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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 26, 2019 · 9:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Philipsburg, PA
My brother and I were driving from Philipsburg, PA, to State College, PA, on Rte. 322 South, when I noticed a kite- or diamond-shaped formation of 5 or 6 bright orange balls of light flying in the sky above our car! I was astounded and asked my brother, “What was that?!” He didn’t know. So, I drove up the hill a little bit farther and turned into the Moshannon Valley Regional Business Center. I went to the back of the parking lot where it was a little darker, and we could see the entire vista of the valley facing west and northwest. We had lost sight of the kite-shaped formation, but we were amazed as one bright orange ball of light after another appeared out of the setting sun, came due east straight toward our car, banked to the left and rose simultaneously to another altitude. As they did this, one after another, their lights went completely out and they disappeared. I did happen to catch the silhouette of one after it went “lights out”, and it was shaped sort of like a big, thick war plane with wings back like a jet. But, these were not planes – there were no flashing lights like planes have (they were just bright balls of orange lights – almost like someone setting off fireworks that flew horizontally through the air – and then they each banked to the left, rose up and went black). I noticed that someone else reported the exact same thing on 07/17/19 in Altoona, PA, which is about 45 miles southwest of State College, PA where we live. Here is the experience that they reported: Bright orange big light quiet, appeared to the south moved across the sky & got dimmer then dissipated, repeated 5 times over 1/2 hour. I saw an orange light pretty bright & big sort of just appeared at a point south of my house moved across the sky towards the north, after a couple minutes kept getting less bright then sort of dissipated, no sound at all. At first I thought it was a big plane or a drone, but then another appeared at the same spot and moved across the sky and again after a few minutes it got weaker and dissipated around the same area to the north like the other one had. I got my wife out of the house and she watched it happen 3 more times with me, we both were confused at what we were seeing. This happened 5 times over about 30 minutes then it stopped. Can someone PLEASE help me and tell me that we did NOT see a UFO in the night sky last night?!?
July 26, 2019 · 8:02 PM · SPHERE
Adirondack, NY
We were on the east shore of Schroon Lake, on our deck, when a broght light appeared over the lake. It slowly came towards our position, then curved towards the northeast. It was a steady bright orange on color, completely silent, no blinking outboard lights. From our vantage point the object went behind some trees, turned sharply northwest, then simply disappeared. I have one photo, video did not record.
July 26, 2019 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Nantucket, MA
Walking along Old South rd toward the airport, we saw the lights seemingly approaching the island from the south eastern sky. They were randomly scattered in close proximity to each other moving at the same speed. After a moment or so one sped up unnaturally ahead of the rest and slowed suddenly to its original speed. One by one they slowly circled back south and blacked out. I called the Nantucket atc control tower and the controller on duty claimed to see them as well as an aircraft that had just taken off in the direction of the lights. He told me that there was nothing on his radar and also queried the aircraft which reported them at an unknown distance.
July 26, 2019 · 8:00 AM · CIGAR
Park Rapids, MN
On the morning of July 26 about 8:00-9:00 a.m. I was sitting in my three season porch facing South, the morning was clear blue sky. I looked up and could see out the window what I thought was an airplane. It struck me though that it was moving very slowly, I’m guessing 100mph. It was silver, and cigar shaped and horizontal, no windows. I noticed that I couldn’t see the wings, and thought it was perpendicular to my line of sight, then also noticed it had no tail. Then it dawned on me and I said, “what the “+*@$” is that?” As it registered in my brain that it was something odd, the cigar object moved behind a tree on my property, (blocking my view) and I quickly got up and went outside to see it without being hidden behind the tree. It was gone. I thought that was really strange since if it was some kind of drone, or if it was a plane that turned, I would see it falling or turning. It was gone in a matter of about 5 seconds it took me to move away f! rom the tree that blocked my line of sight. I went in the house to get my camera and yelled to my wife to come out. I have a cannon camera and figured I would take a video in case it came back, and aimed at approximately where I thought the object should be. I took about two 30 second videos and saw nothing. Later that week I watched the videos on my computer several times. All I have is just the standard window type programs. I saw a quick movement on one of the videos which I would guess is about a 10th of a second. I eventually got a snapshot of the video. Using again just the standard windows programs, with the various filters it looked like there were four brief lights on the sides of the object. Very poor quality since I had to zoom in. The object was now canted at a vertical angle. Maybe it was a bug… I really am not sure. Also, it never occurred to me at the time that the object made no sound. I would estimate that the object was about 3,000 feet in elevation and may have been within a mile or so of the Park Rapids airport which is South of my location. We have small planes, smaller jets, and corporate planes that use this airport as well as helicopters that fly nearby. Also strange, and maybe this is not connected to staring at the sky where the object was… but I noticed something odd in my vision after this incident. I see the outline of an open at the top and bottom an Octagon. I would call it an “open octagon.” I see it with both eyes, it isn’t floaters and I never noticed this problem before. It has been two months and I still see this problem in my vision. I asked my wife if she saw this and she said she saw something like, “half of the octagon,” at the time. She doesn’t see that anymore. I see this open octagon when I look at something like blue sky, and it is only visible as I look from one spot to another for a brief moment and then it is gone. I looked up Palinopsia but that isn’t exactly the same. I am a 70 year old military veteran.
July 26, 2019 · 2:30 AM · CIRCLE
Odum, GA
3 bright, close together white lights. No sound. Slowly but steady moving at mid to tree top height. Tried to get video but it was gone before I could get it on. There wasn't a streak of lights, just gone.
July 26, 2019 · 2:15 AM · DIAMOND
Port St. Lucie, FL
After about 5 minutes I started hearing a high pitched thunder sound, kind of like a jet fighter ripping through the air, I started to see Triangular/long Diamond shaped UFOs, I counted 8 total, 2 in the North, East, South and West just hovering and making a humming sound, they HAD to be thousands of feet up in the sky bc the Binoculars I have aren’t crappy My Curiosity got the best of me and I go back out around 3:50Am-4:07Am this time with 2 laser pointers and figure if its really NOT a plane, cause IF it IS a commercial aircraft or silent drone then im in trouble and there will be cops down the street on top of being charged bc that ca! n hurt a pilot. Shined the lasers in the direction of the UFOs and LITERALLY, one of them shot across the sky like a freaking fireball, that’s seriously when I came in and forget that man I ain’t going out there no more alone at dark.
July 26, 2019 · 2:00 AM · DISK
St. Francis, SD
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 26, 2019 · 1:00 AM · CROSS
Spokane, WA
Object looked very large flying from east to west. Object was very high in the sky and looked like 50 satellites combined into one large UFO. This object was by far the largest I have seen in my life. I am 50 years old. It was moving very fast and completely silent. It wasn't skipping across our atmosphere and it didn't appear to be burning. This UFO never changed in color. The color was a bright soft white color. There was no colored lights blinking indicating that it was an aircraft. After about 45 seconds it vanished from full brightness to nothing. My 18 year old son was with me. I will never forget what I saw last night. I tried to video with my phone and couldn't zoom in to get a good video. I did try and saved what I have.
July 26, 2019 · 12:05 AM · RECTANGLE
Brownsburg, IN
As we sat around the fire pit, we noticed a UFO flying sporadic and not like a plane or helicopter.
July 25, 2019 · 11:20 PM · TRIANGLE
New York City, NY
On the night of July 25th, I witnessed a UFO sighting in the sky over New York City in the East Harlem Willis Avenue bridge area which connects Manhattan with the South Bronx. It was silently hovering in the night sky at approximately 11:20pm with lights (green and red) flickering on and off. This triangular "vehicle" eventually moved in a straight south direction, stopped, reversed course and then proceeded to move in a straight northward direction towards the Bronx New York. I was just startled by its presence. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 25, 2019 · 10:35 PM · TRIANGLE
Delanson, NY
Was sitting outside my house, stargazing. I live in a pretty rural area so the sky is really clear and easy to see on cloudless nights. I heard what I thought was a helicopter flying pretty low and I didn't pay attention to it until it more into my line of vision. I noticed there were three lights and I figured, for a second, it was three flying in formation, BUT I kept watching and the lights stayed completely equidistant the entire time. I went to our back porch to get a better look and I saw the barest hint of a triangle silhouette. I watched the lights disappear behind the hills, the lights stayed totally equidistant and did not change (not at all like the brigades of helicopters I've seen flying together, even at night). One of them was red.
July 25, 2019 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Lancaster, PA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 25, 2019 · 9:15 PM · FIREBALL
Surf City, NC
Reddish orange orbs appearing several miles off coast and at least 2 thousand feet above sea and higher. Sometimes one light would appear then a pair side by side similar to the December 2018 sighting in outer banks. Lights appeared intermittently for about an hour.
July 25, 2019 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
North Topsail Beach, NC
Lights appeared in the sky off the coast of Topsail Beach. They were reddish in color. They would appear every 10 minutes or so (irregularly) in varying directions along the coast. Sometimes they were single points, sometimes they appeared as two closely adjacent points of light. They are stationary, last for a few moments, then fade. The lights appeared one at a time usually, but the final event witnessed involved four lights appearing simultaneously in different directions off the coast. During this last event, two were single lights, two were doublets. This appears to be a similar phenomenon to that reported here’s: https://www.wbtv.com/2018/12/04/ufo-strange-video-lights-capture-off-north-carolina-coast/ They did not behave or look light flares. It should be noted that this location is very near to Camp Legeune.
July 25, 2019 · 9:00 PM · CIRCLE
Pearl (Cowdrey ), CO
My husband and I saw 4 amber orange circular lights in the Mount Zirkle Wilderness area. There are no roads in this area as it is federal wilderness area. The lights moved very fast up the side of the mountain. One light then shot straight up in the sky and the others completely disappeared. This is beetle kill timber area with many downed trees making it impossible to travel and any high speed yet these lights moved at a high rate of speed.
July 25, 2019 · 8:00 PM · CIRCLE
Topsail Beach, NC
Saw 2 red lights next to each other about 5 miles away. Paired lights would dim down then re-appear at a different location in height and left to right. This happened many times and the 2 lights (sometimes only one) were always at different locations in the sky appearing for maybe 7-10 seconds at a time. After a few hours of random locations, 5 pairs of lights lit up across the sky (perfectly synchronized on and off) for several seconds then they all faded out and I never saw them again for the rest of the night. The lights looked exactly like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=GkUs79K940E except they appeared more red in color. When we saw the lights, the internet connection went away. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 25, 2019 · 7:00 PM · FORMATION
Marion, NC
Observed 3 objects in a triangular formation at high altitude ie: 30-40K ft. which remained stationary for approximately 10 minutes in the NW evening sky. There was no noise and no con-trail. The objects did not move. After observing for approximately 10 minutes, 2 of the objects disappeared, one remained. Shortly afterwards the one remaining object began to move slowly in a NW direction at the same high altitude and suddenly disappeared.
July 25, 2019 · 5:30 PM · OVAL
Decatur, TX
July 25,2019 Between 17:30 Southeast of Decatur, Texas my husband and I were traveling west on highway US 380 from Denton to Decatur. I noticed one oval disc looking object hovering in the Southwestern sky. It was a clear day except for some large Altocumulus clouds floating in the sky. I observed it as it went into a cloud and never reappeared.
July 25, 2019 · 5:22 PM · OTHER
Pyramid Lake, NV
Report It turns out that I have encountered and documented unexplained things in the sky on three separate occasions. The most recent was enough for me to look back at a video I had taken almost three months earlier and as I was organizing the material a finger twitch led me to the recycle bin where I found a deleted folder with an object that looks very much like what I saw and documented most recently. Starting with the oldest. On July 27, 2016, at 7:11 (time stamp), I saw something unusual out at pyramid Lake NV and took two pictures. I’m assuming I observed it only for a short time. It wasn’t until the other day when I was organizing all the unexplained material I have that I restored the deleted pictures taken in 2016. I had forgotten about it and as with the next sighting I didn’t think that much of it at the time. How I found them is as bizarre as any of it. On March 31, 2019, at 1:52 PM, I took a video with my phone of an object north of my location in Sun Valley, NV. Minutes prior to that I was out emptying garbage or something and noticed something in the sky. It looked like a Mylar balloon that was reflecting the sun in intervals. Not exact intervals. I remember thinking that I live in the flight path; debris that high doesn’t seem safe. I saw my neighbor, brought his attention to it and grabbed my phone. As my neighbor and I watched it he was saying it was garbage and I thought yah a piece of Mylar but a 4x8 sheet because it looked too far away to be a one foot balloon. I took several pictures not able to see it in the viewfinder just point and shoot. With the eyes it would not be visible for moments and then you would see it flash brightly and repeatedly (possibly 2 or 3 different intervals) for a few seconds. I don’t recall how it ended as far as, I think I got bored and went inside as opposed to it disappeared. Probably 5 t! o 15 minutes of observation. At the time with my neighbors’ comments and opinion that it was nothing, I wasn’t personally very excited and didn’t download the pictures and video to a desktop until June 7th. If memory serves I saw nothing on the pictures and deleted them and wasn’t excited enough to render the video in order to capture a still to zoom in on until July 1st. I became more excited to see what the object in the video looked like when I had a third encounter with an unexplained object in the sky that I observed for probably 40 minutes. I’ve now crawled over the video and captured quite a few stills from the March 31 video. One still fortuitously caught a fly passing by and I also captured 5 stills (or snapshots) labeled “move sequence” showing what appears to be a second object appearing and moving away from the first object very fast as the first object disappears. The whole event of the second object lasted less than a second! Digital zoom on the video frame doesn’t seem to be as good as wi! th photos but the object looks extremely similar to both encounters at Pyramid despite the fact that to the eye in March it looked defined shining and strobing. In June of this year and July of 2016 (at Pyramid Lake) the object to the eye looked like a small roundish white cloud. June was wispy and undefined but you could see it all the time, it didn’t move and it looked a different color temperature than the surrounding clouds. Tuesday June 25th 2019 I drove out to Pyramid Lake NV for a swim. I purchased a day use pass at 4:23 PM and took the (I think 15 minute) drive to Wino beach. I don’t recall how long I observed the strange object I saw in the sky before I took the first picture at 5:22. The object I saw to the East of my location looked like a very small cloud but it was a significantly whiter color. What really made me take notice was that it was not moving with the surrounding clouds. I took 27 pictures and one video never seeing it in the viewfinder over the course of about 17 minutes. I believe I may have not seen it for a little while, while there was a dense cloud where it was. I probably “paid attention” to the object for 40 minutes. I think I left the beach around 7:00 and recall looking for it, not seeing it and seeing several condensation trails. I recalled not seeing any sign of aircraft the entire time I was observing the object.
July 25, 2019 · 2:24 PM · CIGAR
Colorado Springs, CO
I was going through some pictures that I took from a summer vacation trip through the Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs, CO, in late July, 2019 and I noticed a cigar shaped figure in the photo and another aircraft. One aircraft looks like a fighter jet (Air force Academy in Colorado Springs).
July 25, 2019 · 1:45 PM · TRIANGLE
Sugar Land, TX
Weather was clear with a very few clouds in the Early afternoon I was traveling North/NorthWest on University Bvld. towards the I69 overpass by the University of Houston Sugar Land Campus (FYI there is regional airport about 2 miles north) I witnessed 2 White in color objects flying together traveling East, the first one in my view i did not pay much attention too as i figured it was simply an airplane banking into the nearby airport and maybe the sunlight was catching it funny. I then saw a second one that looked to be flying relatively close in tandem and could distinctly make out that it was what looked to be a solid white Isosceles Triangle. I then tried focusing back on the first and unfortunately could still not confirm its shape. I lost site of the object when i decided to pay more attention to my driving, thusly i did not get a chance to take a picture, i can craft up and provide a map if necessary. My Father was a pilot and i have been around planes since i can remember, this was like no aircraft i have seen outside of science fiction.
July 25, 2019 · 11:30 AM · TRIANGLE
Warwick, RI
first I saw a meteorite, immediately after noticed a bright light in the sky. at first I thought it was the moon because of how bright it was,so bright it reflected off of the ocean water. I knew it was not the moon because it began to move, while still moving through the sky I noticed the light went out. then the craft came towards us, as it got closer, I could make out three dim lights on the bottom of the triangular shape with no distinct wings or features. we could at this point tell it was not an aircraft or drone. as the craft flew past I could hear a quiet hum. the craft was about the size of a small fighter plane. then it flew off into the distance.
July 25, 2019 · 9:00 AM · CIGAR
Raleigh, NC
I saw this white short cigar shaped object moving at a steady speed across the clear sky and at one point the morning sun reflected off of it and it was very bright. Then I went to take a picture with my phone and I couldn’t spot it anymore when It should have still been in sight. There was no sound either. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 25, 2019 · 2:01 AM · DIAMOND
Kittitas, WA
We were sitting outside stargazing when we saw a strange looking object among the stars. We noticed it began to flash red and blue as well as the white light. It is stationary and has not moved, and it’s too far and high to be a cell tower. It has also grown in size throughout the duration of watching it.