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September 20, 2020 · 4:00 AM · UNKNOWN
UK/England) · United Kingdom
Today Sunday 20th September 2020, between 4.00am and 5am, while gazing at the stars above our glass roof on a clear but dark sky, I noticed a series of feint individual lights travelling very fast, very high up and all in a straight line one after the other and behind each other, seconds apart. All these lights were travelling across the sky above me from W to E. I counted approximately 20 moving lights in less than 20 minutes, but might have been more. While outside in my quiet garden I had only small binoculars and could not make out any shape or size as the distance was too great also no engine noises could be heard. I had considered a flight path but it was too early, the lights were very highl and fast and all in exactly the same line. I hope this was of help and not a waste of your time.
September 18, 2020 · 10:10 PM · UNKNOWN
Orange Park, FL
On September 18, 2020 at approximately 22:10 on my way home from work, I spotted what I initially took as cloud-to-cloud lighting. This time of year, there is a lot of that and rain. It only happened once so I thought nothing of it. A few minutes later, I see it again, but it makes me think it may be plane ‘headlight’. Both occurrences are happening in a southerly direction. As I work at a military facility I, again, did not pay close attention. Upon exiting the facility, I noticed that the ‘headlight’ I had seen minutes before was now more southwest, but moved more like a search light. We had overcast skies and I was not able to spot a helicopter or plane. It now had my attention as I drove, because while it resembled a search/spotlight, the movement was erratic. I hoped to see it again. I was able to spot it again approximately 7-10 minutes later and probably 4 miles from the military facility. The light was still located southwest. I turned into an ! industrial area with less trees and low building to keep it in sight. The light were now more to south again but, even with less light pollution, I was not able to find a ground light source. Spotlights that want you to find a location; I know from experience. There is a ray that radiates up into the sky. There was no ray from the ground. I noticed that the light was radiating, like a lighthouse (I am not on a coast and the direction from which the light was radiating was even more inland) rotating around a center point, but I could see the light all the way around without interruption. The radius of movement was far enough apart it required me to turn my head to follow it. I pulled over and began recording the light. I recorded for approximately two minutes. I began heading home, but thought it would be better to have another witness to the light and contacted a friend I knew would be awake at 22:38. She was able to see the light while we were on the phone and her home is approximately 3 miles from where I was located. She said her roommate had seen the light one his way home from a convenience store. We monitored the lights as I drove. Confirming we were ab! le to see the same lights and the same pattern of movement. The lights were spinning in a clockwise motion, rhythmically, and then it would stop, in an easterly position pause for 2-3 seconds before starting again counterclockwise. It would stop, reverse again, and rotate faster in the clockwise position before returning to the rhythmic spin. We got off the phone so she too could record a video. I had my 15 year old come outside and view the lights when I got home (I live about 8 miles from the military facility; my child’s friend had mentioned the spotlight was visible from her home 9 miles south of our location via a social media forum. I asked if my child was able to see a ray of light from the ground and no, was not visible. Now that I did not have to divide my focus, I watched the light, could see that the light seemed almost flat, and looked high in the sky. It was similar to shining a flat bicycle flashlight at the ground in front of you so the light spreads far and flat. I could see passing puffy clouds, but the light did not appear to penetrate the clouds so the light was not near me, and/or not below the passing clouds. The movement remained the same, but I was not able to record the light, as my battery was too low on my phone. While observing the light it appeared to get thinner, brighter, and/or wider. I was able to see that the cloud density effected the light penetration. The light was definitely coming from the sky and not the ground. There was texture/color variance to the clouds the light had been ‘white’ during most of the event. It appeared a little more yellow when it was brighter, however I do not know if that was because of the clouds or the light itself. The light stoppe! d one more time easterly, before it began to spin again and was gone. I stopped seeing the light at approximately 2300 and it did not return. I did not witness a craft of any kind during this encounter.
September 17, 2020 · 10:15 PM · UNKNOWN
Nampa, ID
Traveled west to East apx 80 degrees high. First noticed 2-3 bright flashes within 3 sec. continued to travel East with bright flashes occurring every 5-10 sec. object would swerve left and right as it traveled East. After a minute, it disappeared. At first we thought it was a meteorite entering atmosphere due to brightness but when it began to swerve, we knew it was not a meteorite. It appeared too high to be a helicopter and the flashes were too inconsistent and too bright to be aircraft strobes. This was witnessed by 2 career pilots and their spouses.
September 17, 2020 · 6:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Needham, MA
I was sitting on a bench with another parent watching our kids play on a playground. Two black objects slowly came into view in the sky, the other parent and I with our kids (4 witnesses) noticed them, flying spaced apart but in tandem at a steady pace in high altitude just about the cloud lines and dipped in and out of the clouds on their course, flying from the Southwest to Northeast, heading toward Boston. The two unknown objects were seemingly large and may have had large wings slowly flapping but from a distance from each other, like they were following each other. They must have been quite large. A commercial jet appeared and came into view half way though this event. The Commercial jet flew quite high in the distance but was lower, not in the clouds, that gave me/us a sense of the fairly large size to compare them to, But the two black objects were not as big and fast moving as the commercial airplane. It was odd. There was no tail and did not look li! ke a airplane. Very bizarre. I thought to myself it could have been some sort of angelic black creature or being with wings, but not white like an angel. I have no idea what we we saw.
September 16, 2020 · 6:50 AM · UNKNOWN
Nicholasville, KY
Blue red and white lights,was dark so I couldn't tell the shape but what was odd is that it didn't move at all
September 15, 2020 · 9:15 PM · UNKNOWN
Newtown, PA
My wife and I were on our patio talking. It was a clear night and as I looked at the sky I could see the typical stars and as I'm looking up I see a light moving across the sky at a very high speed from the south to the north at a very high altitude, Based on seeing aircraft at night flying at 35,000 ft, I estimate the object was close to 100,000 ft. It covered a large part of the sky very quick.
September 15, 2020 · 9:03 PM · UNKNOWN
Cochranville, PA
My wife and I witnessed an unidentified aircraft in zip code 19330. It was hovering approx. 800-1000 ft off the ground for approx. 3-5 minutes. My wife saw it doing a slow circular motion before I got outside. While we both watched, it traveled at a very slow speed, about 5mph in a very direct manner. When the craft was closest to us, we could hear a very quiet humming as if it was an efficient high powered fan. The craft had the lights which were blinking. The craft appeared to be about the size of a bi-plane or larger though we couldn't see the outline in the dark. It is our belief that this was a drone of some sort, but it was quite large and unidentified.
September 15, 2020 · 9:30 AM · UNKNOWN
Seattle, WA
Me and my brother were sitting outside out place in the CD when this violent rumbling noise sounded, the ground didn’t shake but it was loud as hell, we both agreed that it couldn’t be a plane because their generally not that loud (my moms a flight attendent I’m around planes a lot) plus with all the smoke in the air it would’ve been impossible for pilots to fly in safely; and it was loud enough that it brought our neighbor outside to check it out. The noise lasted for a few minutes before vanishing. It also returned briefly about 20 min later, with all the smoke in the air anything could be flying above rne, and I don’t know any plane that is that loud and takes that long to fly down, let alone the fact that the noise didn’t decrease in the slightest thought out the couple of min we heard it, a planes noise is loud but it goes by as a plane flys by, it doesn’t linger.
September 15, 2020 · 12:11 AM · UNKNOWN
Maynardville, TN
there was a v light shape above the four flickers lights below. it look like the light below were changing color and the light above was white light always. my daughter asked me what it was and tugged on my night gown and i stood there trying to take pictures of it but my i phone nor my finance s phone would record or recognize the picture.. my niece works in knoxville at a walmart and i imediatly snapyher and told her too look at the sky to see if what i seen was visible in knoxville.. she could not see it. i reported it and that’s all i can do. i’m from dayton ohio and have seen many “ objects in the sky” noted
September 14, 2020 · 4:30 AM · UNKNOWN
Sun Valley, WA
Last night, I was letting my dog out to go potty around 4-4:30am in Sun Valley, Idaho (Elkhorn area). I looked up at the stars which was great because there was no smoke - I could see the stars! I thought I saw a satellite and then I saw a second one right behind it in perfect alignment and then a third, a fourth and I counted at least 12 of them (maybe more) - all in a perfect line moving at the same pace. If I could measure from my vantage point and use my fingers they were about an 1.5 inches apart. I couldn't hear them, but they looked like a satellite (but moving too fast for a satellite), were in perfect formation and so many of them! It was CRAZY town!!! I wish I had my phone to record it, but it was in the middle of the night and I was letting my dog go to the bathroom and from now on, I'll always bring my phone with me - trust me!!
September 8, 2020 · 3:50 AM · UNKNOWN
Telford (UK/England) · United Kingdom
This event happened several months ago but I wrote what happened down at the end of the same week. I am an Army Nursing Officer in the British Army. This event took place very near to 11 Sig Brigade HQ in Donnington, Telford. I was alone with our 2 dogs and 2 cats in the house. I drink very little alcohol and don’t drink in the week and had consumed no alcohol the evening before this event took place. I also only drink two coffees a day and was sleeping soundly until this incident occurred. Early in the morning of 08th Sept 2020 at approx 0350hrs I was woken by a loud solid thud. Our house is about 50 metres from a road and I thought a large truck must have hit a tree or something similar. Because the bedroom does not look out towards the road and there are trees along the fence, I knew that if I got up and looked out the window I wouldn’t be able to see anything, so I lay awake anticipating that I would pick up flashing lights of the emergency services after 10 or 20 minutes. Quite suddenly, after about 15 minutes my room was filled with bright light that was coming from the field just outside our garden on the same side as the bedroom window. The light was ice white and the room became fully lit like it was daytime. The unlined curtains were closed but the light was so bright and the experience so frightening and unusual, I didn’t dare get up to go and look out of the curtains for fear of whatever it was that was outside. I thought it would damage my eyes to look at it. It felt very abnormal and I was very scared in case I was in danger from whatever it was. I stayed still in my bed because I was worried that f I moved whatever it was outside would see (and might) hurt me somehow. After about 5 minutes the large light outside started to move upwards – I could see the light rising slowly up to around 20 metres from the ground, not only through the curtains but also through the small gap where the curtains meet at the top of the window. I ha! ve been in many situations where helicopters are present, however, another odd thing was that whatever this was seemed to make absolutely no sound. When the thing started to move upwards, my dog that sleeps on the bed leapt off the bed, barking hysterically and ran onto the landing. I followed her but really out of fear and to get away from being able to be seen through a window. As I followed the dog onto the landing I crouched down to move to the part of the landing where I could peek round the corner and see out onto the field through the large landing window. Suddenly there was a strong single pulse that passed through the house and right through my body. Our HP printer sprung to life with its arm moving out in preparation to print and I was frozen by fear momentarily. My immediate thought was that it was some sort of pulse created by an explosion of some sort. I thought a blast wave was going to follow in some way ( and a sudden fear swept through me that the house might collapse) but it didn’t, in fact right at that point, the light disappeared completely and whatever it was, was suddenly gone. I moved! slowly to the window and couldn’t see anything unusual other than clouds and stars in the sky. The next morning when I went into camp, the internet (MODNET) on camp was ‘down’ anddidnt return to normal for 2 days. I still haven’t got over it. I frequently wake in the very early morning and lay wondering whether it’s going to come back. Last night for example I got up twice to look out the window to where it landed to see if anything is there. Every time I walk across where it landed I look for signs on the ground…anything at all that indicates it was there. When I think about it my inside are fearful and my eyes well up with tears. This isn’t something I imagined. It did happen – my dog barking and the printer coming to life reassures me of that. It was such an odd event.
September 6, 2020 · 4:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Glastonbury, CT
I was awake at 4am trying to get to sleep. Suddenly I heard an extremely loud noise that sounded like it was coming from all directions. The only way I can describe it is a whirring sound, like something going in a circular motion. I’d say it’s like an old washing machine but the noise didn’t sound crisp, it was dull. The noise was accompanied by a strange feeling in the air, almost electric. I quickly got a bad migraine; I get them when there are drops in barometric pressure so I’m not sure if that was the case or the noise was so loud it caused one. The noise then abruptly left, and it sounded like it suddenly started down the road with the same whirring. Sometimes it would cut out and in again. Sometimes it would reappear near my house then move again. After about 10 minutes it stopped. I thought I was the only one that heard it but then the town Facebook page exploded with reports of the same noise. Another person said it felt like the noise “vibrated her body”. More reported waking from a dead sleep to the noise and that it was like a bass tone because of the depth and feeling. The reports came mostly from the northern and central part of the town, but a few reported hearing it in the south, east, and west. I saw a UFO once before, with my mom about 7 years ago. We were both skeptics, but our experience made us both believers. When this recent incident occurred I didn’t immediately think of a UFO, but when I felt the energy I could sense this was something not normal. I’m an academic with a MA working in a field that is very no-nonsense. I want to find an explanation for everything, but I can’t find one for this.
September 5, 2020 · 4:57 AM · UNKNOWN
Barrington, NH
At 04:57 a little further west of the north star, slightly below it, I think it came out from behind the tree top, nearly as bright as venus, faster than a satellite, at least twice as fast moving almost due east. For only about 1-2 seconds it was bright, then it got dim, like a satellite and seemed to speed up. At least twice as fast as a passenger jet. If it was a jet fighter, it would have been not far away for that kind of speed, and loud. There was no sou! nd. Got very dim/disappeared near the north east tree tops. Total of 4-5 seconds. I'm not sure if it accelerated from the very bright to the very dim, or if it was all just very fast. Seemed like it might have accelerated. It was really cool. Decided to have a second cigarette and see if another showed up. Sure enough, 05:03, same spot below and west of polaris, same brightness and speed and direction, but after that one went dim, I couldn't see it any longer. No sound again. I have been noticing for a few years now, maybe a dozen or so times, I'll be watching the sky and see a bright white flash, a little less bright than venus right now, but nearly as bright, not a fire-fly. A couple of times a small rapidly fading outward type of movement before vanishing.
September 1, 2020 · 4:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Hammond (Canada), ON · Canada
It was a bright sunny day. The Temperatures was around 12 Celsius and it was around 16:00 When I looked up, I saw a thin rectangular type light strip as if it was coming through a prism. It was like if it was an invisible craft for which the sun rays were projecting through a prism. The lights were fading and regaining intensity as it moved over head. It was traveling from the north west to the south east. As I live in the wood, I didn’t get to see this more than 20 seconds although I do wonder if it had to do with the moisture in the air reacting to the sun although it seemed to have travel to fast compared to the sun setting which sets around 19:00 at this time of year in my area & that the shape was too perfect.
August 31, 2020 · 4:33 AM · UNKNOWN
Lindenhurst, NY
I saw object flying in the sky and another object approached at this point I hear a sound and the other object changes shape and color.
August 30, 2020 · 8:55 PM · UNKNOWN
Lockport, NY
I had just finished dropping off a key at my parent's house and was walking back to the apartment my husband and I share. The moon was starting to peek through the trees from the south, and I gazed up at the stars, noticing that it was a clear night. I looked north north-east and saw a fuzzy point above the trees and initially thought it was a small plane, but there was no sound, and no blinking lights. I watched it slowly move south, and as it moved it appeared to develop halos - at first they appeared to be moving in a very slight counter-clockwise rotation. Never complete, but fading imperceptibly so as to never show a full spiral halo. It was at this point that I tried to grab a photo using my cell phone, knowing that it would likely not turn out. I grabbed 2 shots. I found it odd that the halo was building and that it was still moving south without noise or distinct airplane lights. I ran to tell my husband and a friend of his who were already outside on our deck. They both looked out and by this time it had grown even more. We ran down the steps to get a better vantage point. I had grabbed my DSLR (Nikon D200) with my Nikkor AF-S 70-300 mm lens to see if I could get some long exposure images on the fly. As soon as we were in the driveway I tried a long exposure shot. Moved to what I thought was a more stable place and grabbed a second shot. The third was the last attempt as by this time it had begun to move behind the tree line. Of these three long exposure shots the first turned out the best. The halo had grown quite a bit from start to finish. When it started it was a small, white/yellow fuzzy spot, before it went out of view it had a fuzzy center and a few vertical mostly-complete halos . I am a website admin / project manager with a degree in environmental biology and have several hobbies, one being stargazing with some astrophotography using my 8-inch Dobsonian telescope. I have seen Venus, Jupiter and its moons, the recent NEOWISE comet, the moon in detail and various meteor showers. I've tracked planes with my telescope (sadly did not have the time to pull it out to see this thing), the ISS, and other satellites. I'm familiar with the normal aircraft that are typically flying in the area as well. This was unlike anything I've seen in the sky thus far.
August 30, 2020 · 8:45 PM · UNKNOWN
Grand Prairie, TX
I was with wife outside home in yard with dog on potty break. I as very familiar with aircraft, especially in DFW air space. Before seeing UFO’s, I noted DFW air traffic was heavy and being conducted in a southern flow. While watching sky waiting for our dog to finish, we noticed a UFO coming out of the east then turning north towards DFW. The UFO was a bright reddish orange light, moving at the speed and approximate altitude of DFW air traffic, but curiously in the opposite direction as the south and outbound DFW traffic. The UFO light was steady on, and color was not at all like typical aircraft aircraft (reddish orange instead of white, red, and green). The light color did not change when the UFO changed direction to the north, which was odd because it was moving north and I should have seen a red light on that side which would have been typical of routine aircraft moving in that direction. This was very odd since it would have posed collision risk! s, unless they were much much higher in altitude. I lost sight of it when it went behind neighborhood trees. Once it was gone, I noticed a second light that appeared the same, and behaved just like the first. It was repeated like this at least 5-6 more times by UFO’s that appeared and behaved exactly the same, albeit completely different from typical aircraft and traffic flow. The events ended around 21:05 - I saw no more afterwards even though I remained watching till 21:30.
August 30, 2020 · 1:00 AM · UNKNOWN
North Charleston, SC
Tried to go to the store while on a phone call, strange noise happened call was disrupted, and car shut down, still wont turn on. Heard a noise behind the car and ran inside the house. Feel like I'm crazy but figured I would report it anyways. I'm still not completely sure what happened.
August 30, 2020 · 12:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Bloomingdale, NJ
Hello! I wanted to report this animal mutilation to your organization since it may be UFO involved.. I already reported it to Linda Moulton Howe who has reported on cow mutilations in the past that may involve UFO's. So this deer was not there about 1 day ago and look at it. The face on the deer is cut like the cows were in some of the investigations of the cow mutilations. Sending 2 pictures for you to look at and a copy of my letter sent to Linda Moulton Howe. thank you, Darren "Hi! I have watched Linda Moulton Howe on youtube concerning the cow mutilations and I saw this deer on the side of Hamburg Tpk in bloomingdale NJ that was not there the other day . I know because I deliver there . As I drove by I noticed it was in a strange position with it legs in the air and looks bloated like it has been dead for a while but it was not there the other day. The most interesting thing is it's face!!!!! My coworker took two pictures of it and it looks like the face was cut with precision like some of the cows you have reported on. Looks so exactly the same.. I am sending you the pictures. The deer is still there as i write this e-mail between 55 an 90 hamburg tpk bloomingdale nj 07403 What do you think ? Thank you for your time , Darren"
August 30, 2020 · 12:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Forest Hill, MD
I noticed the bright lights in the sky that appeared to be stationary for approximately 10 minutes. After that time the object started to move across my field of view. Once the object went by the back of the object had four lights on it that appeared to slowly dim and then brighten back up separately. The object appear to do a 180° flip while moving forward and stayed like that.
August 29, 2020 · 8:50 PM · UNKNOWN
Oshawa (Canada), ON · Canada
A friend and I were driving on a residential street 500m or so from my home when we saw a craft fly just in front of my car. The craft's shape was difficult to see clearly, but it was slowly pulsating orange light. It appeared low to the ground, (maybe 100 to 200 meters off the ground) and seemed to be small in size, perhaps only a few meters in circumference. Initially I thought it was a drone because of it's size, elevation and it was only moving 40-60km per h I would estimate. We took a few pictures and followed it for about 20 seconds before the lights dimmed out and we could not see it any more, it may have disappeared or just turned off it's lights. Also, there was no sound. I have looked on youtube for night helicopter videos and I cannot find anything that looks even remotely close to what we saw.
August 29, 2020 · 6:40 PM · UNKNOWN
Hamilton (Canada), ON · Canada
It was mostly clear skies. Though there were some white billowing clouds covering the sunset from the West to the West North. Otherwise I would probably not seen the object. It looked cigar shaped and bright white. It first appeared about sixty degrees up from the horizon. It did not look to be moving and it slowly disappeared. My friend asked what I was looking at and I said it is gone. Though I continued looking at the same spot to see if it was indeed gone. She began looking in the sky with me. However, as she and I looked I noticed it again but at about forty degrees in the horizon this time. It was a little bit to the left of the first position. It looked exactly the same size. It acted the same as the first time and slowly disappeared. The person with me said it must be a balloon and I just agreed. LOL
August 27, 2020 · 11:57 PM · UNKNOWN
Rockport, MA
At approximately 23:57 hrs on 8/27/2020 I was outside at a residence on Granite St. Rockport, MA 01966. I observed a flying craft approaching from the West over the ocean traveling in an Easterly direction. It appeared as a bright white light which at first I thought to be an airplane or perhaps helicopter. I could see that it was traveling towards me as the light was becoming lager. It was not moving at a very fast rate of speed. Then it began moving in a way that was inconsistent with conventional aircraft that I know of. It moved very quickly several hundred feet to my right and then a few seconds later several hundred feet to my left crossing its original position and then moved rapidly diagonally back across to the right in an upward direction and then again after a few seconds it moved rapidly back to its center position, all motion was in straight lines. At this point it had moved close enough to me that I could see greenish blue lights in a star ! like pattern on either side of the craft, approximately 5 lights on each side. I realized that this was not consistent with conventional aircraft lights. I was now able to also hear the sound that it was making, it sounded like a wooing noise with an oscillating frequency pitch and it continued throughout the time of my observation. At this point I ran in to the house to retrieve my cellphone to video record the event and I returned outside bringing with me a friend that was in the house to witness what was occurring. Upon returning outside the craft had moved over land still heading in the same direction but, my view was now obstructed by the trees in the yard. I was able to see the light now facing from the rear of the craft through the trees as it disappeared from my view. Both myself and my friend could still hear the sound it was making. It then struck me that conventional aircraft, as far as I know, don’t have bright white light facing to the rear as this did. I am a 63 year old male semi-retired entrepreneur/businessman and have worked in law enforcement from 1984 to 1991 at a local Massachusetts municipal police department. I have a clean criminal history and don’t use drugs and was not under the influence of any adult beverages. I reported the event to local police and an officer responded to hear all the details. I followed up with contacting air traffic control in Atlanta who spoke with ATC Logan Intl. control who said that there was no unusual traffic on their radar at the time of the event.
August 27, 2020 · 1:30 AM · UNKNOWN
Long Beach Island, NJ
But what we saw at Long Beach island at 2 am was not something we doubt as something not in our comprhension. My friend and I decided to take a walk on the beach at around 1:30 am after a long night of talking catching up.after about 20 minutes we noticed three bright lights on the sand, we thought they were police checking the area for trespassares. So we didn’t think much of it. We then noticed two of the light sources started to create a line between each other... it looked like a beam interchanged between two sources. Fast forward, these lights disappeared we figure it was some kind of weird glitch in some security light... we then notice a light that looked into the ocean. It was white... shining very bright. We noticed a smaller green light flying over it... moving very fast all over the place. I mean like very disoriented.. nothing we have every seen before. I was a believer and the first thing I thought was aliens and I thought my friend would think I was absolutely crazy by my idea but when we both saw we looked at each other. The look on my friends face was shocking he was! absolutely startled... I was too. We both saw the same thing. These light forces moving ramp idly with no distingued pattern or direction.. around the light source. At one point it seemed to dive into the ocean and back out. It would shine bright.. move and then disappear and appear again. It would make sudden movements and we would both look at each other. It would then stop and align with the bigger “light source” and then move about again. We watched it for about 40 minutes. I shined my light at it (blinked twice) and it disappeared... then shined back twice. And disappeared and we got to scared and walked away. We both realized this was an experience we will remember forever. We thought hard about what we might have seen but there just doesn’t seem to be any explanation to a light moving that rapidly and that unorganized like it did. We both knew what we saw but it seems unreal right now. I’m writing this because My friend and I truly believe we saw something out of th! e ordinary tonight.