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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.
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August 22, 2020 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Yankton, SD
2 orange lights hovered very slowly and at a uniquely slow pace to the West of Yankton just North of Gavins Point Dam. One started to flicker off and on in a manner that a normal operating aircraft would not do. It was completely silent and had no noise of an engine. The first orange light eventually went dark as if it sputtered out. The other orange light continued to move to the west until it too flickered out. Even though I could no longer see the orange glow, I felt as if I could see the objects still moving as I could see them traveling in front of the stars in the night sky.
August 22, 2020 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Hood River, OR
We were sitting outside talking at our camp site at Lost Lake campground and resort. It was dark and there was a fire ban at the time so it was darker than usual. All of the sudden, a red and orange circular light appeared in the sky between two large trees. It moved towards us, almost in an arch pattern, with a strong light tail and then disappeared. It wasn’t too close, more off in the distance, but clearly visible. It almost looked like a firework or flare but there wasn’t any sound that normally comes along with those. Plus, with the fire ban in place and heavily enforced rules at Lost Lake, there is a very small chance anyone was lighting anything on fire. It is also covid rules so the campground was only at about half capacity. The whole thing lasted 15 seconds or less. Myself and one other person were completely sober and the other two had a little to drink. We all saw it.
August 22, 2020 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Buffalo, NY
First I want you to know I am an alien skeptic. I have an open mind but I'm only going to believe what I see and experience myself. I make no claims these were alien objects. I would classify them as unexplained moving lights in the night sky. Because I'm in an urban area with houses and trees all around the horizon and I only have a cheap compass my orientation may be slightly off. On Saturday, August 22, 2020, at 9PM EST I went out to see if I could view comet Neowise. I had been trying to find it all summer without luck. I'm in a urban area with a lot of light pollution and the comet is faint so I never had any success. At 10PM EST I went out again. By this time it was fully dark and there were large white puffy clouds moving swiftly from WNW but the space between the clouds was * crystal clear * and I could easily see stationary stars. Suddenly I noticed a fast moving "star" traveling from WSW coming from behind clouds. It was white and as bright as Venus. At first I thought it might be the International Space Station as it was moving at a constant speed high behind the clouds but since it was moving slower I discounted it as the ISS. I watched it travel in a straight line moving from WSW to North at a constant speed disappearing and reappearing between breaks in the clouds. When it passed the Big Dipper, two more bright white moving "stars" came into view between the clouds. One heading WNW and one heading West. They were dimmer than the first moving "star" and moving at about the same rate of speed but slower (I assume because they were farther away). Unfortunately the white puffy clouds were increasing so the moving "stars" were difficult to track as they disappeared behind the fast moving puffy-white clouds. As the clouds were increasing I began to look for spaces between clouds and I looked almost directly up and saw another very bright moving "star" heading WSW. It was white and as bright as the first moving "star" but the clouds were increasing and it disappeared behind the clouds . I eventually lost track of the first moving "star" behind the ever increasing cloud-cover as it traveled North. The moving "stars" weren't an illusion caused by the moving clouds. I could clearly see fixed, stationary stars and the moving "stars". The entire incident lasted less than 5 minutes. I'm about 5 miles from an airport to the North and during this same period of time I could see two low flying planes approaching the airport in front of the clouds (lower than the clouds). The moving white "stars" were not planes. The planes were easy to identify because they have red, green, and white blinking landing lights and moved like planes I see all the time. I also had another incident on the last Saturday of May. It was 10PM EST and I went out to toss some trash. It was a clear night. Whenever I go outside at night I always take a moment to look at the night sky; seeing which constellations are visible. As I said, I live in an urban area with lots of light pollution and there are houses and trees that block my view so I'm limited by what I can see; usually only the Big Dipper and Orion depending on the time of year. On a good clear night if I look out a second floor window I can see the Pleiades. Mars, Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn are easy to locate. As I turned to the house to go inside, I was standing in the driveway looking SE. About 45-50 degrees above the horizon I saw a redish-orange "star". At first I thought it might be Mars which is fairly common and easy to see. However it just didn't look exactly like Mars. My next thought was it might be a candle sky lantern someone released so I stood still to see if it would drift. It didn't. It was stationary. Then, without notice, this redish-orange "star" shot directly away from me and in less than a second disappeared. After these two sighting I have gone outside when the night sky is clear but I haven't seen anything since. Best regards
August 22, 2020 · 9:59 PM · LIGHT
Manassas, VA
Slow, pulsating orange light coming from the south and disappearing after approx. 30 seconds.
August 22, 2020 · 6:00 AM · LIGHT
Waynesboro, PA
This morning about 600 am im sitting on the porch watching the sunrise. I see a silver object in the sky and think it Venus. It then shoots straight up. I Took the shot before it disappeared. I took a picture of it as it streaked upward.
August 21, 2020 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Chicago, IL
I was leaving a friends home in the Irving Park neighborhood of Chicago and happened to be looking up and witnessed a bright green light fly across the sky. It was moving Northwest and very fast. It did not have a trailing tail of light behind it and looked like a very fast moving drone or craft of some kind.
August 20, 2020 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Satellite Beach, FL
My wife and I were spending the last evening of our Florida vacation watching the storms over the Atlantic Ocean, east of our condo in Satellite Beach Florida. This was on 08/20/2020. We were sitting on the beach, just out of reach of the surf, or so we thought, that plays a part in a moment. The storms were quite a ways out, at least 4 to 5 miles or more. To our north is Cape Canaveral and Cape Canaveral Air Force Base. While sitting and talking we were also taking short video clips of the storms and the beautiful lightening displays within them. While doing so we noticed quite a few aircraft moving about in the vicinity of the storms, some getting very close and we remarked about how one would think that the pilots would try to avoid flying into the storms. Most of the aircraft were far enough away they were just blinking dots. At approx. 2200 hrs I noticed that one of the aircraft appeared to be much closer, or actually much larger, than the others we had been seeing as it was bright, comparable to Venus in the night sky. It was a steady red color and not moving: It was in or at the north edge of the storm front. I noted this to my wife and she said it was just another aircraft. But it was NOT moving. I noted there was an aircraft moving northeasterly to the north of the larger light, and one moving due east away from the large light. These were clearly much further away or much smaller objects. I watched the object sitting, not moving, for approx. one minute. I started my phone to record video of this (so I thought) and just as I did a large wave came in and struck us as we were not far enough away from the increasing waves lol. This caused us to grab our stuff and quickly retreat further back on the shore. I refocused my attention after this brief, just a few seconds of clamoring up a few feet, interruption of viewing the object and it had now moved. It was now northwest of where it had been, still just as large and bright, but now it was roughly in between the two other mentioned air craft which were still moving the directions they had been. By my estimation it was now sitting just east of Cape Canaveral. I went to continue filming and realized my phone had not started filming, my error, and when I did get the video to start I aimed my phone back toward the object in question it was now gone. Some things of note: There had been a launch of some kind from the cape on Tuesday 08/18/2020 I believe. There was another launch scheduled for the next Monday I believe also. We were near both a spacecraft launch area and an USAF base. Other than the roar of the ocean there were no sounds detected. I am a LEO (going on 20 years) and also a lifelong believer in our planet being visited by other entities from other worlds, but have never experienced anything first hand related to this belief. I am a lifelong resident of Oklahoma and not a resident of Florida thus I don’t know what lights and craft are “normal” in the night skies, but I don’t think apparent instantaneous acceleration is normal and this object exhibited that twice. I decided that I was likely not seeing anything out of the ordinary and was going to let it go, as in not report to NUFORC, which I am aware of thanks to Coast to Coast AM. That is until I was catching up on recorded shows on my DVR and began watching the latest episode of “Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigations” on the History channel. This newest episode was talking about sightings of orange or red objects off the U.S. east coast, including Florida. Thus I am making this report. I have no idea what I saw but it displayed things that stood out: Larger, apparently, than surrounding objects that were clearly aircraft. One solid color, red, displayed. No other flashing lights to indicate aircraft position etc. It moved twice at a high rate of speed: Once when I had to move my position, and again when I activated my phone camera. It moved completely out of sight on the latter. Thank you for your work collecting these sightings!
August 20, 2020 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Murrells Inlet, SC
We saw 2 equal distant horizontal random blinking lights high in the sky. At first we thought they were 2 planes but they stayed the same distance apart and, unlike planes that you can always see a solid light in addition to the blinking wing lights, these were completely dark in between the flashes. There was also no sound (we heard planes flying over many times that were that high in the sky and you could hear their engines). We watched it come from west to east across the sky and then it stopped over the ocean. The 2 blinking lights became solid, bright white/yellow lights and it hovered silently over the ocean for a minute. The lights were horizontal to the ocean, seemingly looking toward the beach. Then the solid lights went out and the blinking lights started again and it flew out over the ocean toward the horizon. Minutes later we saw 6-8 more blinking lights out on the horizon far away, moving south slowly (left to right) before they just disappeared one at a time.
August 20, 2020 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Knoxville, IA
Me and a co worker were outside discussing certain events in politics and stuff. He proceeds to tell me that that is only star he has seen tonight so I look up and I responded that is no star it was slowly moving across the sky an orange yellowish light and then it vanished. So when I got off work I told my wife and she proceeded to tell me that around the same hour she saw a bright white light do the same. She said she didn't think was a helicopter or anything because it did not make any noise.
August 20, 2020 · 2:03 AM · LIGHT
Portland, OR
I was standing outside smoking a cigarette. When I saw this light in the sky. It would hover then split in two connected by a lightning strike. I yelled, and for some reason everyone was asleep and wouldn’t wake up. I grabbed my phone and snapped these pictures. Afterward I was bitten by something big. I went to the hospital the next day. They said possible hobo, still a strange time to have that happen.
August 20, 2020 · 1:00 AM · LIGHT
Jenkins, KY
I was driving through through Letcher County to Virginia, when I saw a bright light in the sky! At first glance I thought it was a star, but it was to bright and moving! All the sudden it zoomed in the air and disappeared! My only concern is this was the most recent situation happened to me, but years ago in the same location, I had a object follow me, my daughter, and her father for what seemed like miles down the road! The light stayed just above the tree lines, but was moving with our car! That was a frightful event for all of us, but seeing this again years later has me concerned and scared!
August 20, 2020 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Centerville, PA
we were just outside on the deck having coffee and noticed what looked like a bright star in the sky. When we started watching it, it moved around and hovered, we first thought it was a military drone. More started appearing and they started to go into a formation, some were flickering red and green lights and the main big one was bright white.
August 19, 2020 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Albuquerque (?) ("Abiquiu"), NM
We assume the witness intends a location of "Albuquerque," and we have indicated that fact above. PD
August 19, 2020 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Abiquiu, NM
2 witnesses spotted several orange and white lights bobbing and flying erratically in the sky. Specifically 2 orange flying objects that appeared slightly larger than the stars around it were clearly not stationary stars as they were moving in all directions and return to a centra area. Cascading from the orange objects there were several smaller formations that seemed to be ejecting from the primary orange object.
August 19, 2020 · 9:47 PM · LIGHT
Cambridge, OH
August 19, 2020 @ 9:47 pm Rural Eastern Ohio While taking the trash can to the curb. I noticed a pair of odd flashing lights in the night sky, traveling west to east in a straight trajectory at a slow but constant speed. The event lasted a little more than a minute before the lights disappeared behind the trees. The bright white lights were flashing in unison and similar to anti-collision strobe lighting on an aircraft. But there were no red or green directional lights observed, just the two very bright flashing lights. I was a bit stunned at first. But then I remembered I had my mobile phone in my pocket. I took it out and attempted to record the object. I say object because the two lights appeared to maintain the same distance from one another the whole time. The lights also appeared to be at a lower altitude than normal nighttime air traffic for this area. At one point I thought that it might be some type of consumer drone. But there wasn’t the telltale buzzing sound that a drone makes. It also appeared that the lights were quite large. At the angle that I was viewing them, I’m guessing that they were somewhere near a thousand feet AGL (above ground level). Therefore being too big to be a drone. There was a slight low rumbling sound during the sighting. If it were a standard aircraft flying at that altitude it would have been easily discernible. Though my video was a bit shaky, I did manage to capture footage of the flashing lights. I also pulled a still from the video. When enlarged, it clearly shows the two individual lights. As far as I know I was the only witness to this event. Our neighbors were outside at the time having an argument (which was captured on the video’s audio track). But I believe they were too immersed in their confrontation to notice the lights. Our property is located about 2 miles east of a small city and these lights were traveling from that direction. About 3 miles to the south west is a small municipal airport. These lights did not take the normal flight path that local aircraft make on approach or departure. I’m a retired security lieutenant and I used to work night security at a factory adjacent to that airport. I have seen countless aircraft on approach at night. These lights did not match anything that I have seen before. I’m also a hobbyist UAS (unmanned aerial systems) pilot. I’m familiar with drones and their flight characteristics. Which is why I do not believe this was a drone. I still have no idea what I witnessed on the night of August 19th 2020 @ 9:47 pm. It has come to my attention that a sighting of a similar object occurred that same day approximately 12 hours earlier in the Cleveland Ohio area. This is why I decided to report my sighting to you.
August 19, 2020 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Towson, MD
Looked up toward the north over where I-695 and exit for Loch Raven Blvd. is. I thought it was a satellite as it passed over like a tiny fast moving star. It got very bright for a second and then went back to a moving dimmer light/star. It was not a shooting star. It was followed by 8-9 of these each 10-13 seconds apart pretty much on the same path. Last one was a little to the left. Each one got very bright when it was about 60 to 75 degrees out if looking up is 90 degrees. Too tiny to be airplanes. Starlink maybe?
August 19, 2020 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Holden Beach, NC
For the last two nights at the same time, we've witnessed white lights in the sky appearing and disappearing but also rapidly moving in sequence. You can view the video I recorded of it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZLaSzn6BPA
August 19, 2020 · 4:15 PM · LIGHT
Huntsville, AL
I saw this right after it rained and the sun came out bright and sunny with pretty much a clear sky. Our city experienced a double rainbow and of course everyone was looking at it and took to social media (I say this because I might not be the only one who saw it but idk). But that's when I noticed a single, VERY bright light that was small (my first initial thought was a plane or maybe a satellite). You could tell it was far away. It stuck out like a sore thumb. The brightness of the light was different and that's when I decided to watch it because I've never seen something like this. From my perspective, it started to moved towards the rainbow. It wasn't moving erratically and not necessarily in a straight line, but instead in a smooth fluid motion regardless if it was gaining or losing altitude. And it was moving fast considering how far away it was. It's nowhere as fast as a shooting star but it was definitely way too fast to be a plane. Once it got to t! he rainbow, it stopped and sat motionless for maybe a minute or two. It then started to move back in the same direction it came from. Definitely never seen a plane do that. This whole time while I'm watching this light, the light was going in and out. Not flashing in and out, more like dimming. It wasn't sequential or in a pattern, you couldn't time it. It was completely random. Sometimes it would vanish for a split second up to a few seconds. And sometimes the light got brighter all the way up to an obnoxious bright. This went on for about 15 to 20 until I lost sight due to the tree line. A few moments later, I saw AN ACTUAL PLANE in the same general area as I just saw the light. The plane was very visible and I could easily make out the main components of it, as well as seeing and identifying the familiar flashing lights in perfect unison that all planes have. That's when I realized what I just saw a moment ago was 100% different, no doubt about it.
August 18, 2020 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Beddington, ME
Myself, fiancé and our two children ages 7 and 10 were out on a night time 4 wheeler ride. We were at our camp on Beddington Lake and like to ride out to the blueberry fields to star gaze. We noticed a light that looked like maybe a star in the sky to our north zig zagging around. It looked to be over the area of Mopang Lake, north of route 9 in Beddington. It moved up and down, left to right at pretty fast speeds. It was able to change opposite directions at max speed. It would move north eventually disappearing from sight, only to come back a few minutes later. The family was terrified and wanted to go back to the camp but I insisted on staying to watch. After about 15 minutes of observing, my fiancé and son announced seeing another object to the East. It was a little bigger which I think means it was probably closer. It also appeared to have an orangish color to it. It too would zig zag around almost as if it were surveying an area. Both objects eventuall! y moved off in the distance. Also during this sighting a large and intense white flash was seen in the sky above us.
August 18, 2020 · 5:45 PM · LIGHT
Bristow, VA
My wife and I were at a stoplight, we look to our right (southeast) and see what appears to be a row of about eight super bright lights tightly packed together in a straight line. It was stationary and in plain sight about 1,500 feet off the ground. We stared at it for about 90 seconds never seeing it budge from it's spot in the sky. The traffic light turned green, prompting us to turn left. I made a u-turn about 150 feet down the road and once we were facing back towards where we saw it, we no longer find anything in the sky anywhere for the next 5 minutes. Also, I don't know if it is worth mentioning, but I did see a few interesting cloud formations that stood out and seemed out of place near by.
August 18, 2020 · 3:00 AM · LIGHT
Corinth, TX
we were using our telescope to look for Saturn and in the east the was what looked like a very bright light and we thought it was a airplane. Then we noticed it did not move but did pulse different colors.I took pics with different filters at 4x setting. When you zoom in on them it looks like a cloud of light with some angles seen in some pics.
August 17, 2020 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Superior, WI
My husband came inside and drew on paper a zig zagged z like form and told me a light was going in those directions. I went outside with him. We were looking up and we say two moving lit up objects, they were going opposite directions. One seemed like it was jumping forward and then disappeared after about 5 forward jumps. The other going the opposite direction went on for a while longer then disappeared. We watched outside in our back yard for another 20 minutes. Nothing. Then we went to our front yard and went on to see 4 more lit objects all going in different directions spaced out about 5-7 minutes apart. 2 of them went a short distance before completely disappearing into thin air.
August 17, 2020 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Holt's Summit, MO
Watching sky and 12 lights came out the the middle of corona borealis. All traveled the same direction after leaving the constellation. The first 3 there was a light flash like a camera then the objects moved out of the circle. Each object moved across the sky until they each disappeared about 15 seconds after leaving the circle.
August 16, 2020 · 10:45 PM · LIGHT
Ear Falls (Canada), ON · Canada
Driving north along Highway 105 about 20km south of Ear Falls, my partner and I were going at 100km/h at 10:45pm. I (passenger) saw a very bright red light up ahead on the left side of the highway, above the trees. There was a big red light and a circle of 2-4 smaller lights under it, blinking orange/red. I exclaimed "WHAT is that?" and my partner, who had been driving for 7 hours, guessed it was a tower. He was driving, we were on the home stretch, and he didn't take a look at it because it was in our upper periphery as we passed it - it was kind of directly above the trees we passed, and I had to crane my neck to see the flashing as we approached. I joked that maybe I've been watching too many UFO documentaries, and we laughed it off. I deliberately used this reason not to turn around to take another look, but I have been thinking about it since. Typically towers wouldn't be so close to the road shoulder like where this thing was, and the lights would be blinking way further up, not just at the treetops. I have also never seen a tower with red AND orange lights, or orange lights which blink on/off/red erratically.