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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.
114,092 entries
December 24, 2018 · 12:02 AM · LIGHT
Delran, NJ
Captured on my home security camera.
December 23, 2018 · 8:00 PM · CONE
Montague, MA
Note: Observer is a trained recreational airplane pilot. While driving in car with wife and infant son at approx. 20:00 heading south on a sparsely populated stretch of road, a bright, solid orange light was observed to the southeast. It appeared to be an aircraft heading toward us with its landing light illuminated, though the light was orange and not the usual white. Also, no green or red navigation lights, anti-collision lights, or rotating beacon was observed, making it immediately peculiar. Altitude was unknown, though if it were a small aircraft, given the apparent size, the estimation would be 3-5,000’. The car was then stopped to make a more careful observation, at this point the object was no more than 3 miles directly to the east. I alerted my wife who was behind my driver’s seat with the baby, and I rolled both of our windows down so that we each had the same vantage point. The object appeared very small, though its true distance was difficult to ascertain. It appeared to be a solid ball of orange light, illuminating and extending outward from the leading edge of which was a fan-shaped swath of dimmer orange light that did not appear to be solid. It was in the sky close to the bright, nearly full moon, which was partially visible from behind a broken layer of clouds covering approx. 80% of the sky. The clouds were thin enough to be translucent to the light of the moon. The object was zig-zagging about very slowly, and was framed through the branches of a tall, bare tree which gave a reference point from which to gauge the object’s speed of movement. As it began to move or rise away to the northeast, it faded into the clouds. I immediately checked the iPhone app ‘FlightRadar24’, which displays a GPS-linked map with the surrounding civilian aircraft that have filed flight plans or are using FAA Flight Following. Military aircraft are not displayed. METAR reports were then checked on the NOAA Aviation Weather Center website for the nearest reporting station not reporting clear skies (KCEF), 23 miles to the south. The report was for a scattered layer of clouds at 12,000’ with a broken layer at 15,000’. A smartphone video was recorded for approx. 20 seconds, though the details previously mentioned are not as easily observable in the video.
December 23, 2018 · 6:00 PM · EGG
Corona, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 23, 2018 · 9:09 AM · LIGHT
Lenoir, NC
Bright blinking lights hovering over the blue ridge mountains. This is not the first time. They do not appear every night. Sometimes they'll skip a night or a few. When they appear they hover in one place for awhile. They'll move higher occasionally until we can no longer see them in the frame of the window. They are usually gone by 11PM. Viewed from the village of Cedar Rock.
December 23, 2018 · 1:00 AM · OVAL
Kentfield, CA
Very loud ongoing noise, similar to a hair dryer or leaf blower frequency, filled the Larkspur/Kentfield, CA, valley area near Marin General. Weather was clear with some light patches of fog. From our terrace, (400 ft. above city street level), in the distance I saw what looked like a huge drone, with a big green flashing light, bright white light with smaller red and yellow lights, but this was not a drone, pretty big aircraft. Slowly making its way up vertically then flew horizontally to about the middle point of Mount Tam, made a right, then started approaching the house. That weird sound became very loud. I looked up at the aircraft, the bottom was black, red lights surrounding the oblong aircraft. The other color lights became stronger as well. It was not a jet/plane sound or shape, didn’t see blades, did not sound like a helicopter or chopper. As it flew over the roof and out of sight, I could still hear the sound of that aircraft for a least 5 t! o 6 minutes later, either heading towards San Rafael, San Anselmo, or Woodacre. Living here for ten years I’ve never witnessed anything like this. I’m very interested about this aircraft. I'm emailing a map with description.
December 23, 2018 · 12:03 AM · LIGHT
Delran, NJ
I have live footage of a very fast moving object appearing to be turning and climbing in altitude. It went over a large amount sky in a split second. The camera lens was too slow to actually pick up its speeds. This leaving identical spaces in between the light beams. I caught it on my security camera. My neighbor just so happened to be walking out the door at the same time, triggering the camera. When I looked at it, I was amazed what it caught.
December 22, 2018 · 10:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Middletown, CT
On 22 December 2018 at approximately 2200hrs, I was taking my dog out for the final time of the night. The moon was extremely bright and clouds were patchy. As I looked up at the moon, I noticed a large number of solid lights traveling from a southeastern to northwestern direction. All lights were equidistant and in the same formation. I couldn't guess the altitude...much higher than commercial flights. There were several normal aircraft in the area. I watched about 25-30 of these lights fly over, I tried to record them with my phone, but thanks to the bright moon, didn't get anything. I went inside and told my wife to come outside and look. She was baffled, especially at the speed they were traveling. Much to fast to be a commercial flight, and too many on the same flight path. I tried looking on the airplane tracker sites to see what was in the air at the time, and nothing out of the norm. Definitely not what we witnessed.
December 22, 2018 · 6:30 PM · SPHERE
Tarboro, NC
I was driving down US highway 64 East, when I noticed 7 orange lights flying in formation. They crossed the 4 lane and I pulled off the highway to see better. Other cars also pulled off and got out looking at the objects. No blinking just solid orange lights. I took a video of 3 of the objects and someone yelled out another group was coming across the highway. I saw then but did not video as my phone camera quit working. Next there were several helicopters coming and I could hear the helicopters not the orange objects, no sound from the groups of objects.
December 22, 2018 · 2:30 PM · SPHERE
Attleboro, MA
2:40 pm, sunny, windy. Looked up in the eastern sky and saw a spherical object approach, fly overhead and off into the distance. Thought it could have been a mylar balloon but it didn't "dance" like a balloon would and it's rate of speed did not behave like a balloon. There was no noise or lights. Color of the object was silver and reflective.
December 22, 2018 · 12:09 PM · TRIANGLE
Montclair, NJ
Driving on the road we noticed something that was hovering , bright three lights at each corner with lights in the middle and a red blinking light , as soon as I started to record the triangle craft it started to move at a very low clearance.
December 22, 2018 · 8:05 AM · LIGHT
Coral Springs, FL
4 bright orange/red oval shapes slowing moving in a square formation. The orange light that they were emitting did not blink like a commercial airplane. One by one, each craft shot up into the atmosphere.
December 22, 2018 · 6:45 AM · LIGHT
Spirit lake, ID
Jagged movement up and down dissapeared after 25 minutes flew up light faded. At one point the light was brighter and it looked like a triangle but I couldn't quite tell. It seemed as if it was teleporting at times left small faint trail and when I tried to take a picture my phone stoped working
December 22, 2018 · 6:40 AM · CIRCLE
Caryville, TN
Myself and my 2 daughters had walked out to leave, i looked at the mountians behind our house and saw the edge of the mountian was lite up bright from a light. I quickly realized this was a beam of light coming down from a larger light. It was so bright you could see the trees that it was lighting up. The girls got scared so we leave and as we are getting on the intersrate which is between my house and the mountians i start to look for the light source and as the mountian comes in to view there is a round ship with white lights around it, it's just perfectly hovering there over this section of trees, we look as long as we can until its out of site...."my husband and i are going to try to get to the area and check it"
December 22, 2018 · 12:09 AM · CIRCLE
Union City, TN
This evening the night sky is very clear and lit by a near full moon. At around 0009hrs., I was looking toward the south and noticed a bright object that appeared to be a bright star. This was not all that unusual other than the fact that in the city, almost no stars are visible at this time due to the lights and the moon. Still, I assumed it was the light of an airliner flying north. But then the light, which did not appear to be moving, disappeared like someone turned off the light switch. The light was not an unusual color; maybe a redish white. I kept an eye on this spot in the sky and noticed that about 7 minutes later, a light appeared in the same spot but this time it was much dimmer and a deep red. This light began blinking in a pattern not normally seen on aircraft. It would blink 3 times rapidly then disappear for around 3 seconds and blink rapidly again 3 times. This continued for about a minute without moving then disappeared again. About one minute later it appeared again as a solid red light for a few seconds before diappearing again. I had to move from my vantage point after this and was no longer able to be sure of the exact spot so I can't be sure if it ever reappeared. There were at least 3 other airplanes in the vicinity that all appeared normal and not like this.
December 21, 2018 · 11:57 PM · TRIANGLE
Rowley, MA
What made me go outside to look was a low almost bass like sound. Making a loop around a small area of my neighborhood, it left in the same direction it came. I came inside and started researching for a forum for sightings like the one I just had. While I was searching I thought I heard the same type of sound. Going back outside I saw nothing but heard what to me sounded like just a helicopter, after going outside I could tell they we're two different sounds.
December 21, 2018 · 9:50 PM · RECTANGLE
Pleasant Hill, MO
On the evening of December 21st, my 7 year old son and I witnessed a glowing rectangular object 12 o'clock of the Moon, which then drifted to the 6 o'clock position of the Moon, when it passed over the Moon it was lost in the light and then reappeared. The object moved downwards of the moon, enough that I held 2 fingers in front of my face, and could fit them between the Moon and the object. Up to this point I would have disregarded it as a reflection of some sort, however, the rectangular object then was stationary for a few moments, a glowing rectangle, approximately half the width of the Moon, my son and I watched as it slowly faded, as if it had flown into space. Some additional details I would include, are that I noticed several planes in the sky, and this was well above passenger jet altitude, also that it was not clearly defined, it was almost like a plane flying through clouds, when they have their lights on, except that there were no clouds around the object.
December 21, 2018 · 9:10 AM · OTHER
Nashville, TN
In the south sky, 5 objects seemed to be flying in sync. 2 broke off and 3 stayed in triangle formation. Looked to be a mile apart. Disappeared in plain sight. This took place 10-20 miles west of BNA.
December 20, 2018 · 8:45 PM · TRIANGLE
Tonganoxie, KS
Saw what I thought was a regular aircraft except it was hovering over the I-70 tonganoxie exit. Has one or two white lights toward the front like a typical aircraft and wing marker lights that would blink like a normal aircraft except the aircraft was not moving it was hovering. Triangular shape similar to stealth fighter aircraft F-117. Looked fairly large. Also, noticed one unmarked police Ford Explorer nearby before passing I-70 rest area after passing the aircraft. Not sure if they had noticed it as well.
December 20, 2018 · 4:40 PM · OVAL
Sparks, NV
Subject: UFO Sighting Report - Sparks, Nevada - December 20, 2018 Date and Time of the Sighting: December 20, 2018, at around 4:40pm. Location of the Sighting: I was situated at Teglia's Paradise Park in Sparks, Nevada, sitting in my car eating and talking. The UFO was observed in the west/southwest of my location, hovering over a mountain range north of Lake Tahoe. Duration of the Sighting: Initially, the object was observed with the naked eye as a solid black shape for approximately 2-3 minutes. Once I began recording it with my phone from inside the car due to the cold weather, it started shifting from solid black to transparent and back, a phenomenon that was captured for an additional 2 minutes. Appearance and Behavior of the Object: The object appeared as a solid, black, oval or "tic-tac" shape. It was first noticed by my friend, who drew my attention to it. The object was seen hovering at the approximate altitude of the mountains and exhibited controlled, horizontal movement, shifting left and right from our perspective. The object's transparency seemed to shift only after I began recording it. Weather Conditions: The day was cloudy and, given the time of year, it was quite cold and windy. Witnesses: I was not the sole witness to this event - it was first noticed by my friend, who alerted me to its presence. Emotional Impact: During the sighting, we were excited, but the inability to explain what we had seen left us feeling anxious and shocked in the years that followed. Visual Material: The video recorded on my phone captured the object's distinct shifting transparency and its controlled movements for about 2 minutes, after observing it with the naked eye for about 2-3 minutes. Personal Response and Efforts to Debunk: I've always been skeptical about unidentified flying objects and have made substantial efforts to understand what we saw that day. I posted the video on Reddit, where it received over 400 likes and sparked many discussions. Some suggested that it could have been bird murmurations, but considering the high altitude, the time of year, and the local weather conditions in Reno, this seems unlikely. The cold, windy conditions and mountainous terrain also make the idea of a drone or balloon extremely unlikely. Although the sighting did not occur near an airport, there is one in the vicinity in Reno, which adds another layer of complexity to the sighting due to airspace regulations. Following the Recent UFO Congressional Hearings: I've been inspired to share this incident with professional organizations that might help shed light on what we witnessed. Previous Experiences: This is the first time I've witnessed such an event. The object and its behavior were unlike anything I've previously seen. Additional Information: I can provide pinpoint locations on Google Earth both of my location at Teglia's Paradise Park and of where I believe the UFO was hovering over the mountain range. My hope in reporting this sighting is to find a plausible explanation for the event and to contribute to our collective understanding of such phenomena. I believe in the importance of rigorous scrutiny and welcome any insights or information that can help explain this occurrence.
December 20, 2018 · 6:38 AM · LIGHT
Cowpens, SC
This looked similar to a jet behind the clouds. Except there were no clouds. This was a completely clear morning. The weirdest part was it was almost invisible other than the 3 white lights leaving behind a trail.
December 20, 2018 · 4:30 AM · CIRCLE
Kingman, AZ
Round, flashing multi-colors, hovering than moving in different directions.
December 19, 2018 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Estelline, TX
On 12/19/2018 at 9:30 pm, in Estelline, Texas, we noticed 17 small lights in the sky. There was 4 witness who observed them move thru the sky in small groups of 3 then 5 and 7 and 2. It was partly cloudy, with the clouds moving south wards and the lights moving northwest. They were going again slightly wind and moving rapidly in clusters of 3 then 5 then 7 and then 2.
December 19, 2018 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Miami, FL
During my nightly ritual of looking up stars with an app called Star Walk I noticed 2 very odd lights, very high up, apprx 50k-75k ft. I can guess this because I live a few miles south and east of Miami International, there are planes landing and taking off all the time and I was able to get a plane at flying altitude as a comparison. Using the Star Chart app I confirmed it was not Cassiopedia and no other visible stars were at this location. Two lights.. One bright white with another just beside it slowing drifting due east.. Watched with my dad as they very very slowly moved east until they were gone. Not very dramatic but I am certain they weren't planes.. Definitely not stars.. With all the light polution in Miami they were incredibly bright and any planets and stars would have definitely shown up on the star chart.
December 19, 2018 · 8:15 PM · UNKNOWN
Anaheim, CA
There were three outside my work when I came out for a break. I heard a loud noise which turned out to be a Helicopter (possibly a military helicopter) chasing 2 little red lights about 1,000 ft in the air or less one in front of the so fast that the helicopter seem to have a hard time following. the red lights were traveling at a very high speed (to me they seemed to be going to fast to be drones). As they passed almost directly over our heads, one of the red lights sped up passing the other one and leaving the helicopter way behind. They were traveling north through orange county towards Los Angeles. I watched until they out of my sight.