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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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January 7, 2020 · 6:53 AM · CIRCLE
AL
Report was received from a pilot who was climbing to altitude. He reported seeing a string of approximately 12 white lights approximately 30 miles southeast of Talladega, Alabama. He estimated the altitude to be near 35,000 feet. The lights were visible for less than a minute and disappeared. The air traffic control facility did not have any aircraft in that area.
January 7, 2020 · 6:27 AM · UNKNOWN
Marshall, WI
I was feeding my cat outside at 0627 on Tuesday, 07Jan2020 when I noticed a bright "star" in the sky above my head. The light looked a lot like Venus in that it was a brilliant white, steady light. But it was in the wrong location for Venus at that time of day, which made me look closer. Upon closer examination I quickly noticed that the light was moving from West to East and in front of the bright white light was another dimmer light which was also a steady white light. I witnessed the two lights (dim in front, bright white in back) move at a fairly rapid speed (faster than I've observed airplanes overhead at my house) head East. The strange thing is the two lights were not blinking at all and moved at the exact same speed, equidistant and parallel to each other at a seemingly steady rate, in a seemingly straight course West to East. At this point I yelled for my husband to come and see. He witnessed it as well and told me to stop talking. When I did, we noticed there was no sound at all associated with the object's movement. The lights passed over our house and I grabbed my binoculars and headed outside to the driveway which faces East. There I witnessed the lights continue their Eastbound journey. Because it was dark it was difficult to see an outline of the object. I got the impression the object was long and black or reflective. I could not discern a third light which might make the object look more triangle-shaped. Extending my hand in front of me at approximately a 125 degree angle from my body, I was able to measure the "distance" between the two lights as slightly wider than the width of my hand at the base of my fingers, which is 4.5 inches. The distance between the two light never changed and the light never flickered. The front light was about the same brilliance as a normal star bu! t the light in the back was far brighter than any other light in the sky. I watched the two lights for a total of approximately 90 seconds. Never did I hear a sound of a plane or any other noise that could be remotely associated with the lights. As the lights continued their journey to the East, I just walked back inside. My husband was already back inside at this point. This seems odd because now looking back, I was really enthralled by the sighting, why would I leave before the object left my view or vanished? I don't remember why I went inside before the object left my view. I just remember being preoccupied with where the lens covers for the binoculars fell. Once I found those on the ground, I went inside without looking back. Another odd thing was my dog did not try to go outside during the event. Which is strange because he usually tries to go outside with me every time I open the door. Adding to this, it was his normal morning walk time. I came out approximately 10 minutes later (0640) to walk my dog and the lights were no longer visible. The sun was starting to come up and I could see the sky was overcast towards the West but the sky above me and to the East was clear.
January 7, 2020 · 6:25 AM · FORMATION
Wahiawa, HI
The white lights were steady. 50 of them in an exact line. One behind the other. They were spaced closely together at random except the last three who were spaced farther and more evenly. They moved about the speed of a commercial airliner at cruising altitude. They frew south and took about a minute or so to disappear into the horizon.
January 7, 2020 · 6:20 AM · CIGAR
Wahiawa, HI
Around 0620 a line of lights was seen moving across the sky moving from North to South of oahu. The lights did not move independent of each other but looked like it was either in a tight formation or all part of a single object. They lights moved until no longer seen behind clouds. There is video evidence.
January 7, 2020 · 6:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Liberty, TX
I witnessed a vertical arrangement of lights in the south-eastern sky. The lights had the color, size, & shape of stars. When I first saw them, they were approximately 60 degrees from the horizon in a stationary position. There were 5-10 lights in the formation comprising an arc of no more than 10 degrees from top to bottom. As I took out my phone to take video, they started to move. The movement appeared to be a dropping motion toward the ground. As I continued to observe, the lights appeared to dim and move a little closer to one another. This led me to believe the object, instead of moving downward, was probably moving away at a very high rate of speed. They maintained their vertical alignment while moving and were gone from sight in less than 30 seconds. My video unfortunately was too dark to make out any of the lights.
January 7, 2020 · 6:00 AM · OTHER
League City, TX
It was bright line of light. You would think it was a shooting stat but it wasn’t moving just hovering. It was a large line that stayed in place for a long time. I took a video of it and it doesn’t do it justice but definitely noticeable. It was in between a cluster of stars so I know it was far and within the stars.
January 7, 2020 · 5:57 AM · CIGAR
Abilene, TX
It was up and down about an inch long that slowly fell. I took a photo of it.
January 7, 2020 · 5:55 AM · OTHER
Helotes, TX
Straight line of lights, possibly 8 to 10, connected, moving east, south east very slow, no sound .
January 7, 2020 · 5:55 AM · OTHER
Comfort, TX
Saw a row of lights in a slanted line. Thought it was Maybe a glare on the window. Rolled my window down and it was still there. It moved slowly away and disappeared. Wasn't in a rush. Just kind of drifted away.
January 7, 2020 · 5:52 AM · FORMATION
SAN ANTONIO, TX
My husband was outside of our garage, I was about to step out into the garage. He told me to hurry up and look while pointing at the sky. It was early, the sky was still black, and clear except a few translucent, small clouds,and in that immediate area, not too many faint stars. There was a linear formation, perfectly straight,perfectly spaced, white blue lights traveling, maybe 10 to 15 lights in a row. They were not blinking at all. As I tried to record it with my phone, it started to go behind a small,transparent cloud. We thought I would be able to record it as soon as the front part, or leading lights passed to the other side, but it never did. It just seemed to disappear. I don't know if it was our eyes, but we thought we could still see it, no longer moving, but extremely dimmed, in the cloud.... didn't see it again. This is the third time I have seen strange lights, but the first time in a linear formation...and all three times, I feel, "IT" seems to sense it is being noticed, so it disappears.
January 7, 2020 · 5:52 AM · FORMATION
Sugar Land, TX
We were working out with a group of people outside and we all looked up and saw the unidentified objects above in a straight line above us going from north to south we were around the highway 6 and highway 59 area. We all saw it and couldn’t believe what we were looking at. It was a cluster of flying objects but in a straight line but in a weird way looked like it was together kind of like a snake of lights in the sky. All moving in formation.
January 7, 2020 · 5:52 AM · LIGHT
Live Oak, TX
At 5:52 AM I got into my car and noticed what I thought was a glare on my windshield. It was really being then directly after I got out of my am at and saw a bright string of lights directly over my neighbor's house. It was long and very bright. Like super charged LED lights in a string. I ran and called my husband to look and it was gone. Then I noticed it just about disappearing into the sky and was able to catch photos of it before it just disappeared. It was hovering over my neighbors house then took off at a high rate of speed and was gone in about 10 seconds.
January 7, 2020 · 5:51 AM · FORMATION
San Marcos, TX
1/7/2020 @5:51am while leaving for work, I noticed in the sky moving southward i saw a trail of bright lights moving together. There wasn't any sound and after a minute, the lights disappeared at the same time. I posted a question of facebook whether anyone else had seen these lights. So far no explanation from anyone.
January 7, 2020 · 5:50 AM · LIGHT
San antonio, TX
I was on my way to drop my son off in Pleasanton, Tx for work, when I looked up and saw a diagonal line / with several lights going in a straight line, almost looking like the side of a disk , but I cant be certain because how straight the line was, I though at first it was a firework about to go off, then noticed it was getting bigger as if it were coming closer, I then leaned forward and my son asked what was a looking at, I still thought I was seeing a shooting star maybe, then noticed it was not going anywhere, I yelled for him to look as I grabbed his arm, he looked and was as stunned as I was, I said what is that??! He was freaking out, then as I tried to take out my camera we saw it fade to the east of us!!!! I have no reason to lie , I have no reason to make this up, we are now believers of something is out there!! I am SHOOK!!!!!
January 7, 2020 · 5:50 AM · FORMATION
Dickinson, TX
Before dawn, January 7, 2020 approximately 5:50 AM, I was getting our morning paper from the front lawn and noticed a vertical column of very bright lights south of Dickinson, Texas. It moved slowly, upward and towards the southern horizon. By the time I went into the house to get my camera and came back it was gone, less than 2-3 minutes. There seemed to be an associated telepathic message: “We come in peace, warning of the hazards of nuclear conflict on earth. An unintended consequence is that nuclear explosions tear the fabric of the universe and have universal impacts”.
January 7, 2020 · 5:50 AM · OVAL
Vicksburg, MS
Multiple lights around the ring of the craft and about the size of the entire hospital campus in Warren county, descended near the Hwy 61 north area and casually proceeded towards the Utica and Edwards,Ms. area.
January 7, 2020 · 5:50 AM · LIGHT
Crowley, LA
I witnessed a group of 12 stars, in a straight line, in the southeastern sky of Crowley, Louisiana at 5:50am, on January 7, 2020. An airplane was flying east to west across the line of stars. They were not moving. They slowly faded away. I'm 66 years old an a fan of the space program as I have seem everything from Sputnik till today, I am somewhat knowledgeable of astronomy, and have never seen anything like it as an eyewitness or in any form of media. They were larger than the space station appears, they last for about 10 minutes, then faded away. If they were satellites, someone would have had to align them perfectly. They were as big or bigger than the biggest star or planet in the sky. Have pics.
January 7, 2020 · 5:50 AM · FORMATION
Mc Gregor, TX
Witnessed a string of lights one bright in the middle with about 7 in front and seven trailing . Traveling from northwest to a south eastern direction a straight line heading. They appeared to be in the upper atmosphere . Witnessed event for about 3 minutes till object faded into the horizon.
January 7, 2020 · 5:50 AM · TRIANGLE
Athens, NY
Me and a friend woke up to go get breakfast and were walking down to the store. I look up to see a ball of light which at first glance looked like a star, but I noticed that it was moving, along with another dimmer ball of light adjacent to the brighter one. One was an even dimmer, barely noticeable if you weren't looking at it. It was either low flying or very large in size, it was too dark out to really tell. The triangular shape object disappeared shortly after we spotted it. It moved at a slow rate, almost like a drifting.
January 7, 2020 · 5:45 AM · FORMATION
Orange County, CA
Lights in straight line formation, moving slow but fading away real fast.
January 7, 2020 · 5:45 AM · CIGAR
Murfreesboro, TN
This morning at about 5:45 AM CST I observed a very long and thin object with no apparent wingspan or lights. I am in the central Tennessee area. This object appeared to not be going very fast. It came from the Northeast heading Southwest. It was difficult to determine its altitude but seemed to be at the normal cruising height for commercial aircraft, but could have been higher. When I say that this thing was long, I mean extremely long. If a commercial jet would have been flying next to it, it would have taken 30-40 of them nose to tail to even come close to its length. I have seen no reports from others on this and was just wondering if anyone might have seen it or something like it at other times. I believe the only reason it was noticeable to me was because the sun had not come up yet but the object was capturing the sun because of its altitude and giving off a reflection to make it visible from the ground. It took about 2-3 minutes to cross from the Northernmost point of my visibility to the southeasternmost point of visibility. Never seen anything like it in my life. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
January 7, 2020 · 5:45 AM · CYLINDER
Fair Oaks Ranch, TX
Driving to San Antonio from Boerne in the dark early this morning, my wife and I both saw a "hair-pin of bright lights" -- perhaps 25 or 30 white lights lined up perfectly. My wife said, "It's like a diamond hair pin." I looked up and thought it not any aircraft I could imagine (e.g. a massive military plane perhaps). Does a B-52 have that many lights on its wings? Maybe so. It appeared to sit in one place in the sky for a short while, and the clear brightness of this row of lights reminded me of the comet Hale Bopp, which looked absolutely stationary in the night sky but was of course moving through space at an incredible speed. That's how I "took" the sight once I knew it was no ordinary airplane. In a way, it was quite beautiful and bright. That's what it reminded me of but it was like a string of vanity lights -- straight as an arrow. I first told me wife, "Maybe a meteor shower," which it might have been:! But the line of lights turned into a more vertical position to the ground, then instantly the lights got smaller (still lined up stiff as a pin), as if going away and great distance suddenly crossed; then it was gone. It was very strange and "other-worldly." Couldn't believe our eyes. What was it? I don't report things like this. This was the strangest and most interesting phenomenon I've ever seen in the sky.
January 7, 2020 · 5:45 AM · FORMATION
Hazen, AR
Early morning, I walked outside and looked up to observe the stars (per usual to my morning routine) I was looking south and I saw what I thought at first glance was a shooting star. I focused and saw a straight line of lights. I could tell they were spinning because the light on one end would fade out as the lights on the other end would brighten and I could see it turning. I watched it move across the sky for about 5 minutes and it moved further into the distance until I could not see it anymore. I went to work and learned another person witnessed the same encounter in the south sky.
January 7, 2020 · 5:35 AM · FORMATION
Hico, TX
I awoke at 5:30 this morning & went outside to smoke & saw something I can’t explain. There was a string of lights slowly crossing the night sky. It was one light behind another in a line, possible 10-15 in a row. I went into the yard & watched it until it was out of sight. Living outside very rural Hico Texas, I’m able to see planes & even satellites, this was neither of them. It was high in the sky but below a plane I saw crossing from west to east. When I came back in, I did a search for UFO string of lights and was able to find a pic of what I saw. The pic was from a game camera in Archer City & was exactly what I saw.