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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
January 8, 2019 · 7:40 AM · TRIANGLE
Imperial Beach, CA
We saw a triangle shaped object. Looked to be mirrored on one to two sides. As it rotated it appeared to change color to white. It looked to hover about 400 to 500 feet up in the air and then slowly ascend upwards, then disappeared. We saw it change rotation.
January 8, 2019 · 6:35 AM · LIGHT
Yorktown, VA
I was on my way to school in the morning with my father, I stopped at the intersection right by the Yorktown Naval Weapons Station, we came to a stop, and right after we saw a bright light moving across our sightline. I looked up just in time to see it for about 5 seconds or so, then it started moving South-South-East towards the Deer Run Golf Course. It moved rather quickly, about 200mph or so. My friend, who lives near where the object was heading also noted the object and repeated the same sight that I did. It was perfectly silent. One other oddity is my recollection of the event, I only know the basics of what happened, I'm sorry that I can't provide more details to the event, and hope this can assist you. If you need to get in contact with me, please email me, it is the quickest way for me to respond.
January 8, 2019 · 6:15 AM · FLASH
Longs, SC
I was looking north and viewing Polaris "the North Star" setting a Camera to take some Night Time Photos of the star. I looked up and noticed a light turn on brighter than what Venus would be in the sky. It was white light and within 10 sec more or less, it was gone a suddenly as it appeared. From my view point, this object was at the 8 oclock postion of the north star.
January 8, 2019 · 4:23 AM · DIAMOND
Queen Creek, AZ
I went out with them and saw a diamond shape in sky about SSW over the San Tans. It was flashing/flickering orange white red. I just stood there starring and then saw it start to move in a diagonal direction.
January 8, 2019 · 3:00 AM · SPHERE
Fontenelle, WY
Note there is no trees or street lights to block view or reflect light, just open skies and sagebrush.
January 7, 2019 · 11:30 PM · CHANGING
Poway, CA
My two friends saw something strange in the sky while smoking in the back yard. One of them fetched his high powered video camera and shot a video of it. The object flashed random light patterns. It changed shape constantly. It appeared to be purple, but the outline of the object glowed green. The object moved extremely fast and would change direction on a dime. It would also change shape just as fast. It lingered in the same general sky space for quite a long time and it appears to know it is being watched for it seems to be putting on a show of some sort. Possibly attempting to communicate with the flashing light it emits? After a while it just disappears into the night.
January 7, 2019 · 11:00 PM · FORMATION
Yarmouth, ME
It was a formation of tiny, pinprick-like lights very high up in the sky. They looked like stars, but were moving in a perfectly straight line. There were hundreds of them all following each other across the sky. They were not blinking but were alight. Imagine hundreds of small stars following each other in a perfect line. I, my sister, and our two friends saw this on a beach at night. The lights moved into our field of vision, across the sky, and out of it.
January 7, 2019 · 8:40 PM · SPHERE
Oakland, CA
LOCATION: on a plane heading in Oakland CA, had to be 30 mins before landing. .WITNESS: not only person who saw it, the person in front of me saw it and also took pictures. SIGHTING: looked out the window because the person in front of me thought they saw something strange. There was an orb of light following the plane out of the right side a decent distance from the wing. It was level with the plane and we were still at an altitude that wHere no man-made object was build as well as being over unoccupied land. it stayed generally the same distance for the 13 minutes it remained with the plane and changed altitude and shape once or twice. we went through a few clouds and it followed, we went through one big cloud and it was gone. THOUGHTS: thought it was strange and went quickly went through what it could be but nothing made sense. could not have been a star bc it was not at the right location. could not have been a building bc there was none and it remained at a high altitude and stayed with a plane going at least 300 mph. was not light from the plane because it was white and did not blink. It was not a mechanical light. REACTION: thought it was cool and made me think of doc Australian skies. thinking of that as I watched it I made some notes and took a few pictures.
January 7, 2019 · 8:00 PM · SPHERE
Blairstown, MO
My girlfriend and I are in our early 60’s, we are educated, healthy and self-employed. We live in the country. It was a clear Monday night, around 8:00 PM. I was walking down are private road and noticed an unusual reddish-orange object in the western sky. From my view, it was about the size of a star, its position was at about 2 o’clock due west of me. It was the only thing in the sky that color and was at times moving left, right, up and down, sometimes it would hold still then move diagonally to the right or left like it was searching for something, it seemed to be random. I never saw it move from its position more than about 5 degrees. I ran to get my girlfriend not wanting it to disappear, she watched it with me for about 5 minutes and confirmed what I was seeing. I went to get my binoculars, it was clearer in its color and appeared to be glowing but too small to make out any detail, I continued to look at it occasionally over a 45-minute period, before retiring for the night but it never went away.
