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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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January 16, 2022 · 6:58 PM · CIRCLE
Taylorsville, Salt Lake, Utah, UT
At about 6:58PM Sunday night I turned east bound on 4800 South from 2700 West and was heading toward Redwood Road. I first noticed 2 bright orange objects in the sky as I approached the underpass of I215 near 2200 West. The objects were round but appeared to me to be translucent with no sharp outer edges. ( a video was taken by my blackvue dash cam) The 2 object were to high in the sky for my dash cam to pick them up As I cleared the underpass, I noticed four to five other objects flying southbound at a lower altitude in a triangle or v shape.I pulled off the road into a grocery store parking lot near Redwood Road. By the time I again pointed myself eastward I noticed another of these objects trailing the other object and trying to catch up with them. The dash cam caught an image of 4-5 of these objects but they appear as pinpricks of white light in the video. I wish the camera had caught what I saw as these objects appeared to be about the size of a police helecopter. That was from my perspective. To me the objects appeared to look like flame inside a ball but they moved as fast as a plane. The sighting was over by 7:02PM.
January 16, 2022 · 5:40 PM · LIGHT
Near Muhlenburg Airport, KY
At roughly 5:40PM CST, a P212 small air carrier aircraft's pilot asked us, Fort Campbell ATC, if we had any military aircraft operating at his 12 o'clock in 15 miles (roughly the HOP050035). There were no primary or secondary aircraft appearing on radar ahead of him and the pilot was informed of this. When asked why he inquired, the pilot reported orange/yellow lights that glowed brightly. When asked whether these lights dropped down like a flare, or whether they stayed at a constant altitude, the pilot responded that the lights stayed at roughly 5,000 ft. A few minutes later the pilot reported that he no longer saw the object.
January 16, 2022 · 5:06 PM · UNKNOWN
21-minutes, flight time, north of Phoenix, AZ
This sighting occurred while onboard Allegiant Flight AAY 552, Phoenix, Arizona, to Bellingham, Washington, Sunday, January 16, 2022. Take off time: 4:45 p.m. MST. Time of sighting: 5:06 p.m. MST. Weather: Daylight. Sunny with partial clouds. Elevation: @ 35,700’. Coordinates at time of sighting: @ 35.4556 Lat / -112.0866 Lon. The sun was setting, but still relatively high, on the port side of the airplane. I was seated starboard, in window seat 7D. My companion was in seat 7E. As we taxied to the runway, I began photographing scenes outside my window for the benefit of my curious three and five year old grandsons back home. I shot a series of photos on the ground and during take off. As we gained altitude, above the partial cloud coverage, I snapped a few shots of the emerging full moon and was captivated to see, upon review of the images, a light phenomenon my eyes did not initially detect. This light, however, was not the UFO sighting. The camera’s eye revealed a beautiful, circular rainbow just below the moon. I had never seen such a mystical wonder so I continued to shoot, hoping for just one exquisite capture. It may be helpful to note here that, according to my camera’s metadata, the series of ten images I have submitted, seven reflecting the UFO, were collectively shot within 60 seconds. This sighting happened fast. As I was photographing the celestial scene, a dark, black streak appeared in the top left corner of the frame. Startled and on reflex, I lowered my camera/phone to look directly at the window fearing it had suddenly cracked. Seeing the streak was not ON the window, but far off in the distant sky, I immediately resumed photographing. The smoking object appeared to be traveling south, parallel to our northbound airplane, at a very high rate of speed. I saw no metal. No flames. No material form of any kind or shape. It was at a distance too great for me to guesstimate. It was descending at approximately a 30-degree angle leaving two thick, black contrails behind. I saw no lights. No fire ball. No other craft, object or smoke elsewhere around it. Only two significant contrails of smoke, with what can only be described as open space between them, hinged at the nose. It all happened so very fast. When the object rotated perpendicular to the ground, I grabbed the arm of my travel companion and said with alarm, “Look at this! I think that’s an airplane going down! Oh, my, God, all those passengers!” We both fixed our eyes on the smoking object while I continued to photograph. Suddenly, the object, which was clearly falling, completed an aerobatic somersault, began to level its altitude, then sharply and suddenly diverted due east and vanished. Completely vanished without a trace of craft or contrails left behind. This falling object ceased to fall, redirected itself, then just simply and literally evaporated. I snapped a few additional after-shots, hoping a shift in our plane’s position and reflective light might capture some last trace of evidence, but nothing appeared on the images. The sky looked as if nothing had been there. My companion and I were quite unsettled and uncertain about what, if anything, to do. I had the thought to ask a flight attendant to take my camera/phone to the pilot to ask for a reasonable explanation but I wasn’t quite able to muster the courage to act on it. As we deboarded and I passed by the cock pit, thanking the attendants, I felt a little nudge to lean in and ask the Captain myself but again, I hesitated. The pilot must have sensed me, because just as I was turning away, he swung around in his seat, acknowledging me with a tilt of his head and a polite wink. I jokingly told my friend, “I think he knows!” Later, I had one final opportunity to speak with the Captain as he passed by my husband and I at baggage claim. But as I quickly reached to open my phone’s gallery and told my husband, (who was as yet unaware of the sighting,) “I have a question I REALLY need to ask that pilot!”, my husband grabbed my arm and stopped me. “Don’t bother that man, honey. He’s had a long day and is probably anxious to get back home or to his hotel room.” So, one more time, I didn’t ask, still have no answers and am now filing this report with you. Per your request for a bit of personal background information, I am a retired Washington State County employee. I served a total of 21 years including eight with the Prosecuting Attorneys Office and twelve as the acting Deputy Clerk for Superior Court’s Domestic Violence and Drug Court divisions. This sighting is not my first, it’s my third, but the first with the photographic evidence to support my claim. Previous sightings were in March, 2021, while vacationing with the same travel companion, on Oahu, Hawaii and in 1974, as a high school senior, in Schenectady, New York. I remember each of these sightings with equal clarity. The images are forever etched into my memory and I’m happy to provide additional information, if it is of value to you. My travel companion, also retired, owned a very successful, paper and packing business with her husband serving multiple Washington State counties. We first met and worked together in Bellingham, Washington, in 1977 and have lived near to one another and remained dear friends since. Additional follow-up: As soon as I returned home, I forwarded the images and a text message to one of my retired Superior Court judges/friend who is also a licensed pilot and retired US Army Lieutenant Colonel. He was perplexed by the images and suggested I contact the UFO Reporting Center. I also personally know the Airport Operations Manager at Bellingham International Airport, who was equally mystified and unable to offer any potential explanation. I am curious and eager to speak to an investigator about this mysterious unknown. Thank you all for the work you are doing to collect UFO data and help expand the Public’s knowledge regarding the unlimited potentials and possibilities within our vast Universe. Flight detail summary: Sunday, January 16, 2022 – Allegiant Flight AAY 522 Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport to Bellingham International Airport Departure time: 4:45 MST Sighting time (as noted in image metadata): 4:06 PST / 5:06 actual MST Time discrepancy: For reasons unknown to me, the metadata on the images reflect PST at the time of capture, however, we had not yet entered PST zone when the images were shot. Coordinates at time of sighting: 35.4556 Lat / -112.0866 Lon were found via Flightaware.com tracking. The object in question aappears to us to be another high-altitude jet with a thick contrail trailing behind it. PD
January 15, 2022 · 11:30 PM · LIGHT
Ontario, OR
I was turning off my front door light and looking out the door window for a second and looked up at approximate 45 degree angle several red to orange lights in a curved arc line seeming to be rotating right to left, while the leading light would seem to disappear into the clouds and one at the opposite end would appear as if rotating. This lasted about 2 minutes total until it disappeared into the clouds. The cloud level must have been low or some fog might have been present because it seemed so close and covering significant space. I tried to get video with my phone but was only able to catch the last couple of lights videoing through the door window. I didn't think I had time to put clothes and shoes on to get outside to video.
January 15, 2022 · 8:48 PM · CIRCLE
Langhorne, PA
A series of red dots (estimated 20-30) were seen by myself and three family members flying through the sky. They were circular and extremely bright. They were red/orange and came directly from the north. They were seen from my front yard and came in pairs. They flew from the left side of my field of vision to the ride and then vanished one by one as they all came to one point in the sky. They were about as fast as a plane. I managed to record them, but our family was not able to distinguish what the objects were.
January 15, 2022 · 6:45 PM · UNKNOWN
Portland, OR
I just got off work and was driving northbound on I-205 going to Vancouver, WA to visit my girlfriend. I was driving a white Cadillac going 65 mph in the middle lane when I looked up noticing a large dark black shape hovering in the sky right in front of me. It was dusk to but this object stood out as blacker than black so I could see it perfectly. As I stared at it I began to analyze it. This is exactly what I thought. I thought of a black plastic garbage bag that that if it got caught on a screw on the sign of an overpass and was kinda being sucked under it. Yet I knew what I was seeing was way bigger than a bag. But I didn't see an overpass or light pole or any wires. So I knew not only was it way bigger than a garbage bag but there was nothing this black object could be hanging off. This black object at my best guess was hovering in midstop about 100 feet from the road directly in front of me. It was maybe sixty feet wide and eighty feet tall and an inky blackness. And I soon realized I'd be driving under this thing. I didn't take my eyes off it and all this happened over maybe 10 seconds at most because as I was about to drive underneath it something like a thin banner or sheet of the same blackness unraveled down from the bottom center of this thing dropping down from it. I watched just stunned as it came lower and I'm almost speeding right beneath this banner like thing coming down from it. It kept dropping lower in a word way almost timing me. It hit the ground in front of me blocking my center lane. It was as wide as my vehicle and the width of my lane a like a thin sheet of blackness. I quickly swerved wildly and in absolute panic barely making it around this thing that fell. As I righted my car I looked in my rearview just tripping on what happened. I saw three other sets of headlights behind me all swerve wildly like I did. I even counted. One. Two. Three. And knew I wasn't the only one who saw this. I started to slow down to wave these cars over but realization came over me of what happened. I got scared and took off speeding as fast as I could out of there. Now it's been a year but I can't stop thinking about what happened. Things are different. I can't stop thinking about what would of happened if I ran into that black banner like thing that dropped down from this object. And now I'm trying to find those other three drivers and want to see if there were any cameras anywhere near that stretch of highway. I've looked all over the internet and never seen any encounters of anything like what I experienced. So I'm just idk wanting to tell my story. This has changed my life and I can't stop looking at the night sky wondering if I'll see it again. But the blackness of this object was what was spooky. And shape. There was no lights anywhere. Just dark blackness and that's scary. So yeah that's what I saw and I have become obsessed with finding out what that was.
January 15, 2022 · 6:42 PM · FORMATION
Santa Rosa, CA
On the day of the Tonga Volcano eruption there were colors flashing on the Sirius Star Teal, Green, Red, Blue , Yellow, Orange, etc.
January 15, 2022 · 6:28 PM · LIGHT
Jackson, MI
Three bright Orange lights, western sky, in triad, disappearing one by one, at about 6:29 pm EST in Jackson MI I was driving home from 5:30 pm Mass at St. Mary on Saturday Jan. 15, on my customary route, when I saw 3 very bright big orange-colored light objects in the air in the western sky at about tree level or above. I stopped my car at intersection (Franklin + Jackson), opened car door, tried to take picture, but one of the three had already disappeared; I took picture anyways with cell phone and remained at intersection; another of the lights disappeared within seconds; the third light was extinguished soon after as I then turned left *south), it was not there at next intersection. I do study and watch the sky at night, and know a little about planets vs. stars, but the color and size of these objects was unusual, if ephemeral. I have the photo of the two. Thanks, --ef
January 15, 2022 · 6:00 PM · OTHER
York, PA
Hello, I am filing this report my first report one which I have filed on one other website but they did not return correspondence so I am filing here. I wish to get these off of my chest as it has been troubling me all of my life. On January 15, 2022 as I entered my automobile, I noticed a glowing orb just above powelines. It was white / blueish on color, and it was bright. It pulsated slowly and moved slowly and perfectly as if on straight and set path from North-East to South-west. It did not exhibit unusual maneuvering nor did it have any discernible shape. Shortly after it passed overhead, the sound of Helicopters faded in and followed the orb from it's point of origin North-East. Unfortunately the video is approximately 30 seconds in length and the video quality itself is unremarkable. As it passed over and after 30 seconds I felt a sense of fear and discomfort, so much so I felt compelled to stop recording. This is not the last time I witnessed this type of orb and in fact just 5 days later it made another appearance of which I recorded as well; only that time it was much closer and it grew in size and was even brighter but as I mentioned on the other websites reporting form, I will reserve that higher quality video until I can gauge wether or not this initial report/video will be taken seriously before I decide to follow-up. You may contact me at strmncptz@gmail.com , thank you very much for your time.
January 15, 2022 · 5:30 PM · LIGHT
Hanford, CA
Traveling northbound Highway 41 in the California central valley, my friend and I witnessed a flying object approximately 300 ft elevation traveling westbound over the highway. The object displayed two large bright white lights (as a ghetto bird might use in downtown Fresno). It moved at approximately helicopter speed. As it turned northwest after crossing our line of sight I kept waiting to see the nav lights to become apparent but they never did. The object slowly traveled northwest over the coast range and and out of sight.
January 15, 2022 · 3:55 PM · EGG
Boston Area, MA
I was going sledding, then I looked up and South east from the sun was sort of a silvery aluminum egg shaped object, headed too fast for plane/rocket. Did not look like any kind I've seen and then It sort of went towards the sun and then back down into the East. It was the size of an egg from where I looked at it but if I was up close it would probably be 1000 times that size. then after there was a brief echo that was louder then normal and the people around me did not talk that loud.
January 15, 2022 · 3:00 PM · CIGAR
Sauk city, WI
I was driving westbound on Washington st just west of water st at 3pm in Sauk city WI it is a residential neighborhood it was a clear sunny day. I saw a large cigar shaped object hovering approx 50 to 60 ft in the air about 1/4 mile west of me. Object was very shiny chrome like in appearance and approximately 80 to 100ft long and 30 ft thick. No noise was heard. A bright flash of light which appeared to originate from the object flashed and the object disappeared No other witness found
January 15, 2022 · 4:10 AM · CIRCLE
Ketchum, ID
There was a full moon last night and I woke up because the sky was very bright. I noticed a very strange object i think it was circular and it seemed to be still in the sky at first. It had a trail of exhaust and red lights right below it. It think there were 4 red lights below. It started going higher in the sky straight up in motion but slow. For about 10 minutes. Then it just disappeared completely. Very strange like nothing I’ve ever seen. This was 4:10 in the AM.
January 15, 2022 · 2:45 AM · LIGHT
Toms River, NJ
When I viewed my ring video, I noticed something that looked like a fireball falling from the sky. As watched the video, I realized theat it was a very slow decent which took about 2 hours before it touched down behind my neighbors house. At the moment of it landing, a bright light lit up inside of their garage then it went out, but the light behind the house stayed on. About an hour later a small single light was seen passing behind one house to another.
January 15, 2022 · 2:35 AM · CIRCLE
Raleigh, NC
This was caught on my RING door bell camera. This is at actual speed so definitely not a shooting star. There was one bright light moving very slowly at 2:35 am on 1/15/22 out my front door. I am new at the RING camera so for some reason I could only download 2 seconds but I do have the full video of about 25++++ seconds on my ring app.
January 14, 2022 · 11:15 PM · CROSS
Canaan, ME
Extremely windy night (40mph gusts) Looked out to watch trees sway. W to E then SE. Flashing bright white like a jellyfish. Some other colors like oranges yellow and red
January 14, 2022 · 9:37 PM · CHANGING
Roanoke, VA
At around 10 pm on Friday, January 14, 2022, my mother-in-law texted a video of strange lights in the sky behind her house with a message that read, “ Wonder what in the world this is on a cold Friday night?????”. The lights appear to be high in the sky, moving in a circular pattern back-and-forth together and then apart from each other. At first, I thought it was maybe a drone or some sort of party lights. But, after watching the video a couple of times, I’m not sure. I thought it may be something of interest to your organization.
January 14, 2022 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
WY
Was driving westbound on I-80 between Rawlins WY and Wamsutter WY approximately mile marker 185. Looking into the western sky I saw a fairly large dome shaped green light appear in the western sky, within seconds it shot straight up into the heavens.
January 14, 2022 · 3:05 AM · LIGHT
San Juan (Puerto Rico), PR
I saw 2 'very bright' stars shape looking objects in trail. 30 degrees aprox. over the horizon. Looking east from San Juan, PR. I saw the ISS route in a web site afterwards. Maybe it was the ISS but the second object is the reason why I'm reporting a UFO. I seen the ISS before multiples times. I thought the ISS was being followed by a UFO.
January 14, 2022 · 1:38 AM · CIGAR
Bangs, TX
It was foggy and I just got done drinking whisky with my friends after work when I found the UFOs. They were floating over me and then my car stopped. Outside the squirrels ran panicked. Then I saw the UFOs for about 3 minutes. After seeing the UFOs I found scars all over my body.
January 13, 2022 · 9:30 PM · OTHER
Bethalto, IL
I saw a huge v shaped craft really high up much higher then airplanes. It was moving incredibly fast as well. It was white but almost translucent.
January 13, 2022 · 6:24 PM · TRIANGLE
Orlando, FL
Spotted what appeared to be a stationary triangle craft with3 green 2 red lights then I glided sideways and slowly moved away
January 13, 2022 · 5:54 PM · RECTANGLE
IdentifiedHudson, FL
Me and my girlfriend was at Hudson Beach on January 13, 2022 at 5:54pm watching the sunset. I normally take pictures. This day, I was reviewing the pictures and noticed three triangle shaped objects exactly the same distance from each other with the one in the middle being higher than the two on each side. Look below the bird that flies in to the picture.I included the segment showed the three objects darting down towards the water simultaneously because my video was on live so i guess it takes a small video. I had no idea i was filming what I was filming until i reviewed the footage or else i would have focused on the objects. I havent done this sooner because its kind of un-usual but i guess someone should know [NUFORC annotation: Camera Anomaly - Certain]
January 13, 2022 · 5:45 PM · LIGHT
Noblesville, IN
As we turned off of highway 32 to go south on hazel dell parkway, I noticed a shiny light in the sky. It was just one and seemed to have a shimmer about it. It did not look like any aircraft and it did not look like it was moving. I asked my two boys ages 9 and 5 if they see it also and they did. We saw it for a few seconds maybe 5-10 and as we crossed the midland trail and went under the cross arm for the flashing light the object was gone. It just dissapeared. We were watching it and it just wasnt there. It looked like it was a long way down hazel dell and not close to where we were.