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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
January 17, 2017 · 8:42 PM · LIGHT
Concord, NC
Bright circular light bobbing around for upwards of 20 minutes moving up and down and left and right not getting any further or closer.
January 17, 2017 · 8:39 PM · LIGHT
Randall, MN
Red, blue and white lights flashing in different circular sequences, at times only one to zero lights. Craft may be circle shaped or the lights are placed in circular formation. Seems to be moving slowly in the same area almost as if standing still but without any noise. Appears to be 15 miles to the east. Possibly above the city of Little Falls, MN. Possible government craft or drone? Heard helicopter for short time, but could not see one, less than a minute. This is not a helicopter or airplane. Very large drone or other craft. Looked thru binoculars. Never seen a craft pattern like this.
January 17, 2017 · 9:53 AM · LIGHT
Warner, NH
At approximately 9:53 am EST on January 17th, 2017, I was traveling north bound on Interstate 89 in New Hampshire driving a vehicle. My boss was riding in the passenger side of the car and also witnessed the event. A bright light of white or silver light was traveling directly down from its trajectory extremely fast. This wasn't falling like an object dropped from the sky and wasn't on fire like a meteor typically would be from my experience. My boss also acknowledged what we had seen. The type of light it projected or reflected was bright white or silver white light. Unfortunately I was in a company car and not my own so my dash cam was not with me. The distance from the event was close and it wasn't very high in the sky. For instance this wasn't thousands of feet in the sky. It appeared to be within 2 or 3 miles at the most from where we were. There was no contrail or smoke. No sign of the object after it left the field of view.
January 17, 2017 · 4:40 AM · LIGHT
Takaka/Golden Bay (New Zealand) · New Zealand
Trying to find an active information call in center, I have no solid evidence of this claim but I wanted to let someone know what we had seen. Me and two friends were watching a very clear sky at around 4.30am on Friday morning in Takaka NZ, Amongst a torrent of shooting stars we all witnessing a small star shaped light moving across the sky in an erratic and unsettling nature, I pointed at it quickly to my two friends who also claimed it to be un-identifiable to them. It moved like this from north to east across the sky for about 30 seconds with erratic movements speeding up and down, fluctuating in speed, direction and even seemed to blink from spot to another randomly. Other dim star like figures seemed to move around and dart from vision and back around the same area of the sky. The main object we saw was nothing like I have ever seen before in the sky, Astronomy and cosmology are two of my biggest passions and with music, Iooking up and having good judgment of what i am seeing is important. The difference between this and other objects such as satellites or planes is that the object constantly staggered its flight path like no other earth bound space craft could. If any other inquiries like this come through I would like to know, if I can help with any questions please feel free to email me. Kind regards ((name and telephone number deleted)) Wellington nz
January 16, 2017 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Morgan, UT
I was driving and noticed 3 bright red lights in the sky floating in a vertical line. Next I pulled over and got out of my car and watched the bottom 2 move one went right and one went left forming a triangle shape they sat in that position for about a min or so. Then the top light started to go smaller as if it was going farther away and the other two followed it was definitely the weirdest thing I've ever seen
January 16, 2017 · 5:45 PM · LIGHT
Baltimore, MD
Saw one orange-colored light making abrupt turn abrupt turn then two more suddenly appear side by side of each other with the first one up ahead then all three vanish
January 14, 2017 · 11:03 PM · LIGHT
Chino Hills, CA
Came outside of a smoke. Noticed a bright star like object to low to have been a stareally and it just shot up into the sky. Crazy
January 14, 2017 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Flamborough (UK/England) · United Kingdom
Between 23.00 hrs and 00.20 hours on 14/1/17 - many strange red/orange lights flashing at random in the window. Sometimes they would flash close together and sometimes one at a time within 3 mins. The lights appeared like fireworks and became more intense towards the end with low popping noises like electrical surges. We think it sounded similar to the equipment used by paramedics to restart peoples hearts! Myself and my daughter were present and we live in a rural area near the lighthouse - it was not white light from the lighthouse however and they were not flares as they went on for far too long with the popping noise occurring shortly after the lights. I am a full time mature student (also work for local govt) and my daughter is a student.
January 14, 2017 · 7:38 PM · LIGHT
Hillsboro, OR
Bright light falling towards the horizon in the Eastern sky. Definitely brighter than any falling star we've ever seen.
January 14, 2017 · 7:30 PM · LIGHT
Grand Rapids, MI
Strange object in the night sky around 7:30 p.m. here in Grand Rapids on 1.14.17. It looked like a white light that was stationary just above the tree line of our condo on East Paris between Burton and Sparks, the object was very strange as it appeared much brighter and bigger than an airplane headlight. It did not approach and get bigger but rather just kind of hung in the sky. An hour later the object appeared that it had traveled farther away but was relatively in the same part of the sky, (South west direction). The odd thing was that the object now appeared orange and not as bright. We suspect a sighting of Venus. PD
January 14, 2017 · 5:00 PM · LIGHT
Melbourne, FL
Bright irregular shaped, bright light visible in the S W sky. I was driving west on hey 192, the low, white light was not moving. It was still very light as it was approximately 5:30 pm. It was irregular in shape leaning toward anjagged oval. It was not a plane or star it was large and sat there as long as I drove, then stopped to watch it for over 30 min. It was still visible when I stopped watching. I would like to learn what it was.
January 13, 2017 · 9:40 PM · LIGHT
Dedham, MA
Vertical shape, bright light, stayed stationary but increased and decreased light, then "blinked out" no path from where it was, (but it is cloudy) I thought it might be a helicopter due to staying stationary but it was distinctly "line" like. So mysterious! We suspect a nighttime sighting, and have amended the time above. PD
January 13, 2017 · 6:15 AM · LIGHT
Rumford, RI
At about 6:15 AM this morning on January 13, 2017, just before dawn, there were three "stars" that appeared, east of the Big Dipper's "bowl," appeared one by one, shone very brightly, and then disappeared, blinked off, one by one. They looked like stars or fireflies, in terms of size, but very far away and extremely bright, brighter than stars. They could be seen in the peripheral vision, which picks up light and motion better than straight-on vision does.
January 13, 2017 · 12:10 AM · LIGHT
Uhland, TX
My stepdaughter was out walking her dog and saw a green light in the south sky. It blinked out, moved slightly to the west and blinked on again. She came in and got me. The light had moved again but I saw it was green. Suddenly it turned bright white and expanded greatly in size. It stayed white several seconds then blinked out and was gone.
January 12, 2017 · 8:40 AM · LIGHT
Myrtle Beach, SC
Bright light over ocean, like that of a bright star or plane... appeared to be traveling in a straight line at evenly spaced out 2-3 second intervals as if it were blinking across the sky.. then disappeared.
January 11, 2017 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Harleyville, SC
Bright light, appearing as a star but not! The light is very different, appears to be in our atmosphere, it appears some times right at dusk dark and other times after dark. we have been seeing it for two weeks now about 4 days out of each week! we have also seem military hele's in the area. It will move some nights to different heights. There appears to move quickly sometimes in short zig zag movements. We have see drone type flying objects around it at high levels with one red blinking light each, with NO sounds to be heard, I am typing this and it is out side as I write, also, there seems to be a red haze behind the white light???
January 10, 2017 · 3:45 AM · LIGHT
Sahaurita, AZ
From Quail Creek County Club in Sahaurita, AZ, looking north. At approximately 3:45 a.m. I observed a light in the NE sky that grew brighter and then was moving erratically. At first I thought it must be a helicopter but then 2 more lights appeared with alternating white and red lights. They moved around each other too closely and erratically to be helicopters. I observed for a long period of time, at least 20 minutes, and more lights appeared and then disappeared at various locations, moving erratically, around each other and then suddenly extremely fast. They were far to the east of the Tucson airport and no planes were landing or taking off at that time in the morning (I can see the planes arriving and departing from my location). They moved toward the east and the moving lights appeared and disappeared at various locations but always at least one visible until I observed one with a bright light that appeared to stand still then all of the sudden at least 4 others app! eared in a straight line to the east of it. Within seconds they lit up sequentially (like fire crackers) and then they were gone or at least there were no more lights.
January 8, 2017 · 5:30 PM · LIGHT
Highland, CA
There was a second, reddish light that exhibited motion as it floated towards the freeway behind us. It was all very surreal, and it haunts me to this day.
January 8, 2017 · 6:30 AM · LIGHT
Southfield, MI
I saw a large blue/white light traveling across the sky around 6:30am. I was driving westbound on 696, getting off to go north on Telegraph, and saw a bright white/blue light streaking from right to left across my windshield. It looked like a meteor to me because it was traveling incredibly fast and was heading downwards and there was no sound whatsoever. The object appeared to be a few miles away and started at about 1000 ft and then continued downward on an angle. I was expecting some sort of impact but when it got to about 250 ft from the ground the light disappeared (and did not move behind any building). The light seemed to shut off and whatever it was seemed to stop moving and dimmed out to the same brightness as a star. After that I did not see anything else.
January 7, 2017 · 8:10 PM · LIGHT
New Berlin, WI
I was walking west at 8:10 ((sic. p.m.) cst when I observed a very bright, round white light in the northwest sky rapidly descending from 30 degrees above the horizon to disappearing behind the horizon. The white light was very much brighter than the many stars visible on this clear, crisp night. The light was also very much brighter than an airplane passing by in the west sky.
January 7, 2017 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Denver, CO
Looking westward we saw three orange lights that hovered and the began to ascend two of the lights moved north east and the third was moving erratically left right and the it disappeared just above the horizon. They moved in such a way that no plane could fly.
January 7, 2017 · 6:15 PM · LIGHT
Hendersonville, NC
On January 7th, around 6:30 pm, I observed two bright white lights equally distanced. They appeared to be an airplane coming towards my direction. As I got closer, it seemed to stop moving and just hover. I watched it for 5-7 minutes as I traveled south on Hwy 176. It appeared to hover over the Macon bank and Burger King Parking lot off Hwy 176. After I passed the bank, I kept looking back in my mirror but couldn’t see anything.
January 6, 2017 · 7:15 PM · LIGHT
Merced, CA
From my backyard, looking due West. I see two bright orange stars, 10 times brighter than the brightest star. Both are descending from 30 degrees to let's say 25 degrees altitude, due West from my perspective. Separated from each other by about two inches at arm length. Each light was horizontal to one another other. After two or so minutes descending very slowly, they changed direction due North (moving one or two feet to the right, at arm's length.) The whole event lasted 5-10 minutes, or so, before each light disappeared, one after another after a 2-3 minute interval. The event repeated itself, identically. https://youtu.be/pFLGmOweVtM
January 4, 2017 · 7:20 PM · LIGHT
Port Angeles, WA
7:20 PM Port Angeles, WA. Port Angeles, Washington has so little light pollution that the night sky pops unlike anywhere else I have been. In the Big Dipper’s ladle, I saw 4 orange lights. The stars were a white/blue mix, so the orange lights stood out. One light was at 12oclock, one at 7oclock and 2 at 4oclock very close. Those 2 chased each other in a circle, like a dog chasing its tail, very quickly. I know nothing that man has made that could do that. I watched for around 5 minutes, then the one at 12oclock went nw/up from its position, the one at 4oclock went south and the 2 chasing each other weren’t able to be seen. I threw my trash away and I looked back up and they where gone, the other 2 moving away from each other out of the big dipper. I went in, googled orange lights in sky, found nothing good and texted my friend. She told me to report it here and I am. I am a college educated (BA History), age 47, male, veteran of the us army.