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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 16, 2019 · 9:00 PM · FORMATION
Kapalua/Molokai, HI
Four vertical lights, evenly spaced, top three lights LED white, bottom light LED red. Observed at Kapalua looking up and out to the right of Molokai in open ocean, silently descending from stratosphere toward horizon where sky meets water. Took about 3 minutes for bottom red light to reach horizon, then they moved to the left in unison, remaining in perfect vertical formation and disappeared in front of Molokai cliffs. Project Loon perhaps?
September 16, 2019 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Granville, NY
A couple nights ago on the way home at around 9 pm, I saw a bright light coming up along the road. It was exactly like this picture, except much brighter. At first it looked far off, but as I drove, it then looked real close and not to far up in the sky. It was so unusual that I pulled over to get a better look. Then I opened the window to get an even better look. It looked just like in this picture with the rays going in all directions. There were no flashing colored lights like a plane or jet. It must have been pretty bright because the whole area was lit up. What really hit me was the silence, it was dead quiet. No sounds whatsoever. Then I got a bit scared and reached for my phone to take a video or picture. I looked over to pick up the phone off the passenger seat and when I looked back, the light was gone. This area is huge pastures and hay fields. It wasn't anywhere in the sky, like it disappeared. For the next ten miles home, I scoured the sky, nothi! ng. I keep seeing this light in my mind and can't stop thinking about it.
September 16, 2019 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Palm desert, CA
Bright fuzzy glowing light orb red and green changing back and forth floating twoards my son And I, then after thinking and saying we weren't afraid of ot, come closer, it did. Then, silent as it was, it intelligently knew somehow we were in full observation of it. Don't know how I know this, but I do. Then it slowly moved from our position on our front 2nd story deck. As it went away it chose red color light, and eventually displayed two flash then none rythmic pulse pattern of lighting, as if demonstrating that blinking white lights in the sky werent always "planes" flying above. tail lights flashing, it went around a nearby church steeple. I asked it to come back as I was still very skeptical thinking maybe it was a drone in it had to be a drone. Then much to my surprise the object came around the corner this time glowing green and not changing from Green. It came around the same direction it had travelled previously. It paused just in front o! f me and by this time my son had gotten bored and went inside. In front of me this light simply disappeared. boom. Invisible. To the naked eye, it was not there anymore and that's what I saw.
September 16, 2019 · 8:51 PM · SPHERE
Anderson, SC
I occasionally spend time on my back deck observing space debris flyovers. I am very well versed in observing the ISS and space debris that is in orbit, and the way it reacts to light from the sun in relation to brightness and fading. Tonight it is a totally clear sky, so just after dark I decided to look for random space debris flyovers. While looking at approximately 275 degrees (WSW) at an elevation of approximately 75-80 degrees, I noticed what I assumed was a bright star. It was completely stationary and after about 10-15 seconds, began to dim. I thought this was odd since their is absolutely no clouds in my area tonight, and I could see stars all around the object.. The object regained brightness then it appeared to begin to decrease in size as if it was moving directly away from me. Then in an instant it was gone. As I stated previously, I am well versed in observing space debris, this object was stationary and brighter than any stars in the sky, that is what drew my attention to it. I live in a rural area without any significant lighting to interfere with viewing. On two previous occasions I observed an object that moved across the sky from north to south and then stop almost directly over my location, and remain stationary for an extended period of time until the shadow of the earth caused them to fade away. I assumed these objects were probably satellites that were being moved to a new geosynchronous orbit, so I did not bother reporting them. Tonight was a different deal altogether. I have also seen Iridium flares and I am sure that this was not one of them. I decided to report this, because I am 100% confident that what I saw was unlike anything I have witnessed from a man made object, at least the ones that I am aware of. I also decide to report on the outside chance that others might have seen and reported.
September 16, 2019 · 8:30 PM · LIGHT
Port Angeles, WA
The light kept traveling northeast at incredible speed, it moved straight at first, it then moved in a zig-zag pattern and disappeared from view. I went into the house and told my wife and kids I think I just saw a UFO or the strangest shooting star I have ever seen in my entire life. I then proceeded back outside and looked into the sky. I saw a jet with the blinking lights flying at a high rate of of going towards where I just saw the strange light head. Kind of struck me odd that maybe it wasn't coincident that the jet was heading the same way, that maybe the saw light I saw was seen on radar and a jet was scrambled to check it out. Thank you for reading my report.
September 16, 2019 · 8:25 PM · OVAL
Fortuna, CA
I witnessed 9 oval shaped orange lights come over the mountains in a straight line formation and up into the sky at a speed of about of an air plane, they then, one by one went higher into the air and disappeared slowly.
September 16, 2019 · 8:13 PM · OVAL
Baton Rouge, LA
Girlfriend and I both arrived at EBR library at Independence. The second I locked the car, we both looked up and saw an oval rapidly flash three times above the main building. Only a second or so after spotting it, the object disappeared into darkness almost instantaneously. It appeared to fly forward and then nothing.
