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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 19, 2020 · 12:30 AM · LIGHT
IdentifiedBernac-Debat, Midi-Pyrénées · France
Dans la nuit du 18 au 19 juillet 2020, trois personnes observant un ciel parfaitement clair, sont intrigués par le passage d'un objet "clignotant" avec des flashs particulièrement lumineux. Le témoin rapporte : "Il y a eu 3 ou 4 flashs sur tout le temps de la traversée de l‘horizon, et entre les moments de luminosité, l'objet était invisible à l’œil nu. La trajectoire semblait rectiligne, pas d'écarts." Le témoin pense à un satellite mais aucune de ses recherches sur Internet n'aboutit. Un seul témoignage sera recueilli pour ce phénomène. La description du PAN fournie par le témoin évoque fortement un satellite en rotation rapide, flashant à un rythme plus ou moins régulier. Cette explication est d’ailleurs envisagée par le témoin. Les paramètres sont très concordants avec le passage du satellite Telkom 3 : la trajectoire, l’orientation, la hauteur angulaire ainsi que l’horaire de passage. Les flashs puissants rappellent très fortement ceux du satellite Telkom 3 signalés en juillet 2020. Le satellite est en rotation rapide (voir le compte rendu d'enquête). Ce cas est d’étrangeté faible et de très bonne consistance (témoignage unique mais complet et précis). Le cas est classé A : observation de flashes créés par le satellite Telkom 3. [GEIPAN classification A — Satellite]
July 18, 2020 · 11:30 PM · LIGHT
Danville, NH
Orange/Red oval shaped light, bright as a firefly but not flickering. It was the size of a small aircraft and travelling about the same altitude and speed as a small craft... no sound. It moved from east to west and then started to move south; as it moved south the size diminished and finally faded from view after a few seconds.
July 18, 2020 · 11:15 PM · LIGHT
Lakeview, OH
My wife and I were out in our back yard taking pics of comet Neowise. She had gone to sit down. I noticed a bright light with what appeared to be a light bluish beam far off to the west. I went back and got the camera from my wife and started filming as it began to pass over the area. She did not see it due to where she was sitting. I had gone further into the back yard away from the trees so I could get a better view. It seemed about 1500 feet up traveling from west to east, there was no noise coming from it at all. It was as bright as burning magnesium but with what seemed to be a bluish tint. There were no blinking lights like normal aircraft. I have been an amateur astronomer for about 35 years and have never seen anything like this before. I can give a copy of the video but my internet is very slow.
July 18, 2020 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Warrensburg, MO
I was imaging comet NEOWISE at my observatory Rolling Hills Observatory (V83) and a noticed coming out the west a very fast moving reddish yellow light. It traveled directly overhead and there was no sound at all. I have seen a lot of A.F. aircraft around Whiteman AFB and this was nothing like I have seen. I am a retire Naval aircrewman with 20 years experience in P3 Orion patrol aircraft. I also have 18 years experience as an amateur astronomer and so I know it was not a fireball or meteor.
July 18, 2020 · 10:30 AM · LIGHT
Bel Aire, KS
Me and a neighbor were sitting outside trying to find the Neowise Comet and I looked up to the East and I saw a light that was hovering at first and then it moved to the North and then shot straight East at a 90 degree turn and then disappeared.
July 18, 2020 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Ogontz, ME
Standing on the western shore of Moosehead Lake on the far northern end of the Lake . Bright object appeared as bright as a star or planet moving out of the west headed due East . Object moved very fast. At first it was thought to be a plane but then object exhibited unusual flight path. The object appeared to zig zag back and forth then continue forward . It dropped toward the south and was observed as a very bright ball of light in binoculars for a number of minutes then moved east into the distance disappearing in low clouds eastward. Not a plane .
July 17, 2020 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Smithville (Canada), ON · Canada
We were observing comet Neowise with binoculars. We noticed a light moving east away from our view of the comet. It suddenly sped up and accelerated very fast, still heading east. At approx 75°above the NNE horizon, it slowed down and stopped. It's light flashed occasionally for several minutes and then we lost sight of it.
July 17, 2020 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Lexington, KY
I was sitting on my porch with friends and looked up to star gaze and stared at what I thought was a star. It sat motionless for maybe 15 seconds before zooming off and me asking WTF was that to my friends...
July 16, 2020 · 11:09 PM · LIGHT
Corpus Christi, TX
The ufo was going around in a circle for about 8 minutes while we questioned what it could be. There is an airport close but it wasn't going in a straight path, it was circling. We don't have a stadium and the night was clear, it couldn't have been a light bright enough to show that high in the sky. After while we said it could be a ufo and then it zipped away without a sound, faster than any human vehicle.
July 16, 2020 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Gunnison, CO
Very bright white light pulsating at about 8 second intervals moving across the sky over the black canyon at the Gunnison.
July 16, 2020 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Plano, TX
I was laying at the pool in a chair drying off before heading back upstairs to my apartment as I looked up toward the sky a flash caught my eye. I looked up to the nearest star and slightly below it I saw the flash repeat. There was about a five to seven second delay between flashes. It flashed about a total of 8 times and on that last time it disappeared and never came back . I noticed no motion at all while I was flashing. It seemed to be extremely high in the sky it looked like it could have been the brightest star in the sky flashing off and on slowly. I scanned the sky to see if it had moved position and was blinking elsewhere but I never saw it blink again. I was able to get about two minutes of video but it only shows up in the first 15 seconds.
July 16, 2020 · 9:15 PM · LIGHT
Buckingham, VA
Firstly, some context: despite how odd it may sound, I spend every spare moment of my time documenting anomalies (both in the sky and at ground level), so I’m not reporting the following because the incident was unusual for me personally. Instead, I am reporting it because it occurred at 9:15 PM on the evening of July 16, 2020, and is VERY similar to the witness report made only 2 days later from Lakeview, Ohio, which I noticed on your homepage just this evening (October 19, 2020). I use your site as a resource for finding commonalities between my own experiences and what others may be seeing in roughly the same time frame, so I felt that it may be beneficial to someone if I reported this, seeing as how there was already one report made that was so similar – if there was a trend of sightings that week which occurred elsewhere, it may help to determine the path this anomaly was following during that time period (assuming that it is in fact the same object in the report from Ohio). The circumstances of the sighting were simple – I was conducting one of my regular, routine “sky watch” sessions and noticed this coming over, moving roughly south-to-north at approximately 9:15 PM. There was no sound associated with the object, and it moved steadily and slowly, without blinking. Unbeknownst to me, at some point prior to that, I had accidentally bumped the focus ring on the front of my camera (a Sionyx Aurora), and in the video you’ll hear me fussing because I can’t figure out why the camera wouldn’t come into sharp focus . It wasn’t until later that evening I figured out the problem, so unfortunately, the clip is slightly blurry.
July 16, 2020 · 8:30 PM · LIGHT
Death Valley National Park region, NV
I may have seen two UFOs this evening over the southern Nevada desert. I live near to the Air Force Nevada Test and Training Range for decades, and am familiar with all types of military aircraft and drones. These observations did not match any aircraft I have observed flying around the area. The observations verged on natural phenomena so I was not alarmed, but these were unusual . I work in the sciences and field biology, and am an active night sky astronomy fan for decades. I headed outside at early dusk just after sunset around 20:30 hours Pacific time, to check whether Comet NEOWISE was visible yet in the northwest sky, as I have doing all week. It was not yet visible. I have also been observing very bright Jupiter (magnitude -2.75) and Saturn rising in the lower sky to the southeast every evening. As I walked out into our rural driveway in the Mojave Desert I looked up and saw a bright “planet” which I first thought was Jupiter, as it was a similar bright white light high in the sky. Although I was somewhat confused as this seemed off the ecliptic and much higher after sunset –almost overhead—than Jupiter has been. I admired it for several seconds in the darkening blue dusk sky, just before stars were becoming visible. As I walked a few steps further around some trees I then noticed the real Jupiter and Saturn rising on the SE portion of the sky above the horizon, glowing as they have been during the past week. I became confused and placed my iPhone camera skywatch app onto this Jupiter, and it identified as Jupiter. I then looked back at what I had supposed was a very bright “Jupiter” and was even more confused to see it moving in a straight line heading due north in what appeared to be high in the sky. It was like a bright star or planet moving at an even speed like a jet aircraft, but with no blinking airplane lights. It appeared to be high in the sky like a jet airplane would be, but there was no sound and no appearance of sunlight reflecting off a high metal airplane. But I wondered if it was a strange military bomber heading to the Nevada Test and Training Range which has a boundary 10 miles to the east of my location. The object was similar in appearance to Jupiter as it is visible this week, but very slightly brighter. It seemed to move somewhat faster than a typical jet, but slow enough I could see it move clearly and follow it with my eyes. It continued “flying” at an even speed to the north until it was blocked by trees and I lost it. I was confused and thought it must be a strange military bomber jet, although it was stationary when I first observed it, like a bright planet first appearing in the dusk sky just after sunset. The white light was circular like Jupiter appears through binoculars. This happened before the stars and night sky appeared, and there was still some sunset “alpenglow” on the desert mountains. I have never seen anything like it, although it was not large or flashy. Later that evening around 21:40 my husband and I watched Comet NEOWISE for a few hours into the night, dark Moon so excellent viewing and no city light pollution in the Death Valley region. We were sitting in the yard with binoculars admiring the comet. The night sky was now very dark and full of stars. A small white light then appeared in our view in the northwestern sky, low, and traveled in a slow straight line to the east. It traveled perfectly straight and at an even speed. My husband asked what was that? I put my binoculars on it and saw no flashing green or red airline lights as was typical. Just a white pinpoint of light. I said I did not know what that was. I wondered if it was a satellite, although it was not rotating and catching sunset light as satellites often do, nor was it traveling overhead across the night sky, but low on the northern horizon from west to east, again towards the Nevada Test and Training Range. We both thought it was unusual and wondered if i! t was a military aircraft. It passed under the view of the comet. My husband said it was traveling faster than a normal commercial airline, but it was slow enough that I could fix my binoculars on it and see the white point of light, no apparent shape and not appearing to be something reflecting high altitude sunlight—but more like it was producing its own light like a bight star. It passed out of view to the NE and we were left wondering what that seemingly distant traveling light object was. No sound, no contrail, no tail.
July 16, 2020 · 11:08 AM · LIGHT
Orem, UT
Low in the Eastern sky near Orem Utah on July 14, 2020 at 11:08-11:11. Large white light seen for about a minute. Smaller white light flew into larger light, smaller separated from large white light then turned red. Both then vanished. I was driving.
July 15, 2020 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Superior, WI
I was driving home from my boyfriend's house which is about a 10 minute drive. About a minute into my drive home, 3 very bright lights come flying over the top of my car and soar through the sky, but were very high up and looked very far away. The 3 lights then aligned horizontal in the sky, still moving. The middle light and far right light had a white glow to them, while the far left light had a yellow/orange tint to it. Suddenly, the 3 lights separated and the far left light, soared all the way to the left and disappeared. At this point I don’t see any of the 3 lights. I then am stopped at a stop sign on a kind of main road in my town, but there were no other cars or anyone else around this time of night. As I’m stopped at the stop sign, all the street lights that line the streets go out as if they all lost power. They were out for maybe 30 seconds. I have never seen this happen in my town before. I start driving again and then appear the 2 white glowing ! lights again in the sky. I drive a few more blocks and I just happen to look to my left, and floating in the sky at the end of the road to my left, is the glowing yellow/orange light from before. I keep driving and the 2 white lights are still in the sky. I then need to take a left turn to get home & a car coming the direction towards me on the other side of the road had its headlights & brights on and were so bright I shut my eyes. When I opened my eyes to make my turn, the lights were gone.
July 15, 2020 · 9:45 PM · LIGHT
Wichita, KS
Sitting on patio one us seen a light travel across the sky at a steady speed traveling south to north. All of us watched it continue north until it went over our shed. Then two minutes later 2 planes flew north lower then object. Then 5 minutes later a jet flew north to north west.
July 15, 2020 · 9:16 PM · LIGHT
Edgewater, NJ
I have a live picture showing a green light with odd movement.
July 15, 2020 · 9:15 PM · LIGHT
Dartmouth, MA
UFO sighting Over South Dartmouth around 9:15pm on 7-15-20, 6 people spotted 2 bright lights appear out of nowhere simultaneously in the sky to our South. They were bright and looked as big and as bright comparatively to the brightest star/planet that was in the sky at the time. There were no flashing lights, no sound, no contrail, and no definitive shape to it other than a single bright light. One was closer to us flying about where a lower airplane would be and started traveling East in a straight trajectory about as fast as an airplane until it finally got so far it was behind trees and houses and out of view within about 5 minutes from when it appeared. The second light that had appeared looked exactly the same but appeared higher and further away than the other. It traveled up and East then seemed to head South away from us, faded quickly and disappeared within 30 seconds from when we first saw it. After about 15-20 minutes of looking at the sky wondering what we just saw, we could hear an actual airplane coming and flew over us from behind the trees to our south west traveling north east over our house. As we watched it directly overhead, 3 of us saw a third bright light appear in front and to the right of the plane. The three of us jumped up at the same time to get a better look. The light was maybe a little higher than where the plane was flying and moved in front of the plane from right to left (northwest direction) and not straight but around the nose of the plane as if avoiding it. Then the light quickly faded to red and disappeared. Later that night I was heading inside the house just before 11:00pm and in the sky to my northeast this time i saw a forth bright light as the one first described traveling in the same eastern trajectory in the exact same fashion. No flashing lights, sounds, shape, or contrail. Same height in the sky and this time being maybe 2-3 miles north of me i could definitively say it was not in outer space. It too flew at a constant speed from west to east and i watched it until it was too far away and out of view behind trees and houses. It took about 5 minutes for it to go across the sky and out of sight, enough time for me to call 3 other people to the porch to take a look.
July 15, 2020 · 9:15 PM · LIGHT
Ocean Isle Beach, NC
A light of unusual characteristics was observed at 9:15 (approx). The light had no additional anti-collision lights - no flashing or blinking lights at all, no colored lights - none of the typical aircraft indicator lights typically seen with nighttime flight. The light initially was mistaken as a planet, because of the static lighting and lack of movement. After several minutes (~2min), however, the light began slowly moving/drifting across the sky to th NE. It was positioned almost directly overhead - perhaps 5° from zenith. The movement was too slow to indicate a meteor, and it was almost as bright as Venus in the night sky, although the wrong location. It was also far too bright to be a satellite, generally speaking; and because it also had a significant period of no movement, it appears that it would not be a satellite. There was absolutely no noise. I have had one or two "sightings" before, typically of "metallic" craft or fast-moving lights, but this one was different. It gave a distinct impression of something in observation mode (although I realize this is injecting too much opinion). Overall, an interesting mystery.
July 15, 2020 · 8:45 PM · LIGHT
Alden, NY
New York
July 15, 2020 · 3:00 AM · LIGHT
Lakeport, NY
While taking a late night swim on Onida lake with my girlfriend and two of our friends... we saw Two large lights in the distance east of us. They were brighter then any of the stars or planets in the sky. The lights were still for about 3 minutes. Then disappears began to head towards us at fast rate... they flew over us and then vanished.
July 15, 2020 · 3:00 AM · LIGHT
Cicero, NY
Two large lights stagnant for 3 minutes. Then disappears within seconds towards the west.
July 14, 2020 · 8:54 PM · LIGHT
Branford, CT
This is my second encounter with this ball of flashing light. The light was stationary in the air and was sparkling much brighter than a star for around a minute and a half, and then immediately shot up just a bit, and zoomed away into the clouds far away behind it. I do have video.
July 14, 2020 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Everett, WA
I glanced out my window looking towards the mountains and I saw a light on top of a mountain it then went behind the mountain and then it rose up behind the mountain then the light grew dimmer and dimmer as it flew away. This the third day in a row I've noticed it.