January 7, 2019 · 7:32 PM · LIGHT
Hurricane, WV
Date/Time: Monday, January 7, 2019 at approximately 7:30 p.m. Location: Teays Lane, Hurricane, WV. I was outside walking my dog, when she became unusually spooked. I looked due south and noticed a solid green light that, with the glow of the clouds around it, looked to be just under half the size of a full moon in the night sky. It moved north directly overhead and glowed with a kind of high intensity neon green. I have never seen a colored light shine through the clouds so brightly. At the time, the national weather service reported a cloud ceiling of 2,300 feet, and there was very light rain. I have an app called Flight Radar 24. I checked this app, and no aircrafts with a transponder were anywhere within 50 miles of my location. Being familiar with aviation and having flown an aircraft before, I looked for an accompanying red light or even a white strobe light and there were none. The object made no noise at all, and the night was quiet enough to have heard either a propeller or jet engine at high altitude. The intensity of the light did not change, and comparing it with other aircraft that typically fly over, it appeared to have a ground speed of well over 1000 mph. Overall, it took approximately 1 minute to go from the southern horizon to disappear across the northern horizon. These times were documented by a text I sent to my wife immediately before seeing it, and a phone call to my wife when it was disappearing to the north. I tried to take a video with my cell phone but was unable to keep up with the object to even view it in the screen. The path it took was directly over the intersection of route 34 and Interstate 64 in Teays Valley, WV. It traveled in a straight line, made no turns, and did not appear to change altitude. I reported this to WSAZ news who hadn’t received any reports yet.
January 7, 2019 · 7:30 PM · DIAMOND
Naples, FL
Me and my fiance were sitting outside smoking a cigarette in our back Lanai and witness the brightest star out. It was a very strange star because it had 2red beans one at the top one the bottom. It was very still has no movement and it was not flickering like a normal star. It was very stationary for about 30 minutes before we lost inside to carry on our daily life. About 15 minutes later as we walk back outside smoke a cigarette we saw that good white head disappeared but the other stars that were next to it are still in the same position. It is very bizarre for a non flickering star to disappear like that especially one with 2redbeans from top and bottom. This is not the first time that I have seen something like this in my lifetime. But it has been a very long time since I have witnessed something this extraordinary happen. If anyone else has had the same experience on the same day please share I am very curious to know.
January 7, 2019 · 5:15 PM · UNKNOWN
Queen Creek, AZ
I was flying my paramotor, and my iPhone was strapped to my right leg. Sometimes I video my "wing" witch is another name for my parachute, to make sure all is well above me...lins aren't tangled, chute is fully deployed, etc. I noticed a light above my wing. Looks like it way higher than me, but it's didn't seem to move. I went out next day to check for a star at the same time and it was not visible. I have video of it and another person sent me a pic from their windshield from way east of my location showing the same light and 2 others adjacent to it in the sky directly near my location. It was interesting to say the least to see just the one light, but when I received a pic from a friend driving towards me who saw that light plus two that I couldn't see, I was intrigued. Could be weather balloons, but why 3 of them? I was at around 1200ft in the air when I took the video looking straight up above me. No contrails, though the jets were leaving con! trails that day..
January 7, 2019 · 2:39 PM · LIGHT
Honolulu, HI
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
January 7, 2019 · 2:39 PM · LIGHT
Honolulu, HI
A bright light seemed to appear out of nowhere off the coast of Hawaii Kai on Oahu, while I was running around Diamond Head Crater. The object appeared to be round and fluctuated in brightness and color. It turned from white to a pink-ish color just before it moved horizontally across the sky and disappeared from view. In the video I took, it also appears to fluctuate in size and at one point, there appears to be two objects right next to each other or touching. It’s hard to tell if that is just because of the poor video quality on my phone or not. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
January 7, 2019 · 7:26 AM · FLASH
Kalispell, MT
It was still dark out as I was driving into town, wooded mountain area. Then a large area of the sky was a teal blue, it quickly got huge like an explosion. The lighter blue was further away but the explosion of blue filled the sky above us. It was blue like the icon that shows your cars bright lights are on. I’ve never seen anything like it. I asked on our local Facebook page and other people saw it too, some posted videos. I’ve seen meteor showers, this wasn’t like that. People reported seeing weird lights from 9pm yesterday into midnight and then this morning. The variation between the two blues were distant from each other yet blended as one. But definitely far apart.
January 6, 2019 · 11:40 PM · CIRCLE
Greenwich, CT
I was lying in bed trying to go to sleep, when I looked out into the horizon and notices two white lights hovering lower than planes would be. The two lights were coming from a single saucer-like object. The object did not move in a linear fashion at first; it was almost moving in small circles. After about 30 seconds it moved quickly to my left and disappeared into the sky. My neighbors have a small farm, which is rare for Greenwich, and the object seemed be hovering around their property.
January 6, 2019 · 11:00 PM · OVAL
Point Blank, TX
This report is a single event involving this UFO. I do not think it is extraterrestrial. I think it is man made. I have viewed this object multiple, multiple times in the past 3 months or longer. I can view it during any night when the sky is clear. For the past 3-4 months I noticed a star in the sky, first to the SW of my property and now to the SE of it. The object appears to be a star, but it is too bright to be one. I investigated a website that gives the minute-by-minute location of the planets in our solar system and the night of this sighting only three of the planets were visible at the time of my sighting, and all three were located to the North of my location. In the opposite direction of the star as I observed it. I took multiple photos of it and some video clips. I used a Canon PC-2200 camera with a 50X zoom. When zoomed to 50X the object can cover the entire viewing area of the camera. The object is oval or relatively round. It does not have the appearance of any of the planets in our solar system. And I believe it is too large in the viewing area of the camera to be a star. I also observed this object and pursued it early one morning between 3 AM and 7 AM. My thinking was as I approached the object its angle from my position would increase if it was at a relatively low altitude, one a star or planet could not be found at. The closer I would get, the larger the angle would become. If that makes sense. I was not able to make a determination that morning. I drove about 25 miles to a nearby town in the course of my driving. I watched the object from my truck while I drove. It was a very clear night with very high cirrus clouds. After driving about 18 miles the object began to grow small and dimmer and disappeared when it went thru the cirrus clouds. I stopped my truck, got out and viewed the entire sky for about 3 minutes. The star was gone. So, I terminated my trip and turned around to return home. About 5 miles down the road is a small town with a pizza restaurant I frequent. I decided to pull into its parking lot and take a look to see if the star was not there. It was there, clearly. So, I proceeded along my original path until I was about 25 miles from my home. I did not notice a discernible change in the angle of the star from the ground, and concluded it probably was not within 50 miles of me, maybe more. I stopped at a Walmart to buy something. When I returned to my truck I remembered I had a pair of binoculars in it. I took them out and viewed the object. I will describe this object not as an oval but more like a fat football. The binoculars have a power of about 10X or 12X. The object took up about 50% of the viewable area of the lens. That suggested to me the object must be relatively close, a location far too close to have been a star or a planet. The object consisted of chambers that appeared something like the cells of a honey comb but they were shorter and more blunt. They and the object, star, all appeared to pulsate very slightly. The object had 3 black spots and what I can only describe as a smile. The cross section of a smile. It too was black. The object rotated as 2 of the 3 black spots disappeared as did the mouth. In the course of about 15 minutes the 2 missing black spots reappeared. The mouth did not reappear. I left and went home. I have not seen that object again. Almost every night the star/orb appears to the SE of my property. Some nights it seems to move across the sky like a star or planet. But the majority of nights it does not. I view it between 23:00 PM and 24:00 PM and then against at 5 or 6 Am and its in the same general location. This object starts the evening out at a very high altitude. During the night it descends to an altitude where it appears like the Star of Bethlehem in many Nativity photos. Relatively big and with 4 points to the naked eye. Again, I have seen this star in the sky almost every night for 3 months, maybe longer. I ignored it for a month or more, though it did not appear to be a star or planet to me. I don't think it can be either one for several reasons detailed above. That's a synopsis of what I have witnessed from my residence for over 3 months. The objects I have seen do not behave like those described in most UFO reports, darting, high speed turns, etc. This star(s) is relatively stationary, and the only speed it ever demonstrated was the morning it ascended and disappeared into the cirrus cloud during the trip I described above. I have other witnesses to this star(s). Very Best Wishes
January 6, 2019 · 7:00 PM · SPHERE
Sacramento, CA
Bright green orb of lightning first flashed above storm clouds then descended just below, and then shot northbound at same elevation, then flashed and went up. No sounds other than storm. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
January 6, 2019 · 5:00 PM · OTHER
Bristol County, VA
Witness was walking his dogs outside. It was a beautiful sunny day and he noticed that two airplanes were spraying the skies above him. He went on and continued to walk the two dogs around the loop in the neighborhood, and just happened to look upward, as they were coming around the last corner of the loop, and there was an object hovering in the sky. It looked like an airplane just at a standstill, not moving any direction. He was a bit confused and stared at the object for what seemed like forever but was just a few seconds. After realizing he was looking at something that was not supposed to be, he ran with his dogs to his house, before entering his home he looked back at the object and it was still there. He got his camera, a Samsung ST66 and went to his front yard, which facing the object is NNE. The object appeared to be white in color, solid and reflected sunlight which made the object flicker a metallic color. The object never turned, zoomed, or anything. He observed the object on record for a little over 11 mins. There was an airplane in the sky just W of the object. The object stayed stationary as clouds passed over. The object disappeared a bit here and there until a clearing in the clouds would show it but it still was stationary. After 11 mins, a long line of clouds covered the object and he either lost it or it disappeared. There was nothing in the sky visible to him besides this object at NNE, a plane flying west of the object and some clouds. He went inside after no longer being able to see the object and uploaded the video. (MUFON CMS, 97533) [Photos aren’t very probative, but they do seem to show a dumbbell-shaped object. Nothing in the photos, unfortunately, to use as a frame of reference.
January 6, 2019 · 4:40 PM · LIGHT
Santa Fe, NM
Bright, glaring light seen from Eldorado through complete sunless fog in late afternoon. A fog covered the mountains beyond Santa Fe and they were hardly visible, yet a very bright white light was seen fading and brightening for about 10-15 minutes before suddenly seeming to disappear back beyond the mountains. The light seemed to drift slightly around the same location for several minutes, growing duller and then suddenly becoming glaring again.
January 6, 2019 · 10:30 AM · OTHER
Chattanooga, TN
Went out to take out the trash and I love stars and I’m looking up and my eyes adjusted to the darkness and i couldn’t see it well do to the chameleon camoflouge it had on but I saw the veiny blue lights in the ridges of the object. I could see through it but the veiny blue lights I could see but faint and as I watched the object pick up speed and at that height it wasn’t a jet going that fast so unless it was the government in one of theirs it went Northeast from these coordinates. 35.0179, -85.1666 Around 10:30-10:45.
January 6, 2019 · 9:15 AM · OTHER
Guanica to Hormigueros (Puerto Rico), PR
I was driving west on Rte. 333 in Guánica in Puerto Rico, through the state forest toward town. Beyond the radio tower I saw (at approximately 8:55 a.m.) a multi-segment hovering object or craft. The largest segment was a ovoid, like an egg. The next largest segment was about 40% the size of the large segment—either an oval or an orb. Two smaller round objects protruded from the side facing me, on each segment. It appeared white-colored. I tried to assess distance, size, etc. There was utter silence. No engine sound at all as is the case with blimps or aircraft. No strings as might exist with a kite. No propellers or turbines as might be the case with a drone. As I drove along Rte. 333 toward Rte. 116 to head north, I got a good look. I believe the object/craft was large and well beyond the immediate landscape. Five minutes or so later (9:05 am), as I got off Rte. 116 north onto Rte. 2 west, I noticed the craft in the sky once more. The shape never changed. It was again in the southwestern sky close to the coastline. It was again white. But now, I could tell it was moving. I had covered at least 15 miles of highway driving and I was never catching up or passing it, as would occur with a stationary object unless it was extraordinarily large and much further away than I thought. I took a few pictures of it with my IPhone before the highway took me toward Hormigueros, at which point I lost sight of the object. It was about 9:20 am when the sighting ended.
January 6, 2019 · 7:00 AM · CIGAR
Denver, CO
Went out in the morning and looked east to see a large fuselage (cigar) no wings, no tail, no blinking lights. Airplanes should still have lights on at that time. Watched it move from south to north for several seconds, wishing I had my phone. It went through a cloud and was never seen again.
January 6, 2019 · 1:30 AM · LIGHT
Orlando, FL
last night at around 1:30 a.m. i went out side and saw something that could be a ufo in the sky that hovered in the same area for 20 to 30 mins and took photos and video of it as it blinked in and out. did not seem to be an air plane or helicopter and seemed to kind of be a light source that expanded and contracted. sent pictures and a video.