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March 8, 2016 · 12:01 AM · UNKNOWN
Lewiston, ID
Object seen 15 minutes later back in south position moved a tiny bit, vanished again.
March 8, 2016 · 12:00 AM · UNKNOWN
West Chester, PA
WHILE VIEWING DEEP SPACE STARS, I CAUGHT TWO, THEN SIX OTHER, UFOS IN FORMATION.
March 7, 2016 · 7:40 PM · UNKNOWN
Roseville, CA
The object was moving very quickly and was lost to sight as it proceeded North. There was no noise associated with the object. Had this been a fighter Jet, for instance an F-18 out of Beale, I would have certainly heard the jet engines. I redirected my attention to the Phantom, and then quickly noticed that there was a large multi-prop airplane coming directly at (so it appeared) my Phantom. This aircraft appeared to be VERY LOW. It flew in from the West and proceeded East until lost to sight. It was running a number of lights that were turned on, I am not sure if these were landing lights, but I dont think so. It actually intersected the course of the unknown craft only be about 20 seconds, and this airplane really startled me. I am still a little shaken by the whole thing. We do have P-3's flying out of Beale I believe and you see them in this area quite often, BUT this P-3 (I'm assuming it was P-3) was EXTREMELY LOW. I attempted to bring down my Phantom quickly because it almost appeared both phantom and aircraft were at the same altitude, and for a minute I thought they might collide. The whole thing was quite "freaky" and I gotta tell you that "unknown" was quite ! spectacular. I think I will attempt the same thing again tomor! row even ing, although I am sure my phantom had nothing to do with what I saw, or at least I hope LOL I will leave it up to you if you care to contact me.......
March 6, 2016 · 10:15 PM · UNKNOWN
Wilmington, NC
At approximately 22:15 on Sunday, March 6, 2016, three witness observed a low, slow moving unidentifiable object crossing the Cape Fear River over downtown Wilmington, NC. What was observed was two spherical amber lights moving along the river. The object than made a curved turn. The lights were then observed to move an equal distance apart briefly before returning to their original position. Absent from this event was any form of noise that would explain if this was a possible aircraft. The lights moved apart and back in formation several times before completely disappearing from view. This event, upon investigation, closely matches a similar event that occurred in December of 2012 in another part of North Carolina. Their are no concrete details to report as to size and shape as all that could be seen were the very distinct lights. An estimated guess would place them approximately 250 feet in the air moving at a speed of less than 80mph.
March 2, 2016 · 8:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Phoenix, AZ
On March 2, 2016, at 8:00pm, I was driving on Interstate 10 heading West. At approximately 54th Ave., I noticed some 4 small red lights and 4 green lights on what I thought was one object in the sky. The lights were approximately 75-200 feet above the freeway. As I got closer I noticed that is was actually 4 objects, each object had one red light and one green light on the bottom. They appeared to be hovering very close together, making it seem to be one object. As I drove directly below them I could not see the shape of them, just the lights. I continued to look at the objects in my rear view mirror, all at once they took off very fast heading North and then they were gone.
March 1, 2016 · 11:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Sydney (Australia) · Australia
What i saw was a flash of light (looked to be triangular) move from East/South East to West/North West on a clear night no clouds at all. The object moved from as far as I could physically see in about 1 second, then lifted outwards into the atmosphere. The light was very bright but at the same time hazy like what you would see with lightning flashes through storm clouds. The object was extremely large. If i had to put into perspective, if you look at the Southern Cross from earth.. we have the 2 pointers.. this object was as wide as the gap between the 2 pointers so it was HUGE. It seemed to me that this was very high in the night sky so I can only imagine how big it was but as I mentioned this was on a clear night and I heard no sounds, although it looked to move faster than the speed of light.
February 29, 2016 · 9:35 PM · UNKNOWN
Joliet, IL
It sound like a very loud jet plane, but you could hear it all over the sky, and it lasted for about 10 minutes. The sky was very cloudy but the noise was everywhere.
February 29, 2016 · 7:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Clinton, MO
I saw something identical to the quoted dressier ion from Lebanon, Missouri, approximately 15 miles north of Clinton on Highway 7 South. Inititially, I thought it was a meteorite that broke up, or a small firework. It appeared to be 100 - 200 feet in altitude. I then saw something identical several times as I drove. It appeared to be in a similar location each time, but I was driving on a highway with curves, so I could not be certain. Each time the lights seemed to appear at the same time, but they disappeared intermittently over a 1 second span, as if they were separate burning out objects. As I approached the spot of the objects, which was at least several hundred yards west of the highway in an apparently wooded area, the shaped changed from an irregular cluster to a triangular shape. I did not attribute the apparent change in shape to movement of the objects. The apparent change in shape seemed to me to be due to my change in position relative to the event. Although, from the change in the apparent shape, at first the lights seemed to be arranged in an irregular 3 dimensional pattern, and later the objects seemed to be in the same 2 dimensional plane. Note, I am a skeptic. "Several Orange Globe Fireball Lights Low in the Sky, Winking Out and Coming Back In Other Locations My teenage son roams our 2 acre property every evening looking at stars and playing with our cats. He came in to get me a few minutes before 7 and told me he saw some strange orange globe lights in the sky and that he didn't know what they were. I immediately went out, looked in the northwest sky, just over the horizon and I saw an orange globe fireball light that suddenly split apart and was 3 globes, but they were very very close together and I couldn't tell f it was one or three. My son said the same. he couldn't tell if it was four or one. They stayed in the sky for 15 seconds or so, and then just went out. Over the next hour and a half the lights came back, all in similar areas, but not exactly the same place. Sometimes the globes were further apart, other times, closer. They were in a straight line. I went inside for a while and my son said they were arranged in a triangle shape at times. I came back out and saw them one more time. My son caught a 3 second video, but ! his battery went dead. There was no sound at all. My son said they looked to be about 3 miles away. I could not tell. The dogs in the neighborhoos were going crazy barking. Our two cats were acting very odd." Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
February 29, 2016 · 9:05 AM · UNKNOWN
Cherryville, NC
Loud sound like an ocean liner in the middle of town, hundreds of miles from beach here. The sound was so loud my neighbor went outside to investigate it, too. My daughter and I recorded it on a mobile device. We also drove in the direction of where the suspected sound originated believing it was a nearby event, (tuba players in unison??) however no such event involving loud horns or alarms was occurring in any direction at the school stadium or at our local fire dept. Also noted a man in the street looking in the same suspected area while talking on the telephone about what he had heard. After thirty minutes, it had stopped. It may be nothing, but I had not experienced any sound like it before now and felt obligated to report it. The only proof I have is an audio recording in which the sound is clearly audible a few times. This was not a train, nor a truck braking, nor any other usual "city" noise. This was an unusual phenomenon and unlike anything I've heard.
February 28, 2016 · 11:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Lapeer, MI
A flash of bright turquoise light illuminated the sky for approximately 3-4 seconds. Two minutes later, another flash of the same colored light illuminated the sky for about 2-3. No craft was seen, and no sounds were heard. It’s worth mentioning that the area had just received heavy a downpour just hours before... In light of the surge of prank telephone calls our Center has received recently, and in light of the fact that the source of this report provides no contact information, we wonder whether it may be a hoaxed report. PD
February 28, 2016 · 8:05 PM · UNKNOWN
Chula Vista, CA
I saw two what looked like two orange airplane lights coming toward me as I was looking at the stars. Nothing special until they stopped. Then they rotated and started moving upward. I whistled and yelled at my friends to come see what I was seeing. Once they came to my back yard all they could say was onions left shoulder looked orange VS. BRIGHT. One them said that us seed to be moving for a split second but then lost the movement I am not a nut I was shocked when what I thought was a plane stopped and started rotating and moving away with great speed. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
February 27, 2016 · 12:25 AM · UNKNOWN
South Jordan, UT
Smoking a cigarette on my balcony, and saw a very bright red flashing light in the sky. This is usual in my area with the airport not far. It looked a little strange with only red color flashing lights flashing very quickly and in a sort of circular motion, but I didn't think much of it once it start looking like it was heading into the flight path for the final approach to the airport. As I was watching it it quickly started looking very strange with lights getting brighter and flashing in a pattern I've never seen before. Then, right before my eyes, it turned right out of any of the usual flight paths planes take and started flying east very quickly. I went inside to get my spouse so she could help me figure it out. She was just as shocked as I was (which is funny because she doesn't really believe in UFO's) seeing a craft with flashing lights in a circular motion. It was closer at this point and flying very quickly with no noise and it started an upward motion and quickly disappeared from our view. We talked for a minute and we then saw a usual plane flying into the airport and that's when my spouse was convinced we saw something totally out of the ordinary. Definite cool sight.
February 24, 2016 · 7:00 PM · UNKNOWN
El Dorado, KS
A friend and I were headed north on Highway 254 towards El Dorado, when I had seen an orange and a white light that looked odd. I looked back at the road and up again and they were gone. Shrugged it off as a plane, but I still had went to the extent off calling my husband about it. About 5 min later I seen them again, this time there was three. A tiny white sparkle of light a orange light slightly bigger and another orange light a few times the size of the other all hovering together but they were all jumping around each other for a good 30 seconds and one by one they zipped off.
February 22, 2016 · 7:39 PM · UNKNOWN
Milford, NH
I decided to grab my camera that was inside. I went out too a few photos with a telephoto lens on my DSLR. Upon checking my shots I could see two light sources on the object in question. There only two conclusions: I have come up with one is drones, but they appeared in the direction of Manchester, along 101, and if they were they were flying pretty high up because they we approx. 15-30 degrees above the horizon at my vantage point.
February 20, 2016 · 8:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Lordstown, OH
I took the dog out for a walk around 8:00 p.m. I stopped to check on my neighbor. He said that he was watching a UFO. I could see it as well. It was an extremely large light that appeared well above the skyline near the Mahoning County border. He said that he could see windows around the bottom of the craft. He pointed out a second craft that I could see as well. Both crafts looked to be the size of a football field. My neighbor and I agreed upon size. We discussed that we had both noticed these two craft hovering in our area for several weeks. My neighbor said that he had informed the police and a local business over who were also watching the craft. They left due to the frigid temperatures. That was a few days ago. This evening was warm, so we were able to watch it for a great length of time. The flight pastern would just float and hover. My neighbor said that it would nightly make a large circle around Carson Salt Springs Road. I tried to take several photos using my cell phone. However, my cell phone suddenly died as if the battery was dead. I tried to turn to it on, and I saw that the battery was in the red. I ran back to my place to plug the phone in and it came on as showing that the battery was nearly fully charged. I ran back and tried it again and it died. My neighbor said that the same thing happened to him. He went into his place to retrieve his camera. I called a family member to inform them of the sighting. I eventually went home. However, the two objects remained in the sky when I left. My neighbor left to get a police officer from a neighboring town.
February 17, 2016 · 8:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Spring Prairie, WI
My first inclination was that this was probably 3 drones, but because it was nighttime, I couldn't be sure. As far as duration of the event, because I was driving away from it, I'm not sure. Just curious what it might have been. I do NOT expect that it was a UFO.
February 17, 2016 · 6:05 PM · UNKNOWN
Rocky Ford, CO
Date: 2-17-16 Time: 18:05 to 18:45 Location: Downtown Rocky Ford, Colo. Conditions: Night, partly clouded sky (Black Sky) While standing on a porch I noticed a string of lights to the North. The lights were in a tight row, coming off and on in white and blue colors. From an arm’s length, the length of lights ranged from a half inch to two and a half inches in length. They appeared at the same height (elevation) after going out and returning several times. They were behind a tower and bracketed by tree branches. Gauging their height, they appeared to be 25 to 30 feet off the ground. They would come back each time in different intensities and colors of red or white. On or about their eighth or ninth return, they were mostly red, not as bright but one red light was ejected upward in an arch to the east. The lights seemed to hover and when bright, it appeared to have a mist around them and connected by a reflective surface. Two prominent white lights most often appeared brightly when returning and the reflective surface was more enhanced in their glare. I returned this morning at 0700 hrs. The next morning, I snapped pictures to better to define what was in this area to make up the tower. The lights, each time, would return in a different position and in different colors and numbers. Sometimes their position was more to the right of the tower and sometimes more to the right, but always the same height. My wife was also present and saw this event I went into the building and came out an hour later and did not notice more lights. I’m still looking for other causes for this. I’ll be out again tonight.
February 16, 2016 · 12:15 AM · UNKNOWN
Rapid City, SD
Strange humming sounds during the night. It goes on and off like a car trying to start. Then it turns off. Like it powers down. Like a *whewwww* then its silent. I have no idea what it is. It's not like a trumpet, its more like a humming sound. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
February 15, 2016 · 3:37 AM · UNKNOWN
Pingrup (Australia) · Australia
I signal in the direction of aircraft with a mobile phone strobe light and the red and green lights cease. Immediately, it returns to only a white yellowish light, very bright and too bright to be a star! For 50 minutes, it remained roughly in the same spot, as I look up from the ground at it! On a few other nights in 2016 I have seen a similar info in roughly the same area but this is the first time I'm reporting. Shape I do not know,, only that the object in the sky moved from side to side mildly but definitively! I need sleep and just reporting this weird light in the sky and will continue to do so, if I see again, The object in the sky seems very odd over farmland, mainly in the area! Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
February 14, 2016 · 7:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Lakewood, CA
Object was traveling east to west high in the sky and was of an orange color with no flashing lights or strobes. It was traveling at a relatively high rate of speed, slowed to a stop and disappeared. This is a clear night event, we are familiar with aircraft in the area and this object was completely and absolutely different.
February 14, 2016 · 4:35 AM · UNKNOWN
Fairfield, CT
I was getting something from the car. The sky suddenly lit up blue. Then in the sky a streak of fire and it made a sparkling noice. I have no clue what it was it moved in direction of the Hwy and was gone. This was all very quick.
February 11, 2016 · 6:15 AM · UNKNOWN
Odenton, MD
I went back inside to get my wife. She came out and saw the lights too. The brightest of these lights were amazing. They looked connected. No sound at all and they never moved an inch. I looked through my binoculars but the light was so intense I could not make out what they were. I got in my vehicle to leave for work and looked back to the position of the lights..... Gone! As if someone clicked a switch and turned them off. This was not street lights. Really spooked me.
February 10, 2016 · 5:20 AM · UNKNOWN
Arcata, CA
noticed circle of light in NE sky while walking dog. Circle seemed to be moving NE to SW. As it got closer, I noticed small, illuminated object in center with a downward cone of light emanating downward from it. I watched it for 5-10 minutes and it disappeared in fog bank over ocean.
February 8, 2016 · 11:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Maple Ridge (Canada), BC · Canada
Took more pics and watched them disappear exactly the same as the others. I took the pictures using an iPhone 5 s. They look light in photos and streetlight and trees made it harder to get a good picture. Hoping someone else in the area saw them and maybe got a better view. I have never posted or seen anything worth reporting before. Thanks