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November 24, 2016 · 8:30 PM · LIGHT
Balko, OK
Seen a red light thought was a plane heading South twhile traveling through the Oklahoma panhandle. We were about 2 miles East of Balko on hwy 412. The red light came to a complete stop turned blue hovered for about 3 mins. Then it turned orange and turned around and headed south. I turned around and followed down a dirt road then it stopped and I pulled over got my binoculars and watched it for about 10 mins I could see a object behind the light but couldn't tell the shape. It took off and headed south. Would like to know if anybody else seen this and what you might think it was.
November 24, 2016 · 7:12 PM · LIGHT
Woodbridge, NJ
2 bright white horizontal parallel lights flying NE passing over Fords. I pulled car over then reacquired lights now stationary over Woodbridge. Now one much lower than other. Lower light then flew straight up almost touching the 2nd light & passed it. Got on phone to call local friend about lights then once looking up again the lights had traveled south now in Driscoll bridge area & spread further apart & had 2 other different lights in same general area. The 2 other lights were possibly planes? Lost sight due to getting low on the horizon & trees. Got on Rte 9 South to follow but lights were gone.
November 24, 2016 · 5:45 PM · LIGHT
Monrovia, MD
On Thanksgiving night (11-24-2016) around 5:45 pm with a house full of family, I stepped out onto my carport for a smoke. Looking NW towards Urbana/Frederick area, I saw 2 bright orange lights side by side & low on the horizon. They were coming straight towards my location in Monrovia, MD, at a steady pace and stopped and hovered for about a minute maybe 1 mile from my house. I estimate their altitude to be around 1000 feet. Then the first light ascended straight up at a silent but steady pace - the orange light turned white & looked like a distant star, and then it was gone. Then the second light did the same thing. I watched for a few more minutes when I noticed 2 more orange lights low on the horizon coming towards me. One light was faster than the other and it seemed to slow down 2 or 3 times to let the slower light catch up. These 2 lights stopped and hovered in the same place as the first 2 and then ascend straight up one at a time just like t! he first 2. I watched for a few more minutes and saw nothing more and went inside. After about 5 minutes, I told my wife about my "weird" sighting. My oldest son overheard my story, and as kids do, wanted to say that I was crazy, so he went outside onto our back deck. As soon as he got outside, he screamed for everybody to come here now...... Six of us went out onto the deck and we all saw that there were now 7 bright orange lights evenly spaced in a vertical zig-zag pattern at the same spot where the previous 4 lights had ascended straight up. One by one, all 7 lights ascended straight up until out of sight. This was really weird and the first time I had ever seen anything like this - but there were 6 witnesses to this event. I doubt if many people saw this because it was dinnertime on Thanksgiving night and the Redskins were playing the Cowboys on TV at this time. The total event lasted about 25 minutes - it was over around 6:10 pm. As an interesting side note, I offer this. During this timeframe, I saw no airplanes in the vicinity this entire time. I live within about 50 miles of 3 major airports (Reagan National, Dulles and BWI) as well as several smaller airports such as Frederick Municipal , Hagerstown, Martinsburg and Montgomery Airpark) - there always seems to be planes in the airspace above us at all different altitudes - except for this night and time. Within 5 minutes of the last orange light disappearing, there were planes again. We tried to take pictures, but nothing was clear. However, there is a You Tube video titled "Family of UFO's Flying over Baltimore" recorded on 1-31-2016 that shows identical orange lights to what the six of us witnessed. To date, I have not seen the lights again. Sorry this is so lengthy, but I wanted to get all of the details included since no pictures or video.
November 24, 2016 · 2:00 AM · LIGHT
Colorado Springs, CO
Using static points in eyesight to determine whether or not my eyes were playing tricks on me, we did see this "star" zipping both left and right by a margin of at least 3 inches as we were looking at it. It zipped around in seemingly random patterns, from small movements to larger distances of travel. We have never seen anything like this in real life, only in videos on the Internet and in documentaries.
November 24, 2016 · 12:05 AM · LIGHT
D'iberville, MS
At around 10 minutes past midnight on 11/24/16, I left Diberville, MS Wal-Mart and was in the process of loading my groceries into my car, when one of the shopping cart retrievers said loudly: "Will you look at that? What is that?" I immediately looked his way, which was to the north of the parking lot, and along with five other Wal-Mart employees (and maybe dozens of others we couldn't see in the area) were staring at what was at first glance, two stationary (hovering in-place) red, blinking lights. Almost instantaneously, two others popped out of what appeared to be nowhere, in equidistant proximity to the first two. What was instantly apparent to me was the nature of the sighting, these lights weren't an airplane or any known aircraft that I could identify due to the nature of the lights. They were silent, no apparent noise, they were stationary, as they didn't have a specific trajectory or path in any direction. Also, the fact that they seemed to be blinking in unison and were hovering silently discounted the possibility of being any known aircraft. We have an air-force base close by (Keesler AFB in Biloxi, ~ 6 miles from the sighting) from which land and take-off many C130 Air Force planes (Keesler is a home of the Hurricane Hunters). Now, I've seen many a C130 land and take off at night, and the sighting pattern of what we seen last night was as different from a C130's profile as different could be. Then, almost as suddenly as these lights appeared, in twos, they disappeared completely from sight, in twos (there were four visible to us). The whole incident lasted maybe 40 seconds to 1 minute. Within 10 second of the UFO lights disappearing, the car alarms on four cars in the parking lot began to chime in unison, as if some kind of invisible beam and/or electromagnetic wave pulse triggered them. One of the Wal-Mart employees then said in a spooked voice: "Something strange is goin' on here!" I agreed!
November 23, 2016 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Tinton Falls, NJ
Saw in southern sky one circling white cloudy light then joined by 2nd and third circling and criss-crossing each other. First thought might be from someone's Holiday lights but circles were not consistent and the shapes were very ephemeral. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 23, 2016 · 9:15 PM · LIGHT
Central Square, NY
I was driving back home from Watertown, heading south on 81. When I was passing the Parish exit looking at the city lights reflecting off the clouds when I noticed an amberish colored light in the clouds. There is an overcast tonight so no stars are visible. It didnt have directional lights like a tipical aircraft. It stayed in the same position for about 10 minutes. When I passed by tall trees I lost sight but when I came to a clearing it was gone. Did anyone else see this tonight?
November 22, 2016 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Mesa, AZ
While sitting outside our home, we noticed a one very bright red flashing light that appeared to be moving in small increments in different directions. After approximately 20 minutes, the brightness of the object gradually waned to merely another light, similar to a "star" in the sky. Moments later, it literally disappeared. I am aware of different conditions that can seem odd to the casual observer, such as a jet airplane that may be cruising at high altitude after sunset and the Sun's rays reflecting off the airliner's skin and appearing to be a bright red fast moving object. I have been around airports and airplanes for most of life and have seen many aerial objects in combat areas, so I know something odd when I see it. I sincerely believe that I witnessed a UFO above the Mesa/Apache Junction/Queen Creek, Arizona area. Thank you.
November 21, 2016 · 11:35 PM · LIGHT
Key Colony Beach, FL
The door that the lights appeared through is on the second floor facing the North, towards a street in Key Colony Beach, Florida, that has a speed limit of 25 MPH (West Ocean Drive) directly across from a restaurant named the Key Colony Inn, with four palm trees in close proximity (within 20 feet) of it. Anyway, I showed the footage to a few of my colleagues at work. The most viable explanation that any of them provided was a search light from a helicopter. We have had a lot of Cubans making landfall, via water on crude rafts, in an attempt to establish citizenship in the USA recently, so, it made sense, and I dismissed it as such. However, after work, I reviewed the footage on the larger screen of my computer, turned up the volume, and then slowed it down to see frame-by-frame detail. Upon doing so, it appeared to me as though it was unlikely this was from a helicopter. For one, there was no audible noise, other than a low continuous white noise from a box fan, that was set to low, on the other side of the kitchen wall in the foreground of the video. Second of all, there seemed to be four light source locations in the three seconds or so that it lasted, and those lights did not seem to sweep from side to side; rather, they seemed to be moving, primarily from right to left (East to West) based on how the shadows of the palm trees and railing outside were cast on the window of the door. Not to mention the lights did not seem to be originating from high enough to support the helicopter theory. I have also tried to dismiss this as electricity arcing from the power lines to palm trees that are in the general direction of the light sources in the video (about 100 feet from the door), as they are very close to the power lines; however, I would think that an arc this bright should make a noise. Please correct me if I am wrong. The first light source, based on the height of the railing in relation to the shadow that was cast on the door, as well as the palm frond that is most likely casting a shadow on the door, seems to have originated from the parking lot of the condominium complex to the West of the one that I live in, or slightly closer, but in line with that parking lot. It also looks as though there was two light sources, one dimmer and slightly lower than the other, as the top of the concrete railing, that is outside the door, has a double shadow. The second and third light sources seen seem to be traveling primarily from East to West, very rapidly at one point, based on the sudden change of the railing shadow position from one frame to the next, yet it is a bit more confusing, as far as source position and direction of travel; however, I believe it is actually two light sources that come close together, as it is nearly void of a palm tree shadow after a few frames, and at that time it is casting an overlapping shadow of the diamond shapes present in the concrete railing. The fourth light source is only visible for about four frames (two frames of bright light); however, the light source seems to be a little more visible in the window. I am not an expert at assessing light sources by examining shadows. However, it would appear as though all of the lights came from the same area, and not very far from my apartment, as I took photographs from outside to see where a source would need to be to cast shadows from the various palm trees on the window of the door. I’ll be emailing the video clip, as well as the photographs of the area outside the door, to include a photo that shows the view seen from inside the door, looking out, as well as a snip from Google Earth that shows the location of my apartment with a blue dot. I’ve been scratching my head for a couple of days now, and decided to reach out to the experts to help try to make sense of this event. Thank you for any input you can provide about this matter.
November 21, 2016 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Fountain Hill, AR
Around 6pm each night towards west, before sunset a bright white light appears, its so bright it radiates and emits a halo appearance, last night it was closer again, tried to capture better pictures, the light in the object appears to be moving rapidly like pulsations, it does not shine a light, but has light radiating from it. Various auras of color could be seen it it last night. It had a red glow coming from underneath the bright white light. The white light appeared to take shape of a Y and at time +, and T. There is a shape form, and the light seems to be coming from the center, it appeared to have an oval appearance, because i could make out something from under the light last night, maybe due to the red luminating light observed. The light does change, from 6 to 8pm its usually mainly white, it will disappear around that time, but it reappears shortly and is usually higher,with the light having turned to another color, i have seen it hot pink, dim white with red hue, and deep intense ted. The light changes shape, and appears different closer up than it does further away. This object hovers around, and can be seen over tree tops, there is a clear cut area infront of my home and it appeared to be in that area and on my property last night. It usually is seen on south end of property initially, it has no specific patterns in movement. It has been close enough my camera would focus on it. It was lower last night and looked as if it may have went to ground for several hours, i would see the light through the trees. Ive never seen it go that low before,its usually higher,or just above tree tops. My dogs act very strange when it is close. They actually ran to the woods barking, later one ran back and went into dog house whimpering while the other 2 which had went into the woods became comepletely silent, and disappeared for for an unknown amount of time. Ive gotten tired of not knowing what this is, its been appearing for ov! er a week now, and can be seen all through night. I have gotte! n up and seen it at 2 am and even 3 am, different color later in night, such as dim,red,or hot pink. Not radiating light like it does from 6 to 8 pm. It looked either diamond shaped or oval shaped, the light is so bright its hard to tell. I have seen brighter light flashes maybe? Within it, and streaks of light ate captured on camera, and my phone camera. Im not sure what to set my camera on to maybe capture better pictures. Im just ready for it to stop coming, this is freaking me out, its very weird outside when its close, things go silent then dogs go crazy. No nature noises. The object does not make any noises or sounds,im so done with its a drone with a light, it is not. Its not a weather balloon, or airplane. However it is difficult to actually tell how big it is, or how far it actuallt is at times, i can only judge by how the light appears which illuminates from it. It may have actually went to ground last night, with bright white light, and red light coming from underneath it! . It was close enough i took a picture from my cell phone standing in my front door.
November 20, 2016 · 10:23 PM · LIGHT
Springfield, IL
I was parked in a parking lot for a local grocery store. I was waiting for my wife to get off work. I noticed in the south eastern sky a greenish red flashing light. I watched it for about twenty minutes because my wife was late getting off. I expected the light to eventually move overhead and reveal itself as a plane or to disappear. But it never did. Even now, it is still there flashing.
November 20, 2016 · 9:30 AM · LIGHT
Franklin, WI
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD
November 20, 2016 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
McKinney, TX
While on a family walk in McKinney, Texas, at 8 pm, November 20, 2016, the two adults noticed a faint cluster of four to six blinking lights in the eastern sky about sixty degrees from the horizon. They appeared to have coloration of green, white, and blue hue. The objects seemed to move. There were three children ages, 10–14 who also witnessed the cluster. They walked to their home still observing the cluster. The grandmother then observed the cluster and being a retired, science teacher she immediately confirmed that this was a unique phenomenon.
November 19, 2016 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Apollo Beach, FL
Red-orange light almost hovering over Apollo Beach, then takes off into the clouds. Has returned twice within 20 min. No noise associated with light, and it doesn't follow the normal aircraft flight profile over Apollo Beach. We suspect a nighttime sighting, and have changed the time above. PD
November 19, 2016 · 8:40 PM · LIGHT
Oregon City, OR
First noticed what looked like a bright constellation of stars with ten to twelve objects. We were instantly shocked at what we saw!! It was extremely out of the ordinary. We stopped and got out of our car to try and figure out what it was?? They were close enough that if it were jet planes we should of heard their engines, but we heard nothing. They began accelerating and decelerating at speeds impossible for any known aircraft. Our guess was going from speeds of 200mph to 2,500 mph back to 200 mph in one second. Another smaller formation followed, this time one of the crafts did a quick circles around another at a speed again at a speed impossible for any known man made craft. My wife, my son, and myself witnessed this event. We are life long star watchers and air show attenders, this was unlike any shooting star, any jet, plane, helicopter, laser pointer, or night lights we have ever seen!! It shook all of us up and none of us are shaken up easily. 5 minu! tes later my son went back outside again and saw another craft fly across the entire sky at approximately 3,000 mph!! There is no doubt in any of our minds we witnessed something top secret or something from another planet! No one could convince us otherwise!!
November 19, 2016 · 6:22 PM · LIGHT
Bristol, CT
At first I thought they we're an airplane but there was too many of them and too close together. There were no blinking lights they stayed all read they moved from the south east towards would've been the Hartford skyline. And they just disappeared. The initial group were followed by two more traveling which appeared to be the same speed and disappeared in the same location.
November 19, 2016 · 4:00 PM · LIGHT
Ferrisburgh, VT
Thought it was a plane flying in the day time. The sun looked like it was reflecting off the " plane". It was really bright, I got out of the car to see closer. The light stopped flashing or reflecting of the "plane. The "plane" then disappeared and I didn't see it again. Lasted 30-45 secs. Could have been there longer but I'm not sure.
November 19, 2016 · 12:05 PM · LIGHT
Newnan, GA
Each time it slowly fades and then disappears. It is definitely within range to hear if it was a plane or helicopter. No flashing lights. Just a solid light. I attempted to examine it through my tifle scope, but it was too bright to determine what it is. Following its disappearance what seems to favor a fox bark has occurred each time. That part could be a coincidence, but a rather strange one if you ask me. We can't be the only ppl seeing this. It obviously isn't attempting to stay hidden. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 19, 2016 · 7:34 AM · LIGHT
Wichita, KS
I then continue to watch it for a few seconds and I see it drop in the sky and streak off at a 90 degree angle to the west then flash with a bright ball of white light out of sight! This isn't the first time I have seen something like this in Wichita
November 18, 2016 · 7:30 PM · LIGHT
Thunder Bay (Canada), ON · Canada
On Friday, November 18, 2016, we had another family encounter. Unfortunately it was during a snow storm so little detail about the craft was perceived. The winds were easily over 80 km/hr. Visibility was zero due to snow and sleet, during wind gusts We live out in the country side, about 10 minutes outside of Thunder Bay. Earlier in the day at around 3 pm we went to town to pick up our kids from school. The weather was horrible already, but we had to go to grab the kids. Carefully we drove and navigated the ice covered streets, picked up the kids, stopped for an early dinner and decided to hit up a walmart to grab a few things before heading back home. It's about 7pm at this time. The weather seemed much worse. The roads in the city were slippery, but still navigable. As soon as we got onto the country road, it was apparent that this storm was hitting us full force. It was pitch black out asides from my cars headlights. It was stupid to be outside in this storm, so I drove very slow with my hazards on. At times we had to stop dead in road due to total white outs. About 1 km up the road we noticed that no houses had any lights on. That's a tell tale sign there isn't going to be power at our house. We went around a corner and in the middle of the road is tree bits everywhere and to the immediate right is a tree on the power lines. After about 30 minutes, we made the usual 10 minute drive home. Sure enough no lights on. I pointed the car towards the house and instructed the family to each grab a bag and bring it to the house. We have been using the back door due to reno's in the front. So the wife and kids made their way to the back of the house with the aid of my high-beams in the drive way. Once they were in, my wife flashed the cell phone through the bay window in the front, signaling they are in. I turned off the car and made my way to the house. Tree branches were breaking due to the high winds. As mentioned it was pitch black outside - I pressed the remote car lock on and off so the car lights would flash, providing some illumination, while I made my way through the snow drifts and into the house. Once inside, it was apparent the hydro had been out for awhile. It was about 15 degrees Celsius in the house. Thankfully we have a wood stove also. We had the kids sit on the couch with a flash light. The wife lit a few candles in the living room and grabbed the dog to bring him outside for a pee, and I grabbed the wood bucket to go to the shed to get a fire started in the woodstove. I used the cell phone flash light app to find my way to the wood shed, the wife stood in the middle of the back yard with the dog while he did his thing. As im in the shed grabbing wood and filling the bucket I faintly hear my wife scream over the howling wind " WTF " At first I thought she was yelling because she fell over or something, then she screamed my name. I came out of the shed and she started screaming "Did you see that, did you effin see that" I had no idea what she was talking about, I started making my way over to her. The snow blew so hard that I lost visibility of her for a brief moment and I dropped the cell phone in the snow. I took the 10 steps to get to her and she was screaming, "The sky just lit up blue above the house, the ground, everything turned blue then white." I looked to the back window of the house and the kids were screaming. Smacking on the sliding glass door. We ran into the house. The kids were crying and screaming "what was that, what happened" They were freaking out. My oldest -12 years old, said something was outside our front bay window, and everything in the house turned blue then white. I was dumbfounded, I didnt know what to think because I didnt see anything. My wife and kids were Both crying. I felt so confused as to what happened. My head was pounding, and everyone else was extremely emotional. Then while we were all standing by the back sliding glass door, the only way i can explain it, it was like a light came through the window and instantly flashed from red to a bluish green than disappeared. I was more confused than anything and said WTF just happened I said out loud. It felt dream like. My 12 and 8 year old were crying and screaming "I want to go" my wife was flipping out, panicking and I just stood there. Because I felt like it was all just a dream. I started asking my wife what did the blue light look like outside, and asked her to describe it. I said Could it have been someone with a flare, or a roman candle, ect. My wife yelled at me, " I dont know what it was, but the first thing I thought was a UFO and that it was the end of the world." The end of the world I repeated? She said yes, as soon as I seen the light I felt complete dread. She looked completely terrified. I tried calming everyone down and said it must have been lightening, or something caused by the storm. (I personally have never seen lightening in a snow storm, but I know it can happen.) Then I said it must have been a electrical transformer blowing up. I asked my 12 year old, what exactly did you see. She was crying and holding on to me saying a bright blue light was at the window, it came into the house, turned blue then white. Then the candle flames got really big and the cats freaked out. Just as she said it, the room went bright from another window on the opposite side of the house. We all turned towards the window, but it was gone. Again every one started crying and yelling. I tried to calm them all and said to sit on the couch, ill get a fire going quick. My wife stood in front of the big bay window, watching to see if it happened again. I think about 10 minutes went by. The fire was going, then my wife said, There it is look! It's out over the trees. I looked out the window and there it was. A bluish white ball of light. Hovering Above the trees, across the road. Probably 450-500 meters away from the house. It just stayed stationary there while all of us looked at it. It looked about the size of a quarter in my fingers, if I were to hold it up at arms length and on the closer side to 500 meters away. I dont know how long we stood there watching, but it was almost a hypnotic feeling. We all stood there staring. suddenly i snapped out of it and looked around. My living room was filled with smoke and the wife and kids were still looking out the window. I panicked and yelled for everyone to get to the back of the house. I was very confused now, I looked at my watch and it was now 9:30 pm. It was 35 minutes since I started the fire and started watching out the window. The wife and kids for the first time this night, calmly turned around and went to the back door. I opened the wood stove door and messed around with the fire and told the wife to crack the back door to let the smoke out. During this, I looked out the window and the light was not there. I had everything under control after about 5 minutes with the door open, the smoke was cleared. We all sat back on the couch, trying to get warm. The laptop had juice in it so I put on a movie to watch while we waited for the hydro to come back on. After calling the hydro company they told us that it wouldn't be restored till 6pm tomorrow due to the storm. We all huddled together in the living room on the couch in front of the wood stove for the rest of the night. The kids didn't mention the event once until they fell asleep. The remainder of the night was uneventful. The next day while the hydro crews working on the power down the road, I pulled over to talk to them. I asked one of the techs if any transformers blew in the area around my house. They said no. A tree downed the main power line 10 minutes from my house. The same tree that we noticed was on the road as we drove home the night before, after the power had already gone out. Things of note: no drone nor helicopter could have operated in these conditions… I know because I have my private pilots license. Winds were
November 17, 2016 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Buena Park, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 17, 2016 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Athens, OH
Bright light moving east stopped then moved west and disappeared fast!
November 17, 2016 · 8:30 PM · LIGHT
Benton City, WA
There were no blinking lights on it, and it never moved in a straight line. It just weaved around stars. It made a circle around from north to south and then it weaved around three stars, it blinked and disappeared. As it weaved around the last three stars, they blinked, as it passed. I don't believe in aliens or UFO's, well, until now, but this definitely freaked me out. It was way too high, I think to be a drone. Not sure what it was, but nothing like I had ever seen before.
November 17, 2016 · 1:00 PM · LIGHT
Oshkosh, WI
Lights floating down blink immediately pop back up different area repeated 3 times.