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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.
2,257 entries
August 17, 2023 · 10:02 PM · FLASH
Hedgesville, WV
Was at river. Saw a stationary flash start moving ironically. Then it reversed directions, and remained stationary for a few minututes. Before a plane with bright lights came towards it and the object went behind the cloud. Cloud cleared the object was gone.
August 12, 2023 · 11:25 PM · FLASH
Beavercreek, OR
We were watching the sky for the Persied meteor shower. Clear sky, no clouds or moon out. We just saw a shooting star and pointed it out to each other. As we were pointing, just to the left of where we were looking we suddenly saw a green flash. For reference, It happened to the left of the Big Dipper. It was circular and small from our perspective, but the size of the bigger stars in the sky. It was like a camera flash. Very quick. There was a pause, then it happened again about 4 seconds later and that was it. No craft, no plane, not a comet, just a small green camera flash in outer space.
August 5, 2023 · 3:46 PM · FLASH
Studio City, CA
While sitting in my backyard I observed these reflective objects flickering in the sky. Checked for drones and there were none. My partner saw what I did and witnessed it all.
July 22, 2023 · 11:40 PM · FLASH
Mead/Johnstown, CO
Traveling south bound on CR 13 near intersection of CR 36 in Weld County. My wife was driving and I was front seat passenger. Our adult daughter was in backseat with toddler granddaughter. We noticed an extremely bright light directly parallel to us to the east. It was around 1/2 mile away and approximately 500-1000’ ft above ground. The lights had a strobe type effect because of the brightness and were traveling northbound around 1/4 mile per second. There were a total of 4 lights/clicks. Anyone up around 11:30-11:40PM on Saturday night would not have missed this. Have not ever experienced anything like this and we all three looked at each other wondering what we just witnessed.
July 22, 2023 · 9:45 PM · FLASH
Summit, NY
Large sustained flash of light over us phased out after nearly 10 seconds and reduced to a pinpoint of light. After some moments we noticed several points of light moving toward where the original light flare had occurred.
July 22, 2023 · 12:45 AM · FLASH
Mandeville, LA
I am always outside looking for meteors. About 5 minutes into looking for one, I saw a white flash in the sky looking east, southeast about 20° to 25° up. One white light blinking on the left side of the star in the picture attached then next blink, it was below the star, then next blink, it was on the left side of the star, next blink it was below the star but on the left side. It was like the blinking light was moving around the star as if it was moving in a six square box with the star in the center After a minute or two, looking at this blinking light moving around, I ran inside to get my phone camera and it was gone.
July 21, 2023 · 10:00 PM · FLASH
Ocala, FL
This is the 4th time in about a year we have seen a bright Green light shooting vertically across the sky and then disappearing almost similar to a shooting star but looks closer to earth. Once it shot directly in front of our windshield while driving. It’s in the same vicinity every time. Maybe a fireball but how would we see it 4 times in a year or less. Just seems odd.
July 11, 2023 · 12:19 PM · FLASH
Fairview, NC
Whole Western portion of sky flashed green, then appeared normal. Quickly flashed red and pink, back to normal and then blue to red. No sound. Flashes of light and dark have occasionally been happening in same direction since, still ongoing as of time reported. No obvious shape. No origin point detectable. We took video but it remained dark, could not be picked up as it appeared almost as colored clouds.
July 7, 2023 · 12:36 PM · FLASH
Proctor, VT
At approximately 0330 in the morning, I saw an orange light through the blinds in the kitchen looking out into the driveway (at the north corner of the house), at first only a single point of focused light resembling a glowing eye. As soon as I focused on it, the lights in the house flickered and it expanded and faded to an orange glow similar to candlelight, remaining steady for the next 30 seconds or so before disappearing all at once. Immediately before it disappeared, I spoke aloud, saying, "Leave us alone, you're not welcome here." This incident occurred while I was attempting to find information relating to several previous unsettling experiences I have had with entities; I will note that I have never seen something I would consider a UFO before this, only entities (which I have not reported because I worried I might be labelled as a schizophrenic), but I have felt as though I was being watched for almost my entire life, often by an invisible observer which I was absolutely certain was above me despite having no evidence. This morning, I found a single footprint on the hill which was indistinct but clearly left by something with claws; I would think it was left by a bear if not for the complete absence of any other tracks and the orange glow I saw in the night. My dog was very interested in the footprint and followed a scent trail up the hill that abruptly ended out in the open. I would not have reported this except for a second sighting of either the same (or a similar) object a few minutes ago, which I saw out of the corner of my eye in the upper left of my peripheral vision, superimposed in the west corner of the living room (which is in the south corner of the first floor of the house). This object appeared to be an orange circle/orb surrounded by a clearly delineated black ring which was itself surrounded by a ring of orange light. When the flash occurred, my computer screen and the television screen both briefly froze. My dog also saw the object and has been staring nervously at the area where it appeared since; she has also cautiously approached that corner, where there is a door to the front porch, looking up at the ceiling, barking and growling. My mother walked into the room a moment after the flash and doesn't believe me despite the dog's behaviour. This coincides with numerous strange occurrences throughout the area, which began about two weeks ago and have been increasing in frequency and strangeness. The incidents started with people feeling watched and seeing large black dogs, then progressed through tapping on windows and scratching at doors, to a lingering smell of sulphur, urine and honey. There have also been several black bear attacks in the area recently, which is highly abnormal, and some people have told me they had seen an abnormally large black bear, about 4 feet tall at the shoulder, who appeared to be stalking them. Most people are acting like nothing is out of the ordinary, but it seems to me that everyone is a little bit more nervous than usual. As an additional detail, I should note than I am colorblind, having blue cone monochromacy, so although I describe the object's colour as "orange," that is merely how it appeared to me (any wavelength greater than about 500 nm looks either orange or grey to me).
June 21, 2023 · 12:15 AM · FLASH
Palm Springs, CA
It was a stationary orb that turned into a bright 2-3 second flash followed by a electro mechanical like sound the sound lasted for about 2 1/2 seconds. I had a full view of the sky and it lit up a decent size portion of the sky. Part of the mountains lit up from the flash too. All of us (11 or 12 witnesses) were like what the hell was that and began looking online for a explanation. It happened so fast none of us had our phones out to record it. That sound is something i cannot get out of my head now, I've never heard anything like it in my life. We started to here a couple helicopters 3 to be exact shortly after the event.
June 18, 2023 · 10:58 PM · FLASH
Westerly, RI
Flashing light, disk shape fly by
June 16, 2023 · 10:35 PM · FLASH
Hawthorne, CA
Bright blue illuminating light that shot up and stayed in the air for a bit. The whole sky light up in a blue illuminating light that could be seen through the clouds. The sky stayed lingering with that color after the bright initial flash/orb left. The color of the sky then subsided and turned normal.
June 7, 2023 · 9:35 PM · FLASH
Princeton, WV
We were sitting outside when a light in the sky flashed brightly, then dimmed and moved quickly across the sky. It flashed again and then vanished.
May 24, 2023 · 5:25 PM · FLASH
Wesley Chapel, FL
I was sitting at a gas station, eating and looking south on I-75 South, and I saw a pulsating white light in the distance, moving in a horizontal direction from east to west. After that, two minutes later, another light came, moving at a steady pace. Two minutes later, the same lights came back from the west and started heading east. Estimated altitude was about 16,000 feet and about 15 miles out with no trees or obstructions. I ruled out as being an aircraft because there are no active high altitude airways that go from west to east in this area only south.
May 7, 2023 · 1:58 PM · FLASH
New York, NY
Thanks for taking the time to look into this. I was compelled to report this because of the unusual nature of the experience. This was seen on the roof of a residential building on 2nd Ave in East Village, Manhattan. The video shows a point of view looking at Queens/Brooklyn. The roof is about 15-16 floors in height. I was looking towards the east sky and noticed a bright flashing white light which appeared to be at a very high altitude and moving fast. The object was not moving like a typical airplane or helicopter. It appeared to be in the direction of and directly above LaGuardia airport. There were planes in the sky flying towards LaGuardia that are not shown in the pictures or videos because by the time I got my phone out to record they were out of view. The object moved looked like it was moving very fast and able to stop and stay stationary in the air at times, and it was emitting a flashing bright white light not familiar to me to be a typical aircraft. I have included a picture with a drawn red circle, where when you zoom in you can see the shape of this object. I could not tell if it was changing shape while in motion.
April 21, 2023 · 10:00 PM · FLASH
Los Angeles, CA
Typical outside, fresh air break and on a vastly clear nighttime sky looking in a mostly E - S.E. direction and -flash!- once...trailed off. -flash!- a second one (as it moved to the east) and then a third, final -flash!- * -flash!- being like a bright, soft white oval, almost cotton tail rabbit like and although there were three separate pings I feel that only one craft was involved here. *the entire time the UAP flew to the east it did not change its seemingly linear trajectory and then vanished
April 18, 2023 · 10:17 PM · FLASH
Lancaster, PA
Husband son myself and neighbors were outside and flashing lights started appearing but not moving.
April 12, 2023 · 1:26 AM · FLASH
El Paso, TX
Security cam alerted me of motion directed. When I review the camera I saw this flash of the light beam up on the top left corner of the video.
April 9, 2023 · 8:00 PM · FLASH
Alma, AR
Step outside while still being in verbal contact asked for them to show them selves and 2 flashes appeared in the sky
April 7, 2023 · 6:02 AM · FLASH
WICHITA, KS
While driving to work, I saw a splash of high attitude large bright blue light flew across and above my car. So bright and so fast! It disappeared in midair in second!
April 7, 2023 · 12:32 AM · FLASH
Lakeland, FL
Massive bright red line shaped “thing” moves in an S shape. Like a boomerang. Varying speed. Video taken is when it was not moving. I stupidly didn’t keep recording because i was dumbfounded by what i saw. Saw it with 2 friends and a car stopped in the middle of the parking lot to look at it. Forgive me for sounding crazy but it felt as if the object knew i was recording it because it immediately froze in place when i got my camera out. Then, it turned its red light off. You can see very briefly at the last second of the video that there is a star in the sky that was not there originally. But that could just be me. The red giant light in the sky is crazy though. Would love to hear your thoughts! Thanks! -Joshua Rao P.S. If anyone is interested I would love to be involved in this kind of work.
March 30, 2023 · 4:23 AM · FLASH
Sykesville, MD
Woke up around 4:15 am due to having a bad dream. I look out my window at 4:21 because a semi-loud distant humming is annoying me. I see a blinking light off over the treeline. I watch it for a minute or two until it starts rapidly blinking irregularly then drifts off to the west, still visible from my house. I close the curtains for a second because I'm pretty scared at that point and turn on my TV for comfort light. I gain the courage to reopen my blinds two minutes later, it blinks even faster then becomes a solid light and moves off to the southwest. I used to think all the time I was actually being visited and even though I couldn't film (because I sure as hell wasn't going outside) now that I have concrete proof for myself that UFOs are real, I'm torn between emotions.
March 22, 2023 · 8:25 PM · FLASH
Barnet, VT
Orange flashes of light, varying positions in sky (not as high as stars, but high above mountains nearby). The light flared & then disappeared (did not rise or fall). Once two flashes appeared almost at the same time in the same place (first one flared, second one flared before first disappeared), & then a red light moved away toward the West, & the red light was brief but visible longer than the orange; the red light was much smaller diameter & did not flash as one would see on an airplane. The sky was dark, spotty clouds to the East, stars present high in the sky. These orange lights were not like fireworks nor like aircraft lights. They appeared to be larger than a star, & very bright orange. They appeared & were gone almost immediately. 7 total.
March 8, 2023 · 6:07 PM · FLASH
Dillwyn, VA
Myself (a corrections officer for 8 years and 34 years old) and another corrections officer (4 years in corrections and 24 years old) at a prison at this approximate location, were walking to post and saw a light in the sky to the east, it appeared to fade in and fade back out with its brightest time being about 20 seconds. We both said out loud, "what is that" and it faded out. There was no obvious or visible other aircraft in the area before or after. We thought it may be the suns reflection on a plane going into or out of RIC, which is in the direction we saw the light, but nothing was visible after, as if it disappeared. We nervously joked about reporting it to our work but have both chosen not to. Both of us have good eye sight, were not tired and had good daylight to see by. We had just left our regular pre-work briefing, so I'm very sure of time and date.