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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
September 25, 2019 · 11:04 PM · LIGHT
Mescalero Indian Reservation, NM
On September 25, 2019, while traveling from Toularosa, New Mexico, to Villa Ruidoso, New Mexico, on Highway 70, one of the passengers in the vehicle observed a single bright light in the north western sky at approximately 8:02 PM and at approximately 8:14, the bright light returned and was observed by the driver of the vehicle and the two passengers in the vehicle. This time a second light appeared to the left of the original like a third light leader appeared to the left of the second light at which time the original light disappeared. Almost immediately after the third light appeared, the first light seem to reappear to the left of the third light. The three lights appeared to jump each other to the left for a period of approximately 10 seconds. The three lights then covered each other. One of the lights then reappeared below the two lights. At that point, all the lights disappeared at the same time. A few minutes later, A bright light reappeared with a second bright light two it’s left. Those lights disappeared at the same time. That was the last time any of the occupants in the car saw any bright lights in the sky.
September 25, 2019 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Duluth, MN
A friend and I were sitting outside looking over Lake Superior, when we had noticed what looked like a giant star in the sky. At the time, it wasn’t moving, but we knew that there was no way it was a star because it was way too large and it was hovering over Lake Superior. It had lit up the lake as the moon does sometimes here. We ran into our house to grab 3 other friends to come see it cause we had no idea what it could be. As soon as all of us were out there looking at it again, it took off instantly. It moved in high speed and as we got to the top of stairs outside (3 stories high). As close as it was to us it was completely silent. It slowed down and slowly dropped down into the trees.
September 25, 2019 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Tres Pinos, CA
I saw a bright, speeding light, south to north, instantly turn 90 degrees east with no change in velocity.
September 25, 2019 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Santa Cruz, CA
I went out on my deck to bring my dog inside because she was barking. While waiting for her, I looked up at the clear night sky. I noticed two objects with blinking lights, and watched them for a while because they moved together at the same speed, in the same direction, which I had never seen before. They were higher than the commercial flight planes, but not as high as satellites. After the closest one started to move out of view, I noticed two small white (like stars) lights moving much higher in the sky. They made 2-3 tight circles around each other, and then moved in unison along the same plane, in opposite directions. The farthest one faded out of view, but closest one appeared to become stationary, like a star, and didn't move again for as long as I watched. I am a recently retired nurse, and have never seen anything in the skies like it before. It was the circling of the two lights and the fast and uniform movement in opposite directions that made me want to report it.
September 25, 2019 · 6:15 PM · LIGHT
NJ
Saw something very bright and very big moving fast (falling?) directly down from the sky in the distance, while driving on Route 80 West, just before I reached exit 57. 6:15PM
September 25, 2019 · 6:29 AM · LIGHT
Deerfield Beach, FL
Looking at the sky this morning. To the right of the Orion Constellation. I viewed to very bright star like objects which I had not observed the previous morning. I was intrigued so continued to observe. The objects started to fade from view, but it was not due to any clouds. I am an amateur astronomer, so I know my way around the sky.
September 25, 2019 · 4:00 AM · LIGHT
Mayfield, NY
At 04:00 I woke up and went on our back porch i looked up and saw a light flashing purple yellow red all sorts of colors. I work up my girlfriend who came out and also witnessed this. The object moved in a semi circle away from us and was stationary for over an hour. We both have video of it. It reappeared 2 nights later at the same time. We also have vido of that.
September 24, 2019 · 11:44 PM · LIGHT
Council Bluffs (outside of), IA
My Son and Myself had taken His Son to Sioux Falls South Dakota on 9/24/2019. On the way back at 10:34 PM exactly 63 miles from Council Bluffs, Iowa and Omaha Ne..we saw ahead a Blinking Strobe Light in the distance ahead. We looked at each other and said almost simultaneously. What Is That? It did not appear to be moving.It Kept Strobing with a Very Bright Light. As we came near it some miles ahead, We approached the object, it did not appear to be moving, just Strobing, Brightly on and off. As we Finally met up with it, which was about m7 minutes. it was next to us, across the Field next to the interstate, with not a car in sight, and Black as can be. It was just Strobing above the Middle of this, what seemed like a Field about 500 feet above, Quietly. I looked for a Pole or some sort of Ground Support, and there was None! as we passed it I did not Notice any Red warning Lights for Aircraft. We Kept Vocal about how strange this was. Then as we passed it above ! what seemed like an empty field,it Just Disappeared!I Finally had a witness as I have seen the same entity before, but don't tell everybody. It seems best to keep it to yourself. I would have not said anything, except that my son was with me, a NO Nonsense kind of guy,
September 24, 2019 · 9:53 PM · LIGHT
Hilton Head, SC
My family visits Hilton Head for a week every September. Two years ago my brother and I were fishing the surf after dark when we noticed very strange lights in the sky. Here is the link to that report: http://www.nuforc.org/webreports/136/S136513.html After reporting what we saw to NUFORC two years ago, we realized that the amount of orange light sightings off the coast of SC is stunning, so we knew that our chances were fair to possibly see them again. So during our 2018 beach trip we went out to the beach for a bit a few different nights… but we didn't see anything, so this year we returned with the idea to hike out to the beach consistently each night, set up our chairs, and look for anything strange from 7:30pm - 10:00pm. Saturday, Sunday, and Monday nights we saw nothing. But on Tuesday night at 7:53pm we saw the start of an amazing display! My father, brother, sister in-law and myself were all at the beach when all of a sudden two bright orange lights appeared approximately 1-2 miles up the coast, seemingly over the beach itself... maybe even over a nearby hotel. It's hard to approximate their altitude, but they couldn't have been more than a thousand feet off the ground. The light on top was larger and brighter, while the one below it was smaller and more faint, but both were clearly visible. When we noticed them they were already visible, so we didn't see how they appeared. They did not move in any direction. We watched them for about 20-30 seconds, before the larger and brighter one slowly faded out, immediately followed by the smaller light fading out as well. The entire time they were visible they made no sound, and there was no smoke in the sky. All 4 of us saw the lights, and everyone was so excited. In 2017 my brother and myself were the only ones on the beach when the lights appeared, so having the validation of two more adults in our family seeing the lights was great. We kept a watch out for more, but after about 30 minutes or so my dad and sister in law decided to head back to the house. However, my brother and I stayed. Shortly after they left, we noticed that two fighter jets flew over the coast at a very low altitude and speed. One had what seemed to be normal lights on, while the other had only a couple very minimal green lights and was very hard to see. It was too dark to see what they were exactly, but they were most like FA-18's from the nearby Marine Corp Air Station in Beaufort, SC. They were extremely loud, in star contrast to the silent orange lights we had seen. These were the only such planes we saw the entire week, so we though it was worth noting since it was about 30 mins after the lights appeared. Then, at 8:47pm, almost 50 minutes after we initially saw the two orange lights to the north, things got really interesting out over the water. Straight out and slightly to the south from where we were sitting, orange lights began fading in and out for short periods of time. It's hard to say how far apart they were (they were further away from us than the first lights). There could have easily been miles of space between the individual lights at times, and other times they appeared close to each other. Between 8:47 and 8:57 these lights turned on and off (always gradually fading in and out) at in different places out over the ocean. At first they were not moving, but completely stationary. Then, we saw one moving south. It faded in, stayed lit momentarily, then started to fade out again. But as one light disappeared, a previously unseen sphere positioned next to it lit up. Then when that light faded out, one next to it faded in. The lights turned on and off down the line a t! otal of six times, then the last one faded out. It was as if a straight line formation of 6 objects was traveling south at the same speed and lighting up one at a time in from east to west. After that one or two more lights faded in and disappeared here and there for a minute or two, but that was all we saw that evening, and we didn’t see anything else every following night for the rest of the week. These were the exact same lights we had seen two years ago. How are these appearing with such predictability and frequency and yet nobody is talking about it? Whatever is out there, it's an amazing thing to behold, and it was a treat to get a glimpse at the lights again! Unfortunately I couldn't get my phone to focus on the lights because it was so dark on the beach. However, I made some animations which I'm submitting to NUFORC to show what we saw. The positions and time of appearance are approximate of course, but these animations accurately convey what we saw looking out over the waves. Animated Illustration for 7:53pm sighting: https://imagizer.imageshack.com/a/img924/4563/QxF4Tb.gif Animated Illustration for 8:47pm sighting: https://imagizer.imageshack.com/a/img921/4967/lNFDb4.gif
September 24, 2019 · 9:15 PM · LIGHT
Camden, NY
9:15 pm EDST on 9/24/19 While observing Pluto, Saturn and Jupiter in the night sky, just outside of Camden, NY (Hillsboro Rd), my aunt alerted me that there was a light moving erratically. I retrieved my binoculars and observed 4 different colors of lights along with a white light that seemed to be constant while the other colors blinked individually. Blue, red, green yellow. If I were to guess where this object was, I would say looking towards Amboy Center, NY. The object moved back and forth or remained stationary. When we first observed it, it seemed to be wobbling. We also saw a very bright light over Oneida lake (from this location). It seemed to be moving low and differently from a plane or I attempted to video tape it but it didn’t who on the video. We watched it for 10 minutes. It remained there as I left to return to my home. Note that dog was barking while we were observing. Dog was looking toward wooded area
September 24, 2019 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Caledonia (Canada), ON · Canada
Ball of light a little larger than a star flying from the south towards the North Star. The night was clear and we could see all the stars. I thought it was a satelight but the point of light was to big. It was flying above 40 000 ft but lower than most satelights. a large flash of light came from the object when it was directly overhead. The speed of the object did not increase but the point of light started to get smaller as it headed North. It looked like a space craft or a satelight did a quick burn to attain a higher altitude. I checked for recent launches but found nothing on this date.
September 24, 2019 · 7:30 PM · LIGHT
Washinton, MO
Driving in the country between New Haven and Washington, we saw 2 very bright orange lights. We were on a hill driving east when we saw them on the eastern Horizon well above tree's. Them seemed to be a bit south of the city of Washington. One was lower than the other and the other was up and to the right (Diagonal) from the lower one. We stopped in the road (no cars nearby) and stared for 30 seconds or so. Before Continuing on. We decided to drive down the road and caught a glimpse of them still shining very brightly in the same location. At this point we are driving north and they are still east of us. We then entered a wooded area and couldn't see for about 2 minutes. We then parked in a field with a empty gravel road and saw that there was only 1 light remaining. We then see to to north east another bright orange light. We assumed one of the lights must of relocated. It then dimmed and disappeared once again. The one that stayed in position then dimmed and disappeared before reappearing 5 seconds later. After watching the lone light for a while we decided to leave to go back to where we originally saw it. Once we returned there, there was still only the single light. The second one never returned. We then decided to go home. I did check flight map radars to see if helicopter's / planes were in the area. There weren't. We know for a fact that it wasn't towers/light posts or something because we drive the road every day/night multiple times. Also it was clearly in the sky. Never really believed sightings until I saw them tonight.
September 24, 2019 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Shelton, CT
My location: 41*17’60”N - 17*11’26”W, elevation 390 ASL. Object was observed at 49* NE from this location at an elevation of about 20* above horizon. No clouds, clear night with many bright stars. (*) means degrees. At about 10:00pm, I stepped out my back door. With the naked eye, I observed what I thought was an aircraft practicing stalls at night. Being a former glider pilot and life long aviation enthusiast, I am familiar with aircraft at night. I also have a steady stream of aircraft overhead leaving JFK and heading across in the Atlantic flight corridor. I could see red, green/blue and white lights and thought these to be the port/starboard/landing lights of an aircraft. The lights were clustered together and blinking rapidly. Imagine those colored LEDs blinking quickly on a wreath but this was in the shape of a tight ball. As I continued to watch the lights slowly swoop up and down through a space of 1.0 to 1.5 degrees of sky, (using fingers,) I realized that the lights were wrong for an aircraft. I observed perhaps 8-12 swoops. Each swoop was in a slightly different direction in the sky, some to the left, others to the right. Each swoop was a duration of 4-5 one thousand from top! to bottom. I had excellent reference for elevation changes as the event occurred between two stationary trees with horizontal branches. After observing for perhaps 10 minutes or more, I went in and grabbed my binoculars (Bushnell 16x50) and returned outside. I moved my observation position 4 feet right to gain a clear, unobstructed view without branches but still between two trees on either side of the object. Standing and observing hand held was shaky so I kneeled down behind an Adirondack chair to steady the image. I could now see much more clearly the small cluster of multiple colored lights. My focal setting was not set to infinity. Thinking the different colors could be a refraction of white light in the lenses, I moved and observed stars and they were distinctly a single, steady source of white light compared to the colored lights of the object. I thought to try and photograph the object with my smart phone but shooting stars at night with the phone is pointless. As I continued to observe the object through the binoculars, the swooping had noticeably slowed and diminished. I also noticed the cluster seemed smaller than when I first started, as if it was moving away but still remained in the same altitude position relative to the trees. As I had been observing the object for about 10-15 minutes, my knees were sore from kneeling on the stone pavers. I left the object, still visible with naked eye but smaller in the sky and went to bed wondering what the ‘ell I just saw….
September 24, 2019 · 11:00 AM · LIGHT
Stephens City, VA
I noticed a ball of light about one mile above me. Watched it for about thirty seconds. It disappeared instantly.
September 24, 2019 · 7:20 AM · LIGHT
Worthington, OH
I was driving east on Snouffer Rd in Worthington, OH at 7:20AM. I was at a stopped light while looking up at the sky. The sky was completely clear with no clouds and the sun was rising. There was a black plane noted to the far right, which was easily identifiable but the sky was otherwise clear with no other planes or clouds. Suddenly, out of nowhere there was a bright white, round light that appeared straight eastward. The light hovered for about 10-20 seconds when suddenly a second bright white light appeared to the upper right of the first bright white object. They both hovered there with no movement for about 30-40 seconds. I was unable to stay and continue watching as I was at a stop light and unable to hold up traffic. They were clearly not airplanes and appeared as if two of the brightest stars I’ve ever seen just randomly appeared in the day sky.
September 23, 2019 · 2:40 AM · LIGHT
Warwick, RI
Stepped outside apartment complex to smoke a cigg. Looked up into sky and saw a circle of dim whitish light shoot across the sky. It looks like what be considered a band around an object.
September 22, 2019 · 11:05 PM · LIGHT
Norristown, PA
I was standing on the backyard of my house. I've noticed a red, large, round light moving from behind the tree from west towards the east. It was a very bright red ball with a hint of the orange and yellow inside. The shape of it was slightly elongated towards the direction it was moving to. Initially it was moving slow and it was large and clear. I would compare the size of it to the soccer ball held on the stretched out arm. There was no sound. It started moving faster with growing distance. By the time I ran into the house and grabbed my phone if was disappearing. I took a short video but it seems like a star.
September 22, 2019 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Ely, NV
My wife and several friends and i were driving west on highway 6 about 8 miles outside of Ely. Wife noticed 4-5 bright orange lights in a line moving south, so i pulled my phone out and started to record the lights. They seemed to break up or fall down at an angle and disappear, only to reappear several miles away down the valley. This continued until we could no longer make them out due to the distance.
September 22, 2019 · 1:45 PM · LIGHT
Red Hill, NM
On Sunday, Sept.22, while returning home from an RV vacation in New Mexico my wife and I saw something unusual. We were traveling west on Rt 60, in New Mexico, approximately 5 miles before reaching the AZ border. This sighting occurred around 1:45pm on a clear blue-sky afternoon. Looking straight ahead I saw this very bright white solitary object, traveling very fast across the blue-sky. It was traveling in a southerly direction. It had no discernable shape. My first thought was that it was a jet plane, but we saw no contrail and seemed too fast to be a jet plane. I said to my wife, “what’s that?”. We both watched as it streaked across the sky and then disappear into the horizon, all within about 10-12 seconds time.
September 22, 2019 · 3:30 AM · LIGHT
Boron, CA
I was sitting around a campfire with a group of people about 5 miles off of Route 395 in the Mojave desert. It was around 330am and I had been looking up all night because the stars were amazing. Directly east, I saw a light way off in the distance, which I first thought was a star but it began to move. My second thought it was a shooting star because it was dropping but then it made a sharp left, then straight back up. I had to rub my eyes to make sure it wasn't an illusion. My next thought was it was a satellite, but then it dropped straight down again. All of this was happening in the same location, and I knew this because I was using a star for reference. Once my brain realized what I was seeing I woke people up and it made a left and took off faster than any aircraft would and covered a huge distance in a matter of 1 second. My friend caught the last bit of it. I have seen UFOs before in northern Michigan and Washington (which only hovered) but I've never witnessed any aerial gymnastics like this. I kept thinking maybe it's government craft because I was in the middle of the desert, but who knows
September 21, 2019 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Nashville, TN
I was out with friends in Nashville on a Saturday night. We had proceeded to the rooftop of a business located on Broadway. I looked up towards the AT&T “bat building “ and noticed around 4 lights zipping around the sky above the building. They would disappear for a few moments then suddenly return. Objects were making sudden direction changes and quick accelerations. The objects were not necessarily always witnessed at once but maybe 2, then a 3rd or 4th would return. I have a Bachelor’s degree in math and physical science and have always enjoyed stargazing. Possibly advertising lights?? PD
September 21, 2019 · 9:10 PM · LIGHT
Bend, OR
My husband and I were in the hot tub and he noticed a bright white light moving up in a diagonal direction in the sky north of us. We watched it carefully because it wasn't flashing like a plane would. It was perfectly white and was moving in a steady pattern. We were saying, "What is that? It's not a plane because it's not flashing, it's not a satellite because it's too bright, it's not a meteor because it's moving up in the sky... then it dimmed and completely disappeared into a perfectly cloudless, black sky. We watched the sky in that area for some time and it didn't reappear at all. I got online to see if others have seen the same thing... it sounds like some of the things others have indeed seen lately.
September 21, 2019 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Farmington, NY
At about 9 p.m. I was out back at a friend’s house preparing for a campfire. I looked up into the sky facing north. I saw a steady white light about the size of a star moving from west to east. At first I thought it was a plane but there were no strobe lights flashing. At first it moved in a straight line. After watching about 10 seconds it started moving erratically. Up and down, left and right. I called to my son-in-law who also saw it. While still moving erratically, it disappeared behind a tree. Total observation time was about 30 seconds. It appeared to be high in the sky. The size did not change while observing it.
September 21, 2019 · 8:30 PM · LIGHT
Black River Falls, WI
Two bright orange lights above the local prison, possibly disappeared into low cloud cover. Lights appeared to be the shape of a visible planet, but orange and below the cloud cover. No stars visible, the lights were not red green or yellow, but orange.