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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
August 26, 2019 · 11:00 PM · FIREBALL
Glenwood Springs, CO
We were star gazing, watching for meteors. Saw five or six shooting stars. Then around 2300 hrs., we saw what we thought was another shooting star that kept going, and then at the last second it darted back and forth in a zig-zag motion, shot straight up and disappeared. It was red in color the entire time, and came from the Southwest sky, went right below Jupiter (from our vantage point) and continued going East until it bounced back and forth before disappearing. It was small in size (same size as the meteors we saw) and there was no noise. Again, we thought it was just another meteor that was taking its time burning out until it did its zig zag motion.
August 26, 2019 · 10:48 PM · LIGHT
Colorado Springs, CO
While taking our friend home with my girlfriend, we drove down a sloped hill. Spotted by our friend first, we all saw a fireball about 8,000 feet high, it stayed there for ten seconds, before I started recording as it descended down to 2,000 feet and began to fade and disappear. The light was orange in colour and glowed brightly, it was around the size of 4 stars in the night sky.
August 26, 2019 · 8:45 PM · SPHERE
Hamer, SC
I was sitting on my porch and saw a flash of light. I thought it was lightning so I looked up and saw a very bright sphere with an orange glow. It was moving very slow and the light was pulsating or the object was rotating. I ran in the house and got my son and father-in-law. Came back out and saw it again. It would go from dim to dark to extremely bright. It was still moving slow and stopping. All of a sudden it shot up into air and disappeared, but came back just as fast. While looking for the first one a second one came in just like it and followed a very similar pattern. The objects appeared like a sphere but the light or glow around it was similar to an upside down top.
August 26, 2019 · 12:56 PM · FIREBALL
Warren, OH
Near military airbase, high in sky, object explodes & crashes to the ground, followed quickly by military jet
August 26, 2019 · 1:12 AM · DISK
Madera, CA
I was driving home on the freeway it came as low as an overpass on a freeway looked like it was going to crash in to the ground it suddenly stopped and leveled out but began to wobble from side to side like it was unbalanced it then continued heading south and quickly vanished there was semis and two cars by me but not many people witnessed it with me, although we all slowed down and almost stopped, as this was happening
August 25, 2019 · 11:45 PM · DISK
Lake Ann, MI
My brother, visiting from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, was taking our Golden Retrievers out for them to go the bathroom. He quickly ran in and said that there was something in the air. I looked and saw what looked like a drone shaped object. It wasn't an airplane or a helicopter because there was no noise. It hovered back and forth, from the right to the left for about 5 seconds when I got out there. The lights were red and white and were on and off from red to white. Then it all of a sudden disappeared.
August 25, 2019 · 11:17 PM · FIREBALL
Bradenton, FL
I was out on my pool lanai, looking up at sky, talking with my brother on my phone, when I noticed an object in the sky that was just still, it was like a vertical rod and just stayed above the pine tree line. I kept my eye on it and just dismissed it as some refection, although I knew that was not possible. I then noticed after about 6 minutes it just disappeared. A few minutes later, what looked like a fireball traveled across the top of my lanai screen I could not believe my eyes I told my brother what I was seeing was unreal and could not be possible. It looked like a miniature meteorite or shooting star, but they don’t travel horizontal across the top of a high pool cage screen. It wobbled a bit and traveled on a steady course and disappeared out of my line of vision. It did not have a trail behind it but looked like the back of a rocket, no noise at all. Very strange and unsettling. I would say it looked like a “flame” around a ball. We live on 10 acres. It was very unsettling.
August 25, 2019 · 10:50 PM · LIGHT
Lockhart, TX
Stepped outside of apartments at 142 and toll road 130. Was looking up at the clouds to see if chance of rain. While looking north east I had noticed a dull light in the sky. I thought at first maybe a drone but realized it had no actual shape or flashing colored lights. It didn't have any sound and moved extremely fast and changed directions in an instant. It appeared to be extremely high in the sky because it would disappear in and out of the very high clouds. I watched it dart around the sky for about 30 seconds before it made its final disappearance in the clouds not to be seen again. It didn't have an actual shape from what I could tell just a dull white light.
August 25, 2019 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
East Dummerston, VT
A very bright orange light caught my attention. I looked; it was larger than any star (5x) moving slowly. I couldn’t tell what it was. It shrunk to nothing in a matter of seconds. I assume it was moving away from me, or up.
August 25, 2019 · 8:50 PM · LIGHT
Lexington, OH
I run a Facebook news group and have had several people report seeing a blue light in the sky southeast of Lexington. They are also reporting their house lights vehicle lights dimmed or blocked off then back on during the sighting of the object.
August 25, 2019 · 4:00 PM · DIAMOND
South Gate, CA
My son and I were in the backyard enjoying the hot day in the pool... then my son says hey mom “what is that”? ... I looked up and I wasn’t expecting to see what I had seen... at first I thought to myself it’s a balloon someone accidentally let go or something but a couple minutes past and it was still there just hovering in the sky ... it appeared to be made out of something metal in a diamond shape ... as it was hovering and turned the sun I guess reflected off the object and suddenly would get super shiny/bright ... yes at this point I was recording with my phone ... once we went back in the house I went to go check out the video and when I played it and zoomed in I realized that there was a few flying around the hovering one .. but it was at speeds from somewhere else the other flying objects were shooting up and down so fast... as I kept watching the video there it was a pill shape object that flew by also something else that was long sort of cylinder ! shape... about 15-20 minutes past and I looked away for a second and when I looked back they were gone..
August 25, 2019 · 3:00 PM · CIRCLE
Center Groton, CT
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August 25, 2019 · 12:00 PM · FLASH
Boise, ID
At roughly midnight, I was in my backyard looking up at the sky. A diffuse object proceeded from mid sky (it just kind of appeared) and headed in a SSE direction. I believed it to be a shooting star, as it got brighter as it progressed. Then, just before it got to the roofline of the neighboring house, it immediately changed direction, heading SE (about 23 degree change). It then disappeared behind the roofline. The entire occurrence lasted less than 2 seconds. There were no sounds made (airplane/helicopter). I am ex-military (Army), and am also the son of retired military (USAF), so have quite a bit of experience with military aircraft. This was much faster than I have seen anything move in the sky - like I said, my first impression was a shooting star. Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
August 25, 2019 · 12:00 PM · LIGHT
Key Biscayne, FL
Attended a busy luncheon this past Sunday. It began to rain heavily. I took a photo of the skyline and noticed the 5 Pink lights in the sky above later on when I posted the photo online.
August 25, 2019 · 11:30 AM · UNKNOWN
Lothian, MD
As being a skywatcher for many hours a night along with my wife we have seen and reported before. August 25 2019 at 11:30 my wife and I were sitting outside in lawn chairs looking up pointing out groups of stars with a high powered astronomy laser towards the east and as my wife pointed out a cluster of stars with the laser and as she pointed to a what we had being viewing as a star for the past 40 minutes, what we thought was a star illuminated a super bright gold flash that lasted about a two seconds. So I used the high powered laser and made two flashes right on its location and within seconds it replied back with two flashes. I followed back with three quick flashes and just like before it replies back with the same amount of flashes. Amazed at what we were witnessing I gave it two quick flashes and two drawn out flashes and after about a second or two it replies with the exact same. This all had taken place over a 5 minute period. Then it slowly dimmed down to the same brightness of the surrounding stars and slowly dropped down to the same level as the stars below its first location. It illuminated bright as before ( which reminded me of little sun ). So after we both witnessed its movements and it’s intelligent replies it sat for about 3 minutes and slowly faded out. This area along the Patuxent River and its swamps is one of the most hot spots I’ve ever lived or witnessed in my life.
August 25, 2019 · 1:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Altoona, PA
Unknown Object (1) flashing red/blue lights while slowly rising into sky before stopping and begin flashing a white light. This is when we (friend and I) noticed multiple objects blinking as well.
August 25, 2019 · 12:00 AM · CIRCLE
Cassendra, PA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 25, 2019 · 12:00 AM · CYLINDER
Garden Grove, CA
When it went behind a cat wash sign it did not reappear from the other side of the sign.
August 24, 2019 · 11:30 PM · OTHER
Rosman, NC
11:30pm...Started seeing a very bright light at the top of the mountain across from our Mountain top view. Distance was around 3,500 feet. Watched the intense white light move around the area where it was hanging out. Watched it for an hour or so. Thought it may have been really bright lights on a 4x4 at the top of the mountain. Then I saw it moving up in the air and this is when I got very curious. I went and setup my 50x spotting scope on a tripod and zoomed in on the light. This is when I started saying out loud “what the f$@! Is that!!!” With my eye it just looked like 1 bright light. Through the spotting scope it was 2 concentric rings. Both rings had a number of round lights/spheres. 6 to 8 equally spaced lights on the outer ring. 4 to 6 equally spaced lights on the inner ring. All the lights appeared to be the same size. It appeared to be hovering just over the treetops moving around in the same general area. At times it would quickly squiggle up mayb! e 100 feet or more then squiggle down to where it was. After a couple of hours of hovering and moving around a bit, it seemed to have landed as it was now stationary and the light was filtered through the trees. Although there still seemed to be a little movement. My two buddies were all witness to this. We were all very perplexed as to what we were seeing. Watched this for a total of 6 hours. Finally fell asleep from exhaustion. Tried getting photos through the scope with our phones..did not work.
August 24, 2019 · 11:00 PM · CHANGING
Muscatine, IA
We had a cloudy night and it stayed above the clouds. All I could see was the colored lights changed shapes and it was in a square then a triangle shape then lights shot around so fast we couldn't have done it. The lights were white, red, green and blue. Where it left the clouds left like it was hiding behind it.
August 24, 2019 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Corrales, NM
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 24, 2019 · 9:40 PM · TRIANGLE
Cleveland (West Park), OH
Saturday, 8/24/19, 9:40pm EDT over the West Side of Cleveland. I was sitting outside doing a fire pit in my back yard with one of my neighbors. I'm in the West Park area of Cleveland, but almost in Brook Park, not far from Hopkins Airport. My neighbor was sitting facing the right direction, ENE, to see it first. I was facing N. She said, "Hey, look at THAT, behind the trees!" There was a triangular formation of 3 steady solid red lights. I'd guess ENE at about 55 degrees on the compass, and maybe 25-30 degrees above the ground. I think the triangle was pointing down, with the 2 lights on top, and 1 below. Was so excited, I don't remember for sure, but definitely was a triangle. She can't recall either. The formation finally came over the trees, but was much higher up, going WSW about 250 degrees and seemed high in the sky. They were completely silent. Took maybe a minute or less to transverse the sky, I don't know how high up they were. I would say the triangle was the width of 2 full moons. The formation broke up into the lights being side by side after being just overhead, but a little to the north, and got dimmer and somewhat translucent as it went toward the WSW. 2 more red lights came from the ENE, side by side, and went the same way, then 2 more dimmer ones the same way. Then my neighbor then said, "Look", pointing slightly in the WSW direction, I couldn't see it. maybe my eyes couldn't adjust looking over the bright fire pit, but she said a round red light maybe 20X as big, she called it "the mother ship" but she said it was very dim and could hardly see it herself, with the other red lights surrounding it, all moving WSW and just faded as to the WSW she said. I thought all the lights were faded and gone by the tine she seen the big dim one. Looked to me on the ones I could see, they were going just maybe slightly north of Hopkins Airport and still high in the sky. The West Side and maybe downtown had to see it. I tried video recording it on my phone, but my screen was pitch black, phone not good in the dark. Later on I seen at one point I got 2 faint dots, what I assume were the top 2 lights, the bottom light must have been hidden by the trees. That's all I got as nothing showing in my viewing screen to aim at as it was moving.
August 24, 2019 · 9:35 PM · FORMATION
Puyallup, WA
1. We were on a road driving west, when my son noticed 2 lights on the left (to the south of center in front of us) that were traveling an outdistance apart toward the North. It was approximately 25-30 Degrees Further away, I would say 20 miles plus to the North was the front point of the triangle they formed. This looked about 45-50 degrees This thing was MASSIVE! I’m not saying it was a solid object but the formation was massive. None of these light were flashing. Solid looking light. 2. An airplane, flashing, flew in front of the formation (on our side) and kept going. It was about that time we heard and saw a HELICOPTER fly over us going toward the west toward the formation. We could not tell the color of the chopper. 3. The lights kept traveling until the trees got in the way and we lost track of them. The moved seemingly much slower than the airplane but could be because they were much further away. 4. Two more craft (lights) arose over the horizon for a total of 5 now. These two lights were just over the horizon started rising and took the same path of the others in formation. 5. WE DO HAVE VIDEO OF THE WHOLE THING!
August 24, 2019 · 9:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Memphis, TN
I was looking out across the field in front of my house and noticed a grey triangle shape moving across the top of the treeline (about 3/4 of a mile away). It was moving extremely fast. At first I thought it was just a cloud because it was grey in front of the black of the background sky. But within a split second I realized hat it couldn't be a cloud because you just don't see triangle shaped clouds moving at approximately 1,000 mph. Before i could grab a phone picture or do anything it disappeared into the blackness of the sky. It was very weird. Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD