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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
November 1, 2014 · 5:00 PM · LIGHT
Bloomingdale, IL
I was walking outside to my car and noticed a large bright light in the sky to the East. I saw a dim light to the right of it at a good distance and a dim light to the left and up higher at a distance. It appeared to be an obtuse triangle perhaps. I thought it was an unusual star formation perhaps. The light to the right of the bright light grew brighter and larger. I continued to watch it for 20 seconds or so as it grew larger. When it reached the brightness and scale of the star to the left I thought it unusual. After about 15 seconds the two lights began to grow dim. After growing dim over about 15 seconds, all three of the lights were gone. I thought it could be a few aircraft, but being in the aviation field, the day, the time of year and the time of observation, I firmly believe it could not be any sort of aircraft going to O'Hare International Airport. Traffic going to O'Hare is very little on a Saturday at 7PM this time of year. It was unlike anything that I have ever personally seen.
November 1, 2014 · 3:50 AM · LIGHT
Madison, WI
As I was driving towards madison wi I noticed a light moving across the sky. It was just one single light, it was moving faster than any plane I've seen, when it suddenly completely stopped for about 4 seconds, then it shot towards the ground, went through a cloud, and completely dissipated it.
November 1, 2014 · 3:00 AM · LIGHT
Gainesville, FL
Multiple colored bright lights shined directly into the window of our apartment. The hovercraft stopped outside the window, as if to look at us, and then disappeared behind the trees.
October 31, 2014 · 9:24 PM · LIGHT
Colorado Springs, CO
My wife and I saw two dull lit orange lights flying through the sky. They were about half a mile away from each other, completely silent, and moving slow. They both disappeared at the same time. I tried to record video of the objects but its hard to see them. Although they were high in the sky my dog starting freaking out for no apparent reason.
October 31, 2014 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Mooresville, IN
I observed with a family member a bright object in the sky. We were sitting by our front living room window waiting for trick or treaters when we both saw a bright light fly by. It was in the form of a sparkling round light with the color of orange and white. It was considerably low in the sky just above the tree line, much lower than any commercial airline. It also moved considerably fast, too fast for any airplane. It flew by in a matter of 3 seconds or less. No sound was made nor were there any vibrations to our home. We have seen several "falling stars" before but this was so low in altitude during a cloudy/snowy night we determined it had to be something else. It did not seem to burn out but continue on its path, making a small change in direction. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 31, 2014 · 6:30 PM · LIGHT
Oxford, FL
Between 18:30 and 21:00 hours, we witnessed over twenty lights that were bright red ascend from a the ground at a 45 degree angle and proceed in an easterly direction. These lights ascended from the South East of our location. They did not appear to be commercial aircraft. They could have been missiles or Jets that were scrambling. There was no sound so it is possible that hess were very far away. They would come up in pairs and there would be as many four in the sky at once.
October 31, 2014 · 7:15 AM · LIGHT
McLean, IL
Traveling north on I-55, several morning commuters saw a hovering bright light just below the clouds. It wasn't moving in any direction. It hovered for about 5 minutes and then immediately disappeared. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 31, 2014 · 6:45 AM · LIGHT
Villa Rica, GA
06:45 am Friday October 31st. My neighbor, wife, and I was on the back porch.I was looking up at the stars and noticed what I thought was a shooting star. It never burned-out like a shooting star would normally do. It proceeded to slow down and a make a 90 degree turn. Continued very slow almost like it was hovering. We could tell it had red lights. It finally disappeared into the clouds.
October 31, 2014 · 6:30 AM · LIGHT
Rockland (Canada), ON · Canada
I was taking out the garbage that morning and glanced up at the sky and saw 3 blinking lights blinking one after the other in a horizontal line, I though it was a plane with a huge wing span until in a split second the line went from horizontal to a vertical line, then the middle light disappeared and the two remaining ones separated further apart then also disappeared, there was no sound at all. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 31, 2014 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Coconut Creek, FL
I was in the bathroom when my husband called me screeming to go outside, He was describing the lights to me when all of the sudden I Saw the Orange light up in the sky very fast, I don't beleived they were those lanterns that you fire up, I inmidiatly tried to video tape it and I set up my new iPhone 6 in video mode and I followed it, I don't know what happened but when I went to checked the video only have the tip of the lights only one picture, I will say the attitude of the lights were about 500 feet but it is difficult to calculate very, very strange, my husband, my next door neighbor, and myself witnessed it, We still scratching our heads.
October 30, 2014 · 10:25 PM · LIGHT
Brawley, CA
On 10-30-14, I saw a white light heading in the northeast direction. The light was further away from me in the distance while I was looking south. The light was traveling very fast and had no tail behind it. I don’t believe it was a meteor. The light was traveling faster than airplanes travel. I ruled out a satellite since I usually see them all the time.
October 30, 2014 · 10:15 PM · LIGHT
Hakalau, HI
Pulsating light, changing colors from white, blue, red, green. Erratically moving from side to side, up and down.
October 30, 2014 · 8:10 PM · LIGHT
Stoneham, ME
I was sitting in my living room at night watching tv and saw a single light that I for a second thought was a star over the white mountains in nh. I then noticed it was too bright to be a star. I told my husband to look at it, but then it disappeared. About 5 minutes later I again saw the same size light but this time there were a bunch of them. My husband and I saw 5-6 lights in a row that seemed to be over the white mountains. It started with about three lights then another one showed up in the line, etc. It didn't last long, then they were all gone. Very weird! Wonder what it could have been?
October 29, 2014 · 9:20 PM · LIGHT
Phoenix, AZ
Witness provides no contact information. She does not indicate the units of the duration of the sighting. PD
October 29, 2014 · 7:30 PM · LIGHT
Nacogdoches, TX
While standing outside with a friend of mine discussing current events we noticed a light traveling from West to East at a fairly slow pace which I would compare to that of a light aircraft. We were able to watch this object move into our view field which was blocked by a tree line to the west, go overhead and over another tree line to the east. This light was a white light that at one point had gotten bright, and then dimmed back down to its "normal" bright glow. This caught my eye because I see aircraft nightly when I go outside and look at the stars and this object did not have any strobe lights. This was a solid light which I exclaimed to my friend was a rare event that I had never seen before. My friend was telling me how he thought that this vehicle was an airplane 747 or some object that had a bright light on it. Moments later while giving my viewpoints on how that couldn't be a 747, we watched as a second craft flew towards us from the sam! e western direction. I quickly pointed to the craft and said "Look" another one. We watched as this craft started approaching from the west and without a gradual turn the object changed direction without missing a beat or stopping and started heading South West. This second object was starting to head southwest out of our view field so my buddy and I walked towards the street that I live on so I could get a better view of where the craft was going and what it was. This craft traveled South West for maybe 10-15 seconds maximum and then seamlessly changed directions to moving in a South Eastern direction. The light continued to move Southeast until we lose site of the object over houses that blocked the horizon. At this point in time our eyes are plastered to the sky and we are comparing this light we witnessed with other obvious aircraft lights in the sky. By now we are searching for another object to appear from the west when directly above us another light pops i! nto view not coming from any direction but seemingly coming &q! uot;Down " into view and then starts heading what I would call directly South. This 3rd object we could only keep in our view for 30 seconds or so max before it was behind a treeline. All three of these objects were simply bright white lights that I would estimate to have been approx 10-15x the size of the North Star for perspective. I would estimate that the first two objects flew way under planes we were watching in the sky while the 3rd object was obviously much higher and a slightly smaller light. While this was happening the dogs in the area were very amp'd up and going nuts barking and when they passed a good distance from being directly overhead the dogs stopped barking. This happened on the first two craft while the third craft I do not recall if this happened. All three of these separate sighting happened within 15 minutes of eachother and I must say that I really do feel honored to get to have seen this. The third craft was really the one that got my buddy because his airplane theory went out the window when it appeared out of nowhere directly above the top of us and I mean directly.
October 28, 2014 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Fairview, NC
Light object did not move. It had an orange/yellow glow and was below clouds. Light lasted for 20-30 seconds. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 28, 2014 · 1:30 AM · LIGHT
Saint Mary's City, MD
Saw a stationary object with rapid red, green, and blue flashing lights. The object was far away, and was the size of a bright planet. The object then disappeared and reappeared several minutes later SW of initial location. Possible "twinkling" star? PD
October 28, 2014 · 1:05 AM · LIGHT
Oracle, AZ
It looked like it was separating into two lights, so we retrieved some binoculars, we distinctly saw two lights alternating blue and white, and then kind of merge together. It didn't move for about forty five minutes, so we came inside to go to bed, twenty minutes later, I went to get a drink of water, and checked to see if it moved. It was still there, flickering, so I drank a glass of water, looked again, and it was gone. The little dipper was, from my point of view, about a hand length above the light when we first noticed it, and almost two hand lengths above the last time I saw it, so it did not move with the stars, it stayed in the same position as the stars moved ten to fifteen degrees.
October 27, 2014 · 11:50 PM · LIGHT
Cape May, NJ
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 27, 2014 · 7:20 PM · LIGHT
Berlin, MD
On October 27, 2014 at 7:20 PM at Assateague State Park, Berlin, Maryland, while observing the night sky I saw the international space station go by as well as satellites and a meteor. I also noticed an orange light over the ocean that resembled the red navigation light of an aircraft. I viewed the light with 10x50 binoculars as the orange light travel north then either turned east or climbed upward, decreased in size, flashed a few times then disappeared. I have worked night work for years on the coast of Maryland and have spent many hours watching the night sky. But I have never seen anything like this orange light.
October 27, 2014 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Atlantic City, NJ
I came to Atlantic City to watch a rocket launch from Virginia so we had to look out over the ocean. We thought we were seeing the rocket because it was around the time for liftoff. However the liftoff was canceled due to a boat in restricted waters. It was a bright white light that seemed to move upwards then grew dim and something split off from it and became bright again. After that it grew dimmer then disappeared.
October 27, 2014 · 7:35 AM · LIGHT
Utica, NY
I was driving into work and noticed a bright yellow light appear in the sky that resembled a bright star. The light did not move in the sky. After a few seconds, it faded away. A few seconds later, it reappeared in a different location. This happened a half dozen times before I was no longer in a location to see the event. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 26, 2014 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Hanover, PA
I was taking at the trash when I looked up and saw what appeared to be a star at first but was brighter then the other stars around it. I continued to stare at it for a few minutes watching it flicker and sway from side to side (sometimes fast and sometimes slow) it appeared to have lights around it as well blinking every few minutes or so. Some were red or white or green near the "star". It seem to get closer then farther away and at a few points it looked to have a out line around it that looked like a disk that would just flash for a second or two then disappear
October 26, 2014 · 7:45 PM · LIGHT
Charlotte, NC
I observed a UFO. I first saw it in the center of sky moving southeast. It looked like a very bright star, but it seemed to close to earth to actually be a star or a satellite. The flight was airplane speed or faster. It moved from 12 o'clock to 3 or 4 o'clock and then faded out. There were no blinking lights, fire trail, vapor trail or sound. It was moving southeast.