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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
February 23, 2018 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Tooele, UT
I sat down in my garage to have a cigarette, when I noticed a bright, rapidly flashing light in the sky over Butterfield Canyon (possibly further East) that was moving at about the speed of a plane headed Northwest. I immediately knew that it wasn't a plane or helicopter because the color of the light was changing between white, red, blue, green, orange and possibly purple. I also noticed 3 white flashing lights; one on each side and one above the main light described. I ran thru the house to my front door, stepped outside and attempted to capture video, but wasn't able to capture what I was seeing accurately. By this time the craft had stopped moving, hovering in one place and the 3 surrounding lights were no longer visible. The main light continued to flash and color change rapidly, showing a bright red roughly every 30-45 seconds. It then began to dim and seemed to be slowly moving East. I yelled for my fiance, who also witnessed the strangeness of this craft. We watched together for about 15 minutes but decided to go back to the garage where we watched it until it changed direction again, now moving Southeast until it was hidden from view by a large tree. We went inside to go to bed. I've never witnessed anything like this before. I'm positive it wasn't anything of human origin because of the movement, colors and total lack of sound as it moved and hovered. I'd certainly love to know what it is though!
February 22, 2018 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Lebanon, CT
On the end of Waterman RD headed to center of Lebanon. Direction is almost exactly Northeast. The entire horizon is bright florescent green. There is nothing in that direction besides fields, and forest. Windham is too far to the left of where this is. Lights up about 90° worth of horizon to the NE, and the brightest part is just right of NE. Very bright and distracting, almost had an accident because of distraction. When I arrived home, had a friend validate at 11:30 PM and it is still going on.
February 21, 2018 · 9:37 PM · LIGHT
Pineywoods/Sipsey area, AL
Was pulling up to my house and seen a bright light brighter than a star or an airplane with multiple color flashing lights around it it hovered over the trees off in the distance and as I was getting out of my car it look like it was moving towards me I went in the house and came back out it was there for A few Moments and disappeared almost as if iCloud moved over it and blocked it but there’s no clouds. We have amended the time, assuming a nighttime sighting. Report was originally posted with a time of 9:37 a.m.. PD
February 21, 2018 · 9:00 AM · LIGHT
Pinellas, FL
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
February 21, 2018 · 2:15 AM · LIGHT
Oriskany Falls, NY
My friend and boyfriend and I were standing on my porch when we noticed up the road the was a almost coming from the ground there was no way it was a street light or a car because it no on was around and we live in the country, so we were staring at it trying to come up with a logical explanation for what it was and we started to walk towards it and it disappeared about 5 minutes later a car came from the opposite direction towards where we saw it and when the headlights got the area there was nothing there
February 20, 2018 · 8:00 AM · LIGHT
Calabash, NC
I was standing outside of The Boundary House restaurant in Calabash, North Carolina. While talking to another employee in the parking lot, I looked South into the sky and where I was looking it seemed to be in a triangle until it began to get closer, I saw two red flashing lights followed by three white flashing lights that seem to be moving together as one but spaced out, both a circular shape. The three white flashing lights seemed to be in a triangle and the white lights were placed two in the front one in the back. As the unknown source(s) passes over me and the employee’s headgoing north, slowly, the red flashing lights were still in front of the three white flashing lights. This event lasted for about 10 minutes until it passed over the trees where I could no longer see it.
February 20, 2018 · 4:00 AM · LIGHT
Chula Vista, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
February 19, 2018 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Mansfield, GA
Two very close big bright bluish lights falling from the sky like very big meteors or falling stars but very very very big and falling really really slow.
February 19, 2018 · 9:55 PM · LIGHT
Kingsport, TN
This is the second time my wife and have seen somethung like this in the area. The other time she seen it, she was by herself, and I was by myself the last time I seen it. This makes 3 times for both of us in the last 5 months.
February 19, 2018 · 8:15 PM · LIGHT
Troy, KS
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
February 19, 2018 · 5:45 AM · LIGHT
Friday Harbor, WA
Strong winds had blown all night long making the early morning sky clear and dark, with the early morning stars and planets extra visible and a few of the larger ones were tinted orange-ish in color. I was driving into town on my way to the gym. With mornings like these, I love looking up at the sky. Because it’s so early in the morning there are no other cars around me. Town is empty. I always try to look up at the sky anyway because when I was about 16 years old, (roughly 1992) my father and I experienced a real UFO sighting together out in Palm Desert. That one was a major experience with an actual craft that moved like a shooting star after hovering in place for about an hour. My point is – because I look at the sky a lot, I’ve seen a lot of anomalies that I felt could have some explanation, and none of which were remotely similar as to what I saw that night out in the desert with my dad -- until this morning. I was driving slowly down Second Street, as I mentioned, looking straight ahead and up towards the clear black sky. Suddenly, right in front of me was this very, very white light that flashed in front of me and my initial response was that it was a shooting star. But there were two things that went with this that made me second guess the whole shooting star thing. First, the way it moved. I didn’t see where it came from but that it entered my field of vision from the right moving towards the left. And it moved just like a shooting star but into a upside down ‘U’ shape and just vanished ---not vanished from my field of vision like behind a tree or behind hills or a building--vanished. Disappeared. As if there were a tiny little pocket waiting for it and it dove into that. There was a trail of light and then there wasn’t. The second thing is that if it were a shooting star, it was way too close to the earth. We have small, single engine, prop personal planes, puddle jumpers and sea planes coming in and out of our tiny airport here. It was a similar distance to one of those little planes about to land. Like most islanders, I’m very familiar with these planes being around and what they look like when they are landing or taking off. This thing I saw moved and looked like a shooting star but was very close to the earth and moved in an arch shape before disappearing into a seeming pocket in the sky. A white light, no pulsating and no other lights, no other colors of light. I’m open to explanations! I would love to know your opinion on the matter. Sorry I don't have a photo, it happened too fast. Thank you!
February 18, 2018 · 5:00 PM · LIGHT
Bloomington, MN
On my way home on 494 and highway 5 there was 3 bright light in the sky kinda over the Mississippi River in a slanted downward angle sitting motionless the lights would fade out and back on like they where going around something but they did not move in any direction just hovering there for almost 10 mins then just vanished. Advertising lights at a local casino? PD
February 17, 2018 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Cairo, NY
I need to start this by admitting that the three of us who witnessed this had taken LSD about 20 minutes prior to our sighting. Despite this, the drug had not had enough time to take effect, and I am confident we all saw what we saw. Two friends and I were going to break into this abandoned cabin on top of the mountain and spend the night. We all took a tab of acid at the bottom, and started walking. After about 10-15 minutes of hiking, I remember noticing flashes of lights in the corner of my eye. We had flashlights to navigate the dark, so I didn't think much at first, assuming I was just seeing our own lights. The light would shine like a spot light, piercing a small area, and moved light a search light. It was almost like those lights at a movie premiere or something. It was intermittent and inconsistent, happening at different times, with different amounts of beams each time. We kept walking and I ignored it. I thought maybe I was just seeing things. I didn't feel like I was tripping yet but I blamed it on the acid at first We walked for about 5-10 minutes more before coming to a quick stop. We each caught our breath, drank some water, and one of my friends starts playing with his ken dama (Japanese ball toy). He lands a couple tricks, all whole this lights are strobing here and there. I ignored it and just watched my friend play, landing some nasty tricks. But one particular strobe hit us just the right way, and I noticed my friend stop for a second and look up in the direction the light came from. That's when I asked if anybody else had been seeing these lights. As soon as I said something, we all excitedly started to repeat each other. We had all been seeing these lights and ignoring them, thinking it was either our own flashlights or just apart of the high, yet none of us felt as if we were tripping yet. We turned off our flashlights, and the strobes continued. They came from all different places, but all in about the same direction, we didn't have to turn our bodies to watch them all, coming from the west of us if I remember correctly. We sat and watched for about 5-10 minutes before they're seemed to stop. We all still felt sober. We continued our walk but didn't see anything out of the ordinary. We finally got to the abandoned cabin about 20 minutes later. It was about this time I felt the drug start to kick in. We spend the night in the cabin without anything strange happening, but none of us still know what we saw. The next morning we left the cabin. While hiking down, we heard the distant sound of a snow mobile. My one friend (who's idea it was to stay at this cabin) prompted us to hide. We jumped to the side of the trail and waited as the snowmobile neared. It was a neighbor of my friend. The cabin, as it turned out, wasn't truly abandoned. It still the property of a friend of the neighbor on the snow mobile. The neighbor checks in on the cabin from time to time while out riding. We hoped he would drive on by this time, as we had left quite a mess from the previous night. As we get back to my friend's house, we hear the snow mobile coming back down the mountain. My friend prompted us to run. I had no idea where in the woods I was so I stayed behind my friend like my life depended on it. I had no idea where our other friend went but he sprinted the opposite direction We ran till we got back towards the road and his behind a trailer quickly. My friend that I had followed just the noticed that out other friend wasn't with us. As soon as he asked where he went, we heard someone scream "HEY YOU THERE". Instantly my friend got up to continue the run home and I followed without hesitation. We made it back to his house and ran up to his room. I was gonna grab my car keys (which I had left in his room) and go drive around looking for our friend, but he showed up before I made it out the door. Out of breath, we excitedly recount what had just happened thinking we had gotten away, but the neighbor had was able to track the prints in the snow back to the house. From the room we watched him turn around and go to his home, unsure what his next move was. We started to plan for the rest of the day when we saw two State Troopers drive down the road to the neighbors house. Once again, without hesitation, I got out of there. My and the kid that ran the opposite direction left our friends house. I dropped him off at his house, went back to mine, and fell asleep. When I woke up, I was told that the friend we had left had gotten arrested for Trespassing. Here's the weird part. When he was taken in and questioned, they asked about the lights. From what he told me they wanted to know if we were the ones shining the light, or if we even saw it. From what he told me, he denied seeing or knowing anything. Before being brought in he told his mom and dad what we saw, and they told him not to say anything about it. His father had told him that he had seen similar lights in the Mount decades ago. Over 5 years later, I still have no idea what we saw
February 17, 2018 · 8:56 PM · LIGHT
Brighton, CO
At first we thought they were drones, but then they went higher and faded away at a fast pace...one disappeared first, then the other, but the orange lights became brighter before fading out like a candle with a low flame. It was the craziest thing ive seen in my life! Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
February 17, 2018 · 8:33 PM · LIGHT
Barrington, NH
I stepped outside for a smoke last night at exactly 8:33pm, and when I looked in the sky, I saw a light moving from the eastern sky, moving tward the north, about 20-30 degrees from the horizon. I then noticed that ther was another one coming up behind it. Then came another, and another, and they just kept coming. They where just bright, orange (almost shimmering) bright lights. There was no flashing lights, and there was no landing / take off head lights on these. Then there was two, almost on top of each other, and the one on top moved up and away (much too fast for conventional aircraft) and then I couldn’t see it. But I could still see the one below it, moving at the same speed as before. Then, to my amazement, one of these things shot down (out of nowhere) and stopped right on top of one of the lights (that was following the same path as the rest of these) and continued at the same speed as the one next to it. Again, no conventional aircraft can make t! hese movements. I know how fighter jets, and helicopters move, very well. It was not any of those. Now, I saw these lights just minutes before a snow storm started. It actually started to snow just seconds after I saw the last light disappear. So, since it was extremely cloudy, with a very low ceiling, these objects couldn’t have been too far away, and they where completely silent. In fact, it was strange how quiet it became when these where passing by. I say that, because I live near an Airforce base, and after I saw these objects, I could hear all kinds of military jets flying all around me overhead, but I could NOT see any of the lights from the aircraft flying over me. The air base is only about 20 miles from my house, and they are very low when they fly over. It's very strange, that I could see all of these lights, with no sound; and then right after, hear jets over me, but not see any of the lights from them. (Just minutes apart) I did take a video with my phone, but it’s very poor in the dark, and you can only see bits and pieces of what I was seeing. After I came back inside, I went through the video, and at times when my camera picked up the lights, I went through frame by frame. When I snapped screenshots of the frames where these where visible, I actually captured blue lights around these orange lights. I didn’t see them when I was out there.
February 17, 2018 · 7:15 PM · LIGHT
Cathedral City, CA
Walked out my back door I noticed 2 extremely bright stars in the southern sky just east of Sirius. My wife was sitting out there and I said to her o.m.g look at those bright lights as she looked up & saw them they both faded away .
February 17, 2018 · 6:40 PM · LIGHT
San Diego, CA
My husband called me outside to ask what they were. We saw 5 or 6 orange/reddish lights, like small flames moving slowly like a drone would. They were moving in a southwesterly direction, and as they got into a line, they just fizzled out. It was very strange. I tried to capture pics on my phone, but they look white and are not very good shots.
February 17, 2018 · 7:45 AM · LIGHT
Tampa, FL
Source of report provides no information. PD
February 16, 2018 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Hardy, VA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
February 16, 2018 · 12:34 PM · LIGHT
Enroute to Michigan, IN
At approximately 12:34 pm, I was driving down the highway leaving Michigan to return to Indiana, and I started seeing disks of light move across the sky, above the overcast clouds. Several moved across the sky in a way to which I thought they might have been shooting stars (lasted a few minutes), until two of them began to move in a large circling motion over the highway. The disks were hazy but very visible. Eventually we passed the lights (the whole event lasted around 10 minutes) and didn't see anything else that night.
February 16, 2018 · 1:15 AM · LIGHT
Cheyenne, WY
My husband and I went in our back yard on February 15. 2018, to smoke a cigarette. It was 23:15 hours and our back yard faces southeast. I noticed an unusually bright star in the sky and showed my husband. He noticed that it didn’t blink like the other stars do. It was very windy and clear that night. Later on (back in the house), I grabbed binoculars and looked at it again before I went to bed. That was around 00:30 hrs. The star was in the same position as earlier and through the binoculars it looked like 2 stars very close together. I told my husband I believe the star seems so bright because it is just two stars very close together. We left it at that and went to bed. The next night ( February 16) we came home from the late movies and went in the back yard to smoke. It was 01:10 in the morning and we immediately spotted the bright star in the exact same place as the night before. This time I took a picture with my I phone 6 and then decided to zoom in on it ( in video mode) to see if I could get a better look at it that way. When I zoomed in and started filming I saw that it was two lights very close together. They were both round and reminded me of headlights of a car but like I said before, very close together. In fact they were so close to each other I could not see where one ended and the other one started. It looked in shape like a sideways number 8 shape, made of two bright lights that touch each other. What I saw made me quiet unsure because neither me nor my husband had an immediate explanation for that “thing”. What we do know for sure is that it was about at least 5 miles away from us and a couple thousand feet high in the air. We live in a new built area with not much around us yet so we’re sure that it was no lights from anything on the ground. Also, my husband who is active Air Force is very good at estimating distances. (This is because he was a weapon instructor for 8 years and is used to estimating distances due to that job.) We are not the kind of people to jump to conclusions but the sighting left us both with the wish for a rational explanation. Also not being able to explain the sighting left me so antsy that night that I could not go to sleep until after 02:30 in the morning. I checked one last time around 02:30 hrs to see if that “star” was still there and it was, again in the very same position as before ( and the night before). On both nights that we saw it, it seemed stationary in the sky. Neither one of us ever saw it move. Lastly I wanna say that we both had not been drinking any alcohol. We were absolutely sober on both nights. We are very rational people and that’s why we’d welcome a logical explanation for what we saw. Please let us know what you make of this. Thank you !
February 15, 2018 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Fosston, MN
I was driving on a dirt road at 10pm and I see this green light in the sky, maybe about 70 feet in front of me and about 30 feet in the air. It went up, then down, and then after a few seconds, I saw the light just move slowly, then it vanishes, nothing in sight. We attempted to contact the source of the report, in order to confirm the date, and were greeted by a string of profanity. Hoax? PD
February 15, 2018 · 5:00 AM · LIGHT
Miami, FL
To whom it may concern: We deliver food for schools (frozen food) and like any morning we arrived little earlier then the schools opens. While I was looking through the paperwork my driver starts screening at me if he is seeing things, he asked me if I saw the same lights as he was. I look up and sure enough there they are. About 10 of them in perfect line formation equal distance apart. I wasn’t sure what was it we were looking at but I told him yes I sure do see them. As soon as I said that these lights that were just hovering in the air rose about 20% straight up (all together) then they stopped, and then, they became instant circle like number 0 in the air. At this point maybe 40+ seconds have passed and I jumped out of the truck grabbed my phone and started recording. I have 48 seconds of the footage of what we saw afterwards and would love to share it with you. Some people speculate drones or paratroopers but we checked and there were no paratroopers anywhere near and it’s hard for me to believe it was drones as their moves define laws of physics. I would love to share the video with you it’s incredable and 100% original and what we saw.
February 14, 2018 · 9:10 PM · LIGHT
Bend, OR
See other reports from OR and WA. Possibly space debris? PD