September 16, 2019 · 8:00 PM · RECTANGLE
Carmel-By-The-Sea, CA
Tuesday September 16th: Last night, this being Tuesday September 16th, my wife and I observed some mysterious lights due west of Pebble Beach. I'd estimate they were in the shipping lanes so maybe at the minimum thirteen nautical miles off the coast. My first impression being they were a sort of SOS flares, but they didn't hang that long in the air. Also, they appeared to "jump", disappear and reappear. The light show lasted maybe two minutes at most. The main light appeared to be in a tight quadrant of four separate lights. Thursday, September 19th : Then this from a friend last night, Thursday, September 19th, 2019: Just a quick note…Mr. Clack, I was sitting in my bedroom at sunset, sun had already set on Thursday 09/19 and to my surprise I saw a very large set of lights over the ocean. My bedroom has a view of the ocean as my house sits on top of the hill in Del Monte Forest Pacific Grove over Spanish Bay. The lights were in a “ V “ shape very large and bright which were oddly & randomly blinking (not in sequence). As far as nautical miles I could not tell you as I am not too keen with this, but the lights were traveling down the shipping route south. 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! My reply to friend: 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.
September 16, 2019 · 4:51 PM · SPHERE
Studio City, CA
On September 16, 2019, I was hiking in Fryman Canyon at Wilacre Park in the Santa Monica Mountains in Studio City, California. It was late afternoon and the day was overcast. There were some beautiful clouds. I decided to take pictures of the clouds from the top of the mountain. I did not see anything with my naked eye. However, I snapped three photographs in succession. The first photograph did not display any abnormalities. The second and third photographs showed a blue dot. When the blue dot is enlarged, a clearly visible round object is seen. It appears there are several light sources or reflections coming off of the blueish object.
September 16, 2019 · 9:25 AM · LIGHT
Round lake beach, IL
was taking a ride to go and pick up furniture and on my way back driving through round lake beach, IL I seen 3 lights in the sky and they caught my attention and I was looking at the 3 lights in the sky and thinking to myself that’s not an airplane, Airplanes don’t fly that close to each other and the light in the sky weren’t moving in fast pace as a airplane would so I started recording and I seen one by one slowly disappear in the sky/clouds I was very amazed! I thought it was fake at first until I rewatched the video clipping I had got of the 3 lights and I thought to myself that’s NOT airplanes !!
September 16, 2019 · 9:00 AM · OTHER
Utica, NY
I couldn't believe what I was seeing. 2 circular objects came from behind it & started rolling towards me. I experience 30 minutes of missing time.
September 16, 2019 · 8:30 AM · TRIANGLE
Hampton, VA
Was walking with my son..we saw a triangle shaped craft staying stationary and moving (Hovering) at times. Then several jets went flying toward them and they disappeared.
September 16, 2019 · 4:00 AM · CIRCLE
Lake City, FL
Round bright light flashing red, white, blue and green traveling southeast at a slow rate of speed, wobbling back and forth visible for 45 mins. Viewed with binoculars you can see thousands of Lights in that object.
September 16, 2019 · 2:30 AM · LIGHT
Bricktown, NJ
I was outside facing the east at 230am. I was looking at the sky and at first I thought it was a star but it was much brighter. I noticed it would move back and forth and fad. It was much brighter then a star. I went back outside around 530am and it was still there and I could really notice it was moving up and down back and forth. When I went back out at 6am, it was gone.
September 16, 2019 · 2:00 AM · CHANGING
Marysville, CA
Lots of funnel clouds in the sky, spotted maybe 5 of them. As I was looking at these I noticed a black blobdot in the sky. It wasnt moving then I recorded and as I was recording it moved a little then either disappeared or took off real fast. There was a plane circling the funnel clouds and this thing so I figured it was a weather tech of some kind. Showed my husband who said it could be that too. I keep thinking it's a bird, but filmed birds the next day and you can clearly see their wings. And the biggest bird we have hear is a hawk. That thing was high up and huge. Also didnt flutter like birds do on film. We were on the west border entry of BEALE AFB and we see lights and night time craft, frequently. Not me, but my friends and husband. Nobody has seen a daytime one like this. Tried to upload this video on mufon but it didnt let me probably because my cell service. So here's a link https://youtu.be/C1FUd4hhNrk
September 16, 2019 · 1:30 AM · SPHERE
Arleta, CA
In the early hours of Mon., Sept. 16, 2019, at 1:30am, I stepped out onto the back stoop of my house to call my dogs in for the night. The moon was full or almost full and very breath taking with a few small scattered clouds around it so I thought about grabbing my telescope to get a closer look when suddenly I saw a blue-ish orb hovering or even “dancing” around the moon. It’s movement varied from hovering and slowly circling the moon to erratic movements like quick reversals and 90 degree turns at incredible speeds. The orb, blue with what looked like some type of small white-ish circles on top had no trail or beam of light connected to it and it was very bright and visible despite the fullness and brightness of the moon. I work w/ lasers moving heads and spotlights for a living so I knew it wasn’t either of those. As the orb danced around the moon it moved under some static clouds yet didn’t extend it’s light to reflect onto the clouds. So with no light t! rail leading from the ground up to the orb and no light reflection on the low lying clouds (that were in between the orb and the moon), I determined that it was self-luminous. And the orb’s brightness and color were not diminished when it moved around in closer visual proximity to the moon (yet still very far from the moon distance-wise), which again, was very, very bright. I took out my new iPhone XR and recorded some video of the incident which I’ve posted and shown other lighting professionals and they have no idea what it could be either. I only recorded about 4 minutes of video but it’s quite compelling. Let me know if you’d like a copy. I’d love to have professionals look at it to help determine what it was. Thanks!
September 15, 2019 · 11:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Greenville, OH
Large, low flying (approximately 200ft. altitude) dark triangle slowly traveling northward, parrallel to route 127. 3 light, one at each corner of the triangle. These three lights on this craft werethe same color and approximate size of the stars on this starry night. My girlfriend and I have seen this same craft about a year prior slowly flying over nearby Covington, Ohio. We are near Wright Patterson Air Force base in Dayton, Ohio. My guess is this is prototype stealth spy drone ...very hard to detect, possibly flying low enough to be under radar. My girlfriend on the other hand thinks itsfrom outer space...who knows...
September 15, 2019 · 10:15 PM · TRIANGLE
Imperial, MO
Sitting on the deck behind my house I noticed something in my peripheral flying above me coming from the North and heading South directly over my house. I was sitting facing North looking at the back of my house, I didn't get a great view of it because I was turning to see it directly over me I was trying to grab my glasses at the same time. It was Triangle shaped or more like a flying wing and it flew low and completely silent over me and vanished over the tree line behind me. I had thought it might be higher in the sky and much larger but judging by the way it appeared over my roof and then vanished over the tree line I knew my inclination that it was very low was likely accurate. It was white but glowing almost like it had a fog around it or like some sort of ghostly apparition. I had my phone in my lap, but it happened so fast and it was so low that it came in and then out of my visual space in less than 10 seconds. Here’s where I’ll put my though! ts about what I think but I can’t necessarily confirm size and speed. I fly drones, so I believe the height of this thing was about 150’ high or under and from that height I’m sort of guessing but it must have been at least 20’ from wing tip to wing tip and was moving at approx. 40mph. There was another entry on your National UFO reporting site for Missouri from 11/26/2018 in Columbia, Missouri that explained almost the exact same thing but they saw it from more of a distance away than I was able too.
September 15, 2019 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Steubenville, OH
Source of report provides no information about sighting. PD
September 15, 2019 · 9:45 PM · FIREBALL
New Leipzig, ND
Object was going from southease to northwest. Was a bright orange colored ball. Possible under 1000 ft elevation, estimated traveled about 20 miles in under 5 minutes.
September 15, 2019 · 9:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Westminster, MD
Seen in Carroll County, MD, looking south on route 27. Triangular shaped crafts (2) with red and white twinkling lights. Strange back and fourth movements, very sporatic. Stayed mostly in one spot, but disappeared behind pine trees very quickly one by one within a half hour of eachother. We used binoculars to really get a good look at it. We could see that it was not a plane and it was moving too slow for it to be a helicopter. One of the crafts seemed to be emitting beams of lights while the other were pretty stationary.
September 15, 2019 · 8:17 PM · CIRCLE
Lakeville, MA
My husband was sitting on the couch, we were watching tv when he noticed a bright light outside usually where the moon would be. It was too early for the moon to be in that position and this light was too bright. We went to our porch and got a closer look and video. It was a bright whitish blue circle, could have been octagon shaped. It stayed over the tree line for almost a minute moved slightly to the right, stopped, and then moved off quickly behind the tree lines. We live on the 3rd floor, so we ran outside to the car and tried to follow, but it was gone.
September 15, 2019 · 5:30 PM · SPHERE
Lancaster, PA
The 2 of us noticed a sphere over the western part of Lancaster hovering and slowly moving eastward. We thought it was a ballon but it flashed different colors and emitted a black mist that quickly disappeared in the atmosphere. I did take video but not sure if I got all of the action.
September 15, 2019 · 4:15 PM · RECTANGLE
Allentown, PA
Object appeared from west traveling in straight line eastward. I am a licensed pilot and would estimate object to be travelling at a steady rate about 1500 feet above ground level. Speed estimated to be 80-90 knots. Object was a black rectangle with no flashing lights, no wings, and with no discernible sound. The object had 8+/- sodium colored lights on the underside. These lights were steady and not flashing in anyway. I was unprepared for a sighting of this nature and did not have any recording equipment at the ready. My 19 year old daughter was with me. I brought it to her attention and she witnessed it as well. The object was not far from the flight path from the East Texas VOR to LVIA International however it did not head towards LVIA or Queen City Airport. I could see it for several miles until it went beyond my vision never deviating from its straight line course.