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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
May 24, 2020 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Middlebury, CT
On May 24th, 2020, myself and 3 others observed 4 lights in the sky. One was very active, seeming to have flashing lights in blue and red colors, with an occasional whistle light seeming to beam in an upward direction. The other 3 seemed more stationary, and were flashing. The more active one was making non linear movements in the sky, sort of dancing or going up, down, left, right and in circular motions not in any particular order. We watched it for about an hour. When I went to go check again at about 2300 all 4 were gone. The most active one as described, seemed to be doing something and the other 3 UFO were not as active as far as moving. They were positioned by twos, at an angle from each other. Imagine just the box portion of the Big Dipper, but in a diamond shape. They had to be miles apart but seemed as if maybe the stationary ones were monitoring the active one. We did witness a small red light just below the two on the left that appeared and immediately vanished.
May 24, 2020 · 2:30 AM · LIGHT
Boulder, CO
My girlfriend and I were stargazing at about 2:30 am on a field with good skies. Fast moving clouds temporarily blocked view after about 20 minutes but otherwise good conditions. We noticed a light somewhat brighter than any star in sky was moving erratically directly above us. Returning to almost exactly overhead and stopping many times, moving in all directions and changing, but did not seem like a helicopter. Difficult to gauge height from ground or size. Seemingly subsonic speeds, but otherwise difficult to gauge speed without distance. Did not make any noticeable sound. There was a faint deep purple tint to the highest and wispiest clouds around it. Did not know if it was between the highest clouds and us or behind them, but was above the lowest and fastest moving clouds when they came in. We took several videos on our phones, but it was hard to make out a reference point or star in the videos so the camera footage is questionable unfortunately. It was ! larger than any star in the sky, and the light did not look exactly like a point source. It was almost like a light strip but far away. It pulsated occasionally with slightly brighter white and was purple on and off around wispy clouds (sometimes it did not give off the purple glow). Went inside eventually because we got cold.
May 24, 2020 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Judsonia, AR
Me and my friend were walking back from the dollar store about a mile from his house we were about half way when me and him see a orange red light raise out of the forest and we see it moving very slowly cruising at the same speed maybe about 15 to 20 MPH and we see it moving across the sky and across the road until we see it vertically land into the forest across the road from where it came from
May 23, 2020 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Sutton West (Canada), ON · Canada
Very bright light streaking across the sky faster than a plane can fly. Then stopped for a couple second. Then went back and forth short distances in a zig zag pattern. I lost sight of it when I went to get my camera..
May 23, 2020 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Yellville, AR
Then I saw more and I went to windows all around the house looking. They were ONLY on the north side of the house. They seemed to be flowing in a west to east direction and gently rising and going down. I watched them go all along our woods and then through the trees behind us into a cow pasture out back. Their white light was about 10 X the light of a firefly. For some reason they seemed happy and peaceful in the way they moved. My husband wants me to wake him up if I see them again. I wish I'd done that.
May 23, 2020 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Conestoga, PA
As I watched the night sky about 10:30pm the stars were so bright and shining all over. One star started to move across the sky in a zig zag fashion for about 10 seconds
May 22, 2020 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Center Conway, NH
Trailing object was 4 inches behind, and slightly lower. Lead object slowed speed abruptly, then turned red. Trailing object slowed so dramatically it was as if it "hit its emergency brake," but did not turn red. Both objects continued at the slow speed. I lost sight of both lights/objects in the clouds and trees. This was actually the first of three sightings the past 3 1/2 months. (Note: 07/29/2020 and 09/15/2020)
May 22, 2020 · 1:00 PM · LIGHT
Orange Park, FL
At approximately 1300 hours on May 22, 2020, I was waiting outside of Sonny’s BBQ on Kingsley Avenue in Orange Park, Florida. Looking North across Kingsley Avenue is a construction crane, with the boom facing East, at the Orange Park Medical Center. Maybe one or two degrees above, and halfway of the boom, there was a bright white dot against a blue sky. The dot was not navigating as if it were a balloon or aircraft, but maybe as if it was a Bald Eagle. The dot moved slowly with respect to our location on the ground, and moved from two degrees above the boom to maybe near 20 degrees. It made gradual loops as it transitioned higher and higher in reference to the original location. The dance in the sky lasted for about three minutes before the object accelerated away Northeast at a flash of a speed. A Retired Navy Chief friend, and a couple standing next to me also observed the object, but had no idea what it may be.
May 21, 2020 · 11:43 PM · LIGHT
Rathdrum, ID
I just filled a report this same night about 15 minutes prior to this report. I’m laying down in bed, window blinds open. And a bright bright blue to white blinding light comes from the south of me and was more bright than any lighting strike I’ve ever seen! There are no reports of rain or lighting tonight. It put me in a bit of a panic. The bright light lasted for about 5-6 seconds and then gone.
May 21, 2020 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Silver spring, MD
There were 7 colored lights (green, white, and red) and were staying still before rushing off
May 20, 2020 · 11:30 PM · LIGHT
Fontana, WI
Large red/orange/yellowish flickering light hovering over Geneva Lake on the Fontana side, then became dim. As I continued to watch it move north, a very large, white bright spherical light appeared in front of it out of nowhere which instantly fell towards Williams Bay. I believe Geneva Lake to be a hot spot for this activity, 3rd time seeing craft here.
May 20, 2020 · 11:15 PM · LIGHT
Edmond, OK
Saw what I thought was a spotlight, then it began to move at no speed a normal aircraft could maintain and in a jagged pattern. Flew across the sky to the right, disappeared for a moment then zoomed across the sky to the left and was gone.
May 20, 2020 · 8:25 PM · LIGHT
Wenden, AZ
Soon after dusk when sky became dark Just below Arcturus a very fast light was going traveling. After 45 seconds it was no longer visible as if traveled further out of sight. It was at a very high altitude and definitely not a plane.
May 20, 2020 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Hartland, WI
At around the event time, me and some members of my family saw a single distant light, or reflective object, in the sky. It wasn't moving, but about 10 minutes later it was in a different location in the sky. The same thing happened about 15 minutes later when we saw it in a different location again, but this time it moved across the sky slowly from east to west. After it stopped moving, it disappeared again.
May 19, 2020 · 10:46 PM · LIGHT
Burien, WA
I was just watching the stars through a 70% cloudy sky, and saw a satellite heading NW of normal brightness moving at normal speed, then it turned really bright for a second, like it was rotating the bright a light mounted on one side, and seemed to roll over the other side in a smooth motion. Like the light on top of a Lighthouse, spinning around one time (as opposed to a regular lighthouse spinning repeatedly). It kept travelling at the same speed, and seconds later I saw another satellite coming from a different angle heading south, but the same speed. Then a third appeared from its own angle going SW, and this one pulsed bright for a second just like the first one, all of them white moving dots. They all crossed paths within 15 seconds of each other and kept going. My phone camera couldn't capture the video, the whole event lasted about 90 seconds. Ambaum & 125th St. At 10:46PM 5/19/2020.
May 19, 2020 · 9:28 PM · LIGHT
Atlanta, GA
I was talking on the phone with a friend, using a Bluetooth headset. I decided to walk out on the balcony of my 17th floor condo to finish the conversation. While talking, I noticed that there were a few bright stars or planets in the western sky. As I was looking at them, 2 red side by side lights to the left of the stars caught my attention, flying in my direction, west to east. I thought it was a plane, but I rarely see planes come from that direction so it was a little unusual. I didn’t think much about it and continued my phone call. At this point something unusual happene. The two lights began to slow down rapidly and came to a stop. They stopped just before they would have flown over my building and out of my view (the building I live in has 46 floors). I thought maybe it was a drone but it seemed kind of high in the sky and I did hear any sound coming from it. The person I was talking to said I said “WTF is that?” I told him what I was seeing and he told me to take a picture of it. I remembered I was on Bluetooth and my phone was on the kitchen counter. I rushed inside, got my phone, came back outside to take the pictures. When I looked up to find the reds lights, there was now only one small red light visible, still stopped in the sky. I took 4 pictures of the sky where the light was, brought the phone down to switch to video but when I looked back up the light was gone. So I took a picture of the western sky where the bright stars or planet were. My friend on the phone was listening to my commentary while this was going on and said I sounded like one of those people on those UFO shows while it was happening. We laughed if off, I couldn’t explain what I saw so I decided to drop it. About and hour later I decided to look at the photos I took. I realized then that I captured the red light in the photos. I zoomed in to get a better look at the red light and took screenshots of the object in the photos. I don’t know what it was and didn’t want to jump to conclusions. I will email the photos.
May 19, 2020 · 6:05 AM · LIGHT
Baldwin Park, CA
UFO Sighting Event and report date: 5-19-2020. At approximately 6:05 am (right where El Monte and Baldwin Park [in CA] meet), while driving on the freeway, in the morning blue sky I saw a very bright and very sharp chrome colored light about the size of large star in the sky at about 45 degrees up. After watching said light for about 5 seconds and tripping out on its unique qualities, the light began to fade away very slowly and very smoothly. The light did not appear to move. When I first saw the light, I thought it was a star (it was stationary like a star), but I quickly realized that it was far too bright outside (sky was blue) to be a star. Then I realized that this light was far sharper than any star, and this light did not twinkle or change colors like a star. It most definitely was not a star. I knew it was not Venus because again it was far too bright outside to see any planets, and the light I saw was much smaller than Venus which is huge during this time of year. Also, Venus’s light has a clear white color whereas this light I saw a had a chrome or kind of colorless “color.” Then I deduced it was not an airplane or helicopter because this object was stationary and there was only a single solid light, no aircraft body, no blinking lights. At that time of day if it were an airplane or helicopter, I would have been able to see it. But it was just a light. It was at this point that the hair on the back of neck started to stand up and I realized this is VERY WEIRD! About One second after feeling this “omg!” feeling the light began to fade, but fade in a very kind of subtle and smooth way. It was an extremely smooth and measured fading of the light. As the light was fading, seemingly in reaction to my “omg!” reaction, I was yelling out loud (alone in the car) “what the heck is that! OMG! Its fading away!? What the f*ck!!! It was truly bizarre. The light reminded me of a magnifying glass focusing the suns light—it was a very sharp and very focused light, easily the sharpest light I had ever seen in the sky. And its chrome “color” was unlike anything I’d ever seen in the sky. If the light was fading because it was moving farther away from me then the light was heading to outer space. From my location to the light’s location and angle, if it moved away from me it would be vectored towards outer space.
May 17, 2020 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Henrico, NC
Bright round light started from the right and moved to left at tree line The light moved but did not stay lt the whole time. It was intermittent as it was moving Quickly. Some times it appeared in front of tree and some behind. When thinking it zigzagged We later it may have been more than one because we saw 3 at one time at the most. We saw at least 25 of them with in the hour. The last one we saw before we left. Appeared directly in front of not off to the left as the others, still moved left until behind us. We felt we knew when they were going to show up due to the frogs becoming very loud.
May 17, 2020 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Litchfield Park, AZ
had just seen the ISS in the sky after my startracker app alerted me. about a minute after it disappeared, what appeared to look like a bright star could be seen at 90 degrees, directly overhead, heading east from the west. i immediately referred to the tracker and could not identify the object as a satellite or anything. i began filming with my phone, even though it wasn't visible on the screen, i thought maybe it would show if i lightened the video later. this is how i managed to capture this crazy sound, it sounded like a frequency being tuned, or a microphone feeding back. it seemed omnipresent, got louder for about 10 seconds and then quickly faded away. about 15 seconds later the object disappeared.
May 17, 2020 · 8:42 PM · LIGHT
Citrus Springs, FL
Light came in like a shooting star and then started to float as a plane would. The light seemed to move way faster then a normal plane, there were no indications of flashing lights as planes do. It looked like a bright star as it soared across our sky line until it got to the horizon and bolted upwards and vanished.
May 17, 2020 · 5:30 PM · LIGHT
Nokomis, FL
I watched them as the last one left my vision
May 17, 2020 · 5:30 AM · LIGHT
Key Colony Beach, FL
Saw 30-40 lights traveling from East to West while walking the dogs. Thought it was an airplane at first then thought it was a star. Then noticed there was 30-40 of them spread across the sky. Traveling at a high rate of speed passing the stars. No noise. Very high altitude.
May 17, 2020 · 5:00 AM · LIGHT
Lake Placid, FL
Starting around 5:00 am on Sunday 17th, After my morning run, I was looking up in the sky and saw lights moving from the southwest to the northeast extremely high in the sky, 4 to 5 times the altitude that an airplane would be flying. This lasted for 10 to 12 minutes. There was no pattern to the line of lights that came across the sky. Sometimes they would be several in a close line, sometime side by side or even two along side each other with one trailing. Some time they were spaced evenly and other times groups of 3 to 5 would be crossing. Nothing was flashing, and speeds were generally the same as they crossed. At one point there were 2 side by side with 2 trailing close, then one of the trailing lights made an abrupt right turn and leaded away. I went inside and woke my wife to see this. Once back outside they continued for several more minutes. During this entire time, I saw at least 75 to 80 of these lights cross the sky. I counted that during one poin! t there were 16 within my view from the southwest to the northeast sky.
May 17, 2020 · 1:30 AM · LIGHT
Holzkirchen (Germany) · Germany
While observing night sky with an image intensifier, a small light similar to a satellite was seen twice travelling at an apparent speed of ~5-10 times the usual speed, making slight curves before disappearing out of sight towards east.