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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.
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July 23, 2016 · 10:50 PM · LIGHT
Pittsboro, NC
We saw a bright red light above the tree line. It appeared too large to be a plane and it was not blinking. I apologize for the vagueness and realize it could be a million different man-made things.
July 23, 2016 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Alma Center, WI
I was on road county F outside of Alma Center coming home. To the East about a half a mile away I saw a very bright light, brighter than any of the stars around it. It was fairly low to the ground as the stars were above it. I got my range finder out of my car as I had stopped to observe it. This range finder is also 8x power, so you can use it to view objects. I could see it had some sort of structure to it but it was also very bright so it was hard to make out detail. I was directly in its path as it looked like it was going to pass right overy me. There was no sound at all to the object. It was moving at about 35 to 40 miles per hour estimate. I decided to turn my range finder on it when it looked like it was in range of my finder. I got a reading of 329 yards of of it. Then all of a sudden it turned its light directly off and I couldn't see it. Also, the power cells in my range finder went completely dead. The car was off but it started when I turned the key and I went home to tell my wife and son about what I saw. I thought I would report this as I has bothered me all night and have not gotten any sleep. Has anybody else seen something like this?
July 23, 2016 · 9:25 PM · LIGHT
Palm Desert, CA
There were approx 35 to 40 lights (star like) above the house. They began moving from east to west. they were scattered about and all moving at the same time. they all stopped about the same time. They slowly faded out. they were about 40 thousand ft high. a couple of airplanes went by, but they were at a lower altitude. I immediately called 911 to report the strange sighting. I was unable to contact news media. hopefully there were more sightings. My daughter spotted them first, then my husband and myself ran out to observe.
July 23, 2016 · 8:30 PM · LIGHT
Palm Desert, CA
On Saturday July 23, 2013, @ approx: 20:25PM, I was outside, I saw a cluster of 20-30 lights hovering about 35,000 ft above our house to the (NE) I called for my parents to check this out. The cluster took off towards the (SE) in pattern much like a flock of birds. The higher they went the further apart the got. They looked like blinking stars, until they could no longer be seen. I believe they were space ships! No explanation could change my mind! I didn't get my phone in time to get any pictures
July 22, 2016 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Cornelius, NC
A bright round light burst in the sky from out of nowhere. It lit up the sky like a flood light but was gone as fast as it appeared. It burned yellow, orange and red. There was no sound, no moon and many stars visible in the sky. It was positioned South of us, towards Charlotte/Huntersville. We so no movement. This was witnessed by myself, my husband and my daughter. My daughter and husband saw it directly. I was facing the other direction and saw the light burst from behind me and light the sky. It lasted a matter of seconds. It appeared to be just behind and above the treeline. No trail.
July 22, 2016 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Delta, UT
Driving Home to Delta, on road by Materion, and noticed light in sky. Thought it was an airplane, but it was just hovering there. Then it just took off to the right and left a light trail in the sky that slowly disappeared. ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) Yes I thought I wrote July 21, 2016, @ 20:00hrs on the report. And I'm in Delta, UT, out in the middle of nowhere, and whatever I saw, I thought was a plane or a shooting star, but was brighter and out of place, just sitting in the sky. Then it shot off to the right of me, leaving a fading trail behind it. I was just driving home when I saw it. I have a Daughter in Wichita, Kansas, so I never changed my number. Thanks for the reply I thought your number wasn't valid and you were going to throw little green men jokes at me, or something. And the laughing was the Benny Hill Show. ((END ADDENDUM))
July 22, 2016 · 2:45 AM · LIGHT
Las Vegas, NV
Bright white light streak traveling at a extremely high rate of speed. Vanished into thin air. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 22, 2016 · 1:30 AM · LIGHT
Sedona, AZ
On July 22nd, at 1:30 a.m., I woke out of a deep sleep. I lay there thinking I left my rungs on the deck. I thought I needed to go get them inside, in case of rain. I went to the front door to check the weather and I look up into the sky and there was a bright white burst of light. There was no sound. I thought to myself it must be lightning and need to get the rugs in. When I went outside I looked up to where the light came from and there was not one cloud in the sky. That was not lightning.
July 21, 2016 · 10:18 PM · LIGHT
Hamilton Square, NJ
Thursday July 21, 2016, approximately 10:18pm, myself and 2 other friends were sitting out in my friends back yard. It was a clear night and a near full Moon was rising higher in the sky to the East. At this point the Moon was becoming brighter, and lighting up the night time sky. We were sitting around enjoying the night air and conversation, as well as looking to the sky, as my friend and I are both avid stargazers. We knew it was getting closer to the peak season for shooting stars/meteor showers (Perseid Meteor showers peak Aug 11-12) …. We always try to star-gaze on nice clear nights, and last night was a perfect night for it. This time we had a 3rd friend (a newbie to stargazing). At approx.. 10:18 pm, we we’re looking to the skies, and our newbie friend spotted 3 bright white circular lights moving in unison. At this point I did not see the 3 lights, but a few moments later, these 2 bright circular lights caught my eyes and attention. They were relatively bright, especially for a night with a near full moon. I said to my 2 friends, “What the heck are those 2 bright lights? They are pretty close together and moving and are NOT blinking!!!!” At this point our Newbie (female friend stated….”There are 2 now but there were 3 of them a moment ago!”….. I believe she saw 3 objects….. but I can only verify 2 that were seen by me. These (2) bright white objects kind of looked like very bright stars moving together in unison from the East North East sky towards the South…. But they were pretty much right straight up over head. They were NOT moving at a high rate of speed……. After a few moments of us observing these lights they stopped moving and changed color from bright white to an orange/pinkish color. Both objects stopped and changed color at the same time…..then they dimmed/faded and were gone from our sight...... While we were looking straight up at them directly over our heads. Remember it was a clear night. NO CLOUD COVER at all! What we witnessed was not the characteristics of any aircraft I’m familiar with. These objects did NOT appear to be ascending or descending at any point in time during our observation. Two of the three of us saw the exact same thing. The third person had his back to the event and by the time he moved to the area we were standing to observe the 2 possibly 3 objects and vanished into the sky directly overhead!
July 21, 2016 · 8:50 PM · LIGHT
Buckeye, AZ
Saw a light near skyline park mountain at night. The light moved fast, and moved down and up torwards the mountain. Looked like how a plane would crash, but it wasn't a plane. The light disappeared, or it went behind the mountain...I can't remember. It was really close and fast.
July 21, 2016 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Camp Verde, AZ
It was approximately 8 pm as I was returning to my house from walking my dog, when I noticed a yellow and red light hovering in the sky. It then move straight up and down without making a sound. Then the lights doubled, there were now 4 lights, 2 yellow and 2 red. They were at the same altitude. Seemed like they were connected somehow because they moved left to right then hovered. Then shot straight up, stopped, hovered again then descended down as if it were landing. I went got my girlfriend and she saw it after it had became 4 lights. Again it made no sound and it moved to quickly vertically and horizontally to be a plan or helicopter. We live 35 minutes from Sedona and our skies are usually clear, so plans and helicopters can be easily identified and heard. The object may have landed.
July 20, 2016 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Rahway, NJ
Date of sighting: 20 July 2016 @ aprox 11:00 PM EDT LOCATION; Linden NJ/ Staten Island, NY: Viewed from Rahway NJ Duration: 7 to 10 seconds Weather: Sky was crystal clear, full moon. I was on my deck looking east from my house toward Linden, NJ. A bright white light appeared coming from the south (Raritan area) which is the flight path for approaching aircraft landing into Newark Liberty Airport. The light was too fast for an airplane and too slow for a shooting star. The light suddenly stopped in my east view. It then took a completely vertical path, looped, came back down to the treetops/rooftops in my line of sight and then looped back up vertical again. It then disappeared on the last downward pass, spiraling as it descended. The approach of the object from the south was above the flight path altitude of the usual approaching aircraft. I estimate it’s highest ascent was 2 to 3 times that altitude.
July 20, 2016 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Lake View Plantation, ME
First sighting: Myself and three friends were enjoying the lake on a day off. At about 9-10pm, we sat out on a dock and were admiring the stars. One of us mentioned that there was a satellite passing in the sky across the lake. We watched it for a few minutes, realizing that it was not a satellite - but what appeared to be a star (identical to the appearance of all the other stars) moving in a stair-step like motion upwards. It would move up slightly, then proceed to move to the right, then up, right, up right, on and on. It did this for an additional few minutes, and we discussed the possibilities of what we were all (4 of us) looking at. At one point during this discussion, a plane flew over the lake. It was notably loud, and whatever this moving star was, it was not making any sound at all. We ruled out helicopters or planes, and assumed it must have been a drone. Next, the star began increasing in size. We took this to mean it was getting closer in proximity to us. After a minute or two of the object growing in size, it seemed to hover over an island in the middle of the lake - approximately half a mile from the dock, our location. We assumed it was still very high in the sky, until what appeared to be a floodlight shown from underneath the star and shed lights onto the trees on the island. At this point, we were all very terrified, because we weren't sure how close to us this object was, and what it was looking for or doing. It seemed very close, but it was still appearing as a star; we could not see any notable features of the object other than it looking like a big bright star - so similar that if it were stationary, we would never have focused on it. Its' motion was the only distinguishable feature of it. After the "floodlight" was shown through the trees for a brief few minutes, the object basically disappeared. We have discussed this amongst ourselves for several years now, and none of our stories to each other have changed. We were about 40 minutes away from a military base in Bangor, and most of us I think have assumed it had something to do with training exercises involving the base. I had told my university roommate this story a few times while living with him. The next sighting was a bit shocking due to the discussion with my roommate. The second sighting was on campus. My roommate and I were smoking a cigarette in a field adjacent to the field house and the football field. We were walking around the field, when my roommate pointed out a star moving in stair-step like motions in the sky. He asked me, in direct reference to my prior story that I had told him, if that was the same thing that I had seen. I was completely flabbergasted - and answered that it was. It was the same exact object - a star moving in stair-step like motions. I was in so much shock, I noticed another stranger walking around the field. I grabbed the stranger, who was also out smoking a cigarette. I pointed to the object in the sky, and asked him to describe what he saw. The stranger said "what the f*** is that?", and proceeded to describe to us the exact same thing we were looking at. There was no increase/decrease in size, and no floodlight during this sighting. Like before, after several minutes, the object simply faded away. This sighting took place 20 minutes closer, 20 minutes away, from the military base in Bangor. This sighting took place in the spring of 2017. To this day, I still discuss these sightings with my friends and college roommate. None of us have an explanation other than we were close to a military base. It was particularly disturbing/scary to have the story I told to my roommate validated by my roommate seeing exactly what I had described with his own eyes. Even he had admitted to me he did not believe my story prior to seeing the object that very night.
July 19, 2016 · 8:16 PM · LIGHT
McKinney, TX
On 7-19-2016, on or about 20:16 hrs (CDT), while taking a break outdoors and watching a single engine plane doing “touch and go’s” from a nearby airstrip, I noticed a fairly bright white light approximately the size of or a little larger than a “BB” if held at arm’s length. The object was well above the local commercial air traffic, appearing at least as high as passing cirrus clouds and moved in a straight line from East to West. The observation lasted at least approximately three minutes and during this time, the object never seemed to change brightness, size, shape, or color. When I first noticed the object, it was approximately at the 10 or 11 o’clock position in the sky and remained visible until approximately the 2 o’clock position before fading out. If holding my hands at arm’s length, the object would have been about three to four hands high off of the horizon. Shortly after the object moved out of view, I observed two passing commercial aircraft in landing pattern and observed the glint from any reflective surfaces on them for comparison; neither of the craft had the same reflective luminosity of the object I had observed a few minutes earlier.
July 19, 2016 · 2:00 AM · LIGHT
Owego, NY
two times in the last 2 weeks, myself and one other person saw what looked like a single object with multicolor lights sit in the sky and not move for a long period of time. The first time I saw it I was at a park in Newark Valley, NY, about 13 miles from where we just saw the one on the report. That one, after a long time in one spot, changed its light to a solid bright white light and took off across the sky. The one from tonight I watched w/ binoculars for about 1hr and went back inside. The 1st time I saw it the first thing we could think of was it was a chinese candle deal, but it stayed in one spot. Second thought it could be a drone, but it was to big to be one to see it as far away as it appeared
July 19, 2016 · 12:05 AM · LIGHT
Everett, WA
I was standing at my kitchen sink just after midnight. When a light appeared due east of Silver Lake over the valley between Snohomish & Clearview. It moved silently to the southwest. No strobes or navigational lights were observed. It was a windless night & the object moved at about the speed of a small airplane, except it was changing altitude very slightly up & down. I lost sight of it behind some trees. A minute or so later another one appeared & traveled in an identical manner. By the time the third one appeared I had gone outside to observe the same behavior. The lights had a slight orange hue.
July 18, 2016 · 9:50 PM · LIGHT
Holden Beach, NC
At first four bright orange light luminated one at a time then multiple white randomly flashing lights in two separate goups off the coast moving in a SW direction down the coast. Appeared to be two crafts with randomly flashing white lights moving uniformly in the night sky down the coast. There was no sound at all.
July 18, 2016 · 5:45 AM · LIGHT
Las Cruces, NM
Driving down hwy 70s on the morning of 07/18/16, around the time of 5:45am, I saw a green light in the sky. It was stationary for a blink of time and shot straight down or away from my direction. It was approximately over downtown Las Cruces, possibly Old Mesilla. Bright green beam of light, and disappeared after a 2-second sighting.
July 17, 2016 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
St. George, UT
Multiple UFO’s spotted over St. George, Utah, 7/17/2016, at app. 10 pm. We saw four different crafts at the same time lit with green, red, and white lights. The objects moved very quickly up and down, and did not make any noise. They appeared too large and flew far into the distance and then returned very quickly to be a drone or any plane/helicopter that I had ever seen. These fast moving lights or whatever they were, where all visible at once and were spaced around the perimeter of the city of St. George, Utah.
July 17, 2016 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Stockholm, NJ
The light at first appears to be a bright star, but hovers. Seen only on Sunday night and appears to be in the vicinity of Rte. 23 north. Witness provides no contact information. PD
July 17, 2016 · 3:00 AM · LIGHT
Boise, ID
I noticed this round glittery white, pinkish,greenish light, it was moving in odd patterns, zigzags, bouncy dance like movements, it would zip fast left or right quite a distance then return. It would move straight ahead very slowly, then pick up its pace. This has gone on for four nights and is always at the same time. At one point when it was closer the first night it looked like beings moving back and forth inside a brightly lit window, but I only got a quick glimpse of it before it took off again. It has always shown up a little north west of Bogus Basin Ski area from about 4 to 5 miles from downtown Boise going west on State St. Last night the round light did a couple of things differently than the previous nights, as I was watching it, at the bottom of the light there was a bright greenish burst of light just for a second. Then it did its regular zigzags and back and forth up and down dancing movements, then it started shooting out these sort of long looking things that were glowing sort of whitish and as they fell they vanished. Also, lastnight was the first time the glittery light went out, three different times, but reappeared in the same exact spot. I did notice that if a car came down the main street we live by, the light would not move, until the car was gone. I have never heard a sound from this light. I will be watching for it again tonight.
July 16, 2016 · 11:34 PM · LIGHT
New York City (Manhattan), NY
Observed 5 or more lights flying slowly in the sky. Don't know what they were. Could have been helicopters, but not sure. Please see the video taken from my phone: https://youtu.be/9158Y4Kq-Wc
July 16, 2016 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Murphysboro, IL
Driving home at night, I witnessed a bright ball of light hovering above the horizon line. The light was absurdly bright, and I didn't notice it until I did a double take and saw the light. It was no more than 15 feet in diameter and seemed perfectly spherical. After observing the light for a couple seconds, it tracked backward and away at an inconceivable pace.
July 16, 2016 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Shorewood, IL
Observer: Retired commercial pilot with over 45 years of flying experience. ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) Peter: My house is in a cul de sac and faces 060 degrees. Traffic into Midway all day and evening were using 4R approach, which I am about 500ft to the right of center line. The object appeared to be about 3 time the size of Venus, only red. Altitude is difficult to determine at night, but I would say not more than 5000 agl, as that is what I'm estimating from observing the aircraft and personal experience flying into Midway in this area. I was also the director of Flight Standards for ((deleted--aviation entity)) and Chief Check Pilot for ((deleted)) yrs in addition to my 40 some years of flying in the Chicago area. The object appeared to be heading 270 degrees from our perspective, (right to left). My wife and grandson also observed the object. No aircraft are vectored into Midway from that direction (to tight of a turn on to the localizer). It was no aircraft, as when I first saw it I ruled out Mars, as it was too low in the sky and much brighter. Then I did look for position lights, and saw none. It was at that time I called my wife outside, as I our grandson was already outside with me. We then observed it for about another 3 minutes when it got to approximately 10 degrees to the right of our house, it went straight up and disappeared. Distance from out house approximately 1-2 miles. Drivers eastbound on I-80 and northbound on I-55 would have seen it also. It was awsome. Glad we were able to observe it. Hope this helps ((END ADDENDUM))