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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 9, 2019 · 7:05 AM · FIREBALL
Inkster, MI
Me and a friend where at are bus stop and the she said to look at the stars the out of no where a fireball or some flow bye and the I blowup or something because there was a big flash and it was gone but there was no noise at all?
October 9, 2019 · 7:02 AM · LIGHT
Circleville, OH
White, star-like light that we assumed at first to be maybe an aircraft going really fast, but then it made a sudden sharp upward turn and then completely disappeared without a trace. No sound. I have never witnessed anything like that in my entire life.
October 9, 2019 · 7:00 AM · LIGHT
Hilliard, OH
I was standing outside facing the north and I saw a flash of white light in the east and it traveled west and then went back towards the east. The sun was rising but the sky was still black in west. It was light enough out at that point that you couldn't see any stars in the sky.
October 9, 2019 · 6:55 AM · LIGHT
Greenville, PA
I arrived at my construction job site at around 06:45. I dropped off my tools and opened the garage doors to get ready for the day. Since I had a few moments, I stepped outside to feel the morning air, I noticed a fairly bright "Star" to the West of the warehouse where I stood. The "Star" was larger than the average star on this early morning, it had a reddish orange hue, and flickered every so slightly. I assumed that it was Mars, just peeking out over the rooftops. I downloaded the Skymaps app last week, so I open the app expecting the object to be Mars. However, nothing celestial was in that vicinity, especially not something that bright. My second logical assumption was that it was an aircraft, or perhaps a satellite; however unusual, since the light was as bright as Mars typically is. I watched the object and was able to realize that it was in fact moving. However, it was behaving erratically. Up up up, to the right, wobble, up up up, to the right, wobble; ever so slightly. Perhaps it was a helicopter with a spotlight? Then my periphery, an easily identifiable airplane was also crossing the sky. Two blinking lights, white and red. Traveling toward the general area that the mysterious object occupied. I went back to watching the strange light, only for a few seconds more; in an instant it vanished. As the light suddenly cut out, in the exact same spot; a barely visible red light zipped to the right, much more horizontal than vertical. The speed in which this tiny red light moved was frightening at first glance, it reminded me of how one sees a meteorite zipping across the atmosphere before burning out. It moved so quickly and was so faint that I lost sight of it. Its hard to estimate the exact distance and direction of the object, but if I was to get as close as I could; From the horizon it was approximately 20 degrees vertical. On a 360 Degree compass, it was approximately 15 degrees clockwise of due West. I can't give an accurate estimation of distance seeing as it was only a light, but if I was to guess based on gut feeling, I would bet about 15 to 20 miles or so as the bird flies.
October 9, 2019 · 6:55 AM · LIGHT
Greenville, PA
(This story is re-posted about 10 minutes after the original, I wished to remain anonymous out of fear of, well anything really, but if NUFORC wishes to contact me, I dont see why not.) I arrived at my construction job site at around 06:45. I dropped off my tools and opened the garage doors to get ready for the day. Since I had a few moments, I stepped outside to feel the morning air, I noticed a fairly bright "Star" to the West of the warehouse where I stood. The "Star" was larger than the average star on this early morning, it had a reddish orange hue, and flickered every so slightly. I assumed that it was Mars, just peeking out over the rooftops. I downloaded the Skymaps app last week, so I open the app expecting the object to be Mars. However, nothing celestial was in that vicinity, especially not something that bright. My second logical assumption was that it was an aircraft, or perhaps a satellite; however unusual, since the light was as bright as Mars typically is. I watched the object and was able to realize that it was in fact moving. However, it was behaving erratically. Up up up, to the right, wobble, up up up, to the right, wobble; ever so slightly. Perhaps it was a helicopter with a spotlight? Then my periphery, an easily identifiable airplane was also crossing the sky. Two blinking lights, white and red. Traveling toward the general area that the mysterious object occupied. I went back to watching the strange light, only for a few seconds more; in an instant it vanished. As the light suddenly cut out, in the exact same spot; a barely visible red light zipped to the right, much more horizontal than vertical. The speed in which this tiny red light moved was frightening at first glance, it reminded me of how one sees a meteorite zipping across the atmosphere before burning out. It moved so quickly and was so faint that I lost sight of it. Its hard to estimate the exact distance and direction of the object, but if I was to get as close as I could; From the horizon it was approximately 20 degrees vertical. On a 360 Degree compass, it was approximately 15 degrees clockwise of due West. I can't give an accurate estimation of distance seeing as it was only a light, but if I was to guess based on gut feeling, I would bet about 15 to 20 miles or so as the bird flies
October 9, 2019 · 6:45 AM · LIGHT
Albuquerque, NM
October 9, 2019 This morning I was driving to an appointment I had at the VA Hospital in Albuquerque, NM. My wife and I moved to Albuquerque late last year. I saw a stationary, very, very bright white light above the Sandia Mountain range at approximately 6:45AM. It was difficult to look directly at the light. When I saw the light I was traveling east on the Paseo del Norte (an east west four lane highway). The light lasted just a few seconds before it "winked" out. I didn't see a tail that one would see if it were a meteor. I can't say if the light was above the mountain range or east of the range. At whatever distance it was at it appeared to be the size of a pin head. I don't know if it was a UFO. Currently, Albuquerque is celebrating the annual Balloon Fiesta. The fiesta started last weekend and ends this weekend. There were balloons in the sky but they were all above the Balloon Park or spread out to the north. It was no more than 5-15 minutes after the light went out that I saw a helicopter flying south towards the general location of the light. The helicopter may have turned east, but the distance was too far for me to be sure if it went east or turned west. By then I was merging onto Interstate 25 going south to the VA hospital. One thought that occurred to me at the time was that the light I observed was a star becoming a super nova. A second thought was that it may have been an airplane coming in to land at the Albuquerque airport. I scratched that idea by the way the light disappeared and its high intensity. By the way, there were no stars to be seen in this part of the sky as the sun was up on the other side of the mountain range. I'm sure other people driving east would have seen the same light. There were hundreds of cars on the road heading to work or the balloon park.
October 9, 2019 · 6:00 AM · LIGHT
Jasper, MO
I was in my deer stand while hunting early in the morning, facing due west. As I looked up into the sky, I saw a massive yellow light, bigger and brighter than any star. The light began to move in a figure eight pattern for about 3 minutes before suddenly stopping. It sat completely still for about 30 seconds before completely disappearing, as if it was a light being turned off.
October 9, 2019 · 5:45 AM · CONE
Bohners Lake, WI
I thought it was a shooting star (my thought as it entered my peripheral vision) so I got excited and looked at it and IMMEDIATELY could tell that it wasn't a shooting star. It had hard edges to it and there were giant red circular lights on the back of it, with some smaller? (really ambiguous) white light near the red. It was a hexigonal cone shape, with a flattened bottom. It traveled around the speed of a shooting star, which is what made me think what I did at first. It went very quickly from my left field of view to my right and then made a VERY hard and sudden left turn and as soon as it completed the turn, it disappeared. There was a very very VERY unnoticable white blink when it disappeared. Very subtle. So the best way I can describe its flight path was ✓ (but flipped around, and it was more horizontal/parallel to the ground). There was no sound, no sonic booms, no loud engine sounds. It was relatively low to the ground as well, no higher than a mid-alttitude plane. If I had to guess, maybe 3,000-4,000 feet off the ground. All happened I'm about 3-4 seconds and I didn't take my eyes off of it until it vanished, and even still I kept looking up at the sky. I was driving slowly along a relatively straight road so with no body around. So my focus was on the sky for a good couple minutes after that. Didn't see anything else though.
October 9, 2019 · 12:30 AM · TRIANGLE
Mexico, NY
The next night it returned. I watched it slowly rise straight up into the sky. When I recorded it again there were burst of light around it. Both times red and green flashes.
October 9, 2019 · 12:00 AM · RECTANGLE
Battle Ground, WA
I saw 6 star like dots vertical 3 in a row vertical and 3 parallel to the othe other 3 vertical. I saw it by the north star at first looked like a cluster of stars but I saw it move from close to the north star to east of the sky in the few minutes until I showed somebody else. The lights on each side would blink. One on the left side would go dark then one on the right side would and then the opposite side would light back up again. It was barely visible when it was close to the north star but when it went east it got really bright and very noticable.
October 8, 2019 · 11:45 PM · FIREBALL
Sequim, WA
Red fireball type object seen at height of low flying aircraft. Silent. It made no sound. It flew at a moderate speed and stopped and hovered just after an asteroid burned out in front of it. It hovered for a few seconds, and the flew sideways into a cloud.
October 8, 2019 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
Myrtle Beach, SC
I was at Myrtle Beach with my elderly mother and her two friends for the week. It was a Tuesday night on Oct. 8. The ladies were already in bed for the night and I was out on a 3rd floor hotel balcony overlooking the beach boardwalk. I was drinking bourbon at the time. It was around 23:00 and as I looks northward up the beach, I noticed Orangish Red lights in the air moving south following the beach. Weather was very cloudy and these lights were below the clouds. There was southward wind around 10 mph. as we were having poor weather last few days. I first glance I thought all the tourist helicopters were flying down the beach with a landing or spotlight on. I though it was cool, an evening air show of sorts. But then the several lights started dropping other reddish orange lights from the bottom. Just like them but smaller. These lights descended a bit and disappeared. First thought was roman candles or flares. I then noticed there was no sound coming from the objects. The tourist helicopters were loud, and I should be hearing them, but I wasn’t. As they drew closer. Still dropping their lights. I noticed there was no red or green wing tip lights. Just the reddish glow of the objects themselves. But still no engine noise. As first one was in front of the hotel and myself, I noticed no white blinking tail light either. Just a spherical light at about a 45-degree angle, below the clouds. And still no noise. It was at this time I woke my mother to look and see if she was seeing what I was seeing. She started watching the event mid-way through and also wondered what they were and also noticed no sound from them. The objects were still continuing to drop other lights. This entire time. My thinking if these were flares, they would illuminate the ground or water, but didn’t. they just dropped and dissipated. They were dropping light so frequently, there would be three small lights under the main. As the forth light would drop the first would dissipate. After 8 or 10 moved by the last one in the formation which unlike the others, was not dropping lights came by, and as they moved south disappeared into the low clouds. The objects in front were still dropping lights as I could no longer see them but the dropped lights still appeared as they fell below the clouds. This entire event lasted 4 or 5 min. I still have no clue what I saw. I have considered drones, but cannot explain the dropping of the lights. I have considered candle balloons as they were moving south with a southern wind direction with pieces of the burning materials falling off. But the straight-line formation along with the regularity of the dropping lights discounts that to me. I frequent airshows. I am a fan of military aviation, and I can identify aircraft as I see them fly over. Not being able to explain this is irritating to me. I do not believe in UFOs. I still don’t. However, there is video footage online that is very similar to what I saw. And I finally realized I had a cell phone to record this and I did video the last sphere as it went by. But as I said. It was not dropping lights like the others so I have no proof of that activity. If I was to describe this in UFO terms. Foo Fighter seems to match.
October 8, 2019 · 9:33 PM · CIGAR
Randolph, NJ
I was walking back to my apartment counting planes in the sky when I noticed a bright orange and yellowish light coming over the top of the building. At first I thought it was so low I could throw a baseball and hit it and it must be a drone but as it passed overhead I could tell it was big and solid and cylindrical like a cigar. I noted that I could hear other planes but this made no sound even though it was so much closer. I remember thinking to myself multiple times “take a picture” but I was so intrigued I just watched it. As it moved further into the distance it appeared to bend backwards vertically, like a bow, and meandered left then right. I went inside and told my girlfriend about it. I decided to go back out and see if I could still see it. It had come from the south and moved north. Now I saw it, or something very much like it, coming from the southeast - if it was the same object it appeared to be circling the area. I collected my wits and took a! picture with my iPhone. This all occurred within a timeframe of roughly 40 minutes. The object did not leave a trail behind it and made no sound. I do not believe it was a plane or helicopter or drone. I am emailing the photograph I took.
October 8, 2019 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Louisville, KY
Driving thru Valley Station myself and my daughter seen 3 lights above a tree. The lights were green with small white lights to the sides. They shot off and disappeared.
October 8, 2019 · 9:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Tehachapi, CA
I was laying in bed looking north west out sliding glass door . I am at about 5,000 ft and look out over the valley floor. I noticed a flashing light in sky, seemingly far away. it was tiny, but intensely bright. It grew larger as it came toward my location. At first i thought perhaps something from Edwards AFB or a plane headed toward Bakersfield airport. it was difficult to judge speed as it was coming mostly diretly toward me. not knowing its size i could not judge. it then move 90 degrees to the right and at that angle of view i could tell it was going fast . It then went up, down, right .left like no helicopter or drone or aircraft could maneuver. As it moved across my field of vision and came closer it could distinguish a white, red, green and blue light on the craft. No craft I know of is that shape or displays lights in a triangle shape and those colors. the maneuvers were not curves, but abrupt 90 degree angles. it also rose and fell at an am! azing rate of speed. I got out of bed, watched it from my deck from which i can see many miles. until it was obscured by trees between me and the craft.
October 8, 2019 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Marshfield/Brant Rock, MA
We had just finished dinner in Brant Rock and driving back to Plymouth on the back road via Rt 14. Heading South west we noticed 2 round objects glowing high in the sky. One was closer to us, the other was much higher. At first we thought it could have been a couple of drones, then thought it could have been Chinese lanterns but they had a steady, controlled movement about them. The were glowing and were spaced well apart from each other. When we came to a stop sign, we looked around and couldn't see them anymore.
October 8, 2019 · 8:42 PM · UNKNOWN
Bedford, TX
At approximately 20:42 on a clear night (10/08/2019), a bright white light was seen by 2 individuals in Bedford, Texas. It was obvious this light was not coming from an airplane, as it was constant (not flashing) and white. Airplanes were seen in the vicinity, but were at a much lower altitude than the white light. The white light seemed to be moving slowly across the sky, but appeared to be getting progressively smaller as if the light was increasing altitude. The light then stops moving across the sky and changes from white to red before fading out completely. We have never seen anything like this before and I felt compelled to report it.
October 8, 2019 · 8:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Denver, CO
At approximately 8:30 PM on 10/8/19 I went out on my east-facing balcony to get some fresh air. Beautiful clear starlit night. I looked up and to my amazement I saw a triangular shaped black craft gliding silently coming from the north and heading south about 5,000 feet up. There was no sound, no lights and no visible exhaust trail. My eyes were fixated on it. It appeared to be cloaked and blended into the night sky, but because it was moving, I could see its shape as it blocked out the stars. I am estimating that it was less then a mile away and it appeared to be large in size.
October 8, 2019 · 8:15 PM · OTHER
Las vegas, NV
I was sitting on chair in back yard I have a glass table there was no sound. I then saw a bright white light tracking across the table. I looked up and a light which appeared to be hazy yet bright was shooting low and across the sky. Then it was out of sight line, it was totally silent, I could hear crickets in yard. It was traveling much faster then an airplane.
October 8, 2019 · 8:08 PM · SPHERE
Colts neck, NJ
Driving in my car on rt18 north in New Jersey, near mile marker 17, at approx 8:08pm, on October 8th, 2019, I witnessed a white orb moving in the sky outside the driver's side window, it paused briefly, then transformed to an odd emerald green color, then shot across the sky instantly. The movement of it was very odd, very jerky and sudden as it took off and was gone in an instant.
October 8, 2019 · 8:08 PM · LIGHT
Colts Neck, NJ
There was one glowing object moving in the sky, maybe 200 yards away approximately 20 stories in the air. It was very low and close. It was dark outside and the light was a whitish blue and it moved up, then down and then up again before moving very quickly North East. The whole thing lasted maybe 5 seconds. There were hardly any street lamps around the area, and the 3 that are give off the old orangish light, not like the moving one I saw in the sky. This happened over Naval Weapons Station Earle Naval Base.
October 8, 2019 · 8:07 PM · CIRCLE
Colts Neck, NJ
I was driving westbound on rt 537 when I noticed a green circle or sphere in the sky at approximately 45 degrees up from my location, at 11:00 (just to the left of the direction of the road). I was approaching colts neck high school at the corner of 5 points road. It was specifically noticeable because there were other traditional aircraft in the background moving and this light was absolutely still. Moments after I focused my eyes on it and started to slow down the car, it darted extremely quickly in a green blur toward the north/northwest. I know it sounds cliche but it looked like the the enterprise going warp. Dead still and then a blur for a distance and then gone. Green. Bright green.
October 8, 2019 · 8:05 PM · UNKNOWN
Jenkintown, PA
I was walking on the sidewalk, and when I looked to look at the Moon, I noticed a bright flash of light falling from the sky, and then it disappeared.
October 8, 2019 · 8:00 PM · FLASH
Bridgton, ME
The past week and this week I have been seeing these things for the first time ever.