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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
July 28, 2021 · 11:13 PM · FLASH
Bakersfield, CA
Sitting outside in Northwest Bakersfield, clear night, just happened to look up as an intense bright blue light in the sky about 200 yards up, flashed, burned out and left a small puff of smoke behind, which quickly dissipated. Absolutely no sound before, during or after flash. Initial thought was that it may have been a strange firework, or unusual rocket. But that theory was not plausible, being as no sound proceeded or accompanied it. It may have also been witnessed by an aircraft traveling south but at incredibly high altitude.
July 28, 2021 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Los Angeles, CA
At approx. 11 PM, I witnessed a bright blue light (the shade and density of an aqua neon sign) in a thin, long, oval shape sitting in the sky at a 110 degree tilt through the translucent shade of my window. It was motionless, just hanging in the sky, and as I stood to take a look out the window I saw it for approx. one second unobscured by the window shade. As I was half up from my seat, looking straight at the light, it faded like a film dissolve in a second or less. What remained looked like a dark cloud in the shape of the light that was there previously, though it was hard to see due to the darkness of the sky. In about 4 seconds, this cloud disappeared. It was hard to judge distance and size, but it looked to be over Silver Lake or Glendale (depending on how large it was). In my field of vision, it took up about an inch.
July 28, 2021 · 9:15 PM · LIGHT
Nashville, TN
Went to sit out on the deck with a cigar, and noticed one bright star in the sky. Was looking at it, then it faded out. Several minutes later, Looked back at the area where the light was thinking that clouds had covered it and wondered if it was visible again. Small speck of light moving north-east caught my eye and I figured it was a satellite. I watched it proceed, then curve toward the North in a large arc. Suddenly, it changed direction again and moved to the East at about the same speed without stopping. It finally disappeared from my view.
July 28, 2021 · 10:41 AM · LIGHT
Winthrop, ME
I witnessed a single bright white/blue (like an arc welder) light traveling in a south easterly direction. Approximately 1500 feet high moving about 200mph. It was silent. No blinking lights. Not a plane, not a helicopter and not a meteor. I had a bright flash light in hand as I was outside to observe an expected meteor shower. I recognized it was something unusual right away. I decided to blink my flash light at it, to see if it would respond. I blinked my light twice. The light immediately changed course. Now traveling straight up from my view point. It disappeared into space. The sky was extremely clear and made this all a stunning experience. It happened quickly.
July 27, 2021 · 11:58 PM · FIREBALL
Indianapolis, IN
I left work later in the night and decided to spend some downtime in a parks empty parking lot. Close to the time I was about to leave I noticed a ball of reddish/orange light that seemed to be one or two neighborhoods away. It was hard to tell what it was because there was no definite shape at first. I also don’t recall how long it had been there seeing as I had been staring at the sky and my phone for 20 mins at that point. It looked too big to be a star and didn’t move at all. I took a short video to catch it at 11:58pm. Suddenly it began to lift vertically into the sky very slowly, too slowly to catch on camera with shaky hands but visible to me. I took another short video but again the camera wasn’t good enough. I was trying to be rational but a kinda stubby beam the same color seemed to protrude out very slightly from the bottom. It wasn’t the long white beam I thought I’d see in my first encounter but it was apparent. The object continued to rise into the sky. I had music playing on my phone at less than half volume so I could still hear a pen drop. No sound was ever heard during any of this encounter. It was silent. Then lights began to blink, about 4 green vertical rectangular lights on the right side, and 4 red ones on the left. I took a third and final video of the blinking lights which only appear slightly in my video at 12:00am. When I zoom into the video it looks similar a sun with five/six hoops moving around it like an atom. At that point it was a lot higher in the sky and began moving toward me at a rate that continues to send chills down my back hours later. I could tell it was fast because the size of the object increased in less than seconds. I immediately started my car, reversed, and sped off. As I was speeding off i FaceTimed my friend to explain what was happening as quickly as I could. When I was turning out of the park, I took a quick glance- but nothing. The sky was empty. The encounter felt like forever, when I looked at the timestamps I really couldn’t believe it was only about 2 mins. I’ve never been so shaken up by anything before.
July 27, 2021 · 10:41 PM · SPHERE
Fort Myers, FL
Was on my lanai facing south and observed fiery red orb hoverinig over the city, about 1/4 of a mile away. I took several videos (one is posted on my Youtube channel) but the images are slighly blurred because I was filming through the porch screen. Silent, perfectly still, no visible means of lift or propulsion. No other part of the craft was visible besides the bright red orb. I'm a retired airline pilot and life-long aviation enthusiast, yet can offer no explanation as far as what this object might be. Unfortunately my attention was then called inside and when I returned to my porch moments later it was gone. I did not see it leave the area.
July 27, 2021 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Benicia, CA
Tuesday 7-27-21 I woke at 8. Went downstairs, opened backdoor, immediately felt OMINOUS, like we’ve had unusually high, constant blowing winds for a few months now. No wind whatsoever, ominously calm. I noticed also, not one single squirrel came to eat, I leave almonds out every night, because I sleep in and not available to feed them when they come early. So, my 1st job is to fill the picnic table cup. Then I look across the street and notice two doves just sitting in a white birch and immediately I knew, something was going to happen today. I seem to be getting a sense of connection with nature, animals, insects, birds mainly etc.… CE5 at 6, 10:00 I see out towards Napa in the North an orb zig zagging in distance for about 3 minutes till it simply closed, vanished. I asked it to appear again, speaking to it for 10 minutes or so when it did in a triangular constellation of stars to my right. I got a big bright flash of diamond white light in the shape of a Kite/Star, looked bowed in front like a kite, but rays extended from it like a star and the center had a flamingo pinkish hue to it, almost glassy reflective pink to bright diamond white out towards the edges. Saying like, here I am and goodnight as it simply dissolved or someone switched it off.
July 27, 2021 · 2:13 PM · CHANGING
lacrose, WI
There where six figures with glowing eyes and there was as mall craft above the figuers it seemed that there whhere three kids and two adults one of the kids where probaly a teenager one was a child and one was a tween it semmed just by the hight it looked only like a shadow they were all stareing at me I just layed there I looked to see if my dog was noticeing it but he was still dead asleep I looked back and they w\here gone but it was to quik for a human to move that fast and leave no trace of existence I ran to my grandmas room and said theres somebody in my uncles car she ran (walked fast shes old) to the door and stept outside nothing at all everything stil inplace
July 27, 2021 · 1:35 PM · LIGHT
Las Vegas, NV
Light seems at high altitude, hovering, then proceeding northbound.
July 27, 2021 · 1:00 AM · SPHERE
San Jacinto, CA
I go out every night before bed to stretch, breathe & look at the sky. As I'm facing the north mountains, stretching, I see a large spherical red/orange shimmering light to my right. E-NE just to the left of the Idyllwild mountains. It appeared to be above the mountains & large, although there is no way of knowing the distance. It was steadily moving south & about to pass behind trees in the next lot. I ran to the front of my property, grabbed my phone & tried to record video. As it disappeared behind the trees, I ran to the back of my property waiting for it to reappear… It did not. I went inside & looked for the recording on my phone & it was not there. This could have been me screwing up in my excitement, but who knows. I am very used to jets, satellites, rocket launches, meteors & this was nothing like that, or anything I had seen before. I looked on social media for anyone else that may have seen it, but found no info.
July 27, 2021 · 12:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Dover, NH
At 11:50pm on July 27,2021, I saw red dots lights in a Christmas tree or triangle form. It was stationary for about a minute, then the dots faded to orange color and began to move slowly forward. As it moved color changed to white light, like a small fireball or star. After about 3 minutes, the color faded back to the red orange dotted triangle shape, then it receded, and completely disappeared. After 30 minutes, now Wednesday, July 28, 2021 at 12:20 AM EST, there appeared TWO of the exact same sighting I just described here. The second sightings were further away than the initial sighting. Both sightings included being stationary at first, then slow aligned movement, and sudden light fading then complete disappearance. Both lasted about 3 minutes. They appeared to move to a single same point in the sky before disappearing
July 27, 2021 · 12:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Dover, NH
Saw a bright reddish orange lights in a triangle dotted form. It stayed still at first, then appeared to move very slowly toward me, while looking up from my bedroom window. The lights changed to bright light, then faded away gradually, then it was gone. Within 10 minutes, now, TWO just appeared, but further away than the first sighting. Again they moved toward me slowly, getting brighter as they moved. Again they just faded away and we’re gone.
July 26, 2021 · 10:30 PM · DIAMOND
Spokane, WA
The first sightings were these very bright lights in the distance that would just hover and then bounce around really fast. We got some pictures of those. The bigger craft was a diamond shape and flew right over our heads. What we thought was weird, other than the shape, was the fact that it made hardly any noise and moved very slowly. It was as big as you'd expect a plane to be, but that's about the only comparison we could make. There was a lot of heat where we were standing outside, it was almost in a circular shape and if you walked a few feet away from the heat you'd feel the chill of the night air again. The really difficult thing to explain was my experience. One moment, I'm facing east, holding my moms hand to pull her over off of the side road and closer to my car and within a split second, I'm facing west, shoulder to shoulder with my mom as she's pointing northwest at something she saw in the distance. I was really confused, I had no idea what was going on. How did I get there? All I remembered seeing was this big Grey rectangle in the hay field in front of me, maybe 8 feet away, (I was facing west at that point). I kept asking my mom and my niece what happened and they just kept talking about some light they saw that had disappeared but they seemed to not notice anything off with me. Not long after, there was a group of coyotes howling maybe 100 yards northwest of us, ( which in turn got a few local dogs going nuts in the distance as well) and within a matter of minutes, they had stopped and there was an identical group howling exactly the same across Bigelow about 50 yards southwest of us. At some point, there was ruffling in the hay field just behind us (west) and we got freaked out and left. That was over a year ago, and I've been having crazy experiences ever since. I am hoping to get my story out there and connect with people who have similar stories. Hopefully, someone out there knows what to do about Unwanted Contact, as I would like to not have these experiences anymore. I have a lot of stories about all of the strange things that have happened since that day, and how different my entire life is, although I'm not sure this is the place to talk about it. I'm only allowed to upload 5 pictures here, but I also have a few of what I can only describe as crop circles that appeared in my front yard around the same time. Please reach out if you know how to prevent things like this. I'm also uploading a picture we got from a star gazing trip we did in Fairfield, WA during the blue moon of 2021. My mom was trying to get a picture of the sky, as the moon was so bright you almost cant even tell its night time. I looked but couldn't find anything that looks like the blue symbol in the picture. I'd love it if someone could shed some light on that too. Really, any assistance at this point is appreciated. please email me if you have any advice or know what that symbol is: samantha.marie85@yahoo.com
July 26, 2021 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Beaumont, KS
We were on highway 400 about 50 miles east of Wichita Kansas. To our north at about a 45 degree angle above the horizon there was a yellowish light for a few seconds, then another about 7 degrees to the right of that (my finger length at arm’s length is about 7 degrees). The first light went out and a third light appeared a few degrees below the second one. These two stayed on together for about 3 seconds then a string of 6 lights appeared below the third on and stayed on for about 5 seconds. The second light then turned off and about 2 seconds later the string of lights went out. All the lights were a bright yellowish color and moved slightly relative to each other.
July 26, 2021 · 7:30 PM · CYLINDER
Phoenixville, PA
Outwalking and looked up to see contrail. A tic tac object white without wings was making this. I watched it go for a few seconds heading EAST. I then saw another tictac white without wings coming WEST at the same elevation and about 100 feet from the first object. They passed each other as on a two lane highway. Second tic tac did not make contrail. They were higher than the passenger aircraft coming from Phila. airport in the East which flew under them both about 2000 feet lower. Tic tac going west caught the sun's rays and it appeared to glint off several windows going the length of it. No noise was heard.
July 25, 2021 · 8:36 PM · SPHERE
Kittery, ME
Hello, I saw a defined vertical split in color in the clear sky when looking west after sunset. The split seems more defined at the horizon and emanates from about where the sun set. I attributed this to a normal explainable event that occurs under certain conditions and took a picture to capture the interesting sunset. Recently when I showed the picture to a friend who pointed out that there are two orbs on either side of the split line which appear to have depth. We both felt this was a very unique image and thought it would be best to share with an expert to get an educated option on what we might have been looking at in regard to the split in the sky and the orbs. Please take a look at the attached picture and offer an opinion. Thank you - Martin
July 25, 2021 · 2:00 PM · CYLINDER
San Diego, CA
While out for a walk on a clear, cloudless day, I noticed a pure white cylinder shaped object in the sky. It had no wings, tail, or any visible means of flying, was silent,was not moving, or was barely moving/flying at all so as to appear to be sitting still. I watched it in that exact same spot for several minutes when suddenly, it either blinked out or left at such a high rate of speed that my eyes could not track it. It reminded me of the white tic-tac object seen by pilots, shown on TV some time ago, but was not moving.
July 25, 2021 · 12:02 AM
Norton, MA
On 7/25/2021 at approximately 12:02am while driving southbound on Interstate 495, I saw a bright light appear in the sky. I used my cellphone to capture a picture thinking it was a solar flare but, 17 minutes later the light remained in sky and was still visible
July 25, 2021 · 12:00 AM · SPHERE
Benicia, CA
Sunday 7-25-21 Nothing happened Saturday but last night, I was standing in my garage doorway and about to step inside and call it a night when a dark grey shadowy streak flew by my face like a swift flying bird right to left, not 10 feet from my face. My eyes and head turned to track this object. A flash caught my eye and I turned to look left in its vicinity over my neighbor’s house across the street. A glowing Orb hovering over my neighbor’s home. Suddenly it shot off leaving a streak from low too high for about 30 yards did I see this "light" streak/trail. Similar to a shooting star, but shooting stars don’t travel from low to high. Nor hover over a roofline or even at this level. Am I going crazy? It appeared at 4 feet above the roofline, but burned out at 30 feet, a certain degree of angle, no burning debris trail, just a streak, like you wave a glowing light stick through the air super-fast. So, I watched where the streak of light had burned out at its apex because instinct told me to, (at this moment I was thinking of dashing inside and yelling for my wife), and...out of nowhere, I can see depth, neighbor's houses, stars and everything behind it when a bright white light like Orb last Wednesday flashed, then the hole closed. Happened just before midnight. This Orb was exactly like the July 21st Orb. I immediately went in and told my wife.
July 24, 2021 · 10:50 PM · CIGAR
Vacaville, CA
While driving my son noticed a black cigar shaped object above/over over the moon - i pulled over and we watched it move slowly from top of moon to left side - it was very difficult to see but the moon reflection highlighted it enough to make out a cigar shaped object - we both took pictures with our cell phones but the object did not appear as black but instead came out as a bright object off to the left side of moon - it just disappeared after approximately two minutes of viewing - was an amazing sight to see. Pictures sent to website below from my phone.
July 24, 2021 · 10:45 PM · FIREBALL
Probable conventionalWashington Township, NJ
My spouse and I visited her sister and husband for a few hours in July of 2021. When my brother-in-law and I stepped outside around 10:30 pm, we saw a group of stationary lights in the sky. They were too bright to be stars but also too luminous to be any aircraft we'd ever seen. There was another object with a blue-green haze to the left of the main object. The main object had a haze color that illuminated out, like a light bulb. The objects remained stationary for the entire time we were outside, around 10 minutes. No noise or sound was noticed from the object. We were unable to tell how far away the object may have been. [NUFORC annotation: Camera Anomaly - Probable]
July 24, 2021 · 4:55 PM · UNKNOWN
Bothell, WA
North Bothell, WA... Between 4:50-4:55 PM my wife and I were sitting on our front porch which faces East. I know this to be the exact time because we called my sister and cell phone shows called made at 4:52. As we talked on speaker phone, my eye caught something moving north-to-south (from Mill Creek to Bothell) straight across the sky. It was hard to determine elevation and size but likely at a thousand feet or so and small, round shape (?). It was shiny and appeared reflective so hard to determine the exact shape. I saw it first and asked. "what's that?" My wife looks up and immediately says, "a bird". I continued looking to make sure it wasn't a sea gull or white bird flapping wings, and beyond a doubt it was not a bird. I said, no way that is a bird. That looks really strange. She could tell it wasn't a bird either and then replied, "a mylar balloon". Ok, now a balloon caught in a wind current is a possibility and fits som! e of the description. I am rational and reasonable and this could explain it. However, something just seemed off about that explanation. I tried to get my brain to see it as a mylar balloon but the size, speed and way it moved could not reconcile. I would not waste my time reporting this if I was confident it was just a balloon or a drone. We continued to watch it as continued out of view... no other changes as it went out of sight. Am curious if anyone saw and reported this same object?
July 24, 2021 · 4:50 PM · DISK
Brentwood, NH
I was on my way to work when I saw a UFO. The route I use takes me through an area with a history of various UFO sightings and encounters. I was driving on a backroad, with lots of open space and farmland. I just so happened to look to my right, and I saw a very distant object, hovering in the sky, just above the trees. To the lower left of it was another disk-shaped object, only slightly larger, and glowing white. Both were stationary but floating. I didn't get to look for long, as I didn't have time to pull over or I would end up being late. I tried to capture what I saw with my phone, but the images and brief video aren't the best quality. As stated earlier, I do live in an area where UFO sightings are somewhat common. Many of the sightings had been on the exact road I was on. Later, on my way back from work, I took the same route and saw some strange activity then too. As I was driving in pitch darkness, I saw two different flashes of light, several minutes apart from each other, in completely different locations, that seemed to come from nowhere, with no noise to accompany them.
July 24, 2021 · 2:40 PM · SPHERE
San Jose, CA
I was hiking with my daughter in Almaden Quicksilver Park, San Jose. This is next to Mnt. Umunhum, where an old Air Force base resides on top of the mountain. The large rectangular building on top of the mountain is very prominent and often referred to as "the cube". My daughter and I were looking at one of the huge power line structures just off the trail. My daughter walked off the trail, toward the structure, while I looked up at the birds sitting on top of it. I believe we were facing south and part of the sky was in view but there were also trees partially blocking the view as well. I saw a bright spherically-shaped object flying right to left at what appeared to be a very fast speed. The object appeared to be emitting a bright white light all around it, yet had a slight silver shimmer to it as if the sun was also partially reflecting off of it. My daughter did not see the object from her vantage point. We walked a few yards down the trail whe! re we could get a good view of the horizon (no trees in the way) but the object was long gone. I wish I had my phone out to take a video but it was gone in a matter of seconds. It was definitely not a plane, not a drone, and not a bird. It is difficult to determine how large the object was. It looked extremely high-tech.