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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
December 18, 2015 · 5:31 AM · LIGHT
Taos, NM
I saw two beams of light appear, shooting from the horizon of the mountain, that moved across the sky right to left, one, then the next. Then all of a sudden, center stage, behind the tallest point of the Sangre De Cristos, a big blast of light right behind the whole range, lit up the entire sky. I didn't know what I was seeing?!
December 18, 2015 · 5:00 AM · LIGHT
Beaverton, OR
I opened my front door which faces west and a pulsating light in the southwestern sky caught my attention. It changed from white to orange to green to blue at the same time; I know that sounds weird. I stood and watched it for about ten minutes when a second one appeared above the first one, both pulsating the same colors. It drifted about 5 degrees in the sky towards the horizon and I lost sight of it at 15 minutes. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 17, 2015 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
North Minneapolis, MN
Sighting lasted from 9:30-9:48 pm (18-20 minutes) Started out as a brighter than usual light that looked like a big bright star in the southeastern sky in North Minneapolis. It was a clear night with stars visible and with few clouds in the night sky. It seemed like it (the light) was almost directly over the downtown Minneapolis area, it was a bright light somewhat at airplane altitude,that changed colors, or at least it seemed to, it was white and blue and green at times, it looked like it was constantly changing colors. Was bigger than the common commercial drone since I was able to see it from north Minneapolis and it was about the size of a pea or smaller, so a pea would block it completely if held up at arms length. It had many strange movements that caught my eye while I was outside picking up food. It stayed stationary and moved left to right across the sky very slowly. It then stopped moving and stayed stationary until it started moving slowly upwards while staying in the same place ascending towards a bunch of clouds in the upper layer of the sky. The light stayed there for a long time just underneath the clouds. I had time to go back inside my house and so I watched it from the window until it slowly went upwards again towards the layer of clouds which by that time the clouds had become thicker and had been moved by the wind towards the downtown area. So it basically disappeared into the clouds while slowly ascending towards what seemed to me upwards towards the stratosphere.There was no sound,I did see what I believe to be two helicopters or aircraft flying through the area further northeast of the object around the same time frame, they only had red lights not the usual green-go, white and red-stop lights that I'm used to seeing when other hospital helicopters fly by. Experience was strange and exiting, I felt very excited since it was out of the usual night sky and I believe that there is life in other planets.
December 17, 2015 · 6:30 PM · LIGHT
Ventura, CA
My wife and I were traveling east on the 126 between Victoria and Kimball. Just prior to reaching the Kimball exit, we both observed a very bright light suddenly appear in the sky over Saticoy or maybe Santa Paula. We both watched it as it began to move toward the ground. Our first impression was that it may have been a meteor but then it began to emit a blue light and increase speed rapidly before turning to an orange glow and then disappearing below the treeline. I work in aerospace and I'm familiar with both military and civilian aircraft. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 17, 2015 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Petaluma, CA
I was walking my dogs in front of house. I live in rural area out by coast guard station in w Petaluma. I saw a bright light for about 8 seconds. Looked at it a couple times. Looked back and it was gone. Then a plane flew over me, but what I saw was not a plane. It was extremely bright white light in a star shape almost.
December 16, 2015 · 11:54 PM · LIGHT
Kenmore, NY
I was taking a bag of garbage to the curb, and since is was partly clear, I looked up at the constellation of Orion. (My home faces due South ). Off to my right a noticed a red light in the sky at about 40 degrees elevation. Since there is quite a bit of air traffic usually heading for Buffalo International Airport, I at first thought it was a plane. Then I noticed there were several small lights (yellowish-white) blinking left and right with not apparent pattern of the steady red light. The object proceeded from the SW to NE at a steady pace until it passed almost overhead to my East. I could not see any shape, just the lights but it had the odd effect of looking like it was moving side to side and forward at the same time. I at no time hear any type of engine noise of a jet. prop or helicopter. As it passe over the house I lost sight of it so took the garbage to the tote. When I turned around the object had changed direction to WSW. The red light still appeared to be in the center with the random flashing lights on either side. As it was almost out of view it passed close and below a small patch of clouds which became dimly lit with white light. I had no idea the altitude the object was at, so when I went inside I checked for cloud ceiling on my computer. There were scattered clouds at 10,14 and 23,000 ft. My guess the clouds I saw were at 10,000 ft. I never did notice any green lights. The impression of the shape would be a rectangle, but I could not make out any solid object.
December 16, 2015 · 6:35 PM · LIGHT
New Boston, TX
Standing at my back door looking east, saw bright object which appeared to be a star, just to the right of it another what appeared to be a star not as bright and to the right of that another not very bright. The object to the far right started moving downward and as I was watching the other 2 objects the large and smaller one they just disappeared. Two commercial jets flew over to the left of the area where the objects disappeared a few minutes later and it was easy to tell they were commercial planes with their flashing red lights, they were no where as high as the objects that disappeared.
December 16, 2015 · 5:35 AM · LIGHT
Michigan City, IN
I pulled up against a grassy areas with the background of trees and beyond that apartment complexes. I always arrive on or about that time and one day before this encounter I heard dogs cry with most unusual sounds, yet I thought nothing of it, until Wednesday, December 16, 2015. As stated, I encountered this strange looking object that ran into the grass and while I was watching it, the object began to start a communication signal the eye socks were blinking like off and on...then it went diagonally with lights turning, from white, red, blue or greenish. I picked up my cell pointed in the direction of this light and captured the first .55 seconds, at which I was looking for my IPAD to capture more yet, I continued with the cell phone and captured 2.45minutes of the remaining observation of this unknown object. I informed a co-worker arrived approximately 06:15 and asked him accompany me out that general once day light arrived. We both gone out and seen nothing or no trace of what I was seeing. However, it was appromiately 15:00hrs, one hour before my departure from work that I showed the captured unknown object to my co-workers and it was then that I notice other unknown object, approximately 11 of them flying and around trees and a few were within the grass area. Well, the recording will tell the story from there. I am not sure what it is or who but I do know it is not something I ever encounter before.
December 15, 2015 · 7:10 PM · LIGHT
Mesa, AZ
As I was driving home from dropping my daughter at Volleyball practice in Gilbert, AZ, while driving east on Germann Rd near Higley Rd, I saw lights, about 2 miles up, directly over Phoenix Mesa Gateway Airport (KIWA.) The lights successively lit up from right to left with a bright amber points of light. I believe there were about 6 of them. After each light lit up and the one next to it lit up, it would go dim and disappear. After arriving home around 7:15pm, I immediately called the Airport's "Aviation Services, fixed base operations," and the lady that answered the phone said that they just heard the tower address the lights and nobody knows what they were or how they ended up directly above runway 12R-30L. She said it was very strange, but had no explanation. I am an aviation enthusiast and am very familiar with anomalies in the skies.
December 15, 2015 · 5:38 PM · LIGHT
Oakland, KY
Saw a stationary light to the south. Almost looked like it was trying to break into smaller lights. An airplane went into the same vicinity and when it got close the light just vanished and never came back. What we thought was a star just disappeared and I know stars don't do that. It never came back. We have been seeing a.strange light everyday at dusk.
December 15, 2015 · 3:00 AM · LIGHT
Loxahatchee, FL
Observed a round light traveling up and down, back and forth traveling away from us. The light resembled what a star would look like except it was moving and would flash red. We sat in chairs in the yard and continually had to move them to continue to watch as it slowly drifted further away from us. We watched for an hour until it was to difficult to see any longer. Sighting of Venus or Jupiter?? PD
December 15, 2015 · 1:00 AM · LIGHT
New Haven (Fair Haven/East Haven), CT
It's very dark and cloudy out I saw a star coming out the clouds but it got brighter and brighter then dim out.It did the same thing twice. When it got brighter it got big and had for points like this + very bright light like head lights on a car but very bright. I don't know what I just saw? Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 15, 2015 · 1:00 AM · LIGHT
Camden, MI
I was driving home when I noticed a bright orange light near the horizon of the western sky. I live in the country, so it is not possible that the light could be from a city. The light would grow brighter and larger in size, then would fade a bit and become smaller. My cell phone camera was all I had on hand, and unfortunately it does not take great night shots.
December 14, 2015 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Wichita, KS
Briefly saw two lights while looking from my yard in west Wichita, very rapidly moving eastward in what appeared to be a coordinated, curving, no-equidistant formation. Much faster than known aircraft and did not fit things like meteors or laser pointers. The two lights left my field of view when they passed a local tree line. The sighting was only for a couple of seconds. I am a professional pilot and was a little fatigued at the time. However, if it was only a fatigue-induced hallucination, it is odd the lights vanished at the tree line. I really do not know what I saw, but wanted to share.
December 14, 2015 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Golden, CO
I was in my bed at home, around 9:00. I looked out the window (facing west) and noticed some strange lights, there we're 4 lights that looked like stars in the south west direction. However, these were no stars seeing as these lights were a vibrant, dark, green. I looked it up and saw that it is impossible for a star to be green, plus not all of them were being covered by clouds. 3 out of the 4 had disappeared, maybe by clouds? So now afraid that I was running out of time I asked my sister to come up stairs and look at them. She confirmed the light and as she was looking I saw 3 more of the same lights exept these ones were closer to the horizon and dawned just above a roof top. These ones are a lot harder to spot than the first one I saw from the original 4. Again, these look like stars ans twinkle but are a green color and not all are being covered by clouds. We suspect that the witnesses may have been looking at "twinkling" stars. PD
December 14, 2015 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Russell Springs, KY
A friend and myself were taking a walk together with my dog and we were talking about how we didn't get to see the Geminid meteor shower and while talking about it we looked up and noticed objects looking like stars but brighter and they numbered to be prolly 40 or 50 of them. What was even stranger was that some of them traveled in shape if a triangle. They were all traveling from east to west and was moving without producing any noise at all. Also noticed that they were trying to stay in the clouds like they were trying to stay hid. Thats what really freaked me out. I know this sounds insane but this makes 5 times ive seen something i cldnt explain in my lifetime and every time it happened i had a witness with me. Once was in broad daylight and it was a ufo and i told everybody nd noone believed me until it came out in the neespaper. What i saw tonight was different.
December 14, 2015 · 6:30 PM · LIGHT
Gilbert, AZ
There were lights floating in the sky near Williams Gateway Airport in Queen Creek. Individual lights would move in from the South East and float into formation with the others. They would float like a lava lamp, until one faded off into the distance while a new one flew into view from the SE. This was viewed by me and my two sons. The lights were orangy-umber. Video did not come out as the street lights seemed to blind out the lights in the distance.
December 13, 2015 · 7:10 PM · LIGHT
Mooresville, NC
I was driving west on highway 152 and noticed a bright light that looked like a jet but then another appeared close to that light and then another till there were 4 or 5 lights. They seemed the meander around each other. I saw them from Deal Rd. till I lost visibility as I crossed in to Mooresville city limits.
December 13, 2015 · 12:10 AM · LIGHT
Wilmington, NC
There was no sound.
December 12, 2015 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Tampa, FL
At about 9:30 p.m. when he witnessed a strange light in the sky. There was about 11 of us who witnessed it. It was a large white light that hovered about 45 minutes, and then disappeared within a split second. I live within a half a mile from MacDill Air Force Base, so I've heard of UFO sightings near bases. This is the first time I have witnessed this. I have also witnessed another UFO sighting when I was about 9 years old. I am now 43. I don't remember too much of the details on that sighting.
December 12, 2015 · 6:14 PM · LIGHT
IdentifiedVendays-Montalivet, Aquitaine · France
Le 12 décembre 2015 à 18h10, deux habitants de VENDAYS-MONTALIVET (33) sortent dehors pour observer un flash de satellite Iridium. A 18h14, ils voient un point brillant en déplacement s'éteindre puis se rallumer deux ou trois fois de suite. L'observation du PAN dure trente secondes. Un seul témoignage est recueilli. La description du PAN comme un point lumineux semblable à une étoile en déplacement et s'éteignant et se rallumant plusieurs fois est caractéristique de l’observation d’un satellite artificiel en rotation très rapide sur lui-même. La reconstitution sur Calsky des passages satellitaires montre que l'un d'eux peut correspondre à la fois au niveau de l'horaire et aussi de la trajectoire : SL-23 R/B, numéroté selon les désignations internationales 41107 et 2015-074-C. Il est d'ailleurs à noter que sa trajectoire du Sud-Ouest vers l'Est a culminé à une quarantaine de degrés angulaires, ce qui est cohérent avec l'estimation de hauteur du PAN donnée par le témoin (voir le compte rendu d'enquête). D’étrangeté moyenne, mais de consistance suffisante, ce cas s'avère être une méprise assez rare avec un passage d'étage de fusée Zenit peu de temps après son lancement. La trajectoire du PAN ainsi que sa description correspondent parfaitement avec celle de l'objet SL-23 R/B, très bien visible au moment de l'observation. De plus, une observation visuelle de cet objet a permis de confirmer son caractère variable et spectaculaire. Ce cas est classé A, méprise avec un satellite, impliquant l'étage de fusée SL-23 R/B numéroté 2015-074-C. [GEIPAN classification A — Éléments de fusée]
December 12, 2015 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Fayetteville, NC
was at my friends house near rim rd and cliffdale when I saw a light slowly pulsating upwards, pause for a few seconds, and then at a constant rate downwards. I pointed it out to my friend and his wife and they saw it as well. The sky was cloudy and It seemed too high to be any sort of drone. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 11, 2015 · 5:15 AM · LIGHT
Burlington, WI
No trail, so I don`t think it was a meteor.
December 11, 2015 · 5:00 AM · LIGHT
Oakland Township, MI
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. Possible hoax?? PD