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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
October 7, 2018 · 7:30 PM · LIGHT
Auburn, CA
Craft that looked.like a bright star was seen in the sky stationary and unmoving for appox 3 minutes with starlike rays of light eminateing a great distance from the center in all directions (360) similar to headlights in a fog bank but there is only crystal clear sky at dusk. the intensity of the light began to diminish and the craft slowly lowered.almost. imperceptibly below tree line. i.ran to another location to. get a better view and it was gone but you couls. still see the dissipating rays of light in the sky.
October 7, 2018 · 7:30 PM · CIRCLE
Walnut Creek, CA
1) it was not a plane or a heliocopter. It was not a star. Started out as two extremely bright lights shining and creating a circular nebula (like the moon lighting up part of the sky behind clouds. 2) pulled over the car with son to watch. now only one light left. extremely bight like it would be a very large meteor, but seemed stationary. Then moved low in the horizon. 3) I am a skeptical science guy, and have never seen anything ever like this. Launch of Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg AFB. PD
October 7, 2018 · 7:30 PM · CIRCLE
Sebastopol, CA
Launch of Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg AFB. PD
October 7, 2018 · 7:30 PM · LIGHT
Willows, CA
Witnessed a light that went up surrounded by fog in a v shape hovered for 12-15 minutes then descended with fog taking the opposite shape and light abruptly went out
October 7, 2018 · 7:30 PM · CIRCLE
Benson, AZ
Launch of the Falcon 9 rocket. PD
October 7, 2018 · 7:30 PM · LIGHT
Cottonwood, CA
Launch of Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg AFB. PD
October 7, 2018 · 7:30 PM
Cathedral City, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 7, 2018 · 7:27 PM · TRIANGLE
La Quinta, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 7, 2018 · 7:26 PM
San Pedro, CA
Launch of Falcon 9 rocket at 7:22 p.m.. PD
October 7, 2018 · 7:25 PM · UNKNOWN
Hayward/San Lorenzo, CA
Launch of Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg AFB. PD
October 7, 2018 · 7:25 PM · OTHER
Stockton, CA
looks like SpaceX rocket but it was able to maneuver and made no sound. Launch of the Falcon 9 rocket. We have amended the time. PD
October 7, 2018 · 7:22 PM · LIGHT
Sacramento, CA
On this Sunday evening, I returned home about 8:20 p.m. Above my house, looking south-to-southeast, I saw a bright white light, that appeared to be flaring upward. This light sat stationary just above the roof of my house and appeared to change shape, as it slowly descended until the main portion of the light dissolved and flared out. This bright light measured approximately one-half inch between thumb and index finger with arms extended. The light sat between two planetary objects, which were also captured in my iPhone still image and video (attached in an email). The principal light source did not appear to be a craft of any sort. But the high luminosity suggests it was something very unusual, especially as it flared and then dissolved in night sky, below my roof line. Several minutes later, I walked around the corner, but could not spot it anywhere in the southern sky. (Thanks for all your work in this area over the years, Peter!) Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 7, 2018 · 7:22 PM · LIGHT
Long Beach, CA
I walked out of Trader Joe's to the parking lot and saw at least a dozen people pointing up to the sky; pointing and gasping looking due north toward/above Palos Verdes from Long Beach. I have never made any such report before but this was truly a strange event. The sky was cloudless but for only a few miles square in this northern part of the sky; and in the middle of this "clearing" there was a large spotlight- like a flashlight around 1/2 the size of the moon shining eastward. The power of this perfectly focused and precise light was extremely intense and appeared to cover at least 50 miles shining parallel to the ground at, and I'm guessing of course, a height of around 20,000 feet? This enormous spotlight/flashlight was not moving whatsoever; it was transfixed in the night sky. Witnesses were absolutely freaked out, and although I am not too excited about much of anything, I will admit that this was quite creepy and without obvious, logic! al explanation. My 9 yr old daughter will not stop talking about it. We took photos. It lasted full strength for around 20 minutes and then abruptly tapered off, and close shut, in around 15 seconds. Then all the witnesses started talking together, comparing notes, trying to figure out what we'd seen. It was a professional crowd and yes there was some anxiety among everyone. I cannot find a single report anywhere of this event but then again I am not part of the UFO community.
October 7, 2018 · 7:20 PM · CONE
Lake California (Cottonwood), CA
10/7/18 - About 7:20 p.m. Clear night sky. Not cloudy. Cottonwood, CA near Redding, CA. Actually sited up over Lake California out of Cottonwood. Saw bright, object flying over sky North to South with downward pattern, then upward, then seeming to be still. Would change directions. It had two cone shaped white spray like things coming out of it in back of its trajectory. Stopped car and watched it for a couple of minutes - then went home close by to get binoculars for closer look. Could not see it from house - either behind trees across street or was gone. Really strange looking and moving in abnormal pattern resembling flight. Very bright white light. Was shocked to see many similar reporting when Googled it. Found this reporting sight. Seen by elderly couple driving home from Bible Study. One has Master's Degree and the others has some college education. This was very unsettling. Launch of Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg AFB. PD
October 7, 2018 · 7:15 PM · CIRCLE
Lahania, HI
Over the oceah. Disk, standing still rotating for a few minutes, changed colors, moves 1800 +- meters in less then a second horizontally. No sound. Five witnesses.
October 7, 2018 · 7:00 PM · SPHERE
Cloverdate, CA
Sunday Evening – 10/7/2018 Highway 128 coming from Mendocino County travelling towards Sonoma County. As you approach Cloverdale the road becomes a twisty mountain road with hairpin turns. Towards the beginning of this stretch of road I spotted a large orb made of “strings” of light. I remember thinking that it looked spiderweb-like. It was very large like when the moon is close to the earth. Initially, I thought that it was some kind of natural phenomena like the Northern Lights. There was no shoulder to pull off on and it was dark. I kept driving in hopes of getting another glimpse of it. I made many more turns and didn’t see anything. I thought that I wasn’t going to be able to see it again but soon again I did. The next time that I saw it. It looked like the beam of a huge flashlight. It began in a large circle and the bottom of the beam looked it when a spotlight is directed at a floor with a disc-shaped bottom. It was very bright and well-defined. Its beam ended well above the top of the mountain; much closer to the beginning of the beam than to land. Then, again, it was obscured from my view by a mountaintop. When I next saw it next it appeared to be separate beams of light coming from a star. Very bright white light. Kind of like the beams coming from the Eastern Star on Christmas cards. The next couple of times I spotted it it was as above. When I was just about at the end of this torturous stretch of road I spotted it again and now there was a shoulder on the road and more light. I stepped outside of my car to take a picture. Once outside it had moved behind the mountainside to the right. I walked across the road to take a picture. I could visualize it but it was a if a dimmer switch had turned down the intensity. I snapped a pic. Not impressive but it was there. As I headed down the access road to highway 101 the only thing I could see in the area it had been was what looked like a bright star lower in the sky than you would expect it to be. To my left there was another “light” at about the same height in the sky but it was yellowish in color and less intense. I’m not sure if these last two items were related to the orb and the beams of light. There were no other stars that I could see looking briefly. Once home late afternoon on Monday I looked again at/for the picture I had taken along the way. It wasn’t what I remembered. It wasn’t discernable at all. I’m not sure if it was even the same picture because of this. If it’s not the pic I took, it was no longer on my phone. On Monday I googled “light orb spheres” and found a pic that was similar to what I had seen and I’ll include it here. I couldn’t find anything else close enough to the flashlight-like beam and beam streams to include. Background of observer: 58 y/o female, registered nurse. No previous sightings or particular interest.
October 7, 2018 · 6:10 PM · FORMATION
Petaluma, CA
Another set of 4 circle-like ufo figures are suddenly birthed and summoned to follow the previous set of 4 rectangle like formation to near exact motion of direction of the ones prior. In the mean time the orb within the sky has grown dramatically and is clearly vivid and non moving of its location until suddenly is vanished. This is a very rare phenomen here; meaning that even if there has been ufo sightings here in a minuscule manner that this is out of the ordinary. There have been multiple witnesses known via social media outlets that have witnessed and Recorded this phenomenon in multiple different angles within this given location.
October 7, 2018 · 4:45 PM · SPHERE
Hot Springs, VA
Launch of the Falcon 9 rocket. PD
October 7, 2018 · 5:45 AM · SPHERE
Trio, SC
While sitting in a tree stand, I noticed a reddish round light right above the tree line moving pretty quickly in a straight horizontal line then it vanished. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 7, 2018 · 4:30 AM · DIAMOND
New York, NY
As I was walking to my girlfriend house on a cloudy/foggy morning I stopped to take a break from walking from my mother's home. I start looking into the clouds and seen in what appeared to be in a triangular formation, 6 triangular shaped crafts crossing the sky at a low altitude moving very slow. I knew it wasn't a helicopter because it would have definitely made noise from the propellers as it was passing by.
October 7, 2018 · 4:00 AM · SPHERE
Taylor, MI
It was on, or about, Oct. 7th, 2018. Around 4am. Or 04:00 for those in military time. I was noticing how clear the sky was. It hadn't been for some time now. Missed the meteor shower due to clouds and light rain. I saw something moving high in the sky. It looked like a star, or planet. Good sized, like a small moon. I'm familiar with the space station, so I knew it wasn't that. Plus, it was white and large. The light it exuded was a filtered or muted white. Kind of like the moon, compared to a light on a plane. Round in shape like a big star. No twinkling or variation in light. It stayed steady and slow moving. Nothing blinking. Just a solid white orb, out cruising before sunrise. It was traveling E- SE at a smooth click. Watched it as long as I could before it was blocked by the neighbors tree. A few minutes passed and, I decided to check an app on my iPad, "Starguide". Nothing showing there. And it shows space debris if it's passing. Also, I checked flight radar. Nothing on that path. It was a good sized, orb, I guess you could say. I'm not sure how to really describe it. It was bigger than, Venus and, Jupiter. Very visible. If it was a craft, it was HUGE. I'm talking, Independance Day, huge. If you catch my drift. It was high enough to know it was pretty large in comparison to the stars. I haven't seen anyone posting anything about it yet, online. I know, I wasn't seeing things. But, I do know, we aren't alone. About 11 yrs. ago, my Husband and, I were outside watching the sky. And the same type of round circle, in the sky. It was so far up, I was amazed we were able to make it out. It was way, WAY, larger than this one. Same description, only much more dull, compared to this newest sighting. I am not making any of this up either. We were able to see it pinging around in a circular motion. As if it were a pinball bouncing between bumpers. Only it was stars that were around it. It was fairly fast in this motion but so dim, we could just barely make it out. Also, dim because it was so high in the sky. By rights we shouldn't have seen it really. Good thing it was a clear night. I can't even begin to describe how high it was. And, if it was that big, OMG… I'm scared of the possibilities. It was kind of hard to wrap my own head around what we were seeing. My husband and I, both, said do you see that? Yeah, I see it. What are we seeing?! It was so amazing. I will never forget it. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 7, 2018 · 3:26 AM · CIRCLE
Athol, ID
On october 7th, 2018 at approximately 3:26pm, I was located in Farraguat State park facing Nort East. I wanted to take some scenery pictures a few with the sunset in Which i did, not long after observing the photos i noticed in 2 seperate pictures two bright circles in different areas of the photos. 2 bright lights in the shape of a circle. A bright white, greenish circle. Lens flares. PD
October 7, 2018 · 2:00 AM · DISK
Ocean Isle Beach, NC
At approximately 2:00 i could not sleep because I witnessed many craft the previous night but, I could not pick them up because they were so high up. That night one flew from due north over the house at a high rate of speed, it then abruptly changed direction without losing speed on a 45 degree angle to due east, then disappeared. I’ve been spooked since. When I went out and looked the following day, at first I didn’ see anything. The front of my house faces due south, so when I looked up to the southeast, i could see Orion, i’ve Always enjoyed Orion. After a time, I saw what at first I thought was a star, however I saw that it was moving and appeared to be changing colors from reddish orange to a blue green color. It looked like it was pulsating, and it would fade in and out. Some of the fading was due to a thin layer of clouds. I then went into the house to retrieve my iphone6s to record it. I recorded 20 minutes. When I replayed the video and zoomed in, I realized that it was 2 discs flying in conjunction. It appears it's possible other craft came into the picture as well. I don’t know for sure. I watched for as long as possible, but eventually the cloud cover became too thick. I don’t know what they are, however if you want the video footage, you are welcome to it.
October 6, 2018 · 11:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Round Top, TX
I was sitting outside The Stone Cellar at a fire pit located near the building. I looked up and saw 5 large perfectly circular white lights in a triangle shape, with a dark triangle silhouette behind the lights. Each light was very large, at least 15-20 feet in diameter and emitted a soft, not harsh light, if I had not been looking at it directly I might not have noticed it. It was a light similar to that of the moon. It passed slow and close overhead with no sound, about 30 yards from the top of the Stone Cellar building (the building is an old train station, single story). I watched it for about 3-5 minutes as it slowly passed over my head and continued away from the building , South East, towards the center of town (Round Top town hall area). It seemed like it either quickly zoomed away or blinked off its lights at the end of my view. , it was hard to tell. Once it was gone I asked other people who had been inside/ on the patio of the building if they saw anything but no one had, I was the only one who witnessed this phenomenon at the time. While I was at a bar, I was sober as I was a designated driver and I do not drink alcohol as part of my belief system. I am currently a graduate student and AmerCorps service member.