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Witness reports, held as-reported. Each entry keeps its source, its coordinates where the record has them, and its place in the larger pattern.
12,058 entries
June 2, 2015 · 9:45 PM · TRIANGLE
Ellensburg, WA
3 orange lights appeared in sky over Badger Pocket area in Ellensburg, Wa. They hung in the air, barely moving for 15 minutes, until slowing descending over the Yakima Hills.
June 1, 2015 · 10:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Lake Mills, WI
A triangular form of 4 lights. It looked like an equilateral triangle. The 3 corner lights were white or light yellow, and the center red light was bigger or brighter than the rest. There was a low, and quiet buzz sound and it was very low. There was a dark shadow of the triangle between the lights. It is a very clear night, and there is a full moon.
June 1, 2015 · 10:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Deforest, WI
It then flew very fast across the sky again in a NW to SE direction. It came back again and hovered 2 more times. It moved too fast for a plane. It had 3 solid non flashing red lights and a blue spot light, shining down. It also had green, red and blue smaller lights flashing on it. Ordinarily I would just assume it to be military, but, this thing flew so fast, it was like something out of Star Wars. Way too fast to be a plane. One last thing, twice I saw it lower straight down towards the ground, only to rise up and take off again.
May 30, 2015 · 10:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Eagle Lake, MN
I was on my way to Mankato to pick my fiancé up from work, when I spotted in the sky a orange lit figure shaped like a triangle. I pulled over to the side of the street to see if I could get a pic, but by the time I got out of the jeep, it was gone. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and he seemed to us to be quite sober-minded. We suspect that his report is a sincere attempt on his part to describe what he had seen. PD
May 30, 2015 · 9:50 PM · TRIANGLE
Columbus, OH
Object had red lights in the shape of a triangle, object appeared to be moving slowly with a red light in front of it.
May 30, 2015 · 8:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Henderson, NV
UFO Report May 30, 2015. On Saturday, May 30, 2015, at approximately 8:00 PM, over the Green Valley area of Henderson, NV, my wife and I got in the car to go out and eat, like we do every Saturday night. We got in the car and turned around the corner just a 100 ft from our home and a bright light caught the corner of eye and I looked up and couldn't believe what I was seeing. There was a huge triangular shaped black ship with seven large bright lights on the two sides of the V-shaped front. I could see the ship up close, as I am sure it was below 1000 ft elevation and still daylight. It had been a rainy and overcast day in the Las Vegas area and it appeared that the ship had just popped out of a low cloud bank. My wife couldn't see it, as she was sitting on the other side of the car, so I stopped and asked her to get out and look up, but just as she started get out, it disappeared. It was like someone turned a switch and it disappeared before my eyes. I had a clear visual look at the ship for about! 45 seconds. The ship was large with a 300 to 500 ft long triangular sides and looked like a flat black wing which seemed very super sonic. The unusual thing was the lights, they were not mounted on the superstructure. There was a rigging made with black pipes attached to the fuselage that held the lights and protruded out from the ship about 10 feet. I questioned how they could fly through the atmosphere at high speed with lights like that. There were seven lights, one right on the point and 3 each down each side. They were large, rectangular, the longest length vertical. They were 3 or 4 ft high and 2 or 3 ft wide. The ship was moving very slow, less than 30 miles an hour and there was no noise of visible engines or intakes. I am very familiar with the B2 bomber, as a saw it fly over very low over us at at the Rose Parade, several years ago. I also had the opportunity to stand under it at Nellis AFB during Air Force air show a few years ago. The ship I saw was bigger than the B2, possibly two or three times the size. It is scary to even think about this huge thing was hovering only about five or six hundred above the roof tops of the homes in the Las Vegas area.
May 30, 2015 · 12:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Wooster, OH
Source of report indicates that the date of the event is approximate. PD
May 28, 2015 · 2:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Port Orchard, WA
When I started to pull off the road to take a picture, it started to bank right, very slowly so slow that if it were a plane it would have stalled. Now the three lights moving as one where one were on top of the other it disappeared.
May 27, 2015 · 10:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Keota, OK
Hello, I was walking out to our shop at 10:30pm CST because I saw the lights had been left on in the back of the building. While walking back to the building, I heard a low rumble and expected to see an aircraft overhead. I saw a large triangle shaped vehicle directly overhead. At first I thought it was at about 2000 ft agl, but I noticed the rumble noise was trailing the vehicle so I think it must have been higher. This object was against a clear moon lit sky and was black and easily defined in shape. It had bright white lights at each of the three corners with a pulsing red/white light in the center. I am a commercial pilot and can identify aircraft easily. This aircraft did not have the standard red/green indicator light. I was heading on a straight northerly heading and as it past I saw what appeared to be a extension, like a drogue line with a pulsing red/white light, so I was thinking it might be a military aircraft refueler. But as it continued on its heading, I watch as the extended object began to rotate around and above the object and it remained in that position until over the horizon.
May 27, 2015 · 10:15 PM · TRIANGLE
Shreveport, LA
Shreveport, Louisiana, around 10:15 pm CDT Duration of sighting: 5 minutes Angle of view: 45 degrees above horizon Estimated altitude of craft: 5,000 ft gal Estimated speed of craft: 50 mph A triangle shaped craft was observed flying slowly and silently over Shreveport on a northerly heading, most likely flying directly over Interstate 49 which is a north-south highway in the city. I was observing from a distance of one (1) mile east of Interstate 49 with a clear field of view, in the southeast section of the city. Weather conditions were clear and calm. At arms length, the craft appeared to be the same size as the width of my thumb, which is an average-sized adult male thumb. I was also able to view the craft using a high-quality pair of 10x50 binoculars that gave an enlarged and more detailed view. I could not discern any distinct structure, but did observe that background stars disappeared from view as the craft passed in front of them. The shape of the craft was an elongated deltoid triangle with a single blinking red light centered underneath, and non-blinking white lights on each of the three corners. There was no green light, which is normally required on the right wingtip of all aircraft. With the binoculars, a row of three dimmer non-blinking yellowish lights could be seen along the starboard leading edge of the craft just aft of the most forward non-blink white light. I surmise that these were windows. I observed the craft as it continued to fly north of the city until if became obscured by trees on the horizon in the distance. The speed and altitude seemed to remain constant during my observation. There was no audible sound at any time. This is the sixth time in the past year that I have observed such a craft flying over my city at night, and it has always been seen in this same way, in the same place, flying in the same manner and direction. The next time I see this craft I will be prepared with my Nikon DSLR and f/1.8 lens along with my Panasonic PV-GS300 low-light capable miniDV camcorder. I am a lifelong aviation enthusiast and airplane spotter and am certain that this was not a conventional aircraft. I would welcome a reply, but am not requesting one.
May 25, 2015 · 10:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Grand Blanc, MI
We have amended the time above, in order to indicate a nighttime sighting. We have no way of confirming the time, given that the source of the report provided no contact information. PD
May 24, 2015 · 11:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Savage, MN
My first report was in Q4 2013. A friend and I had observed something from my deck. I've since seen in several times, including on this date with a different friend of mine. We were sitting on my deck, talking and enjoying a cool evening, when a fast-moving light coming up out of the south caught my eye. I pointed it out to my friend and he and I watched as the object continued to move north. As it began to pass over our heads (quite high, but not high enough to be a satellite), the object zig-zagged, and then suddenly made a 90° turn toward the east. There was no banking like a plane would have to do-it was a complete and immediate change of direction. The object continued toward the east before changing direction and heading north once again before suddenly disappearing. My friend and I stayed on my deck, trying to find the object, but we were unsuccessful. What we did see, however, was another object traveling rapidly up from the south, following approximately the same trajectory as the previous object. This object also changed direction abruptly, but this time this one went west. It zig zagged several times and then suddenly disappeared. Not long after these two objects were observed, we heard planes passing overhead at a rapid rate of speed-but we were unable to get out to the deck to see them. Savage had not been in the flight path for MSP or Flying Cloud on this night, so it was surprising to see aircraft in the vicinity.
May 24, 2015 · 10:48 PM · TRIANGLE
Hendersonville, NC
Moving fast, pacing back and forth they come back and forth moving extremely fast. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 23, 2015 · 10:45 PM · TRIANGLE
Antioch, CA
My husband and I were star gazing and were getting ready to go home when I looked NE and saw 3 bright orange lights in a triangle formation in the sky. I grabbed my husband and told him to look and he was just as amazed as I was. They started to spread apart from one another, still staying somewhat in a triangle shape and their brightness began to fade which lead to the one on the right/top to disappear and then slowly the other two did as well. We could not believe what we had just experienced nor could we understand what they could have been. We thought about what city they were hovering over and realized it was near Fairfield and thought maybe it could have had something to do with the Travis Air force Base but then we both shook our heads and NO WAY!!! We both tried to video tape it with our cell phones but they were too far away. Safe to say this will be a night we will never forget, we both know that this was a once in a lifetime experience and now when we look in the sky we wonder who or what could be out there!!!
May 19, 2015 · 8:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Plant City, FL
My teenage son and I were behind our apartment. His hamster had passed and we were looking for a spot to bury her. We looked up and saw what, a first, we thought was a tower with lights that we had not noticed before. It was a bank of lights that were very bright and a bit blurry so I cannot be certain how many - I would say four or five, my son thinks three. These lights were in a straight line and, as I said, we thought this was a tower we had not noticed before because the lights were very low in the sky. However, when we looked up again they were closer. There is a small craft airport near us and had the lights been headed in that direction or coming from that direction I would have dismissed them - they did neither, however. The craft was slow, much slower than a plane or a jet would have been especially at that altitude. As it drew closer we could see that the object was triangular. All of the lights were very bright, and all white. It passed over us s! lowly, seeming to get lower as it went. Because the lights were so bright we were unable to see anything distinguishing other than the shape and an obvious metallic sheen. As it passed overhead we heard a noise no louder than a semi would make passing on a highway. This sound was much lower than any jet or plane - however small - I have ever heard. We could talk easily in low voices and hear each other though it was quite close. As it passed overhead we ran through the breezeway of our apartment and out to the front where we watched it - still extremely low - pass over some trees and out of our sight. We watched the skies, and listened, for a full half hour but did not see it return. We were concerned maybe it was some sort of plane that was crashing as it was so low but, as I said, it passed much too slowly to be a plane. We heard nothing after that, nor did we see anything more. As it did not leave from the direction of the small airport nor did it travel in that directio! n I do not believe it was a small aircraft. It was, by far, on! e of the oddest things I have ever seen in my life. We have lived in this area for three years and have seen a lot of different small aircraft traffic from the little airport near us but this was like none of the planes we have ever seen. Nor was this any type of glider.
May 18, 2015 · 11:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Reedley, CA
At a distance, I believes the craft to be a helicopter. I thought it was shining a spotlight on us. As we got closer, I realized te shape was not that of a helicopter. Also, I realized it wasn't making any noise. As we got even closer, I realized it was a triangle. It looked to be about the size of a car. It made no noise. It flew just above the tree line. I knew it couldn't be an airplane because it was flying no more than five miles per hour. As we got closer, it flew across the road and flew back in the direction it came from. It just circled around us. I was frightened, but my comrade stopped to observe. It was triangular, about 30 feet across, and flew no more than 70 feet above our car. It flew about 5 miles per hour and had white and red lights on the bottom. I thought it was a helicopter, but I could hear no propellor.
