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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
April 8, 2016 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Starkville, MS
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. Possible hoax?? PD
April 6, 2016 · 9:05 PM · LIGHT
Hays, KS
I was outside talking on the phone when I noticed the 3 lights appearing and disappearing. I immediately called my husband and kids, the lights were maneuvering in the sky. We saw them multiple times in different parts of of the sky, they were the color orange. This lasted for about 15 minutes. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 6, 2016 · 6:00 AM · LIGHT
Oamaru (New Zealand) · New Zealand
A clear morning sky, 30 minutes before sunrise. A cluster of flashing lights red, green, white randomly flashing with white sometimes brighter. The light appeared to be stationary, approximately halfway between the ground and apex in south east sky. I first noticed them at approximately 5:45 am till sunrise around 45 minutes later. Once the sun was nearly up, the lights and stars were no longer visible.
April 5, 2016 · 9:25 PM · LIGHT
Redmond, WA
Both my husband and I saw this as I went in the house to get him when it started.
April 5, 2016 · 7:55 PM · LIGHT
El Paso, TX
Located in far Northeast El Paso, near Railroad Dr and Farah Dr, while star gazing, two solid white lights appeared overhead out of nowhere and moved in a straight line formation, one behind the other, to the northeast for just a short distance for about 5 minutes and disappeared. It was a clear night with no clouds. It was a calm, windless night and there was no detectable sound from the lights passing overhead. There were no associated blinking or colored lights as on an aircraft. The lights were brighter and more focused than stars, and were flying at an altitude far lower than high planes yet higher than any low planes. The lights moved straight ahead with no side to side movement, and traveled too fast to be a high altitude plane or a satellite, but slower than a low altitude plane. The lights were in a straight line formation too far apart to be just a single plane. Although no associated shape was detected, it seemed as if the lights were positioned with one at the front and one at the back. What was so startling and attention-getting was that the direction of travel was entirely not in keeping with the normal flight paths of either ELP or Biggs Army Airfield, nor of the high altitude commercial flight paths crossing El Paso. The witness is a nightly observer of the constellations and the local commercial and Army flight paths across Northeast El Paso.
April 5, 2016 · 3:45 AM · LIGHT
Lawrence, KS
at apprx. 3:45 am, central standard time, I was in the parking lot of my place of employment. I happened to glance up and saw a bright light to the SE of my position. As this was just after the July 4th holiday, I thought it was a firework or flare. I expected the light to either fade out or explode into a star-burst. Much to my surprise, this light was moving steadily from south to north. Aside from being obscured by cloud cover a couple times the bright red did not fade, nor did it change speed nor direction. Because of its speed and altitude I thought it could be a plane, but I looked carefully and could not see any flashers, like a small plane would have. It looked exactly like a very bright cherry red flare. After about 1-2 minutes of observation, it was lost to sight as it traveled to the north.
April 4, 2016 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
High Point, NJ
Saw high point monument glowing strange yellow green light, tower is lit normally at night on four sides. This was different glow that's what bought my attention to it and was why I drove toward tower. Once there just saw weird glow but nothing else so I was like I am up here so let me take two pictures and left it was later looking at pictures on my phone that I saw image in clouds above tower. Picture was taken across lake in to separate spots. This is in a state park and monument marks highest point in New Jersey. This I got with picture year before looked up at clouds saw word hell and face in clouds that faded out. As far as surroundings its unpopulated woods and mountains.
April 4, 2016 · 8:30 PM · LIGHT
Tulsa, OK
Myself and a coworker were driving westbound on Hwy 51, we both saw a light travel over our heads at an extremely high rate of speed while curving upward until it disappeared into the distance. We both agreed it was going faster than any known aircraft.
April 4, 2016 · 2:24 AM · LIGHT
Orlando, FL
While driving westwards on Colonial/50 Monday morning, through Pine Hills, I saw what appeared to be three white lights arranged in a close point-up triangle. It appeared to be a single object, moving roughly W-SW from over the highway, traveling in a straight line. There were no blinking lights visible at all, and no sound, despite a significantly fast rate of travel at what appeared to be low altitude. It is entirely possible it was a helicopter that turned southish at some point, having followed Colonial prior to my seeing it (helis launch from the Orlando business airport all the time), however, it looked very odd for a helicopter. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 4, 2016 · 1:49 AM · LIGHT
Dayton/Fairborn, OH
I am driving home from Columbus on 70-E headed towards 75-N and over the tree line to my right see a light reflect off the clouds. At first it looks like heat lightning, but instead of seeing a stark white bolt of lightning what proceeds from the clouds in a sharp blue/green light. It is radial up towards the sky. It is so specifically green and blue it takes my breath away. This is towards Fairborn/Huber Heights possibly the Wright Patterson Airforce Base? I try to send a text message to my friend and she receives EVERY text including my call but does NOT receive the text that is explicit in detail of the time and description of the light. REPEAT: I sent a descriptive text of the time/shape/color of the light and she did not receive it both times but received every other text! I have never even heard of this site. I just googled "blue green light in Dayton" to see if anyone had seen anything or reported on it in the news and this site came up. I am terrified to see a similar entry back in August of 2015 in the exact same area at the same time. Will I be visited tonight? Very scared. I'm even afraid to leave my contact info because i don't trust this site. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 3, 2016 · 10:10 PM · LIGHT
IdentifiedPlouescat, Bretagne · France
Le 3 avril 2016 à 22h10 un témoin, sur le pas de sa porte, est intrigué par un phénomène fortement lumineux vu à droite du clocher de l'église de son village. Le phénomène émet des lumières de couleurs (bleu puis rouge). Aucun bruit n'est entendu. Le phénomène finit par être perdu de vue à 22h45. Le témoin fait deux photographies. Un seul témoignage est recueilli. Le témoin a vu Sirius. A élévation basse et selon certaines conditions atmosphériques, les lueurs de SIrius peuvent être variables en couleur et trompeuses. La reconstitution géométrique à partir de la photo du témoin et du lieu estimé de la prise de vue permet en effet de retrouver à 1 ou 2 degrés une coïncidence entre Sirius et le PAN. Par ailleurs la trajectoire du PAN (sens et vitesse) telle que décrite par le témoin est tout à fait en ligne avec celle de Sirius. La possibilité alternative d'une lanterne, qui aurait pu très bien être lancée en soirée dominicale, est à éliminer. En effet, cela aurait voulu dire que le témoin n'a pas vu Sirius et que ce dernier est caché par un nuage alors que témoignage indique un ciel clair. Le vent ce jour là (infoclimat) est compatible du sens de déplacement mais avec une intensité (10 km/h) donnant une vitesse angulaire de déplacement à 200 m d'altitude et à 600 m de distance (calculée d’après l’élévation) beaucoup plus grande et sans commune mesure avec l'observation (quand bien même le vent serait 10 fois moins intense que ce que donne la station météo à quelques km de là). En conséquence le GEIPAN classe cette observation en A : Sirius. [GEIPAN classification A — Sirius]
April 3, 2016 · 12:30 AM · LIGHT
Grant, CO
My two best friends and I (and my friend's six year old son) went winter camping in our usual spot at Handcart Campground in Pike National Forest two nights ago. I will call my friends B & C for sake of anonymity. B & C and I stayed up until about ten p.m. watching the campfire while B's son had gone to bed in the giant tent we were all sharing. We were drinking a few beers and passing around a whiskey flask, but none of us were drunk...not by a longshot. The sky was absolutely clear with probably the best view of the stars I've ever seen. The three of us put out the fire, climbed into the tent, and went to bed. The wind really picked up shortly after we went to bed. I had a lot of trouble falling asleep, much more than usual when I'm in the woods, but I did eventually doze off. I'm an experienced camper and not generally afraid of the wilderness, but I had a feeling of unease in my gut. It was odd but I chalked it up to the solitude of being at high elevati! on in the off-season, in an area four miles from the nearest houses and up a road we had to do a lot of rugged four-wheeling to get to. Around eleven thirty I woke up and had to urinate. My phone said it was 11:30 p.m. I still felt uneasy, just something in the air, I guess, so I threw on my boots and took my 10mm pistol with me. It was very cold so I made it quick. I got out of the tent, did my business, looked around for a moment and climbed back inside. Something did not feel right out there. Words cannot describe it, but I was not at ease. Also, the wind was incredibly loud, which made falling back to sleep impossible. I lay there, restless, for about an hour, until the event happened. An especially brutal blast of wind hit the tent and the rainfly battered the top of the structure. That's what made me open my eyes. And that was when I witnessed what appeared to be camera flashes going off just above our tent. Just as the wind hit its peak velocity, those lights went off at the same time and lasted for about seven to ten seconds, covering a specific side of the dome's top in an area visible to me of about three feet by two feet. At first, I thought it was lightning accompanying the wind, but I knew there were no (and I mean zero) clouds in the sky that night. I blinked a few times and whispered to my friend C, who was sleeping beside me. There was a muffled response and I asked him if he'd seen that light. I said I thought it might be lightning. There was no further response and I didn't believe anyone else in the tent had either witnessed the lights or even been awake to see them (In the morning I found this was not the case.) For the next ten minutes I s! tared at the roof of the tent, watching, terrified. My heart was racing, and try as I did, I could NOT get it to slow down. I exercise regularly and my heart rate was so fast it felt as if I'd just gotten done with a three-mile run. And it would not slow down. I tried to close my eyes and will it to slow, but it was impossible. I am not an overreacting kind of person but I was fairly certain I was at risk of having a heart attack as I lay there. My left arm even tingled off and on. I remember checking the clock on my phone but I cannot recall now what time it read. As the wind battered the tent I heard my buddies shuffle in their sleeping bags and I tried to talk to them again, but again I got no response. So I dug out my hip flask and took a few swigs of whiskey, trying desperately to calm my nerves. It was then I remembered the earplugs that were still in my coat pocket from when we'd gone out down the hillside to shoot rifles earlier that day. I dug them out and put them! in my ears to block the sound of the wind and the tent skin f! lapping against itself. Then I could really hear my heart and it scared the hell out of me. At that point, I closed my eyes and tried to breathe as slow and deep as I could. I felt like I was calming, but my pulse still raced and I was wide awake. After what I can only guess was about fifteen minutes since the first pulse of light, another giant blast of wind caught the tent, the worst of the whole night, and I opened my eyes again to see another round of lights, this time green and situated at the opposite side of the tent's top, flashing like paparazzi cameras for about five seconds. It was absolutely terrifying and I didn't know what to think. After that I called out to my friends, not in a whisper, and again I received no response. I could make out their forms in the dark tent so I knew they were there but they didn't respond. I gripped my pistol inside my sleeping bag and felt my shotgun resting right beside the bag. But neither of them brought me comfort. After that second round of lights, the wind died down some. Not completely, but a fair amount. My heart still pounded and I put the foam earplugs back in, trying to drive out all other input but my own thoughts. I don't know how long I lay there, but it felt like probably an hour passed as I tried, unsuccessfully to calm my pulse. The next thing I knew I was waking up to early morning light. I had managed to fall asleep at some point and was eternally grateful to see the sunlight playing at the edges of our tent through the trees. My friends all woke up relatively soon after that, and I asked them was if they'd seen the lights. My friend B's face said everything. And the first thing he said was he thought he was going to have a heart attack. He repeated an experience that was identical to mine above, including the inability to slow his heart and having pain in his left shoulder associated with it until he finally passed out. The exception to his story being he also heard a series of shrill mechanical beeps just before the second round of lights (something I decided I must have missed due to the earplugs). He also said he heard me ask about lightning after the first flashes but never heard anything else from me, possibly because of the noise of the wind. Our friend C did not witness any of the lights or sounds but said he did not sleep well at all, partly because of the wind, but also partly because he didn't feel right. The child slept fine and didn't wake up once, despite the wind. We made it back down the mountain and home yesterday morning. We didn't even stick around to make breakfast, which we traditionally always do. I looked around in the snow in the area surrounding our tent but didn't find any tracks, but to be honest, I didn't attempt to look too hard. We broke camp, packed up, and got the hell out of there. I slept much better in my own bed last night, though thinking of the event still makes me shudder. I'm still processing it. It terrified me. And as a lover of camping and the outdoors, it pains me to say that I have no desire to go camping again anytime soon.
April 2, 2016 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Folsom, CA
My friend and I were coming home it was around 10:30p. We’re driving along and out her front windshield we see what we thought was a shooting star come into view going left to right, but it lasted too long and is was too bright and going extremely fast. It was shooting down at a steep angle, 45 degrees. Then I can see 2 lights on it not just 1 and realize it's not a shooting star but a plane or something that is going to crash. Then it disappeared in less than a second. There were no clouds in the sky infact there were stars out.
April 2, 2016 · 10:26 PM · LIGHT
Riverside, CA
I was sitting in a car driving along the road. I was looking outside the window like i always do and glanced at the nighttime sky. I saw what looked like a bright green star, but it was moving horizontally across the sky and had a tail. It then suddenly disappeared mid-flight. I also saw/reported a ufo(which was also green and star-like, but different) about a week ago. The two sightings took place in nearby locations. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 2, 2016 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Tracy, CA
Witness provides no contact information. PD
April 2, 2016 · 9:45 PM · LIGHT
Garden City, MI
My friend and I were taking the dog outside, and we were talking about work. I was looking upbat the stars, because it was so clear out (a few clouds but overall more stars than usual). I saw a star move, and thought it was maybe a little plane, but it would move to the north-northwest, stop for a moment, change direction, stop and move again. We watched the light for about 15 minutes before it blinked out.
April 2, 2016 · 8:33 PM · LIGHT
Tacoma, WA
Multiple bright red/orange objects flying towards my position (south direction), and then turn east as if circling. Objects would appear to be at tree top level as they appeared and when they turned would gain altitude and disapear. This went on for about 10 minutes all in different formations, some very close to each other.
April 1, 2016 · 11:16 PM · LIGHT
Billings, MT
The object was composed of two white blinking lights at what seemed to be common intervals. Although there were two lights they moved as one slightly left to right. The craft appeared after an airplane passed by stayed for 2 minutes and then just disappeared not even fly away, just gone. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 1, 2016 · 9:10 PM · LIGHT
Owen Sound (Canada), ON · Canada
At approx. 9:10 pm, Apr. 1, 2016, a friend and I were outside for a smoke. We both saw a bright, white object traverse the sky in a north-east direction south of our location. There were no blinking lights and no trailing jet sound. It took approx. 3 minutes from first sight until it disappeared to the north-east. Possibly an overflight of the ISS?? PD
April 1, 2016 · 8:55 PM · LIGHT
Puyallup, WA
The lights where real bright and at that altitude and the light intensity, it could not have been a quad-copter, or there something similar.
April 1, 2016 · 1:00 PM · LIGHT
Salt Lake City, UT
I continued to observe them when they drifted towards the recently created "contrail" which was fairly fresh and not dispersed when i noticed they were behind the trail meaning they were above it. I'm no bird expert but, I don't think birds fly above 30,000 feet. At the moment that thought entered my mind the entire flock disappeared. I studied the sky for another 5-10 minutes and saw no trace of them again. I might add, I am 74 years old and have always been skeptical of UFO sightings and have never seen one but, I know what I saw, and this is no "April Fools" story. ((name deleted)) ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS--During a telephone call, the witness estimated that he had witnessed at least 70 objects, and perhaps as many at 100. PD)) We spoke via telephone with the witness, and he seemed to us to be serious and sober-minded. We suspect that he is quite reliable. PD
April 1, 2016 · 4:23 AM · LIGHT
San Jose, CA
At around 2:30 am 04/01/2016, I looked up in the sky because I thought I heard a plane. When I spotted this thing I knew it was not a plane I am the manager at the apartments I live at and have access to all the lighting so I went around and shut off all the lights on the grounds to see this thing better when I looked up it had barely moved. Then I flipped it off and began flashing my led flashlight at it thinking it was a drone that the county uses. At around 3 am a tenant came and asked what is going on I told him and he grabbed a pair of binoculars remembering that I had a pair too I did the same He said he had seen this before, and it was a satellite. When looking at it through the lenses it moved up and down and side to side quickly it was hard to keep it in the lenses when looking at it with the naked eye it just seems to hover in one place when I told this guy that he laughed and said yea they are a trip and he left. Well, I just looked out my front door and it is still there at 4:36 am pst it is not saucer shape it is more oblong when looking at it through the lenses it changes it is a ball of fire then just a light that seems to have two parts at times. Anyway, I'm off to see if I can get more people to see it so there is better proof if you need it. I called the news room at ktvu and have not heard anything so maybe its nothing. Oh, I got four other people to look they said it was unusual too. thank you
April 1, 2016 · 12:34 AM · LIGHT
Pomona, NY
Strong light, white ' flashed straight downwards but not a beam. Was approx 100 ft above trees and more than 1/4 mile distant. About the size of a baseball at arm's length. Light flashed strongly once and then blinked out. Flash lit up trees and roofs of nearby houses. No helicopter not airplane. No sounds.
March 31, 2016 · 5:30 PM · LIGHT
Ft. Lauderdale, FL
I came outside with a friend that was visiting to smoke a cigarette and noticed what I initially though was a very bright and large star. After looking closer, I realized no other stars were visible because it was quite overcast with clouds that night. So I'm looking at it trying to figure out whether it was a plane but it was originally not moving at all, just sort of hovering there. I called my other friend who was visiting to come outside to see what he thought of it. After he came outside it started maneuvering back and forth from right to left for around a minute. After the back in forth motion, it started moving back and forth again but this time descending. The motion this time was kind of odd. It almost looked like it was a light on a pendulum being lowered. This motion lasted for around another minute. Shortly after the light slowly faded out or went behind a cloud and we saw no more of it.