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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.
27,433 entries
February 1, 2017 · 3:00 PM · LIGHT
Helena, AR
These pictures were taken by my cousin about 2-3 weeks ago. I do not know the exact date or time, as I am just now getting the pictures from him and didn't ask those questions. They were taken near the Helena, AR, industrial harbor. They are the most incredible images that I have ever seen and I know that they are 100% authentic. My cousin can barely use a cell phone. They are real images period. You can see the object in motion and there is no way that it is lens flare. Just look at the telephone pole on the zoomed in photo. It looks illuminated to me. Even at a distance it retains the same visible characteristics. I believe that this phenomenon is occurring frequently here and is able to be captured and analyzed. Back in April I had a very similar experience, the first of my life which I reported here.
February 1, 2017 · 11:30 AM · LIGHT
Greer, SC
It was my mother and I and we were pulling into our neighborhood late at night, after a trip to Charleston. As we approached the house, I saw a small white light in the air that looked like a star. A second after noticing it, it ascended at a rapid elevation into the sky until disappearing. To note, the object rate of acceleration was too high to have been a helicopter, so I Immediately discarded that idea. I did however, suspect it to be an LED helicopter, which are small, colorfully illuminated toys that are flung up into the air at a high speed. If not a manned craft of some nature, this would appear to be the most likely explanation. However, this white object lacked any of the flashing colors of the LED toy (which would consist of blue, red, green, etc), and did not fall back to the ground at any noticeable time. It merely hung in the sky for a single second, and then took off into the sky. I myself am very open minded to the possible existence of extraterrestrial UFOs; however, I also firmly believe that the majority of such sightings are either hoaxes or misinterpretations. This understanding is what prevented me from making a post earlier when it happened. However, after learning through research that there has been a number of small UFO sightings in the unexpected area of upstate South Carolina, I thought that perhaps mentioning my quick encounter could be worth while. Do note that I am not making a firm conclusion that it was of extraterrestrial origins, but rather that I cannot come to any definite conclusion to what I saw. Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
February 1, 2017 · 9:12 AM · LIGHT
Los Angeles/Sherman Oaks, CA
Two small bright lights moving slightly, they were not touching, than disappeared. There were no clouds. Los Angeles at around 9:12am
February 1, 2017 · 6:00 AM · LIGHT
Chicago, IL
came home around 5:30pm and let the dogs out and notice an object over Chicago west of the moon, I waited an hour to see if it moved and it didn't so i looked at it through my binoculars and see it had light under it in the shape of a cross. I watched it for about 10 minutes. when my wife came home at 7pm i ask her to look at it she see the same thing. as of now it hasn't moved
January 31, 2017 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Maricopa, AZ
At approximately 11:00pm, I was driving along 347 in the Gila River Reservation, when two orange lights, a respectable distance apart, appeared together in the southwestern part of the sky. I'd seen similar lights the night before. As I watched, four more lights gradually appeared to the lower right near the horizon. All four were in a straight line in tight formation. All lights stayed in position for just a minute or so. Meanwhile, I began to take pictures with my camera phone. First, one of the two original lights disappeared - or more aptly, dimmed till vanishing. Then shortly thereafter, the other one disappeared. The remaining four stayed visible for a little while longer. They shifted position slightly, still staying in tight formation. And once again very slowly, they faded away. As for my background - I'm an equipment technician for a photofinishing and book manufacturer in located in Phoenix, AZ.
January 31, 2017 · 6:40 PM · LIGHT
Mechanicsburg, PA
Sighting 6:40 pm 1/31/17 Mechanicsburg, PA I was driving east on US RT 11 locally called the Carlisle Pike at about 6:40 pm I noticed unusual lights in the sky to the right South of my location about 50 degrees off the horizon. The lights where four orange yellow lights in a downward sloping angle about 15 degrees. The lights appeared to be round. It was well above the tree line but too low for a commercial aircraft unless it was landing in Harrisburg, the location seemed off in regards to a plane landing and the lights were solid not flashing as planes normally do. The lights appeared to be stationary and not moving as a plane would. It's important to note that the Moon was behind me and that while Venus is currently just to the right of the moon and Mars just above the Moon forming a triangle this was not in the area of the sky where this sighting took place. Mechanicsburg is in the middle of the Cumberland Valley part of the Great Appalachian Valley just west of Harrisburg PA. Two major highways pass by Mechanicsburg to the South the Pennsylvania Turnpike and just to the North interstate 81. I reference this because the Turnpike is used as guide into Philadelphia International by planes coming from the West, it's also the flight path of the local medivac helicopter from its base in Carlisle, PA. There is a large amount of air traffic that flies high over my neighborhood daily. As I drove I tried keeping my eyes on the object and the road as traffic was flowing steadily for post rush hour so I didn't have an opportunity to pull over. I made sure to note the time and reached for my cell phone to try and get a picture. When I opened my camera app on my iPhone the camera app malfunctioned giving me a screen of green bars horizontally and up and down. During the process of closing the app restarting the app and driving the lights disappeared. Mechanicsburg is home to the Naval Support Activity Mechanicsburg, a 806 acre facility with over 150 buildings, including a Department of Defense rail yard including Nuclear Cask railroad cars. The area of the light anomaly was over the area occupied by this installation. I'm a special education teacher by degree and career. I teach children with learning disabilities in a neighboring school district. I am fascinated by paranormal topics, but never thought I'd be writing a report about an observation I would have.
January 30, 2017 · 2:30 AM · LIGHT
Somersworth, NH
I went outside for a smoke at about 2:30 am on 1/30/17. I was looking at the stars as usual and pointing out the planets to myself when I noticed what looked like a very bright star but it was flashing and remained very still, which led me to believe it was just a star. After about 3 minutes I noticed it started to move, it stayed in the same general area but it zig zagged left and right, up and down for the next ten to fifteen minutes before I went inside.
January 29, 2017 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Conyers, GA
I saw three sets of four lights in the sky over the woods behind my house. There was one (very) bright gold light for each, followed by three red lights in a horizontal row. They moved somewhat slowly, and appeared to hover intermittently, and one of them changed direction more than once, lazily moving one way, then another. There was a soft sound like a jet engine, but given how bright they were (and therefore close, I assume), I would have expected it to be much louder.
January 29, 2017 · 8:15 PM · LIGHT
Hurricane, UT
I went outside to take the garbage out and looked straight up and slightly to the north. There were two red lights that were a steady glow (not blinking and without shape other than looking like a star). They were hovering together. After a few minutes the one on the right slowly moved North and faded out about 10 seconds after moving, and the one on the left slowly moved South and faded out about 15 seconds after moving from the hovering location. My wife came out in time to see the one moving South.
January 29, 2017 · 7:35 PM · LIGHT
Bountiful, UT
In the dark of night we saw a light in the western region of the valley. We thought it was a helicopter. However, it was too high and too stationary for it to be a helicopter. We looked up flights in the area as well as star charts and could not find an explanation. However, we do notice that it is moving minimally very minimally side to side.
January 29, 2017 · 6:47 PM · LIGHT
Atlanta, GA
I immediately called kids outside, to see the Space Station, but realized this was much lower maybe 10K feet? There were no other lights. Even my eight year old daughter said its only bright white not another color to be seen for duration. I have heard you for years on shows to say to report these as we see them, and I have usually not done so, but now that time has passed. ISS. PD
January 29, 2017 · 6:40 PM · LIGHT
Merrimack, NH
Driving on Contenental Blvd towards Rt. 101a saw 3 lights above tree line Approx 40 degrees in sky between Saint John Neumann Church and PC Connection. for approx 10 sec . is there anyway to check FAA during this time frame? FYI, FAA control center for North East Corrder loc approx 5 miles away in Nashua, NH?
January 29, 2017 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Clio, AL
It was close to sundown, no stars out as it was still just a little too bright. I noticed what I at first assumed to be the 'North Star' next to a cellphone tower, moving rapidly down. I told my friend who was driving to stop the car, and she pulled over. We watched it lazily keep moving down, assuming it was helicopter. We couldn't hear any noises, and noticed the lack of other lights and an outline. It moved to the left, grew brighter and then disappeared.
January 29, 2017 · 10:34 AM · LIGHT
Studio City, CA
My wife and I were having breakfast at a bagel shop at 12914 Ventura Blvd this morning. We were seated outside, and near the end of our meal, I glanced around the sky. It was such a beautiful and clear Southern California day, especially after the recent storms in the area. While looking around, I noticed a twinkling white light to the north, about the same height in the sky as the top of a street light pole on Ventura Blvd from where we were seated. I first thought that it was a very bright and early star, but the twinkling was too bright to the naked eye, and I immediately observed very slow movement. My next thought was a potential satellite sighting, but no straight flight path existed — movement was somewhat erratic, though slow at times. This was easily confirmed due to the light’s position just to the right of the street light pole, which allowed me a point of reference in the sky. The light was far too high, to my observation, to be commercial aircraft (best guess was 150,000ft or more) — it was too erratic and slow for a satellite path, and it also didn’t appear to be any type of rocket (to my knowledge) due to it’s start-stop movement. The emitting of light (or glinting of sunlight off of the object, which was another thought) also had no pattern and seemed to be random, almost as if the object was spinning about — at times it became so dim to the point that I’d thought it disappeared, then it would randomly shine bright seconds later, as bright as a star in the early evening or early morning sky. The level of brightness was observed changing drastically without obstruction as the light slowly pinged about the clear blue sky. A second white light holding the same characteristics was also observed momentarily, further up in the sky and to the left of the first light I fixated upon. To confirm, my wife and I both observed these objects and all of the mentioned movements/lights. The only further detail I observed on the main light was the emission of tiny, nearly invisible, red lights — these seemed to be ejected from the object and quickly disappeared into the blue of the sky. This detail was very hard for me to see, but I know that I did observe this. I captured iPhone video of this sighting, and upon review later in the day, both white lights (along with their visual characteristics and movements) can be clearly seen in the footage. This entire event lasted over 3 minutes. I captured over 2 1/2 minutes of footage, but I did have to stop recording because we had to get going about our business.
January 28, 2017 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Boca Raton, FL
This past Saturday night around 10:30PM, my wife and I were on our porch and noticed some odd lights on the horizon. We saw a total of about 10 over about a 20 minute time span. They rose up from the horizon to the NE in groups of 3 or 4, perhaps around the Delray Beach area. They slowly traveled South rising upward along the coast and disappeared into the low cloud cover just about due East of our house. They flew quite close together and were too bright to be drones. They didn't have flashing lights like standard aircraft, but more of a steady orange glow. They may have been far enough away to be over the ocean, but that still doesn't explain what manner of craft they were. Planes don't take off and group like that and I don't know of an airport North of the Boca Raton one nearer than the somewhat distant Palm Beach International. If anyone else saw them or has an idea of what they might be, I'd love to hear about it. Here is a photo of a group of 4 facing East NE with the rightmost one about to disappear into the clouds.
January 28, 2017 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Conway, SC
Looks like a bright star!! But it is no star!! Zigzags in the sky and moves very slowly. You would think it was a star or planet but it seems to be way too low to the earth to be a planet. We thought it was a plane but it made no sound and no flashing lights and in the video u can see other planes and such flying and they were no comparison! The first night we saw it was two nights ago. It was in the exact same spot and was green (video)!! Tonight, same spot same movements, but it looked like it was orange for a moment then had a hint of green every now and then. There is a star in the background and you can tell that whatever it is is moving away from the star and is obviously not supposed to be there!
January 28, 2017 · 8:29 PM · LIGHT
Chardon, OH
I was on the second floor of my home, sitting on a couch that looks out a east facing window. I noticed a bright light sitting directly above the tree line of my front yard. I went to the window to take a closer look to see if it was a plane or a drone. The light did not waiver and sat, about the size of a beach ball in one spot. At this time it was 8:29 p.m and snow was densely falling outside. The light was bright enough to be clearly seen, even in the adverse weather. I opened the window to listen for sounds such as a helicopter or airplane but none were present. It felt as though the light was watching me and I was watching it. I shut my blinds and continued to watch the light through them. Suddenly 2 more beach ball sized lights appeared. One was positioned about 75 feet away from the first light, but hung at the same level. The second was about 100 feet over to the right, and hung lower than the other two. I called down to my husband, and joined him a! t the window on the first floor of our home. We watched the lights together for about another minute, and then all three started moving toward the left, northbound up the street and out of sight. I am a 64 year old librarian and my husband is a 69 year old retired brick mason and decorated Vietnam combat medic. We have resided in our home since 1987 and have never witnessed this phenomenon before.
January 28, 2017 · 8:20 PM · LIGHT
Chandler, AZ
Around 8:20 PM, January 28th, 2017, in Chandler, Arizona, I walked to the mailbox and notice 3 large orange lights hovering above. They were group in a triangular shape, not moving for around for ~1 or 2 minutes. Next thing I know, 2 shoot off and disappear, while the 3rd light stays behind for about another minute, before disappearing, as well. During this time, it was easy to distinguish airplanes flying in the distance.
January 27, 2017 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Elk City, OK
Venus. Anonymous report. PD
January 27, 2017 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Russellville, AR
I was watching the brite light in the southwestern sky(the thing they say is Venus but is visible from about 5:20 pm in the daytime) while observing the southwestern light, I witnessed a small light seem to come out of the stationary light (Venus) and move sideways then shoot up and away into space as that was ending what I thought was a star began to move sideways across the sky then also curve upward and shoot off into space! Around two or three minutes after witnessing the first two lights yet another light slowly moved across the sky it would be extremely brite one second then gone the next and it continued this pattern halfway across the night sky! After seeing these three light the sky seamed to fill up with aircraft flying in twos and from multiple angles across the sky. I assume the aircraft in twos was the military!
January 27, 2017 · 7:15 PM · LIGHT
Wendell, NC
Very bright light moving faster than normal aircraft. Witnessed light get dimmer and smaller until it disappeared. Appeared as though, the light was exiting our atmosphere.
January 27, 2017 · 7:00 AM · LIGHT
Potomac, MD
I saw a reddish pink light across the sky with dark clouds floating and it was not a sun. This pink light disappeared in less than five minutes. There was one witness who took the photo of the light.
January 26, 2017 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Hickory, NC
Observing it for a few hours, it noticiably had a slow decend to it before it was no longer visible. There were also other verified military aircraft or what seemed to be flying within it vicinity thoughout what seemed to be a decending craft or light of some sort.
January 26, 2017 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Kenner, LA
Possible sighting of Venus. PD