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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 12, 2021 · 8:06 PM · LIGHT
Brandon, FL
Sunday nite I went to the store. I came back from hwy60 driving south on my road. When I got past our neighborhood entryway and almost to the first street, I started seeing bright red lights flying across the sky, ahead of me, flying east to west. It looked like red lights on planes. I saw several going by in a group. I thought it was probably a bunch of helicopters. Not flying high up like jets but above the tree line, maybe lower than planes, like helicopters. I have seen the sheriff flying 5 or 6 helicopters all together coming back from the south coming back to tampa a few times before. Like some kind of training trips. But the lights were bright red, and not blinking and no other lights anywhere else, just bright red ball of light. Not like a helicopter or plane has. But as I kept coming south, I saw more and more. At least 15 to 20. I knew it couldnt be planes or helicopters. And they werent in any pattern, just bunches of red lights flying across the sky. Pretty fast. Not like a helicopter, and was going upwards not like a plane would be flying straight. They were pretty close to me, maybe within a mile. It was about 8:06pm There was a man walking on the sidewalk with a little dog and he was just stopped, standing there looking at them. There was a truck behind me that kept going slower and finally stopped. I kept driving to my street and turned in east, toward my house. I was watching them continue to go by in a big spread out pattern. I got to my house and I had a fair view toward the south. I stopped and I found my phone and got to the camera and took a couple pictures. Then I tried to go to video but couldnt find the right button in the dark. So I just took a couple more pictures until they had all gone by. The last ones went by. they were spread out. In my pics you can see 4 of them far away, high up in a straight pattern. Those would have been as far away as tampa or the bay by that distance. My pictures were from 8:07 to 8:08pm when they had all gone by. My pictures show white lights but they were all bright red lights. One of my security cameras is pointed toward the 2 story house but it doesnt go up very high. And there is trees in front of it. But at 8:06 and 30 sec, there is a flash, like lightning, behind the trees. But there wasnt any clouds or lightning around. I think it may have been the large group of them maybe that caused the flash. I called the tv stations, mcdill, tia. Only answers were, we havent heard any other reports. And channel 13 said it could be drones. Drones wouldnt be that big and have that bright of a light. Mcdill is a major AFB and has radar and look out all the time. These objects were headed straight toward mcdill, probably 12 or so miles from my location. Mcdill said there wasnt any military aircraft in the area, and then said you should contact ufo reporting center web site. They didnt confirm or deny they saw anything.
August 12, 2021 · 10:32 AM · TRIANGLE
Howell, NJ
I heard about this on the news and have seen these before so my eyes were trained on the sky . The shooting star went from south to north through the night sky roughly one minute before . A triangle shaped craft high in atmosphere . With a red light in center . Moving from east to west in the sky from horizon to horizon . Completely silently . I tried to take a video maybe it can be spruced up or maybe it didn't record at all... I tried .. I than seen a formation of two high atmosphere airplanes moving west to east almost crossing the same flight path and altitude . Seemingly unaware of what was just in their flight path . It did not had blinking lights like a airplane . I live by naval weapons station Earle . And also a private airport . I know what an airplane is . This was three transfixed lights in triangle pattern with extremely bright center with red color . Seemingly big craft .
August 12, 2021 · 8:30 AM · CHANGING
Cincinnati, OH
I thought I was just taking pictures of an odd looking lightning cloud. When I went home and told my wife to check out my lightning cloud pictures. My wife then said did you see these. I was then astounded to see that I had also recorded a short video and 38 pictures of multiple objects and crafts flying, shapeshifting and cloaking. The crafts were flying in and out of the odd looking lightning cloud like it was a portal. I have since made multiple thumb drives and prints of this amazing encounter, if anyone is interested in seeing them.
August 12, 2021 · 4:30 AM · LIGHT
Austin, MN
I woke early in the morning to go for my casual run. While stretching and looking to the sky I had noticed a bright oval shaped light sitting in the sky. At first I didn’t think anything of it until I started to notice there were no other flashing lights on the object and it did not appear to be moving. I took my iPhone 11pro out of my pocket and began to record the object and began to zoom into it. The object had to have been at least 5-10 miles away from me. The closer my camera got I noticed that there was light moving around this object and there is a noticeable circle inside of it. I have it all captured on film. Amongst one of the videos I was taking the object disappeared from the sky as some sort of other object shot past it leaving a trail of light of purple and blue. When the object had passed the oval shaped light had reappeared in the same spot.
August 12, 2021 · 12:30 AM · UNKNOWN
Princeton, KY
While in my yard attempting to observe the Perseid meteor shower, I witnessed an unknown object move west to east across the sky. The object emitted one yellowish-white light approximately once every 5 seconds, with each emission lasting about a second. No beam or ground illumination was noted; the object was too high in the sky to impact any ground activity. When the light was not emitting, the object was essentially invisible in the night sky. At times, a very dim, tiny light, the same color of the emitted light, was noticeable. It is possible that the emitted light was rotating around the perimeter of the object, appearing smaller when on the far side, opposite my field of view. The emitted light appeared much larger than any other stars or planets in the sky. The closest approximation I can make of its size as it appeared to me was about 25-30 percent of the size of a full moon, fully risen. No sound was heard in association with the object. Other aircraft were observed around the time of the sighting, but none in time/spatial proximity to the unknown object. The object followed a uniform path across the sky before passing out of sight to the east.
August 11, 2021 · 11:30 PM · FIREBALL
Corbett, OR
Sighting occurred at the Vista House Observatory. A friend and I were watching the Perseids when I spotted what I thought at first was a meteor. It was a small orange light almost directly overhead that flashed orange. I pointed it out to my friend who spotted it too. Instead of vanishing like normal meteor, it dimmed a little and kept moving across the sky. As we watched, it changed direction and seemed to occasionally move in small serpentine patterns in a manner that could not have been a satellite despite clearly being high altitude. We could also see large helicopters working on a forest fire in the region, but this was clearly much higher and only orange. It continued to move at a steady speed and switch directions before vanishing, though it may have been obscured by the smoke. I believe others may have seen this as well because we heard people close to us mention it too. I’d like to stress that we saw a number of meteors, satellites, planes, etc. This couldn’t have been any of those. None of them could move the way this light did.
August 11, 2021 · 10:10 PM · SPHERE
Oak Harbor, WA
Two bright lights appeared at an extremely high altitude at about 20 degrees above the horizon south of my position and moved in a northern direction in line with each other for approximately 30 seconds. There were no strobes or anti collision lights that would indicate an aircraft. After a few seconds the lead light began to fade followed by the trailing light. A moment after they vanished there was a bright flash about three degrees below where the lights had been.
August 11, 2021 · 10:00 PM · OVAL
Folsom, CA
Driving home on hwy 50 towards El dorado hills, around 10pm. We noticed a tall office building. It looked like 80 windows with silver metallic covers that were rippling. Then the windows turned metallic pink. Then all of the sudden it turned into a ufo disk. Vibrant colors. It was hovering. Then it became bigger. Then the UFO started having rings come down. I snapped pictures, until we passed it. People were slamming on their brakes. That's when I called 911. The next day, my daughter told me it was an Intel drone. The day prior to this I was reading about someone on TikTok? Was claiming to be from the future and wanted to warn us about aliens coming to earth on Aug 11th.
August 11, 2021 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Vestal, NY
While watching for persied meteor shower I witnessed several planes blinking throughout the sky, but one moving light in particular caught my attention and once I looked at it it got extremely bright and stayed bright for several seconds before slowly fading and disappearing completely.
August 11, 2021 · 8:00 PM · SPHERE
Nashua, NH
Many small white orbs moving in weird directions around sky, one orb glew into bright white light then dimmed back down before dissapearing. At 3 different times in between small white orbs moving around there was big yellow/ orangeish balls of light appeared in the middle of the sky that shot in downward direction very quickly with no tails no sound before dissapearing
August 10, 2021 · 11:23 PM · DIAMOND
San Antonio, TX
Something shaped like a skinny blue diamond was in the sky for 4 seconds (that's just how long I saw it before it disappeared, it could've been up much longer). From my perspective, it looked close to me but could've been far away and large. It was shimmering blue light but holding form. It was breath-taking. If it was indeed far away, then it was North of my location. Three minutes after seeing it, I saw what seemed to be a yellow shooting star zoom by. Who knows what that was or if it was related.
August 10, 2021 · 10:50 PM · TEARDROP
Palm Beach Gardens, FL
At 10:50 PM on Monday August 10th I went out to get my mail for the day which I forgot to do earlier. It was a cloudy night and I couldn’t see any stars but off in the distance I saw two lights that I figured was an airplane. It was moving very slow for an airplane, but then is sped up and slowed down again as it got nearer my area and then came to a stop. I went inside and got my cell phone to get pictures of it. Looking straight up it was only about 20 degrees away from where I was. Now I could see two bright lights on either side of it and two very small lights on the top and bottom. I called my neighbor and he came out to see it and ten minutes had gone by and it did not move, plus there was no noise at all. I took many pictures and videos of it. We figured it must be a UFO and kept watching it for about 20 minutes. It did not move. I took many pictures and videos of it but could not get a clear picture as my phone takes great pictures in low light but if I zoomed in it came out as a single bright light. It was so clear with the naked eye and it seemed almost a square shape on it’s side with the lights on each corner. After it had not moved for about 40 minutes I did not know who to call so I called the Palm Beach Gardens Police to see if others had reported it but she said no and would have an officer in the area look for it. I went back in the house looking out and checking on it every once in a while. It was still in the same spot at midnight, and at 12:30 AM. Just before I went to bed at 1AM I checked and it had moved a little and was just about directly overhead. Nothing was there in the morning. I will email pictures and videos to you. I am a retired person who has been a business owner for many years.
August 10, 2021 · 10:30 PM · OTHER
North Myrtle Beach, SC
On Tuesday, August 10, 2021, at approximately 10:30 PM, my wife and I were taking a walk along North Myrtle Beach. We were walking from the 500 block of South Ocean Blvd towards the 100 block. While routinely looking into the sky, I spotted two objects that resembled birds drawn by every amateur artist on the planet. My wife asked what I was looking at and I told her they were birds as they appeared to be hovering and gliding. Shew said “There’s no way those are birds. Birds wouldn’t be anywhere near that high”. Initially the objects were in the sky to my left, over the land. They hovered overhead for 10-15 seconds and then slowly moved southwest over the beach and ocean. At some point, I didn’t actually see it happen, because I didn’t think too much of the event at this point, they transitioned to a more vertical position, like a traditional airplane on takeoff. However, the incline was much steeper, an approximate 70 degree angle. The objects steadily, but quickly, rose to a very high altitude and then disappeared. Not in the way an object will disappear from sight. They just disappeared. About a minute later, my wife and I witnessed lights in the shape of a gigantic obtuse triangle, with an area of approximately 6-8 full moons. The object was so large we, initially, thought they were three separate objects at first. The lights blinked one after another in a left-to-right rotation. After observing this a few times, we concluded it was one solid object as opposed to three separate entities, despite the fact that we could see nothing inside the massive area. It was black as the night sky. The object, which appeared to be relatively low in the sky, also appeared to move very down the beach in the same direction we were walking. Although it was so large it may not have been moving at all. After about a minute, there were a handful of very quick flashing (5-6 flashes in a second or two) small white lights at the side of the triangular object, closest to the100 block (Sorry I’m terrible with directions). That was followed by 3-5 orange orbs, about the quarte! r size of a full moon. My wife said “That’s what I saw earlier!” (when she was sitting on the balcony before our walk). The orbs glowed for a few seconds each and then disappeared, as did the triangular shaped trio of blinking lights. I was extremely excited and kept asking my wife, “What are we seeing right now?!” I calmed down, however, when I saw a man and young teen boy approaching from the rear. When they reached us, the man asked, “What was that?!” I am a 49 year old man who has been a high school Social Studies teacher for 27 years. While I have believed in the possibility of extraterrestrial crafts visiting Earth, I have never seen anything before this event. While not questioning what I saw, I do realize there are other explanations such as military tests, etc.
August 10, 2021 · 10:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Savannah, GA
Was driving southbound on rt 95 near the Savannah Intl airport and saw, through the top left hand corner of the windshield 4 bright white lights move from a diagonal position into a a horizontal position approximately 200-300 ft high...seemed very odd...I slowed down to keep watching (this became dangerous on the highway) and began looking for structure under the lights like a pole, etc...wasnt sure if it was a billboard...as I moved past it, it was very clear that this was NOT a pole/streetlight/etc - it was a soft triangle (rounded corners) and was hovering...seemingly facing north...I would guess, based on the elevation, that it was approx 150'-200' wide
August 10, 2021 · 9:40 PM · DIAMOND
Tampa, FL
I was driving home on busch blvd in tampa fl around 9:40 pm . I notice some bright orange lights in the sky and as I drove I noticed there was a diamond formation holding in the sky. There were no tall building in that area. It help shape for a few minutes and as I tried to take a picture some of them faded away. The orb at the bottom then moved up at the same angle of the one to the middle left light the glowing changed and then they faded away. I am sure other folks must of seen it as i was driving in the same direction. I only managed to get one clear picture of two of the orbs. I one bad photo I was near busch blvd and Armenia.
August 10, 2021 · 9:30 PM · FORMATION
Supply, NC
On the coast of Holden Beach, North Carolina. Initial sighting of white, hovering, flashing lights at 9:30 PM EST. About 4 flashing lights remained in a rectangular formation for a few minutes before moving in unpredictable yet coordinated directions. An hour later(≈10:30 PM) the lights reappeared, but culminated into more coordinated and sporadic movement. The lights converged into a line before becoming bright orange shortly before returning to normal. At about 11:20 PM, the flashing lights returned to move around the sky in bizarre directions. The white flashing lights appeared often in the sky over a span of a couple hours, but the lights turning orange and moving as coordinated as they did only happened once. Whatever UFO activity it may have been was extended over the period of a few hours and only transformed in bright orange lights for a fraction of the whole experience. This phenomenon was witnessed by me, as well as several members of my fami! ly.
August 10, 2021 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Woodland, CA
The object was a spherical/circular shape and was bright orange. It was moving up and down and then quickly vanished. Inside the circle looked like another dimension of some sort it was extremely bizarre. Only 1 object maybe 300 feet up in the air. I alone witnessed it and I’m 18 years old. I attend the University of Southern California. After I examined the video I took it looked more like a donut.
August 10, 2021 · 7:16 PM
Tinley park, IL
https://youtu.be/MpbCgoJ0aAg
August 10, 2021 · 11:00 AM · OTHER
Midland, WA
It was early afternoon, We were moving. I was sitting in a chair looking up at the sky when I noticed something moving. It was translucent yet I could still see it. It was gliding at a slow speed. Could see some sort of twinkling lights at both ends. I am 100% positive this was not an aircraft made by us. My boyfriend is an aircraft specialist he could not identify it either. One of tbe mover guys saw it too. None of us were able to identify this thing in the sky. It was not balloons or weather equipment. I was and still amazed at what I saw. Will never forget it.
August 10, 2021 · 7:15 AM · DIAMOND
Honolulu, HI
So at work yesterday the sky was looking beautiful and I took out my phone and proceeded to take photos of the sky and when I clocked out and finished work I was at home going back to the photos when I realized there is something in the sky and I thought that was maybe a reflection but then I look at the other two photos and seen that it moves places in the photos and it GLOWS !.
August 9, 2021 · 10:20 PM · FLASH
Hatteras Village, NC
2 fast moving orbs, that quickly changed colors between red and white, moving in an not uniformed pattern over the ocean. Stopped abruptly and one after the other, flashed white to VERY bright orange, almost like an explosion and then completely disappeared from the sky.
August 9, 2021 · 6:45 PM · UNKNOWN
Auburn, ME
I was a passenger in a vehicle and was looking up into the sky ahead. There were thick grey clouds rolling in, with possible storm, ahead. I saw a stationary object, that appeared to not be moving. It was a straight black line that had a very bright light on far left end, with approximately 4 smaller lights, in a straight line from the brightest light. We passed a line of trees, where I lost sight of it,for a moment of approx 4 seconds. As we passed the trees,a few feet ahead, I saw that there was NOTHING in the sky, in any direction. The object seemed to have vanished. It was unlike anything I have ever seen. I cannot say what shape it was because all I saw was the odd lights on a black straight line. It was NOT a drone or a plane.
August 9, 2021 · 3:45 PM · RECTANGLE
Auburndale/Winter Haven, FL
One rectangular object appeared to be floating, but moved rather fast into the clouds. It was blueish and appeared somewhat like a huge rectangular sheet, flat and billowy. It appeared to be intentionally driving itself in between the large thunderheads high in the sky.
August 9, 2021 · 1:00 PM · OVAL
Gainesville, FL
While staring up at the sky I observed a fast round shaped aircraft moving quickly with another similar shaped aircraft right behind it following and then a third joining from out of formation. No direct sight of the aircrafts, shadows were the detection while the aircrafts moved in between the sun and the clouds above. Aircrafts were flying West to East. Aircrafts moved much faster than a plane at the height they were observed.