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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 14, 2017 · 5:00 AM · LIGHT
Durham, NC
Meteor? PD
December 14, 2017 · 3:47 AM · LIGHT
Birmingham, AL
My Sighting: At approximately 3:47, I observed a light in the sky, too small to be a plane even at its biggest shape. The object was moving in an alarmingly strange fashion, which is what initially caused me to observe it. I will state my location, which is Birmingham, Alabama, traveling northward at the time on Highway 280, but waiting in the turn lane to turn on I-459 South. I noticed the light intensity on this object was changing in an unpredictable way, much like the movements. While the movements and shapes of this small star shaped light were sporadic, it did move in a general direction of east to west. About 40 seconds after observing said object, I noticed it got harder to follow. When it became visible again, it dropped to the ground at an extremely fast speed. I should also mention that it was daytime and my visibility was clear. I spoke to the hotline manager at 3:55 to report my sighting.
December 13, 2017 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Billings, MT
I light witch I thought was a plane, considering I live close to the airport . The craft had blinking lights and was descending. I was waiting to the noise of a plane, and it was dead silence. It was Odly close to the top of my house. Then the light (craft) went back up and away, but stayed in clear sight. Strangest part was I saw what looked to be light flares, almost like shooting stars. (5 in total) landing all around my neighborhood.
December 13, 2017 · 2:00 PM · LIGHT
Labelle, FL
After we finished eating, we went out side and he tried looking for it but it was gone.
December 13, 2017 · 1:13 AM · LIGHT
Raymore, MO
Each time, I look to the western sky from my back porch and can see (only for a second or two) a tiny green ball of light that immediately launches upward just a bit and then away (to the west) at astounding speed, disappearing from sight. The lights are not large and appear to move unlike anything i have seen before. As a science-minded skeptic, I don't know what else to do but report what I saw. Thank you.
December 12, 2017 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Vass, NC
Sighting of a star?? PD
December 12, 2017 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
San Diego (Lemon Grove), CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 12, 2017 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Cape Coral, FL
Our UFO sighting 12/12/17 At approximately 7 pm last night at our Western Cape Coral, FL, home my wife and I observed bright orange lights in the nights sky. These lights where moving from west to east in direction and passed one at a time for perhaps 45 minutes each taking perhaps 3 minutes to travel seemingly constant altitude arcing over from the eastern horizon (approx 10 miles to the tree line from our vantage point) to east of us, and then disappearing before reaching the trees to our eastern horizon. We didn’t count the number of objects but to say 25 would be a good guess. No sound was heard and the usual commercial air traffic was observed well above and out in the distance. The objects speed seemed the same for all and it was hard to determine if the objects where big and very far away or smaller and close. What we saw looked to be about 4 times the size of the stars in the sky and much, much brighter. The only formation observed was that they where in single file. Not evenly spaced either. We might see one alone then two or three in quick recession and again nothing for a few minutes before another would seemingly illuminate at the western horizon much brighter then other lights. Witness provides no contact information. PD
December 12, 2017 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Sour Lake, TX
Forgive the rushed nature of this sighting, I will submit a more extensive report soon. Beginning on December 11, and as recently as last night, December 13, a series of odd lights were observed to the west-southwest of our town’s high school. Just above the treeline, these lights varied in number from one to six, merging with each other and splitting apart at seemingly random intervals. At times there was only a single light, at other times up to six lights, slowly bobbing around into different patterns. My sightings occurred on December 12 and 13, after hearing about the occurrence from a family friend who had seen them on the 11th. The lights appear at about 5 pm to 5:15, and stay for hours, the latest I have observed was still hovering at 8:15 p.m.. The lights themselves had the general appearance of large stars, but would bob around. In a few instances, the lights multiplied into 5 or 6, and took on the shape of an obtuse angle, with one arm shorter than the other, as if a clock was reading the time 3:50. These lights would take on seemingly intentional color schemes, with some appearing to strobe predominantly cool colors, others flashing warmer, bronze tones, and one that remained white-hot throughout. It should also be noted that over the past three nights, a large group of conventional aircraft, numbering from six to eleven, can be observed circling the area, never venturing too close to the lights. Most appear to be airplanes, a few may be helicopters. Apparently, both the lights and planes have been observed by citizens of the nearby town of Nome sporadically since the end of Hurricane Harvey, the devastation of which ravaged this area quite badly. The area over which the lights seem to be hovering is seemingly inaccessible, and is most likely either rice farms of oilfields. I plan to return tonight and every night until these lights cease. We spoke via telephone with the witness on two occasions, and he sounded to us to be exceptionally eloquent and sober-minded. We suspect that he is an excellent witness, and he captured some very interesting video. PD
December 12, 2017 · 5:58 AM · LIGHT
Fort Myers, FL
2 very bright objects over Cape Coral, Florida. Flying to the southwest. Very bright, side by side, varying distances apart then disappearing.
December 12, 2017 · 3:30 AM · LIGHT
Rochester, MN
2 lights in half-diamond shape blinking through color spectrum, traveling south before slowly changing direction to SW, too high for plane or drone, possibly suborbital distance. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 11, 2017 · 10:15 PM · LIGHT
Macon, GA
On 12/11/2017 I was driving south on I-75 between mile markers 125 and 126 a little bit south of Macon, GA, at approximately 22:15 EST. I caught movement out of my peripheral vision and looked out the passenger side of my windshield to see a bright ball of light hovering just above the tree line. As I watched the hair on the back of my neck stood up and I got goosebumps up and down my arms. The ball was a very bright white light and looked to be about 50-75 yards away. It hovered over the trees for a couple of seconds and made a rapid (1-2 seconds) vertical decent into the trees. It didn’t flicker behind the trees but kept the same brightness and solid ball shape. It looked to be between the size of a golf ball and a small tangerine at that distance.
December 11, 2017 · 7:30 PM · LIGHT
San Tan Valley, AZ
Three bright oval lights, white in color observed in the sky's north of San Tan Valley, AZ. At first one bright light was seen as it was stationary and stayed bright for 5 to 7 seconds. Then it went out and two more lights lite up as the third light lite came back on. All three lights same brightness, as they went dark they seemed to, in a faster then normal, sped to another location in the sky to the north east of San Tan Valley, AZ, and again would light back up and stay stationary for about 10 to 15 seconds. After about 35 seconds all lights went off and nothing was seen again. In the past month I have seen this same action one time before with the difference of there being only one light. Witness provides no contact information. PD
December 10, 2017 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
McKinney, TX
I was unloading fire wood with 2 of my roommates. I stopped in our backyard to smoke a cigarette and I looked up. I saw a craft about as high as the lowest clouds in the night sky because the light would sometime go behind some clouds. It was darting in every direction but did not travel to far away and would always come back directly over my house. I have a short video of the main craft. During the 3 hours about 3 or 4 appeared to be emitted from the first ufo but the main craft never faded away like the others.
December 10, 2017 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Santa Clara, CA
Looked up to see flashing blue/green light moving overhead, the light flashed about once a second. After observing for a few seconds it stopped in mid air and flew straight up, turning white with a red light just below it. After flying up a distance it stopped and flew back the way it came at a fast speed, changing from white back into blinking blue/green. It disappeared momentarily and reappeared a few seconds later a little farther, about 6 miles away. It hovered high up still blinking for about 20-30 seconds and then vanished. No noise was heard.
December 10, 2017 · 5:50 PM · LIGHT
Naperville, IL
First observed from the downtown Naperville area, a small red light that appeared stationary above a Walgreen's located at the intersection across from the parking garage where my car was parked for the evening. It was about 5:50 P.M. on a clear evening; no stars were out yet and no planes or other aircraft were observed for the evening. The light was clearly artificial, but there hadn't been any typical air traffic; the light was out of place. I was across the street from the Walgreen's, waiting for the traffic light to change so that I could get to my car in the parking garage, observing. It wasn't moving when I first observed it, yet the light was blinking to no apparent rhythm: sometimes it would blink rapidly, other times it blink once, then stop blinking for several seconds before starting again. It would flash red, then appear to vanish, only to blink red again. I was curious, and flashed the flashlight on my phone at it, mimicking its own flashing. It flashed back, and then stopped flashing for an extended period of time. When the light finally turned (after I took a quick series of photos) I crossed the street and headed the down the block towards the garage. However, I noticed something odd; the red light wasn't behind me as it should have been if it was still stationary. If it had just been hovering I should have passed it by, leaving it behind me. I should have had to look behind me in order to keep it in view, not in front. Curious, I stopped walking abruptly. In that short instance of my pause, I caught it moving a few degrees more to the west before it stopped. I took more photos and kept walking. In front of the garage, across from the municipal center, there is a relatively empty, small parking lot. I stopped there and flashed my flashlight once more in a series of rapid bursts at the light; there was no response this time. Once more the light was stationary. I took the stairs up to the fourth floor (where my car was), and looked out the gaps between the floors. The light was still there, stationary, blinking slowly. I took another series of quick photos. Leaving the downtown area to get home, I hoped out loud that I wouldn't see it coming after the car. I don't recall seeing it after I left. I don't know if it was still there when i pulled out of the garage, but I know for sure that it didn't follow me back to my house. I’ve seen a lot of air traffic in my neighborhood, but I have never seen anything like it. This light was way too high in the sky to be a plane or a helicopter, not to mention that I’ve never seen one act or move like this light did. Later discovering a video I took with my phone that I hadn't noticed before, I saw another object come out of nowhere during the last two seconds of the video. Green, and flying out of nowhere exactly that I pinpoint, it was much larger than the red light, didn't blink, and wasn't noticed while I filmed. I don’t recall seeing that object/light before the viewing the video. Zooming into the photo shows a weird green shape.
December 10, 2017 · 12:30 AM · LIGHT
Portland, OR
I saw three UFO's last night, 12/9/2017 (early morning actually). I am not sure what time it was when we saw the first two. What I observed was a bright light, North of our house moving West to East. At first, I thought it might have been the International Space Station (ISS). I opened our front door and ask my girlfriend's daughter to come out. I was in the doorway for 45 sec. to a minute. She came out and the first UFO had vanished and I thought I should still have been able to see it. When I looked again, in about the same position in the sky, there was another bright light moving at about the same speed, altitude, etc. We watched it for a few seconds and it disappeared. The two UFO's had been reflecting light from over the horizon and when they entered the Earth's shadow they could no longer be seen. They had no lights on them. I was out on the front porch a few hours later about 5:30 a.m. The view from the porch is mostly to the North and East. I looked up at the Moon and saw what I thought was a bright large planet close to the Moon's position, then I noticed the object was moving from South to North. Again, my first thought was that it was a satellite. I watched it for about 15 to 20 seconds and all of the sudden, it shot off, at a mind boggling speed, to the Southwest at about a 300 to 310 degree angle from the direction that it had been moving. I had one of those "Wow!!" moments. It disappeared quickly. After it made the turn, I only saw it for maybe two seconds. I think it had been reflecting light from the Moon and just disappeared into shadow as it changed direction.
December 9, 2017 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Bismarck, MO
We saw 4 orange redish lights hovering without blinking in the distance, west of our front yard. It appeared as if they were simply floating in place, but after a few minutes, they appeared to be getting smaller, as if they were flying west. 3 were flying in an irregular triangle formation and the 4th was a little ways off in the sky a little more northwest but exhibiting the same behavior. My roommate depicted it as possible army helicopters, or something similar, so we returned outside.
December 9, 2017 · 9:50 PM · LIGHT
Littleton, CO
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 9, 2017 · 9:20 PM · LIGHT
Phillipsburg, KS
On Dec. 8, 2017, (sic. Dec. 9th) my husband and myself witnessed a distinctive row of red lights traveling SW of Phillipsburg, KS. They were lined up and flashing, moving at a slow rate of speed. Did not see any object just the lights there was at least a dozen red flashing lights no sounds of engines, just silence. Would love to know if anyone else has reported that sighting. (( We suspect that the time indicated by the witness is flawed, and we have attempted to contact her to confirm whether the sighting might have been during the evening. In the meantime, we have amended the time above. PD
December 9, 2017 · 9:20 PM · LIGHT
Helper, UT
About five to ten minutes later another set came by going East to West very slowly. All 25 people in my company came out to look and we tried taking pictures, but our cameras would shut off. My pictures seem to catch what seems to be electrical charges in odd shapes,
December 9, 2017 · 9:20 PM · LIGHT
Vienna, IL
Multiple flashing lights in a straight line, like they were attached to one long object or multiple crafts flying in equal spacing, was seen flying north. Completely silent.
December 9, 2017 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Rachel, NV
Husband and I made a night run to Area 51 as we are fairly new to Nevada and enjoy exploring. As we approached the extraterrestrial highway sign we pulled off to take pictures in front of it. We were both out of the vehicle made sure we were the only ones around and left the doors open. Radio was off, vehicle was running, we both had our backs to tne truck we heard was sounded like a person talking on the radio turned, looked at eachother and slowly walked back to the truck and got inside. My husband had taken a video looking outwards and can be heard saying how we were the only ones around and how creepy it was he has closed the video application and locked his phone, after we heard the noise and were back in tbe truck tbis video click on and kept replaying and his phone was being extremly difficult to unlock and stop the play back. We decided to continue down the road in search of 'the black mailbox' we learned shortly after coming to were it wad supposed to be that it was removed, replaced and removed again. We decided to park, look out the windows and take in the amount of stars that we could see give. There was basically zero lighg polloution, unlike las veags and just watch for shooting/falling stars, after about 10 mins we decided to head back home. As we were drivinv i was watching tje road ahead and told my husband to be careful of the car a ways down the road, since tbe appeared to be stopping, out of no where about 15-20 possibly even upwards of 50 blinking red anf white lights were ahead of us. We pulled over, i began recording and captured what i could on video, after playing it back several times, i am frustrated at the lack of justice the video shows what I saw with my own eyes. The lights looked as if some were in a line, circle, and triangle patterns, there was no green light which would have made me dis them a drone or aircraft. They were also fairly large in size and traveling extermly close together also causing me to believe this was not Conventional aircraft. I am sending a video beware, given our shock and excitement, there are expletives.
December 9, 2017 · 8:50 PM · LIGHT
Ohkay Owingeh (San Juan), NM
I was traveling south near San Juan Pueblo and noticed a fleet of about 15 flashing objects/aircraft flying in a scattered formation headed West toward San Lorenzo/ Los Alamos. They were flying high and fast, but with unusual presence and motion. I stopped and to record the aircrafts and have the recording. They seemed to be about the size of a large drone. All we're flashing O/I and flying in the same direction. I noticed other vehicles pulling over as well.