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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.
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July 15, 2020 · 10:20 AM · OVAL
San Antonio, TX
Going home on my street up hill I look towards streetlight see it ...I saw something in the sky.. .. was oval had a solid definate shape to it although it was lit up with no light glare to it and a darker area almost like a thin line threw the middle of it.. soft bluish white color. It blinked once slow then twice fast and gone .. dissappeared.. no sound. i went up the street again to see if maybe it was a reflection or something explainable.. couldn't find anything.
July 15, 2020 · 5:00 AM · SPHERE
Dayton, OH
Bright white orb flying low from east to west towards fairborn. Object had steady pace few hundred feet above trees and did not make a sound.
July 15, 2020 · 4:19 AM · OTHER
Virginia Beach, VA
I have a video that I would like to share. Two people and a dog were present. The camera video did not cap ture everything we saw, but it does convey the sense of erratic motion and shapes in the sky. At first, I noticed eccentricities in the movements of what I thought was the moon and a planet and/or meteor. I turned my camera on and recorded. I had to move the camera to keep the (moon/planet/third object) in the frame. 20 seconds into the video, I could not believe what I was seeing and started to doubt it (it was bizarre motion - zig-zaggish), and so I re-positioned and put the camera flat on the ground and had my friend help me keep it steady. At that point, it was very clear that what we were seeing and trying to record was real. I have photos and video recordings that I would like analyzed. I am 31 and have never seen anything so erratic in the sky in my life. The park was: Witchduck Landing Park in Virginia Beach, VA. The time was 4:19 AM.
July 15, 2020 · 3:45 AM · FIREBALL
Chillicothe, OH
Past couple weeks thought I was looking at the space station at night while working in my shop all night. Tonight I walked out and seen it fly with great speed from western sky through the northern sky and settle in the Eastern southerly sky. I sat outside recording it and observing with binoculars till it slowly faded away as if going further out of the atmosphere. Would like to know if it's something lik e a SpaceX lunch as I have seen it several nights and wouldn't be surprised if I see it again. Was under the impression it was space station untill it moved with great speeds.
July 15, 2020 · 3:00 AM · LIGHT
Lakeport, NY
While taking a late night swim on Onida lake with my girlfriend and two of our friends... we saw Two large lights in the distance east of us. They were brighter then any of the stars or planets in the sky. The lights were still for about 3 minutes. Then disappears began to head towards us at fast rate... they flew over us and then vanished.
July 15, 2020 · 3:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Jacksonville, OR
Woke up while camping and saw an orange light through my tent mesh. Thought it was a planet or star until it started moving in all directions. Watched for about 10 or 15 minutes then it moved behind the tree line out of sight. From what i could see it looked almost like a crescent shape, and when it moved i could barely see a wave of whispy greyish/silver in the opposite direction of the movement
July 15, 2020 · 3:00 AM · LIGHT
Cicero, NY
Two large lights stagnant for 3 minutes. Then disappears within seconds towards the west.
July 15, 2020 · 2:00 AM · CHEVRON
Fllorence, AL
I was leaving a friend's house when we noticed a bright lite in sky. I took pictures of light with my phone. Later when I enlarged picture it looked as those I've included in this report
July 15, 2020 · 1:52 AM · FLASH
North Highlands, CA
This is not the first time i have seen this flash of light. its not steady like an air craft. and there is only 1 white light. the first time i saw it was several days earlier. it did a tight circle and dis appeared then it moved and flashed going to the south east. I grabbed my cell phone a d had it ready if i was it again. and i have a video. I also saw it on one of the nights i was the ISS go over it was like 30 insteps behind it. wish i hade better camera equipment. my daughter saw it again two weeks ago when we were star gazing while camping.
July 15, 2020 · 1:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Midvale, UT
I stepped off my back porch to have a cigarette at approximately 1 a.m. on the night of July 15th, 2020. I noticed a flashing light in the sky but there was something that was strange about it. It would flash on and offbut every time it flashed on it was in a different position in the sky and in order for it to do that it had to be traveling at a speed like nothing that I had ever seen.it basically was almost disappearing and appearing again in a different spot. it was blink off and then when it came back on it would be several miles away from where it was before. I watched it for about 15 minutes and when it was right above me it blinked one more time and then I never saw it again.it's acceleration have to be miraculous because it was almost like it appeared in one spot and then disappeared and appeared in the other without even going from one spot to the other this was the first UFO sighting I have ever had in my lifetime and I'm 65 years old.
July 15, 2020 · 12:32 AM · CHANGING
San Tan Valley, AZ
Similar to several nights prior, multiple craft are visible to the southwest with two visible a bit to the north. Multi colored lights and very sudden / fast movements visible from 5 crafts. Three of the crafts appear to be working together and at times a light between one and another (like a line) is visible for a fraction of a second. This was observed by myself and my husband. I am a senior executive for a consulting company and my husband is a retired nuclear plant manager.
July 15, 2020 · 12:00 AM · CIGAR
Kissimmee, FL
I was videotaping (using my Iphone) lighting (I’m fascinated by this phenomenon) and I caught this on video and don’t know what it was - you have to watch closely towards the end of the video on the right side of the screen; it was approximate about 500 - 1000 ft and made no sound at all and was very fast. I noticed blue and red colors. This thing flew right over the path of incoming commercial airplanes (Orlando International). I tried sending you the video but was not able. Do you have a specific address to upload this video?
July 15, 2020 · 12:00 AM · CIRCLE
Emmaus, PA
What appeared to be a white star circling a red circle. Object was not sporadic in movement.
July 15, 2020 · 12:00 AM · CIRCLE
Smilax, KY
Last night 2 of us were laying on a blanket under the stars, the sky was so clear, we first saw a few sporadic shooting stars then all of a sudden there was what seemed like one, but it was so bright! It lasted way longer than any shooting star and the top of the thing was long and slender and burning so bright it looked almost blue with a reddish tail. So magnificent! Immediately after that there were several (at least 6) craft of some kind that looked exactly like stars and had been stationary up to that point that in unison, from different places that scattered away from that area. There are always these lights in the sky that have a steady light, nothing blinking and with no sound, that look exactly like stars, same size, same color, everything, but last night it's like they all wanted to get away from whatever had just happened. Something appeared to fall off the shooting, glowing object, it seemed like some kind of malfunction instead of a shooting star. From nowhere I see an airplane leaving the area as well. I've never witnessed anything like that and I'm always looking at the sky. After that, the sky was so alive, there were those lil things moving all about and blinking lights, twinkling stars, just so much movement. My dog was barking like crazy, the way he does when someone strange comes around. I'd love to know what was going on. I'm so glad I was able to witness it with someone else! Wow!
July 14, 2020 · 11:50 PM · CIRCLE
Barkhamsted, CT
I was using a high powered flash light to shine on my woods when I accidentally pointed it at the sky. Within a second a very big circular object in the sky, slowly moving from East to west shined a very bright orange light back at me. When the light went out, it slowly dimmed. This is when I got the attention of my friend. I did it again and the object replied again. We did this back and forth for approximately 5 minutes. I was able to catch two flashes on video. The object never made a sound and was very high in altitude. No other lights present on the craft. Just after we lost sight of the craft, my dog began the growl into the woods. We heard a large animal moving around in the woods but could not find it with a flashlight. This very well could have been any of the hundred animals that live in the woods here. However, it made the hair on the back of my neck stand up.
July 14, 2020 · 11:30 PM · CIRCLE
Shelton, WA
I was out with my telescope taken pictures of Jupiter and moons also Saturn. I had issue with secondary mirror on my telescope while trying to adjust the mirror for better image the threads stripped out and feel into my hand. I was talking to my self about great my nights over and seems like always something. And I stopped talking out loud cause I sensed something at that time I looked up to my right and I seen two lights that were enter acting with one another at that time my phone was attached to my telescope with camera app opened I grabbed for it as I held phone up and moved eyepiece one of the lights shot stright back and now the closer one continues on its path 300 feet off the ground approximately as I got the one object in my sights I told my phone take my picture take my picture take my picture then noticed my wife and kids coming down the rd to meet me as planned well the pictures tell the rest.
July 14, 2020 · 11:30 PM · DISK
Albuquerque, NM
My 16 year old daughter exclaimed that a UFO just flew by outside. I hopped up and ran outside - we both saw what appeared to be closer/lower than an airplane (the airport and air-force base are close by and we often hear/see airplanes), it looked literally like a classic flying saucer with lights of different colors around its circumference (I thought it was red & blue, my daughter thought red & white). This sighting was so much closer and bigger than any "suspicious" lights in the sky that I perceived as a possible UFO. It was silent and moving slowly from south to north. We called my other daughter, grabbed the binoculars and ran upstairs to get a better view but even though we hurried it was only visible briefly with the binoculars.
July 14, 2020 · 10:52 PM · OTHER
Southwick, MA
July 14, 2020-10:52 pm: I spotted a pyramid shaped uap with distinct areas of emitted power, (viewed as white light). I observed the uap through the window of my bedroom near a tall tree in my yard close to my house. It was visible in the sky near the top of the tree and/or through the leaves. Through the naked eye, i remember it being just a cream colored light in the sky. Small enough to be similar as a large star. The difference was how bright it was compared to the stars in the sky, on the somewhat clear night. Many times I lost track of it and I had to move my head around slowly to find it again. I assume by looking back at it that they leaves in the trees could have obstructed my view. After capturing it on camera I notice two different photos. One a clearer photo showing the uap and the other blurry but capturing something of interesting. With the clearer photo it is observed to be a pyramid shaped object with four assumed engines. Its visible to see them but can be seen more easily by editing it, (These are the original photos and are not edited). Also in this photo there is a visible haze that starts above it and flows back to the top of this uap. In the second photo I noticed an area of purple coming from the middle right part of the photo. This again is easier to see upon editing the photo, such as saturation and vibrance. Understanding the importance of original photos I have kept these as the original photos from that night. However due to the poor quality I do point to editing the photos to be able to clearly see this uap.
July 14, 2020 · 10:30 PM · DIAMOND
Horseshoe Bay, TX
Time: July 14, 2020. Approximately 10:30pm. Location: Heading west on Highway 71 near Horseshoe Bay, Texas. The specific stretch of highway that this occurred is the portion of Highway 71 in between the Baylor Scott & White Hospital and the turn off to Highway 2147. Physical description: A relatively flat, diamond shaped, extremely black aircraft. It appeared to be quite matte, sleek, narrow, and about the size of my own vehicle which was a Toyota Corolla at the time. It had an aerodynamic capsule that sleekly arose from the front center of the diamond-shaped body where I assumed a pilot would’ve been positioned. The capsule portion was too black to see into, but it seemed to be a different material than the diamond-shaped body. The craft was so black that it was difficult to see many details, but there was a difference in how the light from my headlights sheened against the capsule portion and the diamond portion which leads me to believe they were made out of two different materials. Full details: I was driving down the highway, heading west, through an area where there aren't any buildings or houses. From the corner of my right eye I noticed the area outside the right side of my vehicle go black. It was already night, but it was light enough night that I was still able to see the see the treeline because of my headlights and the skyline in the distance, stars in the sky, and etc from the moonlight. So when this object positioned itself next to me, I quickly noticed it black out the upper right portion of my windshield and passenger window. It hovered next to me for about a minute, maybe 6 feet away from my vehicle and maybe 14 feet off the ground. It was near enough that it was mostly flying alongside me over the shoulder of the road. And it stayed very level. It didn’t move up or down, it lowered itself perfectly in sync with me and stayed perfectly level. I watched it, confused, of course, but not alarmed. Honestly I was slightly annoyed and kinda rolled my eyes at it because I assumed it was a young, arrogant, military pilot who was just showing off or something (think Maverick in Top Gun). I felt like he could see me through my windshield and I didn’t like that I was unable to see him inside the capsule/cockpit. I was surprised he was interacting with me like that since that could be dangerous for me since, technically, if I’d been a jumpy person, he could’ve scared me and caused me to wreck. So I was very surprised he was permitted to lower his aircraft near a public highway like that. I glanced over at it multiple times and tried to see into it. It matched my speed which was about 70mph and hung there with me for about a mile. I had to glance back at the road multiple times, of course, to somewhat keep my eyes on the road, but I was still able to get a really good look at it even though it was so black I wasn’t able to make out many details. I also had time to observe that I couldn’t hear his engines at all. The aircraft was COMPLETELY silent. I also felt like he WANTED me to see him. It seemed like he purposely placed himself in my line of sight and waited until he was sure I’d seen him. Which is why I assumed it was some pilot showing off, wanting to give me a wild story to tell people or something like that. After about a mile he pulled forward, allowing me to get an even better view of it for about a half second before it shot off at supersonic speed. On the backside of it it had a white and green light, I think, but it was moving so fast at that point that I only saw the backside for a second before it was gone. I was wildly impressed. The aircraft was completely quiet. No engine revved, no sonic boom, the trees didn’t even shift because it created what appeared to be absolutely no atmosphere disturbance. I assumed it was our government and that they had somehow figured out how to hit supersonic speed without causing a sonic boom and I was also impressed they were able to make the engines completely silent. I work in aviation so I am around aircraft and am pretty familiar with them and this was far, far, far more advanced than I was aware humans were capable of. In fact, even the shape, with its narrow wingspan (if you can even call it a wingspan, see attached drawing) seems like it wouldn't work with our physics. I remember thinking, ''damn if we’re capable of building THAT sort of technology then we’re capable of anything'. I texted my parents when I got home later. My exact words to them after explaining what I saw were, “This was crazy. If we have technology like that, I’m very impressed. I just don’t see how something could go through our atmosphere at that speed. It almost seemed to contradict physics.” I would’ve reported it earlier but I genuinely assumed it was some secretive, super advanced aircraft that the government wasn’t ready for the general public to know about yet. After the briefing with David Grusch I realize that maybe we humans don’t have that sort of technology yet and, if not, then what I saw was definitely an alien aircraft. I altered a picture of a stealth looking drone (removed the wings and reshaped it, etc.) to depict something similar to what I saw. It should be attached below.
July 14, 2020 · 10:16 PM · CYLINDER
Lords Valley, PA
NOTE: I have also submitted this to MUFON as case 110160 and I am NICAP's MADAR Node # 44 in Pike County , Pa. I am a NJ MUFON Field Investigator at my summer home in Lords Valley, Pa. in a rural community in the Pocono Mountains surrounded by forest called Hemlock Farms. Yesterday was a beautiful cloudless night in the Poconos with a gazillion stars. I took my kids out to look for comet NEOWISE but we were disappointed but just for a bit! Something spectacular happened. I love to stargaze and was on my porch in a pitch black forest watching the stars for 2 hours with my 8 y/o son David explaining the big dipper etc. At exactly 10:16 p.m. eastern time, we witnessed an object traverse the sky from southeast to northwest in no more than 8 seconds. It was an orange cylinder. No FAA standard lighting whatsoever. No comet or meteorite like trail behind it. At arms length it was the size of my pinky nail. It did not fly head to tail but rather sideways which I found bizarre as that is not aerodynamic. I used my closed fist to judge that it took 7 fists at 10 degrees of sky each to cross the heavens till I lost it behind my roof. 70 degrees of sky in 8 seconds give or take is FAST. I did not have my phone but it would have been gone by the time i readied the camera anyway. I ran to check the time (exactly 10:16 pm) and went to my computer to check flightradar24.com which uses UTC time which is tomorrow's date July 15 at 3:16 a.m. Attached is a screenshot of what I saw overlapping an otherwise silent flightradar24.com sky for the 15 minutes before and after the event. I am a very savvy MUFON Investigator and have never filed a MUFON report of my own but this thing was anomalous. Please see my attached screengrab with notations. Here is my dilemma. I also belong to NICAP's MADAR project which means I have a radar setup containing a very loud DAS alarm and a baramoter/magnetometer checking for magnetic or barometric changes. My NICAP MADAR node IS #44. DAS alarm has never gone off in months. In my humble opinion this thing should have triggered my DAS alarm. It did not. My son became frightened and ran in the house when he saw it. I don't know how to calculate the speed of an object crossing 70 degrees of sky in 8 seconds but it was really fast!!!! Does anyone know the formula? Please teach me it if you know! Additionally i get a lot of small Cessna type aircraft flying at between 2 and 4 thousand feet. Moments later such a craft passed by flying east to west. Judging by its size I estimate the orange sideways cigar was lower than 2000 feet and probably about 30 feet long but incredibly thin, perhaps only 2 feet wide from front to back. No noise. Speed blew the Cessna out of the water. Cessna took about 40 seconds to cross the same amount of sky. I have been a photo analyst for MUFON for about 3 years. I have looked at hundreds of videos of orbs, triangles, cigars, etc. While it was a common shaped cigar, it was glowing orange which is something I never saw before and it wasn't flying nose to tail but rather width-wise (imagine airplane wings without a fusalage.) This,for me rules out meteor however I have not had a chance to check the American Meteor Society fireball logs on their website yet. However it followed a straight path without variance and I feel it was a craft rather than an odd shaped orb. It was,however, the exact color typical of an orb, the kind which Pa. MUFON F.I. Terry Ray investigates!! Recent advances in plasma technology can engulf an aircraft and appear as a plasma in the sky. This is done because plasma absorbs a radar beam and nothing is returned to the ground station which is why I think this object did not show on flightradar24.com even though it is visible to the naked eye. The other reason it may not have shown was because it was below radar level under 2000 feet by my reckoning. Finally in the flightradar24.com screen grab you can see the only air traffic of note was far to the east - two planes depicted as yellow objects. NOTE: Flightradar24.com uses UTC time. which is 5 hours later than eastern u.s. time. therefore the bottom of the flightradar24 screen grab shows July 15, 3:16 a.m. rather than local time of July 14, 10:16 pm. My feeling is that it was a UAV, but please feel free to disagree or call me with any additional questions you may have! I have been wrong before. I am also submitting to NUFORC as sometimes they get sightings similar to mine that MUFON doesn't get and vice versa! Thank you!
July 14, 2020 · 10:15 PM
Lords Valley, PA
Upon checking node 44 log data was noted that there was considerable compass heading change during the five-minute period of one-minute datalines of 03:15:27 to 03:20:32 from 300.3 degrees to 306.05 degrees at the same time the field readings went from, or 1.5 milligaus to 13.5 milligaus. Node 44's threshold was set at 30, so with 13.5 milligaus it did not trigger, but the readings did increase from 10:15 pm to 10:20 pm.
July 14, 2020 · 10:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Upper Chichester, PA
At approximately 22:00 on 7/14/20 my daughter and I went outback of our house to watch the ISS flyover. It was a clear sky and we could see many stars. We noticed a quick pulsating/flashing light that was flying from the south to the north. It would have a pulsating kind of quick flashing light and then stop and then a second or two later it would appear again but not exactly in a straight line, lit was flying pretty much from north to south but it would flash/disappear/ flash again but way ahead of where the last flash was and maybe off to the side/disappear again then flash again way ahead of the last flash. I honestly couldn’t tell if it was multiple objects or one object. The lights were moving very fast. I know what a high flying plane looks like. I know what satellites look like. I skywatcher a lot. I wish I could explain it better. Basically imagine a high jet that blinked/stopped/blinked again by way ahead and maybe off to the side a little bit/ sto! p/ blink again way ahead but on the other side of the last blink. Not a straight line but moving in the same direction super fast and no sound whatsoever
July 14, 2020 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Lancaster, CA
This object look like a fireball coming towards us from the West in the direction of the Pacific Ocean, it looked like it was coming straight at us at first and then was going straight across the sky in front of us not at a very high altitude, looking like it was burning and sparking the entire time it was in our site it looks to be maybe 50 miles to the north of us, and as I stated it came all the way from the Western Horizon as far as we could see and we watched it pass in front of us all the way to the Eastern Horizon as far away as we could see until it was out of sight. But it maintained the orange sparking Fireball round shape the entire time and we watch this or at least 15 to 20 seconds. The object was more orangish red in the middle and a sparking yellow orange around the object. I would really like someone to contact me so I can speak with somebody about this.
July 14, 2020 · 10:00 PM · FLASH
Winfield, IN
In June 2020 my husband and I started seeing small flashes in the sky(about 5 times) then one day I saw a flash behind a large cloud then we saw about 9 or 10 more flashes in different places happening all at once. All behind a cloud