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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.
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May 6, 2017 · 9:15 PM · CHEVRON
Waxahachie, TX
On Saturday, May 6, 2017, at approximately 9:15-9:20 p.m. central time, in Waxahachie, Texas, (Latitude 32.4098 longitude -96.8454), I noticed a glider-shaped object flying approximately 50 feet over my head. Its wingspan fully covered the two-car driveway I was walking on, and then some. I was walking directly north towards my house after checking on my kids who were attending a birthday party at another home in my complex. I noticed something just above my line of vision. At first I thought it was a cloud forming, as it had the consistency of a fine, mist type cloud. As it continued to move forward, I realized that the object had a solid outline with a consistent shape. At that point, I thought perhaps it was a hang glider, but considering that this was in Texas, where there are no large hills, that made no sense at all. Then, I thought it might have been a flock of birds, but the object had a solid form and a consistency of shape as it flew by. It continued to fly or glide at a consistent rate and a direct line path, until I could no longer see it. The object was completely silent. There were no lights. The object almost blended into the starry background of the sky. It had a somewhat mottled color of white and possibly dark, navy blue, grey or black. The event lasted approximately 30 seconds before the image either evaporated, disappeared, or merely faded into the skyline, where the lights of the city were glowing over the homes across the street. It was a beautiful clear night with no clouds. I was taking photographs of the moon earlier in the evening. The object was flying very low and appeared to be only about 30 feet above the roof line of the homes it was flying over. The object was not moving very fast. If I had started running very quickly I might have been able to keep up with it. I did not witness any entities, missing time, and I had not consumed any alcohol or drugs, I was completely alone. The only physical experience I had was feeling sick to my stomach, approximately 30 minutes later, that lasted about 20 minutes. At first my logical brain was trying to determine what I was looking at. I was in shock and awe. By the time my brain registered that this was possibly an UFO I had a split-second thought to grab my cell phone and record it, but by then it was gone. I was not in fear of the object at the time, because I was trying to determine what it was and the possibility of it being a UFO was the farthest thing from my mind, until it vanished.
May 6, 2017 · 9:13 PM · FIREBALL
Hibbing, MN
2 bright orange/ orange-yellow balls of light lost like a fireball without flames traveled across the sky over my house in Hibbing, Minnesota they made absolutely no sound and stayed in a line stopping for a moment and then proceeded to fly silently before stopping one last time and vanishing.
May 6, 2017 · 9:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Bonnerdale/Crossroads, AR
I called the neighbor to have him look, and they told me they witnessed it a few days before, as well. After approx. 20 min., it slowly dimmed and floated away. I have spoke to a few more neighbors and they too have encountered the UFO. I also witnessed a smaller object reminded me of car headlight but dimmer floating across the area several times. Stopping and going. Never landing
May 6, 2017 · 9:00 PM · OTHER
Southington, CT
While I was visiting my friend Me And 2 other individuals walked along the street at night with only the light of the 2 street lights to guide us when we spotted a green and a red light directly next to each other with no space between them. For 2 or so minutes we looked at the lights as they moved through the sky with only a little motion. After a while one of the people with me pulled out a camera but the lights were not picked up by the camera. After that, we walked away just to notice they where following us slowly. We picked up the pace as it disappeared in the treeline. After walking down the road, we saw it again for a short moment before it rapidly descended into the trees. This could not have been a helicopter because we couldn't hear it, and it moved in circles, unlike a plane. We rushed home and filled out this report as fast as we could.
May 6, 2017 · 8:58 PM · CHANGING
Old Bridge, NJ
It came east to west very slow then stopped. Just under, and to the side of, the moon. It was spinning, blue light in center and yellow electric like entry looking like spider legs projection out. It spun and then turned into a gray puff. A giant cloud which covered the entire sky came in from west to east and covered it and the moon. I have video of it changing, spinning and of cloud that came in (8 minutes long)
May 6, 2017 · 8:45 PM · TRIANGLE
Phoenix, AZ
I live in Central Phoenix, I was looking up at Moon, its location was straight up directly over my head. I then noticed a "star"moving I was looking to the East. Then I noticed that the "Star" Was actually 3 separate lights in a isosceles triangle shape and appeared to be a HUGE craft. I noticed many neighbor hood dogs where barking, It was heading southeast and lights slowly dimmed as it moved away. I didn't hear any type of propulsion or any unusual sounds coming from sky. ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) No, I did not see any type of craft structure. However, lights did all move together as one object! Thanks for replying so quickly! Sincerely, ((name deleted)) ((END ADDENDUM))
May 6, 2017 · 5:00 AM · FIREBALL
San Francisco, CA
It looked like a star, but then looked like it was moving away from us. My friend and I were standing on the Embarcadero, looking out toward the Bay Bridge, facing East (toward Oakland). I rubbed my eyes, I blinked, I asked my friend if he was seeing what I was seeing. It was definitely moving away from us, but wasn't a plane or a helicopter or a meteor/"shooting star." As he said, it was a "wobbler" - it was moving slowly and appeared to wobble, then it suddenly shifted to the south and went dark. It was there, then it was gone. I got a little video, but I couldn't get a steady shot but I do think you can see the ball of light, almost directly above the bridge. The only "rational" explanation we could come up with was a drone, but that doesn't actually make sense.
May 6, 2017 · 5:00 AM · LIGHT
Camp McGregor, NM
Report appears to us to be consistent with the sighting of Venus. PD
May 5, 2017 · 8:00 PM · OTHER
Corona, CA
Last night, while out on my balcony, I witnessed a bright light coming from the west, over the mountain range (Santa Ana Mountains) where I live in Corona, California. This light moved faster then anything I have ever witnessed. No blinking lights on it, I checked during the duration, my brother & ex-spouse were pilots, so I do pay attention to aircraft regularly. This light continued high up into the atmosphere, way above where jets fly. I contacted the news stations in Los Angeles, about 60 miles west of my home, to see if they had received any calls; they reported no calls. During the ascent of this light or craft, a regular jet with blinking lights was crossing over the mountain range during this time, but considerably lower, as I believe the jet was landing either at Ontario International Airport in Ontario, California, or headed to Burbank (Bob Hope Airport). The pilot had to have seen this light. When speaking with CBS News Station in Los Angeles, I asked the news desk if Vandenberg Air Force Base on the Central Coast of California had fired off any missiles, as they are known to do, and have been doing for the past month off and on, the news desk person told me there were no scheduled missile flights from Vandenberg until June 2017. I wish I could have recorded this light, but do not have the means on my flip phone. The local papers and web community sites listed nothing about it today. Disappointed, as I am sure others witnessed this light.
May 5, 2017 · 11:30 AM · DISK
Austin, TX
At approximately 11:30 AM I was on the balcony of my apartment when I saw a flying object descending in the sky very rapidly. It traveled from west to east over Walnut Creek where it appeared to land on the trail. It definitely went below the tree line. This was near Brentwood Christian School on North Lamar. The craft was about 150m from my apartment, approximately 100 feet in the air and looked like it could have had a diameter of maybe 50 feet, but I didn't see the top of it clearly. It was shaped like an upside-down saucer and it had a clearly metallic surface, like brushed aluminum. It wasn't wobbling or tumbling or anything like that, just a very smooth controlled descent. I heard no sound at all. I would not have noticed this object if I hadn't already been looking directly at the sky. Choosing to remain anonymous unless other people come forward with having seen something. Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 5, 2017 · 4:30 AM · CIRCLE
Surprise, AZ
It was the size of a razor head. Didn't move much and kept changing colors, but mostly white looking. Spinning in curlicues well it looked like it. I took lots of good pictures.
May 5, 2017 · 3:00 AM · CIRCLE
El Mirage, AZ
While letting my dog out, a very bright white circle of light appeared suddenly in the sky. It seemed very low like small plane or helicopter height, but was brighter than anything I have seen before. It almost immediately began moving rapidly in a straight northeast direction, never diminishing in size or brightness but with a bright orange "tail" trailing it and passing directly over my house. It seemed to be decending, dropping out of view over the roof but was gone by the time I ran to the other side of the house.
May 4, 2017 · 11:34 PM · FIREBALL
York, NE
11:17 p.m CST. (The before situation) This is when I first snuck outside to go stargazing for a while. When I first came outside I began to watch the stars and relax as the last day of school for me is the 5th of May 2017. I see the usual things such as a few shooting stars, twinkling of the stars, and just normal stuff one would see in the night sky. Minutes pass by as my friend and I were talking about the what Earth would look like from space. 11:34 p.m CST.(The Sighting itself) Now at this time I was just glancing around in the sky when I first saw it and pointed it out to my friend. It looked like a meteor at first from a very far distance. This was in the East/South sky, about 75-80 degrees. It was such a bright flash of light compared to other stars and it didn't just go away. For a minute I thought it was just another planet. Then thoughts crossed my mind if it was a man made satellite. It couldn’t have been however. It was moving different directions. First traveling towards the South sky. Then it began crossing in a back and forth motion. It would occasionally stop for a minute or two. Then it would go back up and move in this back and forth motion. At this point I stood up knowing it was not man made, as my friend tracked it, I ran quickly grabbed my high powered laser pointer (10 Mile radius Class 4 green colored) my friend pointed it out and we shone it to see if there would be reaction from it. It did seem to react which was very interesting meaning it must have spotted this light, at least a very low power of it. As soon as i shone at this light, it stopped and stood still. It didn't move for at least 5 minutes. It moved again and I shone at it again. The craft stopped again. By this point my friend and I ran inside and changed and began looking up who records these sightings. 11:48 p.m CST. (The call in) After seeing this I began looking for somebody who would take in this sighting. I googled exactly where to report and immediately called the hotline. 11:50 p.m CST. I told the man at first how i swear it was not a prank call. I forgot his name (I asked at the end and completely forgot) I explained it as “A fireball" looking thing that switched directions in the sky” It was in more words but if I were not so panicky of giving a 15 second detail it would've sounded better. He told me to make a report on what me and my friend saw and in a way he could describe it. Therefore, I made this report in order to show that a sighting is just a matter of paying attention. 12:09 a.m CST. I began writing the report and finally finished at 12:30 a.m . Thank you for taking note of my findings.
May 4, 2017 · 11:25 PM · UNKNOWN
Onchiota, NY
I saw a light reflection on my windshield, thought it was from dash, but driving on for a minute, realized that it could not be. I decided to look up and nothing, then decided to lean forward and look up and saw a ufo above my car with red, blue, green and white lights (bright in nature). After looking up at it, it moved to my left above tree line, parallel to me at same speed as I was going. At that time I opened my window and there was no noise from craft. The road curved, it followed a straight line and I lost sight of it.
May 4, 2017 · 11:07 PM · UNKNOWN
Elkhart Lake, WI
There was a very bright, unmoving white light in the night sky. It was far too bright to be a star. About two minutes of appearing stagnant, it started moving at a decent speed to the west. However, when moving, it was a constant green light with a flashing white light unlike common airplanes that have white with flashing red. It went out of view not too long afterwards, and the shape of it was hard to tell. Date may be flawed. Witness may have intended to indicate a date of June 4th, not May 4th, but we have no means of contacting the anonymous source, give that he/she elects to remain totally anonymous. PD
May 4, 2017 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Lawrence, KS
I was in my room in my apartment watching Dave Chappelle on Netflix, when I heard a helicopter overhead. It sounded very low and powerful, so I figured it had to be military, and I-being a total nerd-had to run out to the parking lot to get a look. By the time I was out my door and in the parking lot, I had just enough time to watch a small orange ball of light being chased by what I assume to be a Blackhawk helicopter (because of size and sound) disappear behind the rooftops of the buildings east of me. This struck me as bizarre because I saw something similar some months ago in the same general area (skies south of Lawrence, I live on the south side of town, not far from Baker Wetlands). The light was small and orange in color and was about 50-100 yards ahead of the helicopter. It made no erratic movements but was travelling at a fair clip as the helicopter was tracking it at almost the exact speed and it was moving pretty quickly. As such, I have my doubts that this could've been a paper lantern (though the color and intensity of the light were similar to one) and the distance ahead of the helicopter rules out a refueling boom. I'd give the altitude of the two objects to be between 500-1000 ft agl and the speed! of both to be about 100 kts at the time I saw them. Also of note, I saw another object in the sky in the general area at the same time, though it may not have been connected. This object seemed to be an aircraft judging by the red and white lights it had on it, but it hovered in place for a moment until the lights slowly faded out with no apparent change in location. The direction I was looking toward would be about a straight line to KCI, so I wasn't immediately suspicious, but--having seen plenty of air traffic heading to and from KCI on that flight path--this didn't look like anything I'd seen before (no landing lights). I mention this because it was odd and because the previous sighting of a few months earlier of the same kind of event had 2 helicopters chasing the light instead of just one. Maybe this was the second.
May 4, 2017 · 10:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Edgewood, NM
Around 10 pm I saw something go hauling a** east of Edgewood, NM, thru the sky. Direction of flight was South to North. Whatever it was was moving much faster than any other aircraft overhead. It didn't have a tail or a streak. I do not believe it was a falling star as it contunued its path direction until out of sight, and showed no evidence of losing altitude.
May 4, 2017 · 9:27 PM · CIRCLE
Phoenix, AZ
Orange glowing sphere flew across the sky at speeds comparable to an aircraft but close enough to see it was round. Did not shift speed or direction with wind currents. We have amended the time above, to reflect a nighttime sighting. However, the witness provides no contact information, so we are unable to verify that the time is correct. PD
May 4, 2017 · 8:25 PM · OTHER
Houston, TX
First noticed a blue-green light in the sky. Small about the size of a pin point. I thought it was a commercial plan but then it moved fast and then just stopped in the sky. I saw the other end of it and it was fire orange like some type of vent. It at times moved in the direction the vent was pointing. Oposite of what normal craft do. This object moved so smoothly across the sky at fast speeds, slowing down, stopping, changing direction and angle effortlessly. It was taller from top to bottom than it was wide, no wings. The best was to describe is it was like a fly just smoothly making all the changes in flight pattern. I saw a commercial air craft in between me and it and could judge distances from sizes of plane and it. Hair stood up on my neck and I was very scared for the first min when I realized this is not normal and nothing I have ever seen before. And then a peaceful calm came over me and I just took in what I was seeing for next 30 sec. I did not have my phone on me and did not want to leave to go get it. For a second, I looked next to me to see if anyone else saw I looked back and it was completely gone except for some shiny particles specs of light that disappeared also in a second. Amazing....!!!!!!!
May 4, 2017 · 6:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Meridian, ID
Roughly 35 triangle shaped objects seen in sky over Meridian Idaho on May 4th, 2017, 6:36pm, while at sports event at 43.615085, -116.337603. From this location, the objects where in seen above in sky toward the southern direction. Objects were seen by multiple people at the event, including children and adults., which appeared to be slowly gliding across sky and fading from sight, after about 7 minutes. In the picture (phone camera) they are white spots, but they were each visibly shaped like triangles. The objects remained fixed in position between each other, but there were no connections visible to the eye. The sky was totally blue (cloudless) and objects could be seen quite well while lower in sky. The picture was taken a couple minutes after first sighting, as they were higher in sky, and smaller in appearance. Witness elects to remail anonymous; provides little contact information. PD
May 4, 2017 · 6:30 PM · TEARDROP
Phoenix, AZ
Looking to th east at about 2:00, I saw what I thought were to large birds moving south to north one behind the other. They were to high to be birds (pterodactyls came to mind), so I went inside to get my binoculars. What I saw was a cone shape but with a corkscrew row of lights that spun in a clockwise fashion as to propel the craft. They were dark except for the lights. Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 4, 2017 · 3:00 PM · DISK
Beaverton, OR
I was coming out of my doctor's office, and I knew it was going to storm when I went in at 2pm. It was 87 degrees and uncomfortably humid. I had been watching the sky for lightning on my way to the doc. As I was coming out of the parking lot, a huge raindrop hit my windshield. It was so big I tried to get a picture of it with my phone. I glanced up in the sky to see if there was a big storm coming. I saw an odd circular area in the fluffy clouds in a clearing. I saw only a circular swish of a white cloud and nothing else but blue sky behind it. I always call those "sucker holes" for pilots, but this one had a swirly cloud inside it. It wasn't until I was in bed that night looking at my photos to see if I captured tge big raindrop on my windshield. My daughter was in Hawaii and I was going to show her she was missing giant rain here at home in the Portland area, and a stormy muggy day. When I looked at my photo, the raindrop is there, but much to my surprise, so is somethibg odd in with the swirly swish cloud! It looks to me like the shape of the Trent UFO in McMinnville, and this is not far from that area mileage-wise. I thought maybe it was a dirty spot on my window, but my window is clean and I can clearly see this object is blurry like it is moving fast. There is even some light reflecting on the left side of it in the photo like it is reflecting off an object. I have no clue what appeared in my photo, but here it is!
May 4, 2017 · 4:50 AM · CHANGING
Taft, CA
This was not an aircraft and it was not a Chinese lantern… There was no flicker of fire or blinking lights. I estimate it was less than a quarter mile above me, and maybe the size of a yoga ball. I was able to grab my phone and snap 3 photos before it was out of view. The pictures are very interesting!! Witness indicates "Taft, Indiana" in original report. We have amended that to "Taft, California." PD
May 4, 2017 · 12:00 AM · SPHERE
Savannah, GA
Watched a 3-4 in sphere come in one end of development and slowly move thru park. A neonish blue that seemed to be a glow, but didn't "shine". Don't know any other way to describe it. Floated by me about 20-25 ft away about 12-14 ft off the ground. No sound. For some reason, the source of the report does not indicate the time or date of the alleged sighting, so we have had to guess at both. The witness elects to remain totally anonymous, and provides no contact information, so we are unable to contact the party, in order to confirm the time and date. PD