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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.
4,558 entries
April 26, 2019 · 10:30 PM · FORMATION
St. George (Canada), ON · Canada
On April 26th, at approximately 22:30, it was a clear, cool windy night with a few wispy clouds floating around at a few thousand feet. The wind was strong and gusty W to E. A friend and I were in his hot tub looking at the stars finding the Big and Little Dipper. We turned our gaze towards the north star and as we did we both saw two moving lights spaced about 6-8 feet apart. The lights were 200-300' off the ground over the subdivision and flying into the strong wind at approximately 65km/h. There was no audible noise from where we were watching in the hot tub, although the hot tub motor was running and it was very windy. The lights flew about 350’ from our right (E) across in front of us to out left (W) and then did a hard 180° turn, flew back about 20’, blinked and disappeared. I am a commercial helicopter pilot and know of no aircraft that can fly like that besides a drone. We sat and discussed that possibility for a while, hoping it would reappear. We concluded that the movement of the two lights was too smooth and uniform to be two separate drones, too fast, agile and quiet to be one large one (6-8’ wide drone??) and the speed at which it turned 180° was possible for racing drones but not for anything of size. Other possibilities we considered was some sort of light phenomenon, thinking maybe it was headlights hitting moisture in the air in just the right way, but it was very clear and cool with no moisture in the air. We eliminated theories until we had two possibilities left… something we don't know exists or an ET UFO.
April 26, 2019 · 12:45 AM · FORMATION
Boise, ID
we went outside to grab the dog because we accidentally left door open when grabbing phone in the car. i look up like i always do and thought it was the clouds moving but it wasn't because it actually covered the stars.
April 20, 2019 · 8:45 PM · FORMATION
Troutman, NC
April 20th, 2019, around 8:45PM EST, we were driving on Highway 21 towards the city of Troutman, when we witnessed a lot of strange lights hovering towards the north, some 35 degrees above the horizon. At some point, we could see between 15 to 20 distinct lights. It was an incredible sighting. When we finally found a safe place to park the lights started to disappear and we did not even have a chance to take a decent picture of it. The lights were moving slowly and randomly, mostly hovering below the lowest clouds and some of the lights even seemed to have entered the clouds. The METAR for the nearby Statesville Airport reported scattered clouds as 3000 feet and broken clouds above 4500. By estimating that the lights were a mere 3000 feet above ground and on a 35 degree above the horizon from us, I estimate them to have been hovering above the Murdock Rd area, between interstate 77 and Barium Springs. Our position as observers was at 35°41'25"N 80°52'07"W. I am an aviation enthusiast and have a couple dozen hours of flying time as a pilot. I am aware of when I see something out of the ordinary. Has anybody else seen or taken a picture/video of this?
April 16, 2019 · 9:00 PM · FORMATION
Oley, PA
Witnessed five craft with red lights on bottom hovering in formation of a "V" on its side. The formation changed direction in sync, up, left, down when suddenly two disappeared. The remaining three scattered and disappeared. It was around 9PM, no sound coming from the crafts.
April 15, 2019 · 12:00 AM · FORMATION
Bakersfield, CA
At approximately 6 pm pst, my girlfriend and I were in our driveway looking up in the sky west about 5000 feet in the evening sky. We witnessed 3 unidentified objects, one in middle being the larger escorted by two other smaller unidentified objects one to the left and one on the right having no lights and no sound and dark colored objects heading southeast traveling at an unknown speed and disappeared into the clouds beyond sight.
April 11, 2019 · 2:00 PM · FORMATION
Ormond Beach, FL
April 11 at 2:30 pm, in my back yard.I heard a loud, whirling sound in the sky above..seconds later I saw 2 pearl-iridescent color aircraft flying South . A few seconds later I heard the same loud whirling sound and looked up...a 2nd pair of pearl-iridescent, almost invisible aircraft, came flying over and did an abrupt turn to the East, toward the ocean.
April 10, 2019 · 10:30 PM · FORMATION
Freeport, TX
I was traveling from East to West on Lamar Street on Quintana Island, out of the corner of my eye I thought i saw a shooting star and as i got a full view it looked like a flare but it had a series of moving bright white lights and green lights. It then instead of going out it came back in the direction it came from almost like a c shape in the sky and repeated this full c motion then it went up into the sky. All happened within a matter of seconds.
April 6, 2019 · 11:00 AM · FORMATION
St. George, UT
We were sitting outside on the deck, saw a light appear in the south east coming fast across the sky. We watched it and was waiting to see flashing light because we had seen lots of aircraft flying over but the light was too bright. As it moved from south east to north west, it kind of looked like a spider moving across the sky. It would speed up and slow down like the way spiders move up a wall. It also looked like it had feelers coming out the front of the object. As the object got 3/4 across the sky it blinked out and was gone.
April 5, 2019 · 11:00 PM · FORMATION
La Farge, WI
3 lights separated like so. - - - Spaced and flying very fast above the reserve then appeared to cloak, with one light still showing... also a possibility of the object flying farther into atmosphere. Flew accross the horizon. No sound.
April 4, 2019 · 7:00 AM · FORMATION
Vero Beach, FL
We have been watching the strange light that has been in the same area of the sky for the last 12 hours. This morning just after 7 am I decided to take a video of it with my cell phone. The object was very bright despite the fact that the sun was up so I decided to get my zoom camera. While recording a video with my zoom camera, the object turned on several other lights, or other objects appeared in a straight line formation. I became nervous and the smaller lights disappeared. I tried to calm down and zoomed in and out a few times and the lights appeared again after I asked it what happened to the lights, did they turn them off. Video was taken at 7:15 am.
April 2, 2019 · 5:30 AM · FORMATION
Port Charlotte, FL
The velocity seemed fairly high as it took some 15-20 seconds for the formation to fly across the sky, which appeared substantially faster than conventional aircraft. Nevertheless, in the night sky I couldn't estimate the altitude of the formation, so can't vouch for the velocity estimate either. There was a distant jet engine noise, but I was standing pretty close to the highway, so can't say for sure where the noise came from. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 1, 2019 · 10:30 PM · FORMATION
Pearsall, TX
We were driving on the 35 south, near Pearsall, Texas, when we noticed orange/golden lights hovering in the sky, moving independently. The lights formed a straight line then disappeared. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
March 30, 2019 · 10:40 PM · FORMATION
Cameron Park, CA
Witness provides no detailed information about her sighting. PD
March 28, 2019 · 12:00 AM · FORMATION
Coral Springs, FL
I witnessed two object floating in the sky, a linear formation of 3 lights. One object was orange and green. The other object was blue and purple. Previous night a blue and purple object was shooting red projectiles down to earth. It smelled like a forest fire outside in Florida on an evening not meant for fires. Mysteriously there was a power outage due to a lighting strike at power plant in Fort Lauderdale when there were no storms in area, causing a massive blackout for the city.
March 27, 2019 · 8:25 PM · FORMATION
Staunton, OH
I experienced this sighting as I travelled home on I62 SW. I was approximately 3 ½ mi. south of Washington Court House. I saw a grid of very bright green lights flanked by bright yellow lights. Green lights were rectangular in formation and yellow irregular. In front of formation was a small red blinking light which seemed to be what looked like the light of a small air plane. It appeared to be dragging the other lights along. Then the colored lights blinked off only to come back a few seconds later. I watched this out my driver side window as I continued to drive. It was flying slowly and low enough I could do this and try to make sense of what I was seeing. I then saw that the green and yellow lights were shooting out at very high speed from the red blinking light out front which still appeared to be flying at the speed of a regular airplane. The colored lights continued intermittently shooting out at rapid speed forming the rectangular formation as before and disappearing as quickly. I knew of a place a mile ahead where I could pull off safely to observe this phenomena, which I did. The object continued to fly in an easterly direction and was practically out of sight and very low to the horizon. Yet I saw bright yellow gold lights shoot out 2 more times. The speed at which these lights shot out looked like fire works with no tracers, no sparking, just bright globes which quickly blinked out. And then it turned back! With heart pounding, I jumped back into my car and back on the highway. I was relieved there was other traffic on the road because I could not shake the feeling of being followed. I was trying to focus on driving and not watching out my driver’s window. Yet I did look out after travelling about another 4 miles towards home. “Oh S**t!” …. Out of my driver’s side window, this time it’s a line of 4 white lights. They looked like head lights with no space between. They were not bright and seemed to be flying at a 25 degree angle. I had another 18 miles to go before getting home and I was tense. I called my brother via cell phone to let him know what I was experiencing, just in case. My phone record says 8:50 central time so I am guessing first sighting occurred 8:25 CT. I arrive home and still had that feeling so I did not go in the house, but watched the sky instead. Not 5 minutes passed and what looked like a small aircraft came flying in the direction I was standing. I saw no shape, only 2 pairs of white lights. No sound, low flying and disappeared. I have never observed any air craft in that particular position in this location at that altitude in 17 years of living here. I went inside for 5 minutes only to go out and watch more. I saw another red blinking light flying low on the south horizon and another on the north horizon 5 minutes after that. It was a very clear night so it seems strange that the more ordinary lights would disappear. The lights were too low for cloud cover. I really strained to hear a droning noise that should have been audible, yet could not hear anything. I am aware that the county I live in is part of the Wright Patt air zone for training. Any explanation would be appreciated.
March 19, 2019 · 7:30 PM · FORMATION
Green Valley, AZ
My wife and I were driving home in our golf cart and saw a group of small white lights moving across the sky from west to east. The lights moved across I-19 and moved out of sight quickly. There was no noise.
March 18, 2019 · 11:00 AM · FORMATION
Kansas City, MO
This was in North Kansas City in the center of the city, not out in the country.
March 14, 2019 · 9:30 PM · FORMATION
Palmetto, FL
It was absolutely something that had me and my co-worker puzzled on what it was we just saw. When they scattered, they slowly went towards the ground in all different directions. We got video of the whole thing.
March 14, 2019 · 9:00 PM · FORMATION
Palm Bay, FL
From Palm Bay looking ESE Over the ocean (perhaps 50 miles out) at 20* up I saw what appeared to be a heavy concentration of stars. They were all the same size similar to stars of a blue and white color. The "stars" pattern was that of a rhombus. The heaviest concentration were centralized creating a single glow. WhenI I grabbed my binoculars and viewed the formation, they were all blue and white star objects. At the center was a perfect chandelier pattern with loosely scattered "stars" to the left and right sides of the chandelier within the overall rhombus. I was shocked to see the brightest central area of the rhombus was a heavy grouping of the lights in a perfect chandelier shape. As the minutes passed the formation of outter loose lights were moving into the central chandelier or the entire object was rotating making the outter lights appear to be moving inward. The formation gradually grew dimmer and more dim as it appeared to be moving out further in an ESE direction until it was no longer visible. 2 others in the area were also watching this occur. My initial explanation before the binoculars was re-entering glowing hot space debri. My second thought sometime of explosion in the air. A 3rd would be a massive amount of aircraft chaff glittering, glowing and hovering in the air. With the binoculars the only logical explanation