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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
February 22, 2020 · 8:00 PM · OVAL
West Monroe, LA
Witness 10-12 lights in stairstep fashion hovering over west Monroe (good Hope area). After a few minutes the lights faded, but you could see the objects break off and fly away. Maybe some mild humming heard. we called the airport and they denied any helicopter or aircraft at that time.
February 22, 2020 · 7:30 PM · LIGHT
La Mesa, CA
Traveling home from dinner with my family. Noticed a bright blueish light off to the west. Looked to be a helicopter but did not have any flashing lights. Stayed same elevation and location. Looked at my wife to make sure she saw the same thing. She looked and watched it blink then disappeared.
February 22, 2020 · 7:22 PM · CHEVRON
Douglasville, GA
I saw a light. Too big and bright for a star. Too low to be a star. A plane went by lower so I could see it was hovering but moving slightly. I watched for 20min and could make out distinct lights on the arms like a drone. Only it was too large to be a drone. It was big like the plane.I took video it just looks like a bright light.
February 22, 2020 · 7:00 PM
St. Petersburg, FL
For months now, on several evenings I’ve noticed from the balcony, in what I guess is the same spot every night to the west of us, a bright light in the sky. Looks just like a star in its shape and color- round and twinkling, or small planet except it isn't there every night- also, like an airplane but it sits there stationary for hours. Then when I go out later, around 10, 11pm or so, it’s gone. I didn’t think anything of it (I’m a rational type writing it off as a drone or helicopter or sedentary plane of some kind, I'm sure it is) until one night I saw it move off suddenly to the north and thought, Oh. That’s weird. Is that a UFO? Tonight it was here from about 7PM throughout the evening until I saw it had moved its location (also stationary) a bit farther north and at roughly the same height by about 9PM and was gone when I checked in again at about 11PM. I do have video of it tonight in two different positions. My boyfriend can corroborate all this. I'm starting a log of tims and positions I see it. I just haven't paid enough attention to check in on it consistently other than to know it appears randomly in the evenings in the same spot and leaves before the time i go to sleep.
February 22, 2020 · 6:10 PM · LIGHT
Upper Chichester, PA
As we were driving down Chichester Avenue, Pennsylvania, I looked up and noticed three red blinking lights in the sky, forming a triangle. We pulled over to watch it, and noticed it was hovering. After a few minutes of watching, one light at a time slowly faded away until all three lights disappeared. There were no sounds coming from it.
February 22, 2020 · 1:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Smyrna, GA
Saw a fixed light in broad daylight that looked like a star above Dobbins Airforce Base in Marietta. However, it looked like it was reflecting light in the sunlight. It did not move. It was extremely bright and reflective, very high in the sky. Upon watching the video it looks like a bright star with other crafts going in and out of it. There are dots that circle it, go in it, and things moving around it. It seems too bright to be a daytime star. After watching it for 30 minutes, I went inside, and when I came back out I could not find it again. Possibly lights were circling it, or it was the camera picking up the reflection of the object. I have a video of this event and can provide it.
February 22, 2020 · 8:30 AM · TRIANGLE
Terre Haute, IN
United State Navy QM. I saw a cloaked flying triangle over my city gliding along making no sound. It was massive in size!! Close to an aircraft carrier. It had rounded edges at the top and bottom the middle section was recessed in. It was coming from the south and head north then it made a course change to NE. I believe it was a lot bigger that a Carrie. I was having time grasping the sure size of it and believing what I was seeing. I was looking at the Pleiades constellation when it caught my eye. It was cloaked but had like a slight shimmer. It was like it was projecting the stars on its hull. The best I can say it made me think of the cloaking you see in a predator movie. The dogs in the neighborhood were going completely nuts. I believe the shimmer I was seeing was the moonlight some how reflecting. Also why this was going on clouds started moving in almost like they were part of it. Trying to keep it hidden. I have seen a lot in the sky but this one by far was the craziest.
February 22, 2020 · 4:50 AM · LIGHT
Rochester, WA
The first lights were seen in the north east sky near the lacerta constellation. Only two of them to start but after that at regular intervals more appeared from seemingly nowhere. All in a straight direct line going north east at a regular pace. There were no sounds or flashing lights. They all had the same or similar point of origin in the sky. I had stopped to count them and by the time i had to leave or be late I had counted at least 27 and there were more showing up. Once I got in the road and checked the similar area in the sky they seemed to have stopped appearing and the ones that were there had disappeared. I am not sure if they went over the horizon as I had homes and trees blocking move of my horizontal view.
February 22, 2020 · 3:14 AM · LIGHT
Shakopee, MN
I was driving and the road I was driving down didn't have much light, there was no one on the road behind me or coming towards me. I look up in the sky and see an undefined roundish shape in the sky. Yellow/ white light, I could have sworn I saw some green and blue in the colors. It presented itself in the sky for 5 seconds and then it left, there was a light streak in the sky for a second after it disappeared.
February 22, 2020 · 1:47 AM · LIGHT
Chazy Lake, NY
On a cold windy winter night, I was driving on Route 374 by Chazy Lake heading west. I saw a bright white light at the far end of the lake. At first, I thought someone put up a bright street light. As I continued west, I could see it better and by the time I was by the bay at the end of the lake (toward Lyon Mt.) I saw it close up. It was a huge white light sitting a few hundred feet in the air over the shoreline and not just bright but SCARY bright! I slowed down to get a good look and became very scared because of how close it was and how big and frighteningly bright! It didn't move at all – and I didn’t notice any sound either (of course I stayed inside my car). I would say it was probably about 500 feet away and at least a couple hundred feet in the air. It was just so unbelievably BRIGHT! I was very scared and took off and kept checking my mirrors to see if it had moved from the lake to the road behind me. It was definitely NOT: an airplane, helicopter, Chinese lantern, balloon, planet, or the moon. If someone could take something the size of a car (guessing only), turn it into the brightest whitest light you've ever seen, and prop it up 200-300 feet in the air over the shoreline at the end of the bay where no one lives, then I'd say it was that. I travel by the lake frequently and never saw anything like that before.
February 22, 2020 · 1:45 AM · LIGHT
Edgartown, MA
My husband and I were in bed and the stars were very bright through a transom window. I first saw a really cool meteor that was the largest I'd ever seen. From my view it was baseball size and was heading toward the Atlantic Ocean. Shortly after I noticed a star that was moving around like it was a bug. I asked my husband if he saw the odd star that was moving around. He saw it too. It was very weird so I got out binoculars. Through the binoculars it was 3 lights moving around erratically. The lights were doing loops and squiggles and leaving trails of light in their paths. This went on nonstop. I am 56 and my husband is 59. We are college graduates and own a small business. We were totally sober and just trying to fall asleep.
February 22, 2020 · 12:00 AM · CIGAR
Twin Falls, ID
Around 4:30 AM I stood at my kitchen window looking to the north west sky and observed what appeared to be an airplane heading toward twin falls Idaho. Odd thing was the object was stationary with a spread of lights of multi color.v It was wide and had multi colored lights. It looked to be hovering in the distance. I went outside to be sure of what I was seeing and sure enough it was. After a few minutes I realized it was moving very slowly to the East. I woke my son and he observed it in the distance as well. To rule it out as being a star I observed it continue to slowly move while the background stars remained stationary. I continued to observe as the object slowly moved East until I lost sight of it. It was clearly some typ of craft illuminated.
February 22, 2020 · 12:00 AM · CIRCLE
Hixson, TN
While arriving home we saw a large bright light above our home. It was huge, swaying side to side. We watched it for a while. We saw greenish lights around the object. No sound at all. It changed shapes a couple times and would become brighter. Then it just completely disappeared. We took photos and video..
February 21, 2020 · 11:50 PM · DISK
Snohomish, WA
I saw white lights hovering and moving around at least 8 times today. Looking at them with a naked eye they just looked like white lights. With binoculars I could see a saucer shape with white and red lights. Too big to be a drone. I also saw them yesterday.
February 21, 2020 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
San Diego (Palomar Mountains), CA
i was up on Palomar mountain with my wife and we where doing some late night photography of light trails of the planes coming in and out of San Diego county when we saw a real bright flash we thot it was a shooting star but then the light dimed and where it was was a bright light just siting there and occasionally it flashed then it would go dark and it moved almost over head and flashed agen but it had travail from one spot to the next so fast there was no sound and it was to high and to fast to be a plane it stayed in that one spot for the next 2 min not moving and it would flash some times with 3 lights there was no color just the white light then just as fast as it was there it was gone about 30 sec later we both saw what looked like a shooting star cross the sky and it had started where we had last seen the light
February 21, 2020 · 9:30 PM
St. Charles, MO
On Friday night I was driving to my friends house and noticed 5 orange balls in the air just over the tree line roughly 5-8 miles away from me. I stopped my car and took one picture but by the time I could get my phone out 2 of the orange lights had disappeared. There was a bit of a glare from the windshield so I ran up the street to get a better view and took a second picture. By the time I had taken the second the balls had shifted position. I immediately got back in the car and raced to my front ends house which was only about 2 minutes or less away from where I took the pictures. As soon as I got to his house we ran upstairs and got onto his roof and there was nothing to be seen in the direction I saw them in (at this spot we were above the tree line so they would have been more visible). I was unable to see any shape or an exact altitude of the objects but if I had to estimate i would guess they were around 5-6 thousand feet above the ground. Upo! n looking at the pictures later I also noticed a rapidly buzzing gray spec that I could not see in the sky before but showed up on camera when I look at the live picture.
February 21, 2020 · 9:00 PM · CIRCLE
Summerville, GA
Bright light in the sky got my attention. Was very bright and too low to be a star. Watched a small plane fly above it. With binoculars it looked like a circle of lights, kind of spinning or moving around in all directions, pulsating maybe....was hard to tell. Like how a jellyfish propels itself...looked like that! But without the binoculars it looked still. I took some photos, but just shows the bright dot. I quit watching after about and hour and when I came back out it was gone.
February 21, 2020 · 8:00 PM · CIRCLE
New York, NY
Steady well lit symetrical circle of lights
February 21, 2020 · 7:50 PM · CROSS
Portland, OR
I was sitting on my porch with my partner when a ball of light started moving towards the right side of the sky. At first it was slow and the light was bright white, beams of the same color seemed to come out of it through the back. It kept moving to the right, stopped, and then started moving towards the left before disappearing from our sight. It came back suddenly, it looked very similar to a star, but then the light suddenly faded into a blue/greenish hue - it quickly circled out, leaving a trail, and disappeared from our sight.
February 21, 2020 · 7:47 PM · CIRCLE
McKinney, TX
Around 7:45pm CT I went to my back yard to let out my moms dog. When looking to the west over my back fence I noticed a strange bright light. It was significantly brighter than other stars in the sky and was not moving like an airplane. It was the only strange object that I noted. Other lights in the sky appeared to me normal stars and an airplane. I have video of it along with with it zoomed in. I also tried to get video of other stars to show the contrast and have a second video where there is a plane in the sky and I then show this strange light. When zoomed in it appears to be a circle that appears to be spinning. But I recorded it on an apple iPhone 8 Plus. I then went out about 3 hours later and took a quick video to show that the light is no longer present. After my initial video I didn’t stay and watch it. So I do not know exactly when it disappeared but it was gone 3 hours later and I have a short video to show that. I also have some pictures as well as the 2 videos noted.
February 21, 2020 · 7:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Tifton, GA
Saw a large flash of light (two beside each other) that became larger as if it were headlights of an aircraft about to land in the interstate) but it quickly went away. There was a red flashing light that appeared to be the aircraft that quickly let off another light that looked the same (more visible and looked like a large spark). The craft then quickly went to its right then quickly turned and went south. Sharply turned. We saw a very bright light (like a bright star) shortly afterwards in the same direction that just disappeared.
February 21, 2020 · 7:30 PM · CIRCLE
Rochester, NY
I live in a corner apartment on the 7th floor of a high-rise in the center of the city with a 180 view did not see the object appear but noticed it in the NW sky at about 15-20 degrees off the horizon sat motionless from 8:15pm to 8:45 pm when it started moving in a northwesterly direction appearing to hug the northern U.S. border through my binoculars I could see it was round with very bright lights all around. It was out of sight in about 10 min. The object reappeared the next night at about 30 mile more westerly position
February 21, 2020 · 7:30 PM · OTHER
Scottsdale, AZ
I was traveling north on Hayden Rd. just after 7:30 pm on Friday, 21 February 2020 and making a right turn into the complex my mother lives in when I noticed what looked like a single engine plane banking down toward the intersection ahead of me. I stopped my truck just inside the driveway and watched out my open driver’s side window thinking I was about to witness a huge explosion. I was facing north and the thing(s) I witnessed were moving toward me and to the left, so southwest. It was already dark and all I could really see at first were lights. As I watched I realized there were two things happening: one looked to be a single engine plane turning down and left (so, eastward) and crashing in slow motion toward the intersection; the other thing looked to be the lights of a helicopter staying the original SW trajectory. The first object, as it was facing me during its turn, was visible only as (what looked like) the two FAA wingtip lights, except both were red. I could just barely make out a structure between the lights. It completed its turn and slowed in the air to almost a stop, pointing down at an angle toward the intersection. At this point I could make out a third red light behind the two, which showed me the angle. It wasn’t a completely side-on view, maybe ten degrees toward me. Suddenly the area between the two front lights looked like a bank of ten large flat screens, side by side, and they were alternating the purplish glow similar to a blacklight from the center out to the red lights at the tip, then back to center. I could count five pulses from center to tips, so I assume ten “screens”. It did this four or five times that I could count as it floated. The craft was barely moving forward at this point. It was pointing straight at the westbound traffic parked at the intersection and flashing this pattern in that type of blacklight that isn’t really visible straight on. I feel like I could only see the purplish glow because of the angle I was looking at it from. The second set of lights that looked like helicopter lights kept on coasting, and after that brief few seconds of purplish pulsing the first set of lights began to turn back toward me and rise. Then a car pulled into the drive behind me, almost hitting me, so I had to pull forward into the complex and park. I did this quickly and grabbed my binoculars (I use a crappy old tracfone, so I didn’t bother trying to get a picture with it). I stepped back toward Hayden Rd. and I could see the lights were already flying together again and had resumed the SW trajectory. I looked through my binoculars and I could see that the one set of lights was indeed a helicopter because there is so much ambient light from the ground below. The red lights that floated over the intersection were on what honestly looked like a huge flat triangular box, one on each corner. And it was moving flat side forward, counterintuitively for a flying triangular shape. After a few more seconds they were lost to the distance behind a big stand of palms. I got the impression that all three sides of this craft were the same kind of screens. And as it was floating over the intersection I was reminded of how a cuttlefish hunts, using pulsing color patterns to hypnotize prey. I asked the local community in many forums and face to face if anyone saw this and found nothing. I searched numerous times over the following months for some kind of advertisement craft that matched this and found nothing. It’s unidentified, but whatever it was it’s official SOMEWHERE because of that helicopter escort.
February 21, 2020 · 5:00 PM · CIGAR
Ann Arbor, MI
This was a bright, vertical, elliptically shaped “contrail” that didn’t move or dissipate. There was no visible craft in front of it. Analysis of the image should be made.