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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.
13,832 entries
November 11, 2017 · 8:03 AM · CIRCLE
Missoula, MT
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 11, 2017 · 3:30 AM · CIRCLE
Natick, MA
Around 3:30 AM this morning, a ball of light suddenly came from somewhere behind the trees in our yard. It was bright enough to bring light through my window into my room and catch my attention from the corner of my eye as I was in bed. From what I watched from my bed through the window, it traveled up and off to the right side of the sky and then I guess continued in that direction because I didn't see again after that. It freaked me out, so it took me a few seconds to go over to the window. When I looked out, there was then randomly what appeared to be a very low flying commercial airplane flying across the sky from right to left. Though it seemed to have the typical lights of an airplane, the shape was a little bit off, like it was flying on it's side with one wing pointed down to the ground! This was extremely bizarre because the giant flashlight-like ball of light had disappeared, and this airplane showed up from absolutely no where immediately after. Also we are quite far from Logan airport, so an airplane flying low enough for me to distinguish it's individual lights and wings is extremely unusual and possibly even dangerous as well. I've lived in this home for 20 years and I have never seen anything like this, let alone never once seeing an airplane flying so low to the ground above my neighborhood like this one.
November 10, 2017 · 5:40 PM · CIRCLE
Bakersfield, CA
There was an object to the northwest that looked like the moon but it was real dim and had a small cutout section at the lower left side. could this have been planet x? Later that night about midnight the moon was bright in the southeast.
November 10, 2017 · 5:10 PM · CIRCLE
Brooklyn Park, MD
A bright light with pink trail looked like it was burning at first I thought it was a piece of space junk falling back in the atmosphere it tell it started turning and speeding up it moved horizontal through the sky very fast much much faster than a plane this was not a plane and it was not a meteor it was being controlled
November 8, 2017 · 10:20 PM · CIRCLE
Tontitown, AR
I went out to smoke on break and saw a large bright light toward Tontitown. My initial thought was an airplane, but as I stared, I realized, not only was this thing way too big to be an airplane (unless it was flying much, much lower than needed) but it was solid white. For almost a full minute, it stayed in one place, then darted toward Arvest Ballpark. It looked to have been directly over the Pilot truck stop before taking off. Seconds after crossing Hwy 412 E., it disappeared.
November 8, 2017 · 5:30 PM · CIRCLE
Cole Camp, MO
Around 5:30pm, November 8, 2017, driving south on 65 highway i seen something in the sky to my right, which is west in the area of Whiteman Air Force Base. At first it looked like a black small object. As i kept staring at it started to change colors, from black to a bright orange, red, and then bright white. It was about the size of a pea in the sky is how i can describe it. My son was driving and was seeing this too. We pulled off 65 highway and i grabbed my cell phone and started taking pictures and video. Then came fighter jets keeping distances, but circling this unidentified object in the sky. I called Whiteman Air Force Base Security and reported this. The officer took my name and phone number, and said he would be having someone check it out. 30 minutes after this call, there where 3 jet in a row flew over my home in the direction of unusual red, green, and yellow spinning lights. i could see it in the tree line not the sky, which i disagree with it being a twinkling star. I hope these photos you can see what i saw. you will have to zoom in a little. Sincerely yours, ((name deleted)) The two tiny white specks in the photos the witness has forwarded look to us to be short contrails behind high-altitude aircraft. PD
November 6, 2017 · 11:50 PM · CIRCLE
Helena, MT
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 5, 2017 · 9:50 PM · CIRCLE
Long Beach, CA
Slow moving cirlcular dark object with diferent color lights. Low flying. No sound. Larger than a commercial plane. Taller than a blimp. Witness provides no contact information. PD
November 5, 2017 · 7:38 PM · CIRCLE
Highway 60 (Canada), MB · Canada
The area that we were in was on populated it was dark and approximately -10°C as it is winter here with the nearest town being about an hour away.
November 4, 2017 · 6:00 PM · CIRCLE
Dunedin, FL
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 4, 2017 · 12:00 AM · CIRCLE
Shakopee, MN
Around midnight I noticed these lights in the sky above the casino in Shakopee at Canterbury Park. About an hour later, the lights had moved ever so slowly to where they were at 1 am when I left to drive back to Illinois. I took several photos and the lights appear to be in a circular pattern similar to what was reported in Sepetember. There were no casino advertisements at all being displayed.
November 3, 2017 · 8:00 PM · CIRCLE
Bullhead City, AZ
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 3, 2017 · 2:38 PM · CIRCLE
Port Austin, MI
Biking through cemetery in town just after 2:38 PM. Witnessed bright silver circular object in sky 1/3 size of and to the right of the sun in clear sunny sky. Lasted about a min or 2. Quickly changed to light crystalline colors, and vanished.
November 2, 2017 · 9:00 PM · CIRCLE
Canal Fulton, OH
I have never seen anything move so quickly and quietly across the sky. All of the neighborhood dogs have been barking all night.
November 1, 2017 · 7:18 AM · CIRCLE
Cleveland, OH
The UFOs came from east to west of downtown Cleveland, the height was about 6,000ft, the speed was about a helicopters speed. Here's what happened: I looked up at the sky and the UFOs almost 20 of them visible to me, were behind each other in a very organized way. As the group of UFOs were moving, they had a blue looking light next to them. While the rest of the aircrafts/UFOs were leaving I tried to take pictures of them, but I only caught two on my camera; they headed north above Lake Erie, my estimation is that they went up to 10,000 ft and higher where it isn't visible to a human eye. I tried to record all this and when I went back on my gallery the video was gone, I was pretty sure I took. My friend sent me the pictures she took, instead. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and he seemed to us to be quite serious-minded. PD
October 31, 2017 · 12:35 AM · CIRCLE
Moodus, CT
At approximately 12:35 am on Oct. 31, 2017, I was outside in my yard. A bright light caught my attention. It was fairly low on the horizon, and also was a bit slower than any shooting star I’ve ever seen, and much bigger, and brighter. Still the whole event lasted only seconds. It moved quickly and seemed to recede below horizon. Probably a shooting star, but it was pretty weird. I am just an ordinary person, with virtually no astronomy knowledge. I just felt compelled to report this as it freaked me out a little.
October 30, 2017 · 10:30 PM · CIRCLE
Charlotte, NC
It appeared to be a bright star that was noticed while taking the dog out. An airplane caught our eye and led our sights to a bright light that seemed to be an airplane, but moving erratically. It moved up and down in a graceful movement bet then would go side to side in a jerking movement. It was seen with just the naked eye and it seemed to have some colored lights. Occasionally one witness saw what appeared to be some white streaking light beams in thin lines around it but the other two witnesses did not see that. It was cold out so we did not stay out long. We looked on an app called sky view and it seemed to be in the vicinity of Taurus and the Pleides seven sisters stars.
October 29, 2017 · 11:00 PM · CIRCLE
Helen, GA
I watched these lights for almost 2 hours. It was the most unexplainable thing that l have ever seen.
October 28, 2017 · 7:05 PM · CIRCLE
Cross Lake, MN
I am an Architect. I experienced an event that I am unable to explain. My wife and I own a second home on Velvet Lake, a small quite and private lake on the north end of the Crow Wing State Forest located about 4 miles east of Crosslake, Minnesota. We are at the end of the road. There are about thirty or so other cabins on the lake and because it is late in the season, with winter setting in, not many people were up at their cabins; not many lights on around the lake. Our closest neighbors, about one hundred yards away to the north of us, were at their place but no one was out or down by the lake. On the evening of October 28, 2017, my wife and I were enjoying one last campfire for the year. Our cabin is on the east-southeast side of the lake so sitting at the fire pit looking at the lake we are facing west-north west. Our fire pit is set back about 15 yards from the edge of the water. At about 19:00 my wife decided to go up to the cabin and warm up, I stayed at the campfire. When I got up to stir the logs I looked out across the lake and noticed what appeared to be 5 very bright stars off in the distance. I'm a star gazer, usually looking for satellites and shooting stars, but I've never seen anything like this before. I wasn't even looking for stars that night because the sky was too cloudy, only a few stars were visible directly above me with the half moon behind me shrouded in clouds; it wasn't worth the effort. No other stars were view-able across the lake. Looking almost due north these stars or lights were all in a horizontal line and appeared to be stationary and separated almost equal distances apart. The lights appeared to be a long way away, miles out in the distance and not just across the lake. The lights were low to the horizon, maybe 10 to 15 degrees above the horizon and appeared to be just a few degrees above the dark treeline in the distance. The lights were orange-red, like the color of a flame... almost lite rust in color. The lights were bright and distinct, many times the brightness of any other star. The lights were steady in intensity. The lights were not large, maybe twice the size of what Mercury looks like, but a lot brighter. No twinkling! No blinking! No changing of colors. They were bright, steady and intense. My first thought was maybe they are hanging or lingering fireworks that I didn't hear. They lights didn't fade away and just stayed there. My thoughts then were "what the hell! What am I looking at? What is that!?" I headed to the lake to get a better look. I'm not a UFO person so as I walked to the lake I'm trying to justify it in my mind and I'm thinking that it must be a military line of aircraft in some kind of flying formation. I had a quick thought of yelling up to my wife but she was long gone by then so I didn't call to her as I walked towards the lake. By the time I traversed the 15 or so yards to the lake the stars are now moving. They appeared to go from a slight diagonal line slanting upwards from low on the right (north) to high on the left (west) side. They formed the shape of a cup, like the big dipper, with two high lights further apart above the two lower lights. I don't remember seeing the fifth light at this time. I said to myself out loud, "how can the big dipper be that close to the ground". And then the lights started moving upward and away from me in the same direction but different paths. This was not the Big Dipper! I'm thinking that I should be taking photos of this with my phone and I'm thinking that I couldn't get my phone out fast enough and I wouldn't capture it anyway. So I decided to watch instead of fumbling with a phone. I'm regretting that decision because anything would have been better than not doing anything. The lights are still moving slow. I'm again thinking that they are military, they are moving like helicopters so I listened for any sounds of motors of any sort to coincide or explain what I'm seeing. No engine sounds, no echos, no distant rumblings, nothing. The lights continue to move slowly and steadily upwards. They seemed to have be moving at the same speed... not catching up to each other or getting further apart. One by one they disappeared from view like flying into the clouds. First the upper and lower lights on the right side disappear, seconds apart in the same direction but different paths and then the other two lights on the left side disappeared in the same fashion within seconds of each other. This all happened within two to three minutes. I was dumbfounded and headed back to the campfire. I sat down and thought about it, trying to remember what I saw, and then I thought "what time is it?" I looked at my phone and it was 19:09. I'm writing this on 10-29-2017 at 15:00 the day after the experience, about 21 hours later. This is what happened to the best of my recollection and memory. I'm unable to get my mind around this and I'm trying to find a reasonable explanation. I saw what I saw! Unfortunately I was by myself and didn't take any photos. Could they have been some of those Chinese lanterns that people release into the night sky? If so it wasn't anyone on the lake because these where miles out in the distance. Can you see those types of lanterns from miles away? Do they rise up fast enough to disappear in minutes? Any help will be appreciated.
October 27, 2017 · 2:00 PM · CIRCLE
San Diego, CA
I sighted an unidentified moving object from the shore of Ocean Beach San Diego California at about 2 pm October 27 2017. Duration of sighting was between 5 and 10 minutes. On this day the weather was very hot and dry as Santa Ana weather condition gave way to clear unlimited visibility and a cloudless bright blue sky. I was laying on my back on the sandy beach so naturally I was looking skyward. My feet were pointed straight to the surf so my body was aligned northwesterly looking out to sea. The sun was about 40 degrees to my left. As I watched an airliner pass by at mid altitude (approx. 10,000 feet) I noticed it pass by a small white spot in the sky. The spot was roundish, stationary, and had the washed out white color the moon has on a sunny day. This led me to think I was looking at Venus or some other celestial object though I was skeptical as I have never seen any celestial object in the bright day sky other than the moon. For the next several minutes I stared at the spot for a short while and then looked away for a moment and looked back up again still puzzled at what I was looking at. After looking away, relocating it took a few moments as the small spot was difficult to see against the bright blue sky so I pointed straight at it so I could better relocate it. From a perpendicular skyward view I pointed about 20 degrees to my right and about 20 degrees forward. Again I looked away for a short while and looked back up to relocate the spot, but I did not see it. I pointed my finger in the direction I had just pointed a moment ago but the spot was gone. I scanned the sky for a few seconds and I relocated the spot. The spot had moved about 15 degrees to my left and was stationary. Now my attention was peaked. I could rule out Venus or any other celestial object. I stared intently at the spot for about 10 or 15 seconds when suddenly it appeared to move very slightly in a circular motion. The movement was hard to tell against the bright blue sky so I extended and steadied my left hand and finger to try and gauge movement. In the next few seconds I confirmed the spot was moving slightly in a circular motion, grew in brightness, then dimmed and vanished. End of story. As an observer of credibility I want to note that I am a middle aged adult with fine far vision (no glasses). I had sunglasses and viewed the object with and without my sun glasses. I was not under the influence of any drug, alcohol, or medication. Since childhood I have been an avid sky watcher. I am sure what I saw that day was not of this Earth. Witness indicates that the date above is approximate. PD
October 27, 2017 · 1:32 PM · CIRCLE
South Pasadena, CA
There have been a lot of birds in the sky today feeding on the palm trees in my yard so I've been looking up a lot. I saw four circling- what I believed to be Birds initially -flying super high in the sky- much higher than I've seen birds fly and they were curious to me as they were white. As I looked at them, they seemed to start reflecting light-brightly. My "white birds" seemed to have silver underbellies. They were moving circularly initially and then broke into a Southeast Direction and as they got closer to me I could see that they were dispersing the air circularly around them. It was very faint but our air is totally dirty today and cloudless. The air dispersment was visible through their entire movement South East. The closer they got to me it became clear that they were not reflecting light as much as they were pulsing out a light. Their Southeast motion was like a regular flight-i mean to say they weren't circling.
October 25, 2017 · 6:50 AM · CIRCLE
Stone Mountain, GA
10/25/17 & 10/26/17 10/25/17 06:50 From my back deck, observing Orion I first witnessed a meteor from what I assumed to be my final expectations of the Orionid shower. Then suddenly as I looked back at Orion’s belt a solid white light appeared near the Alnilam star, moving north, north west approximately 5 degree off due north. It moved fairly slowly and appeared to be very high in the sky. To confirm my suspicions a plane with blinking lights came from the northwest moving to the southeast. They intersected (from my view) and the UFO continued to move in a straight line finally disappearing from view after a full minute of viewing. I turned to view Castor and Pollux, and almost immediately witnessed yet another solid white light moving slowly in the sky coming from I believe to be the Gomeisa and Procyon area moving slowly towards Castor and Pollox. I observed this movement for about 20-30 seconds. Needless to say, a meteor was joyful enough, but to observe two UFOs within minutes. I was charged up all day. 10/26/17 06:55 So naturally, I went back out this morning. Looking towards Orion of course hoping to see another meteor or anything moving I began scanning the sky and again looked towards Castor and Pollux and suddenly in the direction of the M44 cluster a solid white light, larger than the one’s observed yesterday, appeared. Its movement was much different. Initially, it moved to the northwest slowly like the others and then began to turn due north and rapidly increase speed around zenith. The light began to fade yet I was able to continue observing its speed and direction. It continued arching north for a few more seconds then seemed to completely stop but immediately picked up it’s prior speed along what seemed to be the same arch yet at this point it was arching towards the east and I lost sight. The original speed seemed much like a plane but the increase and higher speeds were not speeds at which normal aircraft could maneuver, moving across an elbow to finger tips worth of (zenith) sky in mere seconds.
October 25, 2017 · 2:00 AM · CIRCLE
Sonoma, CA
Last night we seed over at south-east a bright circle with many lights in it changing colors and flying up and down and sideways the other one was exactly the same but this was north-west this in relation of Sonoma, Ca. I had seen this before, the first time was like a month ago and they seem to appear quite often.
October 24, 2017 · 11:30 PM · CIRCLE
Fort Collins, CO
Extremely fast-moving object with cluster of red lights moving in circular pattern, disappeared suddenly. Moved west to east direction. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD