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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 6, 2017 · 10:30 PM · FLASH
Madison, WI
I was sitting in my living room, and noticed flashing lights outside of my window. At first I assumed it was just lightning, but lightning usually doesn't flash non-stop for hours at a time. I walked outside to find the source of the flashing light, thinking maybe it was a tow truck or something. Upon walking outside, there was no apparent source of the flashing lights. I looked up but clouds were blocking any chance of me being able to distinguish what was causing the flashing. My dog, who usually runs to the door when asked if she wants to go out, refused to leave the house, even when bribed with treats. Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 6, 2017 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Marshalltown, IA
It was 10:00 p.m, on the west side of town near Casey's gas station on Lincoln Way. As I was driving, I noticed a large orange/red ball of light in the sky heading south at a fast speed, there was visible stars & no obstructions near, the light was very intense and it didn't seem to be too high up in the sky, I kept my eye on the light and it eventually got dimmer & completely disappeared within about 10 seconds.
July 6, 2017 · 9:41 PM · CIRCLE
Dayton (near), OH
I'm nearly 40, with a doctorate degree and a former university-level research assistant to a professor of astrophysics. On this night, ny father was sitting outside on our back patio in the dark, only a porch light illuminating the area. My mother and I were indoors, talking, sitting at the kitchen table. That room has windows which face north, one of which overlooks the back patio. That window was partially open, as was at least one other. At approx. 9:48 pm EDT, my father shouted something unintelligible (to me) through the open window nearest the table where I sat inside the house. My mom understood what he'd said, telling me of my father, "He's demanding I come outside!" After that, I heard him as he continued yelling to my mom to come outside "right now" to see something. I will outside, instead, anticipating an announcement to the effect of, "There's a skunk in our yard! (There is long precedent for this sort of statement). I walked to the door, and as I crossed the patio toward my father, he pointed toward the sky (it being nearly entirely dark, this was not terribly useful and I did not even know he'd done until I saw a photo taken that night). I asked where to look, and then he explained to me where to look in the sky: toward the far northwest to the west side of a large tree in our backyard. Once I turned to look in that direction, it was easy to see the object to which what he'd been referring. It appeared to be quite large, utilizing nearby homes and trees as a point of reference, and was a vibrant, brightly-colored object which appeared nearly round in shape. It seemed to glow, and that glow was quite intense, the entire object a uniformly-brilliant red-orange and lacked any discrepancy in intensity over its entire visible surface. It appeared to be relatively large, greater than the size of any plane (civilian or military) I've yet to see under similar circumstances. It appeared, initially, to be flying a bit lower than even the typical passenger planes which I see daily as they fly to and from a nearby airport. The only crafts I've seen in such a low flight paths have been F-15s & F-16s flying during either the local, annual air show, or else flying in and out of nearby Wright-Patterson AFB. This red object moved quite rapidly, heading east with its initial path seemingly parallel to the earth. After about 30 seconds, it disappeared from my view as our backyard tree obscured my line of sight entirely, then returned to view. When it did, it appeared to remain moving forward from West to east, still traveling parallel to the ground for about ten seconds. Then, it suddenly appeared smaller (from which change I'd generally infer either a change in size, luminosity, or distance from the point of observation, but whatever occurred did so seemingly instantaneously). Then, still appearing smaller, the object apparently gained altitude, rising from a former point about 35 degrees above horizon to ~45 degrees above horizon, and then, at zenith, the object seemed to cease moving completely. It did not move nor vary in size or light intensity for several seconds, then began moving in a manner completely different from how it had moved before stopping. It repeatedly moved in what appeared to be a linear, upward direction perpendicular to the going (without any associated forward or backward motion), did the same moving downward, eastward, westward, or at varying angles; it seemed to move closer at times, farther away at others, each of the perpendicular motions made occurred without the object also moving in any direction parallel to the ground, yet other times it moved forward (west to east) or backward while apparently accelerating or decelerating. It also would simply cease moving and remain static, as well as move in sharply curving and angled paths as it appeared to simultaneously move up or down. It remained the same shade of glowing, vivid reddish-orange throughout, its light initially seeming to vary in intensity relative to its distance from me, but after the first 60 seconds or so, these changes in light intensity seemed to lack any correlation with the way it appeared to move. It was during the sequence of rapid, varied movements that the object again appeared to completely cease moving, and, while remaining stationary, appeared to divide into two of itself, yet both objects appeared identical in shape, and color/luminosity. There was no visible division of the first object; it simply appeared to change from one object into two, the second appearing (at first) as if conjoined with the first object, as initially, a small portion of the edge of its upper left (west) quadrant appearing to either overlap or be contained within the edge of the lower right (east) quadrant of the first/original object. The only visible sign that accompanied the appearance of the second object was a quick, less-than-a-second, flare-like emission from the lower-right (east) quadrant of the first object; this quickly-appearing and quickly-fading flare was the same color as the object itself. The second object appeared nearly identical to the first/original, except it appear! ed to be slightly smaller. The second object remained visible for only a second or less; it then vanished entirely, without any apparent movement at all. The original object remained, now alone again. It remained visible for ~90 seconds more after the second object disappeared, the original resuming its prior series of sharp, quick motions (without any apparent pattern or sequence) alternated with seconds of apparent non-movement. It had been visible for 3-4 minutes when it again appeared to stop in place, stationary, then its light intensified as it appeared to increase slightly in size (perhaps it was moving closer to me). Immediately after that, at an incredible speed, the object moved silently to the east, then appeared to gain altitude at this same, ultra-rapid speed (closest to which I can compare its speed is to that of a meteor streaking across fhe night sky) as it moved east-to-west at quite a steep angle, although it did not move in a straight line as it did so. It never ceased that motion, but once it reached its highest point, it moved with the same sort of extremely rapid speed toward the east/southeast before vanishing, seemingly among the clouds in that direction. Whether its motion was linear or otherwise, each motion of the object was quite fluid & it always appeared to move with a noticeably agile ease. The object seemed entirely silent throughout.
July 6, 2017 · 9:40 PM · LIGHT
Warner Springs (near), CA
While travelling east on Highway 79, another vehicle came up from behind and began tailgating me at 65 mph. I slowed to 50mph to express my dissatisfaction with this miscreant. That didn't work so slowed again to about 40 mph. Then the "headlights" from his vehicle just disappeared. I thought that he had foolishly shut them off, so I slowed to a near stop and carefully searched my rearview mirror. There was a moon, so I could see well. There was no vehicle and I am certain that it did not leave the road as this is cattle country with fencing coming all the way up to the shoulder. There is only one dirt driveway in this area, but I was not upon that. There are no trees or bushes along this road to hide a car. The vehicle did not pass nor turn around, it was just gone. ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) Peter, they were normal headlights though perhaps a little closer together than normal, maybe like a smaller car. Also there was a vehicle coming from the opposite direction at the moment these lights disappeared. That vehicle continued on as would be expected. Now the extra weird part. There was no way I would put this into the body of the report. I have both heared and read of unusual animal sitings occuring at the same momet as a (UFO) siting, esp dog-like animals. Well...just in the seconds prior to this vehicle's disapperance, an animal that appeared to be a hairless coyote (Mange?) was observed at the side of the road, sitting on its hind legs sort of leaning against a fence post as if waiting for something, maybe just to cross the road. It was at this very spot that the headlights "extinguished". I am quite certain that the "vehicle" did not pull over here. As I said I could see clearly in this moon. I am not asserting that this animal was anything but what I perceived it to be..but...it just looked so odd and was at the exact spot the "phenomenon lights" disappeared. These lights were less about 10 feet behind me. ((END ADDENDUM))
July 6, 2017 · 9:25 PM · OVAL
Phoenix, AZ
IT's happening RIGHT NOW.
July 6, 2017 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Majors Place (south of), NV
At approximately 9pm on Thursday, July 6th, I saw three red lights while driving south on US 93 about half way between Major's Place and Pioche, Nevada. The lights simultaneously appeared, stayed on for about five seconds then disappeared. About five seconds after disappearing, the three red lights reappeared only disappear after about five seconds. About ten minutes later, the identical lights, location, and duration happened again. The lights were reddish orange in color. For their size, they were about the size of a BB. Two of the lights were close together, not far above the horizon. The third, was to the left higher in the sky. They did not appear to be moving. I have driven on US 93 in this area many times and have never seen anything like this. There are no radio towers or cell towers in the area that could have been responsible for the lights. I have been an aircraft mechanic since 1994. The solid reddish orange light is unlike standard aircraft lighting configuration.
July 6, 2017 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Alto, NM
Unidentifiable bright lights as seen in Alto, NM, on Thursday, July 6, 2017, at approximately 21:00 to 22:00 hours. On a clear night, Thursday, July 6th, 2017, there was a bright light that was then joined by two other bright lights, on either side of the original. This taking place for approximately 1 to 2 minutes. Then disappearing. We were visiting friends at their home in Alto, NM. They had shared with us that they had seen these lights on the previous evening. There was no sound accompanied by the lights. Their shape was more triangular than circular. Beginning lighter and then becoming brighter before distinguishing completely.
July 6, 2017 · 8:58 PM · FIREBALL
Anaheim, CA
While at Disneyland a fireball came into view. The object changed color before disappearing. It could not be a shooting star because it was very bright and unlike any other shooting stars I've seen. We have taken annual trips to see shooting stars in August where there is no light pollution, and the magnitude of the objects brightness was unlike anything I've seen. Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 6, 2017 · 8:18 PM · OVAL
New Bern, NC
It was still daylight outside, I happened to look up and notice the beautiful bright full moon. The sky was clear. A few moments later, from the northeast and moving extremely fast, I saw a UFO that seemed to be as bright as the moon. It did not slow down. It kept on moving and headed southeast. It looked like it moved right under the moon. It appeared to be oval in shape and a similar color as the moon.
July 6, 2017 · 7:40 PM · OVAL
Decaturville, TN
Bogus report? No information, and date is flawed. Source remains anonymous. PD
July 6, 2017 · 7:55 AM · FLASH
Tempe, AZ
Second experience bright white flash of light, original was on 4th of July at or around 8:55pm. Today, 7/6/17, 7:55 am another white flash. Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 6, 2017 · 4:30 AM · FIREBALL
Kingman, AZ
While taking my pre-dawn morning walk I witnessed this incident at 04:30 hr PST. Foothills of the Hualapai Mountains east of Kingman, AZ. Very dark and clear. In the same location as my reported sighting on the morning of 07/04/17, I spotted the same bright white randomly flashing object at approx. 65 degrees up from the western horizon, just above, and in between, the stars, Altair and Vega. This object again just like 48 hours before flashed bright white quickly every 10-20 seconds. This object seemed to be moving slightly between flashes. I then spotted a faint object like a dim star chasing after the flash. As soon as the flashing object appeared the other faint object would change its course to pursue it. The pursuing object was visible throughout the sighting. The flashing object seemed to be toying with the chasing pursuer, changing locations slightly as the pursuing object abruptly changed it course to catch up to it. This continued on for approx. 10 minutes in the space of approx. a 5 inch circumference at arm's length until they both faded/stopped as the sun was rising. There was no sound from either object.
July 6, 2017 · 4:08 AM · TRIANGLE
Woodstock, GA
So, I stepped out of the garage out of curiosity, and saw a plane that was a triangular shape. It had lights on the bottom of the plane and i figured that was weird. I had never seen a plane so lit up at the bottom, let alone triangular. I saw it for about a good 15 second, then it just disappeared. That's the thing about it too, I'm not a plane expert, but if the plane was that low. I figure its getting close to landing but the speed was pretty fast.
July 6, 2017 · 1:00 AM · DISK
Nageezi, NM
Around 1:00 a.m. we heard a loud blowing air sound. Coming from outside sounded like a hovercraft. We ran out to look and the sound was above us.And it was huge as it passed over us at a low range, fairly close to the ground as we saw it standing outside our front door.Large Neon green light in a horseshoe shape.I estimate, if it was to land on the ground. Would've been at least 4 school bus size in width. And we watched travel a half mile before it went over the Ridge. We live on a Ranch 6 miles East off the highway and our closest neighbor is a mile away from us on our South side location.
July 6, 2017 · 12:30 AM · LIGHT
Elkhart Lake, WI
Flashing sporadic white light at seemingly very high altitude. Moved in different location each flash, flash lasting about 1 second each until eventually moving behind some trees. Although this event occurred close the the 4th of July this did not at all resemble any firework I have ever seen. Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 5, 2017 · 11:15 PM · UNKNOWN
Fort Wayne, IN
On July 5, 2017, at approx 11:15 PM, in a northeastern suburb of the city of Fort Wayne, Indiana, there was a very large, bright, orange light moving in an arc in the night sky from the southeast to west. The object was visible for about 2 minutes. The object was at least cloud level or above, as it either became slowly obscured by clouds or gradually diminished. The speed during the observation was roughly that of a typical traffic helicopter, but the object was not a helicopter. It made absolutely no sound. For comparison, moments afterwards, an airplane was observed moving in a southwesterly direction. It was at a much higher altitude, loud, and easily identifiable through the spotty breaks in the cloud cover. The observers were a middle-aged husband and wife. The husband is an Army veteran (84C) and autoworker. The wife did not have her glasses.
July 5, 2017 · 7:32 PM · LIGHT
Orlando, FL
I was heading out to my front porch, here in East Orlando, about 5 minutes prior to a Space-X Falcon-9 launch of the Intelsat 35e. I am about 37-miles west of the Space X complex at Cape Canaveral, and can see the rockets quite clearly when they launch. As I went out the door, facing east, I noticed a very bright light to the northeast rising upward, about a third of the way off the horizon, initially almost exactly the same speed and curved trajectory a rocket launch would follow to the southeast. I was upset because I thought I had missed the initial launch. I tried to shoot a digital movie of the bright light, but it did not come out as far as I can see. I visually followed the light as it climbed and got smaller and smaller, finally vanishing at high altitude. I was puzzled because the light was an intense white color, and usually rockets at low altitude display a bright orange flame, as I was thinking I had been watching the Falcon-9 launch, and I’ve seen many launches from the Cape over the last 10-years, and what I thought was the launch just didn’t add up. A few minutes later, a 7:37 pm (1937 hours) I saw the bright orange flame of the Falcon-9 booster appear just to the southwest, as it climbed and started to leave a contrail as it went into the upper atmosphere. What really puzzled me, is that I had the impression that the bright light seen a few minutes earlier had been moving a whole lot faster than the rocket after it gained some altitude, I’d say about 4-times faster. I know they prohibit aircraft in the immediate launch area, and the bright light flew directly through it only a few minutes prior to the actual launch. I thought maybe an Air Force jet had left the skid strip on afterburner or something, but I was in the Air Force and never saw an afterburner as bright as that. It was odd, because I really thought I had been watching the launch, and only after I saw the actual launch did I find the whole episode strange.
July 5, 2017 · 5:30 PM · CHEVRON
San Francisco, CA
We (2 adults and a toddler) saw a sparkle shimmering in the sky from our balcony at home. At first glance it appeared like a very high airplane shimmering in the sun but it stayed still. Though still, it did move very very slowly from the west to the east. It stayed there hovering or slow moving at least 15 minutes. It would shimmer, flash light and then disappear, then re-appear within seconds. I went to get a camera with a 500 ml zoom lens and took some photos. After downloading to my computer, I zoomed in further. The object is boomerang shaped and it rotates around. Sometimes in had red, orange and yellow colors, other times it had green and yellow. Possibly this is from the rainbow spectrum of light bouncing off of it. Otherwise it looks metallic, silver. The sky was clear blue, no clouds. There was no sound. We saw an airplane pass by during this sighting and it made a typical noise, but otherwise the object did not have any sound. This was on Wed July 5th, 2017, at about 5:30 pm.
July 5, 2017 · 4:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Port Hadlock, WA
I saw two distinctly triangular shaped "shadows" cross through the high clouds, about 5 minutes apart, as I was resting in the local park in the grass. The sky was mostly blue except for one very large, high broken cloud mass that I just felt like watching as it broke apart above me. I had polarized sunglasses on and I don't know if that made a difference, as I kept them on. The thing I saw first was the most visible. It was a triangular shaped object that moved through the clouds it was just behind, very quickly, and it was darker than the blue sky that was coming through the clouds. When it had gone past the cloud formation it disappeared. It was not visible against the blue sky, just the clouds. I continued to watch the clouds and another triangle sped past in the same direction, heading approx. north to south. Again, it was not visible in the blue sky, just behind and across the scattered clouds. Both sightings lasted less than 3 or 4 seconds and there was no sound of aircraft noted. This is a very quiet part of the Olympic, though we do have Navy Growlers and occasional jets and light aircraft fly over. None were noted at this time. These were high clouds and the objects had to be pretty large. The only size comparison I can come up with for this report is that they were slightly larger than the tip of my thumb, arm outstretched. I am a small woman with small hands.
July 5, 2017 · 11:24 AM · CIRCLE
Fargo, ND
Went outside on apartment patio to view weather. Which is hot and muggy, and see flashes of lightening off in the distance. We are suppose to have a thunder storm of sorts. When I looked up to the south of the sky I viewed what seemed to be a star which wasn't moving at a fast rate than being a plane. Color was white but from seeing it move fast it turned into what was a circle or ball of red. Saw one and seen 2 more others do the same thing, there were low clouds and when the clouds were moving they seemed to move past them and then disappear. Stayed outside for about 15 minutes to see if this was a plane but it was not. Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 5, 2017 · 8:14 AM · CIGAR
New Kensington, PA
He is an ex-Air Force officer and is quite familiar with planes. He doesn't believe it is a plane in the background; I believe it could be. I thought I would send the picture for your review.
July 5, 2017 · 3:30 AM · CIRCLE
Montrose, CA
What I saw was a star like object moving slowly across the sky and then speed up really fast, and then disappeared. Showing up again with in seconds to the N/W sky. This when I recorded the object. Then, very quickly, was moving up and down and would disappear and be in a different place, when it reappeared. It also would go to a spot repeatedly to where what seemed to be three smaller star like objects, shaped in kind of a diamond with a reddish glow in the middle, I'm guessing. Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides little contact information. PD
July 5, 2017 · 3:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Port Sanilac, MI
At about 3 am I went outside of my house to smoke. I walked out the front door. After I was standing there for a couple of minutes, a dark shadow in the sky caught my attention. The craft approached from the east and stopped about 20 feet to 50 feet in front of me and was about 10 to 20 feet off of the ground. It stopped and hovered over me for a period of time, While the probe/ship was hovering over me I felt as though they were trying to probe into my mind. I felt very cold and my body was shaking uncontrollably, and my left arm was also raised up at the elbow and my hand was waving. There was some kind of light surrounding myself and the Alien, I can not remember how I left the alien ship. When I came back to full memory the ship was about 200 feet in the air. I went back inside my home and I laid down, then suddenly the door closed and the clock rang. At what I believe to be 4 am I walked out of my home again to smoke and the triangular object was in the sky about 1000 feet in the air. At about 530 am, I was outside my home again, smoking, when I saw a bright light hovering over Lake Huron. It appeared to be about 5000 feet in the air and stayed in one position. There was also an ominous glow and the birds and animals were all making strange and alarming callings sounds. I believe that the aliens have done some kind of extermination on me. We are uncertain as to whether this is a sincere report, or not. We have spoken with the witness, and she sounded to us to be sincere. PD
July 5, 2017 · 12:35 AM · FIREBALL
Portland, OR
I observed a very strange flying object on July 5th at 1235am (I was so awe struck by the encounter, I immediately noted the time) over Portland, Oregon. The object appeared to be heading in a general North to South direction and it followed, as far as I can tell, a linear path. I originally took note of it because it was very bright. The light was orange in color, looking like a planet might in the early evening sky, though it was even brighter and was about twice the size of what a planet would look like. The light flickered. I first spotted it at about 30 degrees above the Northern horizon. I thought it was odd because it was so bright. At first I wondered why a plane or helicopter would have such a bright orange light on at that altitude. I live close to a level 1 trauma center so at first I thought that it might be a life flight helicopter flying to the hospital. I’ve seen them with their landing/illumination lights on and they can be quite bright. I couldn't hear a sound and I never did. I continued to watch it, trying to figure out what it was. As it got closer, I thought I could see a red navigation light. However, as the object moved overhead and to the west of me, the red light that I thought was a navigation light appeared to actually be a red shaft of light extending downwards from the bottom of the glowing object. I thought this was really odd. I’ve never seen anything like it. It was strange enough to get the hairs on the back of my neck standing up. After the object had passed over my head (maximum height was about 75 degrees), at which point the object was very bright, the object rapidly began to get fainter and fainter until it looked similar to what a satellite would look like flying across the night sky. Then it faded out and disappeared 35-40 degrees above the Southern horizon. Total time of the viewing was between 60-90 seconds. It was by far the most bizarre thing I have ever seen and I can't for the life of me figure out what it was or even surmise what it may have been. Although I was positive what I had seen was not the ISS, just to check I looked up if the space station was going to make a pass over Portland that night, and I discovered it would be visible over Portland at 4:38am—almost 4 hours after my sighting. I have seen the ISS a number of times and this was much brighter. I can't for the life of me figure out what it was.