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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.
2,257 entries
May 13, 2015 · 9:50 PM · FLASH
Colorado Springs, CO
Caught two flashes and one very slow trailing object in the night sky. Flashes were bright and dimmed slowly. Two front objects were moving at about twice the speed of an aircraft. Most likely two front objects were around cruising altitude for airliners and trailing object appeared much higher. (( One of
May 11, 2015 · 10:30 PM · FLASH
Dallas, TX
Went to get trash can outside of home. Saw pulsating lights w/ blue and red stop, then move from north, heading south. Assumed ghetto bird, but no sound. Second object followed behind minutes later. Felt like they could see me. Weird.
May 10, 2015 · 11:30 PM · FLASH
Villa Rica, GA
At approximately 11:30 PM ET on 10 May, 2015, I walked out onto my back screened porch. The weather was clear and no moon was present within my field of view. Standing out on the porch facing south, I noticed a white strobe that flashed three times within a two second period. What made this seem so unusual was the large amount of space between the location of each strobe flash as the object traveled from east to west. A few seconds later, I saw the strobe flash three more times but the distance the object had traveled during the second set of three strobe flashes seemed extreme. I continued to watch and saw the final three strobe flashes to my far right as they disappeared behind some trees in the yard next to me. Looking up into the sky, the distance between the first time I saw the strobe until the second time, I estimate the object traveled across about 20% of the visible skyline/horizon. There was no noise from the object. I cut through my house ! and went out the front door to look to my west to see if the object had appeared on the other side of the trees, but it was gone. I retired from the USAF with over 28 years and the only time I have seen anything pass by so quickly was watching a low-level F-15 fighter jet fly-by at sub-supersonic speeds. If it were a jet flying at subsonic or supersonic speed, there should have been some engine noise. I estimate the object had to be higher than 3,000 feet above the ground. The angle of the flight path above the horizon was around 50 degrees.
May 9, 2015 · 11:20 PM · FLASH
Bentonville, AR
4 while flashy objects fly around and then met at a center point. Again they spread and met at the same point. This happened more than 30 minutes and is still happening.
May 9, 2015 · 6:30 PM · FLASH
Metairie, LA
We were driving across the Causeway and saw bright white oval flashes in the sky to the left of the sun no thunder/lighting, blue skies.
May 2, 2015 · 9:00 PM · FLASH
Fredericktown, MO
Observed a white, blinking light while looking towards the western horizon about 9:30 in the evening. I was out in the yard enjoying a small bonfire with my husband. I saw a single blink and then there was a two or three second delay followed by another blink of this light. The second blink occurred a distance away from where I saw the first, as if it were travelling in an eastern direction coming towards my location. One more blink followed a few seconds later and in a spot slightly further away than the last, again, as though it were travelling towards us. Then the blinking stopped all together. This lasted about 10 seconds total. I kept my eye in this area of the sky for at about three minutes and even looked in the approximate line of travel and didn’t see the light again. It was like the light was turned off or whatever was creating the light disappeared completely. Approximately five minutes after that sighting, I kept looking in a western direction but scanned over towards the north, then saw one blink while looking in that direction. Again I kept looking for several minutes in this area of the sky, but didn’t see any more blinking like that there…however an obvious jet did fly over coming from the east with red and white blinking lights that were more “strobe like” with no long pauses between, like the blinking I’d seen earlier. Additionally there was jet sound with the plane while there was no sound when I saw the mysterious blinking. I tried to point out the first set of lights to my husband, but he didn’t spot the final blink despite looking in that direction.
April 28, 2015 · 9:20 PM · FLASH
Culver, OR
A buddy and I were driving home from Madras, south on US highway 97 when I (the passenger) saw a giant, bright gold/yellow colored orb flash very low in the sky/horizon. This light flashed at exact intervals moving north, back toward Madras, about 10 miles away--this all happened in roughly 10 seconds. My friend also saw the light flash a few times when he looked through the rear window of our truck, at its furthest point until it wasn't able to be seen. I have never seen anything like this and have absolutely no explanation what it could have been in this rural area of high desert farmland--I have driven this stretch of highway hundreds of times in early evening, during the night. Again, this light was massive in size, like somebody turned on a giant floodlight, each flash equidistant and at exact intervals. The amount of distance it moved in such a short span of time is unexplainable.
April 24, 2015 · 3:00 AM · FLASH
Fredonia, NY
I was at a friends house climbing under his bed to get a ball that had rolled under it at about 10 pm. Then I blink my eyes and im laying down staring at the ceiling on his couch in his room with a blanket on top of me, that was originally in the washing machine down stairs. I look at the clock it was 3 am about 6 hours later. I then looked over at my 3rd friend who was staring at the wall i yelled to him he didnt respond, i found that i was unable to move my body and i felt very "out of it" almost like i was drugged. My 2nd friend who was laying down into his bed then said dude what the fuck happened, i blinked and i woke up here in my bed last i remember i was at my computer desk typing a paper. his paper was still open on the computer screen. I dont remember any of this and he said this it what happens when you get visited, and i said what do you mean visited? and he said by aliens like we were probably taken and then put back, we then turn our! heads to the 3rd friend who is still standing staring at the wall we both yell to him he dosent move. He keeps standing and staring at the wall, we kept yelling, i finally gett up, it was like my body had been freed of what ever was keeping me from moving. still standing the third friend turns around and his eyes are completely white. He then shakes his head looks down and grabs his long board and leaves the hose, he had no memory of the incident, he said he didnt even remember walking home, we then get up and go visit my 4th friend in the other bedroom, he said the lights got turned on at about 12 am my girl friend and i could see bright lights under the door , we just thought you guys were smoking, but none of us had gotten up to smoke more. my 2nd friend and i remember hearing a humming sound and mumbling of voices. We will post this report, only because we are rather liberal in our policy regarding reports of dubious authenticity, but we suspect that this may be a hoax. PD
April 18, 2015 · 11:40 PM · FLASH
Muskogee, OK
What we had seen was what looked like a giant sparkled low in the sky watched it for at least 10 minister was coming from North East to north west can someone tell us what it was it had no tail to it just sparkles like a sparkler unknown to us and it was moveing fast what ever it was.. thanks. Witness provides bogus date and contact information. Hoax. PD
April 12, 2015 · 9:30 PM · FLASH
Sooke (Canada), BC · Canada
I know what satellites look like as they flash when travelling across the sky. What I saw seemed very different. It was a series of bright flashes coming from a single point in the sky. Sort of like if someone were to turn a flashlight on and off a few times in the dark. I'm pretty careful not to jump to conclusions, so just chalked this up to strange and unusual. I've had a couple of other strange and unusual sightings, this one not as impressive - but it seemed strange nevertheless so posted it. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 9, 2015 · 10:25 PM · FLASH
Springville, UT
Sitting in the hot tub at 10:25 pm Thursday night my wife and I notice a medium bright flash, about as bright as the brightest star out that night. My wife, a major UFO skeptic, saw a flash overhead and south of us, about 10 degrees from vertical overhead. I am a journalist and a trained skeptic, but a UFO buff. About 5 seconds later it flashed again, but this time to the left of where it had been. A few seconds later it flashed again, about 25 degrees south. There was no sound, and the flashes equaled the brightest star out at the time in the overhead sky. The Big Dipper was visible to our 11 o'clock if facing south. The flashes were brighter than it. Trying to determine what we were seeing, we ruled out what we knew: There is an air traffic lane from Denver coming over the mountain range to the east, on approach to salt lake airport. There is a life flight helicopter that makes frequent runs along the mountain range between spanish fork canyon and provo ho! spital. There are occasional helicopters flying north and south to the west, either private or military, going to or from either spanish fork or provo airports or salt lake international, or military helis going to Hill AFB or camp Williams. There is a park the next block south of us where Hobby planes are flown. And one night a brightly lit UAV was flown " dang, wasn't a UFO!", we have seen satellites and shooting stars from our back yard. It was none of those. Aircraft may appear promising at first, but after a minute you can see their nav lights flashing regularly and they generally move along air traffic lanes. Another flash caught our eye, at a 30 degree position, farther south. It flashed a little fainter, about as bright as the medium brightest star out, and flashed at random times 15-30 seconds apart, moving down to 50 degrees, left 15 degrees, left and up about 10 degrees, then right 20 degrees and down, then right again, flashing dimmer and dimmer, we ! assumed it must be moving south while flashing consistently br! ight. Th ere was a slight amount of light pollution from downtown and a shopping center and walmart due east about two miles. There was minimal cloud cover, almost completely clear with one or two thin wispy clouds. I was staring directly overhead when a clear bright flash occurred in front of or through a cloud. None of the flashes seemed to close, all seemed to be far away. one appeared IN a cloud, lighting up the surrounding vapor like a headlight in a fog for a brief second. The flash appeared again to the right of the first position, moving by about 10 degrees. I did not see it again. The flashes seemed to be moving in general directions south, but not directly. Appearing randomly in clustered areas as they generally moved southward. The brightest 2 flashes overhead did not appear to have a general direction of travel. In January this year There were UFO reports over Duschesne county in the northeastern part of the state near Vernal, near where the famous Hardware Ranch is locat! ed. Within days at least 3 cattle mutilations were also reported, although news reports and police reports were pretty general and bland. Like they didn't want to say much about it. Cattle mutilations and UFO sightings, usually within the same time frames, have been frequent in this part of the state for 40 years or more. So yeah, my wife and I saw 3 UFOs! We seriously question whether this is a serious report. Source indicates he is a journalist, but he doesn't write with the skill we would expect of a professional writer. PD
April 5, 2015 · 10:50 PM · FLASH
Kittitas/Ellensburg, WA
My girlfriend and I were on I-90 headed west when we both saw a low flashing light about 30-50 feet from the ground traveling at a high rate of speed flashing every second. The object was traveling parallel to the freeway heading east. It was about 100-150 feet away from us as it passed by. I couldn't see a shape or any sign of a ship. Just the flashing light and as it got close it was very dark behind the light. When the flashing light passed us, I looked and to see how far it was going, I was that it keep flashing at the same speed still heading east. The speed that it was traveling was more then 150 mph. I really want to know what I saw tonight.
April 3, 2015 · 10:00 PM · FLASH
Juneau, AK
Light 15 minutes Seen a few move across sky through the Big Dipper, last one seemed to bright flashes on and off. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
March 31, 2015 · 5:45 AM · FLASH
Adelaide (Australia), SA · Australia
My interest in the night sky came in the month of December 2014. My father had passed away as a result of an accident. Like all families there are items that must be past on or sold. My fathers car had a pair of binoculars in the back seat. One night I took them out to view the night sky, I haven't stop since. This morning I was up early as I have a very painful disease called peripheral neuropathy, chronic pain. I took my medication and thought its a clear sky I'll take a look outside. I saw many satellites over head in all directions, I was about to head in when I saw a white light flash, I immediately pointed the binoculars to that position, it wasn't a plane as there were no flashing navigation lights as 2 at or around 35-40 feet had come from the west with vapour trail minutes before. Secondly this track is not used by aviation airlines. There is no land mass south south west of Australia. Only the great Australian bight. This was not a passenger aircraft, and the height and speed would have been similar to a low range orbiting satellite. It had a flashing on white light, every 1 1/2 seconds, Correct me if I am wrong, but satellites don't emit flashing white lights on and off? I would be interested if anyone else had the same experience.
March 20, 2015 · 12:52 AM · FLASH
Moore, OK
Soon after the white flash came up again and we were concerned. After a minute a greenish teal color flashed, and it looked as if the sun was shining...that is how bright it looked.
March 15, 2015 · 3:05 AM · FLASH
Toledo, OH
I deliver food for a company in Toledo, Ohio, and I saw a bright flash of light in the sky twice in about 10 seconds or so and it was green in color I have never seen anything like it before it was also reported on the news the same day and I heard someone got the flash on camera so me and my girlfriend weren't the only ones that saw it
March 13, 2015 · 9:45 PM · FLASH
Mesa, AZ
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
March 11, 2015 · 11:30 PM · FLASH
Reading, PA
Just relaxing outside in the car and seen a "star" moving in the sky. A friend and I got out of the car and watched it move behind the trees, went back in the car and as soon as we sat in the seats a huge flat flash moves in front of us at the top part of the sky with something in the front, a blue color it had 2 dark blue colored roundish shapes in the front of it. It was beautiful but very strange. It died out fast, wish we knew what it was. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
March 11, 2015 · 7:23 AM · FLASH
Miami, FL
This morning as I drove north on SW 88 Street, approaching the turnpike, I noticed this yellow and red streak in the sky for several minutes. As I entered the turnpike a cloud covered it and the streak disappeared? I took a picture with phone and the streak it not too visible in the pic. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
March 11, 2015 · 5:13 AM · FLASH
Lansing, NY
I was driving to work 5:13 am, when I saw a huge flash of light that lite up the entire sky, at first it was a teal blue/green then it changed to pink then purple back to a teal then dissipated. There was no sound. It lasted for about 6 seconds. You could clearly see the changing of colors. There were no beams...the whole sky lit up. I hope someone besides me witnessed this. The flash came from the North end of Cayuga Lake.
March 8, 2015 · 7:55 PM · FLASH
Wahiawa, HI
While stargazing, my wife and I observed a flashing white light between Sirus and Procyon. It flashed once about every 15 seconds but did not change position. It was about as bright as Jupiter, which was much further to the left. This continued for approximately three minutes. I stayed out and waited for about thirty more minutes but did not see it again. I was using binoculars, but could not see it between blinks. It was very small,as if seeing a bright star blink. I am ex-military and a private pilot, this was not any type of anti-collision light and the light did not move. This report originally was posted with a flawed date. We have corrected the date above, and re-post the report. PD
March 5, 2015 · 6:30 PM · FLASH
San Ramon, CA
Our living room window face north where we have a clear view of Mt. Diablo. This particular evening, my daughter and I were home while my husband was at work teaching evening classes. While our daughter was doing her homework at the table, I was getting ready to close our blinds. I saw this white streak of light or something that caught my attention and it flew from left to right near the top of Mount Diablo from my vantage point. Having only been here since June of last summer, we were excited to be back in California from North Carolina. My hair stood on end because in my mind, I knew what I saw and while I was processing this, I didn't t want to believe this. I asked around and apparently found out that this area in the Central Valley/East Bay (San Ramon) area is known to be a hot spot for activity. This truly scares me because I'm so used to hearing/seeing this in the media but never did I expect to see what I had seen that evening. It truly scares me. I won't go near there as I know people hike the territory etc., when I drive into work every morning, to be honest, I'm scared to death of walking to my car because it's so dark and creepy here. It really is. For anyone that knows this area well, it is. I wish we had known this prior to moving here.
March 5, 2015 · 6:30 AM · FLASH
Indianapolis, IN
On March 5, 2015, in Speedway, in Indianpols. I seen in the speedway race track fans camping field area a very bright out of this world light blue flashing lights that lite up the dark sky. Almost look like a transformer had blown but there wasn't any noise and it happen 3 differentt times. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
March 2, 2015 · 11:00 PM · FLASH
Vista, CA
After a while, it finally began to go the opposite way, so it looked like it was getting smaller and smaller. Possible star or planet? PD