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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.
27,433 entries
July 27, 2017 · 9:45 PM · LIGHT
Bentonville, AR
Was walking the dog with my son, when I noticed a blue light that was illuminating the sidewalk. I checked to see if my mobile phone was shining on the sidewalk and realized that not only was it off, but the light was all around me and was coming from above. I looked into the sky and at cloud level was a stationary blue ball of light. Within a second of my viewing it it shot off across the sky at unimaginable speed, leaving a trail of light behind it that lit up the clouds in blue light as it passed over them. It appeared to travel 50+ miles (I'm guessing that is the distance of the edge of the horizon at eye level) in less than a second. It was amazing.
July 27, 2017 · 3:00 AM · LIGHT
Ramsey, MN
We watched this huge light stay above the treeline until the sun came up, when it seemed to slowly get higher and higher until you the sky was as light out as this unidentified flying light. To describe this light I'm more detail it was yellow and pink in color and had a green light to the lower right of it. It seemed to dance and or habe a flow to it. It reminded me of a jellyfish. As it got further into the sky it resembled a cross. I've noticed this same light where I live in town. It appears to pretend to be a star but moves short distances in a way where you wouldn't notice it.
July 27, 2017 · 2:00 AM · LIGHT
Sahuarita, AZ
About 2am, my dog got me up barking to go outside, which is rare. He seemed very upset. I stayed outside with him for about an hour, looking at the stars. When we got outside, a monster truck was racing around the neighborhood, so that could have been what had him upset, but I kind of doubt it. He also did eventually poop after about an hour, so could have been that. He seemed very upset the whole time, like someone or something was out there. I saw a randomly flashing light in the sky exactly like what is on the YouTube video below (not my video). The moving light was very high altitude like a satellite. I've never seen a blinking satellite before. It would blink randomly, dim then dark, then bright, then dark, then maybe dim for a couple of times, then dark, then bright, repeatedly but randomly. It was moving slower than a satellite from west to east. The speed seemed to alter and even stop at times. I watched it for maybe five minutes but it was still there when I went back inside. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xVF2sfxj8I It was the same thing as described in this recent report by someone on your site: http://nuforc.org/webreports/135/S135177.html
July 26, 2017 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Dingmans Ferry, PA
A bright light way up in the sky moving back and forth and up and down
July 26, 2017 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Weaverville, NC
At 10 pm on this moonless night full of stars, I went out on my 2nd story deck looking NE towards a large dark mountain in the distance. (We live in the country and there are no visible houses or lights in this direction.) I first noticed 3 large sparkling red lights. I assumed they were stars - all in a vertical row in front of this mountain in the valley. They were not moving but glowing very red. I called my boyfriend to come look. We noticed two more red lights rise up behind the trees together side-by-side to a 4th position in the line with one then dropping into a 5th position. A 6th red light appears at the bottom just over the trees at the end of this vertical line. Red light number 1 seems to be getting smaller – but does not seem to be moving. Then it disappears, and the line moves upward. #2 then disappears, and then # 3 disappears. A bright red light appears briefly over to the left then also disappears. During this viewing time – maybe 10 -12 minutes – some of the red sparkling lights disappear and then reappear in the same position. They all appear to be hovering in this valley within a few miles of us. As the other lights just blinked out, the top red light starts to move away to the upper right and gets smaller and smaller, until it is just a dot as if flying away. It doesn’t just blink out like the others.
July 26, 2017 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Colchester, VT
About an hour in, a second object appeared and flew back and forth across the horizon next to it. The second object was much more dim. The brightness of both objects would change. The second object disappeared after 30 min.
July 26, 2017 · 9:35 PM · LIGHT
South Kingstown, RI
As I was on my way to the store, driving on my back road, about half mile from my house, I was stunned to see a huge yellowish white gleaming light hanging in the sky about 800 to 100 feet up. I said to myself, 'what the hell is that?' I continued slowly driving, trying to see if the light/object moved at all, but it did not. No sound was heard and no other smaller lights were visible on the 'craft.' It reminded my of the usual artist conception of the star of Bethlehem, as depicted on Christmas cards. I lost sight of it behind the trees on my left, as I drove on. I wanted to get to a large farm up the road that offered a clear view of the sky. When I got there, about 3 minutes later, I could see no light at all anywhere. Way off, I could see a stationary light in the sky, but it could have been light from a plane. Driving back from the store, I continued to scan the night sky, which was mostly clear with stars and a moon just starting to rise. More than a f! ew cars were out as it was a nice night and lots of tourists in this part of southern Rhode Island are out and about. So, someone else had to see this. Whether the light/craft moved on or just disappeared, I don't know. I will continue scanning the sky tonight to see if anything comes back. This area where I live (Perryville section of South Kingstown) continues to be a 'hot spot' for UFOs. A young man I spoke to recently, who is a native of the area, told me that UFOs have often been seen at a secluded area nearby where there are a group of ponds and is very private...inaccessible to the public.
July 26, 2017 · 2:00 AM · LIGHT
Winterset, OH
I ran downstairs to my daughters. Very scared. There was just a couple, it looked like tentacles of light going between crafts. Quick and abrupt moving. My daughter then noticed about 30 minutes later out the window on other side of house the sky was full and moving, lights were bouncing off the clouds. It's now slowed down but I felt instant fear at first, I wasn't afraid to watch them now. I have been before at this same location. Her husband and brother in law seen it as well as my granddaughter.
July 26, 2017 · 12:45 AM · LIGHT
Texarkana, AR
At times, there were 20 seconds between flashes. The flash was a round white light, about ten times the size of a star, with the colors red, blue and green in the center. The object hovered in relatively the same area. It would veer to the left but ended by moving to the right and then dissappeared.
July 25, 2017 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Westfield, NY
Witness elects to remain semi-anonymous; provides little contact information. PD
July 25, 2017 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
North Muskegon, MI
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 25, 2017 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Glen Allen, VA
I looked away for about 2 seconds. I tried to point it out to my passenger. When I looked again, it grew into a mushroom cloud shape with the expansion pointing down towards the horizon. Then, within another two seconds, i.R. disappeared. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 25, 2017 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Glen Allen, VA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 25, 2017 · 2:00 AM · LIGHT
Moscow Mills, MO
On July 25th, 2017, at approximately 2:20am, I went out on our back deck to smoke a cigarette. I went to the far end of the deck which faces east. As I looked toward the tree line I noticed a strange multicolored light. I was intrigued by the light so I continued to look at it. I soon realized that the light was moving erratically. Unsure I continued to watch. It began to move well above the tree line still moving up, down, side to side, and even in circular motions. I was awe struck, and knew no one would believe what I was seeing, so I went and woke my niece. She witnessed the object, but went back to bed. I was too captivated to stop watching. Not long after I seen the first object, I noticed that there was another moving light in the sky. Both moving in the same manner with the same red, green, and white flashing lights. Before long I had spotted five of these objects. None of which could have been of natural occurrence. Around 4:18am one of these strange lights appeared just on the other side of the tree line. This one seemed very close. It's light was a steady white, and it's movement was the same as the other objects. It appeared so close that I went inside and grabbed a flashlight. I could be mistaken, but it seemed as though the light would respond to the blinking of the flash light. At one point I counted as many as 11 of these lights, two of which seemed to inspect passing airplanes by approaching them closely. Something else that was strange during this event was that I witnessed what I believe to have been a total of nine meteors, but given what I witnessed and the way these lights would appear, I am unsure if they were meteors, or the objects joining the others. I am certain that someone else had to see the near, low flying, object I mentioned, because it hoovered above a state highway just behind our home. It was too low, bright, and moving in such a manner to be mistaken for a star, and I could hear morning work traffic on the highway. This is true and accurate as I can tell it. My witness will confirm the sighting of the first object. This event took place for nearly three hours.
July 24, 2017 · 11:50 PM · LIGHT
Nixa, MO
I saw a red light in the sky, as if from a plane, but it moved much slower, and varied in speed and then disappeared.
July 24, 2017 · 9:09 PM · LIGHT
Cornelius, NC
Single white light moving across the sky heading north from the Lake Norman region. No sound, swayed from side to side a little bit. Moving too fast to be a Chinese wish lantern, and to slow to be a aircraft. I see a lot of plane activity over Lake Norman, but this was very strange, very strange indeed. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 23, 2017 · 10:05 PM · LIGHT
Highlands Ranch, CO
We had just taken our dogs out for the last time tonight, and we were sitting in chairs on the patio. There were some clouds, but we could see planes and stars, and I was looking up at the stars, when I noticed a very bright light moving quickly across the sky from west to east. It was way above the plane traffic and it was really going fast. I told my husband to look at it, and he said he thought it was probably a plane in the Jetstream and was so high up because it was bypassing Denver. So he went back to watching the dogs and I kept watching the object for about another 5 seconds when suddenly it completely reversed direction and went back to the west at warp speed and disappeared. It wasn't hidden by the clouds because I watched for it to reappear but it never did. When it reversed direction it didn't turn or waver it just went the other way in the same line it was traveling in.
July 23, 2017 · 9:58 PM · LIGHT
Graham, WA
At 21:58 I was outside in my front yard smoking when I saw what I thought was an airplane flying south. As I watched it I couldn't see any blinking lights and the other planes that I could see flying in the same area had blinking red or white lights. The craft that I was looking at only had one really bright white light and no blinking lights. I watched the light / craft until I couldn’t see it any more. I watched it, trying to see if I could see if it had any blinking lights. I was not able to see any blinking lights. The craft was too high in the sky to make out if it had any kind of shape.
July 23, 2017 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Columbia, MO
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 23, 2017 · 3:10 AM · LIGHT
Colorado Springs, CO
Colorado Springs, Colorado, Sunday, July 23rd, 2017 at 3:10 a.m.. I took my dog out for an early-morning potty. While standing there, I looked up in the area of the star Vega. I must have been staring only a minute when a whitish-blue pulsating light appeared. This UFO light continued to do this pulsating scenario about eight times before completely vanishing. This light was absolutely silent and went from North to South, then North again; then completing a half circle. My dog seemed to look up in the direction a few seconds before I visually could see the lights. About a minute into watching this UFO's lights, I could see an airplane's silhouette (which was flying from West to North East). Judging distance and size comparison, the lights of the UFOs at their brightest were approximately the same diameter as the airplane. The total duration in which I can see the strange lights what is approximately 5 minutes. I ran inside so I could write down everything I could remember seeing, then text my husband at work telling him that I saw something strange. I downloaded multiple sky apps on my phone and the next day tried to go out at the exact same time, 3:10am in the morning to see if I saw anything similar happening again, which I didn't. However, what was interesting is on this particular app you could rewind the time to see if there were any flares, overhead satellites, radio satellites or the ISS passing overhead during the specific time I recalled watching the unidentified lights. As far as I could research, nothing showed up as far as anything that would be linked to man-made light anomalies. Our family has had several sightings over many lifetimes, and being that I grew up over 43 years in this city, I can say I've never witnessed lights in the sky such as this. There did seem to be an intelligence behind the lights, however nothing that made me feel alarmed. Nonetheless, my heart rate spiked and I was a bit creeped out.
July 22, 2017 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Everett, WA
It disappeared for approximately 5 minutes. We thought it was because clouds had come through. The sky opened and the stars were visible again. However, it reappeared and moved in a zig-zag type pattern across the sky. It clearly had a trajectory that went west of our complex. I wondered if it was a drone, but why would drones be used late in the evening. There was no sound from this object.
July 22, 2017 · 10:15 PM · LIGHT
Bemow Piskie (Poland) · Poland
On the night of July 22nd, 2017, around 2215 hours, I was a gunner on a .50 Cal machine gun on a Stryker armored vehicle, supporting a platoon live fire training event on a Polish military range just outside Bemowo Piskie. We had pull off to the side of one of the roads leading into the range waiting for a call to provide support. What happened next, I cannot explain. While adjusting my night time optics which consisted of a PSQ-20 mono style helmet mounted thermal and night vision device, a ball like light appeared in the night vision setting currently set on my optic. The object appeared just atop the tree line possibly 700 meters to my exact front, however since my optic only covers one eye my depth proception was off and an exact distance is very hard to gauge. The ball appeared to what could have been maybe 10 feet across and the light it was giving off in my night vision optics was blinding. But despite all this, that’s not the strange part. What got me was that when I closed my optic aided eye to look with my unaided eye, this object was completely invisible against the clear night sky. I was baffled that I couldn’t see this bright light that had just blinded me with my naked eye and looked through my optic again. The object was still there but the intensity of the light had dimmed. It hovered in the break of the tree line for about 90 seconds before it began to descend to the left slowly. Now when all this was going on I had simply figured that this was just an infrared flare on a parachute fired from one of the mortar teams that were training that same night. But when the ball of light finally dipped below the tree line and faded out of site, a second object of the same description appeared in the same break in the trees. At this point I flipped my optics over to their thermal setting and observed. The object was ball shaped again and was bright red hot in my thermals. I changed over to night vison again. Once again, the object was blinding bright. And when I closed my optic covered eye to observe with my unaided eye, the object couldn’t be see. When IR motors are fired they go up and release their flare at about a thousand feet and begin to float down to earth. However, while these flares are meant to give off intense illumination viewable through night vison they also have a dull red visible light that can be seen with the naked eye simply for the purposes of being able to track where the flare is drifting. The objects I was witnessing gave off no visible light, nor did I hear any mortars being fired. And trust me even if the mortar is a distance away, they a very audible. The now second ball of light seem to follow the same flight path as the first object that I had seen. It hovered in place for about 90 second in place. I felt like it was watching me, observing my weapons and my armored vehicle. After 90 seconds, it began to descend down to the left just as the first. Then it vanished. “It must have been a flare” I thought to myself. It was gone for only a moment when from behind the trees it rose directly up, not violently, but by no means was it slow. This was the moment I knew that it was not man made. Once again it hovered above the tree line. It had to have been watching all the military activity in the area. Without warning like when the first object appeared its brightness in my night vison increased dramatically. To a point where it felt like someone was shining an IR l! aser in my night vison. Then after the intense brightness it vanished. I would only see the one object leave I cannot account for what happened to the other object I witnessed. I’ve served as a scout in the army for over three years now. One of the fundamentals of reconnaissance is to report all information rapidly and accurately. When all this was going on, I took note of my surroundings. There was no disruption to my equipment and radios, my weapons were functioning and in good shape. The surrounding wild life wasn’t disturbed and other than wracked nerves I felt ok. I decided to keep quiet about my entire experience. How could I explain to my Sergant that I had witnessed multiple objects only visible to thermals and the IR spectrum but was invisible to the naked eye. I’m charged with several million dollars of government equipment and weapons, they would have lost confidence in me. This is why I’m reporting this to you. I want someone to listen to my story and tell me what it was I was witnessing. (( Witness indicates that the date above is approximate. PD)
July 22, 2017 · 9:47 PM · LIGHT
Owasso, OK
At appx 9:47pm CDT, I was outside on our east facing porch, just watching for satellites and meteors, as I like to do on weekend nights like the one that night: no clouds and no moon. I was scanning the sky, when I saw an exceptionally bright light in the SSW sky appx 40 degrees above the horizon. This light was as much as a magnitude brighter than the planet Venus at that planet's brightest. This light was moving to the NE and likely took 2-3 minutes to cross from the point of first sighting until it crossed the whole of the sky before disappearing behind some trees to my ENE. I then moved to another part of the yard and was able to watch the light past the trees until it was lost to sight on the far ENE horizon. I believe that it passed to the north of both Antares, and then Saturn, but to the east of Altair. I don't believe that it got any higher than maybe 50 degrees above the horizon, maybe less. The light was silent the entire time. The light was solid the e! ntire time, neither blinking nor dimming. I say it was solid to say that it did not blink or waver. But it was so bright that it caused it to be more of a Venus-like glare, rather than a simple point of light. It only dimmed as any light does as it moved farther away into the distance. In a single sentence it was as if Venus was moving across the sky. Over the years I have seen dozens if not hundreds of satellites. I have seen many that seem to appear from nowhere and become very bright before quickly dimming to nothing. In the moments just after spotting this light and seeing that it was not blinking (like an airplane) I assumed that it must be a satellite and expected it to very soon dim. It never did to any extent. I also felt that it was moving erratically, slowing then speeding up and wavering very slightly from side to side. I say this because it was what I felt I was seeing. I can NOT say that I am certain it was acting oddly. Realizing that this was like nothing I had seen before I went to the door and asked my wife to come outside. She agreed that it was much brighter than what we had seen before. Without my prodding she said that it seemed to be moving in the same odd manner that I have described. Another point I want to make is that we live appx 7-8 miles NE of Tulsa International Airport and see many low flying aircraft near our home either just after takeoff or turning west toward a landing. Just as my wife was coming to the door, I began hearing sounds of an airplane, and started to feel that was the explanation. But when I looked up I saw the airplane lights moving from the S to N but beginning a turn to the west that would take it behind our house towards the airport flight lanes. The bright light in question was already well to the east. When the plane was lost to sight the sound went away. Again I did not hear any sound that I would associate with the passing light. There is a National Guard Center about 5-6 miles to our south and they house a number of military helicopters. I have seen them flying in the area many times. Later, I considered that if this were a helicopter, for its lights to have been that bright, it would have to be flying rather low, and I would certainly have heard that familiar chop chop sound. My wife and I also considered the idea that it could have been a drone of some kind. I don't know much about them but will say that other than the possible side to side waver I was feeling, this light traveled in a very straight line from one end of the flight to when it disappeared on the far horizon. To me this was an object that I could not identify with any certainty and since it was moving, flying in the sky it was a UFO. I EXPECT that you will determine that it was indeed likely a satellite. I expect that you have satellite information at your disposal and you will end this mystery quickly. (( Probable sighting of ISS, which was visible at 21:45 hrs.. Please see following: http://heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=25544⪫=36.2695&lng=-95.8547&loc=Owasso&alt=188&tz=CST PD)) ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) Thank you. Yes. I posted my sighting on Facebook and a close skywatching friend sent me a link. I was instantly convinced. I wanted to contact you to rescind my report, but wasn't sure how. Besides, my sighting is part of the narrative. Just another part of how we keep moving toward solving the mystery. initials of source deleted)) END ADDENDUM))
July 22, 2017 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Plymouth, MA
Witness does not indicate the units of the duration of the sighting, so we have indicated a duration of 30 seconds, until we hear back from the witness. PD