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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 8, 2020 · 8:30 PM · LIGHT
Wallingford, CT
Three objects with red flashing lights following one another in a path traveling from south to north. Objects did not produce sound. Lights turned off or were no longer visible shortly after passing by, but black objects were still visible. Have video if interested.
August 8, 2020 · 8:30 PM · FIREBALL
Yakima, WA
I am 20 years old and have never had a UFO experience. I was sitting in a parking lot with my significant other and we noticed what looked like a comet hovering above the hills, probably about 50 miles outside of town, to the northwest. It had a silver hue to it and looked almost like it had a tail, except it was all one object, it seemed like. It seemed reflective, but the sun was going down, so it was hard to tell. We had to drive away, but then we came back, and it was gone. We didn’t see it move at all while we watched it the first time, so it seemed strange that less than have an hour later it was gone. We watched the sky for awhile as it got darker, but we never saw it again.
August 8, 2020 · 8:30 PM · CIRCLE
Boise, ID
We saw a stationary white object that looked round through our biloculars and it appeared to be catching the sun so it was very metallic and hard to tell what it was. After 15 minutes of it not moving, we got out our more powerful spotting scope out and was able to zoom in on the object very clearly. It was semi round and had two rows of lights. The lights started at the top left and right and curved down towards the bottom. Very distinctively. We called our neighbor over to see if he had seen anything like it and he was surprised at the clarity and unusual object. It was very distinctive that the lights on it was not sun reflections as the sun went down and it was very clear. We are in SE Boise Idaho and sitting on our patio, which faced North. once it was dark, it disappeared. We observed it for a good hour, We had also called the local news station, Channel 7; and left a recording around 9:00 pm hoping to see if further equipment might be able to zoom in closer. We hav t heard back, nothing on the 10:00 news so we will see if anything further develops tomorrow. We did not have the ability to take a picture of the zoomed in object clearly defined thru the spotting scope, unfortunately, but we could definitely draw it. The object was less clear through binoculars and only looked like a round metallic object, reflected by the sun. it was just a tiny stationary white object in the sky by naked eye. The spotting scope was amazingly telling as to what we were seeing.
August 8, 2020 · 8:00 PM · CIRCLE
Pikesville, MD
Round circular object flying in air, too big to be ballon, moved at a moderate speed. Never have seen an object flying in the air such as this. Most def was not a plane or helicopter, or any type of balloon.
August 8, 2020 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Islip, NY
I toke my dog out and noticed a light blue light flickering. At first I thought it was a plane until I noticed its flight characteristics. It stopped in mid air and shot to the left at a high speed and came to a complete stand still. After watching it drift upwards it shot downwards and made a sharp right turn and came to a complete stop again. Realizing this was a ufo I ran in the house with my dog to get my phone to record it. When returning outside it was completely gone.I have been looking in that direction every night since them and nothing! N ow when I take the dog out I bring my phone..
August 8, 2020 · 7:50 PM · OTHER
Broomfield, CO
I'm an amateur astronomer and I was setting up my gear just before sundown. When I glanced up at a plane that was leaving DIA, I noticed something else (naked eye) just north of the plane at a slightly higher altitude (~20k feet). It looked like a shiny disk and was moving slowly due north. I grabbed binoculars to get a closer look and I was able to see the object very clearly. It wasn't a disk but rather toroid in shape and metallic silver. It was tumbling as it moved north. In diameter I would say it was approximately 100-200 feet. The best description I can give would be a 100 foot diameter silver wedding ring being tossed in slow motion. I grabbed my partner and gave her another pair of binos. We just watched it for about 15 minutes until it was too far away to see with much clarity. Because of its silver coloration I thought it might be a mylar research balloon of some kind, but I can't find any reference to such a thing online. It had no visible lights of propulsion. ((BEGIN ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) Hello, I submitted a report last week regarding a sighting I experienced in Broomfield, CO on August 9th. I posted the wrong date for the sighting as it actually occurred on Saturday August 8th. I'd just like to make the change in case anyone else witnessed the event on the same day. Thanks, ((END ADDENDUM))
August 8, 2020 · 7:50 PM · SPHERE
Nashville, TN
On August 8 in Nashville TN at around 7:50 to 8:20 pm I and 4 other people saw 2 black dots/spheres in the air. They were far but in the beginning could easily be seen with the naked eye, after about 20 minutes though the two spheres had drifted further to the point that is was hard to see with naked eye but relatively easy with binoculars. The objects were moving west at a very slow pace and were passing through clouds every couple of minutes. In the picture I took with my phone the objects look almost touching because of the quality of the photo but with the binoculars it is very clear that the two spheres are not touching but floating parallel with a little bit of distance between them.
August 8, 2020 · 7:45 PM · CIGAR
Nutley, NJ
As I was viewing the planet Jupiter at night with a high-power binocular (25x100), a bright cigar-shaped object shot upwards very quickly to the left of Jupiter. Jupiter was at about 45 degrees above the horizon at the moment it happened. I assume that the unidentified object was going up into space. The binocular was on a steady tripod that my husband had set up.
August 8, 2020 · 7:25 PM · CIGAR
Tunkhannock, PA
At first it appeared to be sunlight reflecting off the underside of an airplane. In a second I saw that there were no wings and brought it to the attention of my companion who described the same. The craft seemed to be the hight of a passenger jet and traveling the right speed but after observing it for fifteen to twenty seconds, it vanished in a clear blue sky. Cigar shaped. The front and back were luminescent with a short non luminescent space in the middle.
August 8, 2020 · 5:00 PM · CROSS
New York City (Brooklyn), NY
Traveling from west to east,there were eight white cross shaped objects,flying approximately 50,000 feet. Then, six of them continued eastbound, as two started traveling southbound and hovered for around 3 minutes,then continued south out of sight.
August 8, 2020 · 3:00 PM · CIRCLE
Jerome, ID
Circular bright metallic silver craft. Bright white lights all around the outside perimeter. Symbols noticed on it's underside. Hovering over the sky. We've been watching it for 2 hours now on our telescope and have watched it move across the sky. To the naked eye it looks like a white circle. With the telescope you can see all the detail.
August 8, 2020 · 2:30 PM · FORMATION
Lockport/Romeoville, IL
I was doing food delievry late at night to Lockport,IL from Romeoville at a little after 2am and I saw a string of lights low in the sky about 12-14 all in a row very close together. I have seen the starlink satellites before and these were much brighter and low in the sky below the clouds. It almost looked like a straight line of lights with a very small space imbetween like a straight line of lights lower than an airplane would fly. When I turned at the intersection I tried to look back and I couldn't see them anymore.
August 8, 2020 · 1:00 PM · SPHERE
Daphne, AL
Around 1pm I saw a very reflective object move across the sky. I thought it was an airplane but as I continued to observe the object it became very clear it was not an airplane or metallic balloon. It either kept reflecting the sun or it was pulsating a white light . I watched it for about 5 mins and it went behind a cloud and vanished.
August 8, 2020 · 12:50 PM · LIGHT
Paducah, KY
In bright sunlit day I initially saw a bright disc of 2 lights side by side horizontally about 4 inches across. I closed each eye one eye at a time to be sure it wasn’t a reflection or a prismatic light. The lights moved around into the trees, a few feet above the ground and then onto the side of my house in front of the siding then a third light disc appeared with the other two. They moved to be beside me about six feet from my face then moved in front of me and slowly floated up then stood still with an almost vibrating look to them and suddenly ascended up extremely fast then disappeared. I noticed no birds singing or animal noises during this time as well, as I am an avid bird watcher. I looked around and away from these foreign light discs and they stayed in place and moved when they decided to move. Never seen anything like this before.
August 8, 2020 · 12:50 PM · UNKNOWN
Stanley, ID
Sightings from 8Aug2020 from the White Clouds Wilderness of Central Idaho [closest city is Stanley, ID] 1st sighting at 1250 MDT 44°02'40.3"N 114°37'54.0"W, at approximately 10,000ft in the White Clouds Wilderness of Idaho [Born Lakes trail near Warm Springs Creek cutoff]. The object was approximately 30° off the horizon in the ESE sky and appeared like a star or planet at dusk or dawn, however this sighting occurred in broad daylight under bluebird skies and full sunlight. 2nd sighting at 1533 MDT 44°02'40.3"N 114°37'54.0"W, at approximately 9400ft in the White Clouds Wilderness of Idaho [Fourth of July Lake]. Again, the object was approximately 30° off the horizon in the ESE sky and continued in appearance similar to a star or planet at dusk or dawn, however this sighting occurred in broad daylight under bluebird skies and full sunlight. Observations continued until approximately 2000 MDT, at which point the object disappeared over the ESE horizon, ruling out a either a star or planet, supernova event, etc. Also, the object appeared static relative to the motion of the earth for the ~7hr period of observations.
August 8, 2020 · 12:45 PM · UNKNOWN
Westerville, OH
I observed an object extremely high in the sky that was not moving, seemingly, for several moments at a time. When it did move, it only moved incrementally from left to right, or down. The day of observation was unlimited visibility, with clear, blue sky and puffy white clouds. The object appeared to be the size of a star, tiny as in the eye of a needle. It reflected the sun from time to time, and pulsed when it caught the sun's rays, then dimmed again. his dimness or brightness may have occurred when the object turned or rotated. The object appeared about 60-70 degrees above the north's vertical horizon. It was so distant that the shape of the object could not be determined...however, it was not a plane, and I base that conclusion on the fact that it appeared over a 20 minute time period to have moved only slightly right, left, or down. This is my first ever observation, I am 81 years of age, with three college degrees, including a Ph.D.
August 8, 2020 · 8:00 AM · OTHER
Ketchum, ID
WHAT IS IT? These photos were taken on Sat, Aug 8, 2020 at approx. 0800. An Idaho family was camping 36.6 miles NW of Ketchum ID. ((In the Sawtooth National Recreation Area at Prairie Creek (East side) located on forest rd 178 off Hwy 75. (coordinates 43.816739, -114.594202) adjacent to 3 large peaks in the East, Easley Peak, Silver Peak, and Boulder Peak elev 11,458 ft(The Boulder Mountains)) We camped on Thurs, Fri, Sat, and Sun. Saturday was the only day this object was observed in the sky for approx. 2 hrs. Unfortunately, none of us saw it leave, but it was gone after about 2 hours. We had clear skies all 4 days. We noticed the object was not moving. We observed an airplane going overhead slightly to the north of the object, but definitely thousands of feet lower in the atmosphere. The object was in the North East sky and witnessed by five people. We captured these photographs after looking through binoculars and realizing there was something “black” at the top of the white dot.
August 8, 2020 · 4:40 AM · CYLINDER
Glenoma, WA
Me and my buddy who I carpool with where driving home it was about 4:40 am and we seen a string of lights just over the hillside skyline .when I seen it I asked my buddy if he could see that and what it was, he responded that he seen it but wasn't wanting to point it out . At first we couldnt tell if it was light reflecting on a power line or logging operations because sometimes they start very early in the summer. We pulled over off the side of hwy12 and got out of the vehicle not long after we got out the lights started moving across the the sky toward the east.another driver pulled over just in front of us and got out and started watching the object. I have no real logical explanation for what we saw it looked to be very high in the sky and massive. You could really tell the shape just a long string of close lights that were perfectly straight and moved steadily across the sky in a straight direction toward the east.we watched it until it went back behind! the hillside it was visible for a couple minutes.i tried to take videos of it but it didnt turn out my buddy got a video of it that isnt the best quality but you can see the lights. I've never seen anything like this before I dont know what it was except it was not a natural occurrence.
August 8, 2020 · 4:02 AM · LIGHT
Glide, OR
Unstable light. Moved slowly higher over the course of the hour. Flashed slowly over the first ten or so minutes. Then was solid light after that. Over the ridge Deep in BLM land. Zoomed in on camera and recorded the flashing for almost six minutes. Looks as if plasma in video spinning. When the light flashed out and it went completely back we all saw a black hole behind where the light had been. After we saw the thing the moon changed as well. I saw two red crescent moons connected yet warped out of the moon. The two others with me saw almost the same but not red.
August 8, 2020 · 3:30 AM · LIGHT
Asbury park, NJ
We were on the beach alone watching the moon (sitting on the lifeguard stand) and we saw a fire ball of light appear. It was fiery orange, brilliant and bright. I saw it come from the corner of my eye, coming closer and from the southern horizon line - it glided quickly and swiftly as it came closer approaching our particular eye line of the horizon. We stared at it starting making jokes and then realized it could not be a drone or an aircraft due to the rate it moved and continued to loom out there in the distance. Just as it came into plain view, it instantly shot up into the sky and disappeared. I had my doubts, until a few a weeks later when I went back out there on my own to experience an entire different display of lights and movement - at or around the same time. Will document in next form.
August 8, 2020 · 3:24 AM · CIRCLE
Hillside, NJ
I was Coming from my room with my refractor telescope to look at the moon after the rain i set it up in side around 12:30 and i started looking through it trying to find the moon i didnt relize i had the highest magnification on and then some really bright hit my eye so i looked back at it wasn't there so i look thru my telescope again and it was there it was like you couldn't see it with your eye so i asked siri and checked the WolframAlpha app to see if there were any flights near me and there were some but not in my direction so i look to see if it was Mars ,Jupiter or Saturn they weren't visible either so i checked the ISS and they wernt over me either so i im looking thru my telescope and there were like 2 disc shaped thing in the sky and then i kept researching and i was like you know what time to report this and here i am with a killer headache
August 8, 2020 · 2:35 AM · LIGHT
Racine, WI
A line of UFOs in the sky headed east toward lake Michigan. Must of been 16 square/rectangular light objects flying in close line followed by 4 or 5 single space out crafts similar to the group In front.
August 8, 2020 · 1:00 AM · CHANGING
Weiser, ID
I have 36 minutes of phone video of a unknown object. The craft was all over the sky and moving strangely it was also changing colors.
August 8, 2020 · 12:40 AM · TRIANGLE
Green Springs, OH
Started seeing this one flashing white light. All of a sudden it turned sideways and became 2 lights. About a half hour later, I was walking down the street. It was dark out so the street lights were on. All of a sudden I noticed there was a dark shadow coming from behind me. I looked up, and this black matte triangle/boomerang type thing was flying over top of me. Absolutely NO sound at all. Hoovering right barely over top of the buildings. Had I been on the roof of one of the buildings I could have touched it. It continued West at a slow speed then vanished!