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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
July 13, 2019 · 11:20 PM · LIGHT
St. Louis, MO
I was looking up into the sky and seen a white light travel straight for around 10 sec and and disappear
July 13, 2019 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Newbury, MA
Sitting on the beach facing the ocean, slightly to my left I witnessed a bright white vertical, yet angled flash of light, I alerted my boyfriend and our two friends who also saw a second flash lower then the third flash was horizontal and followed by two more horizontal flashes and then slanted back upwards vertically two more times and then vanished.
July 13, 2019 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Spokane, WA
Scanning the night sky I caught a moving object above the NE horizon that appeared to be a satellite moving at typical speed. Once I focused on the object I saw a second similar object trailing relatively close behind moving at identical speed. I followed their trail for a few moments then suddenly the lead "satellite" took an acute right angle maneuver with a speed of that of a shooting star and disappeared. The trailing "satellite" a second or two later performed the same maneuver. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 13, 2019 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Arlington, VT
On Sat evening July 13 2019 my husband and I were at our home sitting in chairs in front of the house facing East at 8:45pm. We could see the moon to the East South East, and it was big but not yet full. It was bright. The sky was dark blue. There were no stars visable yet ,due to the still illuminated sky. At 8:57 I stared at the moon again, this time to see a bright star to the Right of it ( as seen in the video). It was so bright I thought it was a planet. Not knowing my stars, I just wondered. As I spent a minute looking…it started to travel to the Right (south) about the same distance it was from the moon. It only took 5 seconds to cover that distance. Then it dead stopped. It really caught my eye. My husband was now watching it. Then it moved Left , back to the original position. ( Video was taken after the movement) We decided to move inside the house at that point. At 10:25 pm we thought we could find some other stars to look at. We grabbed a white painters cloth and laid it in the backyard , I brought my strong flashlight with me. The sky was black with many stars . Within 1 minute, we again saw a bright star (among many that were visible that night) We were facing the West on a slight incline in the yard. Our heads were higher than our feet on this slope. We were facing Ball Mountain. Within a minute , we found a bright star traveling from right to left.(north to south) Then it stopped. At this point I teased my husband and said,” hey lets call it over, maybe it can see us.” I waved the flashlight up and down and left and right about 5 times, immediately this star started moving in our direction (now it headed East). It traveled quickly and directly towards our part of the sky. When it got close , it stopped. We were really frightened. I was sorry I flashed the light at it. We picked up the cloth and ran into the house. We did not go back outside. We did not speak about it. We do not know what we saw. We don’t want to know. – I do not think satellites change course like that. I don’t know if spy drones fly at night. I am unable to research this to my satisfaction. These flying stars were the brightness and size of a night time star. ( no trails, no other colors) If anyone can explain, we would be grateful.
July 13, 2019 · 1:00 AM · LIGHT
Centreville, VA
Observed a still light in the sky, larger than a star but not as bright it appeared closer below cloud level, and then it quickly moved and dissapeared. No trail like a shooting star would have
July 12, 2019 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Putnam, CT
My daughter and I were looking at URSA major and URSA minor. The moon was behind some trees to the left. We saw an airplane pass. Then I saw a tiny dot moving through the sky, then my daughter saw it. I have the starwalk app and it did not detect the moving object as a satellite. The object moves behind a house where we can no longer see it. Then we see a second one, similar in every way.
July 12, 2019 · 10:40 PM · LIGHT
Mckeesport, PA
I was sitting in bed at about 10:30-10:40pm. I looked over at my husband to continue our conversation when I noticed a red blinking light out the window. It was slowly moving upward. After reaching a certain altitude it stopped blinking and stayed still for about 30 seconds then it started to move and blink again as it went slowly across the sky vertically West to South. It started to get smaller then just disappeared as I was looking right at it. As the red light disappeared I noticed a second red blinking light come out of nowhere as if it just turned itself on near the original point of the first light. I went upstairs to my daughters room to show her what I was seeing. It did the same exact thing as the first, slowly moving upward, stopping for about 30 seconds, resuming its movement laterally and blinking then as I was watching it started getting smaller and disappeared. This second light was moving in the opposite direction of the first light, it started in the West but then moved North. I did record video of the second light from my daughters window. I was telling her about the first light I seen as we were watching and recording. The video is approximately 3 minutes long until light goes out. In the video the light appears white however to the eye it was red. I have been living in my house for almost 10 years and never seen anything like this. It didn't move like any aircraft I see normally. I've never noticed an aircraft that moved that slowly or its lights getting smaller then disappearing. I tried checking flights in my area at the time, but couldn't find a site that I could get the information.
July 12, 2019 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Boiling Springs, SC
In about 3 minutes, they flew upward and off together in formation into the distance (northeast toward Chesnee, SC) and out of sight. We heard no sound. I couldn't see if it was 1 object with 3 lights or 3 separate objects.
July 12, 2019 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Evansburg (Canada), AB · Canada
Witnessed a very bright light moving through the stars at a great rate of speed. Did not appear to be an aircraft. No flashing lights. Was not in the sky but appeared to be in space.
July 12, 2019 · 2:00 AM · LIGHT
Bozeman, MT
Went out to have a cigarette on an overcast evening. A bright light appeared behind the clouds moving east to west. Over the horizon it appear just above the tree tops and was not heading in any downward direction but straight across the sky. It was moving very fast - faster than an airplane for sure. It seemed like low altitude flight by a fighter jet speed but there was absolutely no sound. It appeared, zipped across the sky and then disappeared. Certainly not a conventional aircraft. I don't believe it was a comet or shooting star etc., I've seen many of those. It made the hair on my arms stand and I got goosebumps. It left me wondering what I had just seen. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 11, 2019 · 10:12 PM · LIGHT
Crystal, MN
I was working my pizza delivery gig sitting out back waiting for a delivery, looking up at the sky. All of a sudden I saw a small, distant light that looked and moved just like a satellite, traveling North Westernly over Minneapolis. Nothing strange there. Suddenly there was a flash of light around the satellite-thing and it stopped moving right where the flash happened. It stopped very near to a bright star - or maybe a planet - in the sky. If I held my hand out at arm's length the distance was probably the width of my thumb from the star/planet to the satellite that just... uh... parked. A strange pale blue ambient light appeared around the star, then flickered and moved toward the satellite. This is by far the strangest part of this experience. It almost looked like light warped by gravity around a black hole or something, like a teardrop shape, and the tip of that shape was going toward the satellite/UFO, almost like it was sucking energy out of the star. After probably 10 seconds there was another flash of light around the craft/satellite light, and it began moving again from right where it was, and continued it's trek in the same direction. I quickly lost sight of it, but think it may have changed directions. I was just so floored by two aspects: - the weird sucking light and flashes - the fact that it stopped and then started moving again from the same position in the sky.
July 11, 2019 · 8:25 PM · LIGHT
Lakeland- Nashville line, GA
As I was walking my dogs, I watched a Commercial airplane cross the sky. I noticed its Chem trail had 2 blank spots/spurts in it. I thought to myself "I hope they are not having engine trouble". Suddenly, a ball of light materialized from way below the plane. It began like a flare and became a complete ball of light. It then moved up across the right side of the aircraft, stopped, then the shape changed to an oblong shape and went straight up into the sky. I believe the light helped the plane because the chem trail was now coming out normal.
July 11, 2019 · 7:30 PM · LIGHT
Pleasanton, CA
Object seen high in the sky above air traffic. NE of Pleasanton California. The object was shiny in the sun moved side to side then stopped. The object then looked like it was moving toward us in a western direction the disappeared. During the observance it disappeared for about 10 seconds then reappeared. Couldn't see the shape, but was very bright. Color was silver with sun reflection. I watch satellites at night and was larger. Asked my wife to come out to see if she could figure out what it was. We watched it for around 3 minutes then disappeared.
July 11, 2019 · 12:00 PM · LIGHT
Madison, OH
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 11, 2019 · 2:50 AM · LIGHT
Franklin-Alvadore, OR
Walking outside my home towards the South this morning at 2:50 AM (11 July 2019,) I observed a bright "white" light (same appearance as a close planet) almost overhead but slightly towards the Southern Sky. Unknown to any movement it only appeared as a star or a close planet. Usually Saturn or Jupiter is in the lower southern sky (object was about that same size and brightness), but it was late enough that they had moved west behind some trees. I wasn't familiar with such a bright light at that angle so as I got down on flat ground and stopped and observed.. the light was now gone. I noticed some haze in the atmosphere, I'm sure that whatever it was I saw.. it was not being covered by clouds. It was much more "Dim" and moving directly South. 5-10 seconds then I lost sight of it. At that point, the object appeared to be just a satellite. Same basic speed, same basic size and brightness in the night sky. It wasn't moving fast enough to leave the horizon but it still disappeared.
July 10, 2019 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Monterey Park, CA
(( Sighting of ISS?? PD)
July 9, 2019 · 10:19 PM · LIGHT
New Britain, CT
Showed my girlfriend we have no clue what it is but it's still up there.
July 9, 2019 · 9:50 PM · LIGHT
Rockland, ME
I live in Rockland Maine. I have been seeing lights above my house at night. A lot of the time I think it could be a star. BUT they seem to have 3 lights not one and will move around..up and down. Over and back. Sometimes moving across sky fast and other times seem to disappear. I have only lived in this house in Rockland for less then a year. Since the beginning of the summer this has happened quite a few times. Tonight I saw 2 Bigger ones then I have in the past couple months. They had 3 Rows of lights..red n yellow or white.. Directly above me and it seemed to drop down and move til gone....the second larger one with 3 rows of lights followed almost Exact SAME PATH. One right after the other. Then behind that 2 more smaller lights. I did not see where in the sky it started from but there was a strange trail of lights near the moon...heading close to where it looked to be coming from. My boyfriend was outside with me. He has also seen these other lights on occasion and these tonight. We have an 8 year old daughter. Have been together for 15 years. We are both in our mid 30s. I have never noticed anything like these lights before. and as people have harsh opinions and are very skeptical I have not yet reported these. Been doing a little research, as well. I, however, continue to see them....and tonight the 2 were larger then before. Or closer. After the second larger one was no longer over head but had dropped down to be closer to the tree line yet further away I saw flashing lights back towards the moon n another right behind that. Maybe they are planes. I don't think so though. Maybe the second set was... I honestly don't know and am going to continue to watch.
July 9, 2019 · 3:47 AM · LIGHT
Louisa, VA
Sitting in my car, noticed a bright blue flash. Lit up the entire sky, was seen by multiple deputies across the county. No recent transformer malfunctions reported.
July 9, 2019 · 2:45 AM · LIGHT
Great Falls, MT
Our dog became very excited and seemed desperate to go outside so we decided to take him out. He was pulling the leash and seemed to be trying to track something down with intensity. We went around a corner, and a huge bright light became visible in the sky. Once we were paying attention to it he seemed to calm down. This light was far bigger than any star in the sky, and moved smoothly and seemed to meander around as it moved towards the direction of Belt, the movement reminded me more of a life form than an aircraft. It was so bright it was difficult to distinguish a shape, but it may have been diamond shaped or triangular. It eventually disappeared behind some trees and we were unable to find it again as we walked around. We also noticed a few other lights moving in a similar fashion, but they were much further up and were much smaller from our observation point. There were also 2 shooting stars while we observed. We are located very close to Malmstrom AFB. I watched one of the smaller ones from our back yard for another 2 minutes after we returned, and it eventually just disappeared. The entire experience was maybe as long as 30 minutes over all but we only saw the very bright light for around 3-5 minutes.
July 8, 2019 · 10:24 PM · LIGHT
Huntsville, AL
In the sky over Huntsville or Redstone Arsenal, I noticed 2 bright yellowish lights and one blinking red light and did not hear any airplane or helicopter noise. The yellowish lights appeared to be moving slowly, very close but in different directions. After about 30 seconds they disappeared (not simultaneously, but separately). It might have been some kind of a firework trail the way they faded from view, but it took a full 30 seconds for them to disappear and neither light moved downward. After they were gone, I watched the blinking red light move toward the southwest over Redstone Arsenal toward the Huntsville Airport for an additional 30 seconds until it was obstructed from my view by a large tree. I continued watching for 10 minutes but never saw the bright yellowish lights or the red blinking light again. If I were to guess, I would suspect either some satellite-related event or two helicopters that turned on and off their lights too far away for me to hear them. I suspect the red blinking light was a satellight
July 8, 2019 · 9:43 PM · LIGHT
Fairburn, GA
I was sitting outside on my porch, stargazing as usual. I noticed a flying craft flying pretty low yet it didn’t make any noise. Nor did it have the blinking colored lights like an airplane. The craft flew in circles around the area for at least 30 minutes appearing in sight every 5 minutes.
July 8, 2019 · 12:00 PM · LIGHT
Kiln, MS
Swimming in pool and my son looked up to see a clear white object with white lights. He told me and I then looked and saw the same object. A few seconds later and it disappeared.
July 7, 2019 · 12:35 AM · LIGHT
New Castle, IN
My family was enjoying a night of sitting outside and watching a small fireworks show we’d planned. Our attention was on the nearly direct west-side of the night sky. About twenty minutes into our firework-watching, we noticed what looked like very distant, bronze-toned lights which were flying in perfect unison—making what looked like an enlongated triangle formation. There were four lights, total. One light made the point of the enlongated triangle, then two more lights, perfectly spaced, which made the bottom of the “triangle” formation. There was, at a distance behind the formation, one more bronze-ish toned light. This light was exactly like the other three, but appeared to fly at its own pace, and was not part of the formation. The “triangle” and independent light were headed southbound and seemed to be traveling at a slow rate, almost at times appearing at a stand still. The triangle formation stayed that shape for about five minutes. The light that h! ad been trailing behind independently suddenly “dashed” off at such a fast rate that the only way to describe it is to compare it with a shooting star. But between six sober, adult eye witnesses, it can be said, without a doubt, that the bronze-colored light that zoomed off was not a shooting star. It was definitely a light on some sort of flying craft that had “shot off” in the opposite direction it had been traveling, and then completely disappeared from sight. The other three lights disappeared from sight as well only seconds afterwards, but unlike the independent light that had been trailing, these just “went out” and nothing more of them was seen. These lights were not bright white like search helicopter lights, and they were not white, nor blinking, like those seen at night on commercial aircraft. These lights were small, bronze, round in shape, and stayed constantly on until their sudden disappearance from the night sky. The night sky was clear, with no cloud coverage at the time.