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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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November 19, 2018 · 4:45 PM · OTHER
Oklahoma City, OK
Seconds after that I lost sight of it, but could still hear the very loud engine sound. Seconds later I witnessed a contrail a ways from my last sighting and it appeared in a dash like pattern and the engine sound continued for a few more seconds and then suddenly stopped. Again, this may sound mundane, but it corrected itself in the opposite direction so quickly, I've never witnessed this and I have attended many airshows over my lifetime. I watch planes a lot in the sky because I have always had a fascination with them. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 19, 2018 · 12:30 PM · CIRCLE
Oolagah, OK
They were flying somewhat in formation, but the 2 lower spheres were bounding each other. One would speed up fast then come back, then the one below it would do the same. This formation was only 500-600 feet from the ground. With perfect clear skies there was no mistaking these for something else, plus the speed at which the lower 2 spheres were bounding. Once flown over the tree line and out of sight we waited to hear some sort of engine sound or wind shear....no sound followed!
November 19, 2018 · 10:45 AM · OTHER
Avenal, CA
I am an airline pilot for a major airline. At 10:45 local California time, we were at 35,000 feet over Avenalm, Ca. As I was heads down briefing the descent profile into LAX, I saw a large black object go through my windshield view. I was initially startled, and my first officer looked to catch a glimpse. I asked ATC if there was any traffic in the area and he responded that closest traffic was 20 miles away. The other traffic was behind us at the same altitude heading same direction. They did not see anything. I’m not 100% sure what I saw because I caught it in my peripheral vision and saw it go by very fast. It was a large black object that had no wings and did not leave a contrail. I am also not sure how close it was, but I do know that it was closer then the normal thousand foot separation of other aircraft. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and we were impressed with his apparent sincerity and qualifications as a witness. We suspect that he is a highly reliable witness. PD
November 19, 2018 · 5:30 AM · CIRCLE
Saint Cloud, FL
Bright light, I have a photograph and video. Incredible experience!
November 19, 2018 · 12:00 AM · OTHER
Pineville, KY
Two eye shaped objects in the sky. Both looked outlined with clear lights on outer edge, more lights in center of each formed a circle. They looked exactly the same. One moved back but I could still see it. The other stayed in the same spot.
November 18, 2018 · 10:06 PM · OVAL
York, NE
Driving from Omaha got past York and saw a green orb shoot across the sky. Then it disappeared. I was very freaked out had to call my husband and make him talk to me the rest of the way home.
November 18, 2018 · 7:30 PM · LIGHT
Delray Beach, FL
While walking my dogs at about 7:30pm, I looked up in the sky to notice a bunch of bright “stars.” Normally I don't see as many, due to the amount of lights on the ground in south Florida. (lights usually reflect on the atmosphere making it more difficult to see stars.) When I stopped to see the “stars,” I noticed there were about 10-15 that were actually moving at different speeds and sometimes slowing and speeding up. There was a random group, no formation like you would expect for planes or other aircraft. I felt spooked after watching for about 5 minutes, so I ran in to get my fiancé to take a look so I didn’t think I was seeing things. She witnessed the same strange siting, and also got spooked and ran in the house. The lights seemed at a very high altitude and appeared to look like stars. As the view became blocked, I moved between trees to notice the lights moving at a much faster speed toward the western horizon. Still maintaining a random formation. There’s no way they could be aircraft of any type to be that many and to move at that rate of slow speed to high speed and cover that much distance in about a minute or less. There were no light trails of any sort. Just a formation of random “star” looking lights moving very strangely. There was no ability to determine a shape of objects due to the distance and altitude they seemed to be at. I’ve watch a lot of aircraft in the past, in the night skies, and this was definitely much different. I even noticed actual aircraft in the skies during and after the siting and nothing moved like these 10-15 lights I witnessed. It would have been difficult for anyone to notice unless you were looking up at stars and noticed the moving lights, they easily blended in with the night sky. Very strange but interesting experience. ( itness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD))
November 18, 2018 · 6:01 PM · UNKNOWN
Clinton, UT
On 18 Nov 2018 at 6:00 PM, I took of our house Christmas lights that just been put up and wanted my father in-law. When I looked at the photo a few days later it accrued to me that there were two unidentifiable objects in the photo. I ask my father-in law if he recognized them. He is a retired MSgt from the USAF. He said he did not recognize it either. That is why he suggested that I report to your site. To the best of our knowledge, we have not received the photos, yet. PD
November 18, 2018 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Mount Pleasant, MI
In the western sky right around dusk, i saw 2 paralell rectangular lights in the sky. They moved like shooting stars with tails and disenegrated. I thought at first it was a shooting star. But shooting stars arnt 2 rectangular lights. Also there was a hekicopter in the sky right for a couple hours before and after just sitting hovering.
November 18, 2018 · 6:00 PM · RECTANGLE
Cullman, AL
It had no flashing lights One continual yellowish light like an airplane It moved side to side Fast moving when side to side Slower when forward.
November 18, 2018 · 10:45 AM · SPHERE
Auburn, WA
I was driving from Kent, Washington to Tacoma, Washington at about 10:45 in the morning. I was headed south on highway 167. I looked up into the sky to look at the clouds and I saw an airplane. As I watched the plane, a silver sphere streaked into view traveling nearly the same direction I was (north to south). The sphere was moving at a very high velocity, faster than a fighter jet. As it approached the plane, it came to a complete stop. Light was reflecting differently off of this object compared to the plane, which can be seen in the video. At this point I had my cell phone out and began recording. I did not record the object as it left, but I did see it as it left. It remained stationary for around 10 seconds before shooting off to the east at the same speed it had originally approached. It accelerated instantly. I put my phone down and continued driving. Around a minute later, two more objects, identical to the original appeared from the s! ame direction the first had come (north to south). As they hit the spot where the first sphere had stopped, these two made a right angle turn at a ridiculous speed. They did not bank, just changed direction and headed east. I did not get video of the second set of objects as I was driving on the highway and could not safely film them.
November 18, 2018 · 9:39 AM · OTHER
Nehalem, OR
Sunday, 11/18/18 Time frame was approximately: 9:35am – 9:50am. We entered the Oregon beach from Nehalem Bay State Park at sign post 23. It was a perfect blue sky day with not a single cloud in the sky. Upon entering beach, I noticed an odd shaped object above the distant hills directly south of the beach. The object looked like a boomerang in the sky. It was positioned such that it looked as if the rings of Saturn were chopped off the planet and were hanging in the sky. I was with my boyfriend, best friend, her young Labrador retriever and our dog. I dismissed the object as a weird exhaust cloud left over from a plane and walked south along the beach watching the dogs play, the ocean, etc. We were probably 5 minutes down the beach when we saw some surfers and stopped to watch them. I happened to look up and notice the object had not changed shaped nor had it dissipated. I began watching it more closely. I had on polarized sporting sunglasses. My boyfriend and best friend did not have sun glasses on. I pointed the object out to them and said it was, “Not normal”. They could see it but they were staring into the sun at that time of the morning and it was difficult for them to watch it for long periods of time. Through my sunglasses, the item still appeared boomeranged shaped. It was a bright white in color similar to looking at the moon in the daylight but brighter. It would then take on a white-gold hue. It did not glow; have any flashing lights or other colors. I became mesmerized by it. I was waiting for it to fade away like a cloud and it didn’t. I would look away briefly to watch the dogs. At one point when I looked away and then back to the boomeranged object, it was positioned lower in the sky and had turned from the boomerang being a slanted parallel position (of the chopped off rings of Saturn) to a V position. The shaped still had not changed and looked distinctly like a boomerang. I was even more mesmerized. It dawned on me if it was a UFO there would possibly be military jets after it. I looked directly East to where I knew the Portland Airport would be. This is where our National Guard Jets leave from. I saw in the far off distance an F-15/F-16. It looked to be heading directly south. I looked at the object again and it was still there. I looked back at the jet and noticed it was now head directly for the object. I kept thinking in my head, “The jet is not fast enough.” When the jet was almost three quarters of the distance to the object, the object started leaving. I looked away from the object, to the jet, back to the object. The object was now a gold circle heading south. Its movement was fluid like, not labored like the jet looked. The circle became smaller and smaller and it disappeared within 5 or 10 seconds. The jet was nowhere near objects originating point at the time the object left. To compare the size of the object to the jet in the far distance is difficult. It seemed much larger than an F-15/F-16 jet, possibly 2-3 times the size of a typical airline plane.
November 18, 2018 · 9:39 AM · OTHER
Nehalem, OR
We spoke via telephone with the source of this report, and she sounded to us to be quite sincere and responsible. We suspect that she is ahighly reliable witness. PD
November 18, 2018 · 12:00 AM · CIRCLE
Detroit, MI
I have never seen anything like it in my life. On November 18, 2018, multiple bright orange circular lights (12 objects) in the sky at 12:15 am. The objects moved around to form like an Orion belt The objects moved to form an image of small triangles, three in a group. The objects then formed a straight line and disappeared quickly. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and she seemed to us to be quite sincere. We suspect that she is a highly reliable witness. PD
November 17, 2018 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Franklin, NC
While looking to the northeast on a clear night we saw a small, white light which we at first thought was a stair. We then observed that it was moving in circles and erratically while staying in basically the same location. There was no wind and nothing, i.e. trees, between us and the object. We took several videos on our phones.
November 17, 2018 · 7:15 PM · LIGHT
Anchorage, AK
At one point they all went out. Then one blinked back on and lit up the sky. Then another blinked on. I watched while the weird rumble continued. After about 10 minutes, all blinked out and the rumble stopped. Witness submits a very nice photograph, showing five bright white, or yellow, lights, positioned against a dark nighttime sky. PD
November 17, 2018 · 6:30 PM · CHANGING
Nashville, TN
One disappeared, then the second one dropped down like a comet, and changed its shape back to a horizontal shape and disappeared, then, the 3rd one disappeared. We received another report about this sighting from a resident of the Nashville area, who reports that there were a number of comments about it on social media pages. We believe the correct date of the sighting should be November 17, 2018, but will confirm that possibility with the source of this report. We have temporarily amended the date, to reflect a sighting on November 17, 2018. PD
November 17, 2018 · 4:25 PM · TEARDROP
Chambersburg, PA
On November 17th 2019, my girlfriend and I noticed a fighter jet flying West around 1624hrs. To the South, heading North was an odd shaped, fast moving flying object gaining speed to the jet fighter on its port side. The contrails made the jet obvious to identify. The second flying object was oddly shaped in comparison to the fighter jet. The two objects seemed to almost have a midair collision. I took a picture before the near miss and a video after. I failed to get my view of what I believe to two flying objects almost colliding. One was a fighter jet and the other was an unfamiliar craft traveling at a high rate of speed. My logical answer would be a possible drone photoshoot of a fighter jet? That still does explain the speed difference between the two. The jet looked sluggish and slow in comparison. If there was a near miss mid air collision, there should be a report. It may be nothing, I'm not experienced enough to identify the object in the picture and/or video.
November 17, 2018 · 4:25 PM · TEARDROP
Chambersburg, PA
On November 17th 2018 witnessed what we believe is a jet fighter almost colliding with a UFO. I email the picture of the before close call and a video of after. I missed the close contact shot. The jet was easily identified by its contrails. It was traveling East to West. The UFO was in the port side of the jet coming from the South heading North. I'm not experienced enough to identify the other flying craft. It did fly at a higher rate of speed compared to the jet. The craft also seemed to fly funny. Almost like a studded before a burst of acceleration. It's possible that the flying object was part of a training exercise. The UFO made the jet look sluggish and rugged in comparison.
November 17, 2018 · 11:00 AM · LIGHT
Troy, MI
I heard a loud noise above our house & the neighbor's house ... crawled out of bed to look out my window and saw a bright light leaving from above our house heading north going higher and higher with an extremely LOUD noise and bright light bigger than car but smaller than a airplane from what I could see.
November 17, 2018 · 4:05 AM · FIREBALL
Norfolk, VA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 17, 2018 · 1:30 AM · LIGHT
Beavercreek, OR
Opened SkyView app to ensure these were not star formations, discovered what I thought was one flickering light hovering over the tree line was actually two, you could see the bottom one hovering below the first light, they stayed like this for about an hour, possibly cylinder shape considering I never see them separate completely.
November 16, 2018 · 6:50 PM · TRIANGLE
Loganstown (west of; Hwy 80), PA
Saw bright white flashes in the sky that made us look- we thought lightning. Then a HUGE triangular shape appeared with big, bright red lights on each corner. This thing took up a big portion of the sky. The lights were so bright that you could clearly make out the shape. We all stared for several seconds. Two of us went to get out cameras for video keeping eyes on the lights. Then the brightest beam of white light came down from the center of the triangle and it was gone. I looked away long enough to hit video on my phone and point me camera out the window and it was gone. No sign of lights anywhere. This thing was not moving across the sky, only hovering. It made no noise. Just appeared and disappeared. After it was gone, the cars GPS that we had our maps loaded on went to black and all our cell phone service was lost. Strangest thing I have ever saw!!!
November 16, 2018 · 6:00 PM · CIRCLE
Frankin, WI
Stepped outside to let dog out. Noticed 3 bright lights decending at a steep angle. I am at glide path to Milwaukee airport, These circles went much steeper than any other craft in the sky. All other craft have the green and red strobes on them. I could only see 3 bright lights heading down