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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
December 23, 2018 · 12:03 AM · LIGHT
Delran, NJ
I have live footage of a very fast moving object appearing to be turning and climbing in altitude. It went over a large amount sky in a split second. The camera lens was too slow to actually pick up its speeds. This leaving identical spaces in between the light beams. I caught it on my security camera. My neighbor just so happened to be walking out the door at the same time, triggering the camera. When I looked at it, I was amazed what it caught.
December 22, 2018 · 8:05 AM · LIGHT
Coral Springs, FL
4 bright orange/red oval shapes slowing moving in a square formation. The orange light that they were emitting did not blink like a commercial airplane. One by one, each craft shot up into the atmosphere.
December 22, 2018 · 6:45 AM · LIGHT
Spirit lake, ID
Jagged movement up and down dissapeared after 25 minutes flew up light faded. At one point the light was brighter and it looked like a triangle but I couldn't quite tell. It seemed as if it was teleporting at times left small faint trail and when I tried to take a picture my phone stoped working
December 20, 2018 · 5:30 PM · LIGHT
London (UK/England) · United Kingdom
Static green light dropped vertically changer to red held static again and dropped vertically again.
December 20, 2018 · 6:38 AM · LIGHT
Cowpens, SC
This looked similar to a jet behind the clouds. Except there were no clouds. This was a completely clear morning. The weirdest part was it was almost invisible other than the 3 white lights leaving behind a trail.
December 19, 2018 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Estelline, TX
On 12/19/2018 at 9:30 pm, in Estelline, Texas, we noticed 17 small lights in the sky. There was 4 witness who observed them move thru the sky in small groups of 3 then 5 and 7 and 2. It was partly cloudy, with the clouds moving south wards and the lights moving northwest. They were going again slightly wind and moving rapidly in clusters of 3 then 5 then 7 and then 2.
December 19, 2018 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Miami, FL
During my nightly ritual of looking up stars with an app called Star Walk I noticed 2 very odd lights, very high up, apprx 50k-75k ft. I can guess this because I live a few miles south and east of Miami International, there are planes landing and taking off all the time and I was able to get a plane at flying altitude as a comparison. Using the Star Chart app I confirmed it was not Cassiopedia and no other visible stars were at this location. Two lights.. One bright white with another just beside it slowing drifting due east.. Watched with my dad as they very very slowly moved east until they were gone. Not very dramatic but I am certain they weren't planes.. Definitely not stars.. With all the light polution in Miami they were incredibly bright and any planets and stars would have definitely shown up on the star chart.
December 19, 2018 · 5:41 PM · LIGHT
Cotati, CA
At 5:41pm my mom called me and told me to look out my back window, which faces West. She was at the Costco in Rohnert Park and said there was a strange jet-stream in the sky that was glowing brightly. The sun had already set and when I looked out the window, I was shocked by how bright this was. It looked like a lasso in the sky. The oval was on the top right and it trailed down to the left. It slowly faded over 5-10 minutes. After looking online I found this was identical to the lights seen over Reno, NV, at the same time. However, I am in Cotati (very close to the coast - maybe 30 minutes) and I was also looking West towards the coastline. Source of report indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
December 19, 2018 · 5:30 AM · LIGHT
Pendleton, OR
I took 3 pictures and was trying to get home so I could look at it through a scope. As I dropped into Pendleton, it rose higher until it disapeared.
December 19, 2018 · 4:00 AM · LIGHT
Fresno, CA
I am aware that there were several reports of a comet being seen on this same day, but those sightings were seen in the evening of 12/19/2018 and my sighting was in the early morning on this day.
December 18, 2018 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
St. Augustine, FL
A bright white light flashed across the sky and immediately after a glowing green light began hovering directly under the flash. The green light then proceeded to float across the sky and vanished into the distance. The light was moving at a moderate speed and was visible for 6-7 seconds. Witness provides no contact information. PD
December 18, 2018 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Beaver dam, WI
Random light flashing white and red in the sky and not moving. Second night in a row this has been seen.
December 18, 2018 · 4:35 PM · LIGHT
Mountain View, CA
While driving car on San Antonio Rd, Mountain View, CA, I saw a star very near moon. It was just north west side. Since it was day time and being bright near moon and never see a star like that near moon, I was amazed and so showed it to my daughter and my wife. My wife could not see it first, so we were pointing her to the direction to look we realized it was slowly faring away from moon, that made us very much amazed and we were constantly watching it without even taking our eyes from it. About 5 to 7 minutes time it reached 1 to 1.5 meters away from moon, then disappeared all of a sudden.
December 17, 2018 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Redkey, IN
The light looks as if it split into 2 lights at times and then immediatley recombined.
December 16, 2018 · 11:45 PM · LIGHT
Jacksonville, FL
Orange (fire color) object. very bright. low flying across almost the entire sky from west to east. very slow moving and no sound as it past over head. it slowly dimmed and faded out..
December 16, 2018 · 7:15 PM · LIGHT
Forest Park, IL
I live in. 5th floor condo in Forest Park. It faces east with an excellent view of downtown Chicago, through the floor to ceiling glass sliding doors. While sitting on my couch, I witnessed a single very bright white light swoop down from west to east,disappearing in the eastern sky. It took about 2 seconds. Coincidentally (or not), I had just finished watching Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
December 15, 2018 · 6:00 AM · LIGHT
Lake Villa, IL
3,4 orange lights traveling north to south, west of my location. Hovering, then moving south, then hovering again. Not an even or straight line.
December 14, 2018 · 11:30 PM · LIGHT
Albuquerque, NM
The object was directly above Albuquerque Sunport. I looked up at Orion’s Belt and I saw a large dim light. Way to large, larger than brightest star visible. It was moving about as fast as a jet. But slightly faster. I told the other witness “look look look at this” and we looked up and the object accelerated fast but there was no noise. The object moved unbelievably fast. I mean we live near an air force base and see fighter jets all the time, even passenger jets, but this things moved about 5 times that. What was most interesting is how fast it accelerated out of our sight. The object was about as high as an airplane might be about five seconds before landing. It made no noise. Zero noise and it sped off incredibly fast. I told my witness that it’s going to enter a fluff of clouds and we’re not going to see it emerge. Which it didn’t. It flew towards the Air Force base but didn’t appear to land there. It just flew off towards the mountains. It was amazing,! actually. We were not terrified, my witness and I were actually very excited. I told my witness, if you watch the skies you can always pick an anomoly at least once or twice a year. It was very disconcerting that it was so close above the airport, and nobody was able see it. Maybe they did I don’t know. None the less amazing. We were standing near the grassy area north of the Sunport. It’s the road all the taxis wait for flight arrivals by airport near the hotel and vacant lot at the end of the cul de sac. Source of report indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
December 14, 2018 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Makawao, HI
We are husband and wife and was enjoying the evening after work with our pets in the front yard.
December 14, 2018 · 3:15 AM · LIGHT
Centreville, MD
Woke up around 3 a.m. to what sounded like an animal screeching. Looked out bedroom window but didn't see anything. Looked up to the sky. At first glance it could have appeared as a star but I realized it was moving. Watched the "light" (yellow in color) for awhile and saw it hover right, left and down slightly. Woke my husband so that he could confirm what I was seeing and he did. He also confirmed what I was already thinking...that occasionally there would be a flash of light to the left or right of this main light. The light never moved much aside from the slight hovering movements. After about 30 mins I saw flashes of white lights just above the tree line behind my house but in the distance. There was about 4 or 5 of them. Each would continuously flash. One moved more right away from the others and slightly up in the air while the others disappeared. I continued to keep an eye on the main light that was still moving slightly in the same spot. When directly looking at it, I didn't see much around it. When I looked to the right it appeared like there was a shadow in the sky to the left of the light. I couldn't make out what it was and when I looked directly at it, I could not see it.
December 13, 2018 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Glendale, AZ
Two of us witnessed at least two dozen orange lights traveling from N to SW at a 40 degree angle to the horizon. The first bunch came in then some trailed behind then a few more in a bunch then more trailed in in a snake like pattern. They were not floating like lanterns and were not drones. No blinking. All of them disappeared at the same western spot. We couldn't tell if they flew into a cloud because it wasn't a totally clear night. There was no noise. They flew slowly like a helicopter would fly. We live north of LUKE AFB and are familiar with the F16's, 18's and 35's. We also see and hear passenger jets approach Sky Harbor and smaller craft that use two smaller airports. I phoned LUKE AFB and they did not have any helicopter squadron maneuver. The way the bunches of these were traveling it looked dangerous because there wasn't any pattern.
December 13, 2018 · 7:50 PM · LIGHT
Buckeye, AZ
Last night around 6:30pm, and then again this morning around 5:30am, I saw the same lights and from my perspective thought they were hovering over the high school south of my location. I distinctly thought that it must be drones or something since they looked like there were right above the football stadium. This time, however, nearly my whole family and I were driving a few miles south of the stadium and saw the same lights, except they looked much further south and appeared to be on or above the mountains south of buckeye, Arizona. I recognized the same lights and realized I misjudged where they were the previous two times. There's lights seemed to appear in groups of two or more. Are amber in color and can be seen for miles away. They only last for about 10 minutes or less. It appears to be in a horizontal line and twinkle slightly, causing me to wonder if it was an aircraft. This time when seeing them they disappeared after about 2 minutes, then another two lights appeared a few miles west and approximately in the same horizontal plane at about the same altitude. They two lights acted the same, slightly moving or twinkling, but they were slightly farther apart. They also are now gone. Lasted for about 3 to 5 minutes.
December 13, 2018 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Ruidoso, NM
On two consecutive nights I witnessed the exact same appearing UFO in the night sky. The first was on the night of 12/12/18. I was walking to the lower level of our trailer park to retrieve a cooking pot from my Dad. I stopped before descending towards the lower level as I had looked up and saw a light that looked like a star...but was moving! In a southerly direction it moved, slowly but surely. No blinking lights whatsoever; it seemed to be around 5-13 miles up. I'm not able to accurately convey a distance marker, but it definitely had no sentry lights as conventional aircraft have. The light eventually dimmed and disappeared, with no visible clouds in the sky; it just seemed to fade out as it continued the same direction and speed. Then, on the night of 12/13/18, I was doing the marquee at the movie theater and, to my amazement, I noticed the same exact looking light in the sky! This time it was moving in a more south-easterly direction, but had the same attributes as the one I saw the night previously. The light, this time, did not fade out but disappeared behind the tree line in the southeast. Observer Note: These two sightings COULD be attributed to a satellite, but seemed far too bright to be such a mundane object such as a satellite.
December 13, 2018 · 6:25 PM · LIGHT
Tucson, AZ
While watching the west horizon and the evening star, saw 5 yellow orange lights simultaneously appear. They were well off to the west of me in an irregular group and were motionless. They then one by one disappeared without displaying any movement.