I noticed a very bright light moving quickly across the sky from west to east. It was way above the plane traffic and it was really going fast. I told my husband to look at it, and he said he thought it was probably a plane in the Jetstream and was so high up because it was bypassing Denver. So he went back to watching the dogs and I kept watching the object for about another 5 seconds when suddenly it completely reversed direction and went back to the west at warp speed and disappeared. It wasn't hidden by the clouds because I watched for it to reappear but it never did. When it reversed direction it didn't turn or waver it just went the other way in the same line it was traveling in.
July 23, 2017 · 10:00 PM · TEARDROP
Richmond, ME
Bright white shape closer and brighter than plane moved accross night sky from southwest to north. Notably close, no lights flashed. Steady white and bright. Crossed night sky in approximatly 20 seconds. It moved faster than plane in sky, it was also closer. No trail was left. No sound.
July 23, 2017 · 9:58 PM · LIGHT
Graham, WA
At 21:58 I was outside in my front yard smoking when I saw what I thought was an airplane flying south. As I watched it I couldn't see any blinking lights and the other planes that I could see flying in the same area had blinking red or white lights. The craft that I was looking at only had one really bright white light and no blinking lights. I watched the light / craft until I couldn’t see it any more. I watched it, trying to see if I could see if it had any blinking lights. I was not able to see any blinking lights. The craft was too high in the sky to make out if it had any kind of shape.
July 23, 2017 · 9:05 PM · FIREBALL
Geneva, IL
Red orb clearly visible looking south. Light was constant and did not have the regular blinking of airplane and motion was not in a consistent speed or pattern. Appeared to be coming in my direction then turned east. Seemed to hover for several seconds before turning again and heading away from me (south) very fast.
July 23, 2017 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Columbia, MO
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 23, 2017 · 8:30 PM · CHEVRON
Albion, NY
While outside on the back porch in a town just off Lake Ontario, my mother and her friend saw a low flying dark grey chevron shaped object. It made no noise at all, was about the length of two cars, and flew slowly toward the lake just above the treeline. The UFO had no lights and continued its path with no interruption or change in speed. About a year later, another friend of hers called her and told her she had seen the same exact object moving north toward the lake. There has been a lot of undocumented activity I’ve heard of in this area for years and my mom or her friends wouldn’t think of reporting what she saw so I’ve taken the liberty of sending it in.
July 23, 2017 · 8:30 PM · EGG
Meriden, CT
Flew extremely low overhead. Silent craft, absolutely no noise. Single red/pink light on craft. Moved from East to West. Passed over my dad's house & the neighbor's house across the street while releasing 4 small red balls of light that turned & disappeared before hitting the ground. They looked like firework embers, the way the died out. & the UFO disappeared behind the trees
July 23, 2017 · 8:05 PM · SPHERE
Tulsa, OK
I am a 52-year-old researcher/data collection specialist. I was sitting with my 78-year-old mother and 13 year old son on our back porch. I was looking to the southeast and two green glowing orbs appeared from behind a neighbor’s roofline. From my prospective, they appeared to be glowing green orbs with a barely noticeable silver edge around one edge of the green glowing circle; as if a sliver of the side of the object was observable. The silver part seemed solid like it was metal. It is clear that they were several miles away. They were also very high up. It was a hot hazy day with hazy clouds high in the sky. The objects were clearly observed being obscured by the clouds at times. The two orbs stayed the same distance from each other throughout the observation. They moved much quicker than an airplane but the movement was steady; not jerking around like perhaps a laser pointer might look. The orbs were heading towards us and the closer they got, the more obvious the details became. It also was more obvious that the objects were very high up. Once overhead, my perception was that they were not very big, maybe the size of a car. At no time did we hear any sound coming from them. A middle aged couple was out for a walk and noticed my family looking at the sky. They turned around and I asked them to look for the lights. They saw them too. We all stood and watched the lights move quickly but steadily towards us and over the house until we could not see them anymore. My son said that right before they disappeared from our view, they circled each other. This is the only observation that they broke the formation that we observed throughout. My son is the only one who saw them circle each other.
July 23, 2017 · 2:00 PM · DISK
Trigg County (Lake Barkley), KY
While on Lake Barkley, KY, an object approached at high rate of speed. Then shot vertically, straight up into stratospher.
July 23, 2017 · 3:10 AM · LIGHT
Colorado Springs, CO
Colorado Springs, Colorado, Sunday, July 23rd, 2017 at 3:10 a.m.. I took my dog out for an early-morning potty. While standing there, I looked up in the area of the star Vega. I must have been staring only a minute when a whitish-blue pulsating light appeared. This UFO light continued to do this pulsating scenario about eight times before completely vanishing. This light was absolutely silent and went from North to South, then North again; then completing a half circle. My dog seemed to look up in the direction a few seconds before I visually could see the lights. About a minute into watching this UFO's lights, I could see an airplane's silhouette (which was flying from West to North East). Judging distance and size comparison, the lights of the UFOs at their brightest were approximately the same diameter as the airplane. The total duration in which I can see the strange lights what is approximately 5 minutes. I ran inside so I could write down everything I could remember seeing, then text my husband at work telling him that I saw something strange. I downloaded multiple sky apps on my phone and the next day tried to go out at the exact same time, 3:10am in the morning to see if I saw anything similar happening again, which I didn't. However, what was interesting is on this particular app you could rewind the time to see if there were any flares, overhead satellites, radio satellites or the ISS passing overhead during the specific time I recalled watching the unidentified lights. As far as I could research, nothing showed up as far as anything that would be linked to man-made light anomalies. Our family has had several sightings over many lifetimes, and being that I grew up over 43 years in this city, I can say I've never witnessed lights in the sky such as this. There did seem to be an intelligence behind the lights, however nothing that made me feel alarmed. Nonetheless, my heart rate spiked and I was a bit creeped out.
July 23, 2017 · 2:00 AM
Pleasant Grove, UT
I was the one who reported this sighting that I saw on 7/23/17 in pleasant grove this year. My story does not change
July 23, 2017 · 2:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Pleasant Grove, UT
They the disappeared over the mountain, as they went into clouds above the mountain. The circle formation they were in was rather spread out but not even. I have never seen anything like this before. I was so surprised, I told some of my family members the next day. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 23, 2017 · 1:30 AM · CIRCLE
Twin Falls, ID
I was driving home alone early Sunday morning at about 1:30 AM on Pole Line Road in Twin Falls, ID, when I saw a large bright white light appear and form a circle in the sky to the Northwest of my location. It lasted about 3 to 5 seconds, and then disappeared. It reappeared again in the same location, formed another circle lasting about the same amount of time, and disappeared again. It appeared to form circles that were a mile or more in diameter (my guess), and at a good distance from my location (many miles to the NW).
July 23, 2017 · 12:45 AM · CHANGING
Springdale, WA
We suspect that this may be a hoax. Source of the report does not indicate a date of the event, so we have assigned an arbitrary date. PD
July 23, 2017 · 12:20 AM · CIRCLE
Rushford, MN
My gf, our son, and I went on a midnight bike ride we noticed bright flashing red ,blue, white lights to the west when it moved was really quick. Then we saw 2 to the south and 2 to the north none to the east. They would dart back and forth even in circles forward or backward. We had our son with so we watched for about 35 mins.
July 22, 2017 · 11:00 PM · DIAMOND
Saint George, UT
Saw a bright, diamond shaped light shoot up into the sky. I pointed it out to two friends and we watched it rise into the night sky, and then accelerate above us, heading northeast at incredible speed, faster than airplanes that we watch overhead throughout the day everyday. It was about as high in the sky as helicopters normally fly, but much faster, with a solid bright white light that was not blinking or flashing. The object was also noiseless, despite its remarkable speed and low altitude. We watched it fly northeast for about 15-20 mins before it was out of view
July 22, 2017 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Everett, WA
It disappeared for approximately 5 minutes. We thought it was because clouds had come through. The sky opened and the stars were visible again. However, it reappeared and moved in a zig-zag type pattern across the sky. It clearly had a trajectory that went west of our complex. I wondered if it was a drone, but why would drones be used late in the evening. There was no sound from this object.
July 22, 2017 · 10:45 PM · SPHERE
Hutchinson, MN
Bright red sphere that was about 45 degrees above the horizon, southwest of Hutchinson. The light was a intense, super bright and vibrant red. This lasted about two minutes and just disappeared. It was not aircraft navigation lights and the closest aircraft in that direction according to flight radar was about 100 miles away, so no possibility of being that.
July 22, 2017 · 9:55 PM · OTHER
Jefferson City, MO
Spiked ball looking craft with white lights at the end of the each spike. At first, we thought it was a very bright star in the distance. We were walking southward down on a public sidewalk and the craft was moving very slowly from the south toward the north. tI passed overhead at about a 30 degree angle. It was beautiful like a star moving across the sky. Observation time about 5 minutes total. No sound.
July 22, 2017 · 9:50 PM · CIRCLE
Loveland, OH
I saw 3 pairs of large orange spheres flying in a line from West to East over Loveland, Ohio. Once over Loveland, each pair rapidly ascended at an 80 degree angle to the South, quickly diminishing in size and disappeared. There was no sound or red and green flashing lights.
July 22, 2017 · 9:47 PM · LIGHT
Owasso, OK
At appx 9:47pm CDT, I was outside on our east facing porch, just watching for satellites and meteors, as I like to do on weekend nights like the one that night: no clouds and no moon. I was scanning the sky, when I saw an exceptionally bright light in the SSW sky appx 40 degrees above the horizon. This light was as much as a magnitude brighter than the planet Venus at that planet's brightest. This light was moving to the NE and likely took 2-3 minutes to cross from the point of first sighting until it crossed the whole of the sky before disappearing behind some trees to my ENE. I then moved to another part of the yard and was able to watch the light past the trees until it was lost to sight on the far ENE horizon. I believe that it passed to the north of both Antares, and then Saturn, but to the east of Altair. I don't believe that it got any higher than maybe 50 degrees above the horizon, maybe less. The light was silent the entire time. The light was solid the e! ntire time, neither blinking nor dimming. I say it was solid to say that it did not blink or waver. But it was so bright that it caused it to be more of a Venus-like glare, rather than a simple point of light. It only dimmed as any light does as it moved farther away into the distance. In a single sentence it was as if Venus was moving across the sky. Over the years I have seen dozens if not hundreds of satellites. I have seen many that seem to appear from nowhere and become very bright before quickly dimming to nothing. In the moments just after spotting this light and seeing that it was not blinking (like an airplane) I assumed that it must be a satellite and expected it to very soon dim. It never did to any extent. I also felt that it was moving erratically, slowing then speeding up and wavering very slightly from side to side. I say this because it was what I felt I was seeing. I can NOT say that I am certain it was acting oddly. Realizing that this was like nothing I had seen before I went to the door and asked my wife to come outside. She agreed that it was much brighter than what we had seen before. Without my prodding she said that it seemed to be moving in the same odd manner that I have described. Another point I want to make is that we live appx 7-8 miles NE of Tulsa International Airport and see many low flying aircraft near our home either just after takeoff or turning west toward a landing. Just as my wife was coming to the door, I began hearing sounds of an airplane, and started to feel that was the explanation. But when I looked up I saw the airplane lights moving from the S to N but beginning a turn to the west that would take it behind our house towards the airport flight lanes. The bright light in question was already well to the east. When the plane was lost to sight the sound went away. Again I did not hear any sound that I would associate with the passing light. There is a National Guard Center about 5-6 miles to our south and they house a number of military helicopters. I have seen them flying in the area many times. Later, I considered that if this were a helicopter, for its lights to have been that bright, it would have to be flying rather low, and I would certainly have heard that familiar chop chop sound. My wife and I also considered the idea that it could have been a drone of some kind. I don't know much about them but will say that other than the possible side to side waver I was feeling, this light traveled in a very straight line from one end of the flight to when it disappeared on the far horizon. To me this was an object that I could not identify with any certainty and since it was moving, flying in the sky it was a UFO. I EXPECT that you will determine that it was indeed likely a satellite. I expect that you have satellite information at your disposal and you will end this mystery quickly. (( Probable sighting of ISS, which was visible at 21:45 hrs.. Please see following: http://heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=25544⪫=36.2695&lng=-95.8547&loc=Owasso&alt=188&tz=CST PD)) ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) Thank you. Yes. I posted my sighting on Facebook and a close skywatching friend sent me a link. I was instantly convinced. I wanted to contact you to rescind my report, but wasn't sure how. Besides, my sighting is part of the narrative. Just another part of how we keep moving toward solving the mystery. initials of source deleted)) END ADDENDUM))
July 22, 2017 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Plymouth, MA
Witness does not indicate the units of the duration of the sighting, so we have indicated a duration of 30 seconds, until we hear back from the witness. PD