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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
December 15, 2021 · 4:30 PM · CHANGING
Westbrook, CT
Saw this orange globe and if he came see-through and turn colors and you can see the purplpotion in the video . I have witnessed several objects never anything like this I think a lot of pictures of the sky and the moon etc. and this day I don’t know why but I brought my big telescope out in there it was so I apologize but I was trying to follow this thing with a very large telescope which was difficult but it’s amazing when you blow it up in slow it down and you see the air collars are coming out of this thing when it movesI mean it turns out bake it is tiny and then it grows it’s fascinating
December 15, 2021 · 4:30 PM · CHANGING
Westbrook, CT
Orange and changing color and size and I happen to be outside at 4:30 I’m a photographer I took my big telescope outside which I never do and I saw something in the distance and I knew right away it was something not of this world it was changing colors yellow red orange and then it was changing size so I had my cell phone and I followed as best as I could with this telescope and my cell phone and the footage that I got it is unbelievable it’s truly amazing because if you slow down the video you see that there’s actually almost like a propulsion underneathThe colors that this changed and the size that it changed like I said I I apologize about the video there is a spot and it’s not some thing on my telescope there was something on my phone but this is a orange you can see the orange dot and then as you watch it you obviously can’t miss what I’m videotaping
December 15, 2021 · 3:15 PM · FIREBALL
Syracuse, NY
I am an Air Traffic Controller working the overnight shift at a local airport. The night is extremely slow like any other as we typically stay open in case of emergencies, weather diverts, delayed arrivals or cargo planes. I was sitting kicked back in my chair and looking at an array of screens and equipment in front of me that are spanned out horizontally across a low sitting desk so I have a good field of view of the sky. Its a clear night, visibility is well beyond our farthest reportable value of 10 miles. The lowest level of the trace clouds in the sky are 20,000 feet above the ground level. There are very few stars visible, and not a single airplane or even a radar blip of a moving object anywhere within 60 miles of me. These radars are accurate enough to often mistakenly pick up large birds momentarily, so there was surely nothing typical in our skies on this night. Counting the minutes until my shifts end, gazing blankly across my desk and into the dark night, is when I saw what I have no other explanation for than a UFO. Like nothing I have ever seen before, what appeared to be one object with two vibrant glowing green lights in a fixed orientation next to each other appeared several thousand feet in the sky in a rapid downward trajectory. The object was definitely several miles away from my position based on my day to day observations looking out these same windows when there are dozens of airplanes in the area. But the size of the object being several miles away, appeared as large as an Airbus only a mile away, flying into the ground, lit up like a glowing green Christmas tree. The object had appeared at what looked like several thousand feet above the ground, and within seconds it has descended to barely above my horizon view and a ridge line in the distance when it appeared to “pull up” like a modern aircraft would, but being its size and speed and trajectory, no modern aircraft would be able to pull up to a horizontal flight path that abruptly. Just as the object appeared to level, the lights vanished as instantly as any light would turn off from the flick of a switch. I have never seen anything like this, there have been no signs or even a flicker of light anywhere in that area or the surrounding sky in hours… I have been spooked, chilled and at an uncomfortable loss of words since.
December 15, 2021 · 1:10 PM · CYLINDER
Mojave, CA
I went out to take pictures of the snow we had the night before on 12/15/21 Mojave California. I took pictures and did not noticed what I had captured in the picture until I was clearing out pictures I no longer had a use for. In the picture I provided just to the left of center was a cylindrical object. I enlarged it and I could not identify what the object is so I'm sending to your staff to identify. NUFORC: reflection
December 15, 2021 · 1:26 AM · CIGAR
Foxboro, MA
On December 15th, 2021 I took my dog outside in my back yard at about 1:25 AM. I noticed a glowing cigar shape due 14° North at about an 80° elevation from where I was standing. Only about two or three stars could be seen that morning due to the cloud coverage. The sky was black and not even the moon was visible. To be sure I wasn't looking at part of the moon peering through a geometric cloud formation, I used the StarTracker app on my phone to locate the moon which was fairly low on the horizon—maybe 20° and 295° North West—nowhere near the location of the cigar shaped object I was observing/recording. It was completely stationary. It was white and glowing with what seemed to be a brighter glowing dot at it's center. Other smaller dots seem to fade in and out at the either end of the cigar shape while the brighter center remained illuminated. Atmospheric interference seemed to cause all of the dots (including the brighter center dot) to shimmer a bit or fade in and out while the brighter center was always visible. There was no sound and it seemed quite distant from my location. I recorded the object for 1 minute and 41 seconds and then went back inside. It never moved during the entire time I recored the object and was in the same spot when I went inside. I haven't seen it since.
December 14, 2021 · 10:30 PM · SPHERE
Hurley, NY
Saw unusual bright light in sky. Watched it for 20 min and went back in house.45min later it was still there in same place. Took pictures and continued to watch it. It remained stationary for at least another hour. Just before I went to bed, an hour after last stationary sighting it had moved counter clockwise from initial location remaining in Hurley sky. Two weeks after sighting I remembered photos and downloaded them onto computer where I was able to enlarge them. I have not enhanced them other than enlarging and there is no photo shop. What you see is exactly what the camera captured. I hope someone will be able to explain the face in lower left of picture.
December 14, 2021 · 10:30 PM · FIREBALL
Brooklyn, NY
I saw a green meteor like thing with a tail fall out of the sky. It was red/yellow (pale) in the center with a green flame tail. From its relative size and speed I knew it was something big and close (moving too slowly to be far away). Way bigger than a plane (I was under a flight path). I asked someone if they saw that and they said no. I was surprised because with how close it seemed and the angle it was flying I would have expected it would have crashed and made a noise.
December 14, 2021 · 10:30 PM · FORMATION
Dallas, TX
When my eyes made the craft out, I realized how huge the thing was and called my cousin and friend. We hear plane jets in the city, but this one never stopped, so I went running outside. Once I made the ufo out in the sky, I called out the others. There were two other ships in the middle of the V-Shaped formation and the UFO was flying North/Northeast. It couldn't have been planes since the lights flew so perfectly without desynchronization. All of the lights blinked at the same time, about 3 long apart . If you look up, raise your elbow to the sky and measure the sky from elbow to knuckle that's how big it looked right above me but in a "V" formation.
December 14, 2021 · 6:45 PM · DIAMOND
Harrisville, PA
On the night of December 14th I was walking from my house to my neighbor's house at approximately 6:50 p.m. I noticed a large silverish whites light in the sky that I thought was the moon at first. I remembered the moon not being full at the time and looked up in the sky and saw the moon itself above my head. I went and grab my phone and recorded a minute of it. It remained somewhat stationary and moved back and forth a little bit here and there. It seemed to almost evaporate into the sky.
December 14, 2021 · 6:30 PM · CHANGING
Gilbert, AZ
Hi last night in the early evening i saw a orb like like moving back and forth in the sky and changing from white to pink with a blue green outer ring to bright orange . So i went and got my 8mm camcorder so i could zoom up closer on it because the camcorder has 140xx zoom and i can pull it up real close and i was able to record some very good video of it despite how quickly it was dancing back and forth in the sky. at first it was just changing colors and pulsating while dancing back and forth. Then the orb like ufo turned a bright orange and i would have never saw it with my naked eye but like i say i had 140xx zoom on my camcorder and while it was orange i recorded the ufo going from a perfect circle shape to the right side of it opening up and the shape turning from round to a almost round but having what looked like a pie with a slice taken from it like some door opened . The best way to describe it is it turned into what looked like a huge PAC MAN because of the pie shaped indent that it had and also it was like really bright Yellow and orange mixed and as soon as the slice missing or door was at full open i recorded a glowing light or ship exit the opening of this pac man like orb then the quickly must have closed cause it was round again and its color was changed back to like a pulsating white again i continued to record for probably another 7 min and it changed to the reddish yellow a coulple of more times but i never saw it open again. i will leave you with this im not a nut and i have it on video just wanted to tell someone oh yes my wife was there with me too . I also see that i can send footage but i dont know how to do so because my camcorder is old and 8mm and i do not know how to transfer the video from it to online it has a 8mm tape im not sure it is capeable of transfering from the camera to online but i do have the tape
December 14, 2021 · 6:15 PM · CIRCLE
Stow, MA
One craft went straight and then did a 90° angle, second and third craft flew over house in a formation one behind the other these were very bright lights no blinking to them whatsoever moving too fast to be satellites, before I left to go to the store to more moving left and one moving to the right in opposite directions, half hour to 45 minutes later when I return from the store tomorrow till one we’re going to the left and one going to the right.
December 14, 2021 · 6:00 PM · OVAL
Laureldale, PA
I was coming home from a day out with my daughter when I noticed three lights in the sky that did not look like an airplane. The object was traveling really fast. When it got right in front of me I realized that although the lights were in a triangular pattern the actual shape of the aircraft was oval. It flew by us in the sky pretty fast and almost seemed to disappear.
December 14, 2021 · 5:45 PM · DISK
Clarksville, IN
A neighbor and I were chatting at the edge of my property not long after sunset when he decided to take a photo of the Christmas decorations on my next-door neighbors’ house. As he did, I noticed a very bright star in the sky above and to the right of the moon. I said “Wow, that must be Venus,” and he said “Maybe.” After he took the photo, he showed it to me. I thought it was a beautiful scene and asked him to text it to me. He did, and several minutes later I looked at it. Right away, I noticed that the “very bright star” looked a bit odd, so I zoomed in on it. When I enlarged the photo to the max, I could see that it was actually a lighted disc encircled with a gray rim. I asked him to zoom in on the photo too and he saw the same thing.
December 14, 2021 · 5:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Hudson, ME
A triangular craft was moving VERY slowly over the road. The front had three white lights uniformly spaced, and two smaller red lights beneath the middle white light. It was backlit by the sky (almost a full moon) so triangle was very clear to see. The back came to a point and had no lights at all. So creepy! I gawked and then got TF out of there! Tried to take a video but it came out as a photo and all messed up.
December 14, 2021 · 4:00 PM · DISK
Dingmans Ferry, PA
sitting on deck taking random pics. not visible to the eye I have also had one disc shape about 60 feet above my head. So close I have seen grooves in the top disk shaped like cartoon waves which would allow it to spin to open making it virtually very smooth on the bottom I have miles of woods behind my home and this is not an isolated event
December 14, 2021 · 6:15 AM · SPHERE
Seattle, WA
I was driving south bound on i5 just right at the 145th street exit in shoreline/seattle when all of the sudden a sphere of light shot through the sky illuminating the clouds. It happened so fast that it scared the hell out of me. It was a bright blue/green light.
December 14, 2021 · 6:00 AM · EGG
Staten island, NY
Bright white blue football shaped object flying across the sky and arching straight up into the atmosphere
December 14, 2021 · 6:00 AM · CIRCLE
Madison, NC
This is what I used for direction. If East is 90 degrees and South is 180 degrees, this object was at about 130 degrees. If straight up is 90 degrees, this was 65 to 70 degrees above the horizon. The local time was about 6:08 am on December 14, 2021. I was seated at my front door observing the meteor shower. This light appeared at first the size of a bright star. It got extremely bright over a second or two. The size of the light grew as it got brighter. At its largest I would guess it to be about 1/4 to 1/3 the diameter of a full moon. During this time it remained stationary. After it dimmed back to the size of a star it began moving to the south parallel to the horizon. Observed it moving to the south for a short distance and it just disappeared. AT ALL TIMES IT APPEARED ROUND. Could not verify this is or is not an Iridium Satellite.
December 14, 2021 · 6:00 AM · SPHERE
Grand Rapids, MI
Went outside to take my dog for a walk. It was a clear morning. I heard a very high-pitched whine (the sound you get when you have a bout of tinnitus). I looked up above me at the stars. Just as I did, one of the stars blinked out. Five seconds later it flashed back on momentarily and faded away again. It reminded me of how Cuttlefish use their Chromatophores to change their colors. The object started moving very slowly in a southerly direction. Every five seconds it would fluoresce, then fade away again. After a minute, it was out of sight..
December 14, 2021 · 2:00 AM · FORMATION
Kill Devil Hills, NC
Stargazing while the geminids were going on and saw a formation of lights; a triangle and a line flying in parallel from the north to the south tracked across the horizon it crossed in a matter of seconds, and had a feeling that it might've been bending light around it as if it was a single craft.
December 14, 2021 · 12:30 AM · CIRCLE
King, NC
I was driving through Old Highway 52 in between the towns of Rural Hall and King with my mother. At 12:24 am, we both noticed a distant yellowish glowing circular object in the sky rapidly descending downward. It went out of sight after about 3 seconds. My mom also saw red and green lights on it, but I just noticed it was yellowish in color.
December 13, 2021 · 11:30 PM · LIGHT
Syracuse, NY
I was driving home around 10:30pm EST with my roommate when I saw a shooting star. When we had pulled into the driveway I had seen about 4 shooting stars at that point. We then continue to sit outside of our house and watch the sky for about 45 minutes. I then began recording in hopes of catching a shooting star on camera. I continued recording in hopes of making a 10 minute video. Just after the ten minute mark I was about to shut off my camera when I saw a ball of light shoot across the top left of my cameras view. I was in disbelief so I ended the video and reviewed it.
December 13, 2021 · 8:30 PM
Port Angeles, WA
8:30 PM my husband was trying to catch the recorded evening news for projected weather. It had not recorded so the network kept giving us PBS to watch. It kept quitting and replacing with something else. My husband was in the living room, I was going back and forth from a bedroom with a sewing project and the living room. From the bedroom, I heard what sounded like a helicopter around our place. I stepped outside to try to see something. It was totally dark outside. There were no lights on and I could not get a definitive direction from where the noise was coming. It sounded larger than the helicopters we usually hear if they are searching for an escaped convict or someone. It also didn't fit the description of Bonneville Power searching the power lines. This sounded larger, but no lights on or any way to see it. It stayed around here about 10 minutes. I asked my husband if he heard it while I had the door open from the living room. My husband was busy with the television. He said later that he was concentrating on the television and not on that. He was not paying attention to it. It was loud and he missed it. I saw nothing, but heard something very large.
December 13, 2021 · 8:30 PM
Port Angeles, WA
Dec.13th at 8:30 PM. I heard a sound which I thought was over our house. It was like a helicopter, but larger than any which checks the power lines or the Coast Guard helicopter. My husband was bothering with the television which wasn't working when I opened the living room door which opens to the outdoors. I said,'Can you hear this?" He wasn't interested. A couple days later, my neighbor and I were talking. He noticed it and said he thought that there were more than one. He had been in his wife's shop at the time. I remember hearing something like propellor strokes, but I thought I heard a grinding sound which was loud. I couldn't see anything, no lights whatsoever, I also couldn't detect which direction, except when it must have been directly over head, because it was so loud. I have another detail attaching to case #119767. I reported that the tree line was perpendicular to the tree line that the UFO followed by our place. I