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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
June 26, 2014 · 10:20 PM · LIGHT
Cherry Grove Beach, SC
Series of orangeish lights appear and disappear all over sky.
June 26, 2014 · 10:15 PM · LIGHT
Litchfield Beach, SC
Evening of June 26, 2014, when we walked onto the beach at 10:15pm, saw orange lights already there hovering in the sky over the ocean: two sets of three lights lined up close together in a small row, and then one off to the left by itself. Very quiet. The one on the left seemed to sweep off to the left and disappear. The other two just blinked off. As we continued to watch, the lights blinked off and on periodically, one light - not the row of three again. We watched movement of other white lights around this area. Seemed very active, so fast it was sometimes hard to focus in. Movement and directional shift faster than anything I've ever seen. Sometimes almost too fast to see. Sometimes a larger single flash of light, sometimes smaller ones grouped together. At one point,we saw a pale chain of white lights move quickly in sync like a necklace. In the end, saw two large white lights, one over the other, separated by a large space move slowly upward in the sk! y over our heads. The lights were too far apart to be a plane-very far apart. It seemed like they might be connected. There were several of us on the beach together watching over the course of an hour. One said they'd been watching this for three nights and got some of the lights on video.
June 26, 2014 · 9:20 PM · LIGHT
Sacramento, CA
Was on the phone outside when I saw two lights off in the distance in the sky, not blinking like a plane's lights do. They were flying next to each other so immediately I thought they were military aircraft in a training exercise. They seemed to be coming toward me, but after second thought I think they were going up. They started moving away from each other, and then one disappeared, followed by the other disappearing about twenty seconds later. Then, from the horizon, a similar light went up and disappeared, this time by itself. Next, two more lights came from the horizon, just like in the first description, and disappeared after parting ways. The sky was a bit cloudy but not enough to block out stars, etc. I'm sure it wasn't a commercial aircraft because I saw commercial aircraft flying when I saw the lights. Very interesting sighting; never seen anything like it before. I was thinking maybe it was a missile but I've seen those too and they were moving too slowly to be missiles. Still scratching my head. Couldn't get a video because my phone ran out of battery as soon as I turned on my video camera, but this link depicts what I saw almost exactly: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb9NJlijVb0 Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 26, 2014 · 12:25 AM · LIGHT
Portland, OR
I was sitting at my computer with the window open when I noticed what I thought was a blue helicopter light, but it quickly grabbed my complete attention with its strange movements. The light moved across the skyline at extremely high speed, assuming the object was as distant as I think it was. It was also incredibly smooth, gliding effortlessly north to south. Every 8 seconds or so, the radiant blue light became an intense white light for about 1 second, and then became a dull red before becoming an intense blue again. This happened probably 4 times before the object dipped below the some apartments to the east of me. I've never seen something that I couldn't explain like this before and thought I should describe it. My girlfriend also witnessed this UFO and agrees that it could not have been any aircraft the two of us are familiar with. I couldn't really see a craft shape very well, but she feels that when it went from the white light, which was VERY bright like search lights, back to red and then blue, it kind of seemed like the object was rotating. We opened our back door I couldn't hear any damn thing, but my girlfriend thinks she heard it whining, again unlike any aircraft we understand.
June 25, 2014 · 10:45 PM · LIGHT
North Myrtle Beach, SC
My family and I observed up to 12 strange lights while staying at the Bay Watch Resort at North Myrtle Beach. The lights were orange colored and they were very distinct, as they had a white line around the circle. They all appeared in a straight line and were about a mile off the beach and they were at about 45 degrees in the sky. The lights were about a half mile from one end to the other. They only stayed on for about 3 to 5 seconds. They turned off and on like a light bulb. We know the witness who submitted the report, and we consider him to be a highly qualified, and reliable, observer. He has participated in UFO research for the last forty years, or so. We express our gratitude to the witness for his having shared the report with our Center. PD
June 25, 2014 · 10:40 PM · LIGHT
Myrtle Beach, SC
Several orange lights ...in formation ...appearing in the dark sky ..lights appeared off and on for over an hour. Anywhere from 1 to 8 lights shined at the same time...turning off and on hovering in a straight line ...lights blinded slowly off and on in a way that made it look like an object was moving in a circular formation..appear and the disappear...one light on...four lights on...strange! Several witnesses watched in awe!
June 25, 2014 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Myrtle Beach, SC
Watched the 10:00pm fireworks. Stayed and talked with my family and noticed orangish to red lights appear in the sky 3-4 times, no more than two at a time.. Asked my father-in-law who was in the Navy to pay attention to see if they were flares. Then the lights appeared again but began to make multiple lights (6-8) forming a straight line in the SE to S sky. He looked at me and said "that was no flare".
June 25, 2014 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Oak Island, NC
June 26, 2014 about 10 PM, my son and I were sitting on the balcony at Oak Island, looking out at the ship lights on the horizon waiting to get into The Cape Fear River. We saw an orange light appear. And then 3 more beside that one. S o a total of four lights spaced out horizontally. Then they went out. Then the same thing occurred. I googled UFO sightings, Oak Island and found this site and learned this has happened quite a few times before. Very interesting.
June 25, 2014 · 10:25 PM · LIGHT
Myrtle Beach, OH
We were on our balcony in North Myrtle Beach when we saw the first red light. We saw this two night ago so we all gathered to watch. The lights appear and then 5 more appear one by one in a line. This would happen in different locations in the sky all across Myrtle Beach. The lights are then followed by small flashing lights in the same area.
June 25, 2014 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Oxnard, CA
Me and two other friends were observing the flight paths of planes landing at Pt. Mugu Air Base and Camarillo airport. One guy said to look at a certain patch of the sky that was directly above us. We saw a light that looked like a faint star moving slowly through the sky going north. A few times it would disappear and then reappear a bit down the way on the same path. Then around a couple minutes later we saw a second one going in the exact same way, northbound. The only difference is that this one was a bit more west of the first one. It behaved the same way as the first one by fading in and out at irregular intervals. Then it flare up into a larger very noticeable light and then completely faded out of sight. And then we saw a third one around five minutes later that behaved similar the first one, it did not flare up like the second one. Then around 25-35 minutes later, we saw all three going back down south in a straight line, spaced apart similar to the! constellation orion. All three were the same size, they looked like regular faint stars. This was awesome to watch! Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 25, 2014 · 9:15 PM · LIGHT
Charleston, SC
My father and I were kayak fishing all afternoon and into the night when about 9:15pm when we were paddling back to the boat landing right off the Wando River, I noticed a very bright orange light slowly moving through the sky. The light was bright at times, while turning into a redish color then turning orange I wondering if it was a satellite reflecting the sun. The reason why I am reporting this is because the object slowed down almost to a stop in the sky then moved very quickly until the light faded away out of sight. I find this very odd. This was no satellite or plane of any any kind. The shape of the light seemed to be square at times while it was fully lit. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 25, 2014 · 12:50 AM · LIGHT
Indian Rocks Beach, FL
I was sitting on the beach it was after midnight. I go to the beach at night a lot. I saw a white and yellow light looking west out over the ocean maybe a half mile out. It was clear over the water the object was soundless and 300 ft in air flew towards me and then south then it quickly changed directions and zig zagged rapidly. Then it flew slowly towards the north at about 20 mph then cut in towards the shore. When it was over the first condo on the beach I thought to it, why are you not cloked they will see you? I swear right after I thought that it disappeared into thin air. There was no solid red or green lights on the object.
June 25, 2014 · 12:30 AM · LIGHT
Vaughan (Canada), ON · Canada
We saw a light that went north east. It wiggled and stopped and then turned and then disappeared
June 24, 2014 · 11:26 PM · LIGHT
Hokkaido (Tokachidake Mtn, NEAR ENT · Japan
UFO with zigzag motion at a high speed – June, 2014. This video was taken at 23:26 p.m. on June 24, 2014, at the camping site near Mt. Tokachidake (an active volcano in the northern part of Japan), which has been famous for UFO sightings for decades. You can see a bright object soaring up from the bottom right corner of the video screen, but in reality, my camera was facing the zenith, and the object was moving horizontally across the sky from the east to the south. I fixed my camera position and did not follow the object, so the zigzag motion of the object was not because of camera shake. I was the only one looking up the sky and other people (mountain climbers) were already sleeping in their tents. Since the site was at an altitude of 1200 meters and the temperature was very low at night, there were no insects flying, and the fireflies (lightning bugs) do not exist in the area (the fireflies do not fly at such a high speed in the first place and my camera cannot catch such dim lights). The site was completely dark and there were no outdoor lights nearby (and it was a dark moonless night). I could see many stars in the sky with the naked eyes, but my small digital camera (CASIO EX-H10) could not catch any starlight. So you can guess how bright that object actually was. About one and half hours before I saw UFO, I was surprised by a small mechanical sound that I heard from my left side (no more than two feet from where I was standing in the camping site), and I saw a long-haired young woman in white clothes. As I mentioned,the site was almost completely dark and I could not even see my shoes very well, so I could narrowly recognized that woman but could not see her face. Then I saw a small and round red light in front of her chest or her solar plexus. I supposed she would be fixing her camera to a tripod to take pictures of beautiful starry sky (but I did not actually see any camera or tripod) . That slender lady was about 5 feet and 7 inches tall and had black hair. Although I wondered why she was working in the darkness without any lights, I stepped back silently because she did not seem to have noticed that I was standing so close to her,and I did not want to surpise a young woman in the darkness. After that I kept standing for a while at some distance from her, but the next time I found that she was gone - disappeared without making any sounds of walking. In the camping site,I could hear footsteps very well even if they were more than 20 meters away. I wondered where she had gone because I did not hear any sounds of car. It was too dangerous for anyone to leave the site on foot because there were wild bears often appear in that area. She was not looking up overhead but straight ahead to the east where the Tokachidake mountains rises-and it was the very direction where the UFO appeard about one and half hours later. Although there is no certain links between that mysterious lady and the UFO, I have to say that I had seen another mysterious yong gentleman who suddenly disappeard before another UFO appeared in the sky when I was waiting for the chance to videotaple UFO on the beach of Kamakura on February 25 in 2014. At that time,I saw a large disk-shaped green UFO that circled over my head and flew away. I was so surprised to see the UFO at a such close range that I momentarily forgot about taking its picture even though I had my camra at hand. Having had such similar two experiences, I came to believe that the mysterious lady and the gentleman may have somthing to do with the UFOs that appeared after these mysterious people disappered.
June 24, 2014 · 10:45 PM · LIGHT
Myrtle Beach, SC
We saw one orange-yellow light flash over the ocean and then fade into a second light. This one faded into a third and finally a fourth. These lights appeared in a straight horizontal line. It then, faded and disappeared completely.
June 24, 2014 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Chicago, IL
I moved to the window to pull the shade down and noticed an odd group of lights in the southern sky. As we are in the city (Chicago) and cannot often see stars, it was so compelling that I called my husband to observe this with me. Eight to twelve lights grouped together in formations (2, 4). Once they grouped together, they began to move at a very fast rate traveling straight UP...in a straight line. This was mind-blowing for us as there was a distinct formation and a clear ascent straight upward. We will never forget this. Witness indicates that the date is approximate. PD
June 24, 2014 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Ocala, FL
We were sitting outside and noticed what appeared to be stars lighting up and slowly moving upward. Then the object would dim it lights for a few seconds and appear to be gone and then it would light up again and begin to move. There were a total of 3 lights who would do this for a total of about 10 minutes. They were in a triangle formation and the top object or light seemed to be the brightest and was moving upward the most. Very interesting to watch. It was as if they were trying to imitate the stars but stars don't move. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 24, 2014 · 9:34 PM · LIGHT
Ozark, MO
While outside at 21:34 central time in rural Ozark, Mo, I noticed 3 air craft flying at I assume normal cruising altitude. The air craft seemed to be flying west to southwest direction. While observing the aircraft I noticed a solid white light (about the size of a star) heading from west to east. I thought maybe it may be the ISS so I went into my house and grabbed my binoculars. I went back outside and got the object into view with my binoculars. It still looked like a star as it was moving. Then suddenly it stopped and went beck to the west for about 2 seconds. Then it started to go east once again for a second or two. It then stopped and went back to the west once again. It did this four times before it suddenly accelerated very fast toward east. It was out of my sight in a matter of about 8 seconds. Note: Each time it stopped to go in the opposite direction it was with out hesitation.
June 23, 2014 · 11:30 PM · LIGHT
Murrells Inlet, SC
I saw this occurrence happen again and asked a guest in the pool area where I was standing to look over the direction I was pointing. I told him what I saw but he said he saw nothing. This "object" remained in a constant position over the horizon. On my next glance, I saw the light glow red and appear to split off to the left in the northern direction. The red glowing light never came back into view. My first thought was a meteor but the duration of the constant light, the lack of movement from its location, and the sudden departure from view, made me question that. I saw no other reports of this, but would like it documented.
June 23, 2014 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Myrtle Beach, SC
Yellow objects would appear and fade across the sky for several minutes. Finally, at the end of the event, about 1 mile off the coast, a bright yellow light appeared. As it faded, a second bright yellow light appeared directly next to it. As it faded, a third one did the same, and then a fourth, and then a fifth. The pattern continued for about 30 seconds, the all lit up, began to spread out, and faded out. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 23, 2014 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Litchfield, SC
Bright orange lights in a circle shape that seemed to flash in a small, straight line and then disappear. At first it was just two orange lights and then nothing for a minute or so and then there seemed to be more, probably no more than three or four clusters at a time. It was over the ocean up with the stars and the whole thing must have lasted about 10 minutes, from around 10:55 to 11:05 as I remember looking at my phone at one point and seeing 11:00pm.
June 23, 2014 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Pawleys Island, SC
Witnessed several groups of orange lights in sky over ocean at Litchfield Beach of Pawleys Island, SC. At first, a group of orange lights appeared, flared then disappeared. Next, a second group of 3-4 orange lights appeared, flared, then disappeared. Next, two groups of several orange lights appeared close to each other in the same general area as the other two groups of lights. The orange lights in the left group began to rotate in a line to its right (our left) and disappearing to the right (our left) as if the lights were rotating around a circular object and disappearing behind it. Then these two groups of lights disappeared. Next, two groups of orange lights appeared to our right what had to be several miles from where the original orange lights had appeared. The timing and location of these groups of orange lights indicated that there was no humanly way that they could be the same orange lights as we had seen to our left. These also flared and disappeared. There were a couple more of sets of orange lights that appeared, flared, and disappeared in the same general area and to our right of where the last groups appeared before the event ended.
June 22, 2014 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Montpelier, ID
At approximately 10 pm on June 22, 2014, I saw what appeared to be a star - (I thought it was venus for a moment) The star was moving extremely fast across the sky; way too fast to be an aircraft. At the speed it was traveling, It was extremely quiet. We grabbed the binoculars and It appeared to be an asteroid. He noticed that the object (traveling from the west to the east ) suddenly turned south east direction. There was no sound at all coming from the object. The light very quickly grew dimmer and awe saw 3 aircraft behind the first object. Two had flashing green and red lights and the other had amber lights flashing. They appeared to be chasing the first object. None of the aircrafts we witnessed produced any sounds. The first lighted object was incredibly fast and was almost instantly (within 15 seconds) gone from view.
June 22, 2014 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Mojave, CA
A coworker and I observed a bright white light moving swiftly as if gliding from west to east. The light was bright enough to create a halo or star beam type effects. We never took our focus off of it, then it dimmed until no more light was visible. Its range seemed as though the light turned off with a fade, and not due to being out of range. It had no other lights, just a solid bright white light. There were no stars visible at this hour, just pitch black night sky. Possible sighting of the ISS? PD