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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
October 12, 2019 · 7:28 AM · FLASH
Denver, CO
I saw what looked to be a shooting star, however it was too low to be one. It was probably flying at the same altitude as a plane maybe lower. It was a bright light with a blueish hue, that appeared then disappeared in a matter of seconds.
October 12, 2019 · 3:00 AM · CIRCLE
Springdale, AR
Bright white thing I saw. It was ther then it came back. Tried to call the reporting number and the guy thought o was a fake. It pissed me off cuz I wouldnt have reported it if it wasnt something that was credible. Anyways the damn thing came back as I was on the phone with the guy. The gentleman asked if n.v I got a picture of it and I actually tried to get a video of it. Ut wasnt successfully able to. Anyways I know what I saw. And this ins t joke. I would involve myself for no damn reason. I am too busy with work to even care about anything. But this. Is something you just dont ignore.
October 12, 2019 · 2:59 AM · UNKNOWN
North utica, NY
3rd night in a row two craft or whatever they are good distance apart sitting hovering changing colors in like.... cooperation with each other or idk like at the same time hovering over north Utica and Schuyler
October 11, 2019 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Los angeles, CA
Caught a bright light falling from the sky at around 22:00. It almost looked like a helicopter light, it was bright and traveling east to west. When all the sudden it literally fell from the sky. Couldn’t catch where it landed as it went behind a high rise towards the ocean. Possibly into the ocean? Near Santa Monica or south of there? It never reappeared so I can only assume it was heading towards the water. No sound. Couldn’t tell how close or far away, but there was cloud/smoke (from a wildfire farther north) coverage across all of Los Angeles and visibility was low. Could not see stars or moon due to it.
October 11, 2019 · 10:00 PM · OTHER
Mt. Shasta (near), CA
On or about October 11th, 2019 a small group of friends gathered around 9 pm to watch the nearly full moon rise above a forested ridge in the Trinity Mountains just west of Mt Shasta, CA. We had binoculars, warm jackets, Apple Cider (non alcoholic) and fresh baked apple and pumpkin pie. While we were watching the moon rise in a southeasterly direction, we were looking at some developing vapor trails from high altitude jets flying the routes up and down the heavily traveled west coast. While doing this we noticed a string of lights (no vapor trail) that seemed to be at a fairly low altitude and headed from north to south over the mountain range we were on. These lights were not very bright and seemed like they were attached to a structure of some sort that was very long and narrow but not linear, the lights seemed to be adjacent to each other or within a cubist framework. It seemed to be probably a hundred meters long and one or two wide, not knowing the exact altitude made it very difficult to judge its size. We could hear a faint sound like a small piston engine turning a prop, making me think it was a drone towing something. It must have been going 50 mph or so. There were no lights that we could see that looked like aircraft ID lights. We were at an elevation of about 5500’ overlooking Mt Shasta city to the East x northeast of us. Our first sighting was to the northwest at about 80 degrees, the angle decreasing to about 60 degrees as they got out of sight to the southwest of us.
October 11, 2019 · 9:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Knoxville, TN
I was driving on Kingston Pike near Cedar Bluff and saw a Triangular object hovering very close in sky with red and green bright lights. I saw it from a distance and thought it was a plane,but it caught my attention because it was hovering and it's shape was odd and was a perfect triangular shape
October 11, 2019 · 8:23 PM · OTHER
Buffalo, NY
Was standing in my back yard looking in the sky, saw a vapor trail rising up from the ground, pointed it out a friend ans we both watched it for a minute or two as it continued to gain altitude. At that point i decided to take a picture, during the time i was getting my phone ready to take a picture, the UFO had done a 180 degree loop and cut across it's vertical vapor trail and continued in an eastward direction... Afterwards when I looked at the photo you could very clearly see the object as a glowing Green orb.
October 11, 2019 · 8:05 PM · FIREBALL
Elkwood, VA
We were heading NE on HWY 15 approaching Elkwood, VA. My friend and I saw a doubled tailed object with bright lights and burning tails behind them. It looked like what I had seen before from an object entering the atmosphere, but I knew it wasn’t because it had two tails in sun. Then the object stopped going downward and swirled up and maneuvered down again and then side to side. We were driving and trees blocked our view for a few seconds but it came back into view over and over. It did not seem like any object that I know of. It seemed to get lower and lower going back and forth before disappearing altogether behind trees well off in the distance. We pulled over and are completely stumped. We looked on the map and Culpeper Regional Airport is close by but no plane or helicopter or drone or anything I can imagine flies up, down, side to side and has identical in sync burning tails such as this. Please let us know if you hear any other reports or have informa! tion on what this may be.
October 11, 2019 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Norwich, CT
Dark night sky had one area that was lit up pink, and then later on it was brilliant neon purple against the black sky. We took pictures and posted and several others saw it as well with no explanation of where the light was coming from. I could see from my front step and never saw it before this time and haven’t seen it again since.
October 11, 2019 · 8:00 PM · CIGAR
Phenix City, AL
Two large disc shaped bright solid objects were observed by 5 adults. They moved slowly and disappeared over the tree line. They appeared to be huge.
October 11, 2019 · 8:00 PM · CHANGING
Jefferson City, MO
There's been something passing over Jefferson City, Mo for 3 out of the last 4 nights (raining last night, couldn't get outside). It's been between 8-9 o'clock central time every night. It looks like a star at first but if you look at it for any period of time you can see flashing changing swirling colors (red,blue,white from a distance). There's no discernible shape. It hovers and moves almost imperceptibly over the city for about an hour until it's finally out of view. I don't have a great camera on my phone (same for hubby), but we have a telescope so we checked it out. He was able to get a good view of it in the telescope and he freaked out a little which is extremely out of character. He's skeptical of everything but this thing shook him up. He said it looked like images and colors imploding (swirling like worms) into eachother. I have 3 videos and 2 pictures from night 3, not great quality but who knows what cleaning it up might do. I didnt notice until I watched the videos this morning but when it is over a building with a large light, the light gets very very bright suddenly and stays that way for several seconds. On the second night, a helicopter circled it and flew away. I could see the helicopter directly behind it, just for some spacial perspective. The flashing thing is completely silent, the helicopter sounded like a helicopter. It's doesn't look huge but it's visible from miles away. If it's a drone it's like nothing I've ever seen. I noticed in the pictures to the upper left of the main (orb) object of focus are 3 round lights that first form a triangle and in the next picture are in a straight line. We were unable to see these with the naked eye. Also, if you magnify the object in the clearest photo, there appears to be 2 rectangular lights, the bottom light appears to be reflecting of what's directly below it.
October 11, 2019 · 8:00 PM · OVAL
Phoenix, AZ
i got out my car and looked north and they were flying from north to south towards south mountain i tried to catch a video with my phone but the glare from the street lights were to bright and when the glare went away they were to far for my phone camera to focus.all the dogs in my neighbor hood were barking really weird..there were super bright florecent kind of.
October 11, 2019 · 7:49 PM · LIGHT
Allen, TX
I was out watching for the ISS pass over, it was visible flying SW to SE, just when it was near the end of its pass I noticed something about 20 degrees behind following it, thought it might be a reflection or something until the light made a sharp turn to the north followed by another sharp turn to the west, it flew west incredibly fast and disappeared in seconds.
October 11, 2019 · 7:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Ponce de Leon, FL
I was looking out my back door window at the stars about 7:30 tonight. The sky was clear and moonless. I noticed a bright white light in the sky moving toward me from the south (from the direction of Eglin AFB). At first, I thought it might be a satellite, then I decided it was more likely an aircraft landing light and walked outside to get a better look. There are no airports close enough to my location that at pilot would find it necessary to turn on a landing light, so I’m thinking that maybe the pilot forgot to turn it off after takeoff. As is typical when seeing an aircraft approaching with the landing light on, the brightness of the white light overpowers the marker lights, with the exception of the strobes, but I didn't see any strobes or beacons, just the brilliant white light. I estimated the altitude to be between 5 & 10 thousand feet, traveling 200 knots or less as it passed by a couple of miles or less west of my observation point. My property is surrounded by trees 50 feet or higher, so, from my vantage point, my viewing angle of the craft was about 45 degrees, well above the tree tops. Unfortunately, my place is too close to I-10 and it was abnormally noisy tonight, so I was unable to hear the aircraft. But judging from the ambient noise level, I'd guess it wasn't prop driven. I could have heard a helicopter, and I think I could have heard props as well, but those new jet turbofan engines are really quiet, especially at the slower speed the aircraft was traveling. The first thing that struck me as odd as it grew closer and was positioned adjacent to me - the intensity of the bright white light remained the same, and did so until it went out of my sight continuing on its flight path northward. Obviously not a landing light. At least, I've never seen an omnidirectional, steady-burning bright white light on an aircraft. But it was close enough as it flew past that I could see four red lights well forward of the bright white light. Assuming an FAA standard aircraft navigation and anticollision light configuration, I should have been able to see a green marker light on the starboard (right) side of the aircraft, and either a white wingtip strobe, or a red or white strobe or flashing beacon on the lower fuselage, and a red or white strobe or flashing beacon on the upper fuselage or on the tip of the vertical stabilizer. There also should have been a smaller, white tail light as well. I should not have been able to see the solid red light, which is supposed to be displayed on the port (left) side of the aircraft. I didn’t see any beacons or strobes, red or white. However, I saw a steady-burning red light out in front (what I assumed was the tip of the nose of the aircraft), and three steady-burning red lights behind the forward red light. In the 60+ years that I have been aware of, and fascinated by, aircraft, I've never encountered a light configuration like this on an aircraft. And considering the non-standard light configuration, I was unable to determine the shape of the aircraft. I’ve been a private pilot since 1982, I was an avionics tech in the USAF for six years, a field engineer with a defense contractor on the USAF/Navy air combat training (ACMI/TACTS) ranges for nine years, and a Nav/Com/Weather technician for the FAA for 25 years. I retired from the FAA in 2014 and am currently working as a resident engineer for an FAA contractor.
October 11, 2019 · 7:30 PM · FIREBALL
Culpeper/Warrenton, VA
I was driving north approaching US 29 North, when I saw what looked like a large white meteor/fireball headed left (East) moving downwards. It then moved upwards to the right and then downwards again to the left, appearing as if it were going to crash. It moved upwards again and then I saw three fire stripes coming from either side. It then moved down for the final time and disappeared.
October 11, 2019 · 7:30 PM · FORMATION
Puyallup, WA
Driving north on Meridian from Graham, we saw three lights in a triangle formation above the horizon (puyallup area). One was brighter and a bit bigger than the other two. We kept track of them as long as we could until they left our view. As far as we know they didnt move. The bigger of the three did suddenly change and get dimmer about 7 minutes in to us keeping track of it.
October 11, 2019 · 4:00 PM · CYLINDER
Doylestown, PA
Around the time of the Bucks County, PA, flap, I had several UFO sightings. This was my 3rd sighting around that time. I was driving home from work and was heading towards Route 611 on Almshouse Rd. It was dark outside and I saw an enormous UFO. It looked like a 737 plane with its lights off and it was parked directly on top of a house. It looked like the UFO was attached to the roof of the house and the sky was blocked out in between the roof and the UFO. I looked in the rearview mirror as I passed it and it was still there. The house was in a development that was on a large hill surrounded by trees. I could see it from the driver's side window. Time seems to stop whenever I see the UFO's and there is no noise. The three sightings that I had in Bucks County were three different shapes. I seem to see UFO's when I'm driving alone. I hope other people in the area saw this UFO.
October 11, 2019 · 3:20 PM · FLASH
Chantilly, VA
A flash of light looking like very bright sunlight glint off an aircraft appeared in clear sky about 2000 feet up. I initially thought it was an airliner (Dulles Airport nearby) but it’s path was more east to west while normal path or airliners landing at Dulles is south to north. I was driving south and was wondering what aircraft would be flying in that direction (size of glint made me thing is was a low flying aircraft) and it just disappeared. There was no traffic so I slow my car scanning for whatever it was but it just vanished or at least I could no longer see any light refection off its surface. There was nothing tall enough in the vicinity I could attribute to causing this irregularly shaped bright light. This is second time I’ve seen a UFO in my life. The first time was I was in northern Wisconsin in the 1970s when I saw a stationary cigar shaped object very high in the sky. I could only see it that time because the sun was glinting of its metallic body. That one was huge and its shape was very distinct. Today’s phenomenon was very different as it was moving and had an irregular shaped, very bright light or reflection, long and narrow but not distinct and flying at a much lower altitude in the sky.
October 11, 2019 · 11:15 AM · FORMATION
Santa Clarita, CA
Watching the breaking new coverage of the Saddle Ridge fire in California. When the female reporter says, "You know, leaving at that time, at I think, it’s about 2:10, I have left my house in Santa Clarita, usually it takes..." the helicopter camera pans over to the left from the plane dropping water on the fire, you can then see a formation slowly floating above the hills to the right. At first glance it looks like a fully white sombrero wearing character. It's moving at a much slower pace than the plane. Then the footage quickly cuts away back to the reporter. I have no idea what else it could by with that shape.
October 11, 2019 · 9:30 AM · LIGHT
Batavia, OH
A light has been circling houses in Eastgate near Batavia Ohio
October 11, 2019 · 6:08 AM · CIRCLE
Greenville, NJ
5 lights staying static in the sky blinking different colors (red, white, green) the formation stayed steady.. I was rushing for work so, until the time i left.. the lights were still there i took around 5-6 videos and photos
October 11, 2019 · 3:00 AM · CIRCLE
Brownsville, TX
LOCATION OF SIGHTING WAS ON 10/11/2019 AT 3:00AM IN BROWNSVILLE TEXAS BETWEEN 12TH AND 13TH STREET IN EMPTY LOT. AS I WAS ASLEEP THE SOUND OF STRONG WINDS WOKE ME UP. I WAS THINKING IT WAS THE A/C COMPRESSOR GOING OUT OF ORDER AND MAKING LOUD NOISE. I WENT TO CHECK THE FRONT DOOR TO THE HOUSE TO CHECK A/C COMPRESSOR AND NOTHING. I WENT TO BACK DOOR FACING THE ALLEY AND SAW BRIGHT, STRONG LIGHT ALONG WITH STRONG WINDS GOING IN CIRCLES IN THE MIDDLE OF THE EMPTY LOT OF THE BACK OF OUR HOUSE. AS I OPEN THE DOOR IT WAS MORE SCARY TO SEE AND WITNESS A BRIGHT LIGHT AND WINDS WITH PRESSURE JUST GOING IN CIRCLES. IT WAS NO HELICOPTER. IT WAS A VERY BRIGHT ROUND OBJECT. AS I FAST CLOSE THE DOOR AND LOOKED THROUGH MY KITCHEN WINDOW WHICH WAS LESS THAN 5 SECONDS THE LIGHT STARTED TO DECREASE AS IT SHOWED HOW IT JUST WENT UP STRAIGHT UP INTO THE AIR. THE LIGHT WAS SO VERY BRIGHT AND NOISE WAS LOUD. I AM STILL IN SHOCK TO HAVE WITNESS THIS AND THINK PEOPLE WILL NOT BELIE! VE ME IF I WAS TO MAKE A REPORT TO POLICE. ALL I CAN SAY IS THAT I AM TELLING THE TRUTH AND NEED FOR SOMEONE TO COME AND CHECK THE SCENE FOR ANY KIND OF EVIDENCE. I AM EVEN AFRAID TO GO OUTSIDE. I BEG TO PLEASE DO AN INVESTIGATION REFERENCE TO THIS SERIOUS MATTER.
October 11, 2019 · 2:50 AM · UNKNOWN
Camden, NY
South East direction in sky blue, red, white flashing lights but in a stationary position. I have seen this numerous times and it does change its position. Has anyone else seen this. Some nights its closer then others.
October 11, 2019 · 1:44 AM · DIAMOND
Dallas, TX
2 Diamond shaped flying objects were flying back and forth shining red and gold lights making creaking sounds sometimes. There were LED lights on them.