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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
November 17, 2016 · 7:45 AM · LIGHT
Avon, CO
was out on the porch early morning and saw 2 unidentified aircraft each with 2 constant white lights (maybe reflections from the sun?) on each end fly erratically in and out of snow storm clouds. one stayed around longer flying in all directions very fast then vanished into the clouds. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 17, 2016 · 4:45 AM · LIGHT
Stonington, ME
Circular light appeared over the edge of tree line, moving from North to South, over land but heading towards the shore. Solid, slow moving white solid white light lasted for about 5 seconds. It was low and moving at a slow speed and then disappeared immediately. it made no sound, had no flashing lights and seemed to float at a slow speed.
November 16, 2016 · 11:09 PM · LIGHT
Surrey, BC · Canada
I was sitting on the side of my house talking with my friend and he yelled out "Yo, what is that? Do you see that Eric? Tell me you see that!" as he pointed up to the sky I saw a UFO high up in the sky that was stationary at first then began slowly moving in one direction heading north west, it then shot away into the sky arcing away from the earth leaving behind a light streak that slowly trailed behind it for roughly 1 - 2 seconds. It's vector suggested it was headed in the direction of procyon, sirius and betelguese. I remember the stars specifically because I whipped out my google sky map app to track the stars in the vicinity out of fear of forgetting where in the sky exactly it shot off to. My friend Matt was there as well and was actually the first to spot it. The reason I am reporting it now is because I never knew there was a reporting center until I used Chat GPT to ask about this sighting and it told me to report it to the UFO Reporting Center.
November 16, 2016 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Fripp Island, SC
On business for 2 weeks, had AirBnB place on Fripp Island. Went to the beach each evening to watch the sun set and moon rise. Was out especially late this evening standing in the dune area watch the ocean. Looked north and noticed 3 lights, two smaller, one larger in the middle, it appeared more forward of the other two. They were stationary for an extended period, the lights were being switched off, then on, individually, slowly. I thought it was associated with the Marine Air Station, or the Coast Guard, then I thought it may of been an in flight refueling. Then I realized they were just not going any where, when I also realized there was no sound. I started to get frightened and headed further into the dunes area, the lights all went out then went on again in a different formation and appeared to be moving. I ducked down behind a bush. I remember seeing them approach, they weren't high up, at all. The next thing I remember is me standing at the bush I ducked behind, looking south, at the same lights, without sound, moving slowly down the coast. I have no recall of them flying over me. They had to.... This has been nagging at me since that day.
November 16, 2016 · 10:37 PM · LIGHT
Benson (north of), AZ
On 11/10/2016 at approximately 22:37 hours, I was on a high look out point near a mountain, 15 miles north of Benson, AZ, (south east of Tucson, AZ) looking at stars, the moon and other objects in the sky with high powered telescope. When we decided to take a break to eat from viewing, we sat down and were looking to the North East sky. After about 5 or so minutes, we saw a single bright above average size light in the sky, the light was changing from white, to a reddish, to amber color. It was a continuous light, but its light source seemed unstable. ( kinda flickering) As I was looking at this, I said to girl with me, while she was in mid sentence, What is that? I thinks a UFO. She started to discredit me, but as soon as she looked at it, she went dead silent and just watched. The one light almost grew and then separated into five separate lights close together and all of the same color and unstable. These 5 lights stayed in a line the whole time and didn't ascend or descend (they never moved from their position in the sky). After about 30 seconds of this, the lights started to chase each other like Christmas lights do. first it chased forward 3 times and backward 3 times. Then stopped and then one by one each light when out and never comeback on again. The sky was 100% clear, we both looked at each other and both agreed it was unusual. After the sighting 2 odd things happened... all noise in the area crickets, coyotes, desert frogs (we were near a small river) and anything else stopped making noise and her and I both had a very uneasy feeling set in, almost felt liking being watched. Once that feeling set in, we cut our night short and left to go home. While looking on this website, I noticed several sightings in the phoenix/glendale area and another area south of phoenix with many sightings in the past 3 weeks. several of those sightings I read seemed similar to my event
November 16, 2016 · 8:30 PM · LIGHT
Danville, KY
I was in a window seat 10A on Delta flight 3760 from Minneapolis, MN, to Knoxville, TN. We had just begun our descent over southern Kentucky, when I saw two bright lights, slightly off white, over the left wing at what I would guess would be 1-2 miles away.. At first, I thought it could be two other aircraft with their approach light on. However, there were no red or green navigation lights and the brightness and separation did not change over time. The two lights appeared to track along at the same speed as our aircraft. After watching these lights for about two minutes, one of the lights disappeared instantly. I watched the second light and after about 10 seconds it also disappeared instantly. I've flown quite a bit and seen many aircraft and navigation lights and these did not look like anything I've ever seen. As I exited the aircraft, I asked the pilot if he observed any unusual lights out the left side of the aircraft during the descent. He said no and ! that there are a lot of lights out there.
November 16, 2016 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Wood Village, OR
Lasted for approximately one second. Possible meteor?? PD
November 16, 2016 · 6:30 PM · LIGHT
Green Garden Township, IL
Very bright hovering light low in the southwest sky over Green Garden Township, Manhattan area of Will County, Illinois. Seemed to move sharply, then hover again. After 15 minutes or so I went in to get my binoculars and it was gone when I came back outside. Viewed by 3 family members. Any one else see this? We heard no sound and none of us think it was a helicopter. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 16, 2016 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Frostproof, FL
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 16, 2016 · 5:30 PM · LIGHT
Shady Cove, OR
I arrived home from work--17:30 and noticed several moving lights in the sky. There were eight lights moving west to east. I watched for a minute or so, trying to decide what I was seeing, and realized I wasn't hearing any sound like I would from an airplane. I ran to the front door and called for my husband to come and see the lights--he stood on the from porch steps and we both watched the lights move for about 5 minutes. The lights-red with a smaller white light--moving from the west--flew in a random order (seemingly). The lights all moved up and through the same spot in a cloud. We watched waiting for them to come out the other side of the cloud--but nothing. The last of the lights moved faster from the west than the other lights and disappeared through the same hole in the cloud.
November 15, 2016 · 8:10 PM · LIGHT
Bettendorf, IA
This happened in the Quad cites, Bettendorf, IA, one of the cities. While crossing the twin bridges from Ia to IL saw four orange lights flying over the top of my car this was not normal this I know. There where four lights flying at the same speed going from west to east the same way the Mississippi river runs here.
November 15, 2016 · 6:45 PM · LIGHT
Stevens Point, WI
Then one after another a 2nd light appeared than a 3rd & 4th. Shortly after wards to the right another set of lights 1 light lit then a 2nd , 3rd then 4th. Then after the second set of lights lit up it was as though someone hit a light switch and all the lights went out. It was pretty dark out so I couldn’t make out the shape of the craft. But I do know it wasn’t a helicopter. There was no sound. Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate! PD
November 15, 2016 · 6:30 PM · LIGHT
Seattle, WA
I saw bluish-greenish lights in the sky in northwestern Seattle, appearing like colored lightning or aurora borealis (but it was cloudy), and I didn't hear any explosions or other loud noises roughly in the area above the Ballard fishermen's terminal or Bainbridge Island. They appeared intermittently, I recall 3 distinct illumination events, and then they rapidly faded out. I can best describe it as appearing like blue lightning spreading through clouds, but did not see a distinct source of the light.
November 15, 2016 · 10:30 AM · LIGHT
Walpole Island (Canada), ON · Canada
This happened a few years back and I do not remember the exact date. It was cold enough to have a few layers on, but not a full winter coat. I was guarding the new mother cat and her kittens from the loose dogs in the area. I had my slingshot with me. I did not expect to actually use it but had it anyway. In this rural-ish area, I stood in the shadows and it was dark where I was. Looking up, I seen an orange glow in the night sky right above me. The orange glow had a definite edge that was still a glow, not a hard edge. It did not seem all that far above me. I did not really like that this round glow, that seemed to be about ten feet across or so, felt like it was invading my space. Taking a chance, I shot at it with my slingshot. I had small ball bearings. I did not hear any sound. In the moment that I looked down, it moved over about fifteen feet or so. I shot at it again. It moved to sit over the parking lot across the road. This event told me that such an orange light can be close enough to get with a simple slingshot and that the orange light did not like getting hit with a projectile. I felt like the orange light was being sneaky about moving directly over me and that I was lucky to have looked up when I did while having a slingshot handy.
November 14, 2016 · 10:03 PM · LIGHT
Gardena, CA
I was walking my dog southbound on the west side of a residential street. I often stargaze when walking and was looking up at the super moon when a light caught the corner of my eye. I looked southeast and saw what appeared to be a searchlight sweeping to the west. It had a peculiar rounded diamond shape at the head but was a round light beam off into the distance behind a row of houses. It appeared to be very distant, but was low and rising as it went west, it faded away from the back and disappeared to my southwest. The beam of light was very bright, like a searchlight at a casino or car dealership, but it was very focused and dense. It disappeared after only a few seconds.
November 14, 2016 · 7:25 PM · LIGHT
Central City, NE
I observed a bright orange light appear to the north then disappear, then a similar light appear diagonally beneath and to the west of the first light, then disappear, then a third similar light appear diagonally beneath and to the west of the second light then disappear. A fourth light matching the first three then appeared centered above the location of the previous three, and then it disappeared. The sky was clear and I could observe stars in the area, but no objects. The lights were equally bright and much brighter than the surrounding stars. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 14, 2016 · 7:17 PM · LIGHT
Jacksonville, FL
I was driving home with my mother on 11.14.16. Once we turned into our complex I stopped at a stop sign. I noticed an exceptional bright star and mentioned it to my mom. Then it went dim! This freaked me out. I was sure it was the North Star until that happened. We continued to our house but I kept my eyes on it. The star started to move slowly behind a tree line near race track. I ran into our house and pointed it out to my husband, from our backyard patio. He insisted it was a plane but there was no blinking of red/blue lights. It was just a bright light moving slowly. I am beyond convinced that I saw a UFO. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 14, 2016 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Blanchardville, WI
There was a very loud, rumbling plane sound outside. My boyfriend went out onto the deck of the house after our dog reacted to the noise and wanted to go onto the deck. My boyfriend, then asked me to join him on the deck immediately. I went out and saw a plane’s lights heading west to east on the right side of the full moon. We were facing south. The rumbling sound was abnormally loud. I went in to grab my phone and came back out. I then saw a new flashing light move from west to east toward the plane. The flash of the new light wasn’t right. It was like a camera flash or a strobe flash. It flashed a fast bright white, moved, flashed a single flash again, moved, etc. The light moved quickly towards the plane, and then moved beyond it towards the east. The light then made a fast u-turn and headed back to the west. It moved across the sky and then moved along the tree line and disappeared. My boyfriend saw more of these lights when he went out just prior to me (4?). He mentioned seeing one make a 45 degree angle turn. I thought I was taking a video after I grabbed my phone, but one wasn’t recorded. My boyfriend and I are professional artists. We were staying at my mother’s house in rural WI for a couple of nights. We live in Rockford, IL. I have been a Coast to Coast listener for 18 years, but haven't reported a personal sighting before today.
November 14, 2016 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Columbus, OH
My neighbor was with me this evening and witnessed the third light I saw within the 10 mins I was outside looking at the night sky. I've never seen so many things going on in a short period of time like this. Just wondering what's going on if anything....and what's up with the flashes of light in the path of these moving lights?
November 13, 2016 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Ottawa (Canada), ON · Canada
Myself and my girlfriend were at Mooneys Bay Park, on top of a hill, watching the super moon around 21:00 last night. I happened to glance up at a star above the moon and noticed it was moving slightly. I know what a satellite looks like and it was not a satellite. This "star" was moving up, down and slightly from side to side. It remained in the same area of sky for the duration of us watching it. It seemed to follow the same pattern of moving up, then down, and then would remain still for a few seconds. Both of us could see it moving at the same time. We watched it for about 40 minutes before leaving. I kept looking up at it and could see it for about another 30 minutes or so, and then lost site of it.
November 13, 2016 · 7:30 PM · LIGHT
Gila Bend (west of; on I-8), AZ
We were traveling East on I-8 from San Diego. About 10-15 miles West of Gila, around mile maker 80, I noticed a light in the field following us. It kept the same speed as our car. I thought it might be a helicopter spotlight, but there wasn't any. Then I thought maybe the truck in front of us was shining a flashlight, so I passed the truck. The light continued to follow us. All 3 in the car saw it. It continued until I almost reached Gila Bend and then disappeared. We never saw the source of the light, just the ground illuminated .
November 13, 2016 · 6:41 PM · LIGHT
Grande Prairie (Canada), AB · Canada
I'm assuming this is explainable, but am still curious enough to report this sighting. Sunset today was at 16:55.
November 13, 2016 · 6:30 PM · LIGHT
Benicia, CA
My brother and I were driving from Martinez to where we were staying in Benicia. As we were heading northwest on 780 about to exit I looked to the north and noticed an orange light traveling at a high rate of speed and then seemed to stop. It then did a very tight circle and a second one appeared and they were flying around as if chasing each other. We lost sight of them behind some trees and when they appeared again one had vanished and we lost the last one behind a hill. Both were orange balls of light.
November 12, 2016 · 8:10 PM · LIGHT
Highland Park, IL
The rest was flying at 300-400 KTS in a formation, all in red lights. Not in a particular order, however they proceeded in one direction. Objects did not have any strobe lights. I thought, maybe F-16 using after burners, but there wasn't jet engine noise at all.