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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 5, 2014 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Selinsgrove, PA
Red orange light, hovering, then slowly moving.. No sound
October 5, 2014 · 1:20 AM · LIGHT
Monticello, MN
At about 1:20 am CDT on October 5th, 2014, I was lying on my bed on my Macbook Pro. The curtains of my north-facing window are open, as is the window. I happened to look up from my Mac and glance out the window, only to see a pulsating red light. The pulse is almost exactly one per second, rhythmically, like a dimmer being turned all the way up and then all the way off. The pulsating light was quite a bit larger than a blinking red wing light on a jet, at least three times as large. As best I can judge the distance, it appeared to be within five to ten miles of my house. The object was moving — slowly and without variance in speed — pretty nearly due west, at maybe a third or a fourth the speed of a low-flying light aircraft. The experience lasted twenty minutes. The object gradually moved out of sight to the west, never changing course or speed, never altering the rate of pulsation for its light, never changing size or growing dimmer except insofar as distance altered its visibility. The object made no noise whatsoever, not of jet engines, nor of helicopter blades, nor anything else.
October 5, 2014 · 12:25 AM · LIGHT
Honolulu, HI
I'm a Security Officer, and have been working Security for 6 years now. It happened while I was on duty and preparing to do my last patrol of the shift before ending. At approximately 0025hrs(12:25am), I observed a blue and red light flying over the Ko'olau Mountains near Tantalus/roundtop drive. My first thought was that it was a plane coming over the mountain, but I quickly ruled that out when it changed course, moving slightly to my left. It was much to sudden to be a plane, so the next thing I thought was a helicopter, which was quickly ruled out soon after when I observed the lights make a sudden change and begun to fly in a zig zagging kind of path in the sky, and not to mention that there was no sound of helicopter blades chopping through the air at all. Upon that sudden course of action it conducted I was most certainly interested now. I continued to monitor the lights and even repositioned myself on the property to try to get a better view and continue to observe it's strange and erratic movements. It then proceeded to appear to descend towards the ground where I could no longer observe as my vision was obstructed by trees and structures. It's movements were like someone pointing a laser pointer and moving it all over the place except much more controlled and not as fast, but faster and able to do things that a plane or helicopter could do. Shortly there after it's descent out of my view, my Supervisor shows up at my site to check up on me as usual during my shift, and almost soon after he arrived the thing shot back into the air and proceeded to fly erratically as before, I quickly pointed it out and even he was baffled by it and we both continued to watch it until it descended again to the ground where we couldn't see. My Supervisor is a former U.S. Marine and he said he had never seen any aircraft do things like that, not even a remote controlled device. I know what I was thinking when we watched it, but I waited to hear him say it first. "I think we just observed an Unidentified Flying Object". We ruled out cars that might have been on the road on the mountain as we both saw the object fly high enough that we could see there was space between the outline of the mountain and the lights, so it was definitely in the air. We saw it shoot straight up suddenly and we thought it was gonna zip away, but it hovered for about 5 seconds before shooting back down towards the ground where we couldn't see it. And that was the last we saw it. Immediately after my shift at 0100hrs I got in my car and drove up to the Military Cemetary at Punch bowl to try to get a better view. Once up there I saw a group of 4 young people hanging out overlooking the area where my workplace is and so I asked them if they saw it, if they saw the lights. One of them, a girl, admitted to seeing a red light shoot up from the corner of her eye not long before I arrived. And that was the last time I saw it, I waited for about 15 minutes more to see if it would return, but it didn't.
October 4, 2014 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Lancaster, CA
We see all kinds of strange flying objects out here in the desert, and since we're in the same region as Edwards Air Force base, NASA, Virgin, etc. it's to be expected. However, on Saturday evening around 8:00 pm there was a flying object like we'd never seen. It had a blue light on top and a red light on the bottom. At first I thought it was one of the drones that flies over the valley every night, but then it started going up and down, then sideways and stop in mid-flight. It wasn't a plane and it wasn't a helicopter. I have never seen the drones act in this particular fashion either. It lasted around three minutes.
October 4, 2014 · 7:55 PM · LIGHT
San Jacinto, CA
On Saturday October 4th, at 7:50pm in San Jacinto CA., I went out to have a cigarette with my brother.. We were talking and I noticed a bright white star like object in the South West sky at about 33 degrees above the horizon at about 7:55pm., I saw it start to move thinking it may be a jet. As we kept watching the object kept moving from the SW to NE. We did not observe any strobe lights, navigation lights or hear any engine noise. We both noticed the object wobble and descend. Then the object started to come towards our direction still descending. The object stopped then immediately shot up in altitude and the light became red, pink then went out and changed back to red (very small) as it went out of distance in a great climb in altitude.
October 4, 2014 · 12:50 AM · LIGHT
Vero Beach, UT
I study star positions at night. A star appeared where one did not belong. It was line with Diphda and Markab, about 40% the distance from Diphda towards Markab. It did not move, but faded away slowly after being clearly visible for about 10 minutes. It was about the same magnitude as Diphda and Markab.
October 3, 2014 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Caldwell, ID
Distinctly saw 3 orange lights in the formation of a triangle in the sky that were so bright, they dimmed the stars around them. The top light moved slowly down towards the other two, then blinked a few times and disappeared. The two lower lights moved slowly up and closer together. The one to the right side blinked and disappeared with the left one disappearing close behind it. Two of us witnessed this and watched for a good 5 minutes. They did not move in a way I have ever seen a plane or helicopter move.
October 3, 2014 · 10:16 PM · LIGHT
Houston, TX
My friend and I were driving to dinner and we saw something that looked like a fireball falling strait down or of the sky. We thought it was a meteor until it slowed and two lights appeared as if it had wing lights, like a plane. Then it blinked and disappeared. Planes don't fly strait down. There was no sound. No boom, and no flash of light or explosion. It was as if it turned is lights off to avoid being tracked to a landing zone.
October 3, 2014 · 7:55 PM · LIGHT
Hyannis, MA
I was outdside on my deck with my husband, we were facing the north west. My husband was facing me so he didn't see the light, I was taking to him when I noticed this very bright start behind his left shoulder (what a assumed to be a star). I stared at it for about 2 minutes and just as I was about to tell him To turn around to see it, it lit up extremely bright and then vanished! All I could say was, "Did you see that! Oh my goodness where did it go!" My husband thought I was crazy, I explained to him what happen and he told me we should get in the house. It's not the first time we've seen something in that same area, and before he has seen things too. I'm not sure what to make of this particular occurrence but it scared him and myself.
October 3, 2014 · 1:00 PM · LIGHT
Wellington Lake, CO
3 bright stationary objects were noticed approx. 30 degrees off the SSW hilly horizon, just below and in a line east of the mid-afternoon sun. The bright white lights, which were of approx. equal intensity, shone steady and stationary for the entire 45min., or so, we remained lakeside. A mid-level opaque cloud passed over 2 of the lights, creating a slight dimming and color shift consistent with ice/water vapor, and suggesting these objects were very high in the atmosphere. The sun moved westward over time- the objects remained exactly the same intensity (less the cloud) and location relative to the trees, for the entire period. They were consistently spaced about one "visual" foot apart in the sky in a line running east/west, approx parallel to the general horizon. Wellington Lake is approx 15 miles SSW of Bailey Colorado, 1.5 hours SW of Denver. It was hard to determine if the objects were lit or were reflecting the sun. The even intensity over time suggests the latter.
October 3, 2014 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Labelle, FL
DRIVING ON RT 80 , JUST WEST OF LABELLE CONTY, HEADING WEST ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE ROAD ABOUT TWO HANDS ABOVE HORIZON, TO LIGHTS WITH THE INTENSITY OF VENUS OR MERCURY IN SUNRISE, BUT THESE TWO LIGHTS WERE NEXT TO EACH OTHER LIKE AN INCH IF YOU EXTEND YOUR HAND OUT. THEY WERE UNUSUALLY BRIGHT AT FIRST. AS I STARED AT THEM I LOOK FOR BLINKING LIGHTS OF A PLAE OR COPTER, BUT THERE WERE NONE, JUST THE FRIGHT BLUISH INTENSE LIGHT. I THOUGHT IT WAS ORION BEING PARTIALLY BLOCKED BY A CLOUD, BUT THERE WERE NO CLOUDS IN THE SKY, THERE THEY SAT IN THE SKY TWO ANOMALIES, AS I SLOWED DOND TO TRY TO TAKE A PHOTO THE LIGHTS BEGAN TO SLOWLY DIM TOGETHER AND IN 10 SECONDS THEY DISSAPEARED, AGAIN IT FELT AS THEY WENT BEHING A CLOUD BUT THE SKY WAS COMPLETELY CLEAR, IT WAS SO WEIRD!!!
October 2, 2014 · 11:58 PM · LIGHT
Spring, TX
I went outside for a cigarette and saw two lights slowly moving around NNW of my house. The best I can tell is the objects were round but were either quite a distance away or quite small. My best guess would be they were apprx 2K feet away. The lights changed colors from white to purple to red. I called my wife out to look and she witnessed them as well. I have a .mov I got with my Iphone I'll send with this. When the lights dropped below tree line a thunderstorm rolled through within a minute. I have 31 years with the Air Force and the FAA and have been around aviation most of my life.
October 2, 2014 · 8:37 PM · LIGHT
Buckhead Ridge, FL
while crossing over the Okeechobee glades country bridge I saw 3 bright lights rising up from lake Okeechobee they were white orange in color and were each a different intensity of light by the time I crossed the bridge the two smaller lights blinked out of existence I pulled off the side of the highway and observed the brightest of the three lights continue to rise up for a period of 3 1/2 minuites when it blinked out of existence.
October 2, 2014 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Snow Hill, MD
I was walking my dog coming off the pier when I noticed a white light. It was not very high maybe a little higher than a plane pulling an advertising banner at the beach. When I looked a bit closer I noticed the object had 3 slightly smaller red lights trailing behind it blinking in unison about every other second as compared to the lead white light which did not blink at all. Curious I thought to myself maybe the lead light was a small plane and the trailing lights may be some sort of helicopter escort but at that moment I realized none of the objects made a sound! I also noticed way off in the distance an actual plane and was reminded of the typical blinking lights you normaly see on a flying vehical and saw that the objects I saw did not display anything like this. Still unsure I continued to watch as they silently worked their way from north to south along the coast and as my perspective changed to a view from behind I noticed I couldnt really make out th! e lead white light but the 3 trailing red lights now being viewed from behind kind of seemed to now be in the shape of an odd triangle. As this triangle got smaller and smaller as it moved farther away I noticed that they still were blinking in silent unison. I watched until I could no longer make them out in the sky, the whole sighting lasted just under 10 minutes!
October 2, 2014 · 7:30 PM · LIGHT
Waldorf, MD
I was sitting in my truck at my son's football practice talking on the phone and noticed a ball of light in the sky. I thought it was a star until it zipped away really fast. It was like it was hovering and then it moved a little, stopped and then zoomed off. It was really really fast when it moved. Too fast for anything man made i think. It was a bright light. If I didnt see it move i would probably never had noticed it cause it definatly looked like a star in the sky.
October 2, 2014 · 7:15 PM · LIGHT
Erie, CO
It was still light outside but nearing dusk; I was walking outside and ahead of me and to the left (northwest of Erie) a yellowish-white fireball dropped out of the sky, splitting off at one point so there was one larger and one smaller piece beside it falling. This may have been a meteor or satellite fragment, and was falling more like a huge burning ember and not like a typical meteor streak. It appeared to be relatively close but the other person who saw it was also in Erie, and I'm unaware of additional reports from other nearby cities that may help to triangulate the exact location. I noticed it start falling at about 45 degrees below ((sic. above)) the horizon and it "fizzled out" about 20 degrees later (about halfway to the ground from the time it was first seen). I've seen a good number of fireballs and meteors, but only a handful of these close ember-like balls over many years. I felt extremely charged up after the sighting and couldn't quite explain why, but it was like something changed in the air; other people who hadn't seen it also seemed extra charged up. The next morning the UFOs were seen over Breckenridge, about 60 miles away as the crow flies. ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) This is an amendment to the report just submitted from Erie. The object was first seen at 45 degrees ABOVE the horizon, not below the horizon (alternately it could be said to be first seen at 45 degrees below zenith, but not below the horizon of course). ((END ADDENDUM))
October 2, 2014 · 5:45 AM · LIGHT
Lake City, TN
North of Lake City, TN, a bright light. At first thought it was a star. Seemed to get brighter then to descend and dim. Then just disappeared. Date is flawed. We have changed it. PD
October 1, 2014 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Ann Arbor, MI
This event occurred on a cloudy night in Ann Arbor on South 7th Street, close to the intersection of Princeton Avenue. Walking home from work sometime approximately during fall of 2014, while talking on the phone, I looked up and noticed a large white blinking light, very nearly directly overhead, slightly towards the northwest. I am not certain of the altitude of the light, but it could not have been more than a few hundred feet in the air, based on my perception of it being close, and since the cloud cover was relatively low (I could see no planes, stars, etc., and the clouds seemed to pass around the light occasionally). As I watched the light it did not appear to move, but remained in one place. The light was a bright white/yellow and pulsated from completely bright to completely dark about once a second. I watched the light for about 2 minutes and relayed the strangeness of it to the person on the phone. After about 2-3 minutes of spectating, the light either turned off or was engulfed by the clouds. I did not identify any sound coming from the light. I waited another 5 minutes before leaving the area and did not see anything more.
October 1, 2014 · 9:55 PM · LIGHT
Fort Jennings, OH
I saw an orange light approaching from the South, traveling North for approximately 3 miles. It was not a helicopter or a plane. I lost sight of it as it passed directly over my car. It was approximately 1,000 feet in the air, and maybe 10 to 20 feet wide. There were no wings. The shape was somewhat like an upright cylinder with half a semi-circle on either side.
October 1, 2014 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Jefferson, GA
I was outside talking to my wife when I noticed a very bright light in the sky to the West. I pointed it out to my wife and she noticed immediately it was not moving. It Sat in the same spot for 15 minutes. I went to get our binoculars and could see it was changing from white, blue, green, orange, red. We called the neighbors and they came out to see it also.
October 1, 2014 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
New York City (Brooklyn), NY
I was walking to my car at about 8 PM on October 1 2014. I am located in the Flatlands section of Brooklyn. The sky was overcast. I looked over the my left and saw an orange light undulating from North or Northwest to South or South East. It wasn't going very fast, but I only caught it from the time it took to travel in between two buildings in my field of vision. The best way I can describe the light is that it looked like an orange flare. It would dim from time to time and then flare up again. I thought it might be a helicopter, but I've never seen a helicopter undulate like that (and they generally have running lights, etc, instead of a single orange light). I am not sure at what altitude the clouds were, I don’t think they were particularly high, but this object seemed to be just underneath them. I viewed the object for 30 seconds or less. I'd be interested to know if anybody else witnessed this. Thanks!
October 1, 2014 · 4:45 AM · LIGHT
Clearwater, FL
About 4:45am Wednesday morning Oct 1st. I saw a single blue flickering light at street level on Algonquin Ave. in Clearwater, FL. It was small like a flashlight and would flicker from blue to white to off sporadically while it flew around similar to a moth. From a foot or so above the street to 20 or so feet up. I could see the trees across the street behind it, it was very close. I watched if fly around for at least a minute while moving toward it then it went out and I didn’t see it again. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 30, 2014 · 7:40 PM · LIGHT
Kennewick, WA
I saw a neon blue light cross the sky near columbia center mall. Object was 500 yards in elevation moving approximately 200-500mph towards Hanford. It was seen at dusk (sundown).
September 30, 2014 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Keyport, NJ
My brother and I witnessed 3 lights in the sky lined up in a triangle and they would brighten and then diminish. The lights would move quickly to different areas in the sky and when diminishing would leave a horizontal line in the sky. Extremely creepy