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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
January 14, 2015 · 8:40 PM · LIGHT
Hartford/Dothan, VT
On the evening of Wednesday, January 14, 2015, I got onto I-91 North from an exit just up from the intersection of Rt. 89 (NH/VT border). Shortly after getting on the main highway, I noticed that there were breaks in the clouds, and that I could see stars in the sky. I glanced out of the driver's side window (looking West), and noticed an extremely bright object, which I thought at first was a planet. I kept looking, off and on, as I drove, and as I focused, I could make out that what I was looking at, was actually a cluster of three, very bright lights. I had an urge to pull over to get a better look, but I had a truck behind me, and no good place to pull over. As it was, I slowed down temporarily to almost 40 mph, in an effort to get a better look at this array of lights. To aid in my view, I lowered the driver's side window, to avoid any glare. It confirmed that I was seeing a tight cluster of three lights. They appeared bright white, while at least one had some red in it. The cluster seemed mostly to hover, although I did detect some slight movement. The size was about 1/3 of a dime, held at arm's length ( 3-5 times that of a bright star). The cluster was about 35 - 40 degrees above the horizon. I had no camera with me, nor binoculars, but in the hope of getting a better look, I doubled back at the (8 miles further) Thetford, VT, exit. By the time I had returned to the area of sighting, cloud cover had moved in, and/or the object could not be located. I wasn't going to report this, but after checking to see if others may have seen something similar, and discovering that there had been similar sightings around that date and area, I decided to report what I saw. While I have no photos, a sighting reported, and photographed, in the Valley Forge, PA, area (reported on MUFON site) from around the same time, the first of that series of photos, looks very similar to what I saw.
January 14, 2015 · 5:45 AM · LIGHT
Oak Lawn, IL
I tried to call about an hour ago to report this and I got an answering machine so I hung up. I saw this at 5:45AM. I went to move my car out of the driveway so my dad can get out of the driveway with his car so he can go to work. He left and I moved my car back in the driveway. I got out of my car that was parked in front of the front door of the house and I looked at the sky and I saw 2 bright lights close to each other that look like identical stars. I was looking at them for about 10 seconds. I knew I saw this happen to me before I walked fast in my house with snowy boots on to get my Windows phone so I could film it. I was walking fast back outside 12 seconds later with camera ready to film and I knew they would be both gone. I reported this before when there was the lunar eclipse a couple months ago. I am sorta in shock and a little worried knowing that it's back again. I think it won't be the last time I see it. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
January 13, 2015 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Carson City, NV
I only know the date because I found the post I wrote on Facebook the night this occurred. Time is estimated at 7pm PST, I'm probably within an hour. I remember this like it was yesterday and will never forget. To be frank I stepped outside my garage door to relieve myself and smoke a cig. Clear black valley sky, there wasn't much light here at the time, and there still isn't. I was facing North, when my peripheral caught a bright light approx. 20 degrees east off the ground floor. I may have thought it were a low flying airplane very close by, except what happened next. I only saw it in this state for 1/2 a second tops. The "craft" may have been stationary at the time. Maybe it was gaining power (light) before take-off which caught my attention. The craft looked very close by in that state, maybe 1/8th a mile away, but it could have been 3 miles away for all I know, hard to tell because it was dark. If I had to guess it was above the Carson river or pasture. Then the craft took off approx. 70-75 degrees north at unbelievable speed. One moment it looked like the low flying craft described, the next the light was as bright as a high altitude jet, the next like a satellite & gone. But it never changed course, always 70-75 degrees north on a straight line. I steadily watched every bit of it under that sky for a total of 6-7 seconds. Recognizing that kind of speed so to speak, IMO it entered space in perhaps 5 seconds, and I only lost site of it because of distance & space dust. Think of the speed better than a falling star, only in this case it was going up. There was no trail or sound. I thought perhaps if I added the record tonight it might match up with other reports for the same thing. Good luck, thank you.
January 13, 2015 · 6:30 PM · LIGHT
Roseville, CA
My husband,daughter were walking in our neighborhood. We noticed 3 orange lights in triangle formation flying from southern sky towards us level. At first they looked like helicopter lights. However, as they neared us, one at a time each light headed straight up and disappeared. 4th light followed closely behind the three and like the first three, flew up and disappeared. Lights did not blink and there was no sound. Had enough time to discuss what we saw and disappointed that none of us had a cell phone to capture it!
January 12, 2015 · 8:15 PM · LIGHT
Wailua, HI
Was at a Luau sitting front row. When they turned off the lights at the beginning of the show the stars shown brilliant in the sky. I noticed two bright stars to the South at about 45 degrees that were moving slowly about two inches apart at arm's length.. The lights came up for the show and I could still see the two lights in the sky but dimmer, they very slowly moved down and then suddenly disappeared while the stars around were still visible.
January 11, 2015 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Murfreesboro, TN
I was standing outside my back door and letting my dog out. While standing outside i seen something shoot straight up.. really fast then stop... i took my phone out of pocket and recorded for maybe 2-3 min.. the object had a red light but was pulsing a green light around the object.. it hovered in same area then moved left then down till it moved out of site.. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
January 11, 2015 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Sisseton, SD
Very bright red light.. so bright you couldn't tell if it was just one. Not a plane.. silent.
January 11, 2015 · 8:35 PM · LIGHT
Clifton Heights, PA
This incident occurred between 8:35 and 9:00 PM on Sunday Jan 11th 2015. I was out walking my dog when I saw a group of red-orange lights in the southwest sky. There were 8 lights in the initial group moving southwest to northeast - a smaller group of 3 lights was following. The larger group started in a roughly triangular formation before re-forming into a more linear alignment - the smaller group was in a linear formation from the outset. After the larger initial groups had moved on there were 3-4 individual lights moving in the same direction. All of the lights were moving quickly but I have no idea as to speed. The objects made no sudden maneuvers or turns - but they appeared to be flying a defined course. There was some air traffic in the area (we are close to PHL approach) and the objects did not seem to be any higher than the 2 aircraft I saw that were on approach to PHL, so maybe 1000’ in altitude. The objects traveled for about 30-45 seconds in a northeasterly direction before disappearing. There was some patchy cloud cover but the objects were not obscured by the clouds, they just vanished. The objects flickered reddish-orange, no other lights\color were observable. There was no sound from any of the objects. The objects appeared to be bow-tied in shape, a dark center with the red-orange lights fanning out fore and aft. I was at the following lat/long when I made this observation - 39°56'07.2"N 75°18'15.9"W Reporter - 53 year old male, IT professional, I saw the entire event. Secondary observer (my brother) - 48 year old male, construction worker. He only saw the follow-up, single light events
January 11, 2015 · 8:15 PM · LIGHT
Midland, MI
The lights then pulsed and reddened in color and disappeared.
January 11, 2015 · 6:30 PM · LIGHT
York New Salem, PA
3 lights appeared to be on one craft, too high to see shape. Blinking in a strobe fashion and not in sync with each other, one red, one blue and one white. What caught our attention at first was that it had a spot light on top of it that was shining upwards lighting up the clouds above it then went out. We were driving and tried to follow it for as long as we could. 2 people were watching it while I was looking for a place to pull over. Lost sight of it behind some trees for only about 15 seconds, before we pulled over and got out of the car too look for it. The object had completely vanished from sight, and we had a clear and open view of the sky. The observers were myself, husband and daughter.
January 11, 2015 · 10:00 AM · LIGHT
Murfreesboro, TN
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
January 11, 2015 · 12:23 AM · LIGHT
Jakarta (Indonesia) · Indonesia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=datoA20G5B4 But one dot look different, all star moving down, one light move up. Really dont know, this UFO, Space Junk, Komet or ISS. Moving from west to east at the equator. But we don't know, what is that. Information from Spotstation.Nasa.Gov. Only give information ISS below: "No sightings at this location for this period. (Saturday Jan 10, 2015 through Saturday Jan 24, 2015)" This photo about 30 frames. Time 11 January, 2015, 00:32 AM (GMT+7) - Location Jakarta, Indonesia. Tamron 70-300mm, Zoom max 300mm (450mm with APS-C sensor). One object look like Orion Nebula appear. But one dot moving very different from another stars. I am take about 9 times (batch) x 30 photos, with different setting, angle and zoom. But first batch photos very strange. https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-TYb0kp3qgJw/VLIfWapF7YI/AAAAAAAAFdw/QEE1pPOugho/s0/1101-11DSC_0208.jpg Original photo: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-Vqmug65uuw4/VLIZAzHc0DI/AAAAAAAAFdc/gAq5jIRDb7w/s0/15011111ufo-11-jan-2015h.jpg Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
January 10, 2015 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Centerton, AR
Dark Orange light low in sky-mid treeline. I noticed it and told my boyfriend what I was seein,g and he looked and it faded out like an ember of a fire burned out, before he saw it. It was stationary and just faded. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD
January 10, 2015 · 8:50 PM · LIGHT
Tempe, AZ
Two red lights on the Horizon, I went inside to grab my buddy to show him and when I came back they were gone. Direction was straight north from Tempe.
January 10, 2015 · 6:30 PM · LIGHT
Sydney (Canada), NS · Canada
I was outside around 6:30 pm December 10, 2015, and a bright flash caught my perrifferal vision. When I looked up, I saw 2 lights over top of each other, and were a distance apart. Then they started to roll or tumble in the sky, all the while staying exactly the same distance apart. I best discribe it as a baton with a light on either end.
January 10, 2015 · 5:45 PM · LIGHT
Silver Spring, MD
In my home me and my family looked outside a window and saw two lights over the tree line. One was shaped like a tear drop and the other was just a bright light, circle I suppose. We took a video and some pictures in which you can seethe strange shapes. They moved too slow to be planes. At first we thought they were just open spaces in the clouds where the sunset was coming through. Then they began to lower slowly towards the tree line. One, the circle one, seemed to changed directions but it also ended up going behind the tree line. It was the weirdest thing I have ever seen.
January 10, 2015 · 3:00 AM · LIGHT
Romeoville, IL
On January 10, 2015, at 3:00 am, in the southwest sky in the direction of Shorewood from Romeoville, there were two flashing lights. It almost looked as if they were rotating and the light got dimmer as it went to the back. One was slightly bigger than the other. It was a brighter white with red blinking underneath it. The other one was a bit smaller and was mostly a red flashing light. Both hovered together for about 10 minutes. It looked like they were flashing lights at each other. I am 100% sure they were not planes. Neither one ever came closer or seemed to fly in any direction. After about 15 minutes of my observation, the brighter one, on the left, slowly started to distance itself from the one on the right. It never got smaller (suggesting that it was not flying away), it just got further and further away. Then, it kind of went straight up and again drifted off in a southern direction. I took several pictures with my phone. The quality is not very good. After about 20 minutes, they were gone.
January 9, 2015 · 11:20 PM · LIGHT
Rochester, NY
Driving home tonight near shoreline of lake Ontario, about 5 houses from my home, I observed a star-like light way above my house, moving in a tight slow circular path. Other than motion, it looked like a star. Then it sped off in a curved path much like a nike swoosh logo across the sky southward toward the city and disappeared in a cloud bank. When it flew across it looked like a bright white cigar shaped light. Not sure if shape truly changed or the extremely fast motion made it appear that way. I could see the clouds light up as it moved through them then it was gone. I have worked night shift for 22 years and having the opportunity always look up in the sky for the chance to see something extraordinary, and tonight it happened.
January 9, 2015 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
St. Catharines (Canada), ON · Canada
On the way home from work driving South on the 406, saw a bright green light fall from the sky. Lasted only a few mins.
January 9, 2015 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Orlando, FL
3 of us were on a balcony in a high rise downtown and saw a blue and bright light rapidly traveling in and out of clouds, miles away. The lights began moving up and down at an incredible speed, then seemed as if it touched the ground far away. All of a sudden we all saw a bright red light now more than 1,000 feet in front of us and it all ended. Really bizarre. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
January 9, 2015 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Rockwood, WI
Driving down highway R heading west my friend and I saw a bright white light with a tint of green go across the sky at a very high rate of speed. We thought it was an airplane crashing towards Two Rivers, WI, but saw nothing after it disappeared above the treeline. ??? Some people said they saw shooting stars that night, but this didn't have a trail, and was going way too fast.
January 9, 2015 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Waite Park, MN
I was inside my bedroom and I live in an apartment so I looked out my bedroom window and across the street there is another building that is in my apartment complex area and above the roof there was in the distance 5 lights shooting straight up into the sky there were about 2 orange ones and 3 green lights. I watched it for a while and it didn't appear to move then I went into the living room for a min and heard the snowplow come by my place I looked back outside my bedroom window and it was gone. Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
January 9, 2015 · 6:45 PM · LIGHT
Shelby (Lay Lake), AL
At first, I thought I was looking at an star, then realized it was moving. The light increased to a very large size, then dimmed quickly and disappeared. I watched for a while after to see if it would reappear and there was nothing. I have worked in the space industry for many years so this caught me off guard, as it was like nothing I have witnessed before. "Flare" from Iridium satellite? PD
January 8, 2015 · 8:05 PM · LIGHT
Garfield, GA
I drive an 18 wheeler hauling logs in east central GA. I was driving my truck on a dirt road, about a mile from home, and nearing a t-intersection where I would make a left turn near my neighbor's property. The area is rural, consisting of farm fields, ponds and forest. It is 4 miles east of the small community of Garfield and about 15 miles from any town, and not on a state route. I have lived at this place for 7 years and am familiar with the topography and structures. As I turned onto the dirt road which itself is about one mile in length, I saw 6 bright orange lights that were oval in shape. They were arrayed in 2 groups of 3 with a wider gap between the 2 groups of 3. They were in perfect alignment, as if they were affixed to an object, the lights were steady and did not flicker or change in intensity nor did they move in relation to each other or in space. They were amazingly bright, yet did not hurt my eyes. I was talking on my cell phone with my employer, at the time, and told him what I was seeing. I drove slowly as I approached the paved road, knowing that the direction would give me a better view, but the lights disappeared in unison before I made my turn. Because of the trees blocking my view for a moment, I did not see the object (or objects)go away, so I do not know if it moved or went dark. My sighting followed the same type of sighting a few weeks earlier and at the other end of the county by the logging crew that I haul for, they had all stopped work after dark one evening and as a group watched the same type of phenomenon, as did two others I know that have seen the same in the Swainsboro, Emanuel County, are over recent weeks. What I saw was after dark, and I could not see a solid object, nor judge the size and distance, but, I knew that it was immense, based on the are it spanned in relation to the are.