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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.
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August 28, 2014 · 7:45 PM · CYLINDER
Owings Mills, MD
My husband and I were coming home from work at approximately 19:45 on the evening of Thursday, August 28, 2014. We turned onto the road that our apartment complex is on and out of the corner of my husband’s eye, he spied a bright light. He told me to turn the car around to see the object more clearly. As I turned the car around, I saw the object. The object was moving side to side and up and down at a fairly rapid rate. Then the object seemed to stop and hover. It then moved very rapidly to the right and hovered again. It then moved to the left, then up and down and went below the tree line. We were sitting in a parking lot as we were watching the object. It had a bright white glow about it. We did not hear any noise or sound from it. We believe it was about a mile away. Granted, if there was a sound, it may have been drowned by the traffic noise. Once the object was below the tree line, I drove in the direction of the object; however, we were not able to locate it again.
August 26, 2014 · 5:00 AM · CYLINDER
Warwick, RI
Over the airport, I saw something that looked like the moon eclipse, then seemed like clouds over the moon. The moon was in a different area clear as day. as all the stars around the area. This is a route I go everyday for years. Never saw anything like this. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and he sounded to us to be both sincere, and sober-minded. PD
August 24, 2014 · 11:33 PM · CYLINDER
Richmond, VA
During a later-than-normal exercise walk I was prompted to notice a small, glowing, weird rod-shaped object hovering approximately 30 feet above the ground in the flimsy, leafy, outer branches of a large tree behind a house in my tranquil, heavily-wooded suburban neighborhood of Stratford Hills in Richmond, Virginia. I'm 54 years old and I've been walking this route nearly every day for ten years and what I beheld at 11:33 p.m. on a very quiet Sunday night was abnormal and totally out-of-place! Most of my neighbors probably were in bed. I was fortunate to view the mysterious glowing object that seemed to be hiding up in the tree and I partially attribute my good fortune to the fact that it was a new moon - the darknest night of the month! The silent UFO first was rod-shaped with a glowing blue light on the left end and a pinkish-violet light on the right end. It was hovering horizontally in a place where a human could not be. It was not a new-fangled bug zapper and there are no cable-TV or electric lines running near the tree and definitely not at that height. No logic for the uncanny faintly-glowing lights in the tree. So I stopped and shot video with my iPhone 4S but with no zoom in vid mode I switched to still-shot so I could peer closer. I took 30 pics spanning about ten minutes and during this time the small anomalous cylindrical UFO/entity? morphed into an orb which sometimes appeared cobalt-blue and other times violet with a freaky purplish core. Then it morphed back into a rod that was more white colored and appeared to be segmented, reminiscent of a bacterial rod under a microscope. This flying object ain't one of ours - NOT a drone, stealth bomber, planet Venus, or swamp gas. I did not hear any sounds coming from the object that night but later when I downloaded the video I was surprised to discover that my iPhone had picked up some intriguing clicking noises and when I showed the video to my neighbor S-- she said "It sounds like Morse code." Not meaning that it actually was Morse code but that it definitely sounded like some form of code and/or intelligently-contrived electronic signal. I stood motionless and alone on the shoulder of the street for approximately ten minutes, taking video and photos, before continuing my usual walking route home as I already was walking later than normal and did not want to be out after midnight. The small, glowing, cylinder-orb UFO/entity still was hovering up in the tree when I left the scene and I have no way of knowing how long it may have lingered behind my neighbor's house that night? So far, I have not shared this with the people who live in the house where the sighting took place because I did not want to run the risk of freaking them out, but coincidentally enough, they started leaving their back-porch floodlights on immediately in the wake of me seeing the UFO in their backyard. I did, however, tell one of their male neighbors and B----- agreed with me that maybe his neighbors who live in the house in question saw the object too and it spooked them? For the record, my neighbor's back-porch and backyard floodlights again were burning brightly when I passed during my walk tonight, 10-29-2014, before submitting this report to NUFORC. I've been watching for the UFO/entity ever since during my exercise walks but no encore yet, and I wasn't even going to submit a report because I didn't know whether this clicking, glowing, morphing rod/orb was an "alien/UFO" or spiritual entity, but then some other odd "occurrences" came to my attention that made me change my college-educated mind: 1. My sighting in Richmond was at 11:33 p.m. on August 24, 2014 and just four hours later at 3:30 a.m. on August 25, 2014 a motorist on I-295 N near the Hopewell exit, which is only 22 miles south of Richmond, was followed up the road by a bright UFO orb that was moving a lot faster than manmade highway traffic. Then the orb targeted another car in the southbound lanes and when the sphere made contact with the other vehicle both the orb and car vanished into thin air! Then the driver of the first car saw the orb reappear, and when it started following their car up the highway again they became "terrified," put the pedal to the metal, and made a hasty retreat off the next exit in sight. I learned of this fascinating occurrence at the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC). 2. Then a few hours later around 9 a.m. on August 25, 2014, a seasoned colonel in the U.S. Air Force Reserve was killed when his F-15 fighter jet crashed under "mysterious circumstances" in the Blue Ridge Mountains west of Richmond near Deerfield, VA. Coincidentally enough, this was in an area where lots of residents have reported UFOs in the sky and orbs near the ground. They say it took two days to recover the colonel's body and the official Air Force story was that he was from Massachusetts on a "routine training mission." Synchronistically enough, I also heard NUFORC's esteemed Director Peter Davenport mention this odd fatal F-15 jet crash in Virginia's mountains during his Oct. 17, 2014 appearance on Coast-to-Coast AM radio with host George Noory. Keep up the good work Peter as the efforts of you and your associates are greatly appreciated by a world starving for accurate, thoughtful information and truth. I'm not going to speculate or draw conclusions, but it seems like an awful lot of high strangeness for such a small region in ten hours! Last but not least, a couple of weeks after my "close encounter" in Richmond, Virginia USA I was prompted to discover a seemingly-credible YouTube video of a small blue-pinkish-violet rod-shaped UFO that a man and woman in Ontario Canada videoed while sitting around a campground firepit and the anomalous silent hovering object looks uncannily similar to the UFO that I photographed in Richmond, VA when it was in "rod mode." The Ontario sighting was on August 20, 2014, only four days before my sighting in Virginia, and the Canadian couple was prompted to upload their video to YouTube on August 24 which synchronistically was the same day as my sighting! Upon request, I will gladly make my photos and video available to Director Peter Davenport and NUFORC. Ref: http://nuforc.org/webreports/112/S112877.html http://www.kait8.com/story/26383364/mass-f-15-fighter-jet-crashes-status-of-pilot-unknown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21D9jaxNwRc
August 24, 2014 · 8:45 PM · CYLINDER
North Lauderdale, FL
I was getting ready for a shower when my husband started hollering for me to come outside quick. I had to jump into my pajamas to get out there to see what looked kind of like rockets moving slowly across the sky. They had an orange-red glow. Three together at first, two in front and the third a bit further back. Then three more one by one, moving slowly from east to west. Each glow just faded and went out as they got further east.
August 22, 2014 · 8:00 PM · CYLINDER
Lancaster, MA
Bright orange lights hovered in the sky. Started off as 2, then 1 more came, then another.
August 17, 2014 · 10:45 PM · CYLINDER
Fort Wayne, IN
Young couple were outside at his home, and the young lady saw a light in the sky that caught her eye.. She asked her boyfriend to look up and check it out.. It was a cigar shaped object with white lights on both ends. and was moving from the SW to the NE at a moderate speed. They first thought it was a passenger jet, but this object had no wings and was totally silent. This was the first sighting. A few minutes later, another cigar shaped object was observed following the same flight path but with yellow lights on both ends. The first one was fluorescent with a dark circle in the center. (MUFON 59027)
August 2, 2014 · 11:07 PM · CYLINDER
Flat Creek, TN
I looked out of the bathroom window and there was a blood red object just above the tree line of the woods that I live near. It was not right at the tree line, but it was in the sky. When I first saw it, I thought it was the moon, but the moon isn't that low, not at that time. And there was no Lunar Eclipse. I wanted to take a picture of it, but I did not want to wake everyone in the house and didn't think I could get a good picture inside. I went back to my room, and I could still saw it, but in a matter of minutes, it was completely gone and I didn't see it again. I asked people who were out last night, but they said the moon was a normal color and it was about the same time. So I guess I could only see it from where I was. We are not certain that this is a serious-minded report. PD
July 29, 2014 · 12:04 AM · CYLINDER
Six Mile, SC
When I looked at pics and zoomed in, it didn't look like a star at all.
July 23, 2014 · 8:30 PM · CYLINDER
Durrand, WI
Object was white it was still daylight, with blue sky. I was kayaking on Chippewa River near Dead Lake. Closest city was Durrand, WI. When I kayak I am leaning back a little which gives me a great shot of sky. Object was very high, it had white cylindrical shape, no contrail which is odd. Appeared to be going fairly slow which would be unusual for a plane. Object then just seemed to fade away, also very odd. Sighting lasted about 1 minute or so. I should add this is the 2nd time I saw similar object in same area of WI. I wish I would of had my binoculars.
July 23, 2014 · 3:50 AM · CYLINDER
Mole Lake, WI
I did notice one solid red light never blinking and there were four blinking white lights around the red light. It was too fast to be a plane. It flew from west to east directly over my house. I really don't find this odd since i do see quite a bit of this in the skies over the rez, but thought it would be good to share this info. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 22, 2014 · 1:00 AM · CYLINDER
Maidstone (Canada), ON · Canada
July 22, 2014. 1 - 13:30 AM My Husband and I were driving east along the Yellow Head highway number 16 in Saskatchewan. Sometime after midnight we pulled off the highway and drove south into the town of Maidstone to get some rest. We were facing south at the corner of Railway Ave. and Third St. W, when we saw the object above a field southwest of the intersection, not that far from us. I saw what looked like a shooting star, a white streak across the sky. It suddenly stopped and just hung in the air. It was a long oval that seamed to divide into two parts, rainbow coloured with an Ammolite type shimmer and a bright white light at one end. The object hung in the air for some time, long enough for my husband and I to ask each other if we saw what we were seeing. It suddenly divided and disappeared. There was no sound from this object at any time it was silent. I have no idea what it was at all. My Husbands account of the same sighting. I was at the intersection facing south when the object came into view. It was about 300 meters away and it filled up half the windshield. The object looked like it was made of a cluster of tubes, green with 2 or 3 red lights at the end. At one end there was a bright white and yellow glow almost like a mist. The colours on it we the brightest and most vivid I have ever seen. I don't know how long it stayed still, 30 or 40 seconds. It was silent the whole time, I had my window down and there was no noise. In a split second it shot away from us and was gone. It looked like it was operated by and intelligent presence. It was not a helicopter or plane nor was it fireworks or a para flair. Both of us spent more than 10 years in the Canadian military and we are familiar with these things. This was nothing like we have ever seen before. During and after the sighting we were interested, calm and not frightened
July 19, 2014 · 2:30 AM · CYLINDER
Sugar Land, TX
Walked out side of my door and seen some lighting up in the sky. I've work at a airport, and can tell and plane when I see one. This object had crazy movement. Also, to be a plane moving an a circler motion flashing four different colors different ways floating in the sky up and DOWNNN UUUUPPP KINDA DOWN SIDE TO SIDE CHAINGING COLORS BLUE GREEN RED AND A DIFFERENT COLOR (the color of the street lights) I have a video it's not a good picture and you can barely see the lights changing, but you can see the lights flashing ... Good luck trying to get a hold of me ... Just want to info someone that this info might be use full to someone
July 18, 2014 · 6:45 PM · CYLINDER
Cape Coral, FL
Sitting on our lanai facing north. Craft flew eastward very slowly at first. We could see a solid structure or lip on the top of the craft, and at the bottom of the craft. The center was either solid and reflecting the sun off a shiny metal surface or the center was without a solid shape and made of purely light/energy. We viewed the craft flying eastward for approximately 30 seconds... It sped up - probably double its original speed and it quickly disappeared. Looked as if it had a screen raised over it which made it invisible. no sound. no trail behind it. Sky was completely clear, no cloud cover. About two hours before sunset. We continued to study the sky for 15 to 20 minutes and it did not reappear, nor did we see it resume flying nearby. Craft seemed to be approximately 1000 feet off the ground. Vicinity has had several reports of missing and mutilated cats, reported in the news by our local police department, in the days prior to this event.
July 12, 2014 · 9:20 PM · CYLINDER
Lago Vista, TX
We were out on our back deck to view super moon. We live high on a hill and have a panoramic view. We saw an extremely bright, white light coming toward us, moving east to west. We thought it was a helicopter, but commented it was moving too fast. Quickly, we saw a second bright light behind the first light. When it passed by the tree tops near our deck, we saw an entire structure. It was a long cylinder, as long as a large jet. It was silver in color and we could see no windows. The bright lights were on both ends of structure. As my husband put his binoculars up for a better look, it turned up and moved north-west and disappeared. For a structure as large as what we saw, to move upward that quickly, seemed impossible.
July 12, 2014 · 9:00 PM · CYLINDER
Bastrop, TX
This cylinder was flying so fast it was over the horizon in less than 10 seconds. I have never seen anything fly this fast as it ascended and gained altitude. I presume it had landed and was taking off. There were no propellors, rotors, wings, or jet pods. Although the sighting was only seconds long, I got a good look at it, and another man in a white suv was staring with his mouth open in apparent near shock. This is what I saw, and I'm going back out tonight and observe the area again which is cow and horse pasture land. This is all for now. Date not indicated by the source, but we believe he is addressing the dramatic event of July 12, 2014. We have amended the date. PD
July 9, 2014 · 1:00 PM · CYLINDER
Wichita, KS
While driving to a Wendy's at lunch, object was seen overhead. Silver cylinder, too high to be tethered. Similar proportions to a pool noodle. Seemed to be flying, not floating. From the Wendy's drive through looking back to the North the object could still be seen, moving slowly and turning and/or rotating. After ordering the object was no longer visible.
July 9, 2014 · 1:00 PM · CYLINDER
Dubois (South of; on Hwy 26), WY
Just yesterday (9/2/2014) we were looking at pictures that we took from Hwy 287/26 in Wyoming and noticed this white object in the sky of one of the pics that looks like Casper the Ghost from far away. When I zoomed in on it, it looks like a portion of an edge of a circular disc with 4 perfectly circular holes, one of which is not closed. We have another picture of the same sky taken minutes later and this object is not in the picture. If you zoom in on the object, it is clear that it is part of the cloud formation - but so odd, we can not imagine what could cause these perfect holes.
July 8, 2014 · 8:04 PM · CYLINDER
Wakefield, MA
Cylinder shaped object flying in a North-Easterly direction, at speed similar to commercial aircraft. Definitely not a plane or helicopter. Single, Silver object, observed by father and daughter, both Public Accountants. We were only able to see object for approximately 30 seconds before view was obstructed by trees.
July 6, 2014 · 8:50 PM · CYLINDER
Topeka, KS
i saw a pill shaped, shiny object flying slowly past my apartment while I was sitting outside on my lawn swing. i was reading but looking at the sky every few minutes to see what the chemtrails were doing - there were about 4 chemtrails way up in the sky (so high that i couldn't see the airplanes). all of the sudden i saw this pill shaped, really shiny object heading south. it was way lower then the chemtrails. and it was way more shiny then an airplane, almost like it was chrome reflecting the sun or white reflecting the sun. I kept looking for the wings but couldn't see any. also, the shape was not a perfect pill shape as it sort of curved in a bit in the center, so it was almost the shape of an infinity sign only not as exaggerated in the middle. i kept trying to see the wings but never saw any. and i kept trying to tell what color it was but it was so bright (white light) that I assumed it was a chrome color reflecting the sun. but it might have been self-lit, i don't know. i thought of running into the house to get my camera but i knew i was going to loss sight of it as my apartment faces north and it would be over my porch roof in a matter of seconds. once it got over my roof, i rushed into the apartment, grabbed my camera and rushed to the south window to see if i could shoot it. but it was nowhere in the sky. (my apartment is on the 3rd floor and i should have been able to still see it as it wasn't moving very fast.) there was no noise. I can't estimate how high it was or how big it was as I had nothing to compare it to in the sky. there were some light wispy clouds way up high and those weird chemtrails streaking across the sky but other then that it was a clear blue sky. i have seen airplanes go by and even though they are further away and higher, I can make out their wings. this one had no wings that i could see. it did not leave any kind of trail.
July 5, 2014 · 10:30 PM · CYLINDER
Lockport, NY
On Saturday July 5th, about 10:30 PM, my son-in-law, and my three grandsons, were sitting at a fire in my back yard. My son-in-law took his boys into the house to go to bed. Neighbors just finished shooting off fireworks, which lit up the sky with their various colors. I am now gazing into the clear sky, enjoying the beautiful heavens filled with the many stars and their multiple configurations they made. The front of my house faces west, so I am in the back of the house which faces east. So I notice this one red round object floating over my house, traveling from west to east. I notice about 15 seconds later another red object again floating over my house. So now I am fully involved watching these two red objects and about another 15 seconds, another red object traveling west to east. As I continue to take this in I notice a fourth red object about 15 seconds behind the first three. All four objects are moving at a slow speed, high up in the sky from west to east. Then about 25 seconds or so, I see a 5th red object spaced a little farther apart than the first four. Then about 15 seconds later I notice a 6th red object moving over my hours from west to east. So as I am watching these 6 red objects float overhead, all are red & round and moving in a straight line from west to east. There is no noise like the sound of a plane coming from these 6 red round objects. Then my son-in-law came back out to sit with me at the fire and I point out to him the red round objects that have now passed us and he saw the last three red objects traveling east. What was strange was that all six objects were red coming at me, passing by me, and then looking at them from behind were all red!
July 5, 2014 · 10:30 PM · CYLINDER
Taylor, MI
I went out to watch fireworks about 10:30 PM I saw an orange red object slowly coming from the north. I wondered what kind of plane it was because I had never saw a plane like that. When it got over me it went strait up and out of sight in a few seconds. I went in and told my wife that I thought I had just seen a UFO? I went back out and two more were coming from the same spot, I called my wife to come out but by the time she got there they were gone. As she started back in, a fourth one was coming from the same area and she also watched it disappear.
July 5, 2014 · 10:15 PM · CYLINDER
Harleysville, PA
A bright orange cylinder traveling northeast, at high speed, dimmed and veered towards the east. There was no sound and no strobe lights to confuse this with an aircraft.
July 5, 2014 · 9:15 PM · CYLINDER
West Reading, PA
Orange oblong light hovering what seems to be above the moon. There is a haze causing the moon to appear blurry.
July 5, 2014 · 8:16 PM · CYLINDER
Westminster, CA
In the west sky about 240 decrees west (approximate) Between 30 and 35 decrees high (approximate) Small bright (silver) missile like shape traveling what appeared to be upward but slow (My first thought a rocket from Pointe Mugu), almost looked like it was standing still. I was looking for about 30 seconds for a trail but I didn’t see one develop till about a 45-60 seconds. It started getting longer slowly but almost imperceptible but definitely larger than when first spotted (very bright both tail and object). Both my girlfriend and myself were wondering what it was. I said I’m going to video it, turned on my Iphone camera looked up and then it just faded or (dimmed out) to nothing. The fade or vanishing took about 3-4 seconds. That was it. I suspected some test aircraft and sun reflection fading but I don't know.