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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
December 14, 2016 · 6:00 AM · LIGHT
South Burlington, VT
I looked at photo and instantly noticed a light in the corner so I zoomed in on picture and saw 2 bright objectside. Took another photo where I guessed it would be and saw nothing at all.
December 13, 2016 · 10:20 PM · LIGHT
Chicago, IL
I was looking out a window facing north in a high rise building and saw a bright white ball of light pass over the top of my building from the east and move in a north west direction. It was moving fairly quickly. After about 3 seconds it disappeared. it was a bright white ball of light. I looked around to see if maybe someone was blowing off fireworks but didn't see anything like that. There was no sound.
December 13, 2016 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
La Jolla, CA
Disappeared after about 5 minutes when I got closer to being beneath it.
December 13, 2016 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Hale, MI
December 13, 2016, I've only seen this a couple times in my life... Today it happened again, had thank god I was not alone this time! My mother and I were driving northbound on I-75 heading toward Home and taking notice of the sunset to our left (west) and the moon rising on our right (east). I was compelled to look up the moon cycle and see if it was a full moon... it was "Cold Moon" full moon according to the iPhone ... I watched it as it got higher in the sky. As our driving and conversing continued, I kept watching the moon; by the time we got off the expressway and had made our way to US-23/M-65 for a bathroom break it was pretty bright, but smaller and it had lost its reddish tint. Northbound on M-65 I kept my eye on it. I remember commenting on it as it was so bright that it appeared to be in front of the clouds - I could imagine primitive earth dwellers staring in awe thinking this ball of moon was actually in our sky. This was not at all the strange part, that I am about to tell you... We were just about home. We had been through town, and were nearing the section of M-65 within the mile or so before the road we live on. I was still keeping my eye on the moon, it was real pretty tonight. I spotted what I thought was a plane, but its flashing pattern was in short bursts, almost like a camera flashing. It was coming from the west, but its flight was also not "straight," so I mentioned to my mom who was driving that I though there might be a drone up there taking pictures (also thinking it was a silly time for a drone to take pictures - its dark out)... and then as I was adjusting my head to try to see better I saw a brighter orange light almost above us. I was seeing it through the windshield and in the part of the window at the very top where it was almost out of view and I almost passed it off as a trick of light from another car. I looked back to where I had seen the drone/plane and it was still in the general place it was, but not exactly, like I said, its flight pattern was odd and certainly not just heading east to west. Then I saw the orange light again and this time it was half the distance toward the other objects direction... it disappeared almost as quickly as I saw it. We were real close to ponderosa drive now and slowing down. It reappeared. Not in the same spot, but close. The other object is still flashing like a camera. The pattern of the flash was very random. I asked my mom to stop on the corner so I can look without the car moving... by this time she has become aware of what I am seeing and has seen the orange light appear and disappear I believe at least once. We start heading back down ponderosa the rest of the way and the light has become more than one light counting 2, 3, ? Disappearing and there is clear subtle movement between the orange lights. I ask my mom to stop the car again an I got out to watch it from outside the car and try to get the iPhone to video it... we have both witnessed the light reappear and become three lights and move a little - I'm saying to mom out loud at this point "this is just like the stuff we see on the UFO shows on TV ma" - she's replying to me but I won't try and quote it cause I'm too busy trying to get the video and this is when I notice the two jets from westerly and northeasterly sky (I hear them more than I see them) - at this point I am taking mental note of the following objects I have seen... the drone/plane which at this point I believe to have seen more than one, however the orange reappearing lights have become my main concern... and the two jets. I tell my mom that I am glad she was here to witness this with me. I'm so glad you know that I am not crazy. I'm am so glad that someone saw this with me. We are also locking the doors tonight. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and he sounded to us to be quite serious-minded. NUFORC received another similar report from a gentleman in Lincoln, MI. PD
December 13, 2016 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Dubuque, IA
Travelling horizontally low to the ground, not much above the traffic lights, too fast to be a jet. As quickly as I called my companions attention to it, it blinked 3 times and vanished. Brilliantly clear night sky with full moon.
December 13, 2016 · 5:35 AM · LIGHT
West Des Moines, IA
I was driving north on 63rd, when I saw big bright light falling at an incredible speed. It only lasted for about 2-3 seconds. I was waiting for a explosion because I thought it was going to crash, but there was no explosion. It happened so fast I could not make sense of what was happening. I don't think it was a plane because of the amazing speed at which the object was moving. Very very strange and yet very cool. Possible meteor from the Geminid shower?? PD
December 12, 2016 · 8:45 PM · LIGHT
Jacksonville, FL
Appearing between the two aircraft, a bright white beam of light traveled in a straight and upward fashion which lasted approximately two seconds. No sound was emitted.
December 12, 2016 · 7:07 PM · LIGHT
Taos, NM
Saw a light, brighter than star, and appeared stationary. Near or in cloud, surrounded by darkness. Near full moon illuminated scene. Decided to film it, so pulled over and steadied camera. Filmed nearly ten minutes, yet it really never seemed to move, however the light did shift, and could be blamed on cloud movement. At one point, I did see what I thought was a red light emanating from the object. It's light, white, appeared 2-3 times the brightness of other stars. At one point, it looked like it was leaving, but no turns or sudden movements, and I remained filming, and it remained in the same place. I have seen these bright stars occasionally and wondered if they were not something else. No sound. Larger than other airplane traffic, no movement, ...so this is so simple, that it seems unlikely. The object on my film actually appears to be an luminated object, with a dark hole in the middle. Peace on Earth.
December 12, 2016 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Marietta, GA
The light moved around slightly but stayed in view in nearly same location at least two hours. Saw white and maybe red lights. In the Eastern sky. Not a plane, planet or helicopter. ?! Probably a star or planet, we suspect. PD
December 12, 2016 · 6:30 PM · LIGHT
South Lake Tahoe, CA
I was driving down the street I live on heading north, I noticed a abnormally bright light that was pulsating straight ahead. I pulled over to get a better look. While watching some kind of object that had a flashing light came from above at a very high rate of speed and either buzzed past at very close range or met up with the bright object because I could not see where it went because of the large bright object. After approx ten minutes, the large bright object began moving south at a high rate of speed until I could not see it any longer.
December 12, 2016 · 7:30 AM · LIGHT
Eden Prarie, MN
I was driving east on county road 61 going uphill into Eden Prarie, along the river valley and we seen what looked like a re-entry trail with a very bright little point of light below the trail moving straight towards the earth. The bright point of light then grew to a massive size with a bright tail which looked like it could be burning up in the atmosphere. Then the same little point of light shot out of the bottom of the bright trail. The light then traveled straight down until it disappeared behind some clouds and it did not reappear on the bottom side of the cloud. One passenger in the car tried to get footage, but there were too many trees in the way, while driving, and when we finally got to a clearing, it was already gone.
December 11, 2016 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Casey, IA
I was approaching my residence, driving up a hill to one of the highest points in the county, (minus the Grand Divide). I came up the hill and I saw a blue-white light that was flying at an insane rate of speed. Probably about 15,000' high. It flew west, and turned in an abrupt, yet smooth curve and continued southwest.
December 11, 2016 · 4:00 PM · LIGHT
Independence, LA
Looked like a star but seemed to be to low.round ball of light and a plane passed over and it blinked ted 3 times above it
December 10, 2016 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Farragut, TN
For about a month, maybe a month and a half, me and my friends have been noticing a bright white light in the sky towards the southwest. It doesn't move, doesn't blink, and is usually just white. It is lower than the other stars and is clearly visible when no other stars are. It sometimes dims and then gets brighter, and alse the size changes from a tiny pinprick in the sky to a clear visible dot. Sometimes it looks like it shoots beams out from the top of it that look like they're every color at once. By about 23:30-24:00 it is gone. It has happened every night since I first observed it which may have been back in about late October.
December 10, 2016 · 6:15 PM · LIGHT
Navajo, NM
String of lights in a single line,headed West. Moving very slowly, paused a couple times, then headed North-West. Have couple videos. Some people heard a low hum.
December 8, 2016 · 5:30 PM · LIGHT
St. Clair, MO
Been seeing a multi light object in the southern sky almost every night for the past week. Light is moving at a slow speed, but has vertical and horizontal "dips," while still traveling SSW. Object was first dismissed as ISS but apon research and ISS locations have ruled this out.
December 7, 2016 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Plymouth, MA
Noticed large bright light traveling east towards the Atlantic. No flashing lights could be seen. Object slowed down dramatically before descending slightly. The object then turned a brilliant red before dimming out. Clear skies. Unknown if it was military.
December 7, 2016 · 5:15 PM · LIGHT
Waterloo (Canada), ON · Canada
Hi Peter, On December 07, at 5:15 pm, I went outside to have a cigarette. It was a clear day and the sun was just going down and it was close to civil twilight. I noticed a bunched of planes in the sky, then spotted a larger, brighter light just above the horizon. I quickly grabbed my phone and started recording, as I realized this object seemed stationary, and it was pulsing like no other identifiable craft I have seen. I watched it for a few minutes and tracked it as it moved in a straight line heading northwest over my head. I observed and filmed this pulsing object for about six minutes and watched it slowly travel on a straight trajectory heading north west. I looked at other planes in the sky nearby and compared it to what I was watching. On the planes in the sky you could just barely see the red and green strobe lights and you could see the plane body still lit up by the existing daylight. This brighter pulsing light had no visible coloured lights like navigation lights that strobed like aviation lights. At first I accepted the possibility that it was an aircraft heading straight towards me with the landing lights or collision lights on. But then noticed it was constantly pulsing, moving very slowly upwards, almost stationary. I also thought this bright pulsing object was a satellite or maybe the ISS, but it was only 5:16 pm and in the stage civil twilight, it was still not dark enough to see any stars. This light was as bright as Jupiter or Venus but a bit larger. After watching the video over a couple of times I noticed a peculiar movement as it got over head and thought that the strobing frequency changed but couldn't really calculate it accurately. At about 30 seconds in, the light seems to changing its speed and direction. I could calculate that the light deviated from its original straight trajectory. Judging the distance from the electrical cord hanging down from the eave-trough of the roof that is visible in the second video, you can see that the pulsing object appears to slow down, and then dives down to the left, and then zips back down to the right, and then zips up to the left on its former trajectory. I later stabilized the shaky camera footage and the zig zag movement becomes very clear. I could not see the object clearly at all times while filming the second video as it was over head. It was heading into some cloud cover and just pointed the phone camera at where I saw it last. It seemed to be completely behind some clouds so I stopped filming. I had to report this to you at NUFOC. I heard you on Podcast UFO and think you are the most hardworking guy in the field! Thanks for all your years or dedication and service! You're the man, Peter... The videos can be seen on YouTube here Part One - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_RBQMWm02M Part Two - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPPFiipsnSU Part Three- Stabilized Footage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aZ3viRx6iU&feature=youtu.be
December 6, 2016 · 5:00 AM · LIGHT
Osterville, MA
We have corrected the date above. PD
December 5, 2016 · 11:30 PM · LIGHT
Elgin, IA
I went outside around midnight with a clear sky and a ball of red light caught the corner of my eye. I turned toward the direction it came from to try and figure out if I was imagining what I saw. Shortly after I was watching the area of interest, another ball of red light shot straight up into the air from ground level at least 4-5 miles away. The ball of red light reached an elevation of approximately 3000-5,000 ft. Once the ball of red light reached this altitude, it sat stationary for about 15 seconds and then took off horizontally. The red ball of light came somewhat towards my direction and the red ball of light disappeared after about 3 miles of flying a perfect straight line. I continued to watch and a couple more of these red flying balls did the same exact thing as the previous one I had watched 1 -2 minutes before these. I continued watching and 4-5 more of the red balls did the exact same thing as the previous ones except without becoming stationary once they reached the same altitude. Once the last 4-5 red balls reached altitude, they shot off horizontally, following the previous ones path and also the red lights all diminished around the 3 mile mark of coming in my direction. I did have my phone on me and tried taking a video, but it was unsuccessful due to the towns street lights being brighter then the red balls of light at a distance. I was very disappointed as this would have been my only proof. This was definitely ufo related. There is nothing else that could come close to traveling these same paths and speed. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 5, 2016 · 10:40 PM · LIGHT
Regina (Canada), SK · Canada
Saw 2 lights moving fast, blue colour. They stopped right in front of me. Seemed close as they went through the clouds. I was close to a lake and the ducks started making aggressive noises and flapping wings. I felt scared and frozen, couldn't run.. Not sure why am writing this but I don't know what to do.. Saw the same like with a friend in the city month ago.. I really don't know what to do. Told my office colleague today. She thought I was lying and was crazy.
December 5, 2016 · 3:30 AM · LIGHT
Stratford, CT
One very bright light in the Southwest sky, first assumed to be a star or planet, however it moved slowly and had flashes of red, blue, green and yellow lights. I watched for nearly an hour before it disappeared.
December 4, 2016 · 7:32 PM · LIGHT
Sioux Falls, SD
I thought at first it was a falling star, but it was way too close to the ground. I posted what I saw on Facebook, and another witness saw the same bright white light at Marion and 57th in Sioux Falls, light also heading west.
December 4, 2016 · 5:30 PM · LIGHT
Severn, MD
Four lights moving silently and slowly in a straight line then arching line. One light or object split off and went southward and disappeared, the other 3 lights remained moving slowly forward then hovering. One of the 3 moved downwards from the line to form a triangular shape. They stayed glowing there for a few seconds then it moved southwest and disappeared, the other two remained and then moved slowly forward, then disappeared completely. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD