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May 25, 2019 · 1:09 AM · CIGAR
Payneville, KY
Me and my friend Chris looked up at this time and seen about 20 to 30 solid bright orange lights in a straight row one after the other, and they were flying one right after another a little slower than the airplane that was below them!! This was the craziest thing I’ve ever personally witnessed we tried to film it on the cell phones but they would not pick it up in the night sky.. Space Link satellites. PD
May 25, 2019 · 1:08 AM · OTHER
Payneville, KY
At approximately 1:08am, I happen to look up into the northern part of the sky & seen what appeared to be, as I went to slowly focus my eyes, a row of what I counted to be (at first, that is) 18 bright reddish orange lights that all appeared to be as the same size from 1 end to the other. Every light also appeared clear enough to be able to see, with the naked eye I might add, that they were in the shape or form of almost a perfect square. As I looked & became to stare at this row of lights for about 30 seconds, I finally spoke loudly to my friend asking (excuse me for the profanity...) “Hey, what the **** is that?!” Then I again excitedly asked “Hey (*his name*), what the **** is that?!” He, who was sitting up on the porch, which btw faced east, had then stepped off & walked out to where i was. This was just to the edge of his driveway to which he now also faced north & w/out any hesitation whatsoever, had seen exactly what I was seeing as well. The lights ! were in a straight line & were moving northeast. Now there was also a plane that was flying in the same general area/part of the sky. At least, so it seemed anyway to which I’m sure the way the angle/direction was to where we were looking from. The plane seemed to be much closer to where we were though considering the speed it seemed to travel & area of sky it seemed to cover compared to how these were moving themselves. As the plane seemed to further itself away in the sky, we kept our eyes on these lights. So as we kept viewing them, my friend raced inside to get a night vision camera that he has while I stood still & never took my eyes off of the lights. They remained in a tight row & seemed to now be as many as a possible 30 or more. I only was able to surely definitely count a now total of 24 as something began to take place. As my friend raced outside with his night vision camera, I myself was trying to use my iPhone camera but both were unable to get these lights to ! appear on either one of our camera screens. I really don’t kno! w how to explain why that was occurring. I asked how many lights he was seeing & he said he was counting somewhere around a possible 30 himself. I know there were more than 24 at one time but can only say for sure that I had took the time at one point to count out 24 of them. Now as all this was happening, we were really asking one another of how sure each of us were in seeing what we were seeing & all of this was actually happening to which we both kept assuring ourselves that this was something that was actually taking place in the way that we were experiencing it to which is the same exact way that I’m describing it here. I apologize greatly for the rambling but I hope you can understand how excited & overwhelmed I am still up to this very point as I try to so greatly detail any/every little thing that both I & my friend can recall for you. Now, after a minute & a half or so had gone by, over the next I’d say 15-20 seconds (in what seemed to be a best estimate of) perhaps then ab! out 12-15 of the lights start to, I guess, dissipate then. Now I don’t mean in anyway close to how, let’s say how a tail of a shooting star/meteorite tends to look like. When I say dissipate, I mean to just slowly fade out into a continuous dim. As if you were to sit & watch someone slowly turn a rotary dial type light switch from fully on to dimly to just dark & without any flickering whatsoever. The first 6 lights in the giant row of squared shaped reddish orange lights remained just as bright as they did throughout the entire 2 mins of this entire event from 1:08 AM to 1:10 AM. They seemed to just totally remain 1 right alongside the other staying illuminated just as bright as they were when I first saw them at 1:08 AM. So now, it is (what I counted to be over n over again) just 6 lights left to which all remained lit & together, no one or the other within the tightly grouped side by side 6 of them dissipating/disappearing one before the next. Then at approximately 1:10 ! AM, all 6 just disappeared in an instant but in a strange sort! of ‘ins tant’. The 6 of them seemed to disappear in a ... i don’t know I guess almost as if to say the dark sky sort of ‘vacuumed’ them up and just... gone... like that, period. Then just... nothing. I don’t know how else to explain it but to say it was as if you’re looking at the front of a vacuum at eye level & you were to watch a piece of something such as dirt or dust for example & it literally just gets sucked up into the vacuum. Well, that is the very best & most accurate way to describe how differently & unique these last 6 lights seem to then vanish at the end of this most bizarre incident. Now there are some things I want to include & make very clear of as well. First off, neither 1 of us ever seen any sort of ‘ship, craft and/or structure’ of ANY kind. I say this & find it most important due to the comments I want to include in further describing the ‘square shape’ that I clearly saw in looking at these lights. A really good way to describe what we were looking at would be! , for example, take the fuselage of a passenger airplane. How all the windows are lined up next to each other & then say, have each one wide open with its blind pulled all the way up. Now as for the color/light & glow it seemed to create... I guess I’d say to imagine the inside cabin to be on fire, maybe? I suppose that’d be a way to describe the such glow and illuminated reddish orange shade that was being put off in each single segment of