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Witness reports, held as-reported. Each entry keeps its source, its coordinates where the record has them, and its place in the larger pattern.
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May 5, 2016 · 2:00 PM · RECTANGLE
Woodbury, MN
About 30 shadows that crossed the pavement, ground then a house and then the field behind the house. These were shadows that were about 1' x 2' rectangle. They were moving north at about I would say 10 to 15 miles an hour. The sky was mostly clear blue there were no planes and no clouds in the vicinity, I saw nothing in the sky. The problem is nothing does not make shadows so whatever this was is masking itself.
April 24, 2016 · 1:00 PM · RECTANGLE
Quincy, MA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 20, 2016 · 8:28 PM · RECTANGLE
Shoreline, WA
On a moonlit walk around my neighborhood, I looked through my camera-phone to frame a picture of the full moon and snapped the picture with only the moon and trees in the frame. When I looked at the picture, a rectangular and lighted objected appeared as part of the picture, however I did not see anything in the sky before or after taking the picture.
April 17, 2016 · 11:00 PM · RECTANGLE
Fleming Island, FL
Driving Home From Dinner And Crossing Doctors Inlet "lake" Bridge and seen a rectangular shape craft hovering low to the lake and it had every color u could think about red, blue, green, yellow, purple all lights flashing then I got my phone to start recording it literally shot up in the sky like a rocket!!!!
April 16, 2016 · 9:50 PM · RECTANGLE
Miramar, FL
In my home and had sudden “need” to take dog outside...he was sleeping (I'm intuitive at times.) As I was outside I noticed a rectangular shape in the western sky, moving slowly and quite low. It did not have the usual red/green lights on wing tips—it had no visible wing tips. What it did have is two rows of lights which reminded me at first of a domino. However, the front two lights were white, blinking (not appear to be strobe) and the others were various jewel toned colors of blue, green, yellow, red and possibly orange. The object was about a mile and half downrange 25 degree and under 2000', closer to 1300-1500', heading WNW (as if flying to Eglin AFB). As I tried to determine if it had 8 or 10 lights, disregarding the colors I saw and trying to count (there were no “middle dots” of lights like on a domino) another rectangular craft appeared, about a mile 20 degree NNW of me at the time, at maybe 1000'. It, too, had lights but all were white and it only had 8. Then I knew the first one had 10 lights. The second craft went dark, which is why I didn't notice it at first. I tried to take photographs with iPhone which only showed a non-round shape and no colors. I went into the house for my Canon T3i but the battery was dead. I returned to the back yard to finish viewing the object(s). The second rectangle became visible once more and then dark again and I did not see it again. It had lights on less than 30 seconds both times. There was limited moonlight (moving from 1st quarter to full) , low groups of clouds moving in and heavy variable winds (a front clashing with sea breezes?) The Sun Life stadium is just east southeast, as is Miami International, slightly farther and southeast and Ft. Lauderdale AP north, with North Perry (small ap) 4 miles due east. Plenty of air traffic since new runway opened MIA 2 years ago. At first thought was a blimp, but saw no shape and am not aware of any lighting configuration. There were no events at the stadium that I am aware of but a music festival in Ft Lauderdale. Since the craft were moving slowly I did at first think blimp, but have never seen 2 blimps in the air at the same time in over 60 years. Plus, the craft were flying too fast for blimps in the heavy winds but too slowly for jets. I then thought of helicopters flying some kind of lighted panels, but there was not enough sound (was there any?) of engines tugging anything in the wind. Helicopters fly overhead all the time. At one brief moment the clouds allowed the moonlight to reflect more on the clouds and I thought I saw a giant circular shape above (as if attached to) the 10 lighted rectangle...but it was so brief it could have been my imagination. It was only grey and would make the craft 3x in diameter of the width of the light “panel”. I've viewed the stealth bomber flying at about 300' overhead near HAFB before US was admitted we had it...viewing/securing? The downrange flight of a shuttle launch at night so I wasn't spooked but couldn't figure these out. Called my aviation brother immediately 23:04 and discussed for an hour. He had no clue. Posted on @FAANews inquiry. Today, there's heavy air traffic and I was using it and photographs online to help in computing distance and altitude as best I could (difficult since I do not know what I was viewing and had no size references) when I found this site.
April 16, 2016 · 2:17 AM · RECTANGLE
Wickenburg, AZ
On July 16th at 2:17 am the camera snapped 2 pictures of something I cannot explain, and for whatever reason it did not snap the 3rd “C” picture. I’m sending the 2 pictures along with a daytime picture of the runway for comparison. Of interest to me is the fact that whatever the object is it does not appear to be moving, it’s in the same place in both pictures. At first I thought it must be some kind of bug on the lens, but the camera lens and the trigger lens are 2 different things in 2 different places on the camera. Also, I live on t! he border of 2 Military Operations Areas (MOAs) and I can sit out on my porch and watch the F16’s and F35’s out of Luke Air Force base in their night time training as they launch their flares and chaff. This is not that. These pictures are looking west into the MOA, but the object has to be near the camera for it to trigger.
April 15, 2016 · 10:00 PM · RECTANGLE
Lake Kiowa, TX
Watching 10pm news when a commercial came on and decided to take my Dog outside when I came out I noticed my neighbors outside also - it was very dark and no clouds - I noticed something coming towards my house at about 75-100 feet in the air at the same time I heard my neighbor say in a loud voice "what in hell is that?" A box that was orange and transparent (looked like a box kite) rectangular and glowing going at a slow speed about 30 mph passed almost directly overhead and kept going in a North direction there was no noise and you could see right thru it there was nothing inside - size was about 15 feet long and maybe 5 feet wide there was no motor no heat signature it just looked like a orange box kite traveling thru the air. I don't think it was a drone - also it was lit up in a bright glow but you could not see any lights on it. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 15, 2016 · 3:35 PM · RECTANGLE
South Kingston, RI
Was riding on rote 138 in Rhode Island saw a rectangle shape dark in color In the sky Then notice one round object that looked like a cloud but was the only one as far as I could see. Rectangle object seemed to be heading toward cloud in Avery strange man or not like a plane or helicopter. Took picture cloud looks like a round orb and f Rectangle object does not look like we saw more like separate pieces very strange
April 12, 2016 · 4:00 PM · RECTANGLE
Statesville, NC
This will be very brief. The object actually appeared in a landscape photo I took, so I didn't see it in person. I took two pictures from the same spot about five seconds apart. The object is in the first photo, but not the second so I ruled dust on the lens. I enlarged it to see if it was behind the cloud and it appears to be, so I ruled out a bug flying close to the camera or a bird higher in the sky. In considering the object to be a plane it is at an odd angle for a plane unless it happened to be climbing in altitude, also it would have been in the second photo since it was taken so soon after the first. After further look, I spotted what appears to be a second object higher and further back although it lacks adequate definition. The sun was to my right and still fairly high in the sky. Not much other info to give since I was only snapping a photo of the landscape and not really paying attention to anything else.
April 6, 2016 · 8:45 PM · RECTANGLE
South Jordan, UT
I observed a rectangular shaped object fly from South to North (west of me, at approximately a similar west coordinate of Herriman or West Valley) with a small non-blinking light at the front. The object itself was solid black and could barely be seen as it was dark. I only saw it because there was a slight illuminated haze behind it. The object was silent and was either extremely large if flying as high as a plane or smaller and hovering low over the ground. At this same time, airplanes were flying in the same direction (South to North) toward the airport slightly East of where the object was flying. The planes are very loud and easily discernable. I felt the object could be a military plane. The next night I observed this same object, this time with no light at all moving in the same direction, at the same location at approximately the same time. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 2, 2016 · 10:30 PM · RECTANGLE
Center Line, MI
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
March 27, 2016 · 6:00 PM · RECTANGLE
Lubbock, TX
On this day, at first one object caught my eye. That shined and hovered in place for about a 5 mins. Then it moves the opposite direction and fade away and a few minutes latter two show in formation and hovered also above this another object much higher was a very large air craft which it held it position. and accented ((sic. Ascended??)) higher till no longer to see but the two turned to three. Then headed south for about two miles then west for 20 mins. and headed up and disappeared. I know that these were not airliners or bombers. cause the shape and also other aircrafts flying for east to west.. and his objects were heading in a different direction. very bizarre.
March 26, 2016 · 6:30 PM · RECTANGLE
Globe, AZ
On 3-26-16 I seen 3 lights in a triangle shape flying over pineal mountains in globe as at about 18:30 I flashed my car lights at it and that went out so I was driving down town globe and saw people looking up so I pulled over and about 12 lights fly over globe as that were about have the size of a car about a 1000 feet above the ground thy looked like large sodium vapor lights
March 23, 2016 · 9:20 PM · RECTANGLE
Stratham, NH
Large floating rectangle just hovering. It had four or so large headlights. The light beams projected quite far into the night sky. Over a farm too.
March 22, 2016 · 12:00 AM · RECTANGLE
Placheville, LA
We watched them till 2 am. you could tell they were some kind of craft.I could see very well the triangle shape. They looked to be about a mile or two in the sky. The longer they hovered, the brighter they got. It was like they were pulling energy from the moon. They were all around the moon from west, to east, to north and south. Wasn't sure to report, but they were something. "My ears were popping when they were there, and i started feeling dizzy for a while. It's like they knew I was there. They started pulling in closer. I GOT SCARED! THEN i went inside around 2 am, they were still there. Please tell me I m not crazy
March 11, 2016 · 7:30 PM · RECTANGLE
Superior, AZ
Date: March 11, 2016. Time: 1930 Mountain Time. Place: Superior, Arizona. Witness: 2 Adult residents of this town. While traveling home from Apache Leap Days in Superior, heading west on Sunset Drive, noticed lights approximately 45 degrees above the horizon, in the western sky. First appeared as 7 lights in a V-shape over the course of 5 minutes. Then they slowly changed into an "M" shape, the same lights that were a "V" formed the "M" shape, as watched carefully by the witnesses. The witnesses decided to travel west on Hwy 60 out of Superior, instead of heading South to home. Went up and over Gonzales Pass, 15 miles west of Superior. Pulled over at Florence Junction and took still pictures and video. This portion of the sighting lasted 10 minutes at Florence Junction. Witness stated that lights did not "go out", just drifted toward the western horizon out of sight. Witness is in possession of the unaltered cell phone still pictures and video.
March 4, 2016 · 5:58 AM · RECTANGLE
Kalaheo, HI
As it came closer in my direction, it was clear to see that it had 3 giant round bright bright lights horizontally and above it and below the 3 lights was a very thin band of lights that over and had colors. It stayed stationary for a short time, moved slowly to the right, then shortly after that, it just moved straight down, out of my sight into the south point of the island.
February 28, 2016 · 1:00 AM · RECTANGLE
Osceola, IN
All of a sudden a huge rectangle shaped aircraft shot a beam of light at it. About that time a large jet flew past low going into Elkhart airport. The triangle shaped craft dropped down lower so that the jet went past above it and the rectangle shaped craft moved to where it was above my house just at the top of the trees. That's when I noticed that there was more than just one orb in my area. There was at least 3 more in different areas within a mile of my house zipping around low in the sky like they were taking pictures or filming of things. I stayed outside watching them for about 30 minutes before going inside to go to bed. They were still out in the area when I went inside to go to bed at 1:15 am. The rectan! gle shaped aircraft was something that I had never seen before around here. I see the colorful orbs every clear night zipping around this area like they are looking for something or just looking around. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and she assured us that the report is submitted as a serious account of what she had seen. PD
February 19, 2016 · 6:30 AM · RECTANGLE
Maricopa, AZ
Friday Feb 19, 2016, approx 6:30 PM to 7: PM The evening of Feb. 19, 2016, my husband and I were traveling on hwy 347 to Maricopa, Az…….about 8 miles out of Maricopa, my husband pointed in the sky and told me to look in the southwesterly direction. In my view was two large clusters of whitish/yellowish light……they appeared to be in a formation of several rows of lights…….I watched this for approx. 5 minutes, then the cluster on the right disappeared, it did not fade away, it just went out…….within seconds a streak of light appeared higher and more to the south, this streak was a solid formation and appeared to have a pinkish color and stayed there but began to fade quickly……..the larger of the clusters was still in the sky and we continued to watch for another 5 minutes then it disappeared as the first cluster….did not fade, just went out. I would approximate the altitude of the clusters was 2–3 thousand feet, if brought down and laid on the ground the size was 5 or 6 miles across and 3–4 miles high, I saw ! nothing fall from the sky…….the clusters did not move……the light seemed to twinkle a bit but there was not a glowing affect.
February 14, 2016 · 10:45 AM · RECTANGLE
Newhall, CA
I was walking my dog at 10:45 am and saw this very bright red light in the sky and watched it coming from the north and wondered what it was and I had an spotting scope with me and focused on it for about one minute and wondered what I was looking at as the red light was so bright that it was hard to see where it was coming from traveled going south and was not making any sound and as the red light was so bright in the daylight very powerful and strange I could see that the craft/? had a haze around it and looked like a square balloon and made me wonder what kind of light could be so bright in the day light. I seen a picture on UFO sighting 2015 and would say that they were the same type of craft or it was the same craft and I would like to thank that person for posting that picture as I was wondering what I had seen.
February 9, 2016 · 5:00 AM · RECTANGLE
Perrine, FL
Driving North on the Florida Turnpike North of Exit 9. To the right in the sky there were 3 objects. Kind of elongated object. It looked like giant sparklers. You could actually see sparks. I know it was not the paratroopers. I have seen those. These object were going (flying vertically) in a descending motion.
February 5, 2016 · 8:10 PM · RECTANGLE
Cheektowaga, NY
Craft made no sound and seemed to be floating through the air rather than flying. Craft appeared to be riding some form of wave, due to the distortion around the craft. Craft was heading in a north to south direction.
January 29, 2016 · 2:10 PM · RECTANGLE
Springfield, MO
Sunny, clear, blue sky. At approximately 2:00 PM, I was driving north on 65 highway and saw a silver shape in the sky ahead of me, to my northwest moving east. I got closer to it and identified the shape as rectangular; proportions similar to a semi trailer or possibly slightly longer. It was traveling slower than a helicopter and slightly higher than helicopters usually fly. It was pretty low. The craft was sharp and clear. Size, thumb at arm’s length would probably cover the height but not the length. It seemed to have two sections. The back section was the same height but only about ¼ or ⅓ the length of the leading section. The sections were slightly separated although there was some sort of narrow bar between the sections connecting them. The rectangle was a burnished silver color. The bottom was darker, I suppose because the sun was not shining directly on it. Between the two sections it was much brighter except for the bar. It either had a light source or perhaps it was the angle of the sun. I don’t know. There were disruptions in the texture along the side of the front section. They were indistinct. They didn't look like windows but there was something different along the side in four or five noticeable areas. I took the sunshine street exit and while stopped at the traffic light at the bottom of the ramp, the object crossed my path about a quarter mile in front of me. Nobody else seemed to see it and I was trying to catch another driver's eye to look up but I was unsuccessful. I wanted to take a photo but there was no place to pull over so I decided to follow it by turning east on Sunshine. I followed for about 3 miles impeded by traffic. It was travelling in an ESE direction. Sunshine goes directly east. Soon I was looking at the back of it and it was pulling away from me. There was traffic and no place to pull over until it was nothing but a silver spec in the sky. It looked like it would cross hwy 60 just south of Rogersville. At that point I was able to pull over. I got out of the car and could no longer see anything of the object. I immediately called my husband at 2:18 pm, and told him what I had seen.
January 25, 2016 · 7:00 PM · RECTANGLE
Boynton Beach, FL
However, this thing started coming down very slowly and seemed to be approaching us directly as if it were going to land on the top of our car. In my haste to look forward I opened my side of the passenger door window and I could not hear any kind of noise like a helicopter or plane would make which frightened me. I told him to try and keep an eye on it as we kept moving toward Gateway Blvd. As it went over us we both noticed the shape to be rectangular (like an Egyptian burial casket - longways, not horizontal) with a blinking red light on the bottom. At this time I knew it was not a plane, helicopter or drone because drones are not that large and it seemed to be the size of the car. We proceeded to make a left toward the restaurant and tried to keep the “thing” in sight. Once we parked, we jumped out to see where it was and it was approximately 2 to 4 miles to the south and seemed to be hovering near the tree line which we could see as it was very light out because the moon was either full or near full. After we got home we decided to contact the Palm Beach Post to see if anyone else had reported seeing a UFO in that area at that time. ((ADDENDUM FROM SOURCE OF REPORT)) Hi: We are waiting to hear from the Palm Beach Post. We did not think to take a picture of it as I was scared to death....and my husband was driving....but will let you know what the Palm Beach Post says to me...thanks for getting back to us on this...of course our families think we need to be admitted.... ((END ADDENDUM))