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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
July 29, 2020 · 10:11 PM · LIGHT
Maple Shade, NJ
Also saw the same thing on 8-1-20, approx 915pm in the appear and disappear in the same location. I ran inside to get my wife to look and by the time I got back outside it was gone.
July 29, 2020 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Commack, NY
On 7/29/20 at about 2130 EST I observed what at first I took to be a satellite. It was a small point of white light similar in appearance to a dim star. I initially observed it WNW of my location, at about 45 degrees elevation. What drew my attention to it was that it increased in intensity to about the brightness of an average star, then went dim. After about 10 seconds, it increased intensity to about the brightness of Venus, then went dim again. I estimate that each “pulse” took about one second to complete from off, to on, to off again. It was much slower than a strobe or blinking light that one would see on conventional aircraft, and was a gradual increase and decrease in intensity. The object continued alternating this high/ low pattern about every 10 seconds. It was moving slowly from its WNW location across the sky, almost overhead, heading approximately SE, and was difficult to track as when it was not pulsing it was not visible to my eye. As it rose from about 45 degrees to about 80 degrees, it “pulsed,” and also appeared to emit white sparks. It very much had the appearance of a sparkler type firework, but the sparks were only a few in number and lasted for a brief second. I initially thought the object had changed course due to the appearance of the sparks, but soon again saw it continuing SE repeating the pulsing pattern. I eventually lost sight of it when it was approximately SE of my position at about 45 degrees. I estimate that the object was visible to me for approximately 10 minutes. It is possible it was a military aircraft of some sort, but I have never seen or known them to behave this way.
July 28, 2020 · 11:55 PM · LIGHT
Lethbridge (Canada), AB · Canada
Sitting outside in my friends backyard, clear evening, looking at satellites going by and suddenly there were 3 Faint lights traveling in a northbound heading, diagonal in orientation and far too fast to be a satellite and too low to be an aircraft without making sound or any other visible markings. There were no other identifying marks or lights. They where very faint indicating high altitude but traveling very very fast, seemingly to indicate low altitude. Confirmed sighting with friend who saw them as well
July 28, 2020 · 10:20 PM · LIGHT
Pennellville, NY
Standing outside in the evening and I thought I a meteorite pass overhead and looked toward the left. My eyes fixed on a moving light that I initially thought was the ISS but it seemed too low to the earth. It traversed the sky in a steady direction and speed for about 1 minute and then it changed course. Approximately 30 seconds after changing course the light suddenly faded to nothing.
July 28, 2020 · 10:15 PM · LIGHT
Fort Wayne, IN
We decided to hop in the vehicle and see if we could follow it. By the time I came out of the house it was gone. We did travel about 20 minutes asking two people that were on their break if they had seen anything and they stated that they had not. It did not make a sound at all.
July 28, 2020 · 10:15 PM · LIGHT
Fort wayne, IN
While watching the ISS pass over fort wayne, in around 10:10pm, I noticed another object flying west of the ISS. The object was significantly bigger in comparison of the ISS. We couldn't really tell the shape being it was dark out and it was flashing from white to red every few seconds. The timing of the changing of colors wasnt in a specific pattern. The object would stop and hover, then move east. It was going a good speed when it eventually went out of sight heading east. Roughly two minutes later we see it back in view heading back from wence we seen it at first. The object then proceeded to head west until we no longer could see it anymore. We thought it was a drone at first, but the way it was acting and the speed this thing had has us thinking otherwise now.
July 28, 2020 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Monterey, CA
7/28/2021 9:00 pm looking south west over the ocean
July 28, 2020 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
North Attleboro, MA
Watched what appeared to be a satellite or high altitude plane travel along a normal trajectory. As the object approached closer over head it clearly had what appeared to be blow torch flame emitted from where wings would normally be. Hard to tell if was on both port and starboard sides of the object. It also appeared to have an exhaust plume as well. After it went over head, it abruptly disappeared, completely out of sight. No sound was heard.
July 28, 2020 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Taubaté (Brazil) · Brazil
At about midnight my sister and I saw a light moving slowly in the sky. It glowed red, then orange, moving both vertically and horizontally. It lasted about 2 minutes, always moving slowly, with no obvious intention. At some point, we just lost sight of it, as if it just disappeared. We live nearby an army aviation base, but I've worked with helicopters before, and I'm 100% sure that that wasn't a helicopter. This isn't the first time this happens, and friends of mine often report seeing those lights regularly.
July 27, 2020 · 11:45 PM · LIGHT
Harrison, TN
Monday July 27th at around 2345 hours I was outside and look to the north eastern Sky extreme North Eastern sky and noticed something had caught my eye that was unusual a bright light brighter than most anything should be in the sky add an extreme altitude moving Southern Lee to the Southeastern Corner of the Sky at a very high rate of speed took approximately 3 seconds to get from one extreme Corner of the Sky to the other then the craft became stationary and started kinda to flash and change colors between blue red white green and it would occasionally drop in altitude it would look like then go back up and it continued to do this for 3 1/2 four minutes maybe 5 would be kind of pushing it but after it set and did that for a while in the same position in the sky moving up and down and changing colors it started to move again at an extremely high rate of speed back to the northern sky then once it got to almost perfect directional North it disappeared from View
July 27, 2020 · 11:01 PM · LIGHT
Downingtown, PA
Once again, as I often do, I decided to take a walk around my apartment complex to look at stars, etc. I have been particularly eager to continue my evening walks recently as just the night prior (July 26th) I had seen a strange light moving in the sky and then disappear/travel upwards. This time however, I casually strolled out to the adjacent parking lot without even thinking or expecting to see anything odd in the sky and as soon as I turn around towards the N/NE (looking @ Big Dipper), I saw almost the exact same phenomena as I had the night prior. This time, a light was traveling slowly from the North/NEast towards the East. The light was traveling very slowly (relative to a conventional aircraft), but appeared small and did not have any other flashing/navigation lights on the object (no sound as well). I was incredibly startled this time I had seen the object just for the sheer fact that I saw the almost exact same phenomena as I had the night before. ! As a result, I struggled to get a recording and was also startled by some passers-by. As soon as I had looked back up to the sky to see the object, it had completely disappeared or vanished from the path that it was on.
July 26, 2020 · 11:20 PM · LIGHT
Downingtown, PA
The light was very high in the sky so that it looked like it was a star, however it started to move forwards towards the East. One it had moved forwards for about 6 seconds, it proceeded to move higher and disappear.
July 26, 2020 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Arlington, VT
I was standing on my deck staring at the stars when I saw a very large ball of LED colored light came soaring through the sky just above the tree tops. It was much lower flying than any plane or helicopter. It was silent, and from my perspective appeared to be very large. There was no distinct craft, just a large ball of light moving in a straight line, and at a controlled but fast speed. Behind it there was what appeared to be a jet stream, but it was pitch black out so it was more like a trail of very faint light that was the exhaust. The light was only in my view for a few moments but the exhaust light remained for a few more seconds before dissipating. This was clearly not a shooting star or meteor. The “craft” continued on to an area out of my view. I am absolutely certain that this was nothing other than a craft of some sort whether it be military or ET. There were planes in the area at the time, but they looked like ants compared to this thing.
July 26, 2020 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
North Myrtle Beach, SC
I was sitting on the balcony at a resort looking out over the ocean in North Myrtle Beach around 9:30 pm. It was a perfectly clear night, the Moon and North Star seem tiny in comparison to what I witnessed. A Brilliant white starburst flashed on (no sound) high in the sky out in the distance over the ocean starting on left that flashed horizontally from left to right several times leaving a bright white trail in between where it started and stopped that left a starburst on each side when it stopped at the exact same distance each time. I felt as though it was “scanning something.” Then it stopped exactly on the left where it first appeared with the same huge white brilliant starburst light and disappeared as quickly as it appeared. Within seconds a falling star leaving a small burn out trail of red/blue/green appeared out of the same direction caught my attention.
July 26, 2020 · 7:45 PM · LIGHT
Birmingham, AL
In southwest sky I noticed what appeared to be a bright star in the pre-dusk sky. I spotted it while I was looking at the moon. With the moon as a reference point, and the nearby treetops, I noticed that the object was actually slowly moving at high altitude generally in a Westerly direction but not in a perfectly straight path. Movement was smooth and slow. I assumed it was some type of weather balloon. The sun was glinting off of it but at that great of a distance I couldn’t tell a shape. There was no contrail. I kept checking on it every few minutes and I filmed it for a few uneventful minutes on my phone. Finally I grabbed my binoculars to try to get a better look. When I finally got focus on the object it it expelled a small smoke plume that looked like what I can best describe as what an eject seat looks like when it’s fired. Like a small rocket shot upward from it for what appeared to be a short distance. The object immediately dimmed and disappeared and I believe I saw a small dark speck fall rapidly back to earth in my binoculars but I can’t say for certain because it was so far away. I continued to watch but there was nothing. No chute, no more smoke, nothing. My best guess is a weather balloon with some kind of self-distruct mechanism where it blows its balloon top? Either that or a high flying balloon that somehow launched a small rocket into the upper atmosphere.
July 26, 2020 · 7:30 PM · LIGHT
North Myrtle Beach, SC
I was sitting on the balcony at a resort looking out over the ocean in North Myrtle Beach around 9:30 pm. It was a perfectly clear night, the Moon and North Star seem tiny in comparison to what I witnessed. A Brilliant white starburst flashed on (no sound) high in the sky out in the distance over the ocean starting on left that flashed horizontally from left to right several times leaving a bright white trail in between where it started and stopped that left a starburst on each side when it stopped at the exact same distance each time. I felt as though it was “scanning something.” Then it stopped exactly on the left where it first appeared with the same huge white brilliant starburst light and disappeared as quickly as it appeared. Within seconds a falling star leaving a small burn out trail of red/blue/green appeared out of the same direction caught my attention.
July 25, 2020 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Shellsburg, IA
As we were looking for the comet I noticed a light that was moving erratically back forth up down a little to the east of the dipper there was another doing the same movements.
July 25, 2020 · 9:49 PM · LIGHT
Maywood, NJ
A fast-moving white ball of light appeared out of nowhere. It was as bright as a full moon, however it was small in size. Low in altitude. Moving 25 degrees NE to 115 degrees SE. Before I could get out of my chair to see it as it passed my neighbors home; it was gone. Where I believed it's flight path would follow; it wasn't there. The object made no sound.
July 25, 2020 · 9:45 PM · LIGHT
West Palm Beach, FL
At approximately 8:45 p.m., I walked down the stairs of my West Palm Beach apartment to check the mailbox. I looked up at the eastern sky and though,t "What a beautiful evening!" In that moment I saw what I thought to be a bright white meteor falling from the northeast, but it stopped! The bright light shut off as it hovered and flashed a small blue light. After a moment, the brilliant white light activated again, and the...object zipped around at an amazing speed like a bumblebee, stopped again and flashed blue. This happened several times before the light turned a small steady blue and flew and traveled to the northeast horizon at an incredibly clip until it disappeared. The object seemed to be zipping and hovering over Palm Beach International Airport. I don’t think a commercial drone can travel that quickly or emit such a brilliant light. Unfortunately, I did not have my cell phone with me.
July 25, 2020 · 9:45 PM · LIGHT
Moore, OK
I was leaving work to get something to eat and noticed a bright light hovering in the sky, slightly bigger than a star. My first thought was “that looks like a strange airplane!” But soon after I saw it, it sped away faster than any aircraft I have ever seen and disappeared into the night sky. The light didn’t fade- it simply vanished.
July 25, 2020 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Surfside Beach, SC
Three lights in a perfect triangle appear with light appearance akin to stars. Lights were spread out fairly considerably. Lights then move south in a perfect triad formation and disappear behind clouds. Viewed from beachfront location.
July 25, 2020 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Cumberland, MD
Four tube shaped white lights barely moving north in an elongated and tidy, but not static, diamond. Appeared to fade “up” not away.
July 25, 2020 · 7:30 PM · LIGHT
Miami Florida, FL
This was in 2019 maybe 2020 I’m not sure the exact date and time so i understand the room for disbelief but I know what I saw because I saw it with my own eyes. I walk my dog everyday, I go onto 107 and 7th street and look around and take in life everyday. I live in a townhouse complex called laguna club As I’m walking northeast I look at the sky and coming northeast onward to northeast is a blue light BEAMING across the sky the speed of this light is so fast that I was to shocked too pull out my phone I stood there in disbelief of what I was seeing I thought that’s maybe a reflection of a cars headlights that’s I’m seeing since 107 is a busy road but I keep staring at it it moved in zigzags ,the last zigzag covered more space than the others and it just stopped and stayed stationary that’s when I discredited it being headlights. Stationary for I would say 2-3 seconds before it bolted east so fast I was in awe. A jet breaking the sound barrier is not even a fifth of the speed this craft zoomed east. I said ok? Surely I’m seeing things I continue walking I take a couple steps and see 3 black helicopters in a triangle formation coming from northeast going in the direction of the craft. This happened a while ago I also don’t have evidence but I know what I saw I know it happened I don’t need people to believe me but I want people to know my truth.
July 25, 2020 · 11:45 AM · LIGHT
Dearborn, MI
Observed what appeared to be a satellite moving north to south just below big dipper then noticed it changed heading to a die west course and decreased elevation to the point that it was approx 20 thousand feet. Had a bright white strobing light that on every third flash was so bright was like it was taking a pic of ground and blinding. Craft disappeared on a westerly heading behind roof of house inhibiting view and then reappeared approx five mins later and assumed exact same heading it took on approach as it exited all the way back to extreme elevation along bottom of Big Dipper south to north then dissapearing.