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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 6, 2015 · 9:09 PM · LIGHT
Lawrence, KS
Part of me thought that it might have been a satellite but I have never seen one go straight north and south. The light was bright as the brightest star I could see in the night sky. It had a white color to it and flew well above where the jets fly.
September 6, 2015 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Sugar Camp, WI
September 6th and 7th, 2015 we observed blinking red, green and yellow lights in the sky while up at Dam Lake in Sugar Camp, WI. These were in the same spot on both nights, in the west-southwestern sky, to the left, or south of the big dipper handle. I have seen the same lights last year above the tree line on the northern shore of the same lake. This past weekend they looked like they were high enough to be stars, but the blinking lights tells me it is something else. We observed them for at least 20 minutes. They were better seen with binoculars but still I could not make out a shape. I have seen similar lights on some you tube videos that have not been explained. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 6, 2015 · 8:49 PM · LIGHT
Amelia, OH
At dusk, while outside there was an orange/red light in the sky traveling in a northwest direction. Once the light was directly west of my location it disappeared. Then a few minutes later same/another light showed up in the same area/directions of the first. This reoccurred estimated 6 times for the next 30 minutes. I went from my back yard to the front and attempted to capture the object on my phone. I was able to capture it in photo and video.
September 6, 2015 · 8:40 PM · LIGHT
Sharon, PA
Well, I went outside because my wife told me she had seen a strange light in the sky. We traveled for several minutes trying to observe it. When we were reentering the house, it was in the sky and I spotted it. I was facing west. What I saw seemed like a small ball of gas rolling across the sky. It was orange and larger than a star. It was about an 8th of the size of the full moon. It appeared to flicker. It seemed like a ball of gas burning and seemed to roll.
September 6, 2015 · 8:30 PM · LIGHT
Sharon, PA
I was driving in my car and as I was moving toward the south I noticed an orangeish-red light in the sky. There were several stars visible already, and this was quite a bit larger. It was about a quarter the size of a full moon. At first, I considered it to be a helicopter or an aircraft, yet it didn't move, it just hovered. I watched it as I drove for about three minutes. When I got to a stop sign, I took a picture with my phone and waited there for a minute. There were others walking on the street who were pointing to it. I turned east and could no longer see it and about two minutes later asked my husband to come get in the car. We drove around for about five minutes trying to find it but it was gone. As we were walking in the house, again we noticed it in the sky. Behind it were light clouds. I had to take my son in to get him to sleep, and my husband watched it for about five minutes until he saw that it had disappeared. I went outside about ten minutes later and walked around and eventually it reappeared again. It was in a different position in the sky but still was not moving. I called a neighbor and waited for him to arrive, and after glowing in the sky, it slowly faded smaller and smaller until it was no longer observable. It did not flicker, blink, nor move. It was a hazy-type light. As I walked around with the neighbor again to see if we could spot it, another neighbor arrived and said that he, too, had seen it.
September 6, 2015 · 3:27 AM · LIGHT
Galesburg, MI
I was driving home near a cornfeild, on the edge of the field was this blue whisp like light moving horizontally and dashing vertically leaving a light trail of blue behind it. The light increased speed and blazed off at high speeds. The light was about the size of a basketball.
September 6, 2015 · 3:00 AM · LIGHT
Waco, TX
we thought it was a shooting star at first. It was a light that appeared in the sky. It zipped around us like a Roman candle, four times. Then the sky lit up to the left of it, purple an pink at the same time the electricity went off all around the RV park. The electricity came right back on. The wind began to blow. The radar stated there were no storms anywhere near our location. The light in the sky came on like a a headlight. Then turned off just as quick as it lit up. It moved over an did the same thing 5 more times before it finally shot up an disappeared. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 6, 2015 · 2:50 AM · LIGHT
Winslow, ME
I was walking down the road through a parking lot, heading to the store, when I looked up I saw what looked to be a white satellite light, but moving in an irregular pattern changing course. Another light appeared with a bright flash behind the path of the first and started chasing it following the same wave pattern. Then both disappeared with a flash, the first object slightly before the second.
September 6, 2015 · 12:30 AM · LIGHT
London (Canada), ON · Canada
It only lasted 2-3 seconds between the trees. None of us could identify it. It had no other lights. It was a constant bright orange ball of light. We only saw the one.
September 6, 2015 · 12:02 AM · LIGHT
Chazy Lake, NY
At approximately 12:02 am, Sunday, September 6, 2015, I was driving west on New York State Route 374 between Dannemora and Lyon Mountain. In the hamlet of Chazy Lake, I noticed a bright orange-reddish (more orange than red) light in the sky over the lake. It caught my eye because I’ve never seen anything that color in the sky before. It was hard to tell its altitude – I believe it was lower in altitude than a plane would normally fly. The brightness of the light was around the magnitude of the planet Venus. It was the brightest light/object in the sky. The night sky was crystal clear and there was no wind. I pulled off the side of the road where there were no street lights and exited my vehicle to get a better look at the light. I was facing south looking at the light over the lake. There was plane flying below it traveling east and another plane farther to the west of the light flying south. Once the planes were out of view, I listened and could hear no sound coming from the light. I watched it for a few minutes to see if it was actually moving. It was moving – very slowly – to the east. I could tell it was moving because I compared its position to the trees below it. I then got back in my vehicle and drove home.
September 5, 2015 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Cary, IL
I was in a room of my house that has a skylight which gives a view of the Eastern sky located directly above my home. I was peering out the skylight when a very bright ORANGE light/orb drifted across my field of view. It appeared to be traveling at the same height and speed that a small, single-engine Cessna would usually cruise. It had no traditional blinking red, green, or white lights. It was a solid, non-flickering orange light/orb traveling almost exactly at a Northwest heading (coming from the Southeast). My best judgement is that it would've flown on a diagonal vector directly over Briargate Elementary School. Once it escaped my field-of-view, I ran to another window, this time on the Western side, to try and find it. There were a few trees obstructing my view and I had no luck relocating it. I listened for any engine or propeller noises and could not hear any. At the same time, for the heck of it, I scanned the entire Western horizon and did see what appeared to be a very faint, distant orange light. However, at that distance, I can not: A) say for sure that this was the same light that I saw before nor B) categorize it as something unusual. O'Hare Airport, Lake In The Hills Airport (small aircraft), and a Flight For Life helipad are not that far from my home. I am a pretty big aviation enthusiast as well. Needless to say, I feel I have a pretty good handle on what normal air traffic looks like in my area. This was definitely something unusual. I have never seen anything like this before, not just near my home but anywhere. I did some online research and found the following could explain what I saw: 1) Satellite - I'm not too sure about this. Again, the light was very bright and pretty close to the ground. 2) A nearby planet - Same with above, the light was very bright, too close to the ground, and moving too quickly. 3) Chinese lantern - This has some merit. The orange color could explain it. However, it was moving faster than Chinese lanterns travel and there was no flickering/glimmering to the light source. Also, there was only one light and usually Chinese lanterns are released in clusters. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 5, 2015 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Milton-Freewater, OR
Witness elects to provide no contact information. Possible advertising lights? PD
September 5, 2015 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Arlington, WA
Went out side saw a bright redish orange light above the treeline seeming to be hovering. Then called my wife out to look. Then several other of the same lights coming in to view from behind the trees as soon as those one cought up to the light that was hovering they all took off to the south southwest and disappeared with out any sound. Then a few minutes later two more came from the same position that the rest came from and left in the same direction and speed of the rest of the lights
September 5, 2015 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Lemont, PA
21:00 noticed a light coming on for a few seconds fading out doing this repeatedly not an airplane no nav lights or strobes but planes flying all around, an hour later it only moved a little bit still pulsing light like a flashlight being turned on and off, again tonight moved slightly but still not an airplane no movement.
September 5, 2015 · 8:45 PM · LIGHT
Phoenix, AZ
Today very early in the morning and still night saw two of them one of them just vanished, that's why I decided to make this report is really hard to get them on video if not impossible you would need a very good equipment to video them. I hope someone from this area can get them in video they are sightings almost every day. Source of report indicates that the date of the event is approximate. PD
September 5, 2015 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Pierrefonds (Canada), QC · Canada
Object was stationary in the skyline. At first believed to be a helicopter then it manoeuvred in a zig zag formation and picked up Mach speed and stopped at least 20km away. It then returned nearly colliding with a commercial aircraft A320. Then "warped" away on descent towards a trajectory Southwest. No longer in visual range. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 5, 2015 · 12:15 AM · LIGHT
Pottstown, PA
As I trailed them I noticed more in different parts of the sky, all moving in the NW to NE direction. I ran inside to grab my binoculars and when I looked up they were too high to make out and seemed very shaky. I saw more coming from the same direction, and from the opposite direction the sky filled with instant cloud cover. They all seemed to be travelling through the clouds. I ran in to grab my wife, and we watched for the next 10 minutes as they came through. They seemed to travel in 3 or 4 and they all had the same look of! 2 stars stuck together, with a greenish tint. There had to be 30 or 40 in all. They were very high up. No sound at all. We did see a few planes during this. The phenomena stopped and the clouds were gone. I've never seen a UFO. I don't believe in UFO's quite frankly. It was the most bizarre thing I've ever seen. I live within 3 miles of the Limerick Nuclear Power Plant. We have two airports in the vicinity. I skywatch constantly and have never seen anything like this.
September 5, 2015 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Holland, MI
I stayed in one position for 45 minutes and used a very mature white pine tree as a point of reference. It became apparent that the "star" wasn't a star but a hovering object moving very slowly in the sky. I took a picture the first night.
September 4, 2015 · 11:40 PM · LIGHT
Montreal (Canada), QC · Canada
Distance away from ufo: 2 miles approx depending on actual size. It was a bright light dimming in and out slightly. It went left about 2 feet if measured by hand, also going down on a 45 deg. angle, went right the opposite way, same angle then went right, the again came back left going down about 55o, behind trees off in the distance. Unknown after this.
September 4, 2015 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Meridian, ID
I was walking along my neighborhood when i say greenish blue light burst through sky approximately 1 meter by 1 meter. It flashed faster than super sonic speeds.
September 4, 2015 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Woodland, AL
When it got brighter there were other objects around it that would also light up only when the biggest light got brighter. We watched this for an hour and tried recording it with an I-PHone but was not successful.
September 3, 2015 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Forestburgh, NY
We saw flashing light in a generalized area we could not identify the source. 1 by one about a half hour into the light show jets flew over low and slow going towards the flashing in a grid pattern at 15 minute intervals. The flashing slowed as the jets appeared.
September 3, 2015 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Forestburgh, NY
As the lights were flashing I witnessed 3-4 military like aircraft one after another each a two minute space between. Est time was between 8pm and 10 pm when the lights were flashing. First thought it was heat lightning but the lights were back to back. There was no clouds in the sky.
September 3, 2015 · 3:08 AM · LIGHT
Martinez, CA
There I was sneaking out my house, walked out to get in my car surveyed the clear sky noticing stars when I immediately noticed the brightest blinding white stadium sized mass of light far off across the bay over vallejo coming swiftly but steady closer and lowering as a plane does when coming in to land. I felt a fear come over me like I was in danger. I knew from looking at it it wasn't of this world. But as scared as I felt I couldn't take my eyes off it and it was making me squint and I put my hands above my eyebrows to help with glare and I didn't want to be there on the street all by myself but I was memorized by how frigging bright this thing was it must have narrowed directly above me as I broke my neck following it trying to figure out what is it. I will say it was so low I could have jumped and touched it right above the telephone poles and I couldn't even tell you the shape of it and I remember it was dead silent. No noise no rumbling no vibration no static no humming just bright white blinding like a spot light but not a spot light.i had to look down as I turned around so my neck didn't break and as it passed over moving away Staying same hight moving fast I kept looking for shape of some kind then it just kept going till it faded out my view. It had no reflection on my car or gleaming off other metals. I still have that feeling I was going to get snatched up and nobody would have known what happened to me. Like in the blink of an eye.. gone. I was so sure this was it like I showed up early and ruined the abduction in a sense. Like scared as fu.k but willing. I could of threw a football at it and hit it for sure it was so close. It was a force. I never told anyone. I ran back in my house so lucky to see the inside. This impacted my life. It had so much power I could have only been God. But felt like hopeless evil.