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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
January 25, 2017 · 7:25 PM · LIGHT
Compton, CA
If you u see a triangle,imagine a red light at one of the ends blinking and going to each end of the triangle in slow motion, leaving a slowly fading sparkling red reflection. in a silent dark sky. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
January 25, 2017 · 7:05 PM · FORMATION
Lakehills, TX
Blinking white lights at first and then behind a large cloud it lit up a bright orange and illuminated the cloud. It looked like the scene from Close Encounters of the Third Kind when the little boy runs out of the house out in the country and you can see the clouds lit up - seriously. Then the white blinking lights moved to different positions and then glowed orange. They glowed on and off for awhile. They moved across the sky from east to west and would stop and glow. This is the same event we saw a few months ago. We wondered if they are coming to this area because of the lake. They were right over Medina Lake. It was a spectacular show to say the least but as always why? and Whom? No, there were no jet panes or other aircraft that came by to chase them. It was something to behold. Only the answers are lacking.
January 25, 2017 · 7:00 PM · CIRCLE
San Diego, CA
There seemed to be increased helicopter and airplane activity; one airplane looked like it flew pretty close to the object, before the plane's lights turned off and the object moved its position slightly before continuing to hover. Zooming in with a camera showed a ball of white light that was glowing, but that showed multicolor flickers, like when you put television on the wrong channel and see snow, except this snow was all the colors of the rainbow, flickering and mixing on a greyish white background. We suspect a possible sighting of Venus. Source remains anonymous. PD
January 25, 2017 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Yuma, AZ
Near Venus, there was a white light which went straight up and disappeared. almost immediately a red light appeared below Venus and then disappeared. white light to south of Venus moved rapidly west and disappeared. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD
January 25, 2017 · 6:30 PM · FORMATION
Greensboro, NC
Was walking our dog, looking up I saw a formation of 3 lights in a triangle formation in the distance, there was about a visual inch between the lights. They were blinking, I thought they might be jets in the distance, but as I have thought about it for over 18 hours it may have been other-worldly. They were in the north of the city traveling east along treetop level per my perspective. The top light was ahead of the bottom one and the bottom one was ahead of the back one which formed an obtuse triangle. Being that far apart at that distance would make them several miles apart in the formation, which I think is strange for any jet formation, they were going about the speed of a commercial jet, not fast as if military and I did not hear a the jet engine. There were no wild movements nor disappearances. Also, as far as I could tell they blinked at pretty much the same interval.
January 25, 2017 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Midlothian, VA
Stopped at traffic light about 6PM Facing South Saw a light fall quickly down from the sky east to west.
January 25, 2017 · 5:45 PM · LIGHT
Sidney, ME
Saw an extremely bright light close to the horizon. It was orange in color and extremely bright. Watched and it did not move. Decided it must be a star or planet as it was stationary. Kept driving and watching it. It stayed in the same spot. Then it seemed to start to move up. Wasn't sure as I was driving, but it looked to just go straight up. It did not change shape/get smaller or lose intensity of brightness like I think it would of it were moving away. Looked to go up for a bit until we could not see it anymore.
January 25, 2017 · 4:45 PM · LIGHT
Belfast, ME
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
January 25, 2017 · 3:00 AM · SPHERE
Newport, TX
Jan 25, 2017 at 0300, Spouse and I went riding around starting at 0120 after going to bed early. The stars were extremely bright out, and we had seen more than twenty deer, with multiple raccoons, hogs, the normal country back road animals. We have been doing this on and off the past two weeks and nothing seemed out of ordinary. We decided before going home to go to a hidden place we found early on that was secluded off of hwy 1125 and Speights Road. Car turned off, husband had the night vision and was sitting out of the window, my window down occ. Flashing my light. I had seen a bright star but initially didn’t think anything of it. I layed my head on the car door and stared at the stars for a second then would turn and turn my flashlight on again. This time the brightest largest bright white light/star but it was moving slightly just enough to notice from like being in a box and bouncing off the sides. I called out to my husband two or three times quietly, then knocked him in the leg. He climbed back into the seat. I pointed at it and said, “Is that what I think it is?” He was quiet and just looking then said, “Look at these coming in.” Four circular, hazy, orange, orbs came up to the left of the bright “star.” The orbs went from a straight line to a chevron form two or three times before noticing there was more orange orbs coming from behind us. The bright star moved closer but stayed just below the tree line, looked like when the star blinked the orbs changed formation. When number 8-9 orbs showed up I was too nervous to stay any longer, but never got the feeling of being threatened. We were able to see them until very close to 287 and just before town there was a very large plane/shuttle that crossed from our right to our left at a fairly slow speed for a “plane.” The back of it had red and green lights on the back of it. Once we went over the overpass/287 we didn’t see them anymore.
January 24, 2017 · 6:30 PM · FLASH
Minneapolis/Bryn Mawr/ Theodore Wirth Golf Course area, MN
Driving at night on 394, headed towards downtown Minneapolis, and was about to merge onto 94 WEST... All of a sudden there was a huge flash of green light that lit up the sky for maybe 1-2 seconds then turned yellow for maybe 1 second then was gone. It was dark so this was super odd and not sure what to make of it.
January 24, 2017 · 6:00 AM · LIGHT
Jacksonville, AR
We suspect a celestial body, possibly Jupiter. If the time indicated by the witness is p.m., then the object may be Venus. PD
January 23, 2017 · 8:30 PM · LIGHT
Steelville, MO
Got in truck and followed it for 5 miles, heading North West on Hwy 8. Saw several confirmed aircraft approach, and then veer off.
January 23, 2017 · 7:30 PM · FORMATION
North Myrtle Beach, SC
Looking out over the ocean about a third of the way above the ocean 4 bright white lights side by side One light goes out leaving 3 lights Then the 3 go out.
January 23, 2017 · 7:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Hays, KS
While walking the dog around 7 pm, looked up to see an object move from south to north. I watched it for 2-3 seconds. It had no color – it was black or even opaque, and had 3-4 very dim, shimmering lights. It almost seemed as if those lights were reflections of city lights, and not from the object itself, but rather reflecting off a dark or opaque surface. The shape was indeterminate. Given the speed and size, I would have guessed it was a small consumer drone, flying a couple hundred feet off the ground, maybe 100 feet from me. But it was completely silent. It also moved with the speed of a small jet, but again, completely silent. It was out of my sight in 2 seconds, flying to the north.
January 23, 2017 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Los Lunas, NM
In the south sky. A bright light had appeared after a while another light came out it started to fade after about half an hour I had my mother on the phone because she had seen it before so I shined my flashlight towards it and it got brighter so I did it a few more times it's seem to let me know that he could see me and it totally disappeared and I'd shine my light back at it and it would get bright again this went on all the way up to 8 o'clock
January 23, 2017 · 6:00 PM · CIRCLE
Lacey, WA
I have been seeing this light in the sky for about 2 weeks. It takes a similar path in the sky and when the sun sets and it is in different origin. But a relatively near the same patch of sky. Here is a video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpOARx7D2ws&t=3s Possibly a sighting of Venus?? PD
January 23, 2017 · 6:55 AM · RECTANGLE
Northglenn, CO
I kept walking, but the whole time I was staring at this thing. It didn't move like an airplane. I was way too slow. It moved in an almost perfect line, and about as quick as a snail crawls. I originally thought it was a P-shape or something because it looked like it has a small bulge at the top, but I now think it was a smooth rectangle shape, but I am not totally sure because it was so far away.
January 23, 2017 · 6:43 AM · SPHERE
Seattle, WA
I look at this camera almost every day and have never seen anything like this before. I have photo that I will send along. Please let me know if you can tell me what this is. Thank you, Paul
January 23, 2017 · 3:00 AM · DISK
Los Angeles, CA
I was returning to work on the 110 freeway heading north. Traffic was moving slowly due to a recent downpour. At the edge of downtown Los Angeles near the Convention center, I noticed a metallic, copper-colored object that appeared to be floating along. It was a couple of hundred feet up and a bit west of the roadway. I assumed it was a mylar balloon because it looked like it was drifting along in the wind. As it passed over the freeway and I could see it juxtaposed with one of the skyscrapers, I realized that it was quite large – easily the size of an average car. At first I thought it was spherical, but then it seemed to rotate and I could see that it was saucer-shaped. The object continued heading east and moved out view. I assume other people saw it, but I was alone in my own car.
January 23, 2017 · 2:45 AM · FLASH
Hillsboro, OR
Hi i saw a light flickering in the sky for about 3 minutes and then it moved back becoming faint for another 1 minute. next moment it was gone no more light.
January 23, 2017 · 12:12 AM · LIGHT
Salinas, CA
Saw a bright red light moved low slowly left and right, then disappeared the light never blinked it was south west of highway 1.
January 23, 2017 · 12:04 AM · CIRCLE
Yachats, OR
Went to sleep early Sunday night woke at about midnight. I did not want to read or watch t.v., it was too stimulating. I wanted to back to sleep, so I went outside and, sat on my balcony to very clear night it was wonderful the stars were brilliant. I must state that I live on the central coast of Oregon in a very small town (not many lights). I moved here from Los Angeles, because I was seeking peace and quiet. I was looking at Orions belt doing the Jeopardy question, which is brighter his shoulder or his toe (its his toe) suddenly an orange light that lined up with Orions belt and moving very slowly from south to north came into view. The strange thing about this light. It was very large and it did not glow. I say this because I have an ocean view, and see many fishing boats. They have white and orange lights, these lights glow! What I saw was very large and not a rounded shape. Pinched in the middle it did not glow. It was traveling at a slow speed, then suddenly went very fast and changed direction going lower and then blinked out. I have seen many strange things in the sky but I have never seen anything that was orange in color that did not make any sound, and did not glow. No strobe lights. Again, let me state, it was high and big (about a 1/4 size of moon), a circle but slightly squished in the middle. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and she seemed to us to be quite sober-minded. We suspect that she is a very capable, and reliable, witness. PD
January 23, 2017 · 12:00 AM · SPHERE
Gila, NM
The object zigged and zagged for 1-1/2 hours in the southeastern sky. It would make circles and go off in multiple directions in a second. At first I thought it was a satellite, but it was making bizarre patterns all around itself. Up, then down, then sideways, then in a circle--constantly for that length of time I watched it. The speed in which it travelled was in the blink of an eye, very quickly and haphazard movements. Star or planet?? PD
January 22, 2017 · 7:25 PM · CIGAR
San Antonio, FL
At approximately 7:15pm EST on January 22th, 2017, San Antonio, Fl. I looked out my front window at the oncoming storm and saw a strange object come out of the darkness above and travel directly across the sky extremely fast and disappear into the darkness (like a portal opened and closed on both ends of its journey). This wasn't falling from the sky and wasn't on fire nor did it have a tail like a meteor typically would. I don’t think it was a shooting star or lightning. The object was a thin cigar shape and a bright white or a silver white glowing light and moved in a seemingly straight horizontal path. It happened so quickly I did not have a chance to photograph it. Because of the fast speed it traveled I don’t believe it was a plane, I have no idea what it was and wondered if anyone else saw it.