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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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August 29, 2015 · 9:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Telford, PA
I went out to my car with my 6 year old granddaughter. I noticed the full moon and then noticed 5 bright red stationary twinkling lights in a perfect zigzag formation in the sky. At first I thought they were lights being turned out at a ball field then realized they were slowly moving in formation with no sound. I started to drive in the direction of the lights and called my parents, whose house I had just left, and told them to look out their front window. They, too, witnessed the lights but one by one the lights disappeared until they were all out. I drove about half a mile down the road towards them. They were way further than I had originally thought. They slowly disappeared.
August 29, 2015 · 8:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Murrells Inlet / Burgess Community, SC
The lights were very large, very bright, side by side. I could not see the aircraft because the 2 lights were intensely bright. I could see the approaching headlights through the trees next to the road, I tried to keep an eye on the aircraft as it crossed over hey 707 above or just behind me thru my rear view mirror. I was unable to do so because of the curvy road and I could not find an area to pull over to get a better view to observe more detail of the craft and I then lost sight of the craft. I could not hear any sounds coming from the aircraft. No engine noise, but it was flying slowly and very, very low.
August 27, 2015 · 7:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Burdur (Turkey) · Turkey
Dear NUFORC, These photos were taken by me on the date of 27 August 2015, like 19:00 o’clock (07:00 pm) in Turkey, Burdur province, noticed the object at the photo just now. We – me and girlfriend - were returning to Burdur, from a visit to the Lake Salda, and on the way I saw the ‘’Burdur slickenside 1 km’’ sign. I have never seen anything like it before, so we moved our car to the side road to see the slickenside, we investigated a little and realizing the beautiful scenery, we moved about 400 meters further up the same road to take some pics and move back. I took the pics and saw nothing abnormal. These are the pics, taken by the Nokia cell phone model: C3-00 Type: RM-614, a little old one. I also send you the other photos which I took from the same place. I can't tell you the object at the photo named ''look at the air please'' is a bird, an insect or an ufo? If you find something remarkable, I'll be glad if you get a chance to turn back to me. I wish you success in your work. Best regards. We cannot positively identify the anomalous object in the photo. Possible bird? D
August 26, 2015 · 9:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Alachua, FL
My fiancé and I are avid stargazers, and have often seen lights static and in motion. Last night, at approximately 9:30 p.m., we were enjoying this past time while standing on the picnic table in the dark outside of our little house. My fiancé noticed a furious orange orb of light across the property above the trees; it looked like it was a few miles away from us, and incredibly low to the ground, possibly 400-500ft up. For lack of a better description, the light was large, oblong and gave the appearance a raging fire in the sky. It came towards us with immense speed and then slowed to a crawl as it flew over us; it emitted no sound. I was unable to make out true shape of the craft as it passed over because of intense lighting on the undercarriage. However, I was able to tell that it did not appear circular or saucer like. The undercarriage had bands of reddish/orange light that went the length of the aircraft, unlike any aircraft I’ve seen or researched. The craft sped up once it had passed us and disappeared quickly behind the tree line. Whatever or whoever it was intention, and slowed down to look at us, for what reason I do not know. Later, we tried to rationalize what we saw; we do live about 30 miles from the Gainesville airport, however this came from the opposite direction and was definitely not on course for it like every other plane we see. Could this by chance be a secret military plane undisclosed to the public? And if so, why was it in our area, and why would this theoretical secret craft be so brazen in exposing itself to the two of us?
August 24, 2015 · 12:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Racine, WI
On Sunday night or Monday morning at exactly 11:30, my girlfriend and I went to watch the stars over Lake Michigan at Racine Veach. As we were looking at star patterns, we noticed a very bright star above Lake Michigan. It twinkled so brightly, we had to check it out. Lately we've be3en using binoculars. We saw what appeared to be a stationary star, but it looked as though it was making small loop patterns when you focused on it, but it never left that position very much. When we focused the binoculars on it, we noticed flashes of bright green, almost a plasma type color. In addition to the green, there was a sliver/gold light always and red every once in a while. I am familiar with flashing lights on planes, helicopters, etc., and it wasn't a safety strobe or anything like that. Besides, this object just sat stationary and every once in appeared to move. The colors were distinct and always showed green and gold/silverfish color. Through the lenses, we assumed this object was in motion but staying in a stationary or "Star-like" position. Planes passed by many times so we could refence the light against known aircraft passing by into Racine airport, and the colors from this object were very bright, colorful and brilliant. So, basically one of the stars low in the distance twinkled so much it attracted our attention away from the others in the night sky. When we looked closer with the binoculars, we saw strong green and gold colors, plus sometimes red, but only every so often and never in a pattern or anything. It looked like a craft pretending to be a star, but it gave off such brightness and colors, it was the only thing we looked at besides 2 shooting stars at 11:59 p.m. and 12:06 a.m.. So it was a bright star, that was twinkling green, goldish/siver and red while it sat in a stationary position. Every once in a while when we would see the red, it would appear to move in very fast,erratic movements like a distant,fuzzy,bouncy object. We were too far and the lights were to bright to id a def shape. It was strange, I spot satelites all the time. This was a stationary star looking abject that appeared green,gold and red, flashes or pulses, and we got there around 11:30 pm and left around 12:15 am, and the star/object generally stayed in the same spot the whole time. It was still there when we left, and I didn't want to leave before this thing did something, but I had to get home, I was there for around an hour maybe more. I will go out at the same time tomorrow night to check for the object against the reference of the star patterns. If it's still there, I will report back. No tail, or sounds but it was way out over the lake, so no sounds or anything. Object might have been spinning or something like spinning,popping while it hovered, almost as if it had to in order to stay floating at a stationary spot. Feel free to contact me
August 22, 2015 · 11:15 PM · UNKNOWN
Gardnerville, NV
We suspect that the object may have been a so-called "twinkling" star. PD
August 22, 2015 · 10:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Gaithersburg, MD
As me and my father were walking out of the Montgomery County fair parking lot, what we can only describe as what looked like a commercial airplane, (green wing lights, red flashing tail light) zoomed out of the lights from the midway carnival rides about 1000 feet up. About 100 feet away from us, it abruptly stopped in mid air, and hovered in the air for around two minutes. At some point, my dad decided to pull out his phone, to try to take a picture of it; but before he could, it then went from 0 to 50 back to the lights of the midway. It was soundless, and I could not make out the shape of the craft. I use ufo in a semi-broad sense, as I think it could have just been a drone.
August 22, 2015 · 9:50 PM · UNKNOWN
North Salem, NH
I saw an extremely bright orange object of traveling from an East to Westerly direction across the night sky about the same altitude of a helicopter would normally travel. This was not a combustion aircraft because there was no engine noise of any kind coming from the object, it was completely silent. (That’s what drew my attention to it). The object was quite large judging from the circumference of the light . I would put it just a bit larger than a hot air balloon that carries passengers, but those balloons do not fly at night and cannot travel at the speed this object was traveling which was about the same speed of a small single engine plane. I would rather not give my info, just wanted to report what I saw so others would know it was seen by this person, as well. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 22, 2015 · 8:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Kaukauna, WI
The 22nd of August, myself, my husband, our dog, and father were near Lawe St and Lamplighter Dr in Kaukauna, where we heard at least 3 LONG sets of incredibly loud sounds coming from the sky without any objects in sight. They were unlike anything any of us had heard before; somewhat like repeated exchanges of gunfire, but much louder and deeper. There were long bursts of booming and rumbling that sometimes appeared to grow louder and closer to you as if it was following you. The first 2 times we were a bit unnerved and curious...but by the 3rd set, we were actually pretty frightened. At first my dog had no discernable response (as she would, for example, to fireworks). By the last set of sounds she was uncharacteristically, whining, sniffing the air, pulling at her leash and panting. Each set lasted from 40 seconds to over a minute and a half. I waited to watch/read local news before reporting/documenting here. There's been nothing to explain what we heard.
August 22, 2015 · 5:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Brooklyn Park, MN
There was a storm today in Minnesota and a grandfather figure of mine and myself love watching storms so we were hanging out in his garage to observe. Occasionally stepping out to observe the sky better. We stepped out to look more and were focused on a morning dove on the power line. But then we saw this strange, black object gliding across the sky. There was no sound, no visible lights, it did not look like any known object to me or the person with me, it was clearly not a weather balloon, and it was under the storm clouds. It seemed to be just a black sphere-like object, but then it made a slight turn (or it was spinning the whole time) and we saw curves on it and it had a metallic silver color on it as well. We kept our eyes focused on it as long as we could until it got too far away for us to see. Immediately afterwards, rain started pouring on us. It's almost as if it was riding straight in front of the storm. My grandfather figure used to be a helicopter engineer for many years and he said that in his fifty-four years of living that he has never seen an object shaped like that in the sky. The way it glided across like nothing and made absolutely no sound seemed so unusual. Me and him both strongly believe that we have seen a UFO. I, in no way, have had as much experience as him when in comes to aircrafts, but I want to be an astronomer, so there has been many nights were I have observed the sky with my telescope and I have done a lot of research, but I have never seen anything quite like this. I thought it was worth sharing.
August 21, 2015 · 9:18 PM · UNKNOWN
Charlotte, NC
My significant other and I saw a light formation flying from the area of uptown Charlotte, moving south, at about 9:15 p.m. Friday, August 21st. We live just a few blocks outside of uptown. The lights were spotted as they moved over an apartment building on the uptown side of the condo, and they flew directly over the condo. There were a couple helicopters in the area at the time (due to a ruckus at a baseball game uptown that was occurring). An airplane also flew by/below the light formation. It took about two minutes from the time we spotted it over the next door building to the time it had disappeared over our building and was out of sight. My SO grabbed binoculars and reported that the lights looked like discs with lights, but he also could not get the binoculars focused (I grabbed the iPhone).
August 19, 2015 · 9:53 PM · UNKNOWN
Lakewood, WA
My husband and I witnessed an object flying across the sky very quickly with blueish-green lights. At first I thought it was a drone, but it was too high in the sky and moving way too fast. It made no sound as it got half way into our view of the sky. It then stopped for a few seconds, and continued towards us. It then got to about right above us and stopped again. Then it moved up and down, and making very erratic movements. It then started blinking very fast a reddish color and flew very fast back the direction it came from, and off into the distance dropped out of the sky at an alarming rate.
August 19, 2015 · 2:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Hawley, PA
On the morning of August 19,2015 Approximately 2:00am, Me, my brother and good friend were with our family at our vacation home located in Hawley Pa. We were in the backyard hanging out around the fire pit drinking beers, the night sky was beautiful and clear, you could clearly see stars and if you really paid attention you could catch shooting stars. All 3 of us are now very intently paying attention to the beautiful sky looking for shooting stars, while staring at the sky I notice what looks to be a bright star, very high in the atmosphere but closer then what a star looks like, I kept staring at it and even pointed it out to my brother and friend, while we continue to stare at what we think is a bright star, it then just disappears almost like a shooting star yet the entire time it seemed stationary until it zipped off, all 3 of us immediately start yelling at each other saying “OMG did you see that, I can’t believe we just witnessed something like that” In the aftermath we noticed a blue/green trail just sitting in the atmosphere approximately where the UFO was sitting, and seemed to linger for a while, we told our parents and were not believed. Because of the distance we could not tell what shape or color it was.
August 18, 2015 · 8:14 AM · UNKNOWN
Hilo, HI
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 16, 2015 · 9:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Rochester, NY
Noticed red and blue light in the sky it say there for a second, and then rapidly wen straight up in the air. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 15, 2015 · 9:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Weverville, NC
At 21:30 hours on the 08/15/2015 driving from Mars Hill, NC, to Weverville, NC, on I-26, me and my wife seen a bright white object. my wife said look a meteor! I looked and said no too low and slower. it was a aircraft maybe a F-16? But the speed was much more than a F-16. When from Weverville to mountains south of Asheville NC in 1 min .20+ miles. Then at the mountains slowed why down and turned red. could see two maybe three red steady lights and the white light was gone/out. Wife said look, his brake lights are on now. when the object over flew us there was NO other lights on. could only see the bright white light.Was not yellow like afterburner. was NO sound.whatched for maybe two mins looked like went over the mountains. I have been to many air shows and seen aircraft at near 700 mph. this was faster. the object was moving south. I have lived in Mars Hill, NC, for 15 years and seen fighters,C-130's, choppers, even a blimp! Was too fast to see a shape. but the red lights never seen that type of steady red lights on a US aircraft.
August 12, 2015 · 9:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Haven Beach, NJ
At roughly 9 to 10 pm, my wife and I observed a glowing red/orange light slowly hovering from north to south, skirting the beach on lbi. At first I thought it may be some sort of drone, but it was just silently hovering slowly down the beach at probably around I would say 5 miles an hour as it got closer I realized that it couldn't be controlled by someone and it come too far to still be skirting the coast as it got closer to us it's seemed stop and then moved quickly whit sort of a flash out into the ocean and disappeared
August 12, 2015 · 8:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Rosendale (UK/England) · United Kingdom
Right, okay, so this isn't a UFO sighting as such but something that happened to me a few weeks ago, now i have only told one other person and have not gone to the police or anything because well they won't really do anything. So im hoping that people on here will have some answers to what actually happened and if it will keep happening. A couple weeks ago i was having a really stressful day, and thought that i would take a drive up to a hill where i normally go walking or to chill out. Now this hill is out the way of people and so is quite remote but there are a few farm houses about. I was sat in my car just strolling on my phone when i caught something in the corner off my eye, as first i thought it was nothing more than a cow or some people going for a walk but the longer i stared the more my mind just couldn't make out what it was. Now the area is flat with a few walls and bushes about so it was not a tree or a pole or anything else that may cause my eyes to play tricks on me. Whatever it was just crouched there and stared at me, i just sat frozen to my chair, it then stood up on two legs, and with that another creature stood up next to it, i was just frozen and was unable to move and as much as i tried i could not stop staring. They both walking up around the back off my car and next thing i know i am stood outside my car face to face with them, Now they must of been about 7ft tall each, they had long slim bodies with long skinny limbs and heads not much bigger than ours, with eyes similar to ours but with a yellow look and glow to them and they was the same colour as a dolphin. One off them just stood in the background while the other one was stood in front of me, my body felt really fuzzy and it was something had never experienced in my life, i could also feel a warmth sort of like a wave of heat hitting me. The one being in front of me held out his hand and both of them where exchanging noises that was like a monotone humming with a popping sound every 2 seconds or so. He then looked at me and began speaking but i couldn't understand what was being said. But for some reason the sounds began to translate to english in my head and they where saying "no harm no harm no harm" it was like they where translating the words to English in my head for me. I didn't know how to react when its hand was out stretched but for some reason i felt the urge to hold out mine and grab it, it put its hand on mine and the next part was just a blur and next thing i know i woke up outside my car and 12 hours had passed. i just cant explain that bit because i have never been able to sleep that long in my life even when i am really tired. When i got home i just didnt know what to make off it and honestly i was just hoping it was a bad dream because this is something i cant even begin to explain. I have gone over this scenario so many times in my head since it happened but non of it makes sense. I have had strange nose bleeds and lapses of time that have just gone missing from my day that i cannot explain, i dont do drugs and i do not drink stupid amounts of alcohol, i am a normal person who plays sports and works, and i cant add this together. I have now had 3 nights where i will wake up early in the morning and hear the monotone noise in my head and feel that warm glow and fuzzy feeling and i have now got two strange marks on my body on both of my collar bones. Please someone must have some answers but these creatures match no descriptions of anything and the last conclusion i want is to say that they where aliens but this is the only explanation i can come up with, I have been reading reports and have come across two other experiences which match that of mine, please someone must have some answers because it is getting to the point where i am scared they will come back, i never seen any flashing lights in the sky or anything and never have and the only signs i am getting or this weird feelings in my body followed by this constant missing of time. Also which is strange is that my cat wont come into my room anymore and they are normally dead friendly but when ever i pick them up or go to stroke them they just run like something about me is scaring them away but seem to fine with everyone else. Someone must know something and be able to help. We are uncertain as to whether this is a serious-minded report. We have written the source of the report, requesting confirmation as to whether it is a hoax. PD
August 12, 2015 · 4:45 AM · UNKNOWN
Asheville, NC
What I had thought was a star started moving, fast!... At first I thought might be a satellite. Noticed was moving too fast, as I have watched satellies before, many times. As a child, I stayed w/ my grandparents every summer, far from city lights. Every night I would watch a satilite move across the sky. Vary dim, could barely see it. Steady and slow. This object was moving vary fast. Made its way across the sky in a seconds. Also, changing directions (twice!), before disappearing in the light on the horizon. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD
August 11, 2015 · 7:19 AM · UNKNOWN
Brandon, FL
I was sitting at a red light and took 5 pictures this thing lit up on the back of what I thought was a cloud but was not. And went to the ground in the last picture there are two jest seen going after the object. The cloud looks like a plane with a cockpit and occupants
August 11, 2015 · 5:30 AM · UNKNOWN
Carrolton, TX
We were awakened by a car alarm. As soon as the alarm turned off, you could hear, a very distinct humming sound above us. The sound would not change tone or break for 30 mins. Also, you can hear it move to different parts of the neighborhood. It would leave from above us, move further away, then it would move back toward us. It was a very very obvious tone, unlike any plane, train or siren. The sound seemed concentrated within a 4 block radius. We live at the dead end of a cul de sac with no street light, that faces a wooded area. We are also above avg elevation, ruling out traffic sounds. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 11, 2015 · 1:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Ottawa, IL
I saw a transparent object flying low overhead, it looked to be cloaked and the light looked bent around it. Seemed to have a mist surrounding it. I only noticed it when it moved because I could see the mist moving. Once it was noticed by me and a few friends around the fire, it turned and flew off. It also made no noise at all...very eerie. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 10, 2015 · 11:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Chattanooga, TN
Immense green light appeared a few seconds after a power outage that covered the entire hillside.
August 10, 2015 · 11:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Chattanooga, TN
Bright blue green light that lit up the entire sky lasted about 3 seconds happened three consecutive times. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD