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August 1, 2020 · 7:00 AM · OVAL
Billings, MT
White, elongated donut-shaped object, somewhat translucent and occasionally reflecting sunlight seen against blue sky from 3 miles south of Billings, Montana. Appears stationary. Altitude unknown. Seen at approximately 240° T west and 55° in elevation. First seen at 0700.
August 1, 2020 · 3:04 AM · OVAL
Melbourne, FL
I don't know what this is. If you could conform this video for me that would be great. Thank you.
July 31, 2020 · 8:46 PM · OVAL
Redmond, OR
My husband and I were traveling from Sisters to Redmond on Mckenzie HWY / HWY 126. My husband caught the UFO on video at 8:46 PM. It was dusk and there were no stars visible, yet. We noticed a bright white glowing light over the hill ahead of us . It began to fluctuate, yet appearing stationary. It then dropped in altitude horizontally behind a huge hill. We lost sight of it for a few minutes while going around trees and buildings. As we entered town it was much lower in the sky, not far over the buildings . It seemingly sat at a steady altitude moving slightly from side to side. We lost sight again, heading through town. We looked all over for it and after we got to the East side of Redmond where we would surely be able to see, there was nothing. After reviewing the videos my husband took it appears to be an oval shape emitting light.
July 31, 2020 · 6:40 PM · OVAL
Brooklyn, NY
I initially thought I was watching a black bird pass by a few hundred meters away, but I realized it didn’t bob up and down like a bird would. It had a much smoother trajectory and there were no wings. Whatever it was was a small black dot that may have been much further away than I thought. I couldn’t easily tell. As I tried to puzzle out what it was—it was moving across the sky, heading west , I noticed a second one sort of below the first. Both were obscured behind a building immediately after I saw the second one.
July 30, 2020 · 7:10 PM · OVAL
Kenmore, WA
My wife and I were enjoying the view from the hot tub on our back deck. It was a clear evening and blue skies with no clouds or wind. Looking SE, I noticed a large shimmering white oval shape silently hovering in a vertical position approximately 400 yards from us at an altitude of around 300 feet. Its size was about 50 feet tall and 30 feet wide. I asked my wife to look and see if she saw what I was looking at she said yes. At first we thought it might be a balloon, but it was too big and the wrong shape. As we observed this stationary object, it began to slowly rotate. The rotating object appeared to have panels that changed to a darker shade. I then jumped out of the tub and grabbed a pair of binoculars that were close by and focused on the unit. Just then the object quickly dropped about 50 feet, and then shot back up to its original height. This made me put the binoculars down. Just as I did this, I saw 3 or 4 small white lights flash approximately 50 y! ards to the left of the object and it just vanished. No wind or any sounds were heard during this event. 3 minutes after the UFO left, a low flying military jet flew right over us which seemed odd and out of place with the usual aircraft we see.
July 29, 2020 · 4:45 AM · OVAL
IdentifiedSaint-Ouen-Les-Vignes, Centre · France
Le 29 juillet 2020 au petit matin, deux habitants de SAINT-OUEN-LES-VIGNES (37) observent très distinctement un objet émettant une lumière de type stroboscopique blanche. Toutes les 5 à 6 séquences, une lumière rouge incandescente monte en démarrant en-dessous de l'objet et illumine l'ensemble de l'objet. Le PAN est en vol stationnaire pendant un quart d'heure, puis il commence à avancer horizontalement très lentement du SO vers le SE en s'arrêtant régulièrement. Un des témoin prend de petites vidéos du PAN avec son smartphone. D’étrangeté faible et de très bonne consistance (deux témoins, vidéos du PAN), ce cas est une observation de montgolfière (voir le compte rendu d'enquête). . L’aspect visuel du PAN sur les vidéos et la description fournie par les témoins peuvent évoquer un drone ou une montgolfière vue de loin. L’hypothèse d’un drone peut être écartée dans la mesure où la forme du PAN est peu cohérente. En revanche, l’hypothèse d’une montgolfière est très cohérente avec plusieurs éléments décrits dans les témoignages : - forme arrondie, - lumière présente sous le PAN, - lumière rougeoyante partant du bas pour se diffuser vers le haut, rappelant très fortement la flamme d’un brûleur, - lumière stroboscopique blanche et puissante parfaitement cohérente avec celle utilisée par les montgolfières lors des vols de nuit. La direction d’observation correspond à la vallée de la Loire, en particulier aux secteurs des châteaux d’Amboise (37) et de Chenonceau (37), où plusieurs vols de montgolfières ont eu lieu le 29 juillet 2020 au petit matin, à des horaires cohérents avec l’observation. Le GEIPAN classe le cas en A : observation d’une montgolfière. [GEIPAN classification A — Montgolfière]
July 28, 2020 · 3:30 AM · OVAL
Malibu, CA
My friends and I decided to take a late night beach trip, and we arrived at the farthest, northern end of Zuma Beach right around 1:37AM on July 28th, 2020. The tide was extremely far out, so we walked very far out and were enjoying the sand, the waves, and stars. Around 3:00 or 3:30AM, my boyfriend noticed a craft with lights come from behind him, heading west from the east, and then hovered infront of us, along the shoreline, above the ocean. He asked me what those lights were, and I noticed some lights, but waved it off as being a plane headed to LAX. He insisted that I look harder, because he believed the craft to be much closer than a plane would be, and he insisted that it was lingering infront of us. I squinted and really focused on the lights that I was seeing, and was shocked to realize that there was in fact something floating above the water's edge, above us, and it was much too close to be an airplane, and much too large to be some kind of drone. I could see two round, peach colored lights, almost a creamy light-red color, sitting right next to each other, and then somewhere close behind them, there was a white light that was flashing very, very slowly. It was hard to see a complete definition of the craft, but I could see that the oval outline of it, and area surrounding the lights, was a darker shade than the night sky around it. My boyfriend said that it was a helicopter, and I was skeptical, but as I focused in on the craft, it seemed to be hovering above the coast line as the police helicopters do during the day. We slowly came to the startling conclusion that it was a police helicopter, and began backing up, meanwhile never taking our eyes off of the craft. I ! was about to call for my two friends, who were slightly infront of us, slightly west, and then I suddenly realized that there was no sound. There was no sound of helicopter blades. I said that to my boyfriend, immediately as I thought it, and shock hit him, his mouth dropped, and he looked scared. We realized that one of our friends infront of us, was looking at the craft, and pointing. I called to her and asked if she saw it too. She said she did but had no idea what it was, and was trying to figure out if her eyes were playing tricks on her. She couldn't understand why the lights looked like they were so close. She asked me if I thought it was a satellite, and I pointed out that it was hovering right above us, and slightly infront of us, and she said, "oh, is it a helicopter?" and I repeated to her, that there was no sound. She had the same reaction as my boyfriend, that realization that there was no sound, made her mouth drop, and she looked shocked and scared. Our other friend, who was standing with the girl I was speaking with, was focusing on us talking, and then once she realized what was going on, she started wildly looking around, in the wrong direction, but me, my boyfriend, and my friend who saw the lights, looked right back at it. It seemed to be! slowly heading south, along the coast line, and at this point, the lights made it look like it was some sort of a triangular shape. I looked away, and made eye contact with my boyfriend, and when we looked back, the lights were completely gone. This was a very clear night, and there was not any fog or cloud covering. The lights just vanished, and they had previously been right there, slowly heading south. Two bright, creamy light-red lights, and a blinking white light just vanished into the clear sky. None of it made sense. The fourth girl that was down in the water with us, did not see the lights of the craft. We then realized that this girl's sister, the fifth member of our party, was still alone, higher up on the beach, where the sand was dry, and as we walked over to her, she was walking towards us. She immediately asked us if we saw the lights too. A chill went down my spine. She said that it came from behind us, from the east, just like what my boyfriend saw, and she said that it was a triangular shape, and when it flew above us, it had green lights lining the sides of the dark, triangular shaped craft. Once it was ahead of us, above the water, there were fewer lights, and the colors changed. She watched as it hovered above us, and came down slightly, and then slowly left, before disappearing. My boyfriend agreed that the craft looked like it was about to land. I saw it hovering infront of us, slowly going south, and then hovering north slightly, before going south very slowly again, hove! ring in place, and then leaving south, before disappearing. The girl who was down in the ocean with my boyfriend and I, she agreed that it looked triangular in shape, but that it looked oval at first to her too. We did not have our phones out when this occurred, but I did draw a picture of exactly what I saw immediately when I returned home. I will send it in an email. I began looking into what I saw, and I quickly realized that UFO spotting in Malibu, and the surrounding area, is extremely common. For this reason, I felt it was important to share my story. This was my first encounter with anything like this. Let me know if you have questions, but I feel as though I have been extremely detailed here.
July 26, 2020 · 8:05 PM · OVAL
Lancaster, CA
Last night on July 26, 2020, my wife and I decided to head out to the desert south of the town of Mojave to observe the comet. We found a great spot just north of Lancaster and about 5 miles south of Rosamond on a small wadi on West Avenue B just off of Sierra Highway. It was a very clear evening with just some haze in the west. We set up an evening camp just in time to watch the sun set. At about 8:05pm or so, as we were digging into dinner, my wife said “Look at that, out to the west”. I looked and saw what almost appeared to be a dark cloud among some sunset haze. I looked closer through the small binoculars we brought with us, and it looked like a wide pyramid, with a top that almost billowed (may have been the clouds/haze). It appeared to just hover in the sky, about 20 degrees up from the horizon. We used a mountain range between us and the object to observe. It never moved or changed shape as normal clouds do. It definitely looked out of plac! e and like a firm, fixed object. I saw what looked to be two small aircraft moving around the shape (just below it and moving right to left). My wife did not see these two smaller objects, despite looking through the binoculars. We observed for about 4 minutes, and then it seemed to “disappear”. It may have been from the haze/clouds. Then about 2-3 minutes later, again, my wife said—“Look! Over in that direction!” I looked over to the northwest, just to the west of the town of Rosamond, and I saw a black orb just above the horizon. It was moving west to east, about 300 feet over the horizon and descending slowly. It was moving at around 300 knots estimated (I am a retired Navy Fighter Pilot and civilian pilot with nearly 4,000 hours, so it is my best guess). It was about as big as a Jeep Wrangler and moving silently. It appeared to fly over the town of Rosamond. It never slowed, only descended slightly to about 100 feet above the ground after it passed well behind us. As it moved past, it appeared not only as a black ball, but also almost hexagonal, like the child toy that you used to plug different shapes into. There were no lights that I could see until it was directly behind us, then a reddish/white steady light (not anti-collision or position lights like on a normal aircraft). Since it appe! ared to fly over Mojave and the airport, my guess is that it was about five miles to the north of us. Then, we lost track. I went to my Jeep to get some things out of the back, and my wife called and said that the first large object was back in the west and that now there were two of them. I looked through the binoculars, and sure enough, the original object was in the same exact spot that it was before and flanked by another similar object. We watched them until the light faded, roughly another ten minutes or so. In their place once it the light had faded enough where they were no longer visible, we saw a single distinctive single light right at their exact location. This light remained for about 15 minutes. We left our evening camp spot at around 9:45pm with nothing else significant happening (aside from a pretty good view of the comet).
July 26, 2020 · 12:53 PM · OVAL
Lowell, MA
My husband and I were driving on I-95 from Massachusetts to Maine. We were on 495 near Lowell, MA at the time of the sighting. It was a clear day, around 1pm. Just below the cloud line there was a bright white oval shaped object hovering. We knew it was not an airplane because it was not moving in any direction- just hovering. I watched it intently as we drove to monitor any changes. It remained unmoving for several minutes before changing colors. It looked like it had rotated to show an underside of the craft, which was a grayish/black color. I turned around to tend to my daughter for a moment and when I looked back, it was gone. I searched the sky and the object was nowhere to be found. I took a photo while the object still presented as white, but I Unfortunately didn’t think to record exact location information. The information provided above is my best estimate of our location given the time that we left for our trip and the time the photo was taken.
July 25, 2020 · 10:15 PM · OVAL
Balck Diamond, WA
We set up our travel trailer at Lake Sawyer for the weekend. So Saturday night (25/July/2020) at about 10:15 PM PDT, we were starting to settle in for the night. My wife was inside getting the kids ready for bed and I was outside picking up some things. I looked up and there was a series of bright lights traveling across the sky. Unfortunately my phone could not record due to the darkness outside. I called out to my wife and she saw the "event" as well. - Travel direction approximately NE to the SW. - 2 or 3 dozen (possibly more) very bright lights. Think of an approaching plane. - All traveling the same direction. - No solid pattern. Somewhat oval shape overall but changed slightly. The majority of the lights were grouped in this main shape. - A few trailing lights appeared to have changed speed to attempt to catch up to the main group. - The lights appeared to be in low atmosphere, not in orbit. - Lasted about 5 minutes or so.
July 25, 2020 · 8:30 PM · OVAL
Rexburg, ID
On July 25, 2020, at 8:30 p.m., while looking due south at approximately 45 degrees elevation, I witnessed bright object that, when viewed with the naked eye, looked like it could be Venus on its brightest night. When looking at the same object through binoculars, I discovered that the object was slightly oval shaped . . .and looked just like a glowing white musical whole note with a dark/shadowy center. It remained stationary, not moving left or right, up or down. The bottom half of the object emitted continuous flashes of light in rapid succession in what looked like random locations always emitting from the bottom half of the object. After the sun went down the sky began to darken, the object moved further into the distance (gaining altitude), taking on a reddish hue until a passing cloud hid it from my view. At this late point, it was only visible through binoculars (at least until the cloud covered it from my view). The next evening, I looked at the same part of the sky at the same time of the evening to see if I should see anything again. I saw nothing.
July 25, 2020 · 6:00 PM · OVAL
Gallatin Gateway, MT
Happened to look up saw a bright light in a very blue sky while camping. Got binoculars out, then proceed to get telescope. The four of us saw what look like a round donut with lights along one side. With the telescope a Little closer looked kind of like a jellyfish without tentacles. It didn't really seem to move, but as the sun went down it changed color and eventually disappeared.
July 25, 2020 · 12:00 AM · OVAL
Smokey Point, WA
I was stargazing outside looking north and saw with my eyes than through binoculars a Flashing orangish red light on what looked like an oval shaped craft. It looked stationairy but after 20 minutes I could tell it was slowly moving across the sky. Way too low to be a satellite/planet but barley moved at all. I'd say I'd say it was maybe 2000 ft in the sky? It was just blinking different colors between orangish red to greenish blue than back to a dark red. I really want to know what it was I saw because I've never seen anything like it.
July 22, 2020 · 4:10 AM · OVAL
Ferndale, WA
Came outside for morning coffee and bright point of light caught my attention. No noise and object was not moving but seemed to vary in size very slowly. I took a photo and when looking back up after 15 seconds object completely disappeared. Photo taken shows roofline of my house with object in sky in a ENE direction. Sky conditions were partly cloudy at this time.
July 21, 2020 · 9:00 PM · OVAL
New York City (Brooklyn), NY
I and a friend were approaching the sidewalk where an adult male and female observer both 20's/30's, were looking and pointing into the sky. Initially I thought maybe they saw something in the tree, then jokingly I offered "What is there a UFO or something?" The female observer responded, "yea I think it is" and I and my friend were easily able to make out the object they were looking at right away -- it was hard to miss, even in the night sky. It was a gray oval/circle that did not appear illuminated such that a star, planet or terrestrial aircraft would be (or what I'd imagine a UFO would be) and it was stationary. It also did not appear that high up, almost as if you could reach out and pluck it from the sky. We wondered whether it was a balloon or a drone, but it did not move in a way that would suggest that and both observers we encountered confirmed it has been stationary for about ten minutes and they stayed looking at it wond! ering if it would move. The object appeared solid, almost as if it could be made of dark grey metal. To my observation it seemed to "wobble" somewhat as if ever so slightly hovering, but gave the impression of being stationary. It was clear sky with no clouds and there were a few stars that could be made out to give a basis of comparison. We stayed for about five minutes staring until my friend became spooked and we then walked around the corner to my apartment. We came back to the same spot 30 minutes later and it was gone and the sky was still clear. No sounds or lights emanated from the object, it appeared to be visible due to illumination from city light pollution.
July 21, 2020 · 8:45 AM · OVAL
Axis, AL
White craft move west to east at high speed f 16 cam from north east turned hard left chased craft, about a 1/4 mile from me about 2000 ft up over high 43
July 21, 2020 · 4:36 AM · OVAL
Martinsburg, WV
On the morning of Tuesday, July 21, 2020 while reviewing our motion alerts from overnight, at timestamp 4:36 AM, I noticed six lights that were flying (NE) in sync from the bottom right of the video. One came close to a bird feeder pole and slightly banked, then re-positioned as they continued flying. I have no clue what this and other recorded events like it were that followed for a few days after (July 21, 22, and 26). Impressed though that it seemed to be able to react to an object in its path (the bird feeder pole) and adjust accordingly. This is an account that I witnessed through video footage within 2 hours of its occurrence. Night vision (non-color) on the camera sensed the movement but did not trigger the floodlight as larger objects would. Therefore, I do not know if the objects had color. While flying away (at a distance of 16 feet from security camera to bird feeder pole) they appear to be rounded yet elongated and about 3 feet while in sync. Weather was clear, 76˚F, elevation appx. 410ft Video link of security camera footage UnidentiFied O #1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOqS1btkDCw Side note…Not knowing if this is coincidental or not, also discovered that morning was a dead rabbit (to the left of the said bird feeder pole in this video and report) whose body was flat with clear-ish slime on it, however the head appeared to be untouched and fully shaped with no damage, eyes wide open and ears straight up. No blood present and there appeared to be no bones. It also completely decomposed unusually fast and not able to tell anything had been there, within three days.
July 21, 2020 · 3:00 AM · OVAL
Staten Island, NY
I was watching the air craft thinking it was a helicopter. I’ve been seeing it for the passed 2 weeks. This time it was close. I thought there was a pending investigation near by because it sounded like a chopper as Well And it also had red white and blue lights like an nypd car does when its sirens are on. I checked citizens app but there were no recent crimes. I stared at it for a while until I believe it noticed me because it sort of played peek a boo and went right behind the house in front of me but in a distance. It then disappeared But to get closer to me but more higher and out of sight hard to explain. Then it went back to where it was by the building. At this point for some reason I thought police were probably going to arrest me. And that’s when i felt this heat like feeling going through my body. Starting at my head.. like some sort of radiation. Burning me like frying me. And that’s when I realized it was the craft. I honestly thought it was the government putting something into the air with everything going on during these times. and I thought I would wake up and find it all over the news or on instagram but after looking All over there were no sightings near me reported. I ran inside the house because I never felt such a thing. I was scared. Weak. I told the people I was around that I felt I may die of cancer from the brain because that’s where it burned most. I had a headache for the next 3-4 hours. I was scared of the dark and kept all lights on. Woke up a friend and my daughter. My friend didn’t believe me but my daughter said she did because she never saw me so scared before. I told her it started 2 weeks ago. That I saw this bright looking little star though the sky light in the ceiling. That is when she looked and said there was only one star there at that moment. When I looked it it blinked red and disappeared. I warned my daughter to stop staring at it and never look at it if she ever saw it again. That’s when she really believed me.
July 19, 2020 · 6:30 AM · OVAL
Huddleston, VA
Close to Smith Mountain lake. Observed numerous orbs and one "tic tac" shaped craft. Crafts where white/silver in color. The weather was clear (90°) at Smith mountain lake, near the dam. The orbs flew sporadically while the tic tac hovered in position at high altitude.
July 19, 2020 · 12:05 AM · OVAL
Doylestown, OH
My daughter and I were driving, and a very bright pink light appeared in the sky. I immediately pulled over and we were both saying “what is that?” It was still and very bright, the color of a flare but the light was massive. We were in the middle of the country. As soon as I pulled my phone out to take a picture it disappeared. It didn’t trail off, it was like it vanished into thin air. We were both in shock and couldn’t move while it was visible. I’ve never seen anything like it. I hope that others saw this too.
July 17, 2020 · 7:30 PM · OVAL
Oceanside, CA
This was the 3rd day in a row. The 1st was a white circle that didn’t move. The 2nd was like this one - black and oval. It moved quickly and vanished. The 3rd day is this one - it came closest. And if it wasn’t for a slow motion camera capturing my art I wouldn’t have witnessed it. It flies by quickly but the shape is oval black just like the day before.
July 16, 2020 · 9:50 PM · OVAL
Riverside, CA
On the night of July 16th, a quarter before 10 PM, my friends and I were sitting on the roof of our car on an isolated hill to look at the city lights when we spotted a strange light in the skyline. It was a small, ovular shape emitting a whitish-yellow glow right above a set of hills in the distance. We all watched in silence for a couple minutes and noted that it couldn’t possibly be a plane as we saw many passing above in the sky. However, as we were watching the light, it disappeared right before our eyes, almost as if a giant, dark blanket was thrown over it. While we thought it was strange, we weren’t convinced it was an alien craft. But, about ten minutes after the light disappeared, we decided to head out and drive to a new overlook location higher up. As we were driving to the new location, towards the hills where we saw the light, it reappeared in the sky, this time much closer to us. This time we saw that whatever it was wasn’t attached to a radio tower, building, or anything else; the ovular craft was simply levitating. And this time, much quicker, the light disappeared again.
July 16, 2020 · 8:30 PM · OVAL
Dunedin, FL
July 16, 2020 Dunedin Causeway Pics At the time I took the photos I didn't notice anything, only afterwards while looking at the photos did I notice this object. If you look at the three pictures in sequence they were all taken in the same minute. The object broke the clouds then disappeared before I took the next picture. I do not know how many seconds went by before the next picture was taken but it was in the same minute. I find it strange the object obviously moved the clouds but then could disappear and have no signs of changes in the clouds in the next picture. I guess the clouds move quick enough to fill in that space. Based on the size of the building below the object it would have to be pretty large, at least a 100’ across. Everyone tries to explain these sightings away but I can’t explain how this object moved the clouds and disappeared within seconds.
July 16, 2020 · 10:00 AM · OVAL
Canterbury, CT
I was facing South/South-East when I looked up to the sky and saw a bright reflection. A small silver sphere/dot was floating without any movement about 60 degrees above the horizon line. It sat there and floated for about 30-45 minutes with no movement that I could see, eventually I lost sight as clouds drifted in. I was working on a farm at the time, the object seemed very far away regarding its size.