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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
November 9, 2020 · 5:27 PM · RECTANGLE
Probable conventionalWalled lake, MI
It was a rectangle in the sky it was only visible for about 5 minutes my wife and I witnessed were not sure what we were looking at. [NUFORC annotation: Contrail - Probable]
November 9, 2020 · 5:20 PM · CHANGING
New York, NY
We heard the sound of a herd of upset ducks flying towards us and stopped to look up at the sky, after they had passed, we Suddenly saw what Appeared to be a shooting star. It shot across the sky and disappeared at one point and then it reappeared and again shot further forward across the sky. It abruptly came to a stop and began to fly slowly and higher at the speed of a normal aircraft. There were approximately six lights and they were red and white. It was difficult to make out a solid shape. It slowly ascended and then simply disappeared.
November 9, 2020 · 5:15 PM · TRIANGLE
Clarksville, NY
November 9, 2020 – Approximately 1715 LT- 1.9 Miles SW of Clarksville, NY 12041 Elevation ASL of observers Approximately 1100 feet 4 adult observers sitting on a deck enjoying wide open views to the East Observer 1 – property owner – retired forester - Observer 2 - property owner spouse - Observer 3 - neighbor of property owner – retired Merchant Marine Officer / Maritime Pilot (Author of this report) Observer 4 - Significant other of Author – RN/BS Operating Room Supervisor We were enjoying vista views of neighboring states (Massachusetts and Vermont). My significant other was showing our neighbors a star finding app on her phone. As we gazed skyward, 3 bright white lights in a triangular pattern appeared just to the East of the planet Mars. They passed under the planet traveling in a westerly direction but did not block the planet from view. Just as they passed Mars they disappeared as quickly as they appeared. Duration of sighting was approximately 45 seconds.
November 9, 2020 · 5:30 AM · TRIANGLE
West Suffield, CT
I looked up and saw three bright white dots that looked like extremely bright stars in the shape of a triangle. They stayed in their formation but one by one they got dimmer and faded away until they were all gone.
November 9, 2020 · 5:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Centennial, CO
Very large black triangle with faint lights, noiseless, flying fairly low to the ground, heading south. Observed while driving to work near Centennial airport. Usually when aircraft are flying that low approaching the runway you can hear them very clearly - this craft made no noise at all.
November 8, 2020 · 11:30 PM · CIGAR
Alexander, NC
I watched a cigar shaped object with binoculars hover for 2 hours (23:30-1:30am) until cloud cover impeded my view. It was located at 150 degrees SE from my side yard at approximately a 25 degree inclination. It had lights across the midsection of the shape and appeared to move slowly East as the object became smaller. It never disappeared or changed altitude. I go outside every night to view the sky and have never seen this before. Woke my husband, a retired satellite engineer, up who also saw the object. Neither of us could find an explaination of something that could stay stationary for that length of time.
November 8, 2020 · 11:16 PM · LIGHT
Hunter, NY
Multi colored light. Can see faa red lights from planes passing under it. It moves around and not like satellites. Every Nov-Feb it shows up quite frequently. I do have video from my phone describing what I can. This is pretty frequent sighting!
November 8, 2020 · 9:48 PM · UNKNOWN
Creede, CO
On Sunday night while elk hunting near Creede my group witnessed a large object hovering to our east over Bristol Head. The object had multicolor light emanating from it and was extremely large and bright. It moved west across the ridge from us covering approximately a 10 mile flight in under 10 seconds. As it got closer to our camp we could make out a throbbing hum coming from it. It moved back east and at one point a red glare light up the valley. As it approached Creede it made a W type movement and disappeared down out of sight. 7 hunters watched this happen and 2 of our cell phones were doing video but the object wouldn't show on the screen. Although the audio of us describing it is clear. One photo did show it clearly.
November 8, 2020 · 9:15 PM · LIGHT
Oakdale, PA
I was laying in bed when I looked out of my window and saw a light in the sky. At first, I thought it was a plane, because the airport isn’t too far from my home, but it didn’t act like a plane. I was staying in one spot for a minute, and then it would move over a bit to the right and stop again. When it moved, it would leave a trail of light behind it. The UFO was also fading in and out, like the light would die out and then come back again. After watching it for a minute, it started making a decent at about at 45 degree angle, but I am unsure if it landed or not. The UFO was admitting a haze around itself, and looked like a shooting star at first.
November 8, 2020 · 7:25 PM · DISK
Newington, CT
I was doing about 40mph at the time and it flew out of sight at least 4x my speed
November 8, 2020 · 7:25 PM · CIRCLE
Harrisburg, PA
We saw a circle inert float above us and proceeds to head northwest toward the Susquehanna River in a strange and very fast pattern.
November 8, 2020 · 7:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Needham, MA
The craft was a triangle/chevron shape but with softer rounded corners . It was glowing white and hovering still above the trees next to our house very high up. It was stationary in the sky. We watched it for about 10 seconds and than it shot up into the sky at lightening speed and just disappeared without a Trace.
November 8, 2020 · 6:44 PM · DISK
Canal Winchester, OH
My neighbor and I were outside. I saw object coming from the East moving towards the West. Object had no red, green or strobe like an airplane. No sound either. It was around 5-10 thousand feet in the air. It was moving slow about 200 knots then slowed down almost to a complete stop above both my neighbor and I. It then continued West and speeded up then it vanished. I have been watching the sky since I was 10 years old. I am 58 now. I own 2 advanced telescopes. I have NEVER seen a UFO until yesterday. I have seen in the past Apollo, Apollo- Soyuz, the space shuttle, ISS all time, countless asteroids and countless satellites but NEVER anything like this pulsating orange / yellow object in the sky. I also have it all on video.
November 8, 2020 · 6:05 PM · UNKNOWN
Kalamazoo, MI
1. I turned south on Sprinkle road at E. H Ave. While driving south of E. H Ave. I noticed several aircraft, ( more than 3 less than 10) 5-8? These aircraft had orange/yellow “landing lights?” Oriented East to West or Southeast to Northwest. The aircraft were spaced and sequenced uniformly some distance apart but uniform in appearance. 2. My original thought was that Chicago MDW or ORD was backed up with arrivals and something out of the ordinary was happening with air traffic flows. This was definitely not a normal aircraft operation for this area. A scene to expect on a busy arrival time into a major airport but usually would not expect such traffic on a Sunday evening/night in the AZO area. 3. As I drove South on Sprinkle Rd, the aircraft seemed lower and closer than first perceived. Too low to be traveling to MDW/ORD/GRR, and maybe too high and too many to be landing at AZO. Again, not a normal aircraft operation. 4. As I was driving south on Sprinkle I could not discern if the aircraft were actually moving. I was moving and had no stable reference to tell if the aircrafts were actually traveling, but I did assume so. 5. The orange/yellow “landing lights” were dominant. I believe I saw strobe/blinking white lights but was unsure if I saw green or red nav lights. The orange/yellow “landing lights” were about the same color as the street lamps, which seem a bit off knowing that most aircraft have a more white/yellow appearance. The weather was clear VFR, scattering of light etc would not be a factor in my opinion. 6. I was curious and this was strange enough that I decided to turn around to get a better view and understand what kind of aircraft they were. I turned right (West) on E. Main St. and then turned around, Turned left (North/Northwest) again on Sprinkle. 7. Traveling North on Sprinkle Rd, I did not see the original 5-8 aircraft again, assuming that they moved out of line of sight. I did see one aircraft of the same type description to the East of me and above me, as I traveled North. I would estimate between 5-7 miles away? Not exactly sure. However my view was hindered and I lost sight of the aircraft. 8. I decided to make a U-turn on Sprinkle Rd. There was no other vehicle traffic at that moment. I turned around to head South again on Sprinkle Rd. I quickly acquired the aircraft to the east visually, and I pulled off to the right on the shoulder. Facing South on Sprinkle Rd. I had my headlights on and turned my emergency flashers on as there was now a line of Southbound vehicle traffic. 9. I rolled down my driver-side window to listen for helicopter blades or maybe UAV blades/ noise. The aircraft did not appear to be moving at any significant rate across the ground. The Southbound vehicle traffic obscured sounds. I did not hear or perceive any aircraft noise. I observed the aircraft for perhaps 1-2 mins. 10. After 1-2 mins the aircraft lights were turned off and completely disappeared. I did not see the aircraft turn away, there were no position lights, I did not see or hear any aircraft. 11. I waited and observed the area of the sky for a couple more minutes, thinking that the aircraft may turn its lights back on. 12. As I was watching the area, I noticed a small black motion blur quite close just to the east of and across Sprinkle Rd. Perhaps 50-100 yards east of Sprinkle Rd. There was a tree line. At first I thought it was just a misperception, but as I kept looking in that direction, I noticed a parachute . 13. This observation was at my 9 oclock, position or nearly 90 degrees from my driver-side window. 14. The parachute was not a steerable type, It was a round ‘drifter’ type. It also appeared to be too small to support a human jump. Something that supported a small payload. I did not see the payload 15. At that time I was confused and scared. Seeing a small parachute falling when and where it did, just did not compute for me. I had no idea what it was carrying etc. 16. I decided to quickly get the heck out of there and continued to drive South on Sprinkle with no further observations of aircraft or other aircraft or anomalies. Although a strange encounter, It is very likely that this was some sort of explainable event. Perhaps the military or National Guard etc, were performing maneuvers? I find it likely that the aircraft were perhaps helicopters. I do know that these aircraft were not like any police or search helicopters with search lights, I have witnessed those aircraft before and this bears no resemblance. I just want to put this event on record to perhaps be investigated and explained. I am a professional pilot with vast experience in aviation. I have no agenda, I am by nature a skeptic, and if I were to guess this is an explainable event but thought it out of the ordinary. But, by definition, it was a Un-identified Flying Objects event for me. Thank-you for reading and taking this report into account.
November 8, 2020 · 2:00 PM · CHANGING
Huntington, WV
On Thursday 11/8/2020 at approximately 2 pm I was in the parking lot of a Speedway gas station in Huntington West Virginia, delivering fuel to the location. I was looking up to see if I could see any airplanes and noticed two white things that appeared to float in the air. At first I thought they were pieces of paper or something floating the way paper ash floats in the air from a fire. But, there was no fire. These two objects were shiny. I was wearing dark polarized sun glasses and could not see these objects at all when I took my sun glasses off. They seemed to spin or rotate because they went from being round looking to a straight line perpendicular to the ground and then back round again. I could not tell how big they were because there was nothing to reference them to. At first they seemed to float, then one of them shot straight south really fast. The other one stopped and stayed motionless. The one that had zipped away stopped and zipped right back over to the one that stopped. A normal airplane went by behind them and it was really slow compared to how fast they scooted across the sky. I did not hear any noise or sound from the objects. I watched them for another 30 seconds or so and they just went away. The whole thing lasted maybe a minute and a half to two minutes. I have no idea what these things were but they were not anything I've ever seen or what I'd consider “normal” to see in the sky.
November 8, 2020 · 1:00 PM · CIRCLE
Palacios, TX
Looking up I spotted a circle shaped white in color object. It was stationary for some length of time. After viewing through binoculars we continued our conversation. After about an hour I looked for it again. It had moved what appeared to be due North and continued a very slow northern path until I could not see it.
November 8, 2020 · 8:25 AM · DISK
Dover, DE
i heard i weird noise that flew over the house i look it wasn't a plane if was a disc shape aircraft i don't know it was a aircraft because i saw it spinning and airplanes dont spinning and it was making a weird noise and it was flying low.
November 8, 2020 · 5:45 AM · FORMATION
Fulton, NY
Shortly after arriving at my deer hunting location on my farm, I was looking at the Big Dipper, and noticed what appeared to be a satellite transiting across the Dipper. This first “satellite” was soon followed by a second “satellite”, moving along the exact same path as the first one. The path was from west-northwest, to east-southeast. I thought it was unusual that two satellites would be moving so close together along the exact same path, when I noticed a third, fourth and more “satellites” moving across the sky. After about the fifth object crossed the sky, I noticed that bright objects were falling below the line of the “satellites,” travel, and that they would flare to maximum brightness about 15 degrees below the line of travel that the “satellites” were taking. I interpreted the increase in brightness to be the heat generated by objects entering the atmosphere. After a couple of seconds, the falling objects’ brightness would dim, and I could no longer see them. I counted at least 15 “satellites” moving along the same path, and about as many objects falling below the path of the “satellites”. A sixteenth “satellite” then followed, but traveled a path that appeared to bow out slightly from the path the previous fifteen “satellites” took, and eventually moved back onto the same path as the rest of the “satellites”. I would note that the falling objects did not appear to breakup into smaller pieces, as you might expect a piece of falling space debris to do, but remained intact during their descent, and their appearances were evenly spaced, matching the spacing between the “satellites”.
November 7, 2020 · 11:00 PM · CIRCLE
Visalia, CA
They were white circular objects. There were about 10, hard to count with clouds in the background. They were swirling around in the sky in a pattern. They moved slowly from south to north keeping in a pattern each time they came around. Before I came back in they switched from singles to doubles. Then went back to singles. There was no sound emitted. It was too dark to get a video on my phone.
November 7, 2020 · 8:20 PM · TRIANGLE
Portland, OR
Stepped out at just the right time tonight around 8:20 pm. Near the border of East Gresham. Looked up and pointed out to my girlfriend that there was UFO up in the sky. I never thought Id see one so close, It was atleast as high as a plane coming down to land. We were able to clearly make out the Triangle shape with a single light in each corner. The thing was that we could see its cloak! It looked just liked the invisible power up in HALO.
November 7, 2020 · 7:12 PM
Los Altos, CA
Was clear night, no moon.
November 7, 2020 · 7:12 PM
Los Altos, CA
Source of report provides no information. PD
November 7, 2020 · 6:45 PM · TRIANGLE
Evans, CO
I have seen 3 lights in a perfect triangle over the Evans, Colorado, area twice. Once with my kids about 2 weeks ago and tonight. They are steady and one seems to fade in and out. They are not blinking or have flashing lights. They are round orb shaped and perfectly spaced apart. The lights are white. They look light extremely bright stars.
November 7, 2020 · 6:00 PM · SPHERE
Houston, TX
UAP/UFO Sighting on 11/7/2020 in EaDo Houston, TX When: 11-07-2020; event began at approx. 6 pm at dusk Weather: Clear, no major clouds Camera and Vantage Point: iPhone SE (2nd Gen) with digital zoom, recorded from a nearby 5th floor rooftop. The UAP was observed flying over Hwy 59 in front of the Marriott Marquis Hotel located at: 1777 Walker St, Houston, TX 77010 UAP description: Shape: perfect sphere with metallic finish Lights: glowing or pulsating or brightening/dimming light which seemed to turn on and off or turn away from view while the UAP was perhaps turning. Sound: It emitted no discernable noise. There was background noise heard in the video of traffic 2 blocks away on a raised freeway. Size: I was able to compare the size while it was flying over moving cars just below it on Hwy 59. It was between the size of a small hatchback and a mid-sized SUV or sedan. Acceleration Speed: Silent and high speed acceleration much faster than known aircraft able to hover can move such as a helicopter or a V/STOL fixed wing aircraft like an F-35 or Sea Harrier jet. What was observed just before the recording started: At about 6 pm, I was in awe trying to decipher what it was I was witnessing. This extremely bright and pulsating/glowing on/off spherical craft making no noise was making uncanny aerobatics, quickly zipping away into the background out of sight beyond even more buidings downtown. At this point the light seemed to go completely off and I was able to observe the perfectly spherical shape with my naked eye. Within only a few seconds, it zipped back into view closer to my position, once again above Hwy 59 at an altitude of approximately 450-600 feet. I estimated this based off of the fact that the craft was slightly to the right of the 28 story Marriott from my vantage point and just above the rooftop. After the 45-60 second aerial demonstration (unrecorded), the UAP moved closer to my position while moving to my left at which point I started recording. Some moments of particular interest in the video are when the light is see! n to get much brighter and when you can see the brown colored elevator shaft of the building I was on in frame with the orb and how it moves rather quickly to the left just before disappearing out of view behind the building. Observers: Primary observer is myself and I am a 40-year-old male with a degree in marketing who works in sales in the oil and gas business in Houston, TX. Interests include learning to pilot fixed wing aircraft as well as rotary wing aircraft. When I was around 12 years old living in Brisbane, Australia, I saw what seemed to be an airplane flying along the horizon make an instant 90° turn launching straight into space at extremely fast rates. This was my only other UFO experience. Secondary observer is my wife, a 28-year-old Argentine female who was distracted and editing TikTok videos on her iPhone while listening through her AirPods. Conclusion: I have always admired aircraft my whole life so I have some good knowledge about helicopters, airplanes, and drones. I cannot identify what it was I saw and the most likely thing it could be is a drone. I have never seen a car-sized drone perfectly shaped sphere able to emit no noise. I am a logical person I can only conclude this is a secret government aircraft or something not of this planet. Folder Containing all videos and pictures: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1--B1iaMb71wzq8hE1yuHfeQoBr9nbf5A 1st (primary) video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xtzijj69gXrqJ-eL4WGnnfOg_945a73B/view?usp=drivesdk 2nd (less impressive) video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nbDw7TWsJMTnK2V2nuf8YjV20PyKDLtV/view?usp=drivesdk YouTube post: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzkBtJSK9AI Nextdoor post: https://nextdoor.com/news_feed/?post=167489848&comment=499907701