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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 12, 2020 · 1:00 AM · FORMATION
St. Marys, KS
The formation of lights in the sky was moving i. An add fashion and accompanied by these noises as if it were producing very loud sound waves.
February 11, 2020 · 8:30 PM · LIGHT
Tomah, WI
Just over horizon looking east saw huge yellow star like light then on second later second light appeared horizontal to first then one second later a third then all three were lined up horizontally then one second later they vanished
February 11, 2020 · 7:30 PM · SPHERE
Janesville, WI
I was driving south on Harmony Town Hall road between Rotamer and Wilcox roads approximately 3 miles northeast of Janesville, Wisconsin. The sky was dark and clear, visibility was unlimited and the stars were shining brightly. My wife and I both noticed two groups of bright lights in the sky which appeared to be similar to aircraft flying in formation. The unusual thing was the color, all 5 objects were round and solid orange in color. I am a pilot and very familiar with aircraft lighting, there were no visible navigation lights (red or green) nor any white strobe lights. I pulled over to the side and stopped near the Wilcox road intersection. Despite the temperature being around 20 degrees (F) we opened the front seat windows and moon roof window to reduce internal light reflection in order to see clearly. One group of 3 lights was at our 2 o’clock position moving to the left (eastbound). The other group of 2 lights were at our 1 o’clock position moving in the same direction. At arm’s length I probably would relate all of the lights size to that of a BB that was bright orange. The two orange lights at our 1 o’clock position maneuvered unlike any flight formation would. The trailing light, which was to the right following the lead light, sped up and appeared to either pass through or around the other and it became the lead light still heading east. As they continued eastbound, the lights dimmed until they disappeared. The following group of three, continued moving east and two of the three lights dimmed in intensity and disappeared, leaving one light visible which by now was just about over the top of our ! van. With the moon roof open, we could not hear any sound from the light. As it passed over, it accelerated to an incredible speed and disappeared towards the east horizon in a matter of two or three seconds. I could not guess what the exact altitude might have been of any of the objects, but my guess would be based on the angle in relation to the horizon when we first noticed them, I would say maybe around 3,000 feet. The distance that last one covered would probably have taken a commercial airliner at altitude probably 5 minutes or more to cover. I am a licensed private pilot and worked for 4 years as an air traffic control specialist (tower) at one time. I since have retired from many years in manufacturing management. I am very familiar with the different types of aircraft but have never seen anything like what I saw tonight. The other witness, my wife is a registered nurse.
February 11, 2020 · 7:30 PM · EGG
San Francisco, CA
I was out running[in S.F.] some errands and was walking towards a local supermarket to get some food and then head home. As I was walking down this street, I saw in the corner of my eye and up in the sky, what seemed to be quite a large or circle. It was way larger than a star and at 1st, I thought of the possibility of it being the planet Venus, since it does come close to our planet around this time and is visible, however out of curiosity I decided to sit there and observe it and the 1st odd thing I noticed was how it had some sort of glowing iridescence from its upper right side. As I kept watching, I noticed these weird "spikes" came out of it and they would pop in out of it. The color of these spikes was like light colored except for some spikes that were yellowish. I saw a passenger plane fly underneath it, although in reference, it was obvious that this UFO was at a much higher altitude. I pulled out my phone-camera and held it in my hands so that it be completely still and as I was doing this, from my eyesight(which is 20/20), this thing seemed stationary, yet when applied the infinite zoom on my phone, this thing came on my screen that was whizzing around in circles...it was very odd. I was right the grocery store and went and finished my shopping and when I came out the grocery it was still there but had moved a little to the northwest. I dropped off my groceries and tried to relax from a weird excitement I felt and decided to go back out see if I could spot it again. I went up a couple blocks and looked up and at 1st I saw a constellation of stars and then to the left of those stars I saw this thing again with those weird spikes and you could see how much bigger it looked in reference to the stars nearby, except this time, it was mobile and was circling in weave type patterns.
February 11, 2020 · 7:20 PM · RECTANGLE
Red Granite, WI
Saw a rectangular shape craft with many lights hovering towards wild rose wi. The car in front of me slowed down I think they saw it too. The craft simply faded away.
February 11, 2020 · 6:05 AM · LIGHT
Boise, ID
A straight line formation of lights spaced evenly apart. Spacing was approximately 2-3 seconds. Direction of travel was northeast. Appeared just as a satellite would, as a pinpoint of light and at the same speed across the sky. I lost count at more than 12 as the lights continued to appear, move across the sky and disappear at distance above the northeast horizon. No flashing and no color as you would expect of navigation lights. Light intensity was constant as you would expect from reflective sunlight.
February 11, 2020 · 6:00 AM · SPHERE
Snow Hill, NC
Out looking at the moon with friend, sun rises in East faint glow of daylight, full moon beginning to set west, few high level clouds but faint, looked up at moon and noticed, a row of high speed objects in very upper atmosphere or low orbit, appeared as dots, or about like stars, moving at a very high rate of speed spaced almost identically apart first 6 crossed entire sky in less than 30 secs, next row of lights flowed in same direction but not in the same line. First thought it was satellite but the sheer number and closeness together and speed was not like satellites I've seen before.
February 10, 2020 · 10:07 PM · OTHER
Puyallup, WA
An orange glowing orb falling from the sky, gave off an uneasy feeling of being watched. My one cat ran out of the room as soon as she saw the orb
February 10, 2020 · 10:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Clearlake, CA
Last night my husband and I stepped onto the porch for a cigarette, I believe it was sometime between 9-10pm. I saw a bright flash and then a light blazing across the sky, it looked like what I would assume a meteor breaking into Earth's atmosphere looks like. I saw another small shooting star very close in proximity to the light stream. At this point I assumed it was a meteor or something and continued our conversation. As we were discussing the moon's position and the gravitational pull, we gazed up and saw a very bright light, much brighter than any star, moving up and down and it did a small circle. It appeared to move closer to earth, then it would go further away. It was moving considerable distance, extremely visible when comparing to location of surrounding stars. My husband ran off the porch, I followed. He noticed a formation of 5 lights, in a triangle shape over to the east side of the sky. Each light seemed to be moving independently, moving very little, but maintaining formation. We turned our attention back to the singular bright light, as it appeared to change from it's original blue color to a flash of red, shooting small bits of light from it. On the western horizon, two crafts appeared, flashing very quickly and brightly. They flew together at the same speed(which was extremely fast), then slowed, and again flew very quickly. These two flew directly in the path of the singular craft, then crossed the sky to the second formation of crafts. At this point I became uneasy, realizing that there was an army of crafts flying above us, and unsure of their intentions. I went inside and begged my husband to follow. We were both in shock and trying to process what we just witnessed. When I came in I looked at the clock and found that nearly 3 hours had passed by, feeling like minutes. A few minutes later he stepped back out, and called for me to come. The singular light had now traversed almost completely across the horizon, and was sinking low, right around Mt. Konocti. It was unbelievable. I have been searching for other reports of this activity, as it was extremely visible and bright on a clear calm night.
February 10, 2020 · 9:24 PM · LIGHT
Calaveras County, CA
My husband was driving and I was the only passenger in the front seat, coming from Columbia, CA on Parrotts Ferry Road toward Hwy 4. We were midway there, when suddenly, just above the treetops we both gasped as we saw a bright light in an imperfect circle shape rapidly ascending north into the sky, and then gone, as if it was “swallowed up” by the sky. This is a cloudless night, with a nearly full moon shining brightly to the east of us. No object outline was discerned, just the very bright white light. It was extremely difficult to get a sense of the actual size given treetops obscuring any prior view of it, but it was large enough to absolutely grab our attention from the road and our conversation to look upward! It was maybe a third of the size of the moon in the sky... It had no tail, there was only one, and we both agree that it in no way resembled a shooting star (especially since it was moving in an upward direction and so large...the vision was al! most like a flashlight beam, only of course much larger and did not have a center point of light surrounded by a gradient of diffuse light; it was a solid bright white light. There were no smaller lights, no other colors, nothing that resembled airplane lights or helicopter lights in anyway and the direction of its movement was nothing either of us had ever seen before. From our vantage point (vs the horizon, which we could not visualize) it ascended at an angle, 30 degrees perhaps, upwards then disappearing at the same circumference as first visualized, as opposed to becoming smaller as would be expected with an object travelling away from us.
