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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 7, 2020 · 4:10 AM · CYLINDER
Shell, WY
At 4:10 am I went outside to see the night sky. I noticed to the Northeast 10 degrees above the Bighorn Mountain range what I thought was a comet, so I wanted to share the sight with my wife who was asleep. I convinced her to come outside to see it before the clouds obscured the view. When we both stepped outside, I noticed it had moved slightly and found that to be very odd, so we both stepped further out to get a completely unobstructed view of it and noticed that it was becoming brighter by the second. This is when I realized that the clouds had been obscuring the view and we were about to get a real good view of it. Within a few seconds it was as bright as a white light bulb and I quickly realized that this was NO comet but something in our atmosphere and above the clouds. As the clouds kept moving away, the bright light kept coming into full view and appeared to be a very long cylindrical light resembling a “fluorescent tube“. Based on the landmarks on the mountain range it was above, I estimated it to be about a mile long. It was in a horizontal position pointing to the northwest on the left and Southeast on the right. We also noticed that it was moving from left to right slowly and gradually turning in a counterclockwise rotation to the Northeast. Once it was pointed to the Northeast, it continued its movement towards the Northeast until it was out of sight. The unobstructed view lasted about seven to nine seconds. Absolutely no sound was heard coming from this object. We both discussed what we saw and neither of us could speculate what it was. I am a pilot and work for BOEING. I know how aircraft operate and what they’re capable of. This was NOT a known craft of any sort.
August 7, 2020 · 3:07 AM · CYLINDER
Salem, OR
1 Bright cylinder moving at a slow steady pace at a downward angle and it was bright white with bluish hues. About 2 minutes later a small flash only saw by 1 of the witnesses.
August 6, 2020 · 3:05 PM · CYLINDER
Netherlands
Object seen in the Netherlands. Object was cylinder shaped movement rotating horizontally Was figurering out what i saw i almost forgot to make a picture, but when i took the pic the object was to far. I got the original pic and a screenshot of it zoomed, the fragment is useless but perhaps it helps
August 1, 2020 · 1:00 AM · CYLINDER
Warm Springs, GA
The object or ship was a short cylinder about the size of a helicopter with cubes coming out of it. It was more wide than it was thick. It slowly flew over us right above the pine trees and disappeared over the tree line. It was a single object by itself. I asked my mother to pull over so we could watch it then while looking at it without taking my eyes off of it I asked my mother if she could see it too and she said yes. After it was gone I said let's go and we acted like it never happened.
July 31, 2020 · 3:00 AM · CYLINDER
Alexandria, VA
I don't know if this is a craft or a star I don't know what it is it's stationary it's due South from my location I used a compass it's dead South at about 10:30 to 11 o'clock position in the night sky it's so strange there appears to be a bright light in the middle and then kind of like a straight cylinder directly underneath it and another straight cylinder above it.
July 30, 2020 · 5:12 AM · CYLINDER
Elgin, OK
Ok, I saw something yesterday morning on July 30th at approximately 5:12 A.M. that I can't explain. I'm a veteran of the U.S. Army and I believe I saw a UFO. I'm 100% convinced. This happened at 5:12AM about 5 miles northeast of Elgin, Oklahoma which happens to be near Ft. Sill and nearby BAE Systems which contracts through the D.O.D. So there I was driving to work and off to my right was a house and some trees. All of a sudden a bright light appeared over this house and began flickering randomly as if someone bottled up a lightning storm. I can't explain it. At first I thought it was from lightning because there was a lightning storm on the northern border of Oklahoma well over 150 miles away. Anyways the light then turned solid and it immediately moved over by a large tree, circled around the tree. Then it moved up into the air about 20 feet and then move away from the tree about another 20 feet and came to a complete stop. Then it immediately shot straight up into the air. It was small, about the size of a Chevrolet Spark to give an idea of the size. It was circular like the shape of a pill and it was metallic. Feel free to contact me for any questions about my encounter.
July 25, 2020 · 3:00 PM · CYLINDER
Mason city, IL
White cylinderwith no wings or tail flying west to east high altitude and high speed
July 14, 2020 · 10:16 PM · CYLINDER
Lords Valley, PA
NOTE: I have also submitted this to MUFON as case 110160 and I am NICAP's MADAR Node # 44 in Pike County , Pa. I am a NJ MUFON Field Investigator at my summer home in Lords Valley, Pa. in a rural community in the Pocono Mountains surrounded by forest called Hemlock Farms. Yesterday was a beautiful cloudless night in the Poconos with a gazillion stars. I took my kids out to look for comet NEOWISE but we were disappointed but just for a bit! Something spectacular happened. I love to stargaze and was on my porch in a pitch black forest watching the stars for 2 hours with my 8 y/o son David explaining the big dipper etc. At exactly 10:16 p.m. eastern time, we witnessed an object traverse the sky from southeast to northwest in no more than 8 seconds. It was an orange cylinder. No FAA standard lighting whatsoever. No comet or meteorite like trail behind it. At arms length it was the size of my pinky nail. It did not fly head to tail but rather sideways which I found bizarre as that is not aerodynamic. I used my closed fist to judge that it took 7 fists at 10 degrees of sky each to cross the heavens till I lost it behind my roof. 70 degrees of sky in 8 seconds give or take is FAST. I did not have my phone but it would have been gone by the time i readied the camera anyway. I ran to check the time (exactly 10:16 pm) and went to my computer to check flightradar24.com which uses UTC time which is tomorrow's date July 15 at 3:16 a.m. Attached is a screenshot of what I saw overlapping an otherwise silent flightradar24.com sky for the 15 minutes before and after the event. I am a very savvy MUFON Investigator and have never filed a MUFON report of my own but this thing was anomalous. Please see my attached screengrab with notations. Here is my dilemma. I also belong to NICAP's MADAR project which means I have a radar setup containing a very loud DAS alarm and a baramoter/magnetometer checking for magnetic or barometric changes. My NICAP MADAR node IS #44. DAS alarm has never gone off in months. In my humble opinion this thing should have triggered my DAS alarm. It did not. My son became frightened and ran in the house when he saw it. I don't know how to calculate the speed of an object crossing 70 degrees of sky in 8 seconds but it was really fast!!!! Does anyone know the formula? Please teach me it if you know! Additionally i get a lot of small Cessna type aircraft flying at between 2 and 4 thousand feet. Moments later such a craft passed by flying east to west. Judging by its size I estimate the orange sideways cigar was lower than 2000 feet and probably about 30 feet long but incredibly thin, perhaps only 2 feet wide from front to back. No noise. Speed blew the Cessna out of the water. Cessna took about 40 seconds to cross the same amount of sky. I have been a photo analyst for MUFON for about 3 years. I have looked at hundreds of videos of orbs, triangles, cigars, etc. While it was a common shaped cigar, it was glowing orange which is something I never saw before and it wasn't flying nose to tail but rather width-wise (imagine airplane wings without a fusalage.) This,for me rules out meteor however I have not had a chance to check the American Meteor Society fireball logs on their website yet. However it followed a straight path without variance and I feel it was a craft rather than an odd shaped orb. It was,however, the exact color typical of an orb, the kind which Pa. MUFON F.I. Terry Ray investigates!! Recent advances in plasma technology can engulf an aircraft and appear as a plasma in the sky. This is done because plasma absorbs a radar beam and nothing is returned to the ground station which is why I think this object did not show on flightradar24.com even though it is visible to the naked eye. The other reason it may not have shown was because it was below radar level under 2000 feet by my reckoning. Finally in the flightradar24.com screen grab you can see the only air traffic of note was far to the east - two planes depicted as yellow objects. NOTE: Flightradar24.com uses UTC time. which is 5 hours later than eastern u.s. time. therefore the bottom of the flightradar24 screen grab shows July 15, 3:16 a.m. rather than local time of July 14, 10:16 pm. My feeling is that it was a UAV, but please feel free to disagree or call me with any additional questions you may have! I have been wrong before. I am also submitting to NUFORC as sometimes they get sightings similar to mine that MUFON doesn't get and vice versa! Thank you!
July 13, 2020 · 2:00 PM · CYLINDER
Louisville, KY
I can't even explain it i am still in shock. It was two cylinder shapes chasing each other i thought i was just seeing thing but it got me up all night to see if i see it again. Is this real or I'm i just seeing thing. They where moving fast with no sound. Has anybody else seen this i am still in shock. This happened so fast ii was trying to record it an drop my phone. Has anybody seen this.
July 11, 2020 · 12:00 AM · CYLINDER
Loraine, OH
It just appeared dudley in the sky by the little dipper a just moved across the sky fast going white around it then a orbe moved in front of me over the trees whent to the other side of kansas street stoped in mid air then whent back in reverse the path it took and disappeared. And this is not my first time I se them often I also saw 3 orbs over lake erie during a fire works display when the fire works started all three moved at a blink of a eye from over the water toreds the fire works and start watching the fire works in a diamond formation so took pictures in my fone then I thought what if I shine a brake of light in the direction of themsoi put my phone on high beam light and pointed towards the 3 orbs and when I did one of them suddenly ,ziped over me at a blink of a eye one of the orbes was over me so I hit it with light a it flashed me back and just started to feel really scared so I jumped in my truck a left really fast.
July 7, 2020 · 12:00 AM · CYLINDER
Doral, FL
We want to report that we have evidence of what we consider can qualify as UFO captured by our doorbell video camera. This happened on July 7th, 2020. We have a video sequence of a flying object with extremely fast movements on almost the same point from midnight until about 6:00 a.m. the same day. In the video it is appreciated how the object seems to separate and then rejoin or what appears to be two objects that meet and disappear without following a pattern. After 6:11 am the object disappeared. We found out today because I told my wife that I saw a rare movement of an intense light in the parking lot (near the object) on the night of July 7th, 2020 and when reviewing the video she could see that on the other side of that light there was a strange movement of an object. That is the object that I have just described above. Everything is documented in the video without editing at all. Important Notice: I will send fragments of the video sequence where faces of some people who passed in front of our camera do not appear. By the way, those people did not seem to notice the flight of these objects.
July 6, 2020 · 12:15 PM · CYLINDER
Denver, CO
I am a taxi driver who makes multiple trips to Denver International Airport daily. I am very familiar, therefore, with what planes look like from various angles, altitudes,and speeds as they land and take off from the airport. On Monday, 07/06/20, at about 12:15pm I was driving a customer to the airport when I saw an object unlike anything I have ever seen before. It was traveling from south to north and the altitude seemed quite low. This was in Denver International Airport airspace and was at about the altitude a plane would have been in about 5-10 seconds after takeoff. However, this object was not landing or taking off from DIA, but flying at a steady altitude. The object was capsule shaped, like a medication capsule . It was bright, shiny silver in color with two darker vertical bands each spaced about 1/3 of the length. I could not discern any wings and I could not see a tail, like a plane would have. Simply the cylindrical shape of a capsule. I could not see any windows or markings. I would say the length was less than a 747, but was about 50% bigger in circumference. I lost sight of it as I drove closer to the airport simply because my car passed out of range of being able to see it through my windshield. of course, having a passenger, I could not stop or photograph it.
July 6, 2020 · 5:15 AM · CYLINDER
Fort Lauderdale, FL
I got out of my car at my worksite and looked at the moon and saw the object in the 4 o:clock position in orientation to the moon. There were no flashing lights of any kind, just white. It looked like a cylinder and it did not move from it's position. At first I thought it may be a helicopter covering an accident on the interstate but they make noise and move, and this object never moved. I took 3 pictures with my camera phone. I went back out after daybreak and the object was gone. I will email the photos to the site you have provided below.
July 4, 2020 · 10:00 PM · CYLINDER
Springboro, OH
Watched what appeared to be part of a firework spark but the object continued to run parallel across the night sky. It then began to move away. It almost looked like a candle in a bag type object but went from red to orange and the way it moved across the sky was too fast for it to be that.
July 2, 2020 · 8:45 PM · CYLINDER
Huntersville/North Charlotte, NC
I was in a hotel swimming pool doing aerobic exercises while looking up at multiple and impressive contrails in the sky. It was still light. The sky was blue with white puffy clouds. Then I saw what looked like a piece of a flag pole far up in the sky. I kept looking for how a flag pole could only be partially seen in the sky, where was the rest of it? At first, there were not clouds near it. It was silver. It reminded me of a silver beer can without any writing on it. It was upright and seemed to be still. Then a wisp of a puffy cloud obscured it. When the cloud cleared, it was gone. I am certain it was not a normal aircraft or drone. Before this, I had never seen anything before that I was certain qualified as a UFO. The oddest thing is that I stayed in this hotel two months later, and saw a different thing in the sky. I will be filing a September report.
June 25, 2020 · 7:00 AM · CYLINDER
Fox Lake, IL
It was shinny, but had black in the bottom. No wings. No clouds or anything else in the sky. I pulled over, got out of me car and it was gone.
June 8, 2020 · 12:20 PM · CYLINDER
Sunnappee, NH
At about noon time Monday afternoon my father and I spotted a long, narrow, cylindrical object floating away from us in the sky. It was very breezy outside but the object seemed to be moving at its own pace. The object had a slight arc in its shape but beyond that looked like a large metallic pool noodle and at one point seemed to reflect the sun back at us. It was far enough away that it was hard to tell just how big it was. The object was floating away from us over a lake, we were watching from just behind a group of trees on the shoreline. Once the object passed from our view ( beyond the trees) I ran to the water line and looked up for it, it was gone. There was no noise from the object. My father and I have no explanation it.
June 5, 2020 · 11:30 AM · CYLINDER
Mchenry, IL
A bright red object traveling like a plane going southwest. As I watched, a red spark rained downward from The object and the object kept going. Weirdest thing I have ever saw.
May 23, 2020 · 2:20 PM · CYLINDER
Friendswood, TX
I believe I have captured an image of what has been called a Tic Tac ufo. The craft looks like the one filmed by Navy pilots off the coast of California. I'm including a photograph IMG_0063.jpeg with this report for you review.
May 13, 2020 · 11:50 PM · CYLINDER
Pike rd, AL
As soon I as I started to get off of the exit I saw a huge cylinder object flash light lightning with bright blue light heading at down angle and as fast as it appeared it disappeared light a time warp. It was huge and traveled the speed of light. Only reason I’m reporting this because I felt obligated.
May 11, 2020 · 12:00 AM · CYLINDER
Ipswich · United Kingdom
I looked up into the sky observing the stars and all of a sudden I saw what I thought was a shooting star, but it wasn't as it came straight down towards the earth at such a high speed and it got to a certain point when is was probably 2-300 feet above the earth which I believe to be under the radar detection. It then went horizontal, there was no sound, it was about 50 miles away. It was like a very bright star light travelling. When it was 5-6 miles away from me, it stopped mid air, it went bright red for 2-3 seconds at the back almost like it was cooling off. From 2-3 metres from the red end it then starting glowing bright orange for 2-3 seconds and then shot off again horizontally. It came from the South and went north west.
May 9, 2020 · 3:10 PM · CYLINDER
Huia · New Zealand
I have been working on a documentary. I was out filming B-roll video doing aerials with my drone. Upon reviewing the footage I came across something moving from the top of a mountain area moving quickly in a straight line all the way down to sea level. I have this on video. Did not see at the time though I was focused on flying mostly.
May 3, 2020 · 11:37 PM · CYLINDER
Jurupa Valley, CA
The objects flew silently and were descending from the night sky onto the local hills in an irregular pattern. They all had an steady orange glow which disappears as they appeared to make landfall. The leading objects would disappear farther ahead of the trailing objects. They flew along the contours of the rugged hills. Distance from both witnesses about one mile . These did not have blinking white, red, green flashing lights as seen on normal appearing aircraft.
May 3, 2020 · 11:30 PM · CYLINDER
Vancouver, WA
Im assuming they were large drones. You could hear the closest one. They would fly so far then circle back around. It kept doing that as it kept moving forward...like they were monitoring or mapping. The other next closest one was doing the same. They all had the same lights on them as you would expect on a small aircraft. You could see the others in the distance spread out from each other. One response to my daughters post said they were star link satellites, but these were not those. These were much lower and you could hear the whirring sound of the propellers from the one that was closest. Tried to find out any info or postings on it...but nothing. Just curious who’s drones they are and what the purpose was deploying them at that time of night. Not sure when they started. I just noticed them when I went outside around 11:15/11:30 last night.