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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.
12,058 entries
October 8, 2016 · 11:20 PM · TRIANGLE
Illiopolis, IL
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 8, 2016 · 10:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Birmingham, AL
Saturday me my sister mom and dad went to coyote drive in movies in Leeds Alabama at first as we were watching the movie i seen what had appeared to be a shooting star but as i started to follow it it disappeared i thought i was seeing things but then things got weirder It was around 10 pm when my mom got out of the car to smoke and i also went outside just to look at the stars but as i was looking i seen a weird object a triangle shaped object that i thought at first it was a air balloon because it seemed to be floating my mom was on the other side of the car i yelled to my mom "what is that!" she then looked up and told my dad and my sister then got out of the car We then tried to follow the strange object but it just disappeared from my moms angle she said she seen lights up under it then we say one of those what appeared to be a "shooting star" again that was such a weird sighting and it felt like we were the only ones to see it Till! this day i still have questions regarding to what that was, this story which sounds unrealistic but strange?
October 7, 2016 · 7:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Manchester, VT
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 6, 2016 · 8:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Lower Burrell, PA
Flying low and slow east to west, we observed something with 3 white lights leading and a triangle of red lights trailing. There was no sound and object appeared to have been too long to be a passenger plane.
October 6, 2016 · 5:45 AM · TRIANGLE
Torrington, CT
I was driving up Hospital Hill & when I reached the top I noticed what appeared to be a line of lights on the horizon. As I continued down the road, it came much closer very fast and I realized it was a triangle gliding over the town. I instantly pulled over and took multiple photos, one of which captured the object. It was dark, but I could still make out the shape so I was able to confirm it was an object & not 3 seperate orbs of light. The corners were very defined, and I could make out the edges, each of which had one white light, and each of which illuminated the sky somewhat. The object was moving fast, smooth, and silently. I arrived at work, and was extremely happy to find that a coworker on the way to work had also seen this object gliding over the town. The object was flying in a south western direction. I'm awful with directions, but I can assume it was flying towards the Bristol, Thomaston, or Terryville area.
October 6, 2016 · 12:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Columbus, OH
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 3, 2016 · 6:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Ellsworth, ME
[I am summarizing this report as told to me by eyewitness; more details, possible corrections, and an image file can be sent within a few days.] At approx. six p.m., October 3, in Ellsworth, Maine, the witness was standing outside near a store and happened to glance upward. There, in the light of the setting sun which had just gone down below the horizon, the witness saw an object at approximately the height of a light cumulus cloud layer. These were not high altitude clouds and only partially covered the sky. The object was brightly shining in the sunlight remaining at that higher altitude, looked like two light colored triangles aligned to each other and pointing vertically upward (further description may be added later with drawing if possible). The object was very steady and did not waver or bob about; it was as steady as a rock, seemed to be firmly controlled. No noise was heard from the object. The witness said the object was emitting two light beams or columns of light extending downward from the object a few times its length. It looked as though these two beams or columns of light were propelling the object upward. The light beams were not flames but more like pillars of light, very geometrical and shaped like cylinders, extended downward as stated, but did not trail off but rather seemed to have a strictly limited beam length. The object began moving upward slowly; then after a few seconds the object seemed to either accelerate rapidly upward in that direction or simply "disappeared." It was not covered by clouds but seemed to either zoom out of sight with incredible speed or "wink out." This description is written secondhand and will be corrected later if need be. Will try to get a drawing and indication of apparent size, altitude etc. The object was not moving horizontally but only moved upward, it did not drift in the air. The object was sighted almost directly over the witness's head. Not at the level of high cirrus but rather at the lowest extent of moderate altitude cumulus clouds. Witness, mid sixties in age, wanted to get another witness but the other person was busy so just observed as closely as possible. No camera was available at the time. Witness has excellent distance vision and says will create a small drawing with colors such as pastel etc. which will be provided by photo scan via email at a later time. Witness is in excellent health, with excellent eyesight, does not require distance correction, and is not under any medication, nor does the witness use any alcohol or other drugs; is a nonsmoker. Witness enjoys skywatching occasionally. Witness knows the planets and Moon phases/appearances well and said this was nothing like anything ever seen before.
October 3, 2016 · 3:15 AM · TRIANGLE
Boulder, CO
Preface: I understand submitting this 2 years later may show little merit. My friend and I both saw this craft, I did not report it to the authorities and have only informed my family and close friends and have been labeled a "loony" on this topic. I grew up flying glider airplanes and have been a hobby aviationist my entire life. I am knowledgeable on the topics of aircraft mechanisms and modes of lift. This event has burned itself into my mind and I cannot let it go. I discovered this website today. What is prompting me to share my story is the report located at http://www.nuforc.org/webreports/130/S130339.html as it matches my sighting nearly exactly and is only a few days separate from my friend and I's experience. At approximately 03:15 I was standing outside in the ally way of my friend’s apartment with another friend who was smoking a cigarette. I was star gazing as I am from the midwest and the elevation of Boulder offers a unique and clear view of the stars I am not often afforded back home. While gazing up I noticed that suddenly stars began disappearing. As more and more stars were blotted out I was able to make out that a large, pitch black, distinctively solid Triangular craft that was moving North to South at a slow speed at what I estimated to be 500-800ft directly above my friend and I. Startled, I grabbed my friend who was also able to make out the craft as well when I pointed to it and indicated its heading. The craft was initially only seen by me as I had been peering at the stars in the exact location that it began to fly over us. If this had not been the case I would have missed it entirely. The craft was a solid Triangle shape with 3 incredibly dim red/rust diffuse lights on each of its 3 corners. In the middle of the triangle was a larger, yet still very dim, blue-ish/purple diffuse glow. I know this craft was a solid Triangle and not a boomerang shape as the stars blotted out were consistent with a complete triangle. It maintained its direction with no spin or wobble with 1 of the dim red/rust lights “leading” or being the “front” of the craft. The craft slowly moved over us at a constant speed and over the apartments on the other side of the alleyway in a North to South heading. If I had to estimate the speed of the craft I would put it between 50-90mph. The craft was COMPLETELY silent. Once past us the craft showed no engines or engine glow on the rear of the craft like a traditional airplane would. The event lasted approximately 8-12 seconds. I did not attempt to capture any footage as I knew my cellphone camera was garbage and did not want to risk looking at my bright screen and losing my view of the craft. I would not have shared my experience publicly if I had not seen the aforementioned report and the uncanny similarities between the two. The eeriness of the silence was what really startled me. Even a glider at that low of altitude produces the whooshing sound of wind passing over its wings. I spent the rest of my vacation pointing out to my friend who experienced the event with me how the sounds of jets passing thousands of feet overhead can easily be heard and how bizarre and unique our experience was.
October 1, 2016 · 8:43 PM · TRIANGLE
Chula Vista, CA
No information provided by witness. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 1, 2016 · 7:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Boulder, CO
The sky was lit but the sun was down. You could see the perfect outline of a triangle, no lights on, perhaps 50-75ft from the ground. I pointed it out to two other people, it resumed hoovering then shot off silently over the alley from North to south. Completely silent
October 1, 2016 · 4:20 PM · TRIANGLE
West Park, PA
At first it was two solid white lights as it approached, until it was almost directly overhead, and a third rear light was visible. There where no blinking lights and no sound. It seemed to be high above the clouds, because when it crossed over them, the bright lights were no longer visible through them. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 1, 2016 · 2:50 PM · TRIANGLE
Orlando, FL
I was standing outside and looked up and saw a triangular craft at roughly one mile in altitude.It was moving slowly from the east to the west.It appeared to be white or silver in color and was emitting a beam or white substance from the bottom.There was no sound and it appeared to be slowly ascending in altitude as it moved from east to west.Sighting lasted about thirty minutes and ended as it climbed into and above the clouds.
September 28, 2016 · 10:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Boulder, CO
Triangular shape no noise, about 500 ft in sky. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 28, 2016 · 9:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Rexburg, ID
I was in the observatory of BYUI when I was looking up at the sky and I saw a triangle shaped object, that appeared to be evenly sided, shoot across my scope of vision and over my head. It was close enough for me to see the out line of the triangle shaped object and to make it seem that it was moving fast overhead. The triangle shaped object had some type of white light emitting from each corner, as if there was a bulb or fuel ejection system on it. If it wasn't for those lights, I believe that the object would of blended in with the night sky and I doubt that I would of been able to make out the shape if it wasn't for the light emitting from the bottom side of the triangle.
September 28, 2016 · 9:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Ottawa (Canada), ON · Canada
It was completely silent and I watched for approximately 30 seconds. It was low enough that I could of hit it with a slingshot. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 28, 2016 · 5:45 AM · TRIANGLE
Shrewsbury (UK/England) · United Kingdom
At approx 5:45am, whilst out walking my dog with my wife before we set off on a trip to Angelsey in North Wales, we noticed some rather strange flashing in the sky to the South of Shrewsbury about one mile South of coordinates 52°41'16.4"N+2°43'58.4"W. We were walking on a field that between the edge of town and the A5 bypass, the sky was very clear and we could clearly see the Orion and the Plough constellations. Whilst standing and looking at these my wife and I both noticed two large solid black triangle shapes appear over the hedge line to the South moving slowly. As they approached us, I would estimate that they were approx the same size as an RAF Hercules transport plane, and they both made a slight humming sound at around 500ft altitude. The slowly came across the top of the field when they both started to fire red/orange lasers down onto the ground from the front of them. The laser made a crackle as it hit the ground so our dog and us we clearly scared and decided to run back towards Oteley Road and Rowton Road area. The two triangle craft then moved above us and the humming was really clear but the lasers then shot down onto number 8 Rowton Road and made the roof glow a redish colour. Three cars stopped on the road and saw what we were looking at with one female driver getting onto her mobile phone to make a call. Suddenly, both triangle turned on their axis in a 360 degree fashion and after moving forward a little tilted and shot straight up into the sky. There was another flash and then they were both gone! We called the polcie who met us at 6:30am but they said it was just aircraft from the local airbase as there had been a nightime exercise taking place a few hours earlier. We specifically argued the point about the red/orange lasers but they said it must of been a reflection off street lights! I can tell you now that they were in no way any reflection and having spent 20 years in the RAF myself these were no aircraft I knew of!. This was a strange thing to witness and we have contacted the local press who have said that some other people had seen the same things in the sky but South of Shrewsbury over a village called Cound. Can anyone advise or help with this?
September 27, 2016 · 10:30 AM · TRIANGLE
Bernville, PA
Witnessed triangle objects flying at different altitudes no sound just red green and white lights some hovered some flew at different speeds. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 26, 2016 · 11:59 PM · TRIANGLE
Orange Park, FL
I was taking my dog out after the debate, before bed. I looked up to see if the sky had cleared so I could see the stars, which I love to do. I was shocked to see a group of orange, triangular shaped, moving objects. They were larger than any of the planets or stars I could see. They were just above the tree line, probably 60 degrees. I would have thought it was a flock of geese had it been daytime or had each been lit! But, they were each lit, a fairly bright orange, and the 11 or 12 objects flew rather slowly. There was no noise that I could hear and the "v" shape was not perfect. Some flew somewhat out of formation, for lack of a better word. I wonder if anyone else saw this.
September 26, 2016 · 8:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Napoleonville, LA
Strange lightening daughter tried to capture lightening, but instead, she captured a vessel with 3 blue horizontal lights on each side, 3 larger blue lights on top. In the center between the 3 lights were green lights. It appeared to be triangular at the bottom an orange single light appeared. Each time she tried to get the lightning, it would not show up in the picture just the object. It wasn't visible to the naked eye just photograph. The lightning appeared to be in 5-8 second intervals
September 26, 2016 · 2:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Rothschild, WI
Sitting in my chair, and looking out the window, and saw a triangle shaped object moving slowly, I saw 3 bright lights, then it disappeared behind the trees
September 26, 2016 · 3:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Port Orchard, WA
Just arrived for a delivery to a store and waiting for the door to open looking up and saw a triangle shape with 3 red lights then about 2 seconds later another craft with no lights passed by faster then any thing I have ever seen with no sound at all.
September 25, 2016 · 8:19 PM · TRIANGLE
Northglenn, CO
We saw an equilateral triangular shaped object move across the sky in a basically south to north trajectory. We were basically facing due west and it moved from our left to right almost as if it were following I-25. The trajectory did not change. There was no sound but given the height that was expected as commercial jets fly overhead all the time and can be heard, this was much lower. There were white lights on all of the tips of the triangle. I saw the tips having three smaller lights equidistant from each other on each tip but my wife did not see this detail. There were no green or red lights and the lights were not blinking. The lights were rather dim as well having shown up basically overhead when first noticed which was 1/2 way across the night sky then after the 7-8 seconds they dimmed away before reaching the horizon. If the object had passed a full moon the tips would almost touch the edges. It was more than twice the size of the commercial jets which leave Denver Int'l airport.
September 25, 2016 · 8:15 PM · TRIANGLE
Eugene, OR
I am a veteran of the military and an amateur astronomer so I am pretty good at aircraft identifications and where lights should be in the sky. Last night, 09/25/2016, at approximately 20:15 I saw what looked to be a triangle shaped craft over the city of Eugene, Oregon. I had just stepped out on my balcony for a smoke and sat down in my chair facing East overlooking most of NE Eugene and N Springfield. Looking in the sky above and well beyond the neighbor's house at the sight line of the power lines I saw 3 orange lights equidistant apart and in a triangle. It occurred to me that there shouldn't be bright stars in the sky in that area that time of night and time of year so I looked closer. As I looked closer, I saw the bottom most of the lights moving and then I thought to myself: that makes sense it is commercial aviation. So I looked back at the other 2 lights and saw they were moving together too and that it was one triangle shaped craft rotating on its center axis. All the while I noticed the bright orange lights were shining through what looked like heat shimmer coming off the desert floor. Very much like a scene from the movie, "Predator," the "cloaking" around it wavered for just a brief second and when it did I saw a large triangle shaped craft with smooth sides and a smooth metallic bottom with a smaller circular abutment in the center with a light bluish glow. The craft stopped rotating and it looked like a harrier jet pulling up its nose on a vertical takeoff and then it disappeared. It did leave but as it was leaving the "cloaking" kicked back in and it disappeared from sight. Like something out of the X files 2 helicopters showed up within 30 seconds of the object disappearing. Eugene is a small city and helicopters are fairly rare here with just a couple of overflights a day but these stayed on station for the better part of an hour circling over the Eugene/Springfield area.
September 25, 2016 · 12:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Brandywine, MD
Saw what appeared to be a piece of paper or plastic very high in the sky. The object was in a state of constant rotation, and appeared unaffected by any wind turbulence. It was heading due south along MD Route 301. At the same height , but spaced approx. 100 feet away was a dark metallic triangular shaped craft with dark red lights at each tip. Both objects were moving at the same clip, both due south. I was able to pull my truck over and make these observations with a pair of binoculars. My wife and son were with me and it was actually my wife that noticed the objects and pointed them out to me. I could only track them for a few minutes because the sun was very bright making it hard to keep a visual.