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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 20, 2020 · 4:58 PM · LIGHT
Scottsdale, AZ
I saw one very bright light shaped like a ball descending from up high then two other ball of lights came out of the first light and formed into a triangle then more lights appeared and didn’t move for a while so I was able to count about twenty lights then they started moving in circles around each other and suddenly all lights started to fly crazy over each other it was like if it was out of star wars. I stayed and watched all of it until only one was left and it looked like it spilled some dark faded like smoke before ascending back up and disappearing.
June 18, 2020 · 4:05 AM · LIGHT
Woodstock, NY
While camping on top of overlook mountain, (night was mostly clear with some scarce, thin clouds) my girlfriend and I both witnessed a precession of around 30-50 lights, about the size and brightness of a star, moving single file in a straight line across the sky. An absolute PIN straight line. The lights were moving independently of one another (didn’t seem to be fixed to something) and were in two groupings (lines) of about 20-25 each. No noise accompanied them, they all moved together faster than an aircraft but not quite as fast as a meteor. Seemed to all be going the exact same speed. Our eyes followed them until they disappeared behind scarce cloud cover at the opposite horizon. Not sure on direction.
June 18, 2020 · 2:45 AM · LIGHT
Nogales, AZ
Saw 4 orange bright lights vertically aligned slowly moving from right to left, after a while they just disappeared into thin air.
June 17, 2020 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Damascus, OR
There were two lights, one following the other perfectly like it was on the nose and tail of a plane. They were moving very fast and I watched them fly under a star but the star didn't blink like it would if there was a solid object connecting the two lights. They passed under another star, which also didn't blink and there also was no noise whatsoever.
June 17, 2020 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Marshall, AR
During a gathering of friends three of us went out to look at the night sky. We heard a C130 passing over us which is not uncommon. As we looked at the sky I noticed what I thought was a satellite, but it began flashing and was moving much quicker than a satellite would. When I saw another one, I asked my friends if they saw it to . They also saw it. They were pulsing yellow/orange lights. We looked to the west and saw the C130 shooting out flares. We looked back at the pulsing objects and there were at least six coming from different directions. They were in the upper atmosphere and completely silent, moving faster and in ways I’ve never seen a normal aircraft move. I called my other friends over so they could see it to. The objects began making maneuvers and formations for about 15 minutes. Definitely not typical military formations, more like sacred geometry. Toward the end, two of the objects began to fly at each other in a perfect arc that must have started miles away from each other at very high speed. At the last moment the one on the left shot up and out of the way of the other at a crazy speed. They all left in different directions and it was like nothing ever happened.
June 17, 2020 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Nogales, AZ
On June 17th 2020 at approximately 2130 hours while taking a night drive to the area of Pena Blanca Lake, about 10 miles west of Nogales, Arizona my wife and I observed about 5 white to yellowish lights in the western sky drifting what appeared to be north. The lights appeared to be hoovering over a ridge. No engine noise or airplane noises were heard. The lights just seemed to vanish as we came around a bend in the road.
June 17, 2020 · 4:16 AM · LIGHT
Groveland, CA
I was outside early to let the dogs do their business. I saw some 'stars' that seem to be moving, so I was watching and making sure it wasn't an illusion. We've seen these lights a few times now and didn't get excited. We are just on the California side of the Sierras and I have assumed that these must be some sort of test craft. I was looking in a north-east direction at them (towards Nevada) when the sky lit up. Suddenly there was a "train" of lights. It started in the western sky behind me and then travelled east towards Nevada. There was some distance between each light and although they were travelling in a straight line, I'm pretty sure they weren't all always going the same speed. They were uniformly going in a straight line, but like traffic on a one way road, they weren't all going the same speed. I'm guessing here, but the line at it's longest must have been over 50 miles long - it spanned the entire sky west to east. NO sound whatsoeve! r. The lights travelled like a train and when they were over the peak of the Sierras they headed DOWN and promptly disappeared. This may be unrelated, but shortly before all this occured, when I went outside with the dogs, I noticed that our solar house battery lights flashed really strangely for about a minute. Afterwards, we checked the outside security cameras to see if they caught anything but they were all aimed too low. Then it occured to us that it may have been picked up on a public web cam. The only cams like this I could find that would allow me to "playback" in time were some set up by PG&E (power company) to monitor for fires. I quickly found footage of the event. Unfortunately, the video is timelapsed, so the 5 minutes or so of this event is quite abreviated, but it shows the lights and the time/date info is all there. I checked Mufon and other people elsewhere described the same thing on the same morning. After the lights disappeared I saw the normal flashing lights of some sort of high-up jet plane flying east to west. Anyway I have the timelapse video and would be happy to share it.
June 17, 2020 · 4:15 AM · LIGHT
Mojave, CA
The following observations occurred in rural Kern County California just East of Sierra Highway and North of Backus Road. These sightings were made outside while sitting in my driveway. On June 17th 2020, at 4:15 AM I was looking due North and approximately thirty degrees above the horizon I saw a long series of white lights travelling to the East. There were several dozens of them. They traveled in a straight line, level to the horizon; at a distance they appeared to be a fingers width apart. Their brightness was equal to that of the dimmest star of the big dipper. The moon was in the last quarter, four days before a new moon, so as faint as these objects were they quite visible. I have no way of knowing the actual distance from me or knowing/determining the speed of these lights. As far as speed was concerned I can only say that they appeared as if gliding slowly across the sky. Making the activity of the lights even stranger was the fact they a! ppeared as if there was a point in the sky where they appeared to come from behind a curtain. Stars and other features were quite visible on both the West and the East of this line but the objects were only visible on the Eastern side of the curtain or line. It was like these objects were coming out from behind a corner or a door way. This activity went on for some time.
June 16, 2020 · 4:15 AM · LIGHT
Patterson, CA
20 + bright round lights at high altitude all in a row. I have pictures!
June 16, 2020 · 12:30 AM · LIGHT
Poplar Bluff, MO
I was driving home from work on '53' outside of Poplar Bluff when a bright blue light appeared at what looked like 300 to 400 feet in the air. I was on a stretch of highway 53 where there where only fields and there where no other vehicles for at least five miles. As it appeared it was moving east towards Burnie Missouri. It was skyblue in color and did not have any flashing lights or trial. It was moving faster than a car but slower than a plane. It then vanished as subtlety as it appeared. The entire incident lasted about five to ten seconds.
June 15, 2020 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Joshua Tree, CA
I was outside at approximately 8 or 9pm and looking out at the stars above the monument when I saw what looked like a falling star. Moments later another falling star went horizontal in the same area as the first which fell vertically. I made wishes of course and continued enjoying the night sky, when I saw what was previously a stationary "star" drop and then short thrust upwards 3 times, drop again and 3 short thrusts upwards, repeating this pattern approximately 6 times until it got closer to earth. I then saw another "star" start moving upwards towards this dropping "light/star" until it got close enough and the first "light/star" stopped for a few seconds before shooting off towards the military base in 29 Palms. Then, the second "light/star" went upwards into the sky and basically planted there as if it was just a star.
June 15, 2020 · 4:30 AM · LIGHT
Derby, KS
Multiple lights "slithering" or "swimming" going N.E. Lights were not all the same size. looked heavenly like a family or group of spirits traveling on top of the sky together. Slowly faded away and disappeared one by one.
June 15, 2020 · 3:00 AM · LIGHT
Edwardsville, IL
We had been stargazing and using an app on our phone to see what was in the sky. up and to the right of Jupiter, there was a light that caught my eye. The sky was completely clear it had the same color as a star but having seen shooting stars I know it didn’t behave like one or move the speed of it, nor was it an airplane I’ve seen hundreds of those but it just stopped moving along the sky and dimmed out, it seemed very high and didn’t travel a great distance from what it seemed but so strange it just disappeared. I know there were no clouds and it was between two stars so I know nothing was construed it just stopped moving and dimmed out where it stopped.
June 14, 2020 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Oklahoma City (SW OKC/ Moore, OK
At approximately 10:45 we witnessed 4 or more flickering objects circling near the airport...three of the lights would hover for several minutes then resume back into the formation...some lights when viewed through binoculars appeared to be small triangles, some had 2 or 3 flashing strobes only...two had just green and red lights. All were in a circular configuration and at times a triangular formation. The objects at times seemed to come close to each other. Objects could possibly be drones but this close to the airport is highly doubtful. Video by cell phone captured the objects as well as pictures. The night was partly cloudy. Objects were at cloud level. Objects were also viewed through night vision Gen2. No discernible solid craft shape evident other than the light configuration. Pulled up Tar/flight simulator and noticed 2 small military planes circulating the parameters of the airport...the other objects were not shown on radar, not MIL or COM. And they were not identify. Once the clouds started clearing...one object started strobing at a high rate...and shot north at a high rate of speed. The other objects slowly turned off or went out of sight due West over the airport. Approximate sighting last 15-20 minutes. Lastly, the 2 MIL planes continued a circular holding pattern over the airport for another 10 minutes and eventually went due north. Other witnesses said the objects looked like jelly fish or parachutes? We all live near the airport and have never seen anything like this for over 20 years. I will email you video and photos.
June 13, 2020 · 11:50 PM · LIGHT
Lummi Island, WA
2 lights traveling from the northwest to southeast seemingly connected by a long object. there was no noise coming from the object. the lights on either end were brighter than the stars. It was low in the sky compared to the stars and satellites. it was the lenght of my two fingers separated an inch apart.
June 13, 2020 · 5:20 PM · LIGHT
Portsmouth, VA
I was on the dock looking up at the sky and noticed a bunch of sparkling objects approaching. I saw a plane in the distance going the opposite way and realized they were not planes. Looked like a flock of birds but each had one light. Done were green but most were white. One of them got real close to another one and then moved away at a constant speed. They seemed to be moving slow. There was one that was to the Right if the others I looked and the group were becoming out of sight. I turned to look at the line one and it was still there moving slowly. I looked back at the grouping and the sparkling lights could no longer be seen. Looked back at the single one and it was gone.
June 13, 2020 · 10:15 AM · LIGHT
Fairfax, VA
A single point of reflective light moved across the sky. At first blush appeared to be a plane. But, was too small, was too high in the sky, and moved erratically, at some points moving forward rapidly, then coming to a full stop, then moving forward slowly, then stopping again, then rapidly. After it stopped the last time, it sat for a minute, and then, for lack of a better term, “blinked”, and then shot off at an incredible speed, seemingly further up into the atmosphere until it could no longer be seen
June 13, 2020 · 5:27 AM · LIGHT
Pine Mountain, GA
I turned left onto Mt.Laurel dr. As soon as I turned on the road up on the left side of the rd I saw a bright light that kinda looked like a spotlight shining down. I drove about 700 feet down and stopped and took a couple of pictures. At first I thought it was stationary but as I sat still watching it I realized it was moving across the sky slowly. At this point I changed from picture to video. Not a great video but if you look close on the steady parts you can tell it is moving. About half way through I kinda felt like I was exposed as my headlights was on in all this darkness so i turned them off. This is where you can really see how it is moving.I videoed it till it went behind some trees. I kept filming because I could still see some light behind the trees hoping it would become visible again. I realized it would not so I drove around the curve in the rd to get a better shot behind this set of trees but it was completely gone. No lights or anything any! where. As slow as it seemed to be traveling I should have saw it again around the curve or down the road some. Never saw anymore light or anything.
June 13, 2020 · 12:40 AM · LIGHT
New York, NY
As I was trying to figure out which star that I was looking at on my phone, the clouds come through and covered the bright star I was looking at last night. Then the clouds stopped moving, stayed at the same spot for a few min when the colorful light show begun at the edge of the clouds. It started with red, then pink, blue, green, violet and silver-white light. The size of the light was quite big and the sequence of the change of colors was not consistent. I grabbed my phone and shot two photos but I decided to enjoy watching the light show for the remainder of the show. After a few min or so, the clouds started to clear up, and the lights disappeared. A couple of minutes later, the clouds passed by, I saw blue and red lights again. At this point, I also noticed a strange bright light moving a way above the clouds, not moving much but hovering at the same spot. It could be a droid, it could be something else. The flying object was not detected at the first ! appearance of the colorful lights.
June 12, 2020 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Manchester, NH
I was standing on my back porch. I immediately looked up at the sky because it shocked me that the sky was so clear that there were so many stars out. Then I noticed what I thought was the north star moving to the right of me way up in the sky. It continued to move with Intention. It was not moving fast but it was not real slow either. It continued to move to the right of me and I walked out into the middle of the backyard so that I could keep my eyes on it. It continues to move With intent and it lasted for about one minute to a minute and a half and then it just disappeared. It was as if you turned the switch off and it was just gone.
June 12, 2020 · 10:45 PM · LIGHT
Herkimer, NY
The white light progressed across the sky northwest headed southeast. The light was moving quickly then slowing down, then moving very fast again, then slowing again, not flashing but steady. It did this for about 45 seconds then completely disappeared. We had five witnesses four adults and 1 11 year old child. One of the adult witnesses is an army veteran with combat and aviation experience and have never seen an aircraft move the way this did.
June 12, 2020 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Huntersville, NC
I observed a bright white light approaching from the east. At first I thought it was Venus or a bright star (I am an amateur astronomer) but it was in the wrong position, much too low and it was moving. It appeared to be an aircraft but did not have any blinking lights and then the intensity of the brightness increased markedly almost like a flare. This increase lasted only a few seconds and it continued westward. I believe it flared once more but cannot remember for sure. As it continued west, it then made a very sharp 90 degree turn north and continued on until I could not see it anymore. The turn was very abrupt - certainly not like any aircraft that I have seen.
June 12, 2020 · 7:30 PM · LIGHT
Blairsville, GA
Observed one object that looked like a "shooting star" traveling from West to East. Duration of a few seconds then disappeared. Appeared again in same line of travel for a few seconds and then made a 90 degree angle turn to the South. Then after a few seconds was no longer visible. About 10 seconds later observed the same thing. Then again a few seconds after that. So three sightings in all in a short period of time.
June 11, 2020 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Wikieup, AZ
When I looked closer there were two silvery - white lights. Side by side I would guess 200 ft apart, and 200 ft above the mountain top, and behind the mountain maybe a quarter of a mile. The size is twice what would be a light on a radio tower. When I started observing, they both blinked together, then right left right left. Then the weirdest thing. The right one went to the left one as a hair thin piece of light. Like a zip line. When it hit the left one it double in size for half a second. In my mind I heard a little "ping" sond. This happened twice. Then they both appeared a moment, this time horizontal. Then disappeared and I didn't see them again.