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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 11, 2015 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
La Plata, MD
My brother asked me to come outside to see this "green light" at approximately 10:30 pm. We walked out front and down the driveway (we live on a small hill) and looked to the south/south west, roughly 45 degrees up. At first glance we saw nothing but all of a sudden this dot in the sky roughly the size of a nearby planet or star began to turn from dark green into florescent bright green and shined brightly light green for roughly 5-10 seconds before dissipating once again. The object did this randomly over the course of the sighting and as it did it slowly moved across the sky from left to right (from the viewpoint of looking south/ south west). I saw the object 4 times however my brother saw it more than i had because he'd been outside looking at it prior to telling me about it. After roughly 10 minutes after the last sighting we were not able to see it again and it never flashed again. I wouldn't necessarily rule out that it was a lazer or satellite of some! kind but what baffles me is how vibrant green it was and how pin pointed it was. In general we saw a dot roughly the size of a star turn vibrant green and then fade away into nothing, leaving us asking, "What the hell was that?"
September 11, 2015 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Bremerton, WA
2-3 miles up saw an orange light moving north to south about the speed of a small plane. It was around 9:30pm. There was no noise or collision lights or tail light. Just one constant light. It was seen over Dyes Inlet, between Bremerton and Port Orchard. Night was warm and very clear. No clouds for days. About 30 sec after first seeing object it slowly disappeared. Approximately 15 minutes later both my co-worker saw the same object again, traveling in same direction as previous sighting. This light was extremely bright for how high it appeared. We see planes and helicopter all the time. It was neither. It seemed much too high, and light too big and bright, for a drone.
September 11, 2015 · 7:30 PM · LIGHT
Salem, OR
My two friends and I were in our backyard on the patio around 7:30 PM. It was pretty much daylight. We were chatting when I noticed what I can only describe as a ball of light traveling West to East (I was facing South). The object did not have a clearly defined outline--no hard edges. It was a bright luminous mass and while I would describe it as round in shape it did not appear perfectly round or disc-like. It was moving quickly, was completely silent and moved in a straight line. We tracked the object as it moved in and out of sight behind trees. It was not high in the sky. Just about the time we lost sight of the object, another one appeared. It looked like the other one and moved along the same path. Again, we tracked it until it moved out of view. It was not shaped like a plane and none of us had ever seen anything similar moving in the way these objects did. One might describe this as having the characteristics of a comet. It gave the impression of a gaseous ball of light, in that it did not appear solid exactly. And while you could not see through the object, it had a translucent character. It had soft edges and a glow or aura. Shortly after this event we did see several planes in the sky, which only reinforced how very unique the previous objects were.
September 11, 2015 · 5:00 AM · LIGHT
Hiram, GA
I was driving alone down Nebo Road heading towards 92 past the Ingles Gas Station, when I saw a light too bright to be a star and too low and bright to be an airplane. It was only hovering for a solid 15 minutes, before disappearing, but I did not see where it took off to. Other cars were in driving the road so I don't know if others possibly saw this event as well. Hope to see more, they're coming back. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 10, 2015 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Rogerson, ID
DI NOTICED A RED LIGHT JUST BELOW A SATTELIGHT. IT DISAPPEARED, AND THEN REAPPEAROVER ON THE OTHERSIDE. AND THEN DISAPPEAR AGAIN AND REAPPEAR BACK ON THE OTHER SIDE AGAIN IT DID THIS 5 TIMES. IT WASNT AN AIRCRAFT AS THE LIGHT WAS BIGGER AND CHANGED POSITION WAY FASTER THAN ANYTHING!! THE FIRST TIME IT WAS RED, ALL THE OTHERS WERE MORE ORANGE.
September 10, 2015 · 8:15 PM · LIGHT
Antioch, CA
I just saw two UFO's. Night, Sept 10th, 2015, at approx. 8:15 pm, Antioch, CA. A red, round light and a blue, round light traveling directly east, from west. I thought they were Mylar balloons at first, about 50 feet up, but traveling too fast and strait and the wind is coming more from the north/north west. Then I thought “birds?” I thought they were balloons reflecting light from the street lamp. I soon realized (about 1 second after they came out from behind my tree and about 3 seconds after first sight) they were not balloons or birds, as they had their own light source. Then the red one changed coarse slightly but both kept moving quickly to the east in very strait paths. When the red one changed course for a moment it seemed to be a very precise, yet playful movement. They crossed overhead and out of sight towards the horizon in Antioch in about 10 to 12 seconds (total sighting including tree obstruction for 2 seconds). They made no sound (that I could hear). I was not sure how high up they were, so also not sure how big, but given the minimum distance they moved, they seemed to be going fast. They seem to fade away before reaching a normal distance of low visibility and while still above the horizon impediments. The sky is clear. My neighbors are almost always on their front porch so I went across the street and asked them and one of them saw it too. They exploded in a flurry of slightly intoxicated explanation and agreement that one of them had just mentioned it, saying, “I guess you’re not seeing things.” The girl saw it as it was already well past the zenith and closer to the horizon. She also said she only saw a blue one, which I thought was strange because they were only a few degrees apart after going into the distance, but that was from my line of sight, which should not have been much different than hers. Maybe the red one faded out before the blue one, I do not recall. It seemed to go one or two miles in! about 13 seconds, but that is guessing that it was as big as a house and about 600 to 1200 feet up. It may have been 200 feet high, very hard to judge. It looked about the size of a 20 inch balloon just above the telephone pole. It was exciting. So exciting, it may have happened in 6 or 7 seconds and just seemed like 10 or 12 seconds.
September 10, 2015 · 5:30 AM · LIGHT
Portland, OR
There are two bright white lights in the sky. One is slowly moving down, and the other one is not moving at all. What are they?
September 10, 2015 · 12:50 AM · LIGHT
Glenarm, IL
2 lights equally spaced apart moving left to right. Appeared like stars. Left one faded, then right one faded 30 seconds later. Believe it was same craft as last I reported. This one was higher up, maybe leaving atmosphere.
September 9, 2015 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Orland Park, IL
On my 3rd floor patio looking out north east saw ufo it was moving slow due there is a lot of airplane in area I looked more closer this isn't my first time seeing a ufo so I keeped looking then it stopped it was spinning and its light got brighter when it did so moved very slow stopped for about 30 minutes the spinning again moved more then it disappeared. I do have pictures and a video. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 9, 2015 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Bremerton, WA
On the evening of September 9th 2015 my husband and I witnessed what we both at first believed to be an airplane while outside having a cigarette on our deck. We saw a red glowing circular light (not blinking)and we assumed it to be an airplane in a holding pattern as we usually can see that type of air traffic frequently out of Sea-Tac. The light was red & not changing but what caught our immediate attention was that it would flash a white light three times then turned back to glowing red every so often. It came in from the east. After several minutes trying to figure out what it might be it came to a dead stop in the sky, flashed white 3 times again then proceeded to do a straight drop decent behind the trees per our view of the horizon. We were astonished and stayed to see if it would come back in to view and after a few minutes it came back in to our view and began moving sided to side (right/left & left/right) back & forth and flashing white every so ofte! n. It seemed to be searching for something and I witnessed several smaller glowing objects flying out & dropping down from the craft. This was watched by both of us for at least 20minutes if not longer. It was in the path of airplane traffic that night & must have come up on radar somewhere. We figured it was out towards Manchester or Blake Island/over the Puget Sound or in that general area. We watched it descend out of view again and waited another 5-10min before going back inside. This morning, today being 9-11-15 I woke up with pain in my back and have a welt with a circular scoop mark on my back and a big scratch there is no way I could have done to myself. I'm not sure if they are related but I believe I've been having these types of encounters all my life. My mother & sister have reported to this agency before over a major happening back in 2001 & Robert Fairfax came to interview them however my mom was too afraid to face it at the time as that wasn't her 1st encount! er. I'm hoping to get some help for our family to try & unders! tand all of this! Thanks for reading & hope we weren't the only ones who saw this :-)
September 9, 2015 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Yakima, WA
My husband and I were sitting outside about 9 PM when we noticed 8 aircraft flying in formation from east to west. There was also a helicopter flying around the Yakima area at the same time. All of a sudden we saw a flash of orange/red light fall out of the sky and head in the northern direction. It fell like a meteor only it took on the shape of a teardrop as it dropped in the north, turning white. We saw one last evening 9/10 only it was white the whole time.
September 9, 2015 · 7:45 AM · LIGHT
Frederika, IA
Driving on 63 N noticed bright light in the sky above Frederika as I watched light flash was gone and saw sigar shape craft it lit up as bright light and faded out
September 9, 2015 · 5:45 AM · LIGHT
Columbus, OH
I am a credible professional on sales here in Columbus, with a wife and two children under two. This morning, around 5:45 am, I am outside with the dog for his morning bathroom routine. Noticed very bright light in the sky. Assumed it was an airplane. Noticed that there was no sound, however. Light remained stationary for a few seconds, then the light seemed to move vertically skyward and away southeast. I kept my eyes fixed on the light until it completely disappeared. It looked as though the light went from very close and bright to nothing more than a very distant star, to nothing at all.
September 9, 2015 · 4:50 AM · LIGHT
Lynchburg, VA
Toward Candler's Mountain this morning around 4:40-5:00-ish, I was driving and on my way to drop my friend off at his work. On a long stretch of bridge (over the James River), you can see a grand portion of the sky for a few seconds; within that few seconds, something somewhat large, extremely bright and colourful caught our attention over the downtown Lynchburg area. It left a little bit of a trail behind it and it was a green and yellow light plummeting toward the city. Before we could really stop to watch it it flickered out of existence, or at very least, our sight.
September 8, 2015 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Denver, CO
Looked like lights from a air craft that was to high and not moving. Red, blue and clear lights. Looked again at 10:30 and it was gone. Not the 1 st time I have seen this out there.
September 8, 2015 · 9:35 PM · LIGHT
Pittsburgh, PA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 8, 2015 · 12:18 AM · LIGHT
Charleston, WV
In a north east direction craft spotted changing light intensity and color from green, blue, red, white and yellow. Craft is have sudden and erratic course change and gauged course from fixed point on house. Craft sometimes stops and light turns white with laser like beam pointed towards ground from very high altitude. Craft looks to be towards southern side of city or residential area. Filed report while watching event. Possible "twinkling" star? PD
September 7, 2015 · 9:15 PM · LIGHT
Smithfield, PA
In the night sky, driving on PA-43 near or about Smithfield, PA - my husband and I witnessed a bright light appear in the sky. The light kept motionless for about a second before it traveled a direct route that made it appear to be "falling" from the sky yet at the same time maintaining a controlled route. It quickly descended and disappeared. There was not a cloud in the sky, we could clearly see stars.. The light appeared so bright and out of nowhere then just as quick flew a straight line down and disappeared - did not fade or go out of sight - disappeared!
September 7, 2015 · 6:45 PM · LIGHT
Pittsburgh, PA
Was in Pittsburgh on top of the parking garage in station square. We was taking pictures of my girlfriends car with the city as the background. After I got back in the car I was reviewing the pictures and noticed something strange in the sky. At first I thought the reflection of the building might of been making the lights in the sky appear so I tried moving to other angles and objects never changed. So I took a few more pictures and even zoomed in on a few. If you look close on a few of the lights you can see that there is dark spots in the center of a couple of them. I was posting to see if anyone else might of noticed these strange lights or if anyone knows what this might be. We suspect the lights are lens flares. PD
September 6, 2015 · 11:45 PM · LIGHT
Stonington, CT
Upon arrival home about 23:45 on 9/6/2015, I exited the car and glanced up into the sky. A line of lights was approaching me in the sky from approximately west. At first I thought they were stars but they were so bright I looked again. The were bright amber, non-flashing and moving in single file towards me, about eight to ten or more in number. They did not appear to be high like an jetliner at 20,000 feet but not more than about three to five thousand feet. They snaked a little back and forth single file across the sky towards me. I grabbed my phone and tried to get a movie of it, but the movie quality is not nearly as sharp and clear as they were. They did not blink like aircraft. I ran into the house and woke my wife to come out and see them. She arrived outside to see the last few file past us overhead. They had not made a sound up to this point but soon we heard a plane and she assumed that was them and went back to bed. I watched a little longer and the plane sound got louder and a plane appeared approaching from the south. It had different colored flashing lights on its wing tips and was clearly the source of the plane sound. It disappeared in the direction the strange lights had left, approximately north and east. I have checked the video and only got about thirty seconds of the light show. The quality is very poor, but you can see a few of them on the screen. They were much brighter amber to the naked eye.
September 6, 2015 · 10:45 PM · LIGHT
Probable conventionalVienne-En-Val, Centre · France
Le 06 septembre 2015 vers 22h45, un témoin observe depuis son jardin un point lumineux se déplaçant dans le ciel du Sud vers le Nord, qu’il prend d’abord pour un satellite. Le PAN s’arrête quelques secondes, reprend sa progression, puis fait une demi-boucle en sens inverse. Après un nouvel arrêt, le PAN disparaît à grande vitesse. Un seul témoignage est recueilli. D’étrangeté moyenne, mais de consistance faible (témoin unique, pas de photographie, indications manquantes), ce cas s'avère être une méprise possible avec l’observation d’un satellite artificiel passant à la verticale du témoin, suivie immédiatement par un météore appartenant probablement à l’essaim des Kappa Cygnides. Le manque de précisions du témoin empêche toutefois de confirmer formellement cette hypothèse (voir le compte rendu d'enquête). L’enchaînement insolite et immédiat d’un passage satellitaire et d’un météore a pu être interprété par le témoin comme le déplacement d’un seul et unique objet. De plus, les arrêts et rotations du PAN décrits par le témoin peuvent être une mauvaise interprétation de l’observation, provoquée par une position particulièrement inconfortable de l’observation, celle-ci se déroulant à la verticale. Ce cas est classé B, méprise probable avec un satellite coïncidant avec l’observation d’un météore. [GEIPAN classification B — Satellite]
September 6, 2015 · 10:12 PM · LIGHT
Warren, MI
Me and a friend saw four orange lights come from the northeast in pairs. The pair rose from the horizon, pulsating in unison. One light was farther away than the other, so its light was more faint. The initial pair disappeared. Then about 3 minutes later two more lights appeared from the northeast horizon in a similar formation and persisted for about two minutes heading northwest until disappearing.
September 6, 2015 · 9:50 PM · LIGHT
Elkhart, IN
Red lights in 2 different groups..first 4..then 3 more..raising up from low altitude in east Elkhart..heading north from prox sr20 @credit 17 area. Red lights. These disappeared quickly as well. We were viewing from boat on the St. Joseparate River.
September 6, 2015 · 9:12 PM · LIGHT
Brampton (Canada), ON · Canada
Flying west to east bright white light impulsed once very bright then dimmed down to nothing while flying at a constant pace. Not fast not slow.