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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.
2,379 entries
July 3, 2019 · 2:16 AM · CYLINDER
Sanibel Island, FL
My husband, a friend and I were out at the lighthouse on Sanibel Island, FL hoping to photograph the Milky Way from 12:30-3 am the morning of July 3, 2019. To do night sky photography, you need to have the camera on long exposure, so 15-30 seconds on a tripod. We had been shooting from various places near the lighthouse, the pier and the main beach area. While we were on the small beach area and had our cameras facing toward the lighthouse and the Milky Way we saw lights in the sky. They came from our right - over Sanibel end of the bridge - and we all noticed them at about the same time. I didn’t hear anything, but saw a long, cylindrical (rocket-like) object that looked as if it had flames coming from the middle and end of it. Around it were 6-10 small lights. They all traveled at about the same speed and in the same direction, toward Ft Myers Beach. The small lights didn’t break away from the rocket-like cylinder, they all stayed in the same pattern that we first! observed. At first we thought it was a meteor shower, but none were reported that night. Then we thought maybe a rocket launch gone wrong, but we none were reported being shot up that night/morning. Perhaps it was a satellite breaking up, but the smaller lights traveled at the same speed and in the same direction as the rocket-like cylinder, so didn’t seem to break up. Of course our cameras were facing the wrong direction to catch the unidentified flying objects and were on long exposure, so were useless to catch the UFO. But I did catch a quick photo with my iPhone and tried to get a movie (tho it isn’t good), though by the time I thought to grab my iPhone, the objects had moved quite a distance away. You can identify the rocket-like cylinder and a few lights around it as well as the Ft Myers Beach skyline.
July 2, 2019 · 2:00 AM · CYLINDER
Longboat Key, FL
There were 5 adults and none of us have ever seen anything like it.
July 1, 2019 · 7:00 PM · CYLINDER
Dixon, IL
My husband,2 kids, and I were in the pool around 8pm on Sunday the 1st when we noticed what initially looked like a smaller plane, a silver cigar shape, which is common we have a very small airport, but after it had passed, at some point with a minute or 2 my husband notices that is flying by again in a straight line, not taking off from the airport because it would be at an angle if it was. It was traveling fairly slow and then would disappear. At this point we all are watching. When in would go out of sight to the East it wouldreappear in the West. This is when we realized it was 2 flying almost on a loop and appeared to be surveying. This lasted about 10 minutes maybe longer. Then they both were flying together, one higher and one lower, almost side by side until they disappeared on the final loop.
June 30, 2019 · 2:49 PM · CYLINDER
Fishers, IN
I saw this on the Hamilton county/Madison county line. I was heading south on Atlantic Blvd at 3:49 PM today, 6/30/19, and a flash of Light caught my eye. I saw what looked like one of those farm LP tic tac looking gas tank but it was chrome colored. It was heading slowly east to west and it looked maybe 30 to 50 feet long. I pulled over immediately and started just shooting pics and this came up. The thing never exited the cloud. I stayed for 15-20 minutes. This is what I got on my iPhone X. Unfortunately, I was by myself but at least I got this photo. It was approximately 5000-6000 feet in the air.
June 28, 2019 · 8:45 PM · CYLINDER
Lebanon, OH
A white pill shaped object very high in the sky, much higher than several planes crossing the sky also. It was at times stationary, and at times moving slowly. It was present for around 30 minutes before fading from sight suddenly.
June 24, 2019 · 4:55 PM · CYLINDER
Milwaukee, WI
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 23, 2019 · 1:00 AM · CYLINDER
Hwy 168, CA
I slammed my brakes and exited my vehicle. I was approx 300 yards from me. I was in shock and a little afraid. No noises were coming from it. Behind me about a mile away was an SUV, I am confident they saw it as well. I drove away not believing what I saw.
June 22, 2019 · 9:40 PM · CYLINDER
Tinley park, IL
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 21, 2019 · 6:44 PM · CYLINDER
Plano, TX
This object was shaped like a long cylinder can. It was white and stayed in place for the 2 minutes that I observed it. I took a few pics and zoomed in to get a better look but it moved away horizontally growing East.
June 19, 2019 · 9:07 PM · CYLINDER
Danbury and NC (between), NC
Flying for the 2nd time in 1 week, I was drawn to a cloud formation that was not moving. It was a large formation in an otherwise flat cloud bed. I started taking pictures of it and noticed there were cylindrical objects on the pictures. I eventually took video, but the quality is poor. There were at least 5 objects that seem to have come from in or around the cloud formation.
June 17, 2019 · 9:20 PM · CYLINDER
St. George, UT
Small craft with blue lights, hovering in stasis for minutes near central St. George, moves near Ivins, then sped into distance at impossible speed.
June 17, 2019 · 9:00 PM · CYLINDER
unknown- airplane, GA
I was a passenger on a plane from Charlotte NC to Danbury Ct.. I was taking pictures of the moon and captured objects moving left, right, and then in triangular formation. Initially, they seemed to cross from one side of the moon to the other. But then, there were several objects that were moving around and then formed a triangle. They grew bright and then dim- like a pulse. I have pics and video of the incident.
June 17, 2019 · 12:40 PM · CYLINDER
Everett, WA
I ran inside to grab my roommate. When I came back out, it was silently floating up and towards the west. It moved slowly. It was approximately the size of a 747.
June 12, 2019 · 10:30 PM · CYLINDER
Leander, TX
I was stargazing one night from my backyard patio. Dim orange/red intermittent illumination round object traveling across the sky from West to East. No navigation lights as planes I did notice transiting that night so I ruled out the possibility of the sighting being an airplane. It was noticed first as what I thought was a shooting star in my peripheral vision but it never burned out but got dim and traveled in a zig zag pattern across the sky. I tried to track it with my eyes until it suddenly disappeared.
June 11, 2019 · 12:00 PM · CYLINDER
Victorville, CA
I noticed what seem like a single cloud in the sky kind of sitting there by itself but the shape of it got my attention. It seemed to have somewhat of a cylindrical shape looking out of horizontally so I got my iPhone out and zoomed it in as best I could and snapped a photo of it. I only snap the photo so I could zoom in closer and see the shape of the cloud but to my surprise after zooming it in this is what I saw and it is very strange to me. The problem is I only zoomed in more after we left for work otherwise I would have really scrutinized this thing more and perhaps even try to drive closer to it but I did not know that I would see something hidden in that photograph.
June 4, 2019 · 8:30 PM · CYLINDER
Barrington, IL
Around 8:30ish pm- still light out, my husband and I watched a shiny whitish-silver bright tube (cylinder) shaped object float slowly in the sky going west and a little south. It seemed to be very high and had no visible wings or tail and was silent. It rolled a little at one point 45 degrees and showed a bright light and rolled back. As it disappeared, a jet came by going south east towards O’Hare and was loud. Immediately after the jet passed, another tube shaped item appeared and rolled at exactly the same spot. At first we thought the object was a blimp or some type of helicopter but it made no noise. Was pretty strange and stranger to see that others have seen a simalar object. Weather balloon or military? Who knows. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 4, 2019 · 5:00 AM · CYLINDER
Grant-Valkaria, FL
On June 4, 2019, at 5:00AM, a few degrees left of due North, I saw a bright flash at about 45 degrees elevation. At first it looked like an Iridium flare, but it was followed 4 seconds later by a brighter, possibly -4 flash only a few degrees to the right and at the 2:30 position of the first flash. The flash period for both objects was 14 seconds. Both objects moved slowly on a West to East track and changed position relative to each other slightly between flashes. Also during this time the brightness of the right hand object went from just a bit brighter than the ISS to brighter than Venus, but in a Mylar gold color. I was able to record three minutes worth of video with my Apple 6s.
May 27, 2019 · 8:25 PM · CYLINDER
Jones Creek, TX
Moving in a southeastern direction against the gulf wind like it had its own coarse. It flew into a gray cloud and disappeared.
May 26, 2019 · 10:25 PM · CYLINDER
Colville, WA
SpaceX satellites? PD
May 26, 2019 · 9:00 PM · CYLINDER
North Conway, NH
Probable sighting of Space Link satellites. PD
May 25, 2019 · 11:00 PM · CYLINDER
Forks, WA
My husband and I were walking along the beach, watching the stars on a crystal clear evening, when we saw what we can only describe as a comet with intent. Seemed to have a greenish yellow streak of light in front and a long trail, lighter in color following it. Traveling southwest at high speeds it almost seemed to crash into a satelight or other small, fast moving object of much, much smaller size. Our dog responded but were unsure if it was due to our excitement. It was like witnessing a scene out of Star Wars. Hoping others saw it too, as it was Memorial Day weekend and tons of coastal campers were on the beach.
May 24, 2019 · 11:30 PM · CYLINDER
Orwell, VT
Looking into the sky, I saw a very long set of lights. At first I thought it was a long tail of a meteor, but as I was watching the long row of lights were moving very slowly and not changing shape..it was like seeing. Long cylinder with window lights moving in an east by north east direction, moving slowly and without sound. I stared at it trying to understand what I was seeing it was incredibly long. SpaceLink satellites. PD
May 24, 2019 · 1:35 AM · CYLINDER
Lakeland, FL
We observed at first blinking white lights, but then we saw the bottom spinning with a red glow. Changing directions, but staying in a small area of the sky. We then see a blue like streak either shooting from the craft, or possibly it had made an extreme movement as in zipping away very fast. But it didn’t exit the sky. After that we didn’t see it for maybe 30 seconds, it appeared once again, in the same vicinity it had been, and we again saw a flash 2 more times, but then disappeared completely.
May 24, 2019 · 12:30 AM · CYLINDER
Arlington, AZ
Guarding a construction site quite aways out into the desert that doesn’t usually have a lot of air traffic, save a freighter coming to Phoenix every now and again early in the morning. Co-worker and I were sitting in a new area facing the open desert, when I happened to glance up and see what appeared to be a plane or similar flying very low and VERY almost alarmingly slow. There were no indicator or headlights of any kind, and no noise that would suggest a plane engine. I happen to have both a flight radar and an Air Traffic Control tower app on my phone, and neither picked up a reading from it or any sort of distress call. It appeared to be a silver cylinder or cigar shaped object headed East towards Phoenix. The lights from a nearby site reflected off the bottom of it as it cruised over and we watched it for several seconds before it suddenly turned and bolted North into the open darkness VERY quickly.