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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
April 23, 2020 · 11:30 PM · LIGHT
Moreno Valley, CA
47 year old male, born and raised in general area. Former army reservist, former police officer and correctional officer. My house is in an area that is elevated compared to the rest of the city, and my back yard can oversee the scope or span of several cities. I always take my dog outside for a potty trips, several times daily. I always look at the stars and scenery at night as I wait for my dog to finish her business. I am very familiar with the landscape of stars in relation to their position in the sky, as I stated I look at them daily at night. I had noticed three not seen before lights that appeared to look like stars in the sky. They looked like part of the star scape, but I felt they looked odd based off their formation and distance to one another. Visually they appeared to be in proximity of being over the unincorporated part of Riverside and the Lake Matthews area. Going back to factors that caused my attention, were that the 3 lights or star like ! lights, were equal distance to each other, but not that far apart for being stars. The 3 lights appeared to be part of the star scape at first glance. The lights were not only equal distance in width, but also on the same plane horizontally. That is probably what stood out to me most. They looked like 3 separate stars but strangely on the same plane. I asked my adult son to come outside and told him and pointed out, those 3 stars are never in the sky (as I look daily). We watched for 10 minutes. Nothing changed. I thought “okay” maybe they are stars and for whatever reason they are visible today and were not visible to me in the past. This was about 8pm “ish” at night. I then went inside. I came back out at about 830pm just to check on the 3 lights again. The 3 lights that had appeared to be stars, were now gone. All the other stars in the sky were still visible as normal, but the 3 star like lights had completely vanished. There was no change in weather etc. in that span o! f time. I brought my adult son back outside for confirmation. ! We both agreed that the 3 lights had vanished.
April 23, 2020 · 10:15 PM · SPHERE
Searsmont, ME
I noticed an extremely bright light out my bedroom window which at first I thought might be a big star, then I looked harder and noticed it was making bizarre movements and had colors. I went and grabbed y cell phone hoping to zoom in on it and also grabbed my spouse to witness it. When I zoomed in on the object it lost all detail. The craft was spherical, moved in different directions and at times remained idle in one spot. The lights were red, green, yellow, orange and blue that I remember. It stayed for a very long time and then proceeded to disappear by going straight up into the sky.
April 23, 2020 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Millerton, PA
202004241239R April 24,2020 @1239EDT At 2200EDT received MADAR alert Witness 1 went outside Witness 2 attempted several times to reset alert status of MADAR local alert each time it returned to alert status. Cold misty, very light fog, 26deg F, wind calm, over cast at 1000ft Searched sky, over the barn to the Northwest was an orange orb, generally spherical, it was not clear, fuzzy, this may have been due to the misty conditions. The object traveled slowly less than 10 MPH to the Northwest appx. on a 330 degree heading and faded away, into the mist. No sound was heard. From object, when first arrived outside notice all the dogs down the valley were barking. Don’t know if they continued as was focused on attempting to get camera to function as witness 2 had arrived with his camera. The object was about 20ft dia, a light orange with a little red cast. It was a UFO/UAP as I could not identify it. Background witness 1: Retired US Navy 24 yr, Electronics Technician 1965 to 1990. Retired high school instructor Electronics, New York state. Wide range of interests and skills.
April 23, 2020 · 10:00 PM · CIRCLE
Chapel Hill, NC
Was out with a group of friends to watch the meteor shower. Never saw any meteors, up and ahead of us we spotted a white circular (object?) shape move east. it was very very high up and hard to discern what it was, but it wasn't blinking like a plane and it was way too high and far away to be a drone. (And no, it wasn't a meteor - one of the people is super nerdy into this stuff and they didn't know what this was) It moved organically - a bit strange - as if someone was drawing on the sky with a laser pointer. It proceeded in that direction for about a minute, second by second a different person in our group noticing it until it became so dim it was gone. About 10 minutes later, we saw a bright white flash / explosion around the same area it originated. Never seen anything like this!
April 23, 2020 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Goodyear, AZ
We saw a very strange object with two lights on each far in in the sky last night that flew in a circular pattern for about 20-30 minutes and the object would be horizontal one minute then vertical the next as the two lights would stay in perfect sync on each end and the two lights would get closer together at times and then go apart really really far and appear as if the object was growing to a size that was 4 times the size of a normal aircraft. It was also loud like an aircraft, but we couldn't see any body of the object or other lights besides the two lights on each end.
April 23, 2020 · 10:00 PM · FORMATION
Plain, WA
Camping out on Lake Wenatchee, we were stargazing when we saw a line of lights appear from outside of the stars facing South-East just after 10 pm, left of Venus. The cascade of lights was nearly eight inches long from our perspective. The line of lights then quickly faded from both sides into the night, like the light was shining off of the edge of a disc. There were no sounds or following phenomenon. After looking up comets, meteor showers and anticipated reports of visuals in this area, we could not find evidence of this happening before.
April 23, 2020 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Ferndale, WA
Multiple lights flashing by on a straight line but multiple lines and very fast traveling only a short distance into nothing coming from nothing in the middle of the sky
April 23, 2020 · 9:25 PM · FORMATION
Valrico, FL
Clear beautiful night sky with less than a half moon. Bike riding with my kids and looked up. It literally stopped me in my tracks. A perfect row of formation lights in a line moving across the nights sky. By the time we stopped to look up they were already moving so Im not sure how many I missed but we did catch 10-15 lights. The last one in the row were two gliding next to each other. They were very high up.. They looked like stars on a string silently gliding across the sky in front of the moon. It was hands down the most mind blowing screen to witness especially when you see the videos online half believing them to actually seeing it for yourself. My son got it on Snapchat (of course) I tried to record it but I'm currently regretting my decision to keep my S8 phone.. As you can guess I barely was able to catch anything. I always tell my kids to look up and say "hi moon!" Now it has so much more meaning to us.
April 23, 2020 · 7:00 PM · CIGAR
Swedesboro, NJ
On this day and time as I was leaving work is when I saw a bright object in the sky. It was raining and the skies were grey with clouds and not much sunlight. It appeared to be cigar shaped,stationary and also very bright like glowing white. I looked around looking for the sun but no sun for this thing to reflect any light from. As I kept driving to get onto the highway for two seconds the object went behind the treeline and just disappeared. I was on the phone with my fiancé and I told her what I saw right away.
April 23, 2020 · 6:45 PM · OTHER
Santa Maria, CA
I have a picture of a craft that almost caused the driver to wreck.
April 23, 2020 · 12:00 PM · CHANGING
Memphis, TN
Have been having strange occurrences with humans as well
April 23, 2020 · 11:45 AM · FORMATION
Lee, NH
While walking outside with my wife I noticed what I thought was helicopter drone. At first, I thought the lights were rotors. However, they were not stationary. It was a long gray cigar with 2 thin bright white cylindrical objects similar to a florescent light moving with it. So, I deduced that it was a KC-135 Tanker with two fighter jets. I attempted to put wings on it and count engines, it had none. The whole time I am trying to make sense of what i was seeing the “fighter jets” were moving very quickly and erratically all over and around this thing. I was only able to observe it for about ten seconds as it was moving very fast with no contrail like all the other planes had at the time.
April 23, 2020 · 3:00 AM · OVAL
Las Vegas, NV
I was driving up lakes mead towards the lake as I was turning around I looked out in the distance I just could not believe what I was looking at no planes or a drone could do the turns and how fast they would go I got kinda spooked hopped back in the car and headed home told my wife about it and she looked at me like ya rite .
April 23, 2020 · 1:35 AM · TRIANGLE
Cypress, CA
Ring app captures unique cloud formations then triangular lighted object followed by what appears to be a disc shaped object.
April 23, 2020 · 1:00 AM · OTHER
Great Barrington, MA
I was lying in bed at 1am when I saw what looked like a reflection of two street lights on my window. I kept looking closer because I had never seen these lights from my window before, despite the fact I’ve looked out this window for 25 years of my life. I didn’t want to pay too much attention, but after looking at it for ten minutes and looking through several different windows to make sure it wasn’t something on my glass pane, I realized it was a flying object. My windows were kind of foggy but it looked like a giant metal Platform in the sky with two huge lights which slightly Illuminated it I’m the night sky. What shook me was how it stayed perfectly still mid air hovering in the sky. Even though this was obviously a massive space craft, it did not show any effects of gravity in the sky. It stayed hovering at a couple hundred feet from 1am-4am. When I looked again at 6am, the spacecraft was gone. It might sound stupid, but I didn’t take a picture because I thought it might attract unwanted attention from whatever was up there at the moment.
April 23, 2020 · 1:00 AM · LIGHT
Pawtucket, RI
Pawtucket RI/Attleboro MA line. Two lights one being bright moving very slowly along tree line. To the NE closer prox drone w/ light
April 22, 2020 · 11:15 PM · TRIANGLE
Modesto, CA
My husband and I were out stargazing during the meteor shower. We saw a triangular craft flying south to north. It had three lights that were dim. One on each point in a triangle shape, or it was three aircraft flying at the exact same rate of speed in a triangular formation. It was flying much faster than the average airplane and it made no noise. It was very dark against the night sky. My husband suspects it was some kind of military aircraft. It was so dark that it was hard to notice at all. It almost looked like a shadow going across the sky.
April 22, 2020 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Pocomoke City, MD
Tonight it was the usual ball of light that dimmed and brightened on and off then disappeared. Last week myself and my wife witnessed a red triangle that hovered above the tree line then slowly desended beyond sight. Ive lived in this area my entire life, Ive witnessed several different types of craft in flight, i have alot of questions with no one to ask, things to tell with no one to listen. I have children that have seen some of these things.
April 22, 2020 · 10:30 PM · CIRCLE
Newport Beach, CA
Then Sunday and Monday it was around Torrance beach and hermosa beach. Then last night when I check the camera At Surfline app. Today at Wednesday April 29 202012:08 AM It was now at Venice beach where the bioluminescent is. When I saw it it was flying weird up and down slow and fast most of the time it was still just floating around. There was a electric zingling kinda of sound never heard it before. It was a very bright yellow light.
April 22, 2020 · 10:00 PM · OTHER
Albany, OR
Went outside to smoke and seen six lights trailing eachother,then banishes then 10 seconds later appeared a little more to the right of me and the same six were trailing what looked like a disc or plane following them.Then vanished.
April 22, 2020 · 10:00 PM · CHEVRON
Clifton Springs, NY
On the clear, star-lit evening of April 22nd, 2020, I observed an unidentifiable aircraft while I went outside to feed my horses at exactly 22:00. Because my home is near two mid-sized airports (30 miles and 62 miles, respectively), there is a high volume of air traffic in the night sky I am familiar with identifying. This one was different. It was similar in shape to a typical regional commercial jet (~70-seater), but had a much wider cylindrical barrel with wider wings which had a sharper angle in reference to the rear of the aircraft. It had MANY continuously-shining yellow lights on the ventral surface, moreso on the left side than the right, and specifically had one brighter light towards the left side. The front end of the aircraft did have some red lights on both the right and left sides, but not on the wings. What confused me was the fact that it did not have the usual red blinking lights one would normally see a plane in the night sky use. Nor did it have any blinking lights at all. Usually a normal plane flying this low would even have visible lights on the perimeter of the wings, but these lights were illogically scattered with different levels of intensity. Even weirder, it barely made any noise in reference to how low it was flying. Had there been cloud cover, this aircraft would have been flying below the clouds, and there was barely audible detection of any air moving whatsoever. To put this in perspective, it was flying in an East-West direction in what appeared to be an ascent, and was flying very low in my northern horizon. Making sure I wasn’t crazy after the aircraft had passed out of my sight in the western direction, I gazed off in my southern horizon as well as directly above me, and as always, there were normal-looking commercial jets flying in the distance at much higher altitudes than this one, blinking lights and all. The sky was so clear, I even saw an orbiting satellite without any difficulty. Even when a plane is descending to land at either airport, they NEVER fly as low as this aircraft. There aren’t even airstrips near me that are equipped for this size of an aircraft to be flying that low, the closest one is 30 miles away. There were no helicopters flying in the sky at the time of the sighting. Because this is in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have certainly had more helicopters and fewer planes than normal. Also, we have had significantly less road traffic, and I even believe there is slightly less light pollution because of the quarantine orders. Because of these factors, there is less room for visual and aural error. I was just astonished to see something so asymmetrical, low-flying, and silent.
April 22, 2020 · 8:50 PM · LIGHT
Ricetown, KY
Blinking lights, 7 or 8, bright green in color and of moderate intensity seen beginning at dark, in forest, at tree line and in my back yard. (This is a forested area.) Slightly cool evening, 63°f,no precipitation, 31% humidity. Lights observed flying at various heights and when moving, parallel to ground. Please note this is the 5th consecutive year I have seen these lights, they come in Mid April and have been seen multiple times before "leaving" in June. I have made several reports w/ NUFORC over these years. No noise from lights and I can't see more of them to report a better description.
April 22, 2020 · 10:00 AM · CIRCLE
Compton, CA
Circular object floating on top of my apartment complex in the middle it was spinning really quick then it disappeared
April 22, 2020 · 8:58 AM · CIGAR
Greer, SC
I was on my way to work when I witnessed a small white dot in the sky moving from west to northwest. I didn’t pay much attention thinking it was an airplane. Suddenly it got moved my direction so much that I noticed it was a white cylinder. Then suddenly it change to a gray metallic cylinder, and then it vanished. It didn’t shoot off in any direction. It just disappeared in a blink of an eye. It was as if it was cloaking itself. I stopped my car to look around for anything in the sky, but there was nothing. It is a perfect clear day with no clouds in the sky. I can’t explain what I witnessed today.