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September 17, 2014 · 4:45 AM · LIGHT
Evansville, WI
At 4:45am cst, two of my associates and I noticed an orangish-white satellite looking object in the southwest sky, at about 35 degrees to the ground, decending to the horizon at a fast rate of speed. After a moment, against the backdrop of the surrouding stationary stars, the object could CLEARLY be seen abruptly maneuvering left to right in a zig-zag fashion as it moved towards the horizon, becoming smaller and more reddish in color than orange, until it dissapeared from view. We had only just concluded a lengthy paranormal investigation on a rural road off of Highway 14 near Evansville, WI, when the object was spotted by my partner, a former army veteran. The sighting lastest several long minutes and the entire event was recorded on the audio of my camera (the camera was aimed at the craft but our equipment was not high quality enough to capture the light or any stars in the sky). My research organization is called Prove It Paranormal Research Associates and we would welcome anyone interested in listening to the recording of the event. Thank you.
September 17, 2014 · 4:45 AM · LIGHT
Evansville, WI
At 4:45 am cst, two of my associates and I noticed an orangish-white satellite looking object in the southwest sky, at about 35 degrees to the ground, descending to the horizon at a fast rate of speed. After a moment, against the backdrop of the surrouding stationary stars, the object could CLEARLY be seen abruptly maneuvering left to right in a zig-zag fashion as it moved towards the horizon, becoming smaller and more reddish in color than orange, until it disappeared from view. We had only just concluded a lengthy paranormal investigation on a rural road off of Highway 14 near Evansville, WI, when the object was spotted by my partner, a former army veteran. The sighting lastest several long minutes and the entire event was recorded on the audio of my camera (the camera was aimed at the craft but our equipment was not high quality enough to capture the light or any stars in the sky). My research organization is called Prove It Paranormal Research Associates, and we would welcome anyone interested in listening to the recording of the event. Thank you. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and he sounded to us to be quite sincere about the sighting. Because he is a fellow researcher, we have allowed him to include his name and the name of his organization in the report. PD
September 17, 2014 · 4:45 AM · LIGHT
Evansville/Madison, WI
Looking North East from the right angle formed where N Weary Rd meets West Weary Road a light could be seen traveling roughly South West to North East. Its position was just East of the big dipper (approximate). Suddenly the light stopped moving and maintained it's position in the sky until it accelerated in seemingly random directions, zig zagging towards the horizon. The light was solid and appeared to be around the elevation that a plane would fly.
September 16, 2014 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Ada, OK
Two extremely bright shining lights appeared high in the sky - looking north. They were lined up horizontally and evenly apart by the same distance, but were pretty far away from each other, as they were so far away. I could hold up my fingers in front of me, with my index finger and my middle finger in the shape of a "V" and the two bright lights were evenly spaced - perfectly with the tips of my fingers, making a perfect "triangle" shape with my hand and fingers placed this way. I was basically holding a "peace" sign in the air, to try and judge the distance between the two lights. (The two lights would be the base of the triangle, and the point at my knuckle, between the index and middle finger would be the point of the triangle. These two bright white lights appeared to ascend high into the sky quickly, moving the same direction toward the northern star. The view of the north star is directly north of my house way up in the sky, so I have a perfect view of the northern star. The lights were moving really fast, but they were moving straight up, and appeared to be going straight toward the star. The further away they got, the dimmer the light was. They appeared to dim evenly, and this made me think they were going in the same direction at the same speed. Eventually, they got so small you could no longer see the light. The best way to describe it would be comparing it to a balloon floating into the air, and watching it until it was so far away, you could not see it any longer. These two lights were VERY intense in color. We have planes fly overhead at night often, and these were NOT planes. It was the strangest thing I have ever seen. It was a clear night, with stars visible, and light overcast. No lightning, bad weather, etc. The best way to describe the light would be Car Headlights. They were bright like car headlights..Also, I need to note that these lights were not directly overhead, they were off in the distance (toward the north) at least a few miles away, or probably even further. WE have a tall tree in our neighbors front yard, so from the top of this tall oak tree, the lights appeared about halfway from the top of the tree to the north star in the northern sky. I am curious to know if anyone else in my area reported the lights?
September 16, 2014 · 8:40 PM · LIGHT
Colorado Springs, CO
I noticed an object floating with a bright white light in the rear and a bright red light in front. At first I assumed it was a commercial plane, but then the light turned to a bright blue, then green then back to white and red. This pattern continued to change. In it's flight pattern, it maneuvered in small tight spirals like a emote controlled plane would move. But being it was pitch black out, and there was no sound plus the brightness of the lights, it could not have been a model aircraft. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 16, 2014 · 7:30 PM · LIGHT
Millry, AL
me my son and 2 of his friends were on the porch around 7:30. i was looking at clouds to the south of us when i saw the 2 objects that looked like bright lights just over the clouds. At first they were close together. I told the boys to look at them. Then they started to move apart at a fast rate i went inside to get my wife and other son to see. When we got back out they were moving away toward the south and went out of site very quickly.
September 16, 2014 · 6:32 AM · LIGHT
South Bend, IN
At exactly 6:32 AM EDT, stepped outside to take my daughter to school. While facing North, I noticed an unusually bright star. The "star" accelerated from a fixed position moving from West to East. I noticed a number of fainter, smaller, star-like objects floating around it. The area around the brighter object was distorted in a type of lensing effect. Very briefly a cone of light like a spot light emanated from the side of it. I called my daughter over to witness the object as it sped away. We agreed there were no strobing light, no colored lights, no sound, and therefore, it was not a conventional/commercial aircraft. We live close to the airport and always recognize commercial aircraft readily.
September 16, 2014 · 6:00 AM · LIGHT
New Port Richey, FL
I got up early one morning it was around 5:56am. Alarm was set for 7am but thought I’d get up and check the weather outside. It was still dark and the sky was extremely clear, no clouds, and the stars were quite visible. I decided to go get my camera and take some pictures of the stars since there were so many and visibility was excellent. I looked up at a group of stars and noticed one of them was moving. It was a ball of light, silent, and travelling fairly quickly. I thought to myself this is no star or meteorite because of the speed of the object. I’ve seen meteorites and they fade out pretty fast and travel like a bullet and are gone. I grabbed my camera and tried to film it with no success. It was pretty high up, maybe 3-5000 feet up. I watched it for about 90 seconds until it was no longer in sight. Then lo and behold another appeared travelling high up and went by one of those stars that twinkle and appear to change color. It was also high up (ball of light) and I couldn’t focus for a good picture. At the same moment in a different area in the sky there was an airplane flying with the typical blinking navigational lights and jet engine sound. The two were completely different. Then my attention was drawn to this apparent star that was very bright and changing color. Even to the naked eye I could see it change color. I had my camera on a tripod and started to shoot video and a few pictures. This object whatever it was bluish in color and went from a ball of light to a hexagon with a slight dark spot in the middle. Do stars change colors and shapes?? I don’t know. I thought maybe it was the Earth’s atmosphere and it’s distance from Earth that caused these variations in shape and color. Whatever it was it was fascinating to watch and I videotaped it for about 16 minutes. Unfortunately the balls of light just wouldn’t cooperate with my camera. Here’s an interesting tidbit. I was going through the reports on your site and noticed someone in Surfside Beach, SC reported a red ball of light in the sky on 9/19/14. They said when they zoomed in, it looked like a human brain with shades of gray. Although I couldn’t capture this with my camera, when I used my! binoculars to look at this apparent star, it too looked like a brain in the sky. It was really cool looking and when I went out of focus with the binoculars is when it looked like a wired brain in the sky. I thought maybe I was seeing things. Now I know someone else saw a ball of light when zooming in taking on the appearance of a brain. I think I will coin the term UFB,meaning "unidentified flying brain”. Of course I’m poking a little fun at this but this story is absolutely true. I think many people see odd things in our skies but never take the time to ponder something really different just happened. If I can I will post the picture of this pulsating star and video on your site.
September 16, 2014 · 4:40 AM · LIGHT
Escondido, CA
I was just outside our house in Escondido at approximately 4:40am on the morning of 9/16/2014. My husband just went back inside for a minute. I was staring up at the sky, stargazing as I very often do. It's a treat when I get to see a meteorite or even a passing satellite. But this time... There were two very bright, but very high lights passing from East to West. I've seen many satellites passing in my life, and if I had to guess, they were many miles from each other, but within about 5 degrees from each other in my field of view. They looked like most satellites do when passing, a white to red/orange reflective light, but they were slightly brighter than other satellites I had observed. One following the other perfectly. Then, a few seconds after I saw them, they rotated about an axis and switched positions while still moving West, and continued on in perfectly swapped places. Then the new lead light continued on, while the new trailing light veered off South and disappeared. The leading light soon disappeared (faded) as I would expect of a satellite reentering the earth's shadow. All of this in the span of 15-20 seconds. My observation covered an arc of about 45 degrees from the time I noticed until the remaining light was not visible. I have observed many passing satellites, the space station, the old shuttles in my life. I am a smoker who is up late night and early morning and go outside and stare at the sky. I've never seen an event like this, and my main reaction was to repeatedly say out loud, "What is that?" And this was of course one of the few times I've walked outside without my phone on me, not that I think it would have recorded a viable video even if I had gotten to it in time.
September 15, 2014 · 9:12 PM · LIGHT
Payette, ID
Saw what looked like a moving satellite but closer. Then it made a huge bright flash LEd white color but with a very small black spot in the center lasted just 2 seconds then it moved to the left and was gone.
September 14, 2014 · 10:20 PM · LIGHT
Centralia, WA
Unidentified flying object sighting: At approximately 22:20 on September 14, 2014, I stepped out the door of my computer room, which faces the west, in order to see if I could see any Northern Lights. I did not see them. A small group of colored moving lights caught my eye. It was approximately due west of my house in Centralia and just above the horizon, which in this case is a hill known as Cooks Hill. The lights were just above the hill, probably at around 15 – 20 degrees elevation from a true level horizon. The light was bobbing around in one area and not moving in any one direction. I watched for about five minutes and then went to get my binoculars. With the binoculars, it was more clearly about four lights. They were positioned with a green light at the top, then perhaps two red lights in the middle, and another green light at the bottom. There was also the typical yellow light amongst them but it was hard to hold the binoculars steady so that there was some jiggling of the object. The small area covered by the lights would be about the size of the full moon. The yellow, red and green lights, in size and brightness, were much the same as airplane lights in size and brilliance. But if they were from an airplane it was not going anywhere. I watched for about ten minutes, total, and the small group of lights just bobbed around, up and down, side to side, much as a fishing bobber that was being dangled above the water but not in it. I could hear no sounds of an aircraft. When I went to turn on my computer at 22:29, in those few seconds, the object(s) was gone. It could possibly have been a helicopter but the prolonged bobbing around motion in the same spot does not seem like a practical explanation. The area over and beyond Cook’s Hill is mostly wooded but with homes along the rural Cook’s Hill Road. When I last looked at the area of the sighting, at 23:00, they had not reappeared.
September 14, 2014 · 9:03 PM · LIGHT
Silver City, NM
Saw a bright, very red light approaching from the south, heading northwest toward the west - as if coming from Deming or Las Cruces and heading to Phoenix. It appeared to fly at about helicopter height and helicopter speed, but it made no noise and appeared only as a very bright, very red, unblinking light. The orangey-red or red color was pure with no other colors noted. It was at least twice the size that Venus appears, possibly more. It was visible for 90 seconds or more. The two witnesses are unsure whether it flew in a perfectly straight line, or whether it flew first toward the city in a more northerly direction, and then arced westward when it approached, or was over Boston Hill south of Silver City. Video was taken, but was hand-held and not very useful.
September 14, 2014 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Arnold, MO
Objects were in western sky, four bright lights holding steady in diamond formation, red light on top, white light to left, green light to right and blue light on bottom of formation. Objects did not move for twenty minutes, then went out all at same time.
September 14, 2014 · 8:15 PM · LIGHT
Spanaway, WA
My son-in-law and I along with his two very young children were on the back deck of my home looking at stars before the children went to bed. Suddenly, to the west, a circular light appeared, moved in a northerly direction for about 15 seconds, and disappeared. The light moved at a phenomenal rate of speed, much faster than any jet, even military, which I have ever seen. In all fairness, I will admit that there is an Air Force base to the west of us, but the light did not move all the way across the sky, just suddenly appearing and disappearing. It did not fall from the sky light like a meteorite. There was no sound associated with the event. My son-in-law also saw the light and commented on the incredible rate of speed of the vessel.
September 14, 2014 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Nantucket, MA
Around 8pm on September 14, 2014, an adult female (34 years old) and an adult male (44 years old) were traveling west on Polpis road on Nantucket Island, when they saw a red light high in the sky above them. It was approximately 51 degrees this night, clear to partly cloudy skies. The female passenger noticed it first and after watching it for a few seconds alerted the male driver. They agreed it appeared either still or slow moving. When the 44 year old male driver pulled off the road, so he and the female passenger could get out of the vehicle and take a closer look, it was gone. Both witnesses are residents of Nantucket Island with college degrees, and neither had been drinking or taken any drugs on September 14, 2014. The female passenger is employed full time as an Assitant Teacher in a child development center.
September 14, 2014 · 12:30 PM · LIGHT
Boulder, CO
While waiting for a meeting to start, I happened to look up at the sun during a beautiful, cloudless day in Boulder. I saw a bright object--like a star--about one finger’s length from the sun, my finger one foot from my nose. I observed it for 5 or 6 minutes, during which time it never moved. The bright light was stationary. Because the light did not move, I concluded that it was not any sort of ordinary aircraft (not a helicopter by any means, and no noise whatsoever), nor was it a balloon, because high altitude winds would cause it to move. The light looked just like a star. But, how could a star be visible shortly after noon, in a cloudless sky, a finger’s length from the blazing sun? I have never seen a star under such conditions. A man and woman came walking by while I was mulling over the possibilities. I stopped them, to see if they would have a look at the bright object. They did so, but neither knew what it might be. One reason I asked them to look was to verify that I was seeing something, and that its nature was not evident. After watching it for 8 or 9 minutes, I went inside, but the meeting had not yet started, so I went out again to see check on the light. It was still there, its position the same. I was stumped. My conclusion: Something very curious was up there, but I have no idea what it might have been.
September 13, 2014 · 11:52 PM · LIGHT
Dana Point, CA
My boyfriend and I were sitting on our balcony at a hotel in Dana Point. We were facing Northwest when we noticed a red glowing light rising up. I have witnessed these things many times and I was excited to have him witness it as well. He is NOT a believer. He always tries o debunk what I see by saying it was Chinese lanterns or a plane. He is now baffled by it, but I know for a fact we witness a red fireball. It was bright red. We were first noticed the fireball when it was the size of a tiny red star. Then all of a sudden It grew bigger and then smaller as it was rising. This thing was huge in the distance. It grew to the size of a basketball. Then would reduce to the size of star all while glowing and floating. Then after about a minute, it shrank again and completely vanish. My boyfriend of course was in disbelief trying to debunk it, but what sealed the deal was the helicopter to followed that circled for a good 15 minutes after it disappe! ared. NOTE: We have not heard or seen one helicopter all night or ll day for that matter.
September 13, 2014 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Tillamook, OR
Saturday, Sept 13, 2014 – Cape Lookout Park, Tillamook Oregon – Pacific Ocean 10PM, PST A group of friends and I went camping for the weekend. That night, five of us walked out to the beach to catch the moonrise over the hills. While sitting on the beach, I noticed a bright red light in the sky. The light was changing to blue, green, white… I thought for sure it was a plane. But then I noticed it wasn’t moving, it was just hovering. The light began to zig-zag, drop and rise and shoot left to right and back to the left again. It would move in lines that were diagonal to the ocean. After watching this UFO for about 20 minutes, a few more friends showed up and another UFO lit up in the sky, but located on the oceans horizon. This one glowed bright orange. A third UFO appeared to the right of the second UFO. All three UFO’s were moving around in various shapes and speeds and flickering their lights at one another, as if they were signaling each other. The first and third UFO flew out of there with no trace, leaving the second UFO in the sky. This one was by far the most active of the three. It had to have been at least 25 miles from us, but at times it moved closer to us, the light was bigger and brighter. It split at one point and then rejoined. The moon came up over the hills a little after 11:20pm. As the moon was rising, the UFO was almost playing “peek a boo” with it. The UFO would dip under the horizon and then shoot right back up, zig-zag on the sky and plummet again or shoot off to the left or right. It was such an amazing night to watch the UFO’s. All of my friends and I were in complete awe that we got to witness this rare sighting.
September 13, 2014 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Angier, NC
Several different flying lights were seen in the sky. Saw a white ball of light moving rapidly across the sky, just above the tree line. My daughter pointed it out and it immediately disappeared. There was another ball of white light higher in the sky moving all around, not just in one direction. It too disappeared. Saw a blinking white and red light rapidly flying across the sky and as we pointed it out, it disappeared. Before these sightings, my dog started maniacally barking at something behind my shed in the backyard. We could not get her to stop, so my daughter started taking pictures. Several strange lights appear behind the shed including a circular shaped light and a triangular group of three lights that seemed to move in two different pictures. It is possible that the circular looking shape is an entity. We let the dog loose and she ran around the shed and across the yard like she was chasing something. However, we could not see what she was chasing. We also heard a strange clicking noise, unlike any night insect or animal we have ever heard. It sounded like the clicks were communicating from two different sides of my yard. We also heard a humming noise, like the engine of an aircraft hovering. Eventually both noises stopped. This is not the first time we have experienced the flying lights and humming. Almost every night, my dog goes crazy barking at the same part of the yard behind the shed. The first time I saw the light hovering over my neighbor’s house, I pointed it out to my daughter and it vanished. Will email images.
September 13, 2014 · 9:20 PM · LIGHT
Lexington, KY
Lights seem to be surrounding a huge slow moving object. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 13, 2014 · 8:30 PM · LIGHT
Town and Country, MO
Dozens of red lights in the northern sky, moving up from the horizon and then fading out. We suspect that the sighting was at 20:30 hrs., and have changed the time, to reflect a nighttime sighting. PD
September 13, 2014 · 8:25 PM · LIGHT
Olympia, WA
We were driving on 101 heading north west of Olympia, when my husband and I saw what appeared to be a meteor or shooting star, but none like I've seen before. This was a bright green ball of light with tail shooting across sky, and then disappeared in the night sky. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 13, 2014 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Santa Fe (11 miles E. of), NM
It appeared to be somewhere over 30,000 ft. above the Earth's surface and considering that height it may have been quite a large object. The Light emission and some modulation in the objects shape continued for the full 20 minutes I observed it. As full dark approached, it faded slowly off into the NW quadrant of the sky, accelerating gradually until it was just a pinpoint of light that might be mistaken as just another star. As for intensity of the white light, it was within its contained space brighter than the sun in terms of white light luminosity. I didn't attempt to refract the emitted light to see what color spectrums were present, but such a basic simple measurement could be informative. We suspect that the time and date may not be precise. The witness indicates a time of midnight, but states that the sun was just setting. We suspect that the witness may have been observing the high-altitude, helium-filled balloon, which was reported to have been launched out of Ft. Sumner, earlier that day, Saturday, September 13, 2014. PD
September 13, 2014 · 9:43 AM · LIGHT
Eagle River, AK
At 9:43 pm on Saturday, September 13, 2014, my son called me to tell me that he was on his way home from the store and was seeing numerous orange lights in the sky here in Eagle River, Alaska, over a hill that we refer to as Booby Mountain. I don’t know the real name of the hill, but we call it by its shape. We live off of Eagle River Loop Road and the lights were east of the road. We observed at least 10 to 12 bright orange lights, probably more, flying in a single file line. They all seemed to be the same size and traveled at the same speed, which was slower than an airplane. There was no noise that we could distinguish. They climbed, then flew level, then climbed, then leveled out again, then climbed again continuing until they disappeared one at a time into the sky. It almost seemed like they were somewhat following the contours of the mountains that run on the north side of the Eagle River. My son, my husband and myself watched from the driveway of our home for about ten minutes and my son said that there were multiple witnesses pulled over alongside of the road as he was coming home. We have witnessed similar lights here in Eagle River. My husband and I witnessed some several months ago in a different location and two of my sons have seen the same type of lights on a couple of different occasions. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD