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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
August 13, 2015 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Bismarck, ND
My son and I where having a fire. We live on the edge of town and noticed what at first site appeared to be a bright airplane flying at cruising altitude. This bright light was Northwest of our location when first sighted and traveling east. The light then began to make a relatively sharp turn to the South. The brightness of the object as well as the turn it was making was enough to capture my focused attention. The light turned South and then stopped, when the object stopped it was South East of our location. The object appeared to remain motionless for at least a minute. The brightness of the object did not seem to substantially change from the moment it was spotted until it was last seen. It did seem to pulsate but the relative brightness remained the same as far as I could tell from when it was NW of our location to SE and appearing motionless. I regret to say, I looked away at the fire for about 5-10 seconds, if that, and my son exclaimed, "It's Gone!". I looked up in disbelief, since I was just looking at it and it was so bright, and it was gone no sign of it whatsoever.
August 13, 2015 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Northfield, MA
Ball of light was seen being followed by an aircraft, appearing to be a C130. Both passed over to the south, then circled and passed to the North. Approx 10 minutes later, both appeared in the southwest sky, and headed east northeast. Very low altitude and slow speed. Could not make out a shape of anything, only a ball of light. The aircraft following it was very clearly an aircraft, could make out the shape of it, wings, tail and all. No sound emitting from the ball of light but obvious aircraft engine sound from the aircraft.
August 13, 2015 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Hollis Center, ME
Brightest light In the sky, looked like the brightest star moving across the sky faster than any plane. Video taped it and couldn't see any other stars on my iphone video due to them apparently not being bright enough, even though it's very clear skies. I see a solid 200 stars tonight. Other planes in sight as well with flashing lights I tried to compare in the video but the plane lights didn't even pick up on the video, just the single light moving from one end of my visual sky to the other and disappearing into the sky not clouds, just gone. Moved way faster than the plane that was in the sky at the exact same time I could see both and compare for a solid 30 seconds. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 13, 2015 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Modesto, CA
i live in modesto california it was at 9:00 pm 8-13-2015 i went outside to smoke a cigarette when i seen a light coming from the sky then moments later i seen what looks and sounds like electric ball that turns on and then off its in the neighbor tree. its something i haven't seen what could it be weird
August 13, 2015 · 1:06 PM · LIGHT
Lawndale, CA
Didn't last long, about 48 seconds also observed many con-trails.
August 12, 2015 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Fremont, CA
Looked like a star moving slowly across the sky, it moved straight then moved in s series of small U shapes. This was repeated randomly, it was very high and moved through the Big Dipper. I thought perhaps a satellite but I could not understand what could be moving like that at that altitude. Not sure if it's related but soon after I lost sight of it a fast moving airplane crossed the sky in the same direction, it moved extremely quickly but at regular airplane altitude
August 12, 2015 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Com/Lugano (between) (Italy) · Italy
orange dot small - high in the sky moving quickly from south to north for about a little less than two minutes - stop smoothly remains high in the sky and begins to flash for 15-30 seconds. The point becomes increasingly smaller until it vanishes in the sky [sighting from high altitude about 1000m a.s.l.]
August 12, 2015 · 10:25 PM · LIGHT
Thompson (Canada), MB · Canada
Bright light appearing in the sky just before the stars at 10:25 pm the same bright light we have seen before, we where facing south on our deck same as the other sightings of this craft and to south west appears the bright light moving faster than a jet in the same airspace as a prop plane, no noise, no vapor trail, this is the 6th time we have seen this craft the third time in three nights it is predictable and has a purpose to always show up in our airspace it does not always show up at the same time or in the exact same place but close to the same area in the sky always south of our home, trust me we can see the satellites , we can see the planes, we can see the jets and the stealth plane that follows after it sometimes, it is to bright for a satellite, to fast for a jet and has no airplane lights blinking just pure white light sometimes it changes directions and disappears as it appeared with a flash of light . There are two types we have witnessed the fireball and the bright light crafts..... I do believe we are being watched by something bigger than we all know the saying their here really makes sense they are here! We do have video!
August 12, 2015 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Delaware, OH
Large yellow light moving at moderate speed. Low altitude. Suddenly appeared with a solid light, flying for about 5 seconds then dissapeared.
August 12, 2015 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Worcester, MA
I am constantly standing outside on my porch here in Worcester, MA just below the airport at different times of the night/evening watching the skies for any unusual activity. Tonight, (8/12/2015), I was stepping out onto my porch, (I live on a third floor), at various times of the evening looking up at the sky and watching for anything unusual. At approximately 9:15 p.m. or so I stepped out onto my porch again. As soon as I stepped out and closed my screen door I looked over towards my left which would be North East I believe and saw one pretty big ball of light which seemed to be a very bright orange color descending at a phenomenal speed from North East to North West. The light was very noticeable/visible and seemed to be very close, (not much higher than the trees that surround the area where I live), and heading down towards the ground. All of a sudden the light just disappeared completely. There was no sound at all during this except for a few cars driving by my house. I could not have been the only person in this area to see this as the object was very visible in the sky. I have seen shooting stars before but it has been three years or so since I’ve seen one. To the best of my memory shooting stars are much, much higher in the sky and are also very different in color from the object I saw tonight, and certainly not as visible. The object I saw moved so fast and disappeared so quickly that it was over and gone in a matter of seconds. I don’t know what the object was that I saw tonight but I was very excited, and a little in a little bit of fear. I ran into my apartment to tell my older brother who was spending the night and also my wife who was in bed. I have been looking up and watching the sky for many years and have never seen much more than a few shooting stars until tonight.
August 12, 2015 · 4:00 AM · LIGHT
Owasso, OK
no moon looking at stars saw red light thought it was plane traveling north to south to my west. then light shot straight up and vanished in 1 second
August 11, 2015 · 11:50 PM · LIGHT
Sioux Falls, SD
Wow. Clear as crystal strange light formations on smaller crafts moving across the sky. I have seen these now multiple times. If anyone else has, email me at ((e-address deleted)) Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD
August 11, 2015 · 11:45 PM · LIGHT
Palmer, AK
I was out on my front porch at 11:45pm and saw what I thought was a star, just above the mountain. Brightest thing I've ever seen at night. I noticed it had slowly moved below the mountain line and kept descending until below the tree line. Traveling slightly sideways while lowering. Light dimmed and brightened to an unusually bright point. Seemed to be made up of two to three lights in a horizontal arrangement. Estimated distance between 4 to 13 miles from sight point. No sound whatsoever. Recorded video of the object after 5 minutes of viewing.
August 11, 2015 · 10:05 PM · LIGHT
Durham (UK/England) · United Kingdom
Having a cigarette outside, watching the sky… I saw a red light in the eastern sky, between 4 to 5 thousand feet. After a minute, the light started moving slowly closer the light stopped I took some photographs on my phone after few minutes the light went quickly back the way it came then disappeared into the clouds there was no sound...when I came into the house & looked at the photos I noticed the colour was different in each picture...I could only see the different colours on my phone.
August 11, 2015 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Lebanon, OR
Lebanon, OR ~9:30 pm. I looked through my house window and noticed a bright light moving fast in the sky. I had heard there were meteor showers happening tonight, so I went outside to watch. But, the light was moving very fast and not like the meteors I have seen. Then I had the thought it was a planet or satellite. The light was very bright white light. Then the light started to slow down and it changed directions multiple times. At this point, I had no idea what this thing could be-it wasn’t behaving like the meteors, planets or satellites that I typically see in the sky. I went inside quickly to get my cell phone to take photos/video and get my husband. He then came outside and watched the light with me. At this point the light suddenly changed from bright white to red. This was really weird to see happen and kind of freaked us out! Then the light started to descend even more when we lost it behind the tree line. It looked as if it was descending toward the ground. We walked down the block to see if we could spot it behind the trees. We then saw another white light moving similarly (speeding up/slowing down, changing directions suddenly and then looked to descend toward the ground). We followed it as long as we could before it moved out of sight. We did not see the second light change color like the first one. I have attached photos of the light after it changed red. The light looked very large and bright. I took video of the light for at least 20 seconds, I saw the video recording and we only turned it off when the light descended from view but for some reason only about 2 seconds of the video saved…. Not sure what is up with that!
August 11, 2015 · 9:20 PM · LIGHT
Plummer, ID
At approximately 9:20 pm (21:20) we witnessed a bright object in the Big Dipper constellation moving south-southeast at a slow steady pace. It was very luminescent as it passed overhead and slowly arced to due east as it passed overhead. It traveled until it disappeared, it’s brightness dimming the farther away it got from our point of observation. I happened to have our Pentax K200d SLR camera out testing it for night shooting and took three 7 second exposures of the object before it went out of sight. You can clearly see the stars as stationary, but the object itself is moving and therefore leaving streaks in the pictures. I am including the images for you full size (approximately 3.5 Mb’s) for potential analysis if you wish. Probably a sighting of the ISS. PD
August 11, 2015 · 6:05 AM · LIGHT
Cumberland, RI
Driving to get my friend for work. On Highland Ave, I see emerging from the trees & flying low these formation of lights. They flew over the road. I sped up to try to take a pic, but they disappeared in the trees. I am a paranormal investigator & have studied Ghosts & UFO cases before. I knew that wasn't no plane or helicopter
August 11, 2015 · 1:00 AM · LIGHT
Forrest City, AR
Possible meteor?? Date is flawed. We have assigned a plausible date, based on what the witness has indicated above. Possible hoax?? PD
August 11, 2015 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Middlesbrough (UK/England) · United Kingdom
Was calling my cat in clear sky could she all the stars a flying light was very fast could clearly see a white light flash flew across the sky was small and far away.
August 10, 2015 · 10:15 PM · LIGHT
Goleta (Goleta Beach Park), CA
Thanks for this service. Surroundings: Goleta Beach State Park, between 10:10 pm PST and perhaps 10:30 – not sure of the exact time. (No watch.) This park is on the ocean, and also within approx. 1 or 2 miles of the local airport. I was facing the ocean, which is southerly here, looking towards the west. I was on a bicycle and riding slowly. There was – I’m not sure now – I believe a small plane behind me; it was headed out toward the ocean, away from the airport, which is in the northern direction from the beach and the ocean. I believe this plane had flashing lights. Suddenly, directly above the horizon and relatively near - a bright light came into view. It was travelling at an unusual speed – not extremely fast and yet…steady, i.e., not slow. This light flashed on very bright and NOT on a plane. It then went out. It then – within seconds – came on again. And then…went out again. This was from my left to my right – it travelled. And also, it was headed north to south, towards the ocean. At first I thought the lights from the small plane had illuminated a seagull. But it could not possibly have been. It was flying too fast, and it was emitting its own light. Then, I thought perhaps it was a comet. However, it went out – which may have been like a comet. But then it came on again. And then went out again. This happened the night before last night. I was tired and did not have your call in number at home, when I arrived home. Also, my tendency was to explain it away. However, at the time, I kept telling myself. “Look – this is different. You have seen something that you don’t know what it is.” Also, the lights from the plane…I don’t think they could have lit up a seagull. Also, it was a little too fast for a seagull. To me, it was completely anomalous. So, I made a note to write to you. Unfortunately, I didn’t keep all of the details in my mind. There was no visible craft – but it was its own light. Anyway, if it was an object – such as a small meteor – I don’t understand how it could have gone out and then turned on again. It was just not normal. Thank you.
August 10, 2015 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Las Vegas, NM
It was a little after 10pm the night before school started in August 2015. I was leaving my house to pick up my daughter in Romeroville. I was driving down my driveway (about a quarter mile long) when I saw a sequence of flashing red lights. There were 5 to 7 bright, large red lights flashing one at a time in a row. They flashed like “1,2,3,4,5...1,2,3,4,5” and so on. When I got to the road, highway 84 just passed Los Montoyas, I could see that the lights were across the street, on top of the plateau type hill in front of me. I tried to think it was emergency vehicles or a road block up on the hill but there was no way it was anything like that. The lights were much to large to be anything like that and with them blinking in a row, one at a time, it was not something I’d seen any emergency lights do. I drove very slow all way down the driveway and stopped for a few minutes at the road where my gate was. I was afraid to get out to open the gate but I had to! go get my daughter, so I did. The whole thing lasted about 15 minutes. After I picked up my daughter at the Giant gas station in Romeroville I told her all about it. I guess I was expecting to see it there, just like when I left but when I pulled up to the gate it was gone. Now I wish I had taken a picture or video of it. At the time I was too scared. I remember thinking that maybe I would be abducted if I took a picture. I’ve never seen anything like it before or
August 10, 2015 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Thompson (Canada), MB · Canada
Once again, we waited for the light to appear and it did same as the night before, a flash of light, and the light moved east this time for twenty secounds and disappeared. Only difference this time we got it on video, that's right about twenty secounds of video as well as I could see it through the binoculars it was to bright to see any craft or object just the light, again it disappeared as fast as appeared it did not move as fast as the day before and was lower in our attmaspher than the other object the day before it was also brighter possibly because it was lower, I think it was the same kind of craft from the day before, about twenty minutes later we seen flashing lights red and white it was a very fast jet with no sound and no vapor trail traveling in the same line as the ufo might have been a stealth jet I tried to see it up close with the binoculers but all I could see was the blinking lights , this is international air space and I have seen a lot of commercial jets. This was not one , nor was the ufo, someone was trying to catch it.
August 10, 2015 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Johnson City, TN
Sighting: While walking my dogs, around 9:30 p.m., I observed 2 separate red light objects in the westerly sky traveling from West to East about a minute apart. The were 1 to 1 1/2 miles away initially traveling toward me. They were moving slowly without any noise. At first I thought it must be a plane but there were no flashing lights or noise. The objects appeared a few hundred feet in the sky and appeared to be as if on fire (red). It was different than a Chinese lantern, for I have seen them. They had a red glow about them and much larger than lantern. It appeared to be a small craft of sorts. After observing them travel about a 1/2 mile they each made a 90 degree turn to the North. They were under the cloud cover & clearly visible. After turning North, they seem to simply fade away, but still being under the cloud cover. I turned the block and saw my 2 neighbors in front of their house looking in the same direction. They asked if I had seen the object as they described the same objects. They said 2 similar objects had come over in same direction a few minutes earlier. These earlier objects did not make a turn as I had seen, but continued in a straight line over their house before fading away or vanishing. They said the could see an outline of a larger dark object than the reddish light as it passed over before disappearing. As we were talking another reddish object appear coming from the same direction which we all 3 observed. It faded away without turning before it came much closer. Only observed this last object 15-20 seconds.
August 10, 2015 · 3:00 AM · LIGHT
Homewood, AL
Bright light like a star but much brighter, a little bigger and moving, and light(s) flickering. First seen above treeline (still far away), and gradually moved higher up in the sky. Would be still for a while and then move a little. It's now 4:30 a.m. and it is still there. NOT a star. I tried to take a photo, but it was too far away to get. We suspect that the object may have been a "twinkling" star, but cannot be certain. Original date was flawed. Possible hoax?? PD