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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
April 26, 2019 · 2:09 PM · LIGHT
West Palm Beach, FL
I was sitting at my apartment in Palm Beach, watching the ocean, when me and many others saw this strange green light moving across the ocean. It was hovering over the ocean and was roughly 5 miles away from land just before the horizon. It was moving faster then any airplane could. It was going south. It sped across the ocean and stopped suddenly. Then after a short break, it continued on until it was out of site.
April 25, 2019 · 11:30 PM · LIGHT
Cloquet, MN
I was at a lake close to my house, and I was showing a friend that new owners have the property and we now have access to it after 10 years. I turned the lights off on my truck so she could look at the stars. We were facing north with the lake to the east, I was looking in the north west direction and noticed a moving traveling west to east. As I watched it I began to notice it wasn’t very high up maybe 75-100 feet above the tree tops and no sound the light was a bright white and when it got close enough I could see 3 bright white and very slight yellow colored lights moving counter clockwise, and round shaped like search lights i told my friend watch this thing it’s not a helicopter, airplane, or drone it’s not making noise it was a distance of about 100-150 yards to the north and close enough to see it wasn’t normal after it traveled at slow but steady speed it shot directly straight up and gone total time from when I realized it wasn’t any kind of aircraft! we ever seen 3-5 minutes Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
April 25, 2019 · 8:30 PM · LIGHT
Fairacres, NM
I had just flown in from San Diego, and my mom and I stepped outside to look at the stars...for 33 years I have always looked up at the New Mexico sky knowing that someday I would see a UFO. And finally there it was... My mom saw the lights first and said "look, look!" as the kids ran around in the darkness unaware of what was going on...neither my son or daughter looked up, but I did, and I could not believe what I saw or felt...the only other experience that would capture the feeling I was having was seeing the Marfa Lights in Marfa, Texas, last year... that feeling you have inside where you have "a knowing" that this is something bigger than you, that it is something powerfully magic and real… My mom counted 3 more lights that she saw before I did but we would explain the lights as almost of a fireball quality...there was almost gentle pulsating of yellowish/orangish/reddish fire light... a light in the middle showed up then disappeared! and it was replaced with a light on the left side which showed up then disappeared and then a light on the right that did the same...if the lights were labelled 1 2 3 in a straight line next to each other, I describe it that light 2 lit up and disappeared then light 1 lit up and disappeared and then light 3 lit up and disappeared and then all of them fade away and completely disappeared...I also felt that there was some sort of a square feeling to these circle lights... i can't explain it other than I felt a squareness. This siting happened as we were looking towards the Organ Mountains. This happened so quickly so no photos were taken but I pointed my compass afterwards and felt that it was 18 degrees N and somewhere around 32/18'/58" N and 106/50'/37" W.
April 25, 2019 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Mount Shasta, CA
My girlfriend and I were up at Castle Lake, located above the city of Mount Shasta, we go swimming and hiking up there in the summer and we were curious to see if it was still frozen over from the winter, and if the trails were clear of snow yet. There’s still a lot of snow pack so you can’t get up above the lake very easily, and most everybody had cleared out of there by the time the sun went down. As far as I know we were the last people to leave, and it was almost dark. As we were walking back from the shore towards our car, we heard a weird, low humming sound coming from the lake. It was the kind of thing you might not even normally hear, except there was no noise or people or wind up there at all when it started. We turned around and saw a flashing multi-colored sphere of light hovering about 50 feet off the lake, further towards the back of the lake near the cliff wall. We both saw it at the same time and wondered if it was some kind of flare hanging in the air, but it didn’t look fiery and it wasn’t smoking. My friend was wondering if it was the light of a climber on the cliffs, but we could see light strobing off of the sphere and flashing against the cliff wall so it was definitely hovering in the air and throwing off light around it. It lasted for only a few seconds then it vanished again, along with the humming sound. We weren’t freaked out by it or anything, but we’re still not sure what we saw that evening. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 25, 2019 · 4:00 AM · LIGHT
Winnipeg (Canada), MB · Canada
North part of Winnipeg .
April 24, 2019 · 10:21 PM · LIGHT
Long Beach, MS
A bright green light came from the east qnd went down in the west
April 24, 2019 · 4:00 PM · LIGHT
Tucson, AZ
Light moving fast across sky and changed directions.
April 24, 2019 · 5:00 AM · LIGHT
Lafayette, CA
Possible planet?? PD
April 23, 2019 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
New York City (Queens), NY
Seen driving by JFK airport on the way to work. beautiful day, and no clouds in the sky. saw a bright light that looked like a star around 8:51am. it froze then slowly dropped south in slow motion, and took off and vanished to the left of my vision. then nothing. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 21, 2019 · 10:35 PM · LIGHT
North Wilkesboro, NC
I observed this item for over 10 minutes staying relatively in the same spot. I frequently get helicopters and planes overhead, but neither hover or stay in the same area. At 22:38 the article was no longer visible due to trees.
April 20, 2019 · 9:40 PM · LIGHT
Smethwick, BIRMINGH · United Kingdom
White rounds dots in the sky first thought it was a shooting star, then 5 more round lights passed in the same direction from right to left traveling at down ward angle with the same distance between the lights maybe 10 meters apart from each other I'm not sure. The lights were moving faster then areoplanes that's why I thought it was a shooting star first. There was a smaller round light that was a orange colour that was still and it seemed like it was watching/ waiting for the other lights to pass it by I thought it was a small star first but when the last light flew past it the orange light followed the same path as the others except it was higher up.
April 20, 2019 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Jacksonville, FL
Then I asked it without the laser and it flashed extremely bright again in response. It made me cry because i was able to communicate with it and get an actual response in return! It was the best thing ever! After it left over my area, it headed SE and did not flash again that bright. It came from the NW direction from where I live. When we first posted this report to our website, we labeled it as a probable hoax. However, the source assures us that it is not a hoax, and that she submitted it as a sincere report. We apologize for having mislabeled the report, and we post it again, without any editorial comment. PD
April 20, 2019 · 7:45 PM · LIGHT
Valparaiso, IN
At first, I saw what appeared to be a regular airplane, as seen from a distance, flying diagonally upward and leaving a trail of smoke in its path. Looking closer, I noticed there were three smaller, thinner horizontal trails of light beneath this larger light. Next to the "airplane" was another large light, which looked like a fireball with a trail of light behind it. It, too, was flying upward at first, but then switched direction, looking like it was facing the direction of my house. It also changed color, from yellow to red, before changing directions again (heading downward). Over the course of approximately 15 minutes, these five lights shifted directions several times. At one point, an airplane was flying toward one of the lights, and as soon as the airplane got too close, the light vanished. Eventually, the lights began to disappear. Some dived into the horizon while others simply faded away.
April 19, 2019 · 7:15 PM · LIGHT
Whittier, CA
On April 19, 2019, at approximately 7:15 pm, I was driving northbound in Whittier, CA (zip code 90605). At a red light, I observed what appeared to be star. I thought it was unusual for a start to be out so early at that time of day and then noticed that it was moving. The object was very high in the sky – well above the flight path of planes returning to LAX. The object was moving west. It did not change direction. Once I arrived home, approximately 4 minutes after my initial viewing, I spotted the object. I continued westbound and slowly faded into the sunset. I did not observe any kind of tail or smoke streak from the object. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 19, 2019 · 3:30 AM · LIGHT
St. Francis, MN
The local Fire Department was on the air but I did not hear the nature of the call on a scanner, just heard them clear! The bright light appeared to move then stop over the NW sky approximately 30-45° inclination. Very unusual for NW Anoka County.
April 18, 2019 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Cochrane (Canada), AB · Canada
I have a video with 2 different angles looks like a antenna but that is why I took 2 different positions
April 17, 2019 · 9:08 PM · LIGHT
New York City (Brooklyn), NY
Leaving Home Depot on Cropsey Avenue near Coney Island my partner and I saw and orangish light blob flying toward our direction, it went into the clouds and disappeared. We got into the car and a minute later saw another one fly by (not at tremendous speed). The third one approached a minute after the second one. By this time I was able to get my I phone out of my bag and take a video of it as I jumped out of the car to not have anything impede the video. This third object also orangish in color, disappeared into the night sky. Upon looking at the video you can see a line of faint white lights hovering above this light form. We are both educated retired professionals. I posted the video to my Instagram page.
April 17, 2019 · 8:15 PM · LIGHT
Kissimmee, FL
Before we could get our cell phones, the lights went out or disappeared. We're on vacation from Maryland, but we will not be returning to Florida...EVER. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 17, 2019 · 8:10 PM · LIGHT
Tucson, AZ
What we saw and for how long: We both saw five goldish looking lights, about 40 degrees above the horizon lined up horizontally but tilted slightly, The left most light was significantly brighter (about as bright as a car headlight from a quarter mile away) than the others. The distance was hard to judge but I would guess between 2 and 3 miles. They appeared to be drifting slowly to the west (left) and all of a sudden they just disappeared, as if a light switch was turned off. We saw these lights for about 10 seconds before they disappeared. What we didn’t see: We didn’t see the lights appear, other than when we noticed them, so we can’t vouch for how long they were visible. We did not see a craft or crafts that may have been emitting the light. There were no blinking lights associated with them, as seen on normal aircraft; in fact as we continued to drive north, about a mile and a half past the original sighting, we did not see any aircraft in the area at all. The lights did not behave like fireworks, military aircraft flairs, drones or shooting stars, all of which we have seen many times. About us: I am an Engineering Technician/Metrologist and my wife is a teacher. We are both sky watchers and have witnessed many unusual things in both the daylight and night skies. We both try to think of logical explanations for anything that we experience but we can’t explain what we saw.
April 17, 2019 · 7:04 AM · LIGHT
Republic, MO
Came up from above the treeline on my way to school. It was extremely bright, almost like a star. I couldn't really tell the shape because it was too bright. It was just a white light, no red blue or green. Me and my brother at first thought it was an airplane, until it quickly disappeared into the clouds.
April 16, 2019 · 11:50 PM · LIGHT
Richmond, KY
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 16, 2019 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Vineland, NJ
(( Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. We have assigned an artificial date. PD)
April 16, 2019 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Macomb, IL
A light would appear, followed by one or more lights slightly in front of it which sometimes looked like fireworks or some kind of explosion, and the first light would disappear. There were two sets of these. This continued across the sky for at least 2 minutes before disappearing completely. There was no noise from it.
April 16, 2019 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Knoxville, IL
On the evening of April 16, 2019, at approximately 9:30pm CST, I was driving my van south on Knox Station Rd in rural Knoxville, IL, when I noticed what I originally thought were fireworks in the sky. These lights appeared to be very high in the sky, possibly ½ mile in altitude. I asked my husband his opinion of what they were. Both of my children, 15 and 11 were also in the vehicle. We pulled over on the side of the road, where both of my children exited the vehicle to begin recording the strange phenomenon. My husband also began recording the lights in the sky from inside the vehicle. There were two large orange lights that would leap in equal intervals from one and other. Each would leave a tail of smaller orange dots and then disappear for approximately ½ of a second before reappearing and leaping west again. The lights would make a rapid movement and then stop. At one point both of the larger lights collided and went dark. Again within a split second the! lights reappeared with the tails of smaller lights and began moving westward again. As we proceeded South on Knox Station Road, the lights never appeared to become closer. They were very bright and were very apparent in the night sky even with a cell phone tower below them and a ¾ moon. At approximately 9:38 pm CST, the lights vanished from the sky.