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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
May 26, 2021 · 10:15 PM · OTHER
South Salt Lake, UT
A tight line formation of lights which all emitted unchanging white lights with various degrees of brightness slowly flew overhead, making no noise as they did so. They flew in from the southwest, heading eastward. I grabbed two others shortly after noticing this phenomenon, and showed them what I was seeing. All of us saw the same thing and had no clear explanation. At around 10:25pm MST, not long after it passed overhead, the lights started to fade and quickly disappeared without a trace. All observers were between the ages of 19-26, and the sighting was pure chance as the original sighter noticed it after getting back from a nightly walk. 2/3 observers were under no influence of any substance within 24hrs of the sighting.
May 26, 2021 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Clovis, NM
Briefly saw a rectangle shaped light at a 26-degree angle hovering in the sky. The lights were very bright as if one or many engines facing away from us. It had to be exceptionally large. As someone familiar with aircraft it was likely 300’ wide if not larger and like nothing I’ve ever seen. The object slowly disappeared through the clouds.
May 26, 2021 · 9:45 PM · FORMATION
St Charles, IL
I was watching for satellites when I noticed what I thought was a jet stream and when I looked at it with my binoculars I saw a straight line of small lights {solid not flashing}. They were tightly spaced but there were spaces in some spots of the line. The center light seemed to be the brightest. It was traveling from the NW to the SE. Example below ... ....... .......;....... ......
May 26, 2021 · 9:30 PM · OVAL
Gloucester, VA
Oval blinking light craft traveled horizontally then vertically at high speed.
May 26, 2021 · 9:17 PM · LIGHT
Las Vegas, NV
DATE/TIME & LOCATION: On May 26,2021 around 9:00pm, on the road 'NorthShore' while heading North. Coming up to the road 'Lake mead' heading to Vegas. My girlfriend and I were heading back to Las Vegas after a day at Lake Mead. It was dark out and I was looking up at the sky/stars. I noticed a star like light that started to slowly glide across the sky. Regular white color light at first. SIGHTING: I saw a light gliding across the sky for around 10 seconds. I saw it begin moving to the right then it started to move left really quickly then moved right again, that’s when it looked like it was ascending to the point it looked like a star, it got really small. Then it descended back down and while doing so it flashed so bright with a baby blue looking color and hazy bluish aura around it. For a brief second, it was the brightest looking light in the sky. I then saw it keep gliding across the sky slowly for about 6 seconds then it quickly ascended again and while doing so it flashed 2 times like a camera flash, with a baby blue color. It then seemed to disappear into the dark sky. After about 2 seconds I saw it flash 2 more times with a baby blue color and it went up so high into the sky that it just looked like a star. I kept looking at it and it seemed like it just faded away. Number of objects: 1 My conclusion: I have came to the conclusion that what I saw was not anything Earth like. Not a satellite, not a plane or helicopter. Not a drone or military training act. The way that it moved left and right seemed like it just moved in the direction it wanted to without any effort, to put an example its as if it was a cursor on a computer, it moved so easily and quickly, side to side then up and down. It also didn’t have the flashing lights that planes and helicopters have. The only times it flashed was when it moved up then down, other than that it just looked like a star in the sky that was gliding. And the fact that in the end of all of it, it looked like it had just faded away into nothing. And it couldn’t have been a comet, its movements and bright flashing several times was nothing like it.
May 26, 2021 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Myrtle Beach, SC
It was 4 orange lights in a perfect diamond shape then 3 faded then after that the last one faded about a second after.
May 26, 2021 · 4:21 PM · OTHER
Boise, NH
My daughter - a registered nurse - was flying back to Boise from Boston yesterday, and she says she saw a UFO. She said that as the plane was approaching Boise, just as they were breaking through the cloud layer, she was sitting in the left window seat right over the wing. She was looking out over the wing and an object, “about the size of a football” flew right over the wing toward the wing tip, traveling in the opposite direction (toward the rear of the plane). She said it was very metallic in color, but could not describe the shape. She said it was not shaped like a football and said it had (angles). She asked the pilot as she left the plane if he had seen it saying “ I asked the pilot he said no but kind of looked suspicious lol like he didn’t want to tell me yes lol. . . The flight attendant was like what was it? And I was like I don’t know that’s why I’m asking lol”.
May 26, 2021 · 9:19 AM · UNKNOWN
Littleton, CO
A flying object we can not explain was caught on our ring camera. I would like to send in the video.
May 26, 2021 · 8:45 AM · FORMATION
Mehama, OR
Looking out window seen a something silver & quite fast as I got up to look out my East window Facing The Mt. Jefferson Mountain, I seen two more side by side as a formation They looked silver In the sunlight, as quick as I seen the other two they were gone . It only lasted about 1 to 11/2 min. There were planes heading NE which these crafts where below the flight of the planes flying above the crafts that I seen.
May 26, 2021 · 3:19 AM · SPHERE
Salem, OR
I continue to see ORBS OVER SALEM OR for the last week at night and sometimes if we have cloud cover during the day. I have attempted to catch them on video but not as successful as I would like. I am farsighted and can see these orbs flashing at times throughout the night in the clouds and definitely under cloud cover at lower altitude. I tried to call the hotline and my call dropped. Some of the spheres/orbs are brighter than others and I would estimate hundreds of them if not thousands flying about the entire sky.
May 26, 2021 · 2:55 AM · UNKNOWN
Downey, CA
Date: 26 May 2021 Location: Downey, CA. Lat. 33.928N Long. 118.0134W Elev. 37m Time: Approximately 02:52 PDT Temp. 62°F, RH 93% Mostly Cloudy Wind Calm I've been an amateur astronomer for 18 years and it was also a hobby of mine for a few years growing up. This is the second telescope I've owned and have had it since January 2003. I've viewed 6 planets with it, Orion Nebula, star clusters, and at least a dozen total lunar eclipses. I've seen the ISS and the Space Shuttle Orbiters docked and undocked through binoculars and with the naked eye. I've watched the Geminid Meteors a half a dozen times and have viewed several comets. I'm familiar with most of the Northern Hemisphere constellations and the stars in them visible to me. I'd like to think I know what I'm looking at in the night sky. I was viewing the beginning of the umbral phase of the total lunar eclipse through my 6" Dobsonian, focal ratio f/8. It has a resolution of 0.77 arcseconds. I was using a 25mm Plossl eyepiece which yields AFOV = 1.2° (Actual Field of View) at 48x magnification. The umbral phase of the total eclipse began at 02:44 PDT (local time). I expected overcast skies so I didn't bother to even check conditions until 02:40 PDT. Even though the sky was mostly cloudy the Full Moon was visible through some light haze. I quickly set up on my front yard but then had to move to the driveway. By this time the Moon had already began to move into Earth's shadow (umbra) at about the 8 o'clock position on the Moon's face. I quickly brought the Moon into view through the telescope. The Moon covers about 0.5° in the sky and fills about half of my field of view with the aforementioned setup. I took a few picture with a digital camera just by holding it up to the eyepiece of the telescope. By now it was about 02:52 PDT. I took another look to see if I had to adjust the telescope to keep the entire Moon in view. This must be done every 1-2 minutes to keep it centered. As I looked with the entire Moon still within the field of view I saw a very small black o! bject travel across my field of view in a straight line from right to left very near where the equator would be. This took about 3-4 seconds. There were no lights on the object and it was only visible when passing in front of the moon. A characteristic of a reflecting telescopes is that they invert the object being viewed 180°. So top is bottom and left is right etc. So in reality it was traveling left to right or east to west. It was in focus and was too small to accurately determine any shape. I continued to view the eclipse, adjust the telescope as needed, and take a few more pictures. Then about 10 minutes later I saw the same thing again. By about 3:15 PDT the sky was completely overcast and the Moon was no longer visible. I did some calculations using the distance the Moon was from the Earth at that time 357,422km and the resolution of my telescope 0.77 arcseconds. The smallest object I can see at that distance would be at least 1,330 meters which is 0.82 miles. I have heard other reports where people said what they saw was larger than this. The largest object in orbit is the ISS which is 109 meters and orbits at about 400km from Earth. I thought it could possibly be small satellite thousands of miles high but they all orbit in the opposite direction than this did.
May 26, 2021 · 1:00 AM · FLASH
Grand Rapids/Blackberry Township, MN
Curtains open in my living room and noticed in the trees about 30-40 ft. Away from the window I noticed a flash of light size of a marble flash in the tree line thinking it was the shine of an animal blinking but curious enough it say me down to proceed looking. It only took about 45 seconds for it to flash again hovering above the chicken choop 10 ft away from the first spot. This happened over and over and sometimes often enough I can follow the path it is flying and now glowing light without the flash. I sensed a feeling that this thing new I was watching it when it stopped flashing and was still. I could follow it at one point near 2:30am flashing over to my neighbor diagonally down the dirt road from me and height max estimate of 45ft sometimes. At about 3:00am sightings began to spread apart appearing. This was witnessed by my boyfriend as well unaware almost 4 hours of this fit into what felt like 10 minutes. I hope this relates to anyone cause that’s! what I’m looking for what everyone wants too. Acknowledgment.
May 26, 2021 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Kokomo, IN
Day of May 26,2021 Midnight Came home from relatives house Looked up in the sky saw three rows of 6 lights No sooner as I said “ babe look up” the top and bottom row of lights disappeared And the middle lights as it flew over head each light slowly went out one at a time As if it was cloaking itself from being seen 30 to 40 seconds later the front middle light came on bright kind of looking like a fast moving Star burning in and out.
May 25, 2021 · 11:23 PM · UNKNOWN
Southbury, CT
I am in my 50’s, a former drafter/designer, currently an at-home mom. I did not see this anomaly in person. I was inside my home when our Ring system sounded. A few minutes later, I decided to look at the history on our Ring to see what it had detected. I will email the video upon submitting this report. It appears to be lights in a circular or oval shape and looks transparent. The top row of lights are white; the lower rows are bluish with one or two white lights in the lowest row. It looks almost like a projection. You can also see a reflection on the paved driveway below the image. The object was moving quickly and headed directly toward our garage then appears to twist and rise when it gets to the garage as if it’s going to go over it. Other than crickets, I hear no other sound. It is not definitive to me whether it came through the wooded buffer between us and our neighbor, or down our driveway. It does look more like it came from the wooded area (an approximately 20-25’ strip buffer of mature trees.) The following morning I looked around the yard and found nothing odd.
May 25, 2021 · 10:30 PM · FLASH
Lakewood, WA
Military veteran, lived near and currently by military base and flightline. I have seen numerous planes and aircraft that can be marked. On a dark, cloudy night, standing outside my open view back yard, I saw a bright flash appear for a moment in the clouds. A couple minutes after the first flash, there was a second flash in roughly the same position. I was not able to see any craft due to the cloudy night, but the flashes pierced through the veil of clouds enough to catch my attention twice. My German shepherd was quite tense during this time, whining and pacing like there was something disturbing them. They react to military scheduled drills like artillery training, and have grown accustomed to them. This event at night disturbed my dog suddenly.
May 25, 2021 · 9:34 PM · LIGHT
Milwaukee, WI
Im a night guard on my watch. I parked my car in the corner of the lot and looked up at the treeline on the low hill that makes up the far side (east) of the lot. Its a suburban area outside of Milwaukee. Im on a commercial lot on the highway,, lots of fast food and strip malls, i think there's residential further back from the road. Its not the middle of nowhere. At first I thought it was someone with a flashlight either on a walk or maybe looking to break into my building. People walk by on the street occasionally sometimes a car drives through but never up on the hill its wooded theres no road or sidewalk up there. Appearance: the coloring was off for a flashlight,l like a wierd combination of 2 kinds of bulbs. The color was bright white like LED headlights but had an orange halo glow like old streetlights and the glow slightly lit up the immediate trees. The bright white seemed to face one direction at a time but always perfectly angled the same way like it was staring at something constantly while the orange hue was slight but all directions. it was enough to light up trees behind it. I didn't hear it made any sound, though I was in my patrol car with the engine and air on. Movement: It moved back and forth too fast for anyone on foot and at either end it would abruptly stop, bounce slightly and reverse direction. The path took about 5 seconds to cover maybe 50-100 yards. I'm not sure how far away it was exactly but this is all within maybe 500 yards of me. Theres just not enough room back there to be any further you run into houses. But then it faded back into the trees out of sight, very slowly, about 20 seconds. I was trying to write it in my log when it reappeared at the edge of the treeline and shot up and down. Then it zipped southeast along the edge of the lot/treeline when it went behind my building and I lost sight. I added that to my log and drove around to see if I could spot it again but there was nothing. I drove around on patrol and saw nothing. Time stamp: First sighting was 21:34 and lasted less than 2 minutes, second was maybe 30 seconds with maybe 2 minutes in between but I looked away at times. Lost sight clock said 21:37, just before 21:38 I guess. Again I tried writing in the log as accurate as possible but that meant looking away. Drone possibility: it could possibly been a drone but it would have yo be an incredible skilled pilot to fly between trees at night. The 'spotlight' was fixed perfectly on one spot no matter how it moved except when it faded away. When it disappeared the spotlight dimmed a lot, like 80% of its brightness. I dont know how a drone has a spotlight that can aim so perfectly. It shot up and down too high too fast for a drone it was like a fireworks rocket for 100 ft up then just as fast down, with the 'spotlight' changing angles perfectly to stay on whatever target.
May 25, 2021 · 9:20 PM · SPHERE
Dallas, TX
I was standing outside while I let my dog outside around 9 pm on Tuesday may 25, 2021. I use an app on my phone to identify stars and planets in the night sky, and I saw a cluster of three stars I wanted to identify, so I opened my app. Two out of the three stars appeared on the app’s radar. Then I realized the “third star” was not a star at all. It began to move, and quickly. The white orb moved directly north until it was too small to see anymore. It was unlike anything I’ve ever seen, and it was not flashing red or any color like a plane or satellite. I have seen 2 ufos before this in my entire life. The first was a blue circular glowing orb in Galveston Texas in June of 2020. It appeared and disappeared on a night drive by the ship harbor. It was almost inexplainable. The second ufo I saw was a white orb in broad daylight in March 2021 in Texas while driving to Houston. It hovered above my car and disappeared.
May 25, 2021 · 7:00 PM · OTHER
Chicago, IL
i was flying my drone at 1000 feet....i looked up at my drone and these 2 black squares flew right across the sky and over my drone, i couldnt document it because my phone was installed with my drone remote, these black squares were moving at "airplane" speed, they were in a single file line formation and were in perfect sync, i dont know what it is that i saw, but i know i saw these two black squares perfectly with my "sober" eyes crazy!
May 25, 2021 · 4:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Near Jemez, NM
While sitting on the edge of a ravine in the Jemez Mountains with a friend, we both witnessed a craft approximately the size of a Cessna, “floated” slowly across our field of vision, and then away from us, down the ravine for roughly 7-10 seconds. It then disappeared. About ten minutes later, another similar looking craft much further away, but in the same direction, was spotted briefly before disappearing as well. The craft had white and red blinking lights, and appeared solid in form, but with silver and white colors, and triangle in shape. This was the same night as the moon eclipse.
May 25, 2021 · 4:27 PM · DIAMOND
Littleton, CO
The object looked onyx black and was floating / flying along the mountain range and then headed towards the mountains. The object looked Triangle/Diamond in shape - and was three dimensioned. At first I thought is was a balloon, however the speed it traveled and the dimensions didn't make sense.
May 25, 2021 · 12:25 AM · FORMATION
Portland, OR
My coordinates at the time of the sighting according to google maps: (45.5248002, -122.6920721) Lying on my apartment’s balcony with my feet pointing north, I saw three dim (almost hazy) white lights moving silently at approximately equal speed from the southwest to the north, passing through the handle of the Big Dipper. They were almost equidistant from each other in a diagonal line but the one furthest to the right broke formation slightly. It looked like it’s position wobbled in relation to the others. This made me realize that they weren’t quite moving in perfect unison and seemed like three separate objects. They were moving at high speed. The speed indicated to me that if it were a plane, it would have to be close to the ground in order to appear as if it were crossing the sky so quickly. However, it produced no sound audible to me and did not visually appear close to the ground.
May 24, 2021 · 11:00 PM · RECTANGLE
Chicago, IL
It was a large object with neon bright blue and white light that moved very fast then got smaller like it disappeared into the sky. Almost like watching a firework disappear but instead of falling it went up and disappeared
May 24, 2021 · 9:07 PM · FIREBALL
Myrtle Beach, SC
We’re vacationing in a resort on the beach when we wanted to enjoy the full moon. Suddenly my husband sees 3 orange lights in ‘V’ formation and points it out to my son who also sees it, then they just blink off after about 3-5 seconds. About 10 minutes later I see 1 orange light up in the sky that looks like a fireball that suddenly extinguished after a few seconds. At this point I start trying to convince the rest of my family about what we’ve seen when the 3 lights come back but this time in horizontal formation and blink off one by one. We managed to take photos and video and there is no way this was a drone or any craft we know of.
May 24, 2021 · 9:00 PM · CIRCLE
Laurel, MD
I arrived at the aquatic center at 9:pm. As I drove into the parking lot, I looked up and noticed 5 bright red circular objects floating from left to right. After 1 disappeared 3 more flew above the tree line and followed the other. Before I could video tape the sighting, 2 of the bright red objects formed 1 bright red object. All 8 objects disappeared 1 by 1!!!