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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
December 9, 2018 · 1:00 AM · LIGHT
North Brevard, NC
I stepped out to see the snowstorm in North Brevard, NC. There was a white light to the night, almost as if a full moon. When the trees started swaying, a blue light and a gold-not-yellow light up overhead seemed to be up over the cloud bank, as if behind a scrim. The gold seemed to move, as if a tinder to a yacht. I went back inside and the lights flickered back on. There is no transformer over head. There was no foreboding until the wind started. A Cherokee-descended acquaintance immediately posted from 30 miles away the story of the Anjikuni Lake in 1930 and has been posting about us never knowing when we’ll be called to move. I live close to PARI.
December 8, 2018 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Santa Fe, NM
(( Possible military exercise?? PD http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/25380/conga-lines-of-usaf-airlifters-filled-the-night-sky-across-u-s-for-joint-forcible-entry-drill END NOTE))
December 8, 2018 · 11:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Atlanta, GA
I was on highway 75 going north bound getting very close to the airport when I saw through the clouds bright lights in the shape of a triangle. The lights flashed 3 times and it appeared to be coming in for a landing. I've never seen a plane like this and I travel this highway often. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 8, 2018 · 10:30 PM · FLASH
Santa Fe, NM
My son heard a loud unusual humming noise and saw formation of lights in a vertical pattern in the northern sky. He called my other son to come and see the lights that were traveling east to west in the northern sky over Los Alamos, NM. The called me out and I saw the formation which is one of the most unusual sightings I have seen. I ran into my house and captured the lights flashing with my phone video as they disappeared. We also witnessed two fast flying I assume fighter jets that flew right at the formation. (( Possible military exercise?? PD http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/25380/conga-lines-of-usaf-airlifters-filled-the-night-sky-across-u-s-for-joint-forcible-entry-drill END NOTE))
December 8, 2018 · 10:00 PM · FORMATION
Hurricane, UT
Noticed the stars twinkling a bit more one evening and stood and watched a second. Immediatly noticed a loooong line of twinkling white lights moving across the sky. The size of the stars more or less. The amount of them were able to stretch as far as i could see in both directions. Looked like a line of stars moving east to west. Towards St. George. Flying super close and low for how many of them there were. No sound. Noticed a report from almost exactly a year ago of the same sighting. What's up with this? Seems pretty explainable, but cant find any info on it.. Still plenty weird. Thank you! (( Possible military exercise?? PD http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/25380/conga-lines-of-usaf-airlifters-filled-the-night-sky-across-u-s-for-joint-forcible-entry-drill END NOTE))
December 8, 2018 · 9:50 PM · SPHERE
Rachel, NV
On December 7th & 8th, 2018 I took my daughter to Rachel, NV, and to visit the area around Groom Lake/Area 51 and to allow her to "Sky Watch" with new Video Equipment I had purchased for her. On the night of December 8th 2018, while parked adjacent to NV 375 (The Exterresterial Highway) observing Area 51 to the South, at approximately 9:50PM, we witnessed and VIDEO Recorded 2 Incidents of approximately 15 minutes in length, of Orbs, orangish in color, that had 3 lights cemeterial in line, these were NOT Flares, they appeared 4 times, and moved in ways conventual fixed wing air craft or helicopters are unable to. They then "disappeared" midair and reappeared over a 15-minute time frame, the last time on the North side of NV375 (NOT over any Nellis Range Territory) and again disappeared midair. We were unable to capture this via video as we were in our vehicle on route back to our RV. It should be noted that I was monitoring Radio Frequencies via Scanner and there was NO correlating Radio chatter with the appearance of the Orbs NOR was there associated "jet engine noise". While we were filming, we did observe Air Force Jets and heard them at high altitudes, perhaps engaged in high altitude surveillance, BUT there was NO associated "Jet Noise" with the appearance of the Orbs, which appeared much lower than the high-altitude Air Force jets we heard while "sky watching" (( Possible military exercise?? PD http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/25380/conga-lines-of-usaf-airlifters-filled-the-night-sky-across-u-s-for-joint-forcible-entry-drill END NOTE))
December 8, 2018 · 9:12 PM · FORMATION
Ganado, AZ
Approximately 2112 hours on Saturday, December 8, 2018, I was at work as an ER Physician (also 23 years experience USAF Flight Surgeon in helo operations Combat Search and Rescue) in the Sage Memorial Hospital ER in Ganado, AZ, about 65 miles west of Gallup NM, roughly at the intersection of Highway 191 and 264, when co-workers told me that they were seeing lights outside in the clear cold black night sky. They said they had first seen them when they called a patient to the nurse’s station, and the family said the patient was outside looking at lights. I immediately went outside and saw about 20 small lights about the size of a bright star, white in color, slowly blinking about 0.5 seconds on and 1 seconds off, independently, without co-ordination, in a loose long cluster estimated to be 0.25 to 0.5 miles long, moving together at varied, but maintained altitudes, at 25 to 30 degrees above the horizon at a distance of about 4 miles. They were roughly moving from Southeast to Northwest. Distance is only roughly estimated as there were very few objects for any frame of reference. Other people were standing close by, (and I tried to collect their impressions) and one person pulled up and hopped out his car and said he had seen them slowly headed this way for the last 5 to 10 minutes as he drove from Gallup, New Mexico, on Highway 264, west to Ganado, AZ. There was no discernable shape to any of the objects, as the objects were too far away to make out any details, and the hospital compound lights interfered with good visibility – think orangish halogen or mercury-vapor lamps. The objects passed behind the gym, a two-story structure about 100 yards away, at quite a distance behind the gym, more than one mile, for sure, and then headed North by Northwest with an inferred slight course change to the North. The objects could have been easily between 4 and 20 miles away, and distance estimation is unreliable due to night sky and! lack of any shape or moonlight. The lights looked independen! t in movement, blinking independently and similarly, and moving together, as in a formation. There was no noise, odor, or any other unusual phenomenon noted with their passage. They disappeared over the last 10 seconds of the sighting, quickly to the north, growing dimmer. The entire episode for me lasted 30 seconds. I have seen Air Force, Marine and Army helicopters do the same, but not in these numbers at night, nor in this remote location, and the objects passed silently. I would think a large formation of helicopters at night would be readily identified by their noise signature. About 2400 hours, one of the ER Techs noted that someone had posted info on Facebook of a similar sighting in the area around Chuska Mountain, NM, about 38 miles from Ganado, and that this sighting had occurred about 2100 hours, for a flight time of 12 min, resulting in a speed calculation of 190 miles an hour. This speed is much more in the range of military helicopters. The Facebook reference also has video attached, and the reference is: Facebook, Road Conditions Navajo Reservation Wide, D... C......: 3 hours ago, "Yooo anyone see all those blinking lights going over Chuska Mountain from Red Valley?" Scroll down to video posted by R...... D.... and this was what I saw. IF this was a military op, then it should be easy to verify. (( Possible military exercise?? PD http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/25380/conga-lines-of-usaf-airlifters-filled-the-night-sky-across-u-s-for-joint-forcible-entry-drill END NOTE))
December 8, 2018 · 8:30 PM · FORMATION
Santa Fe, NM
My wife and I heard a low-level droning sound. After a couple of minutes, I went outside to our second story porch to see what it was. In a straight-line formation were blue/white lights that would go on and off periodically moving at a steady pace toward the west. Maybe a couple hundred feet up. No craft outline could be seen. They kept moving west until they were out of sight. Our neighbor has a hound dog that howls at anything strange but she did not howl at this noise, though we confirmed with the neighbor that she could hear the droning sound. Maybe military in origin? Heading possibly toward Los Alamos. (( Possible military exercise?? PD http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/25380/conga-lines-of-usaf-airlifters-filled-the-night-sky-across-u-s-for-joint-forcible-entry-drill END NOTE))
December 8, 2018 · 8:20 PM · CHANGING
Lincoln, CA
Pink and purple changing light in the sky seeming to change shape. Formed a near perfect disk shape and a persistant purplish color seeming to dance around.
December 8, 2018 · 8:00 PM · RECTANGLE
Chester, VA
1 large rectangular object hovering at approximately 2k-3k feet elevation. It was dark outside so I was unable to see the color of the object; I could easily make out the square shaped silhouette. On the bottom of all four corners there were circular shaped white/silver lights. There were a few lights along the vertical side wall around the corners (they were small and I was unable to determine the shape). There were long horizontal linear lights in the center of each side. These lights extended approximately half the distance of each side of the object and stopped approximately 1/4 from each corner (they seem to be sort of centered on each side). There were a couple other randomly located lights along the underside. The object hovered for approx 45 seconds then rotated 180(+/-) degrees and slowly and smoothly moved away toward the SE. During all of the movement it never appeared to change elevation, or pitch. It just appeared to pivot and glide. The total amount of time that I had it in sight was approximately 3 minutes. Side note: I was driving on my way home when I saw this object. I was in mid conversation with my wife and subconsciously stopped in the middle of the road and became fixated on this object. I stepped out of my truck and just stared at it. It was completely quiet. Even during movement it did not produce a sound. It was by far the largest object that I have ever seen in the sky. The shape was unlike any plane, helicopter, etc. that I have ever seen. My wife apparently kept asking what was wrong and all I could say was “hold on. Wow that’s crazy...what the??” Apparently I was so captivated by what I was seeing that I couldn’t put it into words. After getting home I thought about calling the local police department and reporting it but did not do so for fear of any potential backlash. I wish I could figure out what it was and hopefully provide some closure for myself. I keep telling myself it’s probably something top secret military etc., and hopefully it is, but as of now I have been unable to find anything related to the military that looks like what I saw. The closest object I found was something that some guy in North Carolina posted a picture of not too long ago. The biggest difference is that the object in his picture looked rectangular and what I saw looked very square
December 7, 2018 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Stafford, VA
Light ball observed with rapid acceleration and stopping. After stopping, ball would make a zig zag pattern. After which the ball would accelerate in a different direction and repeat pattern. This happened several times, then the ball steadily stayed in one location for several minutes. 4 additional balls where observed to the south, all with the same repetitive pattern. After roughly 3 hours, all balls of light where gone. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 7, 2018 · 8:52 PM · SPHERE
Scarborough, ME
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 7, 2018 · 7:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Greenwood, DE
We got home from eating and my husband stated, “Oh, you just missed a meteor shower.” He then told me to look at these two lights in the sky. There were two bright orange lights that did not flash. The aircraft seemed to be hovering. The lights were south of our house and appeared to be facing north. They didn’t move for quite awhile. There was no sound. The sky was very clear. We could see stars in the sky and they were definitely not stars. Then my husband says, “Wow, look at all the planes in the sky.” At first I didn’t see them, but then I did... there was at least ten planes flying toward this hovering aircraft. Slowly the aircraft turned to its right... so east. At this point there was a third light we could see, probably the rear of the aircraft. And it slowly continued east. Then all of the planes in the sky began to follow it. It seemed to basically disappear shortly after moving
December 7, 2018 · 7:04 PM · LIGHT
Louisville, KY
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 7, 2018 · 6:20 PM · CHANGING
Issaquah, WA
I was at a gas station taking my dog for a walk. At approx. 18:20 I saw a starfish-shaped object floating and changing shape. It was covered in small bright red colored lights. Floating quickly. It was visible for 11 seconds and quickly disappeared. It made no noise.
December 7, 2018 · 4:45 PM · OTHER
Branchburg, NJ
On 12/07/2018 at 16:45 I was driving westbound on Burnt Mills Road in Branchburg, NJ, when I witnessed what first appeared to be a jet contrail, however instead of getting longer, it stayed the same size and began rotating in a clockwise direction. It was the shape of a line, or cylinder, and I could see that it was illuminated because the sun has already set and was behind the object, but it was fully illuminated bright white on its east side, opposite the sun. As I noticed it wasn't growing and instead rotating, another, smaller object appeared slightly to the north of it. I drove through a forested section of the road and came to a clearing and pulled off to the shoulder to view them some more. I then noticed 2 more similar shaped objects to the north of the first 2. They were moving very slowly in the sky, and as I tracked them, I could see movement relative to the other objects, and saw that they were traveling west towards the twilight. The first object I saw eventually disappeared to the west, followed by the 2nd, and finally the last 2 disappeared. I am certain they were not planes, helicopters or hot air balloons. I have never seen anything quite like these lights in the sky before. I have logged thousands of miles sailing offshore and many moonless nights at sea, and although I have seen some very strange things in the sky, nothing viewed has ever compelled me to write about before. I would like to know if there were any other witnesses as it was rush hour and there were many cars driving around at that time. This is a fairly rural area, the objects were traveling over farmland and possibly parts of Route 78.
December 7, 2018 · 4:26 PM · SPHERE
Westtown, NY
I cant recall the name of the road but I believe it was Ridgeburry Rd. I was on but it was in Westtown and I was driving north. I saw a light in the east/ north-east it was about 10° to 15° above the horizon. It was bright enough that I pulled my car over by a pasture with cattle and got out of my car to take a better look. This was at about 425pm. The sky was generally cloudless and the sun was almost down. It did not move so Id thought it was a star, it twinkled like one. I though it was Possibly venus however it was blue, like how whitelights can appear blue, not like a blue led but still between blue and white. If it was a star, it was several times brighter than any star id ever seen other than the sun. Within about 60 seconds of my observing it the star vanished. It was instantaneous. I looked at the place where it had been for maybe 20 to 30 seconds before giving up on seeing it again. As I was getting back in my car I looked up at an airli! ner above my head. There once again was the blue star only this time it was moving at the same pace as the airliner. There were no clouds, and it was right at dawn so I couldnt guess its elevation, only that I believe it was above the plane by a possibly 2 or 3 hundred feet and it was over its right wing, The airliner was flying southwest. Whatever it was stayed with the airliner untill the plane began turning east. Just as the plane began to do this the blue light disappeared again just as suddenly as before. When I checked the time again it was 4:28pm.
December 7, 2018 · 1:00 PM · LIGHT
Panama City Beach, FL
Witness provides no information. PD
December 7, 2018 · 10:20 AM · OTHER
Auburn, WA
Someone was having some fun. I have video but not worth sharing. These were bags with a fire in them. They were launched from approximately 32 Street and west valley highway. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 7, 2018 · 7:30 AM · DISK
Huntingdon, PA
The object was shaped like a drone and was moving slowly across the sky at a north to west direction flying at a level of approximately 1000 feet. It suddenly completely changed directions and moved upward diagonally from west to east before disappearing into the clouds in a matter of 3-5 seconds.
December 7, 2018 · 12:00 AM · CHANGING
Redding, CA
Eastern Shasta County, directly east from Redding, California, towards Lassen Volcanic Park. Bright "star" like object spotted in night sky for several months. With Naked eye looks like very bright star. With binoculars it actually is a many lights array configuration, shaped in a rather egg shape sphere, sort of like a huge honeycomb. All Lights pulsate and are positioned precisely throughout the sphere, not just the edges. The actual sphere appears to be static, not flying or moving. Lights are sometimes all white, sometimes lights are red, blue, green, purplish, and white. There is a larger light that goes around the outer rim of the configuration, seems to be pulsating-signaling. As of December we have noticed more than one of these, at least (3) nightly, light configurations hanging in space in the vicinity of the Lassen Mountain-Cascade range. Time frame that they are seen is normally around 9:30 p.m. to around 7:30 a.m. On Friday, December 6, 2018, one of the arrays emitted what looked like a mirror image of itself, and that mirror image pulsated-floated off towards the north. Original configuration remained static in place. Anyone know what these light arrays are? Could not get a photo with my Canon EOS 60D. Sorry. Thanks for the help in informing us what these might be.
December 6, 2018 · 11:00 PM · FIREBALL
Anacortes, WA
Date: 12-06-18 Time: 11:00pm pac. (+/- a couple minutes) Location: The north entrance of Deception Pass Bridge, HWY 20, between Anacortes and Oak Harbor WA, USA. The event started in the south south-east sky and went further east as it descended. I was traveling in a southerly direction at the time. Witness: Myself, traveling in my car alone on my usual commute home from work. I was traveling at 40 mph with cruise control on. As soon as I got home, I posted a brief of my sighting on Facebook. When I got to work on the 7th, I told many co-workers about it. One, who saw my FB posting and was off work at the time said he saw it too. Another, who was at work and traveling home about the same time, said he saw it as well. Event: I saw a very bright flash of white light (similar to a lightening flash on a clear dark night) to my left. It lit up the entire half of the sky. I turned to it immediately and looked through the forward half of my driver's side window. I saw what I can best describe as a classical comet. It was a large white ball, followed by a very long and tapering white tail. If I was able to freeze it in position, and trace its outline with a marker on my window, the ball was the size of a nickel and the tail was between 8-10”. It was descending toward the ground at an extremely steep angle, about 10-15 degrees shy of 90 (straight down). In terms of overall length, it took up roughly 30 degrees of sky. The entire event, from beginning to end lasted no more than about 2 seconds. It is possible that it might have been slightly longer, because there is a large rock wall just to the left of the road at that position, so it could have blocked the view of it until I rounded the corner approaching the bridge. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and found him to be sincere and sober-minded. We suspect he is an excellent, and highly reliable, witness. PD
December 6, 2018 · 6:15 PM · FIREBALL
Omer/Standish, MI
December 6, 2018 “Orbs” Sighting Northern Michigan Arenac County - On the day of December 6, 2018, at approximately 6:15pm - I was headed northbound on State Rd. having left pinconning. I had stopped at the Worth rd intersection taking notice of the recent additions to the local casino to my right... the new building stood out. Headed north again I went about a mile or so before catching a glimpse of a amber/orange colored light. - now before I go on, I’ll note that I’ve been hyper aware of the existence of these orbs since my sighting in 2016, so I’ll admit that I stop the car and examine the sky and rule out many anomalies before jumping to the UFO conclusion... that being said, I’ll continue - mind you, I’m trying to split my attention between driving and watching this amber/orange light. I keep catching the the activity of this light and realize that it’s more than one light. At one point there was at least for to five, and the movements between them varied... one would be somewhat still, the others kind a random, but different almost swirling to swarming... they would dim and un-dim and randomly “dance like fireflies” - they remind me of fireflies! - Like how a firefly can be right there in front of you and go out in a moment, just disappearing into the black of night. This is very much like a sighting two years ago on December 13, which was also during the full moon of that month and year - we had four strange moon events in ‘16 - this was I believe on the fourth of those. On that event, my mother and I witnessed “orbs” above Hale, MI. - as soon as I realized I was seeing a similar event I called my mom who had been with me during the previous sighting to let her know I was seeing them again. (This was at 6:18pm according to my phone log) I was letting her know I was hoping to get to a spot where I could get out and get some video. On our previous sighting, the orbs were hard to catch on the iPhone but did get two brief vids before the battery died from the cold air - this time, as I was taking to my mom about trying to get a video and looking for a spot to pull of the road... all the activity slowed. I got off the phone and kept a close eye on the spot where they had been. Unfortunately I did not get an opportunity to get photos or videos. The thought had crossed my mind that other cars/drivers were seeing something similar as we all seemed to be slowing, even the cars heading opposite my direction. I had hoped that I’d get a closer look as I was headed toward the city of Omer, where these objects seemed to be located above. This sighting marks the second definitive “orb” sighting for me, and the third object sighting here in northern Michigan that I’d label without question a UFO
December 6, 2018 · 7:30 AM · CIRCLE
North Fort Myers, FL
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