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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.
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August 20, 2022 · 3:30 PM · DIAMOND
Bailey, CO
The craft was pentagonal shaped kind of like a diamond, maybe 30' tall and 15' wide at the center. It had a clear shield around it like it was invisible but as it spun you could decipher the object by the suns reflection off it's shell. It was spinning in a circle slowly about 150' off the ground. I was driving so I looked at it 3 times intermittently. Then my girlfriend said "& it's gone, just vanished. There was no sound. Quite cool to witness! Then there is the light orb that flew through my house at like 3 in the morning like a star; woke us up immediately w a sort of vacuum noise & slight oder of ozone. But that could've been metaphysical or who knows, just another less cool happening. Totally understand if you want to edit this last part out of the uap/UFO narrative for this article.
August 20, 2022 · 1:13 PM · SPHERE
Essex, CT
didn’t see the lights until we reviewed that days photos
August 20, 2022 · 11:32 AM · CIRCLE
Doss, TX
Whatever it was was flashing lights and moving sporadically. There is a reflection of the microwave clock in the window for reference. One of the pictures shows it lighting up the clouds around it.
August 20, 2022 · 3:45 AM · CHANGING
Chico, CA
I was recording the object for what I thought was 4 hrs it kept changing shapes and colors from sphere to cube to star burst pattern like a triangle without the bottom sealed. The object would flash brightly and I could see other objects shooting away from it and flashing either bright white or red and moving in different areas of the sky while filming I saw a light illuminate the semi in front of me i also saw a red orb and in the video you can see it veer away from camera view and also it was sneaking up on me from behind i saw its reflection on the semis chrome passenger side mirror i zoomed in on the photo i captured from my video and i can see a small humanoid being in the sphere you can see it in the zoomed in photo. I opened my eyes at about 945am had no recollection of laying down I was fully dressed I remembered what I saw and checked my phone I don't understand why my videos are all only 2 mins long when I thought I sat the whole time recording I have headaches and have weird vision problems and my trucks right side marker lights all blew out its the same side the orb was in. i used star finder apps and satellite tracker and no stars satellites or planes where in that part of the sky.
August 20, 2022 · 3:40 AM · CHANGING
Chico, CA
I saw what looked to be a star at first but noticed it was changing shape and color at rapid speeds and darting around the sky I observed the object turn into a three sided burst shape and another object shoot away from it and also a red orb that I barely caught on video the object appeared to move away slowly and then get closer blinking red blue and white and turning into the three sided burst shape the sky was completely clear I used a star finder app which showed it was not a star. The object appeared to be made of light and also able to change forms.
August 20, 2022 · 1:20 AM · EGG
Orange Beach, AL
These photos were taken by me with my Samsung Galaxy SM-A516U. Original EXIF information intact. I was sitting at the water's edge on the beach in Orange Beach, Alabama late at night. I stood up to leave and turned around, so that I faced north (with my back to the Gulf of Mexico). I noticed in the distance (several miles away, at an altitude of about 10,000 ft to 15,000 ft) a strange, very large orange-red fireball in the sky. In the photos, it's the orange fireball above and to the right of the Sea Chase condo building. It was moving slowly back and forth, left to right. The fireball grew brighter and the color started oscillating from red to orange-yellow. I could see the outlines of an enormous black, triangular / teardrop shaped craft. It was more than 300 ft long. Just as I started to take photos, it rotated on a z-axis and started to ascend, then suddenly - poof - it was gone. I left the beach about 2:30 am - about an hour after taking the photos; as one would expect, the roads were completely empty -- except for two black suburbans with "US Government - AF" license plates that passed me as I headed west on HWY-182. Photos taken facing NORTH at Sea Level. ONLY THE FIRST THREE PHOTOS SHOW THE UFO - UAP -- the other two photos show the sky after it zoomed away. GPSLatitude - 30 15 57.721321 (30.266034) GPSLongitude - 87 35 37.669189 (87.593797) I didn't know anyone collected these reports it until now. Hopefully you can corroborate it with other sightings in the area! Please email me confirmation that this report was received, thank you.
August 20, 2022 · 12:17 AM · OVAL
West Hills, CA
Video attached. Bright single, oval object appeared from nowhere with a slight mist or vapor which dissipated quickly. Object quickly travelled east to west horizontally. Eye witness says that the object came to a full stop. I was called out to see it, but the object was no longer there just a few seconds later. The sky was clear of clouds. There was no sound.
August 19, 2022 · 11:44 PM · CHEVRON
Sweet, ID
There was a string of bright multi color lights it was going straight for about a minute and then I got out to take a picture and it turned around and faded away. NUFORC: Starlink
August 19, 2022 · 11:30 PM · FIREBALL
Ventura, CA
At approximately 11:30-11:50PM, a fireball, like a meteor or possibly space junk flew across the horizon, fairly low on the horizon, above the ocean in Ventura. Witnesses were watching the night sky over southern facing beaches, and the fast moving object fired off, moving in a northwesterly direction. It was much larger and lower than a garden variety shooting star and brought to mind the large fireball seen fly across Southern California that flew into the ocean off the San Diego coast in 1994.
August 19, 2022 · 10:50 PM · FORMATION
Oak Harbor, WA
While watching movie at drive in (sitting outdoors in truck bed) we thought we saw a comet in a north direction, but it was moving upwards. As it moved upwards 25-30 small, bright white lights spaced themselves out with an equal, short distance between them. We listened for sound but only heard a plane moving away from the lights. Lights glided low, directly overhead, slowly (about 5 mph) and silently. Leading craft (in front of the lights) was an indistinguishable shape, even at that close proximity. We watched the lights disappear 30mi to the south with no turning, no cloud cover, just gone. There was no drone hum sound or any sound of any kind. It may have been one object with several lights, which would’ve been a very long cigar shape if so; or several small ones in formation. We could see nothing around or between lights except for the head/lead craft that seemed to change shape. There were some dogs at the drive in which were all barking while the lights flew overhead. My phone camera/video wouldn’t show the lights even when directly overhead, but my sister in law got one blurry photo while they were directly behind her vehicle (attached). Starlink satellites
August 19, 2022 · 10:45 PM · CIRCLE
Charlton, MA
It was the shape of a disc with green and red lights on each end and the bottom of the disc was illuminated by a white light. It was just hovering about 100 yards over the tree line. So I slowed down to watch it and it just sat in the sky for a minute I watched it until I drove by.
August 19, 2022 · 10:45 PM · UNKNOWN
Nampa, ID
On Friday August 19, 2022, at approximately 10:45 pm in the Northwestern sky above Nampa, ID., my wife and I witnessed an ariel "white" light phenomenon. We estimated it to be around 7-8 thousand feet high. It consisted of a form similar to a white ribbon several miles wide and several miles long. We could recognize its approximate width and length but no other dimensions. It moved in a wave like pattern. The event lasted approximately 20 seconds. It was visible and then not visible, then became visible again, possibly due to high clouds obstructing our vision. It then simple faded away. The pattern of this phenomenon was unlike anything familiar in the night sky. No images were captured as the event was too short.
August 19, 2022 · 10:43 PM · CIGAR
Nampa, ID
I was look at the sky come out of the backstreet boy concert dna tour. There one solid white say the same spot for 25 Seconds then walk pass the trees then was gone. but there was cloud in area and the moon in the same area. I don’t think it starlink. I am disabled this would be my second see a ufo but first cigar shape ufo.
August 19, 2022 · 10:16 PM · CIGAR
Annandale, MN
Three of us were outside visiting at the cabin, Annandale, MN, my husband (financial advisor), sister in law (product marketing) myself (insurance broker). It looked like a spaceship launch at first just over the house looking out towards Clearwater lake from cedar lake. I pointed it out thinking it might be a shooting star. It went straight up and then began moving toward us. It was strange how it moved toward us but at the same time we couldn’t tell exactly how close it was? It was much lager than a plane maybe half the length of a football field? The lights seemed to strobe in a pattern like glitter. It seemed to be just over the neighbors house and then it went up just above the Big Dipper slowly. The lights fizzled out after about two minutes of us watching it. As it it slowly disappeared. So we all thought it was gone but as I looked at the spot that we “watched it disappear” we realized it was indeed stil there. Faint, but still there. It looked like a faint star but then would pulsate light faintly in the same pattern and approximately the same size as what we saw. Just above the Big Dipper, it did eventually move slowly away from the Big Dipper at about 11:45 and then I went to bed at midnight.
August 19, 2022 · 10:16 PM · SPHERE
Prior Lake, MN
I was sitting in car waiting for the light to change when I string of lights in a straight line. At first I thought it was shooting star but it wasn’t moving so then I figured it was a comet but it was a string of about 10-15 individual lights in a row. Then they started undulating in the sky, and I looked the people in the car next to me to see if they saw it and they were looking at it too. I rolled my window down to get a photo from outside, I was able yo take a photo but then the lights just disappeared. What’s interesting is those 2 red orbs were there when I took the photo but clearly they are in the photo. Note they are not a reflection from cars of traffic lights because if took it from outside the car not inside. NUFORC: Starlink
August 19, 2022 · 10:11 PM · LIGHT
West Fargo, ND
As the light approached the 12 o clock position we both realized that it was not anything we had ever seen before. It was like a train of bright lights gliding east and very long, no noise. Was NOT an airplane, jet, helicpoter, fireworks, etc. This was a space ship ! Approx 20 seconds after the sighting, we saw three bright objects - UFOs off to the north following the spaceship in unison. We did not have our phones outside with us and thus no pics
August 19, 2022 · 10:10 PM · CYLINDER
Pine city township, MN
Saw a bright white bar shape in the sky. Disappeared after about 30 seconds. Did not appear to be moving in any direction. Took 3 pics right in succession. Each picture looks different when zoomed in. Very strange. Helicopter was in the are immediately after it left
August 19, 2022 · 10:00 PM · CIGAR
Charlotte, VT
I was out taking my dog out for his evening walk and looking up at the clear night sky on this cloudless, moonless night well after the sun had gone down. I noticed a double row of lights moving slowly from west to east. I pulled out my phone to record it on video but my flash light was on so that wasn't possible. So I just kept watching and within 5 or 10 seconds it just disappeared. If I held my hand out at arms length, the lights were about 6 inches long and about 1/2 in apart. However, since I have no idea how far away it was, I can't have any sense of its actual size. I'm 66 years old and have my full cognitive abilities. I enjoy looking at the night sky and live in a place with minimal light pollution. And for that reason, when I walk I tend to keep my headlamp off so I can see the stars clearly. At the time I thought it was odd that my flash was on because I'm embarrassed to admit that I don't know how to turn it on, and I just assumed I accidentally turned it on either before or as I tried to do a video recording. But after seeing the question below about electrical effects, I just checked and now the flash is off, which definitely adds to the mystery...
August 19, 2022 · 10:00 PM · CIGAR
Alburgh, VT
My cousin was in Vermont on August 19th around 10 o’clock at night with her boyfriend and my grandparents. They were sitting in front of our lakefront cabin on Lake Champlain and they saw a bright cigar/disc shaped object hovering in the sky. My cousin recalls the back of the object having almost like a separate motor that ended up fusing with the main body of the object. The object emitted a bright white light the whole time and made zero noise. It slowly hovered towards our cabin then faded into the night sky.
August 19, 2022 · 10:00 PM · RECTANGLE
Near Starbuck, MN
August 19th Friday night at 10 PM my family and I are camping in a rental cabin at Glacier Lakes state park in Minnesota near the town of Starbuck Minnesota. and we were just sitting around the fire I looked up through the trees and I saw what I thought at 1st was a bar of light and I pointed up and I said what is what is that! We moved to a clearing looked up and saw A very bright white light 1/4 to a 1/2 a block long moving extremely slowly. As if it was floating No more than 500 yd from us. Rectangular in shape Moving West to East. The entire sighting lasted no more than 3 minutes. As we watched it it slowly started to fade, Front to rear.. It was a clear night no clouds. The object was absolutely silent with no wake whatsoever. I want it understood this was not Star link. This object was close to us. Almost overhead. We only saw the object in profile we did not get to see a bottom or a top. It looked like if you took a bunch of Japanese lanterns and connect them together in a rectangular shape and extend it for a very long distance that's pretty close to what you're gonna see with this object. The rectangular shape was segmented it was segmented perhaps 8 To10 segments altogether. There was no sound at all and left no wake. we didn't feel any different it didn't seem to bother us however it did fade away as if it knew somebody had seen it. The fade took place rather slowly from the front of the object to the back it looked kind of like it would have moved into a large thick cloud bank but it was a very clear night. The fading took 15 seconds maybe maybe 30. Kind of like somebody was dimming it with a dimmer switch. And it was gone. We had cabin neighbors and I was asking them if they saw it as well and they did but they weren't very interested in talking about it. On Sunday when we were leaving the state park I stopped at the office and inquired if anybody else had reported seeing a UFO. The young lady said that nobody had and she would take my report. Of course it was a rather short cursory report. She kept saying star link star link. But I knew it wasn't starlink I know what starlink looks like. So instead of taking up more of her precious time, I'm reporting it here this was the strangest thing I've ever seen in my life I'm 65 years old
August 19, 2022 · 10:00 PM · OTHER
Cooperstown, NY
Friends and I went to The Brewery at Ommegang, I was standing next to friends, and notice just right above the tree line, horizontal lights. I couldn't tell if it was moving or not, I just kept looking at it. I turned to my friend and asked what it was and if it was moving, and she said that she noticed it first above the shed. She turned her back to ask her husband to look at it, while I kept staring at it, and it slowly faded out and almost like it recessed into a cloud, but it is a clear night. The shape looked like if you laid a tennis bracelet flat, it was long and rectangle in shape and moved slowly horizontally, like it was being pulled by a string. NUFORC: Starlink
August 19, 2022 · 10:00 PM · CHANGING
Big flats, NY
Went fishing with my son and looked behind us when I seen the bright object in the air and asked my son to look what it is. I pulled out my phone and it took a first pic, but it had too much light it was bright and my son took one at the same time my first one didn’t go through. My phone ended up taking two other pictures after the first one didn’t go through then the object was gone. It was long looking in the beginning before it started going up then it looks like a circular craft as it’s almost gone in the sky. I saw red and that’s about the only color I could really make out besides regular lights.
August 19, 2022 · 9:56 PM · CHANGING
Point pleasant, NJ
I have work to security at this beach and five straight times I saw these things all over the sky they form triangles and squares, they change colors from blue to black to yellow, they only go from one side of the sky to another side it’s a giant Square that’s why I believe it is a portal and this is energy that I am seeing. Please take this serious I have many people telling me I should send these to the Pentagon and to the White House these are real and I’ve sent five videos I believed you guys already I don’t know why I have not heard anything at this is legitimate stuff everyone that sees my videos Understands this is craziness that I am seeing but you could see it with your own eyes please watch the video it is not a drone it is not a plane so you tell me what all of these blinking dots are that change color and direction and size sometimes they’re huge then they turn very small
August 19, 2022 · 9:54 PM · CIGAR
Barre, VT
I was shooting long exposures hoping to capture the northern lights. I saw, to my left (north west) what appears to be a small very bright line with round lights along the length moving from left to right (West/north west to the east/southeast it seemed like it was pretty high up, definitely not a meteor or aircraft. In the video, which is not great, you will see what looks like a “line” moving across the sky. The two still photos are long exposures, so the detail gets lost a bit. The size stayed pretty consistent although it did get noticeably bigger as it moved over my location and appeared to just fade out. I do a lot of night photography and have never seen anything like this. It was way too slow to be a meteor, or even an aircraft. NUFORC: Starlink