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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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May 3, 2020 · 11:30 PM · CYLINDER
Vancouver, WA
Im assuming they were large drones. You could hear the closest one. They would fly so far then circle back around. It kept doing that as it kept moving forward...like they were monitoring or mapping. The other next closest one was doing the same. They all had the same lights on them as you would expect on a small aircraft. You could see the others in the distance spread out from each other. One response to my daughters post said they were star link satellites, but these were not those. These were much lower and you could hear the whirring sound of the propellers from the one that was closest. Tried to find out any info or postings on it...but nothing. Just curious who’s drones they are and what the purpose was deploying them at that time of night. Not sure when they started. I just noticed them when I went outside around 11:15/11:30 last night.
May 3, 2020 · 10:10 PM · OTHER
Elverta, CA
Set the alarm by back sliding door and noticed a moving starlike object. No colored or blinking lights. It passed behind a tall tree and then another similar object followed the exact path as the first one. I kept watching and counted 10 objects that seemed to come from nowhere just appear out of the blackness and take exact path same speed as previous light. I never saw 2 lights together the following light would come after the previous light had disappeared. Event lasted approx 7 minutes.
May 3, 2020 · 10:10 PM · LIGHT
Ilion, NY
I was walking my dog and I always look up at the stars. I saw what I thought was a star moving fro West to East in the Northern Sky. I thought maybe I was seeing a satellite. When the first light was nearly out of sight to the East, I noticed another light coming from the West on the same exact trajectory, maybe a mile behind the first. This happened a total of 7 lights, each about the same distance apart, and looked like at the same height. No blinking of lights, a solid light, no pulsating, no change of color, no noise. Initially I thought an airplane, but no noise, maybe a star, but no twinkle, and moving west to East, another comes, another, another, seven times. There may have been more as I may not have seen the first light. Don’t know what I saw? I tried taking video with my phone but it looks like a blank sky.
May 3, 2020 · 10:08 PM · LIGHT
Sterling Heights, MI
I am an avid star gazer and I know the ISS travels and have seen satilte trajectory but never like this with no noise.
May 3, 2020 · 10:03 PM · LIGHT
Westland, MI
At 22:02 I stepped outside to my back patio for some fresh air. At 22:03 I noticed what appeared to be the ISS moving from the west to a east northeast path. A few seconds later, I noticed another light from the same direction following the first light. So now I know it is not the ISS. I make a phone call to a friend at 10:04pm, no answer. I yell inside the house for my family to come and witness what I am seeing. More keep coming, in a single line path. My two sons come out on to the patio and they help me spot each one as they fly from the west. At 22:13 I called another friend, he lives 3 miles south of me. He did see the last 4 objects. We counted 25 of these lights. They looked like the ISS flying over, orange light, similar speed as the ISS, and no sound. I'm just not sure if these objects were inside the atmosphere or not. It looked like they were entering the atmosphere from the west and leaving it in the east northeast sky. For the record, the ISS, or no other satellites, were scheduled to fly over at this time. I tried recoding a video. The objects would not show up on my phone. There was a very bright white 3/4 moon just a few degrees south of the line if direction these objects were moving.
May 3, 2020 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Oberlin, OH
Was walking through Oberlin black river/plum creek corridor and the clouds had just dissipated looked up at stars and noticed a round golden/fire like ball moving slowly in a straight line followed by five more following the same distance apart and eventually disappearing, there were now contrails. 30 seconds after that I saw a comet entering and completely dissipating into atmosphere right above the highest canopy tree. I stumbled to grab my phone and video shortly realizing it was at home, this was surly a sight to see as I have never seen anything like it before.
May 3, 2020 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Rochesster, NH
The light was traveling in the distance between a group of trees that was in my line of sight in my back yard. As I watched the light pass behind the last tree it looked to be heading away from me, turning North . Once the first light i saw passed and was moving away a second light appeared in the same location as the first and moving in the same direction. This continued for around 10 minutes, it seemed. I watched about 4 go by before I went inside and grabbed my phone to try and record it. During my recording (which didn't come out very well) I watched around 8-10 more pass by. At least a dozen if not more in total. No blinking lights just a bright white light and was brighter than any star or planet.
May 3, 2020 · 10:00 PM · CYLINDER
Vermilion, OH
To whom it may concern, On Sunday, May 3rd, 2020 in Vermilion, OH, at approximately 10 PM, I witnessed an unidentified flying object for nearly nearly four to five hours. I first noticed it when I seen a bright glowing object in the sky with orange flares coming off either sides. As I would start walking closer towards it, it would come in closer dimming its light. I knocked on my neighbors door to get a witness, but my knock went unanswered. As I was in the vestibule to the neighbor and out of sight of the UFO, it went higher into the sky. When I returned to the sidewalk, the UFO would come back in on me. It followed my every movement. It was instantaneous movement. If I moved left, it immediately went left on queue with my movement. Same with all movements. When it went to the highest peak above the lake, it would blink orange looking like an inordinate star. Only when it faced directly north. When it was more on the northwestern side, it strobe between blue, yellow, and orange. I finally got my neighbor outside during this time and she also witnessed that when someone was around me that it would go into the distance. I had her stay close to the building in the vestibule, so I could prove to her that it would come back if I were alone. The amount of time that it took to come back so close from the distance it was at discounts a drone theory. When it came in, it would hove r at least 200-300 yards in the sky just above the development across the street. Earlier that day, my fiancée and I had done chalking on the sidewalk in huge letters that says, “STAY SAFE OHIO, WE’RE IN THIS TOGETHER.” I finally finished around 8:30-9:00pm on the chalking. Within the hour is when I noticed what I’m explaining. I do have video. Other people in the neighborhood have also seen this within the last couple of weeks. A neighbor across the street a couple of weeks ago was so scared that she took her dog back inside immediately when they just started their walk because the dog got really freaked out. It was at the point that I went to get that neighbor to witness this as well that the UFO left. This was around 3:00am on Monday, May 4th, 2020. Like I said, I did get 2 videos. The shape is hard to describe. When it got close, it looked like a metallic, circular bottom with a cylinder top. When it was close, only one dim light that looked like a dim UV light would appear. In the distance is when the lights would strobe again. The main consistent color was orange.
May 3, 2020 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Garden City, MI
Synchronized flow, repetitive for at least 20 minutes high in the sky. Eventually disappearing into the atmosphere one by one in order.
May 3, 2020 · 9:40 PM · LIGHT
Murphy, NC
I went outside to get some air. I was looking up at the sky, checking out the moon (I was facing south and then I looked up and to the left) Saw a plane flying from South to North, blinking white light and red light. (I was in the USAF for 8 years, and am very familiar with aircraft lights, landing lights, aircraft size, etc.) Started looking at the direction of Venus and then I saw one bright small light, to the left of Venus, moving from South to North. It caught my eye because it was not blinking, just steady light. I followed it from South over Venus, and then to the North. Then it disappeared to the North. I turned and looked to the left at the moon, and that back in the direction of Venus (as I looked at the moon, Venus was to my direct right). I saw another (second) steady small light travelling north. Steady light, no blinking lights. Then about a half mile behind it, since it was way off in the distance and looked way above the clouds 4 to 5K feet or more, another (third)steady white small star light like moving from South to North. This time the first light made a round turn from North to East and then South East. The Second light continued straight and went out of sight. I followed the first light as it headed Southeast and disappeared above the clouds. All three lights were constantly steady; no blinking lights near or on it, just steady white light. Seemed very strange to me. Not a satellite since the second one clearly changed direction. Speed was constant on all separate 3 lights. All 3 lights were at least a mile or so apart. Although the first light was vastly separate (in distance and time, about 5 minutes time went by from the first one until I saw the second two.
May 3, 2020 · 9:40 PM · UNKNOWN
Crescent City, CA
Approximately 2140 my husband and I were in spa on deck when I looked up and saw what I thought was a plane. My husband said it was moving too fast to be a plane. We saw 30 of these moving objects in formation of equal distance appearing from the same area in the sky, one after another in a row, steady and looked like evenly spaced. It was a clear night, we could see plenty of stars and also a couple of planes. We could not see them off in the distance as the moon was bright. May 3, 2020 with full moon in a few days. We heard a rumble like planes in the distance but we are also near the Pacific Ocean so it was not clear if the rumble was from the air travel. We looked to see if they were repeating a formation like some type of training but could not see that. They seemed to come out of nowhere in the same area and go off into the South. Coming from the North to South in the Western sky above my home.
May 3, 2020 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Bayshore, NY
Small lights from west to east They would appear from one spot in the sky in 4 minute increments
May 3, 2020 · 9:27 PM · LIGHT
Provo, UT
We were oUt for a walk and noticed several bright lights in the upper atmosphere traveling from the SouthWest to the NorthEast at very high speed. Lights brightness stayed constant indicating self illuminating as sunlight hitting a surface would cause it ot dim once your vantage point changed as they passed overhead, they made NO noise or course changes. Lights traveled in the same direction on the same course separated by 5-10 miles best guess. A search of Flight tracker at the time showed NO aircraft in the area on that course or altitude.
May 3, 2020 · 9:23 PM · FORMATION
Hurricane, UT
Hey Everybody; We R stargazers and live in Hurricane. Sunday (May 3) we came out @ 9:25 p.m., & began seeing 18 UFOs in line w/quite a bit of space between them going N/E coming from the W!!!!! Something strange or unique is happening in our Universe! These objects could have been happening before we came out. We've been doing this nightly in the Spring since we moved here. This is another 1st for us! We have seen singular UFOs going E, S, W, blinking ones, ones which shut off & on like a flashlight, ones which all of a sudden it comes on like a dim flashlight & gets brighter & brighter then goes out.... then shows up at another spot in the sky doing the same thing. It gas been very entertaining. Unusual, but entertaining. One night 2 started doing antics like they were playing a game or putting on a show for whoever was watching. That was a 1st. Tonight was another. I mean, it really got us to wondering WHAT IS GOING ON????!!!!!
May 3, 2020 · 9:23 PM · CIRCLE
Galesburg, IL
It started with someone seeing it out in my front yard, and then notifying me to come look. When I went outside, there was about 10 flying objects in the shape of a circle with no flashing lights, and a white light in the middle. Most of them were flying north-east, but I spotted one heading south-east. They were all flying at the exact same speed and appeared out of no where. Three were flying in a triangle like formation, while others were following behind the formation. They had no sound. It was sort of cloudy, but they were able to be seen with no squinting of the eye.
May 3, 2020 · 9:20 PM
Kirkwood, MO
When saw started counting lights evenly spaced going east as the count got to twelve, two less lighted objects going north crossed sky
May 3, 2020 · 9:15 PM · FORMATION
Westminster, CO
Looking in the sky off my balcony seen a light moving east passing a plane shortly after spotted another in the same path. Then one after another. Clouds started moving in at that time a second row started before complete cover at 9:25. Seen satellites before but not in formation ??
May 3, 2020 · 9:15 PM · OVAL
Brookfield, VT
Oval spacecraft seeing at night over Vermont mountains. First thought as an antenna, too high above surface to fit in. Stationary white light, changing to red. Suddenly became 2 lights flickering between red and blue, still, as watched from a cliff, started to move slowly to the right as if scanning a place until it disappear fast in the night sky.
May 3, 2020 · 9:04 PM · UNKNOWN
Granby, CT
I was hanging out with some friends. We were by a pond listening to music and I noticed I was having issues loading songs that weren’t downloaded. I finally got a song to play and I just happened to look up to look at the sky and saw one faint circle like object with a white light move. I tried to point it out to one of my friends. When I started to point in the direction of what I saw, he saw something fly right above us a little higher than tree level, I caught a glimpse of it and it had a tail trailing and a haze around it of a red/orange glow. It continued its flight passed us but It was so low we assumed it landed. We then saw another light cross paths with the original light we had seen. A few seconds after, there was a beam of light in the sky coming from the direction of the two crossing lights that formed a rectangular prism shape. We were so shook we immediately left. This all happened at Christiansen’s pond on Well Rd.
May 3, 2020 · 9:00 PM · RECTANGLE
Shelby Township, MI
It looked like a large drone. It was flying relatively lower than an airplane or helicopter. It had four red lights one at each corner. It flew by at a moderate pace.
May 3, 2020 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Jackson, MS
I was standing outside in my front driveway and was on the phone talking to an associate around 9pm. I looked up to the brightest star in the sky which could have been either the north star or Sirius, I am not sure, but I noticed a quiet bright white light traveling at a steady pace from west to north east. I then noticed that 3 seconds later at an even distance another light followed behind the first light in the same exact path. Then 3 seconds later another appeared, then 3 seconds later another light appeared following the others in the exact same path, the exact same distance and speed as the others. I told my associate and he laughed and said he believes me because he has seen things like that before, so I asked him to let me call him back. I called my mother outside to look at them, and she was able to see them from a far away distance beneficially for here because she had laser eye surgery which make her able to see better far away but not so close. ! She was freaked out at them but shocked and wanted to take pictures. I tried to shoot video and take photos with our iphones, but the lighting and aperture was so dark that everything looked unclear and distorted. She and I knew they were not from this earth. She was able to see 4 of last UFO's passing through before we noticed that no more were to be seen at this location. There was no sound the whole time. I listened for helicopter blades and airplane engines and heard no sound. This siting went on for about 5-10 minutes. I was told this is called a fleet of UFO's. They were all just one behind each other the same distance apart as a train and its following cars....very cool but very scary.
May 3, 2020 · 9:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Jerome, ID
I was looking up at the night sky when I observed what I thought was a satellite just under the moon moving North by Northeast. Then I observed a line of thirteen lights moving at the same speed, separated by the exact same distance between each moving light. I believe the light was the reflection of the sun off the moving objects and that they were in space and not in our atmosphere. There was no sound of jet engines and the thirteen crafts continued on until out of my eye sight. I am a commercial pilot, CFII with over 10K hrs of logged flight.
May 3, 2020 · 9:00 PM · CIRCLE
Holly Springs, NC
We saw 30 to 40 tiny lights moving one by one. Every 30 secs another light followed by another. 3 formed a triangle. We thought they where satellites at first until the lights starting moving in unison.
May 3, 2020 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Thiensville, WI
Took the dog out to the backyard one last time before bed. Looked up and thought I saw a very fast moving jet above me, below the moon. Then another one followed right behind it, then another. I realized there were no sounds, then another. I ran in to get my fiance and she saw the first string of lights and even more coming. All heading south to north towards Port Washington. I took a video of the last few and realized all were equadistant apart, all in a line. I opened my satellite/star app and no satellites were listed at the time. I counted 20+ when I came out to the last.