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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 19, 2016 · 10:10 PM · LIGHT
Lebanon, NJ
We thought they were stars, at first, but the clouds were soo thick thstb you couldn't see any other ststs in the sky. Weren't airplanes becsuse there were only 2 single lights, they hovered for 2-3min...then vanished!! Witness provides no contact information. PD
August 19, 2016 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Grass Valley, CA
I was driving north on Hwy 49, towards the town of Grass Valley, when I witnessed a very bright light high in the night sky, descending extremely fast toward earth. It happened very quickly, and due to mountain terrain and tree coverage, I lost sight of it. I did not see any fire or hear any explosion.
August 19, 2016 · 9:30 AM · LIGHT
Sun City, CA
I like to float on my back at night and watch the sky. It just so happened that I was watching something that looked different. All of a sudden, it looked like it turned over and had a bright light. It is hard to explain what I saw. Never saw anything like this before. I asked my friend if they saw that and they said no. I remained in the pool staring at the spot I saw it and it was about 10 minutes later a big blue/green ball with a tail came out of the exact same spot as the light I had saw a few minutes earlier. It was in the east sky. Sorry it is just hard to explain what I saw.
August 19, 2016 · 12:54 AM · LIGHT
Citrus Springs, FL
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 17, 2016 · 8:40 PM · LIGHT
Los Angeles, CA
Blue light fire ball streaked across sky in the east. Low. Looked like it must have hit somewhere east of LA. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 17, 2016 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Gilbert, AZ
While watching normal air traffic on approach to phx sky harbor, we observed a bright, star-like white light heading away from us in a south east direction with no nav or landing lights whatsoever. My husband, who is a pilot and builds aircraft for Boeing, knew it was no commercial aircraft and only saw one single bright constant white light when looking at it through binoculars. Our son and his girlfriend also witnessed it and it just disappeared before our eyes with no clouds in area. It was traveling in the oposite direction of any normal air traffic into or out of sky harbor airport, gilbert chandler regional, or falcon field nor was it high altitude. It seemed to be at similar altitude as traffic landing at Sky harbor,but traveling in opposite direction. Overflight of ISS at the time of the sighting. We strongly suspect that the object was the ISS. PD
August 16, 2016 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Hamlet, NC
Spotted 3 red, bright, blinking lights low in eastern sky. Two of the lights were flying in formation heading South. The third light seemed to be catching up with the other two. Sighting was very brief. Maybe 2 minutes as the lights passed behind the tall trees on the southern side of my yard. No discernible sound was heard.
August 16, 2016 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Beaverton, OR
Seen a bright light at the corner of my eye. I looked up and there was a bright star like object moving in the sky. It was visible for more then a minute then it started to blend in with the sky and totally disappeared. There was still daylight, so I don't believe it to be a star, and the way it fade to blend in with the sky was weird. After the object disappeared, I seen what seem to be a fighter jet headed in the same direction.
August 16, 2016 · 2:20 AM · LIGHT
Cadiz, OH
8 of my co-workers and I where in the parking lot at quitting time Standing around talking when one of us noticed 7 lights streaking across the sky. The lights were traveling faster than any plane I've ever seen fly and it only appeared for about 10 seconds before none of us seen them any longer.
August 15, 2016 · 3:10 AM · LIGHT
Nashville, TN
One object seen near two cell towers, no movement. Recorded a video of the object, and when zoomed in, it seemed as if there were two lights with a small gap between them, but farther away it looked like just one light. Lights were a very bright orange, similar to a street lamp, but shaped like straight lines. After one minute of no changes, object began to shrink and turn white, and then faded out after approximately 2 minutes of observation. Moments after the object faded out of sight, I heard several loud popping noises in quick succession from the direction the object was located, unable to determine if the noises are related or unrelated. Unknown how long it had been there before I saw it. Object was sighted near an Air Force base and an airport. I am the only direct observer that I am aware of, but I did record a video of the entire event as it happened. I returned to the spot the next morning to take a picture of the area during the day to verify that there was nothing between me and the object I recorded, as well as no signs or lights that could account for the object's appearance.
August 14, 2016 · 10:45 PM · LIGHT
Marina Del Rey, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 14, 2016 · 10:15 PM · LIGHT
Probable conventionalMejannes-Le-Clap, Languedoc Roussillon · France
Le 14 août 2016 au soir, un vacancier au bord d'une plage des Gorges de la Cèze (30) contemple le ciel étoilé. Il est surpris par le passage très rapide d'un point lumineux "comme une étoile filante". La trajectoire du PAN est rectiligne, puis un zigzag est observé par le témoin avant que le PAN ne disparaisse caché par un rocher. Un seul témoignage est recueilli. D’étrangeté modérée et de bonne consistance (témoin unique, pas de photo, mais témoignage assez précis), ce cas s’avère être une possible méprise avec une météore (voir le compte rendu d'enquête). La description du PAN rappelle fortement un météore, bien que les zigzags observés en fin de parcours du PAN soient plutôt rares pour ce type de méprise. Toutefois, le témoin en personne a validé cette hypothèse après avoir effectué des recherches. Les sites de rapports d’observation de météore n’ont pas permis de confirmer de manière certaine. Le cas est classé B, méprise probable avec un météore. [GEIPAN classification B — Météore]
August 14, 2016 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Stoughton, MA
Later on, about a half hour later, my friend came over saw exactly what I saw. The only new thing was a loud thumping noise coming in that direction. There was no movement from it. This was all observed after losing power from a storm. This could not be lighting or static due to them all being different colors. Through the enitre time, my dog was extremely restless. These did not leave until after power was return 2 hours later. After we went inside, the clocks where either wrong or the events happend much much quicker. Althought the videotape claims the video is 2 hours long. Anonymous report; no contact information. Possible hoax?? PD
August 13, 2016 · 10:15 PM · LIGHT
Jacksonville, FL
After observing various objects in the sky approximately 15 minutes after my girlfriend noticed the bright star, I looked up and found the star, and proceeded to tell her I was going to try and locate it in the telescope. We observed the bright spherical "star" for another 10 seconds before I turned to move the telescope. We both took our eyes off of it for no more than 5 seconds and as I looked up the star was gone! It was not a shooting star (wouldn't have stayed there for 15 minutes), not a satellite (once again wouldn't be up there that long in the same exact spot), what does th! at leave? The event was one of the craziest things I've ever witnessed.
August 13, 2016 · 9:40 PM · LIGHT
Madison, WI
I noticed a reddish/orange colored light directly east above the tree line from my balcony. It looked strange enough for me to stop and actually watch for a few minutes. It was hard to say how far it was from me, but I would guess between 2-5 miles... Which would make the light technically above Cottage Grove, WI, and not Madison, WI, where I was located. Estimated at about 500-700ft in the sky. It was likely located above farm fields. I watched the light hover for ~3 minutes before it began to fade into a smaller light. It faded within 5 seconds to 20% of its original brightness and began moving south east and appeared to be moving further away. It followed this path for about a minute before it disappeared into the sky above the tree line. There were no clouds in the sky.
August 13, 2016 · 9:40 PM · LIGHT
Hurricane, WV
Phenomenon repeated itself on the 14th as well and was spotted by 3rd member of the family. 3rd member is trained in aircraft detection and identification.
August 13, 2016 · 8:45 PM · LIGHT
Mukwonago, WI
Once again I step outside on my deck to check the night sky, and directly above me, at an altitude of approximately 20 to 30 thousand feet, is a very bright clear in color moving silently and slowly towards the east. After 5 minutes of never taking my eyes of the object it slowly started to fade out then it turned the brightest red I have ever seen the was gone. It was a though the object knew it was nearing Mitchel Field Airport in Milwaukee; the trajectory it was moving would have put it directly in its path. I have been watching this same light for the entire month of August and have seen it nightly starting way north of me to now directly over head it seems to be slowing moving south as it ALWAYS IS MOVING EAST. This accrued at 8:45 pm. Then today looking up to the sky on a partly cloudy morning way up in the sky WAY UP I saw 3 triangular shaped craft flying in a triangle at a great speed heading south no noise, no bird no plane no balloons they most defiantly were UFOs absolutely. They were at a height of if you held your thumb up out in front of you, it would have coverd them up. They held a very tight formation, until flying out of my view. This was at 11:30
August 13, 2016 · 5:15 AM · LIGHT
Alexandria, MN
I always look at the sky. In the last week, I have observed this twice (all info same for both). Objects which appeared to be satellites but moving slower, appeared to be approximately same altitude as a satellite. The strange observation is both moving slower than a typical satellite, from west to east. These things would light up (not sure if reflection or their own light) every 5 to 14 seconds, no specific sequence. They both would dim to the point where you couldn't see them and then they would light up for a second or two (not flash). The amount of light would be different each time from rather dim to very brilliant and they didn't appear to be beacons on and aircraft. No clouds in the sky and was still pretty dark. I'm not saying these are UFOs but it would be nice to get some feed back. No sound from either. Main question is, what would cause a satellite to be very dim and then become so brilliant all the way across the sky, in intervals anywhere from 5 to 14 seconds?
August 12, 2016 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Jackson, MI
Very, very bright led type light, very high in the atmosphere moving slowly from west to east. Similar to a very high flying airplane, however many many times brighter and moving more slowly. A bright white light that out shined the moon. 20-30 seconds of movement, light then slowed, then became stationary. Remained stationary for 10-15 seconds, then simply vanished.
August 12, 2016 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Albuquerque, NM
On August 12, 2016, at about 9 PM Mountain Time, I was sitting in an open patio with a friend in NE Albuquerque. I was gazing up at the night sky during a relatively clear night, with only a few broken clouds north of the city. I noticed a jet airplane flying west, directly over Albuquerque, with blinking lights clearly visible. As I followed the path of the jet, my eye was drawn to another object in the night sky moving from WSW to ENE. It was a steady bright red, about the size of the planet Mars. I knew it was not a jet, or a helicopter, because it had no blinking lights. At first, I thought perhaps it might be a satellite, but then I realized it was moving faster than a satellite and was too bright. The intensity of the light seemed to brighten and then dim. I mentioned the light to my friend, and as he found it in the sky, the light made a sudden 90 degree turn to the north, and then faded completely out in just a matter of 2 or 3 seconds.
August 12, 2016 · 12:00 PM · LIGHT
Rio Rancho, NM
I was looking at the night sky in my back yard and started to see blue lights every 5 minutes. The first three flew north, then the the last three I saw fell from the sky towards Sandia casino at a hight rate of speed. This is my 2nd time seeing these blue lights in the sky the first time me and my brother were on our way home on Corales Rd., and saw it cross the sky
August 12, 2016 · 8:10 AM · LIGHT
Oakville (Canada), ON · Canada
Riding to work on the train, the morning was bright and sunny, I was facing south towards Lake Ontario facing toward the Sun when I noticed a very bright light in the sky not far from the direction of the sun. At first I thought it was a star but then realized there were no others anywhere and it was incredible bright considering it was so sunny out. As I watched it for a few moments, it never moved but it began to intensify in brightness and then in an instant it disappeared completely. It was gone in a flash.
August 12, 2016 · 2:04 AM · LIGHT
Phoenix, AZ
The blue light was composed of blue streaks/particles. It was close enough that it appeared to be about 10 miles above ground level. Haven't seen anything like it before, thought maybe it might of been a ship warping out since the direction was headed west but as if it was passing through.
August 12, 2016 · 1:45 AM · LIGHT
Kaimuki, HI
Was above the cloud line; lasted a few minutes. Faster than anything I have ever seen. Shot across Waikiki then off into the distance and couldn't be seen anymore. Was moving in weird patterns none that any normal aircraft could move. Was higher than a ground operated drone could fly. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD