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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 5, 2020 · 8:50 PM · LIGHT
Los Angeles (Watts}, CA
Saw a star like object appear in the sky traveling East than sharply changed its direction to the south. Watched it for 3-5 minutes than it disappeared in the blink of an eye. Got it on video!!
August 5, 2020 · 8:50 PM · LIGHT
Los Angeles (Watts), CA
Saw a star like object appear in the sky traveling East than sharply changed its direction to the south. Watched it for 3-5 minutes than it disappeared in the blink of an eye. Got it on video!!
August 5, 2020 · 8:50 PM · LIGHT
Bath, ME
Very bright red light in W/SW sky- color quivered, and it moved slightly then turned bright double red lights, followed by bright white (slightly brighter than Jupiter), thereafter diving out of sight behind horizon very quickly.
August 3, 2020 · 8:55 PM · LIGHT
Irvine, CA
On the evening of Monday, August 3, 2020 my son and I stepped outside to enjoy a glorious full moon rising above the trees down our street. At 8:55pm the skies were clear and the temperature was 70° F. My son noticed what appeared to be star above us beginning to move across the sky in a due easterly directly. To be clear, this wasn’t an airplane and didn’t emit the standard FAA blinking light patterns typically associated with commercial aircraft. We both observed the object. As it moved across the sky, I mentioned to my son, “that doesn’t appear to be an airplane.” He agreed. What we both observed can best described is an object resembling a star moving across the night sky, however it definitely wasn’t a shooting star. After approximately ten seconds the object began fading in luminosity, not due to its increasing distance, but as if it was intentionally being faded by a dimmer mechanism. It then vanished completely .
August 1, 2020 · 10:50 PM · LIGHT
Madison, AL
Ball of light in northern sky. Not sure of distance from my location but it was obviously larger (closer) than the light from a star, meteor, or satellite. Confirmed on web that ISS was not flying over my location. Did not have FAA beacons like a plane would have. After noticing the light ball, object moved toward the east in an arc (upward) trajectory for a few seconds and disappeared. No visible trail, just the ball of light moving. Light was too large for a drone and was much faster than something like a Chinese lantern. Just an eyeball judgement of altitude maybe a few thousand feet above ground level and about 2-3 miles north of my location. There were a few small engine aircraft in the area and object was distinctly different.
August 1, 2020 · 10:47 PM · LIGHT
New Haven, CT
unexplaine light moves traveling extremely fast, stops and disappears actual incident caught in video moving fast across over the footage.
August 1, 2020 · 9:15 PM · LIGHT
Woonsocket, RI
I whet outside to bring my cat out and there was a Bright light with a small light following it about 10 feet behind[ the perspective i seen,, could be 100 feet in real-life] when 3 lights started to spin around it for 3 secounds then back to a bright light with a small light following it 10 feet behind at a constant pace, very unuiusal.....Like it was being towed behind.
August 1, 2020 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Damariscotta, ME
Standing a dock on the western side of Pemiquid Pond two lights seen traveling very high up in tandem eastward their motion slowed and hung stationary for a moment, using a green laser I indicated the lights to the group, using the beam to circle the two stationary lights, one seemed a faint red or pink, the other a larger brighter white, the smaller red light was trailing the larger bright white light and after I had circled them with the beam they slowly faded from sight. we all were impressed and awestruck at the mystery of it and the feeling of interaction with it.
August 1, 2020 · 8:41 PM · LIGHT
Sebago, ME
At exactly 2041 hours EST, I along with two other witnesses observed two points of light bearing 300 degrees NW, one right behind the other. We were all seated outside when the two UAPs passed directly over us at an unknown altitude. The lead object was many times brighter than the second. The lead object was also many times brighter than a satellite or a star, (satellites are nearly impossible to spot from where we were situated because of our proximity to many sources of light pollution, including the moon at about 3/4 full and located to the southwest of these UAP). The second light was much less luminescent than the first - about the same as a star and far brighter than any satellite. The light was steady white with no color or anti-collision strobe as commonly seen on conventional aircraft. I estimated their course at 120 degrees SE with only a few degrees of separation between them. Both objects travelled at the same speed. I fumbled for my cell ! phone camera and was only able to capture them in a still photo before they passed behind a large grove of pine trees at the rear of our position. I checked the historical position of the ISS for that exact time these UAPs were sighted, which indicates that the ISS position was directly over the Gulf of Mexico near the Texas/Mexican border and traveling NW to SE.
August 1, 2020 · 7:45 PM · LIGHT
Worcester, MA
At about 7:45pm my boyfriend and I left our home at ((address deleted)) Rd, Worcester, MA 01604 in our car to pick up dinner at Dinos Restaurant located on 13 Lord St, Worcester, MA, 01604. As we drove to the restaurant we noted black smoke in the sky that was getting thicker and thicker as we drove our ordinary path to the restaurant. While we were driving, we started seeing people run towards the smoke and take out their phones to get video…as we got to the red light on Hamilton St, Worcester, MA 01604 we were finally able to see the entire front of a car was engulfed in flames in a parking spot across the street. Fire engines were just starting to arrive at the scene. One firetruck came up Hamilton St, then the light at the intersection turned green and we proceeded a few hundred feet up the street (past the fire) and a second firetruck came driving towards the fire. We continued to drive about a quarter of a mile on Plantation St when I saw what I thought was a white flare shoot up from the ground. I expected to see it come back down with a burnout trail like most flares do. I was wondering if it was even a firework. I don’t know why the “flare” stood out to me at that moment but there was nothing else around it in the sky and it was in front of me over to the right a little (I’ll get exact directions and coordinates for you tomorrow), to the left of me was a large field used for baseball games and other city events (Holmes Field). Its distance seemed like a few football fields away….as high as a plane could be. I then wondered if it was a plane because it hovered in the sky for a few seconds…then it turned red (looking like a red light) and flew in a circle formation parallel to the ground, stopped, and shot off increasing speed as it shot to the left, out of sight. It appeared to accelerate to about 100 miles (or more) an hour, a! nd it disappeared behind the trees. Me and my boyfriend looked at each other (this happened all while we were driving) and said “Woah, we just saw that!” We were both simply in shock because this object moved unlike anything we had ever seen. I have never seen a drone go that fast. We finally reached our destination a mile up the road and purchased our dinner and went home. I did not have any alcohol or drugs in my system, just blood pressure meds and an SSRI for anxiety. On the way home I called my twin brother who is a rocket scientist and explained what I saw. He said it could have been a firework. My boyfriend also took the phone to explain in detail what we saw and my brother just talked to us a little longer and listened to us and we said goodbye. I wrote about the sighting on facebook and another friend immediately wrote that his wife had just driven by the car in flames. She wrote in a few minutes later that she saw the same thing we did (the flare/light) and she identified it as a drone heading in the direction of the fire. However she didn’t see it do a circle formation and shoot off and disappear in the trees like we did, and she also only saw it as a white light (she didn’t see it turn red). So I’m thinking we weren’t looking at the same object. Both my boyfriend and I have seen drones in flight before and we have never seen a drone fly with this much power behind it…it was definitely being controlled somehow and not just r! andomly shooting off in the sky like a firework. A few hours later another friend said her husband saw what we described the previous Wednesday in the same area. She told me he also doesn’t believe it was a drone and had started doing research to find out what it could have been. She found a news spot that the ISS was visible in the sky that evening. But the space station does not move that fast in those directions. One thing that stands out to me besides this sighting is the other woman who saw it (a friend of mine) and said it was a drone, visited me the day before on my birthday (July 31) at work and I hadn’t seen her in about a year. I thought that was ironic. About my background: I’m 44 years old and I worked for 10 years as a broadcast journalist and 10 years in community relations. I currently work as a compliance officer at a vertically integrated cannabis company in Worcester. I do not use cannabis, I am passionate about cannabis research and the industry itself. I earned my graduate certificate in Cannabis Regulatory Affairs from Clark University in March of 2020. This is the first program of its kind in the US and I earned a 4.0. My brother is my twin, he’s a rocket scientist, and loves space. A few weeks ago my cousin in Hawaii made me an astronaut purse and she is pursuing a career with NASA.
August 1, 2020 · 4:00 AM · LIGHT
Lehighton, PA
This feeling overwhelmed me mentally when it went dark then bright like it turned it's self off and on. Tonight it did not turn off and on but I felt as if it knew I was studying it. Then in the far far distance I began noticing other lights. Roughly 9-12 spaning from the north to east and south orange and blue in nature and didn't move. I am freaked out. I didn't know who or what agency to file a report to. I am college educated with a degree from Penn State, own my own home that I share with my son. I have no reason to waste time creating a story, then searching for society fringe to hock it on via this time consuming post.
August 1, 2020 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Portland, OR
My wife and I were looking up at the night sky towards the West when she spotted object flying fast not in straight line move towards the North and disappear. Then all of a sudden in the West was a round Bright light that was on Hoover’s to the North and then blacked out and was gone. We waited little bit longer. And what seemed to be a shooting star with a tail went fast down from north to south west from us but it seemed so close and just disappeared. I hope someone else saw these?
July 31, 2020 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
La Selva Beach, CA
Looking at stars over Monterey Bay. Saw a very bright red light moving erratically near another white star. Appeared to be dancing in the night sky! It suddenly lurched rapidly in a southerly direction. Then it moved up straight up and then back and forth. Tried to get my phone to capture video but it moved so fast all of a sudden. Seemed to move south very rapidly. It then faded out of view.
July 31, 2020 · 9:45 PM · LIGHT
East Haddam, CT
I was leaving a friend's house around 9:40 pm. He lives on a large farm with wide open night sky view. Sky was clear, stars present and 3/4 moon full. I saw what I thought was a plane approaching from the northwest of the farm because it was a large white light moving slowly towards our direction. Something about it seemed odd though, because no sound and no green or red lights were blinking around it. It also seemed very large and a bit too low for a commercial plane. I continued to watch and told my friend to come outside and watch with me, because something seemed odd about it. He immediately was able to see it, as it stayed on a path towards southeast. We both commented that it seemed to slow when above his house. Again, I noticed no sound coming from it, nor navigational blinking lights one usually sees. He mentioned something seemed a bit odd about it, so we continued to watch it move in a southeast direction across the skyview of the farm and past h! is house. We continued to think it would eventually show itself in a way we could identify it as a plane, but then it just blinked out of existence while still quite bright, low and close to us. There were no clouds and it had not moved far enough away from us that it should have dissapeared from view. It continued to be quite large, silent, moving slowly. We considered satellite, but too low and then agreed there was something incredibly odd about its brightness, its slowed down movement as it got closer, and how it blinked out of existence, as if the light went off. However, the farm was bright enough from moonlight, and the sky bright enough as well, had there been a craft with a light gone out, you could have still seen the craft. And surely, we would have heard it like we do any other plane going over head at that close a range. Something felt odd and we agreed we had witnessed something that we couldn't quite explain.
July 31, 2020 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Oyster Bay, NY
Looking at the sky over the bay Teddy Roosevelt Park, there was a light very very high up in the atmosphere, roughly the size of a star, but much brighter. It traveled across the sky at an incredible speed, perhaps 15 minutes from one horizon nearly 75% to the other. It moved with no sound or trail. It appeared to almost wobble as it moved across the sky. As it reached about 75% across the sky (relative to our perspective) it slowly vanished. The light just dimmed until it was gone. About 5 minutes later we saw another light moving in the same direction. Both lights were coming roughly from the North West moving towards to the South East. This location where this occurred is about 20 miles from Laguardia Airport, and so as the lights moved across the sky, there were aircraft present also in the sky. It was easy to contrast the speeds, apparent heights, and light from the aircrafts as significantly different from the 2 lights observed . Leaving the park, I believe I also saw something bright streak across the sky much brighter than a shooting star. This event was so quick that it was difficult to see, as by the time I turned my attention to it, it was gone. The lights, on the other hand, moved across the sky for about 15 minutes each so I was able to very clearly see and remember them.
July 31, 2020 · 8:43 PM · LIGHT
Yardley, PA
I looked up from watching TV, out of a 2nd story window in my condo, and saw the brightest light. Initially I assumed it was a plane with the setting sun hitting it, heading for Philly Airport (usual route, I have seen planes out the window before) I thought to myself, I had never seen such a bright light and wondered how the pilots were dealing with it. I turned back to the TV. Only seconds later I looked up and there were 2 more bright lights. I jumped up instantly and knew it could not be planes, just by how fast they appeared and how they were positioned. I was able to take a few photos . No clouds in the sky. The lights were the brightest I have ever seen. There was no structure. Their movement was seamless. I was able to watch the last 2 lights, instead of heading toward Philly as I previously assumed, go straight upward. I watched until I could no longer see them. It was as if I could look up into it. The brightest light with a black dot all the way in its center, but again no structure. The pictures I have downloaded may have another date than the original, I took photos from my new phone, from my old phone that the photos were originally taken from. As for the next category below, there was no object, only light.
July 31, 2020 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
New York, NY
streak of light, approx 1000 ft in the air, travelled a distance of approx 500ft toward the ground, zig-zagged, then shifted direction and disappeared into the sky.
July 31, 2020 · 7:41 PM · LIGHT
Marion, NC
07/31/2020 19:21: While driving to a local grocery store, I received a Special Weather Statement via The Weather Chanel on my cell phone regarding a severe thunderstorm brought by Hurricane Isaias. I entered the store at approximately 19:25 and exited at 19:39. I noticed odd looking cloud formation, almost in a cylinder shape similar to a tornado. I snapped a few pics from my iPhone and sent them to a co worker. Co worker replies with 2 additional photos from her location within a 30 minute timeframe (35 miles away). Once home, I decide to look through the photos collected and notice an odd circular shaped disc in my first photo. Then 3 separate shapes in a horizontal line in the 2nd. Look at co worker’s photos and am surprised to see 1 of the above described formations in each of her photos.
July 31, 2020 · 7:21 PM · LIGHT
Marion, NC
07/31/2020 19:21: While driving to a local grocery store, I received a Special Weather Statement via The Weather Chanel on my cell phone regarding a severe thunderstorm brought by Hurricane Isaias. I entered the store at approximately 19:25 and exited at 19:39. I noticed odd looking cloud formation, almost in a cylinder shape similar to a tornado. I snapped a few pics from my iPhone and sent them to a co worker. Co worker replies with 2 additional photos from her location within a 30 minute timeframe (35 miles away). Once home, I decide to look through the photos collected and notice an odd circular shaped disc in my first photo. Then 3 separate shapes in a horizontal line in the 2nd. Look at co worker’s photos and am surprised to see 1 of the above described formations in each of her photos.
July 30, 2020 · 11:45 PM · LIGHT
Holden Beach, NC
I sat and faced South, enjoying the night. The Moon had things lit up to my right and it grew darker to my left. I noticed a light on the horizon, SSE. (Well left of center if I looked straight out at the ocean). I thought Oh, a boat or a ship. And started looking at it. Then it disappeared. Then is was back. I sat looking at it and a red light streaked out at a 45-degree angle to my right. No more light. I couldn’t figure out what I was seeing. Military? Whatever it was happened way out on the horizon . I strained my eyes to see. Then I saw a light kind of corkscrew out of the same spot. Then a light with a short, wavy path. Same spot. Not travelling far, but enough to see. I started wondering if it was a cruise ship shooting fireworks, but there were no bursts, just lights. Then a light started at the same place and went straight up to about 20 degrees above the horizon, hesitated and then streaked off to the right at roughly 45-degrees. I’m entering the realm of disbelief.! Standing now… To this point everything had been emanating from the same spot on the horizon. At one point I stared at a light and lowered my glasses to make sure it wasn’t a reflection, then I looked away and looked back to make sure it wasn’t an issue with my eyes. I’m 62. There were streaks emanating from that point upward. Hundreds of them, like someone was shooting at something. Not like tracers, more like faint trails from shooting stars, but going up. Just a bunch of faint lines, making a vase shape. White lights streaked downward toward that spot from different directions occasionally. It was becoming surreal. I thought about waking my wife but I was afraid I would miss something. Looking behind me and getting creeped out. Then a white light streaked across the sky parallel to the horizon. It came from right to left and traversed most of the sky. It winked out above the spot with all of the activity. One light appeared a little to my right on the horizon and shot up and right disappearing in a short red line. Next one started directly in front of me. Maybe 20-25 degrees above the horizon and shot down and to the left in the general direction of the original spot on the horizon. Same thing, short red streak and then nothing. Saw what appeared to be a couple of dark objects moving together over the water and not on the horizon, but my eyes could have been playing tricks on me. Now more to my right and entering the brightness of the Moon another light appeared. It was low, but not on the horizon and appeared to be on the end of a cigar shaped object, black and tumbling. Bizarre. Not a lot of logical movement out there. I began wondering if there was some kind on war going on that I don’t know about. A bright light shot up from the location with all of the activity. It was bigger and brighter than anything I had yet seen. Had the color of an old street light before they started making the amber ones. Kind of an electric green. It moved from the horizon to the cloud in an instant. The clouds were long and made up of small puffy clouds all lined up. The light flew up close to the end of the cloud formation, stopped and made a right angle turn in between the small ‘cloudlets’, lighting them up. Then turned back out from between the clouds and stopped. Not turned, instantly changed direction. It then split into 2 lights. They moved exactly the same, one dropping to the left and one dropping to the right. If you kept the original location it would have probably been an equilateral triangle. I guess I freaked out a little when it lit the clouds and split, because I can’t remember after that. I may have looked away and then back and they were gone. Hair raised on my arms. I got scared. I watched for a few more minutes. Nothing more happened so I went inside. I woke at 0500 and went back out to see if my eyes were playing tricks on me. The Moon had set and it was pitch black. No lights created by my eyes due to low light. The next morning, I sat down, made notes and drew it out, then went outside and took a picture from where I was observing. I went out the next night at the same time. The Moon was in a slightly different place and there were no clouds. Nothing.
July 30, 2020 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Waterford, NY
Appearing to be a star A bright light started moving among the nearby stars. moving at speeds and angles not from this earth. It would move across the sky then disappear and reappear on the opposite side of the sky. I have this on video and would like to share. i was watching for over an hour on my back deck. was a great show for sure.
July 30, 2020 · 10:15 PM · LIGHT
Kearney (Canada), ON · Canada
Around 10:15 around the constellation of Aries a light was travelling Northwesterly slowly then quickly over the cottages and went behind the trees and then continued over most likely over Big Clam Lake in Ontario. A little later there was a slight gargling like sound in the southeasterly horizon.
July 30, 2020 · 2:30 AM · LIGHT
braintree, MA
They were tall and white, they put a hand on my forehead so i can see a vision, visions i have seen before. There is a war that has been for thousands of year, they are gray and they smell bad, the tall one brought me close to it, their eyes were black i mean blackest material you could think of couldn't explain the color it was like i could see a galaxy in its eyes i could feel it hatred, it wanted to kill me like i was there in front of it like it could see me. There is a device on the move that destroys plants the whites can no longer protect us from this any longer we are running out of time i could see the destruction of one of their allied planet its like something from of movie one beam of light and all i saw was a flash and this planet was just in pieces i could hear there cries but it wasn't a cry it like a sad sound like they were sad what they were showing me. They showed me this because they can feel courage in me eventually ill have to make a decision on whats right and whats easy its not the first time this has happened they call me friend for many years now sometimes just showing me they are watching, waiting for us to stop fighting and if we do they showed me a future of us humans becoming planet conquers i could see lights on the moon and spacecraft and makeshift trading points of gold and other materials, but that future is slowly fading. After the tall one let go i was in my room felt like puking and i was cold like i was sitting in a freezer for 100 years.
July 29, 2020 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Downingtown, PA
Once again, for the third time this week I have seen the exact same phenomena in the night sky above my apartment’s parking lot. Each of the previous two sightings occurred in relatively the same way and I have filed a report each separate instance, however I would like to once again describe what I witnessed for consistency’s sake. Around 10:50 PM I (as I often do) decided to take a walk around my apartment complex to look at sky/stars . It probably goes without saying, but with the frequency with which I had witnessed strange phenomena from earlier in the week (7/26 and then 7/27) I was really eager to be able to see and document this phenomena so I have been going out for walks daily. Thankfully the sky was much clearer this particular evening and as I turned around to face the area of the sky which I had witnessed the phenomena before, at 11:00 PM on the dot exactly I had seen it again. Essentially the experience had occurred in the same way as it had the previous two times this week. I was facing North/North West and adjacent (left) to the Big Dipper, I had seen a white light which had a similar size/shape and brightness as many of the stars in the area. However, after focusing on this specific light I noticed that this light was slowly moving towards the South. Though it appeared to be moving slowly from my vantage point, it must have been moving pretty quickly due to how small it looked. I once again tried to look for any sort of flashing navigation lights and saw none, nor did it have any discernible features of a man-made craft - it did not make any sounds whatsoever. Each of my other experiences with this phenomena only lasted 10-15 seconds and normally ended in the light just disappearing as it was traveling from N/NW to East. This time however, the light was going from N/NW towards the south and instead of simply disappearing into the sky, I felt like I was able to see it actually traveling diagonally upwards and then I lost sight of it. Unfortunately every other time that I have witnessed this light, I was profoundly startled and was unable to capture any really discernible photo/video evidence. However, I was relatively prepared this time and was thankfully able to obtain a whole minute video of this phenomena (which I will be sending along with my report). Due to this being the third time that I am reporting this, I can understand a certain skepticism that some might read this with and felt that it would be important to do some de-bunking of my own before just making the report - I do not believe this was the International Space Station, as it does not fly over my area at that time of night, and I do not believe that it was a satellite. I do not believe that this was related to comet Neowise, as I was able to witness that earlier in the month and it was an entirely different type of event because I was able to see the comet’s tail and it was traveling in the exact opposite direction of this light. I appreciate the ability to document my experiences through NUFORC and am hopeful that this might provide some insight to the general UFO phenomena.