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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 8, 2021 · 9:30 AM · FORMATION
Irmo, SC
Saw various lights like starts traveling in a row and disappear in the sky.
May 8, 2021 · 12:00 AM · FORMATION
Eagle River, MI
Never saw anything like this. Went and got my husband up to see. He was positive they had to be ufo’s!!
May 7, 2021 · 11:45 PM · UNKNOWN
Weeki Wachee, FL
May 7th, 2021 My husband and I were watching TV in the sunroom. I went outside to watch for meteorites since I had seen one earlier that night. This was about 11:45 pm. While I am looking up, I notice a bright object with pulsating lights of blue, white, and, orange. Object appeared to be football size to the naked eye and approx. 400 ft up at sixty to sixty five degree angle. After veering eastward, it then veered westward, then, accelerated and went north where it disappeared behind trees. No sound.
May 7, 2021 · 10:57 PM · UNKNOWN
Stowe, VT
I was outside the front door and saw lights dripping down like molten iron. Just dropped down and the stopped at an abrupt halt. They then formed a single file and head off 90 degrees to the north east.
May 7, 2021 · 10:15 PM · SPHERE
Calistoga, CA
My wife and I were camping at Bothe-Napa, sitting around the campfire looking up at the stars off and on. The sky was very clear, and through the tree openings we first spotted a row of orbs (same size as a singular satellite you would see cruising by). There were 8 orbs on the first pass, equally distanced apart from each other moving at the exact same speed from left to right, about 6 to 7 seconds apart from each other. After the 8 orbs passed and brief moment went by before another another row of orbs began traveling along the same path. Each equally distanced from each other and moving at the same speed. We counted 49 orbs in this group. There were many trees so we could not see beginning or end of their travel (this info will come into play later). After another brief moment a third group of orbs appeared only this time they were traveling perfectly perpendicular to the previous groups. Again, each equally distanced and moving at the same speed. At this point I decided I would walk into the road/parking lot area to try and get a better look away from the trees. I asked our camp neighbor if he was seeing them as well. I pointed up and he said yes and took out his phone to record a video, but cell phones are just not powerful enough to see lights in the dark night sky. He said he couldn’t see it on his phone. He seemed much less impressed than myself about what we were seeing and went back to cleaning dishes. Now here is where it gets interesting…As I followed the trail of traveling orbs I noticed that they did not follow the horizon and disappear as a satellite would. Rather, they travelled in a perfectly straight pathway out of the atmosphere, disappearing from sight as they got far enough away. It was something I had never seen before, like something you would see in a sci-fi movie. There were 59 orbs traveling on the third perpendicular run. All in all 116 total orbs spotted by the naked eye. It by far the most unexplainable, bizarre, yet interesting thing I have ever seen. I would be interested to know if others saw what we saw that night.
May 7, 2021 · 9:45 PM · DISK
Decatur, IL
Saw disc with lights rotating like:::::: "·· ·· ·· ··" then in "··· ··· ··· ···" back down to 2, then 1, and gone. Just vanished. You could tell it was spinning like the starship ride you see at the state fairs.
May 7, 2021 · 9:45 PM · LIGHT
Placerville, CA
A single line of lights, first moving from south to north, just above (the big dipper), then the lights re-appeared, this time from west to east. the lights were moving all in a row, no sound, in groups of 2, 4, 5 with spaces between the groups. they were in the sky for only a few minutes, then disappeared, then again in a row west to east direction. I have never seen anything like this before.
May 7, 2021 · 9:30 PM · FORMATION
Havelock, NC
I was talking to my brother on my cell phone on my front porch with my wife. I looked up to the stars and off to the left I noticed dozens of lights moving rapidly in a straight line and disappearing at what seemed like the same fixed point in the sky. (I later told my wife I wonder if they were disappearing into an invisible or unseen "mothership") I told my wife and we both watched for a minute or so as I attempted to tell my brother what we were seeing. A moment later my wife went inside to tell our older son. They came out to watch the last dozen or so lights disappear at the same spot in the sky. All of the lights seemed to be the same brightness traveling in almost a straight line but not perfectly. The closest thing I could relate it to would be if a stationary aircraft were to shoot tracers in the sky at something else in the sky and the tracers burnt out at the exact location without fading out but instantly extinguishing at the same point! in the sky and the "tracers" did not fall due to gravity in fact they seemed to follow a very straight path. I have been in Marine Corps aviation for 20 years and have flown in large formations but never in a straight line like that. I was a crew chief on CH-46's and MV-22's and performed air to ground and air to air gunnery and we would never shoot air to air in any possibly populated area.
May 7, 2021 · 9:23 PM · SPHERE
Pinedale/Fresno, CA
On May 7 my dad was outside as he normally gets up to look around at night. He went by my window and called me out to “look at these weird stars”. We always tend observe the sky to see if we see something odd, this time he did. He then showed me what he was looking at and described the lights as “moving stars going in a circle”. I began to notice it was about 3 circular lights that kept moving at a right upward angle across the sky. As we kept watching, the lights had seemed to move at a further distance but you can the were all aligned to a vertical angle. No matter what direction the objects went, they maintained aligned. The lights in the video are shown coming from the left side of the screen next to the palm tree. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Possible]
May 7, 2021 · 9:22 PM · FORMATION
Dublin, CA
My wife and I and my mother-in-law were outside and noticed a string of lights not flashing, green and red, approximately 8 miles above the flight path to Oakland and San Jose which is only a 3 mile above sea level flight pattern. The array of lights, which I thought were drones, which were to high to be drones were in a close to pattern like formation. They flew in from the west, disappeared and then two minutes later showed up at a 90 degree angle turning to fly south.. My wife is already finding posts on Facebook about what we witnessed, it’s crazy.
May 7, 2021 · 9:20 PM · UNKNOWN
Kensington, CA
At around 9:20 PM my wife and I were on our deck and saw a line of lights in the sky, perfectly spaced, moving west to east. We saw approximately 50 of them go by, evenly paced. They were too far away to see a shape. I took a video.
May 7, 2021 · 9:20 PM · FORMATION
Shaver Lake, CA
We were at our cabin in the mountains and getting ready to leave. As we approached our car, I noticed in the northern sky, just above the tree line a string of lights flying in a straight line from West to East. They were evenly spaced and all going about the same speed. I would normally think it would be a satellite, but there were so many of them. This "parade" or formation of lights lasted for several minutes, I would say at least 3 minutes. They faded and gradually disappeared as they headed East. There had to be over 100 "lights". Eventually they stopped, but it was a very consistent formation, a straight line of lights all flying across the sky (not falling like a meteor, or space debris) They were too far away to see any shape or color Although I am somewhat skeptical of UFO's, I don't disbelieve. This is definitely the first time I have ever made any type of report. My background: I have a college education, am over 60 yrs old and do not drink alcohol or do drugs.
May 7, 2021 · 9:20 PM · LIGHT
Grove, OK
Lights following each other, nearly equidistant from each other, from west to east over Grand Lake. First saw 14 lights at 10k ft moving in a steady straight line. Ten minutes later there were many more in following a similar path all in line. I couldn't see where the lights originated through the trees but they vanished over the lake to the east. They traveled like the speed of satellites in the night sky, but were much closer. Soundless. My phone went to emergency only mode during the parade of lights and stayed in emergency mode for an hour after.
May 7, 2021 · 9:12 PM · FORMATION
Marin, CA
A constant line of star like forms, moving on a single trajectory slowly along Marin headlands west to east at first in front of us. A few minutes elapsed then they returned flying from the same direction but more north westerly to the south easterly direction and this time more overhead. The lights were spaced at different intervals, some seemed to be catching up and varying ever so slightly in speed, some were flying closer together, some more spaced out.
May 7, 2021 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Antioch, CA
They were moving from West to East. In all there were probably 15-20 pairs before the phenomena ended.
May 7, 2021 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Raleigh, NC
Near Falls Lake walked out of the house. Wife looked up and said "what's that". I said probably birds. She then said "birds that have lights?" Conditions sparse clouds, dark. Second look I could see a string of lights heading west to east in an subtle arc. Moving at a pace probably double to triple a commercial airliner. Evenly spaced if I held a ruler to the sky I would say 1/2 inch apart from my vantage point. Some were a little higher than others all moving steady in the same direction. When they hit a certain spot in the sky they disappeared one by one as if going behind a curtain. They came into view in the west about 25% (1/4 distance from horizon) across the night sky disappearing at about the same point in the east. My 18 year old son also saw this. We tried to film it but it came out too dark to see. The lights were very very high in the sky
May 7, 2021 · 11:35 AM · SPHERE
Jonesboro, GA
Was working electrical job in jonesboro woth my boss robert((last name deleted)) ,we were in the parking lot the sky wasostly clear with only a few clouds ,i looked up and noticed a cloud that was extremely bright and rainbow colored so i got my phone out of the van ,but the cloud had disappeard despite it being a substantial size,as i looked up i noticed this tin bright cloud That was accumulating mass rapidly ,i then moticed what i thought was a bright star ,it dissappeared and reappeared several times in different parts of the sky,as this was going on i took several pictures.judge for your self.when you blow it up you can see it has a repeating pattern to it,and a trail nehind it in a couple of the pics.
May 7, 2021 · 9:57 AM · OTHER
Sartell, MN
We didn't hear anything from them. Not sure what it was. Starlink satellite show or something
May 7, 2021 · 8:50 AM · LIGHT
Albuquerque, NM
About 10-15 degrees from zenith west. The lights followed a straight line but were somewhat staggered. The lights appeared from about 10-15 degrees south from zenith and traveled due north 10-15 degrees. They appeared from nothing visible in the sky and disappeared behind a small cloud. Me my wife and son all saw them. My son was the first to see them and called to my wife and me to look as well. He tried to count but lost count to tell us. They were traveling fast and they could have been Elon Musk's satellites before they dispersed. My son is here on a vacation and we live here. He's 37 and we're 70 and 71.
May 7, 2021 · 5:30 AM · FIREBALL
DeFuniak Springs, FL
South toward the the Gulf of Mexico a comet like object traveling east to west, vertically with a very large tail, lighting up the sky.
May 7, 2021 · 2:24 AM · TRIANGLE
Somersworth, NH
Around 2:24am, I was driving up rte 16 going north & as I past the old exit 8 to my left of me about 8 to 10 stories high above a tree I witnessed 3 bright lights including a red light fairly to the middle of the 3 lights that were in a triangular position. From my observation it seem as the ufo was As I slowed down to pull my camera out I noticed it was vertical tilted at and angle to where all the lights where pointed towards me, I was unable to make out the details of the what it looked like exaclty I started record it for about 30 seconds before I had to keep driving due to a car coming up from behind. Due to my research there is no dount is was a ufo, in the video I recorded you can see that it was just hovering there if it were an airplane I would have only had a couple of seconds before it would have descended to land & from the video evidence I have you can see that it didn’t descend but since it was so dark you can only see the lights in the video.! I’m only reporting this to see if anyone else seen the same one.
May 7, 2021 · 1:00 AM · FORMATION
Midland, MI
N/a
May 7, 2021 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Littleton, CO
I am a seasoned amateur astronomer. Went out to look at the night sky to check out my new eyeglasses. Looked upward toward the zenith near the north. Movement of "stars" caught my eye. Then I saw more moving points of light. First thought was a satellite array moving together; then it became evident that there were scores of objects (maybe 20-30) following in a straight line moving from SSW to NNE through tail of Ursa Major. I would estimate the brightness of the points of light to be -2 magnitude. All followed the same path. Spacing was not uniform. No noise. They flickered out before reaching the horizon (possibly passing through the earths shadow terminator. Might have been multiple deployments of satellites.
May 6, 2021 · 11:30 PM · OVAL
South Bend, IN
Look at the clear north Sky. Looking at big dipper. I saw 6 orbs bright light. Much larger the the stars. Moving much faster then a satellite. They appeared one at a time in a stagerd straight line. Then disappeared one at a time. I had a hard time sleeping the rest of the night.