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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
July 16, 2017 · 9:00 PM · CIRCLE
Roanoke, VA
Round bright light in daylight high in sky bright like a star pulled over to watch it as we watched it disappeared then a short burst of a dual smoke trail appeared like a jet or rocket trail then smoke trail stopped like engines cut off? Then smoke trail reappeared same thing short burst of a dual smoke and it was gone fast
July 16, 2017 · 7:14 PM · CIRCLE
Pincher Creek (outside of it)(Canada), AB · Canada
I was out camping at Hiawatha campground near Pincher Creek, few minutes from Beaver mines. Me, my little sister and the son of a family friend were going for a walk around the site. I looked up at sky, which is something I always do when I'm out there. I saw a circular craft slowly moving from side to side, it was white and had a white hue around it. It was pretty bright and looked like a star, but how it moved from side to side was nothing of a star. We stayed for about 16 minutes watching it and talking. Around the site there are alot of animals, the craft wasn't above us, it was quite far, it looked more like it was hovering over the trees. Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
July 16, 2017 · 2:00 PM · CIRCLE
Parlin, NJ
CIRCULAR OBJECT, WITH RED SPOT IN THE CENTER, WAS CHASED BY MILITARY AIRCRAFT F22 FOR AROUND 3 HOURS CHANGING ITS POSITION INSTANTLY, MILITARY AIRCRAFT WAS REFILING AT LEAST TWICE IN THE AIR SEEMS LIKE REGULAR AIR TRAFFIC WAS STOPPED IN THE AREA. We are uncertain as to whether this is a serious report, or not. We have sent an e-mail to the source, requesting more information about his description above. PD
July 13, 2017 · 9:00 PM · CIRCLE
Morehead City, NC
My boyfriend and I were sitting on our front porch around 9pm when we noticed an orange, circular light over Morehead City. We live across the Newport River on the water and could see it well over the town. It never moved, but would disappear quickly and reappear in the same spot a minute or two later. This went on for approximately 10 minutes and then it did not reappear. We tried to find a logical reason but there were no clouds in the sky (we could see other stars) and a drone would have been too small for us to see at the distance we were at. Hoping maybe someone else saw this as well.
July 11, 2017 · 11:15 PM · CIRCLE
Williamsburg, VA
Driving home from a friend's house, saw a circle which resembled what looked like a street light fly through the sky in an eastern direction. It was really quick, much quicker than any other flying craft I have ever seen but still very close because it was so large. Only lasted a few seconds.
July 11, 2017 · 9:51 PM · CIRCLE
Hampton, NH
I observed a single white light traveling south to north from my balcony. It was a pure white color and I lost sight of it even though the skyline was still visible for me. I am sure it was not the ISS as it does not travel from the south to north. It made no odd movements and continued on its path so a satellite explanation is possible. However after viewing the ISS and its speed multiple times, I can say this tracked slower than the ISS usually does. Thank you. Possible satellite?? PD
July 9, 2017 · 9:53 AM · CIRCLE
Canton, MA
I was walking to work when I saw these 2 circular things shining in the sky. I thought they were maybe drones but they were moving too slow and too close together to be drones. They continued moving and blinking for about 4 minutes when they disappeared. I had looked down for a second and then couldn't find them again. Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 8, 2017 · 11:30 PM · CIRCLE
Lexington, KY
3 of us had just arrived back at my step-daughter's appartment, when I noticed 4 circle shaped obj cts traveling southward in the sky. They appeared to be 3000 to 5000ft or maybe higher. They were white in color and had no aircraft marker lights. I estimate that they were moving around 90 knots. I didn't have my phone handy but did have a pair of binoculars in my car. I grabbed them and zoomed in to only see 4 white round lights, and as before mentioned, there were no type of any aircraft marker/navigational lights on the objects. As they continued southward towards the horizon, a neighbor approached and asked what were we looking at. Once we told her, we gave her the binoculars, and she witnessed them as well. When we first observed these 4 lights, the formation was one in front, then some space, then two closer together, and more space, and finally the fourth following. There was absolutely no sound emitted from these craft or objects. Final visual on these! objects before last seen, with binoculars, they were in the southern sky, but their formation had changed and appeared in a pyramid form from left to right. I do not believe they were any type of convential or earthly aircraft. These objects were white circle lights without proper navigational lighting and again, emitted no sound at all.
July 8, 2017 · 11:00 PM · CIRCLE
Parker, CO
Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 8, 2017 · 10:23 PM · CIRCLE
Chamois, MO
I was out smoking and looked up at the sky and noticed a red and orange light. It looked like some kind of object on fire in the sky. It was moving very slowly, so I grabbed my mother and showed her, she got super freaked out . I snapped a photo of the object and it then it disappeared into the night sky.
July 8, 2017 · 10:10 PM · CIRCLE
Manilla, IA
Around 10:10 pm just outside of Manilla, IA, 3 of 4 family members saw large red lights in the sky. I said, “What are those lights? Manilla doesn’t have lights like that!?” The 2 lights were high in the air, spaced apart. They reminded me of tower lights, but there are no towers there (in the area that we saw the lights). 1 family member thought the lights were moving down, I believe I only saw one light (right side) move down. After a few seconds they disappeared! The lights were too big I believe to be a drone. While we were driving we were listening to the radio, when we drove on the road into town, the music on the radio was interrupted by the Emergency Broadcast Alert System (made the loud sounds), but it had no message and went back to music.
July 8, 2017 · 1:30 AM · CIRCLE
Carlsbad, CA
See slow motion video.
July 7, 2017 · 9:30 PM · CIRCLE
St. Augustine Beach, FL
Approximately 9:30 pm on July 7, 2017, myself and two friends witnessed several orange glowing objects in the sky, headed from south to north, originating from south of St. Augustine Beach, Florida, unsure of the distance. Most of the objects appeared to be rising from the first sighting with a couple of them getting higher in altitude fairly quickly with others rising fairly slowly. All of the objects eventually disappeared from sight. We also observed several of the objects on July 5, 2017, but only about five and did not seem to last as long in duration as the ones we saw on July 7, 2017. The sighting on July 7, 2017 showed approximately 12 total objects. We have video but it is not very clear. And by the way, it was a full moon and a couple of them flew across the sky in front of the moon. All observers of this phenom are 56 to 66 years of age and have had or currently have professional careers in transportation and education.
July 7, 2017 · 8:00 PM · CIRCLE
Plymouth, MI
Driving on road about 40 mph. Out of nowhere a strange looking, small circle appears and it's moving too fast for a plane. It had a center that was like a frosted clear, flat button with a metal rim silver. Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 6, 2017 · 9:41 PM · CIRCLE
Dayton (near), OH
I'm nearly 40, with a doctorate degree and a former university-level research assistant to a professor of astrophysics. On this night, ny father was sitting outside on our back patio in the dark, only a porch light illuminating the area. My mother and I were indoors, talking, sitting at the kitchen table. That room has windows which face north, one of which overlooks the back patio. That window was partially open, as was at least one other. At approx. 9:48 pm EDT, my father shouted something unintelligible (to me) through the open window nearest the table where I sat inside the house. My mom understood what he'd said, telling me of my father, "He's demanding I come outside!" After that, I heard him as he continued yelling to my mom to come outside "right now" to see something. I will outside, instead, anticipating an announcement to the effect of, "There's a skunk in our yard! (There is long precedent for this sort of statement). I walked to the door, and as I crossed the patio toward my father, he pointed toward the sky (it being nearly entirely dark, this was not terribly useful and I did not even know he'd done until I saw a photo taken that night). I asked where to look, and then he explained to me where to look in the sky: toward the far northwest to the west side of a large tree in our backyard. Once I turned to look in that direction, it was easy to see the object to which what he'd been referring. It appeared to be quite large, utilizing nearby homes and trees as a point of reference, and was a vibrant, brightly-colored object which appeared nearly round in shape. It seemed to glow, and that glow was quite intense, the entire object a uniformly-brilliant red-orange and lacked any discrepancy in intensity over its entire visible surface. It appeared to be relatively large, greater than the size of any plane (civilian or military) I've yet to see under similar circumstances. It appeared, initially, to be flying a bit lower than even the typical passenger planes which I see daily as they fly to and from a nearby airport. The only crafts I've seen in such a low flight paths have been F-15s & F-16s flying during either the local, annual air show, or else flying in and out of nearby Wright-Patterson AFB. This red object moved quite rapidly, heading east with its initial path seemingly parallel to the earth. After about 30 seconds, it disappeared from my view as our backyard tree obscured my line of sight entirely, then returned to view. When it did, it appeared to remain moving forward from West to east, still traveling parallel to the ground for about ten seconds. Then, it suddenly appeared smaller (from which change I'd generally infer either a change in size, luminosity, or distance from the point of observation, but whatever occurred did so seemingly instantaneously). Then, still appearing smaller, the object apparently gained altitude, rising from a former point about 35 degrees above horizon to ~45 degrees above horizon, and then, at zenith, the object seemed to cease moving completely. It did not move nor vary in size or light intensity for several seconds, then began moving in a manner completely different from how it had moved before stopping. It repeatedly moved in what appeared to be a linear, upward direction perpendicular to the going (without any associated forward or backward motion), did the same moving downward, eastward, westward, or at varying angles; it seemed to move closer at times, farther away at others, each of the perpendicular motions made occurred without the object also moving in any direction parallel to the ground, yet other times it moved forward (west to east) or backward while apparently accelerating or decelerating. It also would simply cease moving and remain static, as well as move in sharply curving and angled paths as it appeared to simultaneously move up or down. It remained the same shade of glowing, vivid reddish-orange throughout, its light initially seeming to vary in intensity relative to its distance from me, but after the first 60 seconds or so, these changes in light intensity seemed to lack any correlation with the way it appeared to move. It was during the sequence of rapid, varied movements that the object again appeared to completely cease moving, and, while remaining stationary, appeared to divide into two of itself, yet both objects appeared identical in shape, and color/luminosity. There was no visible division of the first object; it simply appeared to change from one object into two, the second appearing (at first) as if conjoined with the first object, as initially, a small portion of the edge of its upper left (west) quadrant appearing to either overlap or be contained within the edge of the lower right (east) quadrant of the first/original object. The only visible sign that accompanied the appearance of the second object was a quick, less-than-a-second, flare-like emission from the lower-right (east) quadrant of the first object; this quickly-appearing and quickly-fading flare was the same color as the object itself. The second object appeared nearly identical to the first/original, except it appear! ed to be slightly smaller. The second object remained visible for only a second or less; it then vanished entirely, without any apparent movement at all. The original object remained, now alone again. It remained visible for ~90 seconds more after the second object disappeared, the original resuming its prior series of sharp, quick motions (without any apparent pattern or sequence) alternated with seconds of apparent non-movement. It had been visible for 3-4 minutes when it again appeared to stop in place, stationary, then its light intensified as it appeared to increase slightly in size (perhaps it was moving closer to me). Immediately after that, at an incredible speed, the object moved silently to the east, then appeared to gain altitude at this same, ultra-rapid speed (closest to which I can compare its speed is to that of a meteor streaking across fhe night sky) as it moved east-to-west at quite a steep angle, although it did not move in a straight line as it did so. It never ceased that motion, but once it reached its highest point, it moved with the same sort of extremely rapid speed toward the east/southeast before vanishing, seemingly among the clouds in that direction. Whether its motion was linear or otherwise, each motion of the object was quite fluid & it always appeared to move with a noticeably agile ease. The object seemed entirely silent throughout.
July 5, 2017 · 11:24 AM · CIRCLE
Fargo, ND
Went outside on apartment patio to view weather. Which is hot and muggy, and see flashes of lightening off in the distance. We are suppose to have a thunder storm of sorts. When I looked up to the south of the sky I viewed what seemed to be a star which wasn't moving at a fast rate than being a plane. Color was white but from seeing it move fast it turned into what was a circle or ball of red. Saw one and seen 2 more others do the same thing, there were low clouds and when the clouds were moving they seemed to move past them and then disappear. Stayed outside for about 15 minutes to see if this was a plane but it was not. Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 5, 2017 · 3:30 AM · CIRCLE
Montrose, CA
What I saw was a star like object moving slowly across the sky and then speed up really fast, and then disappeared. Showing up again with in seconds to the N/W sky. This when I recorded the object. Then, very quickly, was moving up and down and would disappear and be in a different place, when it reappeared. It also would go to a spot repeatedly to where what seemed to be three smaller star like objects, shaped in kind of a diamond with a reddish glow in the middle, I'm guessing. Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides little contact information. PD
July 4, 2017 · 11:30 PM · CIRCLE
Ocean City, MD
It moved west from ocean, turned south. Stopped, and then faded away. Made no sound. Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 4, 2017 · 10:30 PM · CIRCLE
Lexington, KY
Watched fireworks about 20 more minutes. Object appeared tracking back to the original position east at an extreme speed. Light still consistently pulsating, then traveled north and into clouds out of eyesight. Almost seemed to be observing fireworks. Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 4, 2017 · 10:00 PM · CIRCLE
Montebello, CA
One orange dot moving then stayed atill then started to go up higher and jyst disappear. I have video. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. Hence, we are unable to request permission to view the video. PD
July 4, 2017 · 10:00 PM · CIRCLE
Buchanan, MI
Me and my friends and neighbors were letting off mortars for our lil gran finally and a huge cloud of smoke was left behind from itt. i started cleaning up when my neighbor said hey what's that? When I looked up the smoke revealed two circular crafts more than 100 yds, in diameter no lights camo'd by the black sky, hovering maybe 40 ft above the tallest trees n the area right above redbud tr 50yds west from Where we were .me and my friend started both recording it and they started creeping slowly NW when the craft on the left turned on 1 fire color orange light for about 5 secs then they moved NSYNC side to side and shot thru the sky..when I went to show another neighbor the footage on my phone, it was gone along with all the rest of my media data… Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 4, 2017 · 9:30 PM · CIRCLE
Brandon, FL
My wife and I were in our backyard watching fireworks, when we looked to the North and noticed a very bright red/yellow circular object flying east to west. The craft was flying low, no sound, and when it flew under a cloud its lights turned off, but the object was still visible. Two minutes later, a second object, with the same characteristics, flew past, and again extinguished lights and disappeared.
July 4, 2017 · 9:00 PM · CIRCLE
Orlando, FL
Thought maybe firework haze made them appear to fade but I don't think so. Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 4, 2017 · 7:00 PM · CIRCLE
Denver, CO
The sky was bright, too bright to see any plane lights. But two lights, one slightly small (or further away), stood still in the sky.