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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 3, 2017 · 11:30 PM
Camden, AR
Either a moth, a grasshopper, or some other insect, we believe. PD
July 3, 2017 · 11:15 PM · LIGHT
Savage, MN
Same thing, bright amber light, moving fast and no sound. A third one came over and just disappeared right overhead.
July 3, 2017 · 11:00 PM · CIRCLE
Greenville, MI
High up appeared to be moving South. Larger and lower than a star. Bright orange in color, thought it was a plane on fire, when i saw it I don,t know how long it had been there before I noticed it.
July 3, 2017 · 11:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Los Angeles, CA
Lasted for about 5 seconds then completely vanished.
July 3, 2017 · 10:10 PM · LIGHT
Knox, IN
We witnessed 3 red lights in the northwestern sky, seemingly motionless and equally spaced apart. They seemed to be too low to be a plane/planes. By the time I was able to grab my husband's phone, one had disappeared. I jumped out of the car with my phone and only one remained. I was able to follow the last one traveling to the west until it disappeared.
July 3, 2017 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Acworth, NH
We watched this light for several minutes from the kitchen porch, and observed during that time two successive white lights drop vertically downward from the orange light. These white lights quickly faded out after their emission from the orange object, approximately 1 or 2 degrees below the object. My impression was that the white lights moved faster than one would expect for freefall, while my brother thought the motion was consistent with freefall. Somewhat excited, we raced to the roof deck for a better view. By the time we got there, a minute later, the object was no longer visible. We looked in the location of the sky where it had last been seen, which was the constellation Cassiopeia, for a minute, or so. Suddenly, a bright orange flash erupted near the middle star of the Cassiopeia constellation, that persisted for a split second. As that occurred I thought I saw a faint streak of light angling upwards at 60 degrees to the left of the flash. We observed nothing after that. When on the lower porch, earlier, we examined the object with 10 power binoculars, but it still was very small, seemingly pointlike. My brother thought it had a round shape. We considered that it might have been a Chinese lantern, with the white objects being flaming pieces of wax falling out of the lantern. But its brightness, combined with its small angular size, as seen in 10 power binoculars, seemed to exclude that possibility.
July 3, 2017 · 10:00 PM · RECTANGLE
East Longmeadow, MA
My husband and I had just finished watching the grand finale of the 2017 fireworks display in East Longmeadow, MA, on July 3, 2017. The last sparkles were fading and it became apparent that there was a rectangular (like a domino piece), stationary, green-lighted object parked above where the fireworks had been exploding so it was concealed by the display. The color was like grass or leaf green--very saturated, bright and pure. From our distance, it was about the size of an M & M candy. My husband said he saw a dark dividing “line” separating the green light on either side. We looked at it, expecting it to move like an aircraft or helicopter but the light blinked while staying stationary for about 3 seconds. I expected to see red running lights and/or white landing lights indicating the craft was on approach to Bradley International Airport to the West, but there were no other lights. The object then moved a little Southward while blinking erratically, then abru! ptly turned at a 90 degree angle and went a bit toward the East, stopped, then took off, accelerating, in a Northeasterly direction for what looked like 2 or 3 inches and then disappeared. No noise other than the fireworks was heard. Not sure if anyone else noticed.
July 3, 2017 · 10:00 PM · OTHER
Galena, MD
We were driving down a country road, surrounded by corn fields, in Galena, Maryland, and in the night sky appeared a HUGE perfect square of the BRIGHTEST WHITE light. It flashed for about a second. Then it happened immediately three more times. There was either one single object, moving left to right, or four separate objects. Neither of us had ever seen anything like this before! Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 3, 2017 · 10:00 PM · CIRCLE
Weld County (rural), CO
I was driving through back roads, when I suddenly see three large circular objects that were extremely bright. Each object looked about 50 feet wide and 20 feet tall. Then suddenly the lights start fading away the faster the object went. They each left after the one before it did not show any light. I recorded this, but when I looked at the video, the object which was extremely bright could not be captured by my phone. I was told another story and pictures of a U.F.O sighting on a lake in South Carolina near the border of North Carolina. I have a picture if needed .
July 3, 2017 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
New Tampa, FL
At approximately 10 pm, me, my wife and nephew were swimming in our pool. I looked west, northwest and saw a very bright orangish light moving at a very fast speed from north to south. I told my wife and nephew to look and they both saw it. It was traveling much faster than a plane. It almost had the appearance of a shooting star but was on plane, did not have a tail and was a solid light. It was not a firework and we heard no noise. We were all shocked and surprised what we saw and cannot explain it
July 3, 2017 · 9:00 PM · OVAL
Hot Springs, AR
Me and my boyfriend, went to Hot Springs, Arkansas, to watch the firework show after going home later that night, looking at the video that we had recorded, we noticed there was some strange objects in our videos. The objects were on both our phones. They were reddish looking in color, not sure how many maybe four or more and moving very fast.
July 3, 2017 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
East Dubuque, IA
My boyfriend and I were driving from a Wisconsin and we both saw what looked like a comet stationary far away, would not move for about 1 minute, then it looked like debris was starting to separate from the "comet" like a meteorite, after that the debtors turned into 5 bright white lights that would appear and disappear, that lasted for a few seconds, one was left and it looked like he was throwing fire at the earth it was very bizarre after that trees were in the way, there were about 7 cars around that saw them too.
July 3, 2017 · 8:30 PM · CIRCLE
Miami Beach, FL
As the object came over the beach it began to make erratic movements like slightly back and forth, left to right and in circles. Still this looked like a satellite, but it was changing speed and direction like nothing I'd ever seen in the sky. I pointed it out to my friend and she said the same, it looked like a satellite, then when it started moving in circles she said, "what the hell is that?" Again this looked like a satellite or star, but moved more like a drone of some sort. It was way to high to be a drone though, again planes passing were below it. It seemed somewhere between the stratosphere and mesosphere, very high up. No flashing lights or anything, maybe a weather balloon? My friend and I had seen anything in the sky move the way it did. I went into the water and came back to see if I could find it again with the stars. Again, spotted it by its movement moving towards the city away from the water, but staying above the beach.
July 3, 2017 · 8:00 PM · RECTANGLE
Springfield, MO
Resembled a semi truck with trailer, was silvery, like reflective almost, no lights appeared to be on the object, it gave off no noise and no exhaust trail as it flew.
July 3, 2017 · 7:00 PM · SPHERE
Lakeville, NY
In daylight, through a 6" Celestron Star Hopper telescope, we viewed a very slow moving sphere. The sphere appeared to be in orbit considering it moved out of view of my telescope about as fast as Saturn would. The object was visible by the naked eye, but it looked like a star, and you couldn't see its form. From the view of the telescope, the sphere had a skinny extension that was roughly 6 times the length of the sphere with a second much smaller sphere mounted to the opposite end. The larger sphere was stationary while the extension and rotated wildly around it. The rotational pattern held a consistent speed, but was inconsistent in direction. The only visible color was white. The object held a very stationary position in the sky. It was seen directly overhead, and traveled about 15 degrees south before disappearing. We viewed the object for approximately 10 minutes, and it was easy to keep it in the viewfinder of my telescope. This was just before the Canisius Lake "Ring of Fire" 3rd of July event where all lake residents light road flares on their lake front property and light off fire works.
July 3, 2017 · 12:35 PM · RECTANGLE
Camdenton, MO
I was returning from a camping trip Monday, July 3, 2017, pulling our camper. I was alone in my vehicle, my wife and daughter were following me in another vehicle. We were traveling eastbound on US Highway 54, approximately 5 miles south of Camdenton, Missouri. The highway runs fairly north at that point. The skies were clear with a white fluffy cloud bank several miles ahead of me. I saw what was clearly a large gray colored rectangular box shaped craft floating from my right to my left just this side of the cloud bank, moving in a southwesterly direction, And what I would guess to be several miles in front of me. This thing was immense but just how large was hard to tell because of the distance. I glanced at my watch, it was 12:25 PM. There are a lot of trees alongside the highway and this is a hilly area, so I lost sight of the craft a couple of times by going up and down the hills, but I saw it for approximately a total of 30 to 45 seconds, before I lost sight of it for good because of the lay of the land. I was looking for a place on the shoulder to pull over and stop and jump out and run back to tell my wife and daughter what I had just seen and when I did it was just before a T intersection with a road to the left, so I told my wife about what I had seen and told her to drive down that road and see if she could see the object which she did and she never saw it. I'll be 67 years old next month August, and I've been waiting all my life, knowing there are UFOs and extraterrestrials out there. Now I have finally seen a UFO, the real deal. We spoke at length via telephone with the witness, and he seemed to us to be an exceptionally serious-minded person. Based on his command of the English language, we suspect that his is a very capable, and reliable, witness. PD
July 3, 2017 · 12:00 AM · SPHERE
Waters, MI
The intensity of the light was almost like staring at the sun. Almost like blinding, and as I continued to stare, the light took a shape of a triangle or a cross, it was super intense. The color was a yellow/orange as I began recording it moving closer the light went out complety with no trace of anything in the sky.
July 2, 2017 · 11:20 PM · UNKNOWN
Chestertown, MD
July 2nd, at approximately 11:20pm- Chester River. I was on my boyfriend's sister's boat, we were towing my boyfriend's boat behind us, my friend was present, my boyfriends sister and her son were on her boat, my boyfriend was behind us on his boat. Her navigational lights were out, so she had her son shining a mag light in front of us. The sky was fairly clear but there were some clouds ahead of us. We were all vigilantly looking in front and around us, but almost back to the dock, I was looking up at the clouds, and then I saw two bright white circular forward facing lights sort of emerge out of the cloud, like it had been inside the cloud then turned on the lights as it rose above the cloud. The lights didn't light up any part of the plane or really anything in front of it, the were just bright circles that were far apart, almost like they were on the wings, but didn't see any wings. We all saw it, my boyfriend's sister at first said maybe it was a coast guard helicopter because of how it rose straight up, but then it started moving forward slowly over us. I almost thought it was a drone because it was totally silent, it was super eerie, we all were going what the hell is that, then she told her son not to shine the light at the plane, which kind of freaked me out. As it moved very slowly over us we were sort of able to see how low and big it was, I could make out what looked like a flat grey shape, but couldn't really tell what shape it was, I want to say triangular, but it was like the lights were so bright it seemed weird not to be able to see more of the plane. The plane was maybe 300-500 feet in the air and was big, definitely not a drone. It flew silently over us, I looked back at the boat we were towing behind us and my boyfriend was also looking straight up at it. I was telling my two siblings about it the next day and they freaked out, they both said "oh my god, that's that boat we saw," apparently they had seen what they thought was a boat with two bright white circular wide set "headlights" probably 30 minutes before our sighting traveling very quickly over the water at my parents house, which is approximately 8-9 miles as the crow flies. They said they saw the lights moving over the water but didn't see a wake. The way it moved really was weird, I'm sure it was probably some surveillance stealth plane.... we didn't see anyone else out on the water from the time my boyfriend's boat died right at dusk until we were off the water at 11:20ish.
July 2, 2017 · 10:15 PM · LIGHT
Greenwood, IN
While watching a local fireworks display originating from a nearby church over the lake behind my house, I observed an object with a flashing, cherry red light, at a very high altitude in the north western area of the sky. It was hovering in one place, as if observing the fireworks below. The red light flashing object remained hovering in one place for 3 or 4 minutes, then it made a 90 degree turn and quickly streaked to the southeastern area of the sky and disappeared in a southerly direction as if following the inter-state highway south, in the direction of northern Kentucky. I looked on the Internet to find out what kind of aircraft would have a cherry red, flashing light, but I did not find any helpful information. There were no other colors of light being emitted from the object, I watched until it was out of sight looking for the usual colored lights, but none were ever visible, just the one flashing red light. I have never seen an aircraft move with such speed or with such abrupt 90 degree turns as this object presented.
July 2, 2017 · 10:15 PM · OVAL
Eagle Rock, CA
seen two flashing round objects appeared to be not larger than a few feet in width with flashing red/blue/green lights.... pointed it out to people standing next to me and they said they were drones... Round drones floating overhead? I never seen a round drone with multiple flashing lights. Nobody else seem to notice or care in the park that was watching the fireworks show. These object seemed to be observing from behind the event and floated up and off just like a balloon would and never came back down. This would be the first balloon I ever seen that had flashing lights....
