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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
September 30, 2016 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Pittsfield, ME
I was taking a walk in town and it was a clear night about 8 p.m. I noticed a bright white light in the sky, appeared to be quite far away, straight above, but a bit brighter than a star. It was moving about the speed of an airplane, but no flashing lights on it. About 45 seconds watching it, it turn red and slowly disappearing in the heavens and was gone from view as it was still above me. I am thinking it may have been a satellite, but have not seen a plane disappear like that. The red glow at the end may be reflection from the sun? Anyways, I am reporting it as it was unusual and unidentified. If it was a satellite it was a bit closer than usual. I have seen satellites before that appear a further distance in the heavens. This event appeared closer and the red glow at the end was interesting before it disappeared.
September 30, 2016 · 7:10 AM · LIGHT
Weiser, ID
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 29, 2016 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Logan, KS
I then noticed that it was moving away from us and there was no beam off the light. The light then started moving in a zig zag motion. We sat there watching it and it had stopped moving and just sat there. Then it was gone. It didn't fade off into the distance as an air plane would. It didn't move towards the ground as a helicopter. It just simply was gone. A light 5 times as bright as any star around it, just gone. We sat there and discussed it, as we waited for it to appear. We then started pointing out 3 planes coming to us from the direction it disappeared. We were baffled.
September 29, 2016 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
North Sioux City, SD
Put kids to bed around 9, then went outside to smoke a cigarette. I was on my phone when I saw a bright white light moving across the sky. I initially thought it might've been a low flying aircraft, but no blinking lights. I couldn't see a shape, just a singular bright white light. I thought, well maybe it's a heliocopter with a spotlight, but I've seen that before, & this was different. Also no sounds that you'd hear from a low flying craft. The light initially traveled from south to north, then made an abrupt 90 degree turn that initially looked like it was going east. The light then faded to look similar to a bright star or planet. It continued to fade and look like a dim star. Then it was no longer visible. What I initially thought it was moving east, seems more like it was moving out farther into space. I'm an Air Force veteran and I've never seen any kind of aircraft move like this ball of light. There weren't any sort of tail fire you'd seen in a jet either.
September 29, 2016 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Fresno, CA
I was outside and casually looked up at the sky. I immediately noticed a very bright light moving from West to North East over North West Fresno. I was immediately in awe because the speed and brightness of the (neutral) white light. It was roughly 3-4 times larger than any star in the night sky and was much bigger than any other plane in the area, even at a distance. I kept my gaze on the light until I noticed the light start to dim and fade. It was bright, yet not blindingly, until it slowly faded into complete darkness. I lost track of it after that. Less than 10 seconds after it disappears, I noticed what appears to be military or authority planes all over the area around where the light had traveled, and they continued to do so for 20+ minutes. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 28, 2016 · 8:16 PM · LIGHT
Aurora, CO
While in our backyard, relaxing on the patio, my girlfriend and I saw a round bright light heading from west to east at a moderate elevation that was moving at an average speed and slowly faded out of sight after a couple minutes. It was silent and not an airplane or helicopter. The light was not flashing and was not in the normal flight path that we see aircraft flying in on a regular basis.
September 27, 2016 · 10:20 PM · LIGHT
Lisbon (Portugal) · Portugal
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 27, 2016 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Warner Robins, GA
About 10 p.m. on the night of Sept 27, 2016, I was in my back yard smoking a cigar and watching the sky when I noticed an orange reddish light to my West to a little Northwest streaking down from high in the sky to down low in the horizon. The object began to move back and forth in a way that was not conventional away from me until I could no longer see it. Then another identical light streaked down and did the same thing as the first light and after I could no longer see that one a third one streaked down and did the same as the first two, each time this happened it took maybe 10 seconds each at most from streaking down, dancing and disappearing. Then I saw nothing for about 10 seconds and I threw down my cigar and rushed into my house to get my phone to see if I could get any video of this. I ran back outside into my back yard and waited about 1 minute and the light returned but this time suddenly appearing motionless like a star in the horizon and then moving down low like before but instead of moving into the distance away from me the light danced up and down and back and forth sometimes appearing in two places at the same time. I tried to shoot video but I can see nothing on it but lights from a manufacturing plant across the street and some traffic. After about 15 minutes I then noticed to my Southwest a group of 3 white lights appear and streak across a small portion of sky and immediately followed by small groups of white lights moving streaking sideways across the same small portion of sky sometimes as many as 5 at a time in some weird formation. I thought theses lights were a long way from me maybe around 10 miles out but then one moved between me and a telephone pole that was only 30 feet away from me. I thought at first that my eyes were playing a trick on me so I moved away from the pole and only one of the white lights to my Southwest moved and for about 15 seconds stayed between me and the pole. This scared me sli! ghtly so I moved completely across my back yard to put some distance between me and the light which and I tried to get my neighbor up to have a second witness but she was in bed. In the meantime the orange reddish object is still doing the same thing as before but now there is one white light with it and they dance up and down and back and forth sometimes appearing as 4 or 5 objects at one time and then quickly back to two one on the left was white the one on the right was orange reddish. If all that was not strange enough for a few minutes these lights mimicked my movements both up and down and back and forth, this further scared me but I am a muscular masculine man who will not scare easy but that was weird. I am 51 years old and have been a sky watcher since I was a child and I have witnessed some things that were hard to explain but with proper homework I have explained every weird thing I have ever seen in the sky until last night. I tried to convince myself of drones, birds, bugs, laser pointer and even cobwebs but this was none of these things.
September 27, 2016 · 6:50 AM · LIGHT
Navarre, OH
Driving to work this morning (Where 251/Stump Road meets with Klick St. SW) I saw 4 lights in the sky which created an elongated diamond shape. On one of the shorter sides of the diamond there was a red light, and on the other points it was a warmer white color. The lights just sat in the sky as I drove by and never moved. I couldn’t make out any craft between the lights. Not sure if there was one or not, but it was very dark. When I looked away for oncoming traffic and looked back up, it was gone.
September 27, 2016 · 5:30 AM · LIGHT
Newport, AR
At about around 5:30 am on 9/27/2016 i had notice a rather strange light in the sky, as soon as i noticed it started moving towards the east from where i was looking as if it had notice me see it. I have witness several other times strange lights moving in the sky as well in the early mornings and have failed to report them. They seem to just fade out as if it started to move either east or going straight up or turning off a light. I know this couldn’t be an airplane because it would have the standard blinking lights and it was not cloudy outside as i could see the stars around this particular light i seen when it vanished, It wasn’t a meteor because this thing didn't fall towards the ground it just moved a bit and the light on what i have seen just faded out.
September 27, 2016 · 4:45 AM · LIGHT
Moss Point, MS
Was driving over a bridge on my way to work and in the sky over the water was a huge red light. It moved slowly and slowly dissaprared as in went behind clouds in the sky. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 26, 2016 · 9:50 PM · LIGHT
Dallas, TX
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 26, 2016 · 5:00 AM · LIGHT
Long Beach, CA
at approximately 5:00 am 5:10 am PDT I observed a bright white light over head at about 70 degrees south, south west moving erratically and periodically flashing on and off light. the object appeared to be right at or just above the atmosphere. In the span of about 6in in my field of vision the object at extreme rate of speed traveled that distance and immediately stopped with out any distance to decelerate. It did the several times over the course of the sighting. it moved in straight lines and in a tight circular motion and it appeared to hop like in motion quickly accelerating and stopping moving in a circular motion as well as quick straight lines. At approximately 5:30 - 5:45 a high altitude aircraft traveling east passed by the object that was frozen in motion, after aircraft passed by the object it followed behind at about a half inch distance for 6-7in until the object broke away and traveled back to its original position. Continued to move erratical! ly until 6:10 - 6:11 am it abruptly stopped and froze in place, when a second dimly lit smaller light quickly moved from the north to the south and met the first light and stopped at about 9 in away and moved from left to right maintaining the same distance away. About 20 min later the second approaching object moved closer to the first. the first object quickly accelerated away and put about 12in of distance between them in an instant and then flashed out lights. they continued this same patter until I lost sight of both objects with the rising sun. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 26, 2016 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Palm Beach Garden (near), FL
I was stopped at a red light and noticed bright lights in the sky. I took more notice when the objects in sky began to multiply and glow brighter in the night sky. I decided to take advantage of the red light to grab my cell phone to record.
September 25, 2016 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Naugatuck, CT
Witness elects to remain semi-anonymous; provides little contact information. PD
September 25, 2016 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Sacramento, CA
((ADDENDUM FROM SOURCE OF REPORT)) hello mr Davenport it was tonight.at 9:30 pm...sorry I was a bit shaken we I first saw it...thank you again ((END ADDENDUM)) We have corrected the time indicated above. PD
September 25, 2016 · 8:30 PM · LIGHT
Wetumpka, AL
At 8:30, I looked out my window and saw a flickering light. It looked like a star that flickers (switching from a green to blue to red color very rapidly). It looked strange, and we thought that it might be a plane, but it wasn't flashing like a plane. Then my wife realized that it was moving to the left. I looked and saw that it was moving slightly. It went to the left then up and down in smooth motions like a drone. We then thought it might be a drone. This other white light, out of nowehre to the left of the object lights up in the sky. These two objects are the same size, but this new object is just a steady white light - not flickering. It is going toward the flickering light quite fast compared to the speed of the other visible planes in the sky. It then fades to black. We decide to get in our cars to drive closer to the flickering light to see if it's just a drone. We drive for 30 minutes toward this thing, and we never got closer. It was way up in th! e sky. There was no way this thing was a drone considering the amount of time we spent driving toward it and yet we were still that far away. We gave up around 10:00 and went home. By this time we could not see it anymore, it was gone. I'm not a UFO guy. I just saw something weird, and I have no clue what it was.
September 24, 2016 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Macungie, PA
I stepped outside to walk my dog and looked SW in the sky in the direction we were to walk. Over the tree tops were 8 bright red lights traveling reasonably slowly from W to S, seemed to be over South Mountain. They were staggered in formation, all traveling at the same speed and were maybe 500 feet apart. They were not planes as that area is not on any flight paths and the lights did not blink. They were steady red. I turned and ran into the house to get my camera and ran back out. I was only in the house for 30 seconds. Upon returning outside, only the last red light (the most western light) was still lit but it went out as soon as I looked at it. There are no towers in the direction I was looking so the lights could not be the tops of such. I continued watching the sky in that direction but nothing was there. Right after that, the area security guard drove up and I ran to talk to him. He said he saw them too but from an area where they showed between the trees and he assumed they were tower lights. But, he agreed with me when we talked and he thought about it that there are no towers in that direction. The location is Macungie, PA just west and south of Allentown, PA. South Mountain is about 5-8 miles from here so the lights were that far away. They were probably 10,000 feet high or about that. My dog did not react to anything outside. It struck me that as soon as I spotted them and then when I swung my camera in their direction, they disappeared. It was almost like they knew I was trying to video them. These are my first visible UFOs. Very strange around these parts.
September 24, 2016 · 8:45 PM · LIGHT
Tigard, OR
Two bright lights, side by side at an angle (approx. 45 degree), near Andromeda constellation. Thought they were stars, but I know there are no such stars in that area that bright. Just as I realized that fact, they began to faded. The one on the right faded quicker than the one on the left.
September 24, 2016 · 8:15 PM · LIGHT
Buffalo, NY
The night was clear and the sun had set approximately two hours before I observed a reddish-yellow, silent, pulsing and stationary light, high in the night sky and an indeterminate distance away. At first I thought I was observing a plane or helicopter, but quickly decided that was not the case. After one minute or so I called my wife to see what she made of the light. She saw the light described it as "odd" and was frightened by it, and after watching it briefly ran to get binoculars. I observed the light for approximately 30 seconds with binoculars but could not make out any shape, although it was definitely pulsing (red to yellow). It then disappeared from the same place I first noticed it. Total time of observation was about three minutes.
September 24, 2016 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Gray Summit, MO
I was outside with my husband smoking a cigarette looking at the stars and noticed them moving slowly. I told my husband and by the time he looked up they were forming a triangle pattern. When the triangle pattern was made they stayed that way for a few seconds and then all darted off at a high rate of speed into different directions. They just looked like stars. If I hadn't been paying attention it would most likely go unnoticed.
September 24, 2016 · 7:30 PM · LIGHT
Philadelphia, PA
outside about 7;30 pm on sat 9/24/16 cleaning and doing maintenance work at my auto repair shop in phila when I look up, its now dusk, and see three, looked like burning pieces of paper or debris in the sky, all heading the same way. 2 of them went side by side the first one disappeared very slowy into the clouds. no engine noises whatsoever, or any other noise, not even a dog barking like all day. the 2 that were side by side shot out some kind of bluish light, like they were looking for something or communicsting w each other then went up into the clouds. you could see a blacklouette of them in the clouds. 3 more came from the same way as the first 3 but 1 either went the total opposite way, north, or it came down? the other 2 were leapfrogging and going in the same direction as the first 3. then they would just stop. they went right over my head and I was waving my arms and they stopped again. after a brief moment, they proceeded, not a sound. looked like 2 burning orange embers floating through the air. COOLEST UFO EXPIERENCE IN MY LIFE SO FAR. they are here! going back out now again, 8:30pm any body else see this, I cant be the only one!
September 24, 2016 · 4:00 AM · LIGHT
Alice, TX
At about 4am, I was coming home and a friend and I saw this huge light in the sky right outside my apartment. It was either really big or really close. At first it sat stationary and looked like truck headlights in the sky. Then as my friend started to record it started to move downward and to the right behind some trees out of view. As if it new we were watching. It stayed behind the trees for a good minute, but then changed course and started to head back into our view. Its color changed to a red color and slowly faded into the distance before disappearing
September 24, 2016 · 3:00 AM · LIGHT
Syracuse to Phoenix, NY
As I was driving towards fulton on 690, I saw an intense blue/red/white flashing light. I thought it was a plane/sattelite, so I ignored it. I got around baldwinsville and saw it was still in a similiar spot in the sky so I got off 690 and watched it. I appeared to be moving slightly and getting brighter. I sped home and I noticed a similiar if not exactly the same kind of light behind me to the south. I parked on route 48 with my brother and we observed to Northern light getting dimmed but still flashing. The southern light was getting more and more intense. It got very very bright and the northern light vanished. The southern light hovered in place for 15-20 mins and then turned around and got very dim.