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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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May 16, 2021 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Bellingham, WA
I was looking at the night sky SW of my home. I noticed a pinprick of light moving through the sky. I have seen these before which I believe were jets flying 30,000 to 40,000 mi up and only one. The pinpricks of light I saw this time were followed by six others with the same distance apart. A moment of time past, and these six were than replaced by 40 pinpricks of light slightly further west and going east like the first six and evenly spaced like the first six. I saw a brighter light to my right coming closer to where I was. It was bright white with a yellow center. It went right over my house going east.
May 16, 2021 · 10:40 PM · RECTANGLE
Sequim, WA
Recently in Sequim, Washington State, I saw the most amazing thing ever and feel compelled to share this with all interested. I now know the truth on this particular subject. Sunday night 5/17/2021, at 22:40 I decided to hit the sack earlier than normal. Partly because my 150lb Lab/Rot mix was pestering me, as he was ready to zonk out. I left my Man-Cave and headed for the house. As I reached my back door, I noticed something shimmering in the night sky. It was a clear night, only a sudden weather change brought in some low clouds. From here on I will relate my first impressions. This shimmering object was quite a distance from me, to my left and at about a 65-degree angle up towards the NW. It was in the atmosphere and may have been over The Strait of Juan de Fuca? It looked long and lay horizontal in the sky. At first, I thought it might be lights reflecting off an odd shaped cloud. That's until I realized it was moving to the East. Heck, that was no cloud! The shimmering seemed hypnotic and perhaps caused by the atmosphere? This object was going to pass right through my Northern view. I estimate it was moving just a bit slower than a commercial Jetliner when they pass over. At that point I knew this was something unusual. So, I ran for my vehicle to retrieve a pair of binoculars and by the time I fished them out, the object was straight across from me. I was facing North and when I peered through the optics at this object, my world changed! I could not believe what I was clearly seeing, yet knew exactly what I was seeing... a craft, a real UFO! Only this thing was HUGE! I'll get right to the point... it looked like the Freaking Empire State building floating in the sky on its side, only bigger and perhaps more like the World Trade Center!!! This clearly was a craft with 70 to 100+ windows patterened on its side. Just like a skyscraper at night with about 30% of the windows dark/off. The windows on were lit from within and surely what caused the shimmering. These were not navigation l! ights. Nor were they flashing. The structure of this craft was clear. It was like watching a Science Fiction Movie, when the big Mother Ship arrives to earth! Only this thing was real and no way ours! I was observing a side view, which seemed about 4 stories tall. I did not see a top or bottom view or different angle of the craft. Again, just picture the side view of a flying modern skyscraper. Through my binoculars I saw structure. No doubt in my mind this was a craft. Stunned I watched as it moved to my right. A much closer to me cloud bank would soon obstruct my view. When about one third of its front end was hidden by the clouds, it suddenly stopped. Then its trailing end started rotating to the horizontal upward position and stopped at about 65 degrees. At that point it descended. I watched until fully hidden by clouds. This craft was so big that I kind of expected to hear a crash! None came and this entire event was silent. If this craft was over water, it may have plunged in? I know what I clearly saw- a huge UFO, now etched into my mind forever! Certainly, someone else may have seen it and hope they come forward. Hey US Military... there is NO Way you don't know about this object on this night! Tell us the truth! For me seeing is believing and I can now say for certain, UFOs, crafts not of this world are REAL! I've shared this sighting with others who know me. Yet few seemed surprised/excited, even care. Oh well. Seeing this craft filled me with a sense off... Now I Know!
May 16, 2021 · 10:40 PM · CIRCLE
Keizer, OR
This was either a formation or a single craft with many lights on the outside. It was moving very slowly across the sky above my house. I tried to film but nothing showed on my camera. Though on zooming in, it looked like a single craft with lights outside. Too grainy to see anything in photos. There was a soft humming noise and it moved towards the East and out of view.
May 16, 2021 · 9:30 PM · FORMATION
Williamsport, MD
U.F.O. Sighting, no, not “little green men” but something odd last night. It was up in the sky & I can't Identify it, so its a “UFO”, but NOT a “flying saucer” & yes there is another witness. I don't know for sure what it was but I assume it was one of Musk's "Starlink" satellite trains? But there are significant differences from other images I've seen of them. Last night Western MD (39°38′34″N 77°43′12″W) about 9:30PM a string of 15~20, or so VERY bright white lights in the sky to the South West. (They were so bright they got my attention immediately) Roughly 45° elevation, heading vaguely North. It was a little patchy cloud so they seemed to be blinking on & off, but they were in a crescent shape, not a line like I've seen images of. The whole thing subtended only about 4 or 5°. Checking various tables the closest contender would be Starlink 24, or 27, but 5 ° subtention, 45° elevation doesn't match. Any thoughts or ideas?
May 16, 2021 · 8:15 PM · LIGHT
Grand Rapids, MI
Stepped outside shortly after sunset and noticed a bright white light in the southeast sky. Light was a little less than the apparent brightness of Venus, traveling at a high altitude about forty degrees above the horizon. The sky was still light enough that no stars were yet visible, though the crescent moon was clearly apparent in the southwest sky. Had time to grab my binoculars from my car. Through the binoculars, the light appeared to be a single steady point of light with no colored navigation lights or strobing. The light traveled in a straight line, moving at a steady speed from the southeast toward the northeast. It was visible for at least 90 seconds before fading in the distance. I thought it might have been the ISS, but checking with tracking apps showed the ISS wasn't due to be visible in my location in the NORTHWEST sky until several hours later.
May 16, 2021 · 8:00 PM · OTHER
Hiram, GA
got a pic of object very high altitude barely visible to naked eye,no contrail,moving southeast to northwest,appeared to be rotating/tumbling,the pic showed no aerodynamics,no wings,motors,rotors,very odd shaped metallic craft
May 16, 2021 · 7:00 PM · SPHERE
Jacksonville, NC
Observed for an hour, three round bright objects that appeared to float above passenger aircraft contrails. They aligned east to west with the moon.
May 16, 2021 · 6:30 PM · OTHER
Frenchtown, NJ
Me and my friends were sitting outside playing cornhole. A black object flew at a very stable speed and kept the same altitude. It almost looked like a giant black garbage bag floating in the wind but a few hundred feet above the ground. It came in the direction over the Delaware river and moved northeast. It was the most effortless thing I have ever seen move in the air. There sometimes are paramotors in the air and we all are very aware of what a paramotor looks like when it flies. The strangest thing was that we did not see any signs of an engine, wings, chute, or anything. It just seemed like it was drawing a very straight line without having control.
May 16, 2021 · 6:00 PM · SPHERE
Glendale, CA
Black spherical object was flying slowly from south to north at same highs. No noise very quietly object had white glow around it
May 16, 2021 · 3:55 PM · OVAL
Niagara falls, NY
Oval to rectangular in shape, almost black with what appeared to be 2 windows and a possible antenna. Hovered well below clouds then all of a sudden shot straight up and disappeared. Don't know if anyone else saw it. Niagara falls airport about 3-5 miles away. Went really fast straight up.
May 16, 2021 · 3:45 PM · CIRCLE
New Baltimore, MI
White/silver ball seemed to be hovering in the air. It caught my eye because as it started moving, the sun seemed to reflect off of it making it glimmer every couple seconds. Movement was slow and controlled, definitely too big to weather balloon and moved too slowly to be a plane. It left no exhaust trail either. It even seemed to appear and disappear quickly. Sighting only lasted 3 minutes or so and it just disappeared into a cloud. I was able to get photos and videos.
May 16, 2021 · 2:30 PM · CIRCLE
San Pedro, CA
Unbelievable! Very large circle shadow drifted across the water and docks at the port of los angeles headed north east.shadow was about 300 feet across silently drifting with no noise and nothing in the sky to be seen causing the shadow.myself and two co workers witnessed this as well as numerous longshoreman,all of whom stopped working to watch this event.has anyone else seen this? We were all stunned and cant stop talking about it.absolutely nothing in the sky could be seen or heard while this huge shadow moved across the port.
May 16, 2021 · 12:42 PM · DISK
Otsego, MN
We observed a comet about 10 minutes before. We were fishing by the boat launch opening and looked up and say a line of lights. The lights were pulsing around the saucer. The saucer was angled and on the left side of the opening of the trees. It floated all the way to the right sight of the opening above the trees, straightened out, dimmed the lights, and shot off. It a total of about 2 min 30 sec.
May 16, 2021 · 12:05 PM · CIGAR
Plymouth, MA
Large dull white cigar or disc hovered, gradually glided east where it vanished as if the night sky absorbed it, it made no sound
May 16, 2021 · 12:00 PM · OVAL
Hermitage, TN
Two passenger aircraft were flying the same route at different elevations. The one headed over Nashville Airport to the Northwest had a small ball or round object following it, then as the higher aircraft approached the point of crossing the path of the plane headed NW, the ball stopped and went west some small distance off the contrails and waited for the plane headed southeast to pass, then after it had passed what appeared a small distance beyond the round object the round object went back to the contrail and approached the back of the plane headed southeast and followed it very close until it faded in the distance beyond visual site.
May 16, 2021 · 11:00 AM · CIRCLE
Vancouver, WA
On May 16th I took my dog outside for bathroom at about 11:00pm. As soon as we got outside I looked up and saw a long line of bright white lights crossing the sky. The line of lights went as far north as I could see, (about half the night sky before the horizon was blocked by an apartment building) and as they moved over head they would just disappear one at a time in the same exact spot. The lights were moving relatively slow and were in a perfectly straight uniformed line, all the same distance from one another. I tried to film it with my IPhone 8, but nothing showed up so I ran inside, told my girlfriend to come out and grabbed her iPhone 11. I went back outside and tried to film with her phone, but it still didn’t show up so I went back inside and Convinced my girlfriend to come out and she also saw the line of lights. About 10 or 15 seconds after she came out another much much larger bright light appeared and started to move across the sky at the same ! slow speed in a different direction. After about a minute and a half from when she came out the seemingly endless line of lights came to an end as we saw the last one pass over head and disappear. At that point my girlfriend went inside, but I stayed and watched the larger bright light until it went out of view over the horizon. It was literally just that, a large bright circular light, nothing was blinking or had any color at all, and I didn’t even think to film it because I had already given up on filming before it appeared. In total I watched the lights for about 5 to 7 minutes and they were already in full swing when I first saw them. Also while I was filming the first time I watched a small farm plane fly right by the line of lights. I guarantee he got a great view of them, he may have even been able to see where they were originating from idk. Here’s the thing Where I live is a very densely populated area near an airport so I’m amazed I couldn’t find a report from w! here I live that nigh (which is why I’m reporting this) so if ! anyone g ot a different view please report, especially if anyone got it on film, that would be so cool!
May 16, 2021 · 10:00 AM · FORMATION
Portland, OR
I was on my back porch last night around 10:00 pm, These lights were in a v shape formation but there was maybe 4 on one side and 8 on the other. No sound at all, they just moved across the sky in a perfect formation.
May 16, 2021 · 9:54 AM · LIGHT
Vincent, AL
Two objects were headed towards each other then they stopped abruptly. They headed east and 3 other objects came from the east and stopped and hovered. Another red object slowly came from the south hovering. The last two objects came from the South approximately 60 to 80k feet and crossed each other at a high speed and they took off towards the East. Meanwhile during the event it looked like a helicopter and a 3 planes came by. It looked like they were putting a on show.
May 16, 2021 · 9:30 AM · RECTANGLE
Rochester, NY
At around 9:30pm may 16 2021 we had a crescent moon so i brought out the telescope to look at the moon. while looking at a the moon very close, i think i was using 9mm lense and had a very clear and close view of every detail on the moon. I watched a rectangle shaped ship go from the bottom of the moon that was lit up by the sun and up to the dark part of the moon. The ufo moved very quick and traveled the surface of the moon in about 3 seconds. I also noticed it was fairly bigger than most of the craters on the moon and it left a shading on the ground as it traveled. I came to the conclusion it must have been massive for me to see it as i did. It had the shape of a rectangle if you rounded off its edges and thinned out the front of it.It caught me off guard so i didnt get many detailed on it but it was dark like black or smokey gray.The ufo had no lights nore did it leave a trail. I watched for several hours after that to see it it would come back around se! eing as it moved so fast but never did. I use the telescope alot to take a look at the moon. its a decent telescope and like i said i get really really close detail to the surface and never seen anything pass by the moon like that or that size or even leaving a shadow on the surface. It was pretty interesting. I sometimes see wierd things fly by but you can tell its usually something in our own atmosphere so i kno the difference between the two. Feel free to contact me.
May 16, 2021 · 9:00 AM · UNKNOWN
McDonald, PA
This evening my daughter and I had been out feeding bottle lambs in the field. We had to get them back to the rest of the flock and also sneak away so they would not follow us. They think we are their moms, but if they cannot find us then they will stay with the rest of the sheep and the guardian dog where they will be safe. The sun had just gone down completely so it was hard to see so we used that to our advantage to “disappear”. We walked through the flock of sheep and circled around to walk along the fence knowing they cannot see that well and will loose us in the other sheep if we walk quickly. As we circled around to the entrance of the field I heard a couple of stray bottle lambs calling so we stopped. We have 13 of them and the smallest ones are harder to escape from. If we kept going they would have made us so we waited. I was counting on that they would eventually follow the direction we had left them and also the sound of the other sheep be! cause they don’t want to be left behind. We stood there quietly listening for a few minutes as they called to the sheep and made their way towards the flock. I got bored quickly and started looking at the stars while still listening to the lambs as they made their way. I quickly noticed a formation of small lights that were very high in the sky. They were moving steadily from east to west. We live near an airport so I first just assumed they were high altitude planes. They were moving at that speed, maybe a bit faster. Then quickly realized they were not flashing at all, several high altitude planes did appear and it was easy to tell that was not what we were looking at. As I mentioned we live near an airport and there is a lot of air traffic. So, then I thought they must be satellites. Though, I thought it was odd they were in a trapezoid formation. I pointed them out to my daughter who was with me. She is 13 and she started watching them too. Then I realized there was 5 in formation then another two out front and then another two appear towards the rear. They traveled at a mostly steady rate and constant light. Then! my daughter said, “did you see that?” I said, “no what?” She said the one I the rear of the trapezoid was doing something strange. So, I focused on the one and saw that is was actually wobbling. Moving up and down as it was tracking with the others. She said yes it is, but that’s not what she saw. She said it had flirted around really fast. So I kept watching and then I saw it too. It would zip at light speed backward or in another direction for just a split second. Sometimes so fast it just looked like it just faded out or disappeared and flash behind it appeared then it was back. This happened In different directions, not always behind. So that solidified they were not satellites either. For reference these moved across half the sky in no more than 5 minutes then stopped after we were commenting on them. After they stopped I pulled out my phone and checked my star app and it said that I was looking at the constellation Leo. The “stars” did line up with it b! ut, unless stars now forget their place and cross half the sky! in five minutes to get back in place and they also wobble and flit around while they do it... THEY WERE NOT STARS. We realized they were pretending to be stars and that was the reason for he formation. Yet, even then after they stopped the back “star” was still moving around in the sky not holding still. We were now alert that things were not as they seemed and we stated looking at some other “stars and satellites”. The two in front of the formation were no longer visible. The two behind the trapezoid formation had kept moving after those stopped and then one just faded out and disappeared. The brighter one kept going for a minute then stopped. We turned around and saw two bright lights over one of our big oaks out in the field. They were so bright I thought those ones HAD to be planes so we watched for a minute. They never did flash and didn’t get closer or farther away. Other airplanes headed for the airport flew by and it was clear they were not planes. I checked my star app and it said it was part or Aries. Then the lower one started to quickly drop in the sky and first faded out, and then brightened back up and got so low it disappeared behind the tree. At this point I messaged my husband and told him we were surrounded by UFOs and he came out on the quad to se! e what was going on. Then the higher one started moving quickly across the sky at a steady rate to the south. When we commented on it, it stopped. When he got he got there we told him what we had seen and he of course didn’t believe us. So I pulled out my star app and the “star” that had been in Aries was now saying it was part of Apus. So the “star” had “flown” past Cygnus and into some harp constellation I had never heard of before. I told him just wait a minute and watch. Sure enough, soon my daughter spotted another “star” obviously dancing around in the sky. It was not a part of the original fleet but in a similar part of the sky. We all watched it weave and swing and dip every which way. Then the bright star behind the trapezoid formation started moving again towards the “Leo” trapezoid formation which was still holding still. Then another “satellite” started moving west to east in the same part of the sky. Joey said for sure THAT ONE was satellite, until half way across the sky it disappeared. At this this point his mind was pretty blown but I said, “I bet there are more” so we turned around to the north again and ANOTHER light I had taken for granted as star started dancing around too! So, we watched that for a minute or two as it dipped and weaved around. Then we turned back around to the south and I looked suspiciously at “Leo. I took out my star app out again and their cover was blown because while they no longer lined up with ! “leo”! They had not moved with the constellation as it would move. The “star” furthest east no longer lined up at all. They accidentally held too still! At this point my daughter and I had been out there watching this craziness for darn near an hour, and I had to get back in to get the little kids to bed and what not. We headed back toward the house. Then I remembered I had not given one of our guardian dogs her medicine so I went up to the barn to do that. I noticed she need water so went out to fill her bucket and while it was filling I looked up at the sky again to see another very bright “satellite” booking it across the sky faster than any of the other had been until my view was blocked by the barn roof above me. I checked for the “Leo” stars on the way down tot he house and they were still there, still pretending to be a constellation, but even further out of line of where the actual constellation was supposed to be in the sky. I am 38 years old, I have never before seen anything that I could not write off as an airplane or satellite in the sky. I don’t drink and have never so much as smoked a cigarette since they are my number 1 asthma trigger. I have an undergraduate degree in environmental science, and a master’s degree in biology. I own and operate a 127 acre sustainable and regenerative farm with grass only beef cattle, sheep, goats, turkeys, chickens, and ducks. I don’t spend a lot of time looking for UFOs, nor do I have time to even if I wanted. But, I sit here now wondering how many times have a I looked up at stars were not actually stars? Why would UFOs pretend to be stars or constellations? What is the purpose? These questions disturb me nearly as much as the fact that I have witnessed indisputable UFOs. What are they doing and why are they pretending? And why SOOO Many!??? Just, why???
May 16, 2021 · 8:17 AM · CIRCLE
Belen, NM
As I pulled to the light on my way into the city for work I noticed a big silver metal sphere in the sky not moving so I pulled over and took a couple pictures during this time I could see it clear as day and had no noticable rotation did notove in any direction my entire time seeing this then I went to work about one hour I had my girlfriend go and see if it was still there and I was not.
May 16, 2021 · 5:30 AM · OTHER
Fort Myers, FL
Possibly simiar fast moving object seen and reported to ufocenter on April 26, 2021 . Seen second time on 2021-05-16, around 05:30 to 05:32 in the morning. Travelling approximately in a north-western to south-eastern direction. Looked like a small satellite.
May 16, 2021 · 4:00 AM · SPHERE
Newberg, OR
there was a spherical light emitting a green laser, pointing diagonally towards the surface of the ground. from the lazer were smaller orbs of white light traveling along the green laser towards the ground in tandem. The green "laser" then began to dissappear in quartered segments starting at the ground and ending at the "sphere" the sphere then began ascending and completely disappeared as if it passed through a barrier of some sort. I then glanced at the area through my nvgs to attempt to see of there was anything not visible to the eye alone, and in the background there were several orbs of light that appeared much farther up traveling in a straight diagonal line all appearing to be equally spaced, they also appeared to pass through some sort of "barrier" becoming no longer visible at the exact same spot. Very strange I have never been interested in this type of extraterrestrial stuff or any of the sort, but I have to admit! I have been consumed by curiosity. I've googled everything and have not come across anything similar to what my wife and I witnessed. P.s in the time box I put aprox 2 minutes however we did not see the event begin as it was currently happening in the sky as we walked to the car, on my way to work .
May 16, 2021 · 1:50 AM · OTHER
Port Hadlock, WA
I let my dog out at 1:50a or so, maybe 1:45a. Clear skies, bright stars visible. I looked up to the east and saw a string of bright white lights slowly passing by. The length of this was about as long as my index finger, extended to arms length. I had binoculars and my cell phone just inside the door, so I looked at the lights through the binoculars. Crystal clear lights, straight line, very close together. They were as bright as the stars and made no sound. A few in the line were not "turned on", making a break in the line, but there were about 35 all together. As I was trying to turn on my cell phone camera, the lights had moved out of view, hidden by the fir trees in my backyard. I saw on a youtube channel that a few other people within 50 miles of me saw this too. One man described it as "The Empire State Building laying on it's side". He felt it was a solid object from his angle, and he used binoculars, too. I think of it as a string of lights.