The catalog
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
December 4, 2020 · 6:15 PM · LIGHT
Lafayette, CO
String of lights, each following each other in formation of a line. Slowly traveled across sky from south to north horizon. Some lights traveled closer to one light then back to a well spaced distance from the other light. Each was about half the light of Venus. They only were white light in color. No flashing lights like air planes. Seemed to hover and float. No sound. Took about five minutes to travel from one horizon to the other. I was the only one that witnessed this although I'm sure anyone in my city probably saw it too. I am a retired computer network engineer. I witnessed this in front of my residence.
December 4, 2020 · 6:13 PM · FORMATION
Vacaville, CA
Dec04, 2020, 1813hrs. Vacaville, CA. While walking my dog, I looked up to see 75-100 lights moving from West to East across the sky, parallel to HWY 80 in California. Approx 5-10 miles North of it. The lights, from my angle, were the same size and brightness as Saturn is right now. They were traveling at slow speed. They were in-line formation. For the most part, they were almost the all the same distance from one another, in line, for the exception of 4-5 which were above or below the line. They traveled at a speed similar to a small-engine plane. By the time they flew over (approximately) central Vacaville they disappeared one by one, once they arrived to the exact same location in the sky. The Travis Air-Force Base is close-by, and so is the Nut Tree Private Airport. We are used to many different aircraft here, and have NEVER seen this phenomenon. No other aircraft was seen in the sky at this time. This was witnessed by myself(walking my dog) as well as my family(from my house around the corner)
December 4, 2020 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Probable conventionalBeecher, IL
While on a walk, we witnessed 20-30 small lights in a row, perfectly spaced out and silent, going at the same rate of speed from west to east. Viewed for 5 or so minutes, then vanished. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]
December 4, 2020 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Nashville, TN
As I was leaving work tonight I saw an odd light in the sky above my office. At first I thought it wasa shoot light or maybe a plane. It didn’t move so I ruled out a plane. I didn’t see a light trail out source. It changed from several lights to a single source or so appeared. No sound. I never saw the actual object creating the light. I do not know what I was seeing.
December 4, 2020 · 6:00 PM · FORMATION
Granite City, IL
I walked outside in the back yard and looked up and noticed a string of lights approximately 20 or more and they were white in color and in a straight formation. I'm not sure but I would say that they were approximately 40 feet or more in between each of them. I did not hear any noise from them and ran in to get my wife who also witnessed this. I grabbed my iPad and tried to record it but it was unsuccessful. Soon after the lights rose up and vanished out of sight.
December 4, 2020 · 5:46 PM · FORMATION
Laramie, WY
My husband and I were outside with our dog. I looked into the Eastern sky and saw a bunch of uniform lights in a line moving across the sky. I yelled at my husband to look and he said there were 7 lights. They were moving in a uniform fashion toward the north east. There was an equal amount of space between the lights. The lights were pointed east/northeast and moving to the northeast. A very large formation of lights. They were not bright, but equal to the stars in the sky around them. It continued to move slowly across the sky out of sight. It only took a minute, but it was not fast. It was difficult to tell how far up they were.
December 4, 2020 · 5:45 PM · FORMATION
Poplar Bluff, MO
10-15 stars in perfect formation traveling East. My son could not focus his phone to capture video. Amazing to see!
December 4, 2020 · 5:45 PM · LIGHT
Santa Fe, NM
No hoax here, as both my wife and I saw them. Some sort of crafts - only visible as bright white lights - equally spaced and moving at hyper speed at super high altitude. Traveling from west to east - roughly the direction of Menkalinan towards Altair. Super fast and in perfect formation. So fast that they went horizon to horizon in less than one minute. Thought they might be fighter jets, but could see no green/red lights. Only bright white lights. Wow. Bizarre.
December 4, 2020 · 5:45 PM · UNKNOWN
Brookfield, IL
Walked outside to take my dog out. Looked up at the sky and saw several things that looked like stars moving across the sky to the south in a shallow arc. They seemed to appear out of nowhere at a point in the sky, travelled for a distance and disappeared in the same manner. I knocked on the window and waved for my parents to come outside. My mom came out and saw the same thing. I don't know how long it was going on for but I caught the last minute or two of the event. I've seen planes lined up waiting to be called into an airport. These lights were too high, moving too fast, and too close together to be that.
December 4, 2020 · 5:30 PM · FORMATION
Englewood, CO
A saw a few dozen or so single white lights flying slowly in a perfect straight line. Looked about 1,000 ft. in elevation and a few hundred feet apart. The movement was slow at about 20 mph with a heading of NE tracking over Centennial airport. All lights were white and about as bright as the stars in the sky. They made no noise and didn't exhibit any movement besides the straight line track. I saw the trail end.
December 4, 2020 · 5:30 PM · OTHER
Verona, WI
Observed a straight line of white lights - equally spaced - between 24 - 30, perfectly straight line and nearly equally spaced. No lights were flashing, no engine / jet noise heard, no contrails. This line moved across the sky from SW to NE - got to a certain point to NE or our location then the lights would disappear one after the other as they entered that space.
December 4, 2020 · 5:00 PM · SPHERE
Pueblo, CO
5:30 or 5:40. Saw about 30 lights traveling from west to east. Evenly spaced across the entire visible night sky. Very high up, possibly in orbit.
December 4, 2020 · 6:45 AM · FORMATION
Urbandale, IA
At approximately 6:45pm, I walked outside with my family. We saw at least 20 lights in a line move in unison. The lights disappeared as quick as they appeared. And at 6:47pm they disappeared completely.
December 4, 2020 · 12:00 AM · CIRCLE
Ft.atkinson, IA
50 round lights in perfect row starting nw sky to nc sky moving slow. At aprox. 45 degees in sky lights faded out one at a time. Lights started near horizon and vanished about 25 pct up into sky. 6 45 to 700 pm
December 3, 2020 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Salina, KS
My boyfriend was outside smoking a cigarette when he called me to the front porch there was at least 10 lights in a row going the same direction headed north they went all the way up to a certain point and disappeared in the sky.
December 3, 2020 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Boise, ID
I was heading to Boise on the highway from Mtn. Home, I saw what looked to me like an airplane coming towards Boise Airport. It stayed in about the same place for several minutes and then suddenly in less than a second it flashed across the sky in less than a second and vanished.
December 3, 2020 · 7:45 PM · SPHERE
Columbus, OH
At around 7:45 PM on 12/4/2020 in Columbus, OH, near the area of Morse Rd. and I-71, two of us witnessed a line of lights to the west. They appeared about the size that Venus appeared at the same time, and seemed to be a little less bright, or at least more yellow to the color. No other structure could be seen associated with the lights. They appeared to be almost perfectly, equally spaced from each other, forming a perfectly straight line staring from lower left to upper right, making roughly a 45 degree angle with the horizon. This is a rough estimate, but I would say they were located maybe between 15 and 30 degrees above the horizon. As far as distance from where we were standing, it was very hard to gauge, but my best guess would be between a few miles to maybe 50 miles. The person I was with pointed them out to me, and we watched them for about a minute, as they appeared to be moving slightly towards us, then slightly north, maintaining the same ! formation the entire time. Then, just as they appeared to move north, they started to fade out and not be visible anymore, starting with the lights at each end of the line. It almost appeared that they were turning and the lights were no longer facing us, but they did not reappear as I observed for about 20 minutes afterwards, so I think they just faded/turned off. The movement was not along the direction of the line, but was perpendicular to the line. The movement was also very slow, in fact I was not even sure that the line was moving at all until it moved slightly to the north. I read your requests to not report the SpaceX Starlink satellites, and I don’t believe that is what I saw. I looked it up afterwards and did find a number of stories referring to people sighting these strings of lights. However, the ones I saw appeared to be cloud-level, not moving along an orbital path, and the angle in relation to the ground would not make sense for where they were in the sky, but I can not completely discount this possibility. My friend suggested a group of drones, but I can not really see that as the formation remained equally-spaced and along a line for the entire encounter. The weather conditions were fairly calm at the ground, but even so they would have to be pretty high-end to keep such a tight formation. I am generally a skeptic of such sightings (not a non-believer though), but the location in the sky, the formation, and the pattern of movement all leave me with no solid explanation at the moment. I have a degree in physics, so I am generally aware of the possibilities outside our planetary sphere, and I have spent plenty of time stargazing, so this really did make an impression on me to start looking this far into it.
December 3, 2020 · 7:45 PM · FORMATION
Gilbert, AZ
Walking on golf course in Seville neighborhood, formation of lights going in circular rotation, too lights disappearing although no clouds. Started with 2 rows of lights and then on row. Hard to explain so I drew it from memory when I returned from my walk. Unfortunately left my phone home. Slow rotation, perfectly spaced out lights in uniform. My dog was off the leash and wasn’t responding strange just wanted to go home before our usual route was over.
December 3, 2020 · 7:30 PM · RECTANGLE
Cottage grove, OR
We was in our home the whole property started to shake aggressively!!, we ran out front cause it sounded like an aircraft had crashed on our farm , we heard helicopters as well , the object appeared in the western sky headed in an easterly Direction it was so low in sky , it blackout all the stars in our view , the air changed , it felt like our home was gonna be yanked off its foundations , everything was shaking even the silverware in drawers !, the couches , the Chairs everything , than we saw military Helicopters chasing the object but they were no match for this objects speed , it was over as quickly as it started , it was the Biggest object any of us have ever seen !!, the Military copters searched our area for at least 2 to 3 hours b4 the event and after , prior to event they were searching the area about 3 hrs b4 it appeared , until 3 to 4 hours after it went by and they were chasing it , so they were completely aware it was up there and they wer! e trying to find it , they never fired upon it just chased it , there r no reports about military exercises , also others in surrounding areas reported similar sightings .!! Very very interesting huge object being chased by military and no reports filed ????, Don’t u think ??
December 3, 2020 · 7:30 PM · RECTANGLE
Fort Bragg, NC
3 lights horizontally in a row moving horizontally in slow motion towards base. Too slow for a plae or helicopter to stay in the air. Then bright burst of white light, a 90 degree turn, then fast move up and into the clouds. As a typical black hawk was coming/ flying over to land at the base. It was as if who or what did not want the pilots to them! The object dod not make any sounds at all.
December 3, 2020 · 7:30 PM · CIRCLE
Hilliard, OH
There was a big circle of lights in the sky. There was one in the middle of 8-10 lights that was a little brighter than the rest. When I looked up it looked like an alinement of planets in a galaxy of how straight they were. It looked like it was gonna be the end of the world. The lights would blink and than one half of the lights would turn off than turn on than the other half would do ye same and than the lights would slowly go away one by one after about 7-10 minutes. You could see a big circle shaped ship behind the lights. It would rotate clockwise but the one main beige red light wouldn’t move position but you could tell it was rotating.
December 3, 2020 · 7:15 PM · UNKNOWN
Kirksville, MO
6 dots like stars moving from west to east. Not following each other. Beside one another.2 disappeared. 4 stayed visible.
December 3, 2020 · 7:15 PM · CHEVRON
Amherst, MA
I am a 20-year-old college student. At approximately 7:15 pm eastern time, I was driving with my girlfriend on Bay Road in Belchertown Massachusetts right near the border with Amherst. We were near the Cold Spring Self storage facility heading east when we saw bright lights overhead. At first, I thought it was a plane but as it got closer it didn’t seem like any plane I had ever heard of. It was dark, but from what I could make it appeared to be a black triangle or diamond shape flying maybe 100 feet above us. It crossed over the road heading from North to South. From our vantage point, it looked slightly larger than a full moon. We opened the window and there was no sound at all even though the aircraft seemed to be so close. All we could hear was the wind from us driving. There were bright flashing white lights that outlined the triangle shape and then there were also flashing red and green lights on the bottom of the craft. We attempted to take a! video. It then seemed to speed up very quickly and got smaller and smaller until it disappeared over the treeline.
December 3, 2020 · 7:01 PM · LIGHT
Clifton, CO
Looked like a straight line of dim stars that didn’t move they just dimmed till I could no longer see them. I took a picture.