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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
November 11, 2019 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Fort Seward, CA
Before the full moon popped up looking west I saw a string of lights moving in a straight line southward. Right in between a clearing of trees. And they were moving so fast it appeared as if they were connected by a string but these were not in our atmosphere. They almost seemed like satellites but I, and my four other friends, can assure you these were not satellites.
November 11, 2019 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Florence, AZ
25 lights in a row traveling from northwest to southeast. Solid lights, white, appeared at same altitude as commercial jets in evening sky.
November 11, 2019 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Mesa, AZ
* ——- * - * ———— *. —— 19:00 pm for 4-5 minutes beginning In the Southwest and remaining visable until slightly South East.
November 11, 2019 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Quartzsite, AZ
In the evening of 11/11/19, we were sitting next to our RV at an RV park in Quartzsite. We were facing west. We had been sitting there for about 45 minutes when we noticed a well organized, straight line of lights proceeding from right to left, that is, north to south, against the black night sky. There was little separation among them, but they were discriminable. They were traveling roughly at the speed of airplanes, but what was so striking was how many of the lights there were, and how they were quite well organized into a line. We weren’t sure we could see well all of the ones that were there, partly because the luminosity of some of the lights changed significantly, especially the first and perhaps 3rd and 4th lights, that grew in intensity, and then subsided to that of most of the others. As they proceeded further south, they all grew dimmer, but some of the ones in the rear dimmed faster than some of the ones in the front. This definitely was not a meteor of some kind leaving a trail, it was not a descending arc, and the separation among the lights appeared regular. They were flying at what appeared to be the same, level altitude the whole time they were visible. We pointed them out to the folks sitting next to the RV behind us and they easily confirmed that they could see the same thing we were seeing, a line of what could have been around 15 easily visible lights, led by some that flared up brightly. Not all of the lead lights grew in intensity, just the first and possible the 3rd and 4th, maybe the 5th. My husband and I disagree on exactly how long they were visible to us, but we watched them until they dimmed so much, apparently because they were more distant, that we could no longer see them. I suspect we could see them for about 1-2 minutes, maybe not even that long. I attempted to take a video or photo, but the lights were too dim by the time I tried. They may always have been too dim to capture on an iPhone.
November 11, 2019 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Princess Anne, MD
On the night of the 11th, my husband and I were returning from town. Our home is rural (dead center of the DELMARVA Peninsula) with a perfect night sky for star watching, which I do regularly. I stepped out of my truck on the west side facing the Chesapeake Bay. While looking out and upward, I thought I identified Orion’s belt, but I quickly realized that is was 4 stars not 3 and the rest of his body was missing. I looked to the east towards the moon and identified a bright star to its bottom left. I looked back at the 4 stars and realized they were moving. The lights appeared to be far above plane altitudes as there were multiple planes flying in different directions at different altitudes (normal activity). The planes were obvious by their running lights. Additionally, there is a great deal of government activity, regularly, so planes and the associated noise are normal. I began to yell to my husband to “look, look, what is that?” Immediately, in my heart,! I knew it was not earthly. At first, I thought the “star-like lights” were horizontal beside each other, but then I realized they were moving single file, one behind the other. Most important to their movement was the distance between them never wavered. It was if they were connected somehow by material or an unseen force. The first two were closer to one another, and then the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th light were evenly distributed. My first thought on their movement was how the animation of Santa sailing across the sky moves…deliberate, smooth, silent, racing. It was like the lights were a train with an engine car and then individual cars. I was mad at myself for not having my phone, which I had noted earlier when I missed the beaver moon shot on the way to town. I wanted to run to the house to get it, but I was afraid of missing any of this event. The lights appeared to be moving from the south west on a curve directly towards and over our farm. As they moved closer, I ran to th! e house through the west side door, grabbed the phone, and hea! ded out the south side door (mere seconds). I fumbled to get the recorder going as I continued to watch the event unfold. The 4 lights continued what seemed like a curve and headed south east. As they trailed away, I could only see the last light because of their single file position. The video is terrible. I hold a PhD in Public Policy, and we are the largest free-range egg farm in Maryland.
November 11, 2019 · 6:58 PM · LIGHT
Maricopa, AZ
We were in our friends backyard. It was a very clear night. You could see some stars. I noticed a string of lights, some brighter than others traveling across the sky, at a slow rate, slightly slower than a plane high up would travel. We watched as the farthest left light climbed higher and the other lights followed. They moved across the sky from north heading south. We watched and then they just disappeared. Were gone but we did watch them for what seemed like a good minute or two. The lights maintained their intensity. We knew it wasn’t a meteor or anything breaking up because the lights weren’t falling down, they were going up and across. They trail of lights to the right was following the farthest one on the left.
November 11, 2019 · 6:57 PM · LIGHT
Blythe, CA
15 lights in string formation at a 15 degree angle. Lights were visible only when looking west on I-10. After driving for a minute the lights traveled south and East and disappeared off out of the drivers side window. The speed was slow. No flashing lights were identified as indicating helicopters or passenger flights. The string lights didn’t change formation but were not visible once whatever it was was - was parallel to drivers side window.
November 11, 2019 · 5:56 PM · LIGHT
FairPlay, CA
This evening while leaving a friends home with my wife in FairPlay ca I looked into the sky and pointed out to my wife and my friend and his girlfriend a line of small lights that were what I would assume to be outside of the atmosphere because they were so far away. As we looked at these 15+ dots moving through the sky at incredible pace I pulled my phone out to try and record the event. Unfortunately I couldn’t even come close to seeing them on my phone because of how far away the objects were, but I did get a 3 second recording at 5:56 pm. We spotted the objects approximately 1 minute prior to turning my camera on and being on the top of a hill we watched them move in perfect formation south east for about 2-3 minutes. It was not dark enough to see stars in the sky yet but these objects were shining in the light of the full moon. After we no longer saw the lights in the sky we all talked and then said our goodbyes.
November 11, 2019 · 5:55 PM · LIGHT
Borrego Springs, CA
5 lights in row moving west to east.
November 11, 2019 · 5:40 PM · LIGHT
Lumberport, WV
I was driving home from work and I saw a sphere of white light in the sky near my home. The sphere looked electrical, very bright and slightly pulsating. I couldn’t really see an outline of the sphere because it was so bright. When I first noticed the light, it was in the sky above my house and seemed to be moving straight up. I was driving and there was a vehicle behind me so I couldn’t stop, I watched it for approximately 20 or 30 seconds, the road goes around a curve, so I lost sight of it for a couple of seconds. I turned off the main road onto the smaller road that leads to my house at that point I stopped and looked for it, but it was gone. I know that the ridge line behind my house is 1500 ft and I would say that the sphere was at about 1800 ft when I first saw it but then it quickly gained altitude. I would estimate that it was about 20 to 30 feet in diameter. It was extremely bright almost like a small star; however, I could easily look at it. I am ! an aircraft mechanic, and this wasn’t any type of aircraft that I am familiar with. There weren’t any blinking nav lights or beacons. I couldn’t really tell if it was making any noise because I was driving but I didn't hear anything. I don’t know what it was but it was definitely not like anything I had ever seen before, honestly it looked like something right out of a science fiction movie.
November 11, 2019 · 5:40 PM · LIGHT
Warrenton, VA
Unexplained Sighting November 11, 2019 Warrenton, Va., Approximating 50 miles of Washington, D.C. At approximately 5:40pm, I observed a long thin line of lights moving from out of the Northwest towards the Southeast at an altitude similar to that of a satellite. I was able to watch this for about 45 seconds. The line of lights moved uniformly as one unit and appeared to under control. I estimate the length of the line to be a mile or longer. There was no sound that I could hear from this event. I estimate the number of lights to be around 35. The line was made up of dimmer white lights toward the front and 4 brighter white lights toward the back of the line. The dimmer lights had a small oval appearance. The larger 4 lights looked similar to that of a satellite. While watching, I did not see any change in the number or color of lights. The object maintained its course until it was no longer visible.
November 10, 2019 · 9:35 PM · LIGHT
Sturbridge, MA
I was having a fire and I look up to see 6 extremely brighy lights forming a pentagram and mimicking the form of one
November 10, 2019 · 7:30 AM · LIGHT
Yuba city, CA
I saw 1 ball of light flashing on then off and on again it did that for maybe 5-10 minutes and finally stayed off. It looked like a star would look but flahing on and off white and not moving.
November 10, 2019 · 1:23 AM · LIGHT
Louisville, KY
In Heritage Creek of Louisville facing North Sky we just saw a flash of light. To me this light was luminous and soft white with some pink/purple light and appeared to be falling/descending so I at first thought it was a firework but realized it was not. And I watched as it just disappeared in the sky. My partner saw same light but to him he saw the light fall as I saw it do, but he said he saw it spiral after it “fell” then shoot off into the distance (away from us) at a rapid speed. We didn’t feel the earth quake so nothing hit the ground.
November 10, 2019 · 12:20 AM · LIGHT
Smyrna, TN
Smyrna tn Almaville road at 12:20 a.m a large white light 3 times larger than the north star almost as bright as a street light that would be 15 feet from you moving toward the ground slightly faster than a falling object. If it were a plane it was most definitely 100% a crash at that speed straight down the light was white not yellow and there were no blinking lights. Moving at a higher than falling speed straight down. Scared me so much I got lost coming home on a road I drive every day. very shaken up. I almost exspecting a loud boom as if it would have hit the earth very hard but heard nothing. I drove The Direction toward it for about 15 minutes and never saw it again.
November 9, 2019 · 11:45 PM · LIGHT
Milwaukee, WI
At 11:45 approximately 90° east of true North a light approximately four times the luminosity of Venus appeared but instead of remaining one color it cycled through multiple colors and slowly moved upwards from the equator toward Orion. The colors were blue, red, green, white, orange. It did not appear to match any sort of aircraft from any angle that I'm familiar with. I have video from a monile device that I will email.
November 9, 2019 · 7:32 PM · LIGHT
Hollywood, CA
I was a security guard stationed at the Hollywood Bowl Scenic Overlook last night. While on my break I laid down on a bench to look at the stars and directly above me I observed what at first glance appeared to be a satellite, an amber light about the size of a star that was moving at a constant speed across the sky. Then the light began to change direction. I observed it for several minutes and it changed course several times and accelerated and decelerated repeatedly. On two occasions it stopped and started again. During this time it lazily flew in circles and various other patterns over the area. About three minutes in it changed color from amber to blue and then it left flying in a northeasterly direction at about 19:37 hours.
November 9, 2019 · 7:02 PM · LIGHT
Lawton, OK
1 flickering light hovered above sky lights for and 10 seconds before dropping vertically to just above ground level. Hovering there for a few more seconds before disappearing.
November 9, 2019 · 8:20 AM · LIGHT
The Colony, TX
I was in my backyard working on my car then light was sitting in my yard it started flashing white and red for few minutes and flew off in the sky super fast
November 9, 2019 · 12:10 AM · LIGHT
Evansville, IN
With Rigel in clear appearance when I showed tom, the entirety of the constellation became the brightest thing in the entire sky along with the one other star under orion. Same location at 12:23 pm I placed a call to vanderburgh dispatch and told them about the appearance, they recommended to me a call center for ufocenter.com at 206 722 3000 At 12:25 I placed the call and the director Mr. Davenport took my call. He suggested documenting my experience in writing and asked if I have a camera I have a Sony A7R3. it’s a world class mirrorless camera with in body stabilization. Without much time to waste I went back outside at the end of our call with the camera and a fixed focal length (prime) lens at 28 millimeters. I picked this lens because prime lenses are incredibly sharp and it was already on the camera. I fixed the focus on these objects after setting the aperture wide open and started taking a number of pictures at a high ISO (around 6400?) and aperture. Noticing they were noisy even though the camera was on a tripod, I checked the exposure time and automatic settings had pushed the exposure time to 1/6th of a second. I set the iso first to 100 and began taking a number of long exposure photographs (10, 8 seconds). I noticed in one image a “star trail” on one of the objects. It was straight, not an arc, and ! the end of the trail was very bright as though the craft or object had moved and then become stationary. I have done astrophotography with lenses like this one in the past and star trails aren’t distinguishable near this altitude without a 15 second exposure. I set the iso higher to 640 and started taking a number of photographs across the sky at about a second long exposure. As a part of this report I will upload them.
November 8, 2019 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Tulsa, OK
Tulsa, Oklahoma. I regularly observe strange, color-twinkling star-like objects, in the four quadrants of the sky. They appear to be regularly positioned and are clearly no ordinary “star” or “planet”. They appear, to the naked eye, as almost a dice-shaped device, “spinning” on one of its corners, and flashing regularly, white, green, and red. I am 63 years old and have been sky watching all of my life and cannot explain what these new objects in the sky are. I first noticed them in 2012. I called the St. Louis Planetarium in hopes that someone there could clue me in to what these objects are; but the only response I got was someone trying to convince me about the “twinkling” that occurs as bodies in space rise or set through our atmosphere, especially near the horizons. I felt that my questions were quickly dismissed. My gut tells me that these are some kind of UFO and/or military crafts. I find the objects disconcerting, especially since very few ! people notice them or even care about hearing about them.
November 8, 2019 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Laurence Harbor, NJ
I pointed out a bright star to my boyfriend and he was trying to explain to me that it was an airplane because it started to move. I then agreed but noticed it stopped moving. When it moved, it moved diagonally and quickly. When it stopped it just hovered. After about 7 minutes I watched it shoot down a red blinking light. I quickly notified my boyfriend and he saw it too. He called his father to the room and he saw it too. Almost immediately after we heard and saw 2 planes head into the ssme direction the red lights went to. After the red light reached the water it hovered for about a minute and disappeared. The original white light (that was mistaken for a star/airplane) began to fade away.
November 8, 2019 · 5:30 PM · LIGHT
Mt. Gildead, OH
Driving up 71 N from Columbus to Mansfield: Bright white light with beams of light from the sides and small green flashing lights to the side; hovering above the tree line off to the right side of the highway. The cars on 71 around me seemed to slow down to look but unsure if other drivers saw what I saw. After passed hovering object speed picked back up on highway. It was not the moon or cell phone tower. I could see both in my line of sight along with the object.
November 8, 2019 · 6:00 AM · LIGHT
Sebring, FL
I was riding my bike from work across the highway a bright green light about 8 ft high and as big as a volleyball Speeds parallel to traffic on the opposite side of the highway from where I was. It stopped for 2-3 seconds then speeds away to where I couldn’t see.