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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.
1,643 entries
September 5, 2014 · 6:30 PM · CHEVRON
Pulaski, VA
My deck overlooks a broad valley with a mountain ridge in the background. On September 5, 2014, in the late afternoon the valley was covered with thick fog with the ridge clear and highlighted by the sun above the fog. I took multiple photos of the interesting view. In only one photo, taken at 6:30 PM, a small bright dot was seen above the ridge. Enlarged, the dot appears to be an object or craft followed by orange flames. A family member suggested it was space debris burning on re-entry. On-line research did not show any debris reported or expected to reenter the atmosphere that day. Weeks later I carefully viewed all the other photos taken at about that time. In the photo taken 6 seconds after that one, there is a smaller dot in the further distance which when enlarged appears to be a delta shaped craft. Both of these images appear in only one of the two photos taken 6 seconds apart. If they are of the same object, then it was traveling at incredible speed.
August 31, 2014 · 9:30 PM · CHEVRON
Sabula, IA
Two orangle colored chevron shaped craft moving north. Following Mississippi River, one following another, two minutes apart.
August 10, 2014 · 11:15 PM · CHEVRON
Sudbury (Canada), ON · Canada
Stepped into my back deck for a cigarette. As soon as I walked out, saw two big orange lights floating silently in the sky. I live in a quiet clear part of Minnow Lake. It continued to float in a formation that appeared to be a chevron with one missing light on a corner and stayed in formation while it floated to the front of my house area and I walked through my house to front door to observe more. It had become much smaller and within second one of the lights faded away and then the other began to flash and was much smaller then was gone as well.
August 6, 2014 · 2:00 PM · CHEVRON
Langley AFB, VA
Black chevron or V shape hovering in front of dense cloud cover above air base. V stood out very clearly. Did not move in any obvious direction. Then would roll slightly to one side and round ball or oval shape prominent at the base of the V. Color would turn to dark gun metal grey once rolled to side. No lights or sounds observed. Jets flying on training loop were much lower so was quite high up. Does not match an drones found on internet so far.
August 3, 2014 · 9:40 PM · CHEVRON
Medina, OH
One bright red light in sky observed from living room window and was moving directly towards us from the south. Unusually bright and red orange in color for a plane. Went outside to observe and noted it was slowly moving but slightly erratic side to side then stopped. There was no sound heard during this time as we normally do with jets that pass above. We live in a rural area and it is normally quiet and dark because of no street lights. As we watched it as it was stationary it appeared to change to a lighter color, and became smaller as we assumed it gained altitude and disappeared. The event took place in about 5 minutes. I am a Physical therapist and my husband is a commercial pilot and we have never observed red anything like this before.
July 31, 2014 · 3:45 AM · CHEVRON
Milford, NH
At approximately 3:45 am I was standing at our kitchen window when I saw what I thought was an airplane moving overhead heading in a northerly direction. I immediately went out side onto our deck to get a better look because I could not hear it in spite of how low it was flying. It was shaped like a chevron or triangle, flying quite a bit lower than air traffic does in our area, was making no sound at all and had more lights than an airplane usually does. I could not see the object itself, just the lights. What struck me was the total silence. As low as this thing was flying I heard nothing at all. As I watched it continued to move north silently until I could not see it anymore. I am a 51 year old female and have never seen anything like this before. Witness provides no contact information. PD
July 29, 2014 · 8:45 PM · CHEVRON
Boise, ID
Two objects at cloud level moving slowly in a uniform direction. Unable to identify what types of objects. Seemed to be about 100 ft away from each other moving from southwest toward northeast. Silver/ Black in color. A video was taken of the objects. Very odd shape, hard to identify precisely, there were no wings and the objects moved fairly slowly. The objects apparently shifted direction mid-air and moved southwest according to the second witness.
July 29, 2014 · 1:05 AM · CHEVRON
Diamond Harbour (India) · India
We were on the terrace of our hotel at 1:00 am looking up. Then we saw a dimly lit object in flying in the sky. It was coloured light brown, and shaped like an arrowhead. It initially moved slowly, but then suddenly sped up. We saw it flying very fast for 5 seconds then it disappeared behind a cloud. My friends thought it could be aliens. I'm a little sceptical and think it could be a stealth plane.
July 26, 2014 · 9:00 PM · CHEVRON
North York (north Toronto) (Canada), ON · Canada
I am writing this on behalf of my mother who witnessed and photographed the V-shaped craft. It was sitting stationary for over an hour, the crazy thing being it was directly in the Eastern flight path of YYZ Pearson airport! She said planes were going right and left to dodge the stationary craft. Neighbor phoned the police, they said "what can we do about it." I'll email both pictures, one from daytime and one from night. As the sun went down the craft lit up and mom said it was flashing. She went back to look a while after taking 2nd pic and it was gone.
July 21, 2014 · 2:25 AM · CHEVRON
Surfside, SC
Unusual orange light in the sky above the ocean that faded away after about 30 seconds.
July 20, 2014 · 1:30 AM · CHEVRON
Surfside, SC
Strange orange light in the sky that stood in the same place and then faded after a couple minutes. We wonder whether the date indicated above is correct. PD
July 16, 2014 · 5:00 AM · CHEVRON
Dixon, MO
I saw a bright light through the trees while sitting on the back porch of our home at roughly 0500 this morning (07/16/14). It was as bright as the moon. At first, I had assumed it was the moon, although it would have been in an unusual position/location. It disappeared due to the leaves blocking my view. Then I saw it again in a clearing of leaves. Again, it disappeared. I stood up and watched it above the tree lines. I wanted to see the shape before I woke my husband. Already I was thinking “this is a UFO” due to its apparent shape and size and brightness. When I saw the shape, I knew. So ran in the house and woke my husband. I told him he had to get up, because he would never believe me. He did, and we watched it fly over the house together. I ran into the front yard to continue watching it. I was a little frightened and hid under some trees in case it was watching me. I cannot tell you its size, maybe 1/6 size of the moon and later the size of a large star. It was solid white, almost blinding light. It was either a chevron shape or boomerang shape, similar to a stealth shape, but not a complete triangle. It did not change directions, but instead flew in almost a straight line untl it blinked out. It was too bright for my husband to make out the shape of it, but I could see the shape as it flew directly over my head prior to waking him. We were able to watch it together for at least 30 seconds before it disappeared from our sight. I am a military vet and my husband is an executive on an Army base. This was definitely an aircraft with no blinking lights, nor colors. It seemed to be an illuminated craft, as opposed to a craft with outside lights. It was blazing bright. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and she sounded quite serious-minded to us. We suspect both witnesses are reliable and capable. PD
July 5, 2014 · 12:45 AM · CHEVRON
Booneville, KY
This time we could see the shape better and it was "arrowhead" shaped. The point changed directions multiple times and drifted back into treeline. Poor quality video attached. Taped on a Samsung galaxy s3 phone. The red orange dot can barely be seen but was very bright to naked eye. The white dot in video is a star or planet, while zooming in to focus on craft the white dot appears to move. It is not. This is just the result of zooming in and out to focus on orange craft. Time recorded~00:45 july 5 2014 Hand held resting on patio chair for stability
July 3, 2014 · 8:00 PM · CHEVRON
Glencoe, AL
An object appeared, bright orange, and looked like a dot of light behind the point of a "V" with the point facing the direction of travel. The object came from the north and moved in a straight line from north to south. It was moving very quickly, more quickly than a commercial airliner. There was no noise, and no visible smoke or con trail. It took close to a minute for it to appear, span our line of sight, then looked to either have vanished or disappeared beyond the horizon.
June 29, 2014 · 1:48 AM · CHEVRON
Los Angeles, CA
The whole object would shut completely off for about 3 seconds then flash back on as it was drifting away as it was moving left then back to right. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 28, 2014 · 11:00 PM · CHEVRON
St. Albans, VT
I was sitting out with my telescope. These orange craft approached from the north one at a time came into view. No sound at all. We have border patrol helecopters and planes that I see (I go out almost every clear night, we are near the Canadien border) but these were different. They were bright orange, Halloween orange. Going slow. They were swept back triangular in shape. Each one crossed to the south and then at a point nearly out of my sight they flashed, very bright. Each one did this at the same point in the sky. I couldn't quite see if they disappeared, but that is what I thought, or changed. Trees blocked the view, but it was a very bright flash each time.
June 25, 2014 · 1:03 PM · CHEVRON
Kalispell, MT
I was sitting on my porch getting some sun and I happen to look up into the beautiful summer sky with scatted cumulus at 8,000 feet, when I noticed what looked like at first seagulls riding thermals. They never flapped and moved around as if playing a game of “tag”. They were about the size of a Cessna C-182 and bright white in color, silent with no lights visible. Other “objects” came in from the south joining the group bringing the total number up to at least 6 and possible as many as nine. Still maneuvering around at approx. 8,000 feet, the objects were moving at about 80 knots and made wide turns while staying in the same area overhead. After about 4 minutes the objects started to depart to true North and traversed from the 12 o’clock position to the 2 o’clock position in 1 second at 8,000 feet agl. Then one by one the objects accelerated to approx. true North at blistering speeds. Seconds later a business jet departed Glacier Park International airport climbing out on a southbound heading. This sighting reminded me of the Kenneth Arnold sighting of June 24th, 1947. I “Googled” Kenneth Arnold and the imaged of what he saw matched almost exactly what I watched today. WOW !
June 25, 2014 · 1:03 AM · CHEVRON
Kalispell, MT
Adding observation that when the objects made turns, they did not bank like an airplane or a bird. Their pitch attitude remained zero or level during maneuvers and turns. Their "wings level" attitude or bank remained zero or level during maneuvers and turns.
June 20, 2014 · 9:25 PM · CHEVRON
Cedar Rapids, IA
Abrupt moving object with six lights arranged on a "vee" with red and green arranged on each wing of the "Vee". Very odd movement with a sudden disappearance.
June 18, 2014 · 7:00 PM · CHEVRON
Montreal (Canada), QC · Canada
I saw a chevron shape object very low on the top of my house a second after I saw 2 series of round UFO machine 1 group of 7 and the second a group of 5 UFO machine that The was following the chevron shape based passing the top of the roof of my house, and in my life time I saw around 120 different times some UFO machine and all kind of shape as well TY prg
June 16, 2014 · 11:00 PM · CHEVRON
Depew, NY
I was going out for a walk with a friend and just after we left, I noticed three chevron shaped lights going over in a V formation. At first I thought they were meterors or something but they seemed to be holding a formation. Shortly before disappearing out of sight, another came over at the same speed but larger or at a lower altitude. It cruised over in the same direction and eventually disappeared as well. All objects were riddish orange amd had no flashing lights or trails. We also noticed no noise coming from the lights. I'm always watching the sky and have seen all kinds of aircraft and even some satelites. These seemed a bit unique so I dicided to report it. Thank you for any info on these lights. ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) Yeah no hoax here. I mean, I'm only telling exactly what I saw. I'm just not sure exactly what they were. Both sightings were weird in their own ways. The first ones were traveling in somewhat straight lines but if you looked hard, you could see them almost zig zag. Looking like a short wave medium frequency if it had left a trail. If that makes sense. The second night was really strange cuz the first sighting was still sorta fresh in our minds. It was only two of us the second time tho. Same colors, no zig zag, similar shape, much lower alt. The second time you could really see that they were like small glowing boomerangs... Haha. I hate explaining it like that cuz it sounds crazy. I watch all the ufo documentaries and I sound like those folks now. I'm just looking for an explanation I guess. I've always been in the middle when it comes to this stuff. Because I know people lie, exaggerate, halucinate... But after I saw the lights holding a formation and then the forth one come over even lower, we were just playing it off like they were low level meteors or something.... flying in formation.... yeah. Meteors fly in formation right? Haha. Anyway, I'm not making it up, and I have no reason to pull some hoax. I'll even be anonymous if I have to. Thank you for your time and any info you can send. I can better narrow down the time as well if that helps. Thank you again. ((END ADDENDUM)) This is one of two reports from the same source. The source does not indicate a date for this sighting. PD
June 14, 2014 · 8:00 PM · CHEVRON
Flagler Beach, FL
I was driving south in flagler bch. It was getting dark. I saw it out of the top of my windhield and pulled over, got out, and watched in amazement of the erratic pattern it was making. It vibrated and moved in a counter clockwise direction, stood still, then dropped due south, then moved due north into its original position. darted west shortly and then took off south and dis appeared. the closest shape discription you had was the chevron. I think I explained the shape well in my discription. 35 yrs of watching the sky I have never seen anything like this. 707-((number deleted)). ((name deleted))
June 5, 2014 · 5:00 PM · CHEVRON
Fort Lauderdale, FL
I was heading South on Federal Highway, US1 at the junction of Bayview Drive and I spotted a silver object in the sky ahead of me. I watched it and "followed" it for approx. 30 seconds. It was travelling quickly but was not "really" high in the sky. All of a sudden it just vanished. It all happened very quickly and I was in my car at the time. Traffic was somewhat heavy but moving, others must have seen it. I am a married businessman in my mid forties, quite sane & not a "tin foil hat" wearer, but I know what I saw. I wish I could have taken a photo.
May 31, 2014 · 9:50 PM · CHEVRON
Coeur d'Alene, ID
Saw five amber lights moving across sky. Slowly faded out 1 by 1. No sound. Lasted about 30 seconds. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. There may have been a release of many, i.e. hundreds, "Chinese" lanterns in Post Falls, Idaho, on May 30, 2014. PD