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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.
12,058 entries
July 30, 2016 · 10:45 PM · TRIANGLE
St. Germain, WI
My dad and I were out looking up at the stars for awhile trying to find planets and satellites. As we were looking, 2 triangle shaped objects flying very fast through the sky appeared. One flew by, and then less than a second later, another one right behind it. They were both the same size and both had a glow to them. They had a very straight edge shape to them.
July 30, 2016 · 10:30 PM · TRIANGLE
St. Germain, WI
At approximately 10:30pm, Saturday night, while vacationing on a lake in St. Germain, Wisconsin, my son and I decided to stand at the end of a pier and look into the sky. The pier went south onto the lake and gave us a good look at what we thought were the planets Jupiter and Mars. The night was perfect to see stars because there were no clouds in the sky and we were miles and miles away from the lights of a big city. After a few minutes we turned our attention to following satellites slowly moving across the sky. After following the path of a satellite, my son and I had both ended up looking into the northeastern part of the sky. As we watched the satellite move, two illuminated objects came in, and out, of view moving at a high rate of speed from the east to the north. One following exactly behind the other in a perfect line. Both were the exact same size and shape. 10 times bigger than a star in the sky. They were shaped like a triangle and seemed to be a yellow/! orange color around the edges. Each object had perfectly straight sides. Each object was bright enough to see but they did not light the entire sky up when they passed in and out of view. It appeared to be more of a glow around them. Each object came in and out of view within 1-1/2 seconds with 1 second between each object. Neither object was in the sky at the same time but because I was still looking in the direction of where the first object moved I seemed to have a better view of the second object. The objects were not directly above us but close enough that it appeared we were seeing the bottom of the objects. The angle the objects were from us made them seemed like they had a flat bottom. We stared into the sky for 15-20 minutes longer hoping to catch another look at what had passed over head but we didn’t see anything like that move across the sky again.
July 29, 2016 · 10:35 PM · TRIANGLE
Reardan, WA
About 10:35 pm, on the night of July 29, 2016, I stepped out into my yard with the dog. I moved around the corner of the house into darkness to look at stars. A few seconds after I began skygazing, a bright metallic golden wedge shape appeared from the west, moving very fast. It struck me immediately how large and well defined the shape was, and how fast it was moving, at about the apparent speed of some faster meteors. At about the time it reached due south of me, it winked totally out as if it were reflecting the sun which had set a couple of hours prior. It seemed to be traveling due west to east and was 10 to 15 degrees below zenith. When it winked out, it was gone - it apparently had no lights, and made no noise and was not on fire nor falling apart. A jet was traveling to the northwest at high altitude in the same area of the sky, its lights blinking regularly, but I couldn't see any sun reflecting from it. The jet moved much much more slowly th! an did the UFO, on the order of 20 times more slowly. I am at 47.9 lat x 117.7 long. What was it? Source of report elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. We would like to communicate with the witness, but have no means of contacting him/her. PD
July 29, 2016 · 10:20 PM · TRIANGLE
Bainbridge Island, WA
A triangle shaped object flew at a high rate of speed thru the sky. No sound. It stopped abruptly and descended straight down until out of sight. This took about 4 minutes.
July 29, 2016 · 4:53 PM · TRIANGLE
Charlotte, NC
We were walking in downtown Charlotte near the Bank of America building and snapped a couple of pictures. After reviewing the photos later, we discovered a triangle appearing shape near the building. There were 3 “lights” each that have a circular shape lined up vertically with what appeared as a dark shape (point), making a triangle point. From our memory there was not any noise at all from this object. The event lasted less than 20 seconds. I am emailing photos; hopefully you can review and determine what it possibly could have been. Thanks! Lens flare, from photographing a bright reflection. PD
July 29, 2016 · 2:30 AM · TRIANGLE
Grants Pass, OR
Watched move over us for about an hour. Slowly hovering and seemed to spin and change from triangle to diamond and at times square. Lights at each end that looked like stars.
July 28, 2016 · 11:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Canon City, CO
From where we were we could make out some very sharp "s" like, as well as, linear movements from the craft silently hovering its way across the horizon. It also appeared that the lights on the craft were focused on certain areas. We could see the lights shift direction before slowly moving its way out of sight; as if scanning.
July 28, 2016 · 6:18 AM · TRIANGLE
Aliso Viejo, CA
Pacific park to aliso creek saw three yellow, orange lights. In triangular formation the two lower lights jones the brighter,larger apex and the light intensified. The it appeared to disappear but was still visible if you looked off into the distance. Travelled extremely fast and towards the ocean. At the time of sighting it was above residential areas. It was 618am
July 28, 2016 · 1:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Hurst, TX
Large Black Triangle with a strange rusty black color shot passed my window in the middle of the day. I ran outside to see if I could catch a pic, but it was a small dot on the horizon in only about 5 seconds of delay to get camera and get outside. It just drifted away very quickly. Much faster than when it first passed by the picture window.
July 27, 2016 · 11:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Wheaton, IL
I was standing next to my car looking up in the sky, and all of a sudden, a triangular shaped object passed by real fast and silent. It had to be about 500 feet up in the air. It had like green lights on its under belly that just floored me because it was going so fast and was so silent that you could hear a pin drop before you got a sound out of this craft.
July 27, 2016 · 10:50 PM · TRIANGLE
Tooele, UT
I was standing on front porch, which faces south. There is a baseball park across street. The location is on south east end of town. I noticed a super bright light through the leaves of the trees that line across the street. It was coming from south heading North. I could not hear any planes, so it caught my curiosity. As I was trying to see what the bright light was, it came from behind trees, now heading east. The lights were so bright, I thought at first it was bunch of stars. It was not real high up and was huge, I could tell the frame was triangular-sort of like an arrow head. The only sound was a hum. It was gliding, not moving fast. It was really low so i could see it really well. The brightness of the lights made it hard to see what it was. I watched it continue east for two blocks, approximately. It did not go up higher-nothing landed, nor was there any debris in area. This was flying so low, it would not have made it over the Oquirrh Mountains. When it got 2 or 3 blocks away..it disappeared! I had good view from the distance I was. From beginning, to the disappearance, was about 10 minutes. There was no way this could have been seen from Salt Lake. As it came over the baseball field... it seemed to be the size of the field or larger. I don't think this was re-entry junk, that was seen in Salt Lake same evening. Was flying way low. Wasn't even as high as helicoptors or small planes fly. It did not fall, nor change path, nor go higher. Just disappeared!
July 27, 2016 · 10:35 PM · TRIANGLE
Sandy, UT
it was something like fireworks that didnt deminish. light just continued flying horizontal . east bound. so strange. someone else hax to have seen this, Chinese rocket re-entry. PD
July 27, 2016 · 9:15 PM · TRIANGLE
Whiting, IN
Saw large-ish dark, silent, triangle shaped object with three lights on each corner. The lights were a pale yellow and looked hazy. It traveled from west to east at an extremely fast rate of speed across the sky and proceeded to bank hard to the right until losing sight of it on horizon. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 27, 2016 · 9:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Thomaston, CT
It was around 50 feet up and about the size of a football field. It was silent and took off quickly becoming very small and fast taking off at a 90 degree curve suddenly.
July 27, 2016 · 8:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Plainville, CT
Was driving past Tunxis Community College, on my way back from Bristol Walmart, and happened to catch a glow of light as I looked up. I proceeded down Plainville Ave. past Tunxis, when I looked in my rearview mirror and saw a very bizarre irregular black craft, low flying in the sky. I pulled my car over to get a better look when I noticed a very bizarre shaped craft with two red blinking lights one on top and one on the bottom of this object. I have never seen anything quite like it in my life. Perhaps it was a drone of some kind? It proceeded very slowly to move west towards Bristol and out of view. I could not estimate size of object other than it appeared irregular in shape, with two blinking red lights.
July 26, 2016 · 10:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Diamond Lake, OR
The night of Tuesday, July 26, 2016, I was up late watching a movie. I cannot state where I live as I also work there, and any mention of the organization I work for by name gives them the right to own this report, but I can say I am a fire lookout. At about 22:30, I had to go to the bathroom and walked out onto the catwalk of my fire lookout and noted a white light with red and green flashing lights to the north just off the horizon. I assumed it to be an airplane, but took note of it because it was not on the general metropolitan to metropolitan flight paths that cross over my area, and it appeared significantly lower than standard planes. The lights were also brighter and larger than far-off commercial airliners. I went back into the lookout and finished my movie, and at about 23:00 I went out on the catwalk to brush my teeth and noted the object was still there and appeared to have not moved at all. This surprised me, as neither airplanes nor satellites stay in the same place for that period of time. After brushing my teeth I returned inside and looked at it through binoculars briefly, then pulled out my spotting scope and fixed on the object at 60x. I cannot accurately gauge the object’s distance, but judging by the increase in size of the object through the spotting scope I would estimate it to be 30 to 50 miles away with an exact azimuth of 22.2 degrees from my position (as measured with an Osborne Fire-Finder 1934 model). The object was kite like in shape, but narrower side to side and longer top to bottom. It had a white/orange light in the center similar in color to an old halogen headlight, with a red light below and right of the white/orange one, and a green light above and ! left of it. The object itself was dark, and I can only estimate at its shape due to the visible light emitted from the white/orange light. The white/orange light remained constant but the green and red lights alternated strobing. As this is the standard pattern for commercial aircraft, I then wondered if this was a helicopter and my mind was simply making the shape with the visible light it could see. Within the 60x magnification of my spotting scope however, the object did not move out of the frame from 23:00 to 00:00. That would require an object to remain absolutely still, uncharacteristic of helicopters. At midnight is when I witnessed its only visible change. At midnight exactly, another object entered the sky while I was looking through the scope, so I did not see it immediately when it assumedly rose above the horizon. It was below the previously listed object, slightly to the right, and did not come more than a few degrees above the horizon at any given time. I also looked at this one through the spotting scope. The shape appeared to be two isosceles triangles facing down, connected together at the widest point. The color was red at the top, orange in the center, and yellow at the bottom, with these three colors seeming to be lit up in a repeating wave pattern from top to bottom. One triangle was dark while the other was lighted, and once one triangle went through its lit cycle of red-orange-yellow, it went dark and the other one repeated the cycle. The rhythm of this light show of the two triangles was extremely fast. The right triangle appeared in full and to perfectio! n as I could see all three corners; however when the left triangle lit up its top right corner was cut off at an angle. This leads me to believe the right triangle was closer than the left, and the object was slightly turned away from me so I was not viewing it straight on. Upon first viewing this object was rising above the horizon, stopped, hung at a single point without moving for exactly two minutes, then at 00:02, dropped below the horizon. During the two minutes the double-triangle shaped object was in the air, the kite-shaped object previously listed in this report, rose in the sky 3.5 degrees (measured with an Osborne Fire-Finder) straight up at the exact same azimuth it was at previously. The Osborne Fire-Finder can observe a tenth of a degree change for any given azimuth, and the kite shaped object did not move a tenth of a degree. I remained awake until 01:30 hours when I had to fall asleep as I had work the next day. I am used to waking up at 06:00 so I was extremely tired. The kite shaped object was still in the sky and still located in its second position listed in this report. I awoke after daybreak at 07:30 and the object was not visible.
July 25, 2016 · 10:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Auburn, CA
UFO at 10:30 pm – We live in flight path of commercial aircraft landing at Sacramento Airport. We see many flights landing nightly while sitting in our hot tub. Commercial jets move east to west and make a lot of noise. We rarely see anything moving north to south, (only small aircraft). This was not a small aircraft, as it was huge, low-flying and completely silent. This object/or objects and was many times larger than a commercial aircraft, and it was flying much lower. The object appeared suddenly, as 2 huge bright lights which appeared to be connected by a solid surface. The lights moved in exact unison, with zero noise. There was possibly a third light that was dimmed at the time of the sighting, which would indicate that it could have been a triangle with 3rd light dimmed. Behavior of craft: One light became extremely bright, (brighter than landing lights on aircraft). The second light alternated from medium-bright to dim for a few seconds. Next, the brightest light dimmed and for an instant it seemed as though a third light appeared and then dimmed. The object was huge. We watched it move, north to south for about 2 minutes, and then it completely disappeared while we were watching it. It went from visible to invisible. Poof! … gone!
July 25, 2016 · 9:43 PM · TRIANGLE
Madison, WI
Now, 10 minutes later, its thundering. And now it just came back in the other flying faster away towards the east. It is 22:07.
July 25, 2016 · 8:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Phenix City, AL
I was walking into the Phenix City Wal Mart, around 9:30 EST, and looked up in distance (still very visable) and there were V shaped lights in the shape of a W hovering slowly. There wasnt any noise coming from them, like a chopper or air plane would produce. As I was taking a picture (which I still have), from the far right, I saw 2 jets speeding towards the lights. I ran into Wal Mart after that.
July 24, 2016 · 10:50 PM · TRIANGLE
Centennial, CO
I saw one low flying craft with 3 dim reddish/oranges lights. Triangular shape with one light on each corner. It looked like the craft split into two.
July 24, 2016 · 11:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Quincy, MA
Noticed what appeared to be two seagull type birds at about 100 feet circling each other. When I looked to the right of the birds I noticed what I thought were two other birds circling each other at a great rate of speed, but I realized that they were much too high in the sky to be birds. Would say they were well over 50,000 feet directly above me nearly 90 degrees vertical from the horizon straight up. It looked like the two objects were putting on an air show very high in the atmosphere. Took out my I Phone to take a picture after one of the objects banked and the sun bounced off of the object revealing a narrow triangular shape body with what appeared to be almost corrogated vertical lines on the side of the object. Just before I snapped the picture the object disappeared like the light from a light bulb disappears when you turn it off. The other person waiting for their car said there had been UFO sitings in New Hampshire yesterday. Again, when the object turned it revealed a thin triangular shape with corrogated vertical lines evenly space along the entire side. Attempted to take a picture with my I Phone and both objects vanished seconds before I could snap the picture. Weather conditions. Sunny and clear blye sky. Time of Day: 11 AM EST. Date: July 24, 2016. Location: Centre Street West Quincy, Massachusetts.
July 23, 2016 · 10:15 PM · TRIANGLE
Mount Vernon, WA
I was sitting with my wife on our back porch, looking at stars and planets. I was telling her about a triangle shaped craft I saw about two years ago. I said, "I was looking at a spot between some stars, when--" and at that moment, a shimmering craft appeared as two points of light and seemed to glide across the sky, much faster than any aircraft I know of. I said, "Do you see that?" She did not see it. It very quickly moved toward the northeast, when I said, out loud, "Wait, she doesn't see you, come back." At that point, the craft stopped moving, shimmered again, and was not visible. This is nearly identical to the sighting I had two years ago, except the craft had three points of light then, moved toward the southeast, and did the same stop and vanish when I said "I see you." My wife was inside the house that time. This time she was with me, but she did not see the craft. It was probably only visible for 10 seconds or less. We stopped talking and looked up at the area where the craft had appeared. It felt like about 5-10 minutes passed, and then I asked her why she thought it only appeared to me. She was uncomfortable talking about it outside, so we went inside. At that point we looked at the clock, and we had been outside for about 30 minutes. We both experienced the time as roughly 15 minutes, maybe 20 at most, but 30 minutes had elapsed according to my cell phone and the clock inside. Our dog reacted as if we had been outside for a long time, barking the way he does when we get home after being gone for awhile.
July 23, 2016 · 5:26 PM · TRIANGLE
Marlton, NJ
Then out of nowhere a black UFO started flying thousands of feet higher than the bird. It was daylight with light grey clouds just minutes before the drenching rain. The UFO was flying straight then made an instant sharp left then a sharp right then didn't move for a few minutes and flew straight for 2 seconds and disappeared. The UFO was a dense black triangle. It looked like an arrowhead with the 2 sides longer than the base. The UFO had no visible lights, it left no trail and made no noise whatsoever. From the distance it was too high to be an airplane and the UFO was much bigger than any airplane, including military. Airplanes at a lower distance look much smaller than this object that was extremely higher than any plane could fly.
July 23, 2016 · 2:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Caroline (Canada), AB · Canada
First sighting around 2 am, first spotted as a very bright star appearing from the west, fairly low to the horizon maybe 20 – 30 degrees. Bright star appeared to be traveling west to east approximately 100 km’s away from our position (south of rocky mountain house, northwest of Caroline). As the star (at this point identified to be more of a very bright light) traveled west to east, two smaller lights appear behind it forming a equilateral triangle, each light moved in unison, really low orbit and very fast. No sound or light diffraction was noted. The three lights continued to move in unison eventually disappearing over the ridgeline (our POV) to the northeast of us. Might have come within 50 km’s of our position at its closest. Second sighting happen approximately 2 hours later, exact same appearance and characteristics as first sighting however now the three lights travelled north to south and flew directing overtop of us. Once again no sound or light distortion was observed. No aircraft were heard or observed that night (we were pretty deep in the bush and could easily hear objects such as planes). Sighting of ISS. PD