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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
August 20, 2020 · 1:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Coralville, IA
I saw weird things floating around coming and going to this main ship. It was so odd that looking the ship that was seeding drone to to pick up stuff.
August 20, 2020 · 1:00 AM · LIGHT
Jenkins, KY
I was driving through through Letcher County to Virginia, when I saw a bright light in the sky! At first glance I thought it was a star, but it was to bright and moving! All the sudden it zoomed in the air and disappeared! My only concern is this was the most recent situation happened to me, but years ago in the same location, I had a object follow me, my daughter, and her father for what seemed like miles down the road! The light stayed just above the tree lines, but was moving with our car! That was a frightful event for all of us, but seeing this again years later has me concerned and scared!
August 20, 2020 · 12:04 AM · UNKNOWN
Salisbury, NC
Our Ring doorbell captured event as person detected. When I watched back the film I didn’t see anyone however there was 2 blinking lights 10 feet from the ground facing the house with movement and then it appeared to go behind a pine tree we have at the corner of the house. The lights were very bright and could still be seen. Video clip was 30 seconds.
August 20, 2020 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Centerville, PA
we were just outside on the deck having coffee and noticed what looked like a bright star in the sky. When we started watching it, it moved around and hovered, we first thought it was a military drone. More started appearing and they started to go into a formation, some were flickering red and green lights and the main big one was bright white.
August 19, 2020 · 11:45 PM · TRIANGLE
Kenner, LA
The object was easy for me to point out because it was a clear sky and there was the object that was at least 10x bigger than everything else in the sky. It caught my attention, so I decided to keep looking. After doing this the bright “star” began to fall extremely fast, so it became instantly clear that it wasn’t a bright star. I then thought the object was a “comet” or “space debris”, but as I begin to think this, the brightly lit object stops mid fall. I am seeing all of this while driving on the interstate, so I am driving much slower than normal, probably 40 MPH. The object that was so high in the sky, was falling at an extreme rate of speed, was the brightest object in the sky, and it was just hovering in place less than 100 feet above the bridge I’m driving on. The “object” began to slowly approach the I-10, which startled me, because I was no longer sure what I was looking at after this object did not crash into that water to my right. At this point I’m not scared, but just confused about why I can’t hear this object that is hovering so close to me and why it’s approaching the bridge so closely. As this object began to approach the bridge and get closer, I could tell it was a black triangle.As I took a close look at this “Black Triangle”, the UFO turned on its “headlights” and illuminated the entire highway/bridge. I began to panic and drive as fast as I could because I was so scared and the cars around me were doing the same. As I was accelerating to get away from the Black Triangle that just lit up the interstate, other cars were pulling away pst me, so I could tell other drivers felt panicked. Im certain of the details I have provided. Not that this thing is an alien, but that all of what I said is the 100% truth. Here are the coordinates approximately of where this happened 30.016628, -90.317403. Please get back to me, if there are any questions I can answer. This happened in Kenner, Louisiana on the I-10 heading towards Baton Rouge right by the dead trees with no leaves on the left hand side after the NORCO exit by the airport. The object did appear to have “break lights”, when I was driving away the craft headed the opposite direction, so I saw it from behind and it appeared to have red “tail lights”.
August 19, 2020 · 11:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Grantsville, MD
Bright hovering triangle with small light blasts that were streaking to and from it .
August 19, 2020 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Albuquerque (?) ("Abiquiu"), NM
We assume the witness intends a location of "Albuquerque," and we have indicated that fact above. PD
August 19, 2020 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Abiquiu, NM
2 witnesses spotted several orange and white lights bobbing and flying erratically in the sky. Specifically 2 orange flying objects that appeared slightly larger than the stars around it were clearly not stationary stars as they were moving in all directions and return to a centra area. Cascading from the orange objects there were several smaller formations that seemed to be ejecting from the primary orange object.
August 19, 2020 · 10:30 PM · SPHERE
Jackson, TN
Unusual sighting. This as succinct as possible. I am a seasoned pilot who flies an Airbus A300 for a major freight delivery company here in the United States. I am also a Coast to Coast subscriber who, up until now, has never witnessed and unidentifiable sighting in my 10,000 hours of flying. Due to the unusual nature of this event, the crew tried to capture as many details as possible. While flying from Richmond VA to our hub, the crew noticed a satellite looking object bearing NW, moving what appeared to be easterly. The object was approximately three fingers high from the horizon. The object was devoid of any beacon, strobe or other flashing lights. At first, the object was a dim white light but in the span of about 15 seconds, it went from dim to a very noticeable bright white light and then dim to out of sight. This event was soon followed by a succession of about 15 more of the same sighting for a total of 16 observed. Duration total of event was about 9 minutes. The observation began at Fl 300 and persisted during our descent until about 13,000ft. We believed the succession of events ceased but they may well have continued as we were getting closer to our city base and the preponderance of lights made the night sky more ablaze. The first object was observed at 03:30z and the 16th object was observed 03:39z. The spacing between objets seemed to be consistent and on-time. The speed appeared to consistent with that of a satellite moving across the sky. It was difficult to ascertain the height above Earth but all objects occurred at the same altitude which was noted at about three fingers above the horizon. The objects location were noted at a 330 degree bearing from our airplane and our heading was 270 degrees. ** crew hypothesized that these were either a result of private enterprise technology or from the military. Possibly weaponry or drone.
August 19, 2020 · 10:10 PM · CIRCLE
Pompano Beach, FL
Due west black sky one small star like object and another that looked like a spinning coin but with nothing in the middle like a bright ring. Moving very rapidly around in a relatively small area for about 40 minutes then gone.
August 19, 2020 · 10:00 PM · CIRCLE
Fort Morgan, AL
On the beach at Fort Morgan, AL on August 19 around 9:45 pm. My sister and I were on deck of beach house looking south and out over the gulf, at I guess a 30 to 40 degree angle, we saw an orangey red light (appeared larger than Jupiter that was visible that night) in the sky. It was not moving. A second light seemed to move out from the first and they both were stationary for a moment and then disappeared. I few seconds later, another orangey red light of the same size appeared then after a moment disappeared. After a couple of seconds another red light appeared and as in the first instance, a second light seemed to move out from the first and both were stationary and then they disappeared. Although the lights were stationary when they appeared, the location of each event seemed to very slightly more eastward. Although not certain, it seems that the appearance of the second single light was slightly lower than the two events involving 2 lights. After the sighting, we called other people out on to the deck in hopes that they would see it too. There were approximately 15 of us. No more red lights appeared but at about 10:30 pm, to the west above the shoreline, a consecutive burst of lights appeared, seemed like 5 total, then disappeared. It was quick and those who saw it were left with different impressions. Some thought the lights looked almost square, other though round and some though maybe just cloudy puffs of something. However, one of us got a photo with a phone although it is fuzzy, the photo definitely shows it was lights, not anything cloudy or flame-like. I am aware that there is an airport somewhere to the west of where we were located. Considering that, there may be a plausible explanation for the lights. However, the red light were definitely not the common red light you see on aircraft. There are quite a few planes flying at night at that location and these lights were oranger, larger, lower and stationary. And I’ve never seen anything like the second phenomenon.
August 19, 2020 · 9:47 PM · LIGHT
Cambridge, OH
August 19, 2020 @ 9:47 pm Rural Eastern Ohio While taking the trash can to the curb. I noticed a pair of odd flashing lights in the night sky, traveling west to east in a straight trajectory at a slow but constant speed. The event lasted a little more than a minute before the lights disappeared behind the trees. The bright white lights were flashing in unison and similar to anti-collision strobe lighting on an aircraft. But there were no red or green directional lights observed, just the two very bright flashing lights. I was a bit stunned at first. But then I remembered I had my mobile phone in my pocket. I took it out and attempted to record the object. I say object because the two lights appeared to maintain the same distance from one another the whole time. The lights also appeared to be at a lower altitude than normal nighttime air traffic for this area. At one point I thought that it might be some type of consumer drone. But there wasn’t the telltale buzzing sound that a drone makes. It also appeared that the lights were quite large. At the angle that I was viewing them, I’m guessing that they were somewhere near a thousand feet AGL (above ground level). Therefore being too big to be a drone. There was a slight low rumbling sound during the sighting. If it were a standard aircraft flying at that altitude it would have been easily discernible. Though my video was a bit shaky, I did manage to capture footage of the flashing lights. I also pulled a still from the video. When enlarged, it clearly shows the two individual lights. As far as I know I was the only witness to this event. Our neighbors were outside at the time having an argument (which was captured on the video’s audio track). But I believe they were too immersed in their confrontation to notice the lights. Our property is located about 2 miles east of a small city and these lights were traveling from that direction. About 3 miles to the south west is a small municipal airport. These lights did not take the normal flight path that local aircraft make on approach or departure. I’m a retired security lieutenant and I used to work night security at a factory adjacent to that airport. I have seen countless aircraft on approach at night. These lights did not match anything that I have seen before. I’m also a hobbyist UAS (unmanned aerial systems) pilot. I’m familiar with drones and their flight characteristics. Which is why I do not believe this was a drone. I still have no idea what I witnessed on the night of August 19th 2020 @ 9:47 pm. It has come to my attention that a sighting of a similar object occurred that same day approximately 12 hours earlier in the Cleveland Ohio area. This is why I decided to report my sighting to you.
August 19, 2020 · 9:47 PM
Cambridge, OH
Our study showed compass heading change in the MSV (Multi Sensor Verification) range of 3 degrees from 111.12 to 108.13 in five minutes beginning at 01:47:19 UTC, but without the qualifying field reading change that normally triggers the device, which in this case would need to be in excess of the threshold of 29. This is still VERY interesting in view of the compass heading change for three reasons: 1) Three degrees under controlled conditions is considered as significant, just as 2.5 times local background radiation is considered as significant. 2) Original MADAR was based on CHC (compass heading change) and was successful in several instances, and no field readings in milligaus were available at the time. 3) 3.5 miles was given as the distance between the sighting location and the MADAR site at Canton and occurred within 5 minutes of each other!
August 19, 2020 · 9:33 PM · SPHERE
North Myrtle Beach, SC
3 lights at is oceans horizon SE. lights appeared yellow orange became brighter then disappeared. Right after lights went out 4 very fast moving lights appeared and flew in formation from south east to north East then again from north east to south west. Lights orange yellow orbes appeared again for a second or two then nothing to see for 45 min
August 19, 2020 · 9:32 PM · TRIANGLE
Des Moines, IA
I couldn’t see as well as I would’ve liked, as I was driving I saw a triangle in the sky, non-blinking blue light on left side and non-blinking red light on right side. I looked up as it passed above me and it was indeed a triangle.
August 19, 2020 · 9:10 PM · SPHERE
Eugene, OR
At around 9:10 PM while out on a walk I witnessed a silent, orange colored orb-shaped UFO fly over Amazon Park. I was out taking a walk like I usually do in the evenings in the area of south university neighborhood in Eugene a few blocks away from the University of Oregon when I just happened to look up to see what I thought was maybe an airplane or satellite flying southwestward. What made me realize that this craft was not either an airplane or satellite was when the orange-colored, star-shaped orb stopped in mid-air, started flying southward, then stopped again, only to then start to move down towards the ground. The UFO seemed to first start heading in my direction, being eastward, but then suddenly stopped and began heading southwestward. When it started moving towards the ground I knew for certain that this was a UFO. The entire incident lasted about 15-30 seconds. The road I was walking down was a steep hill, which gave me somewhat of a range to see around the area which would be Amazon Park. This orange-colored orb-shaped UFO seemed to be flying almost directly above the area of Amazon Park. The aircraft looked like a very orange star. If the aircraft hadn’t been moving I would most certainly have mistaken it for a star in the evening sky and kept walking. This aircraft also did not make any noise. If this had been a helicopter or airplane I would have heard it. And man-made aircraft cannot stop mid-air and suddenly change directions. This was something completely out of this world (maybe even literally).
August 19, 2020 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Towson, MD
Looked up toward the north over where I-695 and exit for Loch Raven Blvd. is. I thought it was a satellite as it passed over like a tiny fast moving star. It got very bright for a second and then went back to a moving dimmer light/star. It was not a shooting star. It was followed by 8-9 of these each 10-13 seconds apart pretty much on the same path. Last one was a little to the left. Each one got very bright when it was about 60 to 75 degrees out if looking up is 90 degrees. Too tiny to be airplanes. Starlink maybe?
August 19, 2020 · 9:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Topeka, KS
Saw three lights in linear formation, and thought at first it might have been an approaching plane. No sound, and two of the three lights in formation began pulsating. Rounded a corner in the road, around a treeline, and hoped to get a closer view. Formation was gone.
August 19, 2020 · 9:00 PM · CIRCLE
Surfside Beach, SC
sitting on the beach at night for about 30 minutes and saw 3 bright yellowish/orange lights horizontal to each other moving up in the sky directly east in above the Atlantic. Lights appeared in sky and moved up. Didn't seem to come from the ocean like a flare would. All 3 Disappeared behind a small cloud and never resurfaced for the remainder of our time on the beach. Approximately 30min we waited but saw nothing else.
August 19, 2020 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Holden Beach, NC
For the last two nights at the same time, we've witnessed white lights in the sky appearing and disappearing but also rapidly moving in sequence. You can view the video I recorded of it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZLaSzn6BPA
August 19, 2020 · 4:15 PM · LIGHT
Huntsville, AL
I saw this right after it rained and the sun came out bright and sunny with pretty much a clear sky. Our city experienced a double rainbow and of course everyone was looking at it and took to social media (I say this because I might not be the only one who saw it but idk). But that's when I noticed a single, VERY bright light that was small (my first initial thought was a plane or maybe a satellite). You could tell it was far away. It stuck out like a sore thumb. The brightness of the light was different and that's when I decided to watch it because I've never seen something like this. From my perspective, it started to moved towards the rainbow. It wasn't moving erratically and not necessarily in a straight line, but instead in a smooth fluid motion regardless if it was gaining or losing altitude. And it was moving fast considering how far away it was. It's nowhere as fast as a shooting star but it was definitely way too fast to be a plane. Once it got to t! he rainbow, it stopped and sat motionless for maybe a minute or two. It then started to move back in the same direction it came from. Definitely never seen a plane do that. This whole time while I'm watching this light, the light was going in and out. Not flashing in and out, more like dimming. It wasn't sequential or in a pattern, you couldn't time it. It was completely random. Sometimes it would vanish for a split second up to a few seconds. And sometimes the light got brighter all the way up to an obnoxious bright. This went on for about 15 to 20 until I lost sight due to the tree line. A few moments later, I saw AN ACTUAL PLANE in the same general area as I just saw the light. The plane was very visible and I could easily make out the main components of it, as well as seeing and identifying the familiar flashing lights in perfect unison that all planes have. That's when I realized what I just saw a moment ago was 100% different, no doubt about it.
August 19, 2020 · 3:00 PM · FLASH
Riverdale, GA
I was sitting in lobby after work, saw a huge light shoot downward in sky. It left a white streak.
August 19, 2020 · 10:00 AM · OVAL
Sedalia, MO
Round light with five flashing lights following it. Was visible for fifteen minutes
August 19, 2020 · 9:30 AM · UNKNOWN
Barnwell, SC
I saw the object coming straight down from high in the sky. I made three trails and at the end of the third trail the sunlight reflected off of a shiny silver round object before it went hiding behind a cloud. The object never went below the cloud and as the cloud got overhead it formed what looked like a giant hula hoop with the trails in the middle of it