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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
May 5, 2016 · 2:30 AM · LIGHT
Big Lake, MN
At roughly 2:30am the morning of May 5th, I went into my backyard to have a cigarette. I noticed that there were stars out and that one(1st seen NW corner of yard) appeared to be larger and more orange than is normal for a star. I looked deeper and there was a smaller light of the same color not too far from the larger light. I began to think at this point they were not stars. I notices the lights would suddenly get brighter and then throw of bursts of light, then dim and appear to slowly move and stop quickly. I couldn't even tell they were moving at first but once I had to move so I could see around the large oak tree in my yard I was sure. Also noticed the 2 orange lights moved precisely at the same time and this is when I noticed that there were 2 blue-yellow-white very small lights moving along with the orange in a way so all the lights could form a diamond. I watched for a few hours as the lights followed same routine. Sit, then flicker and flash a bit, dim, then bounce suddenly along. At about 4:45 5:00 am as the first bit of sun started coming up I watched the two yellow lights move into the large orange light which then blinked red and vanished alongwith every other star(ended in NE corner of sky). A little less than an hour afterwards I just so happend to be taking my do out and looked towards that corner of the sky and watched the orange light appear again suddenly. Then slide off slowly in the sky.
May 4, 2016 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Clovis, CA
I saw a light in the sky traveling from the north east to the south west. The light looked to be about the same size as the white light you see on a helicopter. The light was moving across the sky so fast that it managed to get my attention. I said to my wife who was facing me, “look at that behind you” and as she turned around the light suddenly made what looked like a 90 degree turn and dart off to the east so fast that my wife was not able to see it.
May 4, 2016 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Tucson, AZ
Last night at around 21:00 I saw what I thought was a satellite at first that moved through the sky from south to north in about 5 minutes. There was no sound. Its was to dark to identify the object. Believe me it was moving much faster then aircraft I have seen. It was at reasonably high altitude but not exoatmospheric. It did not flame or brighten like a comet would have but was moving with that kind of speed.
May 1, 2016 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Boston, MA
I was around the Mass General Hospital around may 2016 when I noticed unusual light in the sky the light did not come from a plane or searchlights on the ground a month later I witnessed the same light in the sky over Nahant in Essex County
April 30, 2016 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Philadelphia, PA
Barbecuing on the deck Saturday night and was shocked seeing red flair like objects traveling at about 30 mph in no certain formation. Going from south heading north. Got video.
April 30, 2016 · 4:00 AM · LIGHT
San Diego, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 29, 2016 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Sabattus, ME
I was driving and I noticed a bright red light in the sky. My brother saw it and at first we thought it was a plane, but didn't seem to be moving. We kept our eyes on it for a couple minutes, then it suddenly changed color to green. I lost sight of it once I got to a busier street.
April 29, 2016 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Ocean Springs, MS
Don't have much time as I'm going to bed! Took the dogs out and saw what I initially thought were three helicopters flying in a somewhat triangular formation. Didn't notice any flashing lites, though. Just orangish lites probably 3 - 4 miles (estimate) to the northeast. Objects were coming from the east. Was curious so I went in to get my cellphone but too far away for a pic. Saw more coming from the same direction, but not in formation. Just one after another. Went back in to find binoculars and viewed only one. No flashing lites at all, just an orange light. All objects seemed to be going in what may have been a clockwise motion. They came from the east, rotated to the northwest, the disappeared to the north-northeast (possibly into the clouds/haze. I'm estimating there may have been 7, but possibly more. May not have been an "alien" ufo, but pretty definitely not airplanes/helicopters (also I listened for, but heard no noise). Also, based on their "flight" pattern, I don't think they were Chinese lanterns and they were not falling as flares would fall. Anyway, this is the first time I've filed a report. (But sometime I will tell you an interesting story about a UFO in Indiana around 1982. Includes a military conference call that included a general and some interesting comments from our control tower at Grissom AFB in Peru Indiana.)
April 29, 2016 · 10:25 AM · LIGHT
Gilford, NH
Driving west on Rte 11 in Gilford, NH, arouond 10:25am on Apr. 29, 2016, I saw a grayish- silver bright object falling like a meteor to the ground to my left. Maybe a half mile away. In the vicinity of the intersection of Rte 11 and Rte 11B. Only lasted a couple of seconds.
April 27, 2016 · 11:45 PM · LIGHT
Stony Point, NY
Heard an insanely loud roaring noise while sitting in my house. It sounded like a plane and lasted a while. I looked out my window and saw a white light following too obscure of a path to be a plane. This happened twice within about 30 minutes.
April 25, 2016 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Plainfield, IL
I was teaching my daughter how to distinguish between stars and planets, and as we were looking at Jupiter, we noticed to the left of it a faint spot light that traveled downwards from our point of sighting. The light was clear, and traveling at very high speed, until it disappeared on the lower horizon southwest-south .
April 25, 2016 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Kapaa, HI
Location: Kapahi, Kapaa, Kauai Island . Monday 25th of April. 2016. Close to 08:00 in the evening I step outside my house in upper kapahi. It is partly clouded. I’m looking into the sky thinking “I would love to see a UFO”. Aproxemately 10 seconds later the fluffy cloud above my head, suddenly have some super intense lights flashing inside the sky. A very thick, compact and white cloud Is moving in from East. The flashing lights seemed to jump from the fluffy cloud and starts flashing lights even more powerful within the thick cloud, and then jumps again to a different place in the thick cloud. And then nothing more happens. There is no wind and absolutely silent. The whole event lasted about 8-10 seconds. I have looked up lightning without thunder, it is possible if the lightning happens very far away. What I witnessed happened right above my head, and the light seemed to be much more bright than lightning. It was characteristic like as if somebody quickly moved a very big and strong flashlight inside the sky.
April 24, 2016 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Oshawa (Canada), ON · Canada
Walking dogs between 9:30-10pm. Sorry, but I'm not sure of exact time as I didn't know about this site. Looked to the south in the direction of Lake Ont. and saw what I thought was a falling star. It was quite bright in comparison to other stars we see in our area and falling straight down. about 3 seconds before it left my view it began to flash red and blue. It seemed as though the red and blue were under one another and not the same spot flashing. From what I remember, the white light wasn't showing when the colours started flashing.
April 23, 2016 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Phoenix, AZ
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 23, 2016 · 9:20 PM · LIGHT
Phoenix, AZ
I've been an aerospace machinist for 19 years now. I work for a very big aerospace company and I am very aware of many type of aircraft. At 9:19 on Saturday night I saw a light flying in a north direction. It was a bright light with a slow movement, as I noticed it, it started to slowly dim. It was not a meteor, I've seen lots of meteors and this was too slow to be a meteor. It was not a plane, as it did not have any flashing lights, nor was it a satellite, since it dimmed. It was a clear night without a cloud in the sky. It seemed as if it knew I was watching it and that's when it began to dim. Possible flare from an Iridium satellite? PD
April 23, 2016 · 8:32 PM · LIGHT
Plantation, FL
We saw 12 redish orange lights moving away from the toys r us parking lot we were in. The lights moved to the east at a decent pace no noise was heard at all. The lights were in a trapizoid shaped position moving through the sky as planes flew on by we saw them go past the lights as well with no visible affection to the lights.
April 23, 2016 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Harpers Ferry, WV
I looked out my door window towards the river and seen a really bright light in the sky just sitting there then it started going back and forth across the sky really fast the it disappeared.
April 23, 2016 · 5:10 AM · LIGHT
Yorkville, IL
Looking to the North West observed what at first appeared to be a satellite or the ISS traveling across the sky. Single light traveling West. Appeared to slow, then turned to a South heading, got very bright, then faded to nothing.
April 23, 2016 · 5:00 AM · LIGHT
Kansas City, MO
Early this morning, I got up and went out on my back deck to enjoy the beautiful morning weather and night sounds. It was still dark and the sky was clear. I sat down for about 2 minutes, then looked up at the stars. I don't know the constellations, but I could clearly see several points of light without any obstructions. Directly in front of me (facing northwest), I could see a group of three stars immediately flanked by two other lights to my right. At first, the two lights were stationary so I didn't really think about them. But soon they both started to slowly move from their stationary position to my left. I thought it odd that satellites would be still and then move in apparent unison. With my right arm fully extended, I estimate they were a hand width apart. Very high up but still very clearly visible. I watched them move slowly in unison, then stop in unison, then resume moving in unison in the same direction. They followed their motion f! or approximately a five count, then the lead light simply went out, while the second light continued to move in the same direction. When the second light reached the point where the first light went out, it too went out. No clouds, no obstructions at all. I'm an avid UFO person so naturally I interpreted this as a possible sighting and said out loud "why do you always blink out when I see you? How do you know I'm looking at you?" I thought this might illicit some kind of response, but they didn't reappear. I've been fooled by birds before, but these lights were too bright and way to high to be birds. I ruled out airplanes because they went from stationary to moving and I didn't hear any jet-related sounds like normal when a high flying jet passes over. Helicopters don't go that high, or I'm not sure why they would, and again no noise. Perhaps some kind of experimental craft that can go stationary, then move with no noise. Just seems odd to me. I've seen! these lights before and always just as I notice them, they bl! ink out. This pattern of seeing them, then they disappear suggests to me whoever they are, they know I'm watching them. It's happened too many times to be coincidental.
April 22, 2016 · 11:15 PM · LIGHT
Ashmont (Canada), AB · Canada
Sounded like a aircraft going past my house at about 11:15, heard it even with headphones in. Then I saw red flashing light going past the window, and moving fast. It was much to low to be any type of plane and there was no green light. It was heading down towards the ground very fast. Went outside to watch, It looked as if it landed or got close to the ground in a nearby field and continued west. I watched it flash until I lost sight through the tree line. When I went back out to check I saw it again further north in the trees, still on ground level and flashing. I have seen many weird lights in the sky out here, but never anything come out of the sky.
April 22, 2016 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Fredericksburg, VA
Object seen just above tree line "bright light" falling from mid sky, no sound and very quickly landed near rt 3. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 21, 2016 · 4:30 AM · LIGHT
Kelso, WA
It was moving slowly south to north along I-5, was really bright, didn't have any red or green marker lights, and didn't make any sound. I took a pic. and some video, but wasn't good enough to show any shape. The object started dimming some and then got brighter again and slowly turned to the east before dimming and disappearing again.
April 20, 2016 · 9:10 PM · LIGHT
Oak Island, NC
We witnessed 3 pair of 2 bright red-orange lights over the ocean. They seemed to move in pairs. They didn't move up or down as if propelled or as if a rocket of some sort. The paired lights seemed to move around each other. After approximately 30 seconds the lights disappeared suddenly. We then thought we saw a light far off shore that was also the same color which could have been a boat but it was dark and all we saw was the light. There wet four of us who witnessed this event and all agreed that they were not airplanes. We also agreed that we had never seen anything like this before. We are four adults vacationing with our kids and quite sane!
April 20, 2016 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Palmdale, CA
Conditions: Clear sky, no clouds, maybe a little hazy, full moon. Event: Looking east from my back porch I saw two green lights moving west to east in approximately the same path as the airline traffic coming east to west flying over Palmdale as they approach, I believe, Burbank, CA, Airport. The green lights looked as if they were attached to two separate vehicles one following the other in trail by what looked like, compared to the airliners, about one half mile. Which is about half of what the airliners typically are spaced. They appeared to be moving much faster than and above the airliners. Each light was a single light that in size was about the same or a little larger visual angle as the forward facing lights of the airliners. The weird thing was that the lights were blinking in perfect unison. This lasted for about 30 seconds or so as they continued to move east. Then, as they were pretty far off but still visible, the lights started blinking completely but perfectly opposite to each other. This lasted another 10 – 20 seconds until they disappeared as they became too small to see. Corroboration: My 25 year old daughter was on the porch and saw them also.