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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 2, 2017 · 8:00 PM · CHANGING
Cloverdale, CA
Also had vertical bar-like, cage-like, look. Has the sun set the object seem to fade into the distance, get smaller finally disappearing without movement left or right. Used to spotting scope on tripod to focus for this description. 4 people we're on site and duplicated the description.
July 2, 2017 · 7:30 PM · CIRCLE
Brownsburg, IN
I was doing Doordash (a food delivery service), driving back from Clermont, Indiana, into Brownsburg on US highway 136 I noticed a black object in the sky. At first I thought it was just a hot air balloon or something. It stayed stationary, the whole time I watched it. I turned off of 136 onto 1000 e driving back to my home, I had no other deliveries. The black circle was still just sitting in the sky so I drove up Cr400 to 900 e and got back on 136. I pulled over in a church parking lot and watched it for about another 5minutes, it never moved an inch, just hovered silently in the sky, took a pic and recorded a 15 second video.
July 2, 2017 · 3:44 PM · SPHERE
Clinton, CT
Lens flare, caused by pointing a camera at a bright source of light, in this case, the Sun. PD
July 2, 2017 · 2:45 PM · UNKNOWN
Delaware Township, NJ
This was not a citing, but rather very sudden and very loud noise in sky - huge! It did not trail off into the distance as a jet would; it just stopped. It was so loud and frightening and sounded jetlike, but we did not see anything above us. It happened twice within 10 minutes. I posted it on Facebook to see if anyone else had heard it since I was on a walk with my dog in a remote area. Several people did hear it and someone in Pennsylvania heard something just like it at 6 a.m. today.
July 2, 2017 · 10:02 AM · TRIANGLE
Sullivan, MO
Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 1, 2017 · 11:50 PM · SPHERE
Kent/Auburn, WA
I am a 50 year old male who has enjoyed camping and stargazing since I was a kid. In that time, I have watched countless satellites cross the sky, and am very familiar with their relative brightness and speed, and that most of them tend to move along an equatorial route instead of a polar route. I am also very familiar with the ISS, and use a phone app that tracks its orbit. On July 1, 2017, the skies were clear. I was outside moving items out of my brother's Dodge Siesta RV, which was parked at a rural residence between Kent and Auburn, Washington. Among the items was a pair of Jason brand binoculars, 50x magnification. They are powerful enough to see the 4 largest moons of Jupiter on a clear night. I had been bending and lifting boxes, so I decided to take a break by laying on my back across the hood of my car and use the binoculars for stargazing. Within seconds, I caught sight of what I first thought was a satellite moving from south to north in a straight line. Immediately I knew it couldn't be a satellite because of its incredible speed, yet it was too slow to be a meteor. Typically, if I keep the binoculars still (not panning to follow movement) and let a satellite cross my field of view, it takes between 15 to 20 seconds to cross depending on my angle of perspective. This object passed the binocular's field of view in about 4 seconds. Assuming that directly above my head is 0 degrees, the object was about 20 degrees eastward of my location. It appeared like most satellites; a single point of white light like a star moving in a straight line. The light reflecting off it was as bright as the average star. I listened for the sound of jets, but heard nothing. I figured it had to be a military jet, but a jet appearing as a single point of light through 50x magnification would have to be at an extremely high altitude, and this object was moving far too fast to be a jet at such a distance. I tracked the object's movement for about 20 to 25 seconds. Then it stopped. It didn't gradually slow to a stop. It stopped the way an Indy 500 car stops when it hits a granite wall. I kept the binoculars trained on the point of light for a couple more minutes, but it sat motionless like it was just another star. I told my brother what I had just witnessed, and he directed me to your sight to file a report.
July 1, 2017 · 11:18 PM · LIGHT
Jensen Beach, FL
The lighted object appeared in the Eastern sky over the ocean moving slowly from south to the north then raced across the the sky moving incredibly fast and the light git dimmer as it moved north then just disappeared.
July 1, 2017 · 11:14 PM · FIREBALL
Crown Point, IN
I had stepped out on my porch to smoke a cigarette and I always look up to the stars then from my right side view I see a fireball coming across the sky below the cloud line going in a straight path to the left I called my wife to come look grabbed my phone and took 2 pictures
July 1, 2017 · 11:00 PM · OVAL
Gallitzin, PA
I was thinking it was a drone but my husband said that there was no way that was a drone. I've never seen a drone so what do I know. It flew across right before our eyes and over the trees and kept going and I was somehow hoping it would come back in hopes that it was some sort of drone but it never came back. My husband is not afraid of anything but this scared him. It just turned dark when we saw this so it wasn't dark for too long. My husband said there was a small red light on it also but I didn't see that.
July 1, 2017 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Knox, IN
While standing outside, I witnessed a red light in the western sky. I thought at first that it was a plane heading towards me because it didn't seem to move. As I waited for it to come closer, I realized that it was going directly up. I thought at that point that it may have been a firework heading up before exploding. That didn't happen. It continued to go up into the sky until it disappeared. As I told my family what I saw, we witnessed another one in the northern sky traveling east. It disappeared as well.
July 1, 2017 · 10:00 PM · DISK
Cooper City, FL
I was taking a picture of the moon with my iPhone 7 plus, while sitting in my backyard. At the same moment I pressed the button to snap a pic of the moon, I witnessed a light that zipped across the sky at ridiculous speeds into the area of my camera view. It seemed as though the object zipped into view of the picture just in time to be seen in the photo. When I take pics of moving objects, they always come out blurry. With this object, it's just not the same case. This capture is purely accidental on my part. I did not see anything sitting there for enough time to snap a shot of it. The only evidence I have is the sight of a light moving faster than known flying speeds into my view of the camera and the authentic photo which is original and unaltered. There was no noise from the object and it disappeared as fast as it appeared once picture was taken. This is the absolute first sighting I have ever had. I'm looking forward to someone enhancing the background to show a definitive shape or structure that is difficult to see in its entirety.
July 1, 2017 · 9:50 PM · LIGHT
Sinking Spring, PA
Went outback An saw what seemed like an odd star constellation that appeared to be brighter than the rest of the stars out, forming a perfect triangle, then the three lights slowly disappeared one by one
July 1, 2017 · 9:35 PM · FORMATION
Cave Creek, AZ
We were leaving the firework display in town, heading home, going westbound out of town. In dark sky over Rancho Manana noticed what looked like a very large constellation, almost like a large Cassiopea and an exaggerated Orion's belt together. As we were looking, the stars appeared to hover around each other, they then started to move eastbound and separate from their formation and continue traveling. We pulled the car over and watched them til the were out of our site.
July 1, 2017 · 9:30 PM · CIRCLE
Effort, PA
Slow moving; 3 steady lights: 2 or more red and 1 yellow; very quiet
July 1, 2017 · 6:56 PM · CHANGING
Forest Lake, MN
I was heading north on 35w. I was just passing forest lake exit, when I noticed an object flying in the air. This object was in a shape of a long oval with a small, oval-shaped object right next to it. It was moving very fast. When I looked up at it it was shape shifting to 3 little ovals then shaped into 4 little ovals flying in align of one another heading from the east side of sky to North west sky. I watched until it disappeared. I pulled off at Wyoming Exit, and it was nowhere in the sky. Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 1, 2017 · 4:00 PM · CHANGING
Aurora, CO
We were sitting outside late afternoon and noticed a stationary light at high altitude. It appeared to be “twinkling” and we wondered if it might be a weather balloon. Looking at it through binoculars, we saw that it appeared to be a sphere with two smaller spheres that were either rotating around it, or the object itself was revolving, as the central sphere would shine a very bright light which would then disappear, only to reappear within a second or two. We had a difficult time at first determining its shape because of the brightness of this light that appeared and disappeared. The light, which we at first thought might be just reflection, was very strong, and seemed to have a “diffraction” effect around the edges, which were blurry and rainbow colored. We decided that it was no reflection, but that the sphere was actually emanating the light. After about 15 minutes, the object drifted north, and we followed its path, still observing through binoculars. The drift made us decide it might be a balloon after all, but we kept watching because it was so unusual. After about 10 minutes, it drifted south again, to return to its original spot. This of course sharpened our focus, as its movements were now not simple “drifting,” but purposeful. Then, suddenly, it started to head west, which would bring it almost overhead. It accelerated slowly at first, and as we watched we noticed that its form seemed to shift. Overhead, we could see that the material it was made of was extremely shiny, almost like glass, and highly reflective. The object was flying in a straight line but it “rocked” and “pitched” a little, so that the light emanating from it plus the reflectivity made it difficult to determine what was happening, as it seemed to be changing shape, elongating, and splitting into a boomerange shape, but with a middle sectio! n that was slightly smaller than the two edges. Within a few seconds it lost all luminosity and became a dull dark grey triangle with what looked like 5 darker circles, one at each apex and two between those at the top and bottom. It flew perpendicular to the earth so we could see the shape clearly, and rapidly disappeared in the distance. After about twenty minutes, we looked in the same direction we had originally seen it, and it was back in the same spot, but this time at a much higher altitude. It stayed in that spot for about ten minutes, looking like the sphere with the light and the two smaller spheres rotating around it, then it changed to the dark grey triangle again. Suddenly what looked like a puff of “vapor” emerged from it and the triangle shaped shrank rapidly and disappeared.
July 1, 2017 · 2:30 PM · CYLINDER
Sedona, AZ
I was sitting on my patio talking with a friend on the phone on a clear blue sky one afternoon. Suddenly I saw a shiny cylinder which appeared to be 10-20 ft high and 20-40 inches in diameter. It slowly moved across the landscape perpendicular to the ground, about 300-400 feet up from the ground. It was as though it was scanning the landscape, which has spectacular mountain scenery and forest. After watching it move across the landscape it suddenly vanished, as though it disappeared into another dimension. It never returned. I am a scientist, a fact-based person. This was definitely some sort of UFO or probe. The memory of it is very vivid.
July 1, 2017 · 2:00 PM · SPHERE
Calistoga, CA
While walking on my ranch a white balloon caught my eye as it floated upward. Thought it was just a party balloon that got loose as I've seen before. It was too round, so I figured a weather balloon or a test balloon that the hot air balloonists use around here to measure wind currents. No reference as to size, it could have been a half-mile or more away. I was concerned because commercial aircraft regularly fly over around 20-30k feet on one leg of the instrument approach to San Francisco Bay area airports. I continued to watch and noticed a couple of black bands around the balloon at angles to each other that I thought was odd but at the distance it now was any detail was lost. The balloon continued it's assent and I noticed a few small wispy clouds in a clear sky above where it looked like it was heading. It reached the clouds and stopped it's ascent and appeared to move back and forth horizontally in short movements. (In hindsight what appeared to be horizontal was probably a small circular "holding" pattern). Directly above the balloon appeared what looked like a fuselage, cylindrical in shape, military gray/silver, like cold-war aircraft. However just the bottom of a cylinder, no wings or tail and the clouds obscured the ends of the cylinder. Then the balloon disappeared as well as the cylinder. So a craft ascending to the rendezvous marker clouds to meet a cloaked ship that had to become visible for a few seconds so the spherical craft could see to dock to the cylindrical ship.... Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
July 1, 2017 · 1:00 PM · LIGHT
Rancho Mirage, CA
I was sitting on a wall one day at a gas station a few years back when something caught my attention. I looked up at sky towards the hills and seen a star like object in sky yet it was too close to be a star so thought drone at first. It was still for a couple minutes then suddenly started moving slowly around and around making like a sideways 8. It did that for about another couple minutes until it split into two it seemed because suddenly two were making the sideways 8 synchronizing with each other around and around. The whole event happened for about 10 mins then it was gone disappeared? I didn't think of it as a ufo at first I wasn't really into stuff like that until the years passed and seeing things as such on media or YouTube I realized it was a ufo!
July 1, 2017 · 2:00 AM · LIGHT
Imlay City, MI
My dog woke me around 2am with much barking. So i got up to let him out. However, she would not go out when i opened the back door. In fact, she acted scared. I thought that there were some coyotes. So, i went out on tge back deck to have a look. And, i saw 2 small red lights flitting around about a foot from the ground of a farm field that is next to my property. Then, they just disappeared.
June 30, 2017 · 11:15 PM · LIGHT
Lansing, MI
It stopped and hovered then shot straight up in the sky, but not too much higher I could still see it, and sat there for a few more minutes. I tried to record it on my phone, but didn’t realize that the record button didn’t turn on. I did, however, record it leaving. It started to move in one direction, as if it was leaving. This time, it flew slower than when it first came into sight.
June 30, 2017 · 11:14 PM · FIREBALL
Nampa, ID
"What's that?!" my wife cried. I stood and beheld a loping orange fireball. Attempting to focus on its shape one couldn't quite make it out. It moved to the west then disappeared to the south up.
June 30, 2017 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Friant, CA
When we got to the dock, we sat down for a few moments to wait for the other people to leave so we could sit at the very end. Eventually they left and we sat on the end. Just looking into the sky discussing our relationship problems no more than two minutes into the conversation we notice a light flying smoothly through the sky, not fast like a jet and not slow like a airplane.. It just glided vertically through the sky and before we knew it, it zoomed up into the sky horizontally and just disappeared. As it zoomed up to disappear it didn't just move at a crazy speed; it's almost as if it just faded up into the sky. We could depict what it was, we were so shocked we couldn't bring our minds the the thought of us actually sighting a ufo. Crazy part is, you'd think we'd be so shocked and tell our family, but its as if the whole moment slipped our mind cause we never brought up... I'm a strong believer so how could something like this just slip my mind til this year of 2018? How did I not instantly react and pull out my phone? It's like being stuck in the moment made us forget what was really happening… Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
June 30, 2017 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Friant, CA
We decided to walk down to the dock and do the same. When we got to the dock we sat down for a few moments to wait for the other people to leave so we could sit at the very end. Eventually they left and we sat on the end. Just looking into the sky discussing our relationship problems no more than two minutes into the conversation we notice a light flying smoothly threw the sky, not fast like a jet and not slow like a airplane.. It just glided vertically through the sky and before we knew it, it zoomed up into the sky horizontally and just disappeared. As it zoomed up to disappear it didnt just move at a crazy speed its almost if it just faded up into the sky. We could depict what it was, we were ! so shocked we couldn't bring our minds the the thought of us actually sighting a ufo. Crazy part is, you'd think we'd be so stoked and tell our family, but its as if the whole moment slipped our mind cause we never brought up… i'm a strong believer so how could something like this just slip my mind til this year of 2018? How did i not instantly react and pull out my phone? It's like being stuck in the moment made us forget what was really happening… Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD