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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
December 3, 2020 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
springfield, IL
saw a vertical line of 6 lights that were equidistant apart rising in the distant sky. They appeared to disappear into the clouds slowly one at a time from the highest to the lowest.
December 3, 2020 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
niwot, CO
saw ~10 lights in the sky, evenly spaced in a line, fading in and out like i've seen before. some would get brighter, others would dim and it would repeat. eventually they all faded out after 1 minute of watching. hard to say if it was multiple crafts or part of 1. what made this especially weird is they were not moving, from what i could see, about 5 miles away? and they were perfectly diagonal in the sky. been looking for news on what it could potentially be but nothing yet. i've had similar encounters and they behaved the same. my footage is shit but it was completely black out and i'm shooting maybe 5 miles away.
December 3, 2020 · 7:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Laramie, WY
Star-light bright small shapes traveling at about small; airplane speed north aligned in a more or less east-west string moving just above the mountain tops (and behind the trees in my back yard)to the west of Laramie. The objects proceeded northward at a slight angle (so you could see multiples in a line) spanning the width of my hand at arms length. The line of objects appeared to turn slightly to the west with the pivot point at the far end.Once the objects lined up on the eastern end object, they faded completely away. I saw a similar light show in the back country of Colorado about 15 years ago in the South Platte Valley, except it was a v-shaped alignment of similar star-bright objects.
December 3, 2020 · 7:00 PM · FORMATION
Mountain Home, ID
My husband took the dogs out to potty just before 7 PM MST, when he came back to the house he noticed a strange formation of lights in the sky, like stars but in a distinct straight line. He came in the house to get our little bird scope we have and told me he saw something strange. I thought he may have seen a comet, but when I walked on our deck I saw the same thing he did, a string of around 8 to 10 lights evenly spaced in the southern sky, they appeared to be moving slowly to the east in tandem. We both got a good look through the scope, and then it was gone. Like the lights went out. It looked like it could have been one object by the way it moved but we did not see anything other than the lights. We were unable to get a picture.
December 3, 2020 · 6:42 PM · FORMATION
Phoenix, AZ
On December 3rd, 2020, at 18:42, I walked out of my house in Phoenix, AZ with my dog to go for a walk. I walked about 8 paces down my walkway from my front door and looked up at the sky (as I always do). I immediately saw 4 PERFECTLY spaced lights moving slowly. The lights were white, just like the stars, and there was no trail of any kind. I was confused at first as these lights didn't belong to any of the constellations or normal organization of the stars. Then I realized they were moving. The lights were heading North, Northeast. I was watching for about 10 seconds then the lights started to turn off or disappear 1 by 1, starting with the most Northern light (or the light farthest to the right). There was an airplane flying more North of these lights, heading Southeast, at what appeared to be a lower altitude. It was simply extraordinary. I said I saw 1 or 4 craft because at first I thought it was 4 separate crafts since there were 4 lights. However, late! r that evening, I thought it actually could have been 1 large craft with 4 visible lights since the lights were perfectly spaced and moved with perfect synchronization. The lights (or craft) were directly west of the Cassiopeia constellation (through Pegasus, according to Google Sky). The lights were a bit bigger than the rest of the stars in the sky which made them noticeable as well. So amazing.
December 3, 2020 · 6:30 PM · OTHER
Springfield, IL
Saw between 20-30 diagonally aligned lights that looked like stars. They were southwest of Springfield, Il. They did not move but after no more that 2 minutes, most were gone. They just disappeared leaving 4 or 5. Shortly after, those were gone, too. There were no blinking or colored lights. They just looked like stars. There was no sound.
December 3, 2020 · 6:15 PM · CIRCLE
Hollister, CA
We were walking through our backyard which leads to an alley that is very dark. I always look up at the stars. I looked up & gasped, & my 25 year old daughter looked up & directly above our heads were 15-20 craft, moving quickly, in an exact straight line. It looked like they were round with just one large round light on the bottom. They were absolutely silent. We watched them until we could no longer see them, just a matter of minutes. She got two pictures on her iphone. I am emailing them to you.
December 3, 2020 · 6:00 PM · FORMATION
Arroyo Grande, CA
I was meeting up with my daughter after she left work, to drop off my 4 year old grandson. We always meet in a secluded side road off the 101 Freeway and Los Berros Road off ramp. There are very few lights in this area so I told my grandson we should get out of the car to look at all the stars since it was so dark out. As we looked up into the sky there was a "string" of lights traveling fast in a NW direction. I quickly tried to count them and there must have been over 20 lights. All in a straight row; evenly spaced going across the sky. I tried to grab a video with my very out-dated phone, but NOTHING should up when I played it back. The straight "string" of lights looked like a row of cars that were traveling on a one lane highway; equally spaced apart; traveling at a high rate of speed. No sound at all. My grandson said, "That's weird" and I agreed. I am a 69 year old woman and I do not drink or take any drugs and I have never seen anything like that!
December 3, 2020 · 6:00 PM · OTHER
Valley Glen, CA
I was coming out of my parked car in my apartment parking lot when one of my neighbors was outside looking up at the sky. He asked me if I could see the lights? I looked up and at first, glance only saw a star but then looked again where he was pointing. I saw several orange lights perfectly lined up together moving across the sky slowly. It was hard to tell if they were separate or riding together on the same craft. It moved slowly across the sky and then faded away disappearing from sight completely. We both agree this was the strangest thing we have ever seen in the sky ever. It did not have the look of a plane or helicopter which I have seen many of those these lights were different. The lights were not bright or flashing. They had a dim glow to them and it almost seemed like it was hidden and then faded away. No clouds in the sky or anything it was a dark, clear sky.
December 3, 2020 · 6:00 AM · DISK
Forest Hills, NY
I observed a disk/saucer shaped object high above my 31st floor terrace in a partly cloudy predawn sky. The disk was bright red and moving north in a slow linear direction towards LaGuardia Airport some 5 miles away from my location It then turned left quite quickly I could see that the disk had gained altitude towards Manhattan Island moving in a non-linear fashion at very high speed. During its movement towards Manhattan the disk’s bright red color (apparent dome shape) maintained its brightness; while it appeared that the saucer was translucent with its edge ringed by non-flashing white lights which became evident while changing its flight mode and position It then continued to gain altitude quickly while moving north and disappearing.
December 3, 2020 · 4:00 AM · LIGHT
Great falls, MT
At about 4 am Thursday morning December 2020 from the west end of town where I live looking south east seen what looked to be an artificial light with a bright green tail witch at the distance the "light" took up a good portion of the sky and lasted about 4 seconds stared bright and then tapered off
December 2, 2020 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Richmond, VA
What I really want to report are the sounds I heard for a short time while the craft was present. There was a strange craft that was only a few miles from the tree tops about 2 miles from me. It had strange flashing lights and kept hovering straight up and down. When it got very high in the sky, it would almost look like it was trying to mask itself as a star except that I could tell the lights were flashing and I had been following it since it was close to the tree tops. It kept going up and down and hoovering, and my attention was first brought to it by my dog and many other dogs in the neighborhood barking at it. I do live near naval bases and DC, so it could have been something military related. I did see at least one jet "flying dark" above my head with all its lights off except for a blinking red light. I cannot be sure of what the craft was except that it stayed in the sky for a very long time, but at a much higher altitude to mask itself as! a star maybe, but it's not part of our normal night sky. It seemed that it could mask itself to look like a star if no one really looked at it, knew that it isn't part of the night sky, or saw it at a lower altitude like I did. I felt like it might have been a form of camouflaging itself. I take all of that with a grain of salt. What I truly want to report about the incident is that at one point I walked outside and could hear what sounded like whales or dolphins speaking to each other from all around me in the sky. The sounds were not in any pattern or rhythm. It sounded organic and fluid, and it sounded like a beautiful conversation. It felt like it was all around me, just as if I were under water listening for the origin of a sound. The best I can describe it as the sound of whales singing songs, but in the sky. That lasted about 5 minutes. That part was roughly probably at about 11pm.
December 2, 2020 · 11:00 PM · CONE
Lords Valley, PA
Witness lives in wooded rural community in the Poconos off Route 739 with a pond nearby called Elm Pond. Saw out her window an object bigger on top and getting smaller towards bottom like a top. Blue and red light on the lower part of object. Object was also emitting a white beam as if looking for something below. Witness cant see pond directly but knows object was over pond. 4 houses are on far side of pond. Unable to determine actual size but apparent size was bigger than moon and bigger than basketball. Just over treetops. Furthest object could have been from witness is 500 feet give or take. Object was stationary. Did not see it come. Went to bathroom. Returned and object was gone. Did not see it leave. No sound. Witness was unnerved by fact it was shining a search beam looking for something.
December 2, 2020 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Fairfield, CT
two objects that appeared through my camera as white, seem that they had the ability to become one and seperate at high speed.
December 2, 2020 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Loveland, CO
We just witnessed a string of perfectly spaced lights traveling together for at least a few minutes. Long enough for us to stare and repeatedly ask ourselves what we were seeing. Estimated total was between 30 to 50 objects. At first I thought they were coming from the ground and exiting the atmosphere but I now believe what we were seeing was them crossing or skimming the upper atmosphere. They seemed to appear from no where on the horizon, would then get very bright as they entered the middle of the stream, and then fade out. All while maintaining perfect spacing and formation. The stream of bright objects flowed for an estimated two to three minutes nonstop.
December 2, 2020 · 6:50 PM · FORMATION
Joshua tree, CA
We had just got home around 5:50 pm. As I got off the car I looked up and said the stars are shining bright tonight. As I continued to look I noticed a formation of lights that suddenly appeared from the east moving northwest. I said look what is that and my daughter, her friend, and my fiancé came back to see and we just stared. There must have been 20-30 of them one right after the other appearing and then disappearing. They looked as if stars where on an escalator. There was no sound of any kind.
December 2, 2020 · 6:45 PM · LIGHT
Tucson, AZ
Traveling west to east. Objects were steady traveling dots of light that at first seemed like a helicopter formation. There were no beacon lights nor any color than white dots. It was as if a line of dots was being pulled across the sky. There was not any sound such as propeller, jet or rotors. The pattern was an imprecise pair of dots with a space between each pair similar to the width of the pair. Picture:dot, small space, dot, large space and then repeat. As the lights were steady, I can not be certain they were not connected. Almost as strange, there was a finite range of the lights as if they turned north and so out of sight. The dots were no brighter than the stars they were flying before. Imagine looking at a neon sign in Times Square where the message banner went around the corner. The lights were moving when I first noticed them and stopped within a couple of minutes. I am in this area often and have never seen anything like it. I asked a coworker who recently left the Air Force what he thought. There is a base on the opposite corner of Tucson. He offered ideas but without beacons eliminated helicopters, military drones or planes. We also eliminated the large flares since there was no loss of altitude. The sky was quite clear and sunset was more than an hour earlier so the view was fairly optimal. I did not try to take a photo and think the lights were not bright enough for a phone photo.
December 2, 2020 · 6:30 PM · FIREBALL
Lehighton, PA
It was moving faster than anything I’ve ever seen. It hit ground but yet never exploded saw it over the mountain top of the Lehigh valley tunnel.
December 2, 2020 · 6:05 PM · FORMATION
Chatsworth, CA
We witnessed 8 lights flying in a straight line/formation from west to east over Chatsworth CA. The lights were “white”, could have been mistaken for stars, satellites or commercial aircraft, except that they were moving together, exact same speed, and maintained spacing. Cassiopeia was the most distinct constellation in our view. They appeared to move toward Cassiopeia, west to east, then disappear in a coordinated manner upon reaching it. After they were gone, there were 2 “Free moving” lights — one which crossed through Cassiopeia from North to South, and another which was east of the constellation, yet also moving north to south.
December 2, 2020 · 6:05 PM · CIRCLE
San Diego, CA
Witnesses to the sighting were myself age 51 (Fire Alarm System Inspector), Dad age 81 (Sales executive in aircraft bearings industry and Step Mom age 66 (HR for satellite parts manufacturer). Sighting was 122xxx Rios Rd, San Diego, California. We had arrived home from dinner at 18:00 driving two separate cars. My Dad and I pulled into the driveway and got out while my Step Mom was already inside. I was looking up at the the sky because it was a beautiful clear night. I noticed one round dim light that was above me traversing the sky. Object was not blinking and moved at a steady pace in one direction. Object appeared to be higher than a plane and I thought it could be a satellite. Within 10 seconds I noticed two more objects exhibiting the same behavior but moving in different directions. I felt the speed could have been similar to what you would see with a plane but the objects did not appear to be conventional aircraft due to lack of blinking lights and a! ltitude. I witnessed these lights for approximately 1 minute when my step mother came out of the house and noticed a row of approximately 10 to 12 lights, travelling west to east, about 60 degrees from the horizon and north of the front of the house. At this point all 3 of us witnessed these lights and we felt that we were observing something unusual. I watched the lights for about 10 seconds when I attempted to use my phone for video but could not capture the lights so, I went back to watching them. Some audio was captured of our reaction. Lights were dim, white and appeared to be evenly spaced approximately 3 to 4 feet between each one from our perspective. The row of lights did not appear to be one object. They appeared to be the size of small to medium stars. As we were looking to the north from the driveway, the lights travelled slightly left (north west) of us and as they reached slightly to the right (north east) of us, one by one, each light disappeared in order sta! rting with the furthest light on the right until it got to the! last on e. The total approximate time one light would travel to the time it disappeared was approximately 8 seconds. No aircraft were observed in the area during the account. In my opinion, the lights were definitely not due to atmospheric condition, reflection, flares, balloons or any known aircraft. We have never observed anything like it.
December 2, 2020 · 6:00 PM · FORMATION
Watsonville, CA
I was looking at Mars and I was also watching a satellite passing by. I always do, but all the sudden a bunch of lights start to passing by. From my location, they were coming from South to East, about 70° or so above the horizon, there’s a lot of them,too many to count,I see them appear and disappear. it’s a short travel. I calculate that the whole thing lasted about three minutes. from the moment I started to see them,it took me about 30 seconds to decide if I go inside the house and take my cell phone, so I did run inside the house took my cell. My recording is almost two minutes long, so I think altogether it was more or less three minutes. I was looking at my recording but I cannot see anything other than Mars, however I’m very happy that today, I find out, throug the Internet, that other people saw the same thing, that’s just great to know!. The experience to me it was disturbing and exciting. Thank you for Reading my message:)
December 2, 2020 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
San Jose, CA
I live in San Jose, California and today is December 2, 2020. I went outside of backyard thinking that I have not seen a satellite in months. I was watching at the sky around 6:00 pm (was already dark) and few minutes later I started seeing 3 or 4 satellite going in different directions. After minutes not seeing a satellite I started seeing a row of 3 or 4 flying light objects in a single file and I was surprised that more flying objects light were traveling from West to East. I was thinking that I was feeling dizzy but I was not and started counting 6, 7, 8, 9 and I was standing 4 feet from our bedroom windows and was thinking to call my wife to come outside but I felt like frozen and I was not able to talk. Finally I counted 22 flying objects lights but I know I missed I least 3 more flying objects lights that flew from west to east across my house up here. They were in a single file and going really fast. And the last flying object followed at a different distance that the others. I know those flying light objects were not satellites because these objects were moving fasters compared to the satellite. Unfortunately I only had my cell phone that was not going to be able to capture the event.
December 2, 2020 · 5:44 PM · LIGHT
Chula Vista, CA
On Wednesday December 02, 2020 at approximately 1744 hours while working out at Norman Park in Chula Vista, California located at Del Mar Ave and F Street I observed 20 to 30 lights that looked like the size and brightness of satellites you would see in the night sky. The objects were traveling above me in a straight line spaced evenly apart. This was observed for 1 minute flying from southwest to northeast and another male person working out also observed the lights. The park lights were bright which made it hard to record, but when observing the recording you are able to barely see the lights in a single row. The other male witness called his family (3 members) telephonically and they walked to the park a few minutes later but the lights were gone. However we did spot 2 more lights traveling in the same direction and both instances were recorded on an IPhone X.
December 2, 2020 · 5:30 PM · LIGHT
laughlin, NV
A single file line of lights in the night sky with the exception of one light set slightly off to the side. Estimated altitude of 10,000 to 25,000 feet. Heading East to Northeast. I can only guess that it was a military formation.