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September 16, 2014 · 8:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Ottawa (Canada), ON · Canada
My mother and I (and our dog) left the house around 8PM to walk the dog and go to the store. I noticed a red pulsing light between some houses across the street from our place, around the corner. I mentioned it to my mother and then I lost sight of it. Once we approached the main road, we saw the light again, across the street from us, high enough up. From that distance it looked to be about the size of a nickel, sometimes appearing to grow to the size of a quarter and sometimes a little bigger. I noticed it seemed to follow us, so we stopped moving to make sure. When we stopped moving, it was ahead of us, but moved back toward us. If we stood still to watch it a while, we noticed multiple lights and different colors (red, blue, green, white, yellow and purple). It also seemed to pulse at regular intervals, as if to convey some kind of code. It moved up, down, sideways, go around in a circle, backwards and then would do some type of movement which looked like it was riding a wave. It in fact did follow us all the way to the store and back home again, until we lost sight of it. Note: I did see something similar on 09/12/2014 while driving up to the country, I first saw it on one side of the car, seemingly following the same path, then lost sight of it, then saw it again on the other side of the car for a while until I couldn’t see it anymore. The whole thing lasted about 20 minutes. ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) To whom it may concern, I feel pretty silly about all of this but a few days ago, I found a video on Youtube showing an LED kite which apparently, some students from Rideau High School in Ottawa were flying a few streets down from my place, on the very same night I thought I saw a UFO (09/16/2014). Here is the video I saw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEwCBT-1KsI From this video, it's pretty obvious that the object seen is NOT a UFO, but from my perspective and location it looked rather blurry in the distance and moved oddly and could have easily been mistaken for a UFO or something other than a kite. It definitely looked nothing like what you see in the video but exhibited the same colors. That is why I I feel pretty confident that what we see in this video must be what I saw - same night around the same time. I still feel pretty silly. The only thing I can't account for is the red light, which, like I said, had followed a friend and I on a country road a few days before. Thank you for your time Honestly, ((name deleted)) ((END ADDENDUM)) Witness sent a note on March 19, 2015, suggesting that the sighting was the result of a nearby kite with different-colored LED lights. Link to video provided below. PD
September 16, 2014 · 2:24 PM · UNKNOWN
Anaheim, CA
On 09/16/2014, at 14:24 local time, in Anaheim, California, I had gone out onto my 2nd floor apartment balcony. Just after exiting the front entry door, I looked up to check for any wasp nests under the overhang from the roofline edge. At that moment, I immediately noticed an object hovering in the clear open sky, past the roof of the apartments, opposite my own. The object shape was sort of fuzzy and hard to make out, but it was silent, and flashed 3 red lights, then 3 white lights. The object looked close enough to have made a sound, if it had been a helicopter. The object very slowly floated off to my right (in an Easterly direction), and got gradually farther away, but I could still clearly see the alternating lights flashing, red then white, red then white... After about one minute of watching the object, a dragonfly insect flew close to where I stood on my balcony, and for a brief second distracted me from the object. When I looked back at where the object should have been, there was no lights or sign of the ufo anymore - as if it had 'blinked off' or simply just vanished. I watched the sky for half a minute more, but there was nothing at all to seen in the blue, above me.
September 15, 2014 · 10:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Niles, MI
Soon after my birthday, my mom and her friend went to Mexico, leaving me home for a week by myself. as I often have knee troubles I decided to soak in our hottub outside. my girlfriend walked inside to get us something to drink and my cigarettes, and I leaned back and say a steady light. at first I thought it was a plane since it had a light on it, but then I noticed it wasn't blinking. I watched it go from almost directly overhead to about a 65 degree angle at low speeds. (assuming 90degrees is straight up.). However the oddest part was the accompaniment of a aircraft that had a blinking light that caught up to it. as the second aircraft caught up, on this clear night I watched the solid light object go from 60degrees to around 45 degrees at a much higher speed than the blinking light could. it left it behind and they never caught back up to eachother. my only problem is I didn't know till recently that only military aircraft in a wartime zone could change their lights to off or not blinking otherwise it was mandatory to have signal lights. the light was a solid white orb. not very big, but was about 2x the size of the blinking aircrafts lights. I couldn't tell if the object made a sound or not seeing how the other aircraft did. but I know it didn't change color didn't blink just kept moving slowly then quickly.
September 15, 2014 · 10:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Monroe, WA
I had allot going on in my life, in need of guidance through prayer. I walked down the rd to the gully. Carefully I walk the path until I come the creek. I knelt, gave thanks and explained my situation. I then ask if my voice was being heard. Thats when one after another 3 beams of white light passed over me. They did not travel in the same position, rather parallel to each other.They were above the lower clouds and ginormous. initially entering from the SW heading NE. The length is difficult to say but they each had to be miles long. My guess is the diameter of said light was 2-5 hundred feet across Excited I speak what I had to say(cannot release info on what was said) once again Givin thanks. It was only a matter of minutes since the initial 3 light beams and here I am asking if they would give me direction. asking for an A/B senerio. A was 1 more beam or B meant 2. Now comes a fourth, this time from the SE heading NW crossing where the first three passed over. I didn't tell anyone until it became necessary. I wrote NASA, and DOD. Neither replied. Maybe it has to do with my 2012 awakening? I would go in further in detail but I won't. I will leave u with this key piece of information "communication is only what we're taught, not what we learn?"
September 15, 2014 · 11:30 AM · UNKNOWN
Post Falls, ID
HUGE HUGE HUGE contrail that was 30 times wider than anything I have ever seen from a commercial aircraft. The contrail lasted only for a matter of a few seconds- at the same time there was a commercial jet flying that had a "typical" long "skinny" or average contrail behind it lasting for many minutes at the same time the "ufo" was in view. No sound from the craft. It was flying south. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD
September 15, 2014 · 3:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Monmouth County, NJ
The mineapolis case needs further review. I have lived in NJ most of my life, and after these incidents, I can say that I know the difference between advertising lights and - well, something else. I am almost 100% sure that these witnesses did not see routine advertising lights, and that is the reason, amongst others, as to why I never reported these incidents. The circular lights that a witness was able to capture on film is accurate to my personal account. I have seen these types of light s for over a year now - 3 times in total. I am reporting it now because the LAST time I saw these lights there was no way to explain what they were, but in fact all three accounts match the description in Minneapolis. I will not exaggerate my claims here they are: Prior to September of 2014 (in January just after new years -holiday lights were still up on people's property) I was travelling to work on the garden state parkway when out of my left field of vision I saw! what appeared to be lights over a condo development in Monmouth county NJ. They DID look like advertising lights - like when you see searchlights in the sky - It was overcast and cold and close to midnight and I could see a series of whitish blue lights congregated in a dancing circle formation - - I said to myself that it was odd because they were really lighting up the sky and I could determine NO light path from the ground to the clouds above, yet I dismissed it because the span of the object was over a very large area - probably a quarter mile. I got to work and thought nothing more of it. The second time was in april - - this time there was a witness with me. Same phenomenon, white lights circular large formation OVERCAST NIGHT around 9 or 10pm. The other witness and I both noticed it, again the object was behind a cloud - but it was strange - - the other witness said it was a satellite probably doing a "scan for a satellite imagery map" - But it hovere! d in the area for at least 20 minutes until the lights faded i! n an alm ost choreographed fashion. The third time I saw this was in September last year - - and I have not felt the same since. It was about 3am and I was working late when I decided to walk out of MY HOUSE on foot to a convenience store about a quarter mile north of my house. As I am leaving the convenience store I glance up (another hazy overcast night) to see bright lights off to the east of where I live. I have a home on about 5000 sq feet of property, so I went into the backyard of my home to observe what this object was. I never did see the object all 3 times but the last one seemed to move behind (or control) a slowly moving cloud. it proceeded to travel to the south, making a slow progression west then north and then stopped almost directly over my home. I noticed that there were no wildlife sounds as this was taking place (crickets, frogs, etc). this object had to be thousands of feet in diameter if the lights on it were attached to it. The lights were all bluish -! white piercing the cloud from above, not below. they moved in a figure 8 motion for about 15 minutes, then the pattern changed to 2 isolated lights, each moving in a large circular formation against each others path. When each light ran into each other along the path they changed direction. At this time I was pretty convinced that this was not normal, but an extraordinary object apparently of large shape (or mass) making no sound, and apparently does not know or is unaware that it can be seen. I was very moved by this change in pattern, as then I realized that this was not an aircraft known by me or anyone else. I watched as the 2 lights slowly faded away- still rotating against each other, respectively, then the cloud seemed to move eastward to the horizon. I never reported this - I was more or less panicked by what I saw and it was difficult to leave the house for the next 4 weeks. I did not take any pictures that night, but had more than an opportunity to do so.! I was more awe-struck than anything else, yet I could not ta! ke my ey es off of this object. It was apparently very large, silent and very advanced - I am trying to imagine what this craft must have looked like (minus the cloud) - - If the lights are affixed to the object then it is thousands of feet in diameter. The second pattern change makes me think that this was the case, as the rhythmic pattern (the figure 8's) in the first instance could be individual crafts, but when it changed to the second pattern, it nailed it for me that this craft was of a specific size, shape and dimension. That is why I say it had to be very large. I witnessed something extraordinary yet unsettling and have never reported this because until last night when I researched nuforc's site I saw nothing that really matched the description of what I saw up until now - almost exactly.
September 14, 2014 · 11:00 PM · UNKNOWN
New Bloomington, OH
I was facing a second story window in my home, when flashing lights appeared suddenly. The lights were blue and red, looking very similar to the top of a police car. The lights were close together and probably about a mile away. I couldn't make out a particular shape. I was waiting to hear something, sirens, a helicopter perhaps? I heard nothing. The object was hovering a few seconds, then began flawlessly falling down. It fell smoothly in a matter of seconds, and disappeared behind a tree line. I got up and looked out the window down at the tree line, and I saw nothing at all. No flashing lights, no noises either.
September 14, 2014 · 12:25 AM · UNKNOWN
Aurora, OH
I was walking on the sidewalk heading north in my neighborhood. It was approximately 00:25 on 09/14/2014. The sky was clear with many stars visible. The houses here are spaced apart with some lighting on the houses and driveways and no street lights in the area where I was standing. I noticed three reddish lights in a triangular formation in the northern sky seeming to rise and with a brighter light than the stars. They continued to rise until they were no longer visible. There were no contrails or sounds. As soon as they seemed to dim then disappear another two appeared which were in a vertical orientation. These too rose into the sky and then dimmed and disappeared. I used my phone to video these and while dim I think provide a decent image. I am a current airline pilot and I have never seen anything like this.
September 13, 2014 · 7:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Rio Rancho, NM
We suspect that the object was a hig-altitude, helium-filled balloon. One was reported to have been released from Ft. Sumner in New Mexico. http://www.topix.com/city/fort-sumner-nm/2014/09/enormous-balloon-will-carry-black-hole-hunting-telescope-aloft PD))
September 12, 2014 · 10:46 PM · UNKNOWN
Linglestown, PA
3 bigger than aircraft BRIGHT orange objects coming over mountains from west, one proceeded east and 2 went south, There was no sound at all and they seemed to be moving faster than the average airplane. These objects were very bright.
September 12, 2014 · 8:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Salem, NH
It first was spotted as an unusual flashing light in the night sky. It does move slowly in an up and down pattern. Some times left and right. Object stays in the same spot through out the night. I have been seeing the lights for about a month or more every night. They are usually in the same location. Tonight there were 2 objects. Not together, but far apart from each other. They blink and flash different colors. You can not really see a shape because they are far away.
September 12, 2014 · 6:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Incline Village, NV
Before dawn on Friday September 12th, I noticed a small red dot in the sky over Lake Tahoe. I was a passenger in a work truck. I commented to my friend and asked if he could see it. The red seemed to change slightly and then it turned white and changed shape into more of a comet with a short tail, all bright white. At this point my friend saw it too. The object seemed to grow much larger then and resembled a bright spot light shining into a smoke like vapor, like a v shape trailing behind the light. The light seemed to steer towards the south and west from my position on the north shore. The vapor seemed to expand and lighten and the light then vanished completely. Not sure what it was but I will be looking up more from now on!
September 12, 2014 · 6:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Lebanon, OR
Three of us met on a country road south of town for a walk at 6am. Further south there are mountains. An object rose from behind the mountain. It had a splayed out light behind it. The sky was dark so it was not possible to see what the object was. It was moving rather fast in an upward movement. It simply faded out and disappeared. A video I took was completely black. Another friend snapped a still image which came out pretty well.
September 12, 2014 · 5:07 AM · UNKNOWN
Vancouver (Canada), BC · Canada
I was heading to work, when I decided to look up at the night sky to see if there were any Northern Lights visible during the solar flare. I was looking north and saw 2 stars instead but what caught my eye was that the second star was moving. Both stars were of the same intensity and brightness to the naked eye and it had not occurred to me it could be a moving object. The UFO was not bright and blended well with the other night stars. If it had not moved, you would thought it was just a star. I initially thought it was a meteor/shooting star, but what made me suspicious was that it moved in a slow, crooked, line, about 1 cm per 1-1.5 sec (take a ruler and move it about 30 cm away from your face/eye and hold the ruler, that is how fast it was moving when you are looking at the night sky, I am not sure how else to describe it). The "star" moved east in an obviously crooked line and eventually drifted south-east and disappeared out of sight. It did not blink so it is unlikely it was an airplane, and it does not have other lights nor was shaped like a triangle so it may not even be a drone at all. It had no other coloured lights nor multiple lights. The night sky was quiet and that "star" did not produce any sounds. The sky was clear with no clouds so visibility was not an issue.
September 11, 2014 · 9:10 PM · UNKNOWN
Martinez, CA
Observed in Martinez, Ca., with 2-witnessess, a craft or crafts slowly moving in a NE direction towards another city, Benicia. Picture a pencil at arm's length with a red light at each end in a straight line away from each other & remove the mental image of the pencil. The 2-red lights would move closer together to 1-red light & then become 3-white lights & moving in a ball juggling fashion in tight proximity/formation,then back to 1-red light which expanded to 2-red lights & increasing in distance from each other again. This activity would occur for many miles until the lights separated at a great distance from each other with one stationary & the other moving away at a greater distance. The stationary light would then rejoin the other red light until out of view.
September 10, 2014 · 9:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Whaleyville, MD
While driving northeast on Route 610 through Whaleyville, my passenger saw a few strange lights on the horizon above the treeline. I immediately pulled over and we both watched as the orangish lights moved slowly and independently of one another. At first, we saw what appeared to be three different objects. There was one in the center which appeared stationary. To its left, there was another object/set of lights moving towards it. To the right of the center object, there was another object/set of lights that was moving towards the center. The rightmost object/set of three lights slowly moved downward and disappeared behind the treeline. The leftmost object/series of lights disappeared while as we were watching it in the sky. The center object flashed and its lights seemed to rearrange in configuration. Then it flashed and went out. My passenger said that when she first saw the lights, the left and right objects/series of lights left a little contrail or little sparks. I did not see that part. There was no sound that we could discern from the objects. We estimate we were about a half a mile to one mile from the treeline. The night sky was clear, only a low ground fog. Odd notes: after the lights were gone, we heard a screaming noise coming from the open field. Possibly a fox or injured animal but it sure was creepy! I also had to try three or four times to get my car to start to back up. I don't think this is really attributed to the event, though, as my car has had this issue in the past.
September 8, 2014 · 11:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Fulton, NY
Witnessed a flashing light above the tops of the trees. At first glance I thought it was my favorite star flashing and warbling. Then realized it was too close to be a star but too far to be a plane or helicopter, as well as not really moving like a plane or like a satellite. It appeared to be rotating in an odd way, sort of warbling as it slowly dropped below the tree line diagonally to the right of its original location. It was flashing red yellow and white lights or reflecting something but no pattern could be discerned. Appeared to be drifting across the sky about as slow as watching the hands of a clock.
September 8, 2014 · 10:03 PM · UNKNOWN
Binghamton, NY
The object I saw was a good distance away. I'm not very good at telling distances but maybe around 20-25 miles away. When I first saw it, It seemed to be a plane but when I took a second glance it was very odd. It was flying horizontally across the night sky. It flew straight like a plane. It Also seemed to have blinkers on, also second glance I notice that the blinkers were like three separate lights. First one would go off the back of the object, then the middle, and then the front and go back the end of the object and start al over. Next Thing after it completed three blinks it seemed to skip forward a little bit and then start the blinking process all over again. Now I couldn't make out if it was a plane shape at all but it flew straight like one. I don't have an illustration because my camera wouldn't be able to pick anything at the distance up, and I couldn't make out a shape either. Hope this helps.
September 8, 2014 · 9:40 PM · UNKNOWN
Muskogee, OK
Looking west, I saw a non-flashing white light that I thought to be a satellite heading from north to south at a steady, typical pace for objects in orbit. I watched this light for about 5 seconds before it became extremely bright and then disappeared. I am confident that this was not a meteor/meteorite as I have seen them before on many occasions. This honestly looked like a regular satellite until it flashed - maybe twice the size and brightness of Venus on a winter morning - then was gone. I have no idea what it was. Probable "flare" from "Iridium" satellite? PD
September 7, 2014 · 10:08 PM · UNKNOWN
Mishawaka, IN
My wife and I were on our way home at a little after 9pm. I was in the passenger seat and was looking toward the houses outside my window. I saw six bright lights in the sky through the trees. They were spread out too far apart to be one craft. I told my wife to pull over and she asked where and kept driving. After about ten seconds there was a parking lot so she pulled over. As we were watching another car pulled in with a young girl, she parked and watched. I tried to get a video on my phone but it didn't stay on my phone. My wife noticed an airplane flying near the group and said those aren't planes. The unidentified craft started disappearing first 2 then one-by-one. When that happened the girl drove away while talking on her phone. After the last light disappeared we left and while driving home we both agreed whatever the lights were was unidentified. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 6, 2014 · 10:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Plainfield, IL
I was sitting on my door step talking on my cell phone to my friend. Looking straight across the street and above the houses, I saw a red and green light glide slowly to the right, slowly to the left, then returned to the middle and slowly lowered down. The craft disappeared behind the house in front of me. I stood up and ran as fast as I could across the street and it disappeared. There is no way that a plane or helicopter could have moved like that. It was perfectly gliding across the sky! I was pretty terrified.
September 6, 2014 · 4:30 AM · UNKNOWN
Mesa, AZ
circle shape to my south east very high in the sky..... changed colors....could not believe what i was seeing...got binoculars for better look could only see changing colors..... i know what i saw ......did any one else? Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 5, 2014 · 11:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Salem, OR
For the past hour and a half we have witnessed multiple objects in different directions of the sky. They had bright flashing lights and seemed to be moving in very odd sequence. They kinda swayed back and forth and slowly moved farther away. We witnessed one that moved from the west to the northwest and in the past hour has moved back to the west but the entire time it was kinda swaying and dipping down for a bit and then a little while later it went back up. Did this same kinda movement all the way to the north sky and back. We witnessed two more to the south and one to the northeast. These objects are all moving the same way and are still in the sky at the time of this report
September 5, 2014 · 10:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Etters, PA
Saw object over Etters, PA in Western Sky. Could on see colors blinking Red,Green, Blue and White lights. Could only see the lights blinking for about15 minutes. While seeing object it appeared not to move. After about 15 minutes the object disapeared from sky. While watching a smaller white blinking light moved quickly from south to north. If this was a plane we have never seen one move so fast. Only a few seconds and small white blink light disapeared.