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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.
27,433 entries
August 29, 2020 · 8:59 PM · LIGHT
New Braunfels, TX
It was a clear night. I was sitting on my porch just stargazing. Movement to the left of a star that I was looking at caught my eye. It looked like another star but it was moving! I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me so I looked away to let my eyes readjust and then looked back up at it. It was still there and still moving. It was going on a downward but also western direction. The speed of it moving was faster than what I’ve been seeing planes move at but it was also a jumpy kind of movement, it wasn’t smooth in just one straight line. I really tried telling myself it was a plane or a “moving” star which is probably not even a thing. I noticed that it began getting brighter and appeared to be coming in closer. It was very very high in the sky but that’s what it looked like, like it was coming closer towards me. That, coupled with the fact that it was getting brighter frightened me and I pulled out my phone to record just in case. It was only a few seconds later that it then appeared to get smaller or further away again and dimmer until it dimmed all the way out or disappeared in a way. I don’t record it all because I wanted to to see it with my own eyes instead of looking at it on the phone camera .It’s almost as if me recording sacred it away. It was weird.
August 29, 2020 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
East Berlin, PA
The time of sighting was between 8 and 9 pm, EST.
August 29, 2020 · 6:30 PM · LIGHT
Payson, IL
My wife, Barbara and I were sitting in the backyard enjoying the sunset looking due west. Clear conditions, sun at the horizon, no haze, light N breeze. Just a few degrees South of the sun, which was sitting on the horizon and at about 30 degrees angle above the horizon, (about where the star Diadem would be - I checked that location on my star chart on my phone) we saw a dim "star" appear. It remained stationary throughout the entire sighting that lasted about 5 minutes (or so it seemed). It slowly got brighter until it gleamed like the sun reflecting on a jetliner fuselage, brighter than any star. And there were no other stars in the sky. The moon was behind a cloud bank behind us and to the south. The light dimmed slowly back to very faint, then it ramped up again to the metallic bright gleam for a few moments, and then faded slowly until it was barely visible. I looked at the Star Chart to confirm the name of the star in that location as a way describe the light, and when I looked for the light again,it was nowhere to be seen and did not reappear.
August 29, 2020 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Maple Hts, OH
About 12 or so star looking objects moved across sky bright then turning black then back to bright. Still daylight out. Flying pretty fast. No sound .lower than some clouds. Flew out of sight before I could get my phone to video. No formation. Simply a uniformed cluster
August 28, 2020 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Choctaw, OK
bright light over eastern choctaw oklahoma thought it might of been just a radio tower cause it had a slight red color to it cause wasn't moving. I stepped away to tell my wife and was back within 2 min and no such light there. I had been there at this spot tons of times and had never seen this light. Then it disappears just have no explanation to what it was.
August 28, 2020 · 8:16 PM · LIGHT
Sullivan, MO
Video was taken by a party who wishes to remain anonymous for the time being! It was reported at approximately 20:16 CST. 28 August, 2020. That 3-4 bright objects were seen from the backyard of a friend's father residence. The skyline relative to the objects location and eyewitness approximation of distance from his view point; would have placed The UAP over The Pea Ridge Iron Ore Mine. Approximately 8-10 miles Southeast of the residence in Sullivan,Mo. A short video was captured on a cellphone, showing multiple objects moving erratically. Abrupt stops, disappearing and reappearing almost instantaneously and great distance and maneuvering in ways inconsistent with any modern day Aerospace Technology that I am aware of. I would like to share the Video Evidence.
August 27, 2020 · 11:53 PM · LIGHT
Amelia, OH
We were driving headed west on 125 when we noticed a light in the sky in the distance. From the car it looked a bright star that was moving to left, then seemed to turn in a circular pattern towards the right. It then moved left again before completely disappearing like someone turned a light off. This lasted about 45 seconds. Two witnesses both in the car.
August 27, 2020 · 9:20 PM · LIGHT
San Antonio, TX
White light traveling east to west .The light blink blue twice then turned red,flying down slow then back up.The light turn white flew back east went flying down out of sight.
August 27, 2020 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
St. Paul, MN
A friend and I were sitting on the deck at my house. We were looking at the moon facing south and out of nowhere this bright red light moved into view going west. It moved pretty fast and then abruptly stopped and hovered for a few seconds. Then it moved up really quickly and again stopped. The red light changed to a dim green color, then faded out into white at which point it changed back to bright red before moving west again. It dropped down again and hovered a few seconds before quickly moving west and out of view. It was about 9:00 at night. There were no clouds in the sky and it made no noise. I don't know how high up in the sky it was but I'm guessing a height at which a small plane would fly. There is a lot of air traffic here but I've never seen anything that would just suddenly stop and change color like this. I can't figure out what this was!
August 27, 2020 · 3:00 AM · LIGHT
Marysville, OH
I was standing on my back patio smoking a cigarette..I was having a hard time sleeping this particular night I had recently moved to this place which is out in the country a bit and me being used to the city I was not used to being able to see the stars in the sky so when I sit on my back patio I’m always looking at the sky and stars this particular night I was watching what I thought was a very bright and vivid star when it kinda started to flash a bit and in a spit second it lit up rainbow colored and just took off at a speed that seemed faster than anything imaginable and I could see it the first few seconds of it taking off and then it was so fast it was just gone it had a rainbow glow and when it took off and started to speed all I could see was a rainbow flash..trail for a couple seconds and then poof it was gone...and at no time did it make ANY noise at all
August 26, 2020 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Winnipegosis (Canada), MB · Canada
We saw lots of lights flying across the sky From WSW to ENE. They were flying faster than any aircraft could. They appeared to fly in a slight side to side motion as they travelled. A large aircraft with flashing red and white lights which I presume was a passenger plane flying SE to NW appeared. One of the lights then shot up to the north and appeared to wait for the aircraft. As the aircraft got close, it flashed really bright like afterburners and and shot ahead of the aircraft and would become almost invisible. As the aircraft got closer to where it disappeared it would light up again and shoot out ahead of the aircraft and disappear again. This happened about 6 or 7 times until it disappeared for good.
August 25, 2020 · 11:25 PM · LIGHT
Ft. Wayne, IN
Blinking lights of blue and green and red and white hovering in the sky not moving no sound just stationary in a single spot above the tree line the object did not move we watched for over an hour and we kept checking on it was still there when we all went to bed sometime after midnight just hovering in the sky blinking the same pattern red blue green then a white color right above where the red blue green pattern was like a loop never changing never moving just hovering motionless in the sky.
August 25, 2020 · 3:22 AM · LIGHT
Pittsfield, NH
August 25, 2020 3:00 am & September 11, 2020 9:30 pm - Pittsfield New Hampshire I was laying in bed looking out the deck door. I noticed a yellow light in the sky over the trees the line the property. There are not any houses or buildings for quite a long distance behind our location. The light looked to be yellow not white the way that stars and planets appear in the sky. It was also extremely low in the sky appearing to be not far above the treetops. This struck me as odd because there are not any streetlight poles or other sources of artificial lights in that area. It was also too high up to reasonably be a light pole but too close to the trees to be a plane. It was also just seeming to be staying in the same general location. With such close proximity if it were a small plane or helicopter it would be reasonable to assume there would be some kind of noise generated by the object, but there was none. Over the space of about 20-30 minutes I just kept looking out the window and it was still there. I decided to try to take photos and videos of it with my cell phone to see if that would make it more clear by possibly bringing it closer to view. The one still photo I took was just a yellow dot. I did notice that the finder mechanism on the phones camera that usually detects faces or something to focus on immediately focused on the yellow light, which I believe those cameras only detect and focus on artificial light sources because I have not seen the focus pick up on natural light from stars or the moon. I then took two videos with my phone and then went back to bed. I did not actually watch the videos until September 9th. I was not expecting to see anything other than a yellow dot. When I watched the videos, I noticed the object was moving a lot more than I was able to notice just viewing the object in the sky at the time. So, I then expanded the video and that is when I realized the object appears to be spinning and moving a lot and throwing off a lot of light. I showed the video to my daughter on the evening of September 10th. Then last night on September 11 at 9:30 pm I saw what appeared to be the same light in roughly the same location. I took a few more short videos and have included the one the seems to show the object the best. I told my daughter and son in law on the 25th and they also observed the light from their bedroom window in the same apartment as me. On September 11th my daughter and I both stood on the deck taking videos of the light together.
August 25, 2020 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Lehi, UT
Saw 6 different ones.
August 24, 2020 · 11:48 PM · LIGHT
Bothell, WA
My mother any I were sitting out in one of my field, watching the the last of the Persieds and k-Cygnids. We managed to see a couple satellites and a few bonus straggles from the showers. Just as we were talking about going inside, I pointed out what seemed to be another satellite... when all of a sudden the bright light zagged left... then right, paused, juked left, then shot off to the right and disappeared. It was traveling North to South, strait above us.
August 24, 2020 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Littlestown, PA
My wife and I where out back when i seen a Small light moving at steady pace across sky. We see them all the time going in different directions sometimes following each other. This one slowed down powered up got real bright and shot up which it looked like my wife seen it go up but didnt see it power up brighter then any star in the sky.
August 24, 2020 · 9:30 AM · LIGHT
Newberg, OR
I was watching an Airliner fly over my house when I saw what looked like a satellite in the sky(small dot like a star.) It was moving twice as fast as a satellite and faster than regular aircraft in comparison to the airliner. When the dot came close to the airliner it turned on a spotlight that swept from downward(earth) to towards the airliner, which it radiated in the sparse clouds and turbed off. I watched it pass over the roof and eventually the "Satellite" could no longer be seen. It traveled the same consistant speed across the sky.
August 23, 2020 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
LITTLE ROCK, AR
Light appeared on my Ring video camera in the northeast sky from my front porch which faces north. It appeared at 11:00 pm Central time. It did not flash or move until it disappeared at 11:20 pm.
August 23, 2020 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Poway, CA
I am a gas tanker driver and was delivering to Costco when this sighting occurred. I was already looking in the sky when I noticed a bright flash to my right, similar to a camera flash. I looked in that direction, which was south west and sighted a dull orange light traveling to the north east. The light seemed very high up, and seemed similar to a satellite, except for the fact that it was slowly pulsating . The light would dim to almost nothing and then grow bright again about every two seconds. It also seemed to be traveling in a slight arc rather than a straight line. I know it could not have been a satellite because they only brighten a dim depending on their reflection of the sun beneath our horizon. This object was self illuminated. It had no flashing lights. It only appeared as an orange pulsating light . I followed the light with my eyes until it was no longer visible. A few minutes later I saw an object that probably was a satellite. It was white in color, traveling in the same direction and did not pulsate. It seemed to disappear from sight as it flew into the earths shadow. I was born and raised in San Diego very close to the San Diego airport. I am familiar with commercial air traffic. I also lived close to Miramar air base for a long time and am familiar with military air traffic. This object was neither of these. I come from a family of law enforcement officers who are trained observers, and it was ingrained in me.
August 23, 2020 · 9:20 PM · LIGHT
Kearns, UT
Looking up 9:20 pm Sunday night while in my driveway I noticed what I thought was the ISS but not as bright a light traveling east to west. No big deal- then another and a third,this got my attention. I kept looking up and noticed another coming from the north west going south east just a few seconds after the first three. They all seemed to fade out just as the ISS would when going into the earths shadow. They faded fast. Now more coming from three different directions. This went on for which seemed like 15 minutes,time enough time to go get a chair and two cameras. I sat watching this getting photos of stars with white streaks indicating traveling lights. also took video with LGG6 showing traveling star like white lights. There were so many over a long period of time coming from different directions, I'm still at a lose as what they were. I was thinking mini sats but why the different directions? Hoping someone else would report to better understand as to! what I witnessed.LOts of star like lights
August 23, 2020 · 8:40 PM · LIGHT
Riverdale Park, MD
Was speaking with a neighbor (avid celestial observer) outside at around 20:40, when neighbor noticed and pointed out an orange object in the air. It mas moving slowly moving from NE to N direction. A moment later of watching, three other similarly oriented objects appeared to be rising in a vertical line and moving from NE to N. I then urgently called my husband from inside the house to look. There was no sound, they glowed for possibly a few minutes and then faded out completely. I took pictures of them. While sky lanterns are illegal in Maryland. While the neighbor, husband and I were both shocked at the observation, the neighbor does not believe they were UFOs, suspected that they were sky lanterns.
August 23, 2020 · 8:08 PM · LIGHT
Morton Grove, IL
I am professional firefighter, former Soldier, and amateur astronomer. I saw a bright red light in the Western sky. Approximately 275 degrees, 15 degrees elevation. Brighter than Venus. Laser red. Initially stationary, then suddenly accelerating to the South. This is exceptionally unusual, because it is opposite to the current direction of commercial air travel out of O'Hare Airport at this time. I confirmed that no plans were visible on Plane Finder software at the time. Color remained uniform after the change of Direction. No strobe. At about heading 225, the object disappeared. Object reappeared approximately 7 minutes later, and followed the same pattern. Again, definitely not a plane. Object was seen below the cloud cover, which was approximately 20000 ft. This was immediately following a storm weather event. Alternatively, it could have been a Hobby drone. But I ruled this out, because of the ambient light at this time of night is prohibitive to flying! an RC aircraft. Thank you for your time.
August 23, 2020 · 12:10 AM · LIGHT
Portage la prairie, MB · Canada
Saw two formations of lights. A few minutes apart moving in similar direction
August 22, 2020 · 11:30 PM · LIGHT
Holyoke, MA
My dog was sitting in the sunroom for a while, highly alert. I took her out in the backyard and for a few seconds we both spotted a red light sighting in my neighbor's backyard to my right.a red beam of light shot down and went back up.. disappeared