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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
September 27, 2015 · 4:00 PM · LIGHT
Tacoma, WA
We were out watching the eclipse and saw these red lights crossing the sky like nothing I've ever seen, I've lived next to McCord AFB all my life and these were no planes it scared my daughter we eat he'd them go from South to north we first noticed them t the left of the moon and watched them until they were outta view. They were flying side by side in pairs of 2.
September 27, 2015 · 12:30 PM · LIGHT
Revere, MA
Was far way but was there for around 10 minutes and we notice wasn't planes because also was plane at way less altitude flying going to land at Logan Airport. Your field is around 7 miles from the airport. So I decide to search online about what was that and came across this web site. So I decide to share what we saw it. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 27, 2015 · 4:00 AM · LIGHT
Bayonne, NJ
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 27, 2015 · 3:50 AM · LIGHT
Midland, MI
Sighting of Venus, currently very prominent in the eastern sky, at the time indicated by the witness. PD
September 26, 2015 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Clovis, CA
I was outside in th backyard with my mom, dad, and little brother. My brother noticed it first and yelled for me to look up in the sky. I saw a bright BLUE light in the sky, it seemed to be shimmering and had this strange aura around it. As I looked at it, it made my vision go blurry, I said "Whoa!" And at the same time my brother said, "Did you just go cross-eyed too?" The light started to "dance" around a bit, moving slightly from side to side. And then it started to descend straight down vertically and changed to a purple color. We lost sight of it at that point because of the trees.
September 26, 2015 · 10:30 AM · LIGHT
Lees Summit, MO
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 26, 2015 · 7:45 AM · LIGHT
Rocklin, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 25, 2015 · 10:35 PM · LIGHT
Temecula, CA
I DID NOT REALLY GIVE IT A SECOND THOUGHT UNTIL I WAS LISTENING TO COAST TO COAST ON 10/02/2015 AND THE GENTLEMEN FROM NUFORC MENTIONED A BRIGHT BLUE LIGHT. WELL, I TOO SAW A BRIGHT BLUE LIGHT ON FRIDAY 09/25/2015 ABOUT 11:35 DRIVING IN TEMECULA, CA. THE LIGHT WAS AMAZINGLY BRIGHT AND NOT MOVING, NOT BLINKING JUST SITTING THERE. I WAS TIRED AND REALLY DID NOT THINK TO MUCH ABOUT IT SO I WENT ON HOME. I AM A 60 YEAR OLD MALE AND RETIRED.
September 25, 2015 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Wheaton, IL
watched airliner in the sky at about 10,000 ft (close to O'Hare) when I spotted a big red light beyond it. I had an airplane in sight for reference and this was not an ordinary aircraft. It went approximately east to west, not too fast, gaining altitude until it disappeared in the clouds. As soon as it disappeared, another orange light appeared, following the same flight path. It was about 20 seconds behind the first one, way too close for a regular airliner distancing. I ran inside to get my telescope pointer (magnification @20x) and looked at it through it. I did not see any body, just an orange light. As soon as this one disappeared a third one showed up, following the same flight path. Again, I looked at it through my telescope pointer and it did not look like an aircraft. All I could see was orange light moving in the sky, east to west. There was no other lights, or aircraft after this one. Strange since we live so close to O'Hare.
September 25, 2015 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Columbia, MO
A streak of light made a crack in the evening sky as my wife and I sat on the porch enjoying the warm fall night. We both looked at each other in awe. She mentioned Chem trail in sarcasm and says, "At least we are on the right side," as a black line appears on the bottom side of the white line. I ask her, "Why do you think that?" She tells me that it looked as if the cloud was elevating up, and then another black line appeared on top of the white. These lines were appearing fairly low in the southern sky, just above the tree lines over Columbia. Suddenly the black line on the bottom began to melt or droop. This was very eerie. I went inside to get my phone to use the camera on it, but as I'm inside, my wife hollers to me. When I go back outside she says it's gone. I look up and there is no trace of it. There were some jet trail clouds (2-3) going in the opposite direction. They looked nothing like what we had just witnessed. It was like the sky had cracked opened, then bled out and healed itself in just mere minutes. Weird!!! Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
September 25, 2015 · 8:28 PM · LIGHT
Santa Fe, NM
"Fireballs" spotted over Santa Fe last night. My child spotted the first two moving about the speed of a plane, moving west to east. About 10 minutes later three more appeared in the formation of a triangle moving in the same direction. They were yellow/red/orange in color and seemed to flickering or pulsating as they smoothly soared through the sky. The edges couldn't be distinguished.
September 25, 2015 · 6:20 AM · LIGHT
Loves Park, IL
I walked outside at 6:20 am and saw a light in the sky. The light reminded me of the ISS or a satellite, but much brighter. It was almost above me just to my south. It was moving from the West to the SouthWest. It was moving at a slow/medium pace. As I said, I thought it was the ISS or satellite. There was no sound or visible features. But the thing that happened next, convinced me it was not. As it was moving, it just stopped and hovered. I sat there and watched it for approx 6 minutes as it hovered in the sky. It was doing a "rocking" motion. The light was still bright but the size was just slightly smaller than when I first saw it. The ISS, Satellite, Chinese Lanterns, etc... Do NOT move and then stop and hover.
September 25, 2015 · 4:15 AM · LIGHT
Crystal Bay, NV
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 24, 2015 · 10:15 PM · LIGHT
East Mesa, AZ
On Thursday night, 9/24, in the E. Mesa, AZ, area I was outside with my telescope viewing the moon and Saturn in the southern sky. At about 22:15, I noticed a bright flashing light up in the southern sky in the area just east of Saturn. There are lots of planes flying high overhead all the time but the bigger ones generally have 2 or sometimes 3 bright lights while smaller planes tend to have a white and red flashing light and helicopters sometimes have 3 or 4 lights of different colors but they all to go across the sky and disappear in a few minutes. However, this flashing light was just one light and it was staying near the same place in the sky, which seemed odd. After I noticed that it wasn’t moving out of sight I started to watch more closely and it seemed to be just floating on the wind, darting to the left and right and sometimes zooming up and down a little or going in small circles. After I decided that it probably wasn’t a helicopter hovering up there I moved the telescope over to see if I could get a better look. It was hard to keep in sight with all the small movements and at first all I could see was the light. I thought it might be a drone being flown at night and the movements looked a bit like a drone trying to hover and stay in place in the wind. There are drone flyers around that have lots of lights on the craft to fly at night and you can actually buy bright white light to put on them but I’ve not seen one hover this long so far up in the sky. After a few more minutes I noticed that it was getting closer and I could see it better. When the light flashed it would light up something dangling down underneath on what looked like some ropes. I kept watching as it got closer and I began to see some kind of what looked like debris tangled up in the ropes but it was swaying back and forth and being jerked around so rapidly that I couldn’t tell what it was. I suppose the light could have been on a parachute or balloon but I don’t know what was holding it up since I couldn’t see anything above the light or anything blocking out the stars but there weren’t many stars visible in that area. It looked like it was actually coming towards me and as it got closer it also started to loose altitude and after about 30 minutes it got so low that is went out of sight behind the houses South of me and must have crashed to the ground somewhere near Rt. 60 and Signal Butte Rd. in E. Mesa.
September 24, 2015 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Riley, OR
While driving west along Hwy 20 in Central Oregon about 9pm on the evening of September 24, 2015, I noticed two yellowish/orange lights traveling parallel to each other and to me, and also in the same direction. They seemed fairly low, and I assumed they were the lights of a low-flying small aircraft. (A few minutes and miles before, I had passed an accident just east of Sage Hen Rest Area, and I thought perhaps an airplane was involved with rescue, though now that makes no sense to me.) I continued driving, forgetting about the lights for a short while…a minute, perhaps two. When I looked again I could not see them even though I would have expected to still see an airplane. I thought they might have been lights that reflected in my car, how sometimes the headlights of another car can reflect in strange places inside your own vehicle. But traffic was very sparse and there were no street lights or such. Within a couple of minutes I again saw lights in the sky, maybe ten or twelve scattered within a span of about 40 degrees to the left and front of my vehicle. My recollection of detail is not good, but I recall them going in different directions, mostly slowly. Some blinked slowly a few times, some came on only once. One split. They disappeared altogether and then came back about 2 times before I pulled over. Nothing appeared in the five or so minutes that I waited, so I continued driving. They appeared one more time, however. Again there were a dozen or so moving about. The last thing I was able to see was one of the lights dropping vertically and then back up to the right (northwest) in a curve in the shape of a barbless fish hook. It blinked during the dive about 8 or 10 times, and I think the previous light would still be fading out of its glow when the next flashed on. This occurred over a distance of about 10 or 15 miles and 15 to 20 minutes. I think I was between Riley and Hampton, Oregon. It pretty remote and the south side of the highway appears like unoccupied land. I was not able to determine the actual altitude and size of the lights. They were about 30 to 40 degrees above horizon, and were always between my left and straight ahead. Perhaps they were other places too but I did not see them. After eliminating airplane and reflection, I considered perhaps hot-air balloons because during the second round of sightings they were initially lighting up slowly and fading out like I imagine the propane flame on a balloon would do. But their antics eliminated that option in my mind. Remote controlled flying craft are—to my knowledge—fairly small and these were in a large area. I do not know enough about drone devices to take a guess if the lights could have been something like that. Please note that my estimates of distance and time are approximate. I did not think at the time to pay close attention to such detail.
September 24, 2015 · 8:45 PM · LIGHT
Burien, WA
Leaving my friend's house, we looked up to admire the night sky noticed one, large bright red round light approximately one mile up. The light wasn't moving at all. After a few minutes, the light object dropped suddenly and vanished. Note: coordinates for Burien, Wash 47.4683* N, 122.3456*W, Area 13.23 mi coordinates for Seahurst, Wash. 47.46927N, 122.36207. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and she sounded to us to be serious-minded. We suspect that she is a reliable witness. PD
September 24, 2015 · 7:30 PM · LIGHT
New Delhi (India) · India
I made a video too, but object was not properly visible
September 24, 2015 · 5:00 AM · LIGHT
San Jose, CA
I walked out to get my niece so i can babysitter. As i walked to meet my sister, i noticed a huge light, brighter then any star out there. I figured it was a plane because they frequently pass ecxept this light wasnt moving at all . It just stood there in the air and would lean as if it was coming forward and sideways. I managed to get two pics and zooming in there are bout three objects of bright light and it makes an L shape of some kind. I know that wasnt a plane. I have a telescope and i have never seen a star or light, that bright in the sky. No noise so it was not a helicopter. Made me get the chills honestly and i dont freak out easily. Well hope someone else saw somethin. Wish i could post the pics. It was crazy to say the least.
September 23, 2015 · 10:40 PM · LIGHT
Peaks Island, ME
Initially thought to have been stars, assumed to have been at extremely high altitude. Objects then began moving very slowly SE in trailing tandem formation for approximately 15-20 seconds, first object then receded from view over 1-2 seconds as if in accelerating ascent. Second object appeared to perform same "maneuver" 1-2 seconds later.
September 23, 2015 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Churchville, VA
9/23/15 – 9-9:30 PM – Bright white, red & blue lights hovered at approx. 2-3K feet over the western sky near Churchville Va. for 20 minutes then slowly moved west into West Virginia. First observed by my naked eye, then with binoculars. My wife and I both observed the object. We are college educated; in our late 50’s and hold professional positions in our fields of expertize. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 23, 2015 · 8:10 PM · LIGHT
Fall River, MA
I am a 47 year old woman, I work as a drafter and take classes at Bristol Community College in Fall River MA. At approximately 8:10 PM the night of Sept 23rd I saw a bright red light over the campus parking lot. It was not moving but it was flashing 4 green lights in the front. The colors were very vibrant, and it seemed closer that a plane would fly. There was no sound. I watched it for a few minutes and the green lights stopped for a few seconds then they resumed flashing and it started moving off across the parking lot towards the North east.
September 22, 2015 · 4:38 AM · LIGHT
Oak Creek, WI
Watched a glowing sphere/light hang in the sky in the East over Lake Michigan for about 10min. 3x the size of a star. Viewed as yellow in color. In the photo I took with my phone it appears blue.
September 22, 2015 · 4:00 AM · LIGHT
Diboll, TX
It had a bright light to it an it hovered over for a few minutes an slowly rose up in the air. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 22, 2015 · 3:00 AM · LIGHT
Seattle, WA
2 bright star-like lights moving in slow circles while blinking a white, blue, orange alternating pattern. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD