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December 21, 2019 · 8:30 PM · SPHERE
Greenville, SC
orange spheres in sky, moving in a line up and fading in sequence
December 21, 2019 · 7:50 PM · FORMATION
Kansas City, MO
Good evening, After some consideration, I have decided to report an incident that occurred on the night of 12/21/2019. I am a 737 Captain at a major US airline. In 21 years of flying with an air carrier I have never seen something that I couldn’t explain in one way or another. This event is my first exception. Unfortunately, my times and locations for this event are not exact. The First Officer (FO) and I were so taken with what was occurring, discussing what it might have been, that I did not note this information to the degree that I should have. I did take a screen shot of my computer flight plan later in the flight. Time and location have largely been rebuilt using this data and the mutual recollection of myself and the FO. We were about 2.3 hours in to our flight from JFK to SFO, cruising at 32,000 feet, Mach .79, on a magnetic course of approximately 270. The time was about 1950 central time (0150Z) and we were roughly 50-100 nautical miles north of Kansas City. The sky was very clear. The cockpit overhead light was turned off, but both the FO and I had our map lights on as we ate our crew meals. My point in describing this is to illustrate the moderate amount of light pollution within the cockpit rendering only the brighter stars visible. While eating dinner, I noticed 5 white lights in the night sky that I initially took to be stars. They were centered within a few degrees of the nose of our aircraft. These 5 “stars” were in an exact diagonal line at approximately a 30 degree angle of tilt relative to the horizon. I would say their distance apart was about the same as the spacing in Orion’s belt. They were approximately 10 to 15 degrees above the horizon. The lowest “star” was on the left, and the highest was on the right. When first observed, they were all the same “medium” relative intensity to other stars. They had zero relative motion with respect to the other stars in the area. What struck me was the linear nature of their formation. I decided to have a look at my iPad star chart after I finished eating and continued to watch the 5 lights. After about 5 minutes, my FO commented, “Do you see those 5 stars out there?”. The comment was unsolicited. It had struck her as peculiar too. We agreed that we had never seen that star formation in the sky. We put our food away, turned off our interior lights and began watching intently for the next 15 to 20 minutes. During that time period, the light in the middle of the row of five flared twice to a very bright intensity. I would liken it to an Iridium flare. The remaining four did not change in intensity. Towards the end of the time period, the two pairs of lights on either side of the center light quickly faded and were no longer visible. Approximately 10-20 seconds after the outer pairs of lights faded, the center light flared slightly and began moving diagonally up and to the right in our field of view at about a 30 degree angle. It moved at about half of the pace normally observed when viewing the ISS. The movement lasted for less than 10 seconds before it also faded! in intensity until no longer visible. This final light faded in a way similar to when a satellite enters the Earth’s shadow and no longer reflects light in the direction of the observer. That was the end of it. Not too flashy, and certainly no threat of ever going down in history as significant. I just felt compelled to share the experience since it was so out of the ordinary for me. The FO and I discussed various hypotheses about the lights in the aftermath. There is no way it was an aircraft. The extended period of zero relative motion to the background and unwavering uniformity of the formation rules it out unequivocally. It was not naturally occurring. The geometry of the formation indicates something man made, or other. My perception of the flaring indicates reflection of sunlight rather than a light bulb of some sort. These were not objects using aerodynamics. I believe they were in space, but did not behave like a craft in orbit unless that orbit was geosynchronous. There is probably a good explanation for this, but I have no idea what that explanation might be. I would very much appreciate any insight you may have based on your experience. I am hoping that perhaps you have a deeper knowledge regarding near Earth orbital operations being conducted that may explain what I saw. I’m also hoping someone else saw it and reported the same event. Thank you for your time.
December 21, 2019 · 7:30 PM · DIAMOND
Stevensville, MI
While walking the dog me and my wife witnessed a diamond object in the Verizon in a fixed position for around 40 minutes to an hour. The object slowly sunk into the Verizon app where we cannot see it anymore, it appeared to be hovering over Lake Michigan.
December 21, 2019 · 7:30 PM · DIAMOND
Stevensville, MI
While walking the dog me and my wife witnessed a diamond object in the Verizon (sic. Horizon) in a fixed position for around 40 minutes to an hour. The object slowly sunk into the Verizon app where we cannot see it anymore, it appeared to be hovering over Lake Michigan.
December 21, 2019 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
VA
Approx 7pm on Dec 21, 2019 i was outside and noticed what i thought was maybe a big meteor or similar object. It was very big and bright white colored light in the N.E direction of the sky. It was VERY clear since the moon was not visible. It was the only light in the entire sky at the angle we were seeing it from. It would hover, then move, hover & start moving again for quite a few minutes(5). Then it just suddenly just took off across the dark sky. My mother and I both witnessed this amazingly bright and odd acting "ufo". The moon is not visible tonight and it was about a 30% visibility in the sky but this light was extremely obvious. You couldn't miss this thing. Within the first 2 mins of this sighting we also saw 4 military planes heading(VERY close together)coming from the West heading to the N.E. direction this light originated from. The size MASSIVE & it was so noticeable in the sky it was strange. After about 5 mins watching the light pi! cked up speed and just simply zipped very quickly completely across the viewable sky. It was heading SW. We watched in total about 8-ish mins until it was no longer visible at our location. This was NOT the ISS, nor was it an aircraft we're familiar with. It would glid, then hover, then it would glid again,then hover...it repeated this for the majority of the time it was observed. The 4 airplanes we seen were making a very quick B-line to the NE sky. It was obvious they were together as well as they were heading to rd the same destination with clear hast. I've seen anomalies in the sky quite often lately but I've never witnessed something as massive or as obvious as this was. It was AMAZING. The lights were a bright white color, the shape was hard to make out but did seem like a sphere shape. There were no sounds from this object heard. It did actually have a aura around it, kind of similiar to a fog that faded out. The entire sphere was illuminated from our location. All o! ne color. The light did seem to brighten, then fade .... Then ! brighten and fade, it repeated this pattern until it quit hovering. When it would brighten the light would increase in size but the color remained the same. It was Unnatural lighting, anti gravity movements and impossible speed. It went from one end of the sky to the other within about 3 mins and was SO big and bright it IMMEDIATELY was noticeable and odd. It was drastically different and unusually bright from any the norm that anyone actually looking would have seen this with amazing ease!
December 21, 2019 · 7:00 PM · FORMATION
Sedalia, MO
Lights look to be flashing in straight line evenly spaced going northeast
December 21, 2019 · 7:00 PM · SPHERE
Indianapolis, IN
Just west of Jupiter an orb shot up and to the left. It was floating. Another one popped up and floated the same direction. This happen 6 times.They were never in the same location so it wasn't a repeat item. I ran in got my binoculars and spotted 12 more. I could follow the round orb across the sky with my binoculars. They were never in the same area nor the same angle of flight. I know what satelights are and these were not satelights. They were to big and to fast. They flew just above jupiter lower right to upper left. I ran in got my phone and tried to record a bunch more. I video taped for 20 minutes. I dont know if you can see them? The video isn't that good. It was amazing. Hair on my whole body stood up. Wow! Is all I can say
December 21, 2019 · 7:00 PM · CIRCLE
South Phoenix/Picacho Peak, AZ
We watched about 20 star/satellite type lights moving from West to East while camping at Picacho Peak State Park and facing North. They were in a formation pattern appearing one by one above us, traveling at the same speed and disappearing one by one to the east. There was no flashing light, had the brightness of stars and did not break their pattern.
December 21, 2019 · 7:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Colorado springs, CO
I noticed a line of stars in the sky .... Then noticed that they was moving east from the West the first one disappearing as another appeared behind the last. That happened 5-10 times before I had to start driving
December 21, 2019 · 6:43 PM · UNKNOWN
Valex, NM
I saw what first appeared to be a satellite, a small, star-like light moving, unblinking across the sky from W-N-W towards N-N-E . I noticed another one a hands-width away, and then another and another. We watched for approximately five minutes as the lights moved in sync, equidistant apart disappeared around the star Cyg in the constellation Cygnus.
December 21, 2019 · 6:35 PM · LIGHT
Revere, MO
Straight line of lights at varying intervals moving from South to North. Seemed to vanish above us and no sign of the lights continuing to the north. I counted 32 before I went inside. It's still happening.
December 21, 2019 · 6:30 PM · LIGHT
Albuquerque, NM
While enjoying our outdoor firepit, I first noticed 3 aircraft (no noise or typical aircraft strobes) travelling SW to NE in a steady straight path and evenly spaced. These lights weren't bright, their flight path was high. As each light reached a certain point, they would dim then disappear. This continued for 10-15 minutes. My entire family saw, we even showed the neighbor. Planes appeared to investigate.
December 21, 2019 · 6:30 PM · FIREBALL
Glassboro, NJ
While driving in our car on Delsea Dr. in Glassboro, my daughter and I saw a greenish/bluish burst of light horizontally traveled in the sky. It almost resembled an asteroid. It happened very quickly; within two blinks of an eye it had completely vanished into thin air. I called the police department, but they couldn’t explain what it may have been.
December 21, 2019 · 6:30 PM · FORMATION
Valle, AZ
Tonight, at approximately 1830 on December 21, 2019, we were walking across a parking lot at the Grand Canyon Inn in the town of Valle, north of Williams, Arizona. We looked up and saw what we thought was a satellite moving from west to east. Then we noticed another one behind it which we thought was odd. We kept watching and counted 14+ of these same objects, each with a steady non-flashing whitish light, evenly spaced and flying in a line behind each other. On the form above, I called it a formation since the dots of light were all flying in a line. LWe have no idea what to think of them. Any ideas?
December 21, 2019 · 6:30 PM · LIGHT
Roosevelt lake, AZ
I saw what appeared as lights moving in a straight line on a NNE flight pattern. The lights did not blink or waiver. They were even spaced and seemed to be at same speeds. These were not aircraft. No blinking lights and no sound.
December 21, 2019 · 6:00 PM · FORMATION
Gloucester City, NJ
I’m posting this because NOBODY on the internet, YouTube or even Snapchat stories in my area are NOT posting about what we saw and it’s driving my nuts. So I’m in the barbershop last night getting a cut. Halfway into it some barbers outside on their smoke break burst in the door yelling “Yo come out and look at the sky bro!!” So I’m in the chair with the smock on and I look in the sky and right over philly (philly is five miles from me just over the bridge) were these red lights floating out of the city. THEY WERE NOT DRONES. DRONES DONT FLY AS HIGH AS THESE WERE GOING. These bright red lights floated one by one into the highest point in the sky PASS THE CLOUDS. One by one they floated out of philly until there was about 25-30 of them hanging in the sky. THEN THESE LIGHTS FORMED A TRIANGLE AND DISAPPEARED!!!!! NOT A DRONE. People in other establishments in the area were outside recording on their phones and pedestrians stopped to stare and even cars on the r! oad stopped to stare..... YET NO ONE IS CONCERNED ABOUT THIS BUT ME. LIKE EVERYONE HAS PLAYED BLIND TO IT, MAN THAT WAS SCARY AND I CANT LET THAT GO. SOMEONE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE TELL ME YOU LIVE IN THE AREA AND SAW WHAT WE SAW.
December 21, 2019 · 9:30 AM · LIGHT
Port St. Lucie, FL
3 bright lights moving in a hovering slightly tilted direction. Seemingly moved backwards and then forward. It was quiet
December 21, 2019 · 9:01 AM · SPHERE
Greenville, SC
There were about 10 glowing orange orbs flying/floating in a single type formation. There was no sound. Then each one of them disappeared one at a type when they got to a certain spot in the sky, like the sky just swallowed them.
December 21, 2019 · 8:40 AM · TRIANGLE
Nicholasville, KY
Triangle craft hovered above local gas station,for approximately 3 minutes then slowly flew off toward Lexington
December 21, 2019 · 7:20 AM · OTHER
Helena, MT
At around 720 am I was driving, and saw a black mass trajecting into the atmosphere. It was not a jet stream as the stream was vertical. the object started higher in the atmosphere and the stream fanned out at the top, and as it fell closer to the ground from the atmosphere the stream grew smaller.
December 21, 2019 · 6:45 AM · LIGHT
Prescott Valley, AZ
They were lined up and traveling west to East. They were perfectly spaced apart and moving much faster than the other planes flying in the area . Just moving at perfect intervals in relation to each other.
December 21, 2019 · 6:20 AM · UNKNOWN
Wichita, KS
Saw a dot in the sky moving slowly with my brother. We watched it move from northwest to northeast. Thought it was a satellite until it started changing direction. We saw 2 flashes/sparks come off of/towards it. One red tinted one white tinted.
December 21, 2019 · 1:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Blue Springs, MO
Unidentified Object Flying over South Blue Springs Mo over Somerset Estates Subdivision near Leggett Road and 12th Street. Flying perfect circular pattern over 3 hours with no deviation off course. Object looked triangle shaped, small size, with solid red front light - 2 rear white lights and blinking rear red light. Sounds were as if a motor or engine. Called non-emergency Blue Springs Mo police dispatch at around 1:45 am to report and they said they had no reports or police drones in the area. Three adult witnesses. No nearby jet or airplane traffic - but saw occasional high altitude commercial jet traffic that looked and sounded completely different.
December 21, 2019 · 12:21 AM · LIGHT
Burlington, VT
very bright light, similar to a shooting star, but bigger and under the cloud cover. Shot toward northeast. Disappeared beyond buildings.