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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 4, 2016 · 3:03 PM · LIGHT
Mission Viejo, CA
Two very bright white lights changing in brightness, size, and distance were spotted above our house. They would slowly move closer and closer to each other and then when touching, would move quickly away only to repeat the process.
December 3, 2016 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Morgantown, WV
My wife and i and my daughter went to BobEvans for dinner and when we was leaving i saw a blue light in the sky moving up and down i have a video and if u watch closely it seems the twitch or what ever it seems to flip out. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 2, 2016 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Philadelphia, PA
Saw central ball of light ,with four other lights coming from the center and returning back with random pattern the four lights went out from the central light above 200 feet spun clockwise and returned to the central light It was witnessed by myself, son in law next door neighbor and passing pedestrians .there was no sound no helicopters no flashing lights as a plane would have and there was nothing emmiting light from the ground. whatever this was it was in the air. Advertising lights. We have corrected the date above. PD
December 2, 2016 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Reidsville, NC
Last night around 8:00pm I was outside with me dad and I looked straight up and a very bright flash hit my eyes. I asked my dad did you see that? Next thing you know we see the light kind of looked like the size and distance of the International space station. We watch it surge in speed and sometimes slow to a stall. It would blink on at very random times. From 2 seconds to 10 seconds before another flash. It was north towards lake reidsville in NC. To me it looked like a UFO losing power and getting surges of power to light up and move faster. Then when my wife came out after 5 minutes it started to slow and fade with every flash. Then it disappeared. It did not travel far across the sky in a north east direction. 3 of us saw it and know it was not a plane due to the distance and varying speed, light brightness and timing of the flash. Something was losing power or down. Pretty amazing sight
December 1, 2016 · 7:45 PM · LIGHT
Portland, TN
Radiant white rather large light (larger than commercial jet landing lights, even at close proximity), with hints/twinkles of many colors.(NOT VENUS) A bit overwhelming to view. Different than landing lights on commercial jets. Stationary or very slow moving. To the NNW of Portland TN. Visible, heading from 52 West by I-65 Entrance headed towards Orlinda. We were on way to airport so had to move on and leave without further investigating. Bright light really grabbed our attention and we were trying to figure it out, pulled over on entrance to I-65 to watch and a second brilliant light appeared out of nowhere to the left (South or West) of original light. Extremely clear skies tonight. This light just blipped into existence unlike aircraft approaching from distances which can obviously be viewed for a while before lights become brighter. Same intensity and brilliance. It moved around the original light to the north and then back around towards the west a! nd south and became dim. At this point I thought we saw some flashing lights on the 2nd object as it headed south or south west. Assumed possible military testing/training out of Clarksville. The originally light stayed in place while the other circled around it (or looked to do so). Maybe helicopters? Either way, out of the ordinary - we come from an aviation family and are used to spotting all sorts of lights and craft. Fun seeing something different! We got fuzzy video after the 2nd light moved on --- it just popped out of nowhere, wish we could have gotten that on video- pretty impressive.
December 1, 2016 · 6:56 PM · LIGHT
Newark, OH
I do not recall this. A video I took of it came up in my phone today as a memory from 6 years ago but I personally don’t have any memory of it. It lasted long enough that I saw it and was able to stop and record it, it appears I’m on the side of an overpass in the video. The memory did give me the date, time and location. May be nothing but wanted to submit in case there were any sightings at the same day and time.
December 1, 2016 · 6:52 PM · LIGHT
Glendale, AZ
Direction; South west to North east I'd say crossing the I17 between Dunlap (SW) and cactus(NE). A slight swaying motion was observed as well as one solid blue/white light. I was going to the patio, opened the door, looked up and before my foot touched concrete, i watched it fly over top and disappear in a fraction of a second. just like lord helmet in Space Balls said, ludicrous speed.
December 1, 2016 · 6:17 PM · LIGHT
San Bernardino, CA
a thin wide light came over the mountains and hung in the sky for several minutes and then folded in half and disappeared behind the mountain. This occurred 5 times while we were watching it.
November 29, 2016 · 7:15 PM · LIGHT
Chesapeake, VA
Date: late November, 2016 Observation conditions: Night, clear, moonless, mild weather. Location: Greenbrier section of Chesapeake, VA. (approx. 10 miles NNW of NAS Fentress Air Field) Visibility: No leaves on trees, open areas of night sky. Witness sighting: I was looking up to the sky facing south when I noticed a point of light appearing and descending from the east at a 45* angle. It fell slower than a meteor but much faster than a jet. (I was raised at Sandbridge where F-104s practiced bomb runs at Dam Neck, so I know their capabilities). I watched it descend for roughly 4 seconds when suddenly it ‘bounced’ into a due south trajectory at apparent level flight for another 4 or 5 seconds, then faded out. This abrupt turn was sudden and sharp without any sign of rounded curving as an aircraft would normally execute. When it made the sharp left turn, I did not observe an explosion, nor any debris that would warrant the change of direction. The object made no sound or sonic boom. There was no tail or smoke trailing behind. Its brightness was similar to the planet Venus (which had already set). At no time did it increase or diminish its brightness, except when it faded out while traveling south. I estimate its altitude was in the stratosphere, and the redirection probably just south of NAS Fentress. I would also ad that at no time was I impaired or under any influence. My glasses were on giving my sight clarity enough to see stars as points of light (though twinkling), and this object was brighter than any of the stars out that night. This report replaces one sent 2 days ago. (DP)
November 28, 2016 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Athol, MA
For the past 2 or more weeks there has been a blinking light hovering in the sky for the whole night starting at 10pm and goes about the whole night. it's always in that spot every night and doesn't move almost like it's stalking me.now as I'm typing this I look out my other window and there is another one doing the exact samething.me and my teacher have seen it in different areas in Worcester county. does anyone know what else it could be besides UFO? Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 28, 2016 · 6:48 PM · LIGHT
Ste. Genevieve, MO
Noticed a very bright light in the sky that seemed to stay in the same spot. The light continued to stay in the same area and became dim and then bright again. We took a photo of it and it appeared cigar shaped in the photo but may have just been movement as the object was quite far away. It seemed to be out toward the Hawn Park Road or Farmington area. We continued to watch looking for some sort of movement and suddenly it was simply gone. We tried to find it to see if it had moved to another area but it never showed up again. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 28, 2016 · 6:30 PM · LIGHT
Waynesville, MO
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 27, 2016 · 10:15 PM · LIGHT
Carrying Place (Canada), ON · Canada
Yesterday, on Sunday, November 27, 2016, at 22:30 hrs in the evening, I was watching TV downstairs in my home. My father entered the living room and asked me to go upstairs and observe a UFO that my father and mother had watched since 22:15 hrs. I walked upstairs and proceed to the back corner room and looked out of the window,I observed a white light in the sky with pulsating red, blue, yellow and bright green lights. The light was in the distance, well above the tree line. My parents believed the object was elliptical in shape. It was not the red light on the top of the DND Carrying Place tower nor was it any CFB Trenton aircraft. We watched the UFO till 23:00 hrs.,the sky started to cloud over and ended our observation.
November 27, 2016 · 4:58 PM · LIGHT
Bay Shore, NY
Super bright white glowing spherical stationary object seen hovering South Westerly at civil-twilight, no sound. Seemed to grow larger at times. Duration of approximately one hour and then vanished.
November 26, 2016 · 11:30 PM · LIGHT
Middletown, NY
At approximately 11:30pm, as I was using a computer, I noticed a distant bright light moving in the window, twinkling in various rapidly-changing colors, starting at approximately 140 degrees SouthEast (according to a Garmin GPS watch). Colors included red, blue, purple, cyan, and occasionally green. The object's movement and color changes were both erratic, becoming less so as the object became more distant. A second observer observed the movement of the object for a few minutes at approximately midnight. The observer noted “yeah, that's weird all right.” By 1:15am the object had risen several degrees in the sky and had moved further South to approximately 155 degrees SouthEast, the movement and color changes both much less pronounced, now dimmer but still being brighter than the rest of the stars in the sky. This event was just like what I witnessed on October 14th at 3:45am (report S130618) from the same location.
November 26, 2016 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Charlotte, NC
Very bright white burst of light appeared out of nowhere that was extremely high in the sky. Then it dimmed to a medium intensity and streaked straight down at incredible speed leaving a trail from its starting point and then it and its trail disappeared half way down to the ground. I was approximately half mile from light burst driving straight towards it and it was almost in the very top center of my windshield. The sky was dark. I could not see any object associated with this light burst. Just the light itself.
November 26, 2016 · 9:45 PM · LIGHT
Allen Park, MI
I was standing outside in my backyard smoking a cigarette when I happened to see a blue light in the sky. Upon closer inspection of this light I had noticed that the light was pulsing, instead of just blinking like a normal aircraft. For the first few seconds it was moving rather slow and in my direction, then the light did a complete 180 (which appeared to defy the laws of physics) and sped off into the distant clouds. I thought it was rather strange, I've seen nothing like that before. I can not say that I believe it was extra-terrestrial, though a possibility, I just thought it was strange.
November 26, 2016 · 7:27 PM · LIGHT
Venice, FL
I observed a light that seemed to move and change color almost ranging from a circle to a triangular shape. I then asked my father to come outside to observe he said it is a planet that is visible recently has been there for at least a week. I was not convinced because I witnessed horizontal and vertical movement of light. Although it seemed to be in the same place for around 30 minutes, I recorded video when it's zoomed you can see the movement. To be sure it was moving I took a photo of light with my phone resting on a wall and marked the wall to be sure each photo was taken at the exact same position. This proved movement. I went in my fathers house for 10 minutes or so and the light was gone. I walked approximately 50 feet to me vehicle and observed the light in a new position over a home. At this point movement and color change from greens,blue,red and yellow were visible with the naked eye. Then it quickly disappeared upward out of sight. In addition! during the whole time 3 airplanes were visibly flying near object, and circled multiple times.
November 26, 2016 · 6:30 PM · LIGHT
McDonough, GA
What we saw was 3 lights one was bigger with two lights and the other were just smaller lights, (they were not planes). When we saw them tone of the small ones took off really fast, when we went away from them for about 5 min they were gone when we came back there was 3 of us that saw them. I have them on video.
November 26, 2016 · 4:00 AM · LIGHT
West New York, NJ
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 25, 2016 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Nevada (eastern), NV
On a commercial flight WJA 1475 from PSP to CYYC, about 30-45 minutes into the flight, I looked out my window to the west and observed what initially looked to be Venus. It was brighter than Venus, seemed larger than Venus normally does and colour-shifted from white through orange/green/blue shades. Taking a closer look out the window, I noticed that Venus was in the sky as well, higher in the sky and slightly further to the south and less luminous. For the 15 minutes or so the light was visible, relative to me in the moving plane, it appeared stationary, until flickering a little then fading out. While it was visible, it was the brightest object in the sky I could see, including Venus, and it was definitely not ground-based. I am a private pilot and the light was most certainly typical of aviation lights. Having some familiarity with the restricted airspace in Nevada, its location in the sky did surprise me.
November 25, 2016 · 5:30 PM · LIGHT
Torrance, CA
Red, green ball of light moving sporadically, descending, hovering and ascending.
November 25, 2016 · 1:30 AM · LIGHT
Warner Robins, GA
My boyfriend and I were sitting on the back porch just hanging out. I looked up into the sky to star gaze, when I noticed what I thought was a star increase in brightness and disappear. I said to my boyfriend "What was that?", he did not seem to interested and I went back to looking up at the sky but this time at the location that the light occurred. Then just a short distance from the original location another light grew in brightness but not as bright as the first, then immediately disappeared. I again said "What was that? It did it again!", this time he looked up and said "I do not see anything", then he went back to his phone. I looked back and at that time I saw a light shoot across the sky just below both locations of the original lights. I said "There goes a shooting star!", but I am not sure that it was and could be related to the first two lights. The initial light was blended into its surroundings by looking ! like a star. When it grew in brightness there was an outside ring of white light with a center white light of a solid circular shape. The second increase of light was of the same make-up but dimmer than the first. The "shooting start" was a solid white light shooting across the sky from right to left. The night sky was clear with no clouds in the sky and no obstructions visible from my backyard to the sky.
November 24, 2016 · 9:45 PM · LIGHT
Annapolis, MD
Saw a series of 6-8 moving orange lights while crossing Severn River Bridge in Annapolis. I thought they were helicopters at first but soon realized they weren't by the way they were moving.