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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
July 31, 2019 · 10:25 PM · OTHER
Oologah, OK
The object seamed to have a diamond shape with a projection on the bottom that seemed to sway. It move sporadically and the project had at least two lights that flashed every few seconds. It seem to stop, and hover in one place, before lowering behind the treelike. As it was receding, I managed to look at it in a telescope and it was bright enough to make out the diamond shape and projection with lights. Once it stopped moving sporadically, the swing of the projection stopped as well. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 31, 2019 · 10:15 PM · LIGHT
Portland, IN
This is the 4th time seeing this same light but this time it was moving west heading east moving steady pace no blinking lights just a very bright light like a star same exact object we've seen go straight up before disappearing.
July 31, 2019 · 9:52 PM · LIGHT
Manson, WA
Four of us star/planet gazing. Checking out Jupiter with binoculars in attempt to see its moons. Jupiter was almost due south, maybe a few degrees east of due south. Guessing 20 degrees above horizon. Turned away for a second, other 3 witnesses started saying "what is that". Look again toward Jupiter. (unit for distance I will use the width of thumbnail at arm's length). About 1 unit left (east) of Jupiter and 2 or 3 below, two bright lights had now appeared, one exactly over the other. Spacing between the two lights was one unit or very close. Brightness of each was not quite as bright as Jupiter, or brighter than the few stars around Jupiter. Motion, barely detectable, but I felt they were moving north. The top one dimmed out in about 3 to 4 seconds, and then the bottom one dimmed out in the same amount of time. Checked phone app, could not find any satellites to match this close pair. Found some that were about a minute and a half ap! art on the app I have, but nothing found being that close together. One witness perceived their height to be lower than jet liner altitudes. I could not tell. My perception of their speed, after spotting satellites for years, is that they were moving far slower than the usual satellites I see. We did see the ISS at 22:25 hours as well.
July 31, 2019 · 9:40 PM · SPHERE
Black Forest/Colorado Springs, CO
Three bright orbs were seen floating in the sky when one disappeared suddenly, and the other two were seen slowly descending towards the ground for landing.
July 31, 2019 · 9:33 PM · LIGHT
Clarksville, TN
Witness was on her way home from work and when approaching the first marker (on the map), got a clear view of a bright, white light over to her left. (See the Black Star on Annotated Map.) Object was previously obscured by trees, but as her vehicle made the turn around the bend in the road, it came into view. She had not seen or known about it before getting to that spot. It was moving slowly in an angle to the right but coming towards her. It appeared to be moving slow and in her general direction. The flight path seemed to be more or less level in flight, neither ascending or decending. When she drove further down the road to where the second marker is on the map, that's when it immediately zipped off to the right and disappeared. (See the Black Star on the Annotated Map.) It was a very quick maneuver that didn't go up or down from there..just off to the right in her field of view. The other strange part about this was that when it shot off to the right, i! t seemed to disappear while in full view, just kind of winked out. There were no trees in the way or anything obscuring the view when that happened. She slowed down and began trying to see if she could find it again but to no avail. When she continued down the road to the third marker on the map, she saw a helicopter (marked as a blue star) which she thought might be lifeflight as they fly up from Nashville and often take people to the hospital down there. It had more than just the white lights so she knew it was something normal. At this point, she was about to tum off of 101st when she called her husband to tell him to check his MADAR unit. The phone call was made at 9:33 pm. She was only a minute or two away from the house when she made that call. (Residence is indicated using a Red Star on the Annotated Map.)
July 31, 2019 · 9:15 PM · EGG
Ararat, VA
Witness was on the way home from work. The sighting was about 1/2 mile on Squirrel Creek Road coming in from the Squirrel Spur Rd end. Witness saw a large dense cloud hovering in the sky after witnessing what looked like lightening inside the cloud! A huge house size football shaped object appeared out of the cloud. It had bright lights all around it. It hovered for a few seconds with no sound or motion. It was just sitting there. Then all of a sudden it turned and went backwards at light speed and disapeared in thin air. It was like it was using the cloud as cover and the cloud moved unexpectedly leaving it exposed! Witness has never witnessed anything like this before and was left puzzled and very shaken. (MUFON CMS)
July 31, 2019 · 9:15 PM · OVAL
Ararat, VA
I saw a large dense cloud hovering in the sky after witnessing what looked like lightening inside the cloud! A huge house size football shaped object appeared out of the cloud. It had bright lights all around it. It hovered for a few seconds with no sound or motion. It was just sitting there. Then all of a sudden it went backwards at light speed and disapeared in thin air. It was like it was using the cloud as cover and the cloud moved unexpectedly leaving it exposed! I have never witnessed anything like this before in my whole life. It left me puzzled and very shaken!
July 31, 2019 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Chattanooga, TN
While driving down the highway last night, a single bright orange fireball arose vertically over the tree line in the horizon. It glowed brighter and brighter and seemed to increase in size. Once it reached the middle of the sky it began swiftly moving to the right and vanished. It was me, my brother, and my sister. We could not believe our eyes. We could not figure out what it was. As soon as it appeared, it vanished. It left an eerie silence in its wake. Later that night, after I went to bed, I vaguely recall waking up and seeing crazy lights flashing in my window and a hearing a strange rumbling noise. I tried to fully wake up but I couldn’t, it was like I was stuck in a haze. I finally snapped out of the “haze” when my dog jumped on my bed and started wining. I assumed there was a thunderstorm (I thought what I had experienced was lightening and thunder and my dog only whines during storms) but when I checked the weather it was crystal clear.
July 31, 2019 · 9:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Shreveport, LA
UFO Sighting - Date - July 31, 2019 Time - 8-9pm CST hour Location - Shreveport, Louisiana # Of Sightings Experienced - 1, second hand # of Persons Involved / Witnesses (number of those present, not their names) - Two (brother, neighbor) Description of events leading to, during and post sighting - Asked my brother on 8/1 if he'd ever seen a UFO and he laughed and said "Last night" and that he'd gotten a photo of it on his phone. He explained that it was three lights in the sky. I interjected, "triangle shaped?" and he nodded, agreeing. He said he and his friend (a neighbor at the end of the drive) were outside talking last night and saw this formation of three lights. The neighbor is the one who'd taken the photo with his cellphone (don't know what kind). It remained in place for awhile and then vanished. Neighbor forwarded the photo to my brother's phone and it was accidentally deleted. He texted the neighbor with my number and asked if he'd forward the photo to me. Neighbor did so. Description of UFO/UAP - Three bright white orb lights or glowing orbs hovering not too high over the condos across from neighbor's. Remained in the sky for an unknown amount of time before they noticed it. Vanished = one second it was there, the next it wasn't. No further details. Photos / Video - [Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/FjDx5sX.jpg)
July 31, 2019 · 8:15 PM · CIGAR
Astoria, NY
Looking out window it caught my eye. Red and white. Going fast stops short stays still went back and forth and up and down and zig zag. I have a video not too good didn't zoom, but you can see the movements.
July 31, 2019 · 6:30 PM · OTHER
Los Angeles, CA
At 18:30PM I SAW 3 PLANES FLYING IN TRIANGLE FORMATION. A MINUTE LATER, I SAW A BLINKING LIGHT IN THE SAME AREA. BEFORE THE BLINKING LIGHT VANISHED, THERE WAS ANOTHER BRIGHT EXPLOSION OF SOME KIND RIGHT NEXT TO IT.
July 31, 2019 · 9:40 AM · FIREBALL
Millbrook, NY
When we used the app and looked into the phone, it didn’t come up as anything. We looked back to the sky and it had vanished. Mad weird. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 31, 2019 · 7:39 AM · FLASH
Lakeville, MN
Took 5 photos of a strange cloud pattern and vapor trail using my iPhone. My son watched me take the pictures and was the one that noticed the green flash in the upper left corner of 2 of the 5 the pictures, and thought it could be a ufo.
July 31, 2019 · 1:00 AM · DISK
Fernandina Beach, FL
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 30, 2019 · 11:00 PM · OVAL
Shelby, MI
We were enjoying the meteor shower on the beach of Lake Michigan off the private community of Cobmoosa Shores in Shelbym Michigan. We witnessed several shooting stars and satellites. It was myself, my partner, our 12 year old son and his friend. This bright circle sphere oval was very large and coming from the north. It travelled past us and we continued to watch it and suddenly it disappeared. While we were observing the only person who had a phone was my son and I asked him to take a video but he didn’t LISTEN and just took a picture. As clear as the sky was though the only thing that pleated was this unifentified flying object, not even a single star of the millions we seen showed up with it. We continued to watch after this observation to see if satellites disappeared or we could see across the whole sky we could. We watched airplanes to see the same. On our way home near Kokomo, Indiana, strange things were happening on our car map which made me look into things and figured I should report this.
July 30, 2019 · 10:55 PM · CROSS
Sicklerville, NJ
This evening my boyfriend and I both saw a object which at first looked like a air plane crashing down. After getting closer to it we saw beaming bright lights and it was hovering over the technical school in sicklerville. We turned around to see if we could see or take a picture but it was already gone. It was spotted for about 40 seconds. It had orange and white lights and looked like a X. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 30, 2019 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Albuquerque, NM
Three circle shaped lights maneuvered across the sky, going straight slowing down than speeding up every 3 or so seconds, the lights would also periodically disappear and reaper with a flash of light as if they were cloaking and un-cloaking.
July 30, 2019 · 10:30 PM · CIRCLE
Folly Beach, SC
Tonight, sitting on the beach at Folly Beach South Carolina, myself, my wife, and my son-in-law observed what we can only term as a UFO. Or rather a series of UFO‘ S. It was approximately 10:30 PM Eastern time on 7/30/2019, when I pointed out to my wife that were some points of orange light appearing and then disappearing out over the ocean. Note: at Folly Beach we are facing south as opposed to east on most of the east coast of the USA. We assumed those were airliners although the color was very different than anything I have seen in the past, however that could be explained by cloud cover or any number of things. My wife went inside and my son and I were talking, when I suddenly shouted out what the heck is that? He turned around and saw the tail end of what I was seeing, but what I had seen was a series of orange dots in pairs descending towards the ocean from our vantage point at a 45° angle from the South by South East sky. We talked about it for a minut! e and just decided that we didn’t know what it was. My wife came back outside, we told her what we had seen, and kind of laughed it off. After a few minutes, though, all three of us saw another series of pairs of orange lights progressing south to north in front of us. Our son also saw another series of lights coming west to east, although considerably south of us. My wife and I were aware of those other lights but we were focused on the ones directly in front of us, straight to the south. These were very straight line events, there were no orange shapes fluttering around in the air. They came as two dots, Then within a second two more dots, And then again and again until there were four sets of dots on two parallel lines pointing roughly in our direction. Then they were gone, quickly disappearing. The lights off to the east also behaved in the same fashion and disappeared almost in the same second. OK, I am an engineer, my wife is an artist, and my son-in-law is an IT specialist. We don’t actually see the world in the same way, but we saw this exactly the same. And none of the three of us can explain what we saw. My wife and I lived under a flight pattern for midway airport in Chicago, and sitting out at night we used to see airliners flying over all the time. I have never seen a series of dots, appearing in the sky that far away in a sudden sequence, where in the space of a second that had to be hundreds of miles apart, straight, parallel, and in a consistent pattern. An hour later we are still sitting out here, unable to go to bed, because we cannot begin to understand what we saw. I suppose we will sit out here most of the night waiting for something more to show, and nothing will come. But we will know that we have seen something that cannot be explained by relatively sophisticated people.
July 30, 2019 · 10:30 PM · FLASH
Albuquerque, NM
Full clear sky, bright bluish flash took over entire sky around. Point of origin seemed to change from east to south. 3 separate flashes of 10 minutes.
July 30, 2019 · 10:00 PM · FORMATION
Isle of Palms, SC
My wife, son, daughter in law, and I were all sitting on the beach getting ready to look for shooting stars when we all saw four (4) orange lights in a tight formation - forming a straight line. A few seconds later, another identical formation of 4 lights appeared to the right, maybe 15 degrees apart from the first one. Both formations disappeared at exactly the same time after only a few seconds. We later determined that we were facing due south at the time.
July 30, 2019 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Folly Beach, SC
My wife and I were stargazing near the water on a clear night. There was light cloud cover and a storm very far out to sea. Our first sighting was what appeared to be 5 orange lights, all in a row parallel to the horizon, slipping from behind a cloud, moving out and around the cloud, then moving back into the cloud and fading. This occurred in the skies south of our position. Total visible time was about 10-12 seconds. These objects were circular, with a slight twinkle to them. The hue was definitely a bright orange, almost yellow toward the middle when they were at their brightest. Throughout the night we saw several single flashes of orange light. The flashes were primarily located in the south eastern sky and only lasted a moment. They resembled jet engines, but we heard no sounds that might indicate military aircraft. Our second sighting, coming just before returning to our house, was of a long string of orbs that seemed to extend/“come from” a single orb that appeared/“turned on” first and began to move slowly. The orbs moved in unison and were bright enough that the orange light they gave off reflected on the ocean surface. Again, they faded into clouds and were gone. Total visible time was again about 10-12 seconds.
July 30, 2019 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Farmington, ME
Shortly after 10PM, my son and I witnessed what we believe to be a UFO. I was putting my 8 year old to bed when we noticed lightning outside his window. So we sat by the open window for a moment and admired the sky in the distance while listening to the thunder. A minute or so went by when I noticed out of the corner of my eye, a bright star-like object moving across the sky. There were no blinking lights so I jokingly told my son it was a UFO. He looked over and the object stopped before our eyes and was hovering!! It was almost like you could see it slightly moving, but it stayed in the same spot. We gave each other this look like, are we really seeing what we think we are?! He then looked back out the window and the light disappeared before his eyes. I double checked to also see if it was gone, and it was but then it reappeared one more time for a few seconds then vanished again before our eyes. Afterward, we both sat there stunned for a moment and tried p! iecing together what just happened. The logical explanation is “weather balloon/satellite.” But my gut is telling me something different. Obviously, I’m not the only one to witness such occurrences, and this isn’t my first time questioning what I’ve seen. I just hope whatever it is, it’s peaceful and just curious!
July 30, 2019 · 9:45 PM · FORMATION
Crow Agency, MT
Eastern cloud covered sky saw 3 orange orbs, 1 was larger, 2 smaller were chasing each other around eventually converging into 1 then vanished.
July 30, 2019 · 9:35 PM · CIRCLE
Climax Springs, MO
My sister and I were both sitting outside on our porch just relaxing for about 10 minutes. She had started to head inside when I see her stop and start staring at what I thought was a tree when she asked, “Do you see that?” The whole time we had been outside there had been the sound of a plane, so I thought she may have just saw the the navigation lights of the before stated planes. I had brushed it off in the beginning and then she said, “No really what is that?” I lift my head to see one bright orange light over our junk pile about 100 feet away and about 30 feet off the ground that’s when I decide to stand up to get a better look. After I get to my feet I see about 5 burning orange light in a diagonal formation. Right away, I knew what it was. This wasn’t the first time that I seen one around the area. On the way home from a family event me and 5 others saw the same similar orange circular lights. At first it was hard to see but then it sent a large beam of orange light onto the field lighting the whole five acres and revealing the the bulging hole and the rest of the aircraft. The light lasted 5 seconds and we were so shaken up we pulled over in a nearby business and got out to look to see were it had went. We were surprised to see a extremely long rectangular shape that was thin at the end and thicker in the middle with lights every 50 feet. This thing was over 500 feet long. Following this large shape were 30 smaller lights formation flying and they would shift places every now and again. That experience had lasted over two minutes before two planes with navigation lights went moving at a high rate speed towards the moving lights. That was the first time we had heard any noise of a plane. After that slowly all of the lights blinked out and were only left with the two pairs of navigation lights which seem like they were in pursuit. With that experience in mind I tell my sister that I believe we were looking at a UFO. As soon as I say this either the craft turned on more lights or changed direction and there are twenty on these ominous orange lights at a forty five degree angle slowly moving up. In shock my eyes could not move off the craft. There was a slight height change before one by one the lights disappeared and there was no further evidence of anything being there. When we open the door both dogs were waiting with a bleak stare, as if something had happened and were fine once interacted with. No one else in the house had noticed a difference, but acknowledged that it occurred more than most would believe.