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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.
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January 22, 2019 · 11:07 PM · RECTANGLE
Tucson, AZ
I was driving North toward the Catalina Mountains when I turned my gaze to the left and was startled by an intense set of lights on a large, pitch-black object which appeared to be within 5-6 blocks West of my intersection. I was startled by how large the object appeared to be compared to usual aircraft, how close it appeared to me, the intensity and unique semi-linear organization of the lights, and by the fact that the craft appeared to be stationary in the sky. It was lower than a helicopter would typically be, but was larger and flatter than a helicopter. I immediately pulled over with the intent of getting a picture. Once I was stopped and facing the object straight on, I noticed the rectangular shape and what appeared to be a projection on the far dorsal surface, with some of the lights set further back on the craft than others (in contrast to the semi-linear arrangement of my initial perspective). Within about 3 seconds of me getting a good look at it from this view, it began a Southeast descent at only about 10mph faster than what I'd expect from a typical aircraft. At this point I considered that perhaps it was just a helicopter, but I did not hear any sound as it descended and the shape of the object was more bizarre from the sideview, appearing wide across and essentially flat. One light flashed a couple of times at a quick/strobe-like rate while the others were larger, had a slightly more yellowish hue, and remained constant. I turned my car back around the way I'd initially come, to try and follow it, but by the time I had stopped at a stop sign and turned South, it had gone. This seemed unusual to me because my view of the horizon was fairly good, and at the speed I had seen it travelling (55 miles at most) I fully expected to still see it after the ~5 seconds it took to get my car reoriented, but I saw no trace whatsoever. No one in surrounding cars seemed to see it, but I did feel uncomfortable with how low and near me it seemed, and I got the impression that it "responded" to me pulling over to face it because it had been hovering in the same spot while I was watching it while still driving, but started descending/moving away a very short time after I pulled over. The only other thing I can think to note is that there had been a power outage 4-5 hours prior in that area, including outage for the traffic lights of the intersection I was at when I saw the object.
January 20, 2019 · 1:10 PM · RECTANGLE
Springer, OK
My wife and I were leaving our home. As I finished loading items in our hatchback, I happened to look above our home in a 45 degree angle up and to the right, which was north. The day was beautiful clear and blue, that is when I saw an object moving in a super fast speed. That day being clear from my drive it was clear, whereas I could see Ardmore which is south and 10 miles away clear as a bell. Anyway the object was solid brilliant white only, but a portion on the front of the object had a portion in the front of the object that angled about 60 degrees. The object was NW of me moving to the SE at a high speed, it had no lights nor did it make any noise. At that time I was behind my car calling for my wife to come here, she was fooling around locking the door. She came and I pointed it out to her. It was, I would say, three to four miles high and 4 to 5 miles from us. As we were looking at it, the object suddenly change direct heading due west. We lost sig! ht after a few minutes still no sound or exhaust from the object.
January 20, 2019 · 12:00 AM · RECTANGLE
Winston Salem, NC
We were looking at the Blood Moon when all of a sudden a huge rectangular dark object with 4 lights spread out across the craft went soaring through the sky with no sound at all then poof it was gone, I was so scared.
January 18, 2019 · 1:21 PM · RECTANGLE
Tucson, AZ
As I sat there enjoying the beautiful day, looking south across Speedway Blvd behind the Walgreens on the South side Of the street. I noticed this Electric Blue rectangled object just hovering over the near top of a Blue Palo Verde tree situated behind the Walgreens in the desert. I grabbed my Android, engaged the automatic button triggering the camera & just let it rip. Then just as quick as this electric blue rectangled object appeared. Poof. It was just gone. Quite possibly due to the bright desert sun none of the pictures revealed my sighting. The incident sighting that lasted approximately 4 minutes. That day was not my first sighting. Years ago up in Sedona I spotted several sightings. Those sightings were of silver spheres. There ya have it. Thank you for your mission in pursuing the truth.
January 11, 2019 · 6:20 PM · RECTANGLE
Covington, LA
I was sitting at the end of the barn when I saw a white orb towards the north west, very bright no beam. To its left was a piece of metal about 3 ft x 5 ft with dark brown and light brown vertical stripes. It appeared they were trying to create camo covering a hole in the trees. This light was in the clear opening about 300 ft from my position. I know this because the trees were in a ditch that is 300 ft away. I have measured it several times in laying out my pasture. The dull red and white light was to the north of the white light and among the trees. Neither light was moving.
January 10, 2019 · 5:49 PM · RECTANGLE
Bonneylake, WA
We got out to look at them then they started to move real slow. Told driver to try and take pictures. She didn’t get any; they were to much in awe in watching them. I did get a couple of pictures but had hard time getting seat belt off. To get the best picture the crafts flew right over our car when trying to take pictures of it going over car phone wouldn’t take some. ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) I already wrote you and realized I accidentally put rectangular when I meant triangle and boomerang shape sorry to write too many times to you asked my daughter to to write don’t know if she is thanks. ((END ADDENDUM))
January 8, 2019 · 7:50 PM · RECTANGLE
Bellevue, NE
I was driving to my home from school. I thought I seen a shooting star it was moving so fast. It blazed across the sky and got closer and closer. Next thing I know it was a couple hundred feet away from me. It appeared invisible but I could see a very very thin outline and on each corner of the rectangle there was a bright white light on each corner and in the front(?) Of the craft there was 2 smaller yellow lights closer to eachother. The craft appeared to be cloaked or just happened to be the same exact color as the dark blue dusk sky. It made a quiet noise once it was hovering over the field right by my car. The noise is best described as similar to an airplane but much much quieter. This happened to be about a mile from the air force base. So, could have been something from there.
January 8, 2019 · 6:45 PM · RECTANGLE
Bosque Farma, NM
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD
January 4, 2019 · 12:15 AM · RECTANGLE
St. Louis, MO
Moments after putting my car in park after coming home (having used no substances and being well rested), I glanced out of my window and saw one rectangular, drone-like object with red and green lights throughout the body traveling West well above the treeline. Lights flickered but no quicker than the tick of a clock. I opened my car door and refocused my eyes while standing and watched the craft travel at a constant speed until it was out of sight in the suburban landscape. I could see one steady trail via the lights of the UFO. Its shape was an elongated rectangle--perhaps a 1:4 ratio length to width traveling nose first.
December 21, 2018 · 9:50 PM · RECTANGLE
Pleasant Hill, MO
On the evening of December 21st, my 7 year old son and I witnessed a glowing rectangular object 12 o'clock of the Moon, which then drifted to the 6 o'clock position of the Moon, when it passed over the Moon it was lost in the light and then reappeared. The object moved downwards of the moon, enough that I held 2 fingers in front of my face, and could fit them between the Moon and the object. Up to this point I would have disregarded it as a reflection of some sort, however, the rectangular object then was stationary for a few moments, a glowing rectangle, approximately half the width of the Moon, my son and I watched as it slowly faded, as if it had flown into space. Some additional details I would include, are that I noticed several planes in the sky, and this was well above passenger jet altitude, also that it was not clearly defined, it was almost like a plane flying through clouds, when they have their lights on, except that there were no clouds around the object.
December 19, 2018 · 7:35 AM · RECTANGLE
Graniteville, VT
Nearest airport is small and would not have airplanes of this size. If it was a bigger plane heading to the biggest airport in the area, it was heading far more east than the airport. Too fast for a drone or helicopter. We opened the car window, if it was a plane or helicopter we would be able to hear it. But it was quiet. Also, it was flying really low. We saw it for about twenty seconds before it flew out of sight.
December 10, 2018 · 3:20 PM · RECTANGLE
Shorewood, WI
This was shot over Atwater Elementary School this afternoon around 3:30pm. I was facing east while sitting in my car parked on Murray Ave., picking up my daughter from school. My 15 yo daughter had gone to get my 7 yo and I was watching them walk back towards the car (they were walking west, again I was facing east). Out of the corner of my eye I saw, what at first I thought for a split second was a plane about to crash. It looked as if he object - a bronze/gold metallic 3 dimensional and rectangular in shape, changed direction and was pointing perpendicular which to me looked like the fuselage of an airplane, when I realized it wasn't a plane. I watched for a second, trying to figure out what it was - at a loss, I grabbed my phone and started recording. I lost sight of the object after it fell below the tree line. It possibly could have landed into Lake Michigan just north or Atwater beach. When I initially spotted it, it looked quite a bit larger and then traveled a good distance quickly before I could get my phone out and camera ready. As far as the size of the object, I’d say it was about a 1/2 thumbs' length with my arm fully extended when I first saw it and got smaller as it continued to fall and travel away from me. I didn't report this right away because I sent the footage to a local news team and they said it looked like space debris or debris from an airplane. I googled both of those and was not able to find anything similar to what I saw so I thought I'd see what you have to say. View the video zoomed in - the object is in the center of the frame above the tree.
December 10, 2018 · 7:30 AM · RECTANGLE
UnexplainedForet-Fouesnant (La), Bretagne · France
Le Lundi 10 décembre 2018 entre 07h20 et 07h40 un témoin en voiture dans l'allée de son domicile est intrigué par un phénomène inhabituel à l'ouest au-dessus d'un champ à faible altitude. Le témoin s'arrête et décrit le PAN comme une barre jaune "électrique" avec en son centre un gros phare vert fluo. Depuis la voiture vitre ouverte, le témoin n'entend aucun bruit lors des évolutions du PAN. Ce dernier se déplace d'abord lentement et régulièrement puis se tourne plein Sud vers le témoin et reste stationnaire. Le témoin arrive au bout de l'allée se retourne et voit cette barre partir plein Est et disparaitre lentement dans la brume. L'observation discontinue (déplacement et arrêt du témoin en voiture) a duré 1minute 30. Le témoin indique un problème sur la radio de son véhicule après cette observation. Il indique également dans le questionnaire : « Je justifie l'étrangeté par le déplacement absolument silencieux et régulier ainsi que de l'apparence lumineuse ». Aucun autre témoignage ne sera recueilli. Plusieurs facteurs combinés (la trajectoire en 3 phases avec un arrêt au milieu, la taille importante perçue par le témoin, la vitesse de déplacement lente, l’aspect aux contours très nets) s’opposent de manière isolée ou combinée aux différentes hypothèses envisagées (voir le compte rendu d'enquête) : un drone (taille, aspect), des reflets de projecteurs lumineux d’engins agricoles ou de projecteurs lasers de type sky-tracers sur la couche nuageuse (vitesse, aspect), un objet porté par le vent type lanternes thaïlandaises (trajectoire, aspect). - l’observation s’est faite de nuit (tôt le matin) et la règlementation française ne permet pas les vols nocturnes de drones. Dans l’hypothèse d’un propriétaire contrevenant utilisant tout de même son engin, l’aspect du PAN apparait comme inhabituel et contribue à l’étrangeté perçue par le témoin, s’ajoutant aux changements de trajectoire observés. - l’enquête a montré qu’aucun engin agricole (hypothèse projection lumineuse) n’était présent sur les parcelles ou le PAN a été observé. - enfin, pour la dernière hypothèse, la trajectoire en 3 phases avec un arrêt face au témoin et un changement de trajectoire ensuite est un argument fort qui s’oppose à l’hypothèse d’un objet porté par le vent. Au final, l’hypothèse du drone est la plus forte mais sa probabilité est évaluée bien inférieure à 50 % elle ne peut donc être retenue. Ces hypothèses ne permettent pas d’expliquer l’étrangeté de l’observation perçue par le témoin. Il s’agit d’un témoignage unique mais il est tout à fait possible (milieu rural, faible densité de population, horaire matinal) que le phénomène n’ait pas été vu par d’autres personnes. Le témoin est précis, la consistance (niveau d’information) du témoignage est bonne malgré le manque de photos ou vidéo du phénomène lui-même. Mais l’observation a été reprécisée par des photos de situations et des reconstitutions (analyse des dimensions, distances, trajectoires du PAN) lors d’une enquête terrain soutenue par un entretien cognitif du témoin (très coopératif). Ainsi l’étrangeté de l’observation reste grande, la consistance du témoigne est bonne. L’analyse n’a pas permis d’identifier d’hypothèse compatible probable à plus de 50%. Ceci indique selon la méthodologie GEIPAN le caractère inexpliqué de l’observation après enquête pour ce phénomène étrange de consistance moyenne ou forte. En conséquence, ce cas est classé par le GEIPAN « D1 » phénomène non identifié. [GEIPAN classification D — Phénomène étrange de consistance moyenne ou forte]
December 9, 2018 · 8:00 PM · RECTANGLE
Wisconsin Rapids, WI
When I was walking out to the barn to check on the animals as I do everynight, I always look up at the sky on clear nights. I never expected to see the object I did. It was high up in the sky in the West direction, was very bright like a prism, and took on a slight rectangular shape, almost square It was close enough, there was no way too miss seeing it. It came straight down very fast, and just disappeared before hitting ground. There was no sound, no aircraft, etc around. We are out in the country. I wondered if it was falling space junk from a satellite, but there was no flashing light, or suggestion that anything was "burning out".
December 8, 2018 · 8:00 PM · RECTANGLE
Chester, VA
1 large rectangular object hovering at approximately 2k-3k feet elevation. It was dark outside so I was unable to see the color of the object; I could easily make out the square shaped silhouette. On the bottom of all four corners there were circular shaped white/silver lights. There were a few lights along the vertical side wall around the corners (they were small and I was unable to determine the shape). There were long horizontal linear lights in the center of each side. These lights extended approximately half the distance of each side of the object and stopped approximately 1/4 from each corner (they seem to be sort of centered on each side). There were a couple other randomly located lights along the underside. The object hovered for approx 45 seconds then rotated 180(+/-) degrees and slowly and smoothly moved away toward the SE. During all of the movement it never appeared to change elevation, or pitch. It just appeared to pivot and glide. The total amount of time that I had it in sight was approximately 3 minutes. Side note: I was driving on my way home when I saw this object. I was in mid conversation with my wife and subconsciously stopped in the middle of the road and became fixated on this object. I stepped out of my truck and just stared at it. It was completely quiet. Even during movement it did not produce a sound. It was by far the largest object that I have ever seen in the sky. The shape was unlike any plane, helicopter, etc. that I have ever seen. My wife apparently kept asking what was wrong and all I could say was “hold on. Wow that’s crazy...what the??” Apparently I was so captivated by what I was seeing that I couldn’t put it into words. After getting home I thought about calling the local police department and reporting it but did not do so for fear of any potential backlash. I wish I could figure out what it was and hopefully provide some closure for myself. I keep telling myself it’s probably something top secret military etc., and hopefully it is, but as of now I have been unable to find anything related to the military that looks like what I saw. The closest object I found was something that some guy in North Carolina posted a picture of not too long ago. The biggest difference is that the object in his picture looked rectangular and what I saw looked very square
December 2, 2018 · 6:00 PM · RECTANGLE
St. Louis, MO
Huge. I mean absolutely enormous. The light flashing appeared to be as large as 15-20 Tower beacons. White not red. It flew in from the direction of S. Louisiana St. towards S. Compton. Was extremely loud, and sounded like a missle. Was flashing like a strobe light and moved faster than any jet or airplane I've ever seen. It took literally seconds to move from out of sight in one direction to out of sight in the other direction. It is cloudy outside. No stars to be mistaken, and the light was still so bright it was blinding, making it hard to even see the shape. Immediately afterwards, you could hear aircraft in the sky, as if trailing it. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 30, 2018 · 10:30 PM · RECTANGLE
Seven Devils, NC
At approximately 10:30pm on the previous Friday night, looking north towards Hawks Nest ski resort, over a large valley at approximately 3600ft elevation near Boone, NC, I witnessed a large black rectangle with around one dozen lights underneath. It appeared to be 1/4 mile away, and 500ft above the valley floor. It appeared to be the suze if a a football field, but extremely thin; think of a gigantic iPhone. After a few seconds, it vanished at an amazing rate of speed to the east and out of view.
November 30, 2018 · 1:00 PM · RECTANGLE
Chicago, IL
On November 30, 2018, I was traveling on Northwest Highway in Chicago. It was approximately 1:00pm and it was a clear, sunny day. While sitting in traffic, I looked up and ahead through my windshield and saw what I can only describe as a “transparent flag” moving North to South. I looked carefully to make sure it wasn’t a bag or garbage, but it was much too high in the sky for that. It was not a sign being pulled by a small plane, as I would have certainly seen the plane on such a clear day. The object was moving in a very steady, deliberately North to South and a steady pace. Imagine a flag waving in the sky, but it’s transparent, and because it’s waving, the transparency is a little distorted. That’s how I was able to make out its shape. I looked out my driver side window to make sure it wasn’t simply my view through my windshield. It was not. The object was still there. I saw it for a full minute, then it slowly went to what I can only describe as “full transparency”. Again, not a cloud in the sky.
November 30, 2018 · 10:05 AM · RECTANGLE
Rogersville, TN
Picked up a call from my wife. She suggested that I take a look at the stable. Given the fact that we keep several expensive show horses, I wasted no time in getting over there. Darndest thing, this gold or bronze rectangle remained motionless above the stable. There it was, perfectly still, stuck up there as it was. I’d say about twenty, maybe thirty feet above the roof. More like a monolith, maybe fifteen feet wide, twenty foot in length, and I’d have to say eight to ten feet in height. Joined up with my wife on the north side, where she said she was going to try and get some pictures. It didn’t seem to be doing any harm, soundless as it was. After ten minutes, it wasn’t there. It’s not like it flew away. It just wasn’t there. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 25, 2018 · 5:17 PM · RECTANGLE
Deming, NM
While driving on HWY 26, moving South West into Deming, I saw this object (no lights and appeared grey) for over 20 miles. I was driving 70 mph. It didn't get farther away, nor did it seem to get any closer. The sun was going down fast so when I turned into Deming I took a picture of it. Soon it got too dark to see anything.
November 24, 2018 · 3:45 AM · RECTANGLE
Ridgeville, SC
Leaving Volvo plant from night shift, turned into Volvo Car Drive, towards 176, and saw what I thought was a fire truck with all red lights going crazy in the middle of the road, before the 4 way stop signs thinking it was an accident. As I was getting closer, about 100 yards, vanished, as if someone turned a light switch off, and as there was nothing there.
November 21, 2018 · 3:00 AM · RECTANGLE
Westminster, MD
Standing outside at approx 3 Am and stared up into the sky like I usually do, smoking a cigarette at that time. As I stared I noticed 4 tiny lights and they were moving smoothly over the sky in unison. I stared closer and my eyes adjusted to seeing a black square with a light on each corner. It was moving very smoothly and knew at that moment that was no drone. I live in the countryside and no drones have ever been seen around my house, and it was moving as an airplane would, or rather a much slower shooting star. It lasted about a min or 2 before it was out of my view. Living in MD, I'm sure plenty of aircraft are tested and I have seen events before of testing the government has issued a statement before hand. I can assure you this was something I have never seen before. If the aircraft I saw was as high as an airplane, well then on the ground this thing would be absolutely massive.
November 18, 2018 · 6:00 PM · RECTANGLE
Cullman, AL
It had no flashing lights One continual yellowish light like an airplane It moved side to side Fast moving when side to side Slower when forward.
November 12, 2018 · 7:00 PM · RECTANGLE
Gunnison, CO
Rectangular shaped craft with a circular bright glow around it; brighter than a star, almost looked like a planet but in the wrong spot. Hovered and went side to side in the sky near the skyline just after sunset. Stayed for about an hour then disappeared. Has been occurring around the same time and place each night since (3 nights, 11/12/18-11/14/18) Odd colored lights were seen coming from it and it seems to hover in circles almost looking for something. Several military looking aircrafts were seen flying around near it maybe trying to check it out. It was a weird time of night for so many planes, around 6-8 pm mst. Planes also usually don’t fly this direction (not a normal flight path).