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Witness reports, held as-reported. Each entry keeps its source, its coordinates where the record has them, and its place in the larger pattern.
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August 23, 2019 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Leavenworth, KS
3 bright star-like lights moving S to SE at roughly the same speed, one right after the other. There was no blinking, and no flashing. All started off as white. The last light stopped and hovered for several minutes in the SE before appearing to circle in place and continuing travel toward the SE. It turned a pinkish color as it was hovering.
August 23, 2019 · 10:06 PM · LIGHT
Reno, NV
I was sitting on my back porch listening to the radio and night sky watching when I observed what at first appeared to be a shooting star. The light traveled from my left to my right about 5 degrees above the hilly horizon which site North East to East of my home. The speed was much slower than a shooting star. The light wasn't sharp or bright brilliant it was as if it was below the surface of the water or behind dairy glass. It was only a white light as there were no green or red lights which you would see on an aircraft. No engine noise at all, completely silent. As the light moved left to right it passed behind a large tree. Expecting it to come out from behind the tree, I looked to the right side of the tree. It didn't come back into view. I then observed the same blurred light flying back to the left and spiraling in a clockwise motion and climbing. Then the light moved back in a right direction which is south. Again I see it spiral back to the left and upward. Now I'm thinking this is not a normal event and I glance down at my table and look for my phone. I wanted to capture a few pictures if possible. This is where I lost track of the light. I didn't see it again. This entire event lasted maybe 5 to 10 seconds. I was unable to see a shape only the muted white glow. Thinking about this it was similar to watching a large spotlight on clouds. However the night skies were absolutely clear..no fog, clouds...no haze or smoke present. An absolutely beautiful night sky where the Milky Way was so clearly observed. I'm at a complete loss trying to make logical sense of this sighting.
August 23, 2019 · 10:05 PM · LIGHT
Ashford, CT
When it gets dark, I usually go outside and star gaze even if its just a few minutes because space and astronomy has always been an interest of mine. I was outside on my back deck at around 10:05pm when I noticed what appeared to be an incredibly large bright star. The object was at an altitude of about 45 degrees with an azimuth of about 210 degrees (North being 0 degrees). The most noticeable feature was the incredible luminosity radiating from the object. There was no way anyone could of missed this thing, it stuck out like a soar thumb from the rest of the stars. I was fixated on it for about 5 solid minutes racking my mind on what I was looking at. Too big to be a star, much to small to be the moon. I know that some celestial objects can be seen with the naked eye, such as Mars and Venus, and can appear brighter then most stars. Remembering I have the Night-Sky app on my Ipad I walked in my house, grabbed a drink, grabbed my tablet and headed back outside. Ready to hopefully make some sense of what I've been observing with the help of the Night-Sky app I finally look up where the object was and it was gone. I was in my house for only about 3 minutes max. For some reason I had the feeling it was waiting for me to go inside. I swear every word of this is true. I never reported anything like this before but this experience was so strange I felt compelled to report it. Also maybe by me reporting my experience then someone else that saw the same thing that night will report it and we will be a step closer to understanding what's happening.
August 23, 2019 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Chester, NY
Approx. 12:30 am. Large bright light hovering. Moved back an forth several times. Then vanished with extreme speed. I was in my bedroom looking out my window. My son was outside. We finally spoke of the event on 08/25. We witnessed the exact same large bright light.
August 21, 2019 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Mount Horeb, WI
I had stopped by my neighbor’s house while out walking my dog as he usually has a fire in his fire pit during the upper Midwest’s wonderful summer evenings. Typically, we chat and socialize for an hour then I return home. His home faces West and I was talking with him on his back patio on the eastern side of the house. We were chatting when he turned around and pointed up to the sky to make joke about UFOs while pointing to a plane that was flying by. When I looked up, I mention that there are two planes, but they were just solid bright white lights and flying low, at that point I noticed that there were not flashing wing lights indicative of plane. We both watched the lights moved from the SSW to NNW across the sky. One light followed the other at a set distance during the entire travel. The lights as I mentioned, were low to start but they moved gradually higher and higher in till they disappeared into space well before the horizon. The object made no so! und which is atypical on a clear night with low flying airplanes. The event lasted 2-3 minutes. We both agreed that these were not airplanes, helicopters, balloons or any other type of flight vehicle that we could identify.
August 20, 2019 · 11:38 AM · LIGHT
Sudbury (Canada), ON · Canada
Blinking light not following sequence Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 19, 2019 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Pine Bush, NY
Date: August 19, 2019 Time: approx. 23:00 EST Location: Ulster County, NY, low in the sky between Burlingham, NY, and Walker Valley, NY, Sighting area: about 10 mins West of Pine Bush, NY, looking West Sighting duration 5-10 mins. Description: Seen just above the tree tops at a distance of approx. 2-3 miles, a bright flashing light, rapidly changing colors. Larger and brighter than a star, and not flashing regular FAA lights (as I observed the object a normal plane did fly overhead for contrast). Lots of stars out, too, but this looked nothing like a star. Mediocre quality iPhone video taken that, at least, shows the rapid cycling of the flashing lights. Viewed through binoculars, however, the distant object almost appeared spherical, and the different colored rapid-cycling lights were much more obvious. The object appeared motionless until it drifted away south and was gone from view behind tall trees nearby.
August 19, 2019 · 10:38 PM · LIGHT
Elizabeth, NJ
My husband and I when out to the parking lot and we saw a steady red bright light at the sky over the Elizabeth River parkway for about 2 minutes then suddenly made a weird move and disappear from the sky.
August 19, 2019 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Lynnwood, WA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 19, 2019 · 2:30 AM · LIGHT
Dalton, GA
Around 2:30 AM, was going down Murray Ave in Dalton, Georgia, as I looked into my rear view mirror, seen a very bright white light zoom from one side of the Rd to the other side across the street. There were no reflections of street lights because I was in a dark area! 2nd encounter: driving my car later that day and a light comes in my back window and out my front window, disappearing!
August 18, 2019 · 10:45 PM · LIGHT
Dahlonega, GA
I was on the phone with a friend of mine and was looking out the window of my bedroom when a light appeared heading north from the top of the window. I thought at first it could have been a plane but there were no flashing lights and it was moving around the sky erratically. It was heading in a general northern direction but was curving to the left and right in ways that a plane couldn't have. I then thought that maybe it was a drone but those too have flashing lights and it seemed close enough that I would have been able to see them. Once it got about three quarters' down the length of my window it stopped moving and then just disappeared. There were no trees or anything that it could have moved behind. It was just in the sky, and it just blinked out and was gone.
August 18, 2019 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Half Moon Bay/San Mateo (between; Hwy 9), CA
At first I thought it might be a house, but the lights were too big, and at some point I would've passed the house. Yet, as I kept driving the lights were still hovering over this mountainous peak. Once I started to make my descent on the road, I could no longer see the peak of the mountain and lost sight of the lights. I saw them for about 5-10 minutes of driving as I was driving up the road and the peak of the mountains/hills were visible from the highway. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 18, 2019 · 8:55 PM · LIGHT
Newnan, GA
While driving down the road, my friend and I observed a small extremely fast moving object with a green light blocking the appearance of the object. It was moving towards the ground, but out of nowhere, the green light disappeared and the object was no longer visible. We both said, “Holy ((deleted)), did you see that?”
August 18, 2019 · 5:00 AM · LIGHT
Grants Pass, OR
8/14/19 5:00 am. Grants Pass, Oregon. Bright star in North West. Moved up, down, left and right. Half circles. Would stop after each movement. Watched approximately half hour.
August 18, 2019 · 4:00 AM · LIGHT
Atlantic Ocean (50 miles off NJ coast), NJ
While riding out 80 miles off of Cape May, NJ, to go fishing in the Canyons, a bright white light flickering red and white was seen above the water, due East approximately 50+ miles offshore, while it could’ve been an aircraft it was visible for well over 30 mins (we were moving at 25mph, aircraft move at 500 mph and would’ve been out of sight quickly). Also thinking it could’ve been a star except that the sun was rising and this was the only thing in the sky and looked too bright for a star, in addition when looking around to try and see anything else around there appeared to be a light right below it was above/on the water. I then searched again for anything else In the sky when I looked back at the spot it was gone.
August 17, 2019 · 1:20 AM · LIGHT
Payson, UT
On the night of August 17, 2019, my brother and I were looking at the night sky because on a nightly basis we witness this phenomenon. Every single night around 2:30am till dawn while watching the stars we see what looks like a staring the sky moving very fast, they have to be traveling at thousands of miles an hour. And we own a powerful laser pointer and each time we shine it it will disappear and then reappear in a different spot in the sky, or they will up here to come closer and then turn on a 90 degree angle and move away out of sight very quickly. And then it will not be long before we will see another one, that will act the same way with the laser pointer. This happens every single night and is quite impressive. And sometimes they just fly past very fast but certainly under intelligent control.
August 16, 2019 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Anchorage, AK
My window faces the Mountains just east of Anchorage. My cousin and I looked outside and saw a really bright light above the mountains. It shined for about 2 minutes. It faded and then a second light appeared to the right of the first one. This one only lasted for about a minute. Then we looked around the sky and didn’t see anything except for two airplanes in the South. We have no idea what these lights were. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 15, 2019 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Winfield, WV
Me and my girlfriend were outside stargazing for about 4 hours. We immediately noticed there were an abnormal amount of planes in the sky, many being in very close proximity. Around 11 o clock, I saw a white object appear out of nowhere and streak through the sky before disappearing. It happened again 15 minutes later, this time we both saw it. We saw it two more times before we went inside. Never seen anything like it.
August 15, 2019 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Deming, NM
I live in Deming, NM, and my boyfriend and his little nephew went up into the Florida Mountains to watch the lights of the city up in the mountains one night. It was very dark as it was overcast and we had been their watching the town and decided to get out of the vehicle. We got out, found some rocks to sit on and just started talking and enjoying the night. As we sat there, we noticed four lights all in a row light up very close to the mountain. The Florida Mountains have a park you pay to enter, but at the time the gates are locked and no one should be up there. We watched them for a few minutes and then the lights started moving along the mountain. At this point we left very quickly because we were scared. I would also like to mention that this is not the first time that I personally have seen strange lights moving in the sky and around the mountain. I love relativity close to these mountains. On the drive home we started talking about the event and we at one point said maybe that they are trying to communicate and the lights to our vehicular device were already on bright and they stared to get brighter. I also work as a bartender and recently one of the regulars at the bar I work at came in and was talking to some other people and he said that he lives in the foothills on the west side of the mountains and him and his wife regularly see these lights in the nighttime between 12:00 midnight and 4:30 am and he claimed that the frequency is about 3-4 times a week. Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
August 15, 2019 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
New York City (Brooklyn), NY
The event occurred yesterday at 7pm in prospect park Brooklyn. I was in the park with my wife and daughter and laying on my back staring up the swallows flying high above. A small white dot caught my attention (a small star bright light) much higher than commercial airline flights seem to be and way higher than the swallows above. At first I thought nothing of it as it could be something reflecting light from the sun, but the object started to move to the left. After it moved it really caught my attention and a few seconds just stopped. After the obeject had stopped moving, two more lights (or star bright dots) appeared directly underneath the original object. It was in perfect vertical straight line underneath the original dot and totaled three lights. The three lights all proceeded to move left again and after a few seconds of following the dots/stars I tried to alert my wife and point out the general direction. In this time more had appeared sporadically (in no formation or visibly noticeable) formation. The number grew till around 7 stars could be seen and spaces all over the area of sky. The whole event lasted around 2 minutes and my wife (to my frustartition) didn’t managed to track or witness it. I’m actually sad that I alone witnessed it and would have even tried to contact a complete stranger to highlight what I was witnessing! I would honestly love to know if any sighting (other than mine) happened and up till yesterday would have literally laughed at anyone telling me they had witnessed something extra ordinary or a UFO. This really changed for me yesterday and tried in all ways to rantionalize and explain what it could have been, both civilian and military wise. Hope to hear from you back and all the best.
August 15, 2019 · 2:00 AM · LIGHT
Hammond, NY
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 14, 2019 · 9:45 PM · LIGHT
Abbott, TX
We are driving northbound on 35E in Abbott, TX. Both my spouse and I saw an object fall from the sky. It was a solid white ball of light, and the turned green for a brief moment. After that it disappeared. It was not a firework. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 14, 2019 · 6:30 AM · LIGHT
Marietta, GA
I saw a very bright light, strange irregular shape but mostly vertical orientation. No blinking, moving south then disappeared from view after about 15 seconds. About 30 seconds later I saw it again, this time much farther south and dimmer, then it disappeared completely. At least one aircraft also seen in the sky at the time.
August 14, 2019 · 1:30 AM · LIGHT
Pendelton, NY
There was a round flickering light moving around sporadically. This was over a corn field across from my home. My husband and I observed this and taped it for a few minutes. We have seen this on other days in the fields on the opposite side of my house as well. It sometimes has a red flash of light and then disappears.