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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 4, 2021 · 10:28 AM · UNKNOWN
Sand Hollow, ID
Four of us sitting on our front porch enjoying the evening before bed out of nowhere we see this long line of straight white lights not flashing probably look maybe a hundred feet in length and seemed like it was just floating all of a sudden it seemed like it tried to turn and just disappeared not like it shot off and disappeared but just went invisible. Also it was silent not one single noise with this line of lights and they were white non-flashing
May 4, 2021 · 7:35 AM · DISK
Terrell, TX
Good Morning, Approximately 7:35am to 7:40am I was alerted by my daughter of something strange in the sky. Followed by my son who ran inside to tell me to come outside. I looked up into the sky to see a strange gray disc like object that was not moving. Just suspended in the air. I saw some of the kids on the bus get out with their phones up and even the bus driver was looking out of his driver side window. I’m not sure if any of the parents present saw it but at the time my phone was on the charger and my kids had theirs in their pocket. I’m pretty sure if any of the kids with their phones up were recording it’s likely a TikTok by now or some other form of popular media as they’re all middle school to high school students. The object took off straight up until it disappeared. I have flown in airplanes, crop planes, and helicopters. I own two drones and have some expertise in maneuvers concerning aircraft dynamics, not to say I’m a scientist but I know enough to accurately state that with the knowledge I have now that no air craft can move that fast going upwards and disappear in literal seconds. Also, the way this gray disc was hovering made me think it could be spinning slowly, may had some propulsion from either side. The skies are completely blue with hardly any clouds and the fact it didn’t have wings and remained stationary in the air seems suspect for a craft re-entering Earth’s atmosphere and is not a balloon or other helium or gas powered object. This was perfectly still except for the small side to side swaying that was almost too precise to be called anything other than stabilizing in the jet stream. The fact the craft or whatever it was had been able to shoot straight up without moving forward, backwards, or to the side seems impractical. I cannot think of anything else that I know about which can achieve rapid acceleration almost as if breaching the stratosphere and into what I can only speculate is outer space. I called the local non emergency line and was told I’m not the first to report it but it’s likely a military craft or a science project from something. I don’t know what else to say about this except I am confused and confounded by what I saw. What all of us witnessed, honestly. Wish I could be of more assistance.
May 4, 2021 · 4:40 AM · CIRCLE
Zamora, CA
We just saw strange lights in the sky while responding to a 911 call. They traveled in a straight line and two by two. They were exactly the same length a part. It was nothing I had ever seen before.
May 4, 2021 · 4:30 AM · FORMATION
Madera, CA
Went outside @ 0430 and saw a line of stars which I have never seen in the north eastern sky. After a few seconds I noticed they were moving right to left. There were about 10 at a time, and as they were moving the front one would disappear and another would appear at the other end. Towards the end several would get close together and then separate. And several would stop and go. This lasted for several minutes. Then they disappeared.
May 4, 2021 · 1:00 AM · FIREBALL
Zimmermann, MN
There was a massive line of straight light looking like fire balls but in a perfect formation with blinking lights all around it. It hovered in one spot shooting across the sky disappearing into a bright star. Very vivid, obvious UFO. Extremely freaky...
May 3, 2021 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Point of Rocks, WY
Facing west I noticed 6-8 box’s connected at about 170 degrees moving wnw at slow to medium speed, each box was connected in line and each box was outlined in bright white. Light at least width and length, I believe in depth and even perhaps in 3D.I turned around to point it out but the door was locked and I turned around to watch it again as it dimmed and disappeared one box at a time as if it moved behind a barrier.
May 3, 2021 · 9:15 PM · FIREBALL
Jacksonville, FL
As it moved towards us, it slowed down a bit. There was no noise and no blinking lights. The object the moved a bit faster into the distance. At one point it stopped and made a quick change of direction to the right in a 90 degree angle. Then it seemed to quickly move amd fades into the distance.
May 3, 2021 · 9:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Pismo Beach, CA
I walked out onto my deck around 9 pm and sat down. I looked up and immediately saw a big black triangular shape floating above me traveling north from the south. It had three dim orb-like lights at each corner of its triangular shape. I watched as it passed overhead in complete silence and then looked in the direction it was heading, but I couldn’t see anything. There was a commercial flight in the sky at the same time that was much higher and brighter, so I could tell this was only a few hundred feet above me, nowhere near the altitude planes fly at. It was closer to a drone in its movement, but it made no sound. The object was moving north from the south, approximately over highway 101. Vandenberg Air Force Base is south of here and it could've been coming from that direction.
May 3, 2021 · 7:30 PM · SPHERE
Brandon, MS
Greetings, I’m an automation specialist and have been working in the field of electronic technology for over 50 years. I am 70 years old. I have seen a few odd things in the sky in my life but this was the most unusual and unexplained. I’m reporting this recent sighting because I have seen nothing about it on any news outlet. I was so shocked by what I saw that I thought it would be global news. This is my account of what I saw in the sky on May 3, 2021 in Brandon, Ms. I was outside in the early evening working on a new front porch addition. I noticed that it was 7:30 pm and looked up to the sky as I was sitting down to see if I could see bats flying overhead. I had noticed bats coming out to eat insects the evening before at that same time and wanted to see if they were out again and they were. As I was looking to the north, I saw a very bright object. I thought maybe it was Venus because it was so bright and big but it was in the wrong place and this object had an odd flare coming out of one side of it almost like a comet trail but very short. It sort of looked like what you would see if you threw paint ball on a flat surface and it splattered a bit in one direction– round with a few rays and a bit smudged. When I noticed the flare, I ran inside to get my binoculars and lost a minute or two looking. All I could fine was my oversize pair so I grab them and went back outside. The object was still there and had grown larger but the flare was gone. I tried to focus on it. My binoculars are very large and hard to handle without a mount but I was able to focus on it and I was shocked into disbelief. I had no idea what I was looking at. It looked like miniature moon about 3 or 4 time the size of Venus as observed from earth and just as bright. It was bright silver with shaded areas and absolutely round. There was not another light in the sky – no stars, no planets and the sky was still filled with light from the sun as it was setting. There was a storm rolling in, a tornado watch and the sky was a bit hazy. I doubt that there were many people in my area outside looking up at the time. I put the binoculars down and picked up my phone to bring up my astronomy app to see if I could identify what it was that I was seeing. As I was fiddling with my phone to bring up the app ( I have to take my case off because it has a magnet on it and that destroys the accuracy of the compass and it doesn’t work for positioning) the object started dimming and shrinking in size as if it was now heading away from my perspective. When I saw it dim, I knew the app wouldn’t recognize this strange object because it was nothing normal about it. I decided to try to get a picture of it before it was gone and I did snap a few pictures before it disappeared but the contrast between the object and the sky was low for a camera because it was still pretty much daylight. I accidentally took 2 one second videos and they came out better than the pictures. I put the phone down and watched the object as it narrowed down to a point of light and vanished. When the object was heading away it remained perfectly round as shrunk in size and brightness. In the two short videos you can see the effect of the atmosphere as it distorts the shape of the object. I am an amateur astronomer and I am very familiar with atmospheric distortion and the distortion I see in the videos tells me the object was above our atmosphere. I wish I could have gotten some photos of it when I first saw it because it was much bigger plus it had a flare at first but I was stunned and was kind of wondering if this was doomsday. My first thought when I saw the object in my binoculars was that something huge was about to hit earth unannounced. It looked like a rouge moon headed directly for us. When it started moving away, I felt relief as it shrunk in size. I knew that it must be traveling at an extreme speed the way it disappeared. The whole event lasted about 5 minutes. The object pretty much stayed in the same location in the sky and did not jump or dart around. I didn’t see it come into view – it was just there when I looked up and it only moved a little in position when it took off. There was no sound, no flashing light and the only colors I saw was sliver and gray. Since it was hazy during the observation, I have to question the detail that I saw on the object. I now assume that maybe I was seeing cloud vapor super imposed on the object and that vapor gave it the darker areas in the disk I viewed that resembled the terrain of the moon. Now my question is – Did anybody else see this object? My guess was that it was an asteroid making a very close fly-by but the news and the astronomy groups are saying nothing about it. It’s seems impossible that no one else noticed it. It’s a complete mystery to me.
May 3, 2021 · 4:35 PM · CIGAR
Springfield, MO
I was riding in the passenger side of the car, looked out the window and saw a huge stationary craft hovering maybe 75 feet off the ground. I starting exclaiming to everyone in the car about it to look, but they didn’t see. I noticed the craft was completely silent and huge, twice the size of a large airplane and black with a sort of damascus metal design all over. I was pretty shook up and couldn’t understand why nobody else could see it. I felt strange sensations in my mind like I was trying to be confused or controlled what I thought. We drove by the spot again a few minutes later and it was gone.
May 3, 2021 · 1:00 PM · OVAL
Auburn, WA
I did not notice the object until I reviewed the videos that I had collected on the sd card in my drone. I was flying my DJI drone over the green belt behind my house when my low battery indicator came on so I lowered the gimbal to look straight down while descending to the takeoff point. The drone was at 300 ft when it captured the fast moving object that looks like white slightly stretched ball although that could be motion blur. The object is only visible in three frames of the 30 FPS I was shooting in. The object is moving much faster then any bird or insect I have captured in hd. I recently watched a show called contact on the discovery network witch aired a segment of a very similar incident. A drone pilot was capturing b roll when he also captures a fast moving object. He also noticed it later when reviewing the vid. I believe have the same thing stored on my laptop and sd card.
May 2, 2021 · 10:50 PM · FORMATION
Clearwater Beach, FL
At approximately 22:50, on the evening of Sunday, the 2nd of May, 2021, I witnessed 2, small but very bright lights traveling at a very high rate of speed traveling in a westerly direction coming from over land and heading out over the Gulf of Mexico. At first I thought I was witnessing two meteors as they were traveling much faster than any aircraft or other man made object could. I tracked them for approximately 20 seconds in a straight line. Both objects were traveling side by side, in the exact same direction and speed. At that time, both objects made four very distinct course corrections. Both objects made the same zig zag, “z” shaped movements. First to the right, back to the left, back to the right and finally left continuing westerly in a straight line and at a burst rate of speed before disappearing. The speed, distance apart and the movements were identical and did not very from the each other. Due to the precision, speed of the movements and rate of acceleration, I am confident these were a form of mechanical objects that were neither a man made or natural objects.
May 2, 2021 · 9:50 PM · OTHER
Bessemer, MI
I was closing the curtains to my bedroom window and had my flashlight on so I wouldn't wake my wife. When I approached the window I noticed a *estimated 7 to 8 foot tall being. It quickly turned toward me and took two steps back. As it stepped back it seemed to disappear from a gray hue and I could only see the neighbors shed which was behind it from my perspective. I stood there with my light reflecting off the wall and illuminating my body which in hindsight was a mistake. After a few more seconds I turned off my light and watched for anything else. I didn't see anything else so I went to bed. I fell asleep and eventually awoke from pain in my head. It was a unique sensation that felt like some form of electricity through my brain. I was immobilized during the event and it caused pain in my teeth. It took I would estimate less than 1 minute but it felt much longer likely due to adrenaline. When it was done I could move again and could speak. My teeth remained odd feeling for the next day approximately. I can't be certain but I think there were long term effects on my memory and understanding/comprehension. A couple weeks later it was raining outside and the rain stopped over my house but was raining across the street. Then in about 2 seconds it was raining on my house again. I did not feel or see anything during that event.
May 2, 2021 · 8:45 PM · UNKNOWN
Westport, CT
On Sunday, May 2 at around 8:45 PM I was outside on the deck of my significant other's house in Westport, CT with a group of 6 people when I casually looked up to the sky at the Big Dipper. I saw what, at first, appeared to be a star / plane-like object (yellowish-orange in color) moving fairly normally downwards in the sky near the 2nd star of the Big Dipper handle at roughly commercial airplane altitude. But then, a few seconds later, what caught my eye was that this object performed a sudden - albeit slight - turn in direction (no more than 30 degrees). It wasn't a gradual, arc-like turn but rather a pretty sudden turn on a point in the sky. A couple seconds later, it repeated a similar turn on another point in the sky. 4-5 such turns were made within the span of 15-20 seconds so that after that time the object had completely changed its direction and was now heading upwards in the sky on the other side of the same star of the Dipper...and then it (g! radually) disappeared. From a physics standpoint, it was as if something had entered the atmosphere, took this unusual path, and then exited the atmosphere. I am 43 years old and I had never seen anything like this before. It became obvious that it was neither a plane nor a meteor. I thought that it could, perhaps, be some kind of satellite capable of making such sudden turns...but I later discovered that such motion was impossible for satellites as well (unless something catastrophic was happening with the satellite). Just when I thought I'd seen a one-time unusual event...about 5 minutes later I see a similar yellowish-orange object appear just outside the the far side of the Big Dipper pan and slowly making its way under the pan and towards the handle. This time, I quickly called attention to the object to both my girlfriend and another guest at the gathering (he was about 60 years old) and they both confirmed that the strange object was neither a plane nor a meteo! r. The object continued on its trajectory across that part of! the sky making a gradual arc (straighter than the first) in that part of the sky until it had passed the Big Dipper handle. It then gradually disappeared afterwards. This object's somewhat erratic path lasted 30-45 seconds.
May 2, 2021 · 11:00 AM · SPHERE
Colorado Springs, CO
7 pill sphere shaped white objects flew across the sky with odd darting movements in some kind of formation flight. They made no sound and moved vary quickly. I attempted to film with my phone . Each time I selected video and hit red record my phone closed back to the home screen. I attempted two times to film and each time my phone bounced to home screen. As they flew they all of the sudden in open blue sky they seemed to pop and disappeared. Meaning they bulged and then disappeared. No sounds the entire time. The whole things could not have been more than 10 seconds of flight across the whole sky and then gone. Never seen anything like this in my life.
May 2, 2021 · 6:30 AM · CIRCLE
Seattle, WA
I was taking a drink and as I tilted my head back I noticed a black circle object floating in the air pretty high up. we are right in the flight path for SeaTac airport this was above the flight path and plane were not as high as this was. planes were aprox 5000 feet up. this object was not moving at all. We watched in and tried to figure out what it was for 10-15 min. Then it lifted up into the cloud cover and disappeared. It was only partially overcast and as the cloud moved by it was nowhere in the sky. Also took video and pictures.
May 2, 2021 · 5:00 AM · FIREBALL
Atlanta, GA
Ring doorbell tracked a ball of fire that moved slowly across the sky, then disappeared.
May 2, 2021 · 4:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Claremore, OK
Large triangular object with soft points, light blue edges and black towards the center. It was moving incredibly fast. It was moderately easy to see against the night sky, left an after image, and flew low about 100 or 150 yards of the ground.
May 1, 2021 · 11:00 PM · OVAL
Burkesville, KY
Was over cumberland river near bridge and flew over house on south side bluetooth radio and lights outside started to blink radio made humming sound and alarm on house went off. Alarm has been off and not used in months never done that before. Silent no sound Helicopter flew same direction as other at slow pace. Neighbor said his horses still not wanting to go away from barn nervous of event hours later.
May 1, 2021 · 10:06 PM · SPHERE
Waterbury, CT
There were several small lights moving across the sky while I was at a stop light
May 1, 2021 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Massapequa Park, NY
Fireball shape moving very fast through the sky. Did not have any sound. Seen moving in a straight line for about 20 seconds before disappearing into the distance.
May 1, 2021 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Crest Hill, IL
witnessed a very bright object shoot quickly across the middle of evening sky moving from southeast to northwest. Too high for a jet, not a shooting star. Not a satellite as they move west to east
May 1, 2021 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Hartsel, CO
While camping in the elkhorn basin, my father and I saw a red light in the sky approximately 20-30 miles away from our location. We had an expansive view and could see many miles in all directions. Our sightings occurred in 3 separate events, as the light would drop below the horizon and reappear again later in a different part of the sky. The light had a gentle pulsing appearance, where the brightness would fluctuate by about +-20%. The first sighting way at approximately 9pm. The light was moving back and forth across the sky in a zigzag pattern, while also moving up and down perfectly vertical. It would also have erratic bursts of speed where I estimate it would cover many miles in less than 1 second. The light dropped below the horizon and we went inside. The sighting lasted for approx 5-10 minutes. About 30 minutes later we witnessed a similar light, possibly the same one, in a different part of the sky. It was behaving in the same manner as the first one we saw. This sighting lasted for approx 15 minutes. 30 minutes after the previous sighting another strange light was spotted. This time approx 90 degrees, to the west, away from the initial sighting. This light was much brighter and was white. It was behaving in the same erratic manner as the other lights before. After watching it for several minutes it headed north east and it the erratic behavior ceesed. While the bright white light was moving we also noticed a smaller, seemingly much more distant, light lower in the horizon. That light was red and behaving like the initial light, doing loops and moving in a somewhat random pattern.
May 1, 2021 · 8:00 PM · CIRCLE
Fond du Lac, WI
I was laying in my backyard looking at the clouds when a black/dark gray circular object comes out of the clouds in the distance. It moved in a diagonal line across the sky before disappearing back into the clouds. Person I was with strangely enough didn’t see it. Whatever it was quiet and didn’t have any lights.