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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 21, 2019 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Hau’ula, HI
I then observed a single star light moving northward. These “ star lights “ were white in color and left no trail of any kind in its wake. It’s speed were consistent, silent with no blinking lights indicating aircraft. I am a former FAA aircraft inspector and recently retired welding inspector with decades of observation experience. This isn’t the first time I’ve noticed things in the night sky but tonight was the longest duration and the amount of objects left me wondering. I know satellites cruise along but usually one at a time and that’s it, not seemingly making loops around th! e sky but still very cool.
September 21, 2019 · 2:15 PM · LIGHT
Virginia Beach, VA
While viewing the NAS Oceana airshow, what looked like a bright, twinkling star was hovering high in the sky over the runway. There was no noise and I couldn't tell if the object was creating or reflecting light, but it was a cloudless and a very bright day
September 21, 2019 · 1:42 AM · LIGHT
Rovaniemi · Finland
We saw a bright light moving across the horizon in zig zag motion stopping sometimes and sometimes moving at incredible speed and after that disappearing in two seconds
September 21, 2019 · 12:04 AM · LIGHT
Seattle, WA
I was waiting for my ride home when I happen to look up in the dark night sky. I saw 3 white dot lights heading east in a arrow formation traveling very quickly. All 3 lights then scrambled in all different directions. I was able to film the last few seconds on my phone. Definitely something I’ve never seen before.
September 20, 2019 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Maynard, MA
Outside having a smoke before I turned in for the night. Tiny lights movings I. Erratic directions looking northwest. Lights had the same brightness as the ISS going overhead but had not linear direction before disappearing
September 20, 2019 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Union, CT
We were driving home down Route 190 in Union Connecticut when we spotted white lights hovering in the distance (western sky). There was one bright light in the middle with a line of lights off to each side creating a sort of eye shape. We drove home (Stafford Connecticut) & when I went outside to try and take a picture, the lights disappeared and then reappeared in another spot. I was unable to get a photo.
September 20, 2019 · 8:45 PM · LIGHT
Logan, OH
It was very very high. I thought it was a meteor. I saw a light going across very high and it was faint and extremely small so it must have been high. I thought it was a meteor because it was going way too fast to be an airplane. we get airplane here and they're lower and lights blink. This shot across the sky way too fast and didnt burn up. Just went the full distance of skyscrapers that were visible to me.
September 20, 2019 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Parsons, WV
Just a low light flying lower than planes. No blinking and went from north to south .
September 20, 2019 · 3:00 PM · LIGHT
Laytonville, CA
I'm not sure about the nature of this event but I found it quite unusual. I've got drone footage from Mendocino area, September 2019 and just had the chance to watch the footage. I can see random lights appearing from one point to another, sometimes at very fast speed and sometimes slightly changing direction. This has occurred several times (at least 8) and in different camera drone direction. I would like to know if you could be interested in watching the footage, perhaps through a screen sharing.
September 19, 2019 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Chestertown, NY
My partner and I were outside our home in Friends Lake when we noticed a large bright white light in the distance that appeared to be a star. However, we noticed it was moving closer to us in the NE direction. There were no flashing lights, as would be expected to be seen on a plane. There was also no sound, as we usually would hear when a plane was passing over. It was a very clear night- to the point that we could clearly see the Milky Way. After traveling for approximately 3 minutes, the light made a 90 degree turn and headed SE. It appeared to disappear for about 15 seconds as it crossed through the Milky Way- which didn’t seem like much time to go such a distance. The light reappeared on the other side of the Milky Way- and appeared to “pop back out” at a higher rate of speed and then slowing to the previous pace. The light/object continued SE for about 30 seconds and then appeared to move straight up until it could no longer be seen. Had we both not seen the same thing- we would have thought we imagined the whole thing.
September 19, 2019 · 8:45 PM · LIGHT
Myrtle Beach, SC
5 oranges lights appeared in a horizontal line, disappeared then reappeared one by one before disappearing again. Out over ocean along Myrtle Beach boardwalk.
September 19, 2019 · 8:30 PM · LIGHT
Palisade, CO
On 9/19/19 at approximately 830 pm, myself and roommate were outside on the patio when I looked up to see a huge light in the sky. I pointed it out to my roommate saying that’s too low to be a satellite and there aren’t any aviation lights showing(no blinking lights) I moved to a darker position for a better view and continued to watch the globe of light and make commentary to my roommate as to possible explanations’ and why there was no sound. After it had passed over head I noticed a satellite passing within my observation area going the other way and a one point they were in line in the sky and the comparison to a satellite was easy, it was not a satellite, it was not a plane. My roommate could not see the satellite and kept his eyes on the globe which as it made its way north the light faded as if the object accelerated and disappeared before it passed the horizon. The entire observation lasted approximately 1-2 min. I am a female professional that contracts with DOC, my roommate is a male retired Colorado state trooper, we are both in our fifties. We discussed our observation afterwards as the sky had many airplane flights passing over as we continued to watch the sky and see if the light globe returned it did not. We agree that no other common flying object in the sky looked like what we saw and we have no explanation as to what we saw this night.
September 19, 2019 · 7:50 PM · LIGHT
Upper Chichester, PA
My wife yelled to me from the car as she was pulling out of the driveway, come look at this, what is it as I walked down I saw 4 orange lights in diamond formation traveling from northeast to southwest. They were moving quite slowly. Then one by one they just started to fade away. Before the last one disappeared, a 5th one appeared. This is when I started recording. The 5th one was heading in the same direction as the others and then made a sharp right turn and eventually faded away. The color can only be described as a ball of fire. And we are right by the airport and there were planes in the air close by.
September 19, 2019 · 5:45 AM · LIGHT
Fort Collins, CO
Up at Horsetooth Reservoir this morning there was a bright teal-green neon flash above me that caught my eye. At first thought it was a shooting star, but then it rapidly picked up speed and disappeared into the night sky. The whole thing only lasted for maybe a few seconds, but it gave me a strange feeling that I had just seen something unnatural.
September 18, 2019 · 8:40 PM · LIGHT
St Roberts, MO
Brightest light in the sky. Straight and fast path then the light dimmed suddenly and then dimmed again to a very small light like one of the smallest stars in the sky then disappeared. There was no trail or tail and had a very direct path with no curve.
September 18, 2019 · 8:09 PM · LIGHT
BURBANK, CA
I live in an apartment complex that has a courtyard, and we live on the second floor. Every night, I come out with my 2yo daughter to see the stars at night. We always see the regular bright stars. Tonight I noticed next to a regular bright star we see every night, there was another star that was traveling at a steady speed. It caught my attention as it was traveling through the night sky. The night sky was very clear and we can see stars and planes and helicopters in the night sky. But next to this thing there was no air traffic. It looked like any other star but it seemed very low in the atmosphere, meaning it seemed like it was right above the city. Also I noticed there were no blinking lights as it traveled above us. By this time my wife came out and I pointed it our to her. She was perplexed and couldn’t believe what she was seeing, she kept asking what in the heck was it. There were no blinking lights and the object was moving in a steady flight pattern!, but there was no sound at all associated to it. Also, as we were watching in the clear night sky I moved few feet ahead of me to get a better view and both my wife and I lost it, It seemed like it just vanished even though we could see the whole sky where it was heading. I have no clue what it was. I managed to get it on cell phone but against the dark night sky on video it looks like I was just shooting a star in the sky and it doesn’t seem to be moving like we could see with our naked eyes. I think it’s because there is no other object to reference in the video so it just looks like a star. But this thing was moving and looked like a star meaning like pinpoint in the sky size of a star if you look up and see one. It was white in color, no other colors on it like we are used to seeing so many planes because of the Burbank airport right next to us.
September 18, 2019 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Phoenix area, CA
- Husband, 38 yo, PhD, licensed therapist, professor and administrator in higher education. Long-time meditator, versed in UFO/UAP literature, more from the side of Vallee school of spirituality and consciousness studies. No previous contact/observations of this type, though prone to mysticism, deep contemplative states. - Wife, 37 yo, licensed therapist, stay at home mother. Limited interest/knowledge of UFO’s. Was at first incredulous of the events/occurrences, then became progressively curious and impacted by the observations. No previous contact/observations of this type, similarly prone to meditative states, etc. - 5 yo male in the car. Reported seeing “dancing blinking lights” - Driving in on highway 10 toward the Phoenix area, coming from California. Within 10-15 minutes of passing the Arizona state line, I noticed some strange light (kind of star-like) activity going on in my peripheral vision, left side. I would glance to the left and the dancing stars I noticed would stop moving. They would begin again, kind of blinking on and off and jumping positions, and as soon as I turned toward them they stopped and disappeared. This went on for a while and then I finally told my wife what was happening. - The ‘stars’ then began moving in front of our vision, the road was still an open two-lane canvas, nestled against the very dark sky. - Over the next hour or so, perhaps longer, we witnessed different star-looking objects maneuvering in all sorts of different ways. Would blink and travel in the sky, then jump to another space in the vicinity, then back again, then ‘jump’ forward. Appeared to defy the laws of physics for normal physical objects; they did not appear to be helicopters, planes, satellites or drones (throughout, we did see objects that appeared to be those things and judged them against these ‘dancing’ lights). - These things would blink and move, sometimes very quickly through the sky, stop, and then disappear. When we saw this, we both quietly gasped. - Wife a streak of light, almost tube-like, on the passenger side. Once she thought she saw a more translucent light, but then we realized it was just the headlight reflection cast along the side of road as we drove through. Wife described it almost like lighting in that the thick tube appeared to have “jagged” lines beaming outward from both sides of the tube. Wife gasped at this point; before then she was somewhat incredulous at what was occurring. - We would see objects, again, star-like objects, blinking and twinkling, traveling, sometimes in pairs, sometimes in clusters of three or more, moving through the sky, moving apart, then disappearing. Most of the time they looked like stars. - There was a charged energy of magic in the air. Palpable. - We saw an object directly in front of us, a larger star-like/teardrop object, and appearing to be closer to the earth, descending slowing as we travelled through the dark highway. It reached a certain point, then disappeared. - There was a playful quality to these appearances. - We asked ourselves, again and again, “is this really happening?” We answered ourselves, multiple times, with, “yes.”
September 18, 2019 · 6:40 PM · LIGHT
Florence, AL
No information provided here by witness, who elects to remain anonymous. PD
September 18, 2019 · 3:30 PM · LIGHT
Massena, NY
While driving down route 37 just outside of Massena, NY, past Akwasasne, I witnessed what I believe to be some sort of flying object of light. It was about 25-3500’ off the ground. The sun was off the left of time and it was reflecting almost a brighter glare than what the sun could make. The object was dead ahead and moving left to right and would make more of a glare the longer I stared at it. It was to low and to big to be a commercial airliner in the air. There were a few other cars on the road but heading in the opposite direction. I went down to grab my phone to take a video of it and when I looked back up it was gone. I couldn’t find it at all. I stopped scanned all around. Nothing. It was gone.
September 17, 2019 · 8:30 PM · LIGHT
North Topsail Beach, NC
Saw a light in the sky moving at a high rate of speed. It changed direction at tight angles and accelerated faster than any known aircraft could. I would have written it off as a reflection but it appeared to have been followed by a military plane. The object disappeared, at least from my view, quickly and was accelerating much faster than the military aircraft.
September 17, 2019 · 8:15 PM · LIGHT
Enfield, CT
4 orange large lights in the shape of circles. They seemed to flying in a formation, about 1/4 mile from each other. Completely silent, the one by the they just disppeared.
September 17, 2019 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Hastings, MN
My wife and I noticed what we thought was a star. It then started moving up and down, side to side and at 90 degree angles. I have never seen anything like this before. I recorded video of the object. My wife took my phone, just to make sure that it wasn't me shaking or moving the phone. We observed the object for about 45 minutes. It would move higher and lower in the sky, but keep moving at impossible angles. We witnessed the object in the western sky around 270 degrees and it was 15 to 20 degrees from the horizon.
September 17, 2019 · 4:15 PM · LIGHT
Nutley, NJ
I was in my pool watching the flight paths of planes departing and approaching NIA and Teterboro Airport. I observed a bright light moving in a North to South direction flying very slowly in an erratic pattern ( zig zagging ). The object did not emit any sound. It was moving in an area not normally used by landing and taking off aircraft. At first I thought it may have been an errant helium balloon. After about 2 to 3 minutes it just vanished. I previously observed this phenomena in early July, same type of sighting around the same time of in the afternoon. That one however was observed due East and was repeatedly moving vertical to horizontal for about 5 minutes and likewise disappeared. The best way to describe what the lights looked like was a bright star or planet.
September 17, 2019 · 5:45 AM · LIGHT
IdentifiedAuxerre, Bourgogne · France
Le 17 septembre 2019 à 05h45, en ouvrant sa fenêtre, le témoin observe « quelque chose qui (lui) paraît étrange ». Le PAN observé est un " point blanc lumineux et très intense. Parfois l'intensité paraissait faiblir légèrement pour redevenir lumineuse. A partir de ce point, il y avait deux traits moins intenses, un descendant de la pointe vers la droite, l’autre montant de la pointe vers la droite. Cela avait la forme d’un « V »". Le témoin a l’impression d’une forme triangulaire. Ce phénomène ne se déplace pas. Il reste immobile et ne produit aucun bruit. Le témoin quitte sa position d’observation quelques minutes, afin de se préparer pour se rendre à son travail. De retour à la fenêtre, le PAN est toujours là, toujours à la même place. Le témoin décide de prendre 3 photos. La première photo révèle un point lumineux et un bougé. Les 2 autres photos révèlent 3 points lumineux en forme de « V ». Lorsqu’une heure plus tard sa mère se lève, elle constate la présence dans le ciel du phénomène. Il est alors 06h50. L’observation dure plus d’une heure. Le PAN est haut dans le ciel et bien visible pendant toute la durée de l’observation. Il faudra le lever du jour pour que sa luminosité s’amenuise et finisse par le faire disparaître comme l’atteste le témoin. Le témoin mentionne un azimut E-SE et une élévation de 60°. Les photos permettent de corriger et d'évaluer azimut et élévation à respectivement 135° et 18° (voir le compte rendu d’enquête). La durée d'observation et la description du PAN orientent vers une observation astronomique. Ce jour-là, à cette plage horaire, nous trouvons Sirius avec une magnitude de -1,46, d'une très forte intensité conforme à l'impression du témoin. Sirius passe de l'azimut 135° à 149,5° et d'une élévation de 13,5° à 20,20°. Ce qui est cohérent avec les informations du témoignage. Le témoin n'a pas constaté de changements dans l'azimut et l'élévation, ce qui est normal car ces déplacements restent lents et peu observables à l’œil nu sur une heure de temps et sans repère ou point d’appui. L’étrangeté perçue par le témoin est liée au « point lumineux » dont « l’intensité paraissait faiblir légèrement pour redevenir lumineuse » ainsi qu’à la perception de « deux traits moins intenses, un descendant de la pointe vers la droite, l’autre montant de la pointe vers la droite. Cela avait la forme d’un « V ». Il est probable que le témoin qui a vu une forme de « V », décrive ce qu'il a vu sur la photo, et non ce qu'il a réellement observé à l’œil nu. Il est assez courant de penser qu’un zoom sur image est plus précis, plus performant qu’une observation visuelle. En faisant cela, les artefacts augmentent. Dans ce cas, la perception du « V » est très probablement créée par les photos. C’est un effet de bougé qui crée un « V » sur les photos 2 et 3. La photo 1 montre un bougé avec une géométrie très différente. A l’observation visuelle, le témoin a perçu des effets de scintillation (luminosité variable). La scintillation a pu perturber les photos, mais le bougé reste le principal élément perturbateur dans la prise des photos. La scintillation est un phénomène dû à la turbulence de l’atmosphère. Elle a créé la variation d’intensité perçue visuellement. La consistance du témoignage est bonne. Des d’éléments précis sont fournis dans le témoignage. Un croquis explicatif et plusieurs photos des lieux permettent de recouper des éléments essentiels du témoignage, notamment sur la hauteur angulaire. Le témoignage contient également des photos du phénomène. Nous avons deux témoins même si un seul a témoigné. Le GEIPAN classe le cas en A : observation de Sirius. [GEIPAN classification A — Sirius (étoile)]