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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
January 24, 2021 · 7:15 PM · FIREBALL
Meridian, ID
We were driving on Linder Road to the village at meridian when my companion pulled into sawtooth middle school and pointed the 12 lights in the sky just sitting there. I noticed that they were grouped together and all glowing orange my companion called her sister and brother-in-law who stated they could see the same fireball/orbs in their area a couple miles away. A aircraft flew around the objects while we were observing. After a few minutes the fireballs randomly disappeared and could not be seen again. I am a counselor for the school district and my companion is a stay at home mother. My son is a science enthusiast who first thought it was drones or Elon Musk however after he did more research he has said that it could not be either based on my description.
January 24, 2021 · 7:10 AM · UNKNOWN
Bristol, CT
Craft looked to be falling with brilliant streaks from all sides. Object appeared flat in the picture I took. Did not make the standard fireball effect of a meteorite. Looked more like something on reentry from space.It was just before full sunrise and was brightly lit up against the lighting of the sun rising to the east over the horizon beyond it. Had substantial size based on the size in the sky compared with the huge satellite dishes of our company in the foreground. No noise was distinguishable during the occurrence. I spotted it and called to fellow officers to look and the three of us all witnessed it. It disappeared behind the tree line over the horizon to the east.
January 24, 2021 · 5:55 AM · LIGHT
Norristown, PA
I saw two lights that looked like stars or aircraft flying in formation to the northwest when I walked outside to at around 5:55 am EST. I observed them for a minute trying to figure out what the were, thinking military craft because I could see they were slowly moving in formation. I leaned over (to put something down) looked up again and they were completely gone. They were slightly bluish like Sirius or Venus and about the brightness of Venus, or slightly less bright. This is my first actual UFO sighting.
January 23, 2021 · 8:33 PM · FIREBALL
Saint Augustine, FL
We witnessed a bright fireball through the clouds. It moved about the speed of a jet at high altitude and resembled what a rocket launch looks like, except it was going from NNE to SSW instead of from the south where we see rockets. It never got smaller and fainter like a rocket leaving the atmosphere, but maintained brightness and speed as it left our eyesight without a sound.
January 23, 2021 · 4:45 PM · OTHER
Queens, NY
I am an executive who resides in NYC and have a clear view of the sky from my apartment. As I was looking out of my apartment window at a clear blue sky taking on the phone to a friend I noticed a small shiny object that seemed to be floating in the sky. At first I assumed it was a shiny balloon since it was moving in a flowing fashion but then I noticed it take a quick move in a perfectly straight line heading straight up in the sky. its colors are very difficult to describe and were shiny and varied. I can't say I was looking at one distinct color. I was relaying what I saw to my friend on the phone remarking how strange it was. I live near 2 airports in NYC and am very used to planes and see police helicopter often. We changed subject and after 20 minutes the object returned to another point in the sky. I ran to the window to get a better look and it did the same as it had done before - moved smoothly in all sorts of directions then went absolutely! pin straight up in the sky. At that point it disappeared very high above Willow Lake in Queens. I don't know what this object was but it was fascinating to look at. I haven't seen anything like it before. Very strange.
January 23, 2021 · 2:48 PM · CIRCLE
East Athens, GA
Silver circular shape appeared, then with in seconds there a bright flash and the craft disappeared. This happened twice within one minute.
January 22, 2021 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Heavener, OK
I was traveling north on hwy 59 in Heavener, Oklahoma when the sighting occurred A large blueish white light appeared in the sky towards the west. I started to point out what I thought was a falling star at the same time as my friend was asking me if I saw the light. We quickly realized it was not "shooting star" it appeared to stay stationary for about 30 seconds, then the light appeared to accelerate toward the ground and vanished. This light/object was very large, We saw planes shortly after, and the lights on planes at a mile away were just tiny flecks of light compared to the object we witnessed
January 22, 2021 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Johnson City, TN
Spotted a red sphere that appeared to be flying a little lower than typical passenger plane altitude. It looked like a bright red star. It did NOT flicker/flash. It was moving faster than your average plane, but not significantly faster. Was moving West NW. Appeared to bounce up and down a little, but could have been eye trick. No sound whatsoever. After observing it for about a minute, I went inside and asked my husband to check it out. He came outside and we watched it cross the sky for another minute or two. He also commented that a bright non-flickering red light on an aircraft was strange.
January 22, 2021 · 8:15 PM · SPHERE
Kennett Square, PA
Coming from a Dollar Store on my bike rode into town as I stopped to adjust I looked up,I thought at first a shooting star But its movement's were quick,and had one single red light that flashed quickly .It was silent , watched it travel about a 1/4 mile than 90 degree turn,one Its speed was far to quick to be a drone and the distance was overwhelming It was not a drone
January 22, 2021 · 7:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Woodinville, WA
Every night out walking the dog if it is clear out I will check out to see how many drones and their positions. Flashing red green for Port & starboard. Running west to east. Just east of Linwood going east to maltby and past echo lake . And one north of Woodinville Washington running North Clearview and two more north of Clearview. Constantly there I am in a jetpack but the Jets avoid these areas at night.
January 22, 2021 · 6:40 PM · OVAL
Annandale, MN
Bright white large orb. Stopped/hovered and changed direction quickly a couple times. It appeared to have a much smaller companion. At times Extremely bright. Went from stop to traveling at very fast rate of speed. Doing night sky observation and was filming. Have very good video and picts.
January 22, 2021 · 6:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Maltby, WA
Gov. Drone r/g lights silent. 600 Ft elevation
January 22, 2021 · 5:00 PM · CIRCLE
Las Vegas, NV
4 black circular aircrafts flying in triangular formation
January 22, 2021 · 5:00 PM · OVAL
Redondo Beach, CA
Me and my husband were driving back taking the beach route home. We took Pacific coast all the way down to Redondo Beach. It was raining earlier so it was really kind of gloomy and cloudy but for one moment we saw the sunshine through and the water looked beautiful and I decided to take a picture. When I look back at my photos it's when I noticed the object. I could not see it with the naked eye looking out over the ocean. But in my photo I see it because I zoomed in on a certain part of the ocean where the sun was shiny down on and noticed too lights shining down onto the water. The one light was the ray of sunlight coming through the clouds. The other light was coming from the object that I saw.
January 22, 2021 · 3:11 PM · UNKNOWN
Miami, FL
Friend and I were sitting on beach and noticed an object in air not moving after about 20 minutes I video recorded object as it still hadn't moved. It was very far away and couldn't tell shape. I never moved the whole hour we were on the beach
January 22, 2021 · 12:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Santa Ana, CA
I was outside smoking a cigarette on my back patio. Suddenly I looked up into the sky on a windy clear day. Thats when I noticed a weird hovering or floating black triangle shaped object in the blue sky. At this time I decided to take out my phone and film it, as I was filming it, it slowly floated down under the tree line after a couple of minutes. After that I stopped filming and went inside. About 15 minutes later I came outside to the front of my house getting ready to leave. Thats when I looked up at where I saw the object and there it was again just hovering there again, so I took my phone out again and filmed it. Minutes later it started floating down behind the tree line again. The next day I looked up in the sky again at about 12:30 pm, sure enough there it was again. I don't no what it could be, it's not a bird, it's not a plane or a drone.
January 22, 2021 · 7:47 AM · CONE
Ellington, CT
We suspect a possible lens flare. We see many of them. PD
January 22, 2021 · 6:55 AM · LIGHT
Burlington, VT
Bright light hovering over the lake, changed colors between blueish white and yellowish orange. Hovered over lake and didnt change altitude or make any sound. Got brightest before it disappeared.
January 22, 2021 · 4:00 AM · LIGHT
Sioux City, IA
I woke in the night and the light outside seemed bright. We have large West facing windows in the living room, I had fallen asleep on the couch. I looked out the window, just saw the bright yellow moon, which explained the brightness. But then, a very large red light appeared in the distance. It was nearly the size of the moon, and yet, far away enough I knew it wasn't over any of the houses in our neighborhood. It would occasionally turn white, and become much smaller, then then flare back into red. For as far away as it had to be, it was moving really quickly. It paused twice and held position. I thought perhaps it was a helicopter, but the light was so large, if it was that close I would have heard it. It was traveling north, and eventually moved up until I couldn't see it any longer.
January 21, 2021 · 6:47 PM · SPHERE
Hobart Mills, CA
I went to car camp in the snow about 5 miles outside truckee, ca. I build large snow castles and planned on building one at this location. The road had been plowed fairly recently and there was about 5’ of snow, about 7” on the road. I arrived around 2pm and over the next 2 hours stomped out the floor plan in the snow. Around 3pm two xxc skiers passed by, headed out back toward the main road (hobart mills to russel valley.) At dusk I was sitting in my car, facing out with the door open, looking at my phone. I noticed a small, contained light about 100 yards away, in the trees, at the top of the small hill. I thought it was the skiers and that they had a flashlight. The small light receded away from me and i figured they were looping around or something. About 10 minutes later i noticed it again, but it was still and was up about 10’ in a tree. I thought it was very odd and got out of the car for a better look, i walked toward it about 10’ . It was very still and was slowly changing from fairly bright to dim every minute or so. Soon I walked about 10’ closer. I noticed there were actually 4 identical lights. Each were about 20’ apart, were about the size of baseballs, made no noise, and were higher in the trees than i had thought. At this point i walked back in the snow, which was variable in hardness, to the car (about 40’), to get my phone. I continued watching them and called my brother to tell him i was weirded out by this. They werent drones and put out a very strange light that did not light the tree branches around them and they seemed to simply be hovering in the woods and it was very odd and intruiging to me. After a moment on the phone with him i got my old phone out and began recording. (I got 3 videos over the course of the attack. It seems there are problems loading some of the footage, contact me for all video please. Also i have pictures of the exact location from that day, previous to the event.) Next, while recording and on the phone with my brother, I began working my way in the snow toward the lights. As I got closer (maybe 150’) and was yelling “hello!? Is someone there?!”, they slowly descended from trees and formed a tight group so it looked like one orb, swirling, whitish and some orange, a very strange light, and they moved slightly closer, but became obscured a bit behind more, smaller, denser trees. I decided (still recording and with my brother on the phone) to investigate more and walked even closer (about 100’ away) and yelled more. At this point the ball of light grew and began exhibiting what I saw as human like movement and shapes while it swirled and it also became red and started slowly coming toward me thru the trees, moving from behind tree to another tree, and another, toward me. This frightened me and I yelled “ ok! Ok! Im leaving!!” And began stepping back toward my car in the snow. I then noticed there were 2 more lights on the other side of my car, past it, about 100’’. The snow was harder where I had been standing and so I was only sinking about 7”, but as I was retreating the snow was very soft and I sunk past my knees while stepping backward and fell on my butt and so deeper into the snow. Then it came even closer thru the trees (about 50’) and I began to panic (this part all on the recording. Here in the video you can see the lights coming at me in parts, but I sort of forgot I was filming so its not as great as I had later hoped). I scrambled up saying “ok! Ok! Im going im going!!” as it advanced to another tree and was making movements of what seemed aggression..it would swirl into bright red, advance and grow larger and go back a little ways and repeat. I made it quickly from there to the car and slammed the door. Then I looked around and did not see it. I found the keys, started the car, lookad again and there it was, about 20-30’ from the car. I started driving fast and really panicked as I saw it chasing me thru the woods, in line with the driver side window, about 30’ away. I was driving 35 mph and trying to keep the car in control in the snow and was panicking and then all of the electric door locks started clicking up and down, like clik,clik,clik, very rapidly. I was really scared at this point and this continued for about 2 minutes as I drove to the main road. At the main road I no longer saw them and have never seen any fucking thing like that, before or after.
January 21, 2021 · 6:30 PM · FORMATION
Charlotte, NC
During an evening walk, my son and I noticed two reddish bright lights in the sky south of us. The lights were moving faster than any plane but about the same altitude as a jet. The distance between the lights was possibly a mile or more but moved in perfect synchrony. They moved in a north easterly direction for about 30 30-45 seconds then disappeared. About 15-20 seconds later the lights reappeared due east of us for a moment then disappeared again. No aircraft I've ever heard of could move that distance so quickly.
January 21, 2021 · 5:13 PM · LIGHT
Anacortes and Coupeville, WA
Two lights far apart. Unlike any light from any aircraft seen before. Near a Navy air base, but not like anything ever has been flown over or seen in the distance. They were round and just outside the clouds. Seen 30 miles away from each other at the same time; two family members saw the same lights and describe their disappearance.
January 21, 2021 · 3:05 PM · UNKNOWN
Clifton, VA
On January 21st, 2021 at approximately 3:05 PM, in Clifton, Virginia, the weather was sunny, but cold, and I was laying in my yard. As I lay, I was looking up at the sky. Up above, far past the treeline, at an approximated 75 degree angle from where I lay, and very high up in the sky, I saw 8 tiny white objects. I cannot say whether they were white or silver/metallic and appeared white because of reflection from the bright sun. It is hard to say exactly what shape the objects were, because of how high up they were, but from my perspective they appeared to be spherical. The objects were moving in a pattern that was very similar to birds like vultures. At first, I thought it was seagulls flying very high in the sky, but this was in an area where seagulls are not common. I observed the 8 objects moving in circular formation, with some on the outside ring of rotation, some on inside rings. The rotation or orbital pattern did not seem to be uniform, although circular. I observed this for a short time, probably only less than 1 minute. Then, I observed 6 of the objects disappear and only 2 remained. It seemed like the 6 evaporated into the air or elevated higher in the atmosphere. Then, the 2 remaining traveled West in a : pattern, with one above and one below the other. The one on the bottom sped up and slowed down, sped up and slowed down. As it sped up, the one above disappeared. As it slowed down, the one above came back into my view. I observed this for about one or 2 minutes before the 2 objects then disappeared from my view in the same fashion that the original 6 of the 8 had minutes before.
January 21, 2021 · 7:24 AM · DISK
Robertsville, MO
I took 4 pictures of odd looking cloud formations and later, when I zoomed in to look at details, I discovered 2 UFO’s. Clearly visible in the 3rd picture. First and largest is toward center of photo and is round. Second is lower towards tree line in the picture and it is saucer shaped. I took the photo in “ live” mode and you can see distinct movement of the large round UFO from the first to last frame in the “live” photo series.