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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.

2,379 entries

January 22, 2016 · 12:00 PM · CYLINDER

Antinito, CO

This is a picture of landscape and mountains. The object was discovered a few days later, after checking the pictures.

January 21, 2016 · 10:10 PM · CYLINDER

Maywood, CA

Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. We have changed the time, to reflect an evening sighting. PD

January 7, 2016 · 9:18 PM · CYLINDER

Odessa, TX

Trailer shook went out side seen a helicopter took a couple pictures and in the picture I seen the helicopter chasing something very low to the ground

January 7, 2016 · 8:30 PM · CYLINDER

I am reporting this sighting for my girlfriend, my teenage son and his teenage girlfriend. Unfortunately I was out of town on business at the time. As my 16 year old son left to drive his girlfriend home, he noticed strange lights in one of our fields/pastures on our property. He thought at first that some lights may have been left on down near the hunting lodge about 200 yards from the main house. Upon returning, he summoned my girlfriend to walk outside and look. They determined it was in the field and nowhere near the lodge and in fact all power to the lodge was off. They both described it as capsule shaped but vertical not horizontal. It was three separate orange lights stacked on top of each other forming the capsule/cylinder. What is important to note here is this: There is no access to that field other than our driveway/road which is 3/4 of mile long and blocked with a security gate. The field is surrounded by thick (really thick woods) and a large creek surrounds the field in a horseshoe fashion. Again... the only way in and out is to drive directly by our home. They watched it for 5 minutes and called me. I tried to convince them to take a shotgun and drive out in my 4x4. They refused. This actually angered me because I was thinking there may be trespassers on the property but they said they could hear nothing and there was no movement. They literally locked themselves in the house for the night and had trouble sleeping. Upon returning home, I asked them separately to draw the object. They did, and they both had the same exact description. My son's girlfriend described the same thing, as she saw it 20 minutes prior. They never stayed outside to watch it until it did whatever it did to go out or "leave". This is due to the fact that in order to see it, they had to walk about 50 yards from the house in the dark in order to see it. Personally I'm upset that they did check it out. I may sound like a bad dad, but I'm a firm believer in protecting my property.

January 6, 2016 · 12:25 AM · CYLINDER

Auburn, WA

Than all the sudden it seemed to be backing away and is only a dot in the sky. WE have seen this 3 other times in the last month. What is it? Sighting of Sirius? PD

December 30, 2015 · 4:50 PM · CYLINDER

Orient, OR

While driving SE on Orient Drive, SE of Orient, OR, I saw a stationary, vertical object off to my right, which was illuminated by the setting sun. The object was about 10 or 15 degrees above the horizon. Its height was nearly the same visual size as the visual diameter of the moon (~0.5 degrees). I continued driving for some distance along Orient Drive watching the object and looking for a place to park. I turned onto SE 312th and parked near Hwy 26. I watched the object, which was SW of my position, for several minutes. The better view that I now had showed the object to have the appearance of a vertical cylinder. It was drifting extremely slowly to the south and began to separate into two cylinders one above the other, each with the proportions of a soup can. The upper cylinder began leading the lower as they moved southward, but they never completely separated. After watching the object for several minutes, I decided to drive through Boring, OR, to try to get a closer look. I kept looking at it, as I drove, but then I lost sight of it before reaching Boring and never saw it again. I returned to my prior vantage point, but it was gone. Since the object was in my view for the better part of a mile or more, it had to have been at least three or four miles distant and, given that distance, I would estimate the diameter of the cylinders to be 30 feet or more--perhaps much more. I cannot venture a good guess as to what the object was. I have seen large tethered balloons used to call attention to sales, grand openings, etc. But unlike tethered balloons this object was moving, albeit slowly, and I saw no other indication of such an event taking place. I work seasonally as a biologist or a biological science technician. My observational skills have to be very good for me to do my job.

December 26, 2015 · 5:15 PM · CYLINDER

DeLuz/Temecula, CA

Object on fire in center/sides but both ends were still in tact not on fire, Fell from sky horizontally and fire was out before landing in the rocky hill in one piece. Could not see where landed as it was behind the hills. I was traveling at 70mph going south on I-15 leaving Temecula (Riverside County) saw right before getting to the border patrol station and entering San Diego County (Fallbrook/De Luz) area. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD

December 22, 2015 · 6:08 PM · CYLINDER

Desert Hot Springs, CA

I saw a bright light in the north west sky which I thought was a shooting star, as I continued watching it it failed to dissipate as I expected. I could make out a shape that was similar to a missile ( approximately 7-10 full size commercial jet liners in length). Then I saw a blinking light accompanying, or possibly on the object. The main brilliant light then broke into what appeared to be 4-5 individual brilliant lights and continued flying horizontally until they disappeared over the eastern horizon. Re-entering space debris. PD

December 17, 2015 · 11:00 AM · CYLINDER

Port Isabel, TX

I was talking to one of my neighbors and he pointed up to the north asking me what was that object in the sky. Looking into the north sky I could see a silver object moving at a high rate of speed. At first we thought it to be a airliner, but as it came closer, we could see it was a cylinder shape with no wings, no tail, no windows. There was a faint pulsing bluish band around the center of it. It was moving from north to south in a straight path at a high rate of speed. It seemed to be about twice as fast as an airliner in the sky. It crossed the sky in approximately one minute. Object appeared to be at a lower altitude than an airliner, emitting no noise and no contrail.

December 14, 2015 · 4:00 PM · CYLINDER

Lenoir City, TN

Driving North on Hwy 11, at 3:55 pm, I noticed the sun reflecting of of what I thought was a jet. I noticed the was no vapor trail and the object did not move. I thought maybe it was a helicopter but again it shined like chrome and did not move. There was no sign of any rotors as well. After keeping an eye on it for a few minutes my wife and I also noticed a second object just like the first at the same altitude facing the same direction as the first. The second craft was east of the first one. We proceed to Knoville and returned via Interstate 75 south passing the Lenoir City exit and noticed the object still in the same place. By his time approximately one and a half hours had passed.

December 8, 2015 · 5:15 PM · CYLINDER

Knoxville, TN

Date: December 8, 2015 Time: 5:15 PM, Eastern Standard Time Place: Knox County, Tennessee Object was seen while this witness was driving westbound. It looked like a star at first, gleaming, but not huge in the sky. Then it turned towards my left (its right) and looked like some kind of craft. It was not a jet plane. It looked more cylindrical. The waning sunlight allowed a brief observation. Then it simply disappeared. Amount of time observed: Maybe 10 seconds; 15 seconds max. There were several jets in the sky at the same time. Their contrails were visible. This object had no contrail. In fact, there were three jets to the right (north) of this object, all with contrails. From the point of view of this witness, the three jets looked to be almost stacked in the sky. Then this witness had to make a turn onto a road heading north. When lack of trees allowed, I did glance over towards the area. All I saw were jet planes, maybe 8 or 9 of them going different directions. No sign of the object. Thank you very much. Have a great day.

December 5, 2015 · 9:10 PM · CYLINDER

Jamison, PA

While walking my dog noticed five glowing orange lights traveling roughly from W to ENE at a slow speed. Traveled across a commercial/housing developed area over traffic on York Road into my development. Ran after them looking down 2-5 seconds so wouldn't trip and when looked up they were gone. No noise ever except for background car & truck traffic. There was no obscuring or blanking out of the star field during or after glowing figures disappeared. Shape looked like vertical circular cylinders similar to glass vessel that hold round candles. Orange glow so bright that no edges of figures were discernible. Height and size difficult to say as size of cylinders unknown. Initial formation was first three cylinders made an arrow head with last two making shaft further back. Last one disappeared and fourth caught up and rotated with others to make a perfect triangle (see figs. 1-3). Fig. 1 = ll ll ➡️ = ➡️ = Fig. 2 ll ll ↘️ ll ll ➡️ Fig. 3 ll ll ll ➡️ ll ↗️ -Balloon(s)? Don't make sound but block star field. Aircraft/helicopter? No sound or blocked star field. Drone(s)? To precise formation/movements, star field remained, no sound and expensive equipment for prank and flying at night over busy street with lights out. I hold a degree in a science field. Reported to police and just recently saw this site to report sighting. Noticed a report of glowing orange forms eight days prior in Quakertown, PA, and after in other PA towns, 20 to 40+ miles from JAMISON, PA.

December 4, 2015 · 6:00 PM · CYLINDER

Fridley, MN

I video taped 1 main cigar to circular shaped, bright purple. It flew like a plane towards me then it stopped and went up and down and sideways. There were to small orbs, a red one 1st then later a green one. They would fly to the craft and then leave and circle around up and down. It could have been drones. Not sure.

November 29, 2015 · 6:50 PM · CYLINDER

Lindon, UT

They don't appear to be floating because they sometimes change directions a bit as they go. We saw the same objects about 4 years ago over Sandy, Utah.

November 20, 2015 · 5:43 PM · CYLINDER

Brownfield, TX

Was leaving work at 101 s 1st and looking back to the west over Lone star state bank and first Baptist church saw this object flying. Turned on camera on phone and recorded. Have shown to lots of people and no one has any idea what it is. Could not hear any sound that is was making.

November 18, 2015 · 6:00 PM · CYLINDER

St. Petersburg, FL

I am retired Air Force, used to be an Aircraft Mechanic, and then a computer repair technician working on Minute Man IIIs, Air Defense Sectors and Intelligence. My wife's father was a pilot for United for 36 years and she spent hundreds of hours flying. My wife and I both saw this, what is now described as a "tic-tac'. We were sitting on a bench that looked back towards St. Petersburg, FL across the intercoastal when the tic-tac appeared out of no-where in a cloudless, blue sky, then briefly stopped, then it flew south, strongly, without any typical winged air craft type motion. No trail no sound. I've seen hundreds of hours of aircraft flight. It moved quickly towards the south and suddenly disappeared. This happened the next day at pretty much the same time and same direction as if it was on a schedule. We've also seen the "tic-tac" like UFO going between the clouds, over the same area of St. Petersburg, FL.

November 17, 2015 · 3:30 AM · CYLINDER

Montreal West (Canada), QC · Canada

Nov 17, 2015 in Montreal West, Quebec, at 3:30 am I got up to take pictures of rising planets from my upper floor window with an easterly view. I saw a red blinking light. It was flying from due east headed in a southeasterly direction. I assumed it was an airplane, but then it suddenly reversed direction and started flying back due east. Also, it was lower in the sky than most airplanes. At one point, it was partially obscured by the bare branches of a large tree. After it cleared the tree, I was able to get it in my camera viewfinder (but no time to take a picture). My zoom lens has 60 x magnification. For the few seconds that I observed it under high magnification, I saw a long cylinder that was lit up with translucent red light from one end to the other. I did not see any wings on the object. Object then curved to fly due north before leaving my field of vision. There may be a logical explanation for it, but the flying behaviour was a bit bizarre. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD

November 8, 2015 · 6:45 PM · CYLINDER

Maryville, TN

As we were walking up the driveway to our home, our 2 boys saw something in the sky and said "what is that, mommy!" I walked over to them and looked up in the sky and there was an elongated (north to south) cylinder object with a bright yellow-orange light at the base. It was flying lower than an airplane, but going faster than an airplane and flew horizontal as a plane would. The white object was not solid, but waved much like a jellyfish would, and rotated in circles. The light at the base was constant, and did not flash. I immediately called for my husband, who does not even believe in UFOs and he was unable to come up with any explanation for what it was. It could not have been a balloon as it flew way too fast, and was not going up or down. The flight path did not make sense for the shape of the object. It continued to fly and we could no longer see it after it went far enough. The object was silent and no noise was heard.

November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · CYLINDER

Laguna Niguel, CA

US Navy missile launch. PD

November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · CYLINDER

Barstow, CA

A huge cylinder green fire ball (with a brighter green/white cloud fan shape at the end of the cylinder) sighted on sky today 07 Nov 2015 at 1800 pacific time at Barstow, CA. US Navy missile launch. PD

November 7, 2015 · 5:55 PM · CYLINDER

Indio, CA

I saw what looked like a flashlight shaped object the size of a sedan car with a large light moving from left to right, then it exploded and a large amount of green smoke came out of it. What was strange was that the object never made any noise even when it exploded. US Navy missile launch. PD

November 3, 2015 · 11:00 PM · CYLINDER

Caldwell, ID

Went outside to let dog go potty. I was looking south towards the sky. I noticed at least 4 or more strange thing moving in the sky. I got my camera that has 16x zoom lens. As I zoomed in on the objects they were darting back and forth left to right. I told my partner to come out and look. She witnessed it also. I was able to get some pics by setting the shutter speed. And when I looked at them on my TV, it blew my mind. I know it was not a star or stars but something I cannot explain! Witness elects to provide no contact information. PD

November 1, 2015 · 5:05 PM · CYLINDER

Newton, MA

I was driving on Rt 95N (aka 128) between Rt 9 and the Mass Turnpike (RT.90) when I saw a cylinder with a greenish flaming trail flying very fast in the sky from east to west. The nose looked like the our spaceships as they re-enter our atmosphere burning white hot. It was just above the horizon going very fast but not too high. Only for 15 to 20 seconds, then it appeared to go pouf in the sky.

October 29, 2015 · 10:30 PM · CYLINDER

Rockwood, TN

At approx 10:00pm, I stepped out onto my patio, and immediately noticed a long forward slanting (in 1o'clock position) cylinder shaped, semi-bright large object, with no blinking..the object was going from N/E to South. I first thought it was the International Space Station, as possibly seen from a side angle, but I couldn't find any info stating it was over my state at that particular time.