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February 5, 2022 · 9:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Redondo Beach, CA
I saw something very unusual. Dare I say a UFO. What I feel is that it was not a plane. I was on my run just around Redondo Union High School in Redondo Beach, CA. What I saw was what I first mistook as a plane flying by in the lower troposphere, but what was unusual was the VERY BRIGHT ORANGE LIGHT it was emitting. Far brighter than any light a plane would be emitting. I saw it flying closer into vision only to see it decelerate in the night sky, almost to a standstill. After watching it linger and continue to emit bright orange in the sky as it seemed to approach from the eastern sky, I saw it once again accelerate… continuing to emit its bright orange luminosity. It flew away into the horizon into the Oceanside western sky. As it flew west, it seemed to ascend further into the stratosphere, and then mesosphere, until its bright orange light faded as I kept peering from my phone to the UFO . It’s all in the name, UFO, unidentified flying object. So, I can’t tell you what it was, because I honestly don’t know. I doubt it was a plane though. If this were a drone, it had a very powerful orange emitter to still be seen if it ascended towards the mesosphere.
February 1, 2022 · 9:31 PM · UNKNOWN
Sharonville, OH
Low flying Fast Completely Black Beatle Shaped Swept Forward Reflection Off Underbelly From City Lights
February 1, 2022 · 9:56 AM · UNKNOWN
Evansville, IN
The object was very abnormal. I’ve seen plenty of planes, helicopters, weather balloons, and I enjoy watching the night sky. This was nothing of the sort. The object had a chrome shiny exterior, and reflected light as if it were a mirror. It moved much faster than the planes I’ve seen, and seemed to change direction in an instant. The object stopped and remained stationary, so I grabbed my phone and began recording. I was in a work van that was pretty dirty so getting good footage was hard. I noticed the object began shimmering, before moving southwest and disappearing. My boss was the driver of the vehicle. He is a church minister, and a devoted Christian. He was the only other witness in the vehicle with me. He had trouble seeing it while driving. When I reviewed the video I took, (IPhone 13 Pro Max) I noticed a strange interference on the video that created blurry pixels on the objects near me in the video. The video is poor, but my eyesight is not.
February 1, 2022 · 12:45 AM · UNKNOWN
Newport, WA
It was a very clear night (for a change), and I headed to bed at 12:45 a.m. Monday night/Tuesday morning. I saw a bright light that appeared to have multiple colors on it hovering above and just to the right of the red light from a tower on the top of the mountain directly across the river. I believe that is an internet "line of sight" tower. I could tell it wasn't a star because it moved strangely. It wasn't a plane because it just hovered, but not super steadily. I could see from using the tower light and the frames on my large windows as reference points that it wasn't super steady. It would move slightly in various directions, but still hover. I have some new (good) binoculars that I retrieved from my living room. I could see the object from there also. I took the binoculars back to bed, and observed it for at least 15 minutes straight. It was wider than it was tall, and the image was a bit shaky with binoculars, so I couldn't make out the shape details clearly. But there were multiple fast-moving lights that appeared to stay in constant motion. Red, yellow, green and blue lights. It wasn't stealthy at all. The lights stayed in constant motion or flashing on and off the entire time I observed it. I wanted to see it fly away and see how it moved, but I got tired. Turned over to try to sleep, probably 10 minutes later, I looked again and it was gone. I looked all over the sky to see if I could see it. Nothing. I wish I'd gone outside to see if I could hear anything, but I didn't. I didn't take pictures because I didn't think it would be clear enough. I am 100% certain it wasn't a plane or a star.
January 31, 2022 · 7:46 PM · UNKNOWN
Warsaw, MO
A bright light approached from the north. I thought it was the moon behind the clouds at first. Then I realized it was moving towards us. The glow around it was huge, from our vantage point, about 5 times the size of the moon in the night sky. We were sitting around the fire, my parents and I, and I said, "Look at that!" My parents turned around and were amazed. We watched it for the next few minutes as it veered away toward the SW. It followed the cloud line. What was strange were 4 factors. 1. No sound came from it. I expect it was 1,000 feet in the air. I fly drones, so I can somewhat estimate altitude of aircraft. 2. The glow that surrounded it was enormous and unwavering, even though it itself was quite small in comparison. It had no flashing lights. Just steady and bright. 3. As it drew near and passed by, I noticed the glow created a shape or a symbol. My mom saw that, too. The shape was that of a spiral galaxy with 2 arms. Or a pregnant "S," I guess. 4. My dad said he watched the actual object closely while my mom and I watched the glow. He said it looked as though it was swimming back and forth a bit. We thought maybe this was an optical illusion because it was going in and out behind tree branches. It's winter, so the trees are bare. But I thought I should mention everyone's account. It's possible it was a very bright light on an airplane, but the strange symbol it created the whole time it approached and departed seems to suggest either it was a very well funded prank, a military air test from the nearby base, or a UAP. In any case, I thought it was worth reporting. I am 43, Male, and my parents are 66 and 70.
January 31, 2022 · 6:50 PM · UNKNOWN
Sioux Falls, SD
We were taking a walk and noticed a weird shape in the sky and decided to take some pictures. Normally something like this would be blinking but there were no flashing lights, just this weird shape flying from North to South.
January 31, 2022 · 6:48 PM · UNKNOWN
Colt, AR
Looked north and noticed an elliptical star/ galaxy type light inside what appeared to be a cloud- it was slowly moving south/southwest from me. Watched for a minute then filmed a video. Went inside and got someone else to come look at it and watched it continue to move south until it was past our view and below the tree line. It appeared to have changed shape and color from a blue to more an orange color once I returned outside.
January 31, 2022 · 6:26 PM · UNKNOWN
Swansboro, NC
We witnessed two bright objects come out of a cloud that seems to be lit up from the inside. The sun has already set.
January 27, 2022 · 7:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Nevada, MO
I have had some strange activity outside my house the last couple of weeks. My wife went outside to get in the truck and she saw this footprint outside in front of my garage. This is not a joke or a prank, I sent the image in to Missouri Department of Wildlife to have them try to explain it already but haven't heard back. Again this is not a prank.
January 27, 2022 · 3:01 AM · UNKNOWN
Roswell, GA
The sky was clear with no clouds. The object appeared to be smaller than a vehicle. It was hovering (not flying or floating) and it appeared to tilt from one side to its opposite side (left to right). It appeared to be be metalic as it tilted from side to side the sun reflected off of one of its sides. It was clearly not a normal flying object. It literally just disappeared. My daughter and I pulled over in our vehicle to get a better look. It was impossible to compare it to anything as I have never seen anything like it before.
January 17, 2022 · 10:10 PM · UNKNOWN
Olyimpa, WA
The UFO was flying around I5, proceeded to go around, it then went to a different area, I observed 1 UFO, from my point of view it appeared to be whiteish grey.
January 16, 2022 · 5:06 PM · UNKNOWN
21-minutes, flight time, north of Phoenix, AZ
This sighting occurred while onboard Allegiant Flight AAY 552, Phoenix, Arizona, to Bellingham, Washington, Sunday, January 16, 2022. Take off time: 4:45 p.m. MST. Time of sighting: 5:06 p.m. MST. Weather: Daylight. Sunny with partial clouds. Elevation: @ 35,700’. Coordinates at time of sighting: @ 35.4556 Lat / -112.0866 Lon. The sun was setting, but still relatively high, on the port side of the airplane. I was seated starboard, in window seat 7D. My companion was in seat 7E. As we taxied to the runway, I began photographing scenes outside my window for the benefit of my curious three and five year old grandsons back home. I shot a series of photos on the ground and during take off. As we gained altitude, above the partial cloud coverage, I snapped a few shots of the emerging full moon and was captivated to see, upon review of the images, a light phenomenon my eyes did not initially detect. This light, however, was not the UFO sighting. The camera’s eye revealed a beautiful, circular rainbow just below the moon. I had never seen such a mystical wonder so I continued to shoot, hoping for just one exquisite capture. It may be helpful to note here that, according to my camera’s metadata, the series of ten images I have submitted, seven reflecting the UFO, were collectively shot within 60 seconds. This sighting happened fast. As I was photographing the celestial scene, a dark, black streak appeared in the top left corner of the frame. Startled and on reflex, I lowered my camera/phone to look directly at the window fearing it had suddenly cracked. Seeing the streak was not ON the window, but far off in the distant sky, I immediately resumed photographing. The smoking object appeared to be traveling south, parallel to our northbound airplane, at a very high rate of speed. I saw no metal. No flames. No material form of any kind or shape. It was at a distance too great for me to guesstimate. It was descending at approximately a 30-degree angle leaving two thick, black contrails behind. I saw no lights. No fire ball. No other craft, object or smoke elsewhere around it. Only two significant contrails of smoke, with what can only be described as open space between them, hinged at the nose. It all happened so very fast. When the object rotated perpendicular to the ground, I grabbed the arm of my travel companion and said with alarm, “Look at this! I think that’s an airplane going down! Oh, my, God, all those passengers!” We both fixed our eyes on the smoking object while I continued to photograph. Suddenly, the object, which was clearly falling, completed an aerobatic somersault, began to level its altitude, then sharply and suddenly diverted due east and vanished. Completely vanished without a trace of craft or contrails left behind. This falling object ceased to fall, redirected itself, then just simply and literally evaporated. I snapped a few additional after-shots, hoping a shift in our plane’s position and reflective light might capture some last trace of evidence, but nothing appeared on the images. The sky looked as if nothing had been there. My companion and I were quite unsettled and uncertain about what, if anything, to do. I had the thought to ask a flight attendant to take my camera/phone to the pilot to ask for a reasonable explanation but I wasn’t quite able to muster the courage to act on it. As we deboarded and I passed by the cock pit, thanking the attendants, I felt a little nudge to lean in and ask the Captain myself but again, I hesitated. The pilot must have sensed me, because just as I was turning away, he swung around in his seat, acknowledging me with a tilt of his head and a polite wink. I jokingly told my friend, “I think he knows!” Later, I had one final opportunity to speak with the Captain as he passed by my husband and I at baggage claim. But as I quickly reached to open my phone’s gallery and told my husband, (who was as yet unaware of the sighting,) “I have a question I REALLY need to ask that pilot!”, my husband grabbed my arm and stopped me. “Don’t bother that man, honey. He’s had a long day and is probably anxious to get back home or to his hotel room.” So, one more time, I didn’t ask, still have no answers and am now filing this report with you. Per your request for a bit of personal background information, I am a retired Washington State County employee. I served a total of 21 years including eight with the Prosecuting Attorneys Office and twelve as the acting Deputy Clerk for Superior Court’s Domestic Violence and Drug Court divisions. This sighting is not my first, it’s my third, but the first with the photographic evidence to support my claim. Previous sightings were in March, 2021, while vacationing with the same travel companion, on Oahu, Hawaii and in 1974, as a high school senior, in Schenectady, New York. I remember each of these sightings with equal clarity. The images are forever etched into my memory and I’m happy to provide additional information, if it is of value to you. My travel companion, also retired, owned a very successful, paper and packing business with her husband serving multiple Washington State counties. We first met and worked together in Bellingham, Washington, in 1977 and have lived near to one another and remained dear friends since. Additional follow-up: As soon as I returned home, I forwarded the images and a text message to one of my retired Superior Court judges/friend who is also a licensed pilot and retired US Army Lieutenant Colonel. He was perplexed by the images and suggested I contact the UFO Reporting Center. I also personally know the Airport Operations Manager at Bellingham International Airport, who was equally mystified and unable to offer any potential explanation. I am curious and eager to speak to an investigator about this mysterious unknown. Thank you all for the work you are doing to collect UFO data and help expand the Public’s knowledge regarding the unlimited potentials and possibilities within our vast Universe. Flight detail summary: Sunday, January 16, 2022 – Allegiant Flight AAY 522 Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport to Bellingham International Airport Departure time: 4:45 MST Sighting time (as noted in image metadata): 4:06 PST / 5:06 actual MST Time discrepancy: For reasons unknown to me, the metadata on the images reflect PST at the time of capture, however, we had not yet entered PST zone when the images were shot. Coordinates at time of sighting: 35.4556 Lat / -112.0866 Lon were found via Flightaware.com tracking. The object in question aappears to us to be another high-altitude jet with a thick contrail trailing behind it. PD
January 15, 2022 · 6:45 PM · UNKNOWN
Portland, OR
I just got off work and was driving northbound on I-205 going to Vancouver, WA to visit my girlfriend. I was driving a white Cadillac going 65 mph in the middle lane when I looked up noticing a large dark black shape hovering in the sky right in front of me. It was dusk to but this object stood out as blacker than black so I could see it perfectly. As I stared at it I began to analyze it. This is exactly what I thought. I thought of a black plastic garbage bag that that if it got caught on a screw on the sign of an overpass and was kinda being sucked under it. Yet I knew what I was seeing was way bigger than a bag. But I didn't see an overpass or light pole or any wires. So I knew not only was it way bigger than a garbage bag but there was nothing this black object could be hanging off. This black object at my best guess was hovering in midstop about 100 feet from the road directly in front of me. It was maybe sixty feet wide and eighty feet tall and an inky blackness. And I soon realized I'd be driving under this thing. I didn't take my eyes off it and all this happened over maybe 10 seconds at most because as I was about to drive underneath it something like a thin banner or sheet of the same blackness unraveled down from the bottom center of this thing dropping down from it. I watched just stunned as it came lower and I'm almost speeding right beneath this banner like thing coming down from it. It kept dropping lower in a word way almost timing me. It hit the ground in front of me blocking my center lane. It was as wide as my vehicle and the width of my lane a like a thin sheet of blackness. I quickly swerved wildly and in absolute panic barely making it around this thing that fell. As I righted my car I looked in my rearview just tripping on what happened. I saw three other sets of headlights behind me all swerve wildly like I did. I even counted. One. Two. Three. And knew I wasn't the only one who saw this. I started to slow down to wave these cars over but realization came over me of what happened. I got scared and took off speeding as fast as I could out of there. Now it's been a year but I can't stop thinking about what happened. Things are different. I can't stop thinking about what would of happened if I ran into that black banner like thing that dropped down from this object. And now I'm trying to find those other three drivers and want to see if there were any cameras anywhere near that stretch of highway. I've looked all over the internet and never seen any encounters of anything like what I experienced. So I'm just idk wanting to tell my story. This has changed my life and I can't stop looking at the night sky wondering if I'll see it again. But the blackness of this object was what was spooky. And shape. There was no lights anywhere. Just dark blackness and that's scary. So yeah that's what I saw and I have become obsessed with finding out what that was.
January 10, 2022 · 7:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Peoria, AZ
I was looking at 3 bright stars in a upside down "L" shape or loose triangle, when the lower star started moving to the North, I ran to get my wife, 3-4 seconds by then it had moved out of site, also the second star was gone, I have checked every night since and the 1 star is still in the same place or was for a few days. I am a retired Military Pilot, and have seen some odd things before, but this was a first
January 7, 2022 · 3:45 PM · UNKNOWN
Örebro (Sweden), ÖREBRO C · Sweden
To be honest I didn't really see anything but I felt and heard vibrations on the sea. and I can also here very strange vibrations I haven't heard before the coming from the sea. But I cant see anything. It's too much snow.
January 6, 2022 · 4:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Ludlow, MA
We don't think we saw a craft, but we did see a long, black contrail. There was no craft or visible object leaving it, but it did grow in length over the course of about 20 minutes. Even after 30 minutes, it still had not dissipated or broken apart. We think it might have been a small asteroid burning up or perhaps space debris, but we are not certain.
January 3, 2022 · 8:08 AM · UNKNOWN
Houston, TX
Couldn’t have been a chemtrail. It was two of them and they were too short to have been chemtrails. Stayed way too long, almost my entire drive home. Seemed like I was getting closer then would seem way off again. Could’ve been something cigar shaped, tilted downwards, two of them. Saw lights in the front, facing downward. Normally chem trails are going up or just horizontally, and you’d think the direction it were going up, would have had lights on it, not the other way around. Almost looked like something hurling TOWARDS the area. Weird.
January 2, 2022 · 10:45 PM · UNKNOWN
Salem, OR
My wife and I were watching Ron's Gone Wrong on HBO MAX. We were sitting in front of our living room window facing the window. As we watched the movie we noticed these bright lights that were a perfect circle "turn on" but like they were coming down. Think of like a beam of light but in dots. They were a perfect circle. No glare or anything. They came down and then went back up. As it They went back up if looked like they were being turned off. One after thee other. When it got to the top we could see or sense the unknown object leave via the right side of the window. Not fast or like any known flying object, say a plane or helicopter or drone. Tonight has been very very stormy and windy which confused us. Because it would be a plane or drone or helicopter. We both saw these strange dot lights and didn't say anything until after we saw it leave. Then we turned to each other and asked if we saw that. I explained to my wife what I saw and she verified she saw the same thing. The whole experience took around 5-8 seconds. We live on the 3rd floor of apartments. There is a small open field across from our apartments. So the top of the lights had to be way above in the sky and the bottom had to be across the small field to what seemd like the ground. Behind the field there are other apartments. The lights didn't stop behind the apartments which means they were in front of them by the field. We both sat there trying to find explanation to what we saw but remembering how stormy it was also helped verify it wasn't normal. We both felt woth blank minds. Like shock perhaps or like we couldn't believe what we saw. It wasn't normal. It would have been the starlink satellites because the lights came down. It wasn't across the sky. My wife thinks it was as if it was an object that came down turning on the lights but I feel as it was a beam of light in form of dots. We both feel like we could see the object leave slowly as if it's floating or hovering via the right side of the window. Please contact me via email as i do not answer unknowned numbers.
January 2, 2022 · 9:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Lynnwood, WA
Hello, I've had this green bone like object for awhile and I still have no idea what it is so I thought I should file a report. I found it laying on the ground of my old place that I was renting a room from. It's green, has a brush like texture on one side. I was thinking it was a "Greenie" treat for dogs but my old landlord had no dogs whatsoever and there were no dogs on the property for atleast over 8 years. Would you know what this thing is? It doesn't appear to be a greenie or something like that.
December 30, 2021 · 4:55 PM · UNKNOWN
Unsure exactly, AL
While driving the low angle of the sun in the evening was reflecting light off an odd shaped fairly stationary or descending object in the sky.
December 28, 2021 · 1:42 AM · UNKNOWN
Westlake, FL
The morning at dawn on December 28, 2021 I was looking at my ring camera videos and went back around 1am and while I’m reviewing I spotted something going up from the back side away from the home across from me. Near the area in the video is bunch of trees in the spot my ring camera shown the light of something going up to the sky. There isn’t any nearby airport from the direction in my camera. Also on December 30, 2021 at 4:11am something a little smaller going up in a different direction from the camera. I don’t think it’s a shooting star because they fly across the sky, it can’t be a rocket going up because I don’t live near an army base. Don’t have Palm beach international airport near by where I live and still wouldn’t be able to see anything going up from their tarmac. I don’t think it’s anyone popping fireworks because it was 1:42am and no one live inside the forest that is in the back in that direction. Please let me know what you think and Thank you in advance!
December 26, 2021 · 10:15 AM · UNKNOWN
Greenville, SC
There was a strange green craft that flew across the sky going as quick as a shooting star, but it was way bigger. In addition, it was green, and it disappeared just as fast like it blew out.
December 21, 2021 · 6:15 AM · UNKNOWN
Orleans, MA
Leaving the house early to do some snowy owl photography, I started my car and looked up at the moon and noticed a glowing light that was moving well above the tree line towards my house. I called my girlfriend to take a look, she opened the door, confirmed what I saw and quickly closed the door. We stayed on the call and I left and it passed over the house. turning left onto the main rd it changed direction and seemed to be traveling parallel with my car. When I came to a stop sign, it also stopped. I turned right and it also turned right and continued on its original path. I checked the Flight Radar 24 app and there was no commercial/private air craft activity at that time. When the object came towards the house it was a white light, when the object was parallel with my car it still was bright white toward the front, but had different colors on the side of it. I could not make out the shape of the craft but it made absolutely no sound and left no visible trail.
December 20, 2021 · 5:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Farmington, MO
While leaving walmart the other night,, I noticed how beautiful the sky was with the sun setting. I have a pretty good camera on my phone and I'm always taking pictures, especially of the moon and night sky. I did not notice the unidentifiable object, while quickly trying to snap the last few photos I could before pulling out of walmart parking lot. It wasn't until later that evening when I got home that I was going through the pictures I took. In the first few you can see a set of 4 dim lights in a square shape behind some cloud coverage, moving around either a star or a planet in the sky. The last picture that I got to take was shot at the area of the sky about jc pennies, my heart dropped when inspecting this particular photo. I did not see this with my own eyes while taking the picture but the nature of the craft in the picture is one that I can not seem to find anything simular to online in other sighting photos. This craft had what appeared in the photo to be 4 propulsion type nozzles on the backside and 4 on the underneath. It was slender and definitely not anything I'd ever seen.