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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 25, 2020 · 10:15 PM · OVAL
Balck Diamond, WA
We set up our travel trailer at Lake Sawyer for the weekend. So Saturday night (25/July/2020) at about 10:15 PM PDT, we were starting to settle in for the night. My wife was inside getting the kids ready for bed and I was outside picking up some things. I looked up and there was a series of bright lights traveling across the sky. Unfortunately my phone could not record due to the darkness outside. I called out to my wife and she saw the "event" as well. - Travel direction approximately NE to the SW. - 2 or 3 dozen (possibly more) very bright lights. Think of an approaching plane. - All traveling the same direction. - No solid pattern. Somewhat oval shape overall but changed slightly. The majority of the lights were grouped in this main shape. - A few trailing lights appeared to have changed speed to attempt to catch up to the main group. - The lights appeared to be in low atmosphere, not in orbit. - Lasted about 5 minutes or so.
July 25, 2020 · 10:15 PM · CIRCLE
Black Diamond, WA
My daughters and I were at a park in Black Diamond which had good horizon visibility. We used my telescope and a new lens I had acquired to see Jupiter and Saturn. While I was looking for the NEOWISE comet (northern sky), my daughter approached me and eagerly pointed to the southern sky in the vicinity of Jupiter. There were a group of a few dozen round, bluish lights moving slowly across the southern sky from east to west. The brightness was a bit less than a star or planet. Much of the SEATAC air traffic is visible from that vantage point and I’m convinced these were not commercial or small aircraft. They were also not satellites like Starlink – I’ve seen those and know what they look like. I had 5 or 10 minutes to watch with the naked eye and through my telescope (6” Dobsonian at 48x magnification). The objects’ light intensity remained mostly constant and when viewed through the telescope the lights appeared round in shape. The movement of the group appeared to be in a loose formation. I tracked 3 of them through the telescope for 30-60 seconds and their relative position to each other remained mostly fixed. Eventually the lights began to fade or spread out enough that not more than a few were visible at a time.
July 25, 2020 · 10:15 PM · OTHER
Kent, WA
My neighbor and I witnessed what appeared to be a cluster of star like moving objects in the southern sky moving from east to west at a slow pace. They did not appear to have any organized shape or formation and the objects slowly changed in orientation over the few minutes we watched them. They eventually appeared to slow and disappear from view behind the neighbor’s roof-line and I believe they may have started moving south out of view from there. I checked out photos of the Starlink satellites and what we watched were definitely not those satellites. What we saw had no definite pattern or orientation and were scattered in a changing cluster of lights. The objects formed somewhat of a “J” shape from north to south and under the largest formation was a trailing cluster from east to west. There were in the same area of the sky as Jupiter moving towards the west.
July 25, 2020 · 10:00 PM · DIAMOND
Ithaca, NY
This evening I attended a drive in movie featuring back to the future 2. Approximately an hour or so into the movie my eyes wondered into the sky and that is when I noticed the anomaly. The best way I can describe what I saw was a diamond shape configuration of lights going from a diamond shape to a flat line in a way that I would describe as similar to a jellyfish. It looked somewhat like it was swimming I would say. Another observation that I had about what I saw was that the anomaly seemed to have a path of trajectory but it did not stay on one fixed axis. In other words, it was going up, down, left and, right freely. I can’t identify what it was that I saw but I know that what I saw was real.
July 25, 2020 · 10:00 PM · RECTANGLE
Portland, OR
I was having a cigarette on my front porch and all of the sudden I saw a very distinct red flowing light from it’s left to right a very bright red color and it looked like multiple solar panels floating in the sky? I continued to observe the area but never heard any sounds or saw anything else just one solid pulse of bright red light and what looked like solar panels??
July 25, 2020 · 9:49 PM · LIGHT
Maywood, NJ
A fast-moving white ball of light appeared out of nowhere. It was as bright as a full moon, however it was small in size. Low in altitude. Moving 25 degrees NE to 115 degrees SE. Before I could get out of my chair to see it as it passed my neighbors home; it was gone. Where I believed it's flight path would follow; it wasn't there. The object made no sound.
July 25, 2020 · 9:45 PM · LIGHT
West Palm Beach, FL
At approximately 8:45 p.m., I walked down the stairs of my West Palm Beach apartment to check the mailbox. I looked up at the eastern sky and though,t "What a beautiful evening!" In that moment I saw what I thought to be a bright white meteor falling from the northeast, but it stopped! The bright light shut off as it hovered and flashed a small blue light. After a moment, the brilliant white light activated again, and the...object zipped around at an amazing speed like a bumblebee, stopped again and flashed blue. This happened several times before the light turned a small steady blue and flew and traveled to the northeast horizon at an incredibly clip until it disappeared. The object seemed to be zipping and hovering over Palm Beach International Airport. I don’t think a commercial drone can travel that quickly or emit such a brilliant light. Unfortunately, I did not have my cell phone with me.
July 25, 2020 · 9:45 PM · LIGHT
Moore, OK
I was leaving work to get something to eat and noticed a bright light hovering in the sky, slightly bigger than a star. My first thought was “that looks like a strange airplane!” But soon after I saw it, it sped away faster than any aircraft I have ever seen and disappeared into the night sky. The light didn’t fade- it simply vanished.
July 25, 2020 · 9:00 PM · CIRCLE
Millston, WI
See video! Strange humming also, but is hard to here. Between millston and brf wi
July 25, 2020 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Cumberland, MD
Four tube shaped white lights barely moving north in an elongated and tidy, but not static, diamond. Appeared to fade “up” not away.
July 25, 2020 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Surfside Beach, SC
Three lights in a perfect triangle appear with light appearance akin to stars. Lights were spread out fairly considerably. Lights then move south in a perfect triad formation and disappear behind clouds. Viewed from beachfront location.
July 25, 2020 · 8:30 PM · OVAL
Rexburg, ID
On July 25, 2020, at 8:30 p.m., while looking due south at approximately 45 degrees elevation, I witnessed bright object that, when viewed with the naked eye, looked like it could be Venus on its brightest night. When looking at the same object through binoculars, I discovered that the object was slightly oval shaped . . .and looked just like a glowing white musical whole note with a dark/shadowy center. It remained stationary, not moving left or right, up or down. The bottom half of the object emitted continuous flashes of light in rapid succession in what looked like random locations always emitting from the bottom half of the object. After the sun went down the sky began to darken, the object moved further into the distance (gaining altitude), taking on a reddish hue until a passing cloud hid it from my view. At this late point, it was only visible through binoculars (at least until the cloud covered it from my view). The next evening, I looked at the same part of the sky at the same time of the evening to see if I should see anything again. I saw nothing.
July 25, 2020 · 8:30 PM · CHANGING
Dallas, TX
While watching the Neowise comet in the western sky, my girlfriend told me to look at the moon. I turned around, and we both saw a triangular or teardrop-shaped craft flying at approx. 400ft from south to north. The craft was white, with a red area at the center. It initially appeared to be of matte material, to me, with no lights, though my girlfriend saw the white areas as lights. While she was watching the area around the moon longer than me, she claims the object only appeared after I turned to look, and seemingly appeared out of nowhere. The triangular craft flew directly over us. When it was directly overhead, at 90 degrees, it appeared then as a cross shape, with the white areas as the long piece, and the red area as a "crossbar" in the center or slightly off center. It seemed to elongate and grow brighter, or take on a sort of glow without changing color. The object became a bit hazy as if I was looking at it with tears in my eyes, though my vision was clear. It then flew into a mass of cloud and never came out the other side. Though we both wanted to take a picture, neither of us wanted to avert our view. I felt a weird shock of adrenaline. We both feel like the sighting immediately afterward took on a dreamlike quality, and find trying to recall the exact shape of the craft difficult. It's possible that it changed shape
July 25, 2020 · 7:30 PM · LIGHT
Miami Florida, FL
This was in 2019 maybe 2020 I’m not sure the exact date and time so i understand the room for disbelief but I know what I saw because I saw it with my own eyes. I walk my dog everyday, I go onto 107 and 7th street and look around and take in life everyday. I live in a townhouse complex called laguna club As I’m walking northeast I look at the sky and coming northeast onward to northeast is a blue light BEAMING across the sky the speed of this light is so fast that I was to shocked too pull out my phone I stood there in disbelief of what I was seeing I thought that’s maybe a reflection of a cars headlights that’s I’m seeing since 107 is a busy road but I keep staring at it it moved in zigzags ,the last zigzag covered more space than the others and it just stopped and stayed stationary that’s when I discredited it being headlights. Stationary for I would say 2-3 seconds before it bolted east so fast I was in awe. A jet breaking the sound barrier is not even a fifth of the speed this craft zoomed east. I said ok? Surely I’m seeing things I continue walking I take a couple steps and see 3 black helicopters in a triangle formation coming from northeast going in the direction of the craft. This happened a while ago I also don’t have evidence but I know what I saw I know it happened I don’t need people to believe me but I want people to know my truth.
July 25, 2020 · 6:48 PM · DISK
University park, IL
I was really ((one word deleted)) scared and it made me really ((one word deleted)) nervous. Now I’m use to it but I don’t think I like how close it comes and why if follows me even when I’m on the expressway or doing 80 or 90 miles per hour or for an extent of a hour or more
July 25, 2020 · 6:00 PM · OVAL
Gallatin Gateway, MT
Happened to look up saw a bright light in a very blue sky while camping. Got binoculars out, then proceed to get telescope. The four of us saw what look like a round donut with lights along one side. With the telescope a Little closer looked kind of like a jellyfish without tentacles. It didn't really seem to move, but as the sun went down it changed color and eventually disappeared.
July 25, 2020 · 3:00 PM · CYLINDER
Mason city, IL
White cylinderwith no wings or tail flying west to east high altitude and high speed
July 25, 2020 · 3:00 PM · SPHERE
Beverly, MA
Over the past three days I've been seeing sphere shaped UFOs flying directly over my home. The first sighting was of a single sphere which pulsated from black to red. The second sighting was of two white spheres going in the same direction but one was "playing" around the other as the flew silently and with no trails over our neighborhood. Yesterday was the third sighting of a single sphere. It was backlit so it appeared dark in color. I had decided to set-up a rig and get some video and I was successful. I'll include a photo with this report. The area where I live seems to be a "highway" of sorts. So, I'm sure that I'll see more and will attempt better footage.
July 25, 2020 · 11:45 AM · LIGHT
Dearborn, MI
Observed what appeared to be a satellite moving north to south just below big dipper then noticed it changed heading to a die west course and decreased elevation to the point that it was approx 20 thousand feet. Had a bright white strobing light that on every third flash was so bright was like it was taking a pic of ground and blinding. Craft disappeared on a westerly heading behind roof of house inhibiting view and then reappeared approx five mins later and assumed exact same heading it took on approach as it exited all the way back to extreme elevation along bottom of Big Dipper south to north then dissapearing.
July 25, 2020 · 5:30 AM · TRIANGLE
Little Elm, TX
At approximately 5:30am, I was out on my morning walk. It was an early Saturday morning, so there was very little, if any, noise from traffic. I was heading North when in my peripheral vision I thought I saw a falling star or comet. I turned to look and noticed it was not falling at all but traveling parallel to the ground. Then I noticed it was actually 2 objects evenly spaced apart, travelling at the exact same speed. Their distance never changed, they were in perfect sync. They were too high to be birds and too low to be planes. I then noticed they looked like white triangles. There were no lights on them. They made no sound at all. I thought they might be birds, but they flew in a perfectly straight path at pretty fast speed and the distance between them never changed. The precision was perfect. It reminded me of seeing satellites way out in space. I watched them for about 30 seconds and then they just disappeared. They were nowhere to be seen.
July 25, 2020 · 5:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Bradenton, FL
An air craft caught my eye early one morning. The craft made no sound at all as I watched the craft fly in the distance it appeared to be approaching toward me then all of a sudden it flew vertically up in the air it was lit up like a Christmas tree with lights of red, yellow, blue, green Just like a decorated christmas tree still no sound as it excelled straight up in the atmosphere, my attention turned to a sound of,what sounded like a small censna, I looked to my right and it was flying so low ,if not for the tree in my yard I could of looked in the eyes of the pilot, then all of a sudden There was no engine sound, I started bracing for a crash of the craft,I walked to my front yard but could not see or hear the small plane any more, all of a sudden I see a air craft slowly ascending from the direction the small craft was headed but had large round orange fan like objects that were hazy orange in color that craft also just disappeared, as I turned my attention back to the Christmas tree looking craft that also was gone.
July 25, 2020 · 3:30 AM · UNKNOWN
Austin, TX
thought was just a star. it was near another smaller white star. though it was i guess more yellowish or orangish. just looked across sky as i smoked cig didn't notice it. as i happened to look back at the two stars the orangish yellowish one just FADED out. I mean it. It just faded out, I watched it disappear. And not 5 seconds later way further right in the sky i saw a shooting star come down, but it was an awesome shooting star it like split apart at end and went different directions... but seconds before the shooting star, the orangish star just FADED OUT. what the hell was that.
July 25, 2020 · 3:15 AM · LIGHT
Beaverton, OR
On July 25th 2020 at 0315 my fiance and I were in Beaverton, OR looking NE into the sky. We witnessed for at least 20 minutes a UFO slightly above the horizon. It would move from left to right and up and down very slowly. Then it would disappear and reappear. It disappeared about 3 times just to reappear again in a different spot above the horizon. We also witnessed very fast streaks of light moving side to side near the UFO. I am 100% positive that it was NOT an airplane. Airplanes can't move in the manner that this craft was moving. It just looked like a star... A star that moved in weird directions, disappeared and reappeared several times. It was still there when we went inside. My fiance was cold so we went indoors. I saw my roommate a few minutes after being inside, I then told him about what we had seen. My roommate and I then went outside to see it. As soon as we stepped outside, I pointed it out to him and it just looked like a star. Ho! wever, it started to move to the right and then disappeared again. I'm not sure if it came back or not, we both went inside after seeing it.
July 25, 2020 · 3:00 AM · LIGHT
Greenwater, WA
On the evening of 7/25/2020 several groups of friends gathered for an annual mountain bike ride in the White River valley off Mt Rainier. At the location is a lightly used airstrip, Ranger Creek, and campground nestled in the trees just off the runway. Prior to the event, between approximately 21:00 – 22:00 hours, 8-10 people sat at the northern end of the runway observing multiple shooting stars and satellites. The night was the clearest we’d seen in years coming to the location. The campground was not empty, there were approximately 300 people staying in tents, RV’s, or car camping. Our group dispersed the airstrip and went to their respective accommodations for the evening. At approximately 03:00 I awoke to use the restroom and rather than use the toilet in my camper I opted for the woods since it was so clear and warm that evening. As I was completing my relief the ground lit a wonderful green color and I could see the shadows of the trees on the ground,! this lasted around 1-2 seconds. Feeling fear once the shadows started moving I looked up and saw nothing but a green ball of light moving very fast, over 300 mph (planes take off in that direction frequently under 100 mph known). There was zero sound from the light nor in the campground and no wind. The light stayed green, glorious bright green like a neon gas lamp, and moved very rapidly seemingly +/- 500’ in altitude above the runway heading at 344 degrees. The runway is 2800’ in length with a 2000’ shear cliff wall 1.3 miles away in the direction of the flight. I am unaware if the light continued down the valley or maintained it’s heading over the cliff wall to the east of the valley.