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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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January 14, 2017 · 5:51 PM · FIREBALL
Daytona Beach, FL
((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) Definitely too low to be a jet, it was close enough that me and my 23 yr old son could see the flame flickering and to be exact, it literally passed right under the brightest night star (Venus) before it went to a constant red light then it almost seemed as if it went so far up and out that it disappeared. Thank you for writing back so quickly, i appreciate it. ((END ADDENDUM))
January 14, 2017 · 5:00 PM · LIGHT
Melbourne, FL
Bright irregular shaped, bright light visible in the S W sky. I was driving west on hey 192, the low, white light was not moving. It was still very light as it was approximately 5:30 pm. It was irregular in shape leaning toward anjagged oval. It was not a plane or star it was large and sat there as long as I drove, then stopped to watch it for over 30 min. It was still visible when I stopped watching. I would like to learn what it was.
January 14, 2017 · 2:00 PM · RECTANGLE
Seattle, WA
I’m only reporting this to get some confirmation that this is just camera/window issue and not something of concern. I did not see these objects. I’m guessing this may only be a reflection caught by a digital camera when I was taking a picture in the U District Seattle facing east from my bedroom. I do not think or remember the camera flash going off. However, I have taken other photos from my windows and never have seen anything like this or seen any type of reflection. And, it does not look like it’s off the window. It looks like it’s above the U District area. This is not photo shopped; I don’t know how to use photo shop applications. I was taking some pictures to show on Facebook to friends of the beautiful day we were having in Seattle on Saturday, 01/14/17. This was around 1330 to 1430 hours. The pic says 1620 hours, but the time is incorrect; you can see it is early afternoon. Maybe the correct time is 1420 hours. I made a short video prior to this photo of about 10 seconds and did not see this in it.
January 14, 2017 · 1:00 PM · SPHERE
Yerington, NV
also have time lapse photos of the strange orb seen next to the sun. looks like it may be 3 orbs but they are peeking thru the clouds with the sun coming out.
January 14, 2017 · 6:35 AM · TRIANGLE
Olympia, WA
One large triangular shaped object approximately 2000 ft. in Altitude appeared to be hovering in the NW Sky with red lights on top and white lights below and appeared to have a black line rotating around the white lights. Then slowly and quietly it moved across the sky in a SE direction with only 3 white lights in the shape of a triangle. It was a very dark, clear morning with many stars in the sky.
January 13, 2017 · 10:30 PM · SPHERE
Reynolds, GA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
January 13, 2017 · 9:40 PM · LIGHT
Dedham, MA
Vertical shape, bright light, stayed stationary but increased and decreased light, then "blinked out" no path from where it was, (but it is cloudy) I thought it might be a helicopter due to staying stationary but it was distinctly "line" like. So mysterious! We suspect a nighttime sighting, and have amended the time above. PD
January 13, 2017 · 9:30 PM · SPHERE
Hilton Head Island, SC
Orange object moving rapidly through the sky. It then moved up and down rapidly before coming to a stop and soon disappearing completely. A couple minutes later it reappeared with a dimmer, darker orange color; almost red to part of it. At this point it was slowly moving and the object began to drop what looked like molten pieces down off of it. As we watched, it then moved rapidly down before coming to a stop again and becoming very dim and darker red, occasionally dropping more molten-looking objects from it. After only a few more minutes it then disappeared again. We did not spot it any more after the second disappearance.
January 13, 2017 · 8:45 PM · FORMATION
Santa Rosa, CA
20 or more round, magenta colored objects. Seen from Howarth Park looking northeast. The magenta lights were moving independently and all moving north. Some appeared to be dimming in brightness. Over the course of 2-3 minutes, all 20+ of them disappeared. A separate observer filmed the sighting and claims that near the bottom of the formation, there was a bright wisping white circle. There appeared to be 3-4 man made lights approaching the magenta lights
January 13, 2017 · 8:25 PM · FORMATION
Santa Rosa, CA
When I was coming home from the store, I saw bright orange lights, almost like stars, floating in the sky. Six of them were near the horizon almost behind the mountains and dimmer than the others, seven were to the right of the moon and almost looked like the little dipper but when two of them drifted further away it was very apparent that they were not stars. Three were to the left of the moon, one faded before the rest did but one was flashing faintly. Five more were directly above in the sky. After about 5 minutes, they all began to rise and eventually drifted up and faded until they were no longer visible. When I got home, several of my neighbors said they saw the lights too and couldn't make out what they were. I also called a friend in another part of town and she said she saw them as well, but further north meaning they were fairly close to the ground.
January 13, 2017 · 7:50 PM · TRIANGLE
San Rafael, NM
Returned home from dropping my wife to work. Got out of the car and heard what sounded like a commercial airliner at normal altitude coming my direction. (from W to E) the clouds are split up a bit and I saw a normal blinking light, then I saw another set of lights to the North of it. They were not blinking. I noticed it was all one flying machine, like a large triangle. If it was a 30 or so thousand feet it had to be as big as a city. If it was lower it seems it would have to be much louder, but was still would have to be bigger than anything I know to exist. My dog also seemed scared of it. I haven't heard yet but I'm sure I am not the only one who saw this. There are several strange things going on here in this part of New Mexico, and I am willing to report it to someone directly. Not on this site. I never thought I would be saying this but we are really not alone.
January 13, 2017 · 7:50 PM · TRIANGLE
Milford, DE
We were driving south on route 1 just north of Milford, DE, about 15 miles south of the Dover Air Force , and we noticed 2 white lights with a red light in the center that was stationary. At first we thought it was a tower but as we got closer we could see it was low and the shape was circular in the middle with 2 wings on the sides giving it a triangular shape. It was hovering over a farm. After we past it it quickly passed over to the northbound side of route 1 and continued west until we lost sight. It was completely quiet as it hovered and moved.
January 13, 2017 · 7:35 PM · CIRCLE
Bloomingburg, NY
Walking my small dog. Looked up at the sky out of boredom, saw a small patch of sky that looked a little lighter than the rest of the sky. Studied it for a second, realized it was around a flashing, moving (side to side and in a circle) blue and red (?) light surrounded by tiny, tiny white lights. Went inside, put away the dog, went back outside, it was still there but higher up. Went back inside, came out again with the dog. Dog wouldn't move from the porch so I left him there to look. The UFO was barely visible. It kept shrinking and shrinking.
January 13, 2017 · 7:25 PM · TRIANGLE
West Palm Beach, FL
It is 7:20 PM the flashing red lights in a triangular position went from the northeast to Southwest. They were traveling quickly and the lights were dissipating slowly across the sky as they traveled. First time this has been seen here or first time we observed them
January 13, 2017 · 12:32 PM · OTHER
Sandy, UT
A very loud rumble. Unexplained. No weather could of caused it. As it rumbled, my window was closed but there is a slight draft seeping through, not enough to cause movement today there is no wind. My heavy curtain moved as it were a shock wave of air as it rumbled. Sort of like it were an impact of sorts. But did not see anything.
January 13, 2017 · 6:15 AM · LIGHT
Rumford, RI
At about 6:15 AM this morning on January 13, 2017, just before dawn, there were three "stars" that appeared, east of the Big Dipper's "bowl," appeared one by one, shone very brightly, and then disappeared, blinked off, one by one. They looked like stars or fireflies, in terms of size, but very far away and extremely bright, brighter than stars. They could be seen in the peripheral vision, which picks up light and motion better than straight-on vision does.
January 13, 2017 · 3:00 AM · FORMATION
Asheboro, NC
From my viewpoint, I saw four lights in a square formation, to the left and just below the North Star. They were only as bright as evening stars and constant, not blinking or flickering. I watched them as they move in formation from the right side of the North Star to the left side. They stayed in a square, for the most part, moving simultaneously closer to each other then away from each other making the square smaller then again larger. While doing this, they did change places, moving from corner to corner in a clockwise direction. The west to east movement of the formation ended when at the lower right hand corner light moved out further away from being square, the only time the formation was not square. Then all four of the lights disappeared at the same time. I did not time how long it was, but estimate it was about one to two minutes in duration. The lights were high in the sky and my view was not obstructed when they disappeared. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and we found him to be eloquent and serious-minded. We suspect that he is a highly reliable witness. PD
January 13, 2017 · 1:00 AM · OTHER
Newark, NJ
1/31/17 AT 1:00A.M.EST. I heard a humming sound. I thought it was my heating unit, but then a light shined in my bedroom. I looked out the window and in the sky was 2 lights with a red light in between the 2 white light. The white lights looked light 2 eyes with a red nose. I thought it was a drone. But then it started to head in the direction of my room. As it got closer, the humming sound eased up. All I said was this looks like eyes looking at me. It flew over my home, but then in a matter of seconds it reappeared in the original location, that I saw it in. All of a sudden, the eyes split apart and this red like tail curved like a snake into one little red light. At that point I told myself I'm not loosing my mind. I truly didn't sleep well. At 10;00 a.m. est, I got online and started to read UP ON UFO SIGHTINGS. I told a few people and they said I was crazy.
January 13, 2017 · 12:10 AM · LIGHT
Uhland, TX
My stepdaughter was out walking her dog and saw a green light in the south sky. It blinked out, moved slightly to the west and blinked on again. She came in and got me. The light had moved again but I saw it was green. Suddenly it turned bright white and expanded greatly in size. It stayed white several seconds then blinked out and was gone.
January 12, 2017 · 9:35 PM · FIREBALL
Albuquerque, NM
It was about 9:35pm on 1/12/17. I looked up and there were 3 red-orange circles floating-following each other. No noise, no flashing, I say not of this world. I ran back inside to get my tablet, mind you, just seconds passed. I went back out and could only see the tail end of the fireballs-they were gone. So I went back inside, a few seconds later I went back outside and saw another fireball, but it was gone so fast, it headed in the same direction as the others. It was a clear night the moon was out. Location was SE area of Albuquerque.
January 12, 2017 · 9:00 PM
Holiday, OH
Was outside setting in back yard seen a bright light thought it was a planet then i seen a streak across the sky. It sat there looked like just a white brite star really close though. It would get dim and bright then lots of activity with planes and helicopters also some flying objets that where flying slowly. This went on for 45 mins then everything was gone. Bright light may have been Venus?? PD
January 12, 2017 · 8:55 PM · UNKNOWN
Fremont, WI
As I was driving home on hwy 96 west I saw a red light appear in the sky about 20 degrees above the horizon. The light was moving right to left, toward the south. It brightened and began to slowly fade. But before it faded out, another, separate red light appeared to the left(south) of the first along the same line the first light was moving towards. The first light then faded. The second light brightened and began to fade, while moving along the same path as the first. But again, before the second light faded completely, another red light appeared to the south. This sequence happened five or six times. Then, the lights just disappeared. I asked the other person in the car if they were seeing this and they said yes. They described it exactly as I had seen it. The sky was slight overcast with a full moon rising behind us. Orion was visible through the the high overcast. The only other light I saw was five miles down the road when I saw a white light come on and go off, then a quick flash of a white light. This was in the same quadrant of sky.
January 12, 2017 · 8:00 PM · CYLINDER
Troy, NC
On Thursday night, January 12, 2017, as I was traveling south on highway 134, just about 5 miles outside of Troy, NC, I noticed a metallic cigar shape object falling straight down out of the sky. It was a clear night with a full moon, so I could see the object clearly. I drove past the object before it either hit the ground or whether it leveled out and flew away. I called a friend who I call a sky watcher, and sure enough, she had spotted a bright burst of light, which then faded quickly over the city of Sofia. Don’t know if the two events are related or not. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
January 12, 2017 · 7:30 PM · CHANGING
Ponce Inlet, FL
I have never filed a report of this nature before, but I can't ignore what I saw so here goes: I live directly on the coast, so in anticipation of last night's full moon, I settled myself on an outdoor bench that faces due east and overlooks the Atlantic ocean. The night sky was crystal clear and even with the full moon, the stars were bright as ever. Roughly 30 minutes into my moon watch, I noticed something "gliding" north to south fairly low overhead. The light configuration was odd in that there two steady white lights spaced slightly apart with a third whitish-green light between them that seemed to pulse slightly somehow, as opposed to a blinking light on a standard aircraft. In fact, there were no blinking lights anywhere on this object that I could see. And it made no sound whatsoever. As I was watching this object move further south, two larger (or lower) orange round objects moving in tandem, each with what looked like yellow and orange light striations coming up from them at an angle, also slid by overhead moving north to south and completely silent. The first object turned slightly south eastward and began to head slowly out over the ocean. At this point, I was still trying to believe that this was an aircraft of some sort, but the object stopped suddenly out over the water and became fixed in the sky where it also appeared to progressively become brighter and brighter until I noticed what looked like colors mixing in with the original bright white light. I just kept staring at this thing, trying to come up with a "logical" explanation for what it could be. After 10 minutes or so, I took a chance and ran up to my house to grab my binoculars; I was afraid that the object would disappear if I took my eyes off of it. But when I got back down to my bench, it was still there and I was able to see it clearly and with great detail through the binoculars. I still can't find the right words to describe the colors I saw on/in/around the object. They possessed a brilliance and clarity and purity like I've never seen. They were not flashing, but rather pulsating and shifting somehow. Red, green, blue, white, violet... There were no shafts or beams striking out from the object. The colors were cohesive and unified, forming a fixed sphere. The colors shifted and morphed across the object but I never saw them stay still. Brilliant white light lines appeared interspersed the individual colors somehow, almost like borders but not really because it all pulsed at such a high rate that these white lines were never stationary. At one point, the ! sphere seemed to elongate into a cylinder and then it returned to a sphere. I called my husband, who was out of town, to describe to him in real time what I was looking at. I also called my son, who lives a block away and asked him to come over to see what he thought about the odd thing. We both watched it though binoculars for nearly an hour. Eventually, the cold air off the water and the night moisture forced us indoors, but I went back out later to see if the object was still there... It was gone. Neither of us have any idea what it was nor have we ever seen anything like it before. Suffice it to say, it was spectacular.