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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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June 18, 2014 · 4:00 AM · CIRCLE
Grand Rapids, MI
I got out of work at 3:45 am at the sametime everyone go's on break for fifteen minutes I saw this weird red light as I stood by my car smokin a cigarette. Then I notice it wasn't moving so I told a coworker to check it out as I was leaving but I had a plan to get close to it so I drove to get right under it I took a pic of it and later. Found out my coworker got video of it he also can't figure out what it is wish I could show u my pic it's really weird. My picture it's weird u just have too see it.
June 18, 2014 · 12:30 AM · CIRCLE
Cherry Grove Beach, SC
I was sitting out on the balcony of our resort, which was right down from the Cherry Grove Pier. All of a sudden I saw an orange ball appear in the sky for just a few seconds then it went out like you turned it off. A few mins later it did this all the while their was quickly blinking a series of white lights. The blinking lights remind you of fireflys but quicker. These were up in the sky not out in the ocean. I told my husband to come look because he is a big disbeliever in aliens or anything else out there. My daughter also came out and witnessed a triangular shape with the blinking lights traveling south down the beach. I saw the blinking light but I couldn't see the triangle shape. This lasted maybe 15 min then gone.
June 17, 2014 · 12:00 AM · CIRCLE
Doylestown, PA
((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) It's difficult to be specific with just one sentence to write. Last night as I was going to bed I notice flashes of light outside. It looked light lightning lighting up the sky but there was no thunder that followed. It did rain within the next 30 minutes so I've dismissed it since as being heat lightning since that's what it looked like. I have a raised berm in my backyard which is lined with trees and evergreens, with a solid wooden fence behind it so my yard is very dark at night. I saw a solid white light that could be mistaken for a flashlight but I would say it was larger than that. If you put your hands together and make a circle with your thumbs and fingers touching, that is about the size it appeared to be. At first I thought someone may have been walking around my yard - My husband and I were just commenting about the neighbors installing a fence and now so there is no way to get into our yard except from the front of the house or through a neighbors yard so it's pretty private now. So I thought it was a flashlight, but it didn't move like someone was walking with it. It would appear and disappear, and then reappear many feet away. I thought it was strange but maybe still explainable. But then the light would appear at the top of the trees. That is 25+ feet in the air so it couldn't be a person holding a flashlight. And it wasn't like a flashlight was throwing light from place to place, because it was a very bright white light, like it was the source of the light and not from a beam of light. I watched for at least 5 minutes seeing the light appear and disappear throughout the treeline in my yard - for example it would appear close to the ground on the left and would shine for a few seconds, then the light would disappear and then 10 seconds later would appear to the right near the top of the trees 20 feet away. After about 5 minutes or so I saw a light light up the right side of my yard - like someone drove up my driveway and the headlights were shining light into my yard. I didn't hear anything though. It was a steady light and then eventually disappeared. Sometimes police will drive through the neighborhood, but the headlights wouldn't have been shining in my yard (FYI, my room faces the back of the house and I couldn't see the driveway). Maybe it was police? Maybe something was going on and they were looking for someone/something? I live in a pretty boring area and not much happens here at night though. I can try explaining away everything, but not the bright round white lights that kept appearing and disappearing and appearing again in a new location. Let me know if you would like any additional information. Regards, ((name ((END ADDENDUM))
June 16, 2014 · 10:23 PM · CIRCLE
Shasta Lake, CA
As I go out to smoke my last cigarette of the night, I enjoy looking at the sky. Lately, more nights than not, there is a circle light in the sky. It moves rapidly across the sky in an easterly direction, it seems to come from south of Mt. Shasta and heads toward Lassen. Traditional aircraft have also been seen on every occasion, they head up from the south and just as they cross paths, (traditional plane at an obviously lower altitude) the circle craft begins to dim and then totally disappears. This craft has only been seen (by our family) between 10 pm and 11:30 pm. Once the craft is spotted I typically have time to alert the family and get them out there to watch for a couple of minutes so I think it lasts at three minutes each night that it is there.
June 16, 2014 · 2:00 AM · CIRCLE
Kew Gardens, NY
At around 2:00 a.m. I looked out the window from 8th floor apt. Building and noticed 4 lights similar to stars forming a diamond shape, to the right I saw a brighter light they appeared stationary. I informed my husband but he doesn’t believe they are UFO’s but believes there are other life forms out there, go figure. He saw them and found it a strange formation. I kept my sight on the brighter craft and could actually see the light changing from yellow to red, I could see it flicker and move. I know it was very far but I kept my eyes on it. They moved slowly, during the two and a half hours I watched them I was able to count at least 12 of them. The diamond-shaped seemed to come together, but kept the diamond shape while the brighter one on the right began to move in a dancing way from right to left. The other 7 were not as bright but were the most active they did the same dancing movement but traveled and disappeared from sight in moderate speed, with the exception of one that confirmed my suspicion it “zoomed” and disappeared near the brightest of them. They all had the flickering effect and change of color from yellow to red. I no longer second guess UFO’s visiting us here on Earth I felt overwhelmed at such a sight, a bit scared and amazed that I was able to experience that.
June 15, 2014 · 9:30 PM · CIRCLE
Cape Cod, MA
Two friends and I were standing outside in the front yard having a smoke at this vacation rental property in Chatham (Cape Cod) at around 9:30 pm or 10:00 pm. I glanced upward at one of the trees in the yard and through the branches; I noticed a bright white light flying in the sky at a fairly high rate of speed. At first I didn’t think it was unusual because I could only see it partially through the branches and it didn’t seem like a big deal, but then it picked up speed and changed direction a bit and started flying towards us. I told my friends to look at it and tell me what it was. Well, both of them immediately said, “Holy crap!” We knew it wasn’t a plane, satellite, helicopter or anything else manmade because this thing was HUGE and it was moving faster than any aircraft known to us. We were watching it for about 60 seconds with a very clear view of it when all the sudden, it disappeared right in front of our eyes. My friends have never seen a UFO before and quite frankly, they think I might be a little crazy because I’ve seen so many of them over the years. But all three of us knew that what we just saw didn’t have a reasonable explanation as it was definitely unidentifiable!!! We told the other four people in the house about it and they of course thought we were crazy and they didn’t take it seriously at all. Also, about 11:30 pm, we went into the backyard to have one last smoke before bed and I noticed a very small white-greenish light flying about 15ft above us through the trees. We don’t know if it was some kind of bug or not (although it would have been a little large for a bug), but we have no idea what that was either.
June 15, 2014 · 3:04 PM · CIRCLE
La Puente, CA
I caught a silver disk shaped object quickly appear, then disappear, from my home surveillance system.
June 15, 2014 · 2:30 PM · CIRCLE
Long Island City (Queens), NY
I was coming home from grocery shopping and had my sun glasses on, but noticed a few really bright lights in the sky when I looked up. There was one large silver circular shape surrounded by a few smaller ones (I am not sure how many, as a few of them spread apart from it, while a couple stayed). I kept looking back up to see if it could possibly be a few planes near each other, or maybe a blimp, but the large one stayed in the same spot and more of the smaller ones spread out and vanished. When I reached my street about 10 minutes later, the larger one moved to the right, then back to the left and flew off faster and vanished.
June 15, 2014 · 1:00 AM · CIRCLE
Detroit, MI
I was at work i went in at 11:30pm I got my first break at 1:00am so i went outside to have a smoke i look up an see a beautiful full moon so i take out my phone and start to take pictures all i see is the moon but when i look at the pictures i get a green light next to the moon so i take four more pictures and i get the same green light but at different locations of the moon at that time its time for me to go back to work than when i get in i show some friends and my brother he works with me too thay said thats crazy so i take my lunch break at three and decided that i would take more pictures at that time my brother and friends look up and see the moon but nothing so i take pictures i took about six more and it's still out there but at different locations so i had my brother take pictures with his phone and got the same green lights everyone was seriously swept i zoomed in on the pictures the lights were green and red then went back to work everyone was ser! iously swept so i get one more break at 5:00am the moon still out i take more pictures and this time it's a red light i can't understand what it was or what it is but it doesn't belong here i have good pictures but can't tell what it is can you help me
June 14, 2014 · 10:45 PM · CIRCLE
Line Lexington, PA
There was a series of at least seven objects flying through the sky. The objects were small, circular, and orange. The objects all seemed to come from the same general location and move towards another separate but common location (From the NE to SE). The objects did not make any noise. They moved faster than a helicopter but slower than a plane. They all seemed to fade out of view around the same area but there were not many clouds in the sky. We tried to film the objects with a camera but were unsuccessful in really capturing anything worth sending in. Background of Witnesses – Teacher, Structural Engineer, Marketing Consultant, and Custom Clothing Entrepreneur.
June 14, 2014 · 6:45 PM · CIRCLE
Los Angeles/Burbank/Palmdale, CA
This sighting occurred during one of my frequent weekend hikes up the Verdugo Mountains. After reaching on of the the peaks,(an altitude of 2940 feet), I reclined to rest on a concrete platform near one of the newly constructed transmission towers, I witnessed four "extremely high altitude" white circular objects. They "appeared" rather than "approached" as would be the case with any traditional aircraft. These objects were not unlike a satellite in size but unlike a satellite they did not move across the sky at the expected speed. They hovered and moved very slowly in a more or less linear formation in the direction of Palmdale and Lancaster. These objects seemed to leap frog one another at times, appearing and reappearing. They eventually moved out of sight. Five or ten minutes later, my interest peaked, three more objects appeared very near the same position, directly above me. Similarly, the three objects were small white circular lights hovering at an extremely high altitude. One of the lights was flashing, reflecting light back, unlike any of the other lights previously observed. I interpreted this as the one object to be rotating with a reflective surface. Like the other objects, these three moved away slowly and eventually out of sight. As I observed these truly unusual objects I had plenty of time to consider the possible explanations. I ruled out conventional aircraft. These things were hovering. They moved much too slow and were at too high an altitude. I ruled out satellites. They were too close to one another and satellites don't just "appear" and they don't move in mass formations. I ruled out stars. Duh. I could not, however, completely ruled out high altitude weather balloons of some kind. They were not any sort of balloons I'm aware of at the least. If they were balloons, they were huge and moving in formation with one another and one was flashing or reflecting light. With Edwards AFB so close, I am guessing these things were military in origin. The funny thing is that moments before I saw them I said to myself I wonder if I'm going to see any UFO's this time, and sure enough there they were. Pretty cool and interesting sighting for me. I'll never forget it. I just wish I had a telescope with me!
June 13, 2014 · 11:50 PM · CIRCLE
Marion, IN
Driving North we noticed a huge bright circle hovering in the air, not moving at all. We stared and watched it as we drove towards it (approximately 4 minutes). We turned and continued to watch it for about 10 seconds, and then it suddenly looked as if it flipped and thinned out into a white line and then it was gone. We could not see it anywhere. It was as if it disappeared in mid air. It was the brightest thing I've ever seen. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 12, 2014 · 11:00 PM · CIRCLE
Isle of Palms/Georgetown (between), SC
Me, my husband and our 3 kids ages 16, 11 &7 were driving home to myrtle beach from north Charleston....it was somewhere between isle of palms and Georgetown on 17 that we saw them...actually I saw these lights first over the trees on my side of the road (inland side) I saw 3 looked away and looked back (because I was driving) and there was 1 and I looked away and back again but then there was nothing and I asked them if they saw what I was but they said "saw what?" So I said nevermind..later down the road I was them again but over the trees on the other side of the road (ocean/marsh side)...and this time my family saw it...it was 1 large sphere (it was big and round) and then another appeared in front of it but smaller...then the big one disappeared and another appeared a little further away and then they were all gone....there was no sign of a tail or anything or any kind of shooting up look...nothing like a firework or flare or anything I have ever seen before....we didn't hear any sounds or anything either.
June 12, 2014 · 10:45 PM · CIRCLE
North Myrtle Beach, SC
I was looking out over the beach at night at a pub and saw a single amber (dark orangish yellow) light in the sky. Within a few seconds the single light split into 2 more lights moving to the left of the initial light, creating 3 total in a horizontal line. The light furthest left on the light then split 1 more time producing another light which moved in a diagonal position (about 45 degrees) below the line of lights. All of this took place in about 5-10 seconds. Shortly after the 4 lights disappeared two objects with faint whitish blinking lights were flying through the sky. They started out in line with each other with one above and one below, and proceeded to fly on a diagonal trajectory meeting, or coming very closing to each other and then vanishing. I don't know if these were jets chasing the objects, or other forms of the UFOs above, but they moved faster than I have ever seen a main stream human made aircraft move. Following the above events a bout 15 minutes later, another single amber light quickly blinked in the sky, and was not seen again. There were 20+ people who witnessed it on the deck of the pub. The observer filing this report has studied UFOs for a number of years though has never seen one before. He works in academia in the safety field. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 12, 2014 · 4:45 AM · CIRCLE
Wartrace, TN
As I headed out of my driveway and down my road, I saw a massive round reddish/orange circle over my left shoulder, initially I thought it was the sun. The circular object remained visible as I exited my neighborhood. I then realized I was seeing this object in the Western sky. This is the 2nd or 3rd time I have seen this object in that general area, I will now carry my camera with me in hopes of capturing video footage.
June 10, 2014 · 10:30 PM · CIRCLE
Myrtle Beach, SC
Sitting on 6th floor balcony, watched orange lights about 1.5 miles off shore light up, one at a time in random patterns, then go out after a couple seconds. Thought it might be distress flares but I can't see any boats on horizon. It is a clear night, but hazy due to humidity. Usually just two or three lights, did see up to 5 at one time together in a cluster only once. Ruled out fireworks. Lights didn't move physically, but did appear in two locations approximately 15 miles apart at different times.
June 10, 2014 · 1:00 AM · CIRCLE
Clinton, TN
Was looking out of the jail house window going to say prayer before I went to bed. Then I seen 3 big amber orange craft come over the ridge in front of us. They hovered over the Clinch River like they were in formation, except the 3rd one started to move around erratic. I hollered at my cell mates to hurry and look out their windows. We all were freaking out over it. I remember the fear of never feeling so small and helpless. I knew that we had seen something other worldly. So we called for the night shift guard and I remember that she was so calm about it. She proceeded to tell us that she seen them the night before on her way to work on I-75 South. She then tells us that she seen the exact same and that they almost caused a wreck with a big tractor and trailer. Don't understand why she was so calm about it because I have never been so terrified in my life. The weird thing is that I don't remember how they left. It's like blocked in my mind or something.
June 8, 2014 · 10:00 PM · CIRCLE
Warrenton, NC
Then it just disappeared after I watched it for at least 10 minutes. Was seen about 1/2 mile south of Warrenton, NC, where no street lights or house lights were present.
June 8, 2014 · 3:43 PM · CIRCLE
Kissimmee, FL
I was taking pictures of the clouds and noticed a round object in the cloud
June 7, 2014 · 11:31 PM · CIRCLE
Brooklyn Park, MN
I waa driving down 494 at 11:30 pm from a concert and I look up and see a solid red circular light just flying across the sky about 300-400 feet up. It's going decent speed. It flies from left to right then i see it stop and it sits there for a couple seconds then comes back from right to left then disappears. Sky was also clear at the time.
June 7, 2014 · 9:55 PM · CIRCLE
Weirton, WV
On the night of June 7, 2014, at approximately 9:50 pm (Eastern Time), I was driving up the hill on Culler Road (heading in the direction of South) in Weirton, West Virginia, (Hancock County) to go get something to eat at a local fast food drive-thru. It was a night with no precipitation and some stars were visible and the moon looked small and faint as if maybe behind a few thin high clouds in the Eastern sky. As I neared the top of Culler Road, before reaching where Montgomery Avenue meets Culler Road, I looked out my driver’s side window because some very obvious and strange lights were visible in the sky way over top of the roofs of the houses that line Culler Road on my left. The lights were very bright and light-orange in color. They were spherical in shape and hovered in the sky lined up in a horizontal pattern and separated from each other with some spacing between them. They did not appear to blink or flash upon looking at them with just my eyes. I was so astonished at the sight of these lights that I sped up my car to get to the intersection of Palm Drive and Culler Road so I could pull off on the side of the road on Palm Drive to get a better look at these lights. Culler Road had no berm to pull over onto so I had to get onto Palm Drive. Within about a minute I was on Culler Road and I pulled my car off the road and parked into a cleared area on the right side of the road and I got out of my car. The lights were extremely bright and obvious in the sky. I had never seen such lights in the sky before. They did not appear to be airplanes as they continued to hover and move very slowly in the Eastern sky moving from my Right to my Left which would be moving in the Eastern sky from South to North. What amazed me so much was that they kept a controlled distance from one another the entire time and they moved in unison and formed, the majority of the time, a straight horizontal line, but at one time I saw some of the lights form almost a right angle with some lights appearing more in a slanted vertical line and others in a horizontal line. In another instance I remember thinking they almost look like a “Big Dipper” pattern but with maybe one or two “lights” missing from that familiar pattern. As they slowly moved from Right to Left in the sky, the lights in the far-most left would eventually grow dimmer and eventually fade away while additional lights, one at a time, would rise up from the horizon toward my right in the eastern sky and continue to join the trail in the right-to-left movement pattern as the other ones had followed. They did not move fast. They moved at a pace between “hovering” and “very slow” and the distance between each light remained almost constant (some did not catch up to others or surpass others…all lights followed the one or ones that were in front of them that were more to the left and moving northward). All lights moved from south to north (my right to my left) and none stayed stationary or backtracked in the opposite direction. I took out my iPhone 5 and opened the camera app and took a few still shots and then decided I should set it on video but was unsure if my phone’s camera would pick up what I saw. I was able to get a few stil! ls and one short video. In looking back on this experience, I should have tried to count them or call the police or someone else to document what I was seeing because I was alone with I witnessed this. My estimation was that I saw at least 20 or more individual lights total. I don’t know how many more might have been in the sky before I was driving up Culler Road where they caught my visual attention that night. I thought perhaps it might be something from the Pittsburgh Airport or the Air Force base which are both in the direction of where I was looking that night from Palm Drive. The airport is approximately 20 minutes by car from Weirton and it is northeast from Weirton. I called the police 2 days later and also the news station in Steubenville, Ohio which is the city across the Ohio River from Weirton and both said they did not receive any reports of these lights. I was frustrated because what I saw was definitely something I had never seen before in my entire life. I am a 62-year-old male with a master’s degree in a profession. I am not any “UFO nut” and am really not sure if extraterrestrial beings or vehicles exist. I felt maybe these could be some experimental drones or something that the military could be testing at night. Whatever they were, they were controlled and by no means did they randomly travel across the sky. They were organized and lined up and spaced themselves as if controlled by some source or intelligence intentionally. They made no noise or sound in the sky. I called the National UFO Reporting Center in the State of Washington after doing a Google search of where to report UFOs because the local police and news station treated my verbal report with no interest or concern. I spoke directly with Peter Davenport who told me he is the director of this organization, and he advised me on how to submit a report and, to keep it “clean,” without bias or contamination, to not read other reports on that website until after I complete my report. I will complete a report to this UFO Reporting organization and will also submit my still photos and my short video taken from my iPhone 5 on the night of June 7, 2014. We spoke via telephone with this witness, and he sounded to us to be quite sincere, eloquent, and sober-minded. We suspect that he is an excellent witness, and that his report is quite accurate. PD
June 7, 2014 · 9:46 PM · CIRCLE
Purdy, WA
Travelling home on Highway 16 I noticed what I thought was a helicopter coming towards me at about 1,000 a.g.l. On second look the yellow color of the craft was unlike anything I've seen. I looked out the window of the truck to get a look at it from behind and still only saw a yellow color plus a little darker color in the center. There were no position lights, anti-collision lights or any other light. The speed of the craft was similar to a helicopter. Heading was south to south west. Visibility was great this evening and sun had set. The yellow color was constant from when I first saw it to seeing it pass. The yellow color was similar to the color of a fire. I'm a pilot with about 360 hours. Flightpath was the same altitude and heading.
June 7, 2014 · 9:10 PM · CIRCLE
Peabody, MA
Red object in the sky flying in unique pattern straight up, across, and diagonal, and even appeared to stop for several seconds. The object at times would become incredibly bright red with a glow, then would go dark and reappear with a lighter red light no glow. It would also become very bright then appear to split into multiple objects like it was shooting balls of light out of it several times. It continued to eject other lights and then disappeared lasted probably 2 minutes. Observers include a family, parent mid 30s with post graduate education free of medication and child (10 yrs.). Call placed to Peabody Police Dept. and they informed us no other reports had been received. We suspect that the source of the report, who elects to remain anonymous, and who provides no contact information, may be the same person who called our Center on Saturday evening, June 07th, 2014. PD
June 7, 2014 · 8:45 PM · CIRCLE
Portsmouth, VA
Then then a few mins later disappeared and didn't see it again. Witness provides no contact information. PD