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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
February 14, 2016 · 6:30 PM · LIGHT
Pottersville, NY
My family was on our way home from a shopping trip to nearby Queensbury, NY. I was stargazing like I normally do when I get to ride home. Everyone else was distracted with driving and video games. We were in between the Chestertwon, NY, and Pottersville, NY, exits on I-87 North. I looked up and saw what at first appeared to be a plane judging by the flashing lights. After watching the craft fly for a while it was obvious that it was not a plane, or a plane with new flight technology at least. It appeared to flit like a moth would, erratically, almost as you would imagine a craft might appear if it were time traveling, punching a hole in reality from point a to point b. I watched the craft for around 5 minutes, and saw another appear far to the right. The first craft flew to the other one (they both flew in the same manner) and I lost them in the treeline. I have seen these same crafts for years. I believe most people wouldn't look watch what appears to be a plane for more than a few seconds so they are probably often overlooked. I will try to get a video asap since I see these so often.
February 13, 2016 · 8:30 PM · LIGHT
Thibodaux, LA
10 craft with red light on the front moving slow at a low altitude flying west then turning north. Once they turned you could not see the red light on the front. There were 10 of these crafts. They were all at different altitudes but obviously traveling together. I could not hear any sound. They got within one mile from me before turning. This was a dark night only a sliver of a moon. Never seen anything like that before.
February 13, 2016 · 6:30 PM · LIGHT
Farmingdale, NY
Stationary very bright and fairly large light in the southwest sky (viewed while traveling south on Route 110 - the sky was clear with no cloud cover). Lasted about 3 minutes. Very quickly shrunk down to a small light and then completely disappeared from the sky. There were no blinking lights to indicate a plane or helicopter. I will never forget what I observed (just FYI I'm an attorney and somewhat skeptical about these so-called sightings, but not anymore ...).
February 13, 2016 · 9:38 AM · LIGHT
Palmer, AK
The flashing light I saw in Palmer on the 10th is still there. I've shown many people and everyone agree that it for surely odd. I've heard responses from friends who hasnt seen it say maybe its a satellite or aircraft of some sort but it makes turns and moves that any human craft is out of the question. Ive seen others around it, alot of shooting star action in all directions, at one time i seen them form a triangle and move around. Which is also wierd i thought was the riduclous amount of airplane/jet action around the UFO hotspot. Which makes me question whether they know that something is in our air space and is investigating it, because i can go out to my garage and watch all this crazy stuff happen right above me at first it made me very nervous but now i just want answers..
February 13, 2016 · 6:07 AM · LIGHT
Traralgon South (Australia) · Australia
Object sighted moving rapidly west appearing as what was a small light thought to be a shooting star initially. The object faded but still visible and then became very bright again contiuning to travel west It was very distant and the distance covered within the short span of approximately 2 minutes was large considering it appeared to be a star. The backgrounds of myself and the other observer are both professionally employed, we had both been of a healthy predisposition. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
February 12, 2016 · 10:05 PM · LIGHT
Ojo Caliente, NM
I retrieved binoculars and was able to see different color lights blinking rapidly clearly. Asked other family members to come verify what is being seen all 6 see the same thing.
February 12, 2016 · 4:38 PM · LIGHT
Hickory Hills, IL
I was stopped at a traffic light on 95th and LaGrange, ready to enter the forest. I took some real good photos of a white light that wasn't wasn't moving over some clouds. The clouds were barely moving right. Then the light disappeared. The traffic light then turned green so I entered the forest. I was driving a see another light in the sky to the left again. I'm not sure if it was the same light or another light that was white colored again but it seemed like it was a little closer but wasn't moving. I attempted another photo but a tree was in the way when attempting taking another photo while driving 50MPH but didn't catch anything. I was now getting closer to the another traffic light by Clawdad Slough. I slowed down and attempted to about to take a photo of it over the slough but it disappears white trying to take a photo. I didn't stay to see if it would come back because I didn't want to be late for work. I posted a video on YouTube that day. I'm late reporting this sighting. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
February 11, 2016 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Lo de Marcos (Mexico) · Mexico
I thought it was a firework flare at first but it kept moving up. Both light form moved and disappeared.
February 11, 2016 · 9:06 PM · LIGHT
IdentifiedChevigny-Saint-Sauveur, Bourgogne · France
Le 11 février 2016 à 21h06, un témoin observe par la fenêtre de son salon, une lumière orangée très scintillante. Il prend une vidéo sur laquelle le témoin constate ensuite la présence d'un petit objet blanc tournant autour de la boule à vive allure. Son épouse présente, constate également le PAN dans le ciel. Un seul témoignage est recueilli sur ce phénomène. La consistance de l'observation est bonne : deux témoins (même si un seul a témoigné) et une vidéo. La vidéo, ses éléments du paysage, sa datation, le visionnage du PAN et la présence de nuages sont cohérents avec le témoignage (voir le compte rendu d'enquête). Un lâché de lanterne thaïlandaise est souvent, plus fréquemment observé lors d'un week-end. Pourtant, cette observation faite un jeudi, du fait des déclarations du témoin, corrobore l’hypothèse de lanterne thaïlandaise. La force du vent : 6km/h est compatible avec un lâché de lanterne. La disparition du PAN, mentionnée par le témoin, est cohérente avec un éloignement du PAN dû au vent. L’aspect brillant, la teinte orangée, le fait que le PAN se situe sous les nuages (sans pluie), les variations de luminosité, contribuent à consolider l’hypothèse de lanterne avec observation d’une flamme vacillante de bougie. Enfin, il existe un champ propice à un lâché à 300 m dans l’axe de vue des témoins. L’étrangeté du phénomène est essentiellement due à l'observation, a posteriori, sur un zoom de la vidéo "d'un petit objet blanc tournant autour de la boule à vive allure". Ce phénomène s’explique par le couplage entre la flamme vacillante, la variation possible de mise au point et le bougé (IPhone tenu à la main) du témoin qui filme. Le GEIPAN classe le cas en A : observation d’une lanterne thaïlandaise. [GEIPAN classification A — Lanterne thai]
February 11, 2016 · 6:45 AM · LIGHT
Ramona, CA
Green colored streak of light moving East to west. Sighted in south east sky at Hwy 67 and Hope St. Looked like a rocket or meteor-like object with a green tail/stream that seemed to burn up or run out of a fuel source and disappear. Witnessed by myself and 16 yr old son. Video captured by a beach camera at Doheny Park, Dana Pt., CA. Object appears to us to be a meteor, streaking from west to east. Please see video on NUFORC homepage. PD
February 11, 2016 · 6:45 AM · LIGHT
Tustin, CA
Streak of light changed color from yelow to lime green going from West to East toward the rising sun. I was traveling south on the 55 freeway near the 5 fwy overpass. It lasted about 10 seconds then disappeared. Video captured by a beach camera at Doheny Park, Dana Pt., CA. Object appears to us to be a meteor, streaking from west to east. Please see video on NUFORC homepage. PD
February 11, 2016 · 6:40 AM · LIGHT
San Diego, CA
Saw light streak across sky, moving from West to East. LED Blue. Slight downward angle. Traveling at very high rate of speed. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
February 11, 2016 · 6:40 AM · LIGHT
South Gate, CA
Witness provides no contact information. PD
February 11, 2016 · 6:30 AM · LIGHT
Oxnard, CA
Video captured by a beach camera at Doheny Park, Dana Pt., CA. Object appears to us to be a meteor, streaking from west to east. Please see video on NUFORC homepage. PD
February 11, 2016 · 3:45 AM · LIGHT
Salinas, CA
A orange/red bright planet shaped light larger than Mars at its brightest it seemed to hover in the central southern sky for about 2 minutes, before instantly disappearing
February 10, 2016 · 6:40 PM · LIGHT
Bean Station, TN
Backing down the driveway, when I looked up into the sky to see a bright green glowing light that then veers away a second or two after spotting it. Very scary, but I know what I saw. Never have saw anything like it, was not an airplane! Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
February 10, 2016 · 4:00 PM · LIGHT
Palmer, AK
2 star like lights flashing red green and blue moving in every direction, also their were shooting star like lights that shot upward and in other directions. Planes were also chasing and around the UFOs.
February 10, 2016 · 10:45 AM · LIGHT
Paradise Valley, AZ
Second night in a row. Two amber lights, hovering in absolute fixed position over Paradise Valley -- the northern neighborhoods of Scottsdale. Bright, faintly flickering, staying absolutely fixed in position over the neighborhood. I asked a fellow-student to come from the drafting studio and have a look. He saw the lights as well. Having watched the lights the night before for twenty minutes I predicted that the second light, the one that appeared to be a little closer to us, would blink out in a minute or two, followed by the first light about a minute later. We speculated what it might be, pointing out how it couldn't be an airplane and was really bright for a drone (and the color would be hard to make, being that drones presently shine LED lights) and other theories. Then the lights did just as I predicted. My friend asked how I knew it would do that, I said that it did the same thing last night. Watched for their return for an hour. Nothing. Will watch tomorrow night, camera ready. If they stay up there long enough, we'll chase them down with a car, get pictures under them. This area has a long history with these lights. They are back. We'll try getting shots of them.
February 10, 2016 · 7:00 AM · LIGHT
Olympia, WA
My husband and I watched a bright light move across the sky Wednesday morning between 7-7:30 am. The second it stopped in the sky I yelled at him to pull out his phone. It caught our eye because it was close and very bright, but there were no red or green lights to identify it as an airplane. At the point in which my husband starts recording- you can see the light remaining still for some time. Then it just starts to sort of drop down. We are so far away from the object... But I was really hoping to get a second opinion. I have not found anything online (aside from ufo sightings) that matches our experience. The video was too large to send from his phone, so I had him upload it to YouTube. I will send the link in a separate email.
February 10, 2016 · 5:20 AM · LIGHT
Lewiston, ID
I was out delivering papers at 5:20 a.m. pacific standard time in Lewiston, Idaho today February 10, 2016. I happened to look above me as something caught my eye moving across the sky. At first, glance I knew it was something incredible that I had never seen before. The size, shape and color of light it produced looked as though it was a satellite like so many I had seen before moving across the night sky; but it was very apparent that it was not. The reason being is that this light producing object had a very distinct ring around it. The ring could be described as something like a bubble, halo or a type of force field around it. The longer I watched it the more interesting things got. The movement seemed to slow and as it did, the ring became larger and larger until it seemed to dissipate except for the right side that looked as though it was shooting air or some kind of gas from within the object. The only conclusion I came up with is that it was some sort of toroidal or merkabah vehicle where I was seeing the energy being created by the craft shoot out and surround itself with it. Very fascinating it was!!
February 10, 2016 · 5:15 AM · LIGHT
Gresham, OR
I have only seen one other thing in my life that would qualify as a UFO and that was over Death Valley years ago. In the daytime and a very physical looking object it was. The below described phenomena was quite different. I am a professional photographer (sorry did not have a camera on me - I was outside smoking my first cigarette of the new day) and was raised as an Air Force brat and have always watched movements in the sky just out of curiosity. I guess it comes from always wanting to know what kind of plane was flying over head. Hey, I was a cold war baby. OK so now to what I saw this morning. Looking up into still very dark morning sky, many stars still quite bright and visible, and just at the head of a vaporous string of light clouds moving to east, I noticed two perfect illuminated semi circles creating a broken full circle of light moving together as if facing each other. They were traveling South West directly overhead, over Gresham, at a very consistent rate of speed. That broken but perfectly shaped semi-circle expanded slowly until it reached a consistent point, that if it was, let’s say at 70,000 ft, would be three or four hundred yards across. Off to side there was a flash of bright but contained light. Almost as if a large star just appeared and then disappeared. The broken semi circle of illuminated light kept moving in it’s original direction. The bright flash of light happened again but this time in front of the moving broken semi circle. The light again seemed to disappear. But then reappeared almost immediately at the head of the the forward part of the semi circle. At this point in the dark morning sky there were no illuminated vaporous clouds that were visible in the slightly to the north sky when I first noticed this phenomena. The trailing part of the semi circle band of vaporous light just disappeared and the forward semi circle now reshaped itself into a strange funnel shape as if illuminating directly out of the bright star like light, but off to it’s side - in a different orientation then it’s preceding travel shape. Both the bright star-like light and the funnel vaporous light traveled together in the same South West direction and then both instantly disappeared for no apparent reason. I would like to back up and rephrase that when the leading semi circle changed it’s shape and orientation, it’s shape defied what one would think of as either a light illuminating out into the atmosphere or a plane’s light or illuminated rocket exhaust. Imagine a star moving that had a headlight shining off to side at an angle but the light pattern was semi thick for several hundred feet as it moved away from bright light and then mushroomed out in a strange pattern and at the end point of it’s beam and made a perfect concave semi-circle. Almost as if it was a strange, physics defying light that was illuminating an invisible perfect circle, while moving. Again, the concave pattern at the end of this vaporous light range stopping as if it was illuminating an invisible large circle off to the back and side of this bright star-like light. I have never seen anything like it in all my years.
February 10, 2016 · 3:45 AM · LIGHT
Kingsburg, CA
Rocket launch from Vandenberg AFB. PD
February 9, 2016 · 9:15 PM · LIGHT
Fredonia, PA
I go out to smoke when i'm at my sisters house so at the time described I was outside on her porch I saw a light in the sky and it was odd because there was light snow and low ceiling (2350) I found out later on the aircraft weather web site. the 1st object I had seen originated from north to south towards me then came to a stop headed east until out of sight the next was from the same direction of origin as the first did the same behavior came as close as 1/2 mile turned to the east and traveled until out of sight the 3rd came from a slightly different angle still north to south came to the same turning location turned and went east until out of sight visibility that night was 5 miles last week I seen 3 other objects that looked like shiny standard aircraft higher in altitude but no vapor trail that followed the same pattern
February 9, 2016 · 9:15 PM · LIGHT
Paradise Valley, AZ
Amber light flickered into bright position, remaining positioned rigidly over North Scottsdale (Paradise Valley), occasionally flickering out, then returning, and sometimes joined by identical amber light close by at approximately same altitude, neither light moving. Light faded, then repeatedly returned over twenty minute period. May have been farther off, perhaps over Phoenix, but from hillside position, appeared between Camelback Mountain and McDowell Mountains, over neighborhood.