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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 4, 2018 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Howard, PA
While on vacation with my family my husband and I were sitting on the balcony and noticed a flying object that appeared as far away as the stars, but it was flying very strangely, unlike anything we ever saw before. It was red and glowing and it flew what I can best describe as a bumble bee pattern. Very random, erratic darting around and zig zagging from place to place. Since it was so far away, the distance it would travel was very far all the way from end to end in the sky. It was flying so quickly it would dart from one side of the horizon to the other side in a few seconds. We sat and watched it for what felt like 20 minutes or more. I was listening to a PBS interview about reporting unidentified flying objects which is why I am writing so many years later. I looked at my vacation photos to verify the date. We are just a normal middle class family with a school age child. We both worked in the medical field at that time. We are now studying for our masters degrees.
September 4, 2018 · 7:20 PM · LIGHT
Deming, NM
On September 4, 2018, at 7:20 p.m. in Deming, New Mexico, my wife and I saw a stationary ball of bright white light in the western sky at about 30 degrees. There we no other stars or planets in the sky because the sky was still too bright. I thought it was a supernova! I ran to our shed and got my telescope, which is pre-assembled and is covered only by a garbage bag, making it always ready to go. As I looked at the white ball with the telescope, it ejected two smaller orange balls of light. They were flying in the area below the white ball. All three objects could be seen with the naked eye. As I was scanning the area near the white ball with my telescope, I saw another object that looked somewhat similar to a Harrier jet. It was stationary and was facing me nearly head-on with one bright white light in the middle of each wing. It seemed to be fairly close to the white ball. We could not see the jet-shaped object without the telescope. I have no way to tell how large or how far away they were. After about a minute or two, the jet-shaped object and the big white ball instantly disappeared leaving the two smaller orange balls. They would alternate between being bright and dim. The orange balls remained flying around in the same area of the western sky for about thirty seconds before fading from view. This whole event seems to me to have lasted only about 3 or 4 minutes. If I would taken the time to get my camera and put it on a tripod so I could take some telephoto shots, I would have missed the seeing the mysterious jet-shaped object. I have since spoken with three other people who saw the big white object and one small object below the big one! They did not have the advantage that I had--a telescope!
September 4, 2018 · 6:50 PM · DIAMOND
Deming, NM
Around 6:50 PM MT, my wife and I were outside of our home in Deming, NM, when we spotted a bright white light, brighter than stars at night time, during day light hours. The sun was an hour away from sunset and the sun beams were still on the object. Air traffic does fly in this region but all airplanes traveling were visible and pictures were zoomed in and taken of them as well just to double check every little light we were seeing in the sky. Many pictures and video were taken of white lights in the sky. A Canon Power Shot SX530HS was the camera used with a Tripod for stability. I began zooming little by little to keep focusing in on it. The item appeared to be shaped like a downward pointing guitar pick with smooth rounded edges. No detail of body of the object, it was solid white. Smaller red and blue outline around object. This was not visible without zoom of the camera due to the brightness of the object. Smaller light objects appeared near the object, som! e going up and some going down and disappearing. The photographs of these objects came out to be small white round lights. The regular commercial airplanes that fly in this region were easily able to be photographed and to see that they are indeed airplanes not to confuse them with any of the other lights. I checked star maps and planet visibility trajectories around our area to see if we were perhaps mistaken a planet but nothing was due to be in the area or at the time of day we were seeing this light object. The main diamond/pick shaped object remained in place in the sky for around 35 minutes then it suddenly disappeared. The moment it disappeared my wife and I could hear packs of coyotes howling and yelping loudly, our dogs began barking, and our ducks began quacking very loudly. This bright white object did not twinkle like a star. Shortly after it disappeared the first star south east of that object started to appear and I took a zoomed in picture of it as reference of how a star looks from that same perspective near the same t! ime frame. The two are very different. The object would have been South-West of Deming and South of Lordsburg. Severe weather had moved into the boot hill region of New Mexico around 4pm. So the local aerostat was not in flight, the regional weather sounding balloons were not in flight, and it would have been a horrible time to attempt to fly a hot air balloon. I would estimate the altitude to be between 25,000-35,0000 feet above surface. However distance was difficult to factor. Altitude being based off knowledge of cloud heights for the region at that time of day.
September 4, 2018 · 6:30 PM · TEARDROP
Deming, NM
My husband gets home from work exactly at 6:26pm. He kissed us hello and I said lets go feed the ducks. We headed outside approximately 6:30pm and my husband and I immediately saw this huge "star" hovering above the setting sun. We are always looking at the sky, my husband is a flight director at the Deming Blimp site, so I knew it was way too early for stars. Mars is the first one in the sky and it appears over the Florida mountains. This "star" was the opposite direction over the setting sun. I took my son inside and grabbed our camera because phone cameras can't pick up stars well. My husband and I called our neighbors and they went outside and saw it as well. We watched it for 40 minutes. During that time it never moved with the earth and never blinked like a star, just shown like a spotlight. It did however change from a circle to a guitar pick shape. We were extremely excited and nervous and that made for not great videos but we have ! videos and lots of pictures of it. During the 40 minutes another bright light appeared above and to the left of the original light and moved straight down toward earth and disappeared. Then 3 lights appeared around the original light and moved straight down and disappeared. The original light seamed to join them at this point and moved down and disappeared but it shrank to disappear. All of this happened in less than a minute. We rushed inside to download the footage into the computer because I have heard of weird things going on with equipment when things like this occur. While my husband was downloading the pictures and video onto our computer the orb came back in the night about 8:30 pm. This time it was in the North. This time it was close to were the Blimp is in the Deming sky. This time there was another light with it hovering to its left. It was there for about 10 minutes and then disappeared.
September 4, 2018 · 5:15 AM · SPHERE
Charles Town, MA
it was still dark out the object had no strobe lights or red and green light like an aircraft would and did not make any sounds. observed at 100 feet at closest pass, for 90 seconds. Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
September 4, 2018 · 4:40 AM · UNKNOWN
Jonesborough, TN
On Tuesday, 09/04/2018, after having traveled out of state, I arrived at a friend’s residence in Jonesborough, Tennessee (to get some REM sleep STAT). I got out of my car, put my bags over my shoulders, and began walking towards the house. I was about to set foot on the front deck when I heard what sounded like rotating blades on a military helicopter and, incidentally, a train whistle from a nearby track. I stopped and looked up. I looked in the direction I thought the helicopter blade sounds were coming from (ahead of me, north, relative to where I was standing)...a star was the only object in that general area that appeared non-stationary (“movement” was just twinkling). The size of the twinkling star was so small (from my vantage point) that, if it had been a helicopter, the sounds it was making wouldn’t have been as loud as they were. I never saw a helicopter but I didn’t bother to look up all around me either...I thought “I stopped for nothing” (I was on the verge of lowering my head & trudging inside). I’m a trained observer. My job title is Behavior Analyst (2008 to present). I provide professional behavioral services to persons with developmental and intellectual disabilities. At 4:40 am, as I was on the verge of lowering my head and trudging inside, a bright streak of pale orange/yellow light (to my northwest) didn’t make any sound while rapidly shooting upwards at a 30 to 45 degree angle (it didn’t just shoot upwards at a high rate of speed...it stretched/expanded upwards from its original position), paused for about 0.5 seconds, and collapsed (i.e., stretched/condensed from its original position to where it had stopped stretching) at an even higher rate of speed than when it had stretched/expanded from its original position (debris was emitted upon collapse). I looked for a specific object but didn’t see one. The streak may have been an undetected object (of a probable terrestrial origin, statistically) traveling at a high rate of speed. The streak looked like a long exposure image of an ember popping and soaring from a fire. Upon collapse, the streak either disappeared or began accelerating so fast that I could no longer observe its presence. Upon collapse, the emitted debris either disappeared or was no longer illuminated. What I observed was over and done with before I had a chance to think about dropping my bags and getting my phone out. The duration of the observed event may have been about 3 seconds. Terror/excitement combo experience was hard to process. I don’t think I heard any sounds at all during the few seconds that the bright streak of pale orange/yellow light stretched/expanded, stretched/condensed, and dissipated...but I’m not sure. After the streak disappeared or accelerated, train whistle was still screaming but sounds of helicopter blades (not even distant ones) were no more. If a helicopter was present, the pilot or pilots evacuating themselves (immediately after object dissipation) could/would make sense (following orders/protocol). My jaw was on the driveway. I picked it up, went inside, and got to writing. Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
September 4, 2018 · 2:00 AM · LIGHT
San Juan Batista, CA
It was in the distance very low. 2 large lights. I have a video. Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
September 3, 2018 · 11:30 PM · LIGHT
Melvern, KS
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. We have amended the date to what we suspect is the correct date of the sighting, but we have no means of confirming it. PD
September 3, 2018 · 11:00 PM · CYLINDER
Dublin, OH
Atationary, blinking lights of red/green/yellow/blue. Has moved sideways but not up or down. Not an airplane. Viewed for almost 2 hours then while making this report....it's gone.
September 3, 2018 · 10:00 PM · FORMATION
Solvang, CA
Most nights of this Aug., and now this Sep.3, I have observed hovering quite stationary lights (Each object has a line of four(?) white lights in a row. They form a sweeping half circle in the South to West (sort of) over Solvang, Ca., at somewhat different altitudes and intensities of lights, but still looking kind of organized. This town is not many miles from Vandenberg AFB. Once in Aug. I very briefly saw a quick blink of a red light within one of the crafts in the usual four lights in a row on one of the crafts. They are quite lovely I think. I only look up at them when I think of checking outside for them on some nights and they are usually there. Witness provides no contact information. PD
September 3, 2018 · 8:50 PM · CIRCLE
Eaton, IN
Bright light moving from south to north in the east sky rapidly with extremely sudden very very very short stops occasionally, brighter than a star w no blinking lights. Yelled for a friend and he couldn’t believe his eyes. We watched until it went out of sight. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 3, 2018 · 8:49 PM · TRIANGLE
Fostoria, OH
I had my 10x50 binoculars with me and was able to view the object with them. Once I was looking at the object with the binoculars, the object faded from view. I estimate it was in sight for 10-15 seconds, yet this may not be accurate.
September 3, 2018 · 8:20 PM · CIRCLE
Newark, NJ
A bright white light was seen moving in a south west direction. Moving very slowly, no blinking lights. Eventually disappearing suddenly.
September 3, 2018 · 7:24 PM · UNKNOWN
Phoenix, AZ
On September 3rd around 19:24, my husband, 2 year old and I were driving in Phoenix, Arizona, near Glendale. I looked out the window to my left and saw 6-10 bright lights in a line formation coming from the horizon. We found a place to pull over on a quiet road and waited for the objects to pass over. Once they did, we were shocked at how silent they were. We couldn’t hear the craft at all. From a distance they were white lights but once they passed us they were green red and white. The objects were flying very low, right above the buildings and yet I couldn’t make out the shape of any of the craft. They started to disperse after flying over.
September 3, 2018 · 2:30 PM · CIRCLE
Spokane Valley, WA
This sighting was made by my wife and daughter. As I approached them in my truck, they were looking and pointing to the sky. I pulled up alongside and my daughter was wondering about a small dot of light in the sky was doing. Both ladies were observing it moving around in a small area of the sky near an “aging” airplane contrail. The contrail was actually providing a reference as it moved along, and across it, and seemed to be making some right-angle moves at times. I was attempting to see what they were seeing, but not able to do so. (I was actually mistakenly looking at for the object along the wrong contrail—there were 2 fairly close together and parallel in the sky and the one that I needed to be looking at was higher up, and the roof of my truck was blocking the correct one). I reached under the seat and handed my daughter my binoculars. She described it as “round” and either “spinning or pulsating” at about 1 second intervals. (Still a fairly small dot even with the binoculars). I was frustrated because I couldn’t see it, but was looking about 10 degrees of arc in the wrong area). She watched for about 5-10 minutes until it faded from view as it headed south. (From the angle in the sky, it would have been probably over the Veradale or Liberty Lake area).
September 3, 2018 · 3:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Honolulu, HI
I then noticed 2 red lights flashing and every once in a while they would flash gold. One was following the other. Then the one behind went higher and it seemed like they were beginning to descend. The angle was slightly diagonally. It or they were super low and flying slow over the valley and towards the mountain. The event lasted 3 minutes or so, before losing sight behind a building. I live in Honolulu close to Makiki and Punchbowl Cemetary. I got the chills when we saw this. Would love to know if anyone else saw this and of course, what it was. Thank you kindly!
September 2, 2018 · 10:20 PM · FORMATION
Cheyenne, WY
2 horizontal rows of multi colored lights observed over northern Cheyenne. Lights were consistently lit, my son I thought we were seeing the lights on Air plane wings, however we never saw them move, flash or change angle as it would be the case in any moving plane. Never heard a noise. The lights were too many to be from a normal Air craft and varied in color. As my son and I were watching them, they just disappeared, turned off as if someone had just flipped a switch. We could not see a body of an aircraft or hear anything. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 2, 2018 · 6:07 PM · FORMATION
Lyons, CO
2 objects starting evenly spaced between on the same level right object slowly drifted down keeping same distance from other object. Over a span of 30-40 minutes as the sun began to set right object began to pull more to the right and still below left object. Left object never changed position at all during observation. Group observed both objects dissapear at the same moment. Overall observation of event exceeded an hour.
September 2, 2018 · 11:58 AM · RECTANGLE
Charlotte, NC
Black box/rectangle-shaped object moving from West to East (approximately from Gastonia towards Monroe) over Charlotte, NC, above commercial aircraft landing airspace for CLT.
September 2, 2018 · 6:47 AM · TRIANGLE
Muskogee, OK
On the morning of 9/2/18, at approximately 6:47 a.m., I went out on my balcony for a smoke. As always, my eyes were to the sky looking for satellites or meteors. My balcony faces pretty much due north, and I noticed what I thought was an aircraft moving from the southwest to the northeast. As my eyes focused, I saw that it was triangular (or 3 white lights in a triangular shape), and none of the lights were flashing. It did not seem to be moving any faster than a regular commercial airliner would. I have large trees in my neighborhood and it appeared just above them on the horizon. For scale I would say it was about the size of my little fingernail held at arms length. I'm not good at judging distance, but If I had to guess, it would have been southeast of Tulsa. If you drew a line from OKC to Tulsa, this seemed to be the path it was on. There was nothing extraordinary about its speed or movement. I just thought the triangular shape and non-flashing lights were odd and I would report it in case anyone else saw it.
September 1, 2018 · 11:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Clearwater, FL
I stepped out onto my balcony and saw an unusual looking star-like object hovering at approximately 5000 ft and approximately two miles to the south of my location
September 1, 2018 · 10:42 PM · FIREBALL
Warwick, RI
Red Orb/Fireball UFO On the night of 09/01/18 at aproximately 10:42pm, I was out on my back deck, in the process of setting up my telescope to do some stargazing, when I noticed a redish/orange light flicker through the trees in the distance in the southeast direction. Thinking it was just one of the amber colored street lights in my neighborhood shining through the treeline as the wind blew. I then realized there wasn't any breeze and there shouldn't be a street light over in the area from where this light was coming from. I was bobbing my head around trying to see it flicker again through the trees. I see it 2 more times each of which it seemed to be to the left of where it previously was. I then realized this was not a street light. I thought it was a plane at first as I live within 1 mile of T.F. Green airport in Rhode Island but it was not. It looked more like a red signal flare except that it was not moving vertically upward, but horizontally with a slight ascention to it. As it finally came into my full view from behind my neighbors' houses and trees, I could tell this was neither a plane nor a flare, as it was too large and bright for either. There was no tail, no sound and no smoke or anything coming from it. Moving too slow to be a meteor or comet. It was traveling slow and low altitude as I was viewing this easily with my naked eyes. I then ran into the house with excitement to wake my wife and tell her look out the bedroom window. She said she saw it but I don't believe she did. I then went and got my binoculars and ran out the front door as the object has now traveled from behind my house to the front. It seemed to be heading in a north/northeast direction coming from the southeast. When I looked at it through the binoculars I could see that it was a round shaped object with a very bright (like the sun) white/yellowish glowing center and a thick red spiked halo around it which seemed to be pulsating/burning. I ran back in through my house back out to my deck to grab my telescope to try and get an even better view but! by the time I moved it to a better area I could no longer find the object. In my amazement and excitement, I didn't even think to grab my cellphone which was right outside on the deck with me and take a picture or video of it. Someone else had to see this. I am also sure that the airport MUST have seen this object fly by.
September 1, 2018 · 10:30 PM · SPHERE
Superior, WI
My first thought was that this object may be one of those floating lanterns...but when I saw it change directions...and color...I'm thinking it wasn't. I checked my weather app for a wind speed and direction....wind was at 0. object was moving slowly...I have several photos
September 1, 2018 · 10:15 PM · CIRCLE
River Heights, UT
While conducting a CE-5 contact attempt, spotted a round white light that did a "flare-up" as I watched, then went dark. Second later, same thing, 25 degrees across the sky, repeated. Occurred 11 o'clock high, almost verticle over my position. No photos captured, happened too fast.