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Witness reports, held as-reported. Each entry keeps its source, its coordinates where the record has them, and its place in the larger pattern.
27,433 entries
October 10, 2020 · 8:28 AM · LIGHT
Leaving Denver by plane headed to Texas, CO
There was a glowing light outside of my aircraft window at first I thought it could be another aircraft in the distance. At first it was still but then it was bouncing around like it was playing a game. I saw it and I’m positive it saw me too. I got out my phone to record and it started moving like crazy. It would disappear to the right then reappear from another direction.
October 9, 2020 · 9:15 PM · LIGHT
West Springfield, MA
I was sitting on my second floor screened-in patio, and a large , quick moving white light in the shape of a very large projected beam of light, like a flashlight, which came over my building, and into my view where it traveled about 45-50 feet. Then it just disappeared with no trace. No noises were heard, it was not a plane. The sky was very clear, as I could still see a visible bright star still in the eastern sky prior to the appearance of the UFO.
October 9, 2020 · 7:19 PM · LIGHT
Las Vegas, NV
I am a satellite imagery analyst and have a background in remote sensing/drone flight and collection . I was walking in the evening when I two lights moving in the sky at approximately 19:19 on Oct 9, 2020. I did a double-take because I live a few miles from the Las Vegas commercial airport and frequently see planes multiple times a minute during take-off and landing. I also am familiar with the light pattern planes flash when in the sky. This caught my eye because a plane had just taken off and looked relatively large due to the proximity as it had lifted off the ground maybe 10 seconds prior. I stopped because there was a bright circular white light I instinctively thought it was a star, but it was directly above the plane moving at the same angle and speed which I have never seen before and instinctively raised an alarm in my head. I know planes take off somewhere between 130 to 150 mph due to my background and based on the size of the light. From where I was standing the light looked to be roughly 3x higher on the horizon as I couldn't make a reasonable guess on its height. The plane was approx. the size of a fingernail from where I was standing while the light was the size of a star in the sky so the scale and speed to which it was moving is a conundrum to me. My biggest question is how and why two objects(plane and one unknown) were on top of each other. Basic calculations from where I was and the airport takeoff are approx. 6.5 to 7 miles to the east of me for the plane. Approx. 4 seconds after I noticed the plane and the other object in the sky, the unknown star looking object stopped completely and was isolated/suspended in the air while the plane continued on its path. After approx. 2 seconds after the light stopped it started to dim to the point where it was barely visible in the span of approx. 2 more seconds. Still suspended in the air the dim light sat for approx. another 5 sec and increased its brightness again for approx. 2 sec. after another approx. 2 seconds it dimmed again and I looked away to search for any context as to what, where, how it could be, I looked away for less than a second, and when I looked back the object had vanished. Given the speed and rate of the object’s path earlier and that it was somewhat easy to spot in the sky, I can not fathom how an object can completely disappear in the matter of a second after being stationary for so long.
October 9, 2020 · 7:10 PM · LIGHT
South Kingstown, RI
At this location (Perryville section of South Kingstown) date and time I went out to my back yard with my dog to close the bulkhead door to the cellar. I looked up, as I always do out of habit, and noticed what I thought were two stars close to each other. Then, the 'star' began to move slowly and steadily due south. The elevation was very far up, maybe 25k feet. It did not flash and was a kind of reddish color. I thought it might be a satellite because it was not on the usual flight lines for my location. As I watched it head south toward the Atlantic ocean I noticed it either eject a small white light or the light flew from it. The light was white and tiny but stood out against the night sky. It seemed to zig-zag then quickly faded out. The reddish light continued south until it too faded out. The sky was mostly clear with many stars visible. No sound was heard from the object.
October 8, 2020 · 10:45 PM · LIGHT
Quincy, IL
I was leaving my work this evening. I'm a broadcast meteorologist & amateur astronomer. A bright light, about twice as bright as Venus, caught my attention in the northwest sky. This light was not moving, about 40 degrees above the horizon directly northwest. It gradually faded after about 12 seconds and still did not move. I ruled out any satellite flare or ISS transit.
October 8, 2020 · 8:45 PM · LIGHT
Cicero, NY
As i was getting out of the hot tub (outside) i was looking up in the sky when is seen a fairly bright light moving east to west at a rate of speed that is not a airplane or a satellite...as i followed and wondered what that was, on the same path there were 5 of the same shape/light following, almost looking like a string of pearls. Never seen something moving that fast.Almost every night out in the hot tub star gazing and or watching them (tracking via app) air planes, but never seen this before
October 8, 2020 · 7:01 PM · LIGHT
Stockport, OH
My son and I were on porch at dusk and saw what looked like perhaps planes making trails in sky but realized they weren't moving to our naked eye except through the photos I took, being white light circles and only two of three made trails and close up in photos they looked like ufo type aircrafts, not planes.
October 8, 2020 · 5:20 AM · LIGHT
Baileyton, AL
None of the lights flashed or had typical airline marker lights. It didn’t make any noise that I could hear. I thought it might have been a drone but it was too large for the height it was at. I stopped in the middle of the road and started videoing through my open sunroof. The object had already came directly over me by the time I got the sunroof open and phone out to record. It was already passed me but had started moving back toward me, then it moved away from me again. In the video it looks like one light, I guess I wasn’t zoomed in enough on it. The video is a little shaky and it is still dark so nothing to compare the speed to. The video makes it look like it’s moving fast from side to side but I think that was me moving. There was a vehicle in front of me and I bet they saw it also. This was on Apple Grove road near the old Ryan school.
October 8, 2020 · 3:40 AM · LIGHT
Granville, OH
Was driving into work this morning. A bright light just appeared in the sky above me. It was about 100 feet in the air. It just appeared, seemed to hover for a second, then dove towards the earth , diving at a 45 degree angle. At first it appeared just as white light, as it was descending, I could see green light as well. It descended behind the tree line.
October 8, 2020 · 1:00 AM · LIGHT
Charleston, WV
Around 1am driving around kanawha city my girlfriend and I saw a white light with a green hue around it streaking down toward the ground west of Charleston at speeds i have never seen before from any other aircraft it did not make a sound or an explosion once out of sight due to buildings. We then went driving toward where we saw the object and found no other lights and nothing was over the 911 police scanner
October 7, 2020 · 7:35 PM · LIGHT
Terre Haute, IN
I am a 22-year-old white female college student studying English and Creative Writing. (Hopefully any talent I have in the field will aid in this description.) I wouldn’t exactly call myself a conspiracy theorist, but I am openly receptive to the idea that there are things among us that we don’t understand. I don’t know if this is pertinent, but I have a background of depression and anxiety, though I was experiencing neither during this event. (Up until I saw the UFO. Then, I will admit, I was very anxious.) At approximately 19:30 on October 9, 2020, I was sitting alone in my car in a McDonald’s drive-thru on the north side of Terre Haute, Indiana. The sun was setting, but it was still bright out; the sky was a pastel pink. As I waited for the cars ahead of me to move on, I noticed what looked to be two stars hovering in the west—the direction that I was facing. They were bright white pinpricks of light contrasted against the sky. It’s hard to say the shape, simply because they seemed so far away. Upon closer inspection, I could see that at least one of them had a short trail, and in an attempt to reconcile the strange object, I told myself it must be a couple of planes, despite the fact that planes do not emit light in that way. (The trail was odd looking, too. Not smoke, but it appeared to be made of light.) The drive-thru line was not long, but long enough for me to stare for a minute or two. Long enough to have noticed any movement, or a direction in which the “planes” were heading, if there was any. But they simply hovered, completely still. The trail that had been left by the one had dissipated in a matter of moments. I pulled out my cell phone and attempted to take pictures, but the points of light were too small for my camera to pick up. At this point, I suspected that it might be a UFO, but had other explanations to put myself at ease, as well. I knew that Mars and Venus were supposed to be bright this month—perhaps that was all I was seeing. However, as I was focused on the original two points of light, two more appeared. I first noticed the third, and then as my gaze shifted, a fourth. All close together, and all unwaveringly still. I distractedly pulled forward to the pickup window, and accepted my bag of food before pulling out of the parking lot and heading home. I took Fort Harrison Rd west toward 13th St and continued to anxiously watch the points of light (what I even now struggle to call UFOs) as I drove. So intent on watching them in fact, needing to track any movement and at this point terrified of what it might mean, I was not as focused on the road as I should have been. I made it back to my home in one piece, but only after I told myself to look away and pay attention to what I was doing. I wanted to look around at the other drivers on the road, to see if they were reacting the same way, if they even noticed, but my mind was scattered, and I was far too anxious to do anything but race home. The moment I arrived back at my house, I headed to the back yard to get a clearer view of the sky, but there were too many trees blocking my view, so I went back in. Sat down. Feverishly Googled what it could be, and found with a blossoming dread that it couldn’t be Mars and Venus. Not only are those planets located in different quadrants of the sky, but are visible only at different times of the day. Perhaps one of the lights I saw was Mars, but that doesn’t explain the other three. Later that night, I did further research, and was momentarily relieved to find there would be a meteor shower that same night, but the details about the meteor shower didn’t line up with what I saw. According to a local news site, the Draconid meteor shower is small, and one should only expect to “see a few meteors streak across the sky in an hour.” And though the Draconid meteors move slower than those in other showers, they only last “one or two seconds,” which does not account for the several minutes that these UFOs were in my line of sight. And these could not be stars. Even neglecting the fact that one of them had a trail, nowhere within city limits could you see stars shining that brightly, especially before nightfall. Truly, I would like for there to be some other explanation. But the more I go over the memory of what I saw, the more I’m convinced that the only logical explanation is UFOs. I relayed this experience to a trusted friend who used to live in Arizona, a well-known hub for UFO activity, and she told me that my description matches that of her own experiences. I did a few different Google searches to see if anyone had reported anything similar, but I came up empty-handed. So I decided I had to do it myself, even though thinking about it fills me with that same dread as before. I don’t think I’ll be getting any sleep tonight.
October 6, 2020 · 8:15 PM · LIGHT
Delaware, OH
Was outside at the time of observance. Local hospital is nearby, local life flight helicopter was coming in low to ground at the hospital. Life flight circled back for a second pass for some reason, and when the helicopter passed slowly over us to double back to the landing pad, the lights suddenly appeared. At first, there was just one light and then the others sprang off of it one at a time until there was a total of five individual lights hovering. They were white, like stars. The lights then proceeded to hover independently in multiple directions as they spread out. They were so high in the atmosphere that they resembled the stars and they moved erratically and very fast. They would come together and move away from each other in lightning fast speeds with a pattern of hovering and moving in smaller circles. Another witness and I observed these UFO’s for a duration of five minutes. The helicopter finally landed at the hospital and the lights disappeared when it did. They disappeared just as fast as the appeared, as if out of thin air. The disappearance also happened in unison. They zipped away at the fastest speeds that no aircraft can achieve and was gone. Video evidence was also filmed at this event, if needed.
October 6, 2020 · 7:13 PM · LIGHT
Clifton, AZ
Witnessed light travel in a straight line from the north for approximately 20 seconds it then executed a 90 degree turn towards the east and proceeded for roughly 60 seconds then slowly faded over the course of 10 seconds. The light was very bright almost as bright as the North Star. And it did not behave or look like a fighter jet or commercial aircraft.
October 6, 2020 · 6:15 AM · LIGHT
Farmers Branch, TX
I was sitting outside facing due east. My gaze was drawn up to a point of light about 45 degrees off the horizon. It was just a flash but it had a discernable round shape. It flew west and was immediately over my head. I stood and turned but it was gone. It was brighter than any star (and more focused) but moved much faster than any normal aircraft. Regardless of its distance from me nothing other than the space shuttle or possibly a meter could have moved that fast other than perhaps a missile or other such projectile. It had no engine noise and was silent BUT unlike a meteor it had no trail or “streak” of light, it was perfectly focused. I can only estimate its’ speed under two possible circumstances; IF it was 20 miles or more away then its’ speed had to be in the thousand of MPH. If it was within a couple of miles then it might have appeared to be moving at 800-1000 MPH. Every previously known experience I’ve had rules out every possibility that I am familiar with. It was too fast or too quiet or too bright and focused.
October 5, 2020 · 7:01 PM · LIGHT
Houston, TX
I was driving down 288 South and my son saw some bright flashing lights in the distance to our left. We were headed Southbound and they were coming towards us northbound. He asked if one of the crafts was a helicopter and I observed the object have a bright green light with red and white flashing lights. Then I saw 2 other bright green lights moving towards us as well. I told him I thought they were drones. They then hovered in front of us to our left next to 288 North going freely lanes. I started to speed up to see if I could get closer. The 2 main green lights started flying over us and the bright green light with flashing red and white lights was trailing behind them. I moved my heard forward towards the windshield to see if I could see any plane or helicopter. All I saw was the green lights and nothing else. It was just pitch black object with green lights. They moved to our right in unison. 2 green lights in front moving very quickly and silent. I turn! ed the radio down to see if I could hear helicopter blades or jet engines. Nothing. It was silent. My son continued to watch them. I glanced again and they were miles away. Moving from east to west at a low altitude. The first 2 lights were moving quickly and the one with flashing lights was trailing behind. I dont know what I saw but never have I seen green lights in the sky and move that fast.
October 5, 2020 · 3:10 AM · LIGHT
Walworth, WI
I was laying in bed and looking out the window at what I thought was a blinking star or airplane with flashing lights. Sometimes the lights would flash blue and/or red. The object suddenly dropped in the sky and slowly rose back to its original position. It was a slow moving object, much slower than an airplane and was in my window for at least 30 minutes moving horizontally through the window area.
October 5, 2020 · 1:25 AM · LIGHT
Tucson, AZ
I frequency have insomnia. I woke up just after 1:00 am this morning, want to the bathroom, and couldn't go back to sleep. I went out to the backyard to bring in laundry from the clothesline, and was folding it, facing east. I glanced up and saw two red/orange dots rising to the southeast. They weren't blinking like a plane, just slowly rising. The dot on the left started to fade, and then disappeared, followed by the one on the right. This lasted about 15 seconds or so. A few minutes later, there was one dot rising in the same location. I was able to capture it on my cell phone. The Davis-Monthan Air Force Base is southeast of me, in the vicinity of where the dots were. Could this be something coming out of the base?
October 4, 2020 · 10:15 PM · LIGHT
Tempe, AZ
At approximately 10:15pm Arizona time, I was driving westbound on Curry Road in north Tempe, Arizona. Curry road almost directy runs into Sky Harbor International Airport before curving around and becoming Washington Street which runs into Phoenix. As I was driving, my girlfriend in the passenger seat said, "Hey what is that?" and pointed at 6 glowing lights that were orange/amber in color that looked like inbound aircraft. Except instead of moving in for what looked like an approach to land, they simply hovered in a pattern. I couldn't determine if they were directly over the airport, due to the fact I was still several miles east of Sky Harbor, or if they were beyond the airport itself. I thought they might have been signal flares, since there is a large Air Force base in the west valley, but it seemed highly unusual that would happen. They also did not behave like signal flares as they did not drop in altitutde and maintained their movements in! a pattern together. As I turned left on Mill Avenue, now going southbound, my girlfriend and I both saw that their lights were disappearing. It seemed like they were moving northwest and gaining in altitude before the light would disappear. I crossed the Mill Avenue bridge and turned going westbound onto Rio Salado Parkway to try to keep a visual on them. I stopped my car and pulled over just before Hardy Drive on the north side of Rio Salado Parkway and saw only one of them left. From what I could tell it was some kind of aircraft, but it seemed to be traveling eastbound at a high rate of speed, before it would slow down to almost a hover, then would speed along some more. Then it seemed to abruptly change directions and head northwest gaining altitude before the light completely disappeared from view.
October 4, 2020 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Mason, MI
It was what looked like a bright star or thought it was maybe mars but as I video it, it seemed to change colors and pulse it's not the best recording but interesting nonetheless. It is more than likely a camera issue but it just seemed off and not right.
October 4, 2020 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Springfield, IL
Witness fails to provide detailed information about the sighting. PD
October 3, 2020 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Bethel Park, PA
I was looking up at the big dipper, and to the left of the end of the handle, I witnessed a light slightly dimmer than the nearest stars that moved slowly toward the south in a straight line. I thought it was a satellite until it abruptly made a 90 degree turn toward the East, then continued in that direction at the same speed until I could no longer track it through the trees. I have been stargazing in this part of my yard for 5 years, and have never seen anything like this. It appeared to be a yellowish star-sized light that moved purposefully, yet V at a medium pace for approximately 2 minutes, then it seemed to flash slightly, and immediately turn 90 degrees toward the south. It looked like a smaller light remained at the point where the larger light made the 90 degree turn. It remained for about 10 seconds, and then slowly dimmed out. Meanwhile the primarily light continued in a southward direction in a straight line for at least another minute until I ! lost it in some trees. I dont know if this was a true ufo sighting, as it could have been some sort of astrological event However, I have not been able to find any articles describing an event of any kind taking place tonight, Saturday, October 3rd, 2020 it is now 8:17pm and I witnessed the light from approximately 7:59pm to 8:05pm ET (southwest Pennsylvania)
October 2, 2020 · 10:59 PM · LIGHT
Austin, TX
My daughter (10y.o.) and I had just returned from getting groceries. When I closed the trunk and proceeded toward the house I immediately noticed a white ball of light back behind the house. Probably 600 feet up. It just sat there for 20 to 30 seconds and tore off a cross the sky. And it was gone. When I walked towards the house I did realize my daughter had seen it till she said something. She said, "Daddy, that was NOT a shooting star." My first response was that I was happy she saw it cause I thought I was seeing things for a second. I actually looked at my security camera footage of us in the driveway walking up. Both my daughter and I stopped dead still at the same time and just stood there looking at this thing I don't know what is was but man that thing was FAST! Crazy stuff.
October 2, 2020 · 8:20 PM · LIGHT
Center Conway, NH
It disappeared, then every three seconds afterward would flash/reappear being smaller and less bright, moving northward with a noticeable increase in speed and distance with each of the eight reappearances in 24 seconds.
October 2, 2020 · 6:45 PM · LIGHT
Center Harbor, NH
I was eating dinner in my car at Center Harbor town docks on the Shore of Lake Winnipesaukee. I noticed an object consisting to two horozontal bright lights hovering over the lake about a mile from me. With binoculars I could see no real form and it had no blinking lights as helicopters have. It hovered about a hundred feet above the lake. Then it rose up slightly and nthen moved to the right in a westerly direction, passing behind some trees.