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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
August 2, 2018 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Pensacola, FL
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 2, 2018 · 3:00 AM · LIGHT
Saskatoon (Canada), SK · Canada
I was having a fitful sleep as a result of a thunderstorm that was blowing through our city in the middle of the night. At about 3:00 a.m. a bright flash of lightning and a loud thunderclap startled me awake again. Looking out our bedroom window, I could see that most of the storm had passed from the southwest and was now mostly east of us. As I was looking, I saw a white light to the south-southwest about as bright as Mars has been these past few weeks. I thought, a star, that means the storm must be breaking up and I can get a few hours of sleep. But then, I saw that it was moving and after a few seconds I thought perhaps it was the ISS, based on how fast it was going and the direction it was going - mostly eastward, but with a slight northerly track. But I also thought that it didn't appear as bright as when I saw the ISS pass overhead a couple weeks ago. But then the light began a gradual turn and after about two or three seconds continued to the north or to the north-northwest. Well, that's peculiar I thought, and sat up to look more intently at the sky. The light disappeared out of my view, blocked by the window frame. Then another light appeared, from more or less the same region of the sky as the first. It was moving about the same speed, going slightly to the southeast. Then it, too, turned and moved off to the north. Up until this time, I thought I was viewing these lights against a clear sky, having thought the storm had moved off to the east. But at the next moment, a bright flash of lightning in the east lit up the whole sky and I could see that the entire sky was filled with clouds, with no breaks to see the stars, and the area from which the lights had appeared was in fact a large, dark thundercloud. Reviewing the public weather radar some four hours later, I would guess that the cloud could have been between 20 and 60 miles away, although at the time I had the impression that it was almost upon the city, less than 5 miles away. As I continued to watch, a second or two after the lightning, a third light appeared from the same area of the sky and continued on a path similar to the first one, at first heading east but then turning to the north or northwest. I watched the cloud for two or three minutes but saw no additional lights, then went back to bed.
August 1, 2018 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Brooklyn Park, MD
At around 22:00 EST I made my way outside and noticed a flashing bright red light to the north east. At first I thought it was just a plane but the object did not move. I went inside and grabbed my daughter to show her the object and when I returned the light had changed colors as well as the position of the light source but had not moved. I had two more adults join me outside to ask what they thought of the light. After two minutes of watching the light change color the object began to move at a seemingly instantaneous speed to the south west then slightly back north before heading south west again and stopping before the object turned to a red color again. While trying to get a better view of the object which was now behind a tree we could see the object go from a red color to a green and then to a white before disappearing after being visible for four minutes.
August 1, 2018 · 8:00 AM · LIGHT
Naples, FL
Was driving down 9-51 / Collier Blvd. at 8:00 AM Wednesday, August 1st, 2018, on my way to work (approximate coordinates 26.177734, -81.686994), when I noticed a bright white spot on the large cumulonimbus clouds in the distance, which were a washed out hazy gray color. The spot was diffuse and formless from my point of view, and seemed to be either inside the cloud or very near to it. (relative size was about the size of a dime at arm's length) After about 5 seconds of the spot remaining stationary, it blinked out of view. It did not change its size or brightness in that time, it was there and then it was gone. My eyes were open the entire time.
August 1, 2018 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Wenatchee, WA
Very faint satellite crossing north to south at hypersonic speed, many times faster than a normal satellite. Powerful flash of light about every 15 seconds. It was going so fast that the flashes of light were an elongated tube of brilliant blue trailing the object with every flash. I watch the satellites regularly and it's not that common, but some will flash a powerful light. This one I'm talking about was hypersonic with a flash. Two years ago, my wife saw 5 different ufos over Wenatchee in a 6 night and day period, she reported some to both mufon and NURC. It got to the point that she was afraid to look up at the sky! There was an Air Show at Pangborn Airport over a month ago, and I was following a DC3 over Wenatchee with binoculars, when I spotted what looked like an aluminum pop can in the distance with one jagged end like a firecracker blew out one end.
July 31, 2018 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Greenwich, CT
At first, we thought "wow 2 planes are getting very close to each other" (literally facing each other) until we realized one was an actual airplane and the other object then started to back away from the airplane, as the airplane kept going its original way the other light stayed in position after moving. As if they knew we were watching it stayed there still for quite a long time. Then we saw another bigger light falling (almost like an asteroid) we followed it since we were driving and there were no sight of landing (it seemed to have landed in the middle of the park) When we arrived home we looked up at the sky for a little and realized many tiny stars moving different directions and flashing...that's when i freaked out and went inside... could it have anything to do with the moon? it was huge last night!
July 28, 2018 · 11:10 PM · LIGHT
Horseshoe Bend, ID
While relaxing after paragliding at Horseshoe Bend Flight Park we were in a circle sitting and chatting while enjoying the the night. This is culmination of initial witnesses, and later witnesses. The first 2 people were looking up at the stars and see a small but bright light (approx 1/4 the brightness of the moon) very high in the atmosphere. It was reported to be "weaving" slowly through the sky. It extended a short beam of light out and would then trace this line to its next location. These motions were small and no more than 1 degree across the night sky. At this time me and the other 6 people looked up to observe the object. The beam turned off but continued to pulse brightly while making a slow right turn from south to the west. Pulsing about 4 times more before it disappeared. About the time we became vocal about what we were witnessing it disappeared. I am very familiar with drones, the ISS, aircraft, satellites as well as any other objects and how they look in the night sky. I am also well versed in astronomy. This was absolutely unusual. What it is, I have no idea but it was nothing close to anything I have ever seen.
July 28, 2018 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Eugene, OR
Then both became Solid Red lights or Balls and the right light floated and moved due North... No pattern Then both Lights sank below tree line
July 28, 2018 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Hansville (Bangor Submarine Base), WA
The lights looked to be hovering in the vicinity of the Bangor Sub Base. Three lights disappeared leaving three. Soon the three lights became one and then disappeared.
July 28, 2018 · 1:00 AM · LIGHT
Lebanon, OR
After its slow approach in my general frontal view from east to west, it seemed to almost come to a stop and then began a descent towards the ground in an angled or arched movement however, but not in a straight downward descent. At that point, I lost sight of it as it descended down below thebroof/tree/horizon lin! e that was out in of me in the near distance. In summation, I believe that this was not a typical aircraft (small prop plan or helicopter) and that it was under some sort of intelligent control.
July 27, 2018 · 7:30 PM · LIGHT
Beatrice, NE
After it flashed there was a small dark floating dissipating black cloud. I believe my passenger saw it too, yet didn't say anything either. Meteorites don't leave a dissipating "puff-cloud" of black smoke.
July 27, 2018 · 3:00 AM · LIGHT
Brighton, CO
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 26, 2018 · 10:15 PM · LIGHT
Ochlocknee Bay, FL
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 24, 2018 · 9:45 PM · LIGHT
Arcadia, CA
While driving on I-210 from Pasadena, CA, to Arcadia, CA, I witnessed a white star-like object (in size, brightness, and color) drop in a straight line from an apparent high altitude to almost ground level. I say “almost” because it was dark out, and I could not clearly discern distance to the object, or where the ground would be. I did not detect an impact. I felt that the object was at least 10 to 15 miles away, in other words, quite a ways away. However, I cannot rule out that it was quite close. The object did not change color or shape, nor did it have a tail. I immediately thought it might be a meteor, which is entirely possible, but it did not look like the many other meteors I have seen. It was more reminiscent of a bright satellite. I saw something extremely similar on 5 January 2007 in Huntsville, AL.
July 24, 2018 · 9:20 PM · LIGHT
Sarasota, FL
Green football shaped light for a matter of just a few seconds went across the sky.
July 21, 2018 · 3:30 AM · LIGHT
Aurora, CO
This is the second night this has happened in a row. The first night was last night, with my friend; he was doing astrophotography and noticed what we thought to be a planet, until it shot to the right quickly. It appeared to be a bright orange-ish light. Just a big, abnormally bright, amber-orange ball of light. It moved like a jellyfish kind of; it would dart left, then float back right a little, and dart left again, but it would change directions quickly. From what we saw, there was no distinct pattern in the flight. I did manage to capture some video. Then, tonight (7/21), we were outside smoking, and look up to see the same amber colored ball outside, same movement type. It has gone on for a the better part of an hour from when we noticed.
July 21, 2018 · 12:18 AM · LIGHT
Lethbridge (Canada), AB · Canada
At 1218 AM, having a smoke in back yard looking up at night sky watching a satellite pass then another satellite pass close to other satellite the light faded looking west I noticed a extremely bright white light moving towards me. I said what is that. I was wondering what is this it's so slow and bright with no sounds passing over my house, I had my phone clicking on the camera I click camera record on. I am recording the ufo wondering what is this not a plane, not a helicopter, not a satellite it's so low so bright traveling from South West, I believe around 10 to 15 thousand feet. I also took pictures of ufo. I will send my pictures & videos. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 20, 2018 · 11:30 PM · LIGHT
Coon Rapids, IA
While camping in the remote area of White Rock, with sky's so dark you can see the milky way, my boyfriend and I were observing what we thought was a satellite before we noticed the strange flight pattern. The object was a bright white light similar to a planet or a star.As we watched, the object was slowy moving in a zigzag type pattern for around 1 minute before suddenly taking off in a straight line at a much faster speed. It then flashed bright yellow and took off incredbly fast leaving a trail of light and disappeared.
July 20, 2018 · 11:30 PM · LIGHT
Macklin (Canada), SK · Canada
There was a bright white light brighter than anything else in the sky and it was moving very quickly and it was not moving in a straight line, it seemed to waver from side to side at times. It moved across the sky. We are certain that it was low enough to be in our atmosphere and it was way brighter than any stars. We watched it for about 4 minutes until it was out of our sight.
July 20, 2018 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Springfield, OR
Might be an aircraft, but what was weird is the large bright light stayed bright even when it passed to the north. No beacon or strobes of any kind. In fact other aircraft were in the sky at the time and as a pilot I do know the difference. I would say its speed was double of what the other aircraft were traveling at the time. We will be out tonight to see if it reoccurs. Thank you.
July 20, 2018 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Owens Cross Roads, AL
We first observed a bright, white light that seemed to be rapidly traveling from the south to a northeasterly direction in the eastern sky. It then dropped below the tree line after several minutes. The second sighting we observed was a few minutes later in the western sky. The second object was a massive bright, white light which looked to be an order of magnitude larger than Venus in the night sky. It remained stationary in the western sky for approximately 15 minutes before moving out of sight behind the mountain range. There was no sound, flickering or varying in intensity. The sky was clear with no clouds present.
July 20, 2018 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Lake Wylie, SC
Three reddish lights, one after the other, climbing from low to high in the south-southeast part of the sky, headed west, followed shortly by a fourth one. No sound. No shape. We were on a boat on the lake. There was also an airplane that went by in another part of the sky which was bright and noisy, which made the silence of the UFOs more obvious. One witness says he watched the fourth UFO for a while and saw the reddish light go off, leaving just a rounded dark object with no visible wings. He says the UFOs were coming from the direction of the nuclear plant. It was not quite full dark yet. They were moving too fast to be balloons. Possibly helicopters or drones but very quiet.
July 20, 2018 · 3:50 AM · LIGHT
Las Vegas, NV
Witnessed a bright orange or red light at around 3:51AM. I was walking east on Washington and noticed a bright light above the homes and treeline facing almost north east. The light appeared to be a light flare but the duration was too long and steady to be one. The event lasted about 10 seconds. No sound or pulsating lights occurred. Never seen such an object in the skies before. I was able to record the phenomenon and it can be clearly seen on video. I was able to catch the object disappear on video as well. The object never moved, it stood steady and bright and just went out like a lamp in the sky.
July 19, 2018 · 9:55 PM · LIGHT
Langhorne, PA
2 light objects seen in the southern sky from our position. First object the size of larger star traveling west to east. Second object half the size of first traveling same direction and velocity directly behind the first object approx. 2 index finger width. Traveled simultaneous in sync for approx. 15 seconds. A third object appeard in eastern sky for a split second emitting a extremely bright flash. The 2 traveling objects then disappeared. Sky is clear. No visual impairments.