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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.
12,058 entries
February 12, 2015 · 11:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Omaha, NE
I was driving West, around 80th on Maple Street in Omaha, NE, when I noticed I bright white light in the sky. The light looked like a huge star. I started watching the bright light and than it started to dim. I kept watching it to see if maybe it was a helicopter or a airplane and I noticed red lights on the perimeter that were shaped like a triangle. The craft moved to the North at a slow rate of speed. I didn't hear any sound coming off the craft. It was nothing like anything I have ever seen before. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
February 12, 2015 · 8:05 PM · TRIANGLE
Fort Collins, CO
We have requested a more detailed report. PD
February 11, 2015 · 7:15 PM · TRIANGLE
Walker, LA
On 2/11/15, at around 19:15, me and my wife witnessed a very large black triangle above my house it was very low in altatiude it had a very large red light on the bottom side center of the craft that did not blink at all there were also two lights on the back edge of the craft that were blinking red and green we could clearly see that it was a black triangle and although it was very low and right above us it made no sound at all it moved very slowly ,, the movement of the craft was very strange it just seemed like it Didn't belong the craft was moving from the west heading toward the east it did stop and hover for a brief moment almost like it knew we were watching it ,,it stopped it turned toward us and tilted up on its side a bit almost like to give us a better view are at least that's the feeling I got Also there was a really ,really small white blinking light that came from pretty much from nowhere it was like one minute it wasn't there and then the next minute it was there the little white light seem to scope out the triangular craft for a minute then the little white light headed back toward the northwest and the black triangular craft follow it me and my wife agree that this was one of the strangest things we have ever witness and we also don't see how we could have been the only ones to see this , ,all this happend early in the evening there were plenty of other people out and about someone else had to have seen this and we would love to hear from anyone who might have seen this
February 9, 2015 · 8:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Magna, UT
the craft was triangle shaped with which looked like a metalic shinny grey color of what i can see from the moon light . it had weired lights that would blink in a organized formation , including one big bright light under neath the huge craft , it was the size of a foot ball field but moved in incredible speed . it was very far into the sky .
February 8, 2015 · 10:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Fresno, CA
At about 10pm, my friend and I were on the way to my house and I noticed three bright lights in the sky making the shape of a triangle. At first I thought it was lights for a tower like the ones you would see at a airport, but since I drive down that particular road at least 10-20 times a week it was not usually there and it was too far away from the town airport to be a tower for it. As we drove south more, I noticed that it seemed we were getting closer to it so it was staying still and I also noticed that I couldn't see any metal connecting below it so it had to be floating/flying in the sky. It was kind of low like when a airplane is going to land, but it stood still in the same spot not moving side to side or up and down. After looking at it for a couple minutes my friend driving finally saw it and asked what it was, he was intrigued and pulled over so we could get a better look, by the time he pulled over and turned to look it was quickly fading away and! then was gone. It took off very quick.
February 8, 2015 · 8:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Cape Coral, FL
My 21 yr old son and I went out to walk our dog at approximately 8:00 pm on Sunday, February 8, 2015. We were walking west down a long street in northern Cape Coral, FL. This street we were on at the time has no homes and no street lights and it was pitch black. It was a cool evening. The sky was completely clear and full of stars. As we walked, we noticed two very bright seemingly stationary lights in the sky to the west straight ahead of us. I assumed they were planets and my son checked his Google Sky Map app on his phone and confirmed that the bright light on the left was Venus, but there was no explanation for the bright light to the right of it. We naturally assumed it was a plane approaching but it was silent – no preceding jet noise – and it did not appear to be moving for quite some time. We continued walking west toward it for several minutes. Eventually it began to appear larger. As it got closer, the light which had at first seemed to have an orangish hue to it became a very bright white. We still thought it was a plane but were puzzled by the silence. It finally passed overhead very, very slowly moving eastward with the faintest whirring sound. We knew then that it was definitely not any kind of plane we’d ever seen before because we could see the outline of it against the sky and it was triangular. It had one very large, very bright white light on the front and three identical lights across the back. There were no flashing lights and no red or blue lights like we normally see on planes. Also, the lights were much bigger than lights we've seen on jets in the past. We turned and watched it continue moving slowly to the east. It finally seemed to pick up speed and completely disappeared.
February 7, 2015 · 4:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Salem, VA
I was driving to home and talking with my wife by phone and I see a triangle with bright lights in front of me.. like few miles on the sky. For about 1 minute... omg.
February 7, 2015 · 1:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Munford, TN
Driving down highway 51 in Munford, TN, right above the water tower, me and my boyfriend saw a triangle craft of some sort with one bright white light in the center and a couple of smaller red lights at each corner of the flying object. We thought is was an airplane until we realize how low it was flying or should I say hovering. We pulled over and rolled the window down to get a better look and it was completely silent! As soon as I got my phone out to try and take a picture it sped off faster than I have ever seen any aircraft travel. We had never seen anything like it.
February 5, 2015 · 10:45 PM · TRIANGLE
Milford, NH
Driving down the road, spotted 2 white lights far apart and low flying, coming towards me then veering slightly more west. Turned onto a road following its path, and once I was underneath, I noticed a third back light and an occasional red flash between the three lights. It was lower now and had slowed almost to a stop and then suddenly sped up twice as fast flying south west. No sound heard.
February 5, 2015 · 7:17 AM · TRIANGLE
Parma, OH
The ISS passed close to the Orion Constellation, at the time indicated in the report. PD
February 3, 2015 · 8:15 PM · TRIANGLE
Peoria, AZ
The object was triangular in shape and emitted 8 bright orange/red lights that flickered like a fire at a distance. The craft hovered for about 5 minutes making no noise and maintaining a perfect altitude. It was not a conventional air craft and was not flairs being dropped. I was in my back yard looking out towards Luke air force base and I am positive it was no aircraft of ours. The lights were spherical in nature and were brighter then the construction lights at the near by gravel mine. I'm very concerned about this. All of the dogs and coyotes were going crazy. I also filmed the craft.
February 3, 2015 · 7:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Inwood, WV
Was a very large slow and fast moving triangle shaped aircraft it seemed to hover alil. It kept flying in a huge circle! It had a VERY light hum to it! It had 3 lights on its bottom on a triangle shape it was a solid black in color! It also had one blinking red light on the top on back! There was a row of square shaped BRIGHT white lights across the hole edge of the front of the air raft!! I have 4 videos of this UFO!!! ((e-address deleted)).
February 3, 2015 · 6:45 AM · TRIANGLE
Atlanta, GA
My family saw something strange in the sky Tuesday am approx. 6:45am, while in the car, and took pictures of it. We could not identify the flying object which was too close for comfort. We kept trying to blow it up from all angles on the cell phone tonight and zoomed down towards the ground on the cell and this is what shows up. The neighborhood trash was scattered in the street. We have several pictures of the thing and when you zoom in to the head you can see the eyes. Later that day 2 army trucks were riding through the neighborhood which was strange but we did not pay much attention to it. I called the non-emergency police number and the young lady told me to call back tomorrow to see if I could get appropriate numbers to call. What do you think? Please let me know. I emailed it to 2 news stations here and was referred to you to file a sighting. You could see it better and blow it up from all angles on the cell phone where the pictures were actually taken from. We e-mailed the pictures to my personal email and I saved it as a PowerPoint and zoomed in on it. I had to brighten the contrast on it in PowerPoint because it was dark outside. (I will try to email you the pictures....I want you to see them.) We have not seen the photo, at the time of this writing. PD
February 2, 2015 · 2:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Albuquerque, NM
I noticed it about 9 pm and thought at first it was a plane but then 2 more showed up and formed a triangle there were several more of these thru out the city till dawn then they all just dispersed not slowly or drifting off just gone
February 1, 2015 · 9:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Encinitas Carlsbad, CA
Triangular craft with tail flashing and changing multi color lights- Purple, red, orange, yellow, green. Stationary except for tail. Over ocean
February 1, 2015 · 8:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Stormville, NY
I was outside of my house looking at the sky to see how the weather was looking when I saw a dart like triangle with red lights slowly heading east over my house. The craft was moving very slowly and hovered once making no sound at all. It rose into the cloud cover and disappeared.
February 1, 2015 · 7:40 PM · TRIANGLE
Tempe, AZ
I had returned from Tucson earlier that evening with my fiancé and was cleaning up our house. The game was on the television, but I was not watching it, as I’m not a huge sports fan. At approximately 7:40 PM, I went outside to the backyard to take some trash out. On my way over to the trash can, I looked up at the moon which, at the time, was in the upper eastern part of the sky. It was at this moment that I saw a curious-looking craft heading north some degrees above of the moon. This stood out to me immediately because this craft was not following the flight path which nearly every plane follows on its approach into nearby Sky Harbor Intl. Airport. Planes flying into Sky Harbor at night typically fly in from east-to-west as our runways run in this orientation. If a plane does fly over this airspace, its altitude is typically very high as to not disturb the lower traffic. This craft’s altitude appeared to be relatively low, around 10,000 feet or so and no more than a mile away from me to the East, making it very unusual from the start. As I observed this craft going north-bound, I tried to logically make out what it was. I was looking at it from below. It had one unblinking white, slightly yellow light on the bottom of it, generally in the middle of the craft. This light appeared to illuminate other parts of the craft, which had a reddish-orangish tint to it. I could see what appeared to be actual structure rather than a series of lights. As I stared at this object, transfixed, I tried to logically see it as a plane, thinking that the illuminated areas were perhaps the tail section and/or wings of a Southwest jet, which are commonly painted with orangish colors. However, this object didn’t fit the description of a jet. There were no navigation lights, it made no sound, and the shape that I could make out seemed to be triangular in shape. The illuminated areas seemed to perhaps be the points of this triangle. The object was slightly smaller than the moon that night, however it didn’t cover as much surface area in the sky as the moon did because of its triangular-looking shape (triangles covering less surface area than circles do). Once I ruled it out as an aircraft, I thought that perhaps I was viewing a large satellite and that the illuminated areas were solar panels. Many images that I have seen of satellites show their solar panels to be of a rusty orangish color, similar to what I was seeing. This, too, just did not fit. At this moment, I noticed that the object was beginning to turn. It made a smooth 90 degree turn in a sharp arc going from north to west in seconds. It was at this point that I noticed how fast this thing was going and how fast it had made the turn. A normal jet would have needed much more distance to make such a sharp turn. I remember thinking that a typical commercial jet would probably have fallen apart turning at such a speed. As it was turning, my view of it changed. Before turning, I was looking up at it, seeing it from the bottom with one light. Now, as it was turning (and more north of me at that point) I was seeing it from the side. It was at this view that I could see two lights (both still unblinking and the same white-yellowish color). I am not sure if this was actually an additional light on the craft, or if it was part of the same light I saw on the bottom. Perhaps because of the new view point, I was seeing the bottom and top of the light, split horizontally by the craft itself. I am not sure. But as soon as it leveled off, I could only see the one light again from the bottom. It was at this moment that I heard the thunderous sound of jet engines behind me from the South. As soon as I looked above, two military jets zoomed right overhead, heading northwest from the South. I could tell they were military jets because they were not on the Sky Harbor flight path, they had a distinctly different sound than the commercial jets, and were flying low for that area (approx. 10,000 feet). They too were turning towards the West in pursuit of the object, but made a much wider turn than the object had. They each had a sole very bright white blinking strobe light that I remember thinking looked kind of ominous in a way. They did not appear to have the red and green navigation lights that I see on countless jets flying into Sky Harbor. At first I thought that this could be an escort of some sort, but it was clear that these jets were trying to catch up and pursue this object. I have seen strange things in the sky before, but seeing jets literally chasing this thing made me realize that I wasn’t “seeing things.” I was amazed and somewhat frantic and called out to my mother who lives with my fiancé and I (my fiancé had just left the house and was not home to see this). She ran out and saw the object with the jets in trail as they all zoomed westward, coincidentally heading directly towards the Glendale Stadium where the Super Bowl was being played at the time. To my estimate, it seemed that the object and the jets had to have flown right over Sky Harbor, which astonished both my mom and I. At this time we heard what may have been the jet's afterburners because the jet noise became significantly louder once they were flying in a straight line again after they had turned. Although my mother did see the object, she only saw it as a light being chased by the jets. She did not see any structure or detail like I had seen when it had flown past less than 30 seconds before. We watched the jets and the object till they were out of view, and it appeared that they had turned slightly south before again continuing west. Some further information: I am a graphic designer, 28 years old, and have lived in Phoenix (specifically Tempe) for five years. Both of my parents are licensed pilots, and I practically grew up at the municipal airport in the town where I grew up. I have spent hundreds of hours flying with my dad in his planes (both single and twin engines) throughout my life. Although I am no expert, I feel that I am somewhat knowledgable in identifying things in the sky and feel confident that this craft was something truly unusual. I will also add that military aircraft (helicopters and jets) have been flying around the Phoenix area for the past week because of the heightened security surrounding the Super Bowl. These military aircraft were discussed on the news before the Super Bowl so that all of us citizens would be aware of their presence and purpose in case we saw them flying around that week. The news media stated there would be two Blackhawk helicopters and two jets patrolling airspace during the Super Bowl. Over the week, everyone in town, including myself, saw and became familiar with the helicopters and jets as they did their rounds. However, I believe that the jets that I saw were not necessarily related to these aircrafts flying around for security reasons. Very shortly after the sighting, I actually saw the two patrol jets in formation flying nearby from north to south in the vicinity of Sky Harbor. These jets had dim, yet visible, red and green navigation lights, along with their white strobes. The jets that I saw chasing the objects were not the two patrol jets because they were far out to the West at the time when I saw the patrol jets. I got the feeling that the jets I saw pursuing the object may have been scrambled from Luke Air Force Base or other nearby military base. Thank you so much for your time in reading my long report about this event. I wanted to be thorough and cover as much information as I could. I will be emailing a map with the path of the object and jets based on my observation. I will also try to put an illustration together. I really do appreciate that there is a place where this kind of thing can be reported. Thank you for you work! ((ADDENDUM #1 FROM WITNESS)) This is ((name deleted)) whom you spoke with yesterday afternoon. My apologies for directly
February 1, 2015 · 2:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Brewster, WA
I am a imsomniac, and had gotten up to let our dog out at about 2am in waiting for her to come back to the door i was watching out the side window of the door and observed something about 200 feet away coming on my right crossing our hay field it was dark and snowing hard but have a yard light to illuminate the shop area At first it just didnt register in my head i shook my head thinking and blinked several times thinking i i was seeing things it continued coming from my right, i stared intently trying to make the details out as it passed from right to left about 20 feet abouve the ground and about 50 feet in front of me It was a very definite wedge shape , colored charcoal black with some browns like it was made to blend into the darkness. It made no noise or had any lights and vanished as it vanished as it passed my door My dog actually growled at it as it passed by I swear to you this was not a figment of my imagination and is not a lie i was not seeing things and it could not be anything other than what i saw i have never seen any other UFO in my 58 years of life
January 31, 2015 · 9:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Chesapeake, VA
I was driving down I-264 headed towards Battlefield Blvd south exit. Many cars on the road (Saturday night) I noticed two lights in the sky which were moving slowly but quite discernibly in Unison thigh they seemed far apart from each other. I watched this as much as I could as I drove. When I took the exit I pulled over as quickly as possible but I could only stay there a few seconds because of the traffic. I took a picture with my iPhone 6S through the front windshield of my car. I really didn't think I'd capture anything, but I actually did I will send the pic
January 31, 2015 · 7:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Henderson, KY
Traveling north east at about 7:30 p.m. From Henderson towards Owensboro on highway 60. Noticed a very bright light to the east headed toward my direction which was very low in the sky and seem to be hovering. Kept watching it as I was driving and pulled over a few minutes later because it seemed to be coming directly toward us. got out to watch it was going very very slow to be a plane. It went right directly above us at that point you could see one light in the front two lights in the back in the form of a triangle and there was no tail behind the two lights at all. It seemed to be black because I can see the outline and I could tell that it was trying to her shaved because there is no tail nothing hanging out behind the two lights in the back and there was nothing extending past the front light. It continued southwest just had a very very slow speed I could tell it was not a helicopter because there was no sound of a helicopter there was the sound of a turbine, but like I said, it was very very slow
January 31, 2015 · 5:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Portland, OR
In the middle of this object was a bright white light coming from the middle pointing to the ground. I caught this sighting just as it was ascending back into the clouds, the thing I remember most is that when it was moving back into the clouds I could tell that it was a solid mass because it was darker than the clouds it was acending into. This lasted 4-5 and happened straight in my view while driving.
January 30, 2015 · 8:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Walker, LA
After watching it for at least 30 minutes it started to grow smaller and smaller but still in same place in the sky then it just disappeared. Did anyone else notice it.
January 28, 2015 · 4:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Courtland, VA
Arrived home after work and image caught my eye as parking. I witnessed a triangle shaped object hovering above the nearby tree line. I watched it approximately 30 secs. No visible lights and made no sound. It was approximately 100 yards in front of me and the sky was clear. The object then completely disappeared in an instant.
January 27, 2015 · 6:50 PM · TRIANGLE
Basking Ridge, NJ
Just under the low cloud cover, I observed a very large, black triangular object with flashing red, white and blue lights. It was moving at a very high speed and was not making the sounds that a low flying airplane would. I kept losing it among tall trees and houses, but I did follow it long enough (and saw it enough times) to see it make a sharp turn downward and to the left, all the while its lights flashing brightly and appearing to alternate in color from red to white to blue. I parked in front of my house and ran from my car just as the craft disappeared from view above and behind the trees of the Bonnie Brae School. The area was completely silent and there were no other witnesses. I looked for the craft to reappear and sadly was not able to get any photos of it. Due to the shape, the changing color of the rapidly flashing lights and the silent, sharp turns it took, I was completely sure that what I saw was not an airplane. I am wondering if any other Basking Ridge area residents saw what I saw.