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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
July 10, 2015 · 6:02 PM · LIGHT
Waterford, VA
Two bright lights heading South by West. One following the other separated by three fingers at arm's length. Clear sky, some high clouds. No sound, however they were very far away. About 40 degrees above horizon. This area is in the landing pattern for Dulles airport and they were using no typical path through the area. Below clouds but no idea of altitude. I moved some as there were power lines and trees to look around but seemed that both disappeared, that is did not fly out of my sight line. I first thought they were just airplanes with sun glint, but the two together was unusual and it just didn't seem right.
July 9, 2015 · 9:15 PM · LIGHT
Park Ridge, IL
I was taking a walk down a busy street heading northwest, when I saw aprox 15 orange lights in the sky to the north. At first they were in a straight line, so I thought they might be planes lining up to land at OHare airport. I've lived near the airport my entire life, and quickly realized this was not the case. The color of the light as not right and the quickly left the in line formation and became jumbled in a random pattern. 5 of the lights then seemed to form a circle, before the rest of them disappeared one by one until there was only one left in the sky for about 30 more seconds and it too disappeared. I have never made a claim like this before and am hoping someone else saw this. It would be hard to believe that with the brightness, the number of objects, and the residential area, this happened in that no one else did.
July 8, 2015 · 9:17 PM · LIGHT
Sterling, VA
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July 7, 2015 · 9:48 PM · LIGHT
North Wilkesboro, NC
I spotted what looked to be a satellite approximately 45 degrees above the southern horizon heading north. It had at least a magnitude 1 brightness. It moved so fast I thought it might have been an airplane, but never saw any blinking lights, or change in brightness until it faded away to the north in the hazy sky. I have seen thousands of satellites and all kinds of aircraft in my 40 years of amateur astronomy, but I have never seen a light, satellite, or aircraft move as fast as this light did. It moved too slowly for a meteor, did not leave a trail, and it crossed the entire sky, from south to north, going directly overhead in less than 15 seconds. The speed of the object is what astounds me and boggles my mind.
July 5, 2015 · 11:30 PM · LIGHT
Birmingham (UK/England)k · United Kingdom
slow moving objects , flashing lights red green white , comeing togeather flying in formation disopearing then returning We have attempted to contact the witness, in order to confirm the time and date. In the meantime, we have changed both above, to reflect an evening sighting on July 5th, 2015. PD
July 5, 2015 · 10:14 PM · LIGHT
Nampa, ID
About 25° above the horizon, I watched an orange light followed by a red light travel from south to north. They initially travelled below the clouds, but were silent and appeared to irregularly pulsate in brightness. I estimate their altitude to be 8,000-15,000' and I cannot speculate as to their speed, except that seemed to be flying slightly faster than an airplane typically would at that altitude. both lights appeared to be on the same course and traveling at the same speed. After about 1.5 minutes of observation, the leading orange light ascended into the clouds and was lost to me. The second light, red in color, seemed to change course, heading due west, and progressively accelerated as it changed direction, eventually also disappearing behind the clouds some 60 seconds after I had lost the orange light. As it was just after dusk, I could discern no features of the crafts, but the lights appeared to be the size of the craft, and were circular. In comparison, aircraft navigation lights appear as points of light, and these lights had a discernible diameter which I lack expertise necessary to calculate.
July 5, 2015 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Oscoda/Greenbush/Harrisville, MI
Sunday night, July 5th, 2015, we were heading north on Highway 23 through Oscoda toward Harrisville. My son & I pulled over into a parking lot, somewhere between 10 & 10:30 P.M., to watch the last of fireworks we could see going off over Lake Huron. While watching fireworks, we noticed a bright light/orange ball in the sky, heading toward us & northward, going very steady, not too fast, but parallel along Hwy 23 (it was basically between us in the parking lot, & the road, as it went over/past us). We had our windows rolled down, & though there were some fireworks noise, we didn't hear any noise from this orange object, though it went over/past us. After the fireworks ended, we got back on Hwy 23 heading north. In about 5 miles, suddenly the orange glowing ball came from the east (which was Lake Huron side), & crossed the road ahead of us, flying west. Then, two more came across, closer together. A fourth one was back some distance, following the other 3. We didn't see what the first ball did, but the 2nd & 3rd, after crossing the Highway a short distance, & where we could still see them above the trees, started to slow & then hover. They waited until the 4th orange ball caught up & joined them. The number 2 orange ball was in front, number 3 on the right, & number 4 took up the left side, so they formed a “V” & then they continued by going northwest. We had pulled over on the shoulder, & had our windows rolled down some. NO noise was heard, & also, all of these flying orange light balls did a bit of pulsing in brightness, getting a bit brighter & then dimmer as they went along. There were NO red, green or white lights whatsoever, nor any blinking lights. We would love to know what these things are; if top secret military I guess we won't ever be told, but we'd love to have an answer as to what looks like these for night flying & can do this sort of thing. Couldn't be planes, balloons, or helicopters (would have heard the noise on those).
July 5, 2015 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Downingtown, PA
Witnessed three bright orange lights flying NE. My girlfriend pointed them out from our back porch saying ("What the heck is that?). The lights kept a consistent equal distance from each other in a diaganol straight line from the top right to bottom left, and flying to our left (NE). There was a fourth single light that they appeared to be following. That fourth light looked further away, higher in the sky, and dim in comparison to the other three. There was no sound and it was too dark to see if the three lights were somehow connected. The speed seemed to be about the same as an airplane would fly, but the height looked lower than a plane flying by. Later that evening our neighbor said he saw them too and thought they could be Chinese lanterns. My girlfriend and I believed they were something different, as they moved right to left in a consistent line with some speed. Before they were out of sight, they dimmed away, and two of them flickered before disappearing. I've never seen anything like this and do not know what is was. There was no red, green, or white lights like an airplane. Only orange round balls of light - strange...
July 5, 2015 · 8:30 PM · LIGHT
Mesa, AZ
Lights would Disappear and reappear. Multiple aircraft hovering/observing objects Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 5, 2015 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Clarksburg, MO
The object was red and moving very fast towards the north.
July 4, 2015 · 11:54 PM · LIGHT
Godfrey, IL
There were 7 orange lights flying north in the sky, no sound and then they just disappeared, like a candle being blown out.
July 4, 2015 · 11:50 PM · LIGHT
Greeley, CO
One stops in mid-air and slowly fades out of the atmosphere, as the two move closer and closer, till they are almost unrecognizable from each other. A fourth takes its place at the bottom of the formation and suddenly all three fade out of the atmosphere. Witness provides no contact information. PD
July 4, 2015 · 11:45 PM · LIGHT
Portland, ME
My wife and I were on a boat back from cliff island long after the fireworks ended. We noticed an orange light off the port side way up in the sky but closer than any star it was slowly moving to the left and when my wife pulled out her camera she couldn't get a picture of it so when I took mine out we looked up and it was gone
July 4, 2015 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Romulus, MI
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 4, 2015 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Saginaw, MI
I went out to my backyard to see if i could see some of the nearby fireworks when i noticed something else in the sky. Coming from the western side of the sky and heading east was a bright orange object. My first thought was that someone lit off a big fireworks rocket and it was going to go off in my full view. But it just kept coasting across the sky on a straight horizontal line. As it got above me, I saw that it was actually 2 orange spheres - like they were joined together. It almost appeared like they were on fire, but there was no visible trail left behind, as it moved silently east and out of sight behind some trees. It was moving fairly fast - the whole sighting lasted under 10 seconds.
July 4, 2015 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
New York City (Brooklyn), NY
We watched the Macy's fireworks from a roof top in Brooklyn. The fireworks show ended about 10:00 pm. We went to street level and all of a sudden we saw this round shaped light {lite} reddish color moving very slowly towards Manhattan, but still on the Brooklyn side, and not to far from us. After about a minute it just stopped. The round light object did not move for at least a minute. Then the object started moving towards Manhattan, but all of a sudden, it went straight up and disappeared. We took photos of the object. In the photos the object was a bright white light.
July 4, 2015 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Cedar Rapids, IA
I am a college graduate, in the dental profession, and a UFO skeptic. (Until I had this experience and went online to research where to report it, I had no idea that there have been so many UFO sightings, especially on the 4th of July of each year.) After watching the city fireworks from our back balcony, I noticed a bright red, round light floating from east to west,across the southern sky. It had no sound, and at first I wondered if I was seeing a satellite. But it was a bright red, bigger and brighter light than a satellite, and it looked to be be much closer. Its light intensity seemed to get a bit brighter and dimmer alternately, but still remained a bright red. It looked like it was at the altitude that a low-flying plane would be coming in to land, but it floated levelly and had no small navigational red or white blinking lights on it, like planes do. (We have planes frequently flying over our home, heading to the local airport for landings, and this appeared very different than those.) As it passed by our house, it finally seemed to turn "outward", (away from us and the earth), and it quickly just faded away and was gone. The whole incident took approximately 15 seconds, but seemed much longer. As I was trying to make sense of what I had just witnessed, I noticed another red, round light to the left (east) of the first one, in the same area that we'd watched the fireworks just 10 minutes prior. This red light was the same shape, color and intensity as the first one. It hovered briefly rather high in the sky, then just descended, going straight down, towards land. It went behind the treeline, whereby I couldn't see it any longer. This whole incident also took approximately 15 seconds. Like the first one, this light had no additional navigational lights like planes do. It was silent, and seemed to have a smooth, "floating" quality to it. I was so baffled and almost flabbergasted by the sight of these two objects, that I did not even think to try to take a photograph. I was in this kind of momentary "time warp," where I was just awestruck by the whole experience--not really understanding or knowing for sure what I had actually just witnessed. I have never before witnessed this type of phenomenon, nor have I been a person who has an unusual interest or intrigue with UFO's. Because it was late and my husband had already gone to bed, I had no other witnesses to this event.
July 4, 2015 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Johnstown, PA
Nearly every Sunday, and on some other days less regularly, a dull orange, non-pulsating, light appears in the Northeast sky over Johnstown, PA. It appears suddenly and usually is fairly high in the sky when it appears. It moves slowly but generally predictably from Northeast to Southeast. Its movements are not consistent with any kind of aircraft and there are never any green or red blinking lights observed. It traces an irregular path and will, after 5-10 minutes, start to fade out and then reappear. It has also appeared, although much less often, in the Northwest sky. But when it does it follows the same pattern. It appears almost always between 2200 and 2230 hours on Sunday evenings. But it has appeared at some other times as well.
July 4, 2015 · 10:15 PM · LIGHT
Bellevue, WA
One orange solid light, not flashing, flew over the Lake Sammamish direction from North to South. 20-30 seconds later another one followed. Less than 5 seconds after that one, a third appeared and followed at a consistent distance, at the same rate of speed. All 3 went out of out of our view.
July 4, 2015 · 10:15 PM · LIGHT
Sandusky, OH
Lights in the sky disappearing and then reappearing and made a triangle shape and then disappeared.
July 4, 2015 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Provo, UT
A light appeared and hovered in one spot and flashed. The light was white. It would disappear and then reappear in another spot in the sky and do the same thing then move back to the other spot. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 4, 2015 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Leesburg, VA
This is a more accurate and updated version of a previous report. The object appeared as a single red light. It was not blinking- but flickering. Shimmering like a star. The light proceeded to move horizontally across the night sky, without making noise, until it suddenly shot up vertically until it was out of sight. It made no noise.
July 4, 2015 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Jackson, WI
This instance took place on July 4th, 2015, after watching the fireworks. I saw three orange objects slowly flying in a triangular formation. They stopped and hovered for about 5-10 seconds. Then one by one, they went straight up into the sky. They seemed to change yellowish color as they disappeared into the sky. As the last object in the pattern went up a fourth, orange object appeared from behind them. This one followed the same pattern as the other three. Stopping to hover for a few seconds, and then going straight up into the sky changing to a yellowish color before disappearing. After about one or two minutes this strange occurrence happened exactly the same one last time. I waited for hours to witness this again. Nothing happened after that again. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 4, 2015 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Chesapeake, VA
Strange lights. I'm here in Virginia visiting close friends when I spotted something unusual in the night sky! We'd spent the 4th enjoying the celebrations etc.. However, around 8.45 to 9 pm, I realised everyone sleeping, so I decided to go out into the back yard and watch a local fireworks display. I was sitting there enjoying the show when I spotted what I thought was an aircraft in the night sky. It was visible over the house in a north-westerly direction and I estimate at about 35 degrees from the horizon. Again, still thinking it was an aircraft, I ignored it and continued watching the fireworks. A few minuets passed when I realised it was still there; at which point I assumed it was a very bright star which, I found unusual as the night sky was a cloudy. Nevertheless, I continued to watch the firework. Suddenly, I'm estimating a little after 10pm I heard a firework land out front. Now at this point, I knew everyone was sleeping and the garage door was open, so I figured I'd better go close it. However, just at that moment, I glanced up at the star and watched in amazement as it just shot off across the sky and out of sight heading from it stationary north west position in a west-south-west direction. Object: Bright star like light object Location: Northwestern sky, approximately 35 degrees off the horizon. Stationary. Duration (time first noted): Approximately 70 minutes Eventual direction of travel: west-south-west Weather: A cloudy but dry. I'm not sure what I witnessed, but I'm sure it wasn't an aircraft or firework, or anything of that nature, because if I hadn't moved, I have went to bed thinking it was a bright star!