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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 12, 2016 · 12:05 AM · LIGHT
Sand Springs, OK
My mother called me out to the back porch to sit with her. She was observing a cluster of lights in the sky west of our home. As we observed the lights the moved side ways then corrected back to a central position..it repeated this several times jogging left and right. This occurred for 10 to 15 minutes. I went inside to get a phone. I returned and was told it was gone. The lights were in a cluster and changed through many colors. The lights were at approximately 40 to 55 degrees above the horizon. The sky was a bit cloudy but no clouds were observed in front of the lights.
August 12, 2016 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Gainesville, GA
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August 11, 2016 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
North Providence, RI
Very clear sky tonight. Very weird sighting. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 11, 2016 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Oysterville, WA
I had just gotten home and it was a very clear night. There are no streetlights here and so the stars are quite clear. I looked up at the sky and saw a (silent) ball of light traveling steadily from West to East. (Coming from near the Pacific Ocean and heading towards Willapa Bay.) It had no colored lights like a plane. It had no flashing lights. It was just a ball of white light. When it was over Willapa Bay, I witnessed the light of the object turn completely dim until it faded out from white, to an orange glow to nothing. That was all that I saw basically. It appeared large and to be flying relatively low in the night sky. I took some video of the object on my iPhone, but it came out shakey and blurry. Basically nothing compared to what I saw.
August 11, 2016 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Lawrenceville, GA
I glanced up and noticed the object in the sky, tracking from west to east. From my vantage point it was in the ladle of the Big Dipper. It was quite bright, pure white light. At first I thought it was a helicopter. It stopped moving and grew intensely bright. I was looking for the flashing navigation light on the tail rotor (if it was a helicopter) and did not see any, nor could I hear the chopping of the air. It was so bright that it hurt my eyes. After about a minute like this it began to dim. As it dimmed it began to track north, becoming more dim as it picked up speed. I kept my eyes on it until I lost it in the haze of light pollution. By the time I lost sight it was moving quite fast. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 11, 2016 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Lawrenceville, GA
I glanced up and noticed the object in the sky, tracking from west to east. From my vantage point it was in the ladle of the Big Dipper. It was quite bright, pure white light. At first I thought it was a helicopter. It stopped moving and grew intensely bright. I was looking for the flashing navigation light on the tail rotor (if it was a helicopter) and did not see any, nor could I hear the chopping of the air. It was so bright that it hurt my eyes. After about a minute like this it began to dim. As it dimmed, it began to track north, becoming more dim as it picked up speed. I kept my eyes on it, until I lost it in the haze of light pollution. By the time I lost sight it was moving quite fast.
August 11, 2016 · 8:50 PM · LIGHT
Appleton, WI
One object. Super bright light. No sound. Directly over the city of Appleton. Was still in the sky for about a minute before tracking slowly to the northeast. After about one minute it accelerated at a much higher rate of speed and turned red in color as it disappeared.
August 11, 2016 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Kingston, NY
There were, in two separate locations in the sky bright flashes of light. Mostly range. There are a few oval shaped volts of rnong. The bright flashes were every few seconds in the same place for about 25 to 30 minutes. The brightest, most orange, flashes were round.
August 10, 2016 · 11:20 PM · LIGHT
Oak Lawn, IL
I saw a very bright white light swirl for 1 second in a half of a U motion. It got bright than dimmed down and disappeared. I was looking toward the south the sky. It happened at 11:20PM like under 15 to 10 minutes ago. It barely moved. I messed up the month when reporting it, so I am submitting this report. It didn't happened July 10th 2016; It just happened now today August 10th, 2016. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 10, 2016 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Citrus Heights, CA
Flashing 3 or 4 white lights then in one instant red to Blue to green with no logical or specific path. In fact im looking at it as im writing this. First sight was early July late clear night off and on around the same time as the last one up until today 08/10/2016. For some reason, witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. We are confused. PD
August 10, 2016 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Sand Springs, OK
I was standing on my front porch late at night and observed what I thought was a star. I stood there and watched it for about 15 to 20 minutes and started to realize that this wasn't like any star I had ever seen. I saw various colors of blue, red, yellow, and green flashes from this object. It would also move slowly from side to side. After I went into the house, I sat down to watch some T.V. About an hour later I took my dog outside and saw that the light had disappeared. I am a firm believer in the paranormal and I do believe that we are not alone in this universe. It is my honest opinion that what I saw was definitely unidentifiable and has made me watch the night skies even closer now. I should note that I showed this object to my wife, and she too believes that what she saw was definitely not a star. We both tried to use our phones to photograph the object, but it was too far away for our phones to pick up.
August 9, 2016 · 3:40 AM · LIGHT
Castro Valley, CA
It flew from one side of the sky to the other side in about 2 seconds, then did a 45 degree turn and took off over the Pacific Ocean.
August 8, 2016 · 11:15 PM · LIGHT
Big Stone Gap, VA
At around 23:15 on August 8th, 2016, I took my dog out before going to bed. While standing in the yard, I happened to look up into the sky and saw what I thought to be an odd looking star. About 15 seconds after looking at it, it began to move across the sky faster than an airplane would. It started making all kinds of different moves in different directions at really fast speeds. Then it would stop before cutting back in a different direction. It was white when I first saw it, but as it moved it began to change colors. Not blinking... but more like shifting through many different colors. I went back into my house to get my phone so I could video it, but it was too dark for anything to show up. I sat and watched this thing for about 10 minutes while it made maneuvers all across the sky. When it was over, it was just gone... like the light just cut off. There had been an overflight of the ISS at 22:55 hrs., but it would have been in the extreme northern sky, and would have lasted for only 96 seconds. PD
August 8, 2016 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Bradley Beach, NJ
We spoke via telephone with the source of the report, and she now believes that the objects may be high-altitude aircraft. PD
August 8, 2016 · 11:16 AM · LIGHT
Jacksonville, FL
There are at least 20 different colored lights in the sky, right across my house, and they're moving and shining at the same time.
August 8, 2016 · 12:11 AM · LIGHT
Probable conventionalSainville, Centre · France
Le 08 août 2016, le témoin avec trois amis décident d'observer les étoiles depuis un champ en friche. Le témoin tournant la tête découvre dans le ciel la présence d'un objet lumineux blanc qui suit silencieusement une trajectoire rectiligne. La luminosité s'estompe rapidement et le PAN disparaît. L'observation aura duré une dizaine de secondes. Un seul témoignage est recueilli. D’étrangeté modérée et de consistance faible (plusieurs témoins, mais un seul ayant laissé un témoignage, pas de photo), ce cas s’avère être une méprise probable avec une lanterne thaïlandaise (voir le compte rendu d'enquête). La description du PAN présente en effet de nombreuses caractéristiques de ce type de méprise : déplacement silencieux d’un point lumineux très brillant, de couleur blanche, dans le sens du vent, et présence d’une faible lumière rouge en fin d’observation compatible avec l’extinction d’une lanterne thaïlandaise. Il est à noter que le témoin juge cette hypothèse non convaincante, compte tenu de l’absence de ressenti de vent au sol. Néanmoins, l’absence de vent au sol ne signifie pas l’absence de vent en altitude ce qui a été confirmé par l’enquête météo. Il n’a pas été possible d’identifier formellement le lieu du lancer. Le cas est classé B : méprise probable avec une lanterne thaïlandaise. [GEIPAN classification B — Lanterne thai]
August 8, 2016 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Wilmington, NC
I laid in bed and looked out my fourth story window and saw the brightest green neon light which almost resembled that of a laser come straight down out of the sky less than a mile from my hotel room. It shot straight down out of the clear night sky and then dissipated into what looked like an orange fireball.
August 7, 2016 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Hastings/Revanna Townships, MN
Both nights at about 9:30 pm on the 7th and the 8th of August 2016. As they went slowly through the sky, left to right, seeming to pass towards Prescott, Wisconsin. Then a quick fiery red glow, they zipped upwards and away.. exciting!!
August 7, 2016 · 9:20 PM · LIGHT
Antioch, CA
2 orange objects ascending into the sky until they were no longer visible. We have changed the time, to reflect a nighttime sighting. However, the witness elects to remain totally anonymous, and provides no contact information, so we are unable to confirm the time. PD
August 6, 2016 · 10:45 PM · LIGHT
Layton, UT
They looked like a hundreds of satellites drifting through the sky. Glittery blinking lights heading Northwest. Very strange. I can't see it reported anywhere...
August 6, 2016 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Stanton, KY
Me and my wife rented a cabin in Stanton, KY, and on the night of 8/6/16, at around 10 or 10:30, I saw a red light in the sky that was blinking on an off, so I really started looking at it to see what it was it would blink an move up an down so I thought it might be a drone but I watched it for over an hour and it kept doing the same thing and when I went back in it was still there in the sky
August 6, 2016 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Bemidji, MN
On August 6, 2016, at approximately 2200 hours, my wife and I were on our rear house deck, which is facing north towards the woods, when I observed an object moving across the sky quickly. I pointed the object out to my wife and she asked what it was. We live in a very rural wooded area and it was quiet, the object made no noise and there was no flashing lights common with aircraft in the night sky. I told my wife that I thought it might be a satellite, but it was going way too fast and too low in the night sky. The object was moving quickly from West to East horizon. Object did not make any noise or any other light other than the bright yellow/orange it emitted.
August 6, 2016 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Grand Blanc, MI
Looked like stars at first. Then stars where moving slow and low in the sky. There was no sound. We saw two lights joined. It was nothing we ever saw.
August 6, 2016 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Bridgeport, CT
My sister, mother and nephew picked me up in the north end part of Bridgeport we got on rt 8 northbound and I saw a yellow orange light in the distance Thaught it might have been the moon but as we got to Ansonia it was HUGE half was covered by the hillside Not amitting as much light to the ground for as big as it was As we got off the exit, it disappeared Was Not the moon at all sorry no pic.