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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
June 30, 2020 · 10:05 PM · LIGHT
Kokomo, IN
My wife and myself were sitting on our balcony when I glanced upwards at the moon. Conditions were mostly clear, with some high cirrostratus hanging in the moonlight. I saw a bright light hanging by the moon, which at the time was perhaps 70 degrees above the horizon. At first, I mistook this light for Venus. It possessed a yellow-white color similar to Venus when the planet is bright. After pointing the light out to my wife, I noticed that the light was solid, failing to twinkle the nature that stars and planets do. As we sat, perplexed, the light began to move, retaining its brightness. The light moved southwards, hanging just above the treeline. We reasoned that the light must have been emitted by a helicopter, or was perhaps a lantern (which are commonly lit and sent into the sky leading up to the forth of July). Suddenly, the light changed colors, dimming shifting to a magenta somewhere between red and purple. Following the change in color, the light began moving erratically, shooting upwards and circling in a manner that defied our understanding. The abrupt changes in direction and altitude would undoubtedly be impossible for an aircraft to achieve. As we sat watching this light above the treeline, it seemed to edge closer to our balcony. As it neared, it again shone bright, bright enough to illuminate the street below and our surroundings moderately. The light continued to inch closer, changing to magenta again, then brightening significantly. It seemed very close, we were honestly a bit frightened by the intensity and movement of the object during these lighting cycles. The object continued to move what appeared to be southwards of our location, as it moved it became obfuscated in part by the treeline. Even when behind the trees, the brightness of the light was visible through the branches. The object continued to move erratically. Pausing, gliding, then circling quickly in the sky. Just prior to our losing of the object beyond the trees, we saw another light. This one hung farther in the distance and was much more purple in color than red. We did not see this second object illuminate as the first continued to do so. Resultantly, we quickly lost the second object beyond the trees. Prior to losing the first object, I managed to record a 1 minute video of the first object, appearing as a grainy spot of light hanging above the trees. Near the end of my video, the object ascends, illuminates and cuts into the trees. Even in the video, the brightness of the object can be seen through the branches of the trees. I stood vigil for some time after having seen the object. Employing a plane-tracking radar app, I scanned the airspace around us, failing to find a plane that was or had traveled along the path in the sky we saw the object. Writing this a few hours later, I am quite perplexed. We live perhaps 10 or 20 miles south of a air force base, albeit all this activity happened in the opposite direction of the base itself.
June 29, 2020 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Pembroke (Canada), ON · Canada
I've been seeing a light in the sky that follows me everywhere I travel and it has been witnessed by myself and others in our family and household. It's gotten very close, maybe 20 ft above us when we leave city limits. It has also been noted to follow certain people I associate with on days when I don't see it but it is visible pretty much every clear night we've had. I've asked others to watch it when I leave them and they've told me as soon as I've left it's left, and at times been replaced by another light. Some nights, even when we travel away from home there are several moving in erratic patterns, and there is one in particular that seems to go where I go keeping to the same spot in the sky but even when I turn corners in my vehicle is still visible in the same spot in the sky. I've put tape on my window to track it and see if it was moving and watched it bob and weave out of the lines. When it did come close above our vehicle my husband at first thoug! ht it was a helicopter but with it being about 20 ft above our van I thought if it were a helicopter there would be a loud noise and it wouldn't have had so many colors flashing and it was silent. I really don't understand it but it's everywhere I go.
June 28, 2020 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Jamestown, RI
Basically, 5 people plus myself were sitting out by the pool late Sunday night. We collectively watched what appeared to be a large light moving in multiple directions without the use of jet propulsion. After watching it zip about for a few minutes, two other lights appeared and seemed to form an equilateral triangle between the three. We ran into the house and up to the observation tower and gathered a few more people to help us determine if what we saw was our imagination. As we all gathered together on the lookout it seemed to have stopped moving, almost as if we had spooked it. On a side note, I was laying up in the lookout tower the next afternoon and as soon as I laid down I felt a sensation as if I had become paralyzed. I could only move my eyes around the room. I had this sensation that there was an attempt to communicate. Yet there was no voice or internal dialog I could still sort of understand was was trying to be said . I was lead to believe that I was going to be used as a way observation. Similar to how people watch animals interactions in the wild on Nat Geo.
June 27, 2020 · 5:00 AM · LIGHT
San Antonio, TX
Heard a low rumble sound like trumpets then walked outside and noticed 3 orange fiery lights in triangular pattern it was not making any sound flying below cloud atmosphere and when we said to each other let's get camera and film it the lights flickered and then vanished.
June 27, 2020 · 4:30 AM · LIGHT
San Antonio, TX
Noticed 3 orange lights in triangle pattern hovering over my residence. No emission of sound and was very close but as soon as I acknowledged its presence the lights flickered, then dimmed, and it was gone
June 26, 2020 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Lithia Springs, GA
Solid white light with very slight blue hue, spherical. Light traveled west to east at a steady pace. Speed was faster than an air plane but still easily observable. Light moved in a fairly direct path, linear, but some slight ups and downs, and gave an impression of floating rather than a planes motion; whisp like. My first thought was that it could be a drone, but no blinking lights at all, and I had a feeling of excitement, like it was aware of me. (I actually waved) It was pitch dark out last night, and looking at the horizon and tree line today it must have been just above the tree line from my perspective, and must have been rather large or very close. Closing thoughts; either drone with no blinkers at all, or ET/Spirit. Feeling leans toward non-drone. Also, it was quite stormy around the time of sighting; wind was up, and rain had recently abated.
June 26, 2020 · 10:05 PM · LIGHT
Vashon, WA
They went by in pairs of two from a northerly to easterly direction. They were light orange like fire and round in shape. There was some fire that fell from one that made it not appear not to be a craft, though appeared to move as such. Each set of two that totaled eight were about 40 seconds apart. The background of the witnesses have had no experience of prior hallucinations. The witnesses have little knowledge of what they could have been as far as experience or training in things as such.
June 26, 2020 · 3:30 AM · LIGHT
braintree, MA
in 2012 i reported to this site what i saw and what they showed me today they came back again to give me one last warning the machines in dark space are coming. they also showed me that they were watching us for awhile in a 18 mile wide mothership as we called it they said which our government knows about we been doing nothing to defend ourselves they said we fight against one another maybe the secrets that lay under sand can tell you the truth which i didnt understand that part. these creatures, machines they said dont rest they never sleep they prey on living things they use our energy as a source of life for them our pain is their strength they will come and burn all they see they also said they feel hope in me and understanding of others feeling which they dont quite understand and when they come they said it will be nothing like we ever seen before they showed me what the machines look like from someone else eyes like they had a memory of a past war also light is the key before the ball of light left my chest im scared
June 25, 2020 · 10:10 PM · LIGHT
Haverhill, MA
I was sitting outside enjoying the stars when I noticed a bright light moving lower but going higher faster than I could blink. My friend and I were amazed when we saw another one just higher in the sky doing the same thing. The way they moved so quickly it looked like they could be one ufo separating into two. There was not a sound coming from the sky. It was blinking red and white lights almost like the flash you see when you get your picture taken.
June 25, 2020 · 9:45 PM · LIGHT
North Myrtle Beach, SC
Beginning at 21:45, 3 observers (later growing to 9) were looking out to sea from a beachfront property at the extreme north end of the Cherry Grove Beach neighborhood in North Myrtle Beach, SC. The sky was mostly clear with a thunderstorm offshore to the SE, 10 miles or so out. Temp was 77 degrees F. At that time, three very bright orange lights appeared in the sky ENE over the water, approximately 25 to 30 degrees above the horizon. They were much larger and brighter than the stars, and initially looked like military flares, but they didn't fall. The lights stayed in place for 5-10 seconds before fading out. At that point, 6-8 tiny white lights appeared in their place. They were much smaller and dimmer than the orange lights had been and they resembled conventional aircraft when viewed at night from a great distance. However, they were blinking randomly, did not appear to use conventional navigation lights, and were moving erratically in different directions. Three of them headed NE while the others moved SW. We observed them for around 4-5 minutes before they disappeared from view. Within about 10 minutes, the large, bright orange lights reappeared a little further down the beach toward the SW. Initially, one light would appear in place, lasting 5-10 seconds before fading out. Then another would do the same a few minutes later. They were not launched from the surface nor dropped from any aircraft. A few minutes later, a chain of three orange lights appeared, flaring up in succession, one after the other, in a straight line in tight formation. This chain was perhaps 10 degrees above the horizon. They then faded out in the same order they appeared. After this, two appeared and then disappeared in the same manner. Then, a chain of four appeared and disappeared in the same manner. All of these “light chains” appeared in a range that was 10-15 degrees above the horizon. After the chain of four faded out, the tiny dim lights reappeared in their place and flew away in different directions, blinking randomly. We observed these lights for 3-5 minutes before they were no longer visible. At about 22:15, after no activity for a few minutes, the group of observers dispersed.
June 25, 2020 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Ocean Isle Beach, NC
From the beach we saw 8-10 objects blinking and moving along individual trajectories. The objects would quickly move, stop blinking for several seconds and change direction. Some of them would disappear and then show up again. They would also stop and become stationary at times. After several minutes, they all moved out of sight. These objects were initially about 30 degrees from the horizon. Immediately after them disappearing, another light was visible for approximately 30 seconds. This final light was much larger and had an orange glow.
June 24, 2020 · 9:40 PM · LIGHT
Bloomington, CA
There were 7 red light in a “V” formation. They suddenly appeared and did not move for a few seconds. When I pointed them out they started to shift. It was like if I was looking at a screen and they went to the bottom right corner but it was a very slow shift. The lights weren’t over head they were in the air but it was like facing me. I was in my front yard and across the street from me is a palm tree nursery/farm so when they moved to the corner I had to get closer to look at where they went and they just kinda faded out.
June 24, 2020 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Sault Ste. Marie, MI
I was on the roof working all day with my friend, sky’s were clear in the morning, afternoon rained pretty much up until sunset which was around 9:30 pm. Rained stopped there was a beautiful sunset so I decided to snap a couple photos off my iPhone. I did NOT see any ufo while I took not 1 but 2 Live Photo’s from my iPhone. After work when I got to my hotel Kewadin hotel and casino I had sent my friend I was with the photos of the sunset I had took on the roof. The next day he had looked at the photo and pointed out an object in the sky. I looked at the photo and I seen a ball of light in the distance. The second photo it appeared to be closer with some type of Ora around the glowing object. I didn’t think much of it at the time and let it be. I just arrived back to Chicago where I lived and went through my photos of that sunset I didn’t realize it until now that when I hold the pictures they have a live feed for a couple seconds and in both I see it move it! ways I can’t even Comprehend. I thought it was very interesting and can’t get it off my mind now and wanted to reassure myself by letting someone know.
June 24, 2020 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Chicago Heights, IL
Yesterday driving home after leaving my friends home I noticed lights eyes level in the sky coming my way. Once I looked up my heart started to panic. I’ve seen ufo’s before but never as close as they were yesterday. One light after another. They were bright as a Roman candle but stayed in a straight line. It was overwhelming and nervous af. I saw at least thirty or them. I am not exaggerating. They were close to each other. Very close. I know air traffic control wouldn’t have approved if they were planes. But they couldn’t have been. You couldn’t hear anything. Just light after light. They were headed east towards Indiana. I never been religious but after yesterday I believe everything we hear about. God, Heavens earth, dinosaur, aliens, UFO’s are real. 2020 has been a hell of a year. These stimulus checks won’t help at all if they decide to truly invade us. The government is a lie. They don’t tell us the truth
June 24, 2020 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Rice, VA
My family and I were camping in Rice, Va 06/21/20 - 06/24/20. Around 8pm on 06/23/20 my daughter came running to ask me to come outside and see the “creepy things in the sky!” She, my other daughter, and son-in-law were all staring into the sky pointing at what they were seeing. I looked up and saw multiple round lights moving higher than an airplane we saw a little while later. I had my husband and 10 year old son join us outside to get their opinion. The lights were moving in the same direction at first but randomly separated; my husband said it could be a meteor shower until some of them stopped and changed direction. Then several more began to appear directly above us as if they were coming from nowhere, traveling in the same direction, at the same speed, the same distance apart from each other. We tried capturing pictures and video but the lights didn’t appear on camera. After several minutes in the same formation, the objects separated and began traveling in random directions, some disappearing and reappearing, others completely disappearing. None of us have an explanation for what we saw and it’s been on my mind since that night so I decided to report it. I hope this information is helpful.
June 24, 2020 · 4:25 AM · LIGHT
Jacksonville, FL
I am a Truck Driver and Driving East on I-10 from Baldwin to Jacksonville FL, there was a bright light larger than a star but smaller than a plane flying East a little faster than a plane, but definitely not a shooting star. It then disappeared or ZAPPED to darkness in the night sky. In the area above the sky had stars and clear skies in my area of view so there was no reason for the light to just disappear. It never reappeared.
June 23, 2020 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Greenville, ME
On a starry summer night in Maine my family and I observed over 50 lights very high up in the night sky each moving slowly and the same distance apart. It occurred over a period of about 15 minutes. My father said he’s never seen anything like it.
June 23, 2020 · 9:40 PM · LIGHT
Windsor, VA
Myself and a buddy were outside hanging out and I saw a white light, like that of a radio tower light, in one spot by a tree, I look at every light in the sky to make sure it's a plane or a meteor or comet so I looked again and it then shifted to the left with one more flash if light. My buddy said "did you see that?" I said yeah I saw a light less than 2 seconds ago over there (pointing to my right) the we both stood up and he saw it again WAY further to the left and he said it shot strait up and disappeared (I did not see because my vantage point was different) but I look for these things, I've never seen one before and I know what the ISS is and I track that at night. It wasn't the SpaceX new internet stuff they have put up. It wasn't a comet or a meteor I know what that is as well. We are out in the country so we are very fortunate to be able to see the sky without light pollution. This entire event we saw less than an hour ago took approximat! ely 5 seconds. Very VERY cool experience. If anyone in the Windsor area or Suffolk area of Virginia saw the same thing PLEASE report it to the database. I hope others saw what we saw.
June 23, 2020 · 9:15 PM · LIGHT
Enfield, CT
Saw red/orange ball of light. Seemed like about 4 or 5 more lights appeared around red/orange light. One ball of light seemed to mover very fast straight up. Other 3 at different times seemed to mover very high then dart north at a very high rate of speed. Whole event seemed to last an hour.
June 23, 2020 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Toronto (Canada), ON · Canada
It was a ball of light changing color from green to red very quickly going upwards towards the sky.. I have it on video
June 22, 2020 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Albany, OH
There was a loud roar for several minutes outside and when I stepped onto the deck I saw several lights in the sky. I called my wife and my son out to look at what was in the sky and we saw approximately 5 bright lights moving at different angles at very high speeds moving in toward each other at one point in the sky. One moved at a vertical angle and when one crossed it's path it made a zero turn and gave chase very quickly. Within a few minutes they all moved outward in different directions in the sky.
June 22, 2020 · 4:30 AM · LIGHT
Aadorf (Switzerland) · Switzerland
I woke up about 4:15 in the morning. It was still dark. I went to the window, opened the window as I sometimes do when I wake that early in the morning. I looked outside to take in the night view. Clear sky, warm, calm, peaceful. I looked up and noticed a string of bright single lights, almost as bright as Venus or Mars. I just as quickly noticed they were moving. Coming from the horizon to the South West moving toward the North East. The got closer. I first thought they might be satellites but as the leading lights came almost over the house, I could see the string of lights continued all the way back to the horizon from where I first noticed them. They were all in line and evenly spaced. All except one. The first 4 or 5 were in line and then the next one was noticeably off the line but continuing to move as the others. All the rest were perfectly in line and evenly spaced. There was no sound of course. They seemed to be very high almost as a! satellite may appear if you saw one on a dark clear night far from any light pollution. This procession continued for about 15 minutes and I just watched in amazement and wonder. Obviously wondering what it could possibly be. Until the end of the line of lights finally came past and the show was over. All were evenly spaced and moving at a speed that a plane moving through the sky over head at 20,00 feet would appear to be moving. These were not airplanes, this is Switzerland. Aircraft do not fly during these hours in most western European countries. Much less 50 or more in a straight line evenly spaced like that. Satellites? Again, I cannot imagine that many satellites all in a line moving across the sky like that but I suppose it is possible. Been looking in the news for any other person making this report. I could not have been the only one to have seen this.
June 21, 2020 · 10:46 PM · LIGHT
Fishers, IN
I had a sighting with night vision goggles . I saw a light in the southeast at 133 degrees drop straight down and then it stopped and then the lights went out. If I had to measure from arm length based on thumbnail I’d say it was half size of thumbnail and about a 45 degree angle in the sky from my position.
June 20, 2020 · 10:02 PM · LIGHT
Probable conventionalGradignan, Aquitaine · France
Le 03 décembre 2020, le GEIPAN reçoit un questionnaire et un dossier photographique d'un PAN observé d'après le témoin le 21 juin 2020 à 00h02 dans le ciel bordelais. Un seul témoignage sera recueilli sur ce phénomène. Le témoin, alors qu'il attend son ami dans une voiture (côté passager, véhicule arrêtée), est interpelé par un mouvement dans son angle droit. Il constate un premier déplacement d'un PAN sur un court segment (environ 5 cm), le PAN devient rapidement fixe et disparaît. Il prend une photo à travers le pare-brise (voir photo du témoin). En observant la photo, 4 mois après, il fait des analyses en zoomant, puis un traitement d’images avec inversion de couleur et constate une forme qui l’intrigue. C’est alors qu’il témoigne auprès du GEIPAN. Concernant la datation, le témoin dit s’être fondé sur les informations liées à la photo indiquant la date du 21 juin 2020 à 00h02. Or le ciel est encore clair sur la photo envoyée, ce qui ne semble pas compatible avec l’horaire indiquée par le témoin. Une analyse IPACO de la photo (voir le document IPACO joint) permet d’horodater celle-ci au 20 juin 2020 à 22h02, ce qui, en l’occurrence, semble davantage compatible avec l’aspect du ciel de la photo, sachant que le soleil était à 16°35 (voir le document Stellarium). Dans la description faite par le témoin, il est difficile d'établir une distinction entre ce qu'il a observé à l’œil nu et ce que, par la suite, il a pu constater sur la photo, via notamment, les analyses faites avec les logiciels de son téléphone. Dans son témoignage libre, le témoin évoque un point, cependant dans la description du questionnaire, il y mentionne un objet en forme de bilboquet. La description faite par le témoin, ainsi que le jour (samedi soir d’été), tendent à orienter vers un objet porté par le vent, type lanterne thaïlandaise, objet festif. L’aspect sur la photo est peu commun pour une lanterne, la luminosité évoque plutôt un objet reflétant la lumière solaire plutôt qu’intrinsèquement lumineux. Le témoin mentionne (4 mois après) un déplacement initial de gauche à droite, l’observation se faisant en direction du Nord, cela équivaut à un déplacement ouest – est. La station météorologique de Canejean, située à 5km fait état d’un vent de 332° soit NO/SE. Les stations proches ; Canejean, Villenave d’Ornon et Cadaujac font état d’une vitesse de vent comprise entre 2 et 7km/h. La direction, le sens et la valeur du vent sont compatibles avec l’observation d’un objet porté par le vent, dans le sens de déplacement mentionné, le fait que le vent soit faible peut aussi expliquer l’impression d’arrêt du mouvement (voir le document météo) Le témoin mentionne également, qu’une fois fixe, le PAN avait un mouvement de déséquilibre NE/SO, ce qui peut s’expliquer là encore, par le vent, ou dans le cas d’une lanterne, par le mouvement de la flamme. Sur la photo apparaît un objet qui semble se dédoubler ; le témoin ayant mentionné l’observation d’un point, il est fort probable que l'image du PAN que l’on retrouve sur la photo soit un effet de dédoublement dû au pare-brise. Le GEIPAN classe cette observation en B : probable méprise avec un objet porté par le vent (ballon festif, lanterne). [GEIPAN classification B — Ballon]