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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.
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July 25, 2020 · 3:15 AM · LIGHT
Beaverton, OR
On July 25th 2020 at 0315 my fiance and I were in Beaverton, OR looking NE into the sky. We witnessed for at least 20 minutes a UFO slightly above the horizon. It would move from left to right and up and down very slowly. Then it would disappear and reappear. It disappeared about 3 times just to reappear again in a different spot above the horizon. We also witnessed very fast streaks of light moving side to side near the UFO. I am 100% positive that it was NOT an airplane. Airplanes can't move in the manner that this craft was moving. It just looked like a star... A star that moved in weird directions, disappeared and reappeared several times. It was still there when we went inside. My fiance was cold so we went indoors. I saw my roommate a few minutes after being inside, I then told him about what we had seen. My roommate and I then went outside to see it. As soon as we stepped outside, I pointed it out to him and it just looked like a star. Ho! wever, it started to move to the right and then disappeared again. I'm not sure if it came back or not, we both went inside after seeing it.
July 25, 2020 · 3:00 AM · LIGHT
Greenwater, WA
On the evening of 7/25/2020 several groups of friends gathered for an annual mountain bike ride in the White River valley off Mt Rainier. At the location is a lightly used airstrip, Ranger Creek, and campground nestled in the trees just off the runway. Prior to the event, between approximately 21:00 – 22:00 hours, 8-10 people sat at the northern end of the runway observing multiple shooting stars and satellites. The night was the clearest we’d seen in years coming to the location. The campground was not empty, there were approximately 300 people staying in tents, RV’s, or car camping. Our group dispersed the airstrip and went to their respective accommodations for the evening. At approximately 03:00 I awoke to use the restroom and rather than use the toilet in my camper I opted for the woods since it was so clear and warm that evening. As I was completing my relief the ground lit a wonderful green color and I could see the shadows of the trees on the ground,! this lasted around 1-2 seconds. Feeling fear once the shadows started moving I looked up and saw nothing but a green ball of light moving very fast, over 300 mph (planes take off in that direction frequently under 100 mph known). There was zero sound from the light nor in the campground and no wind. The light stayed green, glorious bright green like a neon gas lamp, and moved very rapidly seemingly +/- 500’ in altitude above the runway heading at 344 degrees. The runway is 2800’ in length with a 2000’ shear cliff wall 1.3 miles away in the direction of the flight. I am unaware if the light continued down the valley or maintained it’s heading over the cliff wall to the east of the valley.
July 25, 2020 · 2:00 AM · LIGHT
Austin (Canada), QC · Canada
At around 2 am, I was looking at the stars in the distance (opposite the lake) when I saw two bright, light blue lights pass over my house, high in the sky. It didn’t look like a shooting star, nor did it look like an airplane. It had a spherical, saucer shadow or form with the two blue lights on its end. It probably could have been a kilometer or two up from the ground, as it looked 2-3 cm wide from my point of view. It appeared, then passed for around 4-5 seconds before disappearing as if nothing had happened at all.
July 25, 2020 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Ottawa (Canada), ON · Canada
Four of us sitting in the backyard looking up at the stars. One of us was not looking up. An extremely fast moving white light shot across the sky moving from the north to the south and seemed to stop almost right over us. It was a very small white light almost thought to be a star, or satellite but moving way too fast. It stopped for a moment and then it went up into the sky, meaning it vanished but in an upward direction, not left or right or any direction, it went up. I immediately said to my husband and our friend "did you guys see that or am I seeing things?" and at the same time I said that, our friend said "what the heck was that?!" because both he and my husband had seen the same thing I just witnessed. When we came into the house, the ceiling light in my son's room was on. This is odd as we had turned it off when he fell asleep. This has been happening lately so could be unrelated.
July 24, 2020 · 10:12 PM · LIGHT
Glenwood, ME
We were with a large group of family in July 2020. We were staying on an island in wytopitlock lake, glenwood, maine. Some family members were on the beach around 10:15PM when they spotted a light in the sky that was moving at a very fast and unpredictable speed. These family members called over to others who came down to beach and saw the same phenomena. One member was able to take a video (see attached) where you can see a bright light in the sky that is not moving in a straight line like a plane, this object was dropping and rising at a very fast speed and also flew away at an unexpected speed.
July 24, 2020 · 9:50 PM · LIGHT
Broadway, VA
I was sitting on my neighbor's back porch eating pizza and chitchatting. I noticed my neighbor was watching something in the sky for a moment longer than usual. I looked up and saw that she was looking at something. It was a light, as high up as an airplane, not blinking or going at usual speed (Color was not odd.. not red, blue, or green) (It was a yellow or white). It was a little larger than an airplane, but was going twice as fast. It was eye catching because it was not a satellite but lower on an airplane level... and going at an unusually faster speed. It definitely was not a low airplane or a drone. My neighbor said, "What is that?" I said with authority, louder voice, and no fear, "That is a UFO. The Great Deception ." As soon as I said this, it slowed down to half or more speed and glowed up to 4x its size. My neighbor, daughter, and I felt that it saw us. It actually felt like it took a picture of us from so far up.
July 24, 2020 · 9:40 PM · LIGHT
Harpersfield, OH
At about 9:40pm I went outside to walk my dog. I often watch the stars, and am fairly familiar with the night sky. As I headed South, I saw an unfamiliar very bright white “star” under Neptune. It was as bright as Neptune, but not as large, and hovering just above the tree line. I was excited to see a new star and pulled my phone out to open the star app (Sky Guide) I use to identify stars. As I opened the app, I watched the “star” slowly move closer to me and then gently “float” up and diagonally into the space between Neptune and Saturn. It then moved diagonally rather quickly towards Saturn (Northeast) then up again. It did not move like a floating object. There was a definite flight like intentional pattern to its movement. Although, I’ve never seen an aircraft move in the manner like the object I observed. The object seemed to turn and change from a bright white to a softer amber glow. I then could make out three dimmer lights in place of the single amber color. Then the amber colors slowly dimmed simultaneously very similarly to how a flame might extinguish. Since I do like to observe the night sky and identify the objects I see, I opened an app I use to identify aircraft (Flightradar24). There were no aircraft in the area. I’ve seen Chinese lanterns in the sky, but this was not a Chinese lantern. It did not move in a straight line through the sky like a meteor or satellite.
July 24, 2020 · 9:40 PM · LIGHT
Harpersfield, OH
At about 9:40pm I went outside to walk my dog. I often watch the stars, and am fairly familiar with the night sky. As I headed South, I saw an unfamiliar very bright white “star” under Neptune. It was as bright as Neptune, but not as large, and hovering just above the tree line. I was excited to see a new star and pulled my phone out to open the star app (Sky Guide) I use to identify stars. As I opened the app, I watched the “star” slowly move closer to me and then gently “float” up and diagonally into the space between Neptune and Saturn. It then moved diagonally rather quickly towards Saturn (Northeast) then up again. It did not move like a floating object. There was a definite flight like intentional pattern to its movement. Although, I’ve never seen an aircraft move in the manner like the object I observed. The object seemed to turn and change from a bright white to a softer amber glow. I then could make out three dimmer lights in place of the single amber color. Then the amber colors slowly dimmed simultaneously very similarly to how a flame might extinguish. Since I do like to observe the night sky and identify the objects I see, I opened an app I use to identify aircraft (Flightradar24). There were no aircraft in the area. I’ve seen Chinese lanterns in the sky, but this was not a Chinese lantern. It did not move in a straight line through the sky like a meteor or satellite.
July 24, 2020 · 10:30 AM · LIGHT
Lewisville, TX
In north Dallas, at the border of Lewisville, the Colony, and Frisco, on July, 24th of 2020, around 10:30 AM, I was sitting out on my apartment patio, when I caught a glimpse of a solid, luminating, white object in the crystal-clear blue sky. At first thinking it was a drifting plastic Walmart bag, I thought nothing of it. But then I noticed it was too far away for me to think that it was a garbage bag. It wasn’t big by any means but around the length of 3-5 miles in the air, I wouldn’t be able to see a plastic Walmart bag so clearly. I then pulled out my iPhone and began to record. I ended up getting 10 good seconds of it. It was moving from the North to the South (Right to left according to my view), appearing to look like a plastic bag would drifting mid-air. But after I viewed my recording zoomed all the way in, it appeared to be possibly circulating(spinning), and sides dipping up and down similar to a teetertotter. It escaped my sight of my patio as it passed below the roof of the adjacent apartment in front of me. Out of curiosity, I quickly ran down and out to the parking lot beneath me to see if I could catch another glimpse of the flying object. I just wanted to see if it was a plastic bag or not. It took me precisely 1.5 minutes to get in position where I should have had a clear view. The object wasn’t where it should have been had it continued its speed and course. I looked for a matter of maybe 20 seconds and then spotted it again. I am from North Dakota. I have visited sights and many national parks where I have been shown what 10-20 miles away looks like to the naked eye. According to my eye, this object turned west and was about 15+ miles away from where I had seen it on my patio. What I’d compare it to was looking at a star in a night’s sky; except it was day light at 10:30 in the morning. Now we live in an area close to the DFW airport. Hundreds if not thousands of planes fly over our area per day. A plane is really the easiest thing to notice. However, it is something that is really hard to mistake. When you see a plane, you see a plane. It moves at the same pace, it most of the time is going in the same direction. At one point it can be close. After a few moments it will pass and be gone as you watch it get further and further away. This was nothing like that. It was not a plane. I have video to prove that. This was something else. As I watched it in the west, it was moving right to the left at a very slow pace not getting any further away than it already was. A light seemed to be going in and out on it like a glimmer in the sun. Not like the light blinking on the air plane. It wasn’t moving at a consistent pace. It would move left, then stop, then movie left, then stop. As I was watching, I was recording with my iPhone. It was hard to keep a clear and still image due to the distance between me and the object. I couldn’t’ even see it on my phone. It was bright out and I was squinting. I just aimed my phone at the area and hoped that I could see it later on my phone. I was able to but it is blurry and not still unfortunately. You are able to follow it though on my phone. It was coming up on a cloud and I didn’t want to miss the last part. I put my phone down and then what I saw next was uncertain. I was squinting and it was bright. I could have seen a lot but the sun was behind me. When I say that, I mean that it wasn’t obstructing my vision. It just created a bright atmosphere to my eyes were having a more difficult time staying wide open. I may or may not have seen this object, do a full loop up and down then disappear NE in the matter of a second. After questioning what I had seen, I looked for the object which wasn’t quite to the cloud ! yet and it was nowhere to be seen. Almost no time after, one of the hundreds of planes that fly over us flew right into the area that the object had been. This took place over the time span of maybe 4-6 minutes, start to finish. The weather this day was partly cloudy, mostly blue skies. The wind was little to non. There wasn’t the sound of a plane flying by. There were no plumes. It was just a white odd shaped ball you could see spinning and dipping. An interesting way to end the week.
July 23, 2020 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Cortlandt manor, NY
I was over at my sister's house, in the backyard. The sky was clear and I happened to glance up to look at the stars when I noticed one particular "star" twinkled a little too bright. Then I realized it started moving! It was too high up to be a plane or any other object we know of and made no sound. The light pulsed brightly every 5-8 seconds and was moving in a strange pattern,almost like a zigzag motion. The object easily camouflaged within the stars. After a it seemed like it completed a circle in the sky it start ascending higher until it was no longer in sight.
July 23, 2020 · 12:30 AM · LIGHT
Sydney (Australia) · Australia
Somewhere around midnight to 1am there was a loud helicopter above the suburb of Campsie. It flew toward the east, flew around, then headed back toward the west where it came from. I looked out my window as it was flying past my place and toward the west (where it was flying toward) I saw 2 stars in the distance move downward in the sky fairly quickly. They were beside one another, a little apart, and one was a bit lower than the other. I'm not sure if they were flares or something and the army was doing training, but they looked exactly like stars and moved quite quick though .
July 22, 2020 · 11:30 PM · LIGHT
Port Elgin (Canada), ON · Canada
My friend and I were watching stars and satellites. We notice something piercing across the sky at an unimaginable speed. We were shocked and watched it soar across thousands of miles in what seemed like a few seconds. The thing was that this object did not move in a straight line. It would dart in one direction then change directions in a heartbeat on angles ranging over 90 degrees. In an instant a the light engulfed in a huge white flash that made both myself and my friend yell in shock and fright. There was a noise. Not a bang but a sound that could be more described as a whip. During the flash a trail went through the sky and the object was gone.
July 22, 2020 · 7:50 PM · LIGHT
Erode (India) · India
it was as same as star at first i thought it was a star and then i noticed that it was moving and it moved as speed as airplane but a bit higher and it appeared with a constant white light and it conformed that it was not a airplane or helicopter and of course it is not a jet and even it is pandemic time and there will be no flights in this time one or two are exceptional and so i have a doubt that whether it is a UFO
July 22, 2020 · 11:00 AM · LIGHT
Coon Rapids, MN
I saw 1 yellow light flash then I saw 5 yellow lights light up from right to left & then go dark all at the same time horizontally. The lights were yellow. I saw this above the bridge by the Toyota dealership in Coon Rapids.
July 22, 2020 · 10:50 AM · LIGHT
Fort Wayne, IN
This event happened while i was standing in my front yard. I was looking south in the sky at Jupiter and Saturn. Then starting looking up at a satellite, some planes, it was as dark as it gets here at the time. Then looking up i saw 3 lights that resembled stars appear directly above head. They were most certainly very very high in the sky, they headed from west to east in silence from about the 2 o'clock overhead to the 11 o'clock overhead and disappeared. They were going at about the speed you would see a satellite go, but there 3 of them, all headed the same direction, the same speed, and if you put a fist in the sky, they were spread out in triangle fashion at the same size. as they dimmed they looked as if they went from the whitish/yellow to a reddish and then disappear. The lights looked like stars in how dim they were, but appeared and disappeared unlike anything that i can make sense of. Stayed out until about 12 midnight looking up and saw many air! planes and satellites, and a shooting star, but the 3 ball craft never reappeared. the sighting only lasted about 10 seconds at most.
July 22, 2020 · 3:00 AM · LIGHT
Government Camp, OR
3 large pulsating lights on side of cliff/mountain, which began spreading out and growing brighter. Lights were very unusual and I’ve never seen anything like this in that specific spot. Seemed to be emitting light from the bottom of something as the lights were not facing forward, but down beneath the objects. Too far away to see shapes of objects. Could not stay and observe because a truck driving 85mph or so barreled towards us and forced us to drive away
July 21, 2020 · 10:45 PM · LIGHT
Bristol, CT
Very bright light (brighter than planes) that occasionally flickers. It’s moving erratically, as if searching for something (up, down, left, and right). Short periods of remaining still. Nothing on the air radar. Still active now.
July 21, 2020 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Vancleave, MS
Upon looking at the Big Dipper, I saw a fast light heading south into the cup of the dipper, it then went north. Back to the handle . I called my roommate. She grabbed the binoculars, and saw it shooting south past the handle of the Big Dipper. And then immediately shoot back down towards the cup It was not visible to the eye without binoculars. And was then gone from 22:00 cst to 22:30
July 21, 2020 · 9:50 PM · LIGHT
Roseburg, OR
5 crafts flew across the sky from west to east. One at a time appeared and flew from the west to a point south of our view and disappeared, then the next one would appear and fly the same route approximately 10 seconds per craft. I was amazed and have never seen anything like this before. We were out to view the comet and just happened to see this phenomenon.
July 20, 2020 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Marathon, FL
Myself, my girlfriend and my immediate family we're on vacation and Marathon Florida. A small hotel/condo type resort on the Gulf side of the island. Directly outside of our room which was on the bottom story, was a doc, a short one. On the first night myself my mother and my girlfriend we're lying out on the dock looking at the stars as we often do especially outside of cities where they are very visible. And there's no remarkable background to any of this short of my brother is an ex army infantry. First sighting The three of us, myself, girlfriend and mother, we're lying on the dock stargazing. 15 to 20 minutes of this and my girlfriend for spots it and points out two dim lights, dimmer than most of the stars but not all of them, heading east towards the Atlantic from the Gulf. The lights are mostly overhead and pass overhead during the siding. The two lights are moving in tandem as if attached to each other but as it passes overhead they move apart and then closely together while maintaining a constant speed that appears faster than any plane or helicopter. There is no noise whatsoever. When the lights move away from each other they do so in a way that is mirroring one another. The motion of the lights moving closer together and farther apart was much faster than the forward motion of the objects. We could tell they were two separate objects because we could see the stars between them as they passed over us. There appeared to be nothing more than the two lights. This was my first siding of something I couldn't identify or explain. This was due to the mostly unremarkable speed of the lights but the movements of them were so rapid and perfectly mirrored I could not come up with an explanation for any known aircraft. I was very excited about this and told everyone with us in our party, my oldest nephew one of two, that was with us seemed very uninterested as he did with most things at his age kept insisting it was a drone or drones. This I did not believe a prop driven vehicle even a drone could move so agiley as well as silently, also knowing that drones require flashing lights on them. The next night I go out on the dock to do some fishing. And it is no longer than 15 or 20 minutes that I again see the slight. I believe it came out from the Gulf again but then seem to turn in what appeared to be a perfect right angle then slowed to a stop for just a moment and then jumping around very erratically sort of circling its stationary point and then appeared to shoot upwards I could see a slight curve to it as it faded away out of velocity I've never witnessed. It basically seemed to go straight up extremely fast after jumping around radically. As I recall, every night myself or others went out for 15 or 20 minutes one of these lights would always appeare. With the exception of one siding I believe they were always moving from golf to Atlantic, just not always in a straight line. The two most remarkable sightings where as follows. The first I want to mention is a night we got back late, probably after 10:00. Myself and my youngest nephew of the age 13 went out with me to the pool. Because it was so hot we did not mind going out in the rain. There was complete cloud cover and heavy rain. While we are in the pool he tells me to look up and we see again the same light, not real dim but not very bright, also silent, moving in a slightly curved trajectory and then making sharp right angles in a zigzag of about five points then jumps around around its original center point before appearing to shoot up through the clouds. At this point I have been talking about them enough to annoy my family. Especially my older nephew who insists that it's nothing but a drone. So one night I convinced my two young nephews and my brother, as well as his two kids all go out to the dock and as I told them to give it 20 to 30 minutes and we'll see one. The lights did not disappoint. My older nephew was, ironically, the one to spot the light first. He suddenly said what is that a bird? And we all looked up and saw it as usual moving silently, other than that I cannot recall specifically how this one moved. But the satisfying part being that the older more skeptical nephew had no idea to explain what it was. Unfortunately my brother, the ex-military member, has terrible vision and thick classes and could not see the light in time, although his children did, he also had a camera because he likes taking pictures, but it was gone too fast and nothing was captured on film. I believe I had tried to film The light! s with a cell phone but was unable to get it to show up, probably because of the dimness. The last siting I was out on the dock alone because it was late and I could not convince my girlfriend or anyone else to come out with me to see the lights. I expected to see them even though it was raining a bit and mostly cloud covered. This time was different because while sitting on the dock I saw the cloud cover edge out over the Gulf, and what seemed to be a gap in the clouds directly above me, slightly behind me from my point of view. Through this there were two stars I could see but did not pay much attention. Expecting it to come from the Gulf of his mostly looking out that way, not sure if it's significant but the whole time I started feeling very uneasy, possibly watched, I kept having this picture of something rising out of the ocean or some large almond-eyed entity suddenly appearing on the doc next to me. This never happened though. After 30 minutes knowing I needed to get to bed I was rather disappointed and started walking up the dock back to our room! . I took one more last look up and suddenly realized those two stars were not an opening in the cloud which did not occur to me until one of those stationary lights jumped around the other and then shot off towards the Atlantic and the second one almost mimicked the exact motions of the first and appeared to shoot upwards on a curved trajectory. After the last siding it occurred to me these objects seem to move in erratic ways when we noticed them. And I can't help but remembering them and thinking they seem to shoot away or move erratically shortly after we started watching them. Maybe that's just me but to this day I can't find anything online about other people seeing this. I even asked a guy that worked at the resort what are those lights every night in the sky? He had no idea what kind of left and said we are near the Bermuda triangle which had not occurred to me at that point, I'm rather skeptical of the whole Bermuda Bermuda triangle legend. To this day I regret not making more of an effort to capture these things on film. The more I think about it the more I think it was not a terrestrial aircraft. If anybody has any ideas please let me know, there was a military base fairly nearby, but I don't imagine they had any drones with those capabilities. I hope to go back someday, and hope that I witnessed these lights again prepared with equipment to film them.
July 20, 2020 · 4:30 AM · LIGHT
Las Vegas, NV
While at work I stopped just for a second to observe the lightening that was happening this morning. I was at Bonanza and MLK looking towards Sunrise Mountain when all of the sudden 4 orangish lights flew from my right to my left at a speed that was obviously too fast for any plane. I thought it might be a reflection in the glass I was looking through but the objects went behind the mountain not to mention there were no vehicles or anything that could have caused a reflection at that moment. I was really hoping someone else saw what I saw this morning. If there are any survailence cameras facing Sunrise Mountain they may have caught the objects. Time was around 4:30am give or take 30 min.
July 20, 2020 · 3:01 AM · LIGHT
Kennesaw, GA
I picked this up on my Ring video cam in my backyard. I was unaware that it had happened until I checked the "motion history" an hour later. There was a linear 6-lights in a horizontal line. It appeared over the trees (50 ft?) at the lower end of my backyard, approached my house straight on. It dipped below my deck, then rose, and appeared to be "looking" in my first-floor window, then it rose to the 2nd floor (bedroom windows). It rose out of sight and did not return. I have a link to the video.
July 19, 2020 · 11:10 PM · LIGHT
Portland, OR
My family of four was out in a deserted rural location to see Comet NEOWISE. I am a professional analyst and investigator with some law enforcement background and a lifelong interest in astronomy and space. My wife grew up on Kauai and has had a variety of managerial and administrative positions. My two children, daughter age 12 and son age 10 were also present. The elevation at the location was approximately 1400'. We had an unobstructed view of the sky from West-North-West to North-East. We saw a bright light coming into view from the west, approximately 10 degrees above the horizon. It was approximately 5 times brighter than the brightest visible star. I thought at first it was an aircraft and we all were looking at it because of the brightness. We then saw it exhibit some non-ballistic motion; it was speeding up and then rapidly slowing to a stop, sometimes abruptly jumping up or down 2 degrees from its base course, and jinking around as it proceeded generally eastward. I had a pair of 10-22 x 50 binoculars (to see the comet) and was able to get the light in view. It was jinking around enough that its motion, combined with the binocular motion, made it too blurry to see any shape. When I was watching it magnified it started to pulse the brightness and change color; we saw the brightness vary by about 33% up and down, and the colors shift from white to red, blue green and purple in no particular order. We tracked the object across our entire field of view, which took about 2 minutes. We also saw one plane in the sky on a northward path (likely a Portland to Seattle flight) which made a stark contrast to the object as the plane had distinctly separate lights on the wingtips, did not change color, and was nowhere near as bright. As the object was nearing the eastern limit of our view, my wife and daughter saw 4 more objects in a line that started changing color and brightening as the one object we were observing approached. I was able to see 3 of the four from my location with the binoculars. None of them were as bright - they were about the same brightness as the nearby starfield. They did not move during the next 10 minutes. They also displayed multiple colors, however only white, red and blue. The brightness did not vary much. Due to the lack of motion and different visibility profile, I could not personally confirm if they were other objects or distorted stars. It is not possible to get a good estimate of distance on a light in the sky without reference points and knowledge of the object, but my best guess is given the brightness and comparing it to the plane we did see it was in the atmosphere at least 20 miles away.
July 19, 2020 · 9:50 PM · LIGHT
NoLos Angeles (northeast of), CA
My brother was looking at a star with small binoculars and he told me to have a look when I was done I put the binoculars down and we both looked up at the sky and organe little light passed by at a super highrate ofspeed across the sky headed towards the beach it must of took 4 seconds to reach the ocean at that speed and the angle look like it was across the sky not down towards earth