February 10, 2020 · 8:30 PM · FIREBALL
Red Lodge, MT
Object appeared suddenly looking West over Grizzly peak. Looked like a super bright star flashing red and blue light. Object stayed stationary flashing for 5min then vanished. No other stars were visible tonight. Looked at it through binoculars and looked like a burning star.
February 10, 2020 · 8:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Epping, NH
Noticed a bright orange star near the moon, the light became 2 lights as it came closer, then a 3rd light appeared in back, it then floated silently over head going west at approximately the same altitude as a helicopter would fly. It had 3 circular domes on the bottom of the vessel with flashing beams of light spot lighting the ground underneath as it was moving.
February 10, 2020 · 8:00 PM · SPHERE
Shoreline, WA
Watch a large stationary craft for about one hour. It would get brighter then dimmer. It appeared to have lights around it changing colors, mostly yellow and white then all blue at one point. A smaller orb light appeared under and to the right of the large object it moved quickly up and down then left. An airplane flew a ways under the craft. The airplane was lower and was tiny compared to the other object. An hour later another triangle shaped craft appeared farther away. It had 3 distinct lights on the back. Have pic, not high quality. Have photos and vids. Not that good of quality, but do show the object.
February 10, 2020 · 6:42 PM · OVAL
La Grange, IL
I was looking for the moon I saw the moon but to my right I saw this object with pulsing lights but wasn't moving. Then I turned my head to look at the ambulance going by. I looked up again it moved to it's right about 1/2 mile it just sat there for at least 35 to 40 minutes.
February 10, 2020 · 5:51 PM · CHANGING
El Dorado Hills, CA
I took several shots, and noticed a faint line on the sky, like a vapor path of a high speed plane, so I decided to zoom in. I took a picture and made a GIF file (rapid succession of 20 images). Upon reviewing the photographs, I noticed something strange--several objects appearing and dissapearing alomg the vapor path that is also strange as it is single and not double as those left by military jets. My friend was with me at the time of making these photos, using my Galaxy Note 8 phone.
February 10, 2020 · 10:00 AM · DISK
Oreana, IL
A lady wrote a letter to editor of our local paper describing a siting which to me is of a UFO. I am providing the text of the letter is below. I will email the scan of the newspaper. LETTER: What kind of bird was that? • Jun 23, 2020 A few weeks before spring I took my dogs outside mid morning. I always check the sky for hawks because I know that my 3.5 pound Yorkies would be a full meal deal. The sky was very blue with no clouds. East of our home are woods with trees between 50 to 70 feet high. There were no leaves on any of the trees. Approximately I'm guessing 50 feet above trees a circle of silver caught my eyes. My first thought was it had to be birds even though I'd never seen birds fly that high. Also the birds appeared to be touching each other to form a circle. They appeared to be going south but moving very slow. In a matter of seconds they turned and disappeared going north. No sooner had they made this move but appeared again going south. They didn't seem to be moving forward. the next second they turned north again. I waited for them to reappear, but they didn't. I've had a lot of time to think about what I saw. I would have written sooner but I didn't want to bother anyone. Much more important news was being reported. I am writing to you in hopes you'll print this and that someone else saw what I have described and have the same questions or answers. If birds, what kind? If not, birds what?
February 10, 2020 · 7:30 AM · RECTANGLE
Wisconsin Dells, WI
Flashing lights that faded then came back. Stayed in place. Seemed to be more than one light, and rectangle. In comparison to other stars looked out of place in the sky.
February 10, 2020 · 7:05 AM · SPHERE
Rockville, MD
While sitting in morning traffic on highway 270 southbound right passed the Wooten parkway overpass I looked up to the left and noticed a bright orange orb/sphere to the East between college park and Baltimore approx. 5,000-10,000ft in altitude. At first I thought it was the moon with a orange illumination, but I was to small and to bright. That morning it was a heavy drizzle, so I thought I was stopped under a bright lamp and the beads of water on windshield was causing a refraction of light. I rolled my window down and looked with my eyes and saw a a bright orb just in one spot not moving as far as I can tell for about 2-3 minutes. Then, like a light switch, it moved slightly then just sped off, but faster than I’ve ever seen.
February 10, 2020 · 6:07 AM · LIGHT
Ventura, CA
Saw lights quickly go into cloud, about 3 single file, then behind them several started coming in one by one quickly...we waited for the lights to continue through the cloud and sky,...but not one came out! Clear skies all around,.. cloud hasn't moved.
February 10, 2020 · 5:30 AM · LIGHT
Airway Heights, WA
I went downstairs an was looking out the glass door when I saw 3 lights lined up moving the same speed across the sky. The another, and another.... I woke my son to come and watch. They kept coming only further apart for 20 min. As if leaving.
February 10, 2020 · 5:30 AM · FORMATION
Temecula, CA
8 lights in a straight line, evenly spaced traveling SW to NE. Brightlness and speed about same a satelites
February 10, 2020 · 5:29 AM · LIGHT
Raleigh, NC
It was 5:29 am and I looked up at the night sky. I saw one white dot moving across the sky. It was moving very fast. It stayed solid and then flickered a little bit. It then turned back solid. Another object moved right behind it at the same speed. There were about ten objects in one line moving at the same speed to the same place. There was no line connecting them. There was then a break in the objects and a less bright light came slower from another direction following them. Then more of the bright objects came by. T his was repeated about 4-5 times. They were all white and very bright. They looked like stars or satellites. However, I could not make out a distinct shape.
February 10, 2020 · 12:30 AM · TRIANGLE
Meridian, ID
Seen floating in the same spot one bright white light with flashing green and red lights in a triangle shape. Seems to slowly fade away as if going very quickly directly away from me in the sky. About 30 seconds after fading away and becoming unseeable, it reappears again on the almost complete opposite side of the sky but this time about three times higher up from the ground, but instead of hovering in place it starts slowly moving slightly down to the left until it disappeared behind the roof of the house out of my window. What makes things weirder is when I told my family member about it the next day they told me they kept having horrifying nightmares about aliens and waking up in a cold sweat, terrified to go back to sleep. Planning on getting cameras to put in both of our rooms to try and capture more proof of extraterrestrials while we are asleep.
February 9, 2020 · 8:14 PM · LIGHT
Lake Havasu City, AZ
Was sitting next to an open window when noticed BRIGHT red (2) and pink (2) lights overhead and low, no more than twice the height of our 5 story building and making NO NOISE. The four lights were clustered together and moving slowly Southwesterly. After a few seconds and realizing this was not normal, ran into the Living Room and had wife open balcony door and we stepped outside where SHE then saw the lights as well. I pointed out there was no noise and we watched the lights move out over Lake Havasu and disappear. I commented that if it was a gliding plane we would see a crash as it was not high enough to clear the mountains on the CA side of the lake....no crash and we never saw the lights again. About 15 seconds of viewing, one needed to be either directly under the lights or within 1/4 to 1/2 mile to see the globular source and at a very low altitude. No noise to attract others' attention that may have had doors or windows open as well that 70F night. Three total (so far) reports of lights in the sky that eve with the local police dept.