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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
April 21, 2017 · 12:05 AM · SPHERE
Hanging Rock, OH
Hello, Folks. I was driving east on U.S. 52, and at the time, there were no other vehicles around, and no homes in the vicinity, While driving on 52 East, I come to this very rural area, where I see this white sphere of light in west lane, about 15-20 foot in diameter, moving across the highway at a quick and steady rate, probably about 100-200 feet above the highway. I watched the object as it Vanished into the trees. Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 21, 2017 · 12:00 AM · FIREBALL
Olympia, WA
Was watching Military planes circling for hours. In the middle of that a fireball shot across the sky. It appeared to be sparking and was flaming. It traveled very quickly. Startled this housewife very much.
April 20, 2017 · 10:35 PM · FIREBALL
Hartsville, SC
In Northcutt Road before train tracks heading to Highway 15. Looked to the west above pine trees. Saw an orange fireball traveling about 15 miles per hour towards Sumter, SC.
April 20, 2017 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Surfside Beach, SC
2 orange orb type lights quickly appeared (silently) off the coast over the ocean and within 5 seconds changed into 5 lights, lingered 10-15 seconds, then quickly disappeared.
April 20, 2017 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Petaluma, CA
I am a ranger/landscape supervisor who works for a county agency. The other witness is my parish priest. After a church class, while driving my pickup truck exiting our church parking lot, I saw our parish priest standing at the side of the church, looking up into the night sky in a south east direction. I stopped my truck and asked what he was looking at. He stated that there were some odd looking lights in the sky. I got out of my truck and went to where he was standing and looked up and saw 5 distinct reddish orange lights in the sky, hovering at different places, but in a grouping. The lights were moving very slowly. A couple of lights moved vertically, and then hovered, and then a couple moved laterally very slow. One of the lights rose and then faded into nothing. Another light faded when an airplane seemed like it was getting close to it. One more light rose and then faded into nothing, until the last light descended in altitude and finally disappea! red altogether. The lights seemed to be quite a distance from us. I would guess they were probably 20 miles away, and maybe 5000 to 8000 feet high. All of the lights moved independently of each other, but were in the same grouping or vicinity of each other.
April 20, 2017 · 9:00 PM · OVAL
Thibodaux, LA
Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 20, 2017 · 8:07 PM · SPHERE
Columbia, MO
Part 2: Still wondering what we had just seen go down by Hinkson Creek, but driven by the need for ice cream, we continued to Andy’s and queued up at the drive-up window. It had only been about 5 minutes since the first observation. I was looking west; the sun was setting, when I saw a quickly moving object traveling from the northwest to the southeast. It appeared silverish and spherical. It was either quite high or very small. Then I saw another object which seemed to be trying to overtake the first one, and another one and another one, 6 in all, following the first one. Of course my first thought was helicopters but we did not hear any kind of mechanical sound. It finally occurred to me to use my cell phone and try to get a picture. All I got was small dots, but they are there. The time was 8:07. Interestingly a helicopter did fly over to Boone Hospital and it was easily seen and heard of course! it was landing. As an addendum to this report, a friend, who lives in Salem, Missouri, “was entering Columbia on 63 Hwy and saw a white glowing object between 500 and 1000 feet in altitude going over the Femme Bonne Creek. Estimated speed was 40 mph. This was on April 6, 2017. It was traveling south.”
April 20, 2017 · 7:55 PM · SPHERE
Columbia, MO
Part 1: The first observation was a little before 8PM on 4/20/2017. My husband, who was driving, and I, were traveling east on East Broadway. We were between Broadway Bluffs and Trimble when I noticed something very low in the sky in front of the car. It appeared pale blue in color, almost sky color, about the size of a pea at arm’s length, maybe slightly larger. It was on the passenger side of the car, so I had a good view of it, it seemed to be spherical. I did not see any appendages, it appeared very smooth. We stopped at the light at Trimble to make a left turn which gave me time to watch it. (My husband watched in the rearview mirror. He confirms my observations.) At this point I’m thinking it must be a balloon. It stayed at about the same height and distance from the road as it flew west over Green Valley Drive. It was approaching a tall stand of trees at Hinkson Creek when it paused in midair and rapidly descended diagonally out of sight. Ok, not a balloon. Maybe it was a drone? About 35 minutes later we went to the area where we had seen it go down; very secluded for being in a city. Hinkson Creek is at the end of Green Valley Drive, which turns south and becomes Moon Valley Road. Open fields and trees.
April 20, 2017 · 2:15 PM · OTHER
Palmyra, NJ
I observed an aircraft that seemed to look odd in that it looked fake like a projection. It flew into a cloud east of me in an easterly direction. The craft never came out of the cloud. As I watched in amazement, I noticed the cloud remained stationary, and over a short time disappeared.
April 20, 2017 · 12:07 PM · SPHERE
Daytona Beach, FL
Facing s/w, I seen this orb as if it were following the sun not with a camera but with the naked eye so I went out side with my camera and wife and snapped a few pics, I
April 20, 2017 · 10:30 AM · CIRCLE
Spokane, WA
Saw a literal perfect sphere that was at my tree line of our house. Watched for at least 4 minutes, don't know how long it was there was just getting home. Took 3 pictures, doesn't capture the brightness or the size well but it does show the perfect sphere. It instantly disappeared. No trace, no light trail, nothing it was gone.
April 20, 2017 · 10:00 AM · CIRCLE
Vashon, WA
Right before it disappeared a low flying helicopter appeared from the south.
April 20, 2017 · 4:56 AM · LIGHT
Bridgeview, IL
Single blue light darting above and below clouds in near-Southern sky (ceiling at the time approximately 2000'). No noise. Object turned 180 degrees in an instant, and made several extremely sharp turns. Lost sight of object behind a building. Approximate distance of object was .5 miles to .75 miles away. Source of the report provides no contact information. PD
April 20, 2017 · 12:10 AM · UNKNOWN
Kennett Square, PA
I was talking to my girl friend in Elsmere, Delaware, and went out onto my deck. I looked up and the clouds were lighting up with a ton of different colors. I asked her to step out and look and she did. She was seeing the exact same think I was. I tried to record on my cell but got nothing but our conversation. She was in tears telling me what she was seeing, but did not record any of the event. I made two recordings, but cannot see anything in them. Thought it was northern lights, but I was facing south. No noise. Colors red brown, yellow, blue, purple, and another color best described as black. No white lights at all.
April 20, 2017 · 12:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Santa Rosa, CA
It was about 22 o'clock, Thursday. No rain. Clear sky. 49 yo female. I was walking with my dog. I don't image things. If I see, I say it. The sky was full of stars. Then, I see something is moving high enough for birds, too low for a plane. Almost invisible, the same color as a sky, looks like triangle, or bird with wings opened widely, but the size was too big for a big bird. I noticed, stars in the sky were missing when that object was passing them. Was an object! It was slowly, quietly, without lights, moving above houses to North. This happened in Santa Rosa neighborhood, close to little park, near to freeway 101. After it disappeared, I realized, that I had a flash light, and didn't use it. When I came back home, and stepped out to my backyard, I saw helicopters. I don’t use drugs, and I don’t drink neither.
April 19, 2017 · 11:55 PM · TRIANGLE
Newton, AL
At 11:50PM, my partner and I walked outside to see if we could catch a glimpse of the asteroid passing by the earth toinght. We walked around to the front of our property to see the full sky without trees. After a few minutes of staring, my partner said, "Look up! There's a UFO!" I looked up and immediately saw what he was talking about. At first I thought I saw a flock of birds flying southeast in a V formation. I kept my eyes locked on the object the whole 5 seconds I could see it. What I thought were maybe birds were most definitely lights on a silent, triangle shaped aircraft with 7 white lights on it. The craft was very large and moving very fast. From where I was standing, I looked straight up, Within 5 seconds the ship disappears approximately 90 degrees-that is from where I was standing to where I lost sight of the craft.
April 19, 2017 · 11:50 PM · TRIANGLE
Newton, AL
So we walked around the yard for a couple minutes. I lit up a cigarette and looked up towards the sky. That's when I seen a triangular shaped craft of some type just appeared slowly flying over us. I was confused at what I seen because it was like it was there and not at the same time. I asked my friend if she was seeing this ((word deleted))? She said she seen it too. It sort of picked up speed as it took off and disappeared at the same time. This thing was massive whatever it was. Super quiet like a hybrid car motor or something. Unlike anything I've ever seen before. If it were day time this thing could have easily blocked out the sun, I'm sure of it. It had 7 lights on it that didn't flash. The lights seemed to be white but like sort of a dim white light. 3 lights on each side and one in the very tip of the triangle. It felt like a long time had passed during all this, but it was only maybe 5-10 seconds from the time it showed, till it was gone. It travelled away from me on a 90 degree angle, traveling southeast towards Marianna, Florida.
April 19, 2017 · 11:29 PM · LIGHT
Denver, CO
Moved slow, but made quick turns, staying and circling same area. I have it on security camera's that record 24/7
April 19, 2017 · 8:50 PM · SPHERE
Garden City, SC
Orange spheres quietly appeared over water, then disappeared. We did not see movement of the objects. They appeared and then faded away within a few seconds of each other. They appeared to be in a straight line but the first and last were set further from the three in the middle. They made no noise. We witnessed similar orbs like this while visiting Gulf Shores three years ago. Source of the report elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 19, 2017 · 8:50 PM · SPHERE
North Myrtle Beach, SC
They've been spotted AGAIN! We have seen these lights numerous times over the years. They seem to occur around the times of 8pm - 9pm over the ocean (not on the horizon, but a great distance into the sky). It will all begin with several orange orbs appearing, we've counted up to 5. The lights will go on and off in order while in a straight line. Once all light are off, they often appear again in different areas across the sky glowing on and off with their orange light this time not in a line; instead, scattered. After a short period of time the "light show" seems to come to an end and they will disappear into the night sky. We've done basic research to find that this is a common occurrence that is reported throughout the North and South Carolina beaches. But all research has lead to dead-ends. It's definitely a worthy sight to be on the lookout for!
April 19, 2017 · 8:30 PM · SPHERE
Surfside Beach, SC
Single orb over ocean, near Surfside Beach pier. Orb moved north, and 5 orbs formed behind it all moving north for a few seconds, then disappeared. Sixth orb formed approximately 100 feet south, flared bright then disappeared.
April 19, 2017 · 11:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Benton, TN
Triangle shaped aircraft with red lights landed in field near home. when went to see what it was it lifted into the air and made a circle around field and flew away.there was no sound coming from it.
April 19, 2017 · 8:49 AM
Gray, GA
I am a Christian and I don't believe. Source of the report elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 19, 2017 · 8:16 AM · SPHERE
Cape Girardeau, MO
I immediately went to Flightradar24 to check for other planes in the area. I snapshot it to document no other planes were in the area, within 50 miles, and certainly none traveling in that direction within more than a hundred miles. I then went to Google Earth to get a point in space reference of the angle and position of the anomaly and estimated that it would have been approximately 11 kilometers or approximately 36000 feet above the ground. The weather was clear and sunny, no clouds present, and the object seemed to disappear right before my eyes within 15 seconds of first seening it. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and he sounded to us to be quite sober-minded. That fact, combined with his employment background and military service, suggest to us that he is an excellent, and reliable, witness. PD