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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.
27,433 entries
March 4, 2020 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Fresno, CA
About 20-30 lights in total appeared in the night sky, traveling in the same trajectory. First one appeared, traveled 4 finger distance then the second one appears where the first one originated and the line continued in that order, speed and distance. When the 4th one appeared at origin point, the first one dissapeared at about 15-16 fingers spaced from origin point. (Finger space = hold your hand straight out to point of origin, count fingers for distance) this lasted for about 5 minutes over Fresno, CA. Just before 20:00 March 3rd, 2020.
March 4, 2020 · 7:40 PM · LIGHT
Galt, CA
Formations of 25-30 lights that followed closely, clearly see them climbing in elevation and leaving atmosphere in a rope like formation, definitelynot satellites.
March 4, 2020 · 7:30 PM · LIGHT
Singers Glen, VA
Five white non-blinking lights equally spaced apart in single file, moving fairly slow from SW to North. Roughly following Little North Mountain in Rockingham County, Virginia. Lasted about 3 minutes. Other airplanes were about with flashing lights, so it was obvious that these were not regular airplanes. Also, they made no sound.
March 4, 2020 · 7:30 PM · LIGHT
Clearwater, FL
I witnessed a very bright/circular light hovering in the sky west of Clearwater, FL. The object appeared to change shape slightly but did not move. It was much higher in the sky than what I see helicopters, and plane fly over. This lasted for approximately 30 minutes.
March 4, 2020 · 8:00 AM · LIGHT
Atascadero, CA
I walk out of my shop and saw 1 object fly through 2 other objects and then it stopped after that 20 objects in the the same pattern same direction came into picture low south came Past the original object toward the north and disappeared. It was one after another and made no sense or logic of what was going on. I hope somebody else saw this and recorded it.
March 4, 2020 · 7:40 AM · LIGHT
Oakland, CA
Star looking bright series of lights leaving from one area all together and disappearing into space. At the same time other star looking lights going in other directions alone .
March 4, 2020 · 7:20 AM · LIGHT
Canby/Wilsonville, OR
Both my husband and I saw one very bright, glowing ball of light traveling west to east at approximately 1000 ft. altitude near Charbonneau subdivision between Canby and Wilsonville, Oregon. It flew consistently in a straight line from slightly overhead out into the horizon over the course of about 4 seconds.
March 4, 2020 · 6:22 AM · LIGHT
Bonney Lake, WA
10-14 lights moving ESE in a straight line, evenly spaced, there was also an additional light mid string about half the spacing of the lights traveling the same path just north, like an escort
March 4, 2020 · 5:20 AM · LIGHT
Cedar Rapids, IA
It was dark outside and I was letting my dogs outs when I thought I saw the International Space Station making a pass in the north sky below the Big Dipper heading east northeast. I looked up the ISS and it was not scheduled for a visible pass. I then saw what looked like satellites emanating just east of the 'pot' of the Big Dipper also heading east northeast. These satellites were appearing every 1-2 seconds. I called my wife to see this. We must have seen 40 - 50 lights. The lights then started appearing with a longer time gap between them. We also saw another 10 - 15 lights emanating in the west sky and going the same direction. The lights were not flashing and just looked like satellites. This happened for probably 15 minutes. I tried filming this with my phone video camera and another video camera but it was very hard to see them. I have never seen anything like this before. Did anyone else see these lights?
March 4, 2020 · 5:15 AM · LIGHT
Ames, IA
This morning, Wed. 3/4/2020 at around 5:15 AM, over central Iowa, was seen, about 11 white lights, that were seen traveling in a row. Traveling at less than 1/10 of a second apart. Traveling at a heading north east going 3-4 times as fast as the other aircraft (with colored strobes) in the sky at the same time. The white light they put out was the same shade, density and size as average planets. None of them had any aviation strobes at all. And jet aircraft in the sky at the same time could be heard, but these 11 lights all together traveling that close together, that fast and that low, made no noise whatever.
March 4, 2020 · 5:10 AM · LIGHT
Brooklyn Center, MN
Went out in the morning and looked up in into north east sky and saw a string of multiple lights. Heading northeast from south west. Evenly spaced apart and episodes of other lights joining the string of lights from NW and SW and West direction. Moving fast and alternate speeds. They would merge into the line formation. May have been hundreds of them.
March 3, 2020 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Stillwater, MN
At around 8:45pm I saw a bright object in the eastern sky, lower in the sky than a plane. It was about the brightness of a planet. It wasn’t moving, but it appeared to get brighter then dimmer periodically. It also seemed to have a flashing light on it, but not like a plane’s flashing lights. After not moving for a couple minutes, it began to slowly fly south-east and eventually disappear from my sight. Another bright object appeared near where the first one was in the east sky. It started moving south-east as well. I thought they might be police drones or something. I went away to get binoculars. When I came back there were five other bright objects hovering stationary over the eastern sky (where I initially saw the first object) and there was one light object coming slowly towards the rest from the north-east. In the stationary group of lights, there was one that suddenly became much brighter than the rest. It looked like it had just caught fire. The rest of the objects were still about as bright as planets and white/yellow in color, but this brightest object was now a red/orange color. This happened shortly after 9 pm. A couple minutes passed, then the brightest object dimmed back to the color it originally was (the same color as the other objects). The objects began to slowly disperse after this. Three of them remained stationary and just faded away, and two of them began moving towards the south-east in the same direction as the first two objects I saw. These objects seemed to me like hot air balloons in how they changed in intensity of brightness, but they clearly were not hot air balloons because it was night. When they were moving, they moved slowly and with constant motion.
March 3, 2020 · 6:00 AM · LIGHT
Au Train, MI
I was taking my dog outside when I saw 3 lights moving in a row from the sw heading ne they continue across the sky eventually more showed up until it seemed like a team coming from the same area the first 3 initially came from
March 3, 2020 · 5:00 AM · LIGHT
Deforest, WI
Long line of white lights showing up over and in between (above) cloud formations. Lasting a couple minutes. Lights consistent (white, bright and faster than the ISS) and following each other in line. Line ditection appeared to move S/N to W/E continuing north...as if wind blown. No sound heard (as I live near an airport).
March 3, 2020 · 5:00 AM · LIGHT
Lincoln, NE
At approximately 5:00 am on 3-3-20, I saw 5 lights in the eastern sky which appeared very close together on a diagonal slightly from north (lower light) to south (upper light). As I watched them they were clearly moving downward at an angle (south to north). I continued to watch this area for a couple more minutes and counted a total of 23 lights, spread out following the same path at what appeared the same speed. This went on for approximately 3 minutes and then they were gone, too low to be seen. These lights were not moving fast enough to be “shooting stars” nor satellites as I have seen satellites and the ISS moving across the sky. But, they were indeed moving and were not blinking like planes would either. I don’t know what they were and I can’t find anything online about “objects falling from the sky.”
March 2, 2020 · 9:20 PM · LIGHT
Holland, MI
Massive yellow light hovering above airport, almost like a spotlight. with two smaller lights on either side. Did not look like a plane and was moving very slowly.
March 2, 2020 · 5:47 AM · LIGHT
Butler, PA
Viewed 3 white lights in the shape of triangle at a high altitude moving from the south west to the north east. This triagle shaped light was followed by numerous single white lights (12-15) evenly spaced out covering the sky for as far as the eye could see for about 2 minutes. This was later followed by a single white light following in the same path.
March 2, 2020 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Saint Francis, ME
Night sky, few stars, it looks nothing like a planet. Colorful lights (blinking on and off), moves frequently (down, up, right, left), seen before by me (this time in a different position), oddly close to the moon.
March 2, 2020 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Durango, CO
I was out and just looked up and thought I saw falling stars at first but they just kept coming and moving in a straight line to the northeast .
March 1, 2020 · 8:15 PM · LIGHT
Grand Rapids, MN
I was outside at work looking at the night sky. Was focused on the Big Dipper. That’s when I saw the line of lights stretching across the sky. I called out my other coworkers to come out and see it. We didn’t know what we were looking at. I counted roughly 27. They we’re all traveling the same speed in a formal line from Southwest to Northeast part of the sky.
March 1, 2020 · 5:37 AM · LIGHT
Pocomoke City, MD
5:37am to 5:39am March 1st, 2020: Returned from Berlin, Maryland, Walmart and was getting groceries out of truck when I looked up and thought Orion's belt looked strange - it was not Orion's belt but two lights in echelon formation going from southwest towards the northeast. I then realized it was a long line of lights, three or four single file and then two in echelon, three or four single file, then two in echelon - it kept repeating until 25 of the lights had passed overhead. No sound from jet engines and no blinking lights. All of the dots in the sky were a soft yellowish-white and all moved rapidly to the northeast. I started counting after a few had passed so it was probably more than 25. They came into view and then rapidly faded out of view as they proceeded northeast. I do not know if that was because their illumination was so soft, or if they literally had just appeared in the southwest sky, to disappear in the northeast sky. If they were jets they had to have been fighters. Regular commercial aircraft would not have been so close in echelon, and, in fact, one of the echelon formations shifted positions as they passed overhead. (It really struck me that someone had taken their eye off the ball and had allowed their craft to swing from left rear to even on the right with the leading light. It did not seem to be a smooth maneuver.) No idea as to altitude but the objects were the size of stars and that is why I thought it was something going on with Orion’s belt. While looking at the first two I briefly wondered if they were some sort of satellite but it rapidly became obvious that the objects were not in outer space but in the atmosphere. There was a clear sky, temperatures in the upper 20’s, no moon, stars could be clearly seen. No wind. I estimate the time of sighting lasted two minutes, when I went in the house after the last one flew over it was 5:39. My location is on the east coast flyway so I see a lot of aircraft overhead both day and night. Sometimes the commercial aircraft can be heard even when very high up, other times no sound is heard. This is a rural area; the night sky is very vivid. I often look up to see the stars or watch an aircraft in the night sky. The objects I saw do not fit anything I have seen before, there were no navigation lights. Also, while we have military aircraft go over now and then, I have never seen a long line formation such as I witnessed tonight. And Orion was not in the sky at that point, I had made a mistake when looking up as the objects at first looked like Orion’s belt and with the one’s in echelon I thought for a second I was seeing two belts. I was completely sober and not on any medical drugs when the sighting occurred. I was out at such an unusual hour as I had not been able to sleep so went to complete grocery shopping at the 24-hour Walmart up the road. (I do not like to waste time in bed staring at the ceiling so get up and do something to be active.) Report completed 6:24am March 1st, 2020
March 1, 2020 · 4:00 AM · LIGHT
Clinton, TN
Took dogs out at 4:00 am. Looked in sky at what I thought were stars trying to decide constellation. The lights lined up in formation forming a line and sped off in distance.
February 29, 2020 · 8:54 PM · LIGHT
Clear Spring, MD
It was seen just above Sword Mountain in the western ski from my given address. It looked like there was red light coming from the object at times.
February 29, 2020 · 7:30 PM · LIGHT
Baltimore, MD
I was walking my dog at 7:30 PM EST and saw 2 flashes of light in the sky. One flash was to the NE of my location and another flash would have been SW of me. The night sky was clear and you could see all the stars. The first flash lasted about a second with no accompanying noise. The second flash happened about 2-3 seconds later and I could see it over Orion and once again no noise. The best way to describe the flashes would be like a flash of lighting (not a bolt). My dog also reacted funny. I don’t know if it was connected or not but as we we’re getting ready to go outside our neighbor’s dog, who is usually well behaved and quiet, was barking like crazy. Yes, I live very close to BWI but this was definitely not a plane and there are no runway strobes located anywhere near me. We have never experienced this before.