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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.
2,257 entries
December 16, 2018 · 5:30 PM · FLASH
Luray, VA
There was 3 consecutive flashes over the sky, almost like it was building up and the last one was almost like day time.
December 8, 2018 · 10:30 PM · FLASH
Santa Fe, NM
My son heard a loud unusual humming noise and saw formation of lights in a vertical pattern in the northern sky. He called my other son to come and see the lights that were traveling east to west in the northern sky over Los Alamos, NM. The called me out and I saw the formation which is one of the most unusual sightings I have seen. I ran into my house and captured the lights flashing with my phone video as they disappeared. We also witnessed two fast flying I assume fighter jets that flew right at the formation. (( Possible military exercise?? PD http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/25380/conga-lines-of-usaf-airlifters-filled-the-night-sky-across-u-s-for-joint-forcible-entry-drill END NOTE))
November 28, 2018 · 7:35 PM · FLASH
Tucson, AZ
Was driving westbound in eastern Tucson. Saw long rectangular flashing lights in sky above. The flash would appear then appear again in a different spot. Too short of time and too far apart to be helicopters or airplanes. No sound. It looked like multiple objects. The objects moved west and kept flashing until it was too far to see. The rapid flashing continued the same the entire time. The only color of flash was white similar to an LED white color.
November 26, 2018 · 8:40 PM · FLASH
Casa Grande (outside of), AZ
Monday Nov. 26, 2018; at approx 8:40 p.m. On SR87 heading South to eventual destination of Tucson. Before N. signal Peak Rd. Right after White Mountain pass Rd. I saw an orange-red light that had no afterglow. The color was almost neon in nature. Shape; light went straight up into an upside down U then extended down. The light appeared, then went black, then came back on, then off. The truck in front of us slowed then stopped in the road for a few seconds, then drove off. A car driving the opposite way stopped by the side of the road and 2 passengers got out of their car and looked up. My husband, our driver, cursed at the driver in front of us who had stopped and then we took off. My husband made no mention of the light and I did not mention it too him. My husband is retired law enforcement, he would not talk about such things.
November 26, 2018 · 7:00 PM · FLASH
Carlisle, PA
Driving down Walnut Bottom rd going into Carlisle. The sky lit up dark blue for about 30 seconds. Over cast with no rain. Was not lightning.
November 20, 2018 · 11:15 AM · FLASH
Tehachapi, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 16, 2018 · 6:40 PM · FLASH
Sindh Province (Pakistan), Pakistan
I saw a bright white flash again, just a few seconds later, located in front of me and just West from the first sighting, after it initially appeared, which could have possibly been the same object, but I was uncertain as I assumed it was traveling from an East to Westward horizontal trajectory. The object flashed again one last time (3 times total) just West again from where it was previously located in front and to the right of me, but assumed this was a single object still continuing its Westward direction of travel. It was hard to estimate the distance I was away from this object (flash) since it was fully dark a! t this time and a significant distance away from me, yet somewhat close as night time lights are difficult to judge their distances in these particular circumstances (lights/flashes in nighttime skies). I reported my sighting approximately 30 minutes later to a ranking airfield authority and asked if any aircraft were flying nighttime operations during this time as I have seen aircraft flying these type of maneuvers before at this location at approximately 10,000 feet dropping aerial flares (could previously distinguish the aircraft and the flares dropping at the same time, both in visual view together). My observation of this sighting was definitely not the case in this situation, as this object was traveling horizontally with no streaks behind it (no sound either or streaks from its top side, which would demonstrate/exhibit a downward aircraft flare being dropped) and was not within the constraints and characteristics of a meteor sighting either (most meteor sightings I’ve seen lasted no longer than a few seconds). The airfield official informed me he was unaware of any aircraft flying nighttime training/operations at the time and would look into the incident for me. I haven’t heard back yet from him on any explanation regarding my sighting, however, I assume this sighting is still on active status/an unexplained event. During the time of the sighting, the sky was totally clear/dark, with the half-moon practically located overhead with Mars nearby its presence (Just West of the Moon). The planet Saturn was setting close in the far South-Western horizon. There was no wind active or noticeable as the sky was totally clear and peaceful at the time of the event. The temperature was approximately 77 degrees. The entire event occurred over approximately 10-15 seconds. No further information to report, yet to advise that I have considerable experience around all well-known civilian and military aircraft and can substantiate this event was neither a star, planet, satellite, meteor, flare or any known type of familiar aircraft that I’ve ever seen before flying in the nighttime skies, especially at this location. I checked the NASA ISS fly-over schedule as it didn’t list any fly-overs in this area (or region) for the entire 24 hour period on 16 November 2018 (night of the sighting).
November 14, 2018 · 6:40 PM · FLASH
Lisbon, NY
Flashes that lasted about 5 seconds each of red to orange light. Would last a couple of seconds. Then formed a line of 4 in one group and 3 in another.
November 11, 2018 · 8:50 PM · FLASH
San Antonio, TX
Was driving home, heading south on Commercial Avenue, on the south side of San Antonio. We noticed a large flash of light in the south eastern part of the sky. Each flash was blue in color. Flashes lasted only a few seconds, but continued for several minutes around the San Antonio River and Loop 410 area. There was no accompanying sound, smoke or any reports of electrical power being lost. The flashes light up the entire portion of the sky. There was a gas main that caught fire, but it was reported at 0100 hrs a full 5 hours after these flashes were observed.
November 3, 2018 · 11:00 PM · FLASH
Baltimore, MD
Saw flash in the sky about a quarter at arm's length wide. Started small but grew in intensity then vanished. Appeared in the South Western sky I was in Western Baltimore. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 1, 2018 · 1:30 AM · FLASH
Albany, NY
I was looking out my window facing the west in my dorm. There were no airplanes in sight, and a break in the clouds. I then saw in the sky a brief flash of white light, followed by it disappearing, with a streak following it as it accelerated north for about three seconds.
October 21, 2018 · 12:21 PM · FLASH
Bowmanville (Canada), ON · Canada
Bright blue light objects southeast direction toward Lake Ontario, about 8 objects some stationary, some moving quickly. What stood out were 3 lined up one above the other, close proximity.
October 18, 2018 · 5:00 PM · FLASH
Torrance, CA
Sitting and watching for satellites after sunset. saw several and turned toward vega and cygnus. immediately saw a tiny flashing light and thru 10x binos were clearly seen to be a bright red and green flashing light. no other part of a craft was seen. estimated to be aircraft in size. a tiny white light accompanied each flashing light. difficult to tell, but seemed to be on no course and made a lazy circle with no darting. ran to get camera and it had moved toward polaris. after fumbling with camera, looked up and item dropped like a rock out of the sky, straight to horizon. could have accelerated, but no way of knowing.
October 15, 2018 · 11:20 PM · FLASH
Kill Devil Hills, NC
When the object got larger and brighter right before it shot off it almost looked like it was oval in size and it gave off a colorful refraction of light (like sunlight bouncing off a crystal) with the bright white flare. There was no noise heard during the sighting of the anomaly and it only lasted 3-5 seconds.
October 4, 2018 · 8:53 PM · FLASH
Bozeman, MT
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 4, 2018 · 5:00 PM · FLASH
Baldwinsville, NY
I was riding my bike in a westerly direction in Village Green, Baldwinsville, NY. The sky was cloudless, a perfect blue sky. Suddenly, I saw a very intense white light above me. Initially, I assumed it was an airplane with sunlight glinting off of metal. After a few seconds its light dimmed significantly. I could see a cylinder shaped object for a second then it vanished in thin air!
September 23, 2018 · 2:10 AM · FLASH
Potchefstroom (South Africa) · South Africa
Big flash in night sky, followed by huge explosion sound too far apart for explosion sound being so loud making windows tremble about 7 sec apart... Then strange winds. And street light color went from normal yellow glow to strange purple shine and strange noise outside my house went on for a while. Like some one moving furniture against my wall and then every thing stops, lights went back to normal color wind is gone and every thing is calm and silent now.. 23 september 2018 03:18
September 18, 2018 · 3:08 AM · FLASH
Harlan, IA
Series of 5 soft electric blue flashes in northern sky over 1 hr duration. I deliberately set alarm to awake in the early morning to watch the sky away from the city. Lots of pulsating ‘stars’ and odd pattern movement by orbs/lights. (Obvious human aircraft with blinking lights were out circling the skies probably researching the orbs and flashes) I heard jets too. *There was similar activity in the early morning skies the day before as well, but no airplanes or jets were out. I watched the sky for hours both nights and seen dozens of zig- zagging orbs, but these flashes were new & uncommon to an avid sky watcher. *Also- owls, geese, locusts & crickets didn’t portray any unusual behavior during my witnessing. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 17, 2018 · 4:00 AM · FLASH
Oldsmar, FL
At approximately 4am,I was in my pool floating on a pool float listening to music. I love star gazing, so I was initially just looking right above me at the stars. Just north of Oldsmar, I noticed an intense flash of light in the corner of my eye. It should be noted that this intense light was not as intense as lightening which envelopes the space around you. It was like a flash of a camera. I turned my floaty to lock my eyes on that area to see if I'd notice a flash again and then 3 minutes later. I saw it again. I did not see any sort of dim light in sky in between flashes. This flash happened every 3 minutes like clock work. Everytime it flashed, I noticed that it was decending slowly. Over a 30 minute time frame it went from very high in the sky to just below the tree line of the horizon. Although it descended below the tree line, I could still see the flash as a result of Aura light emission. At this point, I'm thinking to myself "is this thing landing in the forest!?" This is when things got weird and scary as hell. All the sudden the flashing object I had been watching that descended and went below tree line and kept flashing started making its way towards me and I knew this because the actual flash became visible again but at the same time I knew it was getting closer because it was getting bigger. As it closer and closer to me I was scared shitless and jumped off my floaty because I was having these nightmarish thoughts that the next time I would see it flash that it would be right over me. See that's the weird part. I remember having these thoughts and then jumping off floaty and getting out of pool, But apparently what I thought my reaction was never happened! Why? Because my wife woke me up at 6am in the floaty and my phone was in the bottom of the pool which means I never jumped off my floaty and got out of pool like I thought I did. Here is my rational thought and theory as to what really happened and what I'm choosing to believe. I'm thinking, after the flashing light went below the tree line that I simply fell asleep shortly after that and me having thoughts of it approaching and being right over me and me jumping off floaty and out of pool was simply a nightmarish dream after I fell asleep... Please note: at no time did I ever see an object between flashes
September 16, 2018 · 8:30 PM · FLASH
Massena, NY
I saw 2 long bright flashling burst in two separate locations, and after the second sighting a loud but brief noise like a tractor trailer Jake brake growling noise lasted for 2 seconds then complete silence.
September 13, 2018 · 11:25 AM · FLASH
Petite Rivier, NS · Canada
Running down rural road at night, green strobe light appeared behind. Looking back there was a green strobing light that streaked above, no sound, relatively low to ground. Strobing light was very bright.
September 10, 2018 · 7:00 PM · FLASH
Daejeon (South Korea) · South Korea
1. Detailed information of seen It looked like an long Flashes which is lasting 1 second at one blink and blinked 5 times in the direction of progress, It looked like a conduit of explosive are burning in the direction of progress which are blinked 5 times. 2. Number of observers : 1 3. shape or color : a flash lasting 1 second at a time. 4. Backgrounds of an observer : an IT engineer work at university.
September 1, 2018 · 2:00 AM · FLASH
Belton, MO
Several sporadic flashing lights over defunct military base throughout the night. Still occurring at the time of report. No signs of flying objects.
August 22, 2018 · 4:23 AM · FLASH
Morganton, NC
I woke up at 4am and decided to step outside for a cigarette before I had to get my husband up for work. When I finished, I went inside and remembered that I had to go to the atm and I had to do it before my husband woke up and left at 5:30. As I stepped outside and walked to the car, I noticed that the area was lit up with a dim bright light; almost like a streetlight was turning back on. I almost didn’t pay attention to it while I was walking by, but I remembered that there isn’t a light there so I looked up. As I looked up, there was a bright blue/white flash of light above me that resembled a circular shape and then it shot up and across the sky. I stood there for a minute trying to find an explanation of what had happened and couldn’t. Nothing happened again for the remainder of the early morning.