July 2, 2017 · 10:10 PM · FIREBALL
O'Fallon, MO
Bright orange fireball spinning in straight line. No sound. Lowered itself flying over me while I watched. No drone. No helicopter.
July 2, 2017 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Middletown, CT
My sister and I were watching the Middletown fireworks from the backyard last night, facing west towards the Connecticut River. It was a beautiful clear evening. We didn’t have a clear view of the fireworks; they were visible through the trees only. Off to the left of the display in the back field (facing west) I noticed an emerald green object in the sky that looked like an orb, the size of a grapefruit that I pointed out to my sister. The orb was stationary above the tree line for a good 3-5 minutes, in which time we had a discussion. Was it a plane watching for fires? We reasoned a plane couldn’t stay in one location for so long. We changed our logic and thought perhaps a helicopter. It seemed to still and small to be a helicopter, there was no sound that we could detect. We then reasoned it was a droid. We have no knowledge of droids or their behavior. Then the orb started moving in our direction, it gave off no sound, changed its color form em! erald green to red, moved behind a tree about 20 yards from us, changed color back to green and floated off in a southern direction beyond our view. That was weird, we decided, what was that? Within 5 minutes, it came back again, hovering above the tree line where it first appeared, to the left of the fireworks display. I went into the house and got my phone and binoculars. As I viewed the orb through the binoculars, it looked like three green arrows, pointed in the same direction, with a small circular shape at the front (>>>). Again it drifted closer in our direction, went behind that same big oak tree and skirted off in the same southern direction. I’m the worst photographer on the planet but did get two pics with my cell phone, my sister got one pic. Is this thing a Droid or what????
July 2, 2017 · 9:45 PM · TRIANGLE
Denton, TX
My attention was focused on the sky, and as I was passing the high school, I saw a bright green light, falling from the top of sky and down, northward. A green meteor! Must be a piece of on-fire nickel, burning green - that's what I thought at first - and then it just abruptly disappeared. No sparks, no luminescent trail, no after-image. Then it appeared again, still moving along the same path. Then it disappeared again... was it blinking? Yeah, it was blinking. Huh. Must not have been a meteor after all. Then it stopped blinking and accelerated, and I lost sight of it behind the football stands. What the heck was that, thought I? An airplane? I've never seen an airplane with just one green blinking light. Red light-blue light, red light-green light, yeah... but never just green light-green light. Whuthuh? What the heck was that? A drone? Definitely not a UFO, right? Well. That was weird. I had just about settled down again to a regular pace when I saw a spire of light appear suddenly to the north. It was long and tapered, like an icicle, and it was either shining up from the northern horizon like a stalagmite, or shining down from the clouds like a spotlight. I couldn't tell which, but it was moving from east to west, covering about 10 degrees of arc per second. Now, seriously. Come on... WHUT. THUH? I watched it for about five seconds, in a kind of stupor, until it moved behind some trees and I lost sight of it. I ran back toward the football field and past the stands to get a better view, but it had disappeared. I stood still for about a minute, watching the sky and wondering what would happen next... and then the green light appeared again! It was closer this time, and I could see that it wasn't a single light. It was actually three green lights, huddled closely together, in the shape of a triangle... HUH??? I watched as it hung in the air, perfectly still, and then it began to move to the left, accelerating. It went out again for about two seconds, and when it came back on it was perfectly still. Then it moved again, to the right this time, and then it went out again. When it came on again it described a speeding up, slowing down, to the left then to the right, then up, and then a sharp curve downward motion, and then it accelerated along its original path and disappeared. It didn't appear again. WOW!!! HOW COOL WAS THAT???
July 2, 2017 · 9:30 PM · SPHERE
Marysville, OH
I had my telescope out and observed a red light to the West going East, I was observing with the naked eye, the Telescope was not setup yet as Polaris was not visible, there were light clouds, the light appeared to flicker somewhat, observation was about 1 to 2 minutes, the Sky was just before complete darkness, it also seemed to meander somewhat while going east, it was not a straight line.