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January 6, 2016 · 7:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Bow, NH
One passed directly over us, and pretty low, only we could not see the craft, only a string of light on the back that appeared to change from green to yellow in a row. there was not a single noise.we noticed all four coming from different directions covering a space of at least 20 miles. they all headed in the direction of Concord before heading quickly to the right out of our site. We tried to take video and one picture of the one that flew above us but the video just looks like a white light. No sound at all!
January 6, 2016 · 12:00 AM · UNKNOWN
North Riverside, IL
Well, I was in bed, getting ready to fall asleep, and out my window was a speeding ball of light and it stopped, floated and bolted off back to the darkness of the sky! It was like living or like alive acting. It reminded me of a bee, and it was the size of the moon, with light as bright as sun, flying like a bee or an alive communicating insect that zoomed in and then out! It was too bright of a light to see a craft, but the way it acted and came in and then out made me for sure think UFO!!
January 5, 2016 · 8:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Chapin, SC
But then it stopped and turned at a 90 degree angle.
January 4, 2016 · 8:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Citrus Heights, CA
Stationary object hiding behind the clouds. Pulsating color lights in the sky that repeated the same flashing pattern of red to purple to blue and green. It was very cloudy that night and I could see the lights illuminating behind the clouds. I watched it do this for approx. 20mins and then it switched from a flashing light reflecting in the clouds to a straight thin beam of light that flashed the same colors and in the same pattern. This was especially an amazing sight to see. It did this for another 10 minutes, or so, before I finally went inside.
January 4, 2016 · 12:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Burien, WA
When the weather stopped the horrific loud airplane noises started at dark. It's 1 am and they are still at it about every 5 min. It's very disturbing and we are Not in the normal sea tac flight path. They seem to be flying low because they sound very loud and are slow flying as they pass over low. There seem to be many aircraft and they seem to want the secrecy of dark cloud cover! Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. We have received no other reports of the alleged incident. PD
January 3, 2016 · 6:30 AM · UNKNOWN
Hagerstown, MD
As I'm scanning the sky and looking at what stars, I could see, I noticed two other passenger planes flying at different directions at a much higher altitude than the flying ball of bright light I first noticed. Both of those planes displayed the blinking red lights that I'm familiar seeing. The sight of those higher flying planes made me realize that the plane that I thought was a Cessna wasn't displaying any red or blinking lights at all, just one massive light covering the entire craft. I also realized that the ball of white light was actually flying towards the center of town, not to the airport as I originally thought because of it's low altitude and speed. It was literally just ten or fifteen feet above the tree line that runs perpendicular to Greencastle pike and connects to the adjacent neighbourhood. When I gathered all my thoughts together and began to think that this thing may not be a private plane at all, I grabbed for my phone which was charging on the nightstand next to my bed with the intention to shoot some video. As I raised the phone and fumbled with video mode and focus, the light disappeared as if someone turned off a light switch. I didn't see a light trail that I would expect to see if the object had accelerated away at high speed, nor could I see a dark outline of an unlit object against the morning sky. It's as if it were erassed with no trace of it ever being there in the first place. At this point I just froze in place. I didn't know how to feel or what to think. I was just numb trying to understand what in the world it was that I just witnessed. Never in my 48 years have I seen anything in the sky that I couldn't explain. For the past few days in my spare time I've been driving around the area directly under where I observed the light trying to explain this off as something normal. There are no high mountain roads for it to have been car headlights, and I believe the object behind the light was too big to be a civilian (toy) drone. This object was in my view for exactly 5 minutes. It made no sound at all, never changed speed or color, and never diverted from its flight path before I lost sight of it. As far as size is concerned, I'm guessing that it was equivalent to the size of a private Cessna style plane, but possible a little bigger. The trees that I observed the object flying over are approximately 50-60 feet high, putting the height of the object in flight at about 75-100 feet. Lastly, I scanned the sky that Sunday morning in all directions until 7:20am, trying to relocate whatever it was that I witnessed. I've also checked the same area of sky from 5:30am until 7am the following Monday and Tuesday mornings only to find nothing out of the ordinary.
January 2, 2016 · 8:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Aurora, IN
After twenty minutes of watching, I noticed it was not moving. When airplanes from the airport would come close to the object, the lights would dim and it would move to my right in a straight line. Once the plane was away from the object it would Brighton up and the colors would be vivid again. The was a plane shape object that came up from behind and was circling it.I watched it for an hour. I looked outside at 21:00 and it moved South. The object is still flashing multiple colors. I looked outside at 21:15 and it was gone. Sirius?? PD
January 2, 2016 · 4:40 PM · UNKNOWN
Langhorne, PA
My husband and I were driving home on north 95 from Langhorne, PA. Low on the horizon, there were five orange/yellowish objects with glowing "tails", like miniature comets in the sky. They did not appear to be moving. Three were clustered together and seemed pointed in the same direction. Two others were farther down. I checked my iPhone's compass app and saw they were exactly West. It was around 4:40pm, just before dusk, but still enough daytime sun. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 31, 2015 · 7:25 PM · UNKNOWN
Plainfield, VT
Cloudy and overcast night, thing flew below clouds, large rectangular blue lights very intense and large, and then two red lights set side by side right behind the blue light, blue light blinking, was in front, travelling south by southeast towards mountains. Could not get a sense of the size. Very loud and weird noise, repetitive drumming-type sound, sounded like the large balloon tires on the lime spreaders. Low pitch drumming type sound, could be heard inside the house.
December 31, 2015 · 5:33 AM · UNKNOWN
Olympia, WA
Sky was clear. Looking at stars. Noticed a bright sparkling object in western sky. Moved very slow in what appeared to be a northern direction. With binoculars you could see there was more than one light. Green, white and red or maybe orange. Thought maybe it was a helicopter hoovering (sic. Hovering), but the lights didn't seem right. There was a blinking pattern. Disappeared or flew into the fog bank.
December 29, 2015 · 10:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Tehachapi, CA
My 2 sons (21 & 22 years old) and I were outside in the hot tub around 10pm in heavy fog, initially, but the fog lifted and we started seeing stars. My youngest son and I were facing my house looking up and my oldest son was facing us. Suddenly an extremely bright light (greenish blue) seemed to spotlight down over the eave of the house. It only lasted a few seconds. The son facing away from the house toward us said the trees and horse pasture lit up, but he didn't see the light directly. My youngest and I had to squint while looking at it. We all immediately said, "What was THAT??" It was totally silent outside - no noise whatsoever.
December 24, 2015 · 7:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Mesquite, NV
Driving home from dinner, we noticed a red light in the southern sky. Suddenly, two more joined it. The red lights were flying in a line formation. One seemed to soar high and then came lower the second two disappeared. The third one was heading NW towards our direction. I really tried to get photos the whole time but my cell phone camera would not work. It was like it was frozen. The third red light disappeared when we looked down for one second. We have never encountered anything like this. They were very quiet so we do not think it was anything for Nellis. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 24, 2015 · 7:17 PM · UNKNOWN
Renton, WA
Approximately 19:17 hours, over Renton, Washington, there were 6 objects flying from the west to east, in pairs of 2. No sound was heard, no flashing lights, just white/red beams. They appeared to be sub-sonic. As approaching closer they were also climbing in altitude until each set of 2 disappeared into the clouds. Some video was taken via a tablet, though clarity isn’t the best. Shape of objects was not clearly seen, looking like round objects in the sky. Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
December 23, 2015 · 11:40 PM · UNKNOWN
Mill Run, PA
It was a big ball of light and I saw it hover for about 4 seconds and then shot off.
December 22, 2015 · 6:08 PM · UNKNOWN
Lafayette, CA
One dark amber light about the same (apparent) altitude, size and speed of the ISS crossed almost directly overhead moving from west to east as seen from my location in the center of downtown Lafayette, CA. I first noticed it overhead at 6:08 PM as it was still coming from the western nighttime sky and it continued toward the east in a straight line. I continued to watch it until it reached the eastern horizon. In the moonlight I noticed it had a tail, possibly a smoke trail, which was long, light colored, and straight extending backwards a long way. once I saw the tail and because of its relatively slow speed, I realized it was probably not be ISS because a smoke trail would not appear the same as it does in our atmosphere. Due to its slow speed, I assume it could not have been a meteor. The object's color could possibly be described as a fire viewed from a great distance which makes sense because it had what appeared as a smoke trail behind it. it had no b! linking lights and did not change in color even as it reached the eastern horizon. It also appeared as though it were at high altitude based on observations of many aircraft over my lifetime. I could not hear any sound from it. Note; because of my swing shift hours of work at a dark hilltop secure location from which I am now retired, I have witnessed many ISS crossings at night as well as one very striking meteor as it was breaking up, over the years. So I am familiar with the apparent speed and color of the ISS as well as the differences between aircraft at night as well as meteors.
December 19, 2015 · 11:50 PM · UNKNOWN
Plymouth, MA
It was one object and it was moving very fast. Saw it only for a split second and it went from Greene to yellow really fast and disappeared. Possible meteor? PD
December 19, 2015 · 9:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Annapolis, MD
We didn't see any craft or object in the sky. Me and two of my friends were outside on my patio smoking a cigar and just talking and out of nowhere this LOUD and strange sound just started ringing over the sky. It's hard to explain what this sound was. But it lasted 10 seconds. It didn't sound like a plane or a rocket or an explosion. It had a metallic sound to it. We all just sat there in silence and looked at each other in disbelief at what we were hearing. Never heard anything like this in my life. Haven't heard it since.
December 19, 2015 · 5:45 PM · UNKNOWN
St. Petersburg, FL
While walking home from an art show my girlfriend and I saw a silver metallic object that seemed to blink in and out of view flying across the sky. It had a bright orange tail like that of a comet that never changed its length trailing behind it like some sort of propulsion. Shortly after the first object began passing from view a 2nd object of the exact same appearance came into view following the flight path of the 1st object. There are several airports in the area and planes are a very common sight in the skies around here but in the 5 years I have lived here I have never once seen anything quite like these two objects.
December 18, 2015 · 1:30 AM · UNKNOWN
Anchorage, AK
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 15, 2015 · 6:30 AM · UNKNOWN
San Diego, CA
At approximately 6:30am, light was observed in the sky travelling from east to west. Light was south of downtown San Diego, or south and slightly east from the southernmost point of Point Loma. Light was observed for several seconds travelling from east to west. Then the object appeared to break up or just become 3 separate lights to continued travelling west while falling then disappeared 3-5 seconds after appearing to break up. Once it had broken up it left a trail. Did not hear any sound.. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 14, 2015 · 10:40 PM · UNKNOWN
San Jose, CA
The first sighting occurred at approximately 10:35 pm on Monday, 12/14/2015. I was driving my car, turning right onto Cropley Ave. from Conifer Ln. in San Jose, CA. As I looked left to make sure there was no oncoming traffic, I noticed quite a bright "star" streaking toward the easterly direction. It lasted less than two seconds, tracing across perhaps a fifth of the sky. My first reaction was that I had seen a meteor. But the object wasdefinitely a small round disc (like a golf ball seen at about 30 feet away). The luminosity was similar to that of an LED light and, although moving rather fast, it did not exhibit a "tail" as the natural light from a meteor would do. As I made the turn and continued to drive, I really didn't think anything more about it. My drive proceeded southwesterly along Cropley to Morrill Ave., turning right on Morrill to get to Landess Ave., where I then turned left. Landess heads roughly westward and turns into Montague Expressway after the Highway 680 overcrossing. I proceded southwestward down Montague, crossing over Highway 880, until I stopped at a red light at either Zanker Rd. or N. 1st St. (I'm not sure which one.) The time was approximately 10:45 pm and it was here that I saw the golf-ball object again while looking up to the left through the windshield at about a 40 to 45 degree angle. Instead of streaking as it did before, it made a sort of randomly "hilly" curve in the sky that lasted about as long as the first sighting. I was rather surprised, however, to see that (in the background sky of the golf-ball object) there were (I believe) eight lights of much lesser intensity than the golf-ball. Each light was (as best I can describe it) shaped kind of like a flattened diamond. The most noticeable feature of these lights, to me, was that they were divided into two rows of four lights each, one row below the other by perhaps 5 to 10 degrees, from my vantage point. Each row's lights were evenly spaced, and the bottom row's lights were aligned directly below the top row's. The lights alternately dimmed and intensified, in unison, with a period of perhaps two to three seconds. As I stared at the configuration, I thought it might be due to an optical artifact of the area's street lights reflecting on my windshield. But I rolled down my window and stuck my head outside to look; they were still there. It also occurred to me that there could be Christmas lights on the top edge of a nearby building. I wouldn't be able to see the building because it was night and the brighter street lights would interfere with any ambient backlighting behind the dark building. However, at the angle and direction I was looking (~ 45 degrees up, southward), no buildings are that tall when one takes into account the distance between my stopped car at the intersection, and any building to the south. Finally, the lights could not lie on a possible power line because both rows were arranged absolutely ruler straight, whereas there would likely be a slight bow in the arrangement if attached to a power line (due to line sag). The whole sighting at the stopped light on Montague probably lasted about 15 to 20 seconds. Just before my traffic light turned green, there were (I believe) three other cars at the intersection: one next to me on the right, one in the opposite direction that was beginning a turn northward onto the cross street, and one waiting on my left on the cross street, at his red light. I looked to see if I could detect any awareness of the unidentified lights by the person on my right, but it was difficult to see the driver inside the car. It seemed as if no one else noticed. The sighting was over when each row of lights split in half, two lights accelerating to the right, two accelerating to the left. The intensity of the lights quickly dimmed to zero as their speed increased, and they never deviated from their ruler straight horizontal paths. BACKGROUND OF WITNESS: ---------- -- ------- A.B., Physics, U.C. Berkeley; M.S., Mathematics, San Jose State University. Former scientific software engineer. Lived in area since mid 1970's.
December 14, 2015 · 12:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Youghal (Ireland) · Ireland
It was bright light and a loud noise and then it just went. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 13, 2015 · 11:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Shelton, WA
I live 8 miles north of Shelton, Washington. Tonight, 12/13/2015, at 11:00 P.M., while standing on the front porch of our home. I witnessed a very bright light in the sky. It was going at a very high rate of speed, from the southeast to the northwest. It almost appeared to be like a headlight. There was absolutely no sound. It seemed to me to be traveling at about 500 to 700 feet above the ground. All I saw was the light. It must have been going at least 500 m.p.h. As far as it was above the ground it appeared to be half again the size of an automobile headlight. It seems silly to me, to report this, but I have never seen anything like this before. At first I thought maybe a star or meteorite, but it was absolutely horizontal. Just the one lone light. No other lights like would be on a winged aircraft. I said to myself “what the hell was that?” Maybe I’m losing it. I am a 68 year old married woman. My husband and I are both retired. I have completed some college. I’m just an average person going by the rules living my life. No history of mental illness or police record. Just standing on my porch having a cigarette. Which by the way I do every night. Again I have never seen anything like this before.
December 13, 2015 · 9:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Trenton, FL
Red, green, white lights flashing.; appears to be circular object; is stagnant for now. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD