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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
October 23, 2015 · 8:30 PM · LIGHT
Patchogue, NY
A bright white light came over the treeline in a SW direction, then quickly changed direction going NE, looped around, then hovered almost directly above my head. I still could not see the shape of the craft beyond the light. It then continued SW into the open sky, hovered, then disappeared in open sky.
October 23, 2015 · 8:15 PM · LIGHT
Salina, UT
I thought I saw a shooting star, then realized it was below the mountains west of me on I70 exit 74 facing west. Bright light which from my perspective looked baseball sized traveling south to north crossing my line of sight within a second or two.
October 23, 2015 · 8:02 PM · LIGHT
Vancouver, WA
8:02 PM OCTOBER 23, 2015, Vancouver, Washington I had just come home from an errand, and was standing at the end of my driveway. I happened to look up at the moon, which was just above the roof of my house to the south. It was about ¾ full, with a few wisps of clouds around it. It was developing a ring around its perimeter. Just to the left of the moon, I noticed two lights - one green and one red - hovering high in the sky, about 10 degrees east of due south. They were very bright and steady. They almost looked like Christmas lights, but were too high in the sky to be that. I initially thought they were from the jets landing at the Portland International Airport, because they were in that general direction, a little east from the airport. But the lights weren’t moving. They just hovered there for maybe a minute or so. They slowly started moving west, then suddenly, the lights zig-zagged right, then left very rapidly 2 or 3 times. The object then turned and started coming toward me at a slower pace than it was when it was zig-zagging. It seemed as if the object blinked and rotated at the same time, and the lights turned from red and green to white. I couldn’t be sure, but I had the impression it was disc-shaped. Suddenly, the light went straight down toward the ground, leaving a long, solid streak of yellowish-white light behind. I lost sight of it as it disappeared behind the house. I went out back, but could see nothing. I did not hear any sounds during this incident. I watched for awhile, and saw several planes coming in and out of the airport. They moved in a steady line toward and away from the airport, not in the crazy zig-zag way of the object. I walked down the block where there was a less obstructed view of the southern sky, but could see nothing. After coming in and looking up UFO sightings online, I found several stories from “The Columbian” newspaper in Vancouver. It described sightings nights on Feb. 20 and 21 2011 when several residents in the Clear Meadows neighborhood of East Vancouver saw something very similar to what I saw. There was some speculation that what they saw was a Chinese kite decked out with LED lights that was flown by a man named Mike.
October 23, 2015 · 7:30 PM · LIGHT
Butler, PA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 23, 2015 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Dumka (India) · India
it was 7 pm and dark already. me and two of my friends went someplace silent, we were on our holidays so it was the only time we met, we don't drink(to make it clear). we were having conversation. I always look up at the sky and the stars(I like looking at the sky).it was cloudy that day and windy too, felt like it was gonna rain. and while I was looking at the sky I saw a light behind the clouds. it looked strange because the light of that thing was spreading and contracting ( like imagine a circle expanding and contracting now imagine that circle as a sphere of light). immediately I tell one of my friends to look at that thing he sees it just for maybe a second while my other friend was not able to have a look 'cause that thing disappeared behind the clouds. the friend who saw it have no interest in ufo's he is religious (Christian) i am not the believer or non-believer of ufo, somewhere in between . we soon start making fun of ufo's and aliens. the movement of that thing was so smooth it wasn't abrupt like most ufo's. I would say it was floating peacefully.also the light was white like milk. I don't know what that thing was but that was definitely not a plane. i would just like to report and know whether you have an answer.
October 23, 2015 · 5:00 AM · LIGHT
Wilmington, DE
At about 5 am I observed a white circular light in the southwest sky. At first it looked like a very large, very bright star, but I noticed it was moving. It was so early in the morning that it was still very quiet outside – no birds chirping, no traffic noise. I watched the object move from the southwest to the northeast over the Pike Creek area. It was not a plane or a helicopter. It made absolutely no sound at all, even as it passed over my house. It moved very slowly, and low enough in the sky that as it moved over my house I could see not just the circular white light but also red flashing lights. Many planes fly over this area. I’ve never experienced any aircraft that could do so without making a single sound – as if it was engine-less and just gliding slowly across the sky. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 22, 2015 · 7:55 PM · LIGHT
Madera, CA
I live about eight miles west of the Madera Municipal Airport. I earned my private pilot's license at that airport. The approaches for the Madera airport and the Fresno Air Terminal beyond it are directly over my house for aircraft coming from the Bay Area. In the evenings, I see aircraft with their landing lights on approaching from the northwest and heading towards the southeast. As they get closer, you can hear their engines, see the strobes, and finally see the red and green navigation lights when they are directly overhead. Fifteen minutes ago, I was out in my yard when I saw what I thought was a light aircraft with its landing lights on approaching from the northwest. The sky was partially overcast with wispy clouds. The light seemed to be going at about the same speed as a light aircraft and was at about 8000 or 9000 feet altitude. I watched it, waiting to see the strobe as it got closer and listening for engine sounds, but it remained silent, and there were no visible strobes or navigation lights. Then it began a slow, wide turn to the south. It's hard to describe, but it almost seemed to slide. The color of the light was almost the same color as a landing light. After the 90 degree turn, landing lights would not have been visible on an airplane, but this light remained constant. Then it began to speed up, and it either gained altitude, or the light faded out. I don't know which, but it just disappeared. I know some people will say it was an airplane, but it wasn't. When it was overhead, I should have seen a strobe and the red and green navigation lights, and it should not have had white lights facing backwards. Also, it's possible to hear a jet or propeller engine at that altitude, and it went from a constant brightness to a dim light to nothing in about five seconds time. It wasn't an airplane.
October 22, 2015 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Plainfield, IL
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 22, 2015 · 2:30 AM · LIGHT
Brownstown, IL
My first encounter occurred on Oct 15, exactly one week from my second encounter, if that's what you wanna call it, on Oct 22. The 15th and the 22nd I awoke abruptly at exactly 2:30 am due to some incredibly vivid dreams. As I awoke from these dreams both times, I found myself looking straight out my bedroom window. The first occurance I was by myself and it was a very clear dark night. I observed a light in the southeastern sky that appeared to be moving what I would call a curly q formation. I tried to debunk what I was witnessing to be a satellite or just a star that maybe my mind was playing some optical illusions on me. I watched this object stay in the same exact part of the sky until about 430 am which was about when I dosed back off. I know it wasn't a satellite because as the nights sky continued to slip off to the west these object continued its dancing and swirling in the night sky that appeared to every once in awhile give off a red shot of light imi! nate from the bottom. I couldn't make out any definitive shape or size. Whatever it was it was very bright, very fast, and very high in the sky. On Oct 22, I observed the exact same thing visually. Only thing different this time is I had my son who is 7 awake at the exact same time I did do to vivid dreams. My girlfriend was with me as well I'd had told her about my incident the week prior which she laughed off. Not this time I awoke her and made her observe and confirm what I was seeing. She was creeped out to say the least. I observed the object for another hour maybe hour and a half before I slipped back off to sleep. I tried taking pictures. All I got was some poor low quality dots on screen. Tried using my hd camcorder but the object was just to far off to get a good focus. Someone somewhere had to witness this as well. I live out in the sticks though so maybe I'm the only nut in the country. I'd just like to know if there's ever been a similar incident or maybe a video! I could relate to.thank you. Sleepless in Brownstown
October 22, 2015 · 2:00 AM · LIGHT
Cedartown, GA
We saw a light twinkling with several colors move up into the ESE at approx 2 am. It dat almost directly under Orions'belt, and a little to the right.
October 22, 2015 · 12:31 AM · LIGHT
Oak Lawn, IL
I was moving cars in the driveway when I noticed it between 2 trees. It changed different shapes from saucer shape to circle shape. It was as big as a moon. I couldn't locate the moon that night. I do see aircraft flying in the area almost everyday between those 2 trees. This object was not moving. I have never seen the moon ever between those 2 trees in my whole life. It was changing shape and disappeared. It then reappeared so I took my camera out and took 4 photos of the object. It then disappeared and took 2 more photos of the area it was located. My only explanation was that maybe a very thin cloud that I could barely see had frozen water inside the cloud and the moon that I could not locate was glaring moon light off of it. There wasn't any wind almost and maybe the wind was moving about 12 MPH. The reason why I think it wasn't frozen water in a thin cloud was why would it form a perfect circle. I did also take a photo of a aircraft flying in that direction near it. I never see aircraft flying in that direction in that location in the sky. I waited about 15 minutes outside to see if it would come back but clouds that where coming in ended up covering the whole sky. I was gonna take a drive to see if I can locate the moon but the clouds came in super thick. I have photos of it changing shape in a video on Youtube. I titled it UFO October 22, 2015 Oak Lawn Illinois. I titled it that but maybe shouldn't of because I wasn't sure if it really was a UFO. It was very quiet on the rhodes at 12:31 midnight having maybe only seen 1 to 3 cars drive down the street between 12:27 midnight to 12:52 midnight. It was hours after the Chicago Cubs got eliminated from the playoffs. If it happened 32 minutes earlier it would have still have been Marty Mcfly day. I would send photos but I'm not sure what email you all have to send them too. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 22, 2015 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Sarasota, FL
While sitting on lanai at midnight I turned my head to the right to suddenly and briefly view a brilliant, neon green ball of light (Color of a green lazer sight on a firearm). Very large. Distance difficult to judge. Lost sight of object as it quickly decended. Easiest way to describe sighting is to picture the moon as a glowing neon green sphere and rapidly decending through the atmosphere the way a meteorite does. Approximately 15 to 20 mins after sighting an extremely large and loud helicopter circled at a high altitude around area where object was seen. This circling continued for approximately 1 hour. I am a 42 year old medical professional and this is the first of any such experience.
October 22, 2015 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Richmond, VA
I also saw the object quicky merge with what I believe was a star and for a split second I saw that thet had conjoined before changing back to its odd shape. What stood out were the lines of light surrounding the main object. I think the other two objects were stars however the third star was red and may have been a planet so I am not sure.
October 21, 2015 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Rockhampton (~ 70kms S of; on Bruce Highway) (Australia) · Australia
Then, about five minutes later I observed what appeared to be a motorcycle headlight on high beam coming up behind me on the highway. It approached very fast again making me think it was a motorcycle. The light was extremely bright as it approached and only took seconds to travel from way back behind me to a point just behind my car where I noticed that it looked to be about as large around as a basketball or perhaps slightly bigger and intensely bright white. I was looking back and forth at the road in front of me and in my rear-view mirrors at the light expecting it to pass me when it just went dark. There was no turnoff and nothing passed me – it was just gone. I pondered what had just happened for several hours as I continued to drive home and resolved to report it as a UFO.
October 21, 2015 · 7:03 PM · LIGHT
Anaheim, CA
At about 7:00 I saw 2 bright solid green lights about 10 miles out in the south sky. Being an ex-pilot I thought it was weird because usually a plane will have a red light and green. Ex. (red right returning) this didn’t. I kept my eye on it and all of a sudden the lights turned a solid red and streaked towards me at a tremendous speed and stopped about 2 miles away. It then turned to Green and hovered. Then a solid Red light and streaked west about a mile and hovered. Now I cant remember what lights were showing but it was either a solid red or green. Then it streaked east about another 7-10 miles and hovered. Then back west about 3 miles and finally started moving away and lowering its altitude until it moved below a tree line from my house. This was silent and very swift. We have fighter jets that fly over our house at times and these are not even as swift as these lights were.
October 21, 2015 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Hollidaysburg, PA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 21, 2015 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Bensalem, PA
Orange ball, very low originally thought an airplane was on fire. Very low orange watched it fly overhead till out of site.
October 21, 2015 · 5:00 AM · LIGHT
Paso Robles, CA
A larg orange light that shot out 3 small red lights then change in to a long cylinder shape and took off like a shooting star towards the north and then saw a bunch of wired chem trails zig zagging all over on area there was no clouds in the sky at the time
October 21, 2015 · 1:00 AM · LIGHT
London (UK/England) · United Kingdom
I was in the kitchen, went for the tap toget some water and I looked right into the window and I glanced to the stars,as I do sometimes ,, It was at night,maybe one o' clock in the morning,, I saw a star like object moving down at some 45 degrees into the sky. it moved down wards for about 4 or 5 seconds , then it stopped.. and stayed there, 1 or 2 seconds later the star near by switched off the light,, basicly dissipated in front of my eyes,,, and the other star light remained in there for hours until I went to sleep. This was a clear UFO sighting, I was lucky now I wonder how many of these stars that we see in the sky are actually UFO disguised as stars.. Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
October 20, 2015 · 9:15 PM · LIGHT
Nuneaton (UK/England · United Kingdom
Looking up at sky, witnessed a light travelling very fast and erratically. Sky cloudy so object was below the clouds. Moon was visible through the clouds. Sighting lasted approximately a minute with light changing direction and height before it faded into the haze of the cloud cover.
October 20, 2015 · 9:15 PM · LIGHT
Kannapolis, NC
Driving down interstate 85 south to Charlotte, from Kannapolis, NC. Saw a bright green light fall from the sky. Almost the color of a traffic light. It had no tail or trail so I don't think it was a meteor. There is no way I am the only witness. Traffic was very heavy at the time. The light disappeared behind some buildings.
October 20, 2015 · 1:05 AM · LIGHT
Tucson, AZ
I was sitting in my house watching TV at 1:05am on Tuesday 10/20/15 in the outskirts of the SW Tucson, AZ area, when I heard a helicopter noise steadily growing even louder. As I am sitting next to the large picture window, I looked out between the blinds to see 2 small reddish-orange lights moving off to the west, followed by a helicopter with a red & green solid, non-blinking lights. As they were approaching from the city center area of Tucson, I was able to see a dark shape around the red & green lights, showing the shape of the helicopter, with the city glow directly behind it, but I saw no dark shape around either of the small red-orange lights that would determine the approximate size or shape of the craft it was attached to. Also, the distance between the 2 red-orange lights was slightly larger than the distance between the 2nd red-orange light and the helicopter lights and the 2 red-orange lights were offset, with the first one slightly more north than the 2nd one, but the helicopter lights were in a straight line directly behind the 2nd red-orange light. I distinctly heard one helicopter noise, not several. As the noise was louder than I can ever remember hearing at this location, as well as the fact that the green & red helicopter lights were large, I believe the helicopter was flying low in the sky as it went directly over my house. I do live near a small airfield called Ryan Airfield, which is 2 to 3 miles southwest of my location, so I am used to seeing small prop planes and small helicopters flying over this area, but never that low or loud. These lights were not going towards Ryan Airfield to the SW, but almost directly west, maybe slightly north of directly west. I, on occasion, have also seen military planes and helicopters flying over this area, as we do have both an Air Force base and Air National Guard base located in Tucson, but they never fly this low, and usually are in groups of 3 or more. With these helicopter groups, it almost sounds like an echo from multiple rotors, but I didn't hear that echo on this occasion. I wrote down the description of this occurrence immediately after it happened, so the details were fresh in my mind. On a separate note, in the 9 years I have lived in this house, maybe 8-10 times I have heard a loud sonic boom type noise that rattled my house to the extent that on a few of these occasions, I ran outside to see if a car had run into my house. I used to write these sonic boom noises to military aircraft, but as I have heard reports of these noises on Coast to Coast AM, I am not so sure of that hypothesis, especially since I have never witnessed an aircraft to accompany these loud banging noises. Most of these booms happened during daylight, as several woke me up since I work graveyard shift and sleep usually from sunrise to early afternoon.
October 19, 2015 · 8:40 PM · LIGHT
Grand Ledge, MI
two bright lights in the sky and I tried to take two separate videos of them and neither one would come through. Both videos just showed a completely white screen and when I closed out of my camera to try to go into my actual photos to see them, they weren't even recorded. I physically SAW the timer on the video counting both times I tried to take it and both videos just disappeared and now the lights are gone. They were BRIGHT BRIGHT lights too. Not like a star at all. Like visible floating lights that almost looked like two moons (they were that bright) but now they're gone and my videos of them vanished as well. I've never seen a video go completely white before on the playback. Especially when I was clearly watching the screen to make sure I was getting it on camera and then to go back and have it erased without explanation? I don't get it...
October 19, 2015 · 7:30 PM · LIGHT
LANGLEY, OK
EVERY NIGHT FOR A WEEK AND A HALF. THERE ARE SEVERAL UFO'S THAT HAVE RED, GREEN AND WHITE FLASHINGS LIGHTS. THEY ARE IN THE SKY ALL NIGHT BUT EASILY SEEN AT 7:30, 9:30, 12:00 AND 4:00 AM. THOSE ARE THE TIMES I HAVE THE BEST VISION OF THEM WITH BINOCULARS. THEY ARE NOT STARS, BY ANY STRETCH OF THE IMAGINATION. THIS HAPPENS IN AREA CLOSE TO THE DAM AT GRAND LAKE AND HAPPENS NIGHTLY.