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February 8, 2016 · 6:10 AM · UNKNOWN
Tulsa, OK
I saw an orange light heading due west. The light slowly pulsate at about 2 second intervals, it was also very large about 3 or 4 times bigger than the largest star. I couldn't tell how high it was or what the light was attached to. It didn't make any noise. We have corrected to date to February 08th, 2016. PD
February 6, 2016 · 5:10 AM · UNKNOWN
Newnan, GA
While driving to work at 0510E on Feb 06 2016, Two bright white lights were seen circling each other just above the tree line. The lights were too far away to observe any craft or structure beyond the glare or the light. They did not flicker or pulse….just a steady bright, pure white light. When first noticed, the lights appeared as if on approach to an airport but did not appear to move, just hovering. Suddenly, what appeared to be the trailing light began to rise and circle above, what I’m referring to as, the front light; ending up to appear larger and leading the other but still no forward movement. This all took place within a 30 second timeframe. I was not able to stop and view longer but further down the road, I pulled over and looked in the direction where the lights were seen but they were gone. I have worked for a major airline for 26+ years at numerous major airports across the USA and have never seen aircraft perform or maneuver in this manner. In the direction of the observed lights, there are no airports except for KATL at a distance of nearly 35 miles. Location; intersection of Westhill Dr and Fairway Drive, Newnan GA (30265). Viewing direction NNE Estimated distance lights were from intersection – est 0.5 – 1.0 miles
February 5, 2016 · 8:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Cooleemee, NC
On the night of February 05, 2016, at 8 pm in Cooleemee, NC, my wife and I stepped out of our house to walk the dog. I was looking due west into the night sky when I noticed a dark mass moving slowly from north to south appeared to be following the South Yadkin river, I estimated that the object was no more that 100 feet off the tree tops and a half a mile away. The object was very large but I was unable to discern a shape, my first thought was that it was a C-17 cargo plane. I did not hear any engine noise and assumed that it would catch up as jet aircraft tend to be seen first then heard. I stepped further up closer toward the road in my front yard to continue to walk the dog, when I saw another object traveling in the same direction at the same altitude and the same speed with no apparent engine noise. I was still not able to determine the shape of the object but noticed that it had a single steady red light that was approximately 3 times bigger than a star. In all there were 7 objects that we counted that passed us, all at the same altitude moving in the same direction at the same speed with no engine noise. However, there were 2 objects that were different, the fourth object had in addition to the steady red light, had a white light, towards the front of he object, shining directly down below the object and the fifth object had just the red light as the others did but had two slime green colored lights that were illuminated what appeared to be the upper aft section of the object. I have spent the last 18 years working in Army Aviation Maintenance in the Avionics/Electrical section and immediately assumed that they were formation lights, so my initial impression was that they were military aircraft despite the lack of seeing an Anti Collision light illuminate on any of the objects. As my wife and I stood there and watched them continue moving south, then south easterly, I witnessed the last objects red light move thru the trees and disappear and during the entire sighting my wife and I never heard any engine noise. These data are preliminary and have not undergone final quality control by the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). Therefore, these data are subject to revision. Final and certified climate data can be accessed at the NCDC - http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov. Climatological Report (Daily) 000 CDUS42 KRAH 060926 CLIGSO CLIMATE REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 410 AM EST SAT FEB 6 2016 ................................. .THE PIEDMONT TRIAD INTL AIRPORT NC CLIMATE SUMMARY FOR FEBRUARY 5 2016... CLIMATE NORMAL PERIOD 1981 TO 2010 CLIMATE RECORD PERIOD 1903 TO 2016 WEATHER ITEM OBSERVED TIME RECORD YEAR NORMAL DEPARTURE LAST VALUE (LST) VALUE VALUE FROM YEAR NORMAL ................................................................ TEMPERATURE (F) YESTERDAY MAXIMUM 47 418 PM 74 2008 50 -3 45 MINIMUM 32 1155 PM 1 1996 31 1 24 1917 AVERAGE 40 41 -1 35 PRECIPITATION (IN) YESTERDAY 0.01 1.59 1960 0.10 -0.09 0.00 MONTH TO DATE 1.00 0.50 0.50 0.38 SINCE DEC 1 9.56 6.54 3.02 4.63 SINCE JAN 1 2.91 3.56 -0.65 2.42 SNOWFALL (IN) YESTERDAY T 4.5 1905 0.1 -0.1 0.0 MONTH TO DATE T 0.5 -0.5 0.0 SINCE DEC 1 2.5 4.7 -2.2 T SINCE JUL 1 2.5 4.8 -2.3 T SNOW DEPTH 0 DEGREE DAYS HEATING YESTERDAY 25 24 1 30 MONTH TO DATE 63 124 -61 132 SINCE DEC 1 1288 1667 -379 1603 SINCE JUL 1 1802 2347 -545 2353 COOLING YESTERDAY 0 0 0 0 MONTH TO DATE 0 0 0 0 SINCE DEC 1 15 1 14 0 SINCE JAN 1 0 0 0 0 ................................................................ WIND (MPH) HIGHEST WIND SPEED 18 HIGHEST WIND DIRECTION NW (320) HIGHEST GUST SPEED 25 HIGHEST GUST DIRECTION N (10) AVERAGE WIND SPEED 7.7 SKY COVER POSSIBLE SUNSHINE MM AVERAGE SKY COVER 0.5 WEATHER CONDITIONS THE FOLLOWING WEATHER WAS RECORDED YESTERDAY. LIGHT RAIN SNOW LIGHT SNOW FOG RELATIVE HUMIDITY (PERCENT) HIGHEST 56 700 AM LOWEST 23 300 PM AVERAGE 40 ........................................................ THE PIEDMONT TRIAD INTL AIRPORT NC CLIMATE NORMALS FOR TODAY NORMAL RECORD YEAR MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE (F) 51 74 1927 MINIMUM TEMPERATURE (F) 31 1 1917 SUNRISE AND SUNSET FEBRUARY 6 2016......SUNRISE 717 AM EST SUNSET 551 PM EST FEBRUARY 7 2016......SUNRISE 716 AM EST SUNSET 552 PM EST - INDICATES NEGATIVE NUMBERS. R INDICATES RECORD WAS SET OR TIED. MM INDICATES DATA IS MISSING. T INDICATES TRACE AMOUNT. The U.S. Naval Observatory (USNO) computes astronomical data. Therefore, the NWS does not record, certify, or authenticate astronomical data. Computed times of sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moonset; and twilight, moon phases and other astronomical data are available from USNO's Astronomical Applications Department (http://www.usno.navy.mil). See http://www.usno.navy.mil/USNO/astronomical-applications/astronomical-information-center/litigation for information on using these data for legal purposes Explanation of the Preliminary Monthly Climate Data (F6) Product These data are preliminary and have not undergone final quality control by the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). Therefore, these data are subject to revision. Final and certified climate data can be accessed at the NCDC - http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov. WFO Monthly/Daily Climate Data 000 CXUS52 KRAH 141345 CF6GSO PRELIMINARY LOCAL CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA (WS FORM: F-6) STATION: PIEDMONT TRIAD INTL AIRPORT NC MONTH: FEBRUARY YEAR: 2016 LATITUDE: 36 4 N LONGITUDE: 79 57 W TEMPERATURE IN F: :PCPN: SNOW: WIND :SUNSHINE: SKY :PK WND ================================================================================ 1 2 3 4 5 6A 6B 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 12Z AVG MX 2MIN DY MAX MIN AVG DEP HDD CDD WTR SNW DPTH SPD SPD DIR MIN PSBL S-S WX SPD DR ================================================================================ 1 70 47 59 19 6 0 0.17 0.0 0 7.6 17 220 M M 8 12 25 240 2 56 48 52 12 13 0 T 0.0 0 8.4 18 50 M M 10 12 22 60 3 66 52 59 19 6 0 0.82 0.0 0 11.5 26 190 M M 10 1 37 200 4 61 43 52 12 13 0 0.00 0.0 0 6.8 15 10 M M 9 1 25 340 5 47 32 40 -1 25 0 0.01 T 0 7.7 18 320 M M 5 1 25 10 6 48 27 38 -3 27 0 0.00 0.0 0 1.1 9 320 M M 5 16 310 7 47 33 40 -1 25 0 0.00 0.0 0 6.0 15 20 M M 9 21 20 8 50 27 39 -2 26 0 T 0.0 0 5.2 20 230 M M 7 26 230 9 42 24 33 -8 32 0 0.00 0.0 0 11.3 21 300 M M 8 28 280 10 37 20 29 -12 36 0 0.00 0.0 0 12.0 24 290 M M 2 30 290 11 40 15 28 -14 37 0 0.00 0.0 0 7.2 20 300 M M 1 24 300 12 37 23 30 -12 35 0 T T 0 5.6 20 310 M M 8 25 310 13 37 19 28 -14 37 0 0.00 0.0 0 14.1 30 310 M M 2 37 300 ================================================================================ SM 638 410 318 0 1.00 T 104.5 M 84 ================================================================================ AV 49.1 31.5 8.0 FASTST M M 6 MAX(MPH) MISC ----> # 30 310 # 37 200 =
February 4, 2016 · 6:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Greeley, CO
Yesterday was really foggy in Colorado. On my way back from Boulder, I saw at least 3 blocks from my house 3 red lights up in the sky but in a shape that would add up to the shape of a UFO. I laughed at myself for thinking that but as I watched it it was going VERY fast for an "airplane" I thought it was a jet but the red spaced out lights made it look much bigger than that. It was higher up in the sky and was traveling about (my guess) 6 or 7 times faster than an airplane. The solid red lights started to blink rapidly and then rhe "object" literally went so fast to the right my eyes couldn't keep up with it. It just "BOOM" flew to the right and was GONE. I tried to search for some reasonable explanation for what this thing was. It wasn't an airplane or jet so the only other thing I could think of was some sort of m! ilitary craft like those really huge "silent bombers" but where I saw this "UFO" is not anywhere near a military base. And I gotta tell you (with my expierience living right next to a marine base) this did not move as fast as one of- what I saw. So, to kind of wrap it up here, I do believe now that what I saw wasn't something that should have been seen, and I'm going to have a really hard time trying to unsee it. But to make something clear, I think that there are oher planets out there- more- beyond our imagination, so maybe this thing that I saw is just an airplane to some normal people like us. Hopefully not some green big headed creeps......
February 3, 2016 · 6:25 PM · UNKNOWN
Salinas, CA
I was out walking my dog after dinner, when I saw a very slow-flying craft just to the north of our location. I would estimate that it was less than a quarter-mile away, but could not make out the shape of it due to the glare of street lights in the area. The craft had two small red and blue flashing lights on the bottom and was moving so slowly that it seemed to just be hanging in the air. It made a sort of whirling sound as it moved by toward the east. When it passed us I could see a small, steady red light on the right rear of the craft and a small, steady amber light on the left rear. After a few minutes of it traveling slowly east/northeast it turned enough that I could see what appeared to be a very large rectangular panel of light on the left side of the craft that rotated side-to-side in an arc. The light was very bright white when it swept from the back to the front, and very bright green when it swept from the front toward the back. By the time I thought to get my cellphone out to try to get a photo, it had moved out of range.
February 3, 2016 · 5:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Cypress, TX
I looked out in the sky and saw spherical shape rocketing straight up leaving a thin white line of exhaust. This object was was going faster than I have seen anything travel; like faster than the speed of light. Then, the object veered slowly to the right and continued on a slow course for about 15 minutes and disappeared out of range; it appeared to be a small rocket-shaped vehicle with bright lights at tip. It was mesmerizing to watch.
January 31, 2016 · 3:17 AM · UNKNOWN
Port Charlotte, FL
Thought it may have been lightning or a power box exploding, but there were no storms and no noise. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
January 29, 2016 · 12:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Rochester Hills, MI
I was standing out on a loading dock on a cigarette break. It was a cloudless day and I was watching a jet liner climb to altitude when I looked almost straight up and saw a glimmer at around 70 degrees (using me looking straight up as 90, I would say the plane was 20-25 above the horizon). At first thought I thought it was a drone because the object was not moving and had what looked like a white light coming from the side of it. The longer I watched it, I noticed the light grow to almost triple the size it was before. I looked away for a second to flick my cigarette and I couldn't find the object in the sky again. The object was stationary during my entire viewing. The only change was the size of the light. I couldn't tell how high the object was, or it's size. After sky gazing for sometime I would assume that the object was at or around cruising altitude for a jet. I could make out a greyish color to the craft, but no discernible shape, just enough to see that there was something that was emitting or reflecting the light. I attempted to take a picture with my cell phone, but the object was too far away to show anything other than pixels. I grabbed my actual camera and tried to find it again but had no luck.
January 28, 2016 · 11:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Amsterdam, NY
She had called me over and I had saw what didn't look like a star nor doesn't sound/look like any air craft or tot craft I have seen. It was hovering in one area. No noise coming from it. It flashed yellow, red, green, and a possible orange like color of lights. The green was mainly shown on the sides from my point of view. Where I was in my location, the width was about 1cm and the height was about half a centimeter. It started to fly away north of my direction. As it did, a quiet humming sound came directly from it. I don't know what I have saw. But it is truly my first time witnessing and unknown flying object, a UFO. ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) I am sorry, I mean January 28, 2016. Again, sorry for the mix up Sent from my iPhone ((END ADDENDUM))
January 28, 2016 · 5:15 AM · UNKNOWN
Shippensburg, PA
I do not know if what I saw was from somewhere other than earth or not, I only know it was unidentifiable by me. I have searched everywhere and cannot find an explination for it. My incident happened as follows: I parked my car and got out to walk into work. I immediately saw a very large, white static light coming out of the west. Too large and bright for anything I had ever seen before. I don't know how far away it was when I first saw it, but, I knew it was coming right at me. I kept walking through the parking lot towards the door because I was a little scared. As it got closer I could see a slow blinking green light on the left (if I would have been in the craft it would have been on the right) and slow blinking white light on the right. It then went directly over my head. There were four large static bright round white lights underneath. They almost looked as though each of the lights were made up of two half round lights. The lights were positioned like there would have been one in each corner of a rectangle. I could not see the shape of the craft. I was desperately trying to, but between the bright lights from the craft and the light at the door I was standing at I couldn't see a shape. Plus it was also completely cloudy that morning so there was no light above it. There are large trees there, probably 60 to 70 feet tall. I estimate the craft to have been 700 to 800 feet up. It was not flying high. What freaked me out most was the lack of noise. It was a very soft sound of air moving as it flew above me. As it moved away, I saw a slow blinking red light. It moved in a straight line towards the east. It never made any erratic moves. That's what I saw and I would love to know what it was. I can't stop thinking about it. ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) Four large white lights on bottom flew directly overhead This is an addendum to the report I submitted around 10:15 this morning (1/28/16). This was not a small object like a toy drone. I estimate by the height it was flying and the space between the four lights that it had to be at least 50 feet long and 25 feet wide, at least where the lights were mounted. How much bigger than that it was, I don't know because I couldn't see a shape. Please if you have any questions or know what this was please email me. ((END ADDENDUM))
January 26, 2016 · 1:26 AM · UNKNOWN
Denver, CO
Is anyone else seeing this now?? I'm downtown Denver and I'm looking west above the mountains. Really high up there are lights pulsating and the UFO is stationary.
January 24, 2016 · 11:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Lake Elsinore, CA
It went down behind a hill the hill in less than 500 feet tall. The nearest airport is 20 miles away, March Air Force Base. One of four reports, submitted by same witness. PD
January 24, 2016 · 6:10 PM · UNKNOWN
Virginia Beach, VA
We suspect a "twinkling" star, and perhaps Sirius. PD
January 21, 2016 · 11:30 AM · UNKNOWN
Asheville, NC
At 11:30 am, I witnessed a seemingly round craft flying west to east in the sky directly above me. I saw it for approximately 30 seconds and in the blink of an eye it disappeared. It left little to no trail behind it like you would see coming from a jet. After it disappeared, at least 7 jets moving in rapid succession, flew in all directions as if they were looking for the object. Right now it is 12:12 pm and jets are still flying overhead as I'm typing this. My friend who is also a ((deleted--public employee)) in downtown Asheville witnessed the same thing as we talked on the phone.
January 21, 2016 · 11:30 AM · UNKNOWN
Asheville, NC
A friend and I were talking on the phone as we worked outside. He quickly interupted the conversation by yelling, "Dude dude dude!!! Do you see that? Somethings falling from the sky!??!" At this time, I did not see anything. We were working on different sides of the city and looking at the sky from different angles. About a minute later, I saw something and asked if that's what he was seeing. He said, "Yes!" At first I was skeptical. It looked like a small odd shaped cloud, with a small, fat trail behind it. I thought maybe it was a jet, but it was moving and in a strange way far off in the sky. I lost it for a minute behind some trees and I ask my friend if it was gone and he agreed that it had just disappeared into thin air. We were talking about what we saw when oddly enough a jet appeared from the area where the object had vanished and flew in a Southwest direction. Then I saw 2 jets, 3, 4, and literally stopped counting at 15. All! actual jets flying in the same direction. East to Southwest. Like they were following or chasing something which was the strangest part of all of this. It was an extremely strange experience to say the least.
January 20, 2016 · 6:07 AM · UNKNOWN
Sunnyside, WA
We were looking out side when two lights just appeared. Not moving just hovering, this happened last week too, but then it was three of them, but those were in the evening. Planets in the eastern morning sky? PD
January 19, 2016 · 8:49 AM · UNKNOWN
Cedar Springs, MI
Watched a bright white light in the Eastern sky. It was strange because the sun was up and the light from the sun was hiding all stars. The white light dimmed after about 15 seconds to about 50% strength. 15 more seconds later, it disappeared completely. A meteor would have gradually dimmed. This was instantaneous change. As if thrusters went from full to half to zero strength.
January 15, 2016 · 2:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Carson City, NV
Within the hour was driving up home (Hwy 50) to Lake Tahoe and noticed a corona around the sun. Stopped and took three Photos (which have been sent to your director), unknown to me till 1-17-16 @12:00pm when reviewing said photos my wife seen a light. We blew them up only to see an orb with lights in 2 of the 3 shots.
January 14, 2016 · 1:50 PM · UNKNOWN
Bakersfield, CA
I saw an airplane traveling southeast towards the mountains just south of Bakersfield, CA. In front of the plane was a smoky grey area. It looked like it could be exhaust from a craft but I could not see any other aircraft in front of the plane. It looked like the plane was following this grey cloudy formation, almost looked like something was cloaked that created this grey funnel.
January 13, 2016 · 6:45 PM · UNKNOWN
Kamloops (Canada), BC · Canada
Others in the family have sited large red/orange spheres and lights that dart away coming from that same location usually around 23:00 hours.
January 12, 2016 · 2:10 AM · UNKNOWN
Lafayette, CO
The sky was pitch black but when looking towards the South/West I saw an object(s) with numerous lights. One of the lights was pulsing a purplish white type color and it was almost blindig and the light was vastly bigger than all thee other lights near it or around it. It was placed in front of a smaller light that was blinking and it had a blue hue to it. Then to the right of those two lights was a light that was white and yellow that stayed on continuously along with another light to the right of it that was pulsing a light red and white light that would pulse in some type of code type thing... Then directly to the left and a little below all of those lights and next to thee pulsing purplish light was a bright yellow light that was much smaller then the rest of the lights. They were all basically bunched together and doing the pulsng, blinking, etc, simultaneously.. Then it began to rise up and move towards me.. There was absolutely no sound… I've seen many a craft before but, nothing like this... it was a God awful vibe I never want to witness again so I'm not sure how long it lasted because I ran inside after 10 minutes...
January 8, 2016 · 11:40 PM · UNKNOWN
Meridian, ID
Violently flashing, bright red, orange and blue light that faded out to a pin point of light then grew rapidly again to disappear heading in a northeast direction.
January 7, 2016 · 3:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Greenville, SC
Object appeared to fall straight down through overcast skies, growing brighter green before falling out of sight.
January 6, 2016 · 9:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Holden, ME
I was outside on my deck smoking a cigarette and was looking up @ stars. Something I do on a nightly routine. I saw what appeared to be somewhat like a bright star object literally circling and stopping. This object stopped in place then moved a little then started flying circles, then would stop. I went in the house grabbed a flashlight with a green color bulb and flashed it off & on. The object stopped and stayed still. This thing must have been huge because it was like I said as bright as a star yet it was high altitude. I would say I thought I was crazy but my girlfriend was seeing what I was seeing at the same time. I have never in my 41 years seen any plane or even a drone be able to maneuver like this was. I can say this was amazing! Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD