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July 7, 2016 · 7:37 AM · OTHER
Centennial, CO
I was driving westbound on E-470 about 1.5 miles before I-25, just before Centennial Airport, and I saw a spiral object, about 70 feet above the highway. The spiral was red in color with red lights that appeared to be active. As I passed under the object, I could see an airplane taking off from Centennial Airport ahead, so I assumed the object was related to the airport. As I looked in my rear view mirror to try and see the object it was no longer there. I was traveling too fast to get a picture. The object was hovering/floating. I thought maybe it was a drone, but I have never seen a drone in that shape.
July 3, 2016 · 4:13 AM · OTHER
Durango, CO
While on vacation over the 4th of July weekend, I witnessed a UFO in the sky directly east of the Tamarron Resort near Durango, Colorado. The object appeared to be similar to a bioluminescent jelly fish. The object pulsated red and purple colors in no obvious pattern. At one point, it shot out an amber colored object. In my opinion, the object normally would have been invisible to the naked eye, however, because the sun was close to rising, the object was unable to fully compensate for the light and dark with camouflage.
July 1, 2016 · 10:20 PM · OTHER
Covington, GA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iVbZ9BkkWM She said it looked similar to this video except she was much closer and it looked like their wings were flapping. She was getting onto I-20 to head west from Covington, towards Social Circle.
June 30, 2016 · 11:00 PM · OTHER
Reston, VA
On this particular sighting, I only caught 1 on camera, it just appears from the black sky and looks like a star, but then it begins to move in zig zag random motions. I have it on video. My cell phone held by my hand. I walk with my two dogs on a daily/nightly basis, I am a fan of looking at the sky and I happened to actually be able to catch this particular sigthing. I have had some in the past and not to this exact description, but this is the only one I have managed to capture on video. (( Two video clips were submitted
June 30, 2016 · 5:20 AM · OTHER
Adelaide (Australia) · Australia
I woke up to go to the toilet (I live in a caravan, so had to exit the van) as I opened the door I looked up into the dark black sky and noticed an object that appeared to be a star, then it started moving quickly which led me to believe it was a shooting star, I soon realized it was not a shooting star as it very quickley shot upwards it then began to zig zag and move around the sky in a fashion that I would describe as "dancing", I watched this take place for a few minutes as I could not figure out what could possibly do this in the sky. It moved fast and slow up, down, left, right, diagonaly up and down sometimes very quickley and sometimes slowly. This took place in a easterly part of the sky and unfortunately I can't estmate the approximate distance from me.
June 27, 2016 · 10:01 PM · OTHER
Walworth, WI
I was working and went to an open door facing south for a cool breeze when I saw the oddest thing ever. Object was on a north/south course headed south. It was traveling away from me. It held a steady speed, straight course and constant altitude. Sky was dark, mostly cloudy but Mars was due south in the sky. Object was slightly lower that Mars in height. The object had 4 extremely bright lights, square in shape and lined up in a row next to each other on the horizontal. They all came on at the same time and lasted for 1 second and went out and replaced, number 2 was bright red and number 4 was green instead of bright white. So the sequence was white-white-white-white (1 sec on), off-red-off-green (1 sec on), (repeat series. The lights were not strobes and very large in size. Approx. size of a vehicle tail light at 4 second distance. There was a plane in the sky at the same time and in the objects direction. I am not sure if it was a small plane behind the o! bject and headed north west or a jet much further south of it headed in same NW course but it would have been on course for Chicago O'Hare airport, flight path is in that part of the sky. There was no sound and the white lights reflected off the cloud deck. Brightness is best described using a building perimeter light just under the object. This light is a clear bulb, 450 watt halogen and the objects lights were just as bright but about 50% of the size. Halogen light was about 100 feet from my position.
June 26, 2016 · 10:06 PM · OTHER
Thompson Falls, MT
I would like to know what this is, I see the lights like in a triangle formation in our night sky's all the time at least three in the sky at the sametime. But nothing like the pictures that I got, I am looking forward to hearing from you and getting some anwsers. Thank you! We have looked at the photos, and we see nothing in them that is reminiscent of UFO activity. We will contact the witness, to seek more information. PD
June 23, 2016 · 12:31 AM · OTHER
Jacksonville, FL
Observation of a Fast Moving Lunar Transit Anomaly Jacksonville, Florida, June 23, 12:31 EDT. At about 0:31 hours (12:31 EDT, to the nearest minute) this morning, I was observing the waning gibbous moon from our driveway with a 4.25” f/6 reflecting telescope. At the time, I was using a magnification of about 100X with a # 21 orange filter. Although the rising moon was still low in the SE, seeing was quite good, and there were no clouds or haze. While observing features on the lunar terminator near Mare Serenitatis, I noticed a fast moving, solid black pentagon-shaped object traversing from west to east [moving from the terminator roughly in the direction of Mare Imbrium] across the lower (mid-northern) portion of the moon. The estimated time of passage before it swept out of the eyepiece’s field of view was – my best guess – well under five seconds. As I was not wearing a watch, I immediately went inside and looked at a wall clock (known to be accurate within a minute or so), and recorded the time. The most unusual aspect of this observation was the shape of the object. Because it swept across the field of view so rapidly, I am not 100% sure that I am getting this exactly right, but my recollection is that its silhouette was something between a pentagon and a five-pointed star, as shown on the accompanying drawing. This rendering is based on a quick pencil sketch that I made within a few minutes of seeing the object. The thing that sticks in my mind is that this object was inky black and perfectly symmetrical – with no change of shape or tumbling effect as it crossed the face of the moon. As to the object’s size, I have tried to relate it to some of the named lunar craters in this area, and – again, to the best of my ability – it seems to have had an apparent angular size midway between that of Menelaus (27 km) and Manilius (39 km), so my best guess would be an apparent size of about 30 km, as projected against the lunar disc. Based on its eastward trajectory, moving roughly in line with the ecliptic, my suspicion is that this is some kind of large, earth orbiting satellite – but what could it be? Although I have never witnessed a lunar transit by the International Space Station, I am familiar with its appearance, both as it has been imaged in telescopes and as it has been photographed traversing the moon, but the object that I observed looked noting like this. Has anyone else seen anything like this? ((ADDENDUM #1 FROM WITNESS)) Hello Peter -- Thanks for your follow-up email on the report that I submitted this morning. You wrote: "You do state in your report that the object appeared to be moving from west to east. Am I correct in assuming that your statement implies west to east, as the witness faces the Moon, and not as he is looking at the (reversed) image in the telescope? I think your drawing pretty well answers my question, but I would like to be certain on that point." Yes, you are correct, moving from west to east across the face of the moon as shown in the diagram. In my reflector's eyepiece view, everything is of course inverted but not mirror reversed, and I corrected for this in the drawing. Always confusing. One of these days, I am going to get a good penta-prism so I can get non mirror-reversed views in my refractor, lol. Of perhaps more interest, I shared my report with a friend, a retired aerospace engineer [His wife is a retired aerospace engineer, too, lol.] who was able to take the data -- with a few assumptions about a probable earth orbit height -- and perform the following simple calculations: ((calculation)) Hello ((witness name deleted)), You don't need trig for this one, just algebra. 30km (object)/ 376364km (Earth, Moon Distance - surface to surface) = X/200 miles. Solving for X, we get .0159 miles which at 5280 ft/mile gives a size of approximately 84 feet, about right for a large spy satellite or old booster tank. Likely just more space junk. ((name deleted)) PS. You may find this site interesting. http://www.stuffin.space/ Click on an object to see what it is. Hummmm. 84 feet is not as large as I thought it might be, but it would seem to "fit" the data pretty well I remain puzzled by the odd symmetrical shape, but perhaps this is the way that some satellites are constructed. Anyway, thanks again for the follow-up on the report. My feeling is that we have now, most likely, gone from a "UFO" to an earth satellite, albeit of unknown origin, lol. PS--Yes, you have my permission to post the drawing, and -- if possible -- it might be interesting to post Richard's back of the envelope calculations as well as a postscript, so long as there is no need to specifically identify him. PPS--I always enjoy hearing your segment on Coast to Coast, and hearing about what other people are seeing in the sky these days. As I have mentioned to you, my only "real" UFO observation was made back when I was a kid -- almost sixty years ago, now. The truly amazing thing is how much data has been gathered about this phenomenon over all of the intervening years, but how little we still seem to know about what it all really "means." Clear Skies -- ((name deleted)) ((END ADDENDUM #1)) ((BEGIN ADDENDUM #2)) Hello Peter -- As for my friend's calculations, you are correct, there was indeed some bootstrapping involved, lol. At my suggestion, he made the assumption, as a starting point, that the object was in low earth orbit at an arbitrarily chosen altitude. Then, he applied the simple geometric calculations that you see to get its approximate size. Obviously, if the object was not in this type of orbit -- in a higher orbit, or much closer to the lunar surface -- then it becomes much larger, and far more problematic in terms of an explanation. The limiting case would be a huge object -- on par with the diameter of a moderate sized lunar crater -- flying at incredible velocity over the face of the moon. Think Independence Day II, lol. On the other hand, its [unhappily, not very well] observed transit time can also serve as a geometric limiting factor. That is, if something is seen to cross the entire face of the moon in, say, five seconds, then this (from the application of simple geometry) gives us a strong indication about where -- and how fast -- it must be moving relative to the earth and the moon. In this case, all of the parameters, working backward, seem to "fit" the more mundane explanation that this is some kind of earth satellite, but it still might not be... Going Down the Rabbit Hole As I mentioned in my last email, the most interesting / deeply troubling aspect of all of this is that most of us -- you, me, and the Coast listenership -- seem to be struggling to come up with some kind of logical, rational, and more or less coherent and comprehensible "model" of what the UFO phenomenon is all about and what it might actually "mean" in practice. Sadly, this is not the model that "our" government seems to be pursuing -- cf, the contributions of everyone from Richard Dolan to Dr. Steven Greer -- and we never seem to get much closer to a real understanding of what is happening. As I remember you observing many years ago, such a deliberately orchestrated denial / obfuscation of reality is absolutely toxic to our form of representative government, and this would help to explain everything from the pent-up anger of the public [The Brits seem to have voted to leave the EU yesterday.] to the near total dysfunction of Official Washington. We are, at best, living in a carefully manufactured official reality where very little is what it appears to be, including the sundry aerial phenomena that you record every day, and yet nothing much is "done" about it. Unlike the more optimistic assessment of Dr. Greer and others, my fear is that we live in a world in which anything like official disclosure (or even a simple confession of ignorance as to the exact nature and purposes of
June 22, 2016 · 8:02 AM · OTHER
Southbridge, MA
It was white. It looked like a Tylonol tablet with a grayish/black ring around the center. Moving to quick to be a blimp.
June 22, 2016 · 12:00 AM · OTHER
Bathurst (Canada), NB · Canada
I seen an object in the sky about 12;30 am. I watched it hover over the city for about 20 min. and it started to move very slowly, it was very quiet and did not look very far from where I was watching it. I was surprised there was no noise. It was round at the top with two long tails hanging from the bottom of the object, it was very bright. It continued to move just over a large building in the distance over the college area of town, it went down behind the building very fast, so fast I thought whatever it was crashed and I awaited for a bang, or loud noise in which there was none, I have only told a few people in my town, but cannot believe no other person has see this. I feel it has to be reported.
June 21, 2016 · 11:00 PM · OTHER
Star, ID
The aircraft were seen near Can-Ada and Lanktree Gulch, in Star, Idaho. I first saw the aircraft watching television upstairs. It circled multiple times, disappearing over the horizon, only to appear in about 20 seconds again, and then it continuing to circle and disappear again. It moved from a circular pattern from the left, only to wobble to the right and appear left again. I went outside and alerted my father, and we both went to get a look. It circled for about a dozen times before disappearing over the horizon for the last time. We could see in the distance another green and white flashing dot with the same lights as the plane flying near us in the distance further west from Can-Ada and Lanktree. They were definitely planes, propeller and single winged. They seemed to be flying anywhere from 400-500 feet high. The planes seemed to be flying at a strange time; it was almost completely dark outside, and they were flying much lower than any aircraft, helicopter or plane I have seen before. It would be great to know if anyone else has seen them and knows what their purpose is.
June 20, 2016 · 10:00 PM · OTHER
Bellevue, WA
THE LIGHTS SHIFTED TO A PALE SHADE OF RED. TOOK EYES OFF OF IT FOR MAYBE 10-15 SECONDS AND WHEN WE LOOKED AGAIN IT WAS GONE. TOO FAST TO BE ANY COMMERCIAL AIRLINER, TOO BRIGHT TO BE A REGULAR AIRCRAFT, SHAPE UNLIKE ANYTHING FAMILIAR.
June 19, 2016 · 5:05 PM · OTHER
Burlington, WA
Director@ I was at Costco store in Burlington, WA, by the gas pumps, just parked my car. I was checking out my camera on my Samsung Note 4 and I was going to drop the phone and when I went to save it, I accidentally pressed the picture shooter and the camera began taking continuous shots, multiple shots per second. When I was done shopping, and arrived home, I started looking at the photos and realized that one had what looked like it had a funnel that appeared in the sky (which now I think is a portal) and/or sonic boom; the next photo shows the funnel reduced to a round pathway and an orb shooting through. The following photo shows the orb travelling, as well as the following photo. Then it looks like a ring develops around the orb. Finally the orb continues on and disappears. At first I thought it was a cloud (the first photo), but as I zoomed in to the far right, it was obviously a formation of some sort. I knew what the object was because I have read and seen photos of it. I also know that many think that orbs are just weather balloons or satellites. I think that these photos tell a different story. The object looks like it came through a portal that opened up and immediate closed as the object shot through and began to travel. These photos were taken slightly over a second as it was a rapid photo shoot. These were captured by accident. I am not convinced that it is a weather balloon. I would like to know what it really is. The skies were clear and it was a warm day. We have looked at all the photos provided. The objects are lens flares. PD
June 18, 2016 · 10:15 PM · OTHER
Kenosha, WI
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 16, 2016 · 10:47 PM · OTHER
Centerburg, OH
We were walking down the heart of Ohio trail, we had just left the baseball fields and as we were coming to where we were supposed to turn off I saw a bright search light kind of thing looking down the trail toward us the light was blue tracing around us. As we walked closer my friend started to throw up. We went toward it and we saw a green cresent shaped figure looking 3 foot tall flashed the light to my eyes the next time I saw it, it was standing behind a tree glowing a dim green I saw dart to the woods as we approach where the search light was seen we found x-shaped indents in the grass I touched it and felt heat. We left for 10 minutes, came back to go look where the figure stood before running my friend stayed back as I checked it out. My friend remarks hearing a helicopter kind of noise but as I approach the tree I hear thunder to my right, then to the left side and then right in front of me and I see the figure walk towards me it seemed as if their w! as a fog in front of the figure as I turned and ran I felt like I was going to fall, I don't remember 2 minutes between that feeling and being at the road running. I got 30 yards away and sat down my friend came back to me and I was texting someone and out of nowhere my phone shut off and the street light flickered around us I felt pain in my stomach as we ran home then my chest and then an intense headache I played down inside the house and blacked out and remember three dots in my vision and couldn't move then we heard a humming noise outside of the window. This is our sighting this is all true and as for the three crafts, they were almost dots in the sky as we ran away, the clouds were too thick for any stars to be seen also, near the sighting earlier this day an electrical poll was heard humming and electricity jumping like a Taser
June 16, 2016 · 8:45 PM · OTHER
Lakewood, CO
The object was black and looked like two spherical objects, side by side, from a distance. When I got my binoculars out, it was clearly two black objects side by side. However, they were not round as they appeared to the naked eye, they were shaped like a merkaba but not precisely(that's the closest thing I can think of). They "flew" or drifted west and seemed to go higher and higher. My kids and some kids in the neighborhood saw it.
June 15, 2016 · 8:00 PM · OTHER
Ingersoll (Canada), ON · Canada
Hello sir/madam/Mr. Davenport; I recently had dinner with friends. He (38 yrs) works for the local school board. His wife (34 yrs) is in retail management. Neither of them is a 'believer' in UFOs. During our dinner they told me of an incident that occurred in mid June. They were sitting by the fire in their yard after dinner. After some time, the husband noticed in the sky what he described as a 'V'. He said it looked almost like geese flying, in that the 'V' was so prominent, but that it wasn't geese, because it was way up in the sky, "at least as high as an airplane would be," he said. He also stated that although he couldn't see a "back edge" (completeing the triangle) he could tell it was more than just a "V" because he couldn't see the clouds through the area behind the "V". (I hope that makes sense). He and his wife both described the object as being "at least 10 times bigger than an airplane," and "dead silent". He told me that they both sat in their chairs, looking up at the object in disbelief and wonder. He stated that it appeared to "bending the atmosphere". They both stated that it was moving, but agreed that it was moving far too slowly to be anything they're ever seen before, and that as they sat there watching the object, it went from "barely moving" (for 8 - 10 seconds) to flying away faster than anything they'd ever seen, until it was out of sight (1 - 2 seconds). As I stated, neither of them are believers, yet have no guesses as to what they saw. They didn't say "maybe a satellite. Maybe a drone." They were just puzzled, and thinking/hoping I might have some answers. (I'm 'that guy' among our friends/family). My answer for them was to contact the fine folks at NUFORC and file a report, but it was obvious to me that they weren't going to do that. In fact, me mentioning it to them pretty much ended the discussion. Stigma, my guess. You know how it is. So, I thought the least I should do is inform you. For your records, and such. I have known the fellow for over 20 years. He isn't going to lie me about this, or anything else, to be honest. These are good, honest people. I hope this report is either helpful or useful, and at the very least, is not a waste of your time. I very much appreciate what you! *I will be filling out the contact info with my information. Witness indicates that the date is approximate. PD
June 15, 2016 · 12:00 AM · OTHER
Bloomington, IN
(( Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD)
June 14, 2016 · 7:30 PM · OTHER
Pompano Beach, FL
I was in a state of shock, and I took my cell phone camera to take a video picture, but I wasn't able to take a picture of the UFO. The UFO was traveling northwest. Object did not make any sound; it was very silent. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and he sounded to us to be quite sincere, and serious-minded. We have not received the video, yet, but have requested that he send NUFORC a copy, as soon as he can transfer it from his cell phone. PD
June 14, 2016 · 7:30 PM · OTHER
Pompano Beach, FL
I do have a 5 second video of the UFO. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and he sounded to us to be quite sincere, and serious-minded. We have not received the video, yet, but have requested that he send NUFORC a copy, as soon as he can transfer it from his cell phone. PD
June 12, 2016 · 5:48 PM · OTHER
Golden, CO
Whatever it was had ample cloud cover and was moving at a steady pace with lightning and rain. Granted this is common for the area, but the sound that was traveling with the cloud was certainly an anomaly. I certainly felt there was something above me moving just ahead of the storm. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 12, 2016 · 1:05 AM · OTHER
Shakopee, MN
The moon was behind the witness ruling that out as well. Far to large to be any other known celestial body or man made object. After 5 minutes, the object disappeared behind what appeared to be clouds. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 8, 2016 · 1:35 PM · OTHER
South Lake Tahoe, CA
As I was looking over the photos I had taken while hiking in Van Sickle Bi-State Park, I noticed a UFO in the sky in one of my photos. I did not see the object "live", I only noticed it after the fact. I also took a 2nd photo that was identical in composition to the UFO-bearing photo just a few seconds later. There was no UFO in the 2nd photo. Both photos bear the time stamp of 1:35PM. It was a bright and sunny afternoon. There were a few other hikers in the area, but the park was largely empty while I was hiking. The UFO in my photo is somewhat rectangular, with a black bottom, silver sides, and an antenna coming out of the top. There is also a bright circle of light on the underside of the UFO.
June 8, 2016 · 10:23 AM · OTHER
Boone, NC
There was a long spike on the front of the helicopter, perhaps ten feet in length, probably a gun of some type but I could not identify it. No lights were noted. I was unable to get a photo, unfortunately. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and he affirmed that he did not witness what he felt might have been a genuine UFO. He stated that he submitted the report, principally because the flight formation and ground track of the helicopters was something he had never seen before. PD