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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
April 28, 2020 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Easley, SC
I only started counting after I was gathering what I was watching realizing what I seen was really happening I definitely counted 39 but there had to be 50 1by 1 by 1 appearing and moving in this perfectly straight formation mathematically perfect spacing between each light could fool you for a star if it weren't moving .... and they all moved so fast for such altitudes SO MANY OF THEM BUT after the last of them dissappear five minutes later only one singular light appears from the direction these 50 some headed into it head to where those 50 came out of into this fog but never came back into sight this one was alone and could move in such manners the defy our laws in physics itself. And this one got bigger shaped like brighter flashes it flashed 4 times before dissappeared for good
April 28, 2020 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Merrilville, IN
I cannot remeber the exact date, but me and my buddy Isaac were watching Starlink satellites move across the night sky in the back yard, the line they formed is distinct and the same distance apart, so we are watching then go by, and all of a sudden, theres a light to the left of them, i thought it was a star... until it moved did swirls and took off kinda in the way a fly would watched until it vanished behind the moon, 7-10 mins after i saw a “shooting star” but it made 2 flashes as if a ship was going into light speed.. 75% certain it was not from our world. They are observing Elon’s work. get back to me i know what i saw. the “shooting star” left a haze and trial but the craft watching the satellites did not
April 28, 2020 · 8:51 PM · LIGHT
Newark, DE
Looking up at the moon I noticed a few lights moving west to east and thought it was a couple of jets. Realized that there was no sound and no flashing lights like I would normally hear and see. As far as I could see to the East and West there was a line of evenly spaced lights (too many to count, but there were dozens) moving at a fast pace. I called my wife to come out and see. She only saw the last 3.
April 28, 2020 · 8:50 PM · LIGHT
Pueblo, CO
Was just sitting outside with my friend and looking up at the stars, when a perfectly straight line of what looked like stars in the sky went traveling by. There were at least 15 to 20 of these things and were traveling in perfect alignment an equal distance away from each other when the one near or at the front broke away and went back in a scoop motion and seemed to be checking on all the others. We tried to get it on video, but it was too high in the sky. If it wasn't military jets, then I have no idea what could do this.
April 28, 2020 · 8:30 PM · LIGHT
Albuquerque, NM
I am an educated person who has obtained an Associate and Bachelor degrees of Science in fields where observation is important. Like anyone I look up at the beautiful sky at night to see the Moon and Venus this time of year. They are located in the western sky, the land down below is a flat plateau of lava flow remains from days past, from Albuquerque. To the East, the Sandia Mountains which from view consists of rocky granite boulders to scattered pine and juniper forests and rises approximately 1 mile high above Albuquerque. To the East is where I am drawn at 830pm, finishing up some yard work, and the wind has calmed with sunset. Between the houses, at a distance seems it is above the mountain I think, there is a Steady Red Light with a slight strobe effect to it. I thought I saw a white light strobe behind the red light and then it is solid red again. Let me give my location if you looked at a map of Albuquerque. I am between Paseo Del Note and Academy St. and Ventura Blvd is one block to my east. Well, it is probably the helicopter, I think, it is always flying around at night and making rounds. No, wait, its a plane coming in from he East to fly over the mountain and it will move south. Well, now I am interested, it appears now to be standing still and there is no sound all. Now it is dark out, and it appears to me that it is way over the mountain at a great distance. I keep a steady stare at the object, now it slowly appears to be am object that is hovering above the mountain. Only a slight, vibration made it appear to wobble maybe due to wind that is how I knew it was hovering. I an see the top of the mountain and sky and then the Red Light. One minute goes by and object slowly rises like a balloon a short distance up and stops. It seems like it is observing something on the ground, which the houses completely cut off the lower half of the mountain view from my vantage point.Staring and curious, it rises very slowly a short distance again and stops. What the heck is that? No one around to see with me! Ok, I will see what it does and that was 20 seconds of time. 1 minute 30 seconds, the Red Light, starts to descend down, I am going to lose it behind the mountain it seems, it gets to the top and lowers and the Red Light is still there! It is in front of the mountain, not behind. Much closer than I thought it was, but that is the foot hills. There are houses and desert out there. Are they making contact with someone? And in that part of the foothills there are no street lights just houses out there. I can see the Red Light lowering straight down steadily. Dark mountain behind makes it clear to see. No back and forth or pausing, just down. It goes down and I lose sight of it because of the houses. Now that is all fine and sounds really interesting right? I am not done. Ok, I have to get higher, how? The place I am working has an above ground pool with a 10 foot scaffolding deck to jump into the pool, I run to the ladder about 6 feet from my location and climb, swing door in and move to the location I had seen it lower but now I am higher about 10 feet. I move back and forth looking to see if I can get sight of it. Then I did. I see the light, but it is white! Iit has moved to my left as if it traveled a shirt distance, the light is moving up, the light goes out! Staring the light turns green, rising then it completely goes out as it was rising. After that either is was in a spectrum now that was invisible to my sight or it moved out fast, but it was cloaked from then on. I urgently tried to gain sight of it and it was getting late out, dark and the lower half of the mountain was not visible to me due to houses. That was disappointing. The whole sighting was very quick. Took at the max about 3 minutes. I decided to come and see if anyone else had made a report about it or saw something. I have seen the helicopter and what is important is that you hear it before you see it. It is loud. There was no sound. At my distance, and the canyon of the mountain behind it should of made an echo or sound, there was none. An important note here is that the helicopter circles when observing areas and keeps moving, rarely to stop and hover, wind may be a factor here. The lights and the way they changed were not of the normal craft seen in our skies in NM. Never have a seen a Green light on the helicopter. Once again, sequence was red light then slight white strobe behind and then solid red, lowers moves to the north at low altitude went from invisible to white while rising and invisible to green still rising and then gone. I just want to add that when I first saw the red light, I caught a slight glimpse of white dots to the north of the red light as if they were in relation to each other. But that was a 2 second glimpse and then it was only the red light. I omitted it from the factual observtion because I doubted what I saw. Thank you. Thank you for your time.
April 28, 2020 · 8:30 PM · LIGHT
Dixon, NM
A string of lights symmetrical in distance apart, moving quick across the sky and then fading away into the distance
April 28, 2020 · 8:10 PM · LIGHT
Palmer Lake, CO
While at the park doing some sky watching there was a line of craft perfectly spaced traveling across the sky. They seemed to be traveling in a large group. They were symmetric in shape. They appeared to be very high up, defiantly higher than any combustion aircraft can fly. No noise was produced by these craft. Quiet and peaceful.
April 28, 2020 · 11:15 AM · LIGHT
Denver, CO
I was sitting outside viewing the norther sky when I noticed eight lights in the shape of the tip of an arrow ^ but facing downward. The lights were reddish orange and flew in formation like geese, suddenly the lights intertwined and separated. They seem to either have flown up and out further into space. Looked much higher than most satellites.
April 28, 2020 · 10:50 AM · LIGHT
Ontario, OR
My Dad and I were relaxing on the front lawn by our house watching the stars and chatting. I saw three satellites come up over the trees from the Northwest, heading East. They were bright white lights like typical satellites, but they were extremely bright (I estimate an apparent magnitude of -3.5). I pointed out to my dad that there was a Starlink train coming up over the trees but it stopped at three satellites. A few seconds after they had all cleared the trees, the third satellite in the line suddenly vanished. The other two continued on for another five seconds before the second satellite accelerated very quickly to the South. Assuming this was in LEO, they may have been traveling at four or five miles per second. Based on this I estimate the satellite accelerated to upwards of eight miles per second in less than three seconds. The satellite then accelerated to nearly twice its original speed as it's still curving towards the south. Once it had finished accelerating towards the East, the satellite immediately began curving back North, stopping its Southward movement and accelerating to the same speed in the opposite direction in only a few seconds. Once it was perfectly in line with the other satellite it ceased all movement on the North/South axis immediately as if it had hit an invisible wall. It continued to gain distance between it and the other satellite before it vanished. The remaining satellite continued on as normal.
April 28, 2020 · 9:30 AM · LIGHT
Wilson, NC
While looking at the stars we noticed a single file of lights in the sky. They were spaced evenly, made no sound and moved at a steady pace. We tried to video tape but it would not show we counted 20 lights moving from SW to NE
April 28, 2020 · 2:10 AM · LIGHT
Hermitage, PA
I stepped outside late Tuesday night to admire the extra clear covid-19 lockdown skies. I found it odd that the south sky had more bright stars than normal. I traced the curve of the big dipper's handle with my eyes arcing down to Arcturus followed by a brighter white 'star' and then finally to Spica. The center 'star' was just about halfway between the other two. I watched the bright 'star' for about 5 seconds. I could see no evidence of motion. Being a little rusty on the night sky and beginning to doubt I was looking in the right area, I decided to check myself. I again found the big dipper and followed the curve of the handle to Arcturus. Now the middle star was gone. I fixed on the area trying to find it. Soon it returned in the same place. As I watched, it dimmed and disappeared for a few seconds then again brightened into view having the same brightness as before. I failed to find any flashing lights that would belong to an aircraft or notice any slight change in position. The trees were low and I had nothing close enough for reference on movement. As I moved to get a tree top closer to my line of sight it again faded to nothing. I stopped and watched carefully looking for flashing lights or for it to reappear. I kept my eyes on the south sky for several minutes searching for any light that might be aircraft or satellite, but nothing. The few times it dimmed or brightened it did so over about 1 second and then held that brightness or lack of. I know this is rather weak as sightings go and it was quite likely a satellite. However it did seem unusual when it failed to leave the spot where I originally saw it (as best I could tell), and apparently reflected sunlight to me even though it was on the dark side of the Earth (if it was a satellite). If I didn't mention something it didn't happen (like lost time).
April 27, 2020 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Carmichael, CA
It looked like the sheriffs helicopter with its spotlight on which is common in my area. Absolutely no no noise. It was flying directly towards me at about 1500 feet. I’m a (drone pilot) so that’s a pretty good guess on altitude. The light went out and there was nothing there, No strobes, no craft, nothing. Incidentally in correlation my phone, iPad, music speaker all powered down. Probably my 8th sighting through out my life.
April 27, 2020 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Burnaby (Canada), BC · Canada
Saw many star-like lights travelling across the sky in the mostly the same direction from northwest to southeast and disappearing in the same area of the sky (likely due to the shadow casted by the Earth at that particular region of the sky). The anomaly was when we saw one of these star-like lights coming from a different direction (south to north) and it was approaching another light coming from the northwest. They looked as though they were about to collide and then suddenly, the light coming from the northwest sped up as if it was trying to avoid a collision.
April 27, 2020 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Marshfield, MO
Apx 22:00 went out and looked up and saw a line of lights moving in a straight line. There was 2 and 3 and single lights moving at the same speed and moving from west to east and there was no sound so I know it wasn't any Jets, so I ran inside and woke my husband to show him and he saw the end of the line of them and they got to one spot and disappeared one at a time.
April 27, 2020 · 9:20 PM · LIGHT
Jefferson City, MO
It is now 9:50 PM 4/27/2020. About 30 minutes ago a friend and I were outside and I looked up seeing a straight line of independent lights traveling about from northwest to southeast. Estimate up to 100 in the line – hard to say they kept coming and coming appearing from northwest and disappearing in a southeasterly direction. This looked like an invasion force – a line of lights all aligned – very strange
April 27, 2020 · 9:15 PM · LIGHT
Chariton, IA
Looking to the SE we could see a line of white lights, moving across the night sky in single file in a very straight line. They were moving from the NW to the SE. When we first saw them I started counting and got up to 28, but there were more coming and we had missed some of them. There was no sound and they were about the brightness of a very bright star. They seemed to be in linear groups of 2 and 3. Observers were a science teacher and a science professional with advanced degrees.
April 27, 2020 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
South Charleston, WV
Strand of lights perfectly spaced moving in unison across the sky. I counted over 20 crafts.
April 27, 2020 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Edwardsville, KS
Walked outside and seen a straight line of about 15 lights not in a row but two or three separated by a space until there was 15 and a straight row and they were all going up into the sky and they just slowly disappeared.
April 27, 2020 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
North Potomac, MD
In a clear sky 12-14 star like objects flying in a straight line from North towards South (from (Frederick towards Washington DC )were seen around 9 PM. These were flying without any noise, were at same fast speed, spaced at equal distance from each other, disappeared from sight in about two to three minutes. What these could be ?
April 27, 2020 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Williamsburg, VA
There were a string of evenly spaced lights totaling 40 plus as far as the eye could see travelling from 300 degrees W/NW to 120 degrees E/SE. Traveling at a high rate of speed. No sound was detected.
April 27, 2020 · 8:45 PM · LIGHT
Quratsite, AZ
Flashing lghts inconsistent string blink bright to dim wavy flight patern the light traveling high rate of speed mot conventional air craft no sound
April 27, 2020 · 8:40 PM · LIGHT
Valley Stream, NY
I looked up to see the stars and waxing crescent moon and saw the start of a straight line of small white lights, each one the size and speed of an airplane flying at altitude. I couldn't see any other red wing lights with the white lights. Some were evenly spaced, some were very close together, some were spaced like dots of Morse code (dot-dot space dot-dot-dot space dot-dot, etc). All the lights were moving in a straight line across the apex of the sky, like they were on a string. The line was moving from the northwest to the southeast. I watched for about 20-30 seconds. The line of lights was long and I couldn't see the end, so I went in and brought my husband out to see. They lasted for another 20-30 seconds. We couldn't hear any noise.
April 27, 2020 · 8:40 PM · LIGHT
Newberg, OR
Initially saw object with two whitish/blue lights peeking in and out of clouds moving in different directions. Object appeared to be high in atmosphere moving at high speeds and changing direction suddenly. Object then moved slowly westward and flashed 4 times, then 7, then 5, changed direction erratically and quickly, then disappeared behind the chehalem mountains to the north. About two minutes later the object was low to the ground and in front of the mountains about 1 mile away with a deep blue glow. It appeared to move slowly until it disappeared behind the trees. Object appeared to be able to turn its lights on and off at will and change direction, speed, and elevation easily. No audible noise detected.
April 27, 2020 · 8:40 PM · LIGHT
Binghamton, NY
I came home after a walk because the sun was starting to set. Went out onto my back porch and looked up into the sky and saw 4 or 5 white lights that looked like stars moving forward in a straight line all at the same pace. They were directly above my head and weren’t moving very fast although as they kept moving forward I saw more of them appear in my field of view. As they kept moving on I saw about 10 to 15 of them in total still in the formation of a straight line moving slowly forward away from where I can see them. I did try to get this on video but my phone wouldn’t focus and on video it just looked like a blurry clip of the dark blue clouds. I saw these lights go on for about 10 minutes I want to say.