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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.
13,832 entries
January 31, 2016 · 8:30 PM · CIRCLE
Big Lake, AK
I was standing out side facing to the west.to my north I seen a bright circle type object traveling from north to south. I yelled inside to my wife and she came running outside. It was traveling at a high rate of speed with no sound. We both said out loud that there was a rotating sphere on the top. In a matter of seconds it had traveled a great distance and was gone.
January 31, 2016 · 8:00 PM · CIRCLE
Ten mile, TN
Possible meteor?? PD
January 29, 2016 · 8:00 PM · CIRCLE
Antioch, TN
Thought maybe drones? Whatever it was, it was sure bizarre
January 29, 2016 · 2:24 PM · CIRCLE
New Orleans, LA
I was taking photos of the clear blue sky from a chair on my porch. I noticed a round object in the photos that appeared to have changed location in subsequent photos. The object then went far in to the distance of the last photo and faded away. When I zoom in to the photos the object appears to have a distinct shape and lines on it.
January 28, 2016 · 11:35 PM · CIRCLE
Littleton, CO
I was taking my dogs to go to the bathroom one last time before bed, and something glowing and giant flew across the sky. It was far to fast to be man made and far to big to be a shooting star. It was big enough and close enough that if it were a falling star, we would have felt the earth shake from it. Plus, it didn’t carry the same kind of light tail that a natural object entering our atmosphere would have. It was glowing. Artificial light glowing.
January 28, 2016 · 9:30 PM · CIRCLE
Tempe/Phoenix, AZ
Live in Tempe, looking toward S. Phoenix, 4 very bright lights in a line (bottom to top), not moving. Planes in distance passed by. I have photos. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. Witness does not send photos, and we have no way to contact him/her. PD
January 28, 2016 · 7:00 PM · CIRCLE
Portland, OR
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
January 27, 2016 · 7:30 PM · CIRCLE
Keaau, HI
At first I thought it was just a plane. Noticed after a few seconds there were no blinking lights to indicate a plane. Just a bright white light. Moving horizontal across the sky. After a minute of watching it, I asked 2 people who were outside doing something to check this thing out and to confirm that it is not a plane. As all three of us were looking at it for almost 2 minutes it started to turn a bright red. Then it started to dull in color. Then just simply disappeared. This light was too low for a plane and to high for a helicopter, and no sound. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
January 27, 2016 · 5:33 PM · CIRCLE
Florence, CO
There were military helicopters flying around the mountains to the north that day. I went outside to see if I could spot their lights and to the right I noticed what looked like a very bright yellow/orange ball of light sitting 20' above the ground approximately 2 houses east of me. I was trying to figure out what it was, as it was not moving. Then after about 5 seconds it looked like it was starting to melt and just disappeared like someone flipped a light switch. No fire dripped off it. We don't have street lights and it was very dark out, so I couldn't see anything of a craft outline. No idea if it was a drone? The light was about the size of a beach ball. Very strange. But not my first experience with strange things.
January 26, 2016 · 10:10 PM · CIRCLE
Rohnert Park, CA
First seen from far away flashing. Moving too slow to be a plane as it got closer it had two flashing lights. Then we saw it was pretty close to ground and us. Just above the trees. Blinking slowed down as it passed us and when on up right over a line of trees. Could tell that it seemed to have two oblong round pieces in a cigar form. Back part was made of something reflective, thats how we could see the roundness of it.
January 24, 2016 · 4:30 AM · CIRCLE
Reno, NV
Sighting event: At approximately 04:30AM PST I went outside to retrieve the morning newspaper. After exiting my house I noticed a brilliant full moon with some visible stars and scattered clouds in the sky. The newspaper had not been delivered yet and then I noticed a bright light that appeared to be bobbling and weaving around. The light had a red light at the rear or on the top of it. I returned to the house and recovered my 7 x 35 binoculars and went outside again to view the object more. It continued to bobble to and fro, up/down, and around. It stayed within approximately a quarter mile radius. While watching the object I observed a dim orange light approach the brighter white light which did not blink or flash. The orange lights came different directions to the white light, circled around it and then sped rapidly away in many directions. This occurred during my observation of all objects until I quit watching approximately 05:45 PST. My spouse a! lso observed the objects. Location of objects: The bright non-pulsing white light with the red light on the top or rear was located approximately 240 degrees in the Southwest direction from my property. It appeared to be 15-20 degrees above the Sierra Nevada mountains (Carson Range) above Lake Tahoe. I estimate the objects to be 10 to 15 miles distance from my property during the sighting.
January 23, 2016 · 9:20 PM · CIRCLE
Long Beach, CA
My condo is right on the beach. From my window I can see out in to the ocean and the brightly lit loading docs just east of the Queen Mary. Last night, approx 9:20pm PST, I was watching TV and noticed a bright orange circle from my window, moving towards me just above those loading docs. I looked closely to see if there were any flashing red or white safety lights (like normal man-made airplane) but it was just a solid orange light with somewhat of a fog around it.. (note the night sky was crystal clear a few minutes earlier).. and it was approaching me fast! I grabbed my phone and BOLTED downstairs to the end of street (which sits right on the sand) to get a video. By the time I got there, what was once just hundreds of feet away was now thousands of feet up and same altitude as other airplanes (which you could differentiate by the flashing white and red safety lights). The bright orange light continued to to move southeast and vertical *extremely* fast towards the stars until it shifted direction, dropped down super fast then faded away. I captured the whole incident on video.. It's very obvious no man made craft can move that fast. Video submitted to ufocntr@nwlink.com. You can also see it here: https://youtu.be/9754jYFGsEE (hopefully link doesn't get removed)
January 21, 2016 · 10:00 PM · CIRCLE
Clayton, CA
Approx 10:00pm in Concord, CA, my daughter and I were arriving home and facing north, when I noticed two circle objects that were a reddish orange. They were different enough that I stopped the car and pointed them out to my daughter as possibly planets. She loves hearing about the stuff that goes on up there and at 5 loves the telescope. There were two when I first saw them and initially thought they were planets. With so many planets in sight soon, it was my initial thought because they weren't stars, shooting stars or airplanes. Clearly. Then as I looked closer, I noticed they were the same exact shape and looked to be the same distance from myself, so being planets seemed impossible and the size was a little too large for a planet. One was a bit higher than the other one but directly on top of it. It was an odd site at first. They were bigger than an airplane and it never blinked green or any other color. They both looked to burning brightly the more I looked at them, and luckily, there were planes in the sky that were somewhat nearby and those gave a quick way to compare and notice the obvious difference between the two. I then quickly parked my truck and took my daughter to walk back to where we could see them. When we got back over there, it was maybe 1-2 minutes later, the highest one was gone and the lower one looked to be a little closer but pretty similar to its last position. When looking at it, I felt like it was moving although its position in the sky wasn't really changing much. It's hard to explain. As I watched for another couple minutes, telling my daughter to watch it and pay attention, it didn't seem to brighten or dull much other than the thin, low flying clouds coming in between us at times, but never lost visiblility of it. It sat there as bright as it had been and then quickly vanished. I couldn't explain it and thought, maybe clouds, but quickly saw another airplane fly in the same direction and it affirmed to me that it wasn't clouds and the quickness in which it disappeared affirmed to me that it wasn't the clouds that made it disappear from site. It wasn't an obstructed view, it disappeared from the sky. Like it just turned off. Although it wasn't doing much, it didn't seem like anything I'd ever seen. The bright glow compared to an airplane and the way it moved or even the way it didn't move was just odd and I'm a sky watcher so this is coming from someone who watches a lot and this was the first time I believed I'd seen something out of my realm of understanding.
January 20, 2016 · 8:00 PM · CIRCLE
Barre Town, VT
Lasted 5-10 sec; 2 times over a period of 20 minutes.
January 20, 2016 · 7:00 PM · CIRCLE
Washington, VT
I was driving home on a quiet, curvy road that had some tree cover. A bright, orange circle up in the sky caught my attention. It faded away quickly, then as I kept going I saw maybe 4 more orange circles like it, all in a horizontal line, each one faded out in progression, maybe I saw each for 1-2 seconds. Very strange never seen anything like it. When I got home I told my boyfriend, he said that he heard a loud noise, like a jet engine at the same time. I am a 33 year old woman. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
January 19, 2016 · 10:30 AM · CIRCLE
Clio, MI
We kept looking at it for another 15 mins and it just kept hovering and barley moving and then all of a sudden disappeared. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
January 18, 2016 · 4:00 PM · CIRCLE
Hillsboro, ND
We spoke via telephone with the witness, and he seemed to us to be quite serious-minded. Please see other similar reports from Alberta, Canada, for the same date. PD
January 16, 2016 · 11:30 PM · CIRCLE
Trou-Aux Biches (Mauritius), Mauritius
3 stars, one of the star made a perfect circular round touching the other stars, forming a white perfect circle ring, and moved up, and disappeared. All within 3-5 minutes, South Pole Side.
January 16, 2016 · 7:30 PM · CIRCLE
Sacramento, CA
Stepped outside at about 7:30 pm and saw what looked like a low flying airplane with red flames shooting out of the top with the bottom half glowing a yellowish white. There was no sound at all. The object was flying across the sky at a good clip heading east/north east. We kept watching it then it suddenly disappeared. We've never seen anything like it.
January 16, 2016 · 6:30 PM · CIRCLE
Denvile, NJ
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
January 16, 2016 · 5:54 PM · CIRCLE
Deerfield Beach, FL
I was by the pool relaxing and had my eyes closed for a few minutes, but I felt the need to open my eyes and look to my top left to the sky. At first I thought I had some dots in my contacts or something affecting my vision from having my eyes closed earlier. But as I blinked it didn't go away. First thought was like are those balloons? And at first the 2 objects were not that far from me so that's why I thought the balloons are raising into the air. But then I knew there were not balloons as they had the same distance from each other and going in the same direction. beautifully parrellel. There was no specific sound, calmness really. The 2 objects kept moving NE but higher to the sky from the initial point I saw them. As soon as I realized this may be something, I started to taking a video and picture with my phone. However, my video stopped recording after some seconds so I tried another video and it only did a few seconds so I just kept trying to take pic! ture and zoom it as much possible to get a better view. It latest a few minutes. I actually called my mom to tell her and she said she was close so I was telling her I will go to her to show her and my dad. However, our connection failed. So I recalled and said I am coming but as soon as I said that I saw the 2 objects slightly move to the left and disappeared instantly. I wanted to share my experience with others because I am certain this was a unique UFO experience.
January 15, 2016 · 11:00 PM · CIRCLE
Warren, IL
I thought I was looking at a bright star low on the eastern sky. I got my binoculars out and looked at it. I saw green light on outside edge of circle, reminds me of August birthstone color, there was a < in white lights protruding in from the right side about 1/4 into the circle. It didn't move. I watched for about five minutes then went to bed. My husband said it was probably a satellite, my boss told me he didn't think so. I have no clue as to what I saw. It was far away in the sky. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
January 15, 2016 · 8:30 PM · CIRCLE
Austin, TX
My friend and I were sitting on a rather higher spot in our neighborhood to gaze at the stars and just hang out. After about a half hour of us talking about random stuff, I noticed a bright orange star looking thing at around 5,000 feet altitude.. But much bigger than a star. When I first saw it I knew it couldn’t be a plane or a shooting star, it was too big and too bright to be either of those. I pointed it out to my friend with a little alarming tone, and he shook it off as a plane. I tried to explain to him that it just couldn’t be a plane and he began to believe me after the object moved about 6,000 feet and vanished. Now we we’re both at an alarming state. We stared at the sky after that non stop and in a few minutes. It re-appeared in its original location and did the exact same thing. Moved a bit more this time and soon vanished again. Now we knew we weren’t imagining stuff. 1 minute later, I spotted a huge bright white circle at about 2,000 feet altitude zooming past at immense speed. It immediately grabbed my attention and I showed my friend. We watched it fly across the sky until it dropped past the horizon. This thing was giant! It’s not possible this was a balloon or any other man made substance...it just doesn't make sense. Meteors aren't that big and neither are comets. And I'm sure at that low altitude it would be on fire. But not a perfect circle. We have no explanation for either of these strange incidents but one more thing happened, soon before the white circle went out of sight a white firework light up at the opposite side of the circle without any sound which was kind of coincidental but I’m not sure that was anything of significance. I know the circle didn't make the firework because it wasn't in the same location. It just wouldn't have made sense.
January 14, 2016 · 6:30 AM · CIRCLE
Santa Clarita, CA
UFO Sighted in Southern California (Santa Clarita) On the early morning of Thursday, January 14th 2016 around the time of 0630 I was unwinding watching TV on the couch; I just finished working my usual night shift. Now to quickly paint a picture; our house sits high up on the side of a small mountain; the back of our house faces east (facing the Los Angeles National Forest Mountain Line). While watching TV I noticed a large object hovering still over the top of one of the mounts in the LA National Forest, the morning sky was just starting to light up with the sun rising in the east behind the object, but the sun hadn’t peaked over the mountain just yet. The object caught my attention since it was the only object in the sky; at first I thought this was only a cloud, however there wasn’t any other clouds in the sky. I took a couple photos and then sat back down on the couch continuing watching TV but still keeping an eye out the window when all of a sudden 5 or 10 minutes later the image moved a bit and had looked like it broke up showing other objects hovering below and to the sides of the larger object; that’s when I confirmed to myself its only a cloud since it had broke up a bit.. But then what happened next is when I realized it’s a UFO.., the object came together as one again and started to leave; it moved east away from where I was. After the UFO left I noticed the morning sky filled with more then a dozen fighter jets. About 1 hour later around 0730 the object repapered; the UFO was cloaked and appeared as a large cloud; next there were 2 fighter jets which flew over our house and headed east toward the UFO.. as the jets approached, the UFO started to leave and head east away from the incoming jets pursuing it; in the distance I noticed what looked like the first jet to plummet down (as if the jet was shoot down or it pursued a drone or something). The scale of how large the UFO was enormous, in the pictures you can tell that the size of the jets in comparison were tiny, this UFO dwarfed our jets, this was their mother ship as it's referred to or a floating city. One hour later the object reappeared and headed west toward our house and then north and dropped down behind the mountain ridge. In the distance you could see jets flying all around in that direction. Further I saw another plan flying overhead, this was a radar plan, the plan with the large circle dome on the top of it. There was a lot of activity over the Los Angeles National forest this morning; I called the news station and the LA National Ranger Station, but no one followed back up with me. The object in the photo seems to us to be a cloud. PD