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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
July 29, 2020 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Commack, NY
On 7/29/20 at about 2130 EST I observed what at first I took to be a satellite. It was a small point of white light similar in appearance to a dim star. I initially observed it WNW of my location, at about 45 degrees elevation. What drew my attention to it was that it increased in intensity to about the brightness of an average star, then went dim. After about 10 seconds, it increased intensity to about the brightness of Venus, then went dim again. I estimate that each “pulse” took about one second to complete from off, to on, to off again. It was much slower than a strobe or blinking light that one would see on conventional aircraft, and was a gradual increase and decrease in intensity. The object continued alternating this high/ low pattern about every 10 seconds. It was moving slowly from its WNW location across the sky, almost overhead, heading approximately SE, and was difficult to track as when it was not pulsing it was not visible to my eye. As it rose from about 45 degrees to about 80 degrees, it “pulsed,” and also appeared to emit white sparks. It very much had the appearance of a sparkler type firework, but the sparks were only a few in number and lasted for a brief second. I initially thought the object had changed course due to the appearance of the sparks, but soon again saw it continuing SE repeating the pulsing pattern. I eventually lost sight of it when it was approximately SE of my position at about 45 degrees. I estimate that the object was visible to me for approximately 10 minutes. It is possible it was a military aircraft of some sort, but I have never seen or known them to behave this way.
July 29, 2020 · 9:20 PM · DISK
Chelsea, OK
This was seen above our home and was originally thought to be a drone of sorts.
July 29, 2020 · 9:15 PM
North Platte, NE
At approximately 9:15pm sitting in my living room I had just watched a severe thunderstorm go by and it was still cloudy with flashes of lightning in the sky. I suddenly saw a ball of light go across the sky through the clouds. It took no more than a second to disappear over our garage going East to West. Moments later my wife had I were standing in the back yard when she saw the same kind of light moving north to south and only taking a second to go from horizon to horizon. So fast that when I turned it was gone. There was a lot of lightning in the sky but this was not lightning. It was too fast to be any aircraft I have ever seen. I was a helicopter mechanic in the Army and my dad worked on jets for TWA and I grew up living under the landing path for MCI /Kansas City International Airport. I know what planes look like and sound like. The ball of light was partially concealed by the clouds so we could not see any shape other than just a round light.
July 29, 2020 · 8:21 PM · OTHER
New York City (Manhattan), NY
Tonight over Hells Kitchen in Manhattan at 820pm we saw two black crafts, that looked like they could be oval shaped, but changed to what looked like “S” or figure “8” shape from where we were standing. The crafts had no visible lights or propulsion system or condensation trials. These crafts were flying together and appeared to be flipping, they were flying too high and too far to be drones. The crafts continued to fly together, almost playfully and flew into the distance out of sight where they diverged, one craft flew North and the other North West over Manhattan.
July 29, 2020 · 8:15 PM
North Platte, NE
No information provided by witness. PD
July 29, 2020 · 5:15 AM · SPHERE
Lexington, KY
Thought at first it was a planet because of size, then it started moving in vertical and horizontal direction quickly and stopped. Would go back to original spot. Like it was performing.
July 29, 2020 · 4:19 AM · TEARDROP
Venice, FL
My husband and I were sitting on our front porch facing North. I noticed this blinding light just hovering in the sky. As I tried to focus my eyes on it, it seemed to change from white to orange and then took on an asterisk/starburst effect as it moved very slowly away from us as if it was using the tree in our yard to hide. When we got up to move down the driveway to see it better, it began moving slowly east. I tried to pull out my phone to get it on camera but you can only see a tiny dot of light. Then it started speeding to the west before we lost sight of it. We are in a small neighborhood with a lot of trees and our house obscured our view at the end.
July 29, 2020 · 4:00 AM · CIRCLE
Plainfield, IL
To Whom it May Concern: I have three incidents to report in the Plainfield/Shorewood, Illinois area. The first took place on May 30, 2020 at 6:23 p.m Central Time. I know the exact date and time because someone on a local Facebook group posted a video (link below). You can see that I commented and said, “They were balloons” because right around the same time I was walking my dog and saw a cluster of silver balloons floating. The video is NOT what I saw and is clearly NOT balloons. Second, I do not know the exact date. It was around 8:00 pm Central Time due east in the sky at a normal airplane altitude. I saw it from my bedroom window. I noticed it because it was a very bright, white, circular or cylindrical light. At first, I thought it was Venus because the object was stationary or very slowly moving. I thought that it seemed lower than Venus’s position, but did not know what other extremely bright object would be in the night sky at that time. I kept watching while I was brushing my teeth and even called my fiance to come look. I walked back into the bathroom to finish brushing my teeth and went back to the window. The object VERY quickly shot directly towards our house, due west from it’s hovering position, and was gone. I checked my flight tracking app and there was nothing in that location. The last event took place today, July 29, 2020 at approximately 4:25 a.m. Central Time. I was walking my dog as I normally do because I wake up very early for my job. I happened to look up because it was a very clear sky and I love to see the stars and planets. At approximately 30 degrees northeast, I saw a fast moving object. It was high in the sky, higher than I’ve ever observed an airplane, white and circular. I thought that maybe it was a satellite or shooting star. I continued watching the object and it suddenly “turned off,” or disappeared. I kept watching and the object reappeared slightly more to the east in the straight path it was traveling. Suddenly, it fully stopped and reversed it’s flight path. Then, it began moving in a slow zig-zag pattern. At this point, I had to return home so I held up my phone to take a video and my phone was spazzing on and off. Not sure why. I have never seen this happen to my phone and it was fully charged as I charged it all night lon! g. Finally, I have noticed a large increase in planes flying over my area. One after another at times. There is an airport nearby (Joliet and Chicago), so I attributed it to that. This is just anecdotal information. I know I am not really a credible or reliable source, but I do believe that all of the incidents are unidentifiable. I hope that this helps in some way. Sincerely, Observer Link to May 30th video: https://m.facebook.com/groups/219191188270892?view=permalink&id=1371841413005858
July 29, 2020 · 3:15 AM · RECTANGLE
Center Conway, NH
I looked to the east to see a light rectangular in shape, 40 degrees from horizontal, moving southward. It was 1/2" X 1" (finger spread against the sky) moved two inches across the sky before turning red, and then disappearing. Five minutes later, looking northward again, I saw a similar shaped white light/object, at 55 degrees, move an inch across the sky eastward, NOT turning red, then disappearing. Both lights/objects were low in the sky not up in the stars.
July 29, 2020 · 2:45 AM · CHANGING
Charlestown/ Harpers Ferry, WV
Strange shape shifting lights flying in pattern. Did not appear to be any known aircraft. Ability to fly in different directions and after long period of time vanished into space and vanished.
July 29, 2020 · 1:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Memphis, IN
My 22 yr old son called me @1am & said"plwase talk to me til i get home to papaws cuz im watching this object n the sky mom & its really scaring me".he had been driving home from a church meeting & seen a set of lights pulsating over the fields near floyd knobs borden/memphis IN area so he stopped to take a video & pictures.it made no sound just hovered with 3 pulsating white lights underneath.as he was sitting filming it a cop came up behind him.he said he would feel so stupid tellin a cop"im sitting on this dark country road looking at a ufo".but the cop went on around him toward the area of the craft.my son pulled off talkin on cell to me and it had disappeared.he uses a telescope all the time and does pphotography thru it so he knows what is normal for night skies.said it was not anything he has ever seen before & he sent me the video & pictures.seen it at a very close distance & said it was dark color like black & not any military or! aircraft that hes ever seen before.
July 29, 2020 · 12:30 AM · FIREBALL
Seaside, OR
over hwy 26, a golden shape at plane level did a u-turn movement and then disappeared
July 29, 2020 · 12:02 AM · RECTANGLE
Monroe, MI
Two rectangular shapes, one horizontal and the other vertical in the southern and south eastern sky. Brilliant, multiple white lights, each with splash of red and green lights at the bottom half of each. Objects were stationery.
July 29, 2020 · 12:00 AM · DISK
Bridgeport, CT
We saw the UFO reflecting off the moon. It was a saucer shapes metallic craft. It was going up and down left and right really fast it was amazing about 15 people saw it.It had no lights the only reason we saw it is because it was reflecting off the moon.
July 28, 2020 · 11:00 PM · CIRCLE
Springvale, ME
Was on second floor porch, then suddIy saw a very bright large white object come from over my head continued over the next house rooftop approximately 200 yards over it. Never seen anything like this. My girlfriend was back to and got startled when I yelled Wow i just saw something. She thought i saw shooting star. I know what a shooting star looks like. This was not that this object was way low in atmosphere. So low it was moving fast and close to rooftops. My best description is when I saw it I immediately had a feeling that this is something special, it was an extremely bright white in color bright but a flat white color, round but not perfectly round. I could feel it was a ufo. I waited longer with her and nothing. I was hoping someone else may have saw the same white object but have not heard anything yet.
July 28, 2020 · 10:36 PM · CIRCLE
Johnstown, OH
Our family was outside watching for the Delta Aquarids and the Alpha Capricornids meteor shower. We live outside of Johnstown, Ohio and it was a very clear night. Our daughter was taking pictures of a bright object in the sky, which we thought was likely Saturn because of the outer ring in the picture. This picture was taken with a Samsung Galaxy S8+. This was the brightest and largest object (other than the moon) in the night sky, glowing a bright orange/yellow – different from the other stars. After looking at pictures of Saturn, we determined that this object looked nothing like the pictures we were seeing. It has appeared on a few more occasions since the night of the 28th.
July 28, 2020 · 10:20 PM · LIGHT
Pennellville, NY
Standing outside in the evening and I thought I a meteorite pass overhead and looked toward the left. My eyes fixed on a moving light that I initially thought was the ISS but it seemed too low to the earth. It traversed the sky in a steady direction and speed for about 1 minute and then it changed course. Approximately 30 seconds after changing course the light suddenly faded to nothing.
July 28, 2020 · 10:15 PM · LIGHT
Fort Wayne, IN
We decided to hop in the vehicle and see if we could follow it. By the time I came out of the house it was gone. We did travel about 20 minutes asking two people that were on their break if they had seen anything and they stated that they had not. It did not make a sound at all.
July 28, 2020 · 10:15 PM · LIGHT
Fort wayne, IN
While watching the ISS pass over fort wayne, in around 10:10pm, I noticed another object flying west of the ISS. The object was significantly bigger in comparison of the ISS. We couldn't really tell the shape being it was dark out and it was flashing from white to red every few seconds. The timing of the changing of colors wasnt in a specific pattern. The object would stop and hover, then move east. It was going a good speed when it eventually went out of sight heading east. Roughly two minutes later we see it back in view heading back from wence we seen it at first. The object then proceeded to head west until we no longer could see it anymore. We thought it was a drone at first, but the way it was acting and the speed this thing had has us thinking otherwise now.
July 28, 2020 · 10:00 PM · CIGAR
Nashua, NH
Sitting in my car, it was 10pm July, 28 2020. Looking in southern direction, in South Nashua NH I observed two lights, at the front green and the rear was white. This object moved as one unit. I heard no sound, and walked across the parking lot starring at it. The scale of this object would make it massive. The distance from front to rear would make this object huge! Left my site heading North along the NH Everett turnpike.
July 28, 2020 · 9:58 PM · TRIANGLE
Beach Park, IL
At approximately 21:58 hours CST. I was fueling my vehicle at an open air fuel pump, my partner was working on paperwork, and our new hire stepped out to learn how to use the fuel pump. As we were waiting for the fuel to top off, I noticed the new was looking intently at the sky. I made a comment on how nice it was, and was trying to identify the aroma in the air. The new hire commented on how peculiar two small clouds looked, each about 1/2 the size of the visible moon and from my perspective, approximately 1 inch apart, comparable to the height of the visible moon. They were positioned directly below the half moon, at approximately 197 degrees SSW. He stated "they look like two Casper Ghosts chasing each-other." The "clouds" in question were traveling East across the sky, faster than any other clouds. They were also distanced quite a bit from any other clouds in the sky. After the had moved away from the moon, we noticed there was a thi! rd "cloud" in the formation, creating an almost perfect isosceles triangle. Two of the "clouds", bottom two, had a steady reddish hue to them and the third a steady amber. A s the formation moved further away from the moon, I noticed and stated, I had seen a long flash or beam of light extending from the moon through the middle of the formation . The light was very faint, like that of the halo seen around a full moon on a clear sky. The new hire asked if it was an aura from the moon perhaps. After the beam of light, the cloud shapes had completely faded away leaving just the glowing lights. The lights still moving East across the sky had now made it to about 180 degrees South. Time elapsed approximately 2 minutes. At this point the lights started to fade out one-by-one, first the top amber, then the bottom right, and finally the bottom left. It should be noted that the sighting location is approximately 1 mile directly North of the Waukegan National Airport . Both observers are male 25-40 years of age, and work in pub! lic safety.
July 28, 2020 · 9:40 PM · FORMATION
Maricopa, AZ
orange spherical light came on about 1 mile out and 1/2 up then 3 spheres appeared simultaneously to the left and the right of the center spear and then then all blinked out
July 28, 2020 · 9:10 PM · FLASH
Albuquerque, NM
Was driving East bound on I40 was getting off at the Rio Grande exit. As I was exiting the freeway I noticed in my upper left Peripheral vision there was something traveling at an extremely high rate of speed too fast to be an aircraft. There was a white light at the front of the craft, and a blueish light toward the back of it. As my eyes focused on it the aircraft must have hit hyperdrive or something but the blueish light toward the back of the craft sped up (And got brighter) toward the white light in the front and as the two lights got closer together when they met the aircraft disappeared altogether!
July 28, 2020 · 9:03 PM · FIREBALL
Downers Grove/Chicago, IL
It was 9:03pm Tues July 28th. I was sitting on patio in backyard facing south talking to a relative who was facing north. I was looking up at the sky as I often do watching the planes fly into the city when I suddenly saw one solid orange/red ball of light appear as though it came from the southwest heading East towards Chicago. Growing up directly under one of the many flight paths to one of the busiest airports, ohare, ive seen my fair share of planes. These were no usual aircraft/helicopter/drone. No blinking lights to indicate aircraft. It was not a meteor or comit there was no tail/debris trail. The first one flew in our line of sight for approx. 30 sec before shrinking to a tiny speck in the night sky (on the same horizontal plane as it appeared.). As the first one vanished, two more appeared flying in the exact same trajectory as the one previous. Same speed, same altitude. One about a thumbs length in front of the other (if holding thumb out sidewa! ys up to the sky). Those two repeated the same as the first, passing before us in a perfectly horizontal line as they diminished to specks as quickly as they had appeared. Best way I can describe it read as though they materialised/dematerialized by illuminating/extinguishing. They appeared to head in the direction of the city but never descending - 2 more appeared. Same path, same distance apart same everything. Then two more and same thing. It appeared as though once they got closer to the city the went from solid orbs of light to specks instantaneously. Was able to see them through binoculars but couldnt identify anything more then orange/red glowing orbs. We were left dumbfounded by what we saw. Hope someone else besides us got to see it also!