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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.
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July 24, 2015 · 12:44 AM · LIGHT
Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Note: I know the exact time and events because I recorded it all on my phone's notes. At 0:44 in the morning my friend sent me a message about how he just saw a odd light that changes color from time to time on the sky and is not moving. I went to my balcony, and noticed it on my left side, glowing green and would sometimes become red. The object moved slightly right and I noticed i see it better and brighter if i don't look directly into it. At 1:02 AM i noticed another light above the first one, and they slightly faded out and would only flash up for a milisecond in perfect synchronization with each other. At 1:04 AM, I noticed there are at least 4 of them making a accurate rhombus on my left, and we're mostly green. 1:08 AM, I accidentaly aimed my phone's lighted up screen (i was communicating with my friend about this) at the lower light of the now not moving rhombus. The (green) light instantly started flashing red extremely quickly. I moved the phone away and it stopped. I repeated this 3 times, always the same result. (So i assume they have light perception similiar to us) Soon after i tried pointing my phone's light at the (now red) light, it started to slowly move out of the rhombus and started getting closer and closer to my home (or in this case, 4 floor residential building). I could clearly see a small, pale red light always going behind the bigger red light that was coming closer to me. Slowly, at 1:20 AM it completely went out of my sight because of my balcony's roof. The other 3 we're somehow harder to see, usually white likr they are trying to pretent they are stars, but very bright and would become red for a few seconds sometimes. 1:21 AM, the 3 lights dissappeared, and the one that was hidden from my sight by my balcony roof could be seen again at my right, slowly changing from red to white and sometimes green. 1:25 AM, it is still right of me, slowly moving left and made a blue flash of light. Until 1:48 AM the random activity continued and the light would mostly change colors every few seconds to a minute. It suddenly flashed a dim white, red then white again light. There we're a few small flashes later on, but nothing noteworthy. At 2:22 AM the lights dissappeared. I decided to stay for some time, see if anything happens. Finally, at 3:04, the biggest event happened. A bit left of me, at least 7 lights appeared and slowly spread out. A several more light appeared at the same spot and also spread out covering a huge part of the sky. They rearranged into a odd position, making 3 lines consisting of 3 lights, one line left, two in the center, and above and right of them making random shapes. They didn't move later on, and we're mostly just green, occasionaly flashing red. Note: I tried to photograph the object, but my phones camera was unable to "detect" any of the lights for some reason, possibly because of tge distance.
July 23, 2015 · 10:40 PM · LIGHT
Sagamore Hills, OH
One light, not super bright though, being chased by three helicopters. At first I heard what sounded like an army tank going down the street and I ran outside to see three helicopters flying almost directly over my house and they were very low. You could see the flashing lights on the helicopters, and I could see in front of them a smaller light, that was not flashing at all and they were following it. Just as quickly they went over the trees across the street and I could not see them anymore. You could hear the helicopters for about 30 seconds or so then the sound was gone. It's night here so I could not see any markings at all on the helicopters.
July 23, 2015 · 8:03 PM · LIGHT
Titusville, FL
While watching a Delta IV launch from Cape Canaveral last week, during excellent weather, I saw what I thought was a star just to the west of the moon. I thought it was a star because it looked like the often observed conjunction between Jupiter or Venus and the moon. But then, I noticed the object was moving slowly westward. My wife, daughter (15) and son (8) were there and I commented to them about the object, but they did not seem very interested. As I watched, I thought how much it looked like a star and wished I had seen it pass from the east side (my wife had commented that she earlier had seen it on the east side of the moon) to the west side of the moon, because it would have had to pass in front of or behind it. I observed the object and took several (approximately 18) photos. I was fascinated by the object, because I could not imagine what it was. After about 10 minutes, when I wasn't watching it as closely, I noticed it was gone. Looking at the photos afterward under magnification, there appears to be a much smaller light moving around the larger object.
July 23, 2015 · 9:45 AM · LIGHT
Colorado Springs, CO
Gold metallic light hovering in the same place for 30 minutes. All co-workers saw the same object. Commercial air traffic changed course and flew around the object. Object was at cruising altitude. No clouds are in the sky. Gradually faded out of sight. Photo provided of very small, blurry object. PD
July 23, 2015 · 2:30 AM · LIGHT
Diablo Lake (near Ross Lake), WA
It's the summer of 2015 in Northern Washington state. Myself and four other friends are camping at Diablo Lake near Ross Lake Dam. We camped at the Diablo Lake Camp ground which is located right off of highway 20. This camp spot sits at the bottom of two big mountains on either side. The lake sits in the valley and the camp is on its shore. When you're on the beach looking up there is a large mountain in front of you. Our intention of the trip is to get away from the city by going into the mountains to avoid light pollution so we can stargaze. We spent the whole day exploring the area and playing in the water. By dusk we had settle down around a fire we built on the beach. The beach came to a point and made a small peninsula out into the lake. We gathered at the end of the beach and started to look upwards. This was probably around 1030 or 11, as it was mid summer around July and it doesn’t get dark till late in Washington. By around 230, we had been getting familiar with all the stars and planets, satellite’s in the sky. It was a beautiful night very clear until the early morning. Someone spotted an object flying over head and pointed to it. We all turned and looked identifying the object. At first glance it resembled what a satellite would look like. However, we had seen many satellites already and this object seemed larger and brighter. So to compare lets say a satellites brightness is on average that of a small stars brightness. Then this object was about twice as bright closer to one of our brighter stars. It seemed to be either traveling very fast or was very far above the earth (like a satellite) this can make it hard to judge distance with all the stars in the background. It was completely silent as it flew over us. We noticed it and tracked it over head as it started to pass beyond us. This was around 6-10 seconds; as it moved south from us it instantly disappeared. Impressed we all looked around at each other slightly shocked. Instantly we began to try and debunk what we had seen was it a satellite or maybe the space station! (Once when i was growing up my family and i watch a space shuttle dock with the international space station.) We all puzzled over how fast it was moving and how it might have disappeared. This is when things get a little weirder. We continue looking up and chatting about what we had just seen. Soon after this someone spots something in the distance. Its two lights at the end of the lake south from where we were and in the direction in which the the object had been traveling. They are on the other side of the highway near the bridge at bottom of the valley. These lights are strange one is white and the other is red and they appear to be dancing or bouncing around. They are about 1/4 mile away and at first it was hard to tell how big these lights were. They moved through the trees up the hillside and back down around and on top of the water. All of us watched this in aw. Amazed and confused we tried to speculate what we were seeing. Soon a car drives by. The highway comes down one mountain crosses the bridge and and goes up the other side. As the car passes the bridge we realize how big these lights actually are. To compare these lights were about 4 times bigger than the amount of light made by the headlights of the car. To be clear they were not 4 times as bright. They just filled a lot of space with a medium brightness of light. Its hard to explain. They also seemed somewhat sphere shaped or had a sphere shaped core which imitated light in all directions. Like i said it was to faraway and to obscure to make out any details. This continued for a couple minutes at which time we began to be slightly concerned about what we were seeming. The relationship to the car really put into prospective that something strange was going on. After a couple minutes the lights went away back into the trees out of sight. We all went back to looking upwards now our curiosity peaked by what we had just seem. From the same direction the lights were coming from an object appears in the sky. It's low maybe 1000ft above the ground traveling north parallel to our orientation. It is below and in front of the mountain before us. It was hard to tell if it had a shape, all i could make out was a bright white light that enveloped the whole craft. Brighter than any star and comparable to the brightness of the full moon. It was moving slow and consistently across the sky. As it go closer to us i stepped towards it with my friends behind me. I asked it a question like do you come in peace or something silly like that. The object instantly became twice as bright, like a big flash. Shock i turned around to my friends saying can you believe this $h&! . I turned back to the craft and asked it something like are you hear to meet us. And craft flashed again just like before. We all watched in utter amazement giggling in disbelief. The craft passed the mountain and vanished. This is where this story gets more personal. The rest of this can be verified with the other people i was with however what happens next only happened to me. As we turn to talk about what ever it was we just say i begin to have a very strange sensation. While the rest of people are talking i wonder off and voices start talking to me in my head. However it's not someone else’s voice, it's my own. It's like i was talking to myself in my head but there was another me talking too. This voice keep asking if i would like to be contacted. (this next part is hard to for me to explain) The hair on the back of my neck stood up and then i began to have essentially flash backs but not into the past, into the future. I got the sense that i was being shown all the possibilities that were available to me. In seconds i saw hundreds of different ways this could happen or not happen. This was quite the experience already and i quickly realized that my friends and i were mentally not prepared to handle something like that. I adamantly said no to direct contact out of fear of the unknown. (Slightly bummed about this in retrospective) This all happened in a number of seconds. As soon as it was over I immediately told all my friends. As im describing all this one of my friends gets a similar sensation telling him to lay down and look up. While the rest of are talking, he say that sky opened up with blue light as an object accelerated at extreme speeds out of sight. He gets up and exclaims did you see that! We all sit by the fire amazed and confused. We talk for another couple hours. Hashing out all the details. We left the next morning.
July 23, 2015 · 2:00 AM · LIGHT
Dunsmuir, CA
I'm reporting this now because of some strange things I keep hearing about this area. Castle Crags is located about 10 miles south of Mount Shasta. I pass through this area almost every other year hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, and always see unusual lights in the skies after dark. They usually have triangular configurations. And occasionally I find Bigfoot tracks hiking along this route. I was outside my tent and it was really late at night, I was unable to get to sleep because of the heat that summer. A flash of light further up the canyon caught my attention. A shining, white-blue globe of light I estimated to be about the size of a vehicle was seen hovering over the cliffs of Castle Crags, about two miles away from where I was camping. It hung in the air, glowing with a cold white intensity for a few seconds, crackling like a ball of lighting, and then instantly vanished. Almost like a portal opening and closing again. This is a very weird area to explore, there's a lot of Bigfoot activity, mines, caves, stories about lost treasures, and even some strange rock carvings located along a creek up this canyon below Castle Crags. But this was the first time I ever saw something like portal-related activity occurring in the area.This sighting was also seen by 3 other witnesses camping nearby. We all gathered and talked about it but weren't sure what it was. We thought maybe something burning fell out of the sky, but that didn't make sense, because it just hung in the air for a few seconds. It was one of the closest encounters with a weird object I've ever had. I hiked up the creek the next day to the rock carvings, but didn't see anything out of the ordinary. I've heard a lot of stories about this place, and after seeing this I'm more inclined to believe they might be true.
July 22, 2015 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Amherst, NY
I was looking out my sixth floor window again and noticed off in the distance some interesting bright glowing lights. They were an orange yellow color, looked like several balls of light that were attached or at least real close together. From my vantage point the object(s) were to the SouthEast. They hovered in the same place for a minute, as i called two more witnesses to come see. We all watched in awe as the lights seemed to go slightly up and slowly down until it disappeared behind the buildings and out of our line of sight. The next morning i looked out at the same spot and there was a military plane..
July 22, 2015 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
New Paltz, NY
On evening walk as sunset occurred and saw bright pulsating orange/red light above treeline to my right. I ran to a clearing and watched the light apparently climb and then arc towards the SE and then slow down, almost to a standstill - with absolutely no noise. A commercial jet came into the field of view moving from North to South, with normal red and white navigation lights visible and with normal jet noise, and was at a lower altitude than pulsating light. The light then continued off into the southern/southeastern sky until it was no longer visible. So, no incredible speeds, but definitely and unusual brightness and pulsation to the light, and absolutely no sound. My first thoughts were a drone of some kind, but it seemed too high and moved too far for a recreational drone. Also, what I saw definitely sounds similar to what others in the area are describing recently on this board. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 22, 2015 · 8:15 PM · LIGHT
Chicago, IL
on my lunch break smoking a cig looked up n seen a bright orange light no shape just light midway area then turn 90 degrees out of no where then disappear in clouds it was going one way real fast then turned the opposite way like nothing n disappear left a trail of cloud behind it in the sky! We have amended the time above, assuming that the sighting occurred at night. PD
July 22, 2015 · 8:15 PM · LIGHT
Queen Creek, AZ
They veered off and disappeared. 15 minutes later we saw the lights go back to where they came from further in the distance and disappear. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 21, 2015 · 11:57 PM · LIGHT
South Haven, MI
same size and intensity as nearby stars, traveled north, then made curving turn to west. continued west until lower passing clouds obstructed view. no engine noise. appeared at between 10 and 11 oclock high from west horizen line. at 1:05 am, meteor streaked across view, traveling from southeast to northwest!
July 21, 2015 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Alden Township, WI
July 21, 2015, around 10:30ish pm Alden Township, Polk County, Wisconsin. My husband and I were outside talking. I was looking across the southern sky. At one point I looked at him and then swept the southern sky with my eyes, left to right. Suddenly three very bright lights caught my attention to the left. I say to my husband, “Oh wow! How the hell did I miss that?” He also hadn’t noticed them a moment ago. The three lights were the same color as the surrounding stars but much brighter and bigger. They were in a triangular formation with the base on top and point on the bottom. They just appeared. They slowly started moving to the left. And as they moved, all in sync about half an inch apart, the top two lights started to fade. The top left light vanished first, then the top right light and eventually so did the lower light. They didn’t move a great distance across the sky before disappearing, maybe two, three inches. This all took place in about 10-15 seconds. They looked to be really far away. Also, in the 10 minutes we stood outside. I saw 3 other moving objects. They were a lot dimmer. These kind of lights we see all the time and just assume they must be satellites.
July 21, 2015 · 9:55 PM · LIGHT
Milwaukee, WI
Standing on 2nd floor balcony looking east toward Lake Michigan, which is approximately 7 blocks from my house. Looked up directly to zenith of night sky when I noticed a single medium bright white light traveling in a northward direction. The odd thing was 3 planes were in my view, I also live next to General Mitchell Airport, and I knew they were planes due to their flashing FAA lights. As the UFO neared the plane closest to it, which was traveling south, the object changed its straight course and did a counterclockwise rotation around the airplane and after it completed the circle it seemed to get dimmer until gone. The plane was estimated to be at 5,000 feet however since I had no clue on the size of the UFO I don't know how high it was. The funny thing is I used to see the same objects every night (sometimes 19 in one night) every night during the summer of 2008 and until tonight have not witnessed the phenomenon again.
July 20, 2015 · 8:38 PM · LIGHT
Sierra Vista, AZ
I just got home from work leaving the store at 8:08pm and reached my home at 8:37pm to see in the sky what appeared to be a large ball of light that quickly raced across the sky. what made this not a falling star was that it traveled underneath the cloudline.
July 20, 2015 · 1:55 AM · LIGHT
Two Hills, AB · Canada
Me my sister and her two friends were having a campfire I am age 20 they are are 14-15, I was supervising them when I seen the first light appear moving quickly In the sky then is curved off and got dim, disappeared for about 20 seconds then re-appeared in a different location but still heading in the same trajectory, 3 minutes later we spotted 3 more objects to were following the same trajectory pattern the other-one split off and headed off at a 90degree turn then one following the other's suddenly stopped hovered in the stratosphere for about 1 minute then shot far off fast at a erratic 210 degree turn then after that we saw a airplane moving slow and blinking multiple colors moving quite slow and then saw about 3 more fast moving objects that repetedly dimmed and got brighter and changed courses every few seconds moving from left to right with ease
July 19, 2015 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Lee's Summit, MO
Changing from dim red and blue to bright white, then vanishing.
July 18, 2015 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Scranton, PA
My girlfriend and i were on top of Montage Mountain in Scranton, PA, facing the main stage with the tent (not sure on the actual direction) when off to our left, high up above a mountain in the distance we saw a large glowing orange light that didn't blink traveling right from our point of view at an incredible speed for about 30 seconds, its speed in that direction then slowed down and the light began to shrink, as it decreased in size the color shifted from orange to red and then to white until it finally disappeared due to the Doppler effect that would imply that it was flying away from us.
July 18, 2015 · 10:45 PM · LIGHT
Orlando, FL
Was getting out of my car after pulling into my backyard parking area near the downtown / Colonialtown area of Orlando. Noticed a very bright red light above my house that appeared to look like a red light on top of a cellphone tower with secondary small green light underneath flashing. I thought this strange since there are no towers nearby and one couldn't have been erected in 15 minutes before I went to the corner store. I reached for my phone but the battery was dead. I thought it was then perhaps a helicopter but there was no sound whatsoever. The object then made a quick movement slightly to the north and stopped. It then made a fast drop, like a stone, to the north west and got out of sight behind some trees. I ran out to the road and got a better view of it. It continued its path almost out of sight behind trees and houses. on the horizon. Before it slipped completely out of sight, it made a hard erratic 90 degree turn parallel to the horizon to the e! ast.
July 17, 2015 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Palm Harbor, FL
We were sitting on our porch and saw a blue green light coming towards us. It made a fast U shape and froze, then it turned towards us and was an extremely bright white light. It stayed frozen for about 45 seconds it seemed as if time had stopped and we were both focused on this object then did a few more quick U shapes and went downwards out of sight. I have seen two others before but this one seemed to last the longest and did the fasted maneuvers. It was incredible. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 17, 2015 · 10:54 PM · LIGHT
Thibodaux, LA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 17, 2015 · 10:10 PM · LIGHT
Sag Harbor, NY
On July 17, 2015, my brother and I were standing outside Barron’s Cove Inn, talking, at about ten past ten at night. I noticed a round flickering circle moving across the sky, from Left to right. There was first just one and then a second followed in the exact same path. There was a third and then two more which were side by side followed the others. A total of ten were noted-all flying along that path slowly. After about 5 minutes the first in the row disappeared. Each one in turn did the same. The two that were side by side disappeared together. No details other than the bright circular lights were noted by us as the objects were out over the water. This report was first posted on July 23rd, 2015, with the incorrect time of 10:10 a.m.. We have changed the time above to 22:10 hrs., and will re-post it at our earliest convenience. PD
July 17, 2015 · 11:15 AM · LIGHT
Hanson, KY
My mother and I were stargazing and noticed a bright light to above us going north. It was brighter than a satallite or plane/copter. We watched it go north towards some incoming line of clouds that had "heat lighting" flashes. The unidentified light stopped, quickley traveled west for 5 seconds, came to abrupt stop, moved east in a wave pattern for about 10 seconds, then went into the line of clouds until it's light faded and we lost track of it. It was almost as if it was trying to decide if it wanted to go into the clouds. Made my heart race and the hair stand up on my arms while watching it. Not usually what we see out in the country.
July 16, 2015 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Cutler Bay, FL
Me and few two friends were sitting in the front porch when we saw this bright green light decent from the sky and Hoover over the sky for a while, and it stopped for a few seconds when it started moving at a very fast speed into the sky and disappear into the night, at first i thought it was a helicopter but it was too bright and fast moving to be a chopper.
July 16, 2015 · 8:35 PM · LIGHT
Escondido, CA
Tonight, I was lying on my couch – my patio is facing South and I live on the top 3rd floor apartment of my building. I saw a very bright light in the sky and thought it was a star. It was round and was moving towards my building and getting larger and then the light started to turn into a cross shape the closer it got to my building. I was in awe at first and wanted to keep looking but was too afraid to take a picture and stand looking at it so as it got closer and bigger I ran towards my outside door and hid in the door way away from my patio window and the bright cross light shape. I waited a moment or two and went back to the patio window and assumed that it passed over my building.