May 18, 2015 · 12:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Saint Paul, MN
I was coming home from work & on my left above the golf course, I could see 3-4 white lights. When I looked closer, I could see they were attached to a black Stealth Bomber looking craft, that was silent. It was low & slow. It started to fly in toward the golf course, so I drove around to try & follow, but lost it. I parked near the course hoping to see it again, & an "airplane" about the same size & silent, but completely different looking then the craft I saw flew out from the golf course & flew in a direction I couldn't follow, it seemed to have shape shifted. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and he assures us that he is sincere in submitting this report. PD
May 17, 2015 · 8:25 PM · TRIANGLE
Saint Paul, MN
My sighting took place the evening of 7/17/15 (sic. 05/17/2015) @ 8:25pm. My sister was driving me home from her house in Brooklyn Center. I live in Saint Paul, Mn. We were traveling on Hwy 694 East and having just passed the Rice Street Exit, I looked southwest and found lights in the sky that caught my attention. I've been living in the Twin Cities for 59 years and am aware of the flight paths for TCIAP. These lights were just north of that corridor. As we continued south on 35E toward down town Saint Paul, I continued to watch this object. I mentioned to my sister about the object. It was triangular in shape - but not in a traditional sense. Take one of the equilateral sides and make it longer that the other two. This was the leading edge, it was convex but not overly so. Along this edge were four large white lights positioned equally in distance from one another. The four lights were brighter and larger than any I've seen on an airliner. The white lights were blinking in unison. At the tail were two small red lights side by side..these were not blinking. We drove on, and I noticed the white lights stopped blinking..they were on continuously now. I was now viewing the object from the rear as it was pointed westerly. I was getting rather excited, my sister was giving me a hard time as my first sighting happened at our family house in North Saint Paul. I was six years old at that time. She is well aware of my history of the sightings I've had through out my life. I am now 61 years of age. She was clearly frustrated as she was driving and couldn't see the object. Now two miles further down the road my view was obstructed intermittently by trees and homes. My sister decided to exit the freeway, in hopes that she may see it as well and perhaps find a spot unencumbered by obstacles. We proceeded toward my home and both agreed that Mounds Park--overlooking the Mississippi River--might be the place to pause for a look. I had - on the way to the park - caught a glimpse of the object. It should have been further to the north-west but through the broken clouds it had seemed to be closer to us now. It slid into the low overcast and disappeared. Despite our stopping at the park and spending some time watching we were not to see it again. At the park, we were able to observe that flight corridor and a number of aircraft to Twin Cites International Airport..which allowed me to better judge the size of the object. I would estimate the width of the object to be 300 feet. I went to the internet and estimated the dimensions of the 727 aircraft I am used to seeing in this area. Conditions during encounter: after dark, cloudy with a low to higher ceiling having had rain through out the day. Time estimated during sighting: 15-20 minutes. I did talk with the Saint Paul Police to see if any other reports were made. None reported at that time. That call was made ~9:30pm. I do state that all the above is true. .. ((initials deleted)) 5/19/15
May 14, 2015 · 9:58 PM · TRIANGLE
Dayton, OH
I was at a traffic light, when we saw a triangle shaped craft fly across the sky above us, then it changed direction. There was no sound coming from it. The front of the craft had big bright white and red interchanging lights, and the bottom had three blue round blinking lights that were circular in shape (one on each corner of the triangle). We tried to get photos, but the craft took off really fast. We followed it until it disappeared. About 40 minutes later, on the way home, we saw it again. I stopped, and this time it hovered over us for about 30 seconds, and took off in the opposite direction.
May 13, 2015 · 10:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Rockford, IA
Me and a friend were driving along interstate 18 near the rockford turn off and something caught my eye. Bright white lights. It was at a low altitude and at first it didnt appear to be moving. Then as I turned off the interstate It was flying over us and I noticed a triangle shaped object with blinking lights
May 13, 2015 · 3:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Edmonton (Canada), AB · Canada
I was in a Canadian tire parking lot and witnessed this with two other people, it might sound crazy.. but it almost felt like they knew, I was watching.
May 12, 2015 · 11:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Oakdale, MN
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous, and provides no contact information. We wonder whether this is a serious report, or possibly a hoax. PD
May 12, 2015 · 9:45 PM · TRIANGLE
Graham, NC
On 5/12/2015 at approximately 9:45pm, my daughter (age 21) and I (age 50) were outside the house preparing to clean out an inflatable pool and refill it. (Very late at night to be cleaning a pool, but the grand kids had finally gotten to sleep and we wanted it clean for company tomorrow.) Something caught our attention and we both looked over to the neighbors house. Traveling just along the tree line, just before their house, we saw an equilateral triangle of lights in the sky. It seemed to catch our attention at the same time that we heard a dull engine sound, it was brief and only lasted about 2 seconds, as I recall, but deep and not too loud, but the sound was kind of unique and out of place. We watched the lights for approximately 45 seconds move across the sky/tree line traveling at the same speed. It briefly passed behind the neighbors house, when I grabbed my daughter's arm and pulled her across our yard to see it quickly when it reappeared from behind the house. It continued to pass through the sky at the same rate of speed and again we moved across our yard to keep it in view as it passed behind several trees. When it came from behind the taller trees it appeared to be only two lights now laying horizontally and it was quickly gone behind the trees. I still had a grip on my daughters arm and the whole time we watched we kept asking each other, "What is that? What the hell is that?" As soon as it was no longer visible I asked her to be quiet, because I expected to hear a crash. We both thought we were watching a plane about to crash because it would have been flying tilted on it's side and was very low to the tree tops, but it flew too long of a distance, in that position, at a very steady speed and seemed to be moving in a straight line, without any sound, and in hindsight I realized that the lights were in the shape of an equilateral triangle (that is not the case with a plane flying tipped on its side.) There was no crash. There was no sound. It was just gone. We wanted to call to police, but I wanted to go into the house first and tell my parents what we just witnessed. They found it very interesting and encouraged a call to the police, just to report it. I just want to state that we are all very clear headed adults and have never made accusations of any sort to cause concern about ones sanity or need for drama. We are clear on a few of facts: The object consisted of three lights. That is all we saw, just three lights. They formed an equilateral triangle. They never wavered. At least one of the lights was blue and we are almost positive that the other two were white, but one may have been red. There was a strange, low, grumble sound just prior to seeing the object and the sound stopped within a second or two. We watched the object for approximately 1 minute or less. I made a phone call to the non emergency police call center and reported what we witnessed. The lady I spoke with told me that no military actions were scheduled this evening in this area. She told me that though she had not had any reports tonight from other witnesses, there had been a larger amount of calls coming in over the past 3 years of UFO sightings in this area. She gave me the number for the National UFO Reporting Center and I made the call and reported what we had witnessed and was asked to write this report along with my daughter who was to write her own account of the event. The gentleman that I spoke with informed me that under federal aviation law, no aircraft was allowed to use blue lights while flying at night. The leading light was BLUE. We spoke with both witnesses, mother and daughter, and we found them both to be serious and sober-minded in their description of the event. We suspect that their reports are highly reliable. PD
May 12, 2015 · 9:45 PM · TRIANGLE
Graham, NC
Tonight, Tuesday May 12th, 2015, around 9:45 PM, my mother and I were standing outside in our backyard. As we were facing East we both heard a low noise, as if we were driving underneath an overpass and could hear a car drive above, but not nearly as loud. I looked in the direction of the noise and saw a perfect equilateral triangle consisting of 3 lights traveling across the sky. The top light was white, the light to the right (the direction it was traveling) was blue, and the bottom light was also white. My mother grabbed my arm as soon as she saw it and we watched it moved behind the peak of our neighbors house. Shortly after we heard the initial noise from the object it was silent, though still right in our sight. We walked across the law, her still on my arm, asking one another what we could possibly be looking at. For a brief moment it went behind a grouping of trees that we were unable to see over. During those couple of seconds it went from 3 lights! to 2, as if it had turned flat. The blue light was still in the front and one of the white lights right behind it. It traveled a constant rate of speed during this entire experience. We came to a stop as we realized we wouldn’t be able to see it any further and waited for something. We thought if it were a plane it was definitely about to crash. So we waited, hoping that we weren’t about to see the sky light up and hear it plummeting to the ground. But there was nothing. Just as quickly as it came into our view, it was gone. We were absolutely dumbfounded. After we waited a few moments for any sign of it we went inside to reiterate the scenario to my grandparents. Both of whom had been sleeping, but assumed it must be some sort of military drill. They encouraged us to report it to the police to see if anyone else had seen it. I looked up the number for a non emergency dispatcher and dialed the number for my mother on my phone. My mother explained to the woman what we had just seen and inquired if there were any military craft practices scheduled. We were told that there was nothing planned for this evening so she wasn’t sure what we had seen. She said it was strange because there had been a lot of calls in our town in the last 3 years, none however had came in tonight other than ours. She gave us the number to the National UFO Reporting Center if we wanted to let them know what we had seen. Shortly there after calling and leaving my name and number we received a call back. My mother answered the phone and spoke with a gentleman that asked about what we had witnessed. During this call we were told that it is against federal aviation law to travel at night with a blue light on your aircraft. Though I thought since the moment we started watching it that it was no plane, I never thought I would really know for sure, but that bit of information told me everything I needed. We saw a UFO tonight, there is no doubt in my mind. We spoke with both witnesses, mother and daughter, and we found them both to be serious and sober-minded in their description of the event. We suspect that their reports are highly reliable. PD