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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.
1,643 entries
September 18, 2015 · 10:00 PM · CHEVRON
Sherman Oaks, CA
The other evening, Friday September 18, 2015, we were in our backyard with friends, in Sherman Oaks, CA. My friend was looking at the evening sky. She is an interior designer. She is quite visual and I am a painter and a teacher. She said, what is that? I looked up and we saw a chevron shaped flying something. It looked like a boomerang with running lights along the bottom. There may have been four or five lights on each arm of the thing. The lights were extremely dim, bluish in color, but difficult to describe almost like eyeballs not really lights.. It was completely silent. The only sound was us screaming at each other. It was something real. Maybe a military flying thing, but why would they be flying in Sherman Oaks, unless they were landing in Van Nuys? Maybe a drone, but it looked like nothing either of us had ever seen before. It was hard to tell how large it was. I thought it was larger and higher than my friend. But it had to have been quite high to pass over the tall trees. My husband also saw it out of the corner of his eye. Source of report indicates that the date of the event is approximate. PD
September 18, 2015 · 9:30 PM · CHEVRON
Fort Collins, CO
We were climbing the side of the engineering building at Colorado State University at 9:30 pm on Friday the 18th, 2015, when out of the corner of my eye I saw a chevron shaped flying object glide over head. I immediately yelled to my friend "do you see that?!" I jumped off the building and we saw the flying object continue to glide over and past the building heading south. It was gliding at a slow speed (maybe 10 to 15 mph) around 40 to 50 feet off the ground. It was a chevron v shape flying object that looked almost like it was projecting stars on the bottom, like a chameleon cloaking device so that it would not be noticed. We could still make out the broad outline and movement of the outline as the stars it projected did not match with the sky as the sky was slightly overcast with only a few stars showing. It looked to have a 20 foot wingspan. It made no noise what so ever. The night was dead quite, we could not even hear any wind from it gliding. After gliding for 15 seconds since I first spotted it out of the corner of my eye, it disappeared. There was no flash of light like it was taking off, it just completely disappeared. We spent the rest of the night looking for it in the sky, but never spotted it again. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 14, 2015 · 6:30 PM · CHEVRON
Catalina Township, AZ
Taking photo with small Olympus digital camera of large cumulous thunderhead cloud over head, snapped three consecutive pictures one right after another, did not notice any craft during the actual snapshots until loaded onto desk top computer seeing a bright glimmering object against the cloud near the top, after zooming in the object a seemingly chevron shaped luminescent object can be seen. I'm certain it is not a lens reflection because the other two photos do not have it and the clouds were shading the view from any bright sunlight. How do I send you the photos?
September 13, 2015 · 10:00 PM · CHEVRON
Savannah, GA
My sister noticed it and we all looked up and saw it. It was a large V-shaped craft with dimly glowing lights on the underside. It flew completely soundless and in a steady straight path. It seemed to come from northwest and fly south southeast. It was only in view for a few seconds. It was somewhat hard to see. It wasn't well lit, so it blended in with the sky a little bit.
September 9, 2015 · 9:30 PM · CHEVRON
San Jose, CA
We looked up and saw a chevron shaped craft headed South towards the Santa Cruz Mt. range. It moved quite quickly. It had seven oval shaped dim lights on it that we could both see clearly. It was dark in color and after about 5 seconds it slowly dimmed its lights and vanished. Then, about 5 seconds later, there was an extremely BRIGHT, small round craft that flashed and then shot off towards the same direction as the first draft and vanished. It was amazing. Amazing. ((ADDENDUM FROM SOURCE)) Peter, Our sighting actually occurred at 21:30 on 9/9/15. That's 9:30pm PST. Thanks for checking. Best, ((name deleted)) ((END ADDENDUM))
September 6, 2015 · 10:00 PM · CHEVRON
Yukon, OK
Another object to the Southwest doing the same thing.. We suspect that the witnesses may have been observing a so-called "twinkling" star. PD
September 6, 2015 · 11:45 AM · CHEVRON
Spencer, MA
I was walking out my front door and noticed a strange sound coming from the sky similar to that of a helicopter, which is what I expected to see in the sky when I looked up. Instead, I saw a V-shaped craft flying in the sky. I was unable to get my cell phone out of my pocket fast enough to capture it on video. The object was heading North West. Note that I have lived at this location for years, which is between two airports (Spencer Airport and Worcester Airport). However I have never seen an aircraft that looked like this, nor an aircraft that has ever flown the path that this aircraft flew.
August 25, 2015 · 10:20 PM · CHEVRON
Cumming, GA
Driving north on 141 in cumming ga. I was talking with a friend when i noticed 5 to 6 dim red lights in a "v" formation. Mentioned to my friend what i was seeing. I am a photographer. 24 years experience. Lights behavior patterns are my forte. The object apoearred to be two plus feet in diameter across my windshield. The windshield is two and a half feet from my eyeballs. My estimation was that it's altitude was 2 miles above. I observed all the lights oscillate occasionally, in sync, an inch or two. The point being that it appeared to move as a whole. It had a very stealthy feeling because of the dimness of the red lights. These lights did occasionally become bright white but remained dim red for the tlmajority of time. It was heading north west of exit 13. I knew my iphones sensor could not capture any of the details of this craft.
August 24, 2015 · 11:00 PM · CHEVRON
Winchester, KY
My father and I were leaving my grandmother's house, when I looked up and saw a v-shaped set of lights. One set had a red light, flashing underneath it. The UFO had no sound. It was 11:00pm so I couldn't see the object to make out its shape. One set of lights were slightly lined up below the set of lights to its right. It was moving fairly fast. I ruled out that it could be two jets because iv never seen two jets fly perfectly next to each other or fly next to each other at all. Source of report indicates that the date of the event is approximate. PD
August 22, 2015 · 9:55 PM · CHEVRON
Sedalia, MO
The location of the sighting was close to the north gates of the Missouri State Fair, we were facing north-west. Initially the UFO was sighted as slowly moving from west to east, nearing our location, while suddenly it stood still for a prolonged period of time, approx. 15 sec before flying at incredible speeds from east to west, with something close to a trail of light lying briefly in its wake. The lights that had shone from the UFO were aligned together in a horizontal fashion, flashing from blue to red colors with varying patterns and distances in between each other. It then went back to the west, continuing movement in that direction before it slowly descended below the horizon.
August 20, 2015 · 12:50 PM · CHEVRON
Vadnais Heights, MN
I was driving to work, heading south on Mc Menemy St. from Co. Rd. F. It was a clear day with a few small clouds that were to the far east. I had an open view of the vista ahead and to both sides. I had driven about a quarter mile, when I saw a bright flash in the sky slightly to the west. I did not see the object coming from any direction, it simply appeared, then disappeared, within seconds. I thought it was an airplane, as it looked like one. It had wings and the nose of object was facing east. It was a solid, bright platinum color. I slowed down to a crawl, expecting it to reappear to east, but it did not. I scanned the sky in all directions and saw nothing more.
August 5, 2015 · 10:00 PM · CHEVRON
Fresno (north of; on I-5), CA
On Aug. 5, 2015, my partner and I were traveling from LA to San Francisco. My partner was driving, and I was in the passanger seat. When we were on 1-5, heading north, about 60 miles south of the exit for highway 152, we saw a strange aircraft to our left. In this area, there were orchards to each side of I-5 with nothing else in sight, and it was pitch black except for the lights of other cars, and the lights of this aircraft. When we first spotted it, it was north west of us, flying south. It seemed quite far away. We watched it for a few minutes, and it looked like two bright white lights. When it was just about parallel with our car, it turned towards I-5, and started flying directly toward our car. Once turned, we saw three lights that got bigger as they got closer. It took about a minute or two to reach I-5. At that point it was close enough to see that it was very low, flying just feet above the trees in the orchard. It flew across the freeway, just feet above, and in front of, our car. Once it got to the other side of I-5, it flew about 20 yards into the orchard to our right, and turned again. It flew north along side our car for about 30 seconds before it turned again, flying back over I-5, this time just above and behind our car. At this time we lost sight of it.
July 28, 2015 · 9:08 PM · CHEVRON
Alligator Alley, FL
As I went under them I lowered my window at 70 mph and looked straight up and saw two perfect v shaped lights, all circular like spot lights hovering and no noise and no it was not a drone they are noisy and I know what they sound like. When I passed there were no lights on the backside. I called fhp they sent a trooper out and found nothing because I called the day after. I asked the dispatcher if I was the only one that called and she said yes, even though hundreds of cars headed east that night with plenty of traffic. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 20, 2015 · 10:15 PM · CHEVRON
Huntsville, AL
Dark, quiet, large, slow moving, V-shaped and low flying object (about 2,000 ft. from the ground) seen North bound into Huntsville, AL. Dim light, possibly reflected light, appeared to be on the top of the craft as it approached, but underside was very dark. City ground lights helped to illuminate the object against the dark night sky. Object moved at a constant low speed. About 3 minutes prior to sighting, a low flying helicopter had flown South bound near about the same flight path, but of an altitude of only about 900 feet from the ground. This is what brought attention to observing the night sky while smoking a cigarette. It was too dark to take a photograph or video of the object.
July 4, 2015 · 9:30 PM · CHEVRON
Inman, SC
July 4, 2015, we had a small 4th of July party. While waiting for a little more darkness to set off our fireworks, we were playing corn hole and watching other fireworks being set off around the area. Someone noticed a strange, amber light in the sky, seeming to be getting larger. The light came closer and was a noticeable chevron shape of about 7-9 lights. A red light or red lit object fell from the chevron. Not straight down, but first in a curved motion then straight down until it disappeared before reaching the ground. The chevron continued to move toward us and within a blink disappeared. We were shocked and excited, questioning what we had just saw. We settled down and went back to corn hole. (by the way, we were also waiting for 2 others to rejoin us for fireworks) Then the second chevron appeared in the same way as the first except no red lit object and this one turned to the north before disappearing.
June 26, 2015 · 3:30 AM · CHEVRON
Townsend, MA
Got up to go to the bathroom at 3:26 am, looked out window onto back yard, which backs up to the wetlands, saw a craft above the tree line moving slowly but steadily, it was shaped like a triangular chevron, thought to myself is that a stealth fighter? It had a white flash light on front center tip and three flashing red lights on the left right and pointed rear of the craft, did not make a sound. Slowly dipped down behind the treeline. What was it?
June 23, 2015 · 1:00 AM · CHEVRON
Alcester, SD
There are a number of rippling chevron waves throughout the sky, it has been going on for the past 25 minutes, still going. At times there are bright flashes of light, much like a shooting star but there is no trail. Also, quick moving objects have appeared a number of times. The ripples become lesser and less frequent and then another bright flash appears and the ripples come back stronger and closer. We've ruled out fog, shooting stars, and the possibility of seeing the northern lights. This is unexplainable to us all.
June 22, 2015 · 11:46 PM · CHEVRON
Greenup, KY
Oddly behaved structural pattern with oddly behaved light and flight pattern. No altered color patterns to describe a plane or satellite. Smooth start like light. But starts do not move thru the night sky as so. Looked like a chevron shaped start moving forward from one end of the wing is the front with the tail end being the other time of the wing. As though the chevron was moving sideways. If my phone were able for a picture, it would be included but would have been redundant concluding how most reports end. ((NOTE FROM MR. TED MOLCZAN)) Hello Peter, Your hunch probably is correct. The Sentinel 2A satellite was launched on a Vega rocket from the Guiana Space Center, last night at 9:52 PM EDT (Jun 23 01:52 UTC). Coverage of the launch was here: http://spaceflightnow.com/2015/06/22/vv05-mission-status-center/ SeeSat-L received several reports of sightings near 23:49 EDT (3:49 UTC), of what appears to have been exhaust from the final burn of the Vega rocket's AVUM liquid fueled upper stage. That burn lowered the perigee to ensure that the object decays from orbit within a reasonable time, in order to curb the growth of space debris. http://satobs.org/seesat/Jun-2015/0193.html http://satobs.org/seesat/Jun-2015/0194.html http://satobs.org/seesat/Jun-2015/0195.html http://satobs.org/seesat/Jun-2015/0198.html http://satobs.org/seesat/Jun-2015/0199.html Marco Langbroek blogged his analysis: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.nl/2015/06/aurora-hunter-images-last-moments-of.html Please let me know if you have any questions or comments. Best regards, Ted ((END NOTE)) . Spent rocket? PD
June 20, 2015 · 9:55 PM · CHEVRON
Firestone, CO
I was watching the sky, and witnessed a chevron-shaped, clear object, with 7 or more lights on either side, move through the night sky, fast, low and no sound was emitted. It came into my field of vision above the tree tops and was moving SE to NW. My yard is approximately 80 feet wide and from my position if 12 o’clock being N, it moved from 4 o’clock to 11 o’clock in about 5-6 seconds.
June 16, 2015 · 10:14 PM · CHEVRON
Marietta, GA
At approximately 10:14pm on 6/16/15, I was sitting on my patio and noticed a large, silent, boomerang (elongated chevron) shaped object with 3 dull amber lights on the bottom at each corner (could have been the rear as they were very small in relation to the craft), glide by at about 1000-2000ft North and 1000-2000ft altitude accompanied(or being chased) by a C-130 following 500-1000ft behind. The wingspan of the chevron appeared 80-90% that of the C-130. Both crafts appeared to be headed due East. At approximately 10:16, I called a friend, who I know lives in the direction that the aircraft appeared to be flying. He and his girlfriend then went outside and nearly instantaneously saw something far more anomalous in the sky (I will allow him to report that seperately). At approximately 10:20 PM, a few minutes after I witnessed their reports over the phone, the silent boomerang flies directly overhead again, this time flying from South to North at approximately 3000ft-5000ft altitude, and was emitting a solid line of white/yellow light that slowly turned to orange, and then red, as it was flying north and gaining altitude at considerable speed. The C-130 was about 15-20 seconds behind the chevron during the second fly over, and seemed to be turning back to Dobbins AFB, which is approximately 1.5 to 2 miles south of me, directly next to Lockheed Martin Marietta. The C-5 and C-130 fly over almost daily. I am very familiar with these craft by sound and sight. This was something entirely different as it was sizeable, had no fuselage and had no sound.
June 6, 2015 · 10:57 PM · CHEVRON
Bangor (UK/England) · United Kingdom
I noticed a light travelling faster than anything natural on the 6th June 2015 just before 11pm until 11.31. It was travelling from west to east. My partner took photos of it which we were able to enlarge it and it showed a shape, which apparently changed. Some of the images may be down to camera wobble. It was a small digital one. I looked on the internet for satellites that might explain it. There was a Chinese one of similar delta shape that had lost control. It could well have been that.
June 5, 2015 · 8:20 PM · CHEVRON
Fuquay Varina, NC
We turned away from our home to follow the lights. We came upon a family, Dad and 2 or more kids walking back from the pool. We stopped and asked, "Did you just see that?" He said, "Yes, that why we left the pool." We couldn't see the lights because of the trees for about 1 minute, and the next time we saw the things, the lights were no longer white, they were red and blue. We drove another 5 yards to get to the open area of the subdivision and it was gone, and we had a 90 degree sight line. The 2 V's very close together and you could see sky in between and flying low and no noise. I didn't call this in until I heard a similar sighting tonight on Coast to Coast.
June 3, 2015 · 12:05 AM · CHEVRON
Poplarville, MS
My sister ran in and said she saw lights. We my mother,two brothers thought it was just a satellite. When we got outside and looked. The 8 chevron shaped objects flashed red, yellow, green, blue, and white. After about 12:05 p.m. two disappeared. I decided to call the hotline and explained all of the activity that we saw then went and got my neighbor to verify we weren't seeing things
May 19, 2015 · 12:00 AM · CHEVRON
Upson, WI
I was traveling home from Hurley, WI, heading west on hwy 77, I saw 3 red small dots in the sky I started to slow down to pull over they came together then red streaked south and then gone. Then four days later, I look out my window and I see them again and with in 10 seconds the streaked again to the south. (Bright red streak both times) I find it odd to see it happen again in a very short time from the first time I seen what ever it may be but I thought id report it. I know it was no shooting star or meteor, since I seen it twice in under a week and they did the same thing. Thank you for your time sky-watcher here in Northern Wisconsin. Just to note it was dark calm no storms around its just woods and a highway no big cities or city lights just a deep woods in our area.