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December 27, 2016 · 7:45 PM · CIRCLE
Texhoma, TX
My cousin and I were driving around our ranch 30 miles south of the town of Texhoma in the Panhandle of Texas on the night of December 27th, 2016, from about 7:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Below is a detailed account of an object we saw in the sky that night. I will email videos. At about 7:15 p.m., I commented on how bright the stars were to my cousin and while looking at the sky I noticed a bright light in the west-northwest direction from us that was too large and too bright to be a star in the sky. I commented on it, but my cousin and I didn’t think too much of it as we thought it was a plane passing through. A few minutes passed by, and I turned my attention back to the stars and noticed the light again. It didn’t appear to have moved from when I initially saw it just a few minutes before. We talked about how that was kind of odd so we watched it for maybe 2-3 minutes. It was hard to gauge the distance between us and the object being that it was already dark outside. I would estimate it was somewhere around 5-10 miles away. The object appeared to be moving but at a pretty slow pace. At this point in the night the object looked like a big circular bright light in the sky. We quickly lost interest in the object again and ended up driving about 40 miles north to another ranch of ours located on the north side of Texhoma. It was about 8:15 p.m. and I looked up to the sky and saw the object again. It was in the west-southwest part of the sky at this point, which makes me think it did not move a whole lot. It was noticeably closer making it much bigger and brighter than just an hour before. My cousin and I both witnessed this and we also noticed that there appeared to be something spinning around the light. It appeared to be like a fan or a mill and it was moving very fast around the circular light but it was not lit up so it wasn’t as clear. This really got our attention so we pulled over and got out to watch it for around 20 minutes. It was moving back and forth at the same slow pace but not getting much closer to us or following any sort of pattern. The light was a whitish yellow with instances of slow and subtle hues of red and orange. It appeared to change brightness and sometimes the circle would get bigger and the light would be less concentrated and then it would almost insta! ntly shr ink to about half its size and at the same time become much brighter. After looking at it in awe for around 20 minutes we got back in the vehicle and started driving back to town. We began going west directly at the light but it appeared further and further away as we headed directly toward it. We then hit the main highway and hopped on it going south back to town for the night. The object faded off into the distance behind us. The only thing that I can think of in this part of the world that would be that high in the sky are the grain elevators, which have lights on them. However they have many lights all over them. I am stumped. I can confidently say it was a flying object. However, I have never seen anything like it and I have seen thousands of planes go over our land in the day and at night in complete darkness. I was able to snap a couple pictures and videos of the object while at the ranch north of town. I will email to the address provided on the site. The email will be labeled “UFO TEXAS PANHANDLE”. Thanks ((initials deleted)) We suspect a sighting of Venus. PD
December 27, 2016 · 7:30 PM · SPHERE
Waianae, HI
They were hovering over the ocean close to shore I was in my car traveling west and the seem to move in sink with each other I have never seen anything like it in the sky
December 27, 2016 · 6:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Tucson, AZ
Around 6pm, caught site of large bright white (sometimes yellow-gold) orb at top of Mt. Lemmon. Thought it must be a planet just rising over horizon of mountain, though it seemed too far north for a planet, and the sky was overcast so other stars were hazy but this was super bright and pulsing clearly (like a star on the horizon does). Then saw to right of object, probably several miles to the east along top of mountain, a faint small white light rheostat in slowly, then grow brighter, then rheostat to a deep ruby red, get really bright, then switch off suddenly as if a light switch turned it off. This happened multiple times in sequence of about 1-3 minutes apart. Occasional flashes of similar red light on the opposite side of the large white/yellow orb, like a light ‘echo’, not as ‘solid’ but there just the same. The phenomena was persisting so long, I drove up to Sabino Canyon for a closer look but the sky there was dark and couldn’t get as panoramic a view of the range. Nothing happening there. Around 8pm when I returned to original location of siting (farther from the range where you can get a broader view of entire top of Mt. Lemmon), there it was again, the bright orb, as if it hadn’t moved (and a planet would have moved in 2 hours)! My memory isn’t precise but for the next 5 minutes or so, what a light show! The bright white orb blinked out, then suddenly reappeared. Blinked out then reappeared. Then moved super-fast to the right about ¼ inch (viewed from several miles distant). Then blinked out. Then reappeared. There was almost a dance between this larger light and the smaller red lights. A lot of movement, blinking in and out. It is hard to recall details but all I could think was “this ain’t no planet”. There are radio signal towers on Mt Lemon but they pulse and stay turned on all the time, and they are in a different location from where I saw the red lights. These smaller red lights were shutting off completely, then phasing back in first as white lights, then as ruby red lights. Then blinking off instantaneously. The last thing I saw was the white orb rheostat to a beautiful golden yellow, 2x or even 3x its original size and then it looked like it split in half and then it simply disappeared, along with the red lights. Poof. Gone. The overriding perception I got was that there was some kind of transdimensional shape shifting happening. I wonder if anybody else saw this in Tucson. It was mind blowing.
December 27, 2016 · 3:00 PM · CIGAR
Jackson, TN
I was at work at scrap yard at Jackson Tennessee. We had two garbage trucks from Waste Management that we were taking the garbage compartment off of the back of the truck to cut up and process for scrap. We had finished the first one and were walking to the second one, when what at first I thought was a row of ducks or geese caught my eye. I thought that I had never seen birds flying that high before. Then I noticed they werent birds but lights that were wagging up and down or in a circle pattern. There were twelve or fourteen of them in a single line and they kind of faded out from view then reappeared. There were three other people with me and I pointed up and hollered HEY! LOOK!. I could tell they were all attached to something but I could not tell what the shape of it was but it was as big as a couple of train rail cars. As i was pointing at it, it faded from view again, and I didn't see it again.
December 27, 2016 · 11:00 AM · DISK
Newbrighton, MN
this was a very shocking event, do not know if anyone else saw this object. not a helicopter, not a airplane. not a drone, could of been in jan 27, 2016. in the wallgreens parking lot. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 27, 2016 · 11:00 AM · DISK
Newbrighton, MN
as it turned back to the west, this object, was about 20 to 30 ft in diameter, shiny silver and very very fast, when it turned back to the west i would estimate the speed at 3,000 mph or so almost like it disappeared , but still visible. I witnessed this object at the intersection of county road D and silver lake road, in the wallgreens parking lot, not sure if other people seen this object. this was a amazing event, that i still think about everyday, not a plane, not a helicopter, no noise came from this object, very shocking. i could see the actual size of this disk in its banking turn, very shocking. ther was also a red haze behind this object as it accelerated away from me. ((ADDENDUM FROM ALLEGED WITNESS)) i want to make a correction, about my sighting. 12/27/16 disk over silver lake road and county road d, in newbrighton mn , the disk did a banking u turn and headed back to the east, not to the west as stated, ((END ADDENDUM)) Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 27, 2016 · 1:00 AM · LIGHT
Center Line, MI
While closing up for the night, I was in the backyard and I happened to look up at the stars. They were very bright and luminous. Just then, while gazing at the stars, 6 or 7 bright objects began to appear and swarm around eachother slightly above to the west. They began moving in an erratic pattern to the east, juggling and swarming among each other. They finally faded into the starry background out of view, toward the east side of the sky. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 26, 2016 · 10:00 PM · CHEVRON
Dillon, SC
There were ten UFO's seen in Dillon, SC, on 12/27/2016. They have been spotted in Dillon within the last few months.
December 26, 2016 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Philadelphia (100 naut. miles E of; over water), PA
December 26, 2016. While on a routine flight from New York to Miami, we saw a very unusual light. We were in cruise at FL410, Mach .80, unlimited visibility with a temp of -55c, approximately 100NM off the coast near Atlantic City (close to Philadelphia), and on a true course of around 160. Between 2130-2200 EST. I looked up I saw a very large and bright flashing light, which I brought to the other pilot’s attention. His response when seeing it was pretty much the same as mine…. “What in the hell”… “What is that?” The size of course is hard to tell. The other pilot explains it as 3-4 times the size of the largest star around. I think it was 4-5x. The object was approximately 25-30 degrees up from our line of sight when I first saw it. Its range of motion was between the horizon (from what I could see) to around 35 degrees up from our line of sight. At first sight the light was approximately at our 1 o’clock position. It moved to 12, 10, 11, back to 12. At that time, the light appeared to move North, then south, at a pretty rapid rate. Or I would describe it as closer and further from our position as the size seemed to get larger and smaller. The light ended in the 1st position and then moved out east and once at our 10 o’clock position disappeared. The other pilot stated he could see an! orange/red flash in between the white flashes. We did flash our lights at it a few times and the other pilot believes it flashed back in sequence, I felt the return flashes were probably coincidental, but possible. The flashing didn’t really appear to have any pattern. The whole incident lasted a minimum of 10 minutes. Neither one of use have ever seen and/or heard of an occurrence like this. We were going to report it to ATC, but mutually decided to let it be. I have no explanation for what we saw nor does the other pilot. We did try to video the incident, but it wasn't possible. Captain We spoke twice via telephone with the source of the report, and he sounded to us to be both sincere, and sober-minded. We suspect that he is a superlative, and highly reliable, witness. PD
December 26, 2016 · 8:00 PM
Buckingham, VA
was going next door to my mothers house and noticed a flashing light in the clouds in the direction of the south and the light flashed in the sky for at least 2 hours until the clouds covered them up, was seen by several people as we called each other to see if other people saw it was when I saw it around 8 pm and lasted for at least 2 hours never saw what caused it and at times it would speed up and then slow down flashing, what ever it was caused a light of several miles so it had to be huge, have noticed c-130 aircraft flying tree top high as if looking for something flying so low that the pilot and rivets could be seen in aircraft
December 26, 2016 · 5:00 PM · FIREBALL
Chicago, IL
We were on our way to O'hare airport to drop off my daughter. It was getting dark..we were turning off of 90 onto the road that leads into the airport. All of a sudden we saw a greenish white fireball drop out of the sky. It appeared, fell in somewhat of an arc and disappeared. We only saw one. A 10-second meteor is a very unusual occurrence. PD
December 26, 2016 · 5:40 AM · CYLINDER
Corning/Pocahontas (between), AR
I was driving from my town of Corning, Arkansas, towards Pocahontas, Arkansas, at about between 5:30-5:45AM. I was heading towards work and just ahead of me, suddenly appeared a smoke-like pillar of light! I'm not sure how far away exactly it was, but it was probably about the width of a 4 way road. It appeared so bright that the entire countryside around it was semi-visible when before then it wasn't since it was so early in the morning and dark! I watched it for about ten seconds, then as I grabbed my phone to take a picture it vanished! Never re-appearing though I kept my eye out for it. It was really eerie! We spoke with the witness via telephone, and she sounded to us to be quite sober-minded and sincere. PD
December 26, 2016 · 12:00 AM · CIRCLE
Bivins, TX
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 25, 2016 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Lincoln City, OR
I was on a friend's front porch, at the extreme Northern edge of Lincoln City, OR, around 9:30 p.m Dec. 25th, 2016. I saw a blue-white light in the distance. It appeared to be a couple of miles or so away. The direction of the light from me was about Northeast. I could see the outer most two stars in the Big Dipper above the light. The other Big Dipper stars were hidden by some fir trees. What caught my attention was the light looked like two lights very close together, then they seemed to be moving right and left very slowly. Also, it seemed much too bright to be a star that low above the horizon. I saw the light for about a minute and then it zipped off extremely fast towards the Pacific Ocean. I was astounded at the speed that this thing moved!
December 25, 2016 · 8:30 PM · SPHERE
Sylvania, GA
Two reddish orange balls flying east to west remarkable color, made no sound, flew in relatively straight line, when closest were over trees, estimate 500 feet AGL disappeared over treeline to the west. Had enough time to run inside the back door and call my wife out the front door who saw them go over the treetops to the west over US 301
December 25, 2016 · 8:30 PM · OTHER
Whitehall, PA
It is the evening of December 25, 2016, and though I feel like I may have a great amount of difficulty explaining what I saw, I will do my best to do just that as I find I have been stirred to my core. The night sky is something I spend a lot of time staring up at. Stars, planets, our solar system, the universe, etc. has been of interest to me as long as I can remember. I also might mention that I live almost at the very top of a hill referred to locally as Eagle's Point, which provides a significantly unaltered view of the Lehigh Valley below me, as well as the many airplanes that come and go from its international airport (ABE). Quite often I find myself trying to distinguish between celestial bodies and man made aircraft - and what I saw this evening was neither of the two. If it was man made, then it's some kind of black technology or secret NASA project. As I stood in my driveway I looked up and saw something shimmering or flashing in the eastern sky low to the horizon. This is not what I wish to report. As I looked away to gain perspective by looking at stars, I noticed what I thought was at first a slower moving shooting star. But as I focused both of my eyes, the only way I can describe what I saw fly directly over my head and home was a low-flying craft that was either utilizing some sort of malfunctioning invisibility device or was just initializing this device as it flew overhead. It was completely silent and, though I feel I am struggling again to explain this correctly, it seemed like it was only visible from below. Do you know how it is when a large plane flies low overhead (like at an airport) and is so low that you struggle to make out the whole form until it is moving further away from you? It was like that, except as it moved further from me (at a quick pace), though I kept expecting that I'd be able to get a better view, it just seemed to vanish. It was the strangest thing. It wasn't like I could see an actual craft or anything. It was more like... a disambiguation(?) of the sky in what I can best describe as an aerodynamic form. Maybe like the shape of a triangle, but not a perfect one; a longer one. I'm honestly not sure. My instincts are telling me to question what I saw, but this is not something that I'm in any way unsure of seeing. Feel free to contact me. I feel like I will never find out for sure what I saw tonight, but I'm quite sure it won't leave my thoughts any time soon. I'm a college-educated guy, pretty well-rounded in my own opinion. I would say that I certainly believe in extraterrestrial life, but I wasn't looking for it tonight.
December 25, 2016 · 8:15 PM · CIRCLE
New London, PA
4 orange objects in a diamond formation southwest sky aligned with Venus.
December 25, 2016 · 8:00 PM · CIRCLE
Cathedral City, CA
These objects came out of the North about mid sky came toward us and cross the sky some just three or four seconds behind the other pretty much the same path towards us then off to the East and up until we could not see them. This took a few seconds to about 10 before they where out of sight. This happened as a party was ending and many people saw this. There would be a group of 6 or so and a few minutes another group would come. This happened at lease 3 to 4 times over 20 to 30 minutes. Witness provides no contact information. We would welcome additional reports from other witnesses. PD
December 25, 2016 · 6:50 PM · LIGHT
Belfair, WA
At 18:49 I was surprised to see what I at first believed to be red flares in the low east sky from my residence. It wasn't until 9 of the came into view and went from a straight line into a shape that resembled the Little Dipper that I realized these craft were flying. They proceeded to change to a southward direction, as well as gained more altitude. I ran for my camera and had someone else come and see what was going on. In less than 5 minutes time they had again changed formation and were disappearing into the sky as they changed direction and went straight up into the sky.
December 25, 2016 · 6:00 PM · CIRCLE
Aliso Viejo, CA
Glowing orange lights flying in a straight line. No sounds. Very visible and easily seen. Flying east and ascended upwards through the clouds. Moving very fast when ascending. One after another, then disappeared. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 25, 2016 · 12:35 PM · CIRCLE
Oxnard, CA
As I was driving I looked I pulled up to the stop sign and directly in front of me about 1 miles away there were 4 round orange lights. One was separate from the rest, but the remaining three were making triangular shapes. They continued doing that for about a minute or so. But then they started to fade away in the opposite direction as if flying towards the sky in a horizontal direction. In the blink of an eye they were gone .
December 25, 2016 · 6:15 AM · SPHERE
Exit 8 mass pike, MA
Driving north on mass pike right before exit 8. We saw four round orange bright lights flying low in the sky. The lights were not blinking like planes do. Two of the light flew right next to each other - an aircraft. Could not do that. What was it??
December 25, 2016 · 12:30 AM · SPHERE
Oxnard, CA
At approximately 12:30 am on 12/25/16 I received a frantic call from my neighbor telling me to come outside right now. There in the eastern sky were six or seven red glowing lights in a circular pattern following each other in a spiral as they were moved further away, yet still following each other at about the same distance between, in a circular pattern until they disappeared. Then another by itself came out of the northern sky followed by another and then another and then another and another. Each one followed the other towards where the circular group had been towards the east. Then one by one they gained altitude and then disappeared. When we would spot a new red glowing light coming out of the north, they were larger and seemed at a lower altitude and were timed to be spaced out by about 20 to 30 seconds. There was no sound associated with these red lights. No other color lights or glows were seen on each, just a solid red glow, that never changed. This lasted about 15 minutes.
December 24, 2016 · 11:25 PM · OVAL
Manchester, CT
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD