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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
October 10, 2020 · 8:35 PM · FIREBALL
Howell, NJ
One object appeared as a horizontally long oval (width only slightly bigger than height) with a light green glowing aura surrounding it. The object was going in a downward direction quickly and was fireball-like. One witness still saw the object behind trees on the horizon until it disappeared. The object appeared to be a few miles away in the southwest direction. Between the time that the first witness saw the object and the disappearance was approximately twenty seconds. This sighting occurred while setting up a telescope (but not viewed through the telescope as it happened too quickly to attempt to view it and we did not want to look away) and no other unusual objects were noticed before or after this. Both witnesses are not astronomy experts, but beginners with an interest in space. One witness observed meteors from the Persoid meteor showers in August. To compare to the meteors observed then, this object was much bigger, closer, slower, going in a downward direction (as opposed the meteors which went across the sky). Airplanes were the only other moving objects in the sky observed that night. However, this object also did not appear to be an airplane (the unidentified object was bigger, did not appear to have an airplane shape, and an airplane would not have been flying downward as fast).
October 10, 2020 · 8:15 PM · FIREBALL
New York City (Bronx), NY
A blue-green ball of light shot across sky at a diagonal before disappearing. It was hazy, almost like how the moon looks behind clouds, and moving like a shooting star but close to the earth. Almost looked like it was going to collide with a building. Seen while driving on the Henry Hudson Pkwy.
October 10, 2020 · 8:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Beaver Island, MI
Vacationing on Beaver Island we went to the beach to lay out and watch look at the stars. Both my partner and I noticed a three blinking lights moving quickly in almost a figure 8 shape as if it was hovering above. After returning to our rental, we noticed two other triangle shapes moving in the same hovering pattern. We watched these objects threw out the night to see how long they stayed around. The 1st one stayed until about 4am, while the other 2 disappeared before then. We were able to record one with our camera phone.
October 10, 2020 · 7:45 PM · DIAMOND
Bryan, TX
While watching the space station track from the NW to the SE over central Texas, I noticed a ufo that I estimate to be approximately 20 miles to the (East) of the ISS and following it in synchronized formation at 15,000+ mph. The UFO produced a bright white & blue glow about every 3 seconds, but in between the flashes the ufo was illuminated by sunlight but to a lesser degree of intensity than the intensity during its alternating white & blue flashes. It made no sound. And I estimate that it was near the 250 mile high orbit as the ISS. I watched it for about one minute until both objects disappeared into the earths shadow, though the pulses from the UFO continued to be visible for about another 15 seconds until clouds obscured my view. The UFO was diamond shape, and appeared about twice the size of the area of the ISS illuminated by the sun. I am 53,and have been flying airplanes for 37 years, and helicopters for 30 years. I have never seen anything like this.
October 10, 2020 · 7:00 PM · FIREBALL
Monroe, WA
Noticed an orange ball of light which appeared to be moving in a zig zag pattern. Then it appeared to ascend straight up. Then the craft went dark and appeared as a black dot in the sky, and moved in a straight line until we could no longer see it. Shorty after the object was no longer visible we both heard a high pitched ringing that we could not attribute to anything else.
October 10, 2020 · 6:38 PM · UNKNOWN
New Orleans, LA
Out on a walk through the French quarter when myself and about 6+ people looked up in the sky at this floating orb. Everyone was intrigued. I knew immediately it was an ET. I have since been doing further information. What I’ve learned about this orb, is that the ETs have gotten smart and don’t show their ships as much. They literally materialize into our atmosphere before showing their ship so that the air force doesn’t shoot them down. I am a full believer in inter Leo gent life outside of planet earth.
October 10, 2020 · 6:00 PM · OVAL
Pensacola, FL
First thought to be a white or silver balloon but as we watched it over the course of an hour it appeared to be above the clouds or at least most of them, A hurricane had just missed us but we had maybe 30 mile per hour winds still moving the clouds along and this object remained where it wanted to be up and down appearing to get closer to the ground or maybe chnnging its shape because the clouds always were under it and we only lost sight once the sun went down.
October 10, 2020 · 4:30 PM · OTHER
Otisville, MI
On October 10, 2020 I was up around 4:30- 5a.m letting the dog outside. I saw what I assumed was an airplane, but it was flying super low. I grabbed my binoculars and followed the object as it traveled across the horizon. There was a neon orange light, and it was as moving around like crazy. The only way i can describe it was that it looked like lines leftover from a sparkler, like when you move it around and it leaves a light trail. I lost it in the trees.
October 10, 2020 · 4:15 PM · CIGAR
Las Vegas, NV
Craft was gliding South to North toward Sheep Mountains. Craft was changing from silvery bright to darker black and back to silvery continuous as it glided toward the North.
October 10, 2020 · 2:00 PM · CHEVRON
bidenhospice, AK
Why in the hell have you people just stopped updating the site?? Site is worthless
October 10, 2020 · 11:09 AM · UNKNOWN
Jasper, GA
Watching TV with my kids and from our living room we have almost a full wall of windows.The sky lit up like turquoise blue for almost 2 minutes then went black again. 1 minutes later the entire neighborhood lost power for 4 or minutes.Then the power came on like nothing happened. When I saw that light it was like nothing I've seen and I freaked a bit. My youngest son 9 years old was yelling its helicopters but it wasn't. Not at 11 pm and in the rain. Anyone else see this ?
October 10, 2020 · 11:00 AM · OTHER
Huntingtln Beach, CA
While taking trash out approx 11 AM pdt to apt complex looked up saw what I first thought was a plane or small helicopter it was about the size of a small plane.it hovered.maybe 25 seconds.gray and black in color not a balloon(s)! Strange "wings"sticking out if it.riunfrfvatbtipd maybe four in number.Iyvwss traveling sliekybfrom westboff the Pacific ocean toEast.Yhen it dissolved!Like Smoke! Slight high covered clouds!but it didn't go into clouds !It was 800 1,00 high,.And I didn't have my cell phone camera with me!
October 10, 2020 · 8:28 AM · LIGHT
Leaving Denver by plane headed to Texas, CO
There was a glowing light outside of my aircraft window at first I thought it could be another aircraft in the distance. At first it was still but then it was bouncing around like it was playing a game. I saw it and I’m positive it saw me too. I got out my phone to record and it started moving like crazy. It would disappear to the right then reappear from another direction.
October 10, 2020 · 6:15 AM · UNKNOWN
Independence, MO
On October 10, 2020 at about 6:15am Central time (still completely dark outside) I observed from inside my kitchen looking out through my sliding glass door, toward the east, two white lights separated by approximately 50 yards. These lights, one brighter than the other, moved in tandem together forward and backwards, and up and down a number of times. I was located about a block and a half away from the lights looking across an open field. The incident lasted for approximately 30 minutes. The activity was occurring above a paved road. After the 30 minutes these lights settled down behind a tree line but I could still see the lights through the limbs and leaves while it was still dark. As the sky began to brighten a fog appeared to form on the field toward the east side near the lights. I don't know if this was a natural fog or if it was generated by something having to do with the lights. I continued to observe the area where the lights went down, without taking my eyes off the area, for about another hour. By now, the sun had risen above the horizon and the lights had not reappeared from below the tree line. At this point, there was no sign of the lights. I never saw them leave the area. I don't know what happened to them and could no longer continue my observation.
October 10, 2020 · 5:43 AM · SPHERE
Rocksprings, TX
Not sure if this is worth reporting or not. We have a ranch down around Leakey Texas, way , way out away from the city. Earlier this year, Myself, my wife and another couple were sitting out side and we saw a ball of light coming toward us. It appeared to be about the size of a softball and about 50’ in the sky. It came directly toward us, made a hard 90 to the right, went about 100 yards and made a 45 to the right. No sound, no other lights, etc. We have game cameras up at the ranch and have caught one on camera. Just curios to know what these are. I’m not sure how to post the picture so if ya’ll have an interest please contact me and I will send a pic. As a side note, I am a private pilot and have studied weather, aircraft, etc. and I have never seen anything like this. Regards,
October 9, 2020 · 11:25 PM · DIAMOND
Elkridge, MD
My wife was driving alone down i-95 around 11:30 last night 10/9/2020. She saw this upright diamond shaped light. It was pure white and just hovering in the sky to the south as she was heading towards it, around the intersection of 32 and 95 in the Elkridge area. It was brighter than the moon and seemed to be contained. In other words it was very bright but it was not throwing light on trees or clouds around it. There were no other cars around, and as soon as she noticed it, it started moving towards her. Around this time she muttered, "I fee connected to this thing." and "Its coming for me." She felt completely mesmerized by it, and not afraid at all. She slowed down to about 10mph and it moved as it if was going to come straight in front of her car appearing closer and larger in size from her perspective. It came to a stop above her and she felt like she was going to pass out. The bright white light was out at this point and she saw a w! hite light on the front and rear corners, and there was a green and red light in the other two corners. The object appeared very similar to the color of the sky, but seemed to be a solid shape.Then she felt she should keep driving. I must have stayed behind because she lost track of it and the rest of the drive was uneventful.
October 9, 2020 · 10:20 PM · CIRCLE
Near Detour, Michigan, MI
We observed the rotating light in the sky at Dennys cabin surrounded by trees. I have 2 videos, one is 42 sec. and the 2nd one is 1 min. 11 sec. long. No sound associated with the sighting. We observed the object for an hour. We actually got in the truck to see if we could find a source. The we went in the cabin to go to bed. We put the incident off to border patrol ??? But it was very strange. The object did move but stayed in the vicinity. The cabin is located very near the Canadian border. We rationalized it as man made and did not report. But still bothers us as to what we saw. You can hear the waves of Lake Huron.
October 9, 2020 · 10:00 PM · CIGAR
Rolla, MO
Was at the trunk of my car and noticed a very low flying “plane” didn’t pay any attention to it until i realized it sounded like it was having mechanical problems. Looked at it again and seen two lights on the front and one underneath. I then turned back to my trunk to continue what I was doing. While doing so I realized the light was casting a shadow of my body in my trunk. I then turned around once more, it was directly above me at this point. I then realized it wasn’t a plane due to its lack of wings. So I assumed it was a helicopter. Well I continued to watch it’s flight path as it flew over head of me. Not only did it have a curved flight path but it then transformed from a wingless plane, into what I will call a saucer. It looked as if it hit a wall and completely flattened out. After it had “flattened”, it didn’t necessarily vanish but I seen the way it was heading and it had completely vanished
October 9, 2020 · 9:15 PM · LIGHT
West Springfield, MA
I was sitting on my second floor screened-in patio, and a large , quick moving white light in the shape of a very large projected beam of light, like a flashlight, which came over my building, and into my view where it traveled about 45-50 feet. Then it just disappeared with no trace. No noises were heard, it was not a plane. The sky was very clear, as I could still see a visible bright star still in the eastern sky prior to the appearance of the UFO.
October 9, 2020 · 8:30 PM · DISK
Glens Ferry, ID
Purple disk close enough in the sky to see individual lights forming circle
October 9, 2020 · 8:00 PM · FORMATION
New Bedford, MA
On Friday night, I observed four lights that appeared to fly in formation across the city, south to north. After attempting to take some photos, I began to follow the lights as best I could. After about a mile, the lights disappeared. The lights were in a 2x2 formation and stayed at the same altitude the entirety of my sighting. I am an aviation enthusiast and typically watch the skies. We have a regional airport in the city with small commercial aircraft, business jets, and personal aircraft. This night I had been watching some of the planes from the school circling in the pattern. Unlike those known aircraft, these lights did not have any positional strobes and were not in the pattern for the airport. When returned from my chase, my coworker was returning and reported seeing the same lights but he was further south when he first spotted them.
October 9, 2020 · 7:19 PM · LIGHT
Las Vegas, NV
I am a satellite imagery analyst and have a background in remote sensing/drone flight and collection . I was walking in the evening when I two lights moving in the sky at approximately 19:19 on Oct 9, 2020. I did a double-take because I live a few miles from the Las Vegas commercial airport and frequently see planes multiple times a minute during take-off and landing. I also am familiar with the light pattern planes flash when in the sky. This caught my eye because a plane had just taken off and looked relatively large due to the proximity as it had lifted off the ground maybe 10 seconds prior. I stopped because there was a bright circular white light I instinctively thought it was a star, but it was directly above the plane moving at the same angle and speed which I have never seen before and instinctively raised an alarm in my head. I know planes take off somewhere between 130 to 150 mph due to my background and based on the size of the light. From where I was standing the light looked to be roughly 3x higher on the horizon as I couldn't make a reasonable guess on its height. The plane was approx. the size of a fingernail from where I was standing while the light was the size of a star in the sky so the scale and speed to which it was moving is a conundrum to me. My biggest question is how and why two objects(plane and one unknown) were on top of each other. Basic calculations from where I was and the airport takeoff are approx. 6.5 to 7 miles to the east of me for the plane. Approx. 4 seconds after I noticed the plane and the other object in the sky, the unknown star looking object stopped completely and was isolated/suspended in the air while the plane continued on its path. After approx. 2 seconds after the light stopped it started to dim to the point where it was barely visible in the span of approx. 2 more seconds. Still suspended in the air the dim light sat for approx. another 5 sec and increased its brightness again for approx. 2 sec. after another approx. 2 seconds it dimmed again and I looked away to search for any context as to what, where, how it could be, I looked away for less than a second, and when I looked back the object had vanished. Given the speed and rate of the object’s path earlier and that it was somewhat easy to spot in the sky, I can not fathom how an object can completely disappear in the matter of a second after being stationary for so long.
October 9, 2020 · 7:10 PM · LIGHT
South Kingstown, RI
At this location (Perryville section of South Kingstown) date and time I went out to my back yard with my dog to close the bulkhead door to the cellar. I looked up, as I always do out of habit, and noticed what I thought were two stars close to each other. Then, the 'star' began to move slowly and steadily due south. The elevation was very far up, maybe 25k feet. It did not flash and was a kind of reddish color. I thought it might be a satellite because it was not on the usual flight lines for my location. As I watched it head south toward the Atlantic ocean I noticed it either eject a small white light or the light flew from it. The light was white and tiny but stood out against the night sky. It seemed to zig-zag then quickly faded out. The reddish light continued south until it too faded out. The sky was mostly clear with many stars visible. No sound was heard from the object.
October 9, 2020 · 5:35 PM · CIRCLE
Pensacola, FL
A bright white round object sitting perfectly still against a clear blue sky..broad daylight