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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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November 26, 2021 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
San Francisco, CA
Traveling on our tugboat from Long Beach to San Francisco we me and my watch partner saw a giant flash of light which lit up the entire night sky like it was daylight. It lasted about two or three seconds. We both saw the flash of light and I turned my head to look out the side window to see where it was coming from and I saw one round craft right as it disappeared. The flash made no noise at all. Also, the craft made no noise. After the incident there was chatter on the radio about it from ships in the area. It was seen by ships as far away as 35 miles, so it must have been up pretty high in the sky. It definitely was not a shooting star or space junk falling to earth. It was something else. Whatever it was, it was big. Some ships reported it as a flare, but it wasn't a flare, as it didn't hang in the air at all. It just flashed off and disappeared. It wasn't lightning either. It was a clear night. Very odd. I can't stop thinking about it.
November 26, 2021 · 8:00 PM · SPHERE
Dandridge, TN
At approximately 7:55pm EST, I was traveling S/SW when I noticed an enormous orange light HIGH in the southwestern sky. I thought it was strange for Venus to be so orange and bright and high at this hour, so I slowed my car and pointed my EarthSky app in its direction and got nothing that should have been there. Venus was below the horizon and like I said, it was bigger and brighter than when I’ve seen even Arcturus or Sirius at their brightest. And it was VERY ORANGE. I drove to the end of the road where a public boat launch is located. I come to this place often to look at the stars due to the wide-open viewing area over the lake. At this point, the orange light was much lower in the sky, hanging just above the houses on the opposite shore of the lake (looking straight out from the boat launch, which is SW…to my left are the Great Smoky Mountains in the S and to my right are the distant lights of our small downtown to the W…where I watch the sunset). The light appeared motionless as if it were a planet (even though it clearly wasn’t as high as it had been a few minutes earlier). I viewed the light through my binoculars which I rested on the roof of my car to stabilize my view. It looked like an orange sphere with maybe even a black shadow on the right side. I got back in my car and I took a video with my iPhone8plus through my open passenger window. The time stamp on the video is 8:01pm and the video is 48 seconds long. The camera is zoomed in to its max and you can see the light hovering over the house iights on the opposite shore. Even though the video is shaky, the light never appeared to move or even “twinkle” to my eye. I quit recording and continued to attempt identification with my sky app (and make sure it was properly calibrated). As I pointed my phone towards the light about a minute and a half later, the light was gone. . GONE. I immediately filmed again to say “it’s gone !” and the timestamp on that 26 second video is 8:04pm. I never detected movement of the light with my naked eye (like one would with a plane or a satellite), but I clearly observed this light at two very different heights above the horizon within minutes…and then the light just not being there at all. On the map provided, circle 1 is where I first observed the light, circle 2 is where I stopped my car on the road to look at it through my app, and circle 3 is where I observed the object through my binoculars and took the videos.
November 26, 2021 · 8:00 PM · OTHER
Swift Creek, south of Raleigh, NC
On the day after Thanksgiving, November 26 (i.e., Black Friday), I was visiting my parents for the holiday with my wife and two young sons (7 months and 2 years old) in an area known as Swift Creek (an unincorporated area just south of Raleigh and just east of Cary, NC). Though I live out of state now, I’m familiar with the area as I grew up there. My wife wanted to visit Crossroads Plaza in Cary, North Carolina for a quick Black Friday shopping stop, we brought our younger son and left our older son at home with my parents. On the way back from shopping, we pulled into Brass Lantern Court, it was a few minutes before 8 pm. My wife and I saw five pulsing green lights and a large object, beyond the trees, out of the front window. The object was like a rectangle with a triangle on one side --- I don't know what this shape is called but, basically, imagine a rectangle and on one of the short sides of the rectangle imagine a triangle. This is clearly the same lights/object that is visible on these links below, however, these links show the object far away, but I saw this right above me in the cul-de-sac of Brass Lantern Court and followed it during a short drive: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/AvU3-MThF3w The pulsing green lights, the slow and stable (almost hovering) movement, and the dimensions of the object in these videos are exactly what I saw right above me, blocking out much of the sky. I saw it first and mentioned it to my wife, who was in the backseat taking care of our seven-month-old. When I first saw it, I was driving down Brass Lantern Court, I imagine the object was above the cul-de-sac of either Tupenny Lane or Dawsons Mill Run (shown on map). Initially, for the first few seconds or first minute as we were driving down Brass Lantern, the object was mostly visible through the pine trees but part of it was visible above the tree line. As I drove down Brass Lantern Court to the cul-de-sac the object came over the tree line of the Brass Lantern Court cul-de-sac and banked at what appeared to be at about a 30- or 45-degree angle compared to the ground, pretty much above the cul-de-sac and the lawn next to the cul-de-sac. So, I could see the object more or less right above me and without any obstruction. A structure was clearly visible with five green lights at the edges. I could see a normal dim glow of the night sky behind the object and five lights and in between the five lights, it was completely dark, indicating a solid object. It was a clear contrast to the dim glow of the night sky. The object wasn’t far from me but I could not hear any sound. Had it occurred to me, I should have lowered my car windows but even with windows up, it was kind of shocking to see something so large, hovering and then moving, and to have the soft hum of the car engine be the only sound that was audible at the time. In the moments I saw it unobstructed in the cul-de-sac of Brass Lantern Court, the object filled much of the front windshield of my SUV. I would guess it was about 2 to 4 times higher than the tree line and if I extended my arms and held a piece of paper at arm’s length, this object took up about the same amount of my visual field as say an A2 or maybe even an A1 piece of paper. Probably closer to A2 size, I think. So, someone can do the math as to an estimated size of this object --- 2x-4x higher than the tree line (these are the common pine trees you find all over NC) and it would have filled a space in my visual field equivalent of about an A2 paper (or a bit larger) if my arms would be extended out. The object began moving down Brass Lantern / Penny Road (i.e., towards the west or towards to southwest), so I turned around in the cul-de-sac of Brass Lantern Court and drove back up the street. I’ve attached a map to illustrate the short route I followed while I still had visual contact. But, basically, to put the route shown on the map in words: I drove up Brass Lantern Court, turned left on Old South Road, turned right on Penny Road, and followed it down Penny Road for about three minutes. There was continual visual contact through the drive shown in the map. I lost visual contact after driving over Lake Johnson. I thought I could catch it but I came up the hill after passing the bridge on Lake Johnson and I could not re-establish visual contact. The map represents the route we took following the object. The start of the map is Brass Lantern Court and the end of the map is the point we lost sight on Penny Road. After losing visual contact, we continued down Penny Road for ten or fifteen minutes but could not see anything so I went back to my parent’s home to drop off my wife and seven-month-old. My wife has a better camera on her cell phone than I have so I asked her for her cell. As I was in the front seat, she gave it to me as I turned on Penny Road but her phone basically died as soon as I started filming the object. I took out my cell phone which doesn’t have a great camera (original Surface Duo) but by the time I could start filming we'd lost sight of the object. I was driving and trying to film at the same time so I wasn't that fast. I went out immediately afterward with a good Canon camera with a full battery, which I picked up at home, but could not find the object or see it again. In total, including the drive down Brass Lantern (one min or so), a few moments in the Brass Lantern cul-de-sac (one min or so), and the driving trying to follow it (as shown in the map, three min or so), the object was visible to my wife and me consistently for about five minutes. Any of the movements performed would be possible for a drone or maybe a helicopter --- I did not see the object do anything that, say, a drone could not do. But the object was massive, it blocked out a large part of the sky (or a large part of my front windshield) when it was directly above me and higher than the tree tops and completely silent the whole time. It hovered, changed direction, and moved very quickly within five minutes.
November 26, 2021 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Sebring, FL
Talk about synchronicity! My mom and I were star gazing by our camp fire when I asked her if she had ever seen any UFO's, she said no and I proceeded to share my first sighting story (that happened a couple of years ago while I was driving - I saw a green light in the sky). As I was finishing my story she pointed out two lights flying across the sky above us interacting with each other, then a third light appeared and followed the other two and then all three of them disappeared. About 10 minutes later while I was taking photos of our surroundings with my camera, a large bright ball of light appeared about 15ft above ground level directly in front of my field of view over the bushes behind our camp site. I called out to my mom to come out from the tent to see this. We both stared at this light, it moved in our direction at first, then it stopped and hovered over the bushes and then it started to move away from us. After a couple of minutes it disappeared. I took several pictures during its presence.
November 26, 2021 · 7:30 PM · CIRCLE
Chandler, AZ
My husband and I saw two round objects that looked to be on fire or with heavy sparks coming from it. We originally thought it was fire works but the objects moved side ways and up and down. They also would dim sparks and then re fire up. The objects would also slow and stop at times. This lasted for no more than 5 minutes
November 26, 2021 · 6:30 PM · SPHERE
Carmichael, CA
It was an orange orb or fireball that moved in one direction at first like a plane, then seemed to hover, then moved from side to side, and within a couple of minutes, vanished.
November 26, 2021 · 6:30 PM · CHANGING
Apex/Cary, NC
The object was large, made no sound, and had 5 rotating circular compartments with two areas for lights. This object came over the treeline to my right along with a smaller object. I was looking at it through the passenger window. I was looking at the bottom side of this object. This object had 5 circular-shaped compartments with two areas for lights and each circle was rotating and the 5 circular things were also rotating. The smaller object was moving back and forth to the larger object quite quickly. The object was dark grey and where the lights were attached the circles would rotate the object could change shape. I could see the mechanical movements of the object, the rotations of the entire object, and the rotation of the area where the lights were on the object. I grabbed my phone and took 3 pictures, and in the first picture, the white blurry line is the smaller object moving fast to the larger object the video I took was before it left out of sight and the video has been slowed down.
November 26, 2021 · 5:30 PM · CHEVRON
Florissant, MO 63033, MO
distance to me estimation 1 mile elevation estimate 800 feet distance from white light to white light (end to end) was about 600 feet I watched it not moving at a 45% angle for about 40 to 50 seconds and then it disappeared. it was already dark out so I couldn't see the craft it self, but I think it was a delta shape.
November 25, 2021 · 11:00 PM · CIRCLE
Big Coppitt, FL
My friend and I were sitting outside on her stairs, when we both noticed an orange colored roundish thing coming in our direction, there was no sound, it moved in a straight path, no change in altitude, constant rate of speed, parallel to the ground, no blinking lights of any kind just solid color. I had enough time to consider what it wasn’t, wasn’t a plane, paper lantern, rocket launch, (I live on the space coast and watch almost every shuttle/rocket launch there is) shooting star, meteor, Life Flight, or anything else I could think of. I had enough time to take a picture. I was about to lose sight of it so I ran up the stairs, through the house to the opposite side where there is a screened and open porch but first I had to unlock the door and undoggy proof it (bungee cord) ( her 2 German Shepards open the door and let themselves out all the time). By the time I did make it out there the object was gone or I couldn’t see it anymore. As I was coming back through the house I opened my Flightradar24- there was nothing in my vicinity at that time. All was quite on radar.
November 25, 2021 · 9:30 PM · CIRCLE
Jenner, CA
I was in the passenger seat driving up the Northern California coast at night, looking out over the ocean and all of a sudden two yellow/orange lights appeared high in the sky. They were a little closer together than a car’s headlights and didn’t move or pulse. About the size of the moon. After 10 seconds of trying to figure them out they just turned off suddenly and the sky was black again. The driver saw the same thing happen and neither of us spoke until it disappeared to ask if each other just saw that.
November 25, 2021 · 8:30 PM
NC
On Thanksgiving evening at approximately 8:20 pm I observed a silent, bright orb coming slowly over the mountain across from my residence. The orb was well within our atmosphere and seemed to contain some type of red/orange glow on the inside. The object was silent and had no external lights. The internal glow seemed to have a plasma effect. My dog even began barking when he saw the object and you can hear him in the video. His barking alerted my wife who opened the front door. I pointed the object out to her and she then alerted my father in law who also saw the orb. I am a veteran law enforcement official. I have worked in patrol, criminal investigations, tactical operations and I have served my country as well. Thorough and maticulous observation is my life, and I only began videoing this orb when I realized it was a recurring siting for me. Every several years over a span of about thirty years I see this type of phenomenon. I have had them as close as right outside my house. I have even experienced an orb that was a deep cobalt blue and stood perfectly silent and still. I couldn't help but get a little excited with this last siting as I had very recently been hoping and meditating about my sincere desire for another visit from whatever this is. I apologize for the shortness of the video but I want to share my experience.
November 25, 2021 · 8:30 PM · LIGHT
Huntington, VT
At approximately 830pm, my husband and I were walking our dog in the dark. We live in a very rural location with woods all around, no city or town in sight with only a couple neighbors. It was dark but we were not using a flashlight as the moon was out enough to light our way faintly. It was overcast, but not raining/snowing. At almost the same time, my husband and I saw an illuminating, circular (disk) light coming from an area above the woods, which appeared like it was shining down through the clouds, rather than from the ground up. We both pointed and acknowledged it to each other when, all of a sudden, the light moved literally at warp speed to the left and vanished. Then almost immediately, it reappeared in the same spot that we had just seen it. It hovered for a few seconds then darted to the right (again at a VERY high rate of speed). Once again, it reappeared in the same spot. We both never saw the light coming back to the spot, it would just reappear. It made a final dart to the left and disappeared, not to return. We stood there in awe for a minute or two waiting for it to come back, which it didn't. We turned around and headed back home (that was enough excitement for us!). We walked about a 1/4 mile or so back to our house and before we turned into our driveway, the light reappeared from our right, made a sharp turn and went in a straight line from in front of us, then over our heads, and behind us...and disappeared. Again, we were in awe and stayed out in our field (in the complete darkness, no neighbors in site, no towns, no cities, etc) and waited for over about 15 minutes. It once again reappeared in the night sky, hovered, and took off. That was the last of it we saw. We did not hear any noise from an airplane or helicopter and the speed at which this object was traveling was absolutely astonishing - it would go from one side of the horizon to the other in a fraction of a second. There is nothing that we can think of that has the ability to go that fast (airplane, helicopter, drone, etc). We thought perhaps it was a deer hunter with a very high powered spot light shining it into the sky; however, the light appeared to be shining down from the clouds rather than up and we assumed that if it was a spotlight, we would see some sort of "beam" of light illuminating the woods/tree line and extending into the night sky, which we did not witness. The entire surroundings and night sky was very dark, just this light illuminating in one spot in the sky, coming from the clouds. Also, if it was a hunter with a spot light, the manner in which the light presented itself didn't seem "human-like", if it was a hunter "playing" with his spot light we would think it would of been more human-like behavior with the light waving back and forth, etc. and what we witnessed was split second speeds, hovering then darting off, reappearing without any light coming back to that same spot, etc. There very well could be a good explanation of what we saw; however, witnessing it first hand, it just didn't seem like anything we could explain away (airplane, Chinese lantern, helicopter, drone, etc). It was a very interesting encounter, one that my husband and I will always remember!
November 25, 2021 · 8:16 PM · CIRCLE
Delta, CO
I had been visiting a friend in Montrose, Colorado on Thanksgiving 2021. I live in Grand Junction, Colorado so after dinner I was driving on highway 50 back home. At around 8:15pm, I just passed Olathe, Colorado and the Tiger Propane business when I saw a circular craft flying in the tree line near some farms in the area to the right of the highway. The craft was metallic, a dull gray color. Not shiny but dull. It seemed a little bigger than a large suv. It was a perfect circle. It was flying slightly faster than my car and was only a few hundred feet off the ground. It came out of the tree line and I got a perfect look at it. It paralleled my car for a mile or two over a large crop area. It then sped up and got ahead of me about a quarter mile. It then shot across the highway in front of me and then completely disappeared on the other side of the highway. I had my cruise control set at 70mph at the time so the speed of the craft was interesting. When I passed the area of the highway where it crossed the highway the lights in my rear view mirrors became wavy. It was almost as though I was driving through an area where there was a disturbance in the air. That only lasted a few seconds and then I could easily see the lights behind me. At first I thought it was a weather balloon but it did not move like a balloon. It also gained speed fast. Also it completely disappeared. I am not a ufo junkie and not someone that reports these kind of things but this incident and what I saw is not something I can forget so I figure I should report it so that if someone wants to they can investigate it.
November 25, 2021 · 8:00 PM · DISK
San Diego, CA
Round disk with bright light in center with approx five lights surrounding edge.
November 25, 2021 · 7:30 PM · DIAMOND
Bear Creek, NC
I was riding West on 902 and picked it up after turning from Alex Cockman. Looked to be about 2000~3000ft high. It was just sitting there. Triangular lights with a soft halo around it. Really freaked out my wife. Not kidding. The light was extremely bright.
November 25, 2021 · 7:00 PM · CHEVRON
New Smyrna Beach, FL
My sister and two children were outside on the patio of our vacation home that overlooks the ocean taking down the flag from the flagpole when my sister noticed a flying object in the sky. The flying object looks like a constellation of stars in a v shape. It was flying at a fast speed, lower in the sky. The lights were not brighter or duller than the stars in the sky. They matched the stars' color and brightness. My children did not take notice, as they are only 2 and 5 years old. I said, 'What is that?" and my sister responded that she thought it was a satellite she had heard were roving the world now. We looked up again and the object continued moving down the coastline. I told her that I thought it looked like a UFO. We returned inside and told my husband and our parents what we witnessed. My sister searched online for images of the satellites and realized what we saw was indeed not a satellite. I googled other UFO sighting images and found photos posted of the Lubbock Lights. We both agreed the object we saw tonight looked exactly like the Lubbock Lights images.
November 25, 2021 · 6:30 PM · CIRCLE
Surprise, AZ
I was in az for vacation with my boyfriend visiting his family, we drove home in my tesla, and I was looking up observing the star because I live in orange county. The sky isn't as beautiful, but this caught my attention. It was very bright and oval. I pointed to it in the car to show my boyfriend once the vehicle was stopped at our location; I videoed the object they moved very fast. There were two that didn't move like a normal plane or helicopter. I know this because I live in Orange County, California, walking distance to John Wayne, and I tend to look up at the planes a lot. I have the video, and I have shown several friends, and all are pretty amazed by the objects. They were brighter them the stars. I want someone to look at the video. My video is too long to upload.
November 25, 2021 · 6:10 PM · FIREBALL
Cuvina, CA
I was driving yo Thanksgiving Dinner North from workman towards Roland on Barranca Ave. and noticed a low flying helicopter passing above. After it flew out of view I noticed above it three Orange , what looked like, balls of fire or glowing orbs following each other in a straight line coming from the West to the East. I pulled into the gas station parking lot and turned the video from my phone on. By that time the three objects had passed and then formed what looked like a triangle formation. After that they changed into a line from up to down and then the light changed from an Orange glow to White and each object disappeared after turning white. At the same time as this I noticed a fourth object flying almost directly over me headed in the same direction as the previous objects. This object made no sound and could almost look like it was floating along maybe catching up to the other three. I zoomed in on this object but all it looked like was a large ball of fire. When it reached the same general area as the original three it also changed from Orange to White and Blinked off or disappeared from view in the same way as the first three. The video is to long to upload so here is the link to it in my dropbox https://www.dropbox.com/s/97iiqeb0f0qve2n/VID_20211125_181025391.mp4?dl=0 It is 1 minute 20 seconds long.if you ave any questions feel free to contact me at the number I provided below.
November 25, 2021 · 5:30 PM · LIGHT
New London Township, PA
My wife and I went for a hike in the late afternoon on Thanksgiving Day, 2021. We were driving home, turned a corner, and saw these lights in the sky (see attached photo and videos). Despite what the camera appears to show, these lights were not flashing in any way. The camera also failed to capture the color accurately. They were an orangish color seeming to glow like a candle. These lights silently moved from what appeared to be low altitude in the southwest to higher altitude in the northeast, each one disappearing into a cloud bank. The whole event was over in less than ten minutes. For reference, I'm an senior managing engineer with a software company. My wife is a registered nurse. We are both in our mid fifties.
November 25, 2021 · 2:30 PM · SPHERE
Heber City, UT
On the above date, while hanging our Christmas lights and looking up into a clear, blue sky, I witnessed a solid, round and metallic object fly over our neighborhood traveling East to West. The object clearly reflected sunlight. Unsure if the object was a sphere or a disc, but if I had to pick one, I would choose sphere. I only sighted the object for roughly 2 seconds, but was able to discern its shape and reflectivity. The object flew at a level flight level. Having experienced conventional aircraft flying at above the speed of sound, this object was moving much faster. It made no sound. Completely silent. The object flew almost directly above our home. I would estimate the object to have flown approximately 500 feet above my head, again, at a very high rate of speed. It continued West towards the Wasatch Mountains in the direction of Utah County just south of Macdonald Field. Upon witnessing the object, I ran into our home to inform my family. My wife informed me that our cable tv had also briefly cut out. There were no aircraft in the vicinity that I could visually identify. I had a brief but clear view of the object.
November 25, 2021 · 12:16 AM · OTHER
Waynesville, NC
Zoom in on 10-11 o'clock in second photo to begin. Would like to know what the mass I couldn't see with my naked eye might be? I may have it blown up as an art piece. The colors are beautiful in a spooky way.
November 24, 2021 · 11:30 PM · LIGHT
Canterbury, CT
Right outside my back door right above a 70 acre field is a bright light really high up but you can tell it's moving up down back and forth but not hovering. Second time we've seen it. No sound at all.
November 24, 2021 · 7:30 PM · OTHER
Derry, PA
I am a United States Marine Corps 0311 infantry rifleman veteran. November 24th 2021 The sun was down and the sky was a bright pink/purple at dusk. My girlfriend and I were on our way to her mom's house in Latrobe, PA. She was driving and I was looking ahead when something that first made me think of a torn a dark plastic bag blowing in the wind. This wasn't moving though and I realized the wind wasn't really blowing at the moment anyhow. I'm baffled and am really zoning in trying to figure out what I'm looking at. It was difficult because from this angle all I could see is something thin and dark in a shape that I couldn't relate anything to. We are driving about 35mph and as I got closer I had the thought maybe something is caught on this telephone line or on some fishing line or something. As we got to a more parallel angle to this object I could see it perfectly. It was about 6 feet to the right and a foot higher than the telephone pole. My eyes went from the mysterious black object to what was connected to it at the bottom. It reminded me of a flat steel beam bent in the shape of a C just floating there. Not making a sound and having no other obvious body. On the metal I could see maybe 12 or 15 bright orange circles evenly spaced apart. I couldn't tell if the orange circles were omitting any light or not. It almost looked like the clouds through the center of the C were slightly distorted. Almost how heat waves can distort an image, except these heat waves were locked in place by a separate gravity. I suspect the rest of the craft was cloaked with extreme technology. We drove passed it and I looked forward and thought to myself "I better look back because I'll never see another one again." (That's the moment I first took it in that is a UFO and the months leading up I have had a weird urge or craving to see a UFO) As I look back it is still there and I see it rotate on its axis as if to look at us. It's rotation was effortless and mesmerizing to watch due to its seamless and masterful movement. It looked slightly different in shape, a little fuller but still a C, from that angle and after it turned to watch the car drive down the road. When I 1st saw it I was probably 150 meters away. There is a large empty field to the right and then some trees about 50 meters past where I spotted the UFO. So I could only see it maybe 80 meters after we past it. I didn't say anything to my girlfriend while it was happening simply because I was trying to figure out what it was at first and when I did I was so amazed I just looked at it with my mouth open slightly! I asked if she saw as soon as I couldn't see it anymore but she said she didn't. I will always regret not telling her to stop. I was not afraid at all. I feel like they are open to communicating with me and ever since this sighting I have had over 100 lucid and or vivid dreams about UFOs landing and interacting with me. This C craft I saw is unlike anything I have seen or heard of in regards to a UFO and it looked like it was cutting edge technologically the top. I suspect the black torn plastic looking peice on top had something to do with the acceleration.
November 24, 2021 · 7:30 PM · CIRCLE
Camden, DE
At 1935hrs I was out back with my dog looking up at the clear sky when a bright object moving at a high rate of speed moving southwest to northeast came into view at about 25 to 35 degrees magnetic north. I first thought it was a shooting star but the light flashed and suddenly came to a stop for about 3-4 seconds. Then the light flashed a few more times before it jumped to a high rate of speed. The object again came to a dead stop a second time, this time the object moved around in a side to side somewhat circular motion and jumped back to a high rate of speed from a complete stop. The whole event occurred over the course of 20 seconds.