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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
July 10, 2014 · 10:15 PM · LIGHT
Patterson, CA
The object was just hovering in the sky for six minutes. It was a bright orange light. I took a picture and when I looked at the picture the object looked like a white circle with a black dot in the middle of it. It did not fly off it just vanished. This was my second time seeing this object and the first time I was able to get a picture.
July 9, 2014 · 11:30 PM · LIGHT
Stillwater, MN
We suspect an evening sighting and have changed the time, to reflect that fact. The source elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 9, 2014 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Holden Beach, NC
Some lights were orange, some were white. The first light dropped to the level of the second story. The lights were seen one at a time. No sound was heard from the lights.
July 9, 2014 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Arabi, GA
My grandmother and I were sitting on the tailgate of her truck in the front yard. We were watching the dogs play before bed. It was summer and the sky’s were clear. It was a generally peaceful night. There was no noise or warning of the lights, but out of nowhere we are lit up by headlight like lights in the sky. They were generally close to the ground close enough for us and the ground around us to be lit up. It was 2 lights side by side shining down on us as if it was headlights, but they were above us. The lights turned off within 10 seconds and it was over. I can remember my grandmothers dogs acting strange and running to the door after the phenomenon. We went inside and have never experienced this again. We live in the country and are surrounded by cow pastures and no neighbors. There are no major highways around us only dirt roads, but at that time of night we have no one coming down the roads.
July 9, 2014 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Mountain View, MO
Boyfriend, 11 1/2 month old daughter and I were traveling home from town, traveling west down our gravel road and my boyfriend spotted bright white light, that appeared smaller than helicopter size and was completely silent, following the car hovering at about tree top level. We stopped the car, I got out and made an attempt to snap a photo with my cell phone, the light was gone before the picture could take.
July 9, 2014 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Elizabeth, WV
I went out to get my kids stuffed animal from the car, and as i looked up into the sky i saw a bright light speeding across the sky faster than any plane or craft i have ever seen fly over before. There was no sound at all and out of all the planes i have watched many nights and all the shooting stars i have seen this was different in many ways. The amount of distance that was covered in the short amount of time was faster than any jet i have seen on air shows, it was just different. It was a bright light no sound and just constant speed until it vanished across the sky.
July 9, 2014 · 7:20 PM · LIGHT
foz do iguaçu, PARANÁ · Brazil
It was dark, and I was waiting for my parents to pick me up from my cousin's house. It was later than usual, so I could see the stars. My parents were either doing groceries or my father had to work extra hours, and they usually came together to pick me up. It wasn't a normal scenario since they usually came early. My cousin and I were tired from playing all day, so we decided to rest on the porch until my parents arrived. As we lay down, looking at the stars, I saw what seemed to be a satellite. (I knew how a satellite looked and moved because I had asked my father before what that bright shining object in the night sky, moving slowly, was. He told me it was a satellite, so I knew how to differentiate.) It appeared like a satellite, moving slowly with a bright light resembling a star. I pointed it out to my cousin, and we both watched it. After about 10 seconds, another one approached very quickly and aligned itself beside what I believed was a satellite. Once the second object arrived, they both started moving very slowly, which was unusual. They maintained the same speed for around 5 seconds. Since it was a long time ago and my memory isn't fresh enough to remember perfectly, they may have both come to a stop and stayed for 2 or 3 seconds. However, what I can confirm is that they both accelerated to full speed and disappeared in less than a second. I had never seen anything like it. It wasn't a jet because it was too fast to be any technology we have at the moment. After they took off and disappeared, I asked my cousin, "Did you see that?" and he confirmed. To this day, I still don't think it was a normal aircraft. It was too fast and could slow down to a stop or near stop. I was close to 14/15 years old and he was one year younger than me. It was between 2014/2015 This text was corrected by chatgpt since my english is not good, that's why is very formal but is very well written and is everything that I would say it happened.
July 8, 2014 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Apalachicola, FL
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 7, 2014 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Shortsville, NY
As my friend and I sat outside on a totally clear night we noticed a light through a distant tree line to the west. At first we thought it was a star low in the sky that we hadn’t noticed but quickly realized it was rising up from behind the tree line. As it cleared the trees we saw a very very large, very bright light almost shaped like a diamond that changed color from white to blue and then pink and purple. It rose steadily to an unknown altitude and then the light began to fade to a dull white but never completely went away. At this point it began to move directly toward us. We knew it wasn’t a plane as it had none of the regular blinking lights and we could see two planes in the sky to compare it to. I currently live just a few miles from an airport and see and hear planes up close at night on a regular basis and I have never seen any that looked like this. As it got closer we could clearly see one very large round dull white light on the bottom front and two more of the same but half the size next to each other behind the large one. Next to the smaller round lights were two super small dull white blinking lights. The object moved steadily toward us and directly overhead. It was difficult to tell the size shape or altitude but we could hear a very low hum sound as it passed overhead. The round lights were huge but not bright at all as we looked up at it. It moved over the house behind us and then was gone. I believe I have seen something similar when I was a teenager living on Cape Cod.
July 7, 2014 · 9:35 PM · LIGHT
Charlotte, NC
Walking my dog noticed several objects that looked like stars moving unusually. Stopped to observe with another witness and noticed the objects moving in patterns and eventually raced out of sight. Above city less than a dozen visible stars in the sky at the time. This is what really made me notice the objects. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 6, 2014 · 11:15 PM · LIGHT
Columbia, SC
5 of us were fishing on a dock in Lake Carolina, When all of the sudden a red dot was seen Over the trees. We watched it as it turned to a Red light and then turned into a bright white light Which then split into two bright white lights, then Returned into one bright white light. Then disappeared into thin air.
July 6, 2014 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Lancaster, PA
The single UFO was seen to the left of a firework show in Lancaster, PA. It was a single light flashing the colors red, blue, and green. It stood still for about a minute, then flew to the right for a couple seconds. While in the middle of flying to the right fast, it quickly turned and went left. After a bit of flying around, it flew farther down with some trees blocking the view.
July 6, 2014 · 9:15 PM · LIGHT
Atlantic Beach, NC
I flipped the food on the grill and began talking to a friend and looked up and the light was still there but a more orange color. Object hadn't moved. I continued to observe the light for movement. There was none. Light became more intense and shifted to a red/orange and began to blink/flicker for about 30 seconds then disappeared. I had thought I witnessed a stellar occurrence such as a supernova.
July 6, 2014 · 8:45 PM · LIGHT
Davenport, FL
1 singular light occurred and then approximately about 10 minutes late another appeared to the right of it and 5 minutes after that one appeared another light did to the left and formed a V or triangular shape and these lights kept fading in and out, still currently doing so as I post this. The color of whatever these are were white a bright shimmering white that faded in and out and kept moving from left to right.
July 6, 2014 · 10:20 AM · LIGHT
Tacoma, WA
It was partly cloudy. High clouds and clear sky. My daughter was at the far end of my gravel pit 1 quarter mile from my house. She called me and screamed at me to go outside and look at he sky. I went out my back door to the road and saw 6 maybe 7 pinpoint very bright lights in a type of formation. What got most of my attention was a larger very fast moving "thing" it changed color rapidly and seemed to have lines coming out of the center. It moved so fast that it was hard to keep track of. The other smaller ones held my focus. They moved very slow. They did not change color like the larger one but they moved together at the same slow speed spreading slowly away and up into the clouds. I waited and watched for about 8 min. They dropped down out of the clouds again. All going the same slow speed. They spread apart again and disappeared. SCARY!!
July 6, 2014 · 5:15 AM · LIGHT
Clarkesville, GA
On July 4th, my husband pointed out what seemed to be a very bright star that was flashing intermittently red and green lights. The object hovered in the sky and seemed to bounce. It would move up and down and then sideways with no pattern to it and then it darted off. After about 20 mins it returned with 2 more that were exactly like it and bounced around some more. The objects floated in a triangle pattern. I took video with my phone but it is not the best quality although you can see the objects flashing of colors. On July 5th the objects returned only this time they were floating over our house and this time in a straight line. Two of them darted off after about ten mins which left one bouncing alone. He vanished after 5 more mins.
July 6, 2014 · 1:05 AM · LIGHT
New Freedom, PA
I saw 2 golden yellow balls of light flying slowly through the sky. Had to get off highway to follow them. They flew north east and first one disappeared then the second one did. I was stopped by a field and lost sight of them. They were NOT planes or helicopters and totally silent
July 5, 2014 · 11:30 PM · LIGHT
East Patchogue, NY
My daughter and I just finished watching a firework show on our front lawn when we got up to go in the house and this very fast moving red/orange light caught our eyes it was moving west to east along the south shore. Then it just disappeared into the night sky. 3 mins later another red/orange light appeared from the same location heading west to easy along the south shore but this one disappeared behind the tree line and I couldn't see it again. A plane came by shortly after they disappeared but it wasn't moving as fast as the balls of lights, definitely couldn't have been an airplane of any kind it was moving way to fast I've never seen anything that fast. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 5, 2014 · 11:30 PM · LIGHT
Bel Air, MD
Walking my dog tonight, i looked up near the big dipper, when to the right of the constellation, i saw a dim white light slowly moving downward. While looking at it speculating what it could be, it gradually got brighter to what I would describe as 10x the brightness it previously was for a second and went back to its original state much more rapidly but still continued to move downward through the scorpio constellation. I checked my star scope app to check for any comets coming by but none. I was thinking maybe a shooting star but ive never seen one move so slow.
July 5, 2014 · 11:27 PM · LIGHT
Fergus Falls, MN
I was in the car with some friends going to a friends house July 5, 2014 at about 11:25 pm when I looked out the window across a few open fields and a little patch of woods. There was a lightning storm in the distance when I noticed two balls of light on the edge of the storm which I initially thought to be ball lightning. Upon closer inspection the balls of light were acting strange, they maintained a consistent size/shape/flying formation before flying around the front of the storm and around to the back. (They were on the right side then came around the front and disappeared around the left side) Maybe 30 seconds later the lights came back to the front but this time there were 4 of them in a diamond shape. They stopped along the right side and rearranged themselves when the storm really started to light up on the same side. The lights all went single file around the back for a little bit before 6-8 in a cluster came back out to the front right arranged themselves into a V or check mark shape and disappeared up into the clouds. Around this time the car made a weird noise and kind of flickered for a second but it’s an older car so it may or may not have been related. The balls of light were all the same size and color, bright white with a slight electric blue tinge. They were above treetop level and below cloud level but I’m not to great at guessing altitude so I don’t know exactly how high they were. They were about the size of a small airplane in diameter each. (like if you drew a circle around the plane, that size) They were just way to consistent and precise to be ball lightning, they moved with a purpose. I watched for about 10 minutes but they were already there when I started watching so they were probably there longer. I put the location as Fergus Falls, MN in the report thing but it was between Fergus Falls and Dalton, MN but we were a little closer to Fergus Falls if that makes any difference.
July 5, 2014 · 11:25 PM · LIGHT
Fallbrook, CA
Driving south on the I-15 Freeway just south of Temecula and Fallbrook, CA, approaching the Highway 76 exit. My husband and I had just entered unincorporated San Diego County when from the car we saw an unidentifiable object in the low sky on the east side of the freeway. We saw a cluster of between three to five very bright white lights. The cluster formed a sort of circle, but it changed formation. The cluster flew erratically over an area relatively low to the ground—this was an area of undeveloped land for the most part. It would move around, dip down towards the ground, then move upward very fast, then move around again in a formation, kind of dipping and shooting up and making sudden turns, all fairly low to the ground in ways that no plane or helicopter or other flying thing I know of could do. Certainly nothing of this size. The lights on this were incredibly bright. My husband asked if we should turn around at the 76 exit and go back to try and see it again once we passed it. I didn’t think I could take a picture of it since it was moving so fast and erratically. My husband said it must be a drone. I went home and read about drones and none were described like this. My husband is a lawyer and I have a Ph.D. in education. We have no particular interest in UFO’s. We did see the hovering amber lights over Orange County from our home in Dana Point earlier this year, but didn’t think to report it. This sighting was, to me, much more unsettling
July 5, 2014 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Pueblo West, CO
We went out on our patio, which faces west. We looked to the south and there were very bright lights against the mountains, which are about 20-30 miles away. There are only 2 very small towns in that area and we normally see no lights from there. The lights in the center of the group were in a narrow pyramid shape. There were several lights on each side, outside of the pyramid. At first, we thought they were all stationary, but as we watched, some of them would move to the right, left, up or down VERY slowly. There was no color and no sound. There was a cloud above and off to the right of the lights and they, one or two at a time, moved up and to the right until they disappeared behind the cloud.
July 5, 2014 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Anaheim, CA
The object looked like a semi-bright star in the south east sky. The color of the object matched the color of the night stars. At first, I thought the object to be a star, it did not move in the night's sky. Looking away for a couple minutes, I looked back, and the object was gone. I do not believe the object was a plane. I am leaning more toward the object was of Earth, not alien. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 5, 2014 · 10:20 PM · LIGHT
Brooklyn Park, MN
A very bright orange light came towards my 2nd story bedroom window. It got close, then changed direction and slowly disappeared!