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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 2, 2016 · 12:01 AM · LIGHT
Hillsboro, OR
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September 1, 2016 · 5:29 AM · LIGHT
Vale, NC
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 1, 2016 · 4:30 AM · LIGHT
Cedar Rapids, IA
In the early morning my wife and I watched an odd light in the SE sky above Cedar Rapids, Iowa. We did call KCRG and asked if they could go and look at the light. For over an hour we watched it change colors blinking white, blue, green and red. Its movements were odd and erratic. It would stay in one spot then either slow or fast suddenly shift directions jigging and jagging. At one point it was making circular patterns in the sky. It was just above the horizon: down and to the left of Orions belt. KCRG asked if this may be a drone. This was no drone I am aware of. It was too far away, and lasted too long. Probably the star, Sirius, in the SE sky, we suspect. PD
August 31, 2016 · 11:40 PM · LIGHT
Terre Haute, IN
At first, I thought there were two planes, flying too close to each other, so I watched them. There was no sound from the objects. The objects were flashing white lights and at first moving quickly to the south of me in a westward direction. Then the two flashing lights came to a stop and hovered in place. I scanned the sky and noticed two more flashing lights that were hovering in place nearby, to the East of the other two flashing lights. As I watched, the first two flashing lights that I saw suddenly went dark. The other two flashing lights to the East, continued to hover in place for two - three more minutes and then went dark also. I am a retired Technical Writer, age - 61 years old Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 31, 2016 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Malo, WA
My mother and I were out enjoying the night on the deck. Spotted a few meteors, played with Google sky map nothing particularly out of the ordinary happening. I was following a line of dense stars, I assume is the milky way, when a saw the light. It was just a dot same size and color as a star but slightly less bright. It emitted a steady glow with no flashing or indications that it was manmade aircraft. The "star" was drifting to the south east following a straight path faster than a plane. Speed estimate around cruising fighter jet speed. The craft continued this path for about 5 mins until it began to flicker. I picked the craft back up not far from where it faded it became slightly brighter after this and shot like a laser beam for just a second to the west and was gone.
August 31, 2016 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Arlington, WI
Light formation witnessed for a period of fifteen minutes north of Madison. This formation appeared to be approx the width of a football field. It looked like 30-40 spotlights pointed straight upward toward the sky. The lights were green with a bit of orange- but mostly green. I could not see a source of the lights, and they were over an area of farm fields. There were no tractors in the fields and there are also no homes or buildings in this area. The light formation did move slightly to the west at the ten minute mark. I counted approx 20 Air Force jets circling in the sky during the event. This is highly unusual, as I normally see no more than a handful at a time in the skies around my home. At the fifteen minute point the lights completely disappeared.
August 31, 2016 · 7:38 PM · LIGHT
Grants, NM
Please note that I first noticed a bright light over Mt. Taylor/Grants, NM, on on hwy 547, date: 8/31/16 @ 7:38 pm, disappearing behind a cloud at 9:02 pm; and have been logging almost nightly since then, including tonight, as the light shows up almost almost daily like clockwork. It will generally appears before any other stars are out, looks like a very bright planet? Close up pictures give appearrance of an 'eye of hurricane,' swirl like motions moving clockwise, maybe fireball?...center appears to have a solid spherical object, gold in color that moves/spins but always stays in the center, casts a shadow, and pulses, and flashes every 30 secs or so. On 9/20/16 @ 2:36 am, a bright light appeared very low to ground near base of Horace Mesa, and it flashed one time, and night was like day for a second. It's been observed moving at different rates of speed and and altitudes.
August 31, 2016 · 1:38 AM · LIGHT
Memphis, TN
I stepped outside at about 1:38 and immediately noticed two stationary lights in the northeastern sky. I thought this very unusual, because I can't usually see stars in this part of the sky due to city lights. There were two lights one bigger, which I thought was a planet at first glance and the other much smaller. They both had a white to blueish glow. As I began to walk back to the front door, I took another look look up and they were both gone. This was probably a two to three minute span of time.
August 30, 2016 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Spring, TX
4 independent lights approx 20' in diam glowed in the clouds and circled irradicly but stayed in a circle diam of 1/4 mile radius moving at unbelievable speeds, silent and changing direction. Got tired of watching them went to bed with them still going. Wife saw them as said someone is shinning lights on the clouds with a bright light. So i went around the area to see who was doing it, found no one around but me. We have changed the time above. PD
August 30, 2016 · 9:45 PM · LIGHT
Tempe, AZ
between 9:45 and 10:01 p.m. on 8/30/2016. my girlfriend and I saw two lights hovering over the tempe area. we were looking south to southwest. two orangeish red ish lights side by side with one slightly higher than the other hovered for about 10 mins then flickered off... then reappeared but seemed to be further away this time... I have cell phone video and would like to send it in.
August 30, 2016 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Zeeland, MI
Thought it was a medium size star. Stationary as my eye first caught it. Thought it was the only star out. Same brightness as a star. The sky was overcast, cloudy. Then it moved to my right about 4 times faster than a plane, then on an angle down to my left. Then squiggled all around then up then straight down. No sound, no flashing lights, left no trail. Thought maybe a shooting star but they don't go down then up. I was coming out my front door to walk the dog. It was just about dark out. I was facing south west when I spotted it looking toward Holland
August 30, 2016 · 4:00 PM · LIGHT
Dana Point, CA
A singular bright orange, circular light was traveling slowly across the sky just over the beach area. It got brighter at one point and then disappeared. Multiple individuals observed this.
August 30, 2016 · 7:40 AM · LIGHT
Boulder, CO
First noticed at 6:40 AM. Sun was coming up, it was bright out. No stars left but one to the NNW. Bright star, not flashing or twinkling. I pointed out to my co-worker the star and said it was most likely a planet. I'm a recent college graduate that took a handful of astronomy and cosmology courses and I'm extremely skeptical of UFO phenomenon. But I felt something was off when I realized the sun was up and all the planets should have been on the ecliptic further to the left an lower. Checked location of planets: Jupiter, Venus and Mercury all following sun up, Uranus and Neptune setting, Saturn, Mars and Pluto all below the horizon. This "star" isn't on the ecliptic at all, too far north. I crossed checked with star charts, nothing matches. As 08:40 rolls around it's still up. Hasn't moved (if it is a celestial body it should be moving west, but hasn't). It's getting bright out and still very visible. As the sun got higher it looked more like metal! reflecting light than a star. Looks artificial and not natural. I estimate the object was 70 degrees above the horizon (not counting the mountains. I used clenched fists to estimate sextants about 10 degrees). The "star" still visible with the sun 40 degrees above the horizon. Aircraft from DIA seemed to be flying east to west normally below it. Another coworker showed up about 09:00 and we both observed it for 30 minutes. In that time frame it moved 30 degrees south. Pointed object out to two passerby at 09:40 and they could see it and agreed it was strange. The object was brightly visible until 10:00. By then it was directly west. Hate to be that guy but since there is atmospheric research going on here it could be weather ballon? When I looked at it through binocs it had circle large shape, it was clear with ribs. Seemed to morph from circle to oval. I have no idea, so I thought I would post this here. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 29, 2016 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Carrollton, GA
It was on 08/29/16 at approx. 2130 hrs I was rolling my trash can down to the curb for next day trash pick-up. Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed a “shooting star”, as I looked at it the object came to a complete stop just above the horizon. I then retrieved my astronomy binoculars (20x80) to make sure it wasn’t just a coincident. After seeing that it wasn’t a plane or star I got my camera out and video taped it. The object just sat there changing colors but not moving. The next night I went out at the same time to make sure it wasn’t a star and there was nothing even close to what it looked like. END of STATEMENT
August 29, 2016 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
St. Louis, MO
Then it suddenly jerked to the lower right. I watched for another minute and it did not move. Then I ran inside to grab my phone so I could tape it. When I went back it was still there. Again it seemed to move (down), this time not as far and at a slower speed. As I was fumbling for my phone settings, it then it (slightly faster then your typical airplane) dropped below the level of trees in a straight line. The light also appeared to have a very faint flashing light attached to it.
August 28, 2016 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
New Castle, CO
me and two of my friends were at a local park around 11 at night watching the sky cause we normally see really strange lights coming from the mountains every other night that we are out but this last time we seen a really big bright white light bobbing back and forth, following the same path heading Twards the mountain this time almost like it was confused, we watched it move for about 5 minutes before it just disappeared in the middle of the sky. It honesly had all three of us speachless. Not that we haven't seen these things befor, but the AMOUNT of time we had seen it was just unbelievable.
August 28, 2016 · 7:50 PM · LIGHT
Santa Rosa, CA
Craft observed for 15 minutes "hovering" in same spot, upon looking through average binoculars, it appeared to have a hole or dark spot in the center. It appeared to change shape slightly.
August 27, 2016 · 10:15 PM · LIGHT
Sarnia (Canada), ON · Canada
Exactly 10:15 pm, driving east on highway, with 2 other cars ahead and 1 behind. It was hot, muggy, humid with patches of fog in air. A flash of light straight ahead which was about 1-2 miles ahead, was thought to be lightning was brief, then light lit up the right side of road ahead of cars, and lasted longer around 3 mins. It was a brilliant white light which cut through the haze and fog, with a focal point that showed it was landing or hovering, and was gone as fast as it appeared. It was out of the ordinary, the area was on the outskirts of city, trees, bush and farm along the highway, the two cars put on brakes ahead, and stopped as light appeared. Therefore, they must of noticed how strange this light appeared. Also, I slowed to a stop, and car behind. After incident all cars turned left and continued onto city, without investigating including self. Shrugged it off as lightning in that brief period, until reached home when a strange feeling that witnessed a rare event was convinced it was unidentified, as to the reactions of other drivers also.
August 27, 2016 · 9:05 PM · LIGHT
Malverne, NY
No date was indicated by the source of the anonymous report. We have assigned an arbitrary date above, but have no way to confirm it. PD
August 27, 2016 · 8:14 PM · LIGHT
Hollister, CA
I WAS WATERING THE LAWN IN THE BACK YARD OF MY HOUSE IN HOLLISTER, CALIFORNIA. IT WAS A NICE CLEAR NIGHT WITH A SLIGHT OFF-SHORE BREEZE OUT OF THE EAST. AT ABOUT 8:45PM, LOOKING NORTH, I NOTICED A LOW FLYING RED LIGHT, TRAVELING FROM THE WEST TO THE EAST. AT ABOUT THE SAME SPEED AS THE AVERAGE CESSNA AIRCRAFT AT 50 DEG. ABOVE THE HORIZON. I RAN AND GOT MY PHONE TO CALL SOME PEOPLE BUT DECIDED TO TRY TO GET VIDEO OF IT WITH THE PHONE, KNOWING THAT IT PROBABLY WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO PICK UP ANYTHING USABLE. AFTER A FEW SECONDS ANOTHER RED LIGHT CAME INTO VEIW FOLLOWING THE FIRST FLYING AT A SLIGHTLY LOWER ALTITUDE AT A DISTANCE OF TWO FINGERS TOGETHER AT AN ARMS LENGTH BEHIND THE OTHER ONE. BY THIS TIME I HAD GOT TO THE VERY TOP OF AN EIGHT FOOT LADDER THAT WAS ALREADY SET UP IN THE YARD SO I COULD GET UP ON THE ROOF AND WATCH THESE THINGS AS LONG AND FAR AS POSSABLE. A THIRD OBJECT CAME INTO VEIW SAME ALTITUDE AND DISTANCE AS THE PREVIOUS AND THEN ANOTHER MAKING FOUR! RED LIGHTS FLYING IN A LINE ONE BEHIND THE OTHER. HERE I WAS ON THE ROOF OF MY HOUSE DRESSED IN NOTHING BUT BOXERS AND ALL ALONE WATCHING THESE GUYS TRAVEL BY AND NOBODY AROUND TO YELL TO SOO THEY CAN SEE ALSO. WITH THE LIGHTS ALMOST OUT OF VEIW ON THE EASTERN HORIZON I WAS GETTING READY TO GET OFF THE ROOF THEN ANOTHER TWO LIGHTS CAME INTO VEIW FLYING IN THE SAME DIRECTION AS THE PREVIOUS BUT WHAT APPEARED TO BE CLOSER AND A LITTLE BRIGHTER. THE FITH LIGHT WAS A LITTLE HIGHER THAN THE REST AND THE SIXTH SLIGHTLY LOWER BUT STILL HIGHER THAN THE PREVIOUS FOUR. I AM A 37 YEAR OLD EXPERIENCED ASTRONOMER USING A LARGE TELESCOPE FOR MANY YEARS, I KNOW WHAT SATELLITES LOOK LIKE AND HAVE A GOOD DEAL OF KNOWLEDGE OF AIRCRAFT AND THEIR FLIGHT PATHS AND SUCH. I AM SURE THAT WHAT I WAS LOOKING AT WERE NOT DRONES,CHINESE LANTERNS, WEATHER BALLOONS, SWAMP GAS OR ANY NORMAL AIRCRAFT DUE TO THE LACK OF FLASHING LIGHTS AND MARKERS REQUIRED ON ALL AIRCRAFT NOR WERE THERE ANY OTHER AIRCRAFT AROUND IN THE SKY. AFTER A MINUTE OR TWO AFTER THE SIXTH LIGHT PAST BY, I DECIDED TO GET OFF THE ROOF AND JUMP IN MY CAR. I TOOK NOTE OF THE TIME 9:05PM PACIFIC AND AS FAST AS I COULD I GRABBED SOME PANTS,NIGHT VISION,CAMERA AND SOME BINOCULARS WHICH WERE ALL TOGETHER ON THE DINING TABLE. I HAD ALL OF THESE THINGS READY TO GO BECAUSE I HAVE OBSERVERD THESE RED LIGHTS SEVERAL TIMES IN THE WEEKS PRIOR WHICH WERE REPORTED TO THIS WEB SITE. WHILE I WAS GETTING DRESSED A LOW FLYING HELICOPTER FLEW OVER MY HOUSE FROM THE SOUTH TOWARDS THE NORTH THAT HAD ONLY A FLASHING RED LIGHT ON THE BOTTOM OF IT BUT THIS WAS LIKELY THE NORMAL MEDIVAC HELICOPTER. I HAVE HAD AN IN MY FACE CLOSE ENCOUNTER IN 2001 OF A LOW FLYING TRIANGLE THAT I WAS NOT COMFORTABLE WITH AND WISH NEVER HAPPEND AND SINCE THEN HAVE BEEN TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT I SAW WITH COUNTLESS HOURS OF READING AND LISTENING TO ANYTHING THAT MAY BE LINKED TO THE SUBJECT IN A QUEST TO GET SOME SORT OF ANSWER TO WHAT I OBSERVED. LAST WEEK I CALLED AM1080 KSCO, A LOCAL AM RADIO STATION AND ASKED THEM TO ! ASK PEOPLE IN THE AREA IF THEY HAD SEEN ANY RED LIGHTS IN THE SKY. I HAVE ASKED POLICE OFFICERS, AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL, AND ANYBODY WHO MAY HAVE SOME KIND OF INFORMATION THAT WOULD HELP ME FIGURE OUT WHAT IS FLYN AROUND ABOVE US. I TAKE THIS KIND OF STUFF SERIOUSLY AND WOULD SAY THAT I AM NOT OVERLY SERIOUS ABOUT IT BUT SOME MAY THINK OTHERWISE. ANYWAYS HERE I AM HAULN BUTT DOWN THE ROAD IN MY CAR WITH MY EQUIPTMENT IN HAND IN AN EFFORT TO CATCH UP WITH THESE LIGHTS AND REALIZE THAT I DONT HAVE A CHANCE IN HELL OF CATCHING UP WITH THESE THINGS AND DECIDE TO STOP AT THE NEIGHBORS HOUSE AROUND THE BLOCK. I PULL INTO THE DRIVEWAY AND BEFORE I EVEN TURN OFF THE CAR FOUR KIDS RANGING IN AGE FROM 4 TO 12 COME RUNNING UP TO ME ASKING IF I SAW THE RED LIGHTS IN THE SKY. I TOLD THE KIDS HOLD ON A MINUTE AND TOOK OFF BACK TO MY HOUSE TO GET MY DIGITAL RECORDER. I AM FAMILIAR WITH INTERVEIWING PEOPLE AND KNOW THAT QUESTIONING PEOPLE ESPECIALLY KIDS ALWAYS GOES BETTER IF THEY DONT KNOW T! HEY ARE BEING RECORDED, IT MAY NOT BE TOTALY LEAGAL BUT I FIGU! RE ITS T HE BEST WAY TO DOCUMENT WHAT THEY ARE GOING TO TELL ME. TURNS OUT THEY HAD BEEN WATCHING A FEW RED LIGHTS IN THE WESTERN SKY SINCE ABOUT 8:00PM AND HAD CALLED ME TO TELL ME BUT I DID NOT HAVE MY PHONE ON ME BECAUSE I WAS OUTSIDE IN MY BOXERS WATERING MY LAWN. THE KIDS EVEN DRUG OUT A TELESCOPE INTO THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET TO WATCH THE LIGHTS AND WAS TOLD THAT THEY WATCHED A RED LIGHT IN THE WEST STAY STATIONARY FOR OVER A HALF OF AN HOUR THEN WATCHED IT GAIN A LITTLE ALTITUDE AND THEN TAKE OFF AT A HIGH RATE OF SPEED. THEY ALSO SAID THAT THE OBJECTS WOULD DISAPPEAR AND THEN REAPPEAR IN A DIFFERENT LOCATION I RECORDED THESES FOUR KIDS SEPERATLY AND GOT SOME EXELENT STUFF. SO THERE YOU HAVE IT GUYS FOR THE THIRD WEEK IN A ROW RED LIGHTS IN THE NIGHT SKY. DONT BE AFRAID TO TELL SOMEBODY BECAUSE ODDS ARE THEY HAVE WITNESSED SOMETHING ALSO. ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) I AM ((name deleted)) IM AM LOCATED IN HOLLISTER, CALIFORNIA I SEE THAT YOU HAVE LABELED MY REPORT IN THE AUGUST REPORTS AS A HOAX OR POSSIBLE HOAX. IF YOU CAN COULD YOU PLEASE REMOVE THE HOAX TAG BECAUSE THIS IS NO HOAX AND I AM NOT SOME HOAXING LOSER. I THINK PEOPLE THAT LIE AND FILE B.S. REPORTS OR CALLS ARE PATHETIC SCUMBAGS. I TAKE THIS SUBJECT SERIOUSLY PROBABLY TOO SERIOUS AND I KNOW THAT YOU DO ALSO. YOU HAVE PROVIDED A SERVICE THAT HAS BEEN THE MOST LEGITIMATE AND RELIABLE RESOURCE I KNOW OF. DEALING WITH THOSE HOAXING MORONS MUST INFURIATE YOU BECAUSE IT DOES ME ESPECIALLY BECAUSE THIS WHOLE THING IS OUT OF YOUR POCKET. I HAVE DONATED BEFORE AND HAVE TOLD OTHERS TO DO THE SAME AND I CANNOT THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR YOUR WORK. PICTURE OF JULY 24 2016 RED LIGHT IN SKY IN HOLLISTER CALIFORNIA PHOTO TAKEN WITH A PANASONIC LUMIX DMC-FZ5 ((END ADDENDUM)) Witness provides no contact information. PD
August 27, 2016 · 9:00 AM · LIGHT
Ellington, CT
We had an aircraft visible to the south heading toward Bradly airport with its landing lights clearly visible. The light we saw had no aircraft lights visible. It was much larger and faster moving than satellites we see. Definitely something we've never seen before.
August 27, 2016 · 12:15 AM · LIGHT
Miami Beach, FL
This is occurring almost every night only when cloudy and the shape is irregular and undefinable. Location is in miami beach Florida on South west direction. We are available for any further info
August 26, 2016 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
San Antonio, TX
I live on the northside and at 8pm I notice that dark clouds and lightning began forming on the westside of town-my next destination. Weather radar reports not the slightest rain in town. Half an hour later as im traveling south, I spot 2 white lights, no other colors. One is circling the other. 20min later, the lowest one drops at terminal velocity. Fastest ive ever seen. The circling light remained but eventually faded away.
August 25, 2016 · 10:15 PM · LIGHT
Cedar Park, TX
On August 25th I was outside looking at the stars in the clear spots between the clouds and also texting on my phone. After sending a text I looked up and saw what appeared to be an extremely bright satellite heading north that I had not noticed before; which was past the halfway point of its trajectory by the time I saw it, if it was traveling horizon to horizon. I watched it drift a few degrees in the sky and it started to get faint to a brightness of a regular satellite or a star and I thought it would continue to the horizon but it stopped. I watched this light stay in place for approximately 2 minutes until it was covered by a large group of passing clouds.