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September 22, 2015 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Rhien (Canada), SK · Canada
Less than a minute later, a pair of bright light separated by about a hand's width appeared and went in the same direction to intercept it. What makes it unusual is the two lights traveling one behind the other satellites don't travel together. When these light appeared my dogs started to bark could it have been one very large object? There was no sound. Witness does not indicate a date, so we have assigned an arbitrary date. We have requested confirmation of the date, but have not heard back from the witness, yet. PD
September 21, 2015 · 7:30 PM · LIGHT
Ottawa (Canada), ON · Canada
I was out walking my dog. Saw a hovering red light just below cloud ceiling at dusk. filmed a video. Watch till the end to see it change colour and fly off in easterly direction. Uploaded to Youtube last night. https://youtu.be/fB5hj4xo8Jk Not a hoax. I'm 55 years old this week and although I believe in ET's, I've never ever seen this type of event before.
September 21, 2015 · 12:15 AM · LIGHT
Fairborn, OH
A strange blinking light very high in the atmosphere has been noticed in the northeast part of the sky on several nights. The light hovers and moves very quickly up and down in the sky. I have also observed it seeming to come in closer and dim out away very suddenly. It is much higher altitudes than the airplanes flying around. I have noticed it there several times lately over the past week. It doesn't move like any aircraft I've ever seen in the sky.
September 20, 2015 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Francestown, NH
Sept. 20, 2015 Sighting in Francestown, NH Although this report comes some 6 years after the observation, it quite accurately reflects what I observed, since detailed notes were written down the day following the observation (I am a research scientist, so observing and recording details of phenomena are in my ‘DNA’). I believe what I observed, described in detail below, must be evidence of an advanced technology from someone and somewhere other than humans on this planet. I live on a little traveled dirt road and have neighbors only on two sides, east and west along the road, but not directly in view. This is a very rural location and no lights were in view from traffic or other houses that I could have mistaken for what I observed. It was a totally clear evening on Sept. 20, 2015 around 10:30 PM, well past dusk, but enough faint light remained on the horizon (from sun having set in the west) to see things fairly clearly. As I let the dog out in the fenced yard to do her business I noticed at the base of our driveway (~ 120 ft away, going from the house east parallel to the road and then curving down southward to meet the road), a few vehicles moving back and forth periodically on the road. They had yellow flashing lights, so were not just regular vehicles on the road. I watched for a few minutes and then, after letting the dog in, decided to go down the driveway and talk to the drivers to find out what was happening. As I reached the driveway entrance close to the road I glanced to my right and saw something lit up in the sky (westerly direction) and looked at it more closely for a minute. It was not more than 300-400’ (guesstimate) away at most and not high up, maybe 100’; but this was hard to estimate since I did not know the object size I was looking at or have easy reference points in the distance. What I saw was two horizontal amber orange lights, like long neon tube lights might look, one above the other and they were parallel, but spaced by a distinct distance about the diameter of each light. One tube light appeared to have a short gap in its illumination . I could not tell the size or shape of what these lights were attached too. If pressed to estimate, I would say the object was at least the size of an automobile. Suddenly, this being a strange object that was slowly moving toward me, I felt a bit exposed and so decided not to try and talk to the occupants of the vehicles I had seen. They had already withdrawn a distance down the road to the east anyway. I walked back up the driveway to my house and as I did noticed to my left (south) a bright white light maybe 30 ft off the ground but behind trees across the road in the river valley bottom. I could not see the light directly; it was always behind the trees, so I never could estimate the size of the light or the size and shape of what it was attached to. As I got up to my house, the light was now a bit lower and seemed to be above the small river (~ 20’ wide) that runs along the valley floor on the other side (south) of the road from my house. As I got to my house it stopped moving as far as I could tell and remained about 30-40’ above the river and always behind the tall trees about 150’ from my position beside my house, which is situated about 20’ above the river water level. At this time of year in Fall the leaves were still fully on the trees so I had no direct view of the object at any time. I also tried observing the object from the second story windows inside my house! , but got no better view of it. This object made absolutely no sound whatsoever and all was still outside where I continued watching; there was no wind either making any noise. I should mention now that I did not own a cellphone, and my camera was somewhere in the house and not convenient to attempt taking a picture of the obscured object. I decided to continually watch it since I thought it would disappear at any second. I commenced to watch it (to my surprise) for the next 45 minutes. Occasionally I would walk 20-30’ closer and move left or right to change views, but got no additional detail of what this object was. The object seemed to move some and may have moved a few feet in any direction, including up or down, during this entire time, but no substantial change occurred in its position. Again, I had to infer this from what I saw the light doing indirectly behind the illuminated trees and the limited ground area I could see that was brightly lit. As far as the light itself, it was white the entire time and it looked as if the directionality of illumination was not consistent, but changed continuously in terms of its illumination intensity of ! the ground areas and different trees surrounding it. I should mention that it would have been very difficult to get close enough to see what this light was, since the river bottom had thick swampy brush to get through (40-50’ of it beyond and below the road level) to be sufficiently under the trees in front of the object to observe it directly. In addition, not knowing what danger might be involved in being too close to the strange object (poisonous gases, radiation), I decided I would go no further than being outside next to or close to my house in case I needed to take shelter. I was excited and somewhat apprehensive, never scared, during this entire time. As to the white light’s relation to the horizontal amber lights originally sighted, I am not sure. They could have been part of the same object or belonged to different objects. I never saw the amber lights again although I looked in that westerly direction again a number of times from my position outside of my house. Another really strange feature was that the white light object appeared to periodically (every few seconds) drop small bits of whitish light or what looked like burning embers that seemed to almost touch the ground but these did not stay illuminated upon reaching the ground; they just disappeared. These I could see clearly as they dropped below the level of the lowest leafy branches. They appeared to be no larger than about a tennis ball size, perhaps smaller. There was no hint of anything catching fire on the ground either, in those portions of the ground that I could see clearly below the lowest branches of the trees in front of and in proximity to the object. During watching the lighted area across the road for about 40 min the vehicles on the road would periodically come into view at the base of my driveway and then back up, as if observing cautiously what was going on with the object. It was light enough out for me to notice that one of the vehicles was a firetruck, but with no emergency or vehicle lights on. I never saw a police vehicle that I could identify. I could only guess that it was the appearance of this object in town that they were there for and maintaining a watchful eye over. After about 40 min these vehicles stopped appearing in view and may have left for good as far as I knew. As all of this happened my wife was asleep in bed, so I decided to wake her to be a witness to these strange events. I did wake her and we both watched the object for the next 30-45 min. without anything significant changing. It now being close to midnight and being tired, we both decided to go to bed. After it seemed a short while in bed (10 min?) there was a crash that I heard (tree limb) and the power went out. This may have happened after longer than 10 min and I may have dozed off before it happened. Very soon (?) after hearing the crash I heard a chainsaw and knew the power company or some road crew was busy dealing with the situation. That is all I remember that evening having fallen asleep again. This limb damage/ power outage event may have been a complete coincidence to the strange light incident I observed; I simply don’t know. When I woke up the next morning the power was restored. When I went out to the road, the object was gone and there was evidence that a limb from a dead tree had indeed
September 20, 2015 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Columbus, OH
Myself and a friend were sitting outside and we saw an amber light (ball) appear on the horizon, it was low, perhaps 5000 feet, no noise whatsoever, and traveling at the speed which one could say was similar to a small high performance prop aircraft, faster than a helicopter but not real real fast. We watched it track closer and it took a gradual curve and we watched it as it slowly disappeared on the far horizon. We then saw a second one, originating at the same point as the first one, it too followed a similar path. Subsequently, there were 3 or 4 more, and at one point we had eyeballs on two of them as one was fading and another had started. I'm gonna say each one from start to finish was about two minutes. My friend lives in a neighborhood with curving streets all over so unfortunately I cannot give you an orientation as to North/South etc., as I'm not sure the exact direction where they first manifested since I have no clue as to which way the backyard faces. Note, there are a few similar reports. Very interesting. No noise whatsoever. The color was almost exactly like a street lamp, the amberish ones. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 20, 2015 · 9:10 PM · LIGHT
Benson (UK/England) · United Kingdom
2 x bright lights traveling North through the constellation Cassiopeia, almost directly over head. Travelled very slowly, maintaining the same distance apart, almost directly North. Very bright like aircraft flares. Passed through Cassiopeia and then went out together. I am in the Royal Airforce and consider myself a sound witness. I have not seen anything like this before. They were not aircraft, and there were other commercial aircraft in the airspace at the time doing the usual blinking between red and white light. The 2 UFOs were not flashing, just constant slow moving bright white lights. The other witness is also in the military, and we are both clueless to what we just witnessed, and have not been drinking.
September 20, 2015 · 1:00 AM · LIGHT
Astoria, NY
Came out of apartment and witnessed a white bright light flying in one location appearing out of the clouds and flying in a zip zag motion in rapid speed, large glow and then shot out into the distance and disappeared into clouds.
September 20, 2015 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Anchorage, AK
It was Sunday morning and it was like 3:14. I've had just finished delivering newspapers with my brother,something I do everyday. So as I was getting out of the car I stoped and looked up to watch the northern lights. And as I was watching I saw what looked balloons like 8 of it and was yellowish like the size of a basketball if you were to see it from were I was standing. At first I thought it was one of the group of birds I had saw earlier. But as it got closer saw it can't be balloons it's to dark to be able to see a balloon. I told my brother look a ufo I was joking and he said those are just balloons and went inside the house. Well I kind of started to believe too that it were baloons, until it went a little higher and I could still see it. Then I said to myself if those were balloons you'd probably couldn't see it from here, then I was 100% sure it was balls of light. So as the ball of lights went bit higher coming from the opposite direction was anoth! er balls of lights same everything except it was reddish it kind of met up with the other ball of lights and sort of circle each other then both went higher and higher in the sky then it started to look like stars then stoped for like 15 second then it started to line up perfectly and then started to move toward the center of the sky. And when it got there the northern lights started to make its way to the lights and started surrounding it 10 seconds later when the nor the lights was gone the balls of light was gone too....September/20/2015
September 19, 2015 · 10:45 PM · LIGHT
Orefield, PA
There was a bright blueish/greenish hazed lighted object making absolutely no sound, moving west to east, It was rather low in the sky about 100 feet above the tree line. A small motored plane was much higher and eastward that I could here and see and I could distinguish its wing lights. This lighted object continued straight over the treeline, then turned northwest, very rapidly ascending out of sight.
September 19, 2015 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Ellicott City, VA
Exact same as item described in the Annapolis, MD, report a few days earlier - Two egg or circle light shaped crafts hovering way up in the sky. Pretty good distance between the two. Was absolutely still and no noise. Hovered for almost an hour, then just disappeared.
September 19, 2015 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Beach Haven, NJ
Wife and I were relaxing in a hot tub, watching the stars and looking for satellites. We ended up seeing, what we initially believed to be, a rather bright satellite. It was so bright that we had thought we were viewing the ISS, but as it was traversing the sky it stopped abruptly. After a second or two, it made quick, concise movements that were very different than its original trajectory. After approximately 45 seconds the object traveled across the horizon, out of view.
September 19, 2015 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
North Gower (Canada), ON · Canada
i was outside on my front porch , when i saw a bright red/orange ball flying across the sky. at first i though it might be a plane of some sort, but it did not make the sound that occurs following a plane that goes by. this light was so strange, and i saw it two nights in a row. i have never seen anything like this before. we have all kinds of planes that go over including helicopters, and this was definitely not one of those. it moves across the sky from west to east, and was moving faster than a plane would. i can honestly say that i have never in my life seen anything like this before, it totally caught me off guard. my neighbors were also outside in their garage at the time and they saw the same thing that i did. if you know what this is could you please let me know.. thank you
September 19, 2015 · 7:45 PM · LIGHT
Denver, PA
2 objects left was red and right was green. They were side by side. They appeared 80% above the horizon SW hovering then accelerated at a super high rate of speed SW and disappeared 4 or so years ago we saw a white light that hovered and did the same I reported it on here. Why here at the same time during the Denver Fair?!
September 19, 2015 · 7:30 PM · LIGHT
Kansas City (entering from I-70 west), MO
I was driving on I-70 west toward Kansas Cit,y around 730 pm on 9/19/15, when i first saw them. i just remember the sun was going down and i was driving toward this beautiful sunset, as i watched these lights appear and they faded as the horizon changed colors and turned dark. i actually sped up because i wanted to see what they were and it looked like one of the lights was moving to the right toward the direction i was driving to which was into downtown. there were two bright lights that appeared circular one brighter than the other which was the one the was moving right toward where i was going. the other two lights are harder to explain because at first i thought they were those clouds that the airplanes make but as i drove closer and watched they didnt fade but seemed to get brighter. these 2 werent circular but kind of a swish shape, was very odd. these four lights hung in the sky sort of in a square formation as the brightest circle moved toward what se! emed to be over downtown. i then saw a PLANE !!like one of those small ones, fly between me and these lights and then fly back and back again before it dissapeared. i have never seen a plane to that in my life! i was in shock, took my phone out which is very dangerous while driving but i wanted to record this but i couldnt do it while i was driving. i was looking at every person driving beside me to see if they were seeing this but the couple people i saw didnt seem to notice this!!? wtf. it all was very bizzare. then the lights began to fade and by the time i reached the westside it was pretty much dark and i could only see one of the lights which then faded or i lost view of it from behind buildings.
September 19, 2015 · 3:00 PM · LIGHT
Boise, ID
We were traveling through a suburban street headed West at approximately 7:00 p.m. on Saturday, August 19, 2015, when we saw a shiny object in the South West Sky. The weather was clear there were no clouds. It looked like a star if it would have been dark. The object was moving away from us and at a low altitude that most of the air planes in this area ( we have a National Air Port about 3 miles to the East-it was not a plane) approach for landing and a National Guard Base in the same area (again, it was not a plane). It appeared then disappeared. About 5 minutes later, we saw the same type of Shiny Object approaching from the North West. I thought it could have been the nose of an incoming jet and waited for a better view of the wings or body. It wasn’t a plane and it disappeared too, just a quickly as the first sighting. As we discussed what it wasn’t, we concluded neither of these objects were known air craft, balloons, flares, kites, etc. We are an adult couple and have not reported to this site previously. We thought this event should be documented, as these were quite strange objects.
September 19, 2015 · 9:01 AM · LIGHT
Terre Haute, IN
well we was driving south on 25th street and I seen a yellow/orange light so, I pulled over and got out. it was going north, then went up, then went south till out of site within 30 seconds. no sound no shape only circle light.
September 19, 2015 · 3:30 AM · LIGHT
Wakpala, SD
I now regret being so brave to let it see me.. The reason why is that it somehow altered my mind and i now see alot more of them and they r always by me.. And its very scary.. I am npw in the hospital with doctors telling me im crazy but how can i be crazy when i have proof of my hallucinations.. Scared wishing i had help.. Me Source of report indicates that the date of the event is approximate. PD
September 19, 2015 · 12:37 AM · LIGHT
Attleboro, MA
What I saw may have only been a shooting star or falling space debris. A blue glow shot through the sky to my left, at such an angle that if it were small and close it could have impacted the earth within my town. I listened and heard nothing, so I suppose it could have been larger and farther away than I assumed but there was no air burst or flash of light. This leads me to believe it was a small piece of debris, had it been a space shuttle in the distance it would have taken a less steep entry angle. Knowing that UFOs can accelerate instantaneously I assume they can decelerate just as fast. If the composition of said potential craft was hard and dense enough I suppose it may have completed it's journey whole. From the center of Attleboro it appeared in the southern sky, towards Rhode Island. The trail seen may have only been a streak of light caused by super heating. The curved edge was about the size of the tip of a finger at arm's length.
September 18, 2015 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Richmond, VA
My friend and I witnessed 3 points of light that looked like bright stars. These lights were whitish, but seemed to have blinking colors of light that would change every so often, but then return to a whitish hue. These lights were quite spread out, and were brighter than the surrounding stars, and seemed to move slightly up, down, left and right in a small space, like they were trying to not make too much motion to try to blend in as stars, but they were definitely not static lights, but not a whole lot of movement. I witnessed these lights to remain in the sky for hours, and I've never seen anything like it before, blew my mind, even called the police non emergency line to see if they received any other reports, and they said that they did not. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 18, 2015 · 10:34 PM · LIGHT
Miami, OK
Me and my oldest son went up river one night to fish. Like always I follow the big dipper out and next too the north star was a very bright light so I followed it again the bucket than the handle and it's still there brighter than the north .all I think of than the star of David. Than it deem down and started moving to the easy out in space I started telling the boy to look .he showed his head between his knees almost started to cry sayings he doesn't want too see it .than the light stop started zig zag a bit than stopped than in less of a blink of a eye it shot out in space.in a straight line out.i told my boy it's gone he Left his head up and said it not real you seen nothing. You can have all these meetings and stuff just like my boy there's people who are not ready it be in front of them and they shut there eyes so fast . From what I seen makes me wonder how many races are out there that's using ours solar system too charge up too jump to another system. Our sun and earth is a fuel port for them since the dinosaur days. Think on that.and if anyone actually read this thanks
September 18, 2015 · 9:15 PM · LIGHT
Dublin, OH
2 extremely bright lights suspended above house for several minutes. Took off in an upward direction and disappeared. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 18, 2015 · 9:10 PM · LIGHT
Modesto, CA
At a few minutes after 2100 PDT, 09/18/15, I was talking on my cellphone (with a hands-free device) with a friend just a moment after my wife and I had stopped at a restaurant (approximately 4 NM from MOD airport) for a late-night hamburger; as I walked around the back of the car, walking south to east, I stopped to open the car door for my wife to get out of the car and noticed a very bright light NE of the town heading in our direction. The distance of the light from town was initially difficult to judge, not knowing precisely what sort of craft the light was part of, but judging by the rate of its approach and estimated altitude, I am guessing that I first noticed the light 30-40 miles NE of our location and possibly at 14,000'-17,000' (very difficult to judge with any precision). Weather at the time: no clouds were visible; the brighter stars in constellations were all visible from horizon to horizon, so I'm assuming that the weather was CAVU. There is absolutely no possibility that this light was a planet, for Venus had set sometime earlier in the west, and the light was much too large to be Mars, Saturn, or Jupiter. (I served as a volunteer amateur astronomer at a nearby observatory in Oakland, and can assure the reader that whatever the light was, it was not a planet, star, or satellite.) I've flown for a intra-state airline out of Modesto for 7 years and have lived in the city NE of MOD airport for 28 years; the path of the bright light didn't match that of aircraft flying from Sacramento southbound along low-altitude airways; it didn't match air traffic flying the typical arrivals into KSFO or KOAK, where the traffic crosses the Modesto VOR at 10,000' MSL and flies outbound on a WSW radial before being vectored by Bay Approach for arrivals at KSFO or KOAK; the light did not appear to be heading to MOD airport or distant KSJC; I thought that the light might be traffic heading for MOD VOR, but the heading wasn't quite correct (it would pass west of the VOR on the observed heading), so it didn't appear that it was on the Modesto arrival for KSFO or traffic bound for MOD. Judging by its size; the speed of its approach; angle of approach and vertical relative motion, I believe that the light was descending. The closer that the light came, the more impressed I was by its apparent size; it was yellow-orange in color, which may have been caused by smoke from fires that had burned in the vicinity of Modesto in September, but which I seriously doubt is the case as the color had not changed to any real degree in its approach to Modesto since the time when I first observed it some 9-10 minutes before. During this time, I didn't see any change in relative motion that might have indicated that an aircraft had leveled off. When the light appeared to have more lateral relative motion, I looked very carefully for red and green navigation lights and white (wingtip) or red (tail, or fuselage) anti-collision strobe lights and observed none [I can almost always see the anti-collision strobe lights on commercial jets at 10,000' on the Modesto arrival -- procedures dictate that arriving flights cross the MOD VOR at 10,000' and in clear weather, I can usually detect the red, green, and white position lights of traffic overhead, though not the color with the jet being at that altitude (my vision is 20/10 or better in both eyes)]. As neither my wife (also a pilot) or I could not see any position (navigation) lights, after removing the earbuds of my cellphone's hands-free device from my ears, I listened for powerplant noise and could not detect any sound of a reciprocating engine propellor-driven aircraft, no jet engine powerplant(s); nor could I hear the blade noise from a helicopter (our home is less than 3 nautical miles E of a hospital that has EMS helicopter service, or, that of the helicopter that serves another hospital approximately 4 miles WSW of us). Puzzled by the size of the light (at this point, much larger than any I've seen on private civil, commercial, and military aircraft); and the lack of both navigation lights and powerplant noise, I ducked into the backseat of our car to pull my professional Canon EOS 5D Mark III DSLR camera from its bag, turned the camera on, removed the lens cover (about 7-8 seconds at most), only to find that no aircraft or lights were visible whatsoever. Usua! lly, if police or hospital helicopters are flying away from me, I can see at least one position position and two or more strobe anti-collision lights of aircraft that have over-flown my zenith -- and usually, there is just enough dust or haze in the air that a landing light will display an apparent "beam" down to the ground which can be seen from all over the city. (The street that our restaurant is on is Oakdale Road, which points directly at the midfield of the MOD airport to the south of us: any aircraft landing at Modesto airport should havqe clearly been visible for several minutes more.) I scanned the sky east through northwest several times and could find absolutely no lights in the sky except those heading to or away from the MOD VOR at an altitude of approximately 10,000' MSL; the strobe lights of commercial jets on Jet-One ("J-1") at high altitude heading southbound; or transiting the skies far to the far south, apparently jet traffic heading into KSJC. No lights could be seen flying left- or right-traffic in the traffic pattern for landing at MOD airport or going in to either of the two local hospitals. The light had apparently and simply disappeared. Any aircraft going into MOD or the two hospitals should have been visible another 2-4 minutes if landing at the airport or 1-2 minutes if landing at one of the two hospitals. Even looking through my camera's zoom lens, I should have been able to see at least some of the usual lights aircraft display, but saw nothing.
September 18, 2015 · 9:10 PM · LIGHT
Fort Wayne, IN
While leaving the Smokey Bones restaurant in Fort Wayne, Indiana, tonight (Friday, Sept. 18, 2015) around 9:10 p.m., I looked up at the sky after noticing sheet lightning in the NE and wondered if a thunderstorm was rolling in. As I turned around to get into the car, I saw three bright orange lights in a “V” formation and a fourth “straggler” slightly behind, moving slowly across the sky from the SW toward the NE. My husband was already in the car and I told him to get out and take a look. We both were watching the 4 lights, which seemed to disappear behind the thick cloud cover, but as we again turned to get into the car, there was another group of 4 orange lights, the first 3 in V-formation. This time the 4th one was much further behind, but they all were traveling SW to NE. Because our intention tonight was to get the grocery shopping done, we drove over to Meijer. As we parked the car in the Meijer lot, we could still the 4th “straggler” of the second group of orange lights and we stood in the parking lot watching until the light seemed to fade behind the clouds. My husband dismissed these orange lights as most likely “military.” But they were not your typical air plane lights. They were orange, with a slight yellow waver and were steady with no blinking. The speed at which they traveled was slower than a plane, but made me think of a glider. As far as I could tell, they made no sound. All I could hear was highway traffic and shopping center traffic. We saw these unusual lights flying in this formation above a busy outdoor shopping mall, with people coming and going from the theater and restaurants. I was looking around for someone else to look up or someone close enough that we could talk to and ask if they could see these lights too, but the people we saw were too far away and/or on their cell phones! What were these lights? Weather balloons? Drones? A group of eight people flying gliders at night? My husband and I both have Bachelor degrees, he in Computer Science and I in Liberal Arts (English Literature). I'm always looking at the sky and am knowledgable about the planets and stars, thanks to Stardate.org.
September 18, 2015 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Lisman, AL
Me and wife where returning home on why 10 and noticed 3 very bright lights almost like flares first one came on and with in seconds it went off and others following it as if it where three flares going off with about a two second delay between each but instantly going off as we turned on county road 32 traveling towards Pennington we saw three more sets of the same lights at different locations in the sky all a bright orange color