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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 19, 2019 · 10:15 PM · CONE
Huber Heights, OH
Standing outside looking to Northwest, saw bright object between 500 to 1,000 feet off the ground, extremely bright, white flying northwest from towards Dayton international airport, banking and climbing. There was no noise, no flashing lights, and moving to fast to be any aircraft or drone. I’ve been around aircraft and worked for the air force since 1976. Could not have been a meteor as stated it banked and rose before going out of my line of sight.
September 19, 2019 · 10:00 PM · DISK
Oxford, ME
Took the dog outside with a friend, walked out back and heard something like a helicopter whirring. We both looked up and saw what looked like a saucer about 25 feet wide maybe 6 feet tall. At the angle we saw it from, the craft was a large half circle with red lights that gave off a blue aura on either side. My pit tried to pull my friend and I towards the craft but didn't seem scared, only curious. The craft was very low and hovered for a moment as if it was observing, then left quickly behind the tree line surrounding our building.
September 19, 2019 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Chestertown, NY
My partner and I were outside our home in Friends Lake when we noticed a large bright white light in the distance that appeared to be a star. However, we noticed it was moving closer to us in the NE direction. There were no flashing lights, as would be expected to be seen on a plane. There was also no sound, as we usually would hear when a plane was passing over. It was a very clear night- to the point that we could clearly see the Milky Way. After traveling for approximately 3 minutes, the light made a 90 degree turn and headed SE. It appeared to disappear for about 15 seconds as it crossed through the Milky Way- which didn’t seem like much time to go such a distance. The light reappeared on the other side of the Milky Way- and appeared to “pop back out” at a higher rate of speed and then slowing to the previous pace. The light/object continued SE for about 30 seconds and then appeared to move straight up until it could no longer be seen. Had we both not seen the same thing- we would have thought we imagined the whole thing.
September 19, 2019 · 9:45 PM · TRIANGLE
Leicester, MA
Tonight I was driving on Stafford street towards Leicester. There were 5, very bright lights that seemed to be from different crafts. Altogether, they formed a triangle shape. They just hovered in the sky together. I had to take a right at the intersection so I drove away from the lights. I could no longer see them. It was very weird and different. As soon as I saw it, my body got numb and i got goosebumps, probably because I was scared. I’m wondering if anyone else saw it.
September 19, 2019 · 9:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Morristown, TN
watching a plane fly above, saw what was thought to be a shooting star, but then noticed a triangular shaped object with a single white light at each point. object appeared to be "chasing" the plane. as it approached the plane, the object then divided into 2 objects, each triangular shaped with a single light at each point. the plane banked left and turn around away from the objects. the objects seemingly disappeared.
September 19, 2019 · 9:22 PM · UNKNOWN
Livonia, MI
So we had a strange night last night. First, we saw something that I initially thought was a satellite, but it seemed much closer/bigger than a satellite should be and was definitely much brighter. My husband said it was shaped like a crescent. It seemed to move pretty quickly from south to north, then curved east and faded a few minutes later. Unfortunately, my phone was acting up all night and I wasn’t able to capture it. It was very bright, like I said, but I couldn’t tell if it was just a reflection from the sun, or if it was lit up on its own. There were no flashing, or blinking lights on it and there was no sound. About 15-20 minutes later, I noticed something else. Three to six consecutive points of light moving from north to south, but unlike an airplane, they had bursts of strobing lights (as opposed to blinking steadily) and as they moved, seemed to bounce all over the place rather than following a linear progression. I did manage to record some of it. And, oddly enough, about 10-15 minutes after that, I caught a brief glimpse of a “fireball” in the east over our house. Probably a comet, or meteor, but I cannot be sure because it only lasted a split second. I watched the planes fly overhead the rest of the night just to be sure that wasn’t what I saw. None of them came anywhere close to what I’d seen earlier. The other strange thing about this was that those things moved very quickly from north to south. If they were planes, there was no way they could have moved that fast without it being obvious that they were planes. These were tiny points of light that jumped around forwards and back, up and down, seeming to appear and disappear at different points in the sky. I’ve been checking the internet all day, but I haven’t found any similar reports in our area yet. I honestly don’t know what this was. I’ve never seen anything like it before. It definitely wasn’t fireworks either because they didn’t make any sound and I’ve never seen fireworks move like that. I thought maybe they could be drones, or something, but last I checked, drones don’t just pop in and out of sight. There were no discernible shapes, or distinct "objects" that I could make out. Just the lights and it almost seemed like they were responding to each other, but I could be totally wrong about that.
September 19, 2019 · 9:15 PM · CHANGING
Norristown, PA
First appeared as elongated white light then changed to object displaying 3 lights: 1 white 1 green 1 red. When it was almost overhead the 3 lights changed into 4 white lights in a diamond pattern. Photos were taken that show a craft of some type under the lights when I zoomed in on images.
September 19, 2019 · 9:00 PM · CIRCLE
Staten Island, NY
Bright white light. Round. No blinking lights to identify as an airplane. moved slowly across the sky then turned in an upward position and just went straight up towards the stars. It disappeared into the night sky. There was no clouds.
September 19, 2019 · 9:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Allentown, PA
Last night my husband and myself were in our bedroom at about 8pm. When I heard what sounded like a plane since the airport was close by. I told my husband that plane sounds like he is flying really low. So I got up from the bed and looked out my window. When I looked out and up saw a triangle shape aircraft that sounded like a Mac truck had 8 white round lights underneath and blinking red ones at the end of it but on top and it was low saw
September 19, 2019 · 8:50 PM · CIRCLE
Patchogue, NY
The object was hovering for over 40 min making no noise. It would move slow. Then it starting spinning And moving faster and then would change colors and go back to white. We do have video
September 19, 2019 · 8:45 PM · LIGHT
Myrtle Beach, SC
5 oranges lights appeared in a horizontal line, disappeared then reappeared one by one before disappearing again. Out over ocean along Myrtle Beach boardwalk.
September 19, 2019 · 8:45 PM
Englewood, CO
Looking south I noticed a bright light moving very fast towards me to the north. As it got closer over head it also seemed like it dropped in altitude and was not accelerating as fast. I could not completely see past the light or around it and am unsure if there was more object or just the light. For a second I thought I saw that it had a triangular shape with the light on one corner, but it went into trees and passed my roof as it dropped in speed over me. I heard nothing in the sky as it passed over me.
September 19, 2019 · 8:30 PM · LIGHT
Palisade, CO
On 9/19/19 at approximately 830 pm, myself and roommate were outside on the patio when I looked up to see a huge light in the sky. I pointed it out to my roommate saying that’s too low to be a satellite and there aren’t any aviation lights showing(no blinking lights) I moved to a darker position for a better view and continued to watch the globe of light and make commentary to my roommate as to possible explanations’ and why there was no sound. After it had passed over head I noticed a satellite passing within my observation area going the other way and a one point they were in line in the sky and the comparison to a satellite was easy, it was not a satellite, it was not a plane. My roommate could not see the satellite and kept his eyes on the globe which as it made its way north the light faded as if the object accelerated and disappeared before it passed the horizon. The entire observation lasted approximately 1-2 min. I am a female professional that contracts with DOC, my roommate is a male retired Colorado state trooper, we are both in our fifties. We discussed our observation afterwards as the sky had many airplane flights passing over as we continued to watch the sky and see if the light globe returned it did not. We agree that no other common flying object in the sky looked like what we saw and we have no explanation as to what we saw this night.
September 19, 2019 · 8:25 PM · FLASH
Oxford, MI
We have amended the time above, in order to reflect a nighttime event. PD
September 19, 2019 · 8:23 PM · CIRCLE
St. George, UT
Looking to the southwest a ball of intense white light lifted up from the ground and flew low in the sky to the east. I went inside and got my phone and started filming it. It was flashing white, green, red and blue and made a swishing sound.
September 19, 2019 · 8:22 PM · CIRCLE
Fortuna, CA
I was outside waiting for a friend to come to my house when I saw about three orange lights come over a mountain side. As the objects went up higher more followed behind in a line. Each object made maneuvers from left to right while still staying in a line. They simultaneously stopped and started blinking. The first object slowly disappeared, and the object next in line would move into the same position and disappear. They all preformed the same movement until the very last object had vanished.
September 19, 2019 · 8:00 PM · RECTANGLE
Carmel-By-The-Sea, CA
I was able to see this through my very low powered set of binoculars, the lights were very, very bright. In awe of what I just saw I had to chuckle to myself as I remembered your story from the day prior. I had no intentions of looking for an object in the nights sky and this was the furthest thing from my mind. Thought it was funny that I saw a large object with oddly placed lights like you and your wife did a few days prior. Thought I would share, funny story. Do keep me updated if you two hear anything. Of which my wife and I saw the same: Coincidently, I again saw the same thing at about 20:10 and I'm racking my brain to think what logically could make that lighting sequence. I tried to rationalize it might have been a flight approaching MRY on a due Westerly course as the winds were blowing offshore. I'll check again at around 8pm tonight. Of which our friend replied: Last night?...wow that’s about the same time I saw this object. It sounds like you saw the same sequence as well? It just disappeared as I was observing, likely flew into the marine layer. I have lived in my rental home and see flights approaching MRY day in and day out, I have never seen this sequence before in my whole life living here on the peninsula. I called my son who lives in Salinas last night, I think he believes I may be looney tunes!...lol! Amazing! I am sure we are not the only ones that could have possibly seen this. This object was way too massive for others not to notice right after sunset, crazy!! Hopefully we feel validated by reports from others, possibly a report here or there on the local news or maybe the Herald? Tonight I will definitely be observing the hour just after sunset with binoculars in hand! Enjoy!
September 19, 2019 · 8:00 PM · CIRCLE
Palatine, IL
Looked up at the stars and saw a bright white light moving across the sky not very high, I am guessing 10,000 feet, I grabbed my binoculars and could not see it any better than with my naked eye. No blinking lights and no sound that I could hear. Also, when it disappeared it was like a dimming light that just went out. This was my second time seeing this, I didn’t report the first one a few weeks ago.
September 19, 2019 · 7:50 PM · SPHERE
Forest Park, IL
I sky watch all the time from my balcony, and am familiar with, and often see, planes and helicopters. This was neither. Also, it attracted my sight because I have never seen a conventional aircraft flying in that pattern.
September 19, 2019 · 7:50 PM · LIGHT
Upper Chichester, PA
My wife yelled to me from the car as she was pulling out of the driveway, come look at this, what is it as I walked down I saw 4 orange lights in diamond formation traveling from northeast to southwest. They were moving quite slowly. Then one by one they just started to fade away. Before the last one disappeared, a 5th one appeared. This is when I started recording. The 5th one was heading in the same direction as the others and then made a sharp right turn and eventually faded away. The color can only be described as a ball of fire. And we are right by the airport and there were planes in the air close by.
September 19, 2019 · 7:45 PM · CIRCLE
Kelso, WA
perfect circle, bright white... brighter than all other aircraft / stars in the early night (just got dark outside) sky. other planes were in the air... this was much much brighter, and had absolutely no blinking lights on it. it flew in a straight line from west to east. as it disappeared from our view behind treeline, i noticed 1 fast moving jet flying toward its direction from my north/nw (maybe from seattle) the object flew straight...at same speed probably abiut 100 mph+)
September 19, 2019 · 7:40 PM · TRIANGLE
Newburgh, NY
I was driving west bound on I-84, a few miles from the Hudson River crossing bridge into Newburgh NY and I noticed a massive (maybe 500ft) aerial vehicle, that had three white lights on the corners and an offset central red light. The lights were a bit brighter than an airplanes and as I drove past it towards the east, it seemed to be gliding, fairly slowly towards the west along I-84 on the westbound side. As my car was even with it I could see the underside of the craft and realized that it wasn’t a typical airplane, but my first impression was that it was a dark metal and looked like a “mother ship”. It was fairly low in altitude (I approximate less than 800ft AGL, using my skills as an FAA licensed UAV Pilot). After passing the craft, I was searching in my side view mirror for it, but couldn’t find it again.
September 19, 2019 · 6:50 PM · OTHER
Ephrata, WA
I am a 77 year old male.. I was walking with my 40 year old son and 35year old granddaughter at 18:50 hours when I saw what looked like two small black clouds that were shaped like a widened W. The sky was clear accept for a few white clouds. wind was blowing from the west. I said to the kids look those two clouds look like space ships. Then the lower cloud turned around and headed southwest into the wind. About thirty seconds later it looked like it vaporized and disappeared. About a minute later the second cloud did the same thing. ((13 digit number deleted))
September 19, 2019 · 4:30 PM · CIRCLE
Cold Spring, MN
UO Sighting Thursday Sept 19th 2019 Calling this a “UO” sighting as it I cannot say the object was “flying” and entirely different than any UFO report I have heard about. Left work at 4:00 as usual and came home to change clothes and go for a run down at the ROCORI track as has been my routine for the past number of years. Probably left my house around 4:30 and jogged across the picked oat field and towards the practice fields on the northern part campus. Lots of sports activity this particular day with football games/practices of various-aged kids etc. with a game taking place at the farthest NW field adjacent the ball field and Co Rd #50. At least one bus parked there. Proceeded with my run/workout routine which consists of push-ups, sit-ups, stretching, mixed between a series of laps around the track. 1200M, 1600M, 800M, 400M, 200M, 100M. I always time the runs all but the 100M just in case I happen to run a personal best. The entire routine takes probably a bit less than an hour as I generally always clock 12-13 minutes for both the 1200M & in-between workout as well as the 1600M & in-between workout. This day was perfectly clear with blue sky, hardly a breeze (if any) and zero clouds that I am aware of. At least not a one in the SW-NW horizon that I (and others) were fixated on for the next few hours. In finishing either the 1200M, or 1600M, I laid down on my back in lane #7 at the SW main finish line (as typical) and did my sit-up routine. Upon finishing, while still on my back & head to the North, I noticed a white dot (as it appeared) way up high in the sky which I first figured was a pelican or eagle or seagull as over the years I have seen white birds soaring way, way, up high wile stretching. However this “bird” was not moving much if at all. Again, this is broad daylight, blue sky at 4:30-5:00pm. Definitely the only feature in the sky aside from the sun which was further W of the object. If memory serves the sun was a tad and higher on the horizon than the object from my perspective but not much. As far as how obvious this object was in the sky I would say not obvious at all unless one was looking in the right direction. Who looks up into the skies anymore anyway… As I watched the object on my back it appeared to slowly travel back-&-forth N & S slightly a few times however my heart was pounding from my workout so uncertain if it was due to that. Being utterly baffled as to what it was I laid there longer contemplating it being a drone copter that someone at the school was flying. After a few minutes of ponder I got up to continue my workout and onto more laps hoping like heck the thing would not just disappear leaving me frustrated. On the next set of laps I cannot remember if I was able to focus/see it as I rounded that SW corner but as I finished the laps and again laid down to do sit-ups…it was still there! At some point as I laid there I made a conscious effort to determine it’s location in the sky and definitely remember noting 3. One being directly over me (possibly a tad south). The other being directly above the school. And the last being a bit to the West of the school. Again these are only from my perspective having no clue how high or big this thing was. Following my workout (cannot remember if I finished it all or not being a bit occupied) I noticed 2 young boys (ages 5 & 3 approximately) playing at the south end of the bleachers. I desperately wanted someone else to see this thing so walked over to them asking if they wanted to see an “alien spaceship”. As any boy would they said yes and put their eyes in the direction of the sky I was pointing. I really no idea if they saw what I was seeing but the older boy did say “I see it” and was looking I the right direction. The younger said he saw it too however was looking the wrong way. At this point I was getting desperate to find another adult to confirm this object so headed out the south end of the fencing as it was the only gate open to the track. I kept searching for an adult or older student however nobody happened across my path and I didn’t want to appear too crazy having no shirt on, all sweaty, and pointing to the sky at “aliens”. As I headed back North towards home I came across a bus where the female driver was inside reading a book. I hesitated at first but gingerly peeked in the open door and said…”This is possibly the strangest thing you’ve been asked but I’m seeing something quite odd in the sky and am wondering if you would also take a look to confirm I am not going nuts.” Or a version of it. Her comforting reply was something to the affect of…”My folks live in CA and see weird things in the sky all the time so nothing surprises me”. She put down her book and grabbed her smart phone and struggled her way out of the bus as she had some struggles standing/walking. We walked south through the thin line of trees at the S side of the parking area and as I pointed she immediately saw it and said…”Well that’s weird.” I could not see any movement however the object seemed to be moving slowly from SSW to WSW as I needed to keep looking more West each time I needed to re-find it in the sky. She then put her phone up to either photo or video. It is somewhere around 5:30 now. At this point I was wanting to get home to my son and get his eyes on it as well so jogged back across the oat field, up to the house, into the workshop & grabbed my binoculars which are Bausch & Lomb 7x35 Zephyr. Here is where it gets weird… In my backyard I found the object even further West and should mention it never seemed to change in size, color, brightness, speed, or anything. When I put the binoculars up to it I was quite startled as I can only describe it as a bright, full, Mini-Moon” however was not too convinced of it being the moon as I knew the moon phase was already past full. I then ran upstairs to tell my son to grab his smart phone and come outside where I passed the binoculars over to him. His comment was pretty much same as the bus drivers being…”What the heck is that thing…” No doubt at this time I am ranting about it being a planet of some sort so we both grab our smart devices and start searching for visible planets, stars, etc. He then proceeds to map the thing with his smart phone as he has an ap for stargazing. I found dialogue on it possibly being Jupiter as Juipter is/was bright in Sept. however it kept mentioning we should see it along the horizon at dusk which further confused me as it was no where near dusk when I first saw it and we were still 2+ hours from it. I’m then trying to convince myself it is the moon as it looks exactly like it with gray shaded features and however much smaller and brighter. To describe the brightness I say it looked like a strongly back-lit, semi- opaque, piece of perfectly round, white plastic. Kind of like some of the LED overhead lights we have today however with the moon(ish) gray shadings. With my son’s ap, he finds the moon is on the other side of the globe. He then says…”I’ve got it…It’s Arcturus!” and shows me the screen which I cannot argue with except…There is no way we should be seeing surface features on a star! With my binoculars, any star is going to look like a pinpoint of light…not a moon. As we banter back-&-forth about possibilities and questions he lies on his back in the grass to steady his elbows and snaps a couple photos through one lens of the binoculars. I take some video with my pad as well making certain to video the surroundings to pinpoint the thing at a later date. After approximately 20 minutes of searching internet and looking through binoculars my son gives up and I jump in my vehicle with binoculars and head to a friend’s farm a couple miles away as I had called him to see if he was around and could see what we are seeing. Which he could. On the way I call my wife who is at work and ask her to go outside and look as well which she does with at least one co- worker. As I get to his property he immediately walks