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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 13, 2020 · 3:54 AM · LIGHT
Stanwood, WA
Primarily points of light, similar to stars, slightly brighter. Roughly 20 of them in a line, spaced apart and staggered, with one triangular formation in the center. They were moving East at a gradual pace. I, the observer, had just arrived home from work, and I often look at the stars to appreciate their beauty. I've seen plenty of satellites, shooting stars, and planes at night. I've never seen a UFO. And so I was surprised to see a new formation of stars in the sky, and even more surprised to see them moving. It had an "unsettling" effect on me, as the sight was so unusual and out of place.
August 12, 2020 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Brampton (Canada), ON · Canada
Waiting for a meteor shower to begin I was watching the sky with binoculars. I saw a dot moving incredibly fast. When I moved the binoculars away it was not visible to the naked eye. That dot moved across the sky and then stopped and made a J type turn and flew back the way it came. If flew from south to the north then back again. Then vanished. There were 2 planes in the sky at the time and this dot that flew had no night time flashing lights etc like the planes have
August 12, 2020 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Garden City, SC
We know the two of us definitely saw 3-5 lights in linear pattern. Our specific account do differ slightly as I believe they went away simultaneously, while my wife believes they went out individually. Either way the linear lights were there. We've pondered mentioning, but realized there is another report of seeing what we did. For you folks there is definitely others that witnessed what you did! And we know there has to be more people, we too can't imagine others, it was simply too obvious and too early in evening for several beachfront folks not to see!
August 12, 2020 · 10:15 PM · LIGHT
Austin, TX
small white ball of light traveling south to north
August 12, 2020 · 5:30 AM · LIGHT
IdentifiedPanzoult, Centre · France
Le 12 aout 2010 entre 05h et 06h00 du matin, un témoin dans son jardin, observe en direction du NE, un point lumineux dans un ciel nuageux. Le témoin rentre dans sa maison. En ressortant, le témoin retrouve ce point au SE. la trajectoire de ce point apparait irrégulière. Un seul témoignage sera recueilli sur ce phénomène. Dans l'enquête nous avons montré que le témoin avait observé, dans un ciel très nuageux, successivement deux astres, l’étoile Capella et la planète Mars (voir le compte rendu d'enquête). Cette observation s’est doublée d’un effet physiologique d’autocinétique (micro-mobilité oculaire). Cette conclusion s’appuie sur les éléments suivants : - la forme du PAN ponctuelle, comme les deux astres - la couleur blanc-jaune identique à celle de Capella, un peu différente pour Mars, plutôt rougeâtre - la forte luminosité, comparable au début à celle de Vénus, un peu moins importante cependant pour Mars - les azimuts initiaux et finaux conformes aux deux astres - les élévations initiales et finales conformes aux deux astres - le déplacement irrégulier n’est qu’apparent, il est causé par un phénomène physiologique de micro-mobilité oculaire (autocinétique). Le témoin n’a pas pu se rendre compte qu’il avait affaire à deux astres différents, étant très semblables par leur couleur et leur luminosité. Il s’est également absenté quelques instants, peu après le début de l’observation de Capella, qui, entretemps, a été masquée par les nuages. A son retour, il a pu observer Mars au sud-est, non masquée par les nuages à cet instant. Les deux astres se trouvant probablement les seuls successivement visibles dans le ciel, le témoin a en toute logique pensé qu’il s’agissait du même phénomène. Le GEIPAN classe le cas en « A » : observation successive de l’étoile Capella puis de la planète Mars, assortie d'un phénomène physiologique de micro-mobilité oculaire. [GEIPAN classification A — Etoile]
August 12, 2020 · 3:30 AM · LIGHT
Jackson, MI
I woke up around 3:15 am. I had my door open to my balcony outside and saw a bright, stationary light that caught my eye. Looked like a porch light in the sky (north of my house). As soon as I started to really question what was I looking at it suddenly disappeared, it was like it turned off it's light . Just gone. I got up to check if it was cloudy out but I could see faint stars and about 10 minutes later a plane flew through where the light was. Not sure what I saw. A friend suggested I contact this site.
August 12, 2020 · 12:30 AM · LIGHT
Boiling Springs, PA
Myself and a friend drove to a park just outside of Boiling Springs, Pennsylvania to watch the Perseids meteor shower on the night of 8/11-8/12. We arrived just before 11pm on 8/11, and set out a picnic blanket in a grassy field. We tried to find an area to view this meteor shower with a minimal amount of light pollution. We saw several meteors, which we expected. However, some time after midnight and before 1am we both witnessed what, at first, we thought was a satellite slowly moving across the sky, until it began moving unusually and sporadically. It looked like a satellite, or star to us until it began moving oddly. At first it moved steadily in one direction and then its pace slowed to a stop, and it began moving up and down, then would stop again, then moved circular motion, then a stop, then more steadily moving in a particular direction again, then another stop. This pattern continued for 20+ minutes, and possibly longer, but we stopped paying attent! ion as we continued watching the meteor shower.
August 11, 2020 · 11:40 PM · LIGHT
Hazleton, PA
I was sitting outside at app. 11:30 PM DST, hoping to observe some meteors from the Perseid meteor shower. At about 11:40 PM, I happened to get a glimpse of an object moving south to north, against the direction I was expecting to see meteors. At first I thought it might be a satellite, but quickly realized it was moving way too fast to be one. I stood up to get a better view of this fast moving object, then quickly noticed a second object trailing the first object, same relative speed, same relative direction. As I watched, the trailing object overtook the first object, shooting slightly ahead of it, then slowing slightly in order to be flying adjacent to the first object. The spacing of the two objects was about the width of a fist held at arms length. When the two objects were adjacent to each other, they then veered slightly into a northeast direction, flying in this `formation' until flying out of sight. The total duration of this event was about 10 seconds. These two objects were the same relative size, slightly larger than a common satellite viewed from Earth, moving way too fast to be satellites. I listened to hear any jet sounds, if any existed, but no sound was heard.
August 11, 2020 · 11:35 PM · LIGHT
El Paso, TX
I stepped out onto my upstairs deck and noticed a bright light hovering over the water tower. It stayed in the same spot for approximately 20 minutes and as I was keeping a close watch on it it all of a sudden disappeared or blinked out. As I’m writing this description of what I witnessed I looked to see if the light returned and it is again above the water tower just hovering and iris now 24:05! I’ll keep watching to see if it blinks out again!
August 11, 2020 · 11:15 PM · LIGHT
Land O Lakes, FL
On August 11, 2020 at 11:19:55 PM, I was outside in my back yard looking at the skies hoping to get a glimpse of the Perseid Meteor Shower of 2020, when suddenly I noticed two lights in the sky, perfectly in sync, side by side, flying low just above the houses. At first I thought they may be planes, helicopters, drones but there was NO SOUND coming from these two objects as they flew in front of me. I had my phone with me and took two pictures. One zoomed-in to the objects to get a closer view and the second picture, which came out blurry because I was rushing to get back to normal mode to take a picture of exactly where the objects were in relation to my back yard. After the second picture the objects were gone, and out of view. These objects were travelling north to south in the Land O Lakes, FL skies. There was another strange incident that happened two months later that same year. On or around October 27, 2020, an unexplained very bright white light woke me up around 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning. The light was shining outside my bedroom window scaring me, as I thought it was either a prowler, a police car search light, or a police helicopter, or somebody’s drone. However, once again, I heard NO SOUND of a car or helicopter or drone flying above. I live in a cul-de-sac and figured that if it was a car, I would see them coming back out but I did not see or hear anyone coming back out of the cul-de-sac. I experienced this bright light flash two more times, in my back yard and again on October 31, Halloween, on the street. These white light flashes only lasted seconds. Although these events were extraordinary, I thought there must be an explanation, and so I put them out of my mind. UNTIL I saw the 2020 Documentary THE PHENOMENON. There I learned about Case 47. The Great Falls, Montana UFO sighting caught on video on 15 August 1950. I was amazed as I sat there watching the exact same two objects I saw in August of 2020. The same positioning in the sky, the same speed of travel, both objects in sync, side by side, the same shape, no sound! I also was blown away that this happened 70 years ago, also in August. This is when I decided to report my sighting.
August 11, 2020 · 10:36 PM · LIGHT
Alton Hampshire (UK/England) · United Kingdom
upon arriving home and getting out of my vehicle my attention was drawn to two stationery circular flashing red lights in the sky a short distance away that where repeatedly flashing on/off these lights where only 1-2 thousand feet of the ground and did'nt appear to moving.about 20 seconds or so later they began to move very slowly in one direction one of the red lights was behind the other and before i lost sight of them it looked like there was a third circular red light next to it which may have been from that craft or possibily a second object/craft.whats even stranger is that a largish part of the sky close to where i had seen these lights was light up for 2-3 seconds by a strange large white flash that i don't believe was lightning.
August 11, 2020 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Greenbrae, CA
I was taking my dog for a walk at night. We were heading back home towards the east I saw a big star: must have been Saturn or something. And below it was also a star. I looked at it and it started to blick at me as if to say "hello, you are not alone in the universe. We are glad to meet you. We are blinking just for you because we know who you are". It blinked rapidly on and off for about a minute, then went dark. I felt very calm, happy, and at peace.
August 11, 2020 · 5:30 AM · LIGHT
Saint Petersburg, FL
I was feeling insomnia early this morning and decided to go out for a smoke. I looked up at the sky as I often do and wondered to myself what that big bright star is in the sky. Facing East I could see the moon to my right (ESE) high in the night sky obscured by clouds as thunder and lightning played behind me (WSW). I remember focusing on the large star to the East when I saw movement to the left (ENE) of my perception of the moon. I would say it was high and very distant. It passed in front of the moon and continued in the South Easterly direction until it seemed almost to travel too far away from me, relative to my position on the ground, because it faded as though a car has driven too far away and you cannot spot it any longer. It moved very slowly and had no blinking lights. Its course was very steady, not like a flying bug or insect. It was barely a pinprick in size but was clearly visible due to sparse cloud cover and the brilliance of the moonlight. ! I knew it was not a plane or helicopter and assumed it was perhaps a satellite or the International Space Station. I watched reference videos of the ISS flybys to see if what I saw was different and I can only say that the difference to me appears to be the size of the light (The ISS appears to have been bigger light, bigger in the sense of its overall circumference, then what I witnessed) and that the object fell away from the planet. It did not disappear over the horizon. I cannot be certain if the object was in motion or not before my initial observance.
August 11, 2020 · 4:00 AM · LIGHT
Langley, WA
Awoke at 4:00 AM and looked out bedroom window. Saw a light, circular and thought it was a star. It was a clear morning 8/22/20, quiet, and looking closer saw it was bigger and hovering, spinning. It also changed colors and went to white. It started left, right and back getting smaller. Last I looked it was 4:23 AM, so a good 24 minutes viewed. I took video with my iPhone. Sending via email with date.
August 11, 2020 · 2:00 AM · LIGHT
Berea, KY
Star gazing one night then seen a light that I thought at first glance was a plane but the object was zig zagging really fast all over the area where I was looking. Done this for at least 30 minutes and literally disappeared. I had a video but it accidentally got deleted but I have a pic of what I think is it.
August 10, 2020 · 11:46 PM · LIGHT
Cincinnati, OH
3 lights in the sky would appear and move at rapid speeds and almost seemed to flutter as well. One would appear then disappear and two others would appear and squiggle in the sky. They would make rapid motion in one direction and move the other. This was clearly not a drone nor plane as it was above the clouds and was moving at very rapid speeds then coming to an absolute stop. I’ve never encountered UFO’s before but I’m definitely a believer after seeing it with my own eyes.
August 10, 2020 · 9:45 PM · LIGHT
Balnarring (Australia) · Australia
Saw a light flash twice at approx 2/3sec intervals. Witnessed again in similar location 10 mins later and then a single flash disappearing. It is night. Clear sky. Stars can be seen. Second sighting was just below the southern cross. Over Balnarring Victoria Australia
August 9, 2020 · 10:04 PM · LIGHT
Bangor, PA
Single light [which I thought was a satellite] passing west of Altair moving north slowly towards Lacerta, split into two lights. One traveling in the opposite direction towards Delphinus. The light traveling north blinks out after 10 seconds. The second moves in a erratic pattern, blinking out between Saturn and Jupiter. Sighting lasted about 1 minute. I have been using telescopes since 1974. I have witnessed the space station, space shuttle and various satellites over the years. This never happened before and I was compelled to record the event. I was with my wife, who also witnessed the event.
August 9, 2020 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Marlboro, NY
Before the moon rose, several lights were witnessed following a trajectory overhead going both directions, north to south. I acknowledge this activity was taking place during the Persied meteor shower, and several meteors were seen as well, but these lights moved back and forth like they were traveling along some sort of cosmic highway. There were moments where lights would phase in and out in stationary positions, as if one were turning a light bulb on and off. The event lasted from dusk until the moonrise at approximately 1am EDT.
August 9, 2020 · 9:45 PM · LIGHT
Woodbridge, VA
A total of 10 orange bright lights move across the sky. No sound 2 at first then 4 then 2 more 2 more. Their was no surface wind. They started just over the tree. Probably over the Potomac river across from Indian Head naval on the Virginia side. Went up the Occoquan river turned north, climb up higher and disappeared. I have on video tape. People how watched say military in stealth, sky lanterns, drones, UFOs but its nothing like i have ever seen here at my house and i have lived here 50 years.
August 9, 2020 · 9:20 PM · LIGHT
Sedona, TX
Started 334 degrees NW shot upwards to about 30 degrees NE stopped & lit up very brightly & shot straight up into space. It looked like a very close shooting star but traveling in the opposite direction. Instead of shooting in a downwards curve it went in an upwards curve coming from the earth into the night sky. I’ve seen things before that was kind of questionable....but this was very in my face and very unexplainable.
August 9, 2020 · 8:50 PM · LIGHT
Eastham, MA
After we saw weird bright lights over the ocean we saw a light ovalish duck behind a the dunes and then light up the dunes with very bright lights. We then saw 3-4 white light objects I do have a picture. A hour later we drove by that same beach and saw a HUGE red light that got smaller and started as a oval, then a half upside down oval, then a rectangle, then just vanished.
August 9, 2020 · 3:00 AM · LIGHT
Lynden, WA
My wife and i saw 2 bright lights to the southeast. We thought planets at first, but then they abruptly faded away.
August 9, 2020 · 3:00 AM · LIGHT
Arlington, OR
I was driving on the 84w Arlington oregon Sunday 09 saw this bright light going down at scary and incredible speed for two secs