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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
November 8, 2018 · 7:00 AM · CROSS
Cary/Apex, NC
Riding down Hwy 64 at Cary/Apex heading West. Small airplane size cross shaped with four arm like off the center, each were small light white and blue toned under each "arm" hovering over trees two different areas within 3 miles apart.
November 8, 2018 · 1:00 AM · FIREBALL
Townshend, VT
We were driving on RT 30 when an oblong shaped object that looked like it was glowing hot fell from the sky to the ground in a zig zag.
November 7, 2018 · 9:09 PM · LIGHT
Olympia, WA
Noticed 3 lights appeared to be over right side Employment Security Bldg, (to right of DOT) on East Capitol Campus. After watching them a minute they seemed to drop down behind trees. A few minutes later I saw one light then two then another. They stayed there for a bit then disappeared. This happened repeatedly for about an hour then I didn’t see any more. They were quite low and not headed for the airport. All I could see were yellow lights, round lights and they appeared one at a time. They also blinked off or sank low, one at a time.
November 7, 2018 · 7:30 PM · SPHERE
DeLand, FL
It was early in the evening, but dark due to the previously mentioned time change. I'm again, guessing but I think it was probably about 1930 hrs. I left my house to take my dog for his evening walk and as I turned westbound onto my street, I saw what I thought looked like a Chinese lantern. I watched it briefly until it disappeared behind a canopy of oak trees which lined the street. Moments later, I saw it reappear from behind the trees and a few seconds later a second one, then a third one. I would describe these "lights" as spheres with an orange/yellow color. The three looked identical and moved laterally or parallel to the ground not appearing to gain or lose altitude. I now realize that the first light I saw was the last one to disappear behind the trees just before they all reappeared. They were all equidistant to each other, and if an imaginary line were drawn connecting them, the end result would be a triangle. I don't know if these were three separate spheres, or if they were three lights on a single larger possibly triangular shaped conveyance. The spheres were last seen moving toward the west of my location towards the town of DeLeon Springs, Florida. Source of report indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
November 7, 2018 · 7:10 PM · TRIANGLE
Salt Lake City, UT
In the night sky I seen black silhouette. At first I thought it was a bird but it was too big and as it flew passing above me I could see the "V" shape, and barely any sound at all. I would not of dectcted any sound unless I seen the object. And as a flew above me there is very faint white light in "V" pattern outlining the outer edges of it. Then it flew on and disappeared. And then afterwards a bunch normal helicopters where following it spaced far apart heading in the direction the “ship” travelled.
November 7, 2018 · 7:00 PM · CIRCLE
Fort Myers, FL
I saw a large circular donut-shaped UFO in the sky. It appeared to have a white light going in a circular pattern around the object. As I was staring at the UFO, I noticed a plane fly underneath it. This gave me a better realization of how large this UFO craft really was. Which made the airplane seem a small fraction of the size of the UFO.
November 7, 2018 · 6:35 PM · FIREBALL
Grove City, OH
I got my cell phone and turned on the video camera then about 45 seconds into the video the same lights appeared again farther off to the west about the same altitude and for about the same duration. I got off the highway at Georgesville rd and parked in a parking lot and got out waiting for about 5 minutes for another sighting. But with no luck. So I got back in my truck and travelled south on Holt Rd. and pulled into my neighborhood, stopped at the stop sign facing west and saw the exact same lights do the same thing again, but this time much closer. At this point I realized the lights were just south of Bolton Field Airport, but very high in the sky. I went out onto my porch several times looking west and about 15 minutes from the last sighting me and the woman that lives with me saw a group of 3 to four tiny flickering lights that appeared to be travelling north and over the Bolton Field Airport. My line of sight was from my back porch facing west and the lights appeared just above my neighbors house that is about 60 feet behind mine roof line. We watched them for about 6 or 8 seconds before we lost sight. They were flickering and travelling very slowly. We got into the car and left and took a country ride to see if we saw the lights again, with no luck. But after returning home I went back to the porch and a little higher in the sky in the same general area I looked at the stars and saw a white light and htne if lowly went out. I watched and witnessed this light lower itself in the sky and repeated to light up about every 6 or 8 seconds it seemed several times before it stopped. We have seen numerous strange lights in the past few years around Columbus including a very large red triangle ufo that lit up through the clouds over the south end of Hilliard, Ohio, in the evening of February of 2016 that lit up twice for about a second or two, but was massive, probably being a mile or so away and hundreds of yards wide. As well as two separate instances on opposite sides of the city in the distant southern skies were we saw a short string of large orange fiery lights, 5 or 6 fire orange colored lights lighting up at the same time that were very clos to being linked to each other like a small lego, then slowly dissipated within a few seconds, then light up another 1 to two times and disappear. The first time I saw these lights there was another small light off to the side in the distance light up when these light starting going out. I was in Reynoldsburg, OH in November 2016 facing south on this first occasions. And in Kouisville, OH, southwest of Columbus,! Ohio in February 2017 the second time. On the second occasion we parked and filmed a 14 minute video (but didnt capture those big orange lights ) which we submitted to MUFON that contained several minutes of dozens of sporadic red and white lights spread across portions of the sky flickering. We later realized we also captured a very clear image of bright white UFO with what appeared to have a small spout shaped extension extending off to the right and downward to the bottom right corner of it. Though the camera remained steady focused on a triangle of three bright white stars, this ufo looking object clearly travels up the left side of the screen from bottom to top for about 4 seconds .
November 7, 2018 · 6:28 PM · CIGAR
Fairfax, VA
Saw cigar shaped object (maybe meteor) break up into several smaller chunks over Fairfax/Chantilly area. Viewed from T junction close to Navy elementary at west ox rd and Thompson rd. White plasma glow,no tail. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 7, 2018 · 5:15 AM · CHEVRON
Reno, NV
Was out running, looked up and saw a dead silent chevron or boomerang shaped craft with no lights. It looked like a very graceful, gigantic bird gliding slowly from east to west. After seeing it the first time I kept looking up and either the same craft again or saw another one exactly like the first. The second sighting was approximately 3 minutes after the first sighting.
November 6, 2018 · 10:25 PM · LIGHT
Fort Collins, CO
I was able to follow it easily in the sky until it passed behind a dark cloud coming in from the front range.
November 6, 2018 · 7:30 PM · LIGHT
Amity, OR
2 lights traveled from SW to NW in clear evening sky, well above commercial aircraft path also visible at same time. The lights followed each other and they would light up bright for about 1.5 seconds than fade out as they left a trail to the next flash and so on. These lights traveled relatively slow, but since their altitude was relatively high, it's difficult to determine actual speed. Both lights faded as they traveled off to NW. No sound was audible.
November 6, 2018 · 5:36 PM · LIGHT
Santaquin, UT
Was driving south on I-15 towards Santaquin and noticed what I could describe as stadium lighting in the sky. Bright LED lighting. I'd guess 6 individual sources of light. Couldn't see a body or anything with it, just the lights. The brightness of the lights is what caught my attention and the size. I initially thought wow, those are the brightest and most lights I've ever seen on an Aircraft. But then I noticed it wasn't moving. It was just still in the sky. So after watching for a few minutes, I decided to grab my phone and attempt to record it. As I did so, it was gone.
November 5, 2018 · 11:45 PM · DIAMOND
Granite Bay/Loomis, CA
Witnessed a multi colored stationary object in the sky. Hard to determine shape, appeared diamond shaped. Lights changed/flashed: red, blue, white, yellow. Appeared to be spinning. Called my adult daughter who was at a friend's house....they ran outside and also observed the same object. I watched it for about 20 minutes, it never moved. May have dimmed from time to time. I went back outside a number of times to observe it, eventually after about 45-60 minutes, I looked and it was gone. But, the whole time I observed it. It remained absolutely stationary and exhibited multi colors, and rotated through the same pattern. I tried to get pictures/videos but my phone is only good enough to capture darkness.
November 5, 2018 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Roswell, NM
Three lights in the sky over western Roswell, New Mexico, flashing lights in sync appeared to be amber in color, lasted for about 35 seconds to 1 minute. The lights were round in shape, bright, but not overly bright.
November 5, 2018 · 7:27 PM · TRIANGLE
Orlando, FL
Saw a red glowing triangle shaped object in the night sky, traveling south to northwest. Thought it was a small plane on fire. There was no sound. Watched it till it disappeared.
November 4, 2018 · 11:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Cherry Hill, NJ
It was 11:00pm, I was watching tv and all of a sudden I heard a loud boom that shook my house for a second. I thought it was a bomb but I went outside and all my neighbors were also out inspecting. We all noticed and HUGE trail of smoke in the sky, and about a minute after, I could hear jets flying in the direction of the smoke trails. I checked the news to see if it were maybe a plane crashing, but I could find nothing. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 4, 2018 · 10:25 PM · LIGHT
Middletown, CT
Witness noticed a bright light that first appeared to be a plane descending over the Middlefield hills while looking out the front window atop a Durham ct hill. Witness was located south of it, facing north. It moved slowly in a downward 45-deg direction towards the west, paused, and descended again slowly straight down. It paused again, then spun as if it was a centrifuge. Lights dimmed and disappeared. Guess at location would be, near Wadsworth State Park or further north. It was unusually bright. (MUFON CMS).
November 4, 2018 · 9:36 PM · CIRCLE
Barrington, IL
(I saw this same thing on Monday, October 8th, 2018, 22:55 hrs., in Barrington, Illinois, with clear skies. Me and my dog originally saw 3 orange-ish lights, all in one line, stacked on top of each other, like a traffic light....the lights were spaced closely to one another, changing color to like yellowy color and back to orange.) Barrington/Barrington Hills, SW Night Sky...Sunday 11/4/2018 about 9:36 pm/21:36 hrs. some clouds in the night sky, but it had been raining most of the day and night. Cold 48' and ptly cloudy skies. At time of sighting no rain. Some clouds moving in night sky. Tonight took my dog potty, and floating about a half mile or less away in the night sky (in Barrington/Barrington Hills sky) were these same 3 orange colored lights. They were obstructed behind a barren tree, I took photos and a video, but it kept moving and reappearing a few hundred feet from where it was. I ran into my house, took photos using night mode, and took a video… I am including it for your review. My wife came out, and saw it also and she thought first it was a drone, then secondly, that it was a satellite. She is unsure what it is. This is my second sighting and now I have another witness and some photos. I do not hear anything, and none of the lights on the object are blinking or flashing red....object does change colors from orange to yellow ish and back to orange. Update I went back outside with binoculars and my camera, and now it is raining, but I took some more photos of the area it was in. I did not see the object/s this time. I would like to know if anyone is seeing/seen these lights/objects in the area?
November 4, 2018 · 8:18 PM · TRIANGLE
Oceanside, OR
While starwatching with my family in the skies over the Pacific WNW of Oceanside, Oregon, at around 2000 on November 4, I snapped some photos with my phone to test out a new camera app. I reviewed the photos approximately 10 minutes after they were taken and saw that one had captured 3 blue lights in a triangular formation. I immediately returned outside to attempt to see the lights and to recreate the photo, but was unable to reproduce the results or see anything in the sky that could have accounted directly for the three blue lights. I make no assertions about the cause or origin of these lights. Night photography with a smartphone presents many technical difficulties and opportunities for processiong errors and artifacts. Night photo indicates three blue lights in triangular formation. PD
November 3, 2018 · 11:00 PM · CHANGING
Fire Island (Watch Hill), NY
This particular light stuck out though, yellowish beam dead center over the ocean in the sky sort of growing in brightness to the scale of a small circle you would make with your pointer tucked into your thumb. The strange thing was that it was sort of still in space. As we kept an eye on it at one moment it diminished to the point of seemingly being gone before reappearing again. We watched it alone for about 10 minutes maybe before our friends walked back and joined us. They had also now seen this said light. I don’t believe we pointed it out to them. At the time we were still unclear if it was anything worth chatting about. That said we were all now focused on it. Around this point, the beam was no longer fading away, only getting stronger. It remained around the same size, but now it was lighting up the ocean as though it were the moon. We were all mesmerized as to how an airplane in the sky would be so bright as to light up the ocean like the moon. Here is where it gets wild. Suddenly this beam just came at us or to us like the snap of your finger. It was no longer lingering and just came to us. I didn't hear any sound of a ship. It was almost like a ship coming that appeared now appeared dually as a drone like object. It is though to describe because I have never seen anything like this. I will try my best. As this ship came at us a drone seemingly came down, but the drone in my eyes was only visible in the moment the ship was crossing over us, almost like it was in two places at once. For me it appeared as a vertical infinity sign without the bottom loop closed, silvery, shimmery, and almost like a glimmer. It looked like it came down and scanned us or looked at us. I thought it was maybe 15-20 feet away but a friend of mine said 100. To me it seemed extremely close and as it came to us and the ship was passing the aircraft did this magical thing where it turned into something like a shiny silvery stick figure of lights on the ship that lit up as it crossed over us making a walking stick figure light show. It was all very overwhelming. It is hard to say if it controlled our emotion (full elation) or if we were just all in awe of what was happening which is also likely. 5 people who all use a phone regularly didn't even think to pull our phones out. We were completely awestruck at its visiting us. I almost think we scared it away in our excitement. As the now certainly UFO passed us, we all watched as within seconds it passed and was now over Long Island. I specifically remember now it was a red light we were following upon crossing us and passing. I also remember as we watched it go away to Long Island it than made a left as if to turn around and then simply stopped and hung still. Now a red beam over Long island that we were all watching. I don’t recall what happened to it, if it disappeared or if we started looking for more… You have to understand how overwhelming this was. We were in shock and maybe not making best decisions (of course now we all wish we took pics). We spent awhile after this searching for maybe another ship because a friend of ours who grew up on Long Island and frequented Fire Island throughout her life had described a similar sighting to another friend with us prior to our witnessing this event. Her sighting was not nearly as close as this one though. So now there we are thinking maybe we can get another one to come. Also I don’t know if its vain to think we lulled it in, but my partner had given everyone a flashlight which we had been shining at the ocean in random order just for fun not thinking anything of it. Also at the beginning when it was just him and I he spotted it and was whispering to me saying it likes me … he sensed that it was gonna come to us. He may have even said watch, it likes me as it zero’d in on us. Ok to back track a bit. This half infinity like glimmer, drone, orb, but was nothing like anything I have ever seen with my own eyes. I am doing my best to relay my memory to paper. It is possible it controlled our emotion. That's really it. It was a slow build, and than it happened so fast. It didn't move like an airplane or in any earthly way for that matter. It moved in its own space and time. I am not certain my friends witnessed the part where the ship above seemingly lit up in a stick figure dancing bye light show while passing. I will try and get them to write their experience as well. I hope one or two of them are willing. Thank you for your time! Watch Hill is closed until next summer. I freaking wish I could be back their right now to keep an eye out. Oh, also we had a dog with us that was super spooked after the event. Its owner said it never acted that way before. The dog tried to stop us from walking home by jumping at sand pulling us back as well as going in front of us as if to say do not walk this way.
November 3, 2018 · 11:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Gretna, NE
I was driving home and felt a strange presence (scarier this time). I looked up into the sky as if expecting it and moments later the "craft" appeared ahead of me in the sky. Three red dots. Really far away this time but definitely not stars. It stayed for a moment and then when I reached a certain point in the road (this always happens) it disappeared. It seems harmless and there was only one this time. I don't know why they are watching or following me. I am not always afraid by them - one time I saw four of them- they follow me down Lincoln Road. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 3, 2018 · 11:00 PM · FLASH
Baltimore, MD
Saw flash in the sky about a quarter at arm's length wide. Started small but grew in intensity then vanished. Appeared in the South Western sky I was in Western Baltimore. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 3, 2018 · 8:30 PM · LIGHT
Laporte, IN
I was running to the store real quick and foolishly didn't bring my phone. I saw a minimum of 8 orange lights over the tree tops as I was walking to my car. I didn't think much of it and pulled out into the road and drove on. As I neared the top of the bridge on our road I noticed them again, as it's a rural area and it was quite dark. I stopped my car and got out. I was mesmerized by 8 orange glowing, drifting lights. Slowly moving west in no particular pattern. I was awestruck as it looked like 8 orange glowing Para-sails in the sky. I imagined it was a group of people flying them and just out having fun. Then I realized it was dark, it was 38 degrees. These were no Para-sails. I literally stood there mesmerized as they drifted west and then disappeared into some heavy cloud cover that was moving in. This was my first experience with anything like this but it wasn't frightening. It was almost magical. I don't know what they were but I can't imagine anything man-made that would create what I saw. I would estimate the height to be probably 3000 feet. Very strange. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 3, 2018 · 7:45 PM · TRIANGLE
Cape Girardeau, MO
On Nov 3rd, 2018, at approx. 7:45 PM in Cape Girardeau, MO, I had just taken my dog out, in my back yard and witnessed 5 Orange shaped Orbs in shape of a triangle appear traveling from the South and proceed to the Northwest. A few seconds later I witnessed another single orange orb travel same direction, then a few seconds another, then another single, total of four. I timed them about 12 seconds from appearance until disappeared. These where no meteors. I am a retiree of the US Air Force and worked security around aircraft, these where no meteors. However, we did have the President visit here a few days later and is possible was a recon team but I never seen anything like it being Orange and was reported on KFVS TV. Perhaps the airport in Cape Girardeau would have more information. It was unlike anything I ever saw.