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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
October 11, 2019 · 7:49 PM · LIGHT
Allen, TX
I was out watching for the ISS pass over, it was visible flying SW to SE, just when it was near the end of its pass I noticed something about 20 degrees behind following it, thought it might be a reflection or something until the light made a sharp turn to the north followed by another sharp turn to the west, it flew west incredibly fast and disappeared in seconds.
October 11, 2019 · 9:30 AM · LIGHT
Batavia, OH
A light has been circling houses in Eastgate near Batavia Ohio
October 10, 2019 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Moberly, MO
My wife and I were helping my daughter move and hauling some of her belongings in Moberly, Missouri. The sighting occurred at approximately 2100 hrs. We were South bound in town on Morley Street. My asked me what that object was in the sky to the East. I looked out the drivers side window and saw on orange craft/object. It was stationary at first and had no blinking light nor making any sound. We pulled over and it slowly began to move Northward and starting picking up speed. I’m not sure how high it was but it was quite cloudy and started to rain about 15 minutes later. My wife was able to take a short video on her phone. She said it turned red at one point. After it flew out of sight we continued to my daughters house approximately a half a mile away. As we pulled up to here house we saw it once again near the same original location but traveling Northwest. Not sure if this was the same object or another one, but it was also orange. Not able to tell how high it was or the size because it was nighttime.
October 10, 2019 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Norwich, CT
An hour after sundown large blue light turning to red then blue about 3000 feet elevation moving up the Thames River
October 10, 2019 · 8:05 PM · LIGHT
Waterloo, SC
During an ISS sighting of 10th October, at 20:00, ISS passing from NNW to East. Myself and my wife observed a bright white light to the south at an elevation of 30 degrees after the ISS had passed by. Looked like a spotlight being turned on then off. I originally thought that the light was aircraft landing lights as we are under several busy air corridors. Continued observation of the sky in that area revealed no aircraft, also thought it could be a satellite but continued observation along the projected path revealed no further sighting.
October 9, 2019 · 9:45 PM · LIGHT
Honaker, VA
While travelling SW on Finney Road (Rt 620) near tail end of Big A Mountain about 1.2 miles from Route 80; two white lights appeared just beyond top of Mountain through tree tops moving south to north, lights (seemed to be ~100ft in diameter each) were circular and appeared to be several hundred feet apart. As we were driving we went out of sight of the lights and they were gone off to north when we topped mountain and were able to scan the sky for them.
October 9, 2019 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Woodbury, NJ
Walking into my house from my vehicle. It is raining light, very cloudy, zero thunder or lighting! A blue light lit up on my glass, I turn around doing 180 degree turn in the EAST and the most incredible thing I've ever seen (as a skywatcher). My two dogs who were walking up with me, took off! NO SOUND, just a light! Lasted about approximately 8-10-seconds, no sound, no craft, just a HUGE long lasting blueish/green light. Lit up the entire east sky! I am in South Jersey. Incredible, never saw anything like this in my life. Oct. 10, 2019 approximately 19:00hrs. I've seen many things in my life, retired LEO. Anonymous report. We assume that "LEO" stands for law enforcement officer. PD
October 9, 2019 · 5:45 PM · LIGHT
Ontario, CA
I was driving eastbound on the 10 freeway through Ontario, California, between the Archibald Avenue and Haven Avenue off ramps. Off the right side of the freeway, I saw a streak of bright, white light suddenly appear and curve downward. I thought it was a shooting star, but then it instantly changed direction, flew up a bit and disappeared. The entire thing lasted about three or four seconds.
October 9, 2019 · 7:02 AM · LIGHT
Circleville, OH
White, star-like light that we assumed at first to be maybe an aircraft going really fast, but then it made a sudden sharp upward turn and then completely disappeared without a trace. No sound. I have never witnessed anything like that in my entire life.
October 9, 2019 · 7:00 AM · LIGHT
Hilliard, OH
I was standing outside facing the north and I saw a flash of white light in the east and it traveled west and then went back towards the east. The sun was rising but the sky was still black in west. It was light enough out at that point that you couldn't see any stars in the sky.
October 9, 2019 · 6:55 AM · LIGHT
Greenville, PA
(This story is re-posted about 10 minutes after the original, I wished to remain anonymous out of fear of, well anything really, but if NUFORC wishes to contact me, I dont see why not.) I arrived at my construction job site at around 06:45. I dropped off my tools and opened the garage doors to get ready for the day. Since I had a few moments, I stepped outside to feel the morning air, I noticed a fairly bright "Star" to the West of the warehouse where I stood. The "Star" was larger than the average star on this early morning, it had a reddish orange hue, and flickered every so slightly. I assumed that it was Mars, just peeking out over the rooftops. I downloaded the Skymaps app last week, so I open the app expecting the object to be Mars. However, nothing celestial was in that vicinity, especially not something that bright. My second logical assumption was that it was an aircraft, or perhaps a satellite; however unusual, since the light was as bright as Mars typically is. I watched the object and was able to realize that it was in fact moving. However, it was behaving erratically. Up up up, to the right, wobble, up up up, to the right, wobble; ever so slightly. Perhaps it was a helicopter with a spotlight? Then my periphery, an easily identifiable airplane was also crossing the sky. Two blinking lights, white and red. Traveling toward the general area that the mysterious object occupied. I went back to watching the strange light, only for a few seconds more; in an instant it vanished. As the light suddenly cut out, in the exact same spot; a barely visible red light zipped to the right, much more horizontal than vertical. The speed in which this tiny red light moved was frightening at first glance, it reminded me of how one sees a meteorite zipping across the atmosphere before burning out. It moved so quickly and was so faint that I lost sight of it. Its hard to estimate the exact distance and direction of the object, but if I was to get as close as I could; From the horizon it was approximately 20 degrees vertical. On a 360 Degree compass, it was approximately 15 degrees clockwise of due West. I can't give an accurate estimation of distance seeing as it was only a light, but if I was to guess based on gut feeling, I would bet about 15 to 20 miles or so as the bird flies
October 9, 2019 · 6:55 AM · LIGHT
Greenville, PA
I arrived at my construction job site at around 06:45. I dropped off my tools and opened the garage doors to get ready for the day. Since I had a few moments, I stepped outside to feel the morning air, I noticed a fairly bright "Star" to the West of the warehouse where I stood. The "Star" was larger than the average star on this early morning, it had a reddish orange hue, and flickered every so slightly. I assumed that it was Mars, just peeking out over the rooftops. I downloaded the Skymaps app last week, so I open the app expecting the object to be Mars. However, nothing celestial was in that vicinity, especially not something that bright. My second logical assumption was that it was an aircraft, or perhaps a satellite; however unusual, since the light was as bright as Mars typically is. I watched the object and was able to realize that it was in fact moving. However, it was behaving erratically. Up up up, to the right, wobble, up up up, to the right, wobble; ever so slightly. Perhaps it was a helicopter with a spotlight? Then my periphery, an easily identifiable airplane was also crossing the sky. Two blinking lights, white and red. Traveling toward the general area that the mysterious object occupied. I went back to watching the strange light, only for a few seconds more; in an instant it vanished. As the light suddenly cut out, in the exact same spot; a barely visible red light zipped to the right, much more horizontal than vertical. The speed in which this tiny red light moved was frightening at first glance, it reminded me of how one sees a meteorite zipping across the atmosphere before burning out. It moved so quickly and was so faint that I lost sight of it. Its hard to estimate the exact distance and direction of the object, but if I was to get as close as I could; From the horizon it was approximately 20 degrees vertical. On a 360 Degree compass, it was approximately 15 degrees clockwise of due West. I can't give an accurate estimation of distance seeing as it was only a light, but if I was to guess based on gut feeling, I would bet about 15 to 20 miles or so as the bird flies.
October 9, 2019 · 6:45 AM · LIGHT
Albuquerque, NM
October 9, 2019 This morning I was driving to an appointment I had at the VA Hospital in Albuquerque, NM. My wife and I moved to Albuquerque late last year. I saw a stationary, very, very bright white light above the Sandia Mountain range at approximately 6:45AM. It was difficult to look directly at the light. When I saw the light I was traveling east on the Paseo del Norte (an east west four lane highway). The light lasted just a few seconds before it "winked" out. I didn't see a tail that one would see if it were a meteor. I can't say if the light was above the mountain range or east of the range. At whatever distance it was at it appeared to be the size of a pin head. I don't know if it was a UFO. Currently, Albuquerque is celebrating the annual Balloon Fiesta. The fiesta started last weekend and ends this weekend. There were balloons in the sky but they were all above the Balloon Park or spread out to the north. It was no more than 5-15 minutes after the light went out that I saw a helicopter flying south towards the general location of the light. The helicopter may have turned east, but the distance was too far for me to be sure if it went east or turned west. By then I was merging onto Interstate 25 going south to the VA hospital. One thought that occurred to me at the time was that the light I observed was a star becoming a super nova. A second thought was that it may have been an airplane coming in to land at the Albuquerque airport. I scratched that idea by the way the light disappeared and its high intensity. By the way, there were no stars to be seen in this part of the sky as the sun was up on the other side of the mountain range. I'm sure other people driving east would have seen the same light. There were hundreds of cars on the road heading to work or the balloon park.
October 9, 2019 · 6:00 AM · LIGHT
Jasper, MO
I was in my deer stand while hunting early in the morning, facing due west. As I looked up into the sky, I saw a massive yellow light, bigger and brighter than any star. The light began to move in a figure eight pattern for about 3 minutes before suddenly stopping. It sat completely still for about 30 seconds before completely disappearing, as if it was a light being turned off.
October 8, 2019 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Louisville, KY
Driving thru Valley Station myself and my daughter seen 3 lights above a tree. The lights were green with small white lights to the sides. They shot off and disappeared.
October 8, 2019 · 8:08 PM · LIGHT
Colts Neck, NJ
There was one glowing object moving in the sky, maybe 200 yards away approximately 20 stories in the air. It was very low and close. It was dark outside and the light was a whitish blue and it moved up, then down and then up again before moving very quickly North East. The whole thing lasted maybe 5 seconds. There were hardly any street lamps around the area, and the 3 that are give off the old orangish light, not like the moving one I saw in the sky. This happened over Naval Weapons Station Earle Naval Base.
October 8, 2019 · 7:50 PM · LIGHT
Panama City, FL
Red-Orange light, very bright, approximately 35 degrees above horizon. Looking SSE when spotted (below moon at time) No sound of any planes, stayed stationary 10 seconds and then vanished.
October 8, 2019 · 7:20 PM · LIGHT
La Quinta, CA
My son and I were star/moonlight gazing when we noticed a bright light traveling west to east at a slow speed over old town La Quinta. Disappeared in front of the moonlight.
October 8, 2019 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Pittston, ME
Right front passenger saw a light moved quick percision left and over vehicle and at same time a laser drew line front of driver side l
October 8, 2019 · 10:00 AM · LIGHT
San Jose, CA
At approximately 10:20 AM Christopher Elementary School. The head custodian notice two objects in the sky flashing and hovering above the playground both objects hovered for approximately half an hour, both objects were caught on camera both objects move swiftly out of the atmosphere. Each at different times. They were not Man-made toy drones.
October 8, 2019 · 9:00 AM · LIGHT
Denton, TX
Possibly rotating advertising lights?? PD
October 8, 2019 · 7:00 AM · LIGHT
Defiance, OH
I was driving North on State Route 637 and I saw 5 small white points of light in the North. There were 4 white lights shaped like the points of a box with one white light above the top. As I got closer to the lights, suddenly all 5 whites became one light. It started moving East. I turned on a side road to take a picture with my phone and the light was nowhere to be found. The entire experience was visible for approximately 10 minutes. All the lights were round in shape.
October 8, 2019 · 7:00 AM · LIGHT
Carmel, IN
There were 2 lights in the sky going really fast and were parallel to each other.
October 7, 2019 · 8:15 PM · LIGHT
Richardson/Garland, TX
The sky was pretty clear last night as I was able to see all the stars etc... I was looking up at the sky and noticed 4 very dim lights EXTREMELY high in the sky (you really had to focus to see those 4 lights (50% visible) seemed like they were in space that's how far it looked like they were) and it was moving south I would say. Those 4 lights were REALLY far apart from each other but symmetrically aligned and was moving diagonal then straight and then again diagonal. Those 4 lights were in perfect sync with each other and the lights were all horizontal and not a triangular form or anything. After it passed the moon, they disappeared. I really was spooked out and had goosebumps. My buddy did not believe me at all. It's hard for anyone to believe until they see it for themselves and I KNOW WHAT I SAW LAST NIGHT... definitely were not planes or anything, I am 110% positive as they are more blinking lights and would be one big solid light from down here. I saw! 4 lights . . . like this