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Witness reports, held as-reported. Each entry keeps its source, its coordinates where the record has them, and its place in the larger pattern.
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January 26, 2019 · 8:30 PM · OTHER
Hagerstown, MD
Saturday Night, January 26, 2019, at approximately 8:30 pm, I was getting ready to get in my car, and stopped for a moment to look at the night sky particularly the Orion Constellation. There were some thin clouds in the area. When I looked up to the left of the constellation, I noticed 4 (four) parentheses shaped lights in a vertical formation headed past the Hagerstown Outlet Mall north (moving parallel to South Potomac Street near the ACT gas station.) There was no noise, or any other lights and I watched them disappear one by one. My first reaction was not quite believing what I was seeing; feeling rooted to the spot; then I became fearful and nauseous. The sighting lasted 1-2 minutes (maybe less). Once the lights disappeared, I got in my car and continued with my plans for the evening. I felt a bit anxious about returning home.
January 26, 2019 · 7:23 PM · SPHERE
Hayden, ID
My daughter and I were leaving the house and looked up at the stars and there was a brilliant white light or globe in the sky moving very fast but erratically; then it would just slow down almost to a stop and just stay stationary. Then it started to move again fast and as it moved forward it began to dim then the light turned red then dimmed more and then disappeared .
January 26, 2019 · 3:58 PM · OTHER
Cranston, RI
Heading towards work in a Uber, i silently sat in the backseat of the car. I notice a plane which seems low but nothing alarming. Its worth mentioning in this part of Cranston it is one of the highest points in the entire state also has VERY heavy air traffic. Now for what ever reason this plane keeps my attention, ill take it to my grave that this damn. Thing looked like it wasnt moving? And it most certainly WAS-NOT. this huge plane which looked like a typical common large boeing was seeminly STUCK completely still in the sky! I was heading north and the plane seemed to be heading south. I could make out the side of the plane and the belly. It was a large purple plane with a yellow stripe going down the middle, towards the end of the stripe it turned red and ends at a sharp point, i do not remember any writing or logos as my brain was melting. I noticed my breathing was picking up and i found my self on my knees looking out the back window (i always sit in the rear passenger seat in ubers) im a grown man who had a grown man driving me, im sure i came off odd because the man eventually noticed me and awkwardly asked "lots of good sights round here huh?..." I didnt even reply as i couldn't wrap my mind around what i had just saw. I remember i desperately wanted to scream LOOK LOOK! or ask him to pull over but while im wathcing this i couldnt get anything out. It may have been becaude this man was a stranger and i didnt wanna look insane or because i was in shock and or amazement. For those in the area the whole thing happened above the Dennys next to garden city. The whole thing was seemingly harmless but ive been replaying it in my head over and over, i have googled it and some people have claimed to have captured exactly what i described on camera and its very eerie. Its also propably unrelated but one thing i have found very odd is that ever since that day i have been having some very out of the ordinary good luck.! Very minor things like finding 20 bucks, being gifted things, finding things, small coincidences that usually wouldn't go my way. The weather was fine, nothing to note. Very eerie and mind blowing, i WISH i could go back to that moment
January 26, 2019 · 3:30 AM · TRIANGLE
Tallahassee, FL
After focusing on the light that seemed to be maybe a half mile beyond Mahan Drive, I clearly saw a triangular airship not that dissimilar from a stealth bomber in size shape and color. There were no other lights on the airship other than the bright white light coming from the bottom center of the ship. After a brief second or two, it instantaneously accelerated and disappeared beyond the horizon heading east southeast. It went from close to hovering speed to maybe the speed of a meteorite, with no gradual acceleration. The entire experience lasted maybe 4-5 seconds. There was no noise related to this experience.
January 26, 2019 · 2:03 AM · UNKNOWN
Tulsa, OK
I was laying in bed trying to go to sleep and felt something slightly shaking my room and a very loud noise buzzing. I looked out my window and couldn't see anything but it definitely sounded nothing like an airplane, car, helicopter. It felt magnetic.
January 26, 2019 · 1:00 AM
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
Witness provides no data about sighting. PD
January 26, 2019 · 12:30 AM · LIGHT
Haiku (Maui), HI
Bright light moving erratically high in the sky North/Northeast. Light would appear bright then disappear and then reappear and move erratically - sometimes striking across the sky and then disappearing. A few times it seemed to explode into a grouping of smaller lights and then disappears. Once it appeared as four lights in a perfect square. Tried to photograph, but couldn’t.
January 25, 2019 · 7:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Easton, PA
1/25/2019 Approximately 7:05 PM, EST. I was laying on the floor, watching tv, and the window is directly to my right. I saw a very bright light and what I thought was a low flying plane, as we are in the LaGuardia flight pattern. When I saw the third one whiz by in less than 20 seconds, I ran out back to see about ten (10) flashing objects that were red, orange, and yellow in color, moving quickly across the sky a little south over our house. They were moving from the southwest to northeast at a fairly good speed. I screamed for my husband and he came out and saw them as well and he called our next-door neighbors who live approximately 60 feet to our east. The husband and wife both came outside and watched them from their back deck which is approximately 3.5 feet off the ground. My husband and I were on a level brick patio. They continued to fly over for about 10-15 minutes. Estimate approximately 100 individual flying objects. I called our son who lives approximately one mile south and he got to an area ! above his apartment where he could see them in the distance, looking north towards our home. I called 911 to report the incident while it was occurring. I also posted something on our local Facebook Resident’s page and just saw that someone else saw them. I called our local television station and reported it. They indicated that I was the first to call them about it and they would call around and inquire about it. I gave them my phone number. I would estimate that the objects were flying under 5,000 feet in the sky. The sky is clear and you can see the usual jets flying in their flight pattern and the stars very clearly. These were not jets or stars. We could not see any shape to them due to the brightness of the flashing lights. They came in clusters of about ten (10) at a time, with maybe one (1) minute spacing for approximately 10-15 minutes. When one group passed, you could then see the next group heading towards us from the west. I tried to take a video of them, but the video didn't come out. My camera just shows ! a black image where I took the video. Also, I took a picture accidentally while I was trying to get my camera to videotape and that picture does not show up on my camera either. My neighbor took out his camera only to find that his battery was dead.
January 25, 2019 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Puyallup, WA
High up, looked like a very bright star. Jerky (but still smooth?) stop-and-go motions until it seemed to go up (getting smaller) and eventually disappearing completely in the night sky.
January 25, 2019 · 6:20 PM · LIGHT
Seattle, WA
1/25/2019 Green and Red Light Sightings, Seattle, Washington. The First UFO I was driving home on I-5 North-bound, just South of Downtown Seattle coming from the West Seattle Bridge. This was bout a week or a little more after the Alaska Way viaduct closed, so all the North-bound traffic was backed up on I-5, on top of the usual slow rush hour traffic of the Seattle area. Barely creeping along, often stopped completely, I sat in what looked like a river of red lights in front of me. Having little better to do than to look out my windshield and wait for the traffic to move, something out of the ordinary caught my eye. It had red and green blinking lights on it, much like the airplanes that are frequently passing over Seattle to land at the Sea-Tac Airport South of the city. What was different about this is that it was not moving, it was sitting stationary in the same place in dark sky. I watched this object blink with red and green lights like an airplane for several minutes, and it definitely did not move. It was sitting in the sky, close to street lights, maybe a little bit higher, directly above the freeway packed with hundreds of cars. When I got closer to it, it was still in the same place, I just watched it carefully, and it was not attached to a tower, (it was a little way south of the downtown skyscrapers), and not something attached to a street light either. When I got close enough to try to capture a video of this object while I was stopped, but then the cars in front of me started to move again, so I had to move forward. Just after I stopped again and got a good look at this object with red and green lights, it was still in the same spot, but it started rotating and I saw its white headlights at least twice. After two or three rotations it started to slowly fly away from me, and disappeared over a hill to the southeast of where I was. This was ! odd to me because all of the other planes I observed that night flew southward, toward either Boeing or Sea-Tac airports. Because it started moving shortly after I was about to started filming, it would have looked like a normal airplane moving through the night sky. My feeling is that this object was a 3D hologram projection that looked like an airplane, but was most likely an alien craft in reality. It was probably able to sense when I was about to start filming, and then it started moving after that. I feel that it could have also been an ET craft with occupants aboard who were aware of me, and wanted to show me what they can do and/or give me a sign. I have absolutely no idea if any other drivers or people in the area saw this object. Multiple airplanes flew overhead while this object sat stationary in the air, below the level of the other planes. Again, it looked like an airplane with a red and a green light that would blink every second or so. The Second UFO Later this evening, I was walking my dog in my neighborhood in Northeastern Seattle, when I looked up into one area of the clear night sky, I saw another unidentified object, also with red and green lights. This second one appeared a lot like a large star in the sky, less radiant, but still colored light, but with alternating red and green lights, where the the earlier one had blinking red and green lights. This second object also looked like one spherical light of alternating red and green, never dark. I watched this object for at least a minute, and it was not moving through the sky, not like an airplane would. When I got to a spot where I could try to film it with my iPhone, I zoomed in and could pick up something faintly, but then it started moving away from me, in a similar fashion as the earlier object. As it was moving away from me in a northwestern direction, it was no longer green, and became a red blinking light. Both of the unidentified flying objects I witnessed on this night, of January 25th, 2019, hovered and moved silently as far as I could tell. Both moved very smoothly through the sky, and both seemed to know when I was watching and trying to film them. I am certain these red and green lighted objects were not ordinary terrestrial objects, I have lived in Seattle all of my life and am very familiar with how airplanes and satellites look in the night sky.
January 25, 2019 · 5:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Kintnersville, PA
I took my dog out, and up in the sky in one direction was a " Christmas tree like image with many colors, red , white and green stood out the most, but also dark blue, it was flying to the right slowly, as crazy as it sounds it looked like an upright Christmas tree flying, saw another to the left flying in the opposite direction, Crazy but true and of a good size.
January 25, 2019 · 2:00 PM · RECTANGLE
Eugene & Salem (between; on I-5), OR
I was driving North from Eugene to Salem, Oregon on I-5. It was a very gray day with large poufy clouds of various shades of gray scattered across the sky. As I was watching the road ahead, something caught my eye and caused me to look up at the clouds ahead of me. That is when I saw a huge craft emerge from a large cloud. The craft was gray and seemed to reflect the clouds around it, almost as a camouflage. There seemed to be 4 large “bays” or “windows” vertically from top to bottom of the craft From my perspective, the craft was trapezoid shape with the top and bottom parallel and the leading edge tapered. It was larger at the top and tapered down. I did not see the trailing edge as a second craft emerged and obstructed the trailing end of the first craft. The trailing end of the second craft remained obstructed by the cloud, I assume it looked similar to the tapered leading edge. Both crafts hung in the sky for a few seconds then just seemed to fade away into the clouded horizon. I heard no sound other than the sound of the highway, nor did I see any lights. I believe this occurred on January 25, 2019. I left Eugene around 2:45pm and arrived at my destination in Salem about 4pm. This occurred somewhere along the drive and the craft seemed to be miles ahead of me but that type of distance is difficult to judge, for me.
January 25, 2019 · 8:01 AM · TRIANGLE
Overland Park, KS
I continued home, turned into my cul-de-sac (just 30secs away from initial catching of attn). I saw two bright lights, greenish-blue, parallel to each other (mimicking a military helicopter, with the parallel and straight form) hovering steadily. The lights weren't flashing, though. it was still and so silent. Something randomly hit me subconsciously, and the hair on the back of my neck stood up. The, what i thought was helicopter, seemed to be 3mi out at that point. I immediately grabbed my phone and fumbled to the rec. button. And as soon as i raised my phone to rec, the aircraft instantly moved. I was spotting it in the south, it was hovering steadily, no flashing of its green/blue lights, just hovering (thats why I thought it was just a helicopter at first. via perspective). As soon as i lifted my phone to rec what i was seeing the craft turned and sped towards me and my daughters direction. By the time I realized that this thing was a triangle shape, it was slowly gliding over us, about 1000ft up. It was completely silent. my initial thoughts were a giant drone, but it was eerily quiet out. It slowly moved over my head, no sound, triangular shaped, back two 'wing lights' were lit up with greenish blue lights, the rest of the craft was illuminated somehow, just not externally. It very well could have been the extremely bright and vivid lights of the crafts wings. As the object moved overhead towards the north, I got a good look at its underside. it was ribbed like strips of metal work or the belly of a turtle. the material the ship was made of wasnt shiny or prone to glare like metal. it acted more like paper or plastic, but it undoubtedly had the resemblance of the resilience and toughness of metal. As it passed over my head, it began blinking the green and blue lights, now including red center light. It stoppped about 100yds out, backed up, did an elongated turn and continued north, still flashing its lights. I've never came across such an equally terrifying exp. and curiosity spiking exp. My daughter was freaked out. SHe calmed down fine after a bit. Had my dog sitter tell me , with out speaking of what happened to her (I'm seriously a bit freaked out and still don't want to come off as insane as i know i sound lol), apparently my dog was unapologetically barking at the sky and very upset and something outside, heavily indicating the sky. This was 20 min before I came home and had my exp. Exar9uperience lasted, in all, around 5 min.
January 25, 2019 · 7:35 AM · OVAL
Easton, PA
Not in the flight path of Planes into LGA, and not moving like an aircraft. Very strange.
January 25, 2019 · 6:45 AM · OTHER
Canal Winchester, OH
I was driving to work on 1/25/19 around 6:45am going east out of Columbus on State Route 33 in Central Ohio. I noticed there were 3 bright lights to my southeast in the sky. At first, I thought it was a set of military helicopters because Rickenbacker Air Force Base is close by. I see helicopters flying in a straight line formation all the time. As I got closer to my exit, I continued to notice the lights. I took the Diley Road exit off State Route 33 and come to a stop at the light on the exit ramp. At that point, I started to really pay attention to the lights. There were defiantly 3 lights and they were in a perfectly straight line. 2 were brighter than the third. The one I could see on my left was the brightest. There was no sound and the lights did not move for the 2 minutes I sat at the light waiting to turn. At that point, I decided to take a picture. As I continued on my way to work, I had to stop at a stop sign 1 minute from the stopligh! t on the exit ramp. At the stop sign, I was still facing the same southeast direction. The 3 lights were in the same area of the sky, not moving, and making no sound. After I made a left turn at the stop sign, I was traveling north and no longer facing in the direction of the lights and could not tell if they were still there. I have never seen a UFO and not 100% sure I believe in them. I have seen lights in the sky before, but I can always figure out what I am seeing. This time I could not tell what I was looking at. I couldn't get over the fact that they were in a perfectly straight line and not moving at all. I drive this route every day and have never seen anything like this. I honestly can't say what I was witnessing, but I do know that it was unusual and just gave me that feeling it was not normal.
January 25, 2019 · 6:30 AM · LIGHT
Travelers Rest, SC
3 lights in a row in a tilted horizontal position with beams that connected each light that illuminated back and forth to each light and then took off like a laser towards the sky
January 25, 2019 · 12:00 AM · DISK
Springfield, OR
These sighting's have been going on for some time now, I can't be exact when I first noticed what started out as "strange things". To be honest, after I realized it was not my eyes playing tricks on me I thought perhaps I was losing my mind. That would be easier to explain I think, but I assure anyone who reads my report, I am not crazy nor have I lost my mind. I am however beside my self trying to grasp the reality of what I have been witnessing. When I first noticed something "odd," it was some kind of "something" I didn't know what, that streaked across the sky at a quick as lightning speed, it was by accident that I happened to notice these things and they were so fast if I blinked I would miss it. After some time I then realized the origin of where they were coming from. To the East of my location I have a pretty good view of the mountains a good estimate of the distance from me to there I would say somewhere between 2 to 4 miles, 2 at the least and 4 at the most, this being a straight shot. This is Weyerhaeuser property. When the day light begins to fade and dusk is setting in, just on the ridge of the mountain top there you will notice a illuminating light coming from behind the mountain, if you see the light an watch closely you will notice what looks to be something like an orb, light in color, white/bluish most often, occasionally red shoot straight up in the sky, so fast it almost seems like it was just shot from a sling shot, if you blink you will miss it. As i became more aware of these things and knew what to look for the more i questioned my reality, i am trying to grasp and comprehend what this is that i am seeing. Recently i have noticed some changes in what i knew as routine, also in appearance. Each Orb, as i referred to them as that shot off from over that mountain top came directly over head of my location, gradually made a u turn and shot off into the distance, destination unknown. Then i saw one, closer and reduced speed i noticed after making a u turn the object is not an orb at all, they are disks and from looking underneath it's clear to see it is a disk shape outlined with lights. Now that i know this i can recognize these disks at random in the sky and what i suspect trying to hide their presence behind what i thought were clouds. The "clouds" also illuminate the white lights shaping the discs so although one could easily not notice, one could notice if they knew what to look for. These sightings have been going on for months now, i have been committed to watching, observing, and trying to learn more about these objects. What shocks me and the more i learn the more shocked i get is, I sware on my life and everything i love, even on my only child i am telling the truth when i say there are hundreds of these things, possibly thousands. There are signs of some kind of intelligence from these things might i just add. They are there every day, and every night. I really hope that there is somebody out there that can tell me what these things are exactly, what their purpose is, possible their intentions, something. Tell me i'm wrong, but don't tell me i'm crazy. I can't help feeling frightened at times wondering what is the meaning behind these things? And i can't help but to feel some excitement of the idea. what are they doing here? and what could there possibly be over that mountain top that they are so interested in? Where do they go when they shoot off into the sky? Why are there so many of them? And why the hell has nobody els seen these things? Who do i even tell about what i'm seeing? And would they even believe me? Well that's why i am writing this now, where it goes and what comes of it i can only wait to find out. I will follow up on the situation in soon time for those that are curious, and believe what i am saying. I am telling the truth, i don't care to be ridiculed over something i hesitated and debated even speaking up about. Don't pass judgement until you see for yourself, that's fair enough and all i ask. Source of report indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
January 24, 2019 · 9:30 PM · DIAMOND
Dawsonville, GA
When I still heard the choppers, I turned to look out of the windows on my front door. That’s when I saw strange lights in the sky. I walked outside and saw some sort of aircraft flying very low, at first the aircraft kind of looked like a large drone. As it approached closer, I realized it was much too large to be a drone. It was shaped more like an octagon from what I could tell and had red and white lights all over it. There were lights covering it and it made it hard to make out the exact shape, but as said before, it imitated a large drone. It was the size of a commercial aircraft, flying not much higher than the trees and making zero noise. I watched it fly over my house, it made a circle over our property and then flew in the same direction that the choppers flew in. I was completely freaked out. I was not a believer in these until now. I noted that my dogs responded to the event because they were missing for hours (until right after the aircraft passed through). They never leave our house far enough to not come when I call them to come inside (especially in 30 degree weather). As soon as the aircraft passed by, they were back on the porch. I am beating myself up because I left my phone in the bedroom and was not able to capture a picture.
January 24, 2019 · 8:45 PM · CYLINDER
Salt Lake City, UT
On my way back from the store, I looked into the night sky, the clouds were an orange hue. At a 45 degree angle to the north, I noticed three thick, cylindrical, dark orange glowing lights flying in a triangle with quite a bit of distance between them. I thought it was a convoy of helicopters until they flew together quickly then split into a L-shape, two of the glowing lights headed high into the east and were out of sight, the last glowing light went higher into the night sky headed north and disappeared. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and she sounded to us to be quite sincere and serious-minded. We suspect that she is an excellent, and highly reliable, witness. PD
January 24, 2019 · 7:24 PM · UNKNOWN
Fresno, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
January 24, 2019 · 6:49 PM · LIGHT
Oakland, CA
Today 1/24/2019, at approximately (18:49) 6:49PM -8 GMT, I was outside observing the night sky as I often do, I noticed two bright objects that were out of place in the constellation Orion. They shimmered from orange to bright white. Orion was rising in the south eastern sky and these objects were flying in a wedge formation just below the feet of Orion. "There shouldn't be anything that bright there!" I thought to myself. The objects were more luminous then our brightest star Sirius I also thought which drew my attention to them in the first place. The lead object was even more so then the trailer. This viewing lasted approximately ten seconds. The first object slowly dimmed out of sight still high in the sky, I'd say 30 degrees from the horizon. Then the other about one to two seconds later. The movement seems to give me an indication to altitude in my opinion. I view the night sky almost on a daily basis and have seen many things such as satellite's, meteors, high flying military and passenger aircraft. I cannot say what they were or were not. I can only say THESE LIGHTS WERE VERY STRANGE INDEED! If anyone else in the San Francisco/Oakland California bay area happened be out at (18:49) 6:49PM observing the south eastern sky and saw this event please don't be afraid to speak up. I almost didn't want to say anything due to the stigma that go's with "U.F.O.'s however we all do need to know what's flying above our heads. Special thanks for the encouraging words to and that you do for the truth, Peter Davenport
January 24, 2019 · 6:40 PM · TRIANGLE
Boise, ID
Appeared directly over Boise Depot on Vista. Had 3 red lights one flashing green, then 2 flashing green. Object was stationery for 5-10 minutes before moving like super fast to directly over us. At first we thought it was possibly a drone at first but realized it wasn't because of thing went straight up into the clouds and disappeared drones don't do that! No sound. And was higher than a passing large airplane we seen. But very visible so it must have been very large.
January 24, 2019 · 6:30 PM · SPHERE
Fredericksburg, VA
While driving west at night, on rt. 3, about five miles east of Fredericksburg, Virginia, I watched two blue-green light-emitting spheres, flying fast, in tight formation, about 600 feet above the ground, from the southwest toward the northeast. The blue-green lights were unusual and quite beautiful and reminded me a little of 'lava lamps.' They were followed immediately by a pursuing aircraft with familiar, man-made looking navigation lights. This all took about four seconds. I never heard a sound from any of the lights' sources. Note: I submitted this report earlier but nuforc listed it as happening on December 24, 2019 instead of January 24, 2019. I decided to bring this to your attention after I noticed that similar sightings in Virginia had also occurred in January and I thought it was important to clarify. Please delete the previous report, listed on nuforc as 12/24/19. Reports Deleted as Requested
January 24, 2019 · 6:22 PM · TRIANGLE
Paisley, OR
January 24, 2019, At 6:22pm, we noticed flashing Red and Solid, non-flashing White/clear lights in the sky, It was huge and in the shape of a long triangle with two more points on the top, like a Hexagon, flying fast North over the town of Paisley, OR. Witnessed similar object on January 12, 2019, at 7:15 pm same area. This last one was much lower to the ground and had two much smaller objects, flying a short distance behind each rear corners of triangle. Smaller objects both had flashing red lights. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD