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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 12, 2020 · 5:30 PM · EGG
Boston, MA
First assumed it to be a planet but then it just disappeared about 15 minutes after I noticed it. Visually scanned the sky for the next hour without regaining visual contact. If the object could be assumed to be about 100 feet in diameter I would guess it was about 12,000-18,000ft msl and 1 to 3 miles offshore.
August 12, 2020 · 3:20 PM · OVAL
Fayetteville, GA
While enjoying the pre storm calm outside with my dog, I watched as what I believe was a ufo, flying above me. He was acting strangely, and so I figured we would just let the rain start, then go inside. As I was appreciating the beauty of the leaves at the top of the trees, I noticed what I originally thought was a drone, sitting right between the trees. I then realized, that the object was round, like oval but squished, and much farther away but larger. I watched as it glide through the treetop line view, in what seemed to be a perfectly still and straight line. As soon as the object was out of view, the first thunder clap rung out what seemed to be right about my head. Then the lighting and thunder commenced at a much more reasonable tone level. As the rain started coming down I realized that I didn’t pull my phone out. One thing that I know for sure, was that I saw this black metallic mass in the sky, approximately the size of a large suv, maybe 200 -250 feet up. I saw it very clearly, and watched it slowly move in a direct line away from me. This is the second clear sighting I’ve had here. The first was a few years ago and is a much more intense account. I’m hoping that these two are connected, but am left with nothing to go on besides vivid memories.
August 12, 2020 · 5:55 AM · CIRCLE
Rougemont, NC
I saw a large round white light with 3 small bluish white blinking lights on 3 sides. Moving low and semi slow. Moving east to west. Was driving so I watched until it went out of sight. From the way the li ghts appeared it must have been a triangular object but can’t be sure. It was definitely not an airplane.
August 12, 2020 · 3:30 AM · LIGHT
Jackson, MI
I woke up around 3:15 am. I had my door open to my balcony outside and saw a bright, stationary light that caught my eye. Looked like a porch light in the sky (north of my house). As soon as I started to really question what was I looking at it suddenly disappeared, it was like it turned off it's light . Just gone. I got up to check if it was cloudy out but I could see faint stars and about 10 minutes later a plane flew through where the light was. Not sure what I saw. A friend suggested I contact this site.
August 12, 2020 · 3:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Deer Park, TX
A huge blinking light in the sky. Was bright orange and slow. Then it blinked faster and got brighter. Then it filmed out after 15 minutes and when super fast. Then it just stopped and the sky went dark again. There was also what looked like a star moving through the sky over the 20 mins of the event.
August 12, 2020 · 3:00 AM · FIREBALL
Toledo, OH
Ran outside to grab something out of my car. As I do not generally look at anything going outside in the dark for some reason as if for me to see I turned and looked up into the sky and next to a very bright white ; possibly star was a large circular what appeared to be a ball of fire. There was a glow around the ball. It was at a stand still for a short time then proceeded to slowly move as what i would describe slowly like a floating lantern. It moved down slightly and then back up and moved passed trees to be out of view. My husband a couple hours later seen the same thing 2-3 hours later in a location a few miles from the location I seen it. Within a few minutes of me walking inside I began feeling as if my brain wasn't processing correctly and I was in what was a state of confusion as if I had experieced a head injury. Upon further searching I found information regarding my description and UFO sightings as I have never experienced or seen anything like it. Additionally, it appeared rather close.
August 12, 2020 · 1:30 AM · DISK
Toccoa, GA
In the early morning in Stephens County. I was taking my dogs out to potty. It was alittle overcast/cloudy. The disk shaped aircraft appeared. Three lights on it in a straight line across. It was in the same place for 5-8 minutes. Then it was gone. I watched further, it then appeared again further away. It only stayed in that place for about 2 minutes. Then it was gone.
August 12, 2020 · 12:30 AM · OTHER
Conway, SC
Only entering this because I mentioned it to my wife a couple of days after it happened, and she thought it was odd as well...I initially just chalked it up to military aircraft. Time is approximate, give or take 30 minutes...Sorry. I'm a night owl, so I went out to stand in my garage/driveway to observe the street. I'm a retired state law enforcement lieutenant - so I try to be cognizant of my neighborhood and surroundings, especially since there have been thefts in the neighborhood in the past. I also like to watch the sky (we're on one of the approaching routes to Myrtle Beach Int'l Airport - and, occasionally military planes fly overhead or do touch-and-goes at the airport between the commercial flights). At this hour, I don't expect anything from MB Int Airport, but the stars were out, and I enjoy the panoramic view of the sky this flat land affords me compared to the mountainous/hilly northeast I'm from. I've stared at the stars before, and while star-gazing, I've noticed some slow-moving trajectories across the sky. I realize these are satellites in orbit. I've also twice witnessed the ISS cross the sky above my house (it was reported that it would be flying overhead beforehand by a local weatherman, so my wife and I would go outside to watch it). The slow-deliberate pace of these satellites as they look like stars, but move across the night sky faster, as the the real stars seem to stay in place always enthralled me. Incident: On the above (approximate) date and time, I was again looking into the sky at the stars when I noticed a flashing white light pulsing about every second or so. It was already just south of my home when I first noticed it. It was moving in a north/northeast to a south/southwest direction. I thought it was peculiar because it seemed so high up, like a satellite would appear/similar to a star in the sky. This one was different since the light flashed every second or so, actually flashing like a sparkle in the sky. At first, I thought it was just an airliner (even though I've seen airliners and their lights, and can still make out the red and green lights airliners have even at their cruising high-altitudes). This light seemed higher, the white flashing light seemed very strong, and it was only the one brightly flashing white light, with nothing else. I was thinking that was odd (because the light was flashing so brightly with no other lights) and then I noticed another flashing light coming behind the first. The second flashing light was travelling in the exact same path as the first, only quite a distance behind. I watched the two of them travel in a perfect straight-line/flight path directly behind one another, keeping the somewhat-large distance between them as they continued south-southwest. As I scanned the sky to look for more, I noticed two more bright, flashing lights coming from the north/northeast. They, too, were acting in the same manner as the first two, and following exactly the same straight line across the sky, all while keeping the same distance between themselves and the first two lights/ships. At one point, all four were still in my view, perfectly spaced apart, as they headed downrange to the south/southwest. I did take notice of how how straight their flight-path was, and how perfectly distanced each one was behind the other. Unfortunately, I did not have my phone/camera with me when I stepped outside and witnessed this.
August 12, 2020 · 12:30 AM · LIGHT
Boiling Springs, PA
Myself and a friend drove to a park just outside of Boiling Springs, Pennsylvania to watch the Perseids meteor shower on the night of 8/11-8/12. We arrived just before 11pm on 8/11, and set out a picnic blanket in a grassy field. We tried to find an area to view this meteor shower with a minimal amount of light pollution. We saw several meteors, which we expected. However, some time after midnight and before 1am we both witnessed what, at first, we thought was a satellite slowly moving across the sky, until it began moving unusually and sporadically. It looked like a satellite, or star to us until it began moving oddly. At first it moved steadily in one direction and then its pace slowed to a stop, and it began moving up and down, then would stop again, then moved circular motion, then a stop, then more steadily moving in a particular direction again, then another stop. This pattern continued for 20+ minutes, and possibly longer, but we stopped paying attent! ion as we continued watching the meteor shower.
August 11, 2020 · 11:45 PM · SPHERE
Valley City, ND
Lake Ashtabula (10 miles N of Valley City, ND) I had been stargazing and watching a meteor shower with my girlfriend and my grandparents on this evening. Around 11:30pm, everyone started heading into the cabin to go to bed but I decided to stay by the fire for awhile longer. As I was about to get up, I saw what at first looked like a satellite, however it moved at extreme speeds in a zig-zag pattern. It appeared to be at high altitude or low earth orbit. People know me as a "space nerd" so when I saw this and told my girlfriend, she believed me when I said it was not a satellite or spacecraft. It may have been blinking but I cannot remember for sure. I am also an aircraft pilot, so I know it was not an aircraft.
August 11, 2020 · 11:40 PM · LIGHT
Hazleton, PA
I was sitting outside at app. 11:30 PM DST, hoping to observe some meteors from the Perseid meteor shower. At about 11:40 PM, I happened to get a glimpse of an object moving south to north, against the direction I was expecting to see meteors. At first I thought it might be a satellite, but quickly realized it was moving way too fast to be one. I stood up to get a better view of this fast moving object, then quickly noticed a second object trailing the first object, same relative speed, same relative direction. As I watched, the trailing object overtook the first object, shooting slightly ahead of it, then slowing slightly in order to be flying adjacent to the first object. The spacing of the two objects was about the width of a fist held at arms length. When the two objects were adjacent to each other, they then veered slightly into a northeast direction, flying in this `formation' until flying out of sight. The total duration of this event was about 10 seconds. These two objects were the same relative size, slightly larger than a common satellite viewed from Earth, moving way too fast to be satellites. I listened to hear any jet sounds, if any existed, but no sound was heard.
August 11, 2020 · 11:35 PM · LIGHT
El Paso, TX
I stepped out onto my upstairs deck and noticed a bright light hovering over the water tower. It stayed in the same spot for approximately 20 minutes and as I was keeping a close watch on it it all of a sudden disappeared or blinked out. As I’m writing this description of what I witnessed I looked to see if the light returned and it is again above the water tower just hovering and iris now 24:05! I’ll keep watching to see if it blinks out again!
August 11, 2020 · 11:15 PM · LIGHT
Land O Lakes, FL
On August 11, 2020 at 11:19:55 PM, I was outside in my back yard looking at the skies hoping to get a glimpse of the Perseid Meteor Shower of 2020, when suddenly I noticed two lights in the sky, perfectly in sync, side by side, flying low just above the houses. At first I thought they may be planes, helicopters, drones but there was NO SOUND coming from these two objects as they flew in front of me. I had my phone with me and took two pictures. One zoomed-in to the objects to get a closer view and the second picture, which came out blurry because I was rushing to get back to normal mode to take a picture of exactly where the objects were in relation to my back yard. After the second picture the objects were gone, and out of view. These objects were travelling north to south in the Land O Lakes, FL skies. There was another strange incident that happened two months later that same year. On or around October 27, 2020, an unexplained very bright white light woke me up around 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning. The light was shining outside my bedroom window scaring me, as I thought it was either a prowler, a police car search light, or a police helicopter, or somebody’s drone. However, once again, I heard NO SOUND of a car or helicopter or drone flying above. I live in a cul-de-sac and figured that if it was a car, I would see them coming back out but I did not see or hear anyone coming back out of the cul-de-sac. I experienced this bright light flash two more times, in my back yard and again on October 31, Halloween, on the street. These white light flashes only lasted seconds. Although these events were extraordinary, I thought there must be an explanation, and so I put them out of my mind. UNTIL I saw the 2020 Documentary THE PHENOMENON. There I learned about Case 47. The Great Falls, Montana UFO sighting caught on video on 15 August 1950. I was amazed as I sat there watching the exact same two objects I saw in August of 2020. The same positioning in the sky, the same speed of travel, both objects in sync, side by side, the same shape, no sound! I also was blown away that this happened 70 years ago, also in August. This is when I decided to report my sighting.
August 11, 2020 · 11:10 PM · CIRCLE
Lexington, NE
We didn’t see a craft. What we saw a flashing moving light. It was off to my left. At first I thought it was an airplane. But then I thought it was too low . It quickly shot to my right (north), it quickly changed direction and came toward us (East) then quickly changed direction and shot off northeast. I thought it looked blue with a white glow. My friend thought it was green with a white glow.
August 11, 2020 · 11:00 PM · OTHER
Charlotte, NC
So as were walking the star with flashing lights kept following us back-and-forth when we will stop it will stop to we were walking back-and-forth for about 30 minutes every time we stop it will stop as well. I called down my boyfriend and say hey come downstairs there’s something very unusual happening. As he starts coming downstairs there was about three other neighbors that came downstairs as well for a split second in our face It was like a shooting star put in front of us it wasn’t even in the sky. It almost felt like it face scanned us. So as of now there’s six of us outside we keep walking back-and-forth and it just keeps following us I understand about the earths orbit and how rotating end it was very unusual that when we stop the stars like thing stopped as well when we kept walking and follow back-and-forth back-and-forth it was so crazy so unusual I’ve never witnessed something like that before. It’s crazy that all six of us saw the same thing and because it was so dark outside it was very hard to record it this is not normal and I know it was something out of this planet. It’s crazy that all six of us was walking as a group together and it followed us a shooting star went right in front of us for a split second it’s crazy that all of us saw it.
August 11, 2020 · 10:45 PM · CHANGING
Myrtle beach, SC
Over the ocean large ball of orange light appeared. Split into 2 then 3 then 4. Disappeared almost instantly from 4th to 3, 2 , 1.
August 11, 2020 · 10:28 PM · FORMATION
Sundance Resort, UT
Eating dinner on the deck and stargazing facing E/SE, suddenly saw 3 white lights in an upright triangle formation to the left of Saturn/Jupiter. The lights faded one at a time. We guessed there were satellites...or someone having a good time with drones (?)
August 11, 2020 · 10:20 PM · CIRCLE
North Myrtle Beach, SC
There were 4 fireballs over the ocean probably 100 feet above the shore line. It was straight across from 6th street in North Myrtle Beach. They lasted about 5 seconds and went out one at a time very quickly. They looked like 4 separate campfires in the sky. They were very close to shore and looked slightly above my straight out view of my 3rd floor condo room. The observer backgrounds are 2 college education 30-something adults. A seventy-seven year old woman and a social worker 50 years of age.
August 11, 2020 · 10:05 PM · CIRCLE
Salt Lake City, UT
Was looking up at sky and saw a very bright light, I thought it was a super bright star at first. It didn’t move for maybe a minute, but then seemed to slowly start moving. After maybe 15 seconds, the light dimmed about 70% and it began flying very fast diagonally up and westward until out of view.
August 11, 2020 · 10:03 PM · FIREBALL
Lewiston, MI
On August 11th 2020, the Perseids were shooting over the sky. My family and I were staying on a lake with virtually no light pollution so every night we would go out and watch the meteors. On this night, at around 10pm, I was looking over the lake when I saw an orange (what can only be described as a fireball) shooting over the sky, but it went over slowly. It wasn't a meteor because of how slow it went over the lake. It took around 30 seconds to be out of eyesight. My brother, mother, and father all saw this ufo, and we have no idea what they are.
August 11, 2020 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Cherry Grove, SC
Looking over the ocean not even 1/4 mile south of the Cherry Grove Fishing Pier Several Moving White blinking lights, for several minutes. Then, 4 large 3-dimensional square orange lights in the shape of a sphere came on one at a time- then quickly disappeared. Followed by more white blinking lights. The blinking white lights were very erratic in the sky...similar to fireflies.
August 11, 2020 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Anza Borrego, CA
We were out in the Anza Borrego Desert near Slot Canyon watching the Perseid Meteor shower. At approximately 22:00, we noticed what appeared to be an aircraft with a red navigation light traveling in a SW direction at approximately 5,000ft altitude. No noise was heard. Shortly after, 2 white/gold (white Christmas light color), orb-like objects appeared to be flying alongside the "aircraft"/red light. The orb lights then appeared to chase each other in a circular motion around the red light/"aircraft" and also "danced" back and forth between the front and rear of the red light. At times, the white lights would turn off and appear in a different location. We continued to observe the group of lights traveling in a SW direction as they traveled farther away and higher in altitude. The white orbs were still "dancing" around the red object and chasing each other in completely random zig zag and swirl patterns as far as we could see. Another odd observance was that the lights continued to travel on the same trajectory and never came back down towards the horizon. The lights continued to be visible at a great distance until they finally disappeared approximately 1 hour after first sighting. There were 3 witnesses to this event and none of us had ever seen anything like this before. Photos and videos were taken, however the lights aren't really visible. I also recorded our GPS coordinates, heading indicator, date and timestamps. After searching online, it appears we witnessed a "Foo-Fighter" sighting - almost exactly like the ones seen here: https://www.ufosightingsdaily.com/2017/03/two-foo-fighters-following-plane-over.html
August 11, 2020 · 10:00 PM · CHANGING
West Jordan/Midvale, UT
my daughter was out observing the night sky around 10pm on 8/11/2020 she came running into the house to tell me she sees something strange moving in the sky. I came outside to see and she pointed at a cloud against the night sky and clearly a u shaped grayish object with a black center was zig zagging like a snake through the cloud then it disappeared. I would think this object was pretty big being that it looked large in the clouds and the clouds were at least several thousand feet in the air. minutes later to the south of us I noticed 3 stars in the sky get blocked out by what looked like a stationary or slow moving cloud until the cloud dove straight down towards the ground and evaporated before my eyes and the stars that were blocked out were back. minutes after that that same cloud was over my house and moved to the west faster than a cloud moves and once again disappeared. shortly after this with in 3-5 minutes that cloud formation which was roughly the! size of a bus moved over my house quickly again and heading south and evaporated not before my daughter and I witnessed 5 or six glowing lights within the cloud. until it disappeared over my neighbors house.
August 11, 2020 · 9:43 PM · TRIANGLE
Salt Lake City, UT
I came outside onto my back porch to feed my kitty cat at 21:43. Set the food down and looked up. In the southeastern sky at about 30 to 35 degrees up, I saw 3 lights in the shape of a triangle. The lights were almost as bright as Jupiter (which was to the right) and were stationary. I watched the triangle of lights for 60 to 90 seconds. Then one light faded out over a 3 second amount of time. Then another. Again slowly faded out over 3 seconds. The 3rd light--same thing. Gone. Watched the sky for another 15 minutes. Nothing. Came in the house to make a report. I live 1.5 miles east of the I-80/I-15 interchange in sugar house area. I'm guessing this triangle of lights was located over the Millcreek or Cottonwood heights area. There had to be others who witnessed this. By the way, there was no sound. Unfortunately, I didn't have my phone with me.