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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
January 31, 2020 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Prospect, OR
I started driving slowly so I could watch the lights. I was coming up towards the brigde and the rock slide area and had to pay attention to the road. After I passed the rock slide area and the gorge I spotted the lights again. I could see two more to the north and 8-10 towards the south. I found a clear area to pull over and try to take photos and video with my cell phone, but could not see anything with it. It is a galaxy s7. I tried to call my husband to go outside and look too but later learned his phone had died and was unable to answer. I heard a noise from across the road and became spooked so I drove home. I again lost sight of the lights as I turned onto the Prospect access road. When I arrived home I brought my husband outside but we could not see anything, we could see the big dipper and to the north clearly but trees blocked our south view. It is a possibility that these may have been drones or a military exercise as there are often exercises performed up in our mountains and we have the air force base just over the mountains in Klamath Falls.
January 31, 2020 · 4:00 AM · LIGHT
Buckhannon, WV
Numerous lights moving around in the woods below our homes. At first my neighbor and I thought they were just people in the woods with flashlights. But after he walked through the woods between our houses, and told me to come watch. We observed more than 6-10 individual lights, that floated through the woods all around the mountain that my house sits on. When we shined a strobing light towards them, they moved closer but got dimmer. Some lights were orange, some white, some yellow, and they often changed colors and brightness. We also used night vision to observe, which revealed beams that looked almost like search lights, scanning the fields below us. Even with the naked eye you could see the lights scanning through the trees. They moved smoothly and quickly, like drones almost but they aren't drones. The sounds accompanying the lights were mostly a constant hum like a car engine running and occasionally revving, and both of us because separately heard what! sounded like water running toward us. However we are on top of a mountain with nothing but cow pasture and Forest around us, with no streams or creeks or ponds. Honestly very freaked out. I thought maybe the neighbor was losing his mind but tonight it was too real. As for our backgrounds, I'm a college educated single mother, and he is an ex military truck driver.
January 30, 2020 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Mesa, AZ
On January 30, 2020 around 2200 hours, I was in the whirlpool at Sun Life RV Park located at University Driver and Higley Road in Mesa AZ. Looking skyward I noticed a commercial passenger jet (I don’t recall the name of the airline) moving on a heading from the SE to the NW apparently heading for the Sky Harbor airport. I then noticed an aircraft heading from the NE to the SW. The aircraft passed underneath the passenger jet in very close proximity which I thought was close to a near miss. The second aircraft approached my position and flew directly overhead. The aircraft did not display any red/green running lights nor any strobe lights. Neither did I observe any lights which would have appeared in the cockpit area. The only lights I saw was two vertical bright white lights and the end of what would have been the ends of a fixed winged aircraft. The lights were positioned as follows: O O O O I heard the engine noise of the passenger jet but did not hear any other sounds as the second aircraft passed overhead. After the aircraft was downrange the configuration of the lights remained the same. In other words the aircraft lights appeared the same coming at me and going away from me. In the darkness I could only see the lights. I could not see an outline of the aircraft. I called Sky Harbor and was transferred to someone possibly in the control tower and explained what I observed. He said he would review the radar recording. Subsequent attempts to reach anyone for a follow-up conversation proved fruitless.
January 30, 2020 · 6:09 PM · LIGHT
Boscawen, NH
I saw a bright light in the sky. Too small to be the moon, too big to be a star and too close to be a planet. It was stationary for a minute and then began to move. As I watched a second, not as bright light whizzed by it. I rolled down my car window but there were no noises to indicate that it was a plane or helicopter. As I began to drive home, a bit shaken by what I had seen, I kept my eyes on the sky. The crafts either flew in the same direction as me of there was more than two of them because I saw them for a good 20 minutes of my commute home from work. I have three pictures of the first one I saw.
January 30, 2020 · 7:00 AM · LIGHT
Wanaque, NY
Saw an extremely pulsing large light over the Wanaque reservoir
January 30, 2020 · 5:45 AM · LIGHT
Leeds, ME
At 05:45 heading south on rt.106 through Leeds noticed bright object in south east sky, at my 10 0'clock position. Object was very bright, too bright for a star, and appeared as two fixed amber lights side by side. Object was moving in a north direction. I pulled over by some corn fields to watch as object continued to move. from time to time it appeared to stop. then object went black after a couple of seconds object reappeared but as a single white strobe flashing quickly. It continued north. I watched it for another 5 minutes, then left.
January 30, 2020 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Concord, NH
Was upstairs in room and looked out window and saw two very bright white lights flying extremely low. At first I thought it was plane; but I saw no flight lights and it was flying too low and slow. The first one was about 1/2 mile away. The other was approximately 4-5 miles behind it. They were both flying North. No sound and window was partly open.
January 29, 2020 · 11:05 PM · LIGHT
Tacoma/Graham, WA
I was driving down a back road out here and all the sudden on my left driver side I saw up in the sky a BRIGHT light MOVING very FAST and in one direction...at first I thought..OH shooting star..then I realized it was UNDER the clouds...it was very fast and a bright WHITEISH blue... COULDN'T see the shape because everything was blocked by the light it gave off..I got a good look so I know it wasn't a man made craft or a shooting star..so that leaves one option...UFO... BEINGS NOT FROM HERE!!
January 29, 2020 · 7:45 PM · LIGHT
Brady, TX
Driving north on US 87 just outside Brady, Texas, to yellow circle lights fade and disappear.
January 28, 2020 · 8:10 PM · LIGHT
Palm Harbor, FL
it was west of my location assuming above the gulf of mexico out side palm harbor. It was much brighter than any star I have seen and much lower. If I had to guess around a couple miles up. It wobbled a bit in its location but never moved much. About every two to five seconds there would be beams of light that would shine out from the center in all different directions and patterns.
January 28, 2020 · 7:30 PM · LIGHT
Longs, SC
I was walking my dog and saw 3 red blinking lights almost vertical but not straight. This was northeast/north. I thought this was odd and tried to see if they were moving. As I watched the top two kind of fell down into a horizontal line and started moving east straight across. I watched until they went behind buildings and I could no longer see them.
January 28, 2020 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Okotoks (Canada), AB · Canada
Line of equally separated and travelling across the sky from northwest toe south. The speed they were travelling was fast. This display last 45 seconds and then then each light disappeared in a sequence. I was out my patio door facing west and looked up as i always do at the night sky; saw the crescent moon and what I assume was Jupiter (star), to the right of it. I watched the line travel and called my son to observe the lights moving. We ran out the front door together and stood there watching the display!
January 28, 2020 · 6:35 PM · LIGHT
Natchitoches, LA
I was walking my dog when I look over toward Sibley Lake I saw a stationary orange light in the western sky. It alternated between orange and white for about 5 minutes. It was less than 1/2 mile away with no obstructions blocking my view. After about 5 minutes it disappeared.
January 28, 2020 · 6:34 PM · LIGHT
Shoreline, WA
I live in Shoreline, Washington, (North of Seattle). I’m married with one child, he’s 4. I am a career Journey-person in Machine Repair. I have a solid foundation in sights in the sky as I am an avid sky watcher, but mainly for aircraft and when weather is clear, stars, satellites and the I.S.S.. I work for Boeing in the 737 MAX factory down in Renton, yes, it’s a tough time….I’m not here to discus MAX issues, all apologies. But what I and my family witnessed tonight, I have to get out there. Full disclosure: I am a believer in life outside of humanity, the universe is too big to believe otherwise. I also have had 2 prior UAP sightings. One, in Michigan driving south on 127 from Lansing to Jackson, was significant (to me) as I witnessed a bright light pulsating between green and blue, watched for several minutes then it accelerated to, what I can only estimate, about 1,800 to 2,100 MPH at maybe a 70-80 degree angle perpendicular to the horizon. It was interesting. I texted my future wife and told her “I saw a UFO”. She was and is a skeptic. I’m ok with that. Fast forward 9 years to tonight, January 28th, 2020. Look, I am being so talkative because I want you and everyone to know I’m just a normal guy who loves RC crawlers, airplanes/spacecraft, the stars…maybe I’m trying to hard. I don’t know. Either way, here was the sighting from tonight: I went out to take the trash out. Normal Tuesday night routine. As always, if I get a chance to look up I do. I have seen our (Boeing’s) 747 Dream Lifter lining up to land at Paine Field in Everett WA 4 times now since we moved to the Seattle area, and it’s a beautiful bird! Anyway tonight it is partly cloudy, I notice the clouds are fairly fast moving, traversing to the north at many MPH. Fast enough that it makes the stars breaking through look as if they are moving to the South. As I stated before I have seen satellites and the I.S.S. and am familiar with civilian passenger aircraft flying at 40,000 (or so) feet…they have navigation beacons and strobe lights to identify direction of travel and weather they are above or below you. But what I saw next baffled me at first. I saw a satellite. I “knew” this because the “dot”/“point of light” was larger than a star and traversing on a west to east trajectory. I “knew” it was a satellite for about 2-3 seconds, it went behind a cloud….and then another “satellite” appeared in the same spot the other one had from behind a cloud traveling in the same direction. My senses perked up. For the next minute I watched several more “satellites” traverse the same section of sky, some were in loose formation, not military precision type formation, but two offset with one trailing back as if it was part of a delta formation. I thought about trying to take a video or pic with my iPhone but knew this wouldn’t work. Next best option, I ran to the front door and said (with enough “worry” in my voice as I dare) “Babe, can you come look at this? I want you to see it!” My wife, probably thinking the worst: crashed car, somebody in danger….she is a Neonatal Nurse Practitioner after all, she quickly grabbed shoes and cak! e outside. Our son was curious too at the excitement so I picked him up and carried him out. I pointed up and said I saw something flying between the clouds. And to my delight, and with no more suggestive descriptions, the lights kept traversing cloud breaks. I asked my wife, “did you see that?” Wife, “all I see is an airplane” I explained what I saw before alerting her and almost on cue, two more traversed in again, a loose formation, and she said “yea those are really close” At this point I’m really trying hard to NOT use terms like UFO or Aliens!!! Cuz well, skeptics. She knows I know airplanes, she knows I can point out a satellite or the rare ISS transit. I pointed out how the direction the”lights” were traveling was perpendicular to cloud/star travel. Faster. And also no Nav lights…at all. She said “We live close to a military base” She is correct, Whidbey Naval Air base to the West and Louise McChord to the way south. I agreed with her, could be military…. Yet I poin! ted out that the “objects” never came back out from behind the! cloud t hat obscured them. While we were watching, a passenger airliner passed behind that same cloud heading north, Nav lights and all, then reappeared in the same general cloud break we saw the “lights” in. I said “see, that’s an airplane, and it did exactly what it should do, blink and strobe, go behind clouds and cone out on the other side” My son was begging to go back in uninterested, again I was NOT using suggestive language, and my wife said she needed to go to the grocery store before she could get our son to bed so I could sleep as well. While she was gone I went back out to observe. I saw to more airliners traveling north, one more object as the previous but it looked as though it was traveling west to east on a more northern trek. And then about 6-7 minutes later one more “object” that was traveling same direction as the others, but I only saw it briefly. When my wife returned, I didn’t want to freak her out, or if she was, perpetuate the fear. I told her “I know what we saw” she gave me the ‘look’. I said “it wasn’t a UFO” she looked at me and said “no?” “No babe, those were UAP’s” again a question look. “Unidentifiable Aerial Phenomenon, we don’t know WHAT those were” She accepted, to my surprise. Again, I’m not here to spread some outlandish “experience”, I’m a normal dude, father, husband and Precision Machine Repair-person…just wanted to get this down and out there while it was fresh in my mind!
January 24, 2020 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Tampa, FL
I’m not too sure about the day but It was night time and I was standing outside with my boyfriend. We were talking relaxing and I notice a red dot/light and I ignored it at first because it was not unusual to see airplanes through the day sometimes and airplanes have red lights as well. So then 5 minutes go by and I look back up and the red dot/light was still there. Obviously that wasn’t an airplane because it was one single red light and I thought of a helicopter but then again the red light looked like it was very far away and I heard no noise what so ever but I knew I saw that red light very bright and easily. Then again I ignored it once again and another 5 minutes go by and I was ready to go back inside my house and I look back up and it was still there in the same spot. I tried to take a picture with my phone but you couldn’t see it at all on camera. I then proceed to go inside my house. Apart from that I do not know how much longer that red light was! in the sky.
January 23, 2020 · 9:43 PM · LIGHT
Las Vegas, NV
Single flashing light flew across sky, light then went out and disappeared. Reappeared a second later and moves upwards then turned left. Moved left for a couple meters then disappeared.
January 23, 2020 · 6:20 PM · LIGHT
Wilmington, DE
This object first appeared to be a bright white star or planet. After staring at it from my window for about 3 seconds, the object suddenly was a bit lower and to the left. Now appearing as a less bright, red light. This sudden change in location as a red light happened about 6 times within 10 seconds then disappeared. The object seemed to be far away. Movements were within same vicinity but could of been up to a mile apart, with no pattern. Each change in location followed up with a still pause.
January 22, 2020 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Ripley, TN
Saw a very peculiar thing in the eastern night sky, around 8 pm Tuesday night about five miles north of Ripley TN. Was clear and cold with tons of stars visible. A single bluish - green light, not blinking, was quickly tracing a daisy shape in the sky. Repeated the same pattern for about twenty minutes. Unable to determine size or distance but was as bright as surrounding stars. Rural area with trees in all directions around highway 51 so I don't think it was a drone (my first guess)
January 22, 2020 · 7:18 PM · LIGHT
Battle Creek, MI
It was dark outside. I went out to smoke a cigarette and saw a round bright red light, not flashing, moving slowly towards me from north to south. It was in the direction of the airport here, but it did not have the required red light on the left wing and green light on the right. It also did not have any type of rotating beacon light. It was maybe 5 miles distant at about 3000'. It maneuvered slowly and strangely. It never got closer to me than maybe 3 miles (?). It made no sound, and as it was quiet outside, I likely would have been able to hear it at the estimated distance, like other aircraft I have seen out at the airport (KBTL). It turned towards the north and the light faded quite rapidly and became white. The main thing strange I noticed was the unusually bright red light. I have seen bright WHITE landing lights on aircraft, but never a very bright red one (I am a pilot and aircraft dispatcher and have been involved with aviation my entire life). This is not my first report on this site. I just wanted to post here to see if anyone else saw this. I told my friend about it, who lives in the city of Coldwater (about 30 miles southeast of me. He said he too saw it about 30 minutes later over his town, off to east (a bright non-flashing red light). I checked flightaware.com and saw no aircraft matching the flight profile I witnessed. I filmed it with my iphone6, a bit through the trees and have included it here.
January 21, 2020 · 5:05 AM · LIGHT
Canyon Country, CA
Heading NE 30 degrees and moving slow and quiet and than 2 more follow the first one.
January 20, 2020 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Princeton, WV
An array of greenish lights were seen in the sky. Reminded me of the aurora borealis. Lights seemed to fluctuate brightness.
January 20, 2020 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Tirana (Albania), Albania
I have seen 30-40 lights in the sky in a weird way. They were crossing the night sky following each other, in a straight path, almost equally separated in distance. They were coming from the same area in the night sky and the event took place for about 4-5 minutes. They were like a sort of train, following each other and maintaining the same distance (almost). They couldn’t have been airplanes because, frankly speaking, I might have seen (rarely) two airplanes in line with each other, even though I know that airplanes follow different paths in the sky for security reasons. But these lights were like 40 of them and they looked like they were never going to end. They just crossed the night sky following a certain order. I don’t know what to add more.
January 20, 2020 · 5:57 PM · LIGHT
Lowell, IN
Super bright spherical light hovered in one spot no sound creepy as hell not a drone.
January 20, 2020 · 4:55 AM · LIGHT
Sydney (Australia) · Australia
A light hi up looking like a star but moving thought maybe was a plane but real hi up..then a second one spaced behind it following exactly behind, then a third same space between & exactly in a direct line behind 2nd & 1st...then a short break possibly 6 seconds and 6 more came same exact configuration travelling across horizon Nth to Sth same spaces between each following each other. Reasonably quickly...it was pretty awesome they must have been big they looked same size roughly as regular stars but bit whiter. awesome sprctacle