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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 10, 2019 · 9:00 AM · CIRCLE
Columbus, OH
Outside, I thought a house security light went off in my peripheral, and as I turned to look, I found that the light came from overhead. In the sky, there was an incredibly bright, white, spherical light, and as I got a good look at it, I reasoned out that it was not a helicopter (Believe me, I wanted to think it was simply a helicopter with its lights on.) Just as I spoke up to get my father to look, the light minimized until it was a pinprick in the sky, and moved away so quickly that I could not follow it.
October 10, 2019 · 7:00 AM · OTHER
Jersey City, NJ
Thought it was a helicopter because shape was so odd, like spherical, so as we walked closer, my son and I noticed that it had a big light Or beam in the middle, and it wasn't moving, just flashing brightly, standing still. Then it suddenly just disappeared. Just like that.
October 10, 2019 · 5:45 AM · SPHERE
Clarksville, TN
On the morning of October 10th, at approximately 545, while sitting on my front porch, just north of Tiny Town Rd., I saw a small spherical object of light, at a height of approximately 1,000 feet. This object illuminated a very bright white light and sped away in a North/Northeastern direction, at an alarming speed. There was no vapor trail, and no sound, only a narrow band of light behind the object as it sped away. It did not exit the Earth’s atmosphere, but rather disappeared with another bright illumination, as if it were exiting our dimension. This is the second sighting that I have witnessed from this exact location. The first was in September of 2019, but was not reported, as the September sighting was only witnessed by anyone other than myself. Observers are an Active Duty Service Member with 11 years of service, and Service Member Spouse.
October 9, 2019 · 11:30 PM · CIGAR
Las Cruces, NM
I was looking at the moon about 23:30 hours on October, 09, 2019 when I observed a large black shape quickly shoot past from my left to right through the lens. I was using a Twinstar F500mm scope with a 6 in mirror and a 25mm lens with a barlow attached. The moon almost filled my whole view when all of a sudden and without any lights I could see and no noise, a black pencil shaped object swooped across the screen from left to right. Through my lens it appeared to be 1/16 of an inch thick and about 1 inch long. It happened so fast, very fast. It was alone that I could see and appeared to be slightly thicker toward the tail end. There was no noise. I continued to follow the moon for another 15 minutes with no other sightings. It was not a bird, airplane, or any other object known to me. It was not visible to the naked eye because I looked in the sky after I saw it.
October 9, 2019 · 10:50 PM · UNKNOWN
Kennesaw, GA
All surrounding neighborhoods (based on "chatting" input online while it was happening) heard this monotonous sound that encompassed the sky from no certain direction. The pitch remained the same, and volume fluctuated very little (loud). middle tone for the entire time. After approx. 15 min, it stopped. It was dark outside with just a few stars. Looking up, I couldn't see anything, but my full view was blocked by trees and I was uneasy, so I went back inside.
October 9, 2019 · 10:00 PM · CHANGING
Dayton, OH
I went out on our back patio at approx 10:00 pm on 10/9/19 to smoke. As I was sitting there, I noticed a bright light in the NE sky. I started watching it because of how bright it was and because the lights weren't horizontal in the sky but vertical. Over the course of the next 45 minutes, I watched this object which never deviated more than a couple of degrees from its position. It seemed to be a cylindrical object with lights that made it look like it was glittering. The lights would change from red to green to blue and, whenever I would see an obvious airplane in the sky near it, the lights would change to a bright white. Once the aircraft was beyond a certain range, it would go back to the r/g/b rotation. After approx 30 minutes, the shape of the craft changed to a tiny pinpoint of light which made me think that it had suddenly taken off but, to my surprise, after about 20 seconds it reappeared the same as it had been before. This happened several times over the next 10 minutes. I finally had to go inside so don't know how long this object was in the sky. Did not take any photos as all I had was my cell phone and I knew with it being night and the distance to the object, it would pretty much be useless to try to capture what I was seeing.
October 9, 2019 · 10:00 PM · OTHER
Huttonsville, WV
I was laying in bed my wife said there's a drone outside. The light went straight in the air. We saw about 5 blinking lights. Come from over a near mountain. We saw 2 in the left of room window. My wife called her mom that lives less than a mile she confirmed she saw lights. I then looked through a rifle scope. At one it had two yellowish lights on each end and a alternating blinking white and red light in the middle. It changed directions several times. I viewed another one much farther away in the scope it appeared to be a spinning ball with 3 to 4 blinking lights.
October 9, 2019 · 9:45 PM · LIGHT
Honaker, VA
While travelling SW on Finney Road (Rt 620) near tail end of Big A Mountain about 1.2 miles from Route 80; two white lights appeared just beyond top of Mountain through tree tops moving south to north, lights (seemed to be ~100ft in diameter each) were circular and appeared to be several hundred feet apart. As we were driving we went out of sight of the lights and they were gone off to north when we topped mountain and were able to scan the sky for them.
October 9, 2019 · 9:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Pittsburgh, PA
On the night of October 9th 2019 at 21:00 EST, I witnessed a UFO at the Northland Public Library (300 Cumberland Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15237). The sky was clear and the moon was out (past full moon stage). I have frequented this library day and evening for the past 20 years and I’m familiar with the typical lights present at night. As I was walking to my car from the closed library, I noticed two lights at about 45° approaching from the Eastward direction travelling Westward. The lights were separated a little less than 3° ; the top light was white while the bottom one was a red blinking light. I wondered if they were stationary or moving so I got into my car and used the oil change reminder sticker on my inside windshield to measure; yes they were moving slowly and moving in together at the same speed. I got out of the car to observe and try to take a picture/video. After a minute, this slowly travelling object showed its profile to me; it was a triangular! -shaped UFO with lights (portal lights?) highlighting the whole shape of the UFO a total of about 1° width. The edges were not sharp, they were curved. After it passed, I hurried and drove to an adjacent church where I could get a better view. From this vantage point, I saw it calmly proceed in the Westward direction toward the horizon.
October 9, 2019 · 9:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Albuquerque, NM
Aircraft very fast moving shaped more bow like than triangle near Albuquerque Sunport. Faint lights on exterior, no sound. Moving significantly faster than any airlines or fighter jets I’ve seen in the area. Standing in the Sunport viewing area, aircraft flew eastward and disappeared over mountains. One other witness, plus myself experienced this sighting. Albuquerque Sunport has been a hotspot of sorts, as myself and others have occasionally, witnessed similar phenomenon.
October 9, 2019 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Portland, OR
I was walking home from work and as I turned on to my street- facing south- I looked in the sky and saw three orbs hovering in an upside down triangular formation. They didn't look too big which leads me to believe they were farther away, but they were still pretty bright which was peculiar. I snapped a couple of pictures before I called my friend to come take a look, and by the time they came down, the orb on the top left had moved towards the east and faded. Then as we were discussing the disappearance, the orb at the bottom of the triangle suddenly disappeared. A neighbor walking down the street walked by and saw the two lights before the second one disappeared.
October 9, 2019 · 8:45 PM · SPHERE
Woodville, TX
Seen a low flying bright sphere that was traveling in a West to East direction. We initially thought it was a low flying plane, but there was no sound and no lights that blinked. The way it flew was a floating type and changed direction to southeast. The sphere seem to watch us as we fallowed it behind a tree, it turned red and disappeared. There was some satellites and planes in the area that did not compare to what we seen. Strange object and seemed aware we were watching it as it seem to watch us.
October 9, 2019 · 8:40 PM · SPHERE
Fort Worth, TX
While taking my trash out, a bright orb caught my eye. As I watched it started moving side to side. Then started moving straight forward at a higher rate of speed. As it got further in distance it turned red for a few seconds then disappeared. Movements unlike any aircraft I have ever seen.
October 9, 2019 · 8:30 PM · OVAL
McLean, VA
Very bright white light, oval-shaped (width longer then height only about 8" x 16")), object with a bit of blue on periphery, zoomed horizontally from East to West approximately 50 feet above ground level. I was on the phone on my backyard deck. (Told person I was talking to that I think I just saw a UFO. Yard is clear then tall, mostly dense trees. Yard is about 135 ft. This object was very bright and it seemed as though it was stationery at first and then zoomed to the left / West.
October 9, 2019 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Woodbury, NJ
Walking into my house from my vehicle. It is raining light, very cloudy, zero thunder or lighting! A blue light lit up on my glass, I turn around doing 180 degree turn in the EAST and the most incredible thing I've ever seen (as a skywatcher). My two dogs who were walking up with me, took off! NO SOUND, just a light! Lasted about approximately 8-10-seconds, no sound, no craft, just a HUGE long lasting blueish/green light. Lit up the entire east sky! I am in South Jersey. Incredible, never saw anything like this in my life. Oct. 10, 2019 approximately 19:00hrs. I've seen many things in my life, retired LEO. Anonymous report. We assume that "LEO" stands for law enforcement officer. PD
October 9, 2019 · 6:35 PM · CIRCLE
El Mirage, AZ
I walked around the house to the backyard to drop off my recycling to the larger container and after that I turned around when I saw a large round green object with a red and orange flame behind it cruising fast. Not a sound came from this object. The sight of this object was like it was in HD. I could see the outline of the shape perfectly. This object flew by with speeds that I have never seen. Then out of nowhere it just disappeared.
October 9, 2019 · 6:10 PM · CIRCLE
Roseville, CA
Saucer like UFO 6-7 lights horizontally laid out. Lights look like it was rotating from right to left. Watched it hovering over the Galleria Mall and started moving west towards Lincoln quickly.
October 9, 2019 · 6:00 PM · OTHER
Mooresville, NC
I was taking my dog out and I just by chance happened to see a bright flash in the sky. I looked up to see what I can only describe a “scrambler” ride from the fair spinning in circle like a top and every time it spun around the arm had some “meteor blue” lights on each arm that swung around.. It didn’t have a repeating movement it was very irractic, but it just moved slowly right across the sky.. so profound!!!!!
October 9, 2019 · 5:45 PM · LIGHT
Ontario, CA
I was driving eastbound on the 10 freeway through Ontario, California, between the Archibald Avenue and Haven Avenue off ramps. Off the right side of the freeway, I saw a streak of bright, white light suddenly appear and curve downward. I thought it was a shooting star, but then it instantly changed direction, flew up a bit and disappeared. The entire thing lasted about three or four seconds.
October 9, 2019 · 5:20 PM · FORMATION
Seattle, WA
ALMOST DIRECTLY OVERHEAD IN LATE AFTERNOON CLEAR SKY CONDITIONS WE OBSERVED AN EQUILATERAL TRIANGLE OF DIMLY VISIBLE LIGHTS AND A SIMILAR SINGLE LIGHT SOME DISTANCE AWAY FROM IT. THE OBJECTS WERE MOVING SLOWLY ON A SOUTHWEST TO NORTHEAST TRACK. THE SINGLE LIGHT VANISHED FIRST. THE THREE-LIGHT TRIANGLE REMAINED VISIBLE FOR A MINUTE OR SO LONGER, CONTINUING ITS NORTHEASTERLY DRIFT BEFORE VANISHING IN THE SAME WAY THE FIRST ONE HAD. BY THIS I MEAN IT JUST WENT OUT AS THOUGH AN "OFF" SWITCH HAD BEEN THROWN. THIS EVENT OCCURRED AT THAT THE EXACT TIME THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION WAS PASSING OVER SEATTLE BUT THE APPARENT MOTION OF THE OBJECTS WAS NOT NEARLY THE SAME AS THAT OF THE ISS WHICH MOVES FROM THE NORTHWEST TO THE SOUTHEAST. THE ISS WAS NOT VISIBLE TO US ON THAT PASS DUE TO THE DAYLIGHT BUT I DID SEE IT ON ITS NEXT PASS TO THE WEST BECAUSE IT WAS DARK BY THEN.
October 9, 2019 · 4:19 PM · CIGAR
Southpark, CO
Flying from DIA to LAS, noticed cigar shaped craft stationary, then moving rapidly and stopping repeatedly
October 9, 2019 · 10:43 AM · UNKNOWN
Greenville, SC
Saw a "star" that looked odd, then a few seconds later another star came in from the right at a high rate of speed then slowed as it approached the first one. Moments later another one came in the the left in the same manner. They appeared to spin around each other then just faded away. Too far away it seems to make out anything more. They looked like the ISS does when it's over head. From my place they were west of Greenville.
October 9, 2019 · 9:15 AM · CIGAR
Sahuarita, AZ
Extremely reflective tic-tac shaped object flying south to north. Yawing left to right like a compass needle.
October 9, 2019 · 7:15 AM · UNKNOWN
South Bend, IN
I'm not sure it was anything special but it's the most unexplainable thing I've seen. I was standing outside sipping coffee with some co workers and it's a little dark out, before the sun came up. Suddenly there was this really bright flash streak in a woosh shape. Like it came close but sling shot itself the other way. And the only thing left in the sky were the lights of an airplane flying in the distance. We are relatively close to an airport at my work so we see airplane lights all the time, but this was just ridiculous.