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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
May 15, 2017 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Springfield, MA
I had gone outside with my boyfriend to have a smoke and look at the stars on a clear night as we usually do. We had quickly noticed a satellite, about 5 planes flying around some higher then others (which I found strange that there was so many planes in just that one section of the sky) and then there was this very bright light in the sky almost like a really big star, just a bright white light no color, flashing, sound or any visible form. It wasn't twinkling or moving but it stood out from all the other stars out that night like it didn't fit in. All of the sudden, about 30-45 seconds of us noticing it, it dropped straight down like it was landing possibly in the distance, there was no trail that came off of it no sound, no shake from impact as if it was a crash. Just a bright big star that fell from the sky in a very odd way.
May 15, 2017 · 9:43 PM · CIGAR
Ft. Collins, CO
21:43 mountain time: I was watching a powerful lightening storm off to the north east of FT Collins. I had taken some footage from downstairs, but was to low to see over the trees. I decided to go upstairs and look out a back window to see if I could capture more from the storm. I looked at my phone which had a full battery just 5 minutes earlier, and the battery went from a full charge down to no charge. I thought how strange. I plugged it in and then heard a sound like a loud roar of thunder. As I looked out the window I could see something in the distance emerging from the storm which was more of a light show from all of the lightening. At first I thought it was a plane, but then soon realized this was no plane. It was much too large, and it was glowing red and looked like it had a very bright white light that came around, but from the inside as it circled around whatever this was. As I watched it fly to the west towards the mountains the loud roar seemed! to just stop, but the object kept moving. just seconds after it was out of sight the lightening and wind calmed down. I have seen many strange things, but I must say this is the strangest yet.
May 15, 2017 · 8:45 PM · OTHER
San Jose, CA
Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 15, 2017 · 7:00 PM · SPHERE
Melba, ID
Was driving home to Melba, when I saw a bright orange orb on my left, I thought it was a plane at first, perhaps, and then it was gone, which I found odd. Suddenly, out of nowhere, there was an orange orb to my far right. It disappeared after a few seconds, then three orange orbs popped up to my left and then they disappeared. Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
May 15, 2017 · 6:40 PM · CHANGING
Oak Lawn, IL
I forget the exact times I saw them both. The first one I saw was at around 6:35PM and the second one I saw was at about 7:20PM. The first and second were both black and small. They both were going in directions. The first one was farther away to take a photo of. The first was super high in the sky prepared to the second one was lower. They both were moving slow at around the same speed. The second was super close and going over a house past a plane that must of took off from midway airport. I couldn't take a video of it because I was on the phone with an old friend. I told the friend who lives in Florida now when I was on the phone with him that it was going over your old house right now because he use to live in Illinois. I told him on the phone it might be just a balloon. The second one seem to chang shape a little or it was slowly rotating. I saw the first one for about 15 seconds and the second one for about 2 minutes. It felt like there was no wind outside. Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 15, 2017 · 2:16 PM · TEARDROP
North Las Vegas, NV
On May 15, 2017, at 216pm PST (partly cloudy) on Las Vegas Blvd, in North Las Vegas. I have Sony a350 DSLR, 1/2000, iso 400, f8 shooting specs. I was shooting the Nellis AFB airplanes coming in for a landing. I was looking North as some airplanes come straight down the Vegas Blvd to do 2 180 degree turns and land at Nellis, there was about 22 planes in this group. At about plane 18, I kept looking North down the Blvd and spotted a light coming behind and out of the clouds. There were a few cloud banks in the area and I began to shoot, even if I couldn't see it, I still kept shooting, I managed to get 10 shots off in 10 or 15 seconds. I recorded a image on 9 out 10. The UFO is to far away,about 2 miles to say what it was. It was like a bright light, but when I blew it up, it looked like a smokey Goldfish Cracker. I blew it up to about 200 percent and it looked like a cloud of circular smoke. I probably don't have the best equipment to say what it was. And with! so few pixels, well we don't have enough solid evidence other than it descending path, which can be calculated by time to say, yes this was a UFO. But the object started up at 1000 ft and pulled a 45 degree descent. And then just and disappeared. As the last frame shows it covered some distance really quickly that's why I was determined to just shoot blindly. My feelings,, about the object, well I never believed that i have a chance to see a UFO. I knew it wasn't a airplane. The object just vanished after loosing cloud cover. It was over in 10 seconds or so. I looked at my time and it never clicked over 2:16 pm, while taking these photos. Enjoy we are
May 15, 2017 · 11:30 AM · RECTANGLE
Fort Loramie, OH
When leaving a job site this morning at approximately 11:30 AM, I and another man observed a black rectangular object in the sky west of our location at Lake Loramie, Ohio. We observed this object for several minutes as it traveled on a northwesterly direction. While observing, we witnessed the object tumble lengthwise 180 degrees. I took several pictures of this happening. I then got into my vehicle and proceeded to follow the object. I drove north on St. Rte 362 along the west bank of Lake Loramie into Minster, Ohio. I traveled west thru Minster on the Minster – Egypt Pike to St. Rte. 364 still observing the object. I turned north on St. Rte. 364 and proceeded to St. Rte. 119. Turning west on St. Rte. 119, I follow the object into Maria Stein, Ohio. Upon reaching Saint Johns Road in Maria Stein, I turned north again observing that the object appeared to become either triangular or diamond shaped and I again photograph it. I looked at the road for traffic and upon looking back up, it has disappeared.
May 15, 2017 · 9:35 AM · UNKNOWN
Cookeville, TN
I went outside and looked up not sure why. saw 2 smaller multicolored silent flashing arrays traveling east.a few moments after they were out of sight because of tree line a slightly larger object with brighter lights also silent passed dew west at a much faster speed. it was not the same as the others and did not appear larger because of proximity. it was different.the's sorts of activities may be viewed in the populated residential area on a semi regular basis. have been increasing over the last 4 or 5 years. could also I have just become more aware of this activity. Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 15, 2017 · 9:15 AM · SPHERE
Minster, OH
The sun was on the right side of the object, therefore, there should be a shadow on the left but there was bright lights instead. The object appears to be black metallic and silver when you zoom in on the picture. The video showed spontaneous flashes of light. We turned the corner and looked up and it was gone.
May 15, 2017 · 6:00 AM · LIGHT
Depew, NY
The object is a white, circular object hovering slightly above the horizon. It stands stationary and occurs throughout the year on random days. However, it often stands motionless for several hours in the early morning (6:00 am--8:30 am), then disappears once the sun has risen.
May 15, 2017 · 5:50 AM · DISK
St. Augustine, FL
Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 15, 2017 · 4:00 AM · CIRCLE
Vincennes, IN
For the last 3 weeks, I have seen an object over the Vincennes area… It isn't there every night, but most nights...usually white in color, but sometimes red or orange… I have asked others at work if they have seen it and several have been seeing it as well.
May 15, 2017 · 3:00 AM · CIGAR
Roxborough, PA
I was driving my car down Henry Avenue and I saw this object coming down a Crossing Street leverington Avenue I pulled up to a red light and as I stop it also stop it was coming down the street the same rate of speed as I was it had eight lights all different colors underneath I could not see the actual ship I only saw the lights then it was directly over top of me I open my Skylight and looked at it and it disappeared
May 15, 2017 · 2:30 AM · TRIANGLE
Hudson, NY
At approximately 2:30am on Monday, May 15th, 2017, I went out into the backyard to take out the garbage. It was a clear night, so I sat down on the porch and leaned back to do some star gazing. A few minutes in, I noticed that some of the stars were moving, in tandem. I focused in on that area, and there were 5 “stars” in a V-formation. I realized that it was a fairly large triangle-shaped craft of some sort, because I could see the dark shape blocking actual stars from view, as it passed overhead. It appeared to be quite low in the sky, was quiet, and moved slowly. A shimmering light passed all over the bottom of the craft several times, independent of the five V-formation lights. I watched it cross the sky until I couldn’t make it out any longer. I’m not far from Stewart International Airport (public/military), and suppose it might have been a military plane. Of note, the street lamp on the corner went out while the craft passed over, then started glowing slightly until it reached the normal light, seemed to get brighter than usual and orange-tinted, and abruptly went out again. The lamp remained dark afterwards. The bulb probably burned out and the timing coincidental; but it was odd, so I thought that I’d mention it, in the case that anyone else had witnessed a similar coincidence.
May 15, 2017 · 1:20 AM · FIREBALL
Long Beach, CA
I was sleeping, but my mom went out to get her phone in our car and she woke me and my sister up. It looked kinda like a fireball in the sky or a light, My mom and sister said it was bigger before I came out. After I came out it sorta just looked like a small ball in the sky. An orange and reddish color. It started to blink, and then it just turned off completely. It was still visible afterwards but then it got lost in the clouds. I'm not sure if it's a UFO or a plane. But I looked up orange and yellow lights and the pictures that came up looked similar to what I saw.
May 15, 2017 · 12:20 AM · CIRCLE
Rockledge, PA
MAYBE OTHERS SEEN IT!
May 15, 2017 · 12:20 AM · CIRCLE
Rockledge, PA
A white hot ball of light shot quickly above my head. It was fast n not a sound .it had these little smaller white lights trails underneath it. I don't know what I saw. But I know you might be able to help me.
May 15, 2017 · 12:00 AM · SPHERE
Cypress, TX
My Friends and I were laying down looking at the stars on a lake listening to music. one friend stood up and the other sat up to talk to him and as i played there i noticed 4 lights moving under the big dipper they were flying in a v formation but more like a check mark cuz there was an extra one on the right side, the were orange tint but not like a normal light it was more of a glow, the manner of which they moved was amazing it was like a leaf on a body of water being pushed by the breeze, i thought i was imagining it so i said ever so elegantly "((What)) is that?" and to my surprise both of my friends saw the same object we were baffled and we watched it for a few more seconds before it disappeared into the light pollution of houston, now this a key part of this sighting PLANES do not disappear in light pollution you can still see a plane in light pollution because it does not fly high enough so given this and the size of these lights they had to be! of enormous size they were bigger than a plane that passed by later that we watched even as it was flying into the light pollution, the light pollution covered theses orbs meaning it was flying above the 3000 miles that a plane flys this was a breath taking experience and changed my life. there was no sound!!! we heard the plane that came later!!!! ((What)) did i SEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! 2 planes came after i don't know if they were military or not but they were noticeable as i described, the lights also appeared to never change distance and if there was a weird haze almost like you see on camouflaged ships in sic fi movies. truly breath taking.
May 14, 2017 · 11:00 PM · CIRCLE
Des Moines, IA
While in the backyard of my home, I glanced up at the sky, S.E. direction, and noticed a glowing orange/amber circle of light slowly moving to the N.W., moving slowly but discernibly. It almost looked like an amber street light from a distance, was fuzzy, and had jagged lines coming from the center of the object. It started about 45 degree angle from horizon, moved up and over my head but very far in the distance. When it was in the western sky, I lost track of it due to the trees obscuring the view. I was in total shock as I had never seen something like that before. It made no noise and did not change color, shape, or speed.
May 14, 2017 · 10:25 PM · OTHER
Lansing, MI
2 red orbs traveling in a straight line. No noise associated with the orbs. Traveling east to west below cloud level and then faded out over the horizon.
May 14, 2017 · 10:20 PM · FIREBALL
Des Plaines, IL
I was out in my backyard when I saw a bright red-orange fireball shaped object through my tree. It was traveling east to west very high in the sky. Thought it was a plane at first but no other lights and as stated, was very high in the sky. As it traveled it turned shades of red to orange and pulsed. Eventually totally vanished from sight like a light turned off. Near O'Hare airport.
May 14, 2017 · 10:00 PM · CIRCLE
Clinton, CT
Then after a few seconds they lined up and and went off in a perfect line in opposite directions of one another. This could be seen for about 30 seconds before they disappeared into the night clouds.
May 14, 2017 · 9:43 PM · CIRCLE
Clinton, CT
Again, I was sitting out on my back deck when a bright white light appeared in the sky. It flew in a straight line for about a minute. Then it changed direction and began flying in a 90° turn. After about 30 seconds it flashes brighter and vanished.
May 14, 2017 · 9:30 PM · TRIANGLE
St. Petersburg, FL
I continued driving and soon caught up to the craft amazed how quick I caught up an airplane. As I pasted it, I immediately could tell it was not a commercial airplane. It was dark and more of a triangular shape with, I believe, five lights underneath. The nose of the craft was facing south and it was just hovering over the trees off the right of the interstate near a neighborhood. I could not tell if it made any noise due to my radio. I was left feeling shocked. I thought maybe it could have been a military plane since I was about 50 minutes away from MacDill AFB. But what raised questions is 1) being so close to the craft, why could not hear it over the radio, 2) what would the air force be doing flying so low through a residential area? I was not able to pull over or turn around due to the fact I was on the interstate.