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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.
2,257 entries
August 23, 2014 · 11:30 AM · FLASH
Douglasville, GA
While sitting on our back porch my wife and I both observed a flash of light that appeared in the sky. It lit up the entire woods behind our house. It seemed like an electrical burst, like something out of a movie. It was a clear night and there were no clouds for it to be lightning. We did not hear any cars in the area. We live in a quiet area so we would have known if a car had driven by. The flash was way too bright to be a light from a plane. It was like a large electric burst literally happened 20-50 feet over the top of our house. There was no sound at all. So this is probably not important but my cat is freaking out right now. It was sitting outside with us when this happened.
August 22, 2014 · 8:00 PM · FLASH
Chicago, IL
Bright green fire ball with tail 10-15x fireball size. 25-30 degrees above horizon seen facing south at Blackhawk and noble, angling slightly down heading east. Possible meteor? PD
August 17, 2014 · 8:00 PM · FLASH
Phoenix, AZ
Around 8:30 PM on Sunday evening 8/17/14 I was in my bedroom which faces the east side of South Phoenix area, near S. Mountain. When I looked out my window I saw what appeared to be a group of at least six separate very bright red, with light flashing, flickering objects, that basically looked like they were hovering, but then would move in different directions sporadically, flash, and then the lights would disappear and would reappear,again. My first thought that they were commercial jets taking off from Sky Harbor or landing at the airport. But, they (the unidentified objects) were stationary, hovering and the movement clearly wasn't any jet aircraft. My only other thoughts were that they may have been a lot of helicopters,possibly hovering over an accident on the freeway area. I alerted my adult daughter to go out into the backyard to see what she thought, and she thought initially maybe it was jet aircraft, but then came to the same conclusion that the ! objects were hovering, flashing off and on, and the movement couldn't be that of any commercial aircraft either. After about 10 minutes of continued watching the objects, it got dim and then the objects just disappeared. Witness provides no contact information. PD
August 13, 2014 · 10:30 PM · FLASH
Las Vegas, NV
I was sitting in the bed of a truck with a group of eight of my friends in front of one of their houses sometime between 10:00p.m. and 11:00p.m., when I looked up and saw a ball of white-blue light appear in the sky for a split second and then disappear. About ten minutes later I saw another flash of light appear in the same way as the first and last for about a second, again like the first. About five minutes after that one of my friends saw the same kind of light that I had described earlier that night, but he witnessed the light make a "u" shaped turn and disappear. This light also lasted only about a second or two. These are not the first lights in the sky our group of friends have seen. One of my friends has seen numerous lights like the ones we saw last night (the 13th) and I also saw a light appear in the sky a couple weeks ago while we were at a bonfire on the edge of town. This light looked like when you take a picture of any light source, but move the camera while taking it and are left with a squiggly line of light. This light also appeared for only a second or two, but was moving. I've seen shooting stars before but the balls of light were too bright, quick, blue-white and sudden to be shooting stars and the line of light was nowhere near straight (squiggly). Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. We have amended above the date of the sighting. PD
August 11, 2014 · 9:00 PM · FLASH
Cordova, AL
i was facing southeast when I saw what I believe was to be a star I watched it flash and it caught my attention I then watched it flash twice more and then completely disappear from sight with no movement. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 3, 2014 · 2:30 AM · FLASH
Clackamas, OR
I didn't see an actual craft. I experienced bright flashes of light around 2:30 AM. I was lying awake in bed and a bright flash of light lit up the whole interior of my house. I sat up expecting a thunder clap but none came. About 5 seconds later another flash lit up the house, again with no ensuing thunder. The flashes were way too bright, and had lit up the house too thoroughly to be a distant lightning flash and I suspected a storm was approaching rapidly. I got out of bed and went out on the porch to check it out, because I had windows to close if the storm would be a strong one. I saw a perfectly clear sky with lots of stars visible in each direction. Nothing was amiss or out of place a the neighbor houses. I'm baffled as to what the huge flashes of light may have been.
July 31, 2014 · 1:30 AM · FLASH
Milwaukie, OR
Since about midnight, I first saw my window light up like a flash on a camera coming from outside. My girlfriend and I and her son went out front and there has been flash after flash off in the distance at about treeline high coming from all over the sky. The flashes are so bright it lights up the whole sky and has different colors from red to orange to white. ' It's been over an hour and the flashes are still happening. It is very weird. It can't be lighting there is no thunder and different colors. We received a telephoned report of what sounds to us to be the same event. We are awaiting that report. PD
July 30, 2014 · 11:45 PM · FLASH
Lafayette Hill, PA
There was no sound coming from the object. It was approximately 30 ft. above us and lasted 20 seconds. We suspect that the object was not a meteor, given that a 20-second duration meteor is very long. PD
July 30, 2014 · 10:30 PM · FLASH
West Point, UT
Wife and I were laying on the tramp, watching shooting stars. Suddenly, something flashed at us in the sky. It was like a star appeared out of nowhere and flashed at us. It did this 3 times in about 10 seconds. A very bright vivid flash. The light was a pure white and seemed to have a blue hue around it. Sky was clear, except for a few very high thin clouds. Many satellites visible. This light we saw was not a plane and we both felt like it was flashing AT us, as though it wanted our attention. This couldn't have been the case though, because as soon as we started talking about it, it was gone. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 28, 2014 · 9:45 PM · FLASH
New York City (Brooklyn), NY
Unidentified swirling light over NYC. The light was blue colored and moved like a house fly - not like an airplane or helicopter. There was one bright end and one strobe end of the light. It was like the two ends were chasing each other. The object resembled a DNA strand moving rapidly in a snake light pattern with bright blue flashing lights. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 26, 2014 · 11:58 PM · FLASH
Villas, NJ
A bright red flash out our bedroom Windows. High over trees. No object seen or heard. Appeared like trees were on fire. Lasted approx 10 seconds and vanished. We have amended the time and date above. PD
July 26, 2014 · 3:00 AM · FLASH
Damascus, PA
The house where I was is mostly surrounded by woodland with a house every half mile or so. No houses are visible in the direction that the light was seen. As it was very late, no other houses in the area had lights on (indoor or outdoor).
July 24, 2014 · 12:34 AM · FLASH
Miami, FL
I was pointing out a dog/gazelle shaped cloud to my friend though the sky was pretty clear, and about 2 seconds after he turns his head to look-a large thick flash of light with red at the tip (and kind of as an outline) flashed across the sky. It came out of nowhere and randomly squiggled in the sky before jetting off in one direction to the left. It was completely random and sudden. Unexpected and completely without noise. My friend and I just stared at each other bewildered as we confirmed that we both had seen the same thing. We talked about what it could possibly be but could not come up with anything we had ever seen before. It was most definitely not a plane, weather balloon, helicopter, drone, or falling star. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. We suspect an evening sighting, and have changed the time above. We have no way to contact the witness, in order to confirm the time. PD
July 23, 2014 · 5:50 AM · FLASH
Orlando, FL
Around 5:50 AM looking East saw an enourmous white flash which seemed to be traveling west and quickly disappearing leaving behind a huge boom-as if a lightning stike had hit right in the backyard.
July 23, 2014 · 5:19 AM · FLASH
Middletown, DE
Bright red light traveling at a very high rate speed, seen over amazon in middle traveling south down 301. The red light was leaving trails because my eyes could not keep up with its speed, I have never seen anything travel this fast on this earth! It was dark out and the craft or whatever it is had no white head light for seeing, only a bright red light that seen to be very close because it appeared to be large in size. It lasted for a very short duration and made no sound, either this light was leaving trails behind it or it had smaller red light traveling with it I'm not sure, but I can tell you, it shook me up a bit when I seen it.
July 22, 2014 · 11:35 PM · FLASH
Louisville, CO
Directly overhead a single very strong bright white flash the size of an average star but very bright and distinct. Only one flash, a point of light, not the whole sky, waited a decent amount of time to make sure it was not an aircraft or rotating space junk satellite. Perfectly clear sky, no haze, no clouds, not lightning. This is the fourth time I have seen this. Last three sightings were 3 weeks ago at approximately the same time, all the same night within 60 seconds there were 3 flashes. Perfectly clear sky, no haze, no clouds, not lightning. 2 witnesses on the previous sighting.
July 22, 2014 · 12:45 PM · FLASH
Ensenada (Mexico) · Mexico
First, I'd like to explain why I put "N/A" for number of witnesses. My family and I were on vacation in Ensenada, Mexico. I got some footage, and 8 days later I uploaded it onto my laptop. I noticed something strange and saw the 'sighting' (which I'll describe in a moment) Seeing how quick it happened, I'm pretty convinced no one else saw it, and even if they did, it was either a native person to the city or a tourist-both of which I have no way of contacting. The sighting: The video shows two 'blobs' of light separately. They then move rapidly towards each other in a flash and join in one huge flash and disappear. It didn't appear to be aircraft (human made) so the only other option (besides the UFO theory) would be something astronomy related. I'm not knowledgable in that area, so it may or may not be legit. I'll try to provide the video since my description isn't quite good.
July 22, 2014 · 2:00 AM · FLASH
Wolf Point, MT
I was outside when a flash went off. I looked in the direction of the flash thinking it was lightening or someone taking a picture, and I saw an object that turned blue green yellow, then fading to white like a falling star or a ufo shooting into space Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 18, 2014 · 10:00 PM · FLASH
Greensboro, NC
Looked up and saw a bright neon blue circular flash appear and it sat for 3 seconds, and then zoomed northwest, and then disappeared within seconds of zooming off.
July 17, 2014 · 10:00 PM · FLASH
Myrtle Beach, SC
Around 22:00 at the Holiday Inn near the Skywheel, I watched a flash of light appear over the ocean and then disappear. It reappeared about five minutes later for a few seconds. Once it vanished, two more lights reappeared beside it for a seconds. The color looked yellowish. It was approximately about 3-4 miles out over the ocean.
July 16, 2014 · 9:50 PM · FLASH
Luverne, AL
We witness 3 flashing lights moving in unison to the south west. This display was very shocking as my wife and I both tried to justfy and ratinalize what we were gazing at. We both are professionals and I really tried to capture the event on my tablet. But, its very dark. Mostley audio. Im just reporting what we witnessed. My wife and I have been married for 30 years and this is the most explainable thing we have ever witness together.
July 16, 2014 · 9:30 PM · FLASH
Indian Trail, NC
First and foremost, I don't believe in outer space aliens or UFOs. There is a logical explaination for what I saw. Problem is, I can't explain it so I'm in search of an explanation. Last night, Wednesday, July 16, 2014 around 21:30 I was smoking on my back deck when is saw an aircraft come over the tree line from the north east headed in a southwesterly direction, about 220 degrees. The aircraft was soon followed by a second, a third, forth and finally a fifth. All five aircrafts were traveling in the same direction in a straight line formation and at the same distance apart. What caught my eye was that all 5 aircrafts each admitted one flashing beacon light and all five beacon lights were flashing in unison. Before having children, I spent 5 years working at Charlotte Douglas International Airport. I've spent enough time around airplanes that I can identify them in the sky. Even at night I can recognise the navigation lights on the tail and wings and even see the lights coming from the passenger cabin. I know that the five aircrafts I saw were flying too close to be passenger commercial aircraft so the could have been mitary. Only problem is, even military aircrafts have navigation lights on the wings and tail, these aircrafts didn't have any. The beacon lights flashed very bright as if LED and the intemitance lasted about one second in between flashes. It was dark enough out that when the lights were in between flashes, no objects were visible from the ground. Also, no noise was heard, but we don't normally hear noise from aircrafts traveling at 30,000 feet. But, as stated before, the big thing that caught my eye was the fact that all five aircraft's beacon lights were flashing in unison. To my knowledge, it would be very difficult and time consuming to sincronise call five beacon lights on all five aircrafts. In disbelief at what I was seeing, I stepped inside and pulled my wife out to see these for herself. My wife currently works in the ground control tower at CLT and has nearly 20 years experience in aviation. Even she couldn't explain what we were seeing. She even called our 16 year old daughter outside for a look as well. She was immediately frightened and ran back inside, but she's a nieve child. We sat outside for over 5 minutes watching these flashing lights move across the sky. These aircrafts never changed formation, never changed speed or direction. I know that they were moving too fast and were too low to be stars or satellites, however they seemed to move slower than most commercial aircrafts do at cruising altitude Please help me to identify what I saw.
July 13, 2014 · 9:45 AM · FLASH
Lantana, FL
My mom and I went to eat outside, in front of ((name deleted)) supermarket. When all of a sudden at a distance (west) approx 15 small orange lights appeared slowly heading towards the clouds. At first I thought they were Japanese lanternas, when one of the witnesses said, "Look, we're getting invaded!" I just laughed and told him no, they are Japanese Internet but it all changed when i saw one of them fell, after that 3 or 4 lights that were heading up, all of a sudden were just standing there moving still but no longer upwards, at that moment I knew they were no longer Japanese Internet. The guy mentioned they were fireworks I told him no fireworks beacuse firworks are different and at that point I didn't know what they were I just looked at them they were very beautiful. afterwards I believe in a minute we were still eating and then I heard a sound of an airplane but this sound was different it wasn't loud it was soft I look straight up and there I saw something that I! would never forget both my mom and I saw some type of a small aircraft that came from the east stood in a blink of an eye banished like if it was in a shooting star the most incredible thing I won't forget as I actually saw how it shots to infinity leaving a spark of light behind, I knew where I was heading but it disappeared and it was heading towards the lights and in a blink of an eye those lights as well disappeared fallin that's when I knew I had seen in you f this might sound crazy but I believe because I saw I believe because I lift if I know what I saw and no one can tell me different what I saw was something out of this world and I know that we're not alone this is something I believe is amazing I don't believe they're harmful I've actually believe they're harmless because so many reports have come back in different states countries and till this day nothing has happened I just believe they vanish decide we want it we see something different from us and if we don! 't walk away from it but I truly believe I know what I saw I k! now what I left and I'm telling you I am amazed mine opinion my recommendation would be if you see lights that are not familiar take a video because sooner or later that you might see if a shift of 38 aircraft but what I saw was nothing like an airplane was not a Jets it was something out of this world that I saw how we just one shot into infinity like they do in the movies I compare it to that but it's nothing like that cuz I just know what I saw I hope this is something some people will take seriously like I said when not alone I'm actually excited I buy another one I I hope I'm prepared I didn't video tape anything but let me tell you I am an eye witness both my mother and I and this other lady oh right wing it this of what happened before I forget the man that was telling us in the beginning that we were getting invaded for some reason or another when we started to say give opinions of what we thought it was this man sounds scary but that man I never saw where he went neither di! d my mom mutilated I was there a tanning on and neither did one of the other people that were getting into the conversation when he they heard but we will what we had seen we didn't know where he went I don't want to say he disappeared but he was I don't know where he went class in a serious because he said we're getting invaded and when we thought at all to speak about it he disappeared that's something to think about this is now Siri I'm not a liar I'm just speaking the truth of what I saw when I left and I know we're not alone
July 7, 2014 · 10:00 PM · FLASH
Wolf Point, MT
Balls of white light that can dim themselves down to just faint light. Flashing a light similar to a cameras flash, almost as though the know your watching them. i have witnessed these strange lights for about a year now. Wasn't until about a month ago i had witnesses to these lights. everynight around the same time, there they are creeping thru the sky. they stop flash and move away in different directions. i have had use a camera flasher i found and have direct responses to my flash.