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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
September 11, 2018 · 3:03 PM · RECTANGLE
Ada, MI
It looked like a drone out our window 100 yards or so. Just sitting in mid air maybe taking photos or video. But if it was, it was the biggest drone I have ever seen. Plus it was not shaped like a drone. Looked more like a big rectangle. Later I thought it might be a balloon until I looked at my photos. It was sitting out the window for about 10 minutes then just slowly started going up and away from my window. I watched it mesmerized for quite some time thinking it was going to fly back to its owner after while. It didn't. I just kept flying or floating upward. Me and two of my co-workers just watched it for a while thinking it had to be some cool new drone. After while as I started to process what I was seeing I thought it would zip off at the speed-of-sound or something but it didn't. It just kept going up and away until it was out of sight.
September 11, 2018 · 10:30 AM · SPHERE
Moberly, MO
Sphere object described as being white to silver held static in the sky but changed shape some. The object was seen nearly straight overhead very high in the sky, north-west of the sun's position. The object then slowly moved off north until out of sight. This lasted for at least an hour. There were at least 6 white "orbs" spotted during this time as well, flying at a high rate of speed silently heading south to north. They were spaced out some and not close to each other. These were overhead but not as high in the sky as the large object. Maybe a few hundred feet up. At least one was seen heading back south, then diverted upwards toward the object and disappeared out of sight. Many people saw this incident and a couple of pictures were taken of the object high in the sky, but there not much detail to be made out. Some said they could see something on the sides of the large object that were described as antenna shaped or fin-like. There were other aircraft seen coming toward the area of the main object, but did not interfere and passed by.
September 11, 2018 · 2:44 AM · SPHERE
Cape Girardeau, MO
2 large sphere shaped objects were seen hovering above the Mississippi River/city line. Both objects were bright white and not flashing. One of the objects appeared to fly away abnormally fast and disappeared in a matter of seconds while the second object stayed hovering in the sky. Neither objects were present the next night.
September 11, 2018 · 2:38 AM · FIREBALL
Palm Springs, CA
Shortly after 2:30 this morning, I looked up into the sky directly to the North and saw a flash or what i thought was a shooting star. Perhaps it was a comet because it looked so big (approximately 3 inches long from my perception. It was a third wide as its length. It disappeared as soon as it was visible. Recently, there were shooting stars so thought maybe it was related. I waited several minutes to see if there would be others but nothing was happening.
September 10, 2018 · 10:45 PM · TRIANGLE
Grand Forks, MN
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. Witness provides a ZIP code for Burnesville, MN, not for Grand Forks. PD
September 10, 2018 · 9:00 PM · CIRCLE
Reelsville, IN
Witness noticed Venus, following the sunset, and Saturn, in the SSW, were very bright as he arrived home. As usual his neighbor's dog, a large but very friendly, female, Pit Bull mix, was there to greet him. After watching Venus for a moment he saw, a few degrees off, what looked like a huge band of lights - white surrounded by red - began flashing and moving in his direction. As soon as the flashing began the dog seemed frightened. Whining, repeatedly bumping his legs and jumping up to push on his chest. When the object was almost directly overhead the lights changed to all white and flashing sequentially from rear to front. At that point a soft gold color glow defined the edges, giving him the shape he tried to illustrate. The object silently continued east until lost behind a stand of trees. As soon as the object was out of sight the dog made a short huffing sound, looked at him for a moment, then, seeing no reaction, calmly went home. He noticed something else. He has raccoons in his attic space. They are usually active from dusk til dawn. At that time it was strangely quiet up there - an hour after the event. (MUFON CMS) Source of report indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
September 10, 2018 · 6:50 PM · CYLINDER
San Ramon, CA
http://lightsinthetexassky.blogspot.com/2010/07/navy-veteran-witnesses-cylinder-shaped.html We saw another higher flying airliner a few minutes later and although about twice the altitude could see its wings clear as day. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 10, 2018 · 6:40 AM · UNKNOWN
Evansville, IN
I was on the bus to school one morning and above this small building like substation or antennae (don't know how describe building) and there was 2 orb like craft (possibly). After my bus went down the road the craft then flew off silently into the forest. As it was flying away it seemed to be connected. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 10, 2018 · 12:30 AM · FIREBALL
Jacksonville, FL
On September 10th, at 12:30am, traveling home to Jacksonville, FL, from a vacation on the west coast of Florida, we noticed a bright light in the air over the St. Johns River. We were traveling east on 295 about to go over the Buckman Bridge in Orange Park about to enter Jacksonville. The light was bright orange traveling north then upward, it looked like a bright orange Nike swoosh, then turned into a white light. At first I would have thought it to be a meteorite, but it was traveling along the circumference of the earth and made an abrupt change straight up, almost a 90 degree turn. Then it changed colors from a bright orange to a white light. My wife, two daughters and a friend all saw this light.
September 10, 2018 · 12:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Atlantic Ocean, SC
New moon, SV, 26 nautical miles off shore Georgia/South Carolina coast looked like a flare, Then it became a small white light and took the shape of a jelly fish with tentacles slowly pulsating towards the Carolinas brilliant orange and super bright white light. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 9, 2018 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Owatonna, MN
Almost in direct center of night sky west and south of “Big Dipper” bright light which seems to resemble a star but it moves faster in small distances (all directions) for 1-2 second intervals, than satellites passing by object. It is not “a wobble effect.” Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 9, 2018 · 9:20 PM · LIGHT
Van Zandt, WA
TOOK PHOTO, BUT ALL THAT SHOWS IS WHITE. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 9, 2018 · 8:44 PM · FIREBALL
Fairfield, CA
Weird object in the sky on camera it looks like a fireball just making circles. Has numerous rays of light coming from it. I have taken pictures and video.
September 9, 2018 · 5:00 PM · SPHERE
Sunset Beach, NC
Sitting on the beach and high in the sky was a shiny object that stayed there until we left 2 hours later. It was not there today?
September 9, 2018 · 3:00 PM · CIGAR
Eagle, ID
White cigar shaped object very high moving slowly across the sky
September 9, 2018 · 10:35 AM · DISK
Spokane, WA
On September 9th, 2018, at approximately 10:35 A.M., I was looking out of my upstairs bedroom window on the South Hill of Spokane. Facing north, I saw an object traveling across the sky that was dark reddish brown in color and was shaped like a disc or rectangle. The object didn’t make any noise or leave a trail. The sky was clear blue with no clouds or other objects in view. I visually followed the object traveling in the sky from east to west for approximately five seconds when it dropped in altitude and changed direction moving south west of my window and out of view. It moved horizontally and sped up when it changed direction. The sighting lasted about ten to fifteen seconds. The object was too large to be a drone and at an altitude that would be occupied by aircraft seemingly. I am 38 years old, often looked to the sky in admiration, but this is the first time I have seen anything resembling what I saw this morning. We spoke via telephone with this witness, and he seemed to us to be quite sincere and sober-minded. We suspect he is a very good witness. PD
September 9, 2018 · 7:50 AM · SPHERE
Hobbs, NM
Bright orange orb hovered high in sky then disappeared.
September 9, 2018 · 6:32 AM · UNKNOWN
Edgewood, MD
Bright flashes of light in the sky with no reports of thunderstorms in the area. The characteristics of the lights highly resembled lightning but like there are more reported thunderstorms in the area. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 9, 2018 · 1:45 AM · OTHER
Vista, CA
1:45 AM neighbors' dog barking incessantly which is uncommon I go outside in the distance to see a bright red fog kind of had a mushroom cloud glow illuminating in the distance there is absolutely no sound other than the neighbors dog aggressively barking, As I took out my phone to film the red light fog immediately turned off . All that remains in the air was the fog like trail ( similar to a firework when it leaves the fog in the sky that is what I saw except this was definitely not a firework ) I stand there with my phone and in the direction and started recording and I saw to round bright yellow lights blinking in the distance , upon reviewing the recording through my computer I noticed they were actually more lights that could not be seen on the small screen of my phone . It appears to have too bright yellow lights and to the left with a blinking smaller red light that went from red to yellow . I then noticed in between those bright yellow lights there is a fast blue LED bright colored disc shaped light that flashes across the screen and travels in between the lights in an Up and down manner There’s also a small red light that is blinking in between the yellow lights as if it’s traveling in a saucer shaped pattern, during this time my neighbors dog was still barking incessantly and I decided to go inside because I became a little spooked the dog remained barking running back-and-forth in the neighbors yard for a good 10 or 15 minutes which is extremely uncommon this dog never barks at this hour!
September 8, 2018 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
St. Augustine, FL
2 star looking lights, same distance away as the stars. Went zig zag, up down and in circles over the Atlantic. They stayed a distance apart. Would stop, then zoom over at unreal speeds, like a drone.
September 8, 2018 · 9:00 PM · RECTANGLE
St. Paul, MN
Seen two bright white lights over St. Paul airport, but it was way too big to be a plane. Made a very aggressive right turn and descent.
September 8, 2018 · 8:15 PM · OTHER
Topsfield/Georgetown (between), MA
First, I thought Helicopter but, the two large white lights were closer then headlights on a car with two red lights close left, and, one red light close to the white light on the right white lite. At one point I thought it was a Harrier air craft but I know that sound and look. This had no sound and did not look like a Harrier. Facing them; it was red, white, white, red. In the oblong shape. The Upfront lights were. NOT ONCE DID IT MOVE. NOT A PLANE OR HELICOPTER. POSSIBLY A REALLY LARGE DRONE. I kept my eyes on the oblong object. Expecting it to move across. It stayed directly over rte 95 North side. Me on my motorcycle I slowed down. While keeping an eye on it. I looked directly up while passing under wear it. Directly over me while I was riding underneath it I saw four dull white lights straight down. In a square pattern with a dull orange look. A black line was horizontal in the middle of the square. While looking up at it. The four lights not bright at all, but a dull orange look to the four of them. Around the square was a mantra ray shape all black around the square. Inside the manta ray shape but, the box with the black line in this shape was brown, but the manta ray shape was black. I plan to paint this on something. Soon.. Inside the time I left Peobody, Mass., concert. Sometime between 8:15 pm and 8:45 I saw this object. My 360 tracker app should show me the time I went under this object hopefully. I remember saying WTF is that? Looking up at it . Then I sped up. I should have pulled over but it really was not that high up. So I figured if I could see it; it could see me. As, I spend up, I tried to look in my bike mirrors and saw nothing. WHY write this down because I can hardly believe what I saw but know I saw something. BELOW A QUICK SKETCH OF FRONT VIEW AND A BOTTOM VIEW I'D SAY IT WAS LOW ENOUGH TO SEE THE LIGHTS AND BLACK AN BROWN COLOR . BIGGER THEN A HELICOPTER OR PIPER CUB PLANE. HALF THE SIZE OF THE BIGGEST JET. LOOKED LIKE IT WAS JUST SUSPENDED IN THE SKY
September 8, 2018 · 8:05 PM · LIGHT
Humble, TX
Reddish orange light slowly travelling North to South at about a 65 to 70 degree inclination above the horizon where it stopped and stood still for about 20 seconds, dimmed, brightened, then disappeared. The object was below the anvil of a large thunderstorm complex that was off to my North. I'm an avid aircraft observer and live in the approach path's of Houston's two largest airports so I'm accustomed to watching planes fly over. This object looked, and behaved like no aircraft I have ever observed. I checked Flightradar 24 and ADSB flight tracker and noted no aircraft in the area of the object.
September 8, 2018 · 8:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Reading, PA
Sitting in hottub with daughter. It was a day before A Hurricane Was to come through. It was real cloudy , they were going east to west from leading edge of storm. A large object that looked like it was cloaked or was mimicking the cloudy sky came right over my house , heading northeast. Totally silent it seemed to be below clouds . All the clouds were going West and this thing was going northeast and fast. It was like a cloaked ship , the only way I could describe it. Has anybody ever reported anything like this?