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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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April 4, 2021 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Albuquerque (west of), NM
On the night of April 4, 2021 I was captain of a commercial passenger airline flight. A FAR part 121 airline flight from KTPA to KLAS. While in level cruise flight I happen to see an object out my left window south of our position slightly ahead of our 90* abeam point moving from left to right at what I believed to be supersonic speeds. The object appeared as a dim yellow/amber single point of dim light approximately 15* above the horizon and diverging slightly from our tract traveling in a westerly direction. The light increased gradually in intensity slightly dimmed then increased again before fading out of view. I estimate I tracked the light visually for 1 to 2 seconds and approximately 10* of arc horizontally. I could not estimate it’s altitude however it appeared to be in straight level flight and diverging slightly from our track in a westerly direction. As the light faded away I observed what I would describe as visible atmospheric disturbances similar in appearance to the trail of a shooting star but emanating from the front of the object as though it was moving so fast that it heated the air ahead distorting the atmosphere like a bow wave but did not leave a tail. The light intensity I observed was much less in intensity then any shooting star that I’ve ever seen . The object/light did not streak across the sky at high velocities in the way that I’ve seen shooting stars behave, it was slower but obviously much faster then our Airbus 319. The object traveled at a steady rate in high speed level flight leading me to believe that it wasn’t a shooting star or another airliner. I observed this object sometime after we past Albuquerque NM in route to Las Vegas NV at 36,000 feet on a moonless clear night approximately 1 to 1 1/2 hours prior to landing. To my knowledge I was the only observer. I recently became aware that there is a way to report such sightings and this sighting is the only truly unusual thing I’ve observed in my 20+ year career in aviation. Sincerely, Captain *** ATP Airbus pilot
April 4, 2021 · 8:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Gaston, SC
this is my fourth report, see reports on 10/2020 and 9/2020 same encounter, with binoculars, it appears triangular or pyramidal, flashing red, green blue and white lights, frequency is at least twice that of commercial aircraft. appears to naked eye as a sphere, I have been observing this for nearly 2 yrs. now. have received no explanations. look west slightly south west at 15-30 degrees inclination. I have seen and correctly identified the ISS, this is NOT the ISS.
April 4, 2021 · 8:20 PM · FORMATION
South Lake Tahoe, CA
I was just finishing picking-up yard debris in my backyard when my husband came outside. I mentioned how beautiful the stars were looking tonight. As I was looking up I saw what I thought was a plane but it seemed a little too bright and round to be a plane and it didn’t have the red and green blinking position lights. It was round but not perfectly round. The edges were slightly jagged. I followed it and it wasn’t moving in a straight line. It was wiggly, moving suddenly slightly to the left and then to the right. I asked my husband if I was imagining, thinking something was wrong with my eyes. He said he sees it too and mentioned that the craft wasn’t making any noise so it couldn’t be a helicopter. He exclaimed "I think it’s a UFO!" We continued watching it and as it moved further away. The brightly lit craft started to flicker then it dimmed and “poof!” In a flash, the light of the craft went-out and disappeared!
April 4, 2021 · 8:15 PM · LIGHT
Peoria, AZ
I let my dog out in the backyard before putting her to bed. Shortly after sitting down in a chair on my patio, I noticed a light approaching that seemed quite a bit lower than the aircraft I’m used to seeing in the area, including military aircraft. In fact, within my same view, I could see two commercial aircraft with blinking lights. The craft in question had a solid white light and it wasn’t blinking at all. I’m estimating that the craft was approximately 7-10 thousand feet up and was approaching at a low speed. I watched it for at least 2-3 minutes. It seemed to be on a path that would bring it right over my house, which in near N Dysart Rd and W Jomax Rd. I started to feel like it was actually coming right towards me at one point. My dog then ran over by me and I called my grandson outside. We both stared at it for around 1 minute and commented how it was so low and that there was no noise. It slowly began to climb in altitude and within 5 seconds, it a! ccelerated upwards so fast that it went from a bright light to looking like a small star, and then totally disappeared. The whole sighting was so surreal that I unfortunately didn’t even think about filming it with my cell phone. I'll be ready when/if it happens again. Feel free to let me know if you have any further questions.
April 4, 2021 · 8:07 PM · OTHER
Longwood, FL
Observer background: Engineer working in the defense industry. Healthy adult with good hearing and vision. Time of sighting: 8:07 PM, US Eastern time, 4/4/2021 Duration of sighting: 3 minutes The weather at the time of the sighting was clear. There was very little wind at ground level, no clouds were in the sky, and the sun was setting. I saw a light in the sky off to the East. At first I assumed it was an aircraft, but I noticed it looked a bit odd. There was only a single light, and it seemed to be "flickering" the way a reflected fire might. The object seemed to be at a fairly high altitude, approximately that of a commercial aircraft; higher than a helicopter would typically fly. The object was moving from East to West in what seemed to be a straight line, at a very consistent and somewhat slow speed, compared to a commercial jet. The object didn't fly directly over me, I was a bit North of its path. As it came closer I realized the illumination on the object was because it was reflecting the setting sun - that it's front surface was apparently reflective. At least, that is my assumption. When the object went past me and I could see the bottom and back of it, I saw no other lights. No running lights of any kind were visible. The bottom and rear sides appeared dark or black. The object did not appear to be large, and I could not make out any detail. It appeared to be a "simple" shape such as an oval or sphere. There were no wings, no fins, or other projecting parts visible. The object did not leave any visible wake or contrail behind it. There was no detectable sound from the object at any point during the sighting. The object continued on its straight-line course at the same consistent altitude and speed until it was out of sight over the treeline on the Western horizon. No other observers were nearby.
April 4, 2021 · 2:50 AM · LIGHT
Center Conway, NH
Two distant (stars) ... dim, small, stationary lights in the northern sky. Suddenly they started moving in a southeasterly direction, one behind the other [an inch apart in the night sky] until out of sight.
April 4, 2021 · 12:15 AM · OTHER
Rockville, MD
-I filmed entire event via a night vision / infrared monocular; -object not visible to naked eye, only the monocular; -i am a lawyer in DC and MD and i practice law. However i have an interest in the ufo genre and occasionally film sky from my bed through the window; -my viewing window looks approximately east/south east; -i know what planes, stars, planets, and helicopters look light at night; -the object was four to five lights arranged parallel to ground (i.e. a line of lights parallel to ground) appearing as one craft. The light formation was at a slight tilt to the left and hovering, it seemed; -occasionally, little flashing orbs would appear in my viewfinder around the possible craft/light formation. I had been witnessing many of these bright flashing orbs for about 45 mins before the light formation appeared. I filmed the flashing light orbs as well. Orbs also not visible to naked eye but only through the camera/monocular; -all lights seemed to appear as the color similar to a halogen lamp like, say, the headlights of a contemporary BMW; -The potential craft/light formation seemed to flash in two or three areas along the craft, not seeming to move at all, but rather, hovering; -I zoomed in a few times (36x) and saw more clearly that this was indeed a formation of four or five lights, a possible single craft; -I lost track of the light formation after a few minutes but the light orbs continued flashing ; -the video is shaky bc no image stabilizer; -I tried to get the ground and/or stars in the pic for perspective; -i cannot gauge how far out the object was nor its size. Same with the flashing orbs. I believe it/they was/were at least a few thousand feet in air and about 2 to 3 miles away from me. The flashing orbs were all over the east/southeast view at various times throughout the recording; -I have been seeing the flashing orbs for the past couple months and gave a number of recorded films of said objects. For example on july 4, 2021 i filmed a series of flashing orbs close to/nearby a fireworks display; -happy to share videos; -please do not reveal my identity; -please use email for contact.
April 3, 2021 · 2:38 PM · DISK
San Leandro, CA
Was recording a video of our new exhaust on our mustang and caught a sighting of a UFO that came straight out of the sky and hovered above the building. We didn't notice the UFO until we watched the video a few days later, so recording was stopped after we recorded the video of the car.
April 3, 2021 · 5:58 AM · LIGHT
Lake Charles, LA
It was a red tiny light that had jellyfish tentacles looking legs hanging from it . It was snooping around next door at a car wash then it flew my direction & went above my apartment building which is not very tall . Once it came closer to me & I believe this thing acknowledged me standing there in shock . That's when it went from a tiny red looking jellyfish to a big bright light like a star & literally disappeared in front of my eyes . I stood still the entire time because I was afraid but once i realized it was gone I ran inside & its been on my mind ever since . I have a short video on my phone but it doesn't do me any justice all you can see is a red light but barely.
April 3, 2021 · 12:00 AM · SPHERE
Tioga, PA
But now they are going from each of my neighbors roofs. I have video looking through my front door window of one sitting on neighbors roof. Then starts behaving strangely and 5 or 6 of them appear out of no where and take off. I have a lot of videos of this happening and my wife and mother have also witnessed it.
April 2, 2021 · 10:00 PM · FORMATION
Clarkston, MI
Time estimated, but between 9 and 11 PM. Looking north, I observed a formation of three white lights (apparent magnitude of each light estimated around 1.0-1.5) arranged in a roughly equilateral triangle move rapidly northwestward across about 40° of sky in approximately two to three seconds, first visible to the NNE and disappearing in the NNW about a second before it would have gone behind the treeline from my location. As it was dark, I could not discern any form or silhouette between or around the lights, so I don’t know whether this was a solid object or not. About 10 minutes later, another formation of identical description moved parallel to, but slightly east of, the first formation’s apparent path. Both times, the three lights were solid in brightness and white, and neither made any noise. The weather was mostly clear, and there was some light smoke from a bonfire nearby. Only the first formation was observed through this smoke. I have been an amateur astronomer for about a decade, so I can confidently rule out satellites (based on rapid speed across the sky) and airplanes (based on solid lights and no sound). If not for it having more than a single point of light, and the fact it happened twice, this would have looked very similar to a meteor/shooting star.
April 2, 2021 · 9:00 PM
Nashville, TN
I noticed what looked like a single star moving across the sky, I thought it was most likely a satellite, what I find odd is, as an airplane was heading in the direction of the object, it object just vanished as if it turned off its lights. About 10 minutes later I see the same thing happened in a different part of the sky. There are no clouds in the sky tonight. Wasn’t fast enough to be a meteorite and had no tail.
April 2, 2021 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Arlington, WA
We saw a huge, green light flash, then move across the sky and dissapear. It was very different than a shoiting star or slow moving satellite.
April 2, 2021 · 8:38 PM · FIREBALL
Shoreline, WA
My wife and I were heading northbound on Interstate 5 at approximately 20:38 on 02 April 2021. Having just traveled past the north Seattle City limits and entering Shoreline, WA, we both saw, to our surprise, a large glowing green round object streak through the sky in the northbound direction. Although it appeared as a ball of light, the edges of the object were less defined as if the object had a glow to it. Our visibility through the windshield was at best 35-40 degrees of the sky, through which the object appeared for less than two seconds, indicating it is estimated to have been traveling at a speed several times faster than the speed of sound.
April 2, 2021 · 8:35 PM · CHANGING
Lakewood, WA
green ship like object as well as what appeared to be triangle aircraftS
April 2, 2021 · 8:10 PM · OVAL
Oxford, PA
The shape was ocular with a red aura and a white center heading from Northeast to Southwest. Craft was visible for 1-2 minutes and not moving rapidly. The craft appeared to get brighter at times.
April 2, 2021 · 2:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Auburn, MA
This is the first of 3 sightings of craft outside my bedroom window in 2021. Two of the sightings occurred in Auburn, MA right on the Worcester, MA border. . I have photos and video footage of all 3 separate sightings. I will submit all craft sightings on separate reports. The details for this report: I was home alone (all 3 of my craft sightings have occurred on nights I'm not with my husband which is rare, only when one of us traveling for work or to see family/friends) my husband was in South Carolina on a golf trip. I woke up at random at about 2am and noticed immediately a large orange, hovering light that was orb/sphere like floating just above our detached garage. The orange orb was larger than a basketball, I'd compare it to a large yoga ball, and was hovering slowly from left to right, moving through the trees but not higher or lower and not going horizontally very far either. I'd compare the way it moved to a large beach ball or blob of orange lava floating & bobbing in the open ocean, it moved ever so slightly up & down as it moved horizontally. I then witnessed many other kinds of strange lights, some joined in formation some seemed to operate independently but near by. There was a fairly loud but low humming, vibration like noise the entire encounter that can! be heard in the videos I took. Unlike my other two sightings since this one, I had a overwhelming sense of fear, doom & dread the entire time I watched these lights and had a odd sense that I should fear it & becareful "it" didn't see me or know I was awake filming it on my phone. Something about it gave me the impression it was "scanning" the surroundings though it's movements didn't appear purposeful or zoned into any one area. I will send video and photos via email.
April 1, 2021 · 10:00 PM · CIRCLE
Salt Lake City, UT
Unusually bright object in West sky.Stationary, it appeared to have some type of light occasionally coming from top. Also had red, blue and white lights around the bottom that would flash different colors. At first I thought it was an unusually bright Que-star. Then I realized it was way to close. From my balcony and the city lights no stars are usually visible. Air planes coming in for a landing at the airport looked tiny in comparison to it. I looked again 4/2/21 at the same time to make sure of what I thought I was watching and there was nothing in the sky
April 1, 2021 · 10:00 PM · OTHER
Watsonville, CA
What I saw has to do with the rising of the moon. One night the moon rose from the North-esst horizon and then a week later the moon rose slightly south east. It basically rose in two different places a week or so apart. I don't know what this may mean. Thanks
April 1, 2021 · 8:41 PM · OVAL
Salem, OR
Small object, around 10 or so feet long I'm assuming, moved very slowly, abnormal, had a kind of haze around it, three lights on aircraft, paused above a house in my neighborhood, seemed to notice me, moved closer. As I noticed what looked like two "aliens" looking at me I ran into my house, only for a moment to tell what has happened, two others noticed it and it moved very quickly away for something that small. Color of the aircraft seemed to be grey, oval shaped, might have made a sound? like a slight hum
April 1, 2021 · 6:37 PM · TRIANGLE
Boardman, OR
While taking photos of the sunset, I first noticed an unusual cloud that appeared to be emitting a beam. Then I realized I was seeing something incredible, and familiar. I was seeing an open wormhole. Something I have seen before, ref 7-5-2018 Seaside OR. I have one still photo and a 4 minute raw video. From left to right in the video, the wormhole, the craft creating the wormhole and 3 orange clouds that are what I recognized as a wormhole that is closing. The twisting bright orange clouds go away in about a minute and a half. The craft can be seen with a beam coming out to the left as though it is the power source for the wormhole event. At the 4 minute mark it gracefully fades away. I looked back at my photos and a half an hour earlier I found a possible black triangle in one photo, it’s a stretch but I am including the photo. It appears to be pointed at what becomes the subject in the video.
April 1, 2021 · 3:30 PM · CIRCLE
PA
I was digging ditches for field drains with an excavator and when i looked up I saw a bright light just below the top of the trees. I thought it might have been a reflection but the sky was cloudy and it was too bright to be a reflection. I then looked away for about 5 seconds and then when I looked back it was gone. About half an hour later I was still able to see black dots due to how bright it was. Another strange occurrence that happened was that about a half hour before the bright light a big blue airplane flew really low but still above the trees. It flew close to where the bright light was.
April 1, 2021 · 2:00 PM · CYLINDER
Watsonville, CA
I saw what looked like a small airplane go straight up into the sky and disappear. It looked to me like it had gone into outer space because it got smaller within an area of three inches holding my arm out to the sky. It didn't travel to the horizon it actually just went straight up in the air and disappeared. It had no vapor trail and by the time it went farther up I couldn't see wings on it anymore. Another person was there and he could not even see it when I pointed it out to him even though it was clearly there to me he couldn't even tell it was there.
April 1, 2021 · 2:00 AM · CIRCLE
Louisville, KY
So this ships showed up a couple weeks ago. basically theres 3 i can point out every night now cause they go to same general area when the skies are clear. Leaving close to the air port these are unlike other crafts im used to. they flash multiple colors constantly. other then circling a general area they dont move much. everyone whose looked at with theyre own eyes agrees its wild. I tried to get them to notice me but I dont think they can.