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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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April 3, 2016 · 10:20 AM · OTHER
Hagerstown, MD
I am a pilot myself and fly out of the KHGR Regional all the time and have never seen anything like what I saw this morning. These flat units of light remained stationary, but appeared to be oscillating at a low speed. The object disappeared out of my line of visual sight as I contacted tower off the runway regarding any weather balloons in local airspace, but that turned back negative. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 1, 2016 · 8:00 PM · OTHER
Surprise, AZ
My wife called me out back, when I stepped out my jaw dropped. There in the sky was what appeared to be a plane falling out of the sky with its wings and body completely on fire. I yelled for my brother and son and they witnessed it to. There was no sound just this plane falling on fire. But lost sight of it as it fell due to neighborhood trees. I live about 3 miles north of Luke Air Force Base, and it appeared to fall over the base. Strange tho, never heard a crash and nothing ever reported on the news.
April 1, 2016 · 6:00 PM · OTHER
Lancaster, NY
I heard your interview on the "Podcast UFO" show and you mentioned your belief that only 1 in 20,000 people who do see a UFO will report it - and I realized I was one of the 19,999 who has seen them on multiple occasions but never reported it to anyone (because I figure anyone who looks into the subject will find out that they're real, and anyone who won't look into it will not be benefited by my report anyway!). I appreciate your work, so I thought I should be the "1 in 20,000" who reports what they saw instead. I'm an amateur astronomer, and one night I was outside on my back porch trying to determine whether or not I should bring my telescope out that night, looking casually at the sky and weather conditions. It was mostly clear, with a few clouds far to my east. Suddenly, I noticed a brightly lit glowing object out of the corner of my eye above me. I thought to myself something along the lines of "what planet is this? How have I not seen this planet before?" - thinking I had just been "missing" this planet or star because it was hidden behind a tree from the perspective of my porch. Then it started moving, and then it started making a turn over my general area and I knew at once this was no normal astronomical object. This object was at least 3x brighter and larger than Jupiter and what it looked like was a pearl-shaped ball of light, or at first it just appeared like a very bright orb of light. It was moving very fast (compared to conventional things like "drones", passenger jets, or Chinese lanterns) - but not as fast as a shooting star. It made a strangely sharp turn in the sky and then moved silently over my area eastward, out toward rural land near Alden, NY. -- interesting to note that when I checked your website or MUFON's I found it has reports of flying discs/UFOs from that same town). At first it was simply a large point of light, brighter than the planet Jupiter and all the stars (which weren't out yet that night) - its brightness/light quality/size did not change at all regardless of what perspective I was looking at it from ("head on", in front of it, behind it after it passed over me, from far away, etc) and there were no blinking lights. I see airplanes every night I observe the sky, I'm perfectly familiar with what they look like and I would be able to discern them even at night. This was no airplane, it didn't blink at all. I thought to myself I should really get my cell phone and take video of it, but I didn't want to leave. Eventually I made the decision that I couldn't miss the opportunity and I put my faith in the fact it would still be there when I got back, ran inside and grabbed my cell phone and some binoculars I had nearby, and came back out. It was still traveling on it's course through the sky and I tried to take video of it with my cell phone - the video turned out all black on the screen (even though it was not late enough to be an all "black" sky, it was more dusk) and I couldn't get my phone to find or zoom in on the object properly, so I gave up that idea and put my binoculars to my eye, this is when I saw the strangest thing. Inside the orb of light I had been watching was a craft (or something - some type of structured object) - I can't find the right words to describe it's shape but it wasn't normal, and it was a gold colored burnished metal to my eyes. The object continued moving away from me entered some clouds and I was still able to see the light through the cloud -- then it passed out of the cloud and through some open sky, then into another, thicker cloud bank where I completely lost sight of it.I stood around outside thinking about how strange it was and hoping to see it again, wondering if more would be coming or if that was just a one-off strange experience. A few minutes later (maybe 10, not certain) 2 military jets came flying through my area lower than normal commercial planes, these 2 looked like small gray fighter jets and they were traveling quickly as a pair -- they were heading to exactly the direction and area I had last seen my UFO at. I wonder if they were sent up to intercept or look at the object after it was caught on radar somewhere. Strangely, these jets too were silent from where I stood looking at them, even though normally jets going overhead make a ton of noise from a mile away. Now over the past few months I've seen this type of thing 4 times. The one I typed up above was the most interesting because it included military jets pursuing the UFO, but I've seen similarly strange things like this in the sky. One time I was out for a walk with a family member and they pointed out a particular bright object in the night sky and asked me which planet it was, "is that Jupiter?", etc. I noticed it immediately and thought to myself "huh, what is Jupiter doing over there in the wrong place?" -- then it started moving! It moved through the sky steadily, then for some reason it "disappeared into" another star in the night sky - as if it had decided to jump into "hyperspace" at that point or turn off it's light. In the weeks following I saw the same thing again with the same family member, only this time it just traveled through the sky at high altitude. Again the strange thing was the quality of light, no blinking FAA beacons, no change in brightness based on perspective, and it seemed higher than normal airplane altitudes. It just traveled over my area and I was able to watch it until it disappeared from my vision because of distance. These were all sort of "spheres" of light. My last recent experience took place while I was walking from my car into the local Rite Aid - I happened to look up at the sky (as is my habit as an amateur astronomer) and noticed an unlit, perfectly spherical "orb" - or just a sphere hanging there in the sky between a few clouds. It was fairly high up but I saw it clearly, I stood there looking up at it for a few minutes and it didn't move at all. It was like a greyish white color. Eventually some other customers pulled up to the store so I went in because I didn't want to look like a crazy person standing in front of Rite Aid staring up at the sky. When I came back out the sphere that had been between the moderate cloud cover was nowhere to be found - but it's earlier position was still clear of clouds. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
March 30, 2016 · 9:00 PM · OTHER
Columbus, GA
Object descended; was red ball; slight tail. Moved erratically but not too fast. Changed color, direction and speed. The KEY element here is I have five photos taken from cell phone that are pretty definitive. The last of the five shows round object with crescent lighting. You can see distinctive round or disk shape. The initial color was red; then multi-colored, then white and final color was green (the crescent lighting) before it slowly eased out of view behind roof of hotel I was staying at. Pics show hotel in foreground to give a point of reference, size wise. Lasted about 3 min.; went around hotel to see more however it was gone.
March 30, 2016 · 5:00 AM · OTHER
Surprise, AZ
Have video appeared middle of sky forming a cloud behind no aircraft no typical cloud… I zoomed in no aircraft in visible or flat was going fast and disappeared.
March 28, 2016 · 9:30 PM · OTHER
Monroe, NC
At 9:35 (sic. p.m.), the craft moved to the right, making its appearance more clear. The craft was a cubed shaped aircraft. The lights were both on top and bottom of the craft. The craft had tripod bottom. It stayed in that position for about 5 minutes. At 9:45, the craft started slowly moving upward towards the sky, then shot off.
March 28, 2016 · 7:40 AM · OTHER
Portage la Prairie (Canada), MB · Canada
I worked a typical Monday to Friday 8-4:30 job, about 20mins outside of town. On this particular day, I saw this huge, out of place, cloud in the sky. I then noticed there seemed to be a trail behind it, as if it moving across the sky and it was disrupting other clouds. I also noted the area above the cloud appeared to be either sky or a bright light of some kind. I had a Nikon coolpix camera that my work gave me for visiting jobsites, in my lunch bag. So, I fished it out, and took a couple pictures of what I saw. I then turned from a service road out onto the trans Canada highway eastbound. I was now somewhat behind it. I traveled at approx 110km/hr, until my next turn off and never made any ground on it. In fact, it was outpacing me, and this was not a particularly windy day. Until today, no one ever suggested I report it. I'm taking the advice of a colleague I've recently aquantenced with, and reporting it now. I do have 3 photos of what I saw in the sky, however I have no way to print them for mailing in. Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
March 25, 2016 · 7:30 PM · OTHER
Paragould, AR
My husband and I were traveling in downtown Paragould heading east bound around 7:30 pm about 30 minutes before sunset. He spotted a black streak of smoke perpendicular to the ground. It looked as if a plane was emitting black smoke and falling straight down from the sky. The shape of the object could not be made out with the naked eye. We traveled east bound in the direction of the falling object. As we got closer the black smoke trail appeared lighter in the sky. We reached the East Greene County Fire Station and pulled into the parking lot. There we saw the line of smoke but it was at a much higher altitude than we previously though while attempting to reach it. The object had changed course and instead of falling, now it appeared to be traveling in the exact opposite direction along the same smoke trail. We took a photo of the smoke streak while in the car but it is very light by the time I was able to photograph it and my cash lights reflected on the driver's side window. We are not sure what it was. There was no sound coordinating with the appearance of the object.
March 25, 2016 · 3:00 PM · OTHER
Mojave, CA
My husband is retired USAF and retired DOD Team Chief working in the communications field. He is now an armed security guard for Homeland Security. He is 72 years old and still not ready to retire permanently. I dropped out of the work force years ago when my granddaughter was in need of a parent, I ended up raising her. My time was well spent as she is a lovely young lady going to college now. My account of the time we were on the hill: My husband and I were visiting our Grand kids, oh… and their Mom and Dad for Easter. They live in Mojave, CA. I love going out in the desert looking for geodes and thunder eggs; the grand kids enjoy going also. So we all got in the Rhino and we were off to the hill where we’ve had good luck in finding rocks, etc. It is just off Hwy 14 between Mojave and Rosamond, CA, close to Edwards AFB. We have a picture my husband took on his phone while we were on the hill where you can clearly see a UFO when the picture is enlarged. We did not see anything unusual at the time. We had been looking up at a B2 bomber flying over that in its self was amazing to watch. I went off with the kids looking for rocks and my husband stayed at the Rhino. He told me to look at all the contrails in the sky then he said there was an airliner flying over putting out more contrails behind it. My husband's account of the time we were on the hill: Was at the top of a hill looking for geo rocks when a B2 Bomber jet flew over at around 2,000 feet above us. Hoping that it will come back around I got my cell phone camera ready. But I see a contrail from a jet airliner going into Edwards AFB air space. That is when I took the picture.
March 23, 2016 · 12:00 PM · OTHER
Iran, Iran
we did not see any thing directly, so after watching the pictures in my gallery, I found Unidentified Flying Object in the sky. The location was in mountain area. The object is approximately in the middle distance between clouds and plain area. Its color was completely black with no light.in zoom position of camera it can clearly seen the 3D shape of this object (parallelogram.) during 10 seconds later, my son took 2 other pictures in the same view without any appearance of this UFO. Furthermore, this object was in static position in the picture. Photo indicates a dark colored, parallelogram shaped, object. We do not know what it is, but cannot conclude that it is an alien craft. PD
March 22, 2016 · 9:29 PM · OTHER
Philadelphia, PA
Observed near Phila. Int’l airport at 9:29 PM. Probably a comet or debris covering a 30’ degree arc below the moon, from about high noon to about 2:30 in the sky east below the full moon. Clear sky. Stars. Was white in color and went in straight line at a very rapid rate with no trail. Then disappered without fallout or change in colors.
March 21, 2016 · 5:00 AM · OTHER
South Branch (Canada), NB · Canada
As normal we got up to check on him, me to grab him and console him, my future wife to prep a bottle for him. I picked him up and as leaving the nursery, I looked down the stairs to my right, through the garage window, and saw a tall slender thin black entity, I know I saw it and as I looked at it it darted inhumanly quick, out of sight. I went to the room with our son, my common-law partner had the bottle ready, i tried to get one of the 5 dogs to leave the room with me. 3 are ours 2 german shepherds, one chocolate lab, plus the two that we are watching of my mother's. the dogs were to scared to leave the room which is unheard of. One of my mother's dogs also a german shepherd left the room with me the others with any amount of coaxing would not move, as soon as we left the room, the shepherd tucked its tail between its legs, and booked to the piano in the living room which it stayed under and trembled. I would dismiss this as my mind playing tricks on me, however when I was 19 years of age, and I am 36 now I had an experience with a tall slender black, that has haunted me ever since. I dont talk about it as people are quick to judge and wont believe. I used to work then in Saskatoon, Canada, I worked at Wal-Mart of all places, and i worked in receiving, i also worked at a popular bar/restaurant. Needless to say, I worked a shift in the city untill midnight at Wal-Mart. The store was 4 city blocks from the residence at which i was staying. If you have ever worked there you punch your social security number into a computer at the back of the store, this starts your shift. I punched out after shift and was walking home, it was dark in the city but with the lights u could see very well. I walked south 2 blocks down to Mckercher and 8th street, where there was a macs store, and rogers video rental store at the time. I took a shortcut through the parking lot, directly in front of the macs store, as i reached the sidewalk again by the Macs store, strangely i noticed an eery abscence of light, took two steps and heard a metallic sound as i walked, i looked around feeling stranger and noticed the city lights were gone, i could not see the store there was only blackness. I then heard a metallic cling twice from behind me coneing from the ground, i spun around wuickly to see an alien grey in colour with a triangular face, and black eyes. I was not panicked for some reason and said hi. The alien quickly shot out its arm and touched me with a finger on my chest, I was not scared untill this point, as the finger touched me there was an electric like charge i could feel. This charge paralyzed me and i felt forced fear. Every nerve ending in my body reverberated with this schock, and the fear I felt did not come from me but felt forced, and it was 1000 times worse than any i had ever felt. The fear was at such a level that my heart pained instantly, and i had to focus quickly and steadily at slowing my pulse as i didn't think my heart would be capable of sustaining my life otherwise. The next thing i knew i woke up on a metalic rectangular table, with 6 seven to eight foot tall thin tall black beings standing around me, Dear god one had its hand inside of me, it felt like it was tearing me apart, the pain i remember, and the forced fear still ther! e, still paralyzed, trying desperatlely to move. The entity to! wering a bove me went through my entire body it felt tearing me apart and putting me back together again, unimagineable pain. I blacked out. The next thing i knew, i wake up its all black and im on a metallic floor, i hear clinging on the floor. i see 4 of these tall black entitys they begin kicking me, hurting me more. I try to move im still paralyzed, the fear so severe it runs through every nerve ending in my body, its forced i can't fight it, almost electrical. I feel im going to die here, I dont want to die here no dear god no. I begin to grow angry as i get beat, i look in my mind and struggle with all I have trying to move to be able to do anything, I force a little bit of movement, i move an arm, my body still not cooperateing it takes everything i have but damn it im dying here fighting, i swing the rest of me unable to move and i hit one of the entitys, then the fear even stronger the paralysis even strobger my body goes limp, trapped in my body scared and unable to move i b! lack out. The only thing i remember next is wakeing up in bed at home, trembling and convulseing uncintrollaby, still paralyzed still the forced fear. I try to move I cant. My heart the pain its unbearable, my heart feels its about to explode, my body feels like its viberateing from my heart beating so fast. I focus with all I have I dont want to die, I try to calm my heart slow it down, it works, I try to move it feels like for 4 hours maybie only feel god only knows im still paralyzed, still that damned fear. finally i break free. I go upstairs my mom looks shocked to see me, tells me I was missing for 3 days, thought I was a t a friends. In my mind I was missing no time at all. I thought I had a nightmare, I tell myself a dream. Not so lucky I check the comp at work it shows i was there. No one at work remebers me being there, they tell me i missed my shifts. What has the power to do this, no one remembered me for 3 days. the only thing that tells me i wasnt. insane was the compute! r. My memory has me missing for a day. I saw that damnable thing again tonight. i loaded the guns and i sit and wait for daylight. I last saw it when 19 am 36 now, my memories of it used to be so bad id remember pieces over the years would wake up paralyzed in a sweat, and terified, i fought the fear in my mind until i could remember and not go into convulsions, still function still move. I would have dismissed what i saw tonight but ive seen it before. no one believes, no one cares. there is no help for me to be had just felt i needed to write this, not sure why they came back.
March 21, 2016 · 3:18 AM · OTHER
Highland, IN
I saw a bright light out of the norm south southeast and seemed to be still. Then it started flying north west which is a flight pattern I have not seen a plane fly near my house before. The front of the craft was like a bright white light that was extremely bright in the very center and the light seemed to tail off to make a arch like shape pretty much like a U pattern but a side ways U which meant the bottom of the U would be to the left or facing North. After the sideways U in front there was another set of white lights in the shape of a cross starting with the front light of the craft and going towards the back of the craft. Besides the U in front and the cross there were also a bunch of extremely fast and random and the blinking lights seemed to be blue in color and then there was 4 or 5 red lights in the back in the shape of a circle or square. ! Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
March 20, 2016 · 5:30 AM · OTHER
Elbert, CO
I woke in the middle of the night on a camping trip, looked out my tent and originally saw a line of three bright white lights. After looking at it for about 5 minutes, I tried to turn on my iPad to see if I could snag a video of it. Around that time, two very dim lights appeared on each side of the "UFO." I tried to take a video of the flying object, but couldn't see anything. It began slowly moving away after about 5 minutes. The lights slowly got closer together as it disappeared behind a tree, although I could still see the light of it behind the tree for a couple more minutes. It disappeared soon after and I went back to sleep.
March 19, 2016 · 1:00 PM · OTHER
Sacramento, CA
I was going into Walmart on Marconi in Sacramento at about 1330 to get groceries and i looked up above the building and i saw an aircraft i have never seen before. The head looked like a triangular and then it had a long tail that curved up at the end. The long tail reminded me of a scorpion tail and there was no way it could carry passengers so i ruled out a new craft associated with the airport. The tail was extremely thin and white. The triangular shaped part where there could have been a pilot was darker in color. I saw it in plain daylight no clouds in sight. It was on the lower side in the sky. I stared at it, trying to remember the details and no one seemed bothered by it at all.
March 19, 2016 · 1:30 AM · OTHER
Cody, WY
We had finished lunch at the Irma hotel in downtown Cody, WY, we exited from the east door by the saloon I looked up my left at the hotel and noticed a silver light flashing randomly in the sky. I was looking northwest about 75 Deg. above the horizon. At first i thought it was a mylar balloon, or something similar, glinting in the sun at perhaps 5000’ overhead. I pointed it out to my friend. We both watched ti slowly float west for a minute or two. Then it went back the way it came heading back west very slowly. Then it stopped (I had it lined up with the top of the hotel, so I had a stable reference point). It held its position still flashing randomly. Then I noticed that there was another flashing object, the same as the first, coming from the west approx. 45 Deg above the horizon, but moving faster than the other object had been moving. The first object was still stopped, the second object came relatively close to the first (approx. 1.5 inches at measured at arm's length) and stopped also. Then it headed back to the west and slowly vanished from sight after aprox. 1 minute. The first object headed more slowly to the north and I lost track of it, as it headed north. I went into a store and when i cam out i scanned the sky and i saw a darkish object far to the west and headed out of sight south over the mountains. That is the end of the incident. of course. I had my eyes trained on the sky for the entire rest of the day as we drove north to Columbus, MT, and saw nothing more. I am a 58 yo male, who is an artist. My friend is a 65 yo male whom is retired, and is also an artist. We both agreed we could not identify the objects.
March 17, 2016 · 6:05 AM · OTHER
Marshall, MO
They flew from South to North. They looked huge and flying rather low.
March 15, 2016 · 8:45 PM · OTHER
Canton, CT
Craft disappeared like someone threw a light switch. Wild.
March 15, 2016 · 8:04 PM · OTHER
Barstow, CA
It appeared to have a kind of flame coming from it at first, but then the flame disappeared and it looked like the object hovered for a time, looking octagonal in shape. I went inside to get some binoculars but by the time I returned, it had flown completely out of sight.
March 15, 2016 · 4:30 PM · OTHER
Benicia, CA
It's a perfectly clear day, my father and I were ending our sailing trip and as I look into the sky and I see this image of an airplane and I said to my dad, "Look, theres a plane" and he acknowledged seeing the image too. This plane however seemed like a transparent image of a plane. I could clearly see the outline of the wing span and the cabin. There seemed to be a bright light in the middle as if the sun was reflecting off of it. Then from the outward of the image to the middle it started disappearing until the white light was the only thing left then vanished. Fairfield, Ca, has Travis Airforce Base and this would probably be a good flight plan for it. I immediately thought I saw a military UFO/Optical allusion/ Cloud... about an hour later around the same spot I saw the same thing. It seemed as if a plane was calibrating/testing a cloaking tech, or seeing how well they could scale up the tech as this unexplainded image of a transparent plane was kind of big. Not like a fighter jet but more like a 747 or a supply plane of sort. After I saw the image for the second time I saw other planes in the sky without the same effect. I truly saw some thing I cannot explain today.
March 14, 2016 · 8:55 PM · OTHER
Brooksville, FL
Was traveling south on Culbreath Rd. as I turned West onto Ayers Rd. the volume on the radio in my car stopped working. It was showing the song still playing, just no volume. Ahead of me traveling low in the sky, not too far above tree level, following Ayers Rd. going east were very bright lights. My first thought was aircraft landing on the road. As it traveled closer I rolled down the window and could hear no sound from the craft. As it went over my car I could see the shape of it against the lighter night sky. It was in the shape of a circular segment with around 5 very bright white lights on the concave part of the circular segment. The object was moving very slow as it passed over and then turned and headed north. There were no other color to the lights (as in red or green, as you would see on a plane) just extremely bright white beams of light pointed in front. It appeared to be black in color and the underneath had no lights, but was close enough to see that the bottom appeared to be made or smaller segments. As I arrived home, about a mile down the road I could still hear no sound as from an aircraft, just a quiet night. I turned my car off and back on and the volume in my car started working again. After being home for a time a very large plane (and I could hear the very loud engine) flew over headed in the same direction as the object. I am a very rational person and I am having a hard time processing what I saw. I grew up in a large city near an airport and have seen planes of all sizes in the sky. This is unlike anything I have ever seen in my life.
March 14, 2016 · 3:00 AM · OTHER
Farmington, NM
I was setting in my bedroom enjoying a radio station. When I had this feeling that is was being watched. I looked to the right and noticed a gold window and a entity in the window looking at me. After I had noticed him the window evaporated.
March 12, 2016 · 10:20 PM · OTHER
Scottsdale, AZ
North Scottsdale, Arizona. My wife and I had been observing the night sky and noticed something strange. The object was flying from South to North. We observed the object for about 20 seconds as we watched from the central courtyard of our house; the house prevented us from viewing any longer. I’ve seen the international space station fly over before and this was most definitely not the same viewing experience. This object seemed to be in the normal flight path, however, no visible navigation lights and the object was dimly lit, almost bluish. It was cauliflower shaped and seemed to be tumbling end over end. Approximate altitude was 10-12,000 feet. My wife and I have over 60 years of combined (military and civilian) aviation experience and have not seen anything like this before.
March 10, 2016 · 9:00 PM · OTHER
Oshkosh, WI
Observed oval orange craft followed by 2 strobe lights. the strobe lights followed the craft and all 3 objects stayed the same distance apart from each other. The objects made a circle in the sky suddenly 3 more strobe lights just appeared surrounding the orange craft one above two below. The two original strobes where still in view (formation) behind the orange craft the then flew out of view.