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March 14, 2017 · 10:10 PM · OTHER
Lava Hot Springs, ID
Dear sirs: At 10:10 pm, on Tuesday, the 14th of March, I stepped out side on my deck in Lava Hot Springs, ID, looking just to the right of north, toward the towns of Soda Springs ID, and Grace ID, I saw a set of bright lights. It appeared to be moving in a floating drifting manner, its movements were slow and smooth, it was over the mountains to the north of Lava Hot Springs, ID, about 45 degrees above them the lights looked to me to be in a set of three, one red, one yellow, and the other sort of white. I have seen a lot of jets, airplanes and helicopters, this was not one of them. When I first spotted the lights, I called my mother out to come see, while I grabbed my binoculars for a better look. The lights continued to drift to the left, and then to the right, then it seemed to move away. As it did, I saw a high flying jet plane with flashing red and green lights blinking and heading east. After the jet plane flew out of sight, the lights I was watching through my binoculars suddenly got bright, and then I saw it explode. I saw a large ball of fire and two large sparks fall beneath it then it was gone, all through this there was no sound, not from the object or the high flying jet plane, nor were there any noise from the explosion, which would tell me that it was a good distance from my location. I was in the U.S. Coast Guard for 8 years, I have been taught to judge distances. To me, this seemed to be about 12 to 15 miles away witch would put it just over the town of Grace, ID, just outside of Soda Springs, ID. The first thing I did after I saw the explosion was to call 911 and report a explosion in the sky just north of Lava Hot Springs, ID. I was told that they (the police would get back to me). If and when they do, I'll send word to you. After I called the police, I called the National UFO Hotline; they told me to use a word program and post it to the report form. Thank you for all of the hard work you have done! ((name deleted))
March 14, 2017 · 8:24 PM · SPHERE
Chandler, AZ
Me and my girlfriend were in my backyard, sitting on our patio furniture facing west. I first observed at a distance, facing west, a white sphere. Then right behind it I saw green sphere, then red then blue. I first I thought the white sphere was the light from a plane or helicopter. This is common where we live. However, as the objects got closer, I was expecting a sound but never heard any. I kept looking at them because had never seen such glowing colored lights on any aircraft before. They were not blinking. More resembling glowing balloons. Were moving way too fast to be just drifting. I caught on video from my gf's cell but was hard to make out. Only some of the green glowing object could be seen. It appeared to me that they were not connected together, but more like flying in a group, with no visible pattern that I could tell. They flew overhead, not making any sound, and continued into the distance to the east keeping the same pace. Source of the report elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD
March 14, 2017 · 8:00 PM · DIAMOND
Taylorsville, UT
On Tuesday March 14, 2017, around dusk I was relaxing in my hot tub. I glanced up at the sky and noticed what I assumed was a plane traveling from south to north (towards me). As it got closer I noticed 5 or perhaps 6 solid orange lights on the front of the craft. The sides of the craft had blue and white flashing lights. As I continued watching trying to figure out what it was I was seeing the craft stopped moving and began hovering directly over me. By then the sky was darker and I couldn't make out the shape of the craft I could only see the lights. It stayed in that position for several minutes so my instinct was to wave, so I did and a few seconds later it turned off slightly to the east. I thought it was leaving until it then backed up and repositioned itself directly overhead again. It stayed hovering for a few more minutes, so naturally I waved again and once again the craft began moving, only this time it curved off to the west and then reversed dire! ctly back overhead. At this point I knew this was something highly unusual and I was getting both nervous and anxious and wanted my family members who were in the house to come out to witness whatever this was. Still keeping my eyes on this craft I got out of the hot tub and walked over to close the lid which only took a few seconds then glanced back up to the sky and the craft was GONE! I couldn't believe it. I walked out further in the yard to try and spot it and there was not a trace of it. I have no idea what I saw that night but I don't believe it was a drone as it was the size of an aircraft.
March 14, 2017 · 6:30 PM · SPHERE
Denver, CO
Approx 6:30 PM, I am riding in the passenger seat with a friend on Sheridan Ave due North. I look out the passenger window to the East and notice a large, bright circular object with a bright corona in the sky over Downtown Denver. There are no colored lights on the object to signify a conventional aircraft. When observed through a phone seems to be either changing shapes or is emitting orbs that seemingly change the object's shape. We take a left turn at an intersection to head West and during this time that we are turning the bright object vanishes from the sky. Approx 30 minutes later we had returned home from errands and, as we approached the door to the house, I notice the same bright, circular UFO hanging in the sky to the East. A seemingly conventional aircraft (read: helicopter) in the same area of the sky seems to be approaching the circular object, at which point the object promptly vanishes from the night sky. I run inside to tell my friend who had already gone inside to put away items. We both return outside and observe either the same or another circular bright object to West, low on the horizon, seemingly barely above the mountains themselves. We observe the object to the West for approx 3-5 minutes before returning inside. 5-10 minutes later I returned outside to no anomalies visible in the sky.
March 14, 2017 · 4:00 PM · CYLINDER
Rexburg, UT
Incredibly large. It was super high in the sky which made it appear small but the fact we could see it at all indicated it was a massive craft. It was a very clear sunny day and the sky was very blue. The craft was located right beside the sun which made it difficult to spot but if you moved to the right angle to look up you could see it. It was also transparent. Only would it appear if you looked at it from an angle where the suns light reflected off of it enough to distinguish it was a large cylinder. My two friends and I dropped what we were doing that day and followed it for over an hour. It followed the suns position in the sky, always keeping in the same spot relative to the sun. It was unexplainable for any human technology that I am aware of.
March 14, 2017 · 6:45 AM · OTHER
Phoenix, AZ
Walking east in a parking lot at Salt River Drive and Priest in Tempe, AZ, then looked towards Sky Harbor and noticed 2 large objects with multiple, much smaller objects around them. The person with me also saw these objects and neither of us could determine what the objects were. There were flashes from the smaller objects that were quite random and appeared to be reflections of the sun light. The objects appeared to be moving in a North, northwest direction, and behaving much like a balloon. It was very hard to make out the shapes but the 2 larger objects appeared almost diamond shaped while the smaller objects were just dots. The objects seemed to have a reddish color. I had to enter a building and by the time I was able to get to a higher floor, about 5 minutes later, there was no sign of the objects.
March 14, 2017 · 5:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Goodyear, AZ
The witness forwarded a photo of what he alleges was the object he witnessed, but it is too blurry for us to be able to determine what it is. Possible hoax?? PD
March 14, 2017 · 2:00 AM · LIGHT
Lakehead, CA
It was late night, i was 17 years old, with a friend, we were planning on doing a evp session for fun, exploring open things , so we went to the benches at a rv park in the the clearing, when eventually he decided to show me a picture of a “ star “ on his phone. I was like okay whatever, because i was more interested in the evp session rather than his picture. So then It caught my attention, by seemingly growing bigger in the sky , then as i was looking, many lights came out of it and then one zipped right over us at an instant, it was very bright with electric looking static touching everything around us, and a thunder-like sound came shortly after. It was hovering over us slowly but fast if that makes sense, then it almost instantly zipped back up and right back into the star in the sky and that star went back in place like normal but it was not twinkling ever. He had his mouth openish the whole time , and right after it went back, he turned to me and said in a robotic emotionless way “ i am tired, i am going to sleep now “ and walked to his house in a weird robotic way. So then my reaction was like okay… then i began walking home in the dark trying to understand what i just encountered, i began assessing movies ive seen and trying to relate to them , overthinking about it. I couldnt sleep because i was still trying to understand it rather than sleep. Another time shortly after, on new years that year going into 2017 , everyone was partying at that park we were at , and me and another friend were walking to my house in the dark alone, and we wanted to play games then suddenly we just randomly had the feeling right after to just walk back to the park so we did , then as we were walking we can see a bigish shadow of a man walking across the street near the corner and we assume its my dad because hes a big guy, but as we got closer he was gone and we dismissed it. Then as we turned the corner and began walking up the hill. We decidedly to turn around and we saw the man looking at us. I didnt see specific details of his dna features or whatnot but i did see him turning at us in the dark with the moonlight with my friend who remembers too, and that man took out a light that was a bright cord , but the light didnt light anything around but it was very bright, and instantly he vanished. We then reacted by looking at eachother saying what the F**** and he ran and I followed. Two storys, im welcome to take lie detector tests. It’s probably important details and information. The man was definitely observing us.
March 14, 2017 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Tampa, FL
large red and at times multiple colors switching shapes appearing to circle White Trout lake immediately dropping down then coming straight back up circle again an it was an extreme tight circle. It kept changing shape an at times color it appeared at times there was two and then join together it was a phenomenal sight.
March 13, 2017 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Valley Center, CA
At about 10 P.M., on March 13. I noticed a flickering yellow light in the glass window of our front door. Thinking that perhaps there was a fire in the area, I opened the door. Directly to the west, I observed above the horizon and above the mountains an orb of brilliant yellow gold color. Even at a great distance, it appeared to be flickering on the edges. I called up to my granddaughter to look out also and see the bright light. Then there appeared a second orb, then it disappeared and reappeared several times. A third orb also appeared several times and would disappear. The bottoms of the orbs were at different levels in the atmosphere. This light show lasted approximately 15 minutes. As we are located atop a hill in line with the Palomar Observatory, I wonder if they would have observed the same phenomena. Also, we are south of Camp Pendleton on the coast so do not think it was a military exercise. I have always been skeptical of UFO sightings (a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science and have my Masters in business). We are enclosing 3 pictures taken by my granddaughter. IMG_20170313_221351.jpg IMG_20170313_221407.jpg IMG_20170313_221734.jpg
March 13, 2017 · 9:26 PM · SPHERE
Mesa, AZ
They circled around a few miles past me and were headed south near the Mesa and Tempe border. No noise from the smaller craft. Although they seemed to move in unison, they were 2 separate objects.
March 13, 2017 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Glendale, AZ
Source of report provides no information; elects to remain totally anonymous. PD
March 13, 2017 · 8:50 PM · OVAL
Redlands, CA
At approximately 8:50 pm, while turning into my apartment complex, and was about to pull into my parking space, a falling bright white light that was north/east above the municipal airport caught my attention. I stopped and noticed that the object, a bright white round looking object, which in the night sky would be about as bright as a star in the night sky. This object came down at an a tremendous speed, and the amazing thing about the light was it came straight down, than made an instant maneuver as an L light down, than light sped off horizontally and I only caught the seconds of this object whisking behind the trees that blocked my view. However, the bright white light was for a brief few seconds in my sight. I immediately pulled out of my parking to take a drive in the direction of this light object to see if I could or might see it again , and pulled over to watch and did not see this light again. Within 30 minutes, I heard the sheriff helicopter in the area, could be unrelated, circling the in the area for about 15 minutes.
March 13, 2017 · 2:00 PM · EGG
Las Vegas, NV
On my way to laundromat at around 2:00 on on Monday 13, 2017, and I happened to look up, as I always do, and behold there where oblong shaped objects flying in the sky. Couldn't have been a bird or balloons because there where no wings flapping and the objects where almost transparent and white like clouds flying in formation, no glistening, no up or down motion. Please respond if you to have witnessed this phenomenon? Thanks, again. Source of the report elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
March 12, 2017 · 11:00 PM · OTHER
Colton, OR
While photographing the moon last night, I captured unexplained light objects that moved in each frame but could not see without camera zoom.
March 12, 2017 · 10:15 PM · LIGHT
Wyandotte, MI
Noticed 2 bright lights about 20-30 degrees up in the ESE sky. One a very bright white and the other red. We thougth the white light may have been Jupiter, but both have remained in the same location for the last half hour. Both seem to wobble slightly. We drove to a nearby park to get a better look about 2 miles away. They were dimmer from that location. I will e-mail 2 photos I took.
March 12, 2017 · 8:43 PM · LIGHT
Gloucester, VA
Tonight we watched it as usual and it just took off and shot actoss the horizon toards new york. We thought at first it was the north star, it was so bright, but later we found out it was not. Not shown on any stat charts or planet. Polaris, the North Star, is not a very bright star. We have amended the time above, in order to reflect a nighttime sighting. We attempted to contact the source of the report via telephone, but the number is not valid. We receive many, many hoaxed calls and reports from Virginia, and we wonder whether this one might be yet another. PD
March 12, 2017 · 8:40 PM · SPHERE
Mount Airy, NC
Bright object moving rapidly from Northwest to Southeast. Clear sky, bright moon. Source of the report elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
March 12, 2017 · 8:01 PM · CIRCLE
Sanford, NC
Source of the report elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
March 12, 2017 · 8:00 PM · SPHERE
Redlands, CA
It’s now mid-March 2017, and since mid-February I’ve seen an extremely bright light (reminds me of a huge LED tactical light) early every evening in the eastern ((sic. western)) sky over Southern California. It’s large enough to make a person assume that it’s close to the observer’s neighborhood, but its size and brightness make it likely to be seen by many residents living in Southern California. The light always appears around 8 p.m., sitting low in a dark sky, without any other visible stars. The light is bright in one position for approximately 30 minutes, then the light goes out, and it pops up again nearby, again parked for another 30 minutes in a new position. I first noticed it in February and, like my husband, instantly thought of Saturn. But the light was so “artificial” and too low that I couldn’t bring myself to believe it was Saturn. My thought was that it’s more likely a satellite or a surveillance device (drone? balloon?) possibly launched by the police, or by USGS, or by CALTRANS. I’ve found no evidence on the Internet, but if any of these surveyors want anonymity, there wouldn’t be an announcement or explanation posted to the Internet. I believe I’ve noticed lights-out once a week (does the object need a break to re-adjust?), and then re-activated the following night for the rest of the week. I’m not certain why the foregoing surveyors would survey at night, except to avoid small aircraft from local municipal airports that would not be flying at night in the object’s altitude thereby not interfering with the object’s mission. Large airlines flying to Ontario or to Los Angeles can be seen and are distinguishable because they move higher in the sky than does the bright light that parks low in the sky and does not move at all while lit. Thoughts rush through my mind of foreign surveillance by China, Russia, North Korea. Could that be true? Don’t know. “It’s a puzzlement!”
March 12, 2017 · 8:00 PM · FLASH
Long Beach, CA
A strange noise started and a bright ball in the sky flew past above our house, and then all of the lights went out in the neighborhood. Source of the report elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
March 12, 2017 · 7:57 PM · OTHER
Hot Springs National Park, AR
So at this point i grabbed my phone to document this event.by this time these “lights” had move to where i couldn’t see them but another wave of lights flicker on.so i took multiple pictures and a video of the second wave of these light/UFO’s as i was taking video of the lights there is a airplane taking off and looks to fly thru or around these clusters of lights, as fast as the lights appeared they extinguished just as fast . Now let me say, i’m a disabled veteran from the United States Marine Corp. my MOS was in Aviation mainly helicopters. And i have worked Avionics on CRJ’s” Canadian Regional Jets”and a few aircraft repair stations here in town. Here are the pictures i took and the video. Note the video will need the light adjusted to see well. enjoy. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
March 12, 2017 · 7:45 PM · FORMATION
Hot Springs National Park, AR
When two people mentioned about the lights in the sky, I looked up towards the Southwest and saw several lights, all one color.....not pink, but not red either. There were about six lights in formation of a triangle, they would become dim and then bright.....we all were in awe. Some thought they may have been planes or helicopters, but these lights were stationary. They would drop in altitude, but rise again to their original position in the sky. Then they disappeared.
March 12, 2017 · 7:45 PM · CIRCLE
Tacoma, WA
We were walking down Borough Road by Garfield Park to our car. My daughter saw 3 hovering lights, white with red and blue and thought it was an airplane but wondered why they were silent and hovering so low, plus too small to be full sized airplanes, but very bright lights. The group of 3 were in a tighter formation at first. There were more bright white lights hovering lower on the horizon by the water, Commencement Bay Puget Sound. We notice 9 lights and actually noticed 11 in one photo, almost as though they were meeting at the spot we saw the first 3, making a formation of some kind. I got my phone to get pictures. They stayed bright white and spread out, then disappeared, most moved upward into the clouds, a few sideways, probably hovering for close to ten minutes. This was about 7:45 PM, Sunday, March 12th in Tacoma, WA.. We have no idea what these were. I'm glad we got photos. ((ADDENDUM #1 FROM WITNESS)) Dear Mr. Davenport, Thank you for your reply and information. I looked at photos online of Chinese lanterns and don't believe that is what we saw as the objects seemed too mechanical and the movement seemed too deliberate but hovering rather than floaty, if that makes sense. Plus they seemed larger than the photos of Chinese lanterns. They were coming from the horizon. I looked at the map for this area and noticed a Tacoma city park on the water called the Fuzhou Ting at Chinese Reconciliation Park. I called to ask if they allow Chinese lanterns and if any were lit last night. It seems Chinese lanterns are illegal in Seattle so I would assume most likely in Tacoma, too. I am waiting to hear back from someone at the Parks Department to verify. Being it is so chilly and rained earlier in the day, I doubt there were any weddings at the Fuzhou Ting Park. I am wondering if there is some kind of military goings on with the nearby JBLM. I looked up pictures of drones but these seemed too large to be a drone, at least what photos you can find online. I also tried to reach the Tacoma Tribune but no one has replied as well as the local Fox KCPQ affiliate. I couldn't find anything online reporting lights in the sky. It was all very strange, we could not stop watching it. I can't believe my Galaxy 5.6 phone was able to capture what it did since the photos are no where near the brightness and clarity of what we actually saw. We were thinking how could you not notice this but this road is quiet and with the trees and terrain, we were in the perfect spot to see what we did. I was hoping the Fox KCPQ might show the pictures and others might come forward if they saw it but they must not be interested. I will submit to the online report form as soon as I get an answer from the Tacoma Parks Department about the Chinese lanterns. The person who handles that venue is out until the 22nd so hopefully the other person I left a message with will call me back tomorrow. I will also see if there is some way to get information from the City of Tacoma about people calling in about those lights. I looked up some videos on youtube and these lights look like what others have seen, too. Sincerely, ((name deleted)) ((END ADDENDUM)) ((ADDENDUM #2 FROM WITNESS)) Dear Peter, I did not hear back from anyone I left messages with. However, I found an information bulletin from the Tacoma Fire Department that says there are no permits allowed for any kind of incendiary releases or sky lanterns. I would assume a Tacoma City Park nearby would not be allowed to release lanterns. These lights that we saw look like some I found on you tube such as the ones in Missouri in 2012 and in Arlington, Texas, June 2015, in the International Business Times. It's very strange and I also find it odd the media I tried to contact have zero interest. You would think they would at least show the pictures to say what it is or isn't and talk about the safety of Chinese lanterns, etc... or at least verify if JBLM ((Joint Base Ft. Lewis/McChord AFB)) was doing testing of some kind or whatever they want to say it is. I don't think it's either lanterns or drones based on what I could compare it with on the internet. I just submitted the form on the website. The photos are in the email I sent. Thank you, ((name deleted)) ((END ADDENDUM #2))