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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.
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September 8, 2018 · 7:39 PM · DISK
Windham, ME
Saw what looks like 2 UFO’s in a photo I took of a sunset on 9/8/18 at 7:39:26 p.m. When zoomed in, it looks like two disks with the object on the right having yellow lights in the front and back.
September 8, 2018 · 12:30 AM · CROSS
New Orleans, LA
tumbling cross-like with black 'wings' and white center columns. colors were square in shape. thought it was a trash bag until I noted altitude (just below clouds) and the fact it was tumbling about. Maybe it was trash that could fly and tumble endlessly in the air. Nonetheless, UFO!
September 7, 2018 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Philadelphia, MS
On 9/07/2018, I was standing in my yard. I was feeding my dogs, when I looked up and saw a bright object that I could not identify. I know it wasn’t a aircraft. The object was probably 1500-2000 feet. The object was bright white moving fast from south to north, around 10:00pm the object was not blinking. You could see normal aircraft flying with the red and green lights around their normal cruising altitude. It was probably visible for about ten minutes.
September 7, 2018 · 8:15 PM · LIGHT
Bellingham, MA
We then noticed another ball of light to the west but this one was white. It made the same type of movements in one small area and eventually after about an hour of gradually moving higher and higher kept getting smaller until it disappeared. In the meantime the orange one was still in the same spot to the southwest making the same small movements but, after about 2 hours began moving slowly to the west at the same altitude. It eventually came to a stop and began moving further away and becoming smaller until it disappeared behind the tree line.
September 7, 2018 · 8:10 PM · SPHERE
Myrtle Beach, SC
2 observers, husband and wife, simultaneously observed several (7-10) hovering orbs in the vast night sky of different sizes, colors and locations. The brightest was the furthest south location, the 2nd brightest which was multicolored, was the furthest north and west. There were about 7 others which were much smaller and white appearing in between the distance of the aforementioned 2. The sighting lasted about 10-15 minutes as we went inside while they were still present. There was one large orb which was solid white (the southern most) in color. Most of the rest were tiny in comparison and appeared further away. There was one furthest away from the largest white one which appeared multicolored. After viewing with the naked eye for about 2 minutes, my wife got binoculars and we could see the surface of these orbs were not one solid light, but much smaller lights making up their mass, reminiscent of an LED flashlight or "golf ball" dimple configuration. Upon viewing the multicolored 2nd largest "orb", the shape was clearly a triangle which seemed to have changing color lights. Some red/orange, green, yellow and white. There was no discernible movement of the orbs, they were just hovering in one spot. We went inside after viewing them for approximately 15 minutes. I took 3 poor quality photos with my phone before going inside. I sent a report to MUFON and just before downloading 3 photos, I decided to go outside and see if they were still there. The largest white one was gone, and didnt see but a couple of the much smaller ones. However, the multicolored triangular one was still in the same location and one of the other smaller ones was now larger and appeared closer and it appeared to change colors as well as very slowly moving from south to north. I didnt have the binoculars with me so I couldn't see detail.
September 7, 2018 · 8:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Lake Forest, CA
At approximately 20:00 on 7 September 2018, I returned home from work and pulled into my driveway. A bright blue light in the sky approximately 60 degrees up caught my eye, followed by a bright red light approximately 45 degrees horizontal to the left. Thinking they were too bright to be aircraft, I watched for approximately 30 seconds. The lights abruptly shifted colors (red to blue and blue to red), then disappeared. There was no sound, clear airspace, and no communication/signal towers in the vicinity.
September 7, 2018 · 5:55 PM · CIGAR
Sedona, AZ
Approaching Sedona from Interstate 17, we observed a flying object that did not behave like a normal aircraft. The object was stationary, then moved up, down farther quickly. It then moved side to side and abruptly departed up and to the right in a very very rapid pace.
September 7, 2018 · 5:45 PM · SPHERE
Port Saint Lucie, FL
While outside in my backyard, looking at my neighbor's bush tree, something punch through the sky and drop almost to the ground then stop. It righted itself and flew into a hole in the cloud and came out another hole in the cloud. it tilted to show me the top of the craft and then flew off.
September 7, 2018 · 4:00 AM · SPHERE
Tampa, FL
4am I was up listening to podcasts on my smart phone. I work overnights. And I was up relaxing after a week of work. I went to relieve myself outside of my screened in pool area. The door is on the west side of my house. My house faces south. I looked up in the sky and saw the constellation Orion. But just south of Orion I saw a mettalic disk with 3 black orbs directly under me. I guess it was about 1,000ft above me. As I looked, I tried to comprehend what I was seeilg. Then it shot of southward like a bullet leaving a streak of white light.
September 6, 2018 · 10:00 PM · OTHER
Lake Placid, FL
My boyfriend and I took the pontoon boat out on the lake to enjoy the sunset, as we often do. It was a fabulous sunset and we stayed to watch all the beautiful after glow. The stars started coming out and the sky cleared. We were picking out constellations when I saw a star shoot across the sky. Then I saw another one. My boyfriend started seeing stars shooting all over the sky. He recalls seeing 30 to 40 of them at a time. I remember seeing 10 or 12 at a time. We were amazed and thrilled at the sight. I was so happy because, even though I have spent hundreds of nights sleeping out under the open sky, I had never seen a UFO. We could hear, but not see one lone jet flying round the area. Then, about 1000 feet of the stern of the boat, we saw looked like a huge (300' across?) plane shaped object bearing down on us about 100 feet off the water. It had very bright yellow orange lights. A big one in the center and decreasingly smaller lights going out the ends of the object. It was speeding and descending directly at us. Totally silent. My boyfriend got a very short video but it is not very good. I can't believe that I was laughing! But it is on the video. Then it just disappeared into thin air. Poof! It was gone. It seems strange, but neither one of us seemed to be frightened at all. It was all just so awesome and thrilling. We decided to stay out and keep star gazing. About 15 minutes passed then an object just like the first one, but about twice as large, started to bare down on us. Same as the first but more lights. It too just disappeared. We stayed out another half hour, then decided to go home. I hesitate to tell the following, because it makes my account seem unbelievable, but I want to report it all. As we were stepping of the pontoon boat, from my boyfriends phone in his pocket we heard a computerized female voice saying random numbers and letters. Something like: M R 5 V 8 M K 3 Y R B 2. The phone had not rung. And there is no record of it on his phone. We went home and went to sleep like nothing had happened. The next morning I couldn't stop thinking about it, and I thought it was very odd that I wasn't freaking out. It was like I had seen a fabulous movie or gone on really wild carnival ride. I didn't take my shower till noon because I had yard work to do in the morning. When I went to blow dry my hair, I looked at my eyes in the mirror and I saw terror looking back at me. And that freaked me out. I am thinking that my conscious mind is protecting me from going crazy. But my subconscious knows. Days passed and the thought occurred to me that those huge objects created no waves on our shallow lake. Normally even a small fishing boat will far away will create waves. I'm thinking that those objects were holograms. My boyfriend thinks that they were real because hovercrafts don't make a wake. I just don't know. I'll try to figure out how to send you the video from my boyfriends phone.
September 6, 2018 · 9:30 PM · FIREBALL
Woodstock, GA
The witness, and adult female, reported to NUFORC over the telephone that she didn't think the object was a meteor. It was a distinct red color, she reported. PD
September 6, 2018 · 9:00 PM · OTHER
Florence, MA
I was driving though a wooded area of Florence, MA. I saw a low flying, but very still, illuminated dim object hovering in the sky. I happened to notice a bicyclist on the road, who also seemed to notice the craft. I was startled and drove maybe a hundred feet up the road. At this point, I looked back, looked up, and it was gone. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 6, 2018 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Lyman, NE
One large bright light seen in the sky, west of Lyman, Nebraska. Light was seen bobbing up and down, as well as drastically veering from left to right every few moments. Movements seemed random. One smaller light came from the north and joined the larger light in the west.
September 6, 2018 · 8:45 PM · LIGHT
Rio Grande, NJ
What first caught my eyes and ears were the lack of blinking colored lighting of any kind and the absolute silence that came off off it. Well,that combined with the speed and maneuverability of this thing. Very impressive to say the least. Where I live I am pretty immune to a lot of Dover AFB comings and goings. I will add that this was very different. Very different indeed.
September 6, 2018 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Adel, IA
Could hear a plane from the deck looked up and seen it chasing a amber light north in the sky
September 6, 2018 · 1:20 AM · FORMATION
Seattle, WA
Last night I was skywatching with binoculars in the hopes of seeing anomalous craft. This is an activity that I do along withy my brother with some frequency in the summer. In the last few weeks we've seen some strange fireballs and flashes that couldn't be accounted for by known aircraft or satellites. My process with the binoculars is to watch one area of the sky for a few minutes, then move to another area and wait. I often can see satellites not visible to the naked eye this way, and I can track them across the sky easily with the binoculars. I am an experienced skywatcher and can distinguish most aircraft, satellites, and meteors. I was looking towards the west and a series of objects entered the frame of the binoculars from the north. It consisted of six white spheres arranged in a straight line, but the line itself was oriented maybe 15 degrees to the right of the direction of travel. A good analogy is if you took a v-shaped flock of flying geese and removed half the geese. I immediately started tracking the objects across the sky until they reached the horizon to the south. The binoculars I was using were 7x zoom, and the full width of the formation filled roughly one third of the view area of the binoculars. The formation was very fast, from the moment I began tracking it to the moment it was beyond the horizon was less than three seconds. The spheres themselves were several times larger than a commercial airliner appears in the binoculars at cruising altitude (30,000 feet). The objects themselves appeared to be quite high, but judging by their size it seems unlikely they were in space. The objects themselves are difficult to describe because of their speed. They obviously were lit, but only dimly. It almost appeared if they were a projection, perhaps semi-transparent. They somewhat reminded me of seeing spotlights projected onto clouds when I was a child, but the sky was clear and there was nothing to project onto.
September 6, 2018 · 12:00 AM
Shelley, ID
Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
September 5, 2018 · 9:39 AM · SPHERE
Kinnelon, NJ
On September 5th, 2018 at 9:39 a.m. EST, I walked out my front door to bring my recycling out. A turkey vulture was riding the air currents at a hundred feet in the sky. As I traced its glide from dead center of my visual field to my left, I saw the following at well beyond 50k ft. altitude: - Due Western Sky @ 268 degrees (I checked this later with my iPhone Compass App, thus I can confirm that) - Conditions of sky/weather: Clear Blue sky; No Clouds – not one; No precipitation; unobstructed view; “Rural” sky – no city/urban/sub urban type of interference - Duration of sighting: approx. 20 to 30 seconds, not having looked at any time device - Witnesses: Self only - What: o Bright white/silver round orb. VERY bright, which is why my eyes fixed upon it. WAY too far up altitude to make out any distinguishing features. Object well beyond cruising altitude of any commercial jet, never mind military (SR-15 or U-2) type jet either. Object seen simply standing stationary in the sky - no movement. Non-orbiting. Knee Jerk mental reaction was, “Why is there a star in the sky so bright that I’ve never seen, and especially because it’s nearing 10 in the morning?” Caught my attention due to its brightness and unexpected sight as I pondered the above, staring at it through my polarized sunglass lenses… THEN! It moved! o It almost instantaneously ‘zipped ‘from where it had been standing in my eye sight to another “close in the visual field” 2nd location and stopped for approximately 5 seconds. I continued watching in awe. o Five seconds later, it ‘zipped’ again almost instantaneously to a 3rd location, still within my “visual field”. There it sat for another 5 seconds. I removed my sun glasses to make sure I wasn’t “seeing things”. It was still visible to my naked eye. o Then it ‘zipped’ again to the 4th still “close in the visual field” location, where it rested for another 5 seconds. o Then it ‘zipped’ again to the 5th still “close in the visual field” location, BUT: this 5th location was to the right of where I first witnessed the object, crossing over its previously traveled path o There at the 5th location, the object again paused for 5 seconds, where after it simply “vanished” from sight. I stared. I looked for more movement. I scanned my visual field. I put my sunglasses back on. It was no longer visible or locatable anywhere in my visual field. The object did not “zip” to a 6th location from what I could see. There simply was no trace. o All the above described was immediately documented by me by hand as I rushed back into my residence. This includes a sketch of the objects pattern of movement in my visual field until it was no longer seen. - Considerations: The first person I spoke with after my sighting was Peter Davenport. I found him through a quick Google Search, as I wanted to report my sighting to “not just anyone” – but to an ‘authority’ on such things, not an ‘authority’ that could care less (i.e. the police, the mayor’s office, etc.) I later that afternoon told my daughter, and my girlfriend. They urged me to contact a news organization(s), which I did, but without photo or video evidence they (the news organizations) were disinterested in my account. I, so far as I know it to be, was the only witness to this event.
September 5, 2018 · 2:00 AM
Indian Yake, NY
I am posting this for my friend who lives just across the way from me. She does not have access to a computer. We are very rural in the mountains, and late last night her and her two neighbors witnessed a large glowing orange ball in the night sky. I myself saw the same thing, except it was at 1 am I saw this. She said her dogs had been acting strange and howling and barking all night which is unusual they are older dogs and rarely bark. She said it flashed in the sky and pulsated she is very shook up by this. I told her I saw the same thing and not to worry. But she said the night prior she heard strange sounds outside her window all night like humming and then clicking. We were hesitant to do this and do not wish to use names. This is a very small town and we don’t want anyone thinking anything poorly of ((name deleted)). You just don’t have things like this happen here. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 5, 2018 · 1:00 AM · OTHER
Vancouver, WA
Was sometime around 1 in the morning, facing North . I was looking outside my window at some other strange objects in the distance, when I noticed what appeared to be one of the "stars" get closer, as if it was falling to earth. There was a shooting star nearby it for a second. Then, this object glowed into a "golden entity" that could possibly even have been some sort of a celestial being moved toward the East slowly, and then effortlessly glided across the sky. Reality seemed to "ripple" around this object. Even Stars appeared to "get out of its way" as it moved. Felt good to watch it, as if I'd been waiting my whole life to see it. Ran outside my house to chase after it, but by that point it was gone.
September 5, 2018 · 1:00 AM
North Creek, NY
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 5, 2018 · 12:00 AM · OVAL
Detroit, MI
as a security officer on the rooftop of a party club Exodus downtown Detroit we witnessed a strange light after the storm has passed we continue to watch it as it moved in several different directions and then move swiftly over the top of Greektown Casino where we video the entire event
September 4, 2018 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Springfield, OR
At approximately 23:00, I observed a very bright light speed across the sky at an altitude of what seemed to be about that of typical helicopter altitude would be. It was moving west to east at a very high rate of speed. It was completely silent. It left no trail as a meteor would. The light was solid bright white with not other identifying lights on it. I have worked in aviation for 3 1/2 years. Nothing that I am aware of could move that fast in total silence. It covered a couple miles of sky in about 3 seconds before going out of sight due to tall trees. Other than that there was no obstruction of view.
September 4, 2018 · 10:15 PM · OVAL
Silverdale, WA
Bright, glowing light oval seen just above cloud lauer. It blinked on and off twice before disappearing. It flew quickly past field of vision.