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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.
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July 30, 2014 · 10:15 PM · UNKNOWN
College Station, TX
At approximately 10:15 pm, myself and 4 other family members witnessed something hovering in the sky that we could not identify or explain. We were on the back patio of my house, and observed a large object floating in the same spot with a very bright red and white light. The lights were not blinking, not strobing, just on. There was no sound either. We were not able to make out the shape of the object. We assumed what we were seeing was a helicopter at first, until we saw it move. It would suddenly move one direction, then dart the other way without stopping (from left to right without pausing). It would seem to float and dip, and then suddenly accelerate a short distance, and then freeze. It also would suddenly descend and ascend. All of the movements seemed very erratic, and not at all like any normal flight pattern. I do not believe that a helicopter would be capable of the movements we witnessed. We watched the object for about 3 minutes as it slowly traveled several miles away and out of view. Hoping others witnessed!??
July 29, 2014 · 9:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Blacklick, OH
Two objects appeared in the ENE sky. One object solid red in color, other object solid white. Red object was seen gaining speed to catch up to other object, then began circling white object. Both objects proceeded on same course for approx 4 min. Then both objects slowly gained altitude and faded.
July 28, 2014 · 10:00 PM · UNKNOWN
New Orleans, LA
I was sitting on my porch smoking a cigarette around 10PM, near Children's Hospital, looking south in the direction of the Mississippi River. I was looking at the sky, when between two houses, I saw a violet/pink light appear. The light was small, appearing as though it was far off in the distance. The light would stay in one location for several seconds, zoom quickly in zig-zag fashion to another location, hover for several seconds, and so on. It would occasionally dart behind a house where I could not see it, but then reappear within view and continue to dart and hover in different spots in the sky. It moved quickly and unsteadily, very much unlike any normal aircraft that I have seen.
July 28, 2014 · 5:00 PM · UNKNOWN
St. Louis, MO
It was July 28th, 2014. I was at work at a car dealership in Creve Coeur, Mo. I went to the very top of our 6 story car garage to look for a car. Out the corner of my eye, I saw a very large craft flying very low & slow traveling north over highway 270 which is less than a mile from the garage I was at. As I took a double take at this craft, I realized that this was not a airplane i was seeing. The craft was jet black it seemed only the top was reflective to the sun the sides of the craft was not reflecting from the sun on a bright sunny day which was odd. The craft was also oddly shaped the center seemed to be flat almost disk like but the front and rear seemed to be rounded. The craft was completely silent it did not admit any noise I could hear. I have heard many airplanes fly over that parking garage from much further distances. This craft I seen was the closest I have ever seen a craft near that garage so it should have been very loud and yet the only noise I could hear was cars on the highway. This craft looked to be possibly bigger than a 757. I took screenshots of the video that I took and zoomed In the pictures and some people I showed this to thought it was a Chinook helicopter but there is no way it was in my opinion for the fact a Chinook is very loud and what I was seeing was silent. I am just looking for answers of what this was it could be military, or could be unknown.. Thanks, ((name deleted))
July 27, 2014 · 12:30 AM · UNKNOWN
Austin, TX
I saw a bright white light from bedroom window, then few minutes later saw an object with two red lights flashing then one red ans one green flashing, swaying in circle right above the condo community. Then flew right over my condo patio deck with two red lights. First time I ever see anything strange.
July 26, 2014 · 10:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Pikeville, KY
I was observing stars when I noticed two red lights parallel to each other, I pointed it out to two friends and a huge light came on rectangular in shape. The outside shape of the object could not be made out due to the dark night sky. The light seemed to have something moveing inside of it to the left side of the light. A huge red light came on just left of center inside of the cf the craft. I was amazed to say the least, so was my friends. The light stayed on for several minutes then just went out. There was several red lights on the object that weren't extremely bright like an aircraft would have and had only red lights no other colors. The object moved off to the left, our viewpoint was going to be blocked by a mountain so we ran towards it to get a longer look at the object. It was at that time we thought we may have saw more than one but with our excitement and hearts pounding it was hard to tell if it was just my nerves or shakeing causeing me to think stars were moveing. At that time the object moved overhead of us and appeared low in altitude. It had several red lights and two on the rear were blinking. It made no sound and for an object to be so low I didn't understand what was propelling it? This experience has rarely left my mind since it occurred, hardly a day goes by without me thinking of it at least once.
July 26, 2014 · 9:40 PM · UNKNOWN
Hume, NY
Three of them in triangle formation and the other five came out one at a time and one went straight up and others flew north. They came up over the tree line down the road and the three flew sideways and then went north and the other four flew sideways and went up and down fast then headed north. They came out a couple minutes apart except the first three all together. My dog also barked every time I saw them. The lights were a reddish orange color. No noise and no blinking lights.
July 26, 2014 · 9:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Sarasota, FL
I was working and 2 customers and I saw through a window over University Pkwy something with red and green lights move very quickly back and forth across the sky and then hover for about 30 seconds then disappeared. The whole thing larded about 2 minutes
July 26, 2014 · 7:45 PM · UNKNOWN
Talmoon, MN
2 red lights moving at slow speed over lake. Both on same direction from north to south, and then both turned to the East at the same time and slowly disappeared to the East.
July 26, 2014 · 3:05 AM · UNKNOWN
Staten Island, NY
A low object emitting white light was spotted flying over my house last night in Staten Island NY at extremely high speed. It occurred after I heard a strange noise coming from my driveway. As soon as i was done investigating the sound i turned around and that is when I saw the white light. It had to be under 1500 feet because the clouds were low last night and it was visibly flying below the clouds.
July 25, 2014 · 10:20 PM · UNKNOWN
Hutchinson, MN
On Friday, July 25, 2014, at 1020 pm local time (Central time zone), in Minnesota, I was walking home with my digital camera. I was shooting wildlife pictures earlier when there was light, but when it got to dark, I just put the lens cap on and turn off the camera. I then went for a 4 mile walk. About a block from my house, I looked up in the pitch black sky and saw a strange orange light – sort of like an “orange moon” color when the moon is low on the horizon. This was just a very small sliver of orange light, so I was thinking it must be a slice of the moon low on the horizon. As I watched this light, it was approaching me, and now it looked like an object that was on fire flying though the air. I was thinking this was an airplane on fire and would be falling to the ground. This orange light was bright, it looked like a campfire type of orange – like it was on fire. I suddenly realized I had my camera with me and by the time I got the lens cap off, camera, turn on the object was directly overhead. I had the camera in full auto mode, so my first shots the flash was on and the auto-focus could not operate properly due to low light – the shutter stayed open because it was expecting the flash to expose the object – so the first shots were just light moving while shutter open. I quickly switched modes on the camera. The object appeared to about 2,000 feet high about the level that helicopter fly at, but it could have just appeared to low elevation due the brightness of the light. This object made no sound – it was completely silent. I snapped off several photos of this object as it was now moving away from me. Its speed appeared to be that of a rescue helicopters (flight for life) that often fly over during the night – my guess about 200 to 300 mph. It was out of range in about 15 seconds. I snapped off 17 photos, but all you can see is the orange light in a pitch black sky. These are 18 mega pixel photos so they can be blow ! up to view better. However, the actual object size, shape, etc. cannot be determined – I am assuming that this orange light was some sort of engine or propulsion system. It was traveling Northeast about 90% north and 10% east coming from the Southwest in a straight line. There was nothing fancy – no sudden movements or exotic speeds – straight line flight about 300 mph. Years ago, I was in the Air Force and stationed at Nellis AFB in Las Vegas. The “Top Gun” school for the Air Force is station their and it is called Red Flag. When Red Flag is going you can watch all sorts of aircraft taking off and flying at night. I know what afterburners look like and what jet engines look like. I also know what aircraft landing lights look like as well as the other light on the planes wings. Stealth aircraft do not have engine exhaust that is visible from the ground. The orange light did not look like anything I had ever seen before. I have no idea what it was – might be a perfectly simple explanation, but for now that flying object is unidentified.
July 25, 2014 · 9:15 PM · UNKNOWN
Corpus Christi, TX
Sitting on back deck looking at the stars and saw an object which was coming out of the west at an extremely high rate of speed. There was no noise or trail and the object vanished off the horizon within 5 to 6 seconds. We were looking for satellites, and saw several, one prior to the event and two after the event. This object was traveling at 4 to 5 times the speed of a satellite.
July 24, 2014 · 12:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Taylor, MI
My neighbor came running in the house yelling for me to hurry come outside, there's a UFO! I ran outside and looked in the direction they were pointing, and sure enough, there was an object hovering in the sky. I could not really make out the shape of the object but, it appeared to have a string or bar of white lights on it. The lights were not flashing or anything. It was just hovering there, no noise or anything. Then it slowly began to move behind the trees and we lost sight of it. Just after it went out of sight, a commercial airplane flew by moving a lot quicker than the object we just witnessed. So, we are positive it was not a plane.
July 23, 2014 · 5:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Reading, KS
After arriving at Lyon County State Fishing Lake, I exited my vehicle and immediately heard what sounded like a sonic boom, but not as loud. I then heard what I thought was a fighter jet on an easterly heading because the sound seemed to go west to east. I looked up and saw an object that appeared to be flying at a high rate of speed and heading west. It was only visible for minute or less, but the sound of what I thought was a fighter jet heading east was still apparent and I perceived the sound to be going east. The object heading west was not a light but looked metallic and I couldn't tell what the shape was because it was, what appeared to be, miles high and I didn't have binoculars. In the past I had heard of fighter jets being scrambled to investigate and try to intercept unidentified flying objects, and this was almost an immediate thought. I feel our military was scrambled to investigate something or I did not perceive things the right way.
July 23, 2014 · 4:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Cedar Creek, TX
Traveling on Hwy 21 north my son said look at that while he was driving we noticed a bright blue light traveling from east to west low to the ground traveling in a straight line moving very fast then broke into two bright blue lights then disappeared over the tree line...My son and I witnessed the same object he almost crashed my truck looking at it..
July 22, 2014 · 12:05 AM · UNKNOWN
Worcester, MA
At 12:05am on Tuesday, July 22, 2014, I was driving south on Belleview Street, when I spotted a large, round, orange light in the sky to my left…which works out to south-southeast. Best guess is it was about 20 degrees over the tree line. I first thought it was a star, but soon figured it to be too large. Then I thought an airplane or helicopter, but still would have been too large for those kinds of lights. It also appeared to be moving in a left-right-left pattern over a short distance, relative to the object. If you google Belleview street, Worcester, MA, the little green arrow that pinpoints the road on the map is precisely where I was positioned at the first sighting. As I approached the intersection of Belleview and Chandler Streets, I spotted certainly three, and possibly four more orange lights sitting dead south in the sky, not apparently moving. One was slightly lower than the first one I spotted, perhaps at 15 degrees over the tree line. The other two I am certain of were considerably higher in the sky, one at 75-80 degrees and shading toward the southeast, the other at about 45 degrees, directly below the highest one. There were no other unusual objects near these, and they did not show any distinct pattern or shine light on anything near to them. My car window was down, and I heard no sounds to possibly indicate their proximity to my position. I was near my home, so I gathered my head, and sped to grab a good camera. By the time I got back, about ten minutes later, there was no sign of these objects in any direction. One side observation: on my arrival to my driveway before getting my camera, I looked to the sky to see if they could be seen from my house, but in the general direction of where I saw them, all I could see was a vague pinkish glow behind the shadowed profile of trees and other houses. Couldn’t see any stars in any direction, so I thought it might be clouds obscuring the night sky. When I returned home, disappointed and without pictures of anything, at about 12:30 am the glow behind the silhouetted houses and trees was gone, and there were a good many visible stars in every direction. I hope someone else reports this so I know I am not nuts.
July 22, 2014 · 12:05 AM · UNKNOWN
Jacksonville, FL
My boyfriend and I were sitting outside in front of his house, when he asked me to look up at the sky a little distance away and asked me what was that we were seeing. It looked like a unidentified aircraft with bright flashing lights with multiple colors was slowly moving and then just stopped. My boyfriend ran into the house and grabbed a pair of binoculars, and he first looked at it and then I did. What I saw was multiple flashing lights that were the colors of amber, orange, white, red. I couldn't tell what the shape of it was but I think it was rounded based on the formation of the lights. We got in his vehicle and started down the street and by the time we got to the end of the street, it vanished.
July 21, 2014 · 9:34 PM · UNKNOWN
Torrelodones, MADRID P · Spain
My Daughter (13 years old) and I went for a late walk around our neighbourhood; we were the only few inhabitants in the area because most families were on vacation as it was July. We walked back to our house as it was soon going to be dark. Our house is at the end of a small Cul-de Sac from the Main Street and it is close to the natural reserve of El Pardo in Madrid, Spain. 1) 30 meters before reaching our house we were "welcomed" by a green beam (maybe a laser?) and it was accompanied by a weird short electric sound. The green beam seemed to have been originated from somewhere in our property and went straight to us. It happened very fast (half a second), still remember the emerald green shine. We did not feel anything. We obviously stopped and commented on what happened and even inspected the surroundings looking for anything out of the extraordinary. My daughter later told me that she believed that we were scanned. 2) Then we started to hear this repetitive mechanical sound. (thum-thum-thum-thum…) It came from our property but it was loud enough that we could hear it from were we were standing at the Cul-de Sac. As we were getting close to the entrance the sound got louder. I opened the gate and once inside the sound seemed to originate at the swimming pool area. Told my daughter to wait at the stairs (the house is on an incline, the house is on the top level, then garden, then pool and finally the entrance gate and garage at the bottom). This event lasted 30 seconds. I walked into the swimming pool area thinking that probably the sound came from the swimming pool´s pump room. But once I stepped in the area it was obvious that the sound was originating somewhere else in the swimming pool area. But I could not see what made that sound, nor my daughter from were she was standing. So I proceed to walk around the pool to investigate and that's when the sound started to move away from me as I walked. It was discerning as I could not see nothing that could create that loud mechanical noise. As I kept on walking the sound kept moving away from me. Is an average pool size, it took me a short time to walk arround it. I "chased" the invisible sound till it went into our neighbours house. I stood on site while I heard the sound getting quieter. When I could no longer heard the sound, I told my daughter that It was getting dark and that we should get inside our house. This event lasted 2 minutes. 3) We went inside our house as we commented what happened. 5 minutes later as I was preparing dinner the neighbour´s house alarm went off. In 15 years living in that house it was the only time that that alarm went off. Local Police came to my neighbours house to investigate. They stood there for a long time, but the house is in another street, it was late and I was taking care of my daughter so I did not went to ask them if they saw anything extraordinary. Being trying to share this encounter for a long time. Thank you for your time.
July 21, 2014 · 9:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Fort Worth, TX
I do not know what I saw. It was gone as fast as I saw it. All I can say for certain is a blue orb, and a red orb on the west horizon seemed to collide, with no sound, or explosion. It happened very fast as the two objected merged, and quickly disappeared.
July 19, 2014 · 11:00 PM · UNKNOWN
New Braunfels, TX
During our camping trip we saw an aircraft with red and blue lights hovering in the sky. It would move in one direction very quickly make a sudden stop...hover and the take off in a different direction.
July 17, 2014 · 11:50 PM · UNKNOWN
La Porte, IN
I was outside viewing the night sky when this set of Red and White flashing lights started cruising by. I watched it for approximately 1 minute. It was fairly close and low but there was no sound emitting from it. I also noticed that there were no Green lights on it. The Red lights were flashing slower than the white lights. The White lights resembled strobe lights but no Green lights? Because of the night, I could not see the craft itself.
July 17, 2014 · 1:45 AM · UNKNOWN
Cranberry Twp., PA
I really cannot describe it in text I would prefer to do this over the phone if possible if you can please call 724 (number deleted) my friend and I have been watching odd aircraft fly over head and just a few minutes ago an object flew out of one of the aircraft, and I still can see it hovering at a distance and changing colors between white red and blue light flshes.
July 15, 2014 · 9:45 PM · UNKNOWN
Denver, CO
Through the cloudy evening clouds, I saw a herd of white led looking lights, extremely high in the sky grouped together and some that were very close together and some off in the distance. The first group was about 25 then saw even more following behind. At least another 25 plus even more that were hard to count. There seemed to be more spread out all over but the clouds made it difficult to see. This cluster appeared southeast of Denver and continued north then they continued in a northeast direction until they were no longer viewable. Some of the lights looked as if they were staying still then would continue once the other moved. There was no noise produced by these objects.
July 15, 2014 · 9:45 PM · UNKNOWN
Hampton, GA
I was at work and I heard a helicopter (I live near and airport and am familiar with the sounds of helicopters). This was like a military helicopter, it had a turbo or jet sound not normal for this area. After approximately 45 seconds of hearing it, the helicopter came into view almost directly overhead. It was heading ESE bearing approximately 122 degrees. After it passed me, a small, solid, bright white lit; was ahead, slightly above, and a little to the south of the helicopter. I focused on the light, and all the sudden at 3 o'clock a red strobe light came on. About 2 seconds after that at 10 o'clock, a second red strobe light came on. None of these lights were comparable to the helicopter, which had several white and red strobe lights that cycle much fast than the other lights. Even though the helicopter was closer, the size of the three lights were about 10 times larger (assuming it was one object). I could not tell the distance between the object. The reason I feel like it was one craft is because after the red strobe lights came on, they never wavered in distance from the solid white light and the orientation around the center never changed. I would estimate the visual contacted lasted 15-20 seconds until I lost it behind the trees. I looked around, but no other witnesses. I went to tell someone and they said watch this and said, "Sir, what's above me?". Apparently, this guy has done this on several occasions and it shows all flights around (we're just south of Atlanta and generally there is some kind of traffic), but this time it showed nothing. He stated that this was unusual. As I have never done it, I don't know. Incidentally, the craft in question flew directly over the FAA center, which I believe has a no-fly zone over it (I have never seen any air traffic over it). The helicopter was just north of the Center.