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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
August 15, 2018 · 3:20 AM · LIGHT
Lebanon, CT
At around 3:20AM, we noticed a bright light while looking at the stars on Lake Williams. The light slowly strat to move to the right of us. The light was coming from a height much higher than a plane would be flying and it was moving in a diagonal direction at a somewhat steady pace. An airplane started to come into the area where this light was at a much lower level. As the plane got in closer towards the light, the light picked up speed to where it eventually looked like it raised higher and disappeared.. The light was still in an area that was in our range of view but we could no longer track or see it. We tried to record it but the light was too far to be picked up by cellphone camera.
August 14, 2018 · 11:30 PM · OTHER
Edgewood, NM
I noticed a crescent shaped light at first west of Edgewood NM, then it slowly dissipated. 2 minutes later I saw another light slowly light up in the same crescent shape full bright then slowly dissipate, this time it looked as if there was steam smoke eliminating from it. this happened 4 more times, with the last in the smiths parking lot, I immediately notified 3 people walking in and I told them to look and they saw the same thing, I proceeded towards Albuquerque to see if I can see it closer and it never happened again
August 14, 2018 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Welches, OR
I noticed what I thought was a satellite but it was not moving as a satellite should. I observed it for a minute or so flitting in a pattern that an aircraft would not move. It moved like I imagine an amateur drone user would. I pointed it out to my husband who also witnessed the same pattern. We called our girls outside, 13 & 12 years old, they also were confirming what we saw. After about an hour, I called my parents and brother who live about 3000 feet due north of us and my brother also saw the same pattern. This was an object that looked like a bright star or satellite that moved in a pattern not consistent with a fixed wing or rotary aircraft for over an hour in the same general area.
August 14, 2018 · 11:00 PM · CHANGING
Hartselle, AL
Last night I woke up around 11 pm. I got up to get some water and noticed there was a triangle shaped object in the sky above the tree line to the south of my house. There were lights on the object, one on each point, and I initially thought it might have been a plane but after standing there for several minutes, I realized the object was not moving. I woke up my friend who was staying the night and by the time we got back to the window, the lights had started pulsing. As we watched, the object seemed to change shape and two more lights appeared on the object. It looked as if there were two poles suddenly coming out each side of the now spherical object and they were radiating almost a rainbowish light. After a few minutes of watching this, we both became unbearably groggy and sleepy. In all honesty, I don’t remember going back to bed and neither does my friend. This morning when I was leaving for work, my neighbor remarked that we “had lights again”. I reported on 12/29/16 that both the neighbor and I had seen two triangle shaped objects above the tree line to the south. We frequently see things in the sky that seem odd but generally we don’t see them at the same time. Since this was another case where we both saw the same thing occur, I decided to report it. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 14, 2018 · 10:30 PM · DIAMOND
Orange, CA
Heard a very strange hum then saw an object in the east and then another one come from the north. They crisscrossed each other then disappeared. Triangle shape with lights. We spoke with the witness, and have corrected above the time and duration of the sighting event. PD
August 14, 2018 · 10:07 PM · TRIANGLE
Mount Vernon, WA
I was home watching TV alone when I heard what I thought was a big helicopter coming up the valley. The noise became so loud that it shook the windows, so I got up to see expecting to see a sky crane or a couple of big chinook choppers because it was way too much noise to be just one. I scanned the sky and identified the source of the sound. The object appeared stationary with nothing else around it. I noticed also it appeared to be slowly rotating and the sound was changing. I decided to grab my camera and after many attempts got 1 decent photo. The sound started to change and I would say sounded like a pulsing rocket engine. I called my friend who lives north of me and asked him to go outside to see if he could hear it. He could. The craft turned and drifted slowly to the North about 20 miles an hour. I told my friend it was coming his way but he could not see it. It slowly turned to the west and drifted over the bay. After the craft went out of site a single fighter jet came over the house in a broad turn on a similar course, but with a wide berth like it was flying in a much larger circle. About a minute later 2 more fighters flew similar course. I would say the craft was less then a mile away and approximately 3500 feet up and the size was comparable to a B2 bomber. It moved with the point to the rear as it went buy but I think it was slowly rotating.
August 14, 2018 · 9:20 PM · SPHERE
Marietta, GA
I went in my back yard around 9:15 pm to check and see if the Amber light that has been in the Southwestern sky for the last several nights. When I went to look it was there along a ball of light in my front yard (southeast), one directly south above a tree and there was a light directly above me, In addition to those orbs, crafts, lights, or whatever you want to call them, I witnessed an orange/Amber ball of light float above the tree that already had an occupant and then it disappeared (this was the south side of my yard). After that, I started feeling a little nervous and began to go back inside and as I was about to walk in I took another glance at the object in the South East and a light floated down and past the object in the sky. and floated along to the Northeastern corner of my yard behind the trees. I took several photos and videos of the event with my cell phone so the quality is not that good. I forgot to add that there was a weird horn sound on one of the videos that I took and last night while taking it I didn't notice a sound but it was recorded. My phone was also malfunctioning a bit saying that there was a strange magnetic field. A little while after I went inside I heard helicopters. I would really like to know what is going on. I live about 8 miles from Lockheed Dobbins. I assume there is a lot going on. What I don't understand is how no one else seems to notice or see them except for a select few people.
August 14, 2018 · 9:15 PM · CHEVRON
Greensboro, NC
When i looked closer, it looked like there were more smaller lights close around it. The light started to fade a dull orange and then it disappeared. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 14, 2018 · 9:00 PM · CIRCLE
Sausalito, CA
My wife saw the small "planet-like" light first as she looked almost vertically overhead. I (her husband) looked up a minute or more later and also saw it hovering in the clear, dark sky. To both of us it seemed to adopt a fixed "central" or "home" location above us but would then very rapidly disappear and reappear in a new location that we estimated to be about six inches (on a ruler held at arm's length) away where it stopped for about 2 seconds. It then returned to its "central" location again for another 2-3 seconds before flitting away in another direction to a new location at the same angular distance as the first. This went on for around five minutes. If all of the object's/light's positions were connected with a line it would have been an approximate circle with a diameter of about 10 inches (on same ruler) or about 18 - 20 deg. arc. How did it disappear? Over some minutes the "central" position seemed to drift toward the south (it continued its symmetrical disappearing-reappearing act)where it eventually dimmed out completely. It seemed to be at a pretty high altitude, was whitish or silverish, between a star and a planet in angle (no shape could be seen), it was completely quiet, and we saw no airplanes in the sky at any time during the sighting. The object's brightness never changed and it left no visible trail or contrail. Winds were off the ocean and very clear (of smoke) that night. We know of no earth tremors either just before, during, or after the sighting. We reported it the next day to Dr. Haines by phone.
August 14, 2018 · 8:25 PM · CYLINDER
Levittown, NY
On 8/14/2018, at approx. 8:25 pm, I was walking my dog around a park in a populated suburban town on Long Island. It was a clear night. There was a crescent moon. Both Mars and Venus were visible, and I was very aware of their placement in the night sky. In fact, this is why I was looking up. I observed a red light, which I first thought to be a plane, but noticed it was moving in a zig zag pattern, and it got my attention. There was a plane either following it or flying with it. It was north of me, flying east to west. The light stopped and hovered. One light became 3, and then 5 or 6. This was instantaneous. They formed a circle. Each was bright red with a yellow bottom which appeared like a light. They stayed in the circle, and the plane seemed to fly through the middle of them. The event lasted around 2 minutes, but it could have been less. Two of the lights disintegrated and disappeared, then another, then the remaining 2. There was nothing left! Right before and during this, I kept losing my phone call to my friend. I was repeatedly trying to Facetime her so she could see it. I did manage to Facetime her long enough for her to see 2 of them. I tried to use my camera, but I was having trouble using that as well. It seemed to be frozen. I should mention, that I’m not one who uses the camera all the time, so this might have been because I’m not adept at it. The event seemed to have concluded (whatever it was), and I started walking home. Around 10 minutes later, to the East, a solid red light appeared in the sky. This did not have the same yellow bottom. Like the others, it dissipated, but this happened more quickly. I observed one or 2 more of the same in the next few minutes. I stopped seeing any lights around 8:45pm. I felt elated and excited by the whole experience.
August 14, 2018 · 8:15 PM · SPHERE
Glenrock, WY
Just past sundown observed very bright white light in same area of western sky as normal Venus, but it was far too high. Upon checking with binoculars, it was a spherical object white in color with dark markings in middle. It almost looked like a miniature version of the full moon, however the moon was crescent and visible near the horizon. Object moved slowly from west to east across southern sky before eventually disappearing. Object had intermittent bright white lights blinking on body. Speed was very slow, not a normal aircraft or satellite speed.
August 14, 2018 · 7:00 PM · CIRCLE
Myrtle Beach, SC
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 14, 2018 · 7:00 PM · DISK
Myrtle Beach, SC
We were looking around in the sky and noticed a strange circular or balloon shaped metallic object in the opposite direction. This was a craft than none of us have ever seen before. We watched the craft for 30 seconds or so then we decided to get some videos of it. By the time I had reached for my phone I watched this craft take off at a profound speed that I have never seen before then it was gone. This was something totally different than I have ever seen before.
August 14, 2018 · 9:15 AM · OTHER
Little Rock, AR
Object observed switching directions from east to west until it disappeared from sight behind a peninsula's treeline. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 14, 2018 · 7:30 AM · EGG
Shelburne, VT
I may be wrong but I believe it was a UFO
August 14, 2018 · 6:30 AM · DISK
Boise, ID
When I boomed up the tub full of mortar, I noticed the whole crew was looking at the sky. I shut off my machine and hollerd up to them. What are you guys looking at. That’s when they pointed out to me a pill shaped object in the sky. It literally hung in the sky in one place till around 8:30 am. Between those hours I went to my truck and got out my binoculars. I passed them around to everyone. It was a disc. Metallic and had a linear line running through its center. With a noticeable circular dome on what appeared to be its top. But that’s hard to say because it was sanding vertically in the sky. It was there so long every trade seen it including the project manager and the owner of the project! I find myself and notice the others now a week later looking towards the sky. It appeared to all of us to be broke down stuck there. With all the fires burning the visibility became obscured. And that was the last we seen of it.
August 14, 2018 · 5:45 AM · LIGHT
Vidor, TX
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 14, 2018 · 12:00 AM · DISK
Columbus, OH
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD
August 13, 2018 · 10:40 PM · UNKNOWN
Mineral Wells, WV
We have changed the time, assuming the event was a nighttime sighting. PD
August 13, 2018 · 10:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Pingree Grove, IL
I seen what could be called a "triangle" craft but since it was nightime I really couldn't see a definite craft shape. I did see 3 incandescent glow lights (not super bright like Led lights) in a triangular shape with a pulsating red light in the center. I live 20 miles west of Chicago O'Hare airport so there's always planes in the sky. At the time I seen the triangle "craft" I thought "that's kind of an odd lighting pattern". For the size I'd say about the same as a mid-sized jetliner. For altitude maybe 1,000'. What is odd is I heard engines powering the craft but it wasn't going as fast as a typical jetliner. The reason that I took so long to report this is that I've been thinking about it and been watching the night skies for the same lighting pattern...with no luck. At the time I seen it I was thinking that a Ufoligist would call it a UFO...that made me chuckle a bit as all reports I've ever read or heard said they were a silent craft.. .But I heard the soft roar of engines??!!
August 13, 2018 · 9:05 PM · FIREBALL
Charlotte, NC
Wife and I where driving eastbound on Arrowood Rd towards Walmart when we looked towards the sky and the thin crescent moon. Up in the sky there was an orange glowing dot that seemed to get bigger and bigger. I asked my wife if it looked like an airplane and she said yes it then took her words back as we continued to drive. The ball moved westbound and it looked like a faraway ball of fire. As the light grew bigger we both realized it wasnt a recognizable aircraft. I asked my wife to record as we attempted to make a U-turn on the boulevard to keep watching and hopefully record it. As we stopped, the ball suddenly disappeared out of the sky. We where both skeptical about what we saw as it was not common.
August 13, 2018 · 9:00 PM · CHANGING
Franklinton, NC
Object appeared out of nowhere, and steadied over the tree line facing southeast. Within minutes, it was changing colors (from orange to white, to blood red, to yellow and even hints of purple). Green was also emitting at certain moments. There was no definite shape to the "object" and a red aura was noticed by three witnesses around it. Random spots of red, shapeshifting objects were spotted coming out of the main object itself, which we caught via photographs. With the main object, there were three smaller objects progressing around and from it. After about 25 minutes of moving at a slower speed and changing shape, the object zoomed off into the sky within seconds, disappearing into the sky.
August 13, 2018 · 8:20 PM · FIREBALL
King George, VA
Driving south on US-301, passing through Edgehill, I was trailing a lightning storm that was moving to the South East, when two balls of fire floating just above the tree line ahead of me came into view. After driving past the light at the intersection with VA-205, a third fireball came into view with the other two. They passed beyond sight behind the same treeline until I drove over Pine Hill Creek, where they came into view once more. This time, however, all three were on the opposite side of the road and were spotted through the trees. When I came to a clearing near the intersection of US-301 and VA-3, they had vanished. NOTE: The three fireballs took no obvious formation, though, anyone could make a triangle from three points on a plane.
August 13, 2018 · 9:00 AM
Vero Beach, FL
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD