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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.
2,257 entries
June 1, 2016 · 4:00 AM · FLASH
Avondale, AZ
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. Date may be wrong. The anonymous witness may be addressing the meteor that was seen over the southwestern states on the morning of June 02, 2016. PD
May 31, 2016 · 11:00 PM · FLASH
Bloomfield, NM
Anonymous source of report provides no information. Date above is flawed, and we have corrected it. PD
May 25, 2016 · 4:15 AM · FLASH
Barstow, CA
On the morning at 04:15 of 25 May, 2016, my son and I were star gazing in our front yard. To the East of our house there was a fast moving flash of light. We both thought that it was a satellite and watched it move. We both were surprised on the brightness and the flashing frequency it had. As it was moving in a North North West direction, we noticed the movement was in an arcing path, not a straight path. Also, the flashing was moving in a zigzag pattern from left to right. A flash on the left then a flash in a diagonal direction to the right. No sound was associated with the flashing light. Unfortunately, I have no visual evidence for this event. I work with and on military aircraft for a living and have never seen anything with the light pattern or movement such as my son and I witnessed. I live South of China Lake Naval Air Station and the flight path of the flashing light is not in the air corridor for China Lake NAS or the Edwards AFB fast mover corridor which is North or China Lake NAS.
May 24, 2016 · 10:00 PM · FLASH
Greenville, WI
Object flashed moved north, flashed moved east, flashed moved moved north again, flashed moved southeast flashed again, but the flash was more like a light against the wall. Flashed southeast two more times at different intervals. Then disappeared to the south east.
May 22, 2016 · 10:30 PM · FLASH
Bozeman, MT
Hi. I am from Turkey. I'm studying MSU. 10 MINUTES ago, I just saw flash-light. and maximum 30 seconds later fastly went.
May 14, 2016 · 10:00 PM · FLASH
Baldwin park, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 14, 2016 · 12:00 AM · FLASH
Portland, OR
I was driving from Clackamas to Portland. I decided to drive over the hill through Happy Valley. As I was driving up the hill, I saw a huge flash of light that lit up the whole sky around the hill. As I'm driving down the hill by Willamette National Cemetery, I saw another flash of light. Then again, as I'm headed west on Foster towards 205. Driving North on 205 I saw another flash. I get off the freeway headed towards Columbia BLVD and as Im turning to go west on Columbia I saw like a lightning bolt. As I'm driving west on columbia BLVD I get out my phone and start recording. I saw one more flash the weird thing is we've had no thunder and lightening today. This was very strange to me. I was in McMinnville, OR, on the date indicated, and there was a very active lightning storm in progress, at the time indicated by the witness. The flashes the witness alludes to may very well have been lightning, we believe. PD
May 13, 2016 · 10:00 PM · FLASH
Thomasville, GA
Out walking the dogs with my husband and happened to look up. It was a clear night. Saw two or three round bright flickering objects in the sky moving towards the East sky. When we both looked to the direction they were heading there were anywhere from 20-30 additional sized objects following in the same direction together, but not in any uniform pattern. We watched them for approximately 15 to 20 minutes before they disappeared beyond the trees. My husband and I discussed it again today and still have no idea what we saw. If it wasn't for the speed of the two or three objects trying to catch up to the group, we thought maybe they were lighted balloons or lanterns that people let off into the sky, but they were too far up in the sky. We heard no sounds of planes or saw any in the area at the time of this sighting. I am a skeptical person as my husband is as well and we really saw something that was really unexplainable. We know what we saw, and tried to! video record it with our phones, but they were too far up in the sky to get a good recording. Never had this happen before. We are in our 50's and professional individuals, and are stunned to say the least. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 2, 2016 · 11:40 PM · FLASH
Calabash, NC
While standing in our front yard, waiting for our dog to use the bathroom, me and my wife were looking across the street. It was cloudy outside with a light sprinkle of rain. No stars and moon were out. There was a gentle blowing cool breeze. We noticed a bright light in the sky to our front. We thought it was an airplane light. then the light went out. My wife thought it went in the clouds. Then all of a sudden, it appeared again, and then there was 3 bright individual lights as if it skipped like a rock skips water. It went to our left. There was no noice. You can hear a pin drop in our neighbourhood. It lasted 3 seconds. Then it was gone. Disappeared in the air. We waited to see if any more activity for 5 mins but there was none. It was a bright, flash, silvery light that was an oval shape. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 2, 2016 · 12:00 AM · FLASH
Summerfield, NC
Sitting on front porch saw 6 or 7 bright flashing lights low in the sky, blinked in different areas (but close together) quickly for about 10 seconds then was gone. no noise.
April 28, 2016 · 11:30 PM · FLASH
Boomer, NC
I was loading up my truck after completing a project in the shop when I heard plain as day in my own voice inside my head “hey look over here” it seemed like it was coming from up and behind me in the sky so I turned around and looked up into the sky and saw what I initially thought was a satellite. Then again as I was looking at this satellite looking thing, in my own voice except in my head not audible I heard “say cheese” and then the brightest flash just emanated from this thing that I thought was a satellite. It startled me and I thought no way that came from that satellite. So i figured someone was up in the treeline with a bright light i just couldn’t believe that flash came from the satellite so I grabbed my flashlight out of the truck and proceeded to conduct a search through the trees thinking it was someone messing with me. No one was there, nothing was there.
April 25, 2016 · 12:15 AM · FLASH
Evansville, IN
Extremely high altitude bright, white light that was smaller in proportion than the stars that moved then flickered to a dimmer white and then vanished.
April 23, 2016 · 10:00 PM · FLASH
Ormond Beach, FL
From Ormond Beach, I was beach-side on the island looking to west toward Deland, I watched for over an hour an object that was emanating multiple lights, orange, green, blue and white. Initially the object appeared stationary but after a time of viewing, I noticed I had to move as the view was becoming obstructed by surrounding trees. At that point I could determine that it was moving slightly to the west. Amazing flashing colors with no static theme or pattern. I looked in my binoculars and could determine that it was fairly local, probably within the county. This was the first time I have seen something like this, I called my neighbor over and he affirmed.
April 14, 2016 · 6:15 PM · FLASH
Lexa, AR
I was standing on my deck at around 6:15 pm with a neighbor talking as we admired a perfect rainbow that had formed to our east. As we were talking looking at the rainbow suddenly from nowhere appeared a bright white spherical flash that was of great intensity. This flash was a sphere with flared edges and maybe the diameter of a 1/3 full moon. The flash of white light appeared to have lasted for maybe 300 milliseconds. Just long enough to get a clear view. It was so intense that had the duration lasted longer you couldn't stare at it. Very similar to the intensity of the sun, except being smaller and of a pure white color. I have never seen anything supernatural in my life and I am a bit shaken at the moment. I stared at the spot in the sky until almost sunset hoping it would reappear, but it never did. 3 mins after this occurred I went inside to grab my iPad and I snapped 2 images of the rainbow. Now that I have reviewed the two images, I can see a black object near where the flash occurred. I will never forget this until the day I die and I now know 100% that there is an unexplained phenomena happening around us and I need answers. It was simply incredible.
April 9, 2016 · 11:00 PM · FLASH
Charleston, WV
The UFO appeared under the planet Jupiter in the sky. A light began to grow slowly out of the darkness, taking about one second to reach a luminosity equal to or brighter than Jupiter. It would then fade out to black in the same amount is time. It would then repeat this over about six more times but appearing in random nearby areas, but not leaving time for an airplane or helicopter to reach each position of the growing bright and fading light.
April 9, 2016 · 10:00 PM · FLASH
Duvall, WA
The UFO started as a burst of flash about every minute, then a bigger more continuous flash as it began moving. From where we stood at about 600ft. elevation, we watched the flashing begin at mid horizon, meaning in the sky between the horizon and straight up. We could see it over a tree line rising 80 feet, as we stood about 100 feet away from those trees. The flash was to the southeast, and moved in an eastward direction. The object seemed to be far away in the sky, above an airplane flight path at 30,000 feet; closer then a satellite. I thought something was exploding in space, like a decommissioned space station or maybe a larger pile of space trash. The way it flashed at first, like something catching fire, then dropping a little, then really falling, but along the curvature of the earth, not straight down like a stone within our gravitational pull. This was my first sighting of something I would have to call a UFO. My partner was with me, he moved around in the field to catch the light from other angles. We thought at first it might have been a plane coming in for a landing in Seattle, but the sudden explosive flashes in combination with its flight path did not match any plane we've ever watched coming in near SEATAC. The UFO was moving away from any airport, and so far up in the sky, again, far higher then a jet in flight. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 9, 2016 · 9:20 PM · FLASH
Salem, OR
While observing the moon tonight at about 9:20 pm PST my daughter said, "Look, I saw a flash in the sky over there three times." I looked where she was pointing, low in the western sky, and then I also saw a bright white "Flash." She then said it was moving. As we both watched it would randomly flare at intermittent intervals with random duration and intensity. It climbed to South of overhead and continued to a point South of Jupiter before it was no longer seen by us. We observed this for 5-6 minutes. It was bright white in color and would flare intensely and then the next flare may be dim. The duration of each flare was also random in its length of duration. It moved through the sky slower than most satellites.
April 8, 2016 · 4:30 AM · FLASH
Branson ((possibly; unsure)), MO
Coincidentally the trip took longer than expected and my first guess is navigational error. The map I was using did not indicate a left turn for route continuance. Signs indicated otherwise. Was on 248. These flashes were unusual enough to give me pause for thought
April 7, 2016 · 10:30 PM · FLASH
Brookings, OR
I am a male, 63 years old, with 20/20 vision (corrected) and in reasonably good health. I live in a small town on the Southern Oregon coast, and I was in front of my house last night, viewing the night sky, and thinking about nothing in particular. The sky was crystal clear, with lots of stars and star formations visible to the naked eye, and I observed Orion’s Belt, the Big Dipper and Little Dipper, to mention just a few star formations. As a reference, my house is roughly 90 feet above sea level and the front of my house faces exactly northwest (plus or minus 1 degree). At around 10:30 PM, I was staring at the night sky and saw a flash of light, directly in front of me (facing northwest) at an angle of elevation of approximately 45 degrees. The diameter and brightness of the flash was close to the same diameter and level of brightness as one of the brighter stars I was viewing at the time, and I assumed that a passing cloud had blocked it out of my vision. That said, there were NO clouds in the sky last night. The flash appeared, stayed illuminated for roughly two or three tenths of a second, and then disappeared. About one second later, another flash of light appeared, roughly four or five degrees below where the first flash appeared. It was the same diameter and the same level of brightness and duration as the first flash. About five seconds later, the same pattern appeared again and in the same location and same angle of elevation. The distance between the flashes stayed constant; roughly four or five degrees of elevation. This pattern of flashes continued, repeating every five seconds or so, staying in the same location in the sky. The third time I saw the two flashes of light, I pointed my index finger where they appeared in the sky, and held my arm as steady as I could, just so I would have a point of reference. After about three minutes, the flashes started moving south very slowly along the same angle of elevation (approximately 45 degrees). When they moved to the SSW position in the sky, from my northwest facing position, they then started slowing moving higher in elevation. When they reached approximately a 60 degree angle of elevation, which took approximately three minutes, they stopped and stayed in the same relative position (still pointing my index finger at them) and stayed in that position for another three or four minutes. The flashes of light then started moving very slowly further south. There is a large pine tree blocking my view, just beyond the SW corner of my property, and when the tree started to block my view of the flashing lights, I got up from the chair I was sitting in and walked further northwest so I could see the lights better. They continued in a southerly direction and when they got directly south of me and over the Pacific Ocean, they disappeared. I continue standing there for a few more minutes, but they didn’t reappeared. At no time during this ‘event’ did I hear ANY sound; no near or far off jet engines from either a high or low altitude commercial or military plane. We have a very small airport north of our town, but rarely do planes land there at night. They are all small, privately owned planes as well, primarily prop-driven, although there is at least one small Learjet that we see occasionally. There is no noise or air pollution here (no industries) and with a population of only 6000, the noise level at night is VERY low. It’s a small and very quiet town, especially at night. On nights when the weather is good, I sit in front of my house and stare at the sky, mostly because we can see SO many stars at night here. It is a star gazer’s paradise and I know several people who have telescopes, although I do not. I’ve never seen anything before like what I saw last night. If it was ONE object, it must have been HUGE. That said and given the relative distance between the flashing lights, it appeared that it MUST have been two objects, whatever they were. Whatever it was, it was flying, it wasn’t making a sound and I could not identify it, which I guess technically makes it a UFO. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 2, 2016 · 2:30 PM · FLASH
Navasota, TX
My friend and I were driving south on 90 headed into Navasota. I was driving and my friend was a passenger. I saw them first. Just before I past the navasota livestock auctionhouse, I noticed a flash in the sky. It was quick. At first I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me, but then I saw one again in a different area. I asked my friend if he saw them and he said no. After a few seconds though, I was able to get him to see what I was seeing. It was a small white light. It was as if someone from up high in a mountain was signaling down with a mirror, but there was nothing but bright blue clear sky behind it. The light would last less than 10 seconds and disappear, then reappear in another spot in the same general area. They never reappeared in the same spot twice. Sometimes, I felt like I could kinda start to make out something physical attached to the light, but as soon as my eyes would adjust to what I was looking at, It would blink off again. It was too! far away for me to make out any details other than the light. At first I thought they were airplanes but there were so many so close together, I was convinced that the faa would never let that happen. Then I though it could have been radio towers, but then I noticed a radio tower underneath them and could clearly see that they were easily 5-10x higher than the towers below. There were no red or green indicator lights that aircraft should have. After my friend and I exhausted all conceivable possibilities of what it could be, we decided to pull into annie's gas station and get a video. From annies we could get a better view of them. I could tell from that location that it seemed like they were originating from south over the Prarieview/Hempstead area. I was able to catch at least 10+ of these flashes on viedo. I shot a total of 3 videos from 2 phones. All 3 videos you can see the phenomena. 2 videos are shot simultaneously with each other so as to offer so evidence of authenticity. 2 of the videos are shot in 4k, and the other one is shot in 1080.
March 29, 2016 · 6:45 AM · FLASH
Royal Palm Beach, FL
There was this low flying comet looking thing traveling West to East over St.Rd. 7 that disappeared into a portal of some sort. The tail of it was cut off and light fell to the ground like fireworks disappearing. There were helicopters present that flew off when the thing disappeared.
March 28, 2016 · 11:45 PM · FLASH
Hamden, CT
I was driving on Route 15 in Hamden after entering the highway from exit 60. I was headed south west towards Orange when I saw a blue flash in the cloudy sky to my south, probably over New Haven or the Long Island Sound. At first I assumed the flash was lightning - it was an incredibly windy night and lightning wouldn't have been out of the question - but over 1 or 2 seconds the flash turned green before lingering for another second or two, and then disappearing. There was no discernible thunder. The flash could have been one of many things: environmental phenomena, a flare, a bi-product of some sort of industrial/scientific activity, a bi-product of military testing, or a UFO. Interestingly, later that night as I was driving in Orange, there was a tree down, (from the wind), in the middle of the road. I called the Orange PD to alert them about the tree in the road and they sent an officer out to the scene - this police officer said that she had also seen the flash in the sky. One final thing to note - there was what seemed like some sort of fire in Milford/Stratford today. The smoke could be seen and smelled from where I live in Orange. The smoke from this fire may have weirdly filtered the light from a lightning bolt from blue to green and I may have been unable to hear the thunder because it was either too far off or my car was too noisy. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
March 28, 2016 · 9:05 PM · FLASH
Mt. Juliet, TN
Three flashing lights started out together. They were red and green flashing very quickly. One of the craft split apart and went across the sky above us very quickly. The other two stayed behind for a bit. Then they followed the trail of the first, but were too close together and travelled too fast to be planes. All were completely silent. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
March 28, 2016 · 12:15 AM · FLASH
Paradise, CA
Then went to other side of house and saw the flash again dimmer, but seems full sky?? No sounds at all? Starry, clear sky no overcast? Looks like an explosion without and sounds??