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12,058 entries
July 4, 2015 · 10:08 PM · TRIANGLE
Wisconsin Dells, WI
On the evening of July 4th, 2015, I spotted an anomalous looking object(s) in the sky just west of Wisconsin Dells WI. I was driving east in my semi on I-94 came upon the colorful fireworks display the city was putting on that night. As I rounded a bend in the road, I suddenly noticed lights in the sky emerging from the smoky haze generated by the fireworks. The lights looked like three (3) orange balls arranged in a triangle shape, as if they were the 3 points of an equilateral triangle. At first I thought it might have been a plane because of the airport in nearby Madison. But then I dismissed the notion because I saw no blinking lights which are the signature markings of such a craft at night. Then I considered the possibility that it was a drone, but I believe FAA rules currently prohibit the flying of drones at at night without marking lights. The 3 orange globes appeared not to be connected by a structure in anyway, in spite of the overall triangularity of the whole, but it was dark and I couldn't tell. The haze lent an eerie orange nimbus to whole array. It was kind of weird the way it just emerged phantom-like from the fireworks haze. The object(s) flew directly west along the interstate, I estimate at maybe 80 to 100 feet overhead above the traffic. I don't know which direction the wind was blowing that night. But the UFO moved with definite speed and seeming purpose, relative to the fireworks' smoke, which just sort of hung in the air, slowly dissipating. I wish I had gotten a photo with my phone but I was driving and the traffic was heavy. I wonder if anyone else has reported on this particular incident? It seems that someone else should have seen these lights as many people were out at and about that night.
July 4, 2015 · 10:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Littleton, CO
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 4, 2015 · 9:45 PM · TRIANGLE
Bethlehem, PA
I was at a friends house near the corner of Broadway & Crestline in Bethlehem, Pa. Her back yard has a great view of the Steel Stacks (old Bethlehem Steel plant turned into a public event center). There was a fireworks display for the 4th of July which was just beginning. I noticed an odd light off to the north, our line of sight to the Steel Stacks being in an ENE direction. As I watched, it moved in a slight arc and then a straight line where it slowed and hovered. I pointed it out to my friend, who acknowledged seeing it, but was more interested in the fireworks display. As I studied the object, I was able to see a central brighter cream-white colored light surrounded by three smaller cream-white lights arranged in an equilateral triangular form about the central light. Occasionally I was able to see a red line going from one of the outer lights to the central light. There were no flashing red or green lights, and no noise, although between the professional and amateur fireworks it was hard to hear anything. After hovering for 30 seconds to a minute the object just faded away and disappeared. It did not fly off or move from its hover position. There were aircraft in view, as the Lehigh Valley International Airport was in our view. This object did NOT resemble any aircraft flying that night. I did take a photo of the object, but it is indistinct. My friend and I are both in our late 50's, both professional people, and we both have spent a good deal of time outdoors both day and night. I have an interest in aircraft and enjoy plane spotting. I have seen several strange things in the sky in my time including a completely silent C-130 at very low altitude.
July 4, 2015 · 9:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Boca Raton, FL
The light heading west and then disappeared and then the lights started to show up on the east side of our house. After 10 more minutes we saw again the lights, one and other after 10 more minutes was three objects at the same time, the then the lights turned off and then turned into a big black triangle shape. Event Duration : 40 minutes City :Boca Raton State Florida / Province :
July 4, 2015 · 9:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Machesney Park, IL
It was 930 pm on the fourth of July, we were watching fireworks on friends deck when the orange triangular object seem to float from west to east along latham road near forest hills rd. it was large and stood out from area display of fireworks show. It was definitely hovering, no sound, and we agreed it seemed it was watching the event. It then moved slightly east then decended straight up -slowly until it was out of sight. I have been a pilot, flown in helicopters and have seen drones, this was none of these as we tracked it with binoculars.
July 4, 2015 · 9:25 PM · TRIANGLE
Highlands Ranch, CO
My family were invited by friends of our to watch the fireworks in Highland Ranch. As the fireworks began, we saw a triangular shaped object with blue and red lights to the left of the fireworks that appeared to be floating and flitting back and forth, like a kite in the wind. I showed my friends and family and others around us were also commenting on it calling it a "UFO". I assumed it was a kite with LED lights but then it moved towards the right and directly behind the fireworks but much higher than a kite would go. The lights became more red and green when it moved to this new position. It remained perfectly stationary for about 10-15 minutes and then it it slowly descended beyond the treeline and disappeared - apparently flying North towards Wyoming. I am a 50 yr old business executive and my friend is the VP of a large company in Denver. Obviously there were thousands of others who saw the same thing. I wouldn't normally think along the lines of UFOs and my friend still thinks it was a helicopter or something explainable. However, there was no helicopter sound or typical movement and no white lights in the front and rear as would typically be seen on a helicopter. The triangle formation and strange left to right movements in the beginning also were odd.
July 4, 2015 · 1:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Buffalo Creek Area Campground, CO
My husband and I went camping. We witnesses a series of very bright flashes after the noise of neighbors died down around 1:00 AM. At first, a bright orb flew across the horizon. Then it was later followed by 3 bright flashes with tripod shaped legs behind the flashes. We did not notice any sounds. ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) Saturday morning, July 4th. we camped from the 3rd to the 4th. Thanks! ((END ADDENDUM)) We have corrected the date above. PD
July 2, 2015 · 10:15 PM · TRIANGLE
Lock Haven, PA
The UFO was shaped like a triangle and completely silent. It flew over, headed toward Williamsport, and then turned slightly south. It was moving very fast and had 2 white and 1 red.
July 2, 2015 · 9:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Concordia, KS
At approximately 9:30 p.m. I saw two bright objects at two o'clock on the northwest horizon outside of my house at ((deleted)) Highland Drive. Both objects were stationary. The one on the left was larger and more triangular in shape than anything. It had different colored lights flashing from beneath it. The smaller one, on the right, was not flashing any lights. A picture taken at a Blur concert in Hyde Park in London on or about June 20 is the exact formation that I saw. However, the objects in my sighting seemed to much closer and larger. I checked about 30 minutes after my first sighting and the objects were still in the sky. I checked the next several nights, but I did not observe any unusual objects in the sky.
July 2, 2015 · 9:25 PM · TRIANGLE
Racine, WI
Triangle shaped object with vast white lights transitioned to red and blue, silent aircraft, with terrific speed and elevation while a smaller object of just pure light trailed this object.
July 2, 2015 · 12:30 AM · TRIANGLE
Tifton, GA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 1, 2015 · 10:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Madera, CA
As we stood in our back yard, we noticed the craft flying fairly low through broken clouds. It made no sound. It was triangular with large dome lights on each point of the triangle. Red and white lights flashed on the bottom of the craft. It flew West. An electrical storm was approaching.
June 30, 2015 · 11:45 PM · TRIANGLE
Sutherlin, OR
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 30, 2015 · 10:49 PM · TRIANGLE
Pecatonica, IL
I had taken my daughters, ages 7 and 9, out in to the country to view Venus and Jupiter's alignment, free of light pollution. We were enjoying our viewing and my oldest daughter asked to go home to get her telescope. We did, and by the time we got back out there, the view was not quite as good as it had been. There were a lot of mosquitos, so I told the girls to get back in to the car. I had set the telescope on my trunk and was trying to get the moon in to focus. The telescope wasn't of high quality, and I got frustrated that I couldn't maintain decent focus. On our return trip home, my youngest said "OOH! Look at those planes!" I looked over and saw nothing. My oldest had similar results. The youngest said "Geeze, you guys, they are right there!". I leaned over and looked and there were not three planes, but one solid craft approaching us at a relatively slow pace on our right side. I pulled over and it passed us. Immediately, I rolled down my windows. It was dead silent outside, save for the sound of crickets and frogs. Both girls got kind of freaked out due to the fact that they are no strangers to air shows and know what jets sound like. The object proceeded in a direction that most likely would have led it out between Rochelle and Byron. It was at most, 700-1000 feet above us, but likely lower than that. There was a white round light on the front, but most peculiarly, the rear lights were actually oriented to point rearward and were white rectangles, fairly large in size. They didn't flash per-se, but did increase and decrease in intensity.
June 30, 2015 · 10:14 PM · TRIANGLE
Citrus Springs, FL
2 Stationary light in sky. One on left is extremely bright and triangular. One to the right same but not as bright. Probably Venus and Jupiter in the northwestern sky. PD
June 29, 2015 · 10:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Sugar Loaf, NY
There were three crafts, moving at a speed faster than an airplane. They stopped and hovered very high. They appeared to be triangular, or at least the lights were triangular. One moved at a very slow pace and stopped again. I went inside after about 10 minutes, and they remained barely moving.
June 29, 2015 · 8:30 PM · TRIANGLE
McCormick, SC
We were at Strom Thurmond Dam near Clarks Hill, when a black triangular object appeared in the sky. When it was first spotted, it looked as though it was ascending from the ground. It leveled out just above the tree line, approximately 100 ft in the air. It was completely silent and moved too slow to be an aircraft. After about 15 seconds it was out of view. I think this craft came out of the water near the dam. Not sure. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 28, 2015 · 9:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Poughkeepsie, NY
While driving with a couple friends and myself, I saw a flying object, which appeared to be an airplane in the distance, and had a blinking, bright green light. It was traveling in the same direction (parallel) as the car. It was moving at intense speeds, but I thought nothing at the time, for it is like watching the moon while in a car; it seems to follow you. (For what i thought). The aircraft changed course perpendicular to my car. It flew right over the car and thats when everyone else in the car noticed it. As it was directly over the car, we all saw it was a triangular flying object, which had white lights on the bottom of the aircraft on each angle. Also, a blinking green light in the middle of the triangle. (Hence, the bright green light I saw first.) It zoomed pass us in the perpendicular direction at an un-normal speed and disappeared in a heartbeat. (ALL WITNESSES SAW THE SAME EXACT THING, WE WERE IN SHOCK. Also, we were all sober.) Witness corrects date. Terrestrial aircraft do not have blinking green lights. PD
June 25, 2015 · 2:50 AM · TRIANGLE
Lakebay, WA
On June 25, I awoke at 2:50 a.m. and stared at the sky, seeing stars, with the overcast of two hours earlier having cleared. My bed headboard abuts a large window allowing me to gaze almost directly upward. It is common for me to waken about every two hours or so, as I did this night. I saw what at first I thought was a falling star, a dot of light, but it was slower than normal. After a brief arc it blinked out. Following the line of sight ahead, I was surprised to see a dark charcoal triangular shape moving along the same line and at the same speed as brief dot of light. In disbelief, I grabbed my glasses and looked again. Along the same line, I saw the same shadowy dark charcoal triangular shapes against the black sky, one after another, equidistant apart. I did not count but guess I saw six or seven in a row. At the end, there was a group of five or six in a symmetrical formation. As these objects passed, background stars were blocked from sight. There was no sound. I have no idea what to make of it. I was not dreaming. Indeed, after searching the sky for a couple more minutes, I turned on the light and with an app on my smart phone took a compass reading of the direction. A close approximation was a heading of 206 degrees (plus/minus), or south by southwest. Location and Conditions: I live in Lakebay, Washington, about 2 miles southeast of Key Center, a small community. It is a wooded setting with no outdoor lights close by. My house was dark with no lights on. I am surrounded by high fir trees, distant about 30 feet away from my bedroom window, and about 80 feet away in the direction of the objects. There is a screen on the window out of which I was looking. Considerations: Because of the initial observation of light, as a meteor, I have dismissed the thought that this could have been a flock of Canadian geese. Further, geese are noisy when they fly, constantly honking. Everything was a tad too symmetrical in any event. Had they been planes or jets, I would have been able to hear them. It was absolutely silent. And because what I saw had size and shape, not just specks, planes would have been close enough to easily hear. I cannot speculate on size, distance or speed. I have no idea what I saw. But I was awake and did see what I have described, definitely there but very dark. Again, the objects were a dark slate gray, just barely lighter than the background black night sky, covering stars as they passed by. I am divorced, 65, and live alone. Not an UFO kind of guy, I am not keen on publicity and prefer relative anonymity. Nonetheless, should you wish to contact you may, discretely.
June 23, 2015 · 10:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Smithfield, PA
It may have been longer than 10 minutes, but i went inside. It didn't appear to be large.
June 23, 2015 · 1:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Grand Rapids, MI
At first I thought they were birds but then I saw each one of them had a green light underneath. They were 4 white objects flying at low speed in a formation like a plane wing, not 2 wings but one. At times, they broke the formation to touch between them, but always kept moving ahead. What impressed me more was a round, circular, smaller and not too shiny object fliying right behind them, pretty much similar to a star. In the past couple of months I've seen other objects a couple of times, circular and like orange color. First one alone and later like 4 more flying in wing formation, What I guessed was they might be drones or something, but what I saw last night is definitely out of this world. I don't know why I don't hear more people talking obout this sights, they seem to be common around here.
June 22, 2015 · 11:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Hatfield, WI
Hello, I would like to report a sighting of a flying object that was witnessed by 6 people on the night of June 22, 2015. Two of the persons who witnessed this are former military veterans, with 18 years of service between them. When I asked them what they thought it was, they could not identify the object. The UFO was flying from the south heading north. It was a triangular shape of gold to light yellow light and it had three black dots that were at the back of the light shape. As it traveled across the sky it became hazy and turned into a cloud. It was by far the strangest thing I have ever seen in the night sky. From the time that I first saw the object to when it changed to a cloud was about 20 seconds. It seemed longer, but in reality it was not very long at all. Then we watched the “cloud” move out of our view for about another 15 seconds. It never entered my mind to try and video record it because we were all staring at it trying to figure out what it was. My conclusion is a flying object with some kind of cloud cloaking device? The time was between 1030 and 11pm. One of the reasons I noticed this object is because I was looking up at the sky as the first part of the aurora borealis started. This object did not move in any way, shape or form like the lights that were from the aurora borealis. This sighting happened at Lake Arbutus, WI. I did this little sketch to give you an idea of what I saw before it turned into a cloud. And this is about the same size that it looked like up in the sky. Thanks so much. and I was not drinking....
June 22, 2015 · 10:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Sedona, AZ
UFO Sighting on June 22, 2015 in Sedona, Arizona, at approx. 10:00 p.m. Diagram of event at bottom of document. Filed by Melinda Leslie, Director of UFO Sighting Tours, Sedona. At approximately 10:00 p.m., or just before, my 6 clients and I (7 people total) were out on a UFO Sighting Tour with Military Night Vision Goggles when we all saw 2 large amber colored triangle shape objects with our naked eyes. These traveled from the northwest area of the sky beyond Airport Mesa in a southward direction toward Cathedral Rock. The 7 witnesses were standing together on Chavez Ranch Road turnout area. The 2 objects then made an arching turn as they headed easterly toward the Chapel of the Holy Cross area and then disappeared to the North over Munds Mountain. All witnesses were absolutely astonished and continued to discuss sighting event for duration of the tour. 4 of the witnesses clearly saw that these were 2 distinct structured, hard edged, dark triangle shaped craft each with 3 amber or orange colored lights on the bottom, one light at each corner. Both craft were seen by the 4 witnesses with their naked eyes, without the Night Vision goggles. 2 other witnesses saw them at close range, but initially thru the goggles and could not make out the shape, only that they were huge lights. One of these witnesses is a retired airline pilot with over 40 years of professional experience. He stated emphatically that these 2 objects were remarkably faster than any plane he’d ever seen and that they were very low, much lower than commercial aircraft. When these 2 witnesses lowered their goggles, they and I together saw that these were 2 very large amber colored lights, but unfortunately we did not see the distinct triangle shapes, each with 3 lights, as did my other 4 clients. All 7 of us saw the 2 objects make an arched turn while banking and continued to watch them as they disappeared over Munds Mountain. Please see the diagram below. Additionally, when these 2 craft were on initial approach, at the same time, a military jet at very high altitude passed over us and then another one did again as these 2 objects headed northeast. All 7 witnesses commented that the 2 UFOs were considerably lower than either of the 2 jets. It is difficult to judge the distance from us, but all the witnesses expressed that the UFOs were at most a few thousand feet, or less above us. All 6 clients expressed that they are willing to be interviewed. Unfortunately we were so caught up in the event that none of us grabbed our cell phones to get a photo of the UFOs or take a video. Darn it! I did create a computer diagram drawing that I will email as instructed by you below. Please look for email with write up of sighting event and the diagram drawing from my email address: Linnie@onebox.com
June 20, 2015 · 11:15 AM · TRIANGLE
Charleston, SC
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD