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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 7, 2020 · 9:30 PM · SPHERE
Riverside, CA
While in my backyard on the night of 10/07/2020 at approx. 21:30, while looking to the sky for meteors from The Orionids event, I witnessed an abnormal craft pass overhead. The sky was dark overhead with normal city light pollution toward the horizon. I had identified Saturn and Jupiter at approximately 192 degrees S of my position, then Mars at approximately 81 degrees E. I took out my phone and opened my “Star Walk 2” application to help identify any constellations I might be able to see. As I looked away from my phone and into the night sky while facing approximately 40 degrees NE, a fast moving, dull gray in color, orb appeared from approximately 109 degrees E and traveled toward 316 degrees NW. Estimating by relation to the commercial aircraft in the area at that time, the object appeared to be at approximately 20-25,000 feet in altitude. The orb shaped object appeared to be approximately one quarter the size of a commercial airliner (50 feet +/-) in diameter. The object had no flashing lights (of any color) and seemed to “glow” rather than “shine”. It traveled nearly the length of my visible sky in a straight line in approximately 4 seconds. At that 4th second, it made a 90 degree right angle maneuver traveled a split second, then made another 90 degree angle maneuver to the left (which put it back traveling in it’s original direction), before disappearing out of my sight another second later. There is high altitude commercial air traffic in my area, traveling to and from two large airports. These commercial aircraft were traveling approximately, at least, 5 times slower than the object I witnessed. The majority of the flight paths for these airports are perpendicular to the path of the unidentified object I witnessed. The commercial aircraft are easily identifiable by their colored lights, airspeed and direction. I regularly see the Starlink satellites and they too travel in a path perpendicular to this unidentified object, and approximately 100 times slower from my perspective. I immediately checked the viewable time for the International Space Station from my global position and found that it had possibly been visible (dependent on viewing conditions) albeit on a different flight path and approximately an hour and forty minutes earlier. The unidentified object I witnessed by my estimation was traveling at at least 2,000 mph, with no marker light, no sound, and no sonic boom.
October 7, 2020 · 9:00 PM · CHEVRON
Ferndale, MI
We were enjoying a hot tub when directly overhead we saw a faintly lit chevron traveling about twice the speed of a plane traveling north to south. It looked more like reflected light than light that was generated from a source. At first I thought it might be reflected light from a flight of geese but the asymmetric chevron held an unchanging uniformity. It was comparable in size to a full moon, maybe a bit larger. The lights were somewhat faint and your average star like blue in color. They were steady and unchanging. There appeared to be maybe 4 linear lights on one side and 3 on the other side of the chevron. We heard no sound. I am an amature astronomer and this totally blew me away. I have never seen anything like it. Unfortunately we were in the hot tub so I have no images. Would love to know if anyone else saw it.
October 7, 2020 · 8:00 PM · OVAL
Gordonsville, VA
The unidentified object moved in a strange formation emitting a yellow-orange light. It moved near the ground at high speeds without sound.
October 7, 2020 · 7:45 PM · TRIANGLE
Gaston, SC
my third entry, first was on 09/30/2020. object can be seen every evening that skies are clear, about 1/2 hour after sunset until the object sets in the west, about 21:30. I have observed his object on several occasions prior to the first report over the past year. my first sighting was in Sept 2019. the object appears to the naked eye as a rotating sphere with rapidly flashing lights, red white green and blue. with binoculars, the object appears triangular possibly pyramidal or octahedron, rapid flashing lights make it hard to decide on shape. I believe it is a Human made object, but nit is unidentified to me, I would like to know what it is. I will continue to report it until I am contacted with reasonable explanation or in person.
October 7, 2020 · 7:35 PM · LIGHT
Terre Haute, IN
I am a 22-year-old white female college student studying English and Creative Writing. (Hopefully any talent I have in the field will aid in this description.) I wouldn’t exactly call myself a conspiracy theorist, but I am openly receptive to the idea that there are things among us that we don’t understand. I don’t know if this is pertinent, but I have a background of depression and anxiety, though I was experiencing neither during this event. (Up until I saw the UFO. Then, I will admit, I was very anxious.) At approximately 19:30 on October 9, 2020, I was sitting alone in my car in a McDonald’s drive-thru on the north side of Terre Haute, Indiana. The sun was setting, but it was still bright out; the sky was a pastel pink. As I waited for the cars ahead of me to move on, I noticed what looked to be two stars hovering in the west—the direction that I was facing. They were bright white pinpricks of light contrasted against the sky. It’s hard to say the shape, simply because they seemed so far away. Upon closer inspection, I could see that at least one of them had a short trail, and in an attempt to reconcile the strange object, I told myself it must be a couple of planes, despite the fact that planes do not emit light in that way. (The trail was odd looking, too. Not smoke, but it appeared to be made of light.) The drive-thru line was not long, but long enough for me to stare for a minute or two. Long enough to have noticed any movement, or a direction in which the “planes” were heading, if there was any. But they simply hovered, completely still. The trail that had been left by the one had dissipated in a matter of moments. I pulled out my cell phone and attempted to take pictures, but the points of light were too small for my camera to pick up. At this point, I suspected that it might be a UFO, but had other explanations to put myself at ease, as well. I knew that Mars and Venus were supposed to be bright this month—perhaps that was all I was seeing. However, as I was focused on the original two points of light, two more appeared. I first noticed the third, and then as my gaze shifted, a fourth. All close together, and all unwaveringly still. I distractedly pulled forward to the pickup window, and accepted my bag of food before pulling out of the parking lot and heading home. I took Fort Harrison Rd west toward 13th St and continued to anxiously watch the points of light (what I even now struggle to call UFOs) as I drove. So intent on watching them in fact, needing to track any movement and at this point terrified of what it might mean, I was not as focused on the road as I should have been. I made it back to my home in one piece, but only after I told myself to look away and pay attention to what I was doing. I wanted to look around at the other drivers on the road, to see if they were reacting the same way, if they even noticed, but my mind was scattered, and I was far too anxious to do anything but race home. The moment I arrived back at my house, I headed to the back yard to get a clearer view of the sky, but there were too many trees blocking my view, so I went back in. Sat down. Feverishly Googled what it could be, and found with a blossoming dread that it couldn’t be Mars and Venus. Not only are those planets located in different quadrants of the sky, but are visible only at different times of the day. Perhaps one of the lights I saw was Mars, but that doesn’t explain the other three. Later that night, I did further research, and was momentarily relieved to find there would be a meteor shower that same night, but the details about the meteor shower didn’t line up with what I saw. According to a local news site, the Draconid meteor shower is small, and one should only expect to “see a few meteors streak across the sky in an hour.” And though the Draconid meteors move slower than those in other showers, they only last “one or two seconds,” which does not account for the several minutes that these UFOs were in my line of sight. And these could not be stars. Even neglecting the fact that one of them had a trail, nowhere within city limits could you see stars shining that brightly, especially before nightfall. Truly, I would like for there to be some other explanation. But the more I go over the memory of what I saw, the more I’m convinced that the only logical explanation is UFOs. I relayed this experience to a trusted friend who used to live in Arizona, a well-known hub for UFO activity, and she told me that my description matches that of her own experiences. I did a few different Google searches to see if anyone had reported anything similar, but I came up empty-handed. So I decided I had to do it myself, even though thinking about it fills me with that same dread as before. I don’t think I’ll be getting any sleep tonight.
October 7, 2020 · 7:21 PM · UNKNOWN
Belchertown, MA
I was traveling east with my fiance on Bay Rd. in Hadley MA around 7:20 (right before Atkins) when I first noticed a single low, bright, color shifting object just above the tree line. I had seen lights exactly like this before several times, all near or above water sources (see my previous post from January 2019 of seeing a diamond shaped craft hovering low over the Connecticut River while traveling home from work in Northampton/Holyoke on rt. 5). For this particular sighting, initially I only saw 1 light. It was definitely not a plane, helicopter, or drone as the light pattern was a rapidly changing almost opal or diamond like random color pattern, not a standard FAA color scheme or pattern that planes and helicopters have. I asked my fiance who was driving at the time if he saw it too and he confirmed that he did. It was not moving in the sky and remained stationary as we headed into Belchertown continuing on Bay Rd. and turned off on our street shortly b! efore Bay Rd. merges onto rt 9. When we got to our home, we could still clearly see the same light from our front yard. It had not moved. We went inside and about an hour later came out again and it was in the same spot. I noticed now that it looked like there was a small helicopter flying near it, like it was observing the strange light from a close distance. It was a much smaller, much dimmer flashing white light next to it. We watched this for another couple of minutes and the strange light began to go from bright, almost sparkling like color shifts to pure blackout (this could have been due to some clouds). It appeared to be right over Quabbin reservoir near the Belchertown/Pelham line which is a few miles from our house. After watching it for a few more minutes, it made a pretty sudden and small shift in direction, looking like it was headed towards us (headed west) in the sky. We could tell it was moving towards us because it got slightly larger in size and brightness! very fast. Once it appeared to have stopped moving, we headed! out bac k (traveling west) towards Bay Rd. to get some food on rt 9 when I looked up and saw that there were actually several of these lights lining what appeared to be the outline of the lower portion of the Quabbin reservoir along rt 9 heading into Ware. I counted about 4 or 5 that were low and close enough that I could see them clearly before we had to turn onto Bay Rd. and they would be completely behind us from the car. The lights seemed to be in a type of line or formation or like I said, lining the reservoirs edge or at least the lower portion of the water from my vantage point. I had only seen these kinds of lights in a diamond shape per my previous sighting so to see them individually spread out like that was the only difference from my first sighting. The lights/crafts were far enough apart that it couldn't have been 1 craft but rather a series of possible sentinels or smaller crafts hovering over different points along the water. As we headed toward rt 9 via Bay Rd, I noticed another single light like the ones we just saw but it was over the Northampton/Hatfield area. It was also pulsating at a fast rate several different brilliant colors and was also low in the sky. It was the same type of light/craft but by itself, possibly over the Connecticut River. I am not sure why every time I see these lights they are hovering over or traveling along a river or other waterway, but I can't deny what I saw. After seeing the same type of light multiple times, this time having my fiance also see them and confirm what I was seeing/what I said I had seen befor! e, it made me feel like I wasn't crazy and legitimized my/our experience. We are moving to Belchertown shortly and even though this wasn't the first time, I suspect it won't be the last time I see some unexplainable things in the night sky near Quabbin.
October 7, 2020 · 7:08 PM
Spencerville, KS
Did not trigger but showed qualifying field numbers and compass-heading changes at the time of the sighting.
October 7, 2020 · 7:08 PM · CYLINDER
Spencerville, KS
The sky had been clear in this rural area, and the man and his son were walking to the barn when his son saw the object first and asked him what it was. It was at about a 40-degree angle up. He pointed at it and they both stood and watched it for 2-3 minutes. When the man then looked down at his son to tell him he didn't know what it was, then back up, the object was gone. The object had been high in the sky, somewhere between 5-10,000 feet, range 1-2 miles, and was stationary. It appeared to be 20-40 feet long, possibly longer, cylinder/cigar-shaped, clearly outlined and silver/chrome reflective.
October 7, 2020 · 7:08 PM · CIGAR
Spencerville, IN
The sky had been clear in this rural area, and the man and his son were walking to the barn when his son saw the object first and asked him what it was. It was at about a 40-degree angle up in the southwest. He pointed at it and they both stood and watched it for 2-3 minutes. When the man then looked down at his son to tell him he didn't know what it was, then back up, the object was gone. The object had been high in the sky, somewhere between 5-10,000 feet, range 1-2 miles, and was stationary. It appeared to be 20-40 feet long, possibly longer, cylinder/cigar-shaped, clearly outlined and silver/chrome reflective.
October 7, 2020 · 7:00 PM · OTHER
saint peters, MO
I was in my backyard I live in a subdivision my house is surrounded by other houses. I happend to look in the sky and exactly were I looked something caught my attention. I noticed what looked like a a wedge shape in the sky it was translucent sort of like the predator movies I could see it but only because it wasnt comp invisible. It was moving slowly just like an airplane would move.I heard no sound It just slowly hovered. it was about cloud hight.I tried to get my phone out to take a picture but due to it being so hard to see and it having some sort of cloaking technology I lost sight of it.
October 7, 2020 · 9:13 AM · FLASH
Waterford, MI
Object started flashing ( I’m aware it’s not the planet next to it) lasting actually about 5 minutes. I was parked in my car, craft appeared to be less than 1,000 feet from the ground. I live by an airport and know that they blink 1 second apart ( I’ve learned much about airplanes since these events started occurring) this was not the case here.
October 7, 2020 · 6:15 AM · CIRCLE
Charlottesville, VA
Driving to work on I-64, I saw two really bright stars in my peripheral vision. They didn’t catch my attention.... until one moved extremely fast, in a straight line with a tail behind it... across the sky. It stayed in my vision and then disappeared. It was very high up, with the stars. It didn’t look like any shooting star or meteor I have ever seen. This is the first sighting I have had this month, and I had the second sighting last night. Really concerns me.
October 7, 2020 · 5:15 AM · CIRCLE
Youngstown, NY
At 5am a small light like a very bright star but in the tree caught my attention, a tree directly across the street from my home that is wilderness. I wished it wasn’t there because I had things to do, but it demanded attention. At first, I thought it might be a planet or star visible through tree leaves that made it obscured; but no, definitely not that. I went outside and could see intermittent pulsating lights that chased each other as if around the perimeter of a circular object. I moved around to observe it from different angles (it was not Venus or Sirius) A red ball descended and it was frightening, not normal. Thoughts that something might come out of the thick brush concerned me, but I heard nothing. My neighbor was rushing off to work, I tried to get him to come see, but he was in a hurry. From his truck, he looked at it, saw the lights, but he said it was a drone. Who flies a drone at 4am? It was very bright when it flashed, but I couldn't get a p! icture of it. I would estimate a three foot wide section, seemingly more than one section of lights in the tree. Lights traveled in a circle randomly, so pretty they mesmerized, chasing flashes of white. Strange. Several lights came down from it, not something a drone would drop. I took pictures but they are black. I stood out there staring at it for 40 minutes. It started to rain and I went inside. A few minutes later, I went back out but it was not there. Now I wonder if it dropped anything, but it is a thicket over there.
October 7, 2020 · 1:05 AM · OVAL
Franklin, PA
Donut, firey to orange/sun in color. moved in all directions above building but never fully left the area.
October 6, 2020 · 11:38 PM · UNKNOWN
Key West, FL
The UFO we saw was very high in the air, we thought it was a bright star at first. This was a very windy day as Tropical Storm Gamma was passing through, so we are certain this was not a bird or bug - and it was so high in the atmosphere that no creature could survive nor move that fast. The UFO moved lightrning quick in a zigzag from one point to another staying in place for a moment or so at each point of stop, ultimately returning to approximately the original location where we first spotted the it in the dark sky. Then the UFO accelerated up and disappeared out of site, all faster than a blink. We did see a few planes overhead in the sky, I have never seen anything in the sky move like this.
October 6, 2020 · 10:12 PM · FIREBALL
San Antonio, TX
Driving home on highway around 10-10:15 pm To my west in the sky a white yellow streak appeared with A orange head shape I would it was on fire? And then it broke Apart in 2 more pieces then I couldn’t see it anymore. ?
October 6, 2020 · 9:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Skamania, WA
I totaled my car and had to walk 7 miles home. I was walking west on HWY 14 in darkness when I saw the sky light up. I looked up to see a very bright light moving across the sky as it continues to get dimmer. The light reduced to about the brightness of a star and maintained that brightness for about 15 seconds. The light moved around the sky varying speeds until is dimmed completely and disappeared into the sky.
October 6, 2020 · 8:15 PM · LIGHT
Delaware, OH
Was outside at the time of observance. Local hospital is nearby, local life flight helicopter was coming in low to ground at the hospital. Life flight circled back for a second pass for some reason, and when the helicopter passed slowly over us to double back to the landing pad, the lights suddenly appeared. At first, there was just one light and then the others sprang off of it one at a time until there was a total of five individual lights hovering. They were white, like stars. The lights then proceeded to hover independently in multiple directions as they spread out. They were so high in the atmosphere that they resembled the stars and they moved erratically and very fast. They would come together and move away from each other in lightning fast speeds with a pattern of hovering and moving in smaller circles. Another witness and I observed these UFO’s for a duration of five minutes. The helicopter finally landed at the hospital and the lights disappeared when it did. They disappeared just as fast as the appeared, as if out of thin air. The disappearance also happened in unison. They zipped away at the fastest speeds that no aircraft can achieve and was gone. Video evidence was also filmed at this event, if needed.
October 6, 2020 · 8:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Colbert, WA
My husband and I were outside playing with our dog in the evening. We live in the country and the sky was almost completely dark at this time. Suddenly, the sky lit up in the brightest and most vibrant lights we'd ever seen. There were three separate flashes, all different colors. These three flashes occured several times. We ran down the street to see if we could see anything, and no sooner did my father-in-law come out of the house and ask about the lights he saw through the window. We did not see a Craft, but we knew it was otherworldly.
October 6, 2020 · 8:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Beavercreek, OR
On October 6, 2020 around 8pm pst, my husband and I saw an unusually bright white, fast moving object very high in the sky. As we were observing, there was what what appeared to be a meteor falling, that looked like a shooting star except is was moving up instead of falling down. This object was “shooting” in the exact direction of where the moving white light had been, which was no longer visible. Then a few seconds later there was an extremely intense, blue white light “explosion” for lack of a better word. It was concentrated right in the area where the two previous events took place and did not light up a large area of the sky. It looked like what I would think of an exploding star would look like here on Earth. We live in a rural area that is very dark and quiet. There were absolutely no sounds that we heard associated with this event. I made note of the constellation Pegasus as reference to where we saw this take place.
October 6, 2020 · 7:52 PM · TRIANGLE
Oakdale, CT
Triangle shaped UFO. Flew over neighborhood in front of us, while we were stopped at a stop sign. Craft had bright white lights at each corner. It flew SILENTLY, for 3 seconds before a house obstructed our view. We tried to follow it but, could not find it. it flew from Northwest to Southeast about 150 feet in the air. it was about 35 feet long and 20 feet wide at the back end. It traveled about 35 miles per hour.
October 6, 2020 · 7:35 PM · CIGAR
Teerre Haute, IN
This unknown orange glowing object became apparent as I was taking photos and video of what I think was either space debris or a meteor. This other unidentified cigar shape was hovering more west of the meteor and just to the left. I then took my eyes off of it for a few seconds and then noticed it had quickly moved way to the south on the horizon silently. I have pictures and video of both anomalies. Thanks for helping me find out what they might be and if others have reported them!
October 6, 2020 · 7:13 PM · LIGHT
Clifton, AZ
Witnessed light travel in a straight line from the north for approximately 20 seconds it then executed a 90 degree turn towards the east and proceeded for roughly 60 seconds then slowly faded over the course of 10 seconds. The light was very bright almost as bright as the North Star. And it did not behave or look like a fighter jet or commercial aircraft.
October 6, 2020 · 7:00 PM · CIGAR
Bridgewater, MA
While standing in my driveway I glanced upward and saw a slow moving object high in the sky with 3 lights positioned in a line moving slowly across the sky for approximately 60 seconds. I ran in to get my phone to video but it was gone when I came out.