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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 16, 2016 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Aurora, IN
A group of lights rose from behind a distant hill and moved west to east before disappearing. There were about 15 lights in total, with 10-12 lights visible at any one time. The lights were reddish orange in color and appeared to flicker or shimmer but did not blink or flash. The lights rose one by one and followed a similar trajectory through the sky, rising from behind a hill about 2 miles away, and leveled off at varying, yet similar, altitudes while moving west to east. Their speed seemed to be much slower than that of a typical airplane; the objects had a floating quality to their movement. After moving to the east, the objects, one by one, at different times but at the same place in the sky, dimmed and disappeared. There was no sound associated with the objects. The lights were steady throughout the time they were visible and did not blink or flash as a typical aircraft’s lights would. When I first noticed the lights, there were 10 in the sky, with additional lights rising for a total of about 15. Several other witnesses were seen taking pictures of the objects with their smartphones. I am an English teacher and aviation enthusiast, familiar with typical aircraft lighting and movement patterns. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 16, 2016 · 8:45 PM · LIGHT
Waterville, ME
Driving home tonight to a huge full moon to my left, in the sky in front of me appeared a very bright green light streaking across the sky faster than any craft I have ever seen. The lights were not blinking like they do on a normal aircraft. This light traveled for a second or two in one direction and then suddenly, without warning, changes directions and travels straight up towards the stars and gets smaller and smaller until it vanishes.
September 16, 2016 · 8:40 PM · LIGHT
Medford, MA
Witness elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 16, 2016 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Baldwinsville, NY
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 16, 2016 · 10:15 AM · LIGHT
Marina Del Rey, CA
I saw very big blue light turn in to super bright white light over the lax airport! I'm pretty sure it was the most unexplainable thing I have ever seen! Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 15, 2016 · 10:15 PM · LIGHT
Missoula, MT
I saw the sharp point of light as it went north from a 1 to 3 o'clock position vanishing behind a tall building. There were five other people on the Higgens Street bridge. One gentleman had seen the light go from horizon to horizon. The light maintained its intensity throughout. There was speculation it was an asteroid though it failed to behave like an asteroid. It was a fast, fast, mechanized motion. Also, comets tend to burn up and disintegrate. If this was a satellite it was the brightest, fastest piece of space junk crashing to earth - which might be really dangerous for those on the ground! We also considered the possibility of a UFO. We spoke via telephone with the source of this report, and she sounded to us to be eloquent and sober-minded. We suspect that she probably is an excellent witness. PD
September 15, 2016 · 10:05 PM · LIGHT
Canby, OR
9-15-16 On the evening of September 15th, 2016, at around 10:05 P.M., I was driving east on Arndt Rd. towards Canby, Oregon, through a stretch of open farmland, where I noticed two glowing yellowish amber colored balls of light hovering over a field to the right hand side of the road. Both of them where close to one another with no flashing lights as a normal aircraft would have and they were mostly stationary. I could not make out a specific object just the round balls of glowing light. Each of them where larger and much closer than stars yet not nearly as large as the moon and very low on the horizon just over the field in the distance. They appeared to be moving slightly from side to side to side irregularly not in sync with one another. I observed the balls of light as I drove past the field for approximately two minutes and proceeded on to Canby. The sky was mostly clear with few clouds. About myself. I’m a male, 23 years old, single. I spend a decent amount of time outdoors, fishing and camping. I worked as a flagger and during grounds keeping and landscape maintenance. I have never seen anything like this before.
September 15, 2016 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Mountain Home, ID
Orange lights appearing in sky in the area towards the Mountain Home Air Force Base. One light would appear. Then another, Then the first light would go out. This happened 2 times with a set of 4 lights. I've seen these lights before doing the same thing.
September 15, 2016 · 9:20 PM · LIGHT
Sundre (Canada), AB · Canada
Walking down driveway, in a southeasterly direction, looking at near full moon, spotted bright light object from south heading north under the moon. Brightness was almost like Jupiter, a near yellow in colour. My initial thought it was a satellite or ISS, but not in correct direction for ISS. -Possibly was "a small plane" at 1000m in elevation, but no coloured running lights just a bright light that faded after nearly 10 seconds. Like watching some satellites disappearing into the umbra of the earth Definitely not an airliner. -Possibly it was a satellite, but too fast. -Possibly a meteor but too slow and no tail. I have lived here more than 3 years and make it a habit of watching the skies, and this was odd.
September 15, 2016 · 9:15 PM · LIGHT
Whitefish, MT
As I was exiting my truck with my girlfriend we saw a super bright, solid white light moving from SW to NE. At first I thought it was a low flying helicopter coming towards us. As it arced upwards above our heads it started to look more like a comet or something similar. It had a long tail for a second as it got overhead and then the tail disappeared again and it kept moving steady as a bright white light until it went out of our field of vision over trees towards Glacier National Park. We then went inside and about 30 seconds later my girlfriend saw a bright flash of sky light up the sky which she described like a flash of lightning only no bolt. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 15, 2016 · 8:47 PM · LIGHT
Warren, MI
Looking up toward NW sky, saw a solid bright blue light, heading NW, there was also a plane with flashing lights heading towards it, the solid bright blue light started to diminish and eventually there was no light, moved pretty slow, lasted about 20 seconds, Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 15, 2016 · 8:25 PM · LIGHT
Spokane Valley, WA
Tried to call but I am having phone issues. Trying this. I/we saw an object, brilliant white light moving south to north, it appeared to be coming down but then seemed to change trajectory and move horizontally. No sound, no tail that we could see. It was within about a quarter mile from us, pretty low to the ground, just a few hundred feet. I was setting with my son talking on the front porch, the object went over the house tops, we moved to the street to follow it but lost it. By the time we got to the back deck, it was gone. Very strange. Probably a meteor, but? Was between 8:15 and about 8:30 tonight Spokane Valley, near Pines rd and Trent. I would love to know if anybody else saw this object.
September 15, 2016 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Warminster, PA
Watched circular object approach plane an flash it with a bright light and fly past it. A short time later a similar object resembling a star past over my house.
September 15, 2016 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Augusta, GA
Driving home on I-20 towards Atlanta. Sun is still out. As I'm about to cross over Washington Road on I20, I look to my left to check traffic on Washington road and up in the sky a really bright silver object/light catches my attention. Such a bright silver color/light that I cant make out its shape. I stare at it for atleast 3 seconds. Traffic is busy on I20 heading home so I check the cars around me and in front of me. I look back to where I saw the bright silver object/light and stare at it for another 3 or so seconds wondering ((what)) it is. It's very high up in the sky. I check all the cars around me once again but the third time, I go to look at the bright silver object/light, its gone. No clouds in the sky that day. I've never seen a plane have sun light reflect off it so brightly during the day. No clue what it was. Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
September 15, 2016 · 2:00 PM · LIGHT
Hamilton (Canada), ON · Canada
I told my father to look but he didn't see it, being 83. Thought i was seeing things, I told him what i just seen. I'm sure if you contacted Mount Hope airport in Hamilton, the prvt jet would of been on the radar. Just after or around 2pm ....heading north/northeast over the city of Hamilton.
September 15, 2016 · 5:00 AM · LIGHT
Hawkinsville, GA
My sighting occurred one morning in mid-September 2016. I’ve been so bus, I keep putting off writing this, but realize I should still make the report. I live about 30 minutes west of an air force base. I know commercial and private air craft have blinking lights, so I discount those. I occasionally see lights that don’t blink but I assume military aircraft aren't required to have blinking lights? So I discount those unless an extreme maneuver or other highly strange activity is noted. Therefore, the only other report I ever made was 06/2015 about a bright flash just after day break that appeared from nowhere and then vanished. For this report , as most days, I woke up early and had coffee on my patio which faces east. I was on my patio about 430 am and star gazing as usual. Nothing strange or eventful, plenty of stars out including 4 bright ones that were 10 degrees south east of straight up. About 5 am, movement caught my eye, What I thought was one of the stars began to move at a medium pace and crossed the sky traveling south east to north west and was out of sight in about 90 seconds. It was one of the 4 brighter stars I noted when I first sat down and seemed to be same height as the other 3 stars. It had been motionless about 30 minutes. Source of report indicates that the date is approximate. PD
September 14, 2016 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Soringfield, OH
Traveling east to west space Gradually gaining speed and then disappeared to the west in a few seconds
September 14, 2016 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
False Cape State Park, VA
Two, adult observers were on the beach at approx 36°35′16″N 75°53′3″W (Google map ref 36.624316, -75.888340). Night was illuminated by full moon. Slight, hazy overcast with very few stars visible. Sighting was of lights approx a mile out to sea to the SE near the horizon (approx Google map ref 36.621515, -75.856065. Lights appeared somewhat larger than aircraft lights or stars and shined steadilly, without blinking. A single red-orange tinged white light would suddenly appear, move steadily and horizontally for approx 5 sec, then suddenly disappear. After approx 5 min, a similar light would appear, move, then disappear. After approx 3 such episodes, the appearing light would suddenly flare up to approximately 5 times its original diameter, then suddenly disappear. When flared, the light was clearly in white, red, and orange horizontal segments. During the last episode, a smaller-sized light, while moving northward and paralle! l to the horizon, seemed to divide into two equally sized lights, then again into three equal parts, with all three moving apart from each other until they all suddenly and simultanerously disappeared. About the same time, a large and relatively slow-moving meteor appeared directly overhead, moving sea-ward until it broke up and dissipated. There seemed to be a non-verbal, telepathic, reciprocal awareness of presence. Note: This sighting was in the vicinity of two major US military installations: The Norfolk Naval Shipyard and the Naval Air Station Oceana.
September 14, 2016 · 9:10 PM · LIGHT
Pittsburgh, PA
While on a FaceTime call, I noticed a bright light out the window, large and circular in shape. It was being followed by two jets, but the lighted craft was silent. It's not the first time I've seen it, it's shown up several (aprox. 3 times since the start of August) and tonight was the first time we've noted crafts following behind it.
September 14, 2016 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Sea Isle City, NJ
I was looking East out into the ocean (under the nearly full moon) and saw a bright red light. It disappeared, and re-appeared several times but in slightly different locations. It then looked like the light was bleeding or leading into the other appearances; and then it was gone.
September 14, 2016 · 8:30 PM · LIGHT
O'Fallon, MO
My husband and I witnessed 5 lights with the color of a true orange hovering over one of the lit up baseball fields in the area on our way home from the grocery store. They were synchronized and steadily blinking close to the tree line. After a few minutes they continued blinking but faded until they were no longer visible. The formation didn’t necessarily make out a shape but you could tell it was massive. The outline was a foreign object incomparable to anything well known or we could make sense of. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 14, 2016 · 8:30 PM · LIGHT
Ocean City, NJ
Over Coast of Ocean City, NJ 20:30 hrs on going. 1 light appears dims moves slightly brightens dims to disappear 10 mins or so reappears brightens dims. 5 minutes reappears but now brightens dims to left and repeats 6 times
September 14, 2016 · 12:30 AM · LIGHT
Alberton, MT
I was driving west on I-90. First light I seen I was at the nine mile exit. It streaked across the sky south to north. It started bright white then bright green lasting 2 seconds. No tail visible. Thought that was a cool shooting star. 15 miles west I seen another one that got me thinking. It was bright white, no tail, lasting 2 seconds. This one however moved in a curved crescent shape what seemed to be low and around a mountain south to north. The third was 2 miles down the road around the corner. It too was bright white, no tail, lasting 2 seconds. Straight line south to north and low as well. All 3 lights seemed to be heading towards the same spot. They didn't look like a normal shooting star. They had a aura around them like a headlight on a car at night does. Im not sure what they were. Just seemed really weird that one would curve. Im a truck driver and drive mostly at night and have witnessed lots of other lights in this area, but not like this. Maybe note worthy? A half hour later i noticed a weird cloud in the sky south of I-90. It was steaks and streaching. Wider to the north going to a point in the south. Other then those it was a clear night with almost a full moon that illuminated the streaching cloud.
September 13, 2016 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Sugar Grove, PA
I noticed a bright light in the distant sky over the woods starting on 9/11/16 and it has returned for the past 3 nights. It is normally white or yellowish in color but flashes red or green occasionally. It definitely moves around and does not seem to land for the several hours I watched it. Two nights ago 2 objects were seen and 1 few away.