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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.
3,437 entries
September 6, 2016 · 6:15 AM · CIGAR
Gary, IN
i went inside to get my camera to take a picture but by the time I got it the craft was in the tree line!! I figured I would report this! I do not know what it was could of been space stuff falling, i will leave it up to you the experts!! But it was NO plane for sure!! Thanks for listening to me!!
August 30, 2016 · 11:00 AM · CIGAR
West Chicago, IL
I was driving on Illinois Route 59 in west Chicago, Illinois. I looked up and saw a silver cigar type craft. The sun hit it and I saw the reflection. I thought it was a united airlines jet, as the color was spot on match. But within a few seconds it just vanished! Blue sky no clouds. The craft was about 6-8000 feet. I watch southwest on final approach from Joliet to Midway airport. 13 years in law enforcement I've never seen a jet just disappear. I'm at a loss for words
August 28, 2016 · 10:00 PM · CIGAR
Toronto (Canada), ON · Canada
Did anyone else have a sighting in Toronto, Sunday night between 10-10:30PM? Approximately 10PM EST, Sunday August 28, 2016, over Newmarket, north of Toronto, Canada, two of us were sitting in the backyard facing East (see the photo below where the sun is rising the next morning with StarTracker Lite App superimposed to show the sky from Sunday night). Traveling from North to South (left to right in the picture above) across the eastern sky at a speed that was like a shooting star was a craft that was oval in appearance, seemingly wide like a plane, at a height approximating what a commercial jet would be flying overhead. From our sitting position on the backyard deck, it passed slightly above the trees as it sped South for a count of “1 and 2 and…” then continued with its view obstructed by the trees in a slightly wider field of view than the photo above. Initially we asked ourselves if this could be a meteorite but having already seen two a little earlier, it was clearly uncharacteristic of a meteorite. It was oval as if it might have wings but they were not perceptible wings. It was more like an energy pulse extending to each side like wings. It appeared as a quickly pulsating, oscillation with long, oval arch to each side. The rapid pulsing to each side of its center was extremely fast. Imagine for a moment, as if the pattern of a tiger’s stripes was energetically oscillating at an extremely fast rate. That is how it appeared to me, though to Alison sitting beside me, it was more like a subdued yet oval light swishing across the sky in a dark halo surrounding it. Unlike the meteorite that arched down from the sky towards the horizon like the two meteorites that we witnessed earlier, this UAP flew straight across the sky at a speed that is comparable to a meteorite. The energy was electric. The sky was the clearest we have seen all summer. Approximately 30-minutes later, at 10:32pm, we saw exactly the same phenomenon in the same exact line of vision, but this time traveling from South to North. Notably, it was moving approximately at half the speed of the original sighting for a count of “1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and…” then the trees obstructed our view. At that speed, it was speeding much faster than a jet fighter would across the sky. There was no sound at all. Again, there was an electric, energetic feel to the energy filling the air, possibly our own excitement from what we saw. This is the sky photographed on my iPhone 5s taken immediately after. Though the phone was in my hand, the craft moved much too quickly to take a shot. I believe these are the solar systems and stars that were visible, though I am not 100% certain of their exact placement, according to the StarTracker Lite App on my phone. Very grainy shot, but it offers perspective of where we were sitting and what we saw pass across our field of view. The next morning at approximately 7:30am I went outside to photograph the sun rising in the exact same spot we witnessed the sighting Sunday night, to have a clear perspective of where we had witnessed the UAPs for this report. Upon downloading the images to my computer, one of the shots taken had a bright spot above the sun. When enlarged, two objects are revealed. What is particularly interesting is that the seeming light source is at the top, north side of the spheres and they exhibit a shadow to the bottom south side. While I have won awards for my photography and work in television, I am not an expert with Photoshop nor do I have proper tools for analysis. My question to the readers out there: Is this image typical of lens flair? Is it something else that is naturally explainable? Or, is this a genuine capture of an Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon or UFO? That daylight photo aside, what we saw Sunday evening took our breath away. Never before have I seen anything like that or even read about craft resembling what we saw.
August 26, 2016 · 7:00 AM · CIGAR
Wilson, NC
I went out for my morning cigarette and walk, when I noticed White, pill shaped, silent, wingless aircraft glided from north to south across the horizon in full daylight. It was the only aircraft in the sky. No lights or anything was coming from the craft. It was flying about as high as a helicopter would fly, but it completely and absolutely silent. No erratic movement was noted. I wanted to run back into the house to photograph it, but I didn't want to miss it.
August 25, 2016 · 10:30 PM · CIGAR
Probable conventionalSerignan, Languedoc Roussillon · France
Le 25 août 2016 une famille observe le ciel étoilé avec un télescope. A 22h30, ils observent à l’œil nu le passage très rapide d'un phénomène composé de 5 lumières de couleur jaune orangé tirant sur le rougeâtre. Aucun bruit particulier n'est entendu durant l'observation de moins de 5 secondes. Le seul témoignage recueilli rapporte que durant son passage, le PAN occultait les étoiles. D’étrangeté moyenne et de bonne consistance (plusieurs témoins, mais témoignage unique et assez précis), ce cas s’avère être une méprise probable avec un météore fragmenté (voir le compte-rendu d'enquête). La description fournie par le témoin peut évoquer plusieurs hypothèses explicatives : • des lanternes thaïlandaises : la forme des PAN et le fait qu’ils ne se déplacent pas dans le sens du vent permettent d’éliminer la première hypothèse ; • un groupe d’oiseaux éclairé par des lampadaires pourrait éventuellement expliquer l’observation, mais la très grande rapidité des PAN et le fait qu’ils se suivent en ligne présentent des incohérences avec cette hypothèse explicative ; • celle d’un météore fragmenté, trop faible pour être détecté par le réseau FRIPON, peut en revanche expliquer tous les éléments de l’observation : forme du PAN, déplacement très rapide en ligne, couleur et le fait que les étoiles étaient occultées. Le cas est classé B, méprise probable avec un météore fragmenté. [GEIPAN classification B — Météore]
August 24, 2016 · 3:45 AM · CIGAR
Mobile, AL
I was leaving work on I -65 south bound around government blv exit and saw this in the air for a few minutes I had saw one back in July of this year I'm a truck driver I'm on the road alot and I no this was not man made I pay more attention now and this time I had took a few pictures and I hope everyone will see now something going on in this world in the past few years there been more sittings on UFO I hope that the government will come out and tell the people the truth about UFO and NASA to we should have the right to Now people we need to stick together and get answers from the government...
August 22, 2016 · 7:00 PM · CIGAR
Swedesboro, NJ
Driving on Kings Highway, my husband, daughter and I, saw something in the sky. It wasn't a plane, and there were 3 of them. They were very sleek, reflective and bright, like the bulb of a lamp. I couldn't focus my eyes on the actual shape. They flew high in the sky to the side of my car before going overhead and forward into the clouds.
August 20, 2016 · 7:32 PM · CIGAR
Oceanside, CA
Witness provides no contact information. Hoax?? PD
August 16, 2016 · 5:00 PM · CIGAR
Snohomish, WA
Travelling home from work. Husband driving. Saw cigar-shaped object silvery-white with two vertical red bands on each end. Next to the cigar was a smaller white triangle slowly spinning, also white/silvery. Too far to see details. Watched as triangle continued to spin, got smaller and disappeared. Cigar-shaped object went behind houses. Not sure what they were. This is the first time I've ever seen anything I couldn't identify. It's the slowly spinning triangle that makes the least amount of sense.
August 14, 2016 · 7:00 PM · CIGAR
Sabattus, ME
We spoke via telephone with the witness, and she said that she would send a longer report, and a higher quality photograph. PD
August 8, 2016 · 8:12 PM · CIGAR
Sandy (suburb of SLC), UT
My friend & I witnessed a white, cigar-shaped object that hovered over the high Wasatch mountains east of Sandy, UT. It hovered, motionless, then moved (slowly) north. It stopped & started, moving slowly, before appearing to drop behind the mountains (into what is a wilderness area). No sound. No wings. No lights (even though at the brink of night). Not moving--until it did. When it turned, the setting sun glinted, briefly, off the object. From our vantage point, the object was about the size of a very large grain of rice.
August 7, 2016 · 12:30 AM · CIGAR
Seattle, WA
A formation of white circular lights in a straight line. Traveled from west to east. While speeding across the sky, the “head” of the formation quickly shifted left then right, then back to straight. Continued straight until it disappeared. It was faster than a plane, slower than meteor. It made no noise. A group of 6 adults all saw the same thing.
August 4, 2016 · 7:53 PM · CIGAR
Fairborn, OH
I was at Maplewood Park in Fairborn, Ohio, with my girlfriend on the swings. I looked up and saw a shiny, pill shaped UFO fly overhead. It was completely silent and looked like it was really high in the air. I thought it was really odd to see an object flying so high in the air, not making nay noise, and it was metallic. So I pulled out my cell phone and started recording right away. It went straight, at a steady pace, looked like it was floating across the sky. My girlfriend and I just watched it and kept swinging. I'm not sure what I saw that day, maybe it was a satellite or a blimp. It makes me wonder because I was only a comple miles away from Wright-Patt Air Force Base. I lost sight of the object when it flew out of distance and on the other side of the tree. The object was flying from North to South. I was facing East when I noticed and recorded the UFO.
August 3, 2016 · 11:00 PM · CIGAR
Cold Spring, NY
As I was driving home north on 9-D, across from West Point, me and my friend noticed a very large bright light in the sky moving slowly. The object wandered overhead, very low, and looked almost like the shape of a rocket, hovering slowly through the night sky. We watched for as much as had time, but when we turned around further down the road to check it out, the craft had vanished. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 27, 2016 · 10:45 PM · CIGAR
St. George, UT
There was a large/long trail of fire in the sky just over the top of the mountains. It appeared to be coming closer to the ground and then disappeared behind the horizon/buildings/mountains. It also appeared to be burning and heading southeast. I heard later that some people on Scipio, Utah heard a loud crash shortly after seeing it. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 23, 2016 · 2:00 PM · CIGAR
Eugene, OR
We were traveling north on Beltline, when we first noticed an object flying in the cloudless, blue sky from west to east. It appeared to be translucent and made me think of how an agate would look if it was held up to the sky. It was quite small, longer than it was tall, but it definitely had a hump top & bottom about the middle of the craft. We could see no wings,tail, or anything extending from the craft. The speed was not too much faster than a commercial airliner, and we were able to watch it clearly. The strangest thing about it was that it was completely invisible to our eyes when we tried to observe it after removing our sunglasses. When we replaced our sunglasses it was clearly visible again.
July 22, 2016 · 8:15 PM · CIGAR
Walla Walla, WA
After about 15 minutes it started descending rapidly towards the ground and disappeared. ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) it was shaped like a cigar and it was white and it almost looked like it was glowing. that was it. and no there is not i was staying at a winery with my family in washington. i did not catch my mistake before i submitted the form. ((END ADDENDUM)) We have changed the state of the sighting, to reflect a sighting in Walla Walla, Washington. We are uncertain as to whether this is a serious report, or note. PD
July 18, 2016 · 7:00 PM · CIGAR
Ash, NC
Smaller aircraft which had no noise with rotating white lights, accompanied but super large area of twinkling smaller lights.
July 17, 2016 · 6:30 PM · CIGAR
Huntingdon, PA
Cigar shaped object low in northeast sky moving quickly towards south. Silver appearance, no wings or jet stream.
July 15, 2016 · 1:25 PM · CIGAR
Tulare, CA
On July 15th, 2016, a bright sunny clear day, at about 1:25 pm, while driving east on Sandra Ave and Oak’s St in Tulare, Ca. I looked up and saw what at first I thought was a helicopter at about 3,000 to 5,000 feet high. I asked my wife to check it out? What as it a helicopter? Just hovering there not going nowhere? Then my wife and I got to looking at it closer it was just sitting hovering over on the same place the entire time. We noticed it did not appear to have wings it was cigar shaped shiny silver-blueish in color. I notice it appeared to have like a glass dome over the top. But it had no wings. After watching if for about a minute it just disappeared. In front our very eyes. There was not a cloud in the sky and clear and sunny about 96 degrees.
July 14, 2016 · 6:00 PM · CIGAR
Burlington, NJ
Slow moving cigar shaped and flying over our development. Saw it in the sky from my backyard, which is SW...the object was in the NE sky over the front of the house. By the time I ran through to the front of the house it was miles away and and much smaller in the sky. No way it could have gotten that far at the slow speed which was travelling. When it was closer, I thought "the plane" looked funny at that angle...like it had no wings. Then I noticed it was making a westerly turn and expected the wings to be revealed...but there were none. That's when I went to the front of the house to get a better view in case I lost sight of it behind our trees. (My house is only 30 feet long and I ran!!) At first I thought it disappeared, but my husband and I saw it really small and very far away...in the NE sky...still moving very slowly. Then it was gone. There were no lights and no vapor trails. Also, no sound!
July 9, 2016 · 9:10 PM · CIGAR
Oldsmar, FL
We saw something in the sky we cannot explain. Started lower than a plane and was definitely on fire. Moved steadily across our field of view. Within minutes, it rose and ultimately went completely out of sight. Way too big and fast to be a paper lantern gone awry. And it moved up, not down, so also not a meteor or anything falling to Earth. My 11 year old son saw it from the couch and pointed it out. I couldn't see it because of the glare of the inside lights. He ran to the slider and we went to the balcony. We live on the open water of Tampa Bay, so we have an unobstructed view of a large area of sky. I yelled to my husband upstairs to look out the window in the sky. He came downstairs and by then it was already out of sight of our balcony, around the building, but still low. We all rushed downstairs and out the front door and by then it was already high enough to see over our 3 story building. Hubby was also puzzled and ran between the buildings to get a better look. By the time we got there it was really high. Within 5-10 seconds it had completely disappeared out of sight, moving away and up from us until it was too small to see it, totally gone. It seemed slow passing the house but at the end it had to really be booking to disappear that quickly. It actually freaked son out quite a bit. His little heart was pounding. I posted on Facebook directly afterwards and someone recommended I put it on here.
July 9, 2016 · 6:45 PM · CIGAR
Crawley (UK/England) · United Kingdom
I actually have video footage as we were trying to hit pigeons with ice cubes and I did it on slow mo and with it on slow motion there's an object in the distance moving at a very fast pace considering its slowed down
July 9, 2016 · 7:30 AM · CIGAR
Saint Augustine, FL
Three silver cigar shapes at high altitude, 2 flying parallel to each other, one out in front, heading N/NE. They caught my attention because there was no sound, no evidence of wings, and no contrails.