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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.
4,558 entries
February 21, 2020 · 6:30 AM · FORMATION
Val Caron (Canada), ON · Canada
I was on my deck at 6:30 am and I saw lights in formation and also some in triangular shape going from west to east. I also saw a satelite cross path going south to north. The lights were as bright as the stars. I couldn't believe what I was seeing.
February 21, 2020 · 5:25 AM · FORMATION
Jay, VT
I do seasonal work at a resort in Jay Vermont. Before going to sleep, I stepped outside to have a cigarette. I often look at the stars to watch for anything of not when I noticed a line of what looked like “moving star” slowly making their way from west to east. I immediately ran inside an found one friend because I could not believe my eyes, because there were four at first in a triangle formation. He pointed more out to me coming from the same direction, west to east. I noted that they were traveling almost parallel to the US/Canadian border. My friend still watching, I woke another friend up, who was at first skeptical. He came outside and confirmed what we were seeing. At one point, a single “star” shoot north over the horizon in a bright arc near the end of the event. It lasted long enough that my friends went back to sleep. The objects usually faded into the breaking light of dawn from beyond the horizon, but the last one I could spot shot off like a “! bright bullet” into the eastern sky.
February 19, 2020 · 10:38 PM · FORMATION
Bend, OR
I have two pairs of NV7 Gen3 night vision googles. I was in my backyard with a friend, showing him my using a handheld laser to point out anything of interest. We were both looking through googles when the incident occurred. We had been looking around for things moving for about 10 minutes when my friend shouted for me to look straight up. He first spotted five points of light in a perfect triangular formation moving from south to north at a very rapid speed. He said that he saw the formation at about a 40 degree angle to the south. When I saw it, it was pretty much directly above us. I immediately shined my 2 watt handheld blue laser towards the formation and immediately the formation began to split up, with the lights on each side of the formation breaking out at an incredibly fast rate. The formation disappeared behind a tree in my yard. The entire incident lasted 4-6 seconds.
February 19, 2020 · 7:03 AM · FORMATION
Playa Guiones (Costa Rca) · Costa Rica
A trail of white lights in the sky moving in a small arc South East , off the coast of Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica.
February 19, 2020 · 5:45 AM · FORMATION
Ritzville, WA
My wife and I were leaving the hotel parking lot, getting into separate vehicles, and saying our goodbyes, when after a hug, my wife said, look at those lights in the sky. I turned around and looked up and noticed a string of lights moving west to east. At first she thought they were airplanes flying in a line, but looked more to me like they were much to high in the atmosphere to be planes. We watched for about 10 minutes, give or take, while a string of crafts moved across the sky. We could have seen anywhere between 40 to 50, maybe more, as they crossed the sky. The line of crafts came to an end, and we hit the road. There may have been more before we actually noticed them in the sky. we wouldn't have even noticed them if she hadn't been looking in the sky while we were hugging each other goodbye. They looked just like the rest of the stars in the sky. my wife tried to video the objects, but they were too faint to capture.
February 18, 2020 · 10:15 PM · FORMATION
Sutton, MA
My Husband and I were driving Central Turnpike in Sutton heading towards Oxford and we saw a stream of low lights over hovering over the soccer field. It was too low to be an airplane, and much too large to be a drone. We turned around to see it some more, but when we got closer it vanished.
February 17, 2020 · 7:15 PM · FORMATION
Wailea, Maui, HI
We were at the Grand Wailea Hotel on the lawn just prior to the beach when my daughter spotted a string of lights move in unison across the sky. She pointed it out to her mom and myself (dad) and we watched these lights move in unison like a bead pearl necklace across the sky in formation from North to South. They moved in complete unison as if attached, and at times faded in brightness in and out. It moved pretty slowly and I managed to get video on my cellphone as they went out of view. Interestingly, friends of ours (2) on the big Island witnessed the same event from their island at approximately the same time we found out the next day.
February 16, 2020 · 8:15 PM · FORMATION
Waxahachie, TX
February 16, 2020 at about 8:15 pm, my girlfriend and I saw a formation of about 20 to 25 objects fly directly over our house. The formation was a flattened V-shape, flying about 100 to 200 feet high. The objects were identical. Each object looked like an elongated arrow head with a line straight down the middle, and they had a V-shaped indentation on the rear. The formation was travelling about 100 mph. No sound. No lights, but they had a white/greenish glow. At first we both thought they were birds, but after getting a good look, we could see they were not birds. After it flew over the house, I ran around to the other side of the house to see where it went, but it disappeared. No pictures or videos because we were stunned by the sight of this. By the time we gathered our thoughts, it was gone.
February 16, 2020 · 7:00 PM · FORMATION
Springfield, OH
My friend was driving me home, when above the reservoir we saw a formation of 20 or more orange lights stretching across the sky. It looked like they were hovering 200 to 300 feet off the ground. They seemed to have a reddish glow in the center of the mass it almost looked on fire. When my friend was driving back from dropping me off they were gone.
February 15, 2020 · 12:30 PM · FORMATION
North Hollywood, CA
There were about 15 glinting objects that were floating through the sky, I couldn’t see their shape exactly, but they moved almost like balloons, except they seemed to have more control over where they were going. They were very high up in the sky and went south east.
February 14, 2020 · 7:35 AM · FORMATION
Jasper, TN
I was driving through Jasper,Tennessee and I saw a series of 6 lights lined up in a straight line. They faded out one by one from right to left and never lit back up. Each light was different from being blue to orange to white and did not seem to have a pattern.
February 12, 2020 · 1:00 AM · FORMATION
St. Marys, KS
The formation of lights in the sky was moving i. An add fashion and accompanied by these noises as if it were producing very loud sound waves.
February 10, 2020 · 5:30 AM · FORMATION
Temecula, CA
8 lights in a straight line, evenly spaced traveling SW to NE. Brightlness and speed about same a satelites
February 8, 2020 · 6:12 AM · FORMATION
Salem, UT
I looked up and thought I was at first seeing a satellite moving across the sky until I realized it was more than that. There were more following it, 9 or more lights following each other equally spaced in a straight line northeast towards Colorado.
February 8, 2020 · 5:50 AM · FORMATION
Hyde Park, NY
Three star sized objects,thought it was Orion's belt until they were actually traversing in a North Eastern path from the Western side of the Valley here. They were also in a linear formation approximately the same altitude as Jetliners, no blinking lights,sound or vapor trails.With my hand I gauged they were spaced the distance apart from my thumb tip to knuckle,about one and one half inches.
February 8, 2020 · 5:48 AM · FORMATION
Tenafly, NJ
String formation. Looked like stars one after the other for a good 15min. They were moving East - North-East. The last light appeared by itself and was going South and disappeared in a flash after approx 30sec - was moving slow and disappeared like a meteor
February 7, 2020 · 5:30 AM · FORMATION
Lakeside, CA
Ten craft where seen flying over Lakeside in formation at a high rate of speed.Headed East by North East.9 in a row with 1 straggler. The event lasted no more than 10 seconds. It was still quite outside (no background noises) and I couldn't hear any noise coming from the crafts.
February 7, 2020 · 5:30 AM · FORMATION
Ventura, CA
On 02/07/2020 at 5:30 AM in Ventura CA I saw one spot light like a satellite moving on the Sky. No surprise, I thought that could be the Space Station moving over CA, but then I saw a second light following the first, a third one, a fourth and so on. I stopped counting at 20. It was more than 30 spot lights following each other in a straight line from west to east. I thought, maybe they are Air Force air planes in training, but no noise, complete silent. Not only silent, but they start to pop up at the same point at the sky over my home, they were not coming from the far west horizon as expected from airplanes, they popped out from the same spot up on the sky. They were pretty high. I do not believe they were meteors because they were pretty stable in light intensity, no tail behind, and all following a very straight line. They were not spaced regularly, distance between each consecutive light was not uniform, but not too much different. All the action took ! no more than 1 min, than I had to go take my bus to commute.
February 5, 2020 · 6:24 AM · FORMATION
Jacksonville, FL
Just Before Sunrise a formation of 15 to 30 what appeared to be satellites were evenly spaced, appearing directly overhead and disappearing at the Horizon moving Northeast approximately halfway across the distance of the sky. All traveling at the same speed and only two or three flaring out at the end just above the horizon. First there was a group of approximately 10 to 15, with a short break a second group appeared with approximately 15 more all on the same trajectory
February 5, 2020 · 6:10 AM · FORMATION
Kailua, HI
Moving across the sky south toward east a formation of 40+ things that looked like stars moving in a perfectly straight line toward the ocean and then gone. Satellites?
February 4, 2020 · 6:04 AM · FORMATION
Fort Myers, FL
I was looking up at the sky because I heard the cows in the field next to me salmon off very erratically I seen a craft hover above the cow field I ran to go get my roommate he did not come out I ran back crap look on approximately 40 seconds after that I look up to my right and I see in pairs several craft entering our atmosphere and moving in a formation I counted approximately around 27 could be more I was so astounded that I did not get any video of it but they were in pairs some in threes in a straight line
February 4, 2020 · 6:00 AM · FORMATION
Waialua Molokai, HI
A line of what looked like fast moving stars moving west to East in the Moloka’i Maui channel. We viewed them from Moloka’i. They were too fast moving to be satellites and the formation was not perfect.
February 3, 2020 · 7:30 PM · FORMATION
Hamilton (Canada), ON · Canada
Very bright lights in the sky that would stay still, then move in different directions at a slow speed. Some lights would disappear and others would appear somewhere else. One light in particular did not seem to move for over 15 minutes, but it was hard to tell for sure. Many lights were moving and fading in and out, but all staying relatively close. The lights seemed far too bright to be airplanes, and some would remain still for minutes at a time. They had a bid of a reddish colour to them as well.
February 2, 2020 · 3:30 PM · FORMATION
Ross Bridge, AL
It was an unusually nice day of weather for February and my girlfriend asked me to go sit by the pool with her. She spent most of her time on the phone while I laid there and watched airplanes crisscross the sky. There was also some sort of blasting going on at a nearby construction site that was entertaining. At one point I looked up at the moon, which was clearly visible in the daytime sky, and saw this string of lights underneath it. The moon was basically south from me and these lights were drifting in an easterly direction. 5 of the lights where white and kind of randomly blinking. 3 of the lights were red. I had the impression these were not emitted lights, but rather were metallic objects reflecting the bright sunlight. The red objects were fire engine red. They all seemed to be going loosely east together, not in a tight parallel formation, and moving slower than the other airplanes I had seen. I also had the impression they were at higher altitude. ! The odd thing was that two of the objects, one white and one red, where below the other 6, which were roughly in a line. Of the two below, it looked as though the red object had detached from the white object and was trailing behind it. Fairly soon the 6 in a line had faded out and could no longer be seen. This is in perfectly clear skies, no clouds, that had allowed me to see the distinct tube shape of several aircraft from one end of the horizon to the other. The two objects below lingered visible for a bit longer, but eventually the red object faded out. This left the one white object which appeared to curve more southward, moving almost directly away from me, and slowly fade from my view as it got farther away. These objects produced no contrails, but all higher altitude aircraft I observed that day had very strong contrails. Lower altitude aircraft were producing no contrails.