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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.
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August 3, 2014 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
IdentifiedAvenieres (Les), Rhône-Alpes · France
Le 3 aout 2014 vers 22h30 un témoin observe dans le ciel un point lumineux blanc se déplaçant silencieusement du SO-NE au NE à peu près à la vitesse d'un avion. Un seul témoignage est recueilli. L'observation d'un point lumineux très brillant traversant le ciel vers l'Est en quelques minutes moins de 2h après le coucher du soleil évoque nettement un passage de la station spatiale internationale (ISS). Le site Calsky confirme cette hypothèse : l'ISS a "survolé" la zone du témoin de 22h36 à 22h45, du Sud-Ouest vers le Nord-Est. Comme le témoin ne signale pas l'ISS en plus de son observation, le GEIPAN classe ce cas "A" : observation de la station spatiale internationale. [GEIPAN classification A — ISS]
August 3, 2014 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Mineral Point, WI
Spotted a bright light that looked like a star moving overhead in a south to north direction. As it moved across the sky at different spots it would flash a bright white light almost like a camera flash. Not sure if this could have been a satellite
August 3, 2014 · 9:45 PM · LIGHT
Emporia, KS
I was taking my dog out like I normally do around that time, when I noticed a very bright like what I originally thought was a star just above the moon, I began looking at other stars and noticed this one was much brighter. That's when it began to move what looked like higher into the sky then I watched it fly across the skymuch faster than a plane would have but not so fast that I couldn't watch it, it was a solid ball of bright light and I watched it until it disappeared and I could no longer see it, just before it disappeared a plane crossed right behind it flashing red then white like they normally do, and that's when I realized that ball of light was much larger than the plane was, then the light faded away in the distance
August 3, 2014 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Middleburg, FL
I was in my front yard, saw a light flash. Looked like giant flashlight in the sky above the trees. The light flipped off then 9 smaller lights appeared on the side of it. It was roundish. When it took off, it left a trail of the lights.
August 3, 2014 · 9:15 PM · LIGHT
Senatobia, MS
I do not want to sound like one of those kooks that probably contact your agency all the time, but I have seen something that is a mystery to me. I am a retired Federal employee (34 years USACE) and I have always had a fascination with aviation, military aircraft, the space program and the heavenly bodies above. I've always got a eye on the sky (day or night). For health purpose, I walk at night in my small town neighborhood. Tonight, 3 Aug 2014, at approx. 9:15pm Central time, I saw what I can only describe as a silent, stationary beacon in the night sky (like a lighthouse at sea) make a single revolution and disappear with no further sight or sound. I pulled my cellphone and checked my “PlaneFinder” app, and as I expected, there was nothing there. The truly amazing aspect of this event is that it occurred once before while I was walking at night, at roughly the same time in August of 2004. Almost exactly ten years ago. I live in northwest Mississippi, 30 mile south of Memphis International. We get a lot of FedEx traffic in the evenings so I’m quite familiar with their aircraft, their lighting and their sounds. And helicopters are extremely audible. Nothing that I know of in aviation, silently turns in place with an extremely bright search light that points downward. What do we have in our inventory that can cause such an occurrence? Thanks,
August 3, 2014 · 9:15 PM · LIGHT
Galliano, LA
Does anyone have an explanation?
August 3, 2014 · 8:15 PM · LIGHT
Cleburne, TX
Driving East from downtown Cleburne, I observed a large brilliant white light, similar in intensity to a welder's arc strobing in a 3 sec on/1 sec off pattern traveling south rapidly at low altitude, lower than the 200 foot relief hills behind the object. It disappeared before I could pull over for a better view. I have never seen airplane or helicopter lights nearly that bright and no other lights were visible on the object. The intensity of the white light and speed of the object precluded identifying any shape, even though it was slightly before dusk and only about 1/4 mile distant. I was unable to arrive at a plausible explanation for any ordinary object it could have been, hence this report.
August 2, 2014 · 11:45 PM · LIGHT
Livonia, MI
I walked out to my back yard with my dogs. I looked towards the north and observed three reddish-orange objects/lights in the sky. Two were in line with each other (south to north direction) and the third was slightly to the east. I went back into the house and called my wife to come outside to see this and grabbed my cell phone (to see if I could get a couple of pictures). When we came back out, all three were in line (south to north direction) and moving slowly towards the south. The lead one began to fade until it was no longer visible and each of the other two did the same as they reached the same spot in the sky. They made no sound. After the third one had faded away a commercial jet flew from west to east near where they faded away at a much lower altitude than what the lights were at.
August 2, 2014 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Pierre, SD
While sky watching Saturday, August 2nd, 2014, looking to the south my friend and I saw a bright light that was about the size and brightness of the ISS except this object was moving in a straight line from West to East. It appeared to be quite lower than any satellite but there was no sound made by this craft. There was no wind on that night so I was really surprised at how quiet it was. I have never seen a light that bright move in that direction. At one point when it was about ¾ way across the it got about 10 times brighter than it was originally and then faded out and disappeared.
August 2, 2014 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Palm Springs, CA
5 silent lights moving up the mountain. One and a half miles away. Mountain, two miles high. Moved in formation, up mountain into sky. Created a V then shifted down into an introverted L. Afterward 4 more lights moved at a rather constant rate up the mountain face and about 400 meters into the sky. I have video. We get ALOT of air craft here, chopper and plane. These are something different, terrestrial or not.
August 2, 2014 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Madison/east Limestone, AL
Bright lights streak across the sky in downward trajectory, then disappear with no sound. Looked like what a flare looks like when fired, but with out any large illumination. Possible meteor, we wonder. PD
August 2, 2014 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Lake Worth, FL
Coming back from the store on a moped with a friend. We noticed a strange light to our left. What stood out to us was that the object/light was moving in ways an aircraft simply couldn't. I pulled over on the sidewalk, and we got down to watch this object/light. My partner at the time started recording, and with my two eyes I can see the phone recording. The object/light was moving in triangular patterns, back and forth, side to side. There was a cloud in sight, which then the object/light moved behind. I was so sure this was UFO I even called my dad to run to the end of the street to catch a glimpse. Before he can make it to where we were, the object/light transformed into what seemed to be a plane. With plane lights and all. I'm 1000000% sure of what we saw that night and left us both in shock. Hands shaking and all, we make our way back to the house and pull out the phone to review the video.. Video was not in phone. I don't have an explanation of how this could've happened after I looked and made sure it was recording. I was left mind blown, could not sleep that night.
August 2, 2014 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Northglenn, CO
Was white light brighter then a bright star it passed. Was heading north, stopped, and started heading north east. No flashing lights, no noise. Probably 1500 feet from the ground
August 2, 2014 · 9:20 PM · LIGHT
Von Ormy, TX
Object was traveling from south to north. It did not have any strobing lights or sound, just a solid light. Faster than ordinary aircraft, but it was not streaking across the sky. Object maintained a steady pace across the sky. I reported this to a friend in Boerne (former NASA employee) who went outside and also saw the object. Her son said that it appeared to be a satellite (this object was traveling much faster than any satellite that I have ever seen) which DO have a south to north trajectory which, I guess, can be verified with some gov't agency.
August 2, 2014 · 9:20 PM · LIGHT
St. Louis, MO
Network of a dozen or so yellowish lights just hanging in the sky, sort of in a net shape. Then proceeded to move slowly until sis appearing in the clouds. We saw them from our car as we drove southwest on Gravois Rd. Toward Baptist church Rd in the 63123/63126 area of St. Louis county
August 2, 2014 · 8:37 PM · LIGHT
Oakland Park, FL
This is my 2nd encounter within 2wks...i stood on my patio looking at my lake as i do most every night when i noticed a bright light sitting still in the sky. I immediately ran to get my cell phone so i could film..once i began to film the BRIGHT OBJECT turned red, then back to white..hovered a few more seconds then disappeared. This sighting was approx 75 yards past the sighting two week's previous. Since these sightings i hv bad headaches but a dr wont believe me. Are aliens watching me?
August 2, 2014 · 12:10 AM · LIGHT
Fairhaven, MA
An orange/peach colored light that was flickering and floating from south to north along the east side of Sconticut Neck. It was sort of a horizontal crescent shape. All I could think of was the fire from a hot air ballon, but at midnight??
August 1, 2014 · 11:30 PM · LIGHT
Salina, KS
I was star gazing on my back patio, no clouds in sight, it was a beautiful night, when I saw three UFO's directly above me. I noticed in my peripheral vision a very bright light, heading north, directly above me. It was brighter than any star visible, and I watched it fade into sight from the darkness. In full sight, I watched the light began to fade away quickly, when another UFO appeared nearly exactly where the other disappeared, traveling south-west, directly above me. This one was not as bright, but I knew it was not an airplane, nor satellite, I also watched this sprout from the blackness. The third I saw also faded into being from the blackness of space, but this was not like the other two. It was a faint orange light, with a blinking red light. The light was not flashing in a pattern, like you would see on any other aircraft, and the UFO was not moving smoothly. It was almost "jumping" or stuttering on its path. Eventually, it flew into a treeline and I was unable to tell if it faded away or not.
August 1, 2014 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Freeport, NY
Over a ten minute period, my son and I witnessed what appeared to be three bright colored red/orange lights fly steadily over our neighborhood and seemingly vanish into thin air.
August 1, 2014 · 10:15 PM · LIGHT
Lowell, MA
While sitting in my yard, I looked to the sky and saw a light moving swiftly across. Planes frequently fly overhead, but this was different. There were no guide lights like a plane would have, and there was absolutely no sound. This craft was a single, white light (looks similar to a bright star) that steadily moved across the sky.
August 1, 2014 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Cave Creek, AZ
/Users/dreasdmd/Desktop/ufo 8.1.14.docx Sighting occurred Friday, August 1, 2014, 20:00, hours in Cave Creek (Maricopa County, 85331 zip code) , Arizona. I walked out of the garage, facing due south, and immediately heard the deep loud sound of a large helicopter. Looking up, I saw two stationary objects. One obviously a large helicopter (what I assumed to be military) facing east referencing the position of its navigation lights (no head or search lamps apparent ). The other was a large round ball of light reminding me of the color of amber jewelry or a head lamp from a sixties automobile. These were separated by some space, as the dark sky was visible between them. No sound was heard from the Light Ball however the helicopter was very loud. I watched for ten minutes with no movement but did observe the Light Ball seemed to pulse from the outside in becoming less bright toward the middle. Once, I thought I could see three balls of light forming the big ball but I am not certain. The helicopter moved forward and seemed to become one with the Light Ball but I am thinking the light intensity of the obscured the helicopter as I could still here it. I took my iPhone 5s from my pocket (will attach photos) and snapped a couple of pictures with flash. Immediately the Light Ball/not visible helicopter began to move north on a western angle in my direction. I became uneasy and crossed the street to hide under a tree and as I was doing so the combined objects changed direction more towards the tree. I noticed the phone was still lighted so I clicked it off and stayed in the shadows observing the Light Ball between the leaves. I may have been there for a few minutes and saw my next door neighbor (two ladies) pull in their drive way and get out of their Tahoe phones in hand taking pictures. I walked over to talk with them (their comment was they were wigged out) and turning to look, I saw the Light Ball and helicopter as two separate objects again with the Light Ball west of the helicopter and both were stationary and hovering. The neighbors went inside as I observed The Light Ball slowly start to move west/slightly southwest and the helicopter followed. I watched until they were completely out of sight. Suddenly, I heard the same helicopter sound again and looking up and left, I saw exactly what I just witnessed disappear in the western sky. The Light Ball was east of the helicopter and the helicopter seemed to be facing east. Both objects were stationary and hovering but the helicopter sound was not as loud and no sound was heard from the Light Ball. I did observe they seemed to be on the same latitude as the others were but further east. I watched for approximately five minutes and took a flash picture. The Light Ball moved toward my direction followed by the helicopter. They stopped after some north/west directional movement and hovered again. Suddenly the Light Ball headed southeast (North Scottsdale) with at a must faster rate of speed than the first sightings. The helicopter seemed to not keep pace and I watched until they were out of sight, but the Light Ball was out of sight much sooner than the helicopter. This was my first UFO experience and what was most unnerving was the possible military involvement along with the objects movement seemingly in response to my camera flash. I sent a text with picture to a friend just in case there was a Men in Black visit. This text was sent at 20:40 hours so this occurred over forty minutes. The photo timestamp can be determined once I upload into my Mac.
July 31, 2014 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Sutherlin, OR
I WAS OUTSIDE IN MY DRIVEWAY WATCHING A LIGHTNING STORM. I HAPPENED TO NOTICE TWO GLOWING RED OBJECTS COMING FROM THE NORTH TRAVLING SOUTH AT A HIGH RATE OF SPEED OVER THE TOP OF MY HOUSE. ONE OF THE OBJECTS DISAPPEARED AND THE OTHER VEARED OFF TOWARDS THE SOUTH EAST. AS THE OBJECT PASSED OVER IT APPEARED TO BE A FUZZY RED GLOW AND MADE A VERY LOUD ROARING SOUND. LIGHTING WAS FLASHING AT THE TIME BUT NO THUNDER. I WAS STILL ABLE TO HEAR THE ROARING SOUND FOR APPROX. 6 SECONDS AFTER THE OBJECT WENT OUT OF MY VIEW. I AM A 56 YEAR OLD HOUSEWIFE. MY HUSBAND LISTENS TO COAST RADIO AND TOLD ME ABOUT THE REPORT FROM COOS BAY ON JULY 31, 2014 AT APPROX. THE SAME TIME I HAD MY SIGHTING, SO I THOUGHT IT WAS WORTH GIVING MY REPORT. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 31, 2014 · 9:08 PM · LIGHT
Skippack, PA
About 9:05 pm on 7/31/14, I left my home & was traveling in a southeasterly direction to run an errand, when I saw two bright almost oval orange lights in the sky. These lights were not really high in the sky, nor directly over me, more like in the sky in front of me. I stopped my vehicle to look more closely, thinking it may be a meteorite falling from the sky. However, the orange lights did not blink or fall from the sky. They were moving through the sky almost horizontally. They were fairly close together, like military planes in formation, but the lights were bright & much larger, similar to the little red blinking light on an airplane...maybe as much as 5-10x the size. I opened my window on my vehicle, to ascertain whether I could hear any sound of an engine. I heard nothing but some traffic from a nearby intersection. Then I noticed a third identical light following the first two, though the distance between the last two was 3x the distance between the first two lights. I thought it was strange but after sitting in my vehicle looking up for ~1-2 minutes decided to continue to my destination a 1/4 mile away to see if I could still see them. I came to a red traffic light intersection where there were street lights. I stopped at the red light. At this time, I thought "Oh shoot, I should try & take a photo with my cell phone". The lights were farther away at this point & didn't appear as large, but I did snap a photo anyway. However, I thought it probably didn't turn out due to the glare of traffic & street lights. In addition, the orange non-blinking lights were much farther away by this time, & appeared more the size of the! red blinking lights on an airplane flying high in the sky, though they were still not blinking. I kept looking around to see if anyone in the other cars saw them & when a car coming the opposite way ran the red light, I believed they too might be pulling into the CVS parking lot to stop & look up at the sky. But they didn't. I pulled into the parking lot & turned away from the store & got out of my car to try & take another photo. This time, I saw 4 lights, though the one that had been first in line was so far away, it no longer appeared orange & not as bright as the other & were going northeast. I do not believe more than 4-5 minutes passed from the time I saw the first two orange lights until I took the 2nd & final photo. I went into the store to pick up my items & when I came out about 5-8 min later, I saw nothing in sky but a sliver of a moon in the opposite direction. I returned home & at this point, I told my husband that I saw strange bright orange lights in the sky, but was really confused as to what they could have been. This was the first time I looked at the photos I took. Surprisingly, the photos did not show the orange lights I saw with the naked eye but rather crescent shaped lights.
July 31, 2014 · 6:40 PM · LIGHT
Tempe, AZ
Driving from Southern and McClintock drive in Tempe, AZ, towards US 60, we saw an intense almost glittery pulsating bright white light formation hovering, almost over Freeway towards the end of Rush hour. It did this for a couple of minutes, we couldn't believe our eyes thinking maybe it was a helicopter, then flew off at light speed north and was gone! Others had to have seen this! We've been looking for news, but so far nothing. Source of report elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. The witness didn't see anything in the news, probably because he/she did not report it to the news. PD