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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
July 31, 2015 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Noblesville, IN
No information provided by witness. E-address is suspicious. Hoax. PD
July 30, 2015 · 9:50 PM · LIGHT
Lincoln, NE
I saw a stationary object in the the eastern sky outside my bedroom window in the far distance (like an airplane distance). At first I thought it was a plane or helicopter but noticed it did not move for about a minute despite having very bright yellow and red lights. I went to get my mother and when we returned to my window it had moved and remained stationary until it went straight down 45 seconds after returning to the window. We left, and when I returned, the second time it had gone to its position before, but was now flashing a green and yellow light and moved quite suddenly to to the left and descended a second time. It has remained out of sight since but it only moved in 90 degree angles.
July 30, 2015 · 3:00 AM · LIGHT
Berlin, MD
I came upon a open field and searched frantically for the lights and it was nowhere in sight. It just disappeared.
July 29, 2015 · 10:45 PM · LIGHT
Edmonton (Canada), AB · Canada
Looked out to see the moon within seconds clouds appeared then flashing lights to solid lights suddenly one of them came near the other two then one of them went straight up in an amazing speed then the other ones moved towards the satellite or what appeared to be colors and stayed below it for a long time...moving to outer space.
July 29, 2015 · 8:27 PM · LIGHT
Ramona, CA
I heard a pulsating sound, thought "that's a weird sounding helicopter looked up and saw a jet following a light. Since I have a good idea how big fighter jets are, the light was between 5 feet across they flew directly from Poway to the Ramona airport should have gone right along the north end of highway 69 Ramonas Main st. About 1000 feet in altitude as slow as the jet could fly.
July 28, 2015 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Cumberland, ME
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 28, 2015 · 10:15 PM · LIGHT
Kirkland, WA
2. Event Time: 10:15 PM- 10:20 PM (Approx.) Latitude: 47.6855 Longitude: -122.1801 (As per Sky Map App) I had just walked few steps from my garage door towards our community entrance with my pet, when I noticed a colorful object flying in the sky. It was a clear sky, as I saw the stars & constellations were clearly visible. I stopped to check if that was a plane (aircraft), but no, that wasn’t the case, as I didn't hear any sound & observed that the light pattern was somewhat unusual. It was blinking within fractions of seconds & with the blinks the colors were changing quickly, or rather I should say switching colors: blue, green, red & white. It was moving from South-East to West. I could only see the light flashing in on & off mode every second & there was fast switching of all the colors (blue, green, red & white) with every on I saw. I could observe it for about a minute, as my pet started pulling me after that & I walked away.
July 28, 2015 · 6:15 PM · LIGHT
Spokane, WA
Telephoned Report: An adult male contacted the UFO Hotline, and reported that he and his adult son had witnessed two highly-reflective, perhaps disk-shaped, objects in the southeastern sky, as viewed from the City of Spokane. The caller described himself as a serious amateur astronomer, having once used a hard-mounted 10-inch reflector telescope. He stated that he had never witnessed such a phenomenon. Neither witness has submitted a written, detailed, report, and the caller has not responded to multiple calls to his telephone number. PD
July 27, 2015 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Leslie, AR
Standing at back of house smoking I looked up and seen 3 lights they were bright yet dim, I yelled for my wife to come and she came an seen the same thing, but as quick as I yelled for her, they just disappeared, or shut off the lights; were just gone.
July 27, 2015 · 1:00 PM · LIGHT
Redmond, OR
At about 13:00 on July 27, 2015, I observed a very bright light through 10 power binoculars. It was about 20 degrees east of the sun. Sky conditions were cloudless with a brilliant blue sky. I discovered it while following an airliner flying overhead from North to South trailing a contrail. The object was not visible with the naked eye. The object was stationary and visible for over an hour. It had a shape like a small quarter moon. I initially thought it might be Venus but could find no Internet reference stating that Venus would be visible during daylight. Nor could I find any Internet reference to any object visible during daylight. My wife observed and confirmed my observation.
July 26, 2015 · 11:15 PM · LIGHT
Toronto (Canada), ON · Canada
At approximately 10:15pm Sunday evening, July 26th, 2015, my friend and I came up to my rooftop to have dessert and watch the sky. As I sat down at the table, my friend was looking East and brought to my attention an unusually bright, red light. Flying from the eastern sky from my rooftop perspective in downtown Toronto in a northerly direction were 2 objects with very large red lights. What was different about these two objects were the lights, initially. There was only one color and one light on the flying object unlike the airplanes passing overhead, which at that time the sky was very busy with air traffic compared to most evenings. The red light was a much deeper, denser, fuller red than the airplanes passing by. It did not have a flashing or strobe-like quality as I’d normally describe the airplane light flashing on and off. It was more like a slower turn-on, turn off quality to it, like a fade-up and down compared to the more abrupt flash on and off of the planes. The larger size red light was perhaps 4 to 6 times bigger than the plane lights overhead that were taking off in the distance from the West. The smaller red light was around the size of a plane’s flashing light but at that distance I would guess it is larger, but only slightly. I could not determine if it was attached to a solid object or if it was just light. My guess was that it may be attached to something but I could not see it at night, though the airplanes above the city can be seen unless they are extremely high. I also should comment that there was a lot of energy in the air, as if there was a lot going on energetically in the city at that time whereas when the lights disappeared into the eastern sky, the buzz and activity overhead quieted down to a normal Sunday night feeling for 10:30pm. There were lots of planes passing overhead with red lights flashing on their left wings. This was the usual flight path I see nightly. I’d describe this as a flash on and flash off, and very bright. Bright because it seems like a white light beneath a red casing, like on a police car. The red of the 2 unknown lights didn’t have that quality. They were a much deeper, saturated red without white in the brightness of it. The planes overhead range in altitude between 2000 ft for the smaller craft and 5-10 thousand and much higher for the commercial jets. By contrast, the UAP was first noticed in the Eastern sky flying North at approx 5-7 thousand feet. There were two of them. One was either smaller, just in front of the larger red light, or it was moving parallel to the larger red light but farther away in the distance, thus appearing smaller. The small red light on the first craft, which initially made me think it was a lot farther away, had a red light slightly larger than the one on the plane flying over my rooftop even though I’d guess it was flying 5000 feet high and about 5-10 kilometers away. The larger red light, which flew slightly behind the first one, was perhaps the size of the 4 or more lights on the plane. No other flashing or pulsing color was visible, like on an airplane. One light, deep red, and with a slow on and off quality, not like the strobing quality of the airplanes. There were also a few moments where the on-off quality of the red light was irregular, as if disappearing altogether and then appearing on the same path in the sky but farther ahead. In the darkness of the evening and the distance from where I observed the lights, I could not determine if the lights were attached to a solid craft or not. As the two objects flew North, it looked like the smaller one continued north and the larger one turned left sharply towards the west. The object banked a very strong left turn. The smaller red light in front seemed to continue north for a few seconds, but it then disappeared from our vision. As the larger red light made its sharp turn, it sort of did a zig-zag move, or an “S” shape turn before continuing north of the city but in a westerly direction. Also within seconds of that “S” shaped turn, I noticed a very bright white- blue flash in the sky in the North, not much more than 1/2 inch distance in the sky from the red light. This bright flash seemed to me to be larger in an up/down size than wide, resembling a slit of some sort but it was extremely fast in its flash with no lingering quality. I assume it was a meteorite. As the larger red light continued towards the west in the sky north of the city approximately under the Big Dipper now, we noticed that the little red light was there again, just slightly in front. We questioned one another about how it could have reached and caught up to the large red light since they seemed to veer off in different directions at the point in photo 2 where the large red light made its turn from the northeast towards the west. The little red light just appeared. This time it was moving ever so slightly in front of the larger red light as they were now heading south but in the western sky from my rooftop vantage point, which for people from Toronto would be in the direction of the International airport now. They were moving at a speed faster than the jets flying overhead, perhaps twice the speed as the jets were coming in and taking off from Pearson International Airport to the west of the city from my location. As the 2 red lights continued south they again banked left or towards the east, as if doing a large circle around the city perimeter. As we looked to the south sky as the small and large red lights made their way east, the angle or distance between the 2 red lights gave the appearance as if they were almost touching, with no space between them. At that point I ran downstairs to my condo for my camera but when I came back up, they disappeared into the eastern sky where we first noticed them. I looked at my watch and it was 10:27pm. Perhaps 5-8 minutes later than when we first saw them. I go up to my rooftop almost every evening to observe the sky, sometimes with my star chart to see where the different planets are or even the satellites passing overhead, which I have photographed on my iPhone. In all the years I have been living here and observing the plane routes and stars overhead, I have never seen red lights of that kind on a craft before. Thus this report and the curiosity to know if other sightings from Toronto were reported about 2 deep red lights circling the city from a 5 to 10 km radius of the center of the city where I was located. By chance, a friend who lives by Lake Ontario in Toronto told me he was walking his dog and many people by the beach commented on seeing red lights as well. Assuming Toronto is roughly 25 miles in diameter the distance traveled would be a circle of the city = 157 miles. If 15 min. it would be 628 miles per hour. If 10 min it would be 924 mph., which would have given off a sonic boom if it was a conventional aircraft. As it was closer to a 5 – 7 minute sighting, that would make it between 1386 and 1617mph. I don’t believe it was that fast. Perhaps the circle circumference was a tighter diameter. Assuming a tighter diameter (20 Miles) for the circle circumference = 125 miles a 15 min trip = 500 mph 10 min = 750 mph which is right around the speed of sound but still under. At 6 min and 20 mile diameter speed = 1250 mph I guessed the speed to be twice or more times the speed of the jets flying in all directions overhead. And that is my red light sighting.
July 26, 2015 · 10:20 PM · LIGHT
Toronto (Canada), ON · Canada
I’d like to document a sighting last night that I believe is highly unusual. I’d be curious to know if anyone else has written in to you about this as well, confirming the highly strange characteristics of this sighting. Below are 3 pictures attached to better illustrate the sighting: 1. Google Maps image of the rooftop location where my friend and I were standing, in Yorkville area of Toronto, very much in the centre of the city, corner of Avenue Rd and Davenport, facing the east initially, where we first noticed the Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon. 2. iPhone 5s image of the direction the UAP was first noticed. Unfortunately, I did not have my phone with me at the initial moment of the sighting but went down to get it. Once I returned it had already disappeared into an Easterly direction, the same from where we first noticed it. 3. Image of an airplane passing overhead as a contrast-reference point. I am facing West in this photo and the plane is flying East. One can clearly see, even on the wide-angle lens of the iPhone 5s, the flashing lights of the plane as well as the plane’s outline. I want to contrast the flashing red light brightness, color, and size of the plane’s lights to the lights we witnessed. 1. image002.png 2. image004.jpg 3.image006.jpg At approximately 10:15pm Sunday evening, July 26th my friend and I came up to my rooftop to have desert and watch the sky. As I sat down at the table placing the fruit bowl down, Alison was looking East and brought the bright red light to my attention. Flying from the eastern sky from my rooftop in a northernly direction were 2 objects with very large red lights. What was different about these two objects were the lights, initially. There was only one color and one light on the flying object unlike the airplanes passing overhead, which at that time the sky was very busy with air traffic compared to most evenings. The red light was a much deeper, denser, fuller red than the airplanes passing by. It did not have a flash-like quality as I’d normally describe the airplane light flashing on and off, but was more like a slower turn-on, turn off characteristic to it, like a fade-up and down, rather than an abrupt flash on and off. As seen in photo 3, I took a shot of a passing plane with red light flashing on its left wing. I’d describe this as a flash on and flash off, and very bright. The plane is low enough to see its wings as well, as it flies in an easterly direction over my rooftop, ascending as it flies east. My guess is that this plane is 2000 feet high. By contrast, the UAP was first noticed in the Eastern sky flying North. There were two of them. One was either smaller, just in front of the larger red light, or it was moving parallel to the larger red light but further away in the distance, thus appearing smaller. The small red light on the first craft, which initially made me think it was a lot farther away, had a red light slightly larger than the one on the plane flying over my rooftop even though I’d guess it was flying 5000 feet high and many kilometres away. The larger red light, which flew slightly behind the first one, was perhaps the size of the 2 lights on the plane or more. Maybe three or four lights together in size if we use the plane as a cross reference. The red color was slightly deeper, darker in color to the red arrow I have drawn on the photo. It was a red that was rich, deep, and somehow different to light on a plane, which always seem to have white as the base, no matter if red, blue, or green. No othe! r flashing or pulsing color was visible, like on an airplane. One light, deep red, and with a slow on and off quality, not like the flashing quality of the airplanes. There were also a few moments where the on-off quality of the red light was irregular, as if disappearing altogether and then appearing on the same path in the sky but farther ahead. As the two objects flew North, it looked like the smaller one continued north and the larger one turned left sharply or towards the west. The curve in my arrow in picture 2 is close to where the object banked a strong left turn. The smaller red light in front seemed to continue north but it disappeared from our vision. As the larger red light made its sharp turn, it sort of did an zig-zag move, or an “S” shape turn before continuing north of the city but in a westerly direction. Also within seconds of that “S” shaped turn, I noticed a very bright white-blue flash in the sky in the North, not much more than 1/2 inch distance in the sky from the rd light. It resembled a jet coming in for a landing with bright headlight on, but additionally, this bright flash seemed to me to be larger in an up/down size than wide, like a slit of some sort but it was extremely fast in its flash with no lingering quality. As the larger red light continued towards the west, approximately under the Big Dipper now, we noticed that the little red light was there again, just slightly in front. We commented on how it could have reached and caught up to the large red light since they seemed to veer off in different directions at the point in photo 2 where the large red light made its turn from the northeast towards the west. It just appeared. This time it was moving ever so slightly in front of the larger red light as they were now heading south but in the western sky from my rooftop vantage point, which for people from Toronto would be in the direction of the International airport now. They were moving at a speed faster than the jets flying overhead, perhaps twice the speed as the jets were coming in and taking off from Pearson International Airport to the west of the city from my location. As the 2 red lights continued south they again banked left or towards the east, as if doing a large circle around the city perimeter. As we looked to the south sky as the small and large red lights made their way east, the angle or distance between the 2 red lights gave the appearance as if they were almost touching, with no space between them. At that point I ran downstairs for my iPhone but when I came back up, they disappeared into the eastern sky where we first noticed them. I looked at my watch and it was 10:27pm. Perhaps 5 to 7 minutes later than when we first saw them. I go up to my rooftop almost every evening to observe the sky, sometimes with my star chart to see where the different planets are or even the ISS passing overhead, which I have photographed on my iPhone. In all the years I have been living here and observing the plane routes and stars overhead, I have never seen red lights on a craft of that kind before, ever. Thus this report and the curiosity to know if other sightings from Toronto were reported about 2 deep red lights circling the city from a 7 to 15 km radius of the centre of the city where I was located.
July 26, 2015 · 3:00 AM · LIGHT
Alden, NY
My brother and I were star gazing on the front porch, with as much light pollution eliminated as possible. We were looking for shooting stars and satellites. I have been an armature star gazer and into astronomy for over 15 years. We noticed what looked like a satellite moving sporadically and seemingly unintelligibly. Its ability to change direction, increase speed, and stop, was unlike I've ever ever experienced in my life. Clouds became patchy and light which hid the object on us several times yet the object stayed in the general vicinity of the sky. When the object became unable to see from a small cloud I noticed that there were actuall many such objects in the sky. They became easy to pick out due to their consistent light yellow tinge they had; not a bright white like your average satellite. At this point we realized this was exceptionaly abnormal and awoke anyone we could in the house and visibility was decreasing due to dawn beginning and cloud cove! r. My sister was visiting and saw them. My wife (in my experience is not the best at spotting stars/satellites/shooting stars) couldn't pick them out, but in her defense the cloud cover was getting dense and I could only pick out one obvious one to show her which she missed. Some objects seemed to operate alone yet some seemed to be in a disorganized group of three. Best part is this happened ten minutes after telling my brother about a satellite I saw way up north that moved from side to side and that I couldn't believe my memory cause I saw it when I was maybe 7 years old and I wish I could see something like that again to validate my experience. I am a ufo skeptic, I don't necessarily believe in aliens, I think most people who see ufos are nuts, and I always wished I could see something that would change my beliefs. I don't know if my beliefs are changed but that was the most bizarre and unexplainable thing I've ever seen in the sky in my life. I stayed up till the sun was up and they became no longer visible. They left the area tre! nding wi thout a straight course to the west. There was 10 to 20 of them...due to clouds and the objects activity it was almost impossible to keep track of them all. Wow
July 25, 2015 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Muskegon, MI
At approximately 23:00, on the night of 7/25/2015, members of my family and I were on the front porch of our home. I was seated in such a way that I could see a large area of the night sky. Suddenly, as I watched a satellite passing in a northerly direction, there was a large, bright flash in the total darkness of the sky. I commented on it, and it happened again about five seconds later. At that time, three of my sons came off of the porch and proceeded to watch the sky where I indicated. Almost immediately, there was another bright flash which was followed again by a bright flash approximately fifteen seconds later. There were a total of four flashes, with me seeing all four, and my sons seeing two of them. The light appeared to be uniformly round, very bright in comparison to the surrounding stars, and somewhat larger than the largest, brightest stars or planets that we customarily see in the night sky. The object seemed to have moved a distance equivalent to holding a dollar bill sideways at arm's length (approximately 2 to 2 1/2 inches). There were no aircraft in the immediate vicinity, and the light did not flash or pulse like those of any aircraft that I have ever seen. Simply put, what we saw was a light which appeared out of nowhere, flashed brightly four times in no apparent pattern, and stopped flashing. We have watched satellites and aircraft in the night sky for years, and none of us has ever seen anything like what we witnessed last night. The light was spotted at approximately 75 degrees, directly north from our position.
July 25, 2015 · 9:50 PM · LIGHT
Merrick, NY
I was outside watering the lawn and saw a reddish light in the eastern sky, moving from south to north. It was silent and it moved more slowly than a plane. As it reached an area to the north, it changed direction and moved to the northwest and disappeared. We are college educated mature homeowners and have lived on Long Island our whole lives.
July 25, 2015 · 9:45 PM · LIGHT
Salinas, CA
There's a blue light inside of the clouds and marine layer. The blue light is inside of the clouds only in one space glowing through the clouds and marine layer.
July 25, 2015 · 6:42 PM · LIGHT
Hampton, VA
As my wife and I were in the pool, we were looking at the shapes of clouds. This is wearing (sic. when) I noticed two white dots about an inch apart. They were not moving in a straight lines, and were moving independently. We watched them move some and stop and eventually they moved about 10 inches across the sky and stopped again. Eventually they gained altitude until disappearing. No sound, no fuel clouds, and no lights. Definitely not planes or jets.
July 25, 2015 · 6:40 PM · LIGHT
Tempe, AZ
My best guess is a drone. Three steady red lights and a blinking green with an erratic flight path. Clearly not a fixed wing or helicopter. Difficult to tell distance, it was seen over North Tempe, south of Continental St. and east of 68th St. It descended rapidly and vertically after a flight of about 4 minutes.
July 24, 2015 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Ensenada (Mexico) · Mexico
We have e-mailed a request to view the photos, alluded to by the witness. PD
July 24, 2015 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Aberdeen, NJ
The red light could not keep up with the white light.
July 24, 2015 · 10:44 PM · LIGHT
Eagan, MN
Out walking my dog, randomly looked up and saw what I first thought to be a low flying satellite..then the bright light moved in a staggered line, and was soon joined by a second equally bright object. The initial light became stationary, while the second light went back the direction it appeared from.
July 24, 2015 · 9:15 PM · LIGHT
Bromont (Canada), QC · Canada
While driving from Magog to Montreal tonight with my son, we noticed a large bright white light in the sky ahead of us (approximtly 9:15 p.m.) it was stationary as we watched it we noticed another one about 20 to thirty kilometers further ahead in the sky the same appearance as the the closer one to us both still not moving not blinking and quite large given the fact that our line of sight of it put it higher than the clouds as we lost sight of 1st one now behind a dark cloud patch, still watching I did catch a glimpse of it through a hole in the cloud between us and the object. I asked my son to keep looking for it as we were pretty well underneath the area we spotted it, at the same we were watching the second light in the horizon that seemed about 15-20 km ahead exactly the same appearance as the first one, a large bright white light not blinking and stationary, the sky was all clear except for small dark cloud which came between us and the 2nd object for about 5 seconds and then was visible again, given the distance away and the fact that it was above the clouds and the size and intensity of the light it had to be extremely large, and then as we watched in a single instant it was gone, We were both shaken, in my 52 years of life I have never seen anything like this. As we watched the sky for any signs of light we did spot a helicopter off to the right With the usual beacon lights flashing well below the clouds and far off to the left another micro- dot light with beacon lights flashing clearly indentifying it as an aircraft. I have no explanation for what I witnessed.
July 24, 2015 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Reading, PA
I took the dog out around 9:00pm. I always look up at the moon and stars and when I did that night I saw a single orangish colored bright light to the west moving very slowly towards the south. I live close to the local airport, so my first thought was that it was a small plane in a landing pattern, but realized that this was a single bright orangish colored light rather than the bright white landing light or the smaller red and green navigation lights on planes. I then thought that maybe it was a helicopter but again eliminated that for the same reason. The sky was perfectly clear so there were no clouds to get a good reference of how high or far away the light may have been but I felt like it was maybe a thousand feet up and maybe a mile or so away. I heard no sound that would be associated with a plane or helicopter, but again I really wasn't sure how far away the light really was. As the light traveled slowly towards the south it got smaller and higher in the sky until it disappeared. I don't think it blinked out but rather just got out of my sight due to the distance. I was able to see it for about 5 minutes. I'm a retired supervisor and have lived close to the local airport for over 20 years, so I know what airplanes and helicopters look like, as they come and go from the airport during the day and night, and this light was like nothing that would be from a plane or helicopter.
July 24, 2015 · 2:00 AM · LIGHT
Staten Island, NY
Took my German Shepard for her usual middle of the night backyard walk. My yard faces East looking over the entrance of Atlantic Ocean into NY harbor. Almost a bright half moon [oblong shaped]was to the southern sky. I know this sounds crazy, but above the normal air traffic patterns was the star of Bethlehem shining brighter than the moon. I ran inside, got my wife, pointed up to it and it went from a bright white light to a greenish look, and in a second shot over to due south under the moon, then turned reddish,shot over to the west then turned blueish. Then shot over to the North with a yellowish look and then right back to its original East position. This thing was way up there and was huge. It moved at impossible speeds around the entire sky, and not 1 plane in sight.