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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
September 30, 2019 · 6:30 PM · CYLINDER
MA
I was cooking on the grill on my back porch. As I turned to grab something off the table something caught my eye in the sky. I noticed off to the east a solid black cylindrical object at roughly 500 ft. As I watched this I noticed it had no wings, no tail and was completely silent heading off to the west. I watched this object for about 5 seconds.
September 30, 2019 · 5:15 PM · RECTANGLE
Bakersfield? (east of), CA
I was on a 737 flight from San Jose, CA, (SJC) southbound to Burbank, CA (BUR). We were airborne at about 4:50-ish PM. Pilot stated right before take-off that we’d be going up to 31,000 ft and we would in the air for 43 minutes. We were over the coastal mountains following the San Andreas fault. About halfway, I could see the highway 41 and 46 split (were James Dean died). Minutes later, I saw this glowing object across the San Joaquin Valley to the southeast. It appeared to be at mountain ridge level. I guess that would be the southern end of the Sierra Nevada range. I would estimate that it was whatever the mountains are due east of Bakersfield. The object was rectangular and either glowed, or reflected the sun. It had a red color to it, like if sun was reflecting off of red colored foil. The size had to be huge. I’m looking at it from quite a distance over on the coast range side of the valley. The shape looked like one of those rectangular banners being pulled by an airplane over events. But since it appeared to be so far away, it would not be possible for it to be that big. My estimate would be a couple of miles in length. As I tried to get my phone out to record, the “glowing/reflectiveness” of it would slowly fade in or out. I tried to record it on 2 separate devices but none of them came out. After observing this for about 10 minutes, it stopped and the plane veered to the right and went over the mountains above Santa Barbara and Ventura. I checked to see if perhaps it was a forest fire and I happened to just catch the moment when the bright flames crested the mountains, but could not find such news. The horizon was hazy, but there wasn’t any sign of smoke from a fire.
September 30, 2019 · 7:51 AM · CIGAR
Petersburg, NY
Cigar shaped object with red lights elevated into low hanging clouds. The clouds illuminatrd red. Wasnt fast enough with phone to catch object moving but got the illuminated clouds.
September 30, 2019 · 1:45 AM · UNKNOWN
Dunnellon, FL
Unknown single craft at extremely high altitude multiple lights? (illuminated) in southeast sky, travelling southwest when first noticed, I thought it was a satellite crossing the sky until it turned multiple times (similar to a helicopter) but proceeded in same general southwest course. I would estimate altitude of 30-thousand feet. After watching for 5-minutes I ran inside to get binoculars but when I got back out two minutes later I could not find it. I continued watching the sky for another hour but could not find the object again.
September 30, 2019 · 12:00 AM · CIRCLE
Corbin, KY
I have pics large formation I daylight
September 30, 2019 · 12:00 AM · SPHERE
Conyers, GA
I thought it was a plane initially as it came towards me it's lights looked similar...until it passed over me with a complete striped lit up undercarriage separate from the running lights that seemed to circle it's corner points on the side, similar to a plane's...except it had 2 BIG TAIL LIGHTS. Wide set apart and too far apart to be attached to the tail and obviously not on a wing. The tail lights proceeded to alternate from on, off, just the left on, just the right on, double right only like a wink or Morse code and etc. It was not a set pattern or flashing lights like on all the other aircraft that passes over me. Also the undercarriage stripes light lit up the bottom from nose to tail (which is why I thought it was a plane initially) but that coupled with the circle of running lights on its sides around it after it was headed away from me gave it a distinctly spherical shape as if the lights were separate from a different object within.... Like those gr! avity things they used to have at Chuck E Cheese they'd strap a kid in and then spin a bunch of metal circles separately from the ring you were strapped in spinning in... Then 1 minute later....after my shock at the tail lights seeming to say hello to me...there was suddenly a bright light in the sky that blinked out right after it appeared...almost like a star in the sky suddenly turned on brighter and then blew out like a lightbulb....that was behind me, where the UFO first appeared...because I walked across my field mesmerized watching the tail lights...and then while walking back is when the bright light happened in a flash.
September 29, 2019 · 11:45 PM · RECTANGLE
Naples, FL
It was a fairly clear night. I was outside in my backyard with my dog. I looked up in the sky and off to my left, the northern sky, I saw what looked like a white fast moving cloud that looked like smoke you could see through. I followed it as it moved across the sky. When it was pretty much directly in front of me,but very high up,I could see that it looked like a lot of identical,small oval shaped objects, in a formation that looked like a parallelogram, or large distorted triangular formation, with a loop at one corner and then a triangular formation of more of them at the end of the loop. They were all connected, all identical,identical distance from each other. They did not appear to be lighted but appeared to be grey in color. After searching for similar formations online, after the sighting,I think it is possible that rather than it being a bunch of little crafts, it could have been a larger craft or a large one and a smaller one, and maybe what looked ! to me like multiple crafts could have been the lights on the crafts that were dulled by the clouds or distance and perhaps I couldn't see the body of the huger craft because it was so dark outside and maybe the body of the craft was black. The entire fleet or objects moved quickly across the sky, in my vision of sight from north to south, without any sound or vibration and was visible to me for about 10 seconds, if that, and was then out of my sight.I didn't have my cellphone on me to take a photo. Not sure it would have come out if I did. The objects were very pale to me and moved very quickly. I did make a very basic drawing of what I saw if anyone would like to see it.
September 29, 2019 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Slocum, TX
Saw a strange bright light twinkling red blue and white very high in the distance. It would move left to righ, shoot straight up then back down. Would sometimes fly in a infinity eight. There was a second light that was very dim and was hard to see but would stay stationary then just shoot off to the left or right. Would be gone for about 2 mins the it would come back.
September 29, 2019 · 10:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Bardstown, KY
2 Triangular shaped craft moving overhead separated and moving at a slow rate of speed with no audible noise. They moved together pretty much at the same rate of speed and pattern. The nuderneather of both craft we’re covered with lights lit up like a “Christmas tree.” They did not blink. I watch them until they disappeared in the distance. I have never seen anything like this in my life.
September 29, 2019 · 8:00 PM · DISK
Tampa, FL
Me and 2 other friends were walking home from the neighborhood pool. We were looking at the stars because one of the stars was really bright and looked kind of orange so we thought it was mars. While looking at that star we noticed another bright light that looked the same but it was moving slowly like a plane. Then we noticed what we first thought was a giant bird. It was gliding closer to us in a perfectly straight path. It was about three storys above us from what we could guess. As it approached it almost looked like a giant ufo dish shaped cloud. We would have thought it was a cloud if it wasn't perfectly disk shaped and gliding slowly over us but much faster than the clouds. It looked like what you think of when you think traditional ufo dish. The only difference was that it was that shape but it seemed like it was cloaked to try to hide. We never would have saw it if we weren't looking at the sky because it was so faint.
September 29, 2019 · 8:00 PM · OTHER
Brierfield, AL
Looking southward, at about a 45° angle when a golden yellow, almost orange star shaped object suddenly appeared. It wobbled slowly for 8 seconds in a straight line, from west to east and then suddenly disappeared. Heard no sound, but it appeared only a couple thousand feet up.
September 29, 2019 · 7:30 PM · FIREBALL
Simpson, PA
Observed a bright light from my porch and went out into street to check. Red with yellow/orange rimmed colored object first looked as possible plane or drone. I ran for iPad to take picture. When I returned to street object had changed course to a more circular pattern. Picture I obtained was through branches of tree, but clearly showed a lit object. Part of my background includes EMT, Disaster Service Worker and photography.
September 29, 2019 · 7:30 PM · TEARDROP
Santa Fe, NM
My husband and I saw an extremely bright light in the shape of a teardrop. It resembled a hot air balloon. After about an hour, it turned red. It stayed in the same place the entire time and eventually disappeared.
September 29, 2019 · 7:30 PM · FORMATION
Lochbuie, CO
Driving west bound I-76 looked out rear view window. Saw 6 bright spots in sky. Came down in formation went back into sky slowly and dispersed. Took plenty of pictures and each pictures is different figures.
September 29, 2019 · 7:30 PM · CIRCLE
Alva, OK
While driving home from Colorado, my wife, son and I saw two round circular lights fly North while driving East for about 15 seconds, then Immediately they flew South and then they stopped and completely vanish. We never saw them again after the flight South. We looked for them for another 20 minutes. These circular lights were roughly 2000 feet off the ground. I was not quick enough to get a picture or a video of them. I have never seen anything like this before. This was absolutely astonishing and definitely weird.
September 29, 2019 · 5:20 PM · CIRCLE
Fort Pierce, FL
Very large white circular object hovering in place above Ft Pierce at an altitude of probably 50,000 feet. The object was very easy to spot as the day was very clear and it was at a 12 o’clock position in the sky; eventually the object moved very slowly towards the west and it seemed to go into a higher altitude until it disappeared.
September 29, 2019 · 5:00 PM · CIRCLE
Pt. St. Lucie, FL
While at favorite ocean side restaurant in southern Saint Lucie county observed object in the sky. The object was to the north and overhead of our position slightly and perhaps in about the 2 o’clock relative position. It showed as a somewhat large white “ball” which made me think it was an evening star, however sunset was several hours away. Watching it for nearly 1 ½ hours it slowly moved from the east towards the west, slightly north of west. From the time I started watching it until the time I stopped, the star or object shifted across the sky from a 2 o’clock position to perhaps an 10 -11 o’clock position. Brought it to the attention of another couple with us and several others. Did not appear to be a weather balloon as it moved ever so slowly. Nor did it appear as a balloon as the wind was from the east and moved slowly. It also in my opinion was not a drone as most drones flights are somewhat erratic in nature. Attempted online to research evening planets and stars, where nothing is mentioned regarding and sightings of planets particularly in the daytime hours. (Was not twilight nor sunset conditions where indeed you can see evening stars / planets arise). Note FPL's St Lucie County Nuclear plant approximately 4 miles away
September 29, 2019 · 3:34 PM · SPHERE
Huntington, WV
While boating on the Ohio river, I noticed what I will call an atmospheric anomaly. My adult kids and grandkids were all present. A thin, high altitude cloud shimmering with the violet wavelengths, pinks, purple and blues. I pointed it out to everyone and passed my sunglasses around to kids. The sunglasses made the colors much more visible and I most likely would not have even noticed it without them. It was quite beautiful and something that I had never seen. My kids described it as being "really cool". I wanted to photograph it, but being so close to the sun I doubted I would be able to capture all the colors. I decided to hold my sunglasses in front of the camera lens on my iPhone. I snapped two pics, perhaps 15 to 30 seconds apart. A while later I decided to look at the pics and that's when I noticed the brighter circular object within the cloud. I know I must have looked at that cloud for 2 or 3 minutes as we floated down the river. I can say with all certainty that the object was not visible to the naked or sunglassed eye. Today I applied a couple different filters that come with the phone. If u look closely to the left of the orb, it seams like there is a shockwave. In the second pic the object has dropped down a good bit and there doesn't seam to be much going on. I figured the cloud to just be filled with ice particles and catching the suns rays just right. The orb thing does however have me dumbfounded and why couldn't I see it? Makes me wonder how much I don't see. I did take a couple more pics the next day, trying to replicate conditions as much as possible. I used the same sunglasses to determine if there might possibly be a flaw in the glass that would account for the anomaly but I was able to pretty much rule that out. Any ideas?
September 29, 2019 · 2:00 PM · LIGHT
Stuart, FL
Bright circular light stationary for over an hour in sky with a magnetic ring protecting it.
September 29, 2019 · 11:36 AM · CIRCLE
Riverbank, CA
It was clear day i was sitting when i noticed 5 bubble like things in the sky within 10 seconds there were 50 bubble like things they came from every direction i watched for two minutes before i remembered i had my phone. i couldn't tell if i was getting the objects because of the glare on my screen so sorry about the moving.
September 29, 2019 · 9:40 AM · LIGHT
Madison, ME
I was smoking a cigerett and saw a sesna (small airplaine) flying . I looked up to look at it as it was flying low. I then noticed a very bright light high in the atmosphere. Moving very quickly then turned off at a 45 degree angle and picked up speed then disappeared. It was a clear morning with the sun shining. There was no visible object (airplaine, or metal) it was just a bright light in the southern sky and as bright as it was it looked as if the light should have been bouncing off of whatever it was , from the north...it was super weird. No sound, just a bright light ..
September 29, 2019 · 6:46 AM · CIGAR
New Castle, PA
I snapped the picture and then reviewed it immediately and asked myself what it was. I then look directly back up and watch it take off
September 29, 2019 · 5:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Mount Airy, MD
I heard a wispy noise outside at 5a.m. when I stepped outside there were four lights in a tight rectangle overhead. As the lights continued the turned into a square then as it got further away a straight line of lights. Craft was about the size of a commercial jet while in the square or rectangular formation. But twice as wide in linear formation. The sound was what a jumbo jet would sound like if it had its engines of a gliding. Like whispering loud wind sound. Approximately no more than two thousand feet high.
September 29, 2019 · 4:50 AM · UNKNOWN
Plymouth, NH
We am on a camping trip just south of the White Mountain national forest. Two lights equidistant from each other. Traveling west at the same speed. The two lights could be one very large craft or two smaller crafts. The lights did not orbit each other but drifted at the same rate and direction. A low satellite passed over head then about 30 seconds later we viewed the object. The object crossed over the path of the previously mentioned satellites flight path. The intersect of the satellites flight path and the object flight path was between 32 degrees - 40 degrees. The object was at a very high altitude. It is possible the object was at a higher altitude to the satellite. I continued to watch it until it was out of my range of sight. I lost visibility as it passed the constellation Orion. The two lights maintained speed and distance the entire time. No hull of a craft was seen, just the lights. The object was at to high of an altitude.