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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
August 25, 2016 · 8:45 PM · LIGHT
Kennesaw, GA
Ascended through some trees, like one of those paper lanterns, but the thing was huge and the light was brighter than a candle. It moved on a northwest trajectory completely silent...no crackling paper or sound of flames. I was in my neighborhood away from busy streets and no one was on the road, so ambient noise was not overriding the silence.....and then the thing just disappeared, not because it was so far away though, it just disappeared. My rational mind argues that it was one of those lanterns or swamp gas, but it was quite odd and I can't quite process what was seen.
August 24, 2016 · 8:15 PM · LIGHT
Rantoul, IL
On the evening of August 24, 2016, I was driving to Rantoul, IL, from Thomasboro, IL, along Route 45 North approximately 8:15 pm Central time, or so. North of me a couple of miles ahead, I saw what looked like a bright star but it was too early for stars to be that bright in the north. The sun had set, but the sky was still bright in the west. As I got closer, I noticed that the light wasn't moving in any direction. It wasn't blinking like a tower or a plane is required to do because of air traffic. Then I saw that it was actually two lights right next to each other. I passed it at the intersection of Rt. 45 and Wheat Ave. There was a line of trees for a distance before I got to that intersection and I struggled to see the lights until I passed the trees almost at the intersection. The lights were at least 300-400 feet up in the air by my best estimate. About as high as a tall tower, or wind turbine maybe higher, but not much. They were several feet apart from each other. My windows were down, I was driving about 40 mph and there was no wind. It was dead calm other than the wind from my driving and I heard nothing. No engine noise, no rotor thumping. And the lights were not moving, nor was there anything blinking. I drove back by the same spot at 8:45-8:50 pm and the lights were gone. When I got home, I wrote up what I saw and posted on Facebook and a friend of mine said her son saw the same thing about 8:45 as they were also driving north. He said the lights suddenly ‘took off’ were the words he used, towards Champaign, IL to the south. When I asked how fast, she said it was pretty quick, because he lost track of it quickly.
August 24, 2016 · 6:20 PM · LIGHT
Recife · Brazil
I have one veridc video I were walking to my home, and, one light, like a star, but more bright weyre passing by the sky in high Speed... I really want tô know if It were a comet, or a star, or something that explains the object! I really appreciate ur atenttion!
August 24, 2016 · 8:00 AM · LIGHT
Syracuse, NY
I was driving on the highway from baldwinsville to Syracuse on 690, when to my left at about my 10:00, I saw to very bright lights in the sky that were not moving and looked like stars, despite it being a clear sky bright as can be.
August 24, 2016 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Holiday, FL
My boyfriend and I noticed these events taking place about a week ago. We were out at 1 am and saw red white green and blue lights flashing in one spot in the sky. We watched it for 30 minutes and it hadn't moved, we checked out the rest of the sky and spotted two more of the same object some of them had moved! We were sitting in the same unmoved position, yet they were not. At first we thought maybe a twinkling star. The next few nights we sat outside .. To see if they were visible still. Every night the number and placement was different. We wanted to catch it while it was moving! Last night is when I knew for a fact it wasn't stars. There was only one last night and it was closer than usual however not close enough to see the exact shape. Although the lights that flash red white yellow green and blue seemed to blur to the right and back a little giving the effect that the object had a sort of roundness to it and the lights go round and round. Sometimes just blinking. We watched it while trying to get our iPhones out but of course it just app! ears as a dot of a light switching colors. Then finally we witness what we wanted, it was moving. Up very slowly, it went higher and higher stopping many times in between then it darted to the right and stayed put again. What else could possibly move this way?!?
August 23, 2016 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
East Providence, RI
I looked out my window abnormal saw a low lying amber bright light, the appearance of foil. Airplanes were noticeable in the area. The light almost shimmered but did not move. I asked my husband to look at it and to ask what he thought it was. He also had no idea. Without moving, only shimmering the light disappeared. I have no idea what that was, but I feel very uneasy. It was not necessarily airplane. It was low, large and bright with no sound. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 23, 2016 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Palm Harbor, FL
They were moving slowly in a staggered single file formation. All appeared to be at about 500 ft elevation just south of my location and all were traveling in the same line, at the same speed. They were silent. I watched this phenomenon for about ten minutes, or so, from a location on the Tarpon Springs, Palm Harbor town line, about one half mile from the Gulf.
August 23, 2016 · 7:30 PM · LIGHT
Charleston, SC
I am reporting this for a friend, as she is not aware that this website exists. The following is her description: 8/23/16 7:30 pm. ‘It was a star-like object in the sky that seemed to move faster than any plane. There were no lights blinking on it to indicate that it was a plane. The object reached the clouds and never appeared on the other side. Was this a UFO?’ I feel it is important to note that there were no satellites scheduled to be in the area at that time. The closest was Tiangong 1, which was scheduled to appear on the horizon at 8:04 pm that day, over thirty minutes later.
August 23, 2016 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Gila Bend, AZ
I'm a truck driver. When traveling South on the Phoenix Bypass (85), I saw in front and above me two lights that at first made me think of the copper vapor lights seen at prisons such as the one I was approaching. I thought they were on really tall poles though and maybe they were just too high for that. One was lower and to the left of the other. The distance apart I estimated to be 50 to 100 feet. They moved steadily with me and disappeared. Ten to fifteen minutes later at a steady 68mph, I saw them again to the East of me. They were descending slowly and just off center and to the right of the lower light I could see smoke trailing. It again disappeared on me but I thought maybe due to a hill or other obstruction as it was at least a mile away. It was moonless and very dark in the desert so I figured to see all kinds of activity where it went down. I never did see anything out in that vast darkness.
August 22, 2016 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Probable conventionalEmanville, Haute Normandie · France
Un témoin rapporte que depuis le 22 août, il est intrigué par un objet lumineux stationnaire dans le ciel vu depuis plusieurs lieux différents. Le témoin voit à l'œil nu un objet lumineux coloré qui bouge de gauche à droite puis revient à sa place. Il distingue également à l'œil nu et au télescope des couleurs rouge, bleu, vert. D'autres personnes sont témoins du phénomène. Un seul témoignage est recueilli. Le témoin a vu une étoile. Dans la direction signalée (N-NE) il s'agit de Capella, mais le témoin signale plus tard qu'en relation avec son club d'astronomie, il arrive à la conclusion qu'il a vu Arcturus, qui est plein Ouest et est plus haut dans le ciel (30°). Considérant que le témoin connait les orientations depuis sa maison, le GEIPAN retiendrait plutôt Capella. Cette observation est intéressante car elle illustre une illusion typique (reconnue d'ailleurs par le témoin) de déplacement d'une étoile quand on la fixe ("je me suis aperçu que cela bougeait de gauche à droite puis descendait puis revenait à sa place") . En conséquence le GEIPAN classe le cas en B : Capellla. [GEIPAN classification B — Capella]
August 22, 2016 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Ann Arbor, MI
While biking home tonight I came to the intersection of Hill Street and South Division St., I stopped to check my phone for messages, when I looked up and noticed two red glowing lights in the sky off towards the southeastern horizon. At first I thought they were planes, but I quickly realized that they were an unusual solid red color, unlike a plane with blinking lights. I observed the two red lights as they slowly moved further towards the southeast until they vanished, one after the other, into the clouds. I could not tell at what elevation they were flying, only that they seemed to be generally at the same elevation as the planes flying nearby. They moved markedly slower than all of the obvious planes flying nearby, and the lights kept the exact same distance from one another throughout my observation. I took a photo using my cellphone camera which shows the two lights clearly, however it does not show the red color I observed with my eyes and there is little detail to the lights. Notably, the airplanes that were also in the sky in the view of my camera did not show up on my camera, as I assume they were not bright enough to be captured. Please let me know if you would like this photo.
August 22, 2016 · 10:26 PM · LIGHT
Philadelphia, PA
Walking home from dinner and drinks w/ friends at a local restaurant. Met my roommate before leaving campus to head back to our apartment together instead of alone as it was getting late. Walking back with my roommate, I saw a streak of light, that I thought was a helicopter crashing to the ground. I grabbed my roommate's arm and screamed to make sure she saw it, and she agreed that she also had. I had a drink with dinner and wanted to make sure I wasn't just seeing things, since she was totally sober, I knew what we had seen was real. As we crossed the street to get closer to where the object had "crash landed" and there was nothing in sight. On the object, there was a bright white light, that was streaked and almost had a tail, with a duller blue light at the end of the tail. It had a similar shape to a stroke of a paint brush or something like that. There was only one, but it was clear that it disappeared by the time it hit or got close to the ground. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 22, 2016 · 8:27 PM · LIGHT
Ann Arbor, MI
I was out for a run and not iced a very bright light in the sky near sundown. There were 2 airplanes in my frame of view and they were noticeably dimmer and had condensation trails, where the object I am describing was stationary and pulsed its light off then on with a frequency of about 3-4 minutes and an off time of roughly a minute. I watched the light strobe 3 times and then it turned off for at least 5 minutes before I went indoors. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 22, 2016 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Mantua, NJ
The object appeared and started moving across the sky. It had a glowing tail like a meteor but moved much too slow to be one. It was pale yellow/orange and moved across the sky and down over about five minutes, disappearing behind the tree line. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 22, 2016 · 2:00 AM · LIGHT
Mauriceville/Buna, TX
On the night of August 22, 2016, me and my brother were traveling home at about 1:30 to 2:00 in the morning. We were coming from a town called Mauriceville, heading home, when I knotice out the passenger side window, a white flashing light that was up right above the tree line. I brushed it off thinking it was a cellphone tower but when we got to the point on the road were we were parralel to the light it began to follow the car in the sense that we was traveling at about 75mph but the light was staying parallel to the car so it must have been flying over the trees at the same speed we were going. So at this point we were about half way between Mauriceville and Buna, so I told my brother to pull the car over to the side of the road and when he did to our surprise, the light had also stopped movingng. I decided to get out of the car so I could get a better view of it and when I got out I didnt hear any natural noises at all, No wind, No crickets, just The muffled! sound of The car engine. The light was still there, over the trees and it was still flashing just as bright as when I noticed it. So I got back in the car and we kept going and sure enough it continued to follow along side us for at least 10 miles at which point it completely stopped flashing all together and it wasn't there anymore. This last moment was right before you would get into Buna. I did not take my eyes off of it at nearly anytime it was there and have no idea what it was, why it was following beside us or what caused it to disapear! I'm not completely convinced it was something unatural but it was definetly a strange occurrence for me and my brother.
August 22, 2016 · 12:30 AM · LIGHT
Rheden (Netherlands), Nederland
I was going to sleep and like every other night I'm staring out of my bedroom window when there starts shining a light behind the trees. The light starts to move very slowly after 5 or 10 minutes. I have to move in my bed so I can keep seeing it. Then it fades/disappears behind the trees. While I looked at it my dog scratched the bedroom door (she only scratch the door when she's scared). The light itself was very bright like the streetlight that I could see beneath the strange light. It did not keep still like the streetlight. It got brighter and less bright every few seconds. I walked 2 times to an other room to see if I could see the light from a better angle with no success. The last time I came back the light was almost gone and after a few seconds I could see it anymore. The light was getting smaller like if it was further away. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 21, 2016 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Silverton, OR
Four of us were outside camping in Silverton, Oregon, looking at the stars. We suddenly saw a very bright light, about the same size, shape and color as a star but way brighter. It moved to the right all of a sudden, flashed once, then faded out. We kept watching for it but it never came back.
August 21, 2016 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Silverton, OR
We was with a group of four people. We were in our backyard in Silverton, Oregon. We were camping outside at around 11:00 pm looking up at the stars, when suddenly, there was a really really bright light that at first we thought was a star. It was the same size and color as a star but it was super bright. We thought it might be a planet but we used an iPhone app to look at the planets and the light didn't show up on the app even though a star right next to it, called Deneb, did. All of a sudden, the light flashed. We watched it start to move to the right but suddenly the light faded into the dark night sky. We waited for it to come back but it never returned.
August 21, 2016 · 10:00 AM · LIGHT
St. Petersburg, FL
I was at work in st'pete florida laying on my back smokeing and I was looking at the stars and 1 of the stars started to move around every other light in the ski was fixed and this 1 was just moveing all around I was able to see it every night I looked you can most likey see it win ever you want in that location thought you shood know Stars do appear to move, if the witness stares at them for more than a short period of time. PD
August 21, 2016 · 4:15 AM · LIGHT
Wellington, KS
On a camping trip, about a mile south of Wellington, 5 people witnessed an unexplained object in the sky to the North. The object appeared to be above or just to the North of Wellington. At first, the object looked like a candle light. The first two to witness the object believed it was a Chinese lantern at first. The object began to alternate slowly between being dim and very bright. As the object was fading intensity, the first two witnesses alerted the next 3 to the object. As the five of us watched, two more lights, one red and one blue appeared. The three lights moved independently of each other in sporadic and random patterns, changing in intensity for about 45 seconds before fading away. I feel like it is important to note that one of the spectators felt that the experience was too intense, and towards the end, began to feel extreme anxiety.
August 20, 2016 · 11:45 PM · LIGHT
Málaga (Granada)(Spain) · Spain
I'm a normal guy, living in southern Spain. Last night, me and my family were chilling outside our cottage, when at around 23:45 (local time), we saw a group of approx. 10 white lights (just like stars), blinking, moving and grouping in the sky. They started to form shapes, first a big circle then a vertical line and then a strange symbol like a question mark. They moved in groups of 3 and were constantly blinking. During this entire exhibition we could see how the lights got closer and further to us at a fast speed, then something similar to a bright red shooting star crossed the area leaving a red trail. Finally, the lights started to fade until they disappeared, all this lasted for 30 minutes or so, we called our friends and were shaking all the time. 10 minutes after they disappeared, some aircrafts started to overfly area, coming from different angles but all of them going to the same spot, one every couple of minutes, which is completely unusual. We are all pretty sceptics with these things but when this happened, we were shaking, it was the most incredible thing we ever saw and we can’t find an explanation. I’ve searched a lot but couldn’t find anything. I found some tweets from people that may have seen the same at the same time, but just a couple and that’s all… We’ve read about satellite lights and it’s definitely NOT that. Our first thought was that it could be some drone exhibition or tests but everything that happened around it was just too weird (the red shooting star, all the aircrafts flying the area after the lights disappeared…). Tried to record this and take some pictures we didn’t have any proper equipment and our phones wouldn’t show it.
August 20, 2016 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Cedar Hills, UT
Got in hot tub looked up and seen two lights traveling northwest toward NSA, Toole area, yelled for wife she came out and then we saw whole group traveling same direction, changing speeds, with one another, no particular formation just in a relative line of travel, seemed to stop near nsa building then disappear, made no noise, way to high to be aircraft (looked like what a satellite looks like passing over but 35 to 50 of them, got some pictures too,
August 20, 2016 · 10:25 PM · LIGHT
Athens, GA
I walked outside and immediately notice a weird orange ball of light in the sky. I looked at it for about a minute before it started getting smaller as if it was moving away. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 20, 2016 · 9:52 PM · LIGHT
Burlington, NJ
At approximitely 9:53pm, on the night of August 20, 2016, I went out back of my house to smoke a cigarette and looked up to the sky, as I always do. As I looked I saw a dim light move across the sky, and at first I thought it was a satellite which I have seen numerous times. As I continued to watch the object it suddenly became very bright as if a spotlight was turned on, only to dissapear into the sky as if it was never there. The total sighting took around 15 seconds, while the brightest part before it disappeared lasted about 5 seconds. The best description I can give on the location would be straight above the moon's current location and traveling in a horizontal direction. Possible Iridium satellite? PD