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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
October 27, 2022 · 8:05 PM · LIGHT
Dixon, MO
Looking at the big dipper a light was traveling very slow then it got super bright and zoomed across the big dipper heading north very fast and then just vanished
October 27, 2022 · 6:18 PM · LIGHT
Tucson, AZ
Video taped it before it disappeared. There was a second light underneath it but it disappeared before the very bright one Light looked like a search light at tip but it appeared to be spraying s something from center back and 30 degrees on each side. Then it disappeared. After 4-5 min.
October 26, 2022 · 6:55 AM · LIGHT
Semmes, AL
I was driving on schillinger rd s towards Howells ferry rd. I stopped in traffic between the intersection of tanner Williams rd and old shell rd. I saw a bright white light around 6:50 am 7:00 am. It made a complete circle and faded off into a straight line before disappearing. The whole encounter lasted maybe 15/20 seconds. I didn't think much of the situation at first because it was next to a coast guard base. But after thinking about it I became more concerned it was something else.
October 25, 2022 · 6:40 PM · LIGHT
Johannesburg · South Africa
6pm I Was standing outside starring into nothingness when I saw what appeared to be a star and disappeared on the north of where I was standing. Later that day on the south of my direction it happened again.
October 25, 2022 · 5:50 AM · LIGHT
Georgetown, TX
I get to work early every morning and always take time to stargaze using an astronomy app. Over the last week and a half I've seen three different anomalous lights on three separate occasions. This was the third. It was a bright light, slightly larger and brighter than Mars that appeared to be high in the atmosphere. It entered my vision from the south and was heading northwest by my best guess. The light was a white/yellow steady glow that didn't blink or flicker. It flew in a straight trajectory faster than anything I've ever seen. It had a slight red tail. It looked like a shooting star but it was moving perfectly straight and it never faded or burned out it just flew out of view. I had an immediate instinctual reaction. I knew, I felt it's weirdness. I've seen this same light acting weird three times in the last week. I'll report the other two with descriptions as well
October 24, 2022 · 10:45 PM · LIGHT
Port Richey, FL
Pretty much explained in the summary, I've never seen anything like that change direction so immediately. It went in a straight line from north to south, and without stopping went immediately northwest. It was a faint light against a clear dark night sky. I have goosebumps
October 24, 2022 · 7:03 PM · LIGHT
LAKE HAVASU CITY, CA
2-4 blinking lights In sporadic pattern. Started south west of Venus quickly moved across the sky east then very high up and circle back north. Caught up behind a visible plane that was flying in a straight flight pattern. Lights were bright white& red/orange. Seemed to be two very quick blinking lights then additional light blinking in the middle. No pattern to blinking and quick moving thoughtout the sky
October 24, 2022 · 1:13 AM · LIGHT
Morristown, TN
Stepped outside and saw a flashing light hovering in the sky. It was flashing green, red and white. It stayed still for a while and was lower towards the ground but further away once we got back to the appts.
October 23, 2022 · 8:01 PM · LIGHT
Waterford, WI
And as it flew to the left of me it moved too fast to be a plane but too slow to be a shooting star. As it made this like fast but clear like movement I watched the light go skinnier and then just gone. It made no sense. I saw it and then the next thing I know is I watched it disappear like instantly. Not fading just gone into the black sky. But it was so clear and bright before.
October 22, 2022 · 6:18 PM · LIGHT
Murfreesboro, TN
6:18pm central time stop pay stop sign. To my right a spinning white light hovering above the Buddhist temple. I’ve seen these lights over the temple and other areas of town. At dusk or dark, I’ve filmed and taken photos. Just don’t know what they could be. When you zoom in on the light, you can see it spinning and change shape. Sometimes other colors can be see also.
October 22, 2022 · 1:30 AM · LIGHT
St George, UT
Ref UAPs reported by pilots Today Show last Friday. I live in St George, UT. The "Turtle" Red Cliffs Reservation is in my backyard. Nothing between me and the mountain. I have seen a UAP almost every night for 2 to 3 months. Mostly stationary. Through the binoculars there is a white light on the bottom, red light above it and blue/green light left and a little higher than the red one. Friday night/early Saturday morning there were 3 sets of 2. 1 set at 320 degrees from my house, 1 set at 20 degrees, and 1 set at 70 degrees. Each set of 2 were identically spaced and identical angle as close as I could tell. At 1 am I took a video outside, panning across the 3 sets of blinking lights. At close to 1:30 am I was videoing the 2 closest to direct north. At about 2 1/2 minutes in, a third blinking light just showed up. About 1 minute later, a line of light appeared in the same place. Like a short line of travel of a shooting star, only faster. I kept filming for another minute. There are 2 videos. I am retired after working for the Air Force for 37 years. I was an analyst, aircraft crash investigator, and logistics instructor for the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT). There is another bit of information if you are interested. I can send the videos upon request.
October 21, 2022 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Rehoboth Beach, DE
Bright lights seen nightly and continuing moving erradically and fast in high night sky over Rehoboth Beach, DE
October 21, 2022 · 6:19 AM · LIGHT
Dennis, MA
Took brief walk before sunrise and stopped to look at clear, cloudless sky. Saw several bright stars and possibly planets. Then noted one, about as bright as Venus, was actually moving toward the ENE at or near the speed of a high altitude jetliner. The single white light never blinked, and after it passed slowly overhead, I still heard no sound. Shortly after it first appeared to be moving, it may have veered slightly off course twice, and there may have been one or two tiny white lights moving near it, but not certain about either of those observations because my vision is not flawless. Checked my phone for the time, but preferred to watch the moving light, rather than attempt a photo. Later checked Flightradar24 website, which showed no flights near Cape Cod at that time, and the In the Sky satellite tracking website, which showed only one satellite heading NE well off the coast of Cape Cod near that time.
October 21, 2022 · 6:00 AM · LIGHT
Little Rock, AR
I witnessed a small white dot-- star or satellite sized-- in the vicinity of the Pleaides constellation early morning October 21, 2022. The object was moving back and forth and sometimes in a circle with an erratic movement. I was watching the Orionid meteor shower, lying on my back on the roof of our condo and witnessed this object for about 30 minutes. The object stayed in the same general vicinity and was still visible when I went back inside my condo. I started to video the object but there was no context for the video and the video would have just been a light moving erratically. There seemed to possibly be other faint light or lights associated and there may have been a dark area around the brighter light but this wasn't definitive. I would estimate this object was at a very high altitude or outside the atmosphere.
October 20, 2022 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Ridgeland, SC
On this night, I heard (from inside my house) a military helicopter flying around nearby several times. When I heard it approach again for the third time, I went outside to see what was going on. I saw the military helicopter flying extremely slow, east of me and traveling south. As I was watching it, I then noticed a solid orange light preceding the helicopter. It appeared to be about 100 yards in front of the helicopter. I watched it for around 15 minutes total as it traveled south and then circled back north.
October 20, 2022 · 9:12 PM · LIGHT
Lavon, TX
Me and my dad were pulling into my neighborhood and I’m looking at a helicopter and below it and to the left shot an arc of white light like fireball that zipped away from us in an arc. I don’t think it had anything to do with the helicopter it was just good to have as a reference point. We were facing east the helicopter was coming towards us so west and the craft crossed in front of us under the helicopter from right to left so in a south-north direction for a soo it second
October 20, 2022 · 2:00 PM · LIGHT
Spring Valley, CA
Unsure if it was drones, balloons, birds, or other. Saw the same thing back in January, but couldn't record. This footage was taken by a neighbor yesterday and matches what I saw back in Jan.
October 20, 2022 · 6:00 AM · LIGHT
Georgetown, TX
This was my second sighting of the same starlike light that moves like it shouldn't. This time it just sort of ambled across the sky. It was the least weird, I guess, of the three sightings. It did allow me the chance to film it. The first time, I just wasn't thinking, and the third time it moved so fast I couldn't have filmed it if I wanted to. It's not the mother ship from Independence Day, but I wonder what the numbers would look like if more people payed attention and more of these soft, or subtle sightings were reported.
October 20, 2022 · 3:46 AM · LIGHT
La Jolla, CA
As I headed back north to UCSD campus, up Torrey Pines Road, I noticed high over a crane from the left side of my windshield, that there was an object in the distance with a crazy bright light. The object appeared to be traveling left to right. However, instead of continuing right, it came to a sudden halt, that I was able to see directly forward of my car. High over a building, the object suddenly vanished. I saw the object leave a bright beam of light directly down from where it was and it dropped directly down at what seemed like the speed of light. The object dropped and left a cylinder shaped beam of bright light in the distance for a split second. I called friends who I had just been hanging out with, who had seen the same thing from different locations. I also have a friend who has friends in Mexico, who claimed to see the same occurrence. This was the most inexplicable and supernatural occurrence I have ever experienced in my life. I know what I saw is what I saw. I need to speak with someone and figure out how we can find some evidence. I have text threads from the exact time of the occurrence (3:46) and called about 10 people right when it happened. I pulled over in utter shock and my body was covered with goosebumps. I have been in goosebumps the entire day and every time I think or talk about what I saw. I am so confident that what I saw was not something man-made. It was something that we can not even explain. As it moved across the sky, it did not have a definite shape but seemed to be bright. It was only one object, and it changed speeds once it came to a stop in the middle of the sky. When the object dropped, it’s speed was far too fast to see the object and all that was left was a bright cylinder beam of light. However, we were able to see the object clearer as it was traveling across the sky, prior to its sudden stop. Please call my number, 7608458143. This must be investigated. I had been having trouble figuring out how to file a report but am glad I have now been able to.
October 20, 2022 · 2:12 AM · LIGHT
Toledo, OH
This bright light was too bright to be a star and it moves too fast to be a plane and little short distances when I zoomed in on it on my phone I like to make a circle with bikes all around it and I can see some kind of exhaust coming from all around it when I would move
October 19, 2022 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Phoenix, AZ
The first light moved erratically in every direction. It bobbed up and down and flew all kinds of patterns. My wife and 12 year old son saw it. My son got scared and went inside. I’ve always observed the night sky as a passing interest and I took an astronomy course in college. I know what satellites look like. Ive also observed the passing space station. These looked nothing like those. I’ve seen satellites move in multiple directions but never like this. The movements looked playful. Flying loops, circles, bouncing up and down and back and forth. I called my parents who live higher up on a mountain in extreme NE Scottsdale. They saw it, too. While we were talking, we realized there were multiple objects engaging in the same behavior. I can say I saw 3 moving objects but there may have been more. My parents could see them, too. They saw them moving. One was west of my home. The second was almost directly over my home. The third was south of my home. They did not appear to be close to earth but it was difficult to judge their altitude. The one to the west was a white light. The one above my home was a yellow light but very bright. I suspect that there were more than 3 but trees blocked my view. I went inside at 10:30 pm and the three objects I had observed were still there.
October 19, 2022 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Cottonwood, AZ
Driving through Cornville to Cottonwood, AZ in westbound on. E Cornville rd. E. Cornville rd turns into E Mingus Ave. I saw red and green lights above the road in the distance. It’s 8:00pm October 19 2022 and in a dark area without traffic lights. The lights appear to be stationary hovering above the road. My eyes are on the road while we pass under it. My vehicle has a full glass roof and my girlfriend in the passenger seat could clearly see 3 stationary yellowish/white lights in a triangle formation 300ft above us. I thought that maybe it was three drones so I rolled down the windows and there was no sound coming from them. I drive an electric vehicle and the speed limit was 25 in the area. It was silent. I turned right into the next available street to get a better look but could not see it. I went back to where we first saw it not even a minute ago and it was in the distance at least 30mi away at a much higher altitude. We are both in our 30s. I’m a business intelligence analyst and my girlfriend is a songwriter.
October 19, 2022 · 7:21 PM · LIGHT
Whittier, CA
I was driving northbound on the 605 freeway it was between Whittier and Montebello. It was in the evening between 7:00pm to 7:30pm. Traffic began to build up then to a complete standstill. Then all of a sudden 3or4 bright flashes of bright green hues like lightning without bolts coming from the ground not the sky. Then traffic begins to move as I drove more down there was a 3 car collision on the southbound 605 carpool lane no fire. Very weird thought bombs were being dropped.
October 19, 2022 · 6:35 PM · LIGHT
IdentifiedViviers-Les-Offroicourt, Lorraine · France
Le 19 octobre 2022, un groupe de cinq individus (deux femmes et trois hommes) discute dans une des rues de VIVIERS-LES-OFFROICOURT (88), lorsqu'une des personnes observe dans le ciel une colonne de fumée atypique. Le groupe constate que cette colonne épaisse s'élève de manière étonnamment verticale. Alors qu'ils examinent le phénomène, un point sombre émerge soudainement de la colonne et s'éloigne lentement, laissant derrière lui une traînée de fumée plus fine et moins dense. Le PAN se déplace alors progressivement vers le sud-ouest avant de disparaître en s'éloignant. Aucun bruit n’a été entendu, laissant le groupe perplexe. Le témoin initial tente de photographier le phénomène avec son téléphone, mais les images manquent de netteté. Il cherche ensuite un appareil photo plus performant, sans succès. Intrigué, il se confie à un ami journaliste, qui publie un article dans la presse locale. Par la suite, le témoin décide de déposer son témoignage auprès de la gendarmerie, qui l'oriente vers le GEIPAN. Les photographies, soumises à un traitement d'image, ont permis d'orienter l'enquête vers un contexte aéronautique, en révélant des éléments susceptibles de correspondre à un avion évoluant à haute altitude. Grâce aux outils spécialisés couramment utilisés par les enquêteurs du GEIPAN, notamment les données extraites des cartes radar du Centre National des Opérations Aériennes (CNOA), l'appareil a été identifié comme un Airbus A319-111 de la compagnie Air France, opérant sur la liaison Paris-Florence (voir le compte rendu d'enquête). La trajectoire initiale de l'avion était dissimulée par la colonne de fumée et n'est devenue visible aux témoins qu'après un changement de cap ayant entraîné une séparation visuelle. L'appareil évoluant à une altitude comprise entre 11 000 et 12 000 mètres et se trouvant initialement à une distance de 58 km, puis se rapprochant à 25 km du sol, il n'est pas surprenant qu'aucun bruit n'ait été perçu. Quant à la colonne de fumée observée par les témoins de manière concomitante au PAN, après avoir éliminé la piste des cheminées de deux grosses entreprises situées dans la direction d’observation, les enquêteurs sont parvenus à localiser les restes d’un écobuage lui aussi situé dans la direction d’observation. La faiblesse du vent a permis à la fumée de s’élever quasi verticalement. L’humidité et l’hétérogénéité de la paille a généré une épaisse fumée qui, à contrejour, apparaissait très sombre aux yeux des témoins. Ce feu, autorisé ou non, volontaire ou accidentel, était situé à seulement 470m des témoins. Malheureusement pour eux, un talus leur en cachait la vue et cette distance associée à un très léger vent de travers ne leur a pas permis de percevoir le bruit de la combustion ou celui de potentiels intervenants. L’étrangeté légitimement perçue est donc parfaitement réduite par une explication totalement démontrée. Le cas est classé en "A" : observation de la trainée de condensation d’un avion de ligne. [GEIPAN classification A — Avion de ligne]