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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
September 26, 2018 · 6:50 AM · LIGHT
Iowa City, IA
Then there was another white lighted object above the main light. It too also he waded north and disappeared. As I was driving home south the main lighted object sort of just vanished. I watched it for about 15 min.
September 25, 2018 · 9:22 PM · LIGHT
Alamo, NV
I was driving Northbound on Highway 93 North of Las Vegas and south of Alamo, Nevada, at approximately 9:22pm, 9/25/18. To my right out the passenger side of my windshield I saw four bright yellowish-orange lights traveling in a single file, close together. When all of a sudden they all collapsed into the southernmost light like a slinky and then disappeared. I was talking on my phone and didn't have time to record, as this all happened in less than 10 seconds from the moment I realized what I was seeing. This was my first experience like this, so I will be more prepared if there is a next time.
September 25, 2018 · 8:50 PM · LIGHT
Nags Head, NC
I saw one light in the sky, then another joined it. They were in a north-south line. One went out as my boyfriend came outside. We both saw the one that was left, then 3 others joined it, still in a north-south line. They blinked off one at a time.
September 25, 2018 · 3:00 PM · LIGHT
Las Vegas (Spring Valley), NV
Tuesday, September 25th, 2018: Whenever I stand out on my balcony, I get a pretty good view of the mountains going west on the 215 freeway. I can tell you that I have never seen anything like what I saw today. I noticed a bright light or reflection of some sort coming from what seems like the edge of one of the mountains. I called my fiancé out onto the balcony to come take a look, and we immediately started recording. Since we could not zoom in enough to be able to appreciate exactly what it was, we remembered we have high quality binoculars. We grabbed them and took a closer look. When we were able to focus on the object, we noticed that it had one large light in the middle, and two smaller ones on each side. We are not sure if what we saw were 3 separate objects, or if it was just one craft. However, what we can say is that the object was out in the open at 3:00PM in bright daylight, and these lights were beaming so bright. It was not a reflection of anything as there is NOTHING else on those mountains. We are about 25 miles away from the location where the object seemed to be, so we got into our car and decided to drive a little closer. As we started driving, we realized that the closer we got, the object seemed to be less visible. We pulled into a parking lot, and we were able to grab someone's attention and asked them if they had any idea what the object sitting on the mountain was. This woman said she has lived in Las Vegas for over 30 years, and has never seen anything like it. We decided to head back home. Unfortunately, when we got back to our house. We noticed that there was smoke or dust coming from the area where the object was seen. We did not capture that on camera. The object had seemed to move to the left, and was still a bit visible. However, left a cloud of dust or smoke behind. We went out onto our balcony later that night, and this morning, and there is nothing out there now. Not sure what we saw, but we have footage and pictures which we will be uploading to YouTube. Good photo shows 3 lights, sitting on a distant ridgeline. PD
September 24, 2018 · 2:00 PM · LIGHT
McPherson, KS
Was driving South on I135, and a bright light appeared in the windshield about 45 degrees high in the sky. It was straight South of our location, directly over I-135, and was not moving. At first, I thought maybe it was a traffic drone, with the Sun reflecting off of it. It had to be -17 or so in brightness. I alerted my son, and he saw it too. After about 15 seconds, it just went away, like flipping off a light switch! I check heavensabove.com for daytime Iridium flares or satellites, and none were listed. The Sun was at about 70 degrees, SSW, so it could not have reflected off of any flying craft. The light source had to be generated by the object. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 24, 2018 · 6:40 AM · LIGHT
Boise, ID
Called the wife out to witness it too. it never went away. I went inside and got ready for work. Thinking maybe I saw distant neighborhood lights, I checked this morning, there were no lights there. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 23, 2018 · 3:15 AM · LIGHT
Port St Lucie, FL
Bright light in Eastern horizon 30 degrees above horizon. Brightest light in the sky. Binoculars revealed pulsing and flashing green and red lights. Never moved from position. Was not celestial. Observed for 30 minutes before disappearing behind cloud cover.
September 22, 2018 · 8:45 PM · LIGHT
North Bend, OR
Bright circle white light flying through the sky, turned red and disappeared.
September 22, 2018 · 7:45 AM · LIGHT
Old Jamestown, MO
Witness provides minimal information; remains anonymous. PD
September 19, 2018 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Pacific Ocean, -
Hawaiian Airlines Flight #40 - UFO Sighting on 9-19-18 Location: Over Pacific Ocean (664 miles southwest of Newport, OR) Date: 9-19-18 Time: ~7:00pm PT Synopsis: This report was personally relayed to me by a friend who I knew many years ago, but who tracked me down after hearing of this incident. He is now a commercial airline pilot for an airline company that is not Hawaiian Airlines, but rather a rival airline. My friend was piloting a flight across the Pacific Ocean on the night in question. During the flight, at roughly the time listed above, he heard radio chatter from a Hawaiian Airlines Flight #40 heading Eastbound across the Pacific (flight from Maui to Portland, OR). They stated they had been observing a very large white ball or sphere that had black markings on it. The flight was at a cruising altitude of 35,000 ft and the object was on the same Eastbound heading, but at an estimated altitude of 36,000 ft. After initially observing this object, the three crew members attempted to snap photos of it as they gradually closed on it. However, according to the statements made over the radio, the photos were blurry and did not show the object. They did state that the object appeared to be very large. They added that their hands were all shaking whilst trying to photograph the object due to their collective apprehension in not knowing what this thing was, but knowing it was NOT an aircraft. Eventually, the plane passed by the object as they were apparently moving faster, albeit in the same direction. That was the last they saw of the object. No attempt was made to gain access to audio recordings of the event as the planes were over the Pacific Ocean too far away from Air Traffic Control Centers. All communication this far out to sea is strictly “air-to-air frequency”. It was on this frequency that the communication from the Hawaiian Airlines was heard by my friend and commercial pilot. The location of the sighting was over a point designated as HEKAB (latitude/longitude coordinates: N 39.24.8 W 134.58.4), which lies 664 miles southwest of Newport, OR. Report by David Marler (updated 9-26-18) 2 We express our gratitude to DAVID MARLER, well-known UFO investigator and author, who composed and forwarded the report to the National UFO Reporting Center. PD
September 19, 2018 · 6:19 AM · LIGHT
Belleville, IL
Witness went to the kitchen and from my patio doors saw two pulsating, strobe like lights in the Eastern sky. The lights flashed red and white and were above the tree line. The lights came closer growing in size and hovered side by side. The one on the left moved away from the other light and the lights of both objects pulsed faster and brighter. Then the light on the right went to the East and witness watched until it was out of sight. The other light went south and was observed to move fast across the sky until it was out of sight. Neither one diverted from its path, in other words they moved straight in a path. Witness first thought of the lights that flashed on high towers but realized there are no towers there. Witness thought it might be a reflection but there was nothing in the house behind that was lighting up and there were no windows behind witness. The lights reminded witness of strobe lights as they were pulsating very fast. They were too large an! d too bright to be airplane lights and moved much faster. Witness lives near an Air-Force base and an airport so observes airplanes, jets, and helicopters on an hourly basis. The only thought was that it might have been large drones.
September 18, 2018 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Floral City, FL
I flashed my bright flashlight well, on the pulse setting. Stopped it...a few seconds passed. A strange bright light moved toward earth then looped back as a needle and thread stitch ... no clouds or storms that night. I thanked the universe, and walked briskly back to the house! 🤷🏻♀️ Source of report indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
September 18, 2018 · 8:52 PM · LIGHT
Aberdeen, WA
UFO Sighting 9/18/18 Approx. time of sighting 9:52 P.M. 9:55 P.M I’m out hunting elk by myself on the Washington State coast. I’m hunting on Weyerhauser property located along Hwy 101 between the towns of Aberdeen and Raymond. At the mile marker 69 on highway 101 there is a locked Weyerhauser gate. The gate is located on the East side of the hwy. I was driving the gravel roads hunting elk in the vast forest east of highway 101 behind the locked gate at mile marker 69. After an uneventful evening hunt, I decided to go to sleep early. Once the evening hunt was over and it got dark I decided to look for a place to park my pickup truck with canopy, so I could get to sleep and get up early for the morning hunt. I’m driving east on Sprucedale Road and I take a left onto a lesser traveled road at mile marker 10. I drive on the side road for about 2 to 4 miles. I come to a crest of a small hill and find a small semi flat grassy spot surrounded by taller trees. Because of the taller trees, most of the view of the night sky was obstructed. I didn’t check a compass but I believe my truck was facing west, and the rear of the truck was facing east. It took me a few minutes to view the area and turn my truck around so I could park on a semi flat spot, with my head slightly elevated. Once I parked, I gathered some stuff to get ready for bed like my cell phone flashlight and pistol. Once I felt I had everything I needed, I shut off the truck engine and headlights. I exited the truck and walked behind the truck. I had my back to the back tailgate of my truck and I was facing what I think was East. I had to pee. My view as I was standing there peeing was the gravel road as it went down the hill in the opposite direction of the way I traveled in. Since there were no trees on the road itself. The road provided a small opening in the sky. I didn’t see anything unusual at all. I could hear some wrestling in the brush about 30 yards in front of me. Probably a small animal. I finished my business and I opened the truck canopy and, crawled over the tailgate into the truck bed. I spent the next maybe 2 minutes or less situating my sleeping bag and getting my shoes off. I get into my sleeping bag then I notice it. I left the damn dome light on. Crap, it's not going off. I must have left it on when I was gathering stuff for bed. I get out of bed slip on my shoes open the canopy door and crawl out. I walk over to the driver door open it and turn off the dome light. Finally, I can go to bed and get some sleep. I shut the truck door and turn to go to the rear of the truck. That’s when I see it. In the small opening in the sky I was just looking at a moment earlier when I was peeing now has a fairly bright slightly reddish color light in the sky. It seemed the light was perfectly situated in the center of the opening from my perspective. It seemed kind of shapeless, just light, then at times it looked as if it had a subtle square shape. Mostly it looked like light and the shape was difficult to see. No noise. My first though was wow what the heck, that must be Venus, but it seems just a bit too large. It was much smaller than a full moon for perspective. I’m looking at this light and it seems to be moving wildly but slowly in a fairly large space in the sky it was maintaining. Although it looked like it was moving, its general location in the sky was fixed. I’m thinking is it really moving or is it that twinkle phenomenon that a star or planet gives off to give the illusion that its moving. I am now trying to figure out if it is moving as well as the distance from me. As far as the distance from my naked eye it seems like it might be closer than a planet would be. At some point it looked as if the light was only 100 feet in the air. I held myself and my head very still and looked at the tree tops and the distance from the tree tops to the light. When I did this the light appeared to be motionless in the sky. After I did this I didn’t see any more movement as if it stopped when I really focused on its movement. This was confusing because it looked like it was really moving. I walked back to the truck and grabbed my binoculars from the dash. I looked at the light in my binoculars and I thought wow it seems further away than with the naked eye and a bit crisper, so maybe it is Venus after all I told myself. I was going back and forth viewing this with binoculars and naked eye, trying to analyze what I was seeing. Just when I had convinced myself this was Venus, poof it vanished. It was instantaneous, I was staring at it intently and all of a sudden nothing was there. Ok that freaked me out a bit, I almost dropped the binoculars. That is defiantly not Venus or any other planet or star. It didn’t dawn on me until after it was over, when I was analyzing the light to try and determine if it was a planet. I forgot that I was just looking at that spot in the sky while I was peeing moments prior and there was nothing there so had I realized that I could have ruled out a planet right away. When it vanished, it didn’t fly off or streak away. There was no left right up down movement at all. It was there then it was gone it just disappeared from sight instantly. There was a weird detail at the very instant it disappeared the night sky in that area seemed to go a shade lighter. I thought holy crap, that didn’t even look real. The light change was very subtle but I seen it. It reminded me of older movies where the eye could pick up the subtle change in the scenery when they cut and splice scenes. I thought the light change was like a reset or something. It almost looked fake like a movie but not. Omg maybe I was abducted and they just dropped me back off. Moments after it vanished, I jumped in the back of the truck bed and grabbed my cell phone and pistol. I was a little freaked and excited. I got into the cab started up the truck and drove away. I checked the time to see if unknowingly hours had gone by. There was no unexplained time loss. I felt like I was only on the site for about 10 minutes. I called my wife to tell her what had just happened as soon as I got a block or so from the site. The call was made at 8:56 pm. I drove back to the gate on highway 101. I drove down the road to the park and ride about 10 miles north of the gate. I slept the rest of the night in the back of my truck at the park and ride. The strange light was there in view for 2 or 3 minutes total. Its creepy to think about but If I hadn’t left the dome light on I would never have seen it. I would have just gone to sleep. It seems as if it waited for me to get into bed before it appeared, because it didn’t appear until I got in the truck bed and shut the canopy door, as if it was waiting for me to get in so I wouldn’t see it show up to watch me. The next morning I went back to the exact spot to investigate in the daylight. I seen nothing but forest. I don’t know what it was. I never seen it appear, but I did see it disappear.
September 18, 2018 · 5:10 AM · LIGHT
Albuquerque, NM
Above the Sandia Mountains low and east in the sky, I saw what appeared to be a shooting star traveling south to north. But it didn’t change brightness, or size; nor did it arc. It was moving fast, much faster than a satellite, and had the brightness of a planet. It made no sound.
September 17, 2018 · 9:22 PM · LIGHT
St. Augustine, FL
Sitting on back porch of our rental looking out over the water and several lights appeared out over the water to our left. They were whitish, yellow lights, very bright and blinking slowly. They would get really bright and then dim out. They appeared one at a time and began multiplying. One became 5 or six. They lit up and then began separating and then all disappeared. I grabbed my phone and began recording the sky. They reappeared right over top of us about 1 minute later as I recorded them. Same behavior one lit up then another then they all disappeared again. The videos that I recorded are saved to my phone and when I try to watch them they are blank. I have no clue why these videos will not playback. Both were about 1 minute in length and it’s showing saved videos but they say 0:00 and won’t playback. Definitely never seen anything like what we just saw ever before.. we heard no noise associated with these lights and the sky is pretty clear. I could see the stars out in the sky but whatever made these lights couldn’t be seen. Wild!
September 16, 2018 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Detroit, MI
09/16/2018 18:00 Eastern Time about 7 small reddish orange lights appeared in the sky over Detroit. They were seen for a little under two minutes. They appeared and flew on. What was that? Witness provides no contact information. PD
September 15, 2018 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Moravia, NY
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 15, 2018 · 1:44 AM · LIGHT
Brick, NJ
While outside in the backyard on a clear and beautiful night 1:44 am walking around talking on the phone facing east all of a sudden a “low attitude” Brilliant bright light leaving no streak cruising for about 3 seconds traveling from Rt 70 Hooper towards Princeton ave.. had no shape just a very bright light with no sound. I’m not saying it’s a object and I do occasionally see meteors this was extremely low! I have the single engine prop planes flying banners over my home all summer from Lakewood it would be on that level.. it was not a aircraft..if anyone else saw it please report it on here.
September 15, 2018 · 1:30 AM · LIGHT
Chesterfield, VA
While driving home at 1:30am on September 15th I saw one bright flash of white light that lit up the entire night sky white. The car radio then went to static so I assumed lightning had struck a radio tower, but then the entire night sky, absolutely all of it, lit up bright red for 5 seconds then bright blue for about one second and then another bright white flash. After the final white light the radio came back on and no other lights after that. I can’t think of any man made light source that could light up the entire sky that intense, and I regularly drive past airports that project light into the night sky but nowhere near that amount. This happened on a highway passes by mostly residential neighborhoods and at least 10 miles from even the smallest airport let alone the large one on the other side of Richmond City. By the way, I was listening to Coast to Coast Am at the time.
September 14, 2018 · 5:00 AM · LIGHT
Stockton, CA
I was driviing south on a neighborhood street when I noticed a light in the sky ahead of my car. It was traveling in the same direction and almost on the same track. My first thought was a shooting star but it was moving too slow. Then I thought a an airplace or helicopter but it was a yellowish color, kind of fuzzy, and didn't have navigation lights. My windows were up so I couldn't tell if it made any noise. It moved with a bouncy, staggering kind of moviement like it was traveling on an invisible bumpy road or traveling against a heavy wind.. I would estimate its altitude at aout 5000 feet. I lost sight of it when I drove under some trees and made a left turn to my destination.
September 13, 2018 · 11:32 PM · LIGHT
Helena, AL
While sitting on my back porch last night, I observed what may have been ball lightning but I’m not sure. There were thunderstorms in the area with vivid lightning, but no active storms in the immediate area. It was 75 degrees F, humid with a light breeze and mostly cloudy. Facing west at 8:32pm, seated and speaking on the phone, I observed a ball of light that was whitish-blue ascend diagonally about 20 degrees above the horizon. It appeared to level off slightly before changing to a pinkish-bluish-purple color as it arced back toward the ground to the point where my view was obstructed. The event lasted 5 to 6 seconds. There were no sounds heard during the event or right after it occurred. When the ball of light first appeared, it seemed to ascend, arcing toward the east/southeast. When it leveled off briefly, it seemed to travel toward the east. When the light descended, it appeared to arc toward the northeast. The brightness of the light seemed to get slightly brighter as it traveled, which makes me think it was moving closer to my position. The ball of light looked like a roman candle type of light. No sparks were emitted from it like what happens as meteorites travel through the atmosphere.
September 13, 2018 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
American Falls, ID
Looking East towards American Falls, ID, from the Crystal Ice Cave area of Craters of the Moon, I saw what looked like the bright white hunting light of a small plane heading in my direction. I estimated it to be approximately 10-15 miles away. It then turned to my right, so I was seeing the light from the side I judged it to be flying about 60 miles per hour. Nothing but the one light was visible. It moved slowly South for 10-15 seconds. I could not hear it. It then made a series of 3 or 4 short darts forward, stopping for a second or 2 each time. It instantly moved about a quarter of a thumb width at arm's length each time it jumped. That was followed by two longer jumps, each more than a thumb width. Each of the jumps was almost instantaneous,, but I could always see the light. It did not blink out and reappear but rather just a very quick dart. About 5 seconds later it moved into the clouds and never reappeared.
September 13, 2018 · 7:28 PM · LIGHT
Monterey, IN
I was observing the moon a nd jupiter when an object caught my attention. The object was a light that kept getting brighter as I focused on it. I thought perhaps it was a pulsing sattelite, but it did not move. The stationary light gradually faded over ten seconds time. It was located 12:00 east-west, and 1:30 south and reached the brightness of venus briefly. I am a 63 year old retired auto mechanic with no bad habits.
September 12, 2018 · 1:58 AM · LIGHT
Cobb, CA
At 1:58 a.m., on Sept 12th, in Lake County, CA, I saw thru a clearing in the tall pine tree forest a large bright red pulsating light traveling from the west moving in a south easterly direction. It was a ways above the 120 foot tall pine trees surrounding my area. It moved in a straight line, pulsating red as it flew across the sky. I saw it clearly for a few seconds in a clearing above my house & then again intermittently through the tall pines as it travelled out of sight. It was moving fast and there was no sound coming from the object. If it had been a plane or helicopter, I would have heard it because of its altitude. The event of seeing it lasted only about 10 seconds, of which I got a clear view of the object for about 3 seconds. It was a dime size large red glowing pulsating ball with no tail.