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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 4, 2015 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Tooele, UT
He said they were bright yellow and one group passed and then another right after. He was very scared. It only took a few seconds for them to pass.
August 4, 2015 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Denver, CO
At first, I saw a light in the sky, assumed it was an airplane, except that it was a bit brighter, and there were no blinking lights on it, which is something that always gets my attention. Then the light went completely black, just disappeared, a little bit like how a satellite goes out gradually, but this was not like that, the light instantly went out. I felt right away that I was seeing something unusual, so I decided that I would keep looking in the area of the sky to see if it would reappear. About a minute or so it did reappear, some distance away. I was looking to the west, and it was shortly after the sky had become completely dark. The light was traveling from south to north. It disappeared slightly to the southwest, and reappeared slightly to the northwest. At that time, I believe that it blinked off and on once or twice, and then there was what appeared to be an electrical discharge, vertically. It was like a very short bolt of lightning, except whiter, and perfectly straight, which I estimate took up about one to two degrees of distance in the sky (or, about the thickness of my finger at arm's length). I almost had the feeling that the light itself had moved vertically, and almost instantly. It then disappeared and stayed that way. It definitely got my attention. I felt that I had seen something very out of the ordinary.
August 3, 2015 · 10:15 PM · LIGHT
Gearhart, OR
I was outside about 10:15 pm and was watching the skies, and I noticed a bright "light" (about 4 times brighter than the brightest star), moving silently, from west to east. It was moving as fast or a bit faster than a normal plane. It lasted about 3 minutes. After the "light" was no longer visible, I saw 2 planes or helicopters (flashing red & blue lights-still no sound) that appeared together in the same area of the sky that the light flew to. They moved somewhat together flying to the south. Not sure if there is any connection. I would really like to know what this could be. I checked the ISS website to see if it was over my area at that time, but it was far away and nowhere near me. I watch the skies at night a lot and have often seen dim "star" like lights moving across the sky which I always assume are satellites. But this "light" was much, much different. I have seen something like this once before, about a year ago in the same location. At this time the bright "light" was being followed by lights that looked like a plane.
August 3, 2015 · 10:11 PM · LIGHT
Buena Park, CA
This isn't the first time I have seen these same lights, I have emailed George Noory other nights I can find the dates. I was eastbound on 91 Freeway. At first, there were 3 the one in the center had a bright white light then the other two evenly spaced apart on both sides. Those two were lighter multi color lights, then near the center one another one appeared all at the same elevation across the Eastern skyline. The appear to be near the Santa Ana Mountain Range from where we are. When we walk they start appearing anytime after 20:15 and will last up to as late as 23:00. We have scene as many as 5 or 6 one night. With one other person walking. Many people in our area say they have scene them. The same night when I picked up my roommate her friend was watching it also. To the North of these "Objects" is the airline up for LAX so they are not airplanes they stay still! When I first saw it and called into Coast to Coast and most likely to see it is a Jr High School we walk the track do South of KFI transmission Antenna. FYI
August 3, 2015 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Wilson Lake, KS
A buddy of mine and I were fishing the docks at Wilson Lake. We first saw two amber lights to the SE in the sky. The first came on the second. The lights faded same as they appeared. Ten minutes later, to the west of first sighting, the two lights appeared again, same as before. The lights were spaced apart same. Another ten minutes later, the third sighting was 3 lights this time. Appeared one at a time then left same way. Then the 4th sighting started with one light, and built up to 5-6 lights. But now, as one faded, another came from where last appeared. We could see all the lights at once. Idk if this was something spinning or lights just going down a line. Theses lights were amber in color, and just a bit bigger then a street light. If anyone else has info, please respond.
August 3, 2015 · 1:45 PM · LIGHT
Minneapolis, MN
It was a sunny and mostly clear day. As we were looking north, we witnessed three balls of light heading east. Two were fairly close to each other, and one lagged quite a bit behind. Objects were visible for about two minutes, moving at a leisurely pace. Plenty of planes fly over. Not planes.
August 1, 2015 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Mastic Beach, NY
Witnessed by me and brother, who was 1 mile away on cell phone. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 1, 2015 · 10:15 PM · LIGHT
Gamrbrills, MD
I saw a large mass of blinking lights from my living room window that caught my eye. It was blinking rapidly unlike an aircraft. After I was looking at out for about a minute or so, the mass split into 2 separate balls of light. The first ball of light dropped down and the other continued on it previous course. Very strange.
August 1, 2015 · 10:10 PM · LIGHT
Gonzales, LA
I was just walking after dinner and looking to big moon in clear sky, all of sudden a very fast white light appeared in sky, my husband was with me I told him see what it is? He also saw it and within second it just got disappeared. It was not plane or rocket as it appeared out of no where and disappeared with 30-40 seconds.
August 1, 2015 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Champlin, MN
Steady orange lights traveling from south west horizon to north east horizon in under 30 seconds. They are traveling at a significant speed, but there is no noise and no plume trail behind the object. Don't have the traditional red and green lights that you see on an airplane and some were too close to comply with civilian airplane regulations.
August 1, 2015 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
North Central Upper Peninsula, MI
Location was east of Munising, and north of Shingleton, in the north central Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Duration was approximately 7 minutes. At about 10 pm Eastern I went outside in an open area with my two dogs to watch the full moon rise in the east above the spruce trees in the distance. As I turned to the north I was startled to see a surprisingly bright object flashing extremely brilliant red and white lights. The lights were much, much larger than any star, a satellite, or the lights of an aircraft, so much so that my mouth literally dropped. It was approaching me, silently, and gave me the impression of slowly floating. I have no knowledge of the altitude. I will describe the red color as attractive, pleasing, not fire-engine red nor candy-apple red, a cool-ish red but not pink. The red color was more dominant than the white lights. As I watched it drift closer, I was stunned at how beautiful it was and I was riveted looking at it. My Sheltie at my side did not agree. She barked at the bright lights and then she and my Border Collie ran for the door, wanting to be let inside. I was wearing on my forehead a Petzl headlamp on the highest beam and I decided to switch it off. The object gently turned in a southeastern direction, still gliding silently. I had my little palm-sized Fuji camera with me (since I had planned to take some pictures of baby toads) so I attempted to take a short video of the object as it moved southeasterly. I saw there was a faint, quite dim, white light following the red-white flashing object. If I were to hold my hand straight out, the distance between the red-white object and the following white light would be about one of my hands across. As I was watching it, somebody suddenly "turned out the lights"--and it was gone! The dim light that had been following I could see for another 3 or 4 seconds, until it too disappeared. The geography the object had to have come from is Lake Superior and then over wilderness northern forest with very little to no population. My sad attempt at a video turned out to show only a difficult-to-see, pin-point, red flashing light, so like others I have viewed on YouTube. I will add that I took a college course in astronomy years ago and I enjoy the night sky, so I am not a stranger to planets and constellations, various satellites, Iridium satellite flares, nighttime aircraft, and so forth. This experience was unique. ((ADDENDUM FROM SOURCE OF ORIGINAL REPORT)) If I may, I would like to add some information to my report of August 1, 2015. I did not originally write it into my experience thinking it was too fantastic to be believed and also leaving out my personal feelings at the sighting. But it has bothered me consistently since. If you judge the following to be important facts, please do include it in my report, editing however you consider best. I apologize for adding inconvenience to your already heavy workload. My report was submitted, and has been posted, as: 8/1/15 22:00 North Central Upper Peninsula MI Light 7 minutes Intensely bright, red-and-white flashing, silent, slowly moving object. The object appeared to be composed of multiple splendid glittering, shimmering lights cascading and independently moving, which also gave it a vertical oval shape. None of the lights fell to the ground. My distinct impression was that its intent was to be noticed (and how could anyone not?). I clicked off my Petzl light because I myself wanted to avoid being noticed. ((END ADDENDUM))
August 1, 2015 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Harveys Lake, PA
On Saturday evening, August 1, 2015, at approximately 9:30 pm, I was standing on my deck in the rear of my house and noticed a small light in the woods. In the area where I saw the light, there are no houses or structures, and the mountain that I live on drops off back in that area. There were no sounds or noises and the motion detector lights on my home stayed on the entire time. I watched the light for approximately 2 to 3 minutes then went into the house and got a family member to come out and watch it also. We watched the light as it got larger and appeared to come toward us. We both went back into the house and I called 911 from my cell phone to report the light. We were watching the light through the kitchen door window and it just disappeared. After a few minutes we went back out and saw the light again. This time the light seemed different, but I can’t explain it. Then the light became two lights, then into several lights. The lights then combined back i! nto one light and then dimmed out to nothing. I filmed this with my cell phone as well. The copy is not as clear the original on my cell phone.
August 1, 2015 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Ottawa, IL
It was approximately 21:30 on Saturday, August 1st, 2015. I was driving west on Rt. 71 in Ottawa, Illinois. My passenger looks out her window and says, “What is that? Can you see that?” I look to the North and there are three lines in the sky, obviously ablaze, similar to fireworks trailing. I drive a few blocks further west and pull over into the hospital parking lot, where we watch these lights for another minute. The lights are orange and cylindrical, and appear to be fire-like. They look like they’re falling, but not fast. Simply falling toward the Earth. Not shooting across the sky like a meteor. Then, one at a time, they go out. Each one approximately 10 seconds later than the one before it. When they go out, all that remains is a red light in the sky, similar to that seen on an aircraft.
August 1, 2015 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Langhorne, PA
I saw about 50 orange color lights, clustered together, but with no particular shape. They did not change formation or move in any way. I was able to drive down my street, pull in driveway, and run in to get my family. They came out and saw what I saw. The difference was they had started to extinguish so there were not as many. I would say they were gone in about 4 minutes. Some of them were close to each other while others were further apart. They all seemed to be the same size and color. Very bright.
August 1, 2015 · 9:21 PM · LIGHT
Tempe, AZ
We turned onto Country Club Way in Tempe, AZ, going south from Balboa, looked up, and saw an irregular formation of 10 red lights in the sky moving east. We got an iPhone photo that caught 4 or 5 (one dot is questionable) of them. The others had gone beyond our field of view before we could get a photo. While their formation wasn't a regular shape, like our military pilots fly, they were moving in sync with each other. They were small red dots, but not blinking like an aircraft's lights. We followed as best we could, but within ten minutes, we could no longer see any. Because Country Club Way is a residential street, we could see them much better than people driving on a main street, because of relatively less light pollution. One of us is a retired Army Intelligence Officer, with service at NASA on the Apollo Program, and a lot of other aerospace industry experience, and a graduate (masters) engineer. The other witness isn't trained in engineering, ! but reports the identical situation. ((CORRECTION FROM READER)) Hi, Report on 8-1-2015, time 21:21, Tempe. Looks like two versions with punctuation corrected on second one. Regards, ((name deleted)) ((END CORRECTION)) We deleted the second copy of the same report on 06FE16.
July 31, 2015 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Old Hickory, TN
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 31, 2015 · 9:56 PM · LIGHT
Salem, NH
I observed a single light, very high in the sky, without any blinking lights. It was traveling north from south. The speed was faster than a jet but not as fast as the ISS. While viewing it, still it disappeared while I still had a clear view of it. It did not "blink out"-simply just disappeared. No regular aircraft travel this route or follow any flight plans such as this. I did observe a small aircraft traveling west to east just after my sighting.
July 31, 2015 · 9:45 PM · LIGHT
Suffield, CT
Possible UFO SIGHTING July 31, 2015 – Suffield, CT – 9:45 – 10:30 PM + Clear evening sky. Bright object – planet/star size in Western sky about 45 degrees above horizon [2:30 – 3:00 position (with straight up being 12:00)]. I sat down in yard to watch this object, as it seemed to move. I could then easily tell it was zig-zagging multiple directions within a small area (about 1 minute radius). I used my binoculars to confirm it was a single point, but hand too shaky to tell any movement. I could not reach local Bradley Airport nor local WTIC radio/TV station to see if any other reports. Movement was somewhat regular as it moved around, then stopped in place for a few minutes, and then moved around again. Brightness never changed, and only white light.
July 31, 2015 · 9:35 PM · LIGHT
Edison, NJ
Last night watching moon from our telescope observed a bright light (almost like a star), travelling west to east, very quietly no noise at a very high elevation in a straight line.
July 31, 2015 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Bend, OR
No noise it seemed to change speed. This is not my first time seeing something odd in the sky's above central Oregon.
July 31, 2015 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Windham, ME
My friend and I just left a restaurant and saw in the perfectly clear and starry sky this object very high in the sky - it was very bright but we could tell is was very far away. There were no flashing or colored lights just a consistent bright white light. It made no sound. We observed no other objects around in the sky. It moved very consistently through the sky but covered an enormous amount of distance quite quickly. It seemed to begin moving upward and further away but the light was amazingly still very bright. We watched it for about five minutes and then left. We did not take any pictures.
July 31, 2015 · 8:40 PM · LIGHT
Coalinga, CA
Traveled about 110 deg arc, just under 5 mins traveling north by north east. Possible satellite or ISS??? Not a comet as too slow. Was a steady light until disappeared faded about 20 degrees above horizon. Not the ISS, which was visible from Coalinga at 21:31, and again at 23:09 hrs. (local). PD
July 31, 2015 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Bremerton, WA
My adult son and I witnessed 3 balls of light over the bay, spaced evenly apart for approximately 4 minutes right before dark. They hovered there for about 3-4 minutes, the one on the right slowly faded out, after that the middle one did the same. The one on the left seemed to fade somewhat, but then started to travel to the left before fading out all the way. The next night I returned to the same spot at around the same time and there were two of the same lights as had previously seen. I watched them again until they faded out in the same way.
July 31, 2015 · 1:44 AM · LIGHT
Virginia Beach, VA
Noticed the sky was lit up for a long period of time, without reason. Went outside and saw 3 floating objects changed color 2 times to red then white, and then flew to the right and lost them after 1 mile.