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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
December 20, 2017 · 10:14 PM · LIGHT
Berea, KY
At approximately 9:14 pm, my boyfriend, mom and myself observed a singular light in the sky. I went inside for my binoculars and viewed the object. To my surprise I saw a red and green light. When we first saw the object it was flying at about the height of what a helicopter would and then after about 30 min we realized it was slowly rising to about the height of what an airplane would fly at. Then we just went back inside.
December 20, 2017 · 8:05 PM · LIGHT
Sacramento, CA
A friend of mine sent me a short video on Snapchat of an orange light that was flying around in the southern sky. Looked at the video and walked outside to see if he was just trying to play a practical joke. When I looked to the south I saw exactly the same thing he sent me, a bright orange light quickly changing directions and leaving streaks in the sky. The streaks last about four or five seconds. One of my cats was outside at the time and was frantically trying to get inside as well as hissing at the object in the sky. The object was flying and changing direction too quickly to be a plane, a helicopter, or a drone. There was looked like a commercial airliner in the sky at the same time.
December 20, 2017 · 4:50 PM · LIGHT
Collegeville, PA
Just saw strange lights in sky and snapped a photo with camera. See attached picture. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 19, 2017 · 8:45 PM · LIGHT
Waterloo, SC
I am not sure what the bright object was. Just reporting a weird sighting. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 19, 2017 · 6:47 PM · LIGHT
Sharptown, MD
My husband and I were inside our home when we heard a very loud low rumble from the sky. ( we have been hearing this same rumble for over 90 days since moving to this area, but we could never see anything day or night) This night, we ran out side and low and behold saw 6 or more blinking white lights all over the western sky. They disappeared and so did the rumble shortly after. About 30 seconds later the rumble came back very loud and this time had a weird electronic sounding pitch with it, above our heads and then seconds later the lights appeared again. They made different formations of half circles, triangles and angles. We checked the flightware/flight tracker radar to see if there were any planes in our immediate area, it tracks both domestic passenger flights and military. There were no planes in our vicinity for over 50 miles. We were practically up all night in awe talking about what we just witnessed. Witness provides no contact information. PD
December 19, 2017 · 5:30 PM · LIGHT
Somerville, MA
Driving home from work on route 16 heading towards Assembly Row and a ball of light, non-blinking shot across the sky and towards the ground. Lasted 2 seconds and very very fast. It was a normal light color and i dont know how far it really was but i know it was way too fast to be a plane becasue planes fly higher up with the blinking lights and dont go as fast as this was moving. It happened in a blink of the eye and the way i was facing it went from my right across to the left and looked like it was heading to crash into the ground but i didnt see where it landed, too far away from where i was
December 19, 2017 · 3:00 AM · LIGHT
Carmichael, CA
I have been seeing this object on and off since mid November. It was a small, quiet, blinking object; it's movements were very smooth, unlike a plane or a helicopter. It would move left and right, up and down, and sometimes be in the same place or move to another spot. The color was white, and it looked like it was giving off what, I can best describe, as electricity. When I first saw this object, I thought it was a drone, but it made no noise and, since it was a bit windy, it's movements were too smooth for it to have been a drone. I woke up my husband to have him see what I was seeing - he is very logical and would tell me what he thought it was. But, when he saw it, even he was astonished and unsure what it was. I stayed up all morning watching it, and as the sun was coming up, it stopped moving, almost like it was pretending to be a star.
December 18, 2017 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Palm Beach Gardens, FL
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 18, 2017 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Queen Creek, AZ
It looked like a a multi-lane highway of lights that seemed to hang like stars but were swooping slowly in a formation. They moved slowly along the sky like a river of stars, but they weren't as high as stars, as I could see them from different angles as I drove away. I stopped and took pictures. I stopped another driver passing by; they didn't notice at first with the bright street lights drowning out the sight, but once they saw it they were amazed as well and tried to get pictures too. I've never seen anything like this.
December 18, 2017 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Plymouth, WI
At 11:50 PM, I witnessed, out of my living room window, a slow moving,large round, very bright white light. It was coming straight down, low in the southeast. It did not streak across like a meteorite or have any type of tail as it came down. It was the largest and lowest falling object I have ever seen. Seemed like it was very near considering the size. No noise was heard.
December 17, 2017 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Sanford, FL
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 17, 2017 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Malvern, AR
My oldest son and I, where coming home from a friend's house on 12/17/2017. It was dark already. We where driving down Sullenburger, when we noticed a bright light. We stopped the car because we could not see to drive, it was like someone was shining a spotlight in our eyes. We sat there for what seemed like only a minute and started driving again. I had a funny feeling like I was just waking up. (After talking to my son he experienced this "just waking up" feeling also.) Kinda disoriented that's when I noticed the First Baptist church. We where no longer on Sullenburger we where on Clardy St. Both of us looked at each other and started comparing stories. We lost a full 20 minutes. Both he and I both had a strange buzzing sensation at the base of our skulls and neck pain for about 15 minutes after this encounter.
December 17, 2017 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Belton, MO
Want to know what this is trying to find out but no help white lights are sharp fast blinking and random the blue are sometimes sharp and some are slow real dim the new red one is dim don’t know what it all means maybe someone has answeres out there
December 17, 2017 · 7:20 PM · LIGHT
Salt Lake City, UT
At 720pm 12/17/17 I exited my apt building and immediately noticed a brightly glowing red/orange object in the sky due west at an angle of about 45 degrees. Simultaneously noticed an object to the WNW at an angle of about 30 degrees, identical to the first, but not as bright. First (brighter) object began to move slowly east, the glowing aspect becoming brighter and sparking. Attempted to take video with my camera, but as I was attempting to film, the object dimmed and faded from view when reaching about 90 degrees of angle (almost straight above my head.) Sighting lasted no more than 30 seconds. Later, at aprox. 725pm, noticed an identical object due west in the sky at an angle of 30-40 degrees. Immediately told my friend to come observe it. It was bright, same red/orange glow, as we watched it moved due east slowly for less than a minute but more than 30 seconds, then the light faded rapidly to a very dull glow of the same color, then changed direction from due east to either due west or down from our perspective. Watched it moving down or due west for aprox. 30 seconds, it's glow barely visible to the eye. Friend and I stopped attempting to observe any more at 730pm.
December 17, 2017 · 3:45 AM · LIGHT
Anaheim Hills, CA
I was driving down 91 east at between 3:30-4:30AM around anaheim hills/yorba linda area when I saw a big bright blue light on right side mid air not moving, i looked away cuz i thought it was a plane but it was way to big and blue so i imediately looked back at it zoomed down, it could have zoomed away north from the angle i was looking at it but the speed of that light seemed too fast for a plane or helicopter. I wish someone saw what i saw.
December 16, 2017 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Sault Ste Marie (outside of)(Canada), ON · Canada
My mom and I are driving towards the highway in the country and see an extremely bright light that was flashing (like one of those sparklers where you can light it and hold it until it burns out) and moving really quickly. It went flying over and past the car so we decided to take some back roads and see how far we could follow it, it was flying pretty low to about the treetops. It changed direction in a jerky way and would disappear and appear beside where it was last when it would change direction. We followed it for about 4-5 minutes and lost sight of it. We kept driving down the back roads though and in about two or three of the fields we saw a low flying and moving flashing light. These weren't as bright as the first one and they were more flashing colors instead of the sparkler light color. These would blink and flash a few colors, like red and white and move quickly around the field until we kept driving because it would fly to a point we couldn't see it anymore (like it would disappear and one was flying through the field just passing it, it seemed like). There were NO houses around, NO reflective lights or light poles, NO kind of Christmas decorations. These were in empty fields.
December 16, 2017 · 2:00 AM · LIGHT
Dover, OH
I took the dog out pee. i was looking at the Big Dipper when I first saw one dim light,then I saw two other lights following in a triangle shape. The three lights moved across the sky with no sound and at a very fast pace. The two outside lights moved to the center light and then went back to their first location. The altitude of the lights looked to be like that of a satellite or the ISS flying over. The lights went from overhead to the horizon in 2 to3 seconds. I have watched countless satellites and aircraft, but have never seen anything like this.
December 15, 2017 · 7:15 PM · LIGHT
Zephyrhills, FL
Green light, high in the North sky, didn’t move, was pulsing, for at least the past 1/2 hour. It is still there.
December 15, 2017 · 6:33 PM · LIGHT
IdentifiedSaint-Medard-En-Jalles, Aquitaine · France
Le 15 décembre 2017 à 18h33 deux témoins sont intrigués par le déplacement de trois points très lumineux dans le ciel. Les trois points sont parfaitement alignés et se dirigent d'Ouest en Est. L'observation dure 30 secondes. Les deux témoins ont observé trois objets sur la même orbite, à savoir le vaisseau Dragon de ravitaillement de la station spatiale internationale (ISS), accompagné des deux éléments de protection de ses générateurs solaires. Le lancement de cette mission (CRS 13) a eu lieu depuis la Floride à 16h36 (heure locale en France) et l'observation a eu lieu environ deux heures après, ce qui explique que les trois objets étaient encore très proches. Ces trois objets sont répertoriés par le US Space Command sous les numéros 43060 à 43062 (désignation internationale 2017-080 A à C). Des images incluant ces trois mêmes objets plus l'étage supérieur du lanceur avaient d'ailleurs été publiées sur le Web lors du lancement de la mission CRS 11 ( voir la vidéo Dragon resupply Mission CRS 11). Dans le cas présent, comme l'étage supérieur avait déjà effectué son allumage de ré-entrée, trois objets seulement restaient visibles. Le GEIPAN classe le cas en A : éléments du vaisseau Dragon de ravitaillement de la Station Spatiale Internationale (ISS). [GEIPAN classification A — Éléments de fusée]
December 15, 2017 · 3:30 AM · LIGHT
Pawnee, IL
Very bright orange rotating lights at just above ground level in open field directly behind row of houses. We woke up to bright flashing lights on our window. Went onto deck and could see a row of orange lights on ground and a globe like set of rotating lights about 20 feet from the row of lights on ground. Attempted to take picture with iPad and will email enlarged picture?
December 14, 2017 · 10:15 PM · LIGHT
Germanton, NC
I was watching the meteor shower, and all of a sudden, a light rises up and it looked like it sat there for a minute. Then it moved in a zigzag pattern, then moved in a straight line and it kinda sounded like a plane, but a bit quieter. It looked white and it was a circular light. There was only one that I seen. I went to take a picture of it on my phone and then my phone shut off and died. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 14, 2017 · 10:15 PM · LIGHT
Germanton, NC
I was watching the meteor shower and all of a sudden a light rises up and it looked like it sat there for a minute. Then it moved in a zigzag pattern then moved in a straight line and it kinda sounded like a plane but a bit quieter. It looked white and it was a circular light. There was only one that I seen. I went to take a picture of it on my phone and then my phone shut off and died.
December 14, 2017 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Sonora Desert, AZ
We were driving on highway 8 South. 4 lights became two pairs then not light. Then disappeared.
December 14, 2017 · 7:55 PM · LIGHT
Fort Collins, CO
Bright white light. Looking south about 40-45 degrees up in the sky, noticed the light traveling diagonally left and down like a meteor shower but much slower. Thought it might be a plane or helicopter crashing to the ground. It went behind a tree and out of sight.. Fairly close, looked like about 1,000 yards away. Went outside to see if I could hear anything, but was silent.