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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 19, 2017 · 6:09 PM · OVAL

Greenville, SC

Slowly descending, diagonally, distinct oval, and straight ascending. Rocket shape. Both shrouded in atmospheric fire.

January 19, 2017 · 6:05 PM · FIREBALL

Around 18:00, I and another were sitting inside, and started to hear the sound of possible two jet plans. As the noise grew louder so did our suspision and we proceeded outside. As we looked up we were unable to see any jets in the sky as they sounded directly above us. Looking towards the south-east a glow of several orbs appeard very faint roughly 12. Over the next few minutes the orbs grew in intensity as more appeared. Roughly 500-1000 appeared and disappeared as we watched. There seemed to be no more then 50 at a time. Movement was slow and looked at first to fall but then recover and fly higher as the light would fade then repeate. The lights continued but our view was interrupted by the mountain. My feeling was that the lights were very high in the atmosphere compared to the low flying jet or jets. We have not spoken yet with the source of this report, but we hope to do so. Also, we plan to contact the local press in the vicinity of Lincon, NM, to attempt to verify the claims above. PD

January 19, 2017 · 6:00 PM · CIRCLE

Walnut Creek, CA

My husband and I saw what appeared to be a large, glowing red object in the sky. It was very high and very far away. It was completely still for about 10 seconds. Then it flashed on and off, then back on. Then it moved very quickly side to side, then off again and disappeared. We saw a large airplane in the same area about 4 minutes later.

January 19, 2017 · 6:10 AM · FIREBALL

Long Beach, CA

It looked like a shooting star going down really fast, but with a frontal metallic circle, and it disappeared completely mid air. I was driving on the 710 South freeway heading home towards PCH. Didn't have time to capture but open my eyes and observe. Then 2 drones appeared and hovered over the area the UFO disappeared to, either to investigate/confuse whoever had viewed it. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD

January 19, 2017 · 2:28 AM · CIGAR

Minneapolis, MN

One craft with two bright lights. Seemed to hover in one area until it finally shot straight up a disappeared from sight. Thought it could of been a drone or helicopter by the way it was behaving until it went straight up a faster then any craft I could imagine.

January 18, 2017 · 11:30 PM · CHEVRON

Fort Collins, CO

I was letting my roommate's dog outside, when I saw a group of fluorescent green lights in the form of a chevron. This was observed a few minutes after 23:30 MST approximately 4 blocks south of CSU Fort Collins campus. The event lasted for 5 to 10 seconds. It was a clear night with no clouds, stars were visible. I was the only witness who saw this. I am a senior at Colorado State studying Civil Engineering and have a good understanding of physics, optics, and trigonometry. There were 5 to 7 lights in the formation, and were first seen 20 to 30 degrees above the horizon. I was looking south when I first sighted them, and watched them move north almost directly overhead; they were 20 degrees from vertical to the east of me. As the chevron passed over head, it started accelerating and gaining altitude, before the lights disappeared 40 to 50 degrees above the horizon looking north. The lights were observed for a total of 100 to 120 degrees in the sky. As the lights passed from south to north, they changed shape from a chevron into a straight line. I live on a N-S-E-W street grid, and I can determine that the lights were traveling within 10 degrees of the N-S axis. From the observation point, the lights appeared relatively small, but much larger than a star. The individual lights were round, with a hazy edge and appeared to be about 1/6 the size of the moon. The chevron formation had a span of 3 moons, and stayed approximately this size for the entire duration, as they changed shape. As the object passed overhead, it made no sounds. The dog I was letting out did not respond to the event. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and we found him to be eloquent, and sober-minded. In part, because of his technical training, we suspect he is a very capable witness. He has submitted a very nice graphic, which illustrates the sighting, and which is posted to the NUFORC website. PD

January 18, 2017 · 10:30 PM · TRIANGLE

Chicago, IL

I was looking up at the stars whilst sitting on my deck and thinking about light pollution. I had to block the street lights from view and their orange glow to see the stars but they were still very clear for Chicago, and then as I was staring at the constellation Orion and Sirius, three red lights in a triangle shape with a dark barely visible frame or body above them began passing through what looked like fairly low altitude and mostly opaque clouds right in the left and center of my field of view. They seemed to appear out of nowhere and the craft appeared to be very large (about 1.5" from my perspective and I'd estimate that it was at an altitude of 10,000 ft and approximately 10 miles away from me). It moved forward slowly bearing east to west and then only slightly but immediately it elevated and then went back down in altitude, it shifted speeds and altitudes as it passed into the orange glow reflecting up from the city. I tried to take out my phone camera but it was too late and I was too affixed during the incident to break my focus.

January 18, 2017 · 9:00 PM · TRIANGLE

Sumter, SC

Was outside walking my cousin's dogs with her 11 year old son. We were marveling at Orion, as he was pretty high in the Eastern sky. We turned and walked with our back to Orion, and I looked up (towards the West) and saw a triangular object moving EXTREMELY slowly towards the N/NW in the direction of Charlotte, NC (I'm 2.5 hours from there, but just trying to give some perspective of its movement). We were able to observe it for 15 minutes before the dogs and the 11 year old got restless. I came back outside, but the object was beyond the far tree lines. I live with open fields around me in a rural area close to an Air Force base (Shaw AFB). The object was definitely an equilateral triangle with a slow-blinking red light in the middle. It was low enough that I would be confident in saying the light was at the bottom of a convex/downward dome. The points of the triangle had white lights that were not blinking. I would estimate the width of the craft to be on par that of the wingspan of a Boeing 747. Ahead of the object and to its left was a much smaller craft that was simply a red light as though it were "towing" the larger craft--definitely guiding the path for sure. The light on that smaller craft was not blinking. I could not make out the shape of this object, but the red light appeared as a dot from my vantage point. I heard zero engine noise. Since Shaw AFB is home to an F-16 fighter wing, so I know what F-16 engines sound like, even at idle. This object wasn't making any noises that any aircraft would make, much less an F-16. I was stunned at how slowly the craft was moving and amazed it was able to stay in the air without me hearing any engine noise.

January 18, 2017 · 8:28 PM · OTHER

Brandon, SD

Object has been staying in one spot over extended period multiple colored lights, does not appear to be a star, plane, or helicopter. Has been viewed by several people through binoculars. Probable sighting of the star, Sirius. PD

January 18, 2017 · 7:45 PM · LIGHT

Crystal River, FL

Venus?? PD

January 18, 2017 · 6:53 PM · FIREBALL

River Falls, WI

I have footage and photographs. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD

January 18, 2017 · 5:00 PM · CIRCLE

Wilson, NY

After observing it for a few minutes, she said it looked like a star or maybe a plane. I asked the female supervisor at the Dollar Tree to go look outside and tell me what she saw when she looked up in the sky. There were no stars out and she said it was just a bright light or maybe a plane. I proceeded to shop inside Dollar Tree and was at the register at 1745. My cab driver was awaiting out front and I asked him to look up and tell me what he saw. He looked up at the light for a few minutes and said he saw a bright light with lights blinking around it, rotating. I got in the cab and rode home.

January 18, 2017 · 1:32 AM · FIREBALL

Sterling Heights, MI

It appeared out of know-where and just moved back and forth and was really high above and in a flash it went straight and slightly vertical and dissapeared in a flash and left a fiery orange trail behind it for a 2 second duration. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD

January 18, 2017 · 1:00 AM · UNKNOWN

New Market, MD

I took my dog out to relieve herself at approx. 1 am on approx. 1/18/17 (I am a "night owl") and noticed, high up in the sky beyond the roofline of the line of townhouses in which my house is located (perhaps 300 feet or so up?), what appeared to be a group of bright green lights, four in total. I stood and watched and noted that: 1) the lights were bright green only (no other colors) and they were not flashing. 2) there was a total of four lights and they appeared to be on the perimeter of a round craft of some sort (?). 3) the "craft" was not moving; it stayed in the same place for all the time I was watching (5 mins.), and remained there as I went back in the house. I did not feel afraid, only curious and somewhat amazed by this sight. No *primordial* terror at all. Source of report indicates that the date is approximate. PD

January 17, 2017 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE

Deltona, FL

First seen the orbs on the back porch, they were a soft off white light, when they would move, they'd then become red. When seen, they'd turn off their lights, but still flash red and leave. 3 of them were in a triangle formation, when seen, they turned off their lights and dispersed. Tried to film one that was blinking red, but it turned green and started to follow me

January 17, 2017 · 8:42 PM · LIGHT

Concord, NC

Bright circular light bobbing around for upwards of 20 minutes moving up and down and left and right not getting any further or closer.

January 17, 2017 · 8:39 PM · LIGHT

Randall, MN

Red, blue and white lights flashing in different circular sequences, at times only one to zero lights. Craft may be circle shaped or the lights are placed in circular formation. Seems to be moving slowly in the same area almost as if standing still but without any noise. Appears to be 15 miles to the east. Possibly above the city of Little Falls, MN. Possible government craft or drone? Heard helicopter for short time, but could not see one, less than a minute. This is not a helicopter or airplane. Very large drone or other craft. Looked thru binoculars. Never seen a craft pattern like this.

January 17, 2017 · 7:48 PM · FIREBALL

Omaha, NE

It was a little after 7:30pm, I was warming up my car & noticed something in the sky that I first thought was maybe a super bright star-so I took a few pics & started recording. Then when the "star" started moving erratically, I knew it wasn't a star!!

January 17, 2017 · 7:20 PM · CIRCLE

St. George, UT

It then proceeded to head North into the sky, about a mile away. I ran inside to get my girlfriend to see, and it was about 20 miles away, maybe hovering over the city of Hurricane. It remained there for about 5 or so mins. We tried to get a picture and a video, but our cell phone camera was not good enough to pick it up. At that time it moved upward into the northern sky and disappeared. We called her local police department in St. George, Utah. They had no other reports a sighting. They gave us a website that had nothing to do with UFOs. www.nidsci.org and 702.798.1700 for national institute for discovery science. So we googled that, and found that it is now a closed organization. This was an awesome experience, and it was not like any other 747 or military vehicle that we see flying from Las Vegas to Clearfield, Utah. NIDS stopped taking UFO reports years ago. PD

January 17, 2017 · 5:26 PM · CIRCLE

Oak Harbor, WA

It was about 17:26 and I was laying on my bed playing my virtual reality, when I heard a loud rumbling sound (sounded a lot like bass) that shook my bed. I looked outside to see a bright light about the size of a car. It was emitting a bright light and a haze around the circular object. Then it disappeared over the trees. ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) Dear Mr. Davenport, I am sincerely sorry for such the late response. For some reason this email ended up in my junk mail. No, I did not get a photo of it, but I did see it pretty clearly for about 3 or so seconds, before it moved over the treeline. All I could see though, I put in the form. It was about the size of a car. This is a serious report, not a hoax. Also, I accidentally said I saw it on the 13th, but I actually saw it on the 17th. ((END ADDENDUM)) We have changed the date above. PD

January 17, 2017 · 5:00 PM · TRIANGLE

Portland, OR

We do not know what the object was that the witness observed. However, it is premature to conclude that it was the type of craft alleged by the observer. We have read about an object labeled the "TR-3B," but have never seen conclusive evidence that such a craft actually exists. PD

January 17, 2017 · 4:00 PM · DISK

Yucca Valley, CA

The object appeared to be quite far away, possibly over the mountain between Morongo and Desert Hot Springs.

January 17, 2017 · 9:53 AM · LIGHT

Warner, NH

At approximately 9:53 am EST on January 17th, 2017, I was traveling north bound on Interstate 89 in New Hampshire driving a vehicle. My boss was riding in the passenger side of the car and also witnessed the event. A bright light of white or silver light was traveling directly down from its trajectory extremely fast. This wasn't falling like an object dropped from the sky and wasn't on fire like a meteor typically would be from my experience. My boss also acknowledged what we had seen. The type of light it projected or reflected was bright white or silver white light. Unfortunately I was in a company car and not my own so my dash cam was not with me. The distance from the event was close and it wasn't very high in the sky. For instance this wasn't thousands of feet in the sky. It appeared to be within 2 or 3 miles at the most from where we were. There was no contrail or smoke. No sign of the object after it left the field of view.

January 16, 2017 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT

Morgan, UT

I was driving and noticed 3 bright red lights in the sky floating in a vertical line. Next I pulled over and got out of my car and watched the bottom 2 move one went right and one went left forming a triangle shape they sat in that position for about a min or so. Then the top light started to go smaller as if it was going farther away and the other two followed it was definitely the weirdest thing I've ever seen