light. Now I was able to record the last few seconds of all this on my phone. Well, let me put it another way. I have the last 4 - 5 secs of us talking to one another in excitement as I’m holding my phone towards whatever this is in the sky yet as I mentioned before, nothing seems to come up on the screen. I just cant help but to feel frustrated bcos of not just myself but to have another person that I know so very well and can trust in knowing that he’s seeing the same exact thing I am. Yet, neither camera we’re holding and filming with! are able to pick it up. Even with the lights being as bright ! as they were while dissipating into all but the last 6. It just doesn’t make sense. I know this all comes off as sounding a bit crazy. I know how I’ve been my whole life in hearing such stories from different ones in describing such bizarre & crazy so-called UFO’s. I’ve got to admit though that I’m afraid that I’m about to feel the same in what most of these people have went thru as well in experiencing such a crazy incident(s) in their life. I’ll just say that “Hey, I know that both my friend and I are a couple of smart middle aged guys who are intelligent in each of our own field/trades. We both stood there for a couple of hours after the incident was over & tried & tried to explain what it was and/or could be but even after speaking to just a very select few of certain ones close to each of us, we really cannot come up with a logical answer. I know I can speak for the both of us though in saying that we would give anything to know what it was that we actually saw last night on Ma! y 25th at btwn 1:08AM and 1:10AM in the N to NE sky of Payneville, KY. Please if any1 else saw this described incident, I ask that you share as well in what you may have seen and perhaps what your opinion may be. Space Link satellites. PD
May 25, 2019 · 1:00 AM · FORMATION
Orleans, IN
Space Link satellites. PD
May 25, 2019 · 1:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Marysville, CA
It was also by Beale Air Force base. Satellites? PD
May 25, 2019 · 12:41 AM · LIGHT
Superior, CO
UFO Sighting 2019-05-25 Superior, CO. 12:41am to 12:44am Sitting on my back porch (altitude 5560’) looking at the stars through my night vision goggles with my partner facing a northwesterly direction. Specifically, from the moment the lights were noticed to when they faded from view, the range of vision was about 298-degrees NW to 11-degrees N as the breadth of observation. It was 12:41am when we noticed 20-30 "Lights" in a line traveling North along the Rocky Mountains. They were faint to the eye but strongly visible seen through Military Grade Gen-3 Night Vision goggles. They were white lights. The number of them traveling in a line together was outstanding! Some seemed brighter and bigger than others in the line. It was not a perfectly straight line but fairly straight, as some were higher, while others were lower, but overall it was a line of them. Some were bunched together in clusters with gaps between other small groupings either ahead. Then many seemed to follow one after another individually. The lights were all white. They were solid white lights, not flashing, though some lights seemed to merge into other lights or simply fade out and pop in at a different spot as if appearing from nowhere, but all traveling in northern trajectory together heading from the perspective when they were first noticed. As they traveled farther away the brightness of their lights faded from view. From the moment when they were noticed to when they faded out from view was perhaps 3 to 5 minutes. While I tried to record them on my iPhone 10, they were too faint for the camera to see them. I then tried to place the phone lens to the Night Vision goggles but getting the lens in the right place and then guessing the direction of view from the lens without having my eyes to it made for unfocussed and shaky video footage that did not reveal anything that I could make out, compared to when my eyes were to the lens. I have taken a daytime still image from my back porch to better depict the scene.
May 25, 2019 · 12:40 AM · FORMATION
St. George, UT
I was in my backyard around midnight with my wife, my brother in law and my nephew. My nephew pointed to the north and when I looked there were approximately 100 white lights traveling in a single file line toward the northeast. The individual lights were similar in appearance and speed to when a satellite passes over head. The first part of the procession the lights were close together. The ones on the end were at different intervals with three brighter lights in the rear. The altitude was somewhere between near orbit to airliner cruising altitude. The lights were constant white, without the red and green anti-collision lights associated with aircraft. The objects continued on and eventually faded from sight. We managed to get a single cellphone photograph. Space X satellites, being released from the Falcon 9 capsule. PD
May 25, 2019 · 12:30 AM · OTHER
Chetek, WI
The whole strand moved very quickly across the sky. Within about 15 seconds, it had moved out of view. Possible sighting of cluster of Space Link satellites. PD
May 25, 2019 · 12:20 AM · LIGHT
Little Falls, MN
I went outside while at work to vape, and stared at the stars like I always do, and out of the corner of my left eye, I saw something moving fast, very high in the sky. It looked exactly like a star, but it went all the way across the sky from all the way left to all the way right, until it vanished, continuing on its straight path, it went across the entire night sky in approximately 6 seconds, it was not a plane, or any kind of satellite. The speed of this craft was absolutely intense, it wasn't a shootting star or anything like that, because it moved so straight and at such a maintained speed. It was literally passing over dozens of stars every second. There were no flashing lights of any kind, it was at bright and the same size as the stars in the sky. It moved in a solid straight line, I am seriously still in shock. Wow.
May 25, 2019 · 12:13 AM · FORMATION
Fargo, ND
We were sitting outside near downtown Fargo and we looked up and saw a cluster of 25 to 30 individual dots traveling in a straight line from west of southwest to east of northeast. The cluster gave off a white haze and behind the cluster were 5 or 6 stragglers that followed the exact same path. They moved a little bit faster than a satellite in the night sky and had no visible blinking lights. Maybe unrelated, but after the lights were unable to be seen a neighbor's dog barked for a few seconds. Possible sighting of cluster of Space Link satellites. PD
May 25, 2019 · 12:10 AM · FORMATION
Norfolk, NE
There were about 20 aircrafts shaped like the size of stars because they were so far away and they were in a line formation moving South east. Spread out line with one following far in the rear away from others. Was in a steady motion about the same as an aircraft but it could’ve been an aircraft because of the number of objects and how close they were. Colors were ranging from orange to a yellow-white. We have corrected the date above. We suspect an overflight of the SpaceLink satellites. PD
May 25, 2019 · 12:10 AM · FORMATION
Lawrenceburg/Columbia, TN
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 25, 2019 · 12:06 AM · FORMATION
Bloomington, MN
Many UFO's spotted flying from South SW to North NE in a straight line. 100+ white dots with no tail or trail were less concentrated and even few and far between at the head and tail. Very concentrated in a perfectly straight band all the same size and luminosity. We could not determine the distance of items and there was no breaking or burning noticed as they flew across the entire sky. Took about 2 minutes to fly across they sky. This was right over the Mall of America. My dad and I were mesmerized by the objects as they looked like a fleet. The last few objects were noticed to be following far behind but were traveling the exact same speed as the rest of the objects. I have a picture of this but it's not high quality. Possible sighting of cluster of Space Link satellites?? PD
May 25, 2019 · 12:05 AM · FORMATION
St. Paul, MN
I saw approximately 100 lights in a straight line with several lights following, moving slowly across the sky. I witnessed this from my back porch at approximately five minutes after Midnight They were in a perfect line and spaced very closely together but there was a small separation between each light, almost like a string of Christmas tree white lights pulled tight moving all together at the same speed. I would approximate the height to be 10 thousand feet. Possible sighting of cluster of Space Link satellites?? PD
May 25, 2019 · 12:00 AM · FORMATION
St. Paul, MN
Line of ~30 closely packed lights, traveling at the speed and altitude that of a plane, followed by ~10 more spread out lights. All in the same linear trajectory. Space Link satellites. PD
May 25, 2019 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Aurora, KY
My friends and I were on a boat on Kentucky Lake. I first witnessed what I thought was the bottom edge of a cloud reflecting light. It was a line of light in the sky. I pointed this out to my friends and we observed it begin to grow and move. Then we thought it was a meteor. It was moving to slow and not behaving like a meteor. The line of light then faded from the front of the direction it was spreading.
May 25, 2019 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Camp Verde, AZ
Space X satellites? PD
May 25, 2019 · 12:00 AM · FORMATION
Otsego, MN
Possible sighting of cluster of Space Link satellites?? PD
May 24, 2019 · 11:50 PM · TRIANGLE
Pasco, WA
My cousin was reporting to work between 23:50 & midnight on May 24, 2019, in Pasco, Washington. He saw a triangle shape aircraft with blue green lights on each corner of the aircraft. There was no sound. Then aircraft went behind clouds & was gone. He did not report to anyone because he had no photos.
May 24, 2019 · 11:45 PM · LIGHT
Laconia, NH
Possible sighting of cluster of Space Link satellites?? PD
May 24, 2019 · 11:45 PM · FIREBALL
Kingman, AZ
Possible sighting of cluster of Space Link satellites?? PD
May 24, 2019 · 11:45 PM · RECTANGLE
Tonto Basin, AZ
My husband and I stopped at the campground, and stopped to look at the water. There were also people loading their boat at the boat ramp. The sky was clear, and we observed many stars. As we were looking up at the sky, it changed. A big black space (about 4 football fields long) covered the stars and was replaced by one rectangular object. On the left side there was a rectangle with lights in a square shape, and then to the right of it, a row of smaller lights in a horizontal straight line. The smaller lights looked like the shape of a tic-tac. We watched this craft for about 4-5 minutes and tried to film it, but my camera only caught blackness. It disappeared the same way, the sky turned black once again in the space where it was. We watched for a few more minutes while the stars came back into the spot.
May 24, 2019 · 11:45 PM · OTHER
Topsham, VT
Possible sighting of cluster of Space Link satellites?? PD
May 24, 2019 · 11:45 PM · FORMATION
Brockport, NY
It was a long line of twinkling lights falling slightly Northeast toward the ground, far off in the sky. It looked like a crack in the sky at first, but I noticed tiny twinkling lights kind of coming down in a stream. SpaceLink satellites. PD
May 24, 2019 · 11:43 PM · OTHER
Lake Roosevelt, AZ
Possible sighting of cluster of Space Link satellites. PD