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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
May 31, 2018 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
North Myrtle Beach, SC
Sitting on front porch of oceanfront beach house, three of us watched the same light ping across the sky and then horizon. It went dark for several minutes. Initially, thought it might be a flare, but was able to rule that out quickly. Then there was actually a formation as it zoomed back closer at what point it formed some circular formation of alternating lights. It went dark again. Then a few minutes later reappeared and jutted horizontally three times to the right, then on the same line, back three times to the left. I’m not one to believe in UFO’s and can’t believe I’m even on this site right now. But this was some weird stuff. Please see other reports from the Myrtle Beach area for this date. PD
May 30, 2018 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Myrtle Beach, SC
As we were leaving (heading toward the shore line) there were 3 orange colored lights along the perimeter of a cloud. 2 were on the top. 1 was on the bottom. They were all equal in size, and each was in the shape of a line. They began to shrink and grown in an alternating pattern. They then shrunk individually and disappeared. The same thing was observed on 6/1 when we were fishing around 10 PM. This time it was one light, same shape, same size, but over the ocean. It contracted and disappeared.
May 28, 2018 · 11:09 PM · LIGHT
Clarkston, WA
I was watching the stars and saw a red flashing light traveling through the sky like a jet plane. It slowed and then stopped and hovered and continued to travel East, then turns and comes, back so then I grabbed my phone and started video taping. I also took a photo which appears as a red ball of light. In the videos it travels under the moon and stops close to a star. It then decends at a rapid speed and slows down and slowly descents to the ground and goes behind a tree. 3 hrs earlier a sighting was apparently seen in California with the same footage. So this can’t be a drone. We spoke with the witness via telephone, and she was quite convinced that she had been witness to something very unusual. She corrected the time of the sighting, which we have amended above. PD
May 28, 2018 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Homosassa, FL
My nephew called me outside at night, just after the storms and rain seemed to clear. We saw as we were facing south, to the west a very bright light just above the tree line. It was mostly stationary, so at first we thought it was a star. However this appeared to be larger than any of the other stars. It appeared to get brighter and larger so I went to get my telescope. Once I got the scope and had it lined up the light dipped slowly down then dimmed and went dark. I put the telescope down and when I did it reappeared got real bright, and appeared to move to the left, then the right. As I set my telescope up again and my nephew tried to video it, it dipped down into the tree line. Then it dimmed and disappeared completely. Attempts to video or take pictures were unsuccessful. The object appeared to me to have blue and green on top and was mostly bright white. The blue and green seemed to alternate. No sound was noted.
May 26, 2018 · 10:15 PM · LIGHT
Gary, SD
My roommate shouted for me to come out on the deck and take a look at several lights that were rising up into the sky. I live on a hilltop, and the alley slopes downward, toward a creek with woods, a park, an inn, and a campground. Venus was clearly visible low in the northwestern sky. These objects were brighter. When I first saw them from the deck, they were shining a deep gold, turning red or orange as they rose higher. They were moving into a formation that appeared to match the constellation Orion. I ran back inside, grabbed my camera, ran back out, and started jogging down the alley to the north, taking pictures as I went. I came to a vacant lot and saw that there were 10 in total. They had broken formation. One began to turn pale, then white, and shot off at high speed to the west. The nine remaining objects began to drift apart. None of them moved very fast, but I did observe upward and downward hovering, lateral movements, pauses, and a few sharp turns. As they were drifting apart, they too began fade, first turning pale yellow, then white, before completely disappearing. Just before they disappeared, a residual haze or aura remained for a few seconds, before dissipating. I walked around town (very small, population 200) and saw plenty of people sitting outside around campfires or tinkering in their garages, but nobody had been looking up. I walked through the campground, but from that vantage point, a heavy canopy of elms and cottonwoods would've obscured the view. Nobody was launching Chinese lanterns. I took a few photos that may be useful. I was able to capture the color changing process, which reminded me of the following quote from John Keel's Operation Trojan Horse: "In a majority of all landing reports, the objects were said to have turned orange or red before descending. When they settle to the ground, they 'solidify' and the light dims or goes out all together. On takeoff, they begin to glow red again. Sometimes they reportedly turn a brilliant red and vanish. Other times, they shift through all the colors of the spectrum, turn white, and fly off into the night sky until they look like just another star." I've seen them in this area before. ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) Hello Peter, I called the hotline shortly after you left me a message about the date of my sighting, which I'd mistakenly entered as June 26. It was supposed to be May 26. Thank you, ((name deleted)) ((END ADDENDUM)) We have amended the date above, but it is only an estimate. We have attempted to contact the source of the report to confirm the date. PD
May 26, 2018 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Hamburg, PA
I had a clear view of a firework show that was a distance away. I noticed a solid red light sitting still above the mountain to the left of the fireworks. Living in an area surrounded by mountains, I just assumed the red light was an airplane signal tower and thought nothing of it. As soon as the fireworks ended the red light started travelling in a straight line to the right at a pretty fast speed. Another firework then went off and without stopping or slowing down, the red light changed directions and moved to the left. The light then slowly changed to a bright green then back to red before disappearing. It seemed to be watching the firework show.
May 26, 2018 · 12:30 PM · LIGHT
Huntington, NY
Over Long Island. A Piper PA-32R Saratoga (N161MA) was flying over Huntington, Long Island during a trip between Minute Man Airfield in Massachusetts and Old Bridge Airport in New Jersey when the pilot encountered a strange object directly in front of his aircraft. He called air traffic controllers stating "I have an object in front of me, I don't know what it is." The controller replies "You mean like a drone or something?" The pilot responds: "I don't know if it's a drone... It's bigger than a drone." The controller responds "Ummmm, I don't show anything on radar." The controller then asks if the object is at his same altitude, the pilot responds in the affirmative. Then the controller asks if the pilot needs to make a turn to avoid the object and the pilot requests a slight change in direction. The controller then queries the pilot to report what he thinks the mysterious craft is as soon as he can. The pilot respond! s that he has no idea what it is and it has since gone behind a cloud. "Definitely something was there" the pilot states. The controller seems oddly adamant that they should assume it was a drone, stating "Ok, I mean, we'll have to assume that it was a drone, that's the only, I mean I don't know if that's the shape assumption or not but I guess that's what we will go by." The pilot responded, "Actually, it looked, uh, like it had lights on it." The controller responds "That's uh, really interesting, uh again, I show nothing on radar so I don't know what to say." The pilot then states "Ok and I know I'm not delusional." The next transmission we hear is from the controller asking the pilot to call in and make a report with specifics about the incident once he lands. He notes that the request is from his manager. The pilot quips "this is the first time I'm getting a phone number that I'm not in trouble!." The controll! er laughs and affirms to him he is not in trouble. He then pas! ses him the number and says they will be awaiting his call. The Piper stayed at about 6,000 feet during the cruise portion of its flight. Weather that day included clear to partly cloudy skies with the temperature in the 80s and benign winds. (The WarZone, June 19, 2018) http://www.nicap.org/match/audios/May-26-2018-1630Z%202.mp3
May 25, 2018 · 10:45 PM · LIGHT
Puyallup, WA
Bright light I’m the night sky. Didn’t move or blink. After about 8 seconds it shimmered and disappeared. No clouds around it. I was driving for work and noticed it. I’m always looking up to try to catch something because I have been training in the field of remote viewing. This is the first time seeing anything since a sighting about 8 years ago. (( Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD))
May 24, 2018 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Livermore, CA
(( Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD))
May 23, 2018 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Marysville, WA
At nearly 10:30 pm on May 23, 2018, I observed a small, white light, high in the E/NE sky near Marysville, WA. At first I thought it could be a satellite, (way up there,) but it slowly, gained speed. I then noticed a brighter and much bigger light, in front of the object. They appeared to be moving in tandem, same heading, (East to North East,) same speed. I was at that time, gauging distance (Are these lights at as high of an altitude as I think?) Then the two objects passed far above a very high, sparse cloud. It was then that I was surprised as they gained speed, one following the other. Their incredible speed was not consistent with my knowledge of military or civilian A/C capability. Then the trailing object stopped and its light dimmed abruptly. (I thought that it had disappeared, so my eyes followed the other object.) The much brighter, larger object continued down the horizon. After following the path of the bigger light with my eyes, I looked back (up) at the area where the smaller object seemed to disappear. I observed what appeared to be a star but was not; the object then brightened and moved off in the same direction as before. I served in the USMC Air-Wing in the 1980's, and I am an avid aeronautics observer. I have seen many things in the sky that I have brushed off but this was different, I have no clue what this was or even what it could have been.
May 23, 2018 · 9:40 PM · LIGHT
Muncie, IN
I work a late shift at Ball State University’s Bracken Library (6PM – 3AM) and while I was talking a walk outside during my lunch hour at approximately 9:40PM I was suddenly overcome by an unexplained chill. Although it was 70 degrees Fahrenheit, I began shivering and my teeth were chattering as if I was walking outside in freezing winter temperatures. At that moment I looked up and saw a brighter than a star solid white light very slowly moving steadily from the southwest towards the northeast. Thankfully there were three airplanes in the sky as well. The airplanes were obvious due to their familiar flashing lights and shape definable by their security lights on the tips of the wings and tail. The object I saw was no airplane. There were no flashing or pulsing lights and no sound. It just a bright solid white light a little bigger and brighter than the surrounding stationary stars and it steadily moved very slowly across the entire arc of the sky in a straight line from southwest to northeast in about two minutes. After it was out of sight my experience of the chills ceased and it felt like 70 degrees Fahrenheit should. Although I mysteriously developed the chills during the sighting, I can report zero feelings of apprehension or fear. In fact it was as if I had no feelings about the sighting at all (and it is my fourth UFO sighting in my 43 years of life).
May 22, 2018 · 8:45 PM · LIGHT
Woodburn, OR
I saw a bright green glowing sphere that morphed a bit and traveled low to the ground along the golf course and homes in my neighborhood. I was able to take some video footage of what I saw. I was on my bicycle and I followed the object for about 5 minutes as I lost sight of it for awhile. I rode my bike around the blocks in my neighborhood trying to regain sight of it again and ended up seeing it again hovering over some homes in my neighborhood. It was right above my house at one point and then drifted over some other people's homes before I lost sight of it again. This object had NO sound and NO one was piloting it and it was very bright green and it morphed slightly as it moved. The color was bright green and the lighting was so amazing, unlike anything conventional I have ever seen before. My phone's video camera doesn't do it much justice compared to what I saw in real life, but I am thankful I was able to get at least some partial video footage of what I witnessed, even though there is about 15 more seconds of activity that I observed before I was able to get to my cell phone camera.
May 20, 2018 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Ashland, OR
gf and I spotted "star," like object in the night sky that began gliding in the night sky seamlessly towards the east, and once the spacecraft passed of the mountains and out of sight... 40-60 Seconds later, a extremelely fiery bright "comet-like" object shot from east to west, streaked completely from east to west until disappearing over the western mountains. The obejct appeared to be wrapping around the horizon as i chased until i lost sight. Also noticably throughout there we no aircrafts during the entire sighting of the spacecraft, and moments after the craft streaked through the air, 2 airplanes with regular airplane jet noises and lights flew over as if the experience never happened… (( Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD))
May 20, 2018 · 9:05 PM · LIGHT
Ricetown, KY
Various (many) sightings over the past month of multiple lights at night in forest behind home, flying in yard, over house. Third year in a row, starting usually around 10th of Apr lasting maybe 3 wks, multiple lights weaving in & out of trees in forest. The lights react to noise, speech. They will come close to humans. The lights are usually white/yellow in color but at times are lime green, sometimes red. When rain appears the lights will rapidly ascend to disappear in sky. I have not noticed any sounds coming from the objects. I am not the only witness on my property. Also, a neighbor with no prior knowledge of my sighting these lights told me of his very similar experience in a nearby farm home he is renovating. This is a heavily forested area, a ntl forest. The objects appear brown/gray in color and seem to be the size of a computer mouse or smaller but when passing by my security light do so hastily as if not wanting to be seen for more than their light! . I believe this is worthy of a closer look as the lights are not shy. I have not seen propellers, antennae or any other protrudence from The lights. The lights maneuver with incredible agility amongst the trees and appear to be curious about people. A neighbor claims knowledge of a downed craft/object as reported by a third party. Also I have video but not of good quality.
May 20, 2018 · 12:12 AM · LIGHT
Covington, NY
Out to the west side of the house there was a very bright light showing in the distance through the woods. It hovered as if it was spotlighting something. It made me wonder if it was some kind of helicopter that was using a spotlight. I got out the binoculars but had a hard time seeing fully with the leaves just coming out on the trees. All I could see is that it was very very bright and moving very succinctly. Woke up my husband and he caught a brief glimpse before it disappeared. We do have helicopters that fly by here regularly but I opened the window -- there was no engine noise like there would have been for something like that or even an airplane. All I can say is, it was attention getting as it is not the normal lights seen around here. Been an hour now and no bight light... I'm submitting report in case others do as well.
May 19, 2018 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Spital (UK/England) · United Kingdom
Looking south west from spital. Probably same height as commercial aircraft (Know this because a commercial aircraft passed through roughly the same airspace 10 mins after the sighting. Three red balls of light in a horizontal configuration, hovering, no visible movement, silent with no engine noise. Then each ball shot upward with incredible speed with a gap of about 5 seconds between each ball.
May 19, 2018 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Blanchester, OH
Finally after about 20-30 seconds of amazement, the lights did a quick fade to sky. my friend's house is on tucker road and the lights appeared to be somewhere over fayetteville.
May 17, 2018 · 11:20 PM · LIGHT
Pisgah Forest, NC
There appeared to be a couple of aircraft in the sky at the same time. I heard nothing unusual.
May 17, 2018 · 9:45 PM · LIGHT
Everglades, FL
On the evening of May 17, 2018, I was on my sailboat anchored in the Little Shark River in the Everglades of Florida. The evening was very dark with a glow on the eastern horizon caused by light pollution from the Miami area of the southern tip of Florida. The stars were out and bright and the sound of high flying planes was slightly audible along with the blinking lights of their flight overhead. At approximately 2145 I saw bright flashing lights approaching from the west and I said "here comes the light show". I thought at the moment it was a helicopter, maybe up from the Keys doing a night training flight. I quickly realized that was not the case. The lights, which were flashing in a one-two strobe effect were very bright and materialized into a string of lights on what was probably 4 or 5 craft. They were flying in a "follow the leader" pattern. There was no sound. Their altitude was hard to judge because of the blackness of the night and the brightness of the lights, but my guess would be under 5 thousand feet. Their path was straight out of the west, then a sharp turn to the south, then a sharp turn to continue east and out of sight. The whole passage was less than one minute. This was witnessed by two other adults on my boat I consider myself to be a qualified observer. My background includes many years in aerospace engineering along with close work with astronaut trainees.
May 17, 2018 · 3:30 AM · LIGHT
Irvine, CA
When I opened my eyes there was what looked like a small star in the sky at about 80 degrees. It looked like it was about 5 to 10 miles away. The object was moving in place in small movements side to side and up and down. The lights were brighter than a small star. The object was moving in place, but moving in a downward trajectory. When it was at about 20 degrees I lost track. It was up for more than 30 minutes.
May 17, 2018 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Miami, FL
It was a rainy night they came from behind rain cloud in formation of 4 in arrow formation followed by 2 off to left flying same speed going SE, lost sight when another cloud hid them again.
May 16, 2018 · 4:50 AM · LIGHT
Nashua, NH
I was getting out of bed just before 5 a.m. The window and window shade were open. I glanced out the window and saw a very bright, stationary object off to the west of Hudson, NH. I remarked to my husband that there was a very bright star in the sky, which I assumed was a planet, and I said I had never seen one so bright. I am used to seeing the planet Venus as a bright star, but this was at least 5 times, or more, larger than that. He looked at it and said it was like something he had encountered as a teenager and described as a UFO. He laid back down and I got up to go into the next room and when I looked out that window, it was gone. Neither one of us saw it leave, but it had disappeared. (( Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD))
May 15, 2018 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Bemidji/Grand Rapids (between), MN
On May 15, 2018, at 10:30 pm I was driving from Bemidji, MN, to Grand Rapids, MN, on Hwy 2. There were scattered clouds with mostly clear skies. The stars were beautiful that night. As I was driving I saw what I thought was a falling star than I saw a second. These were not falling stars as they were too low on the sky. My estimate would be only a few hundred feet at most. They were not heat lightening as their quality was of a search light beam. I slowed the car down to look for a source but saw nothing attached to the lights. I drove home wondering what they could have been. The next day I was telling my sister what I saw and she said she saw them too. I was driving through heavy forested land with no towns near by & my sister saw them 50 miles away so they weren't flood lights from a car dealership either. I wonder if anyone else saw them. Sent from my iPhone
May 14, 2018 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Colorado Springs, CO
My boyfriend and I have seen these several times. We just now found this site and we are amazed. We were driving between Fort Carson and NORAD and saw 3 bright orange yellow lights in the sky that slowly faded then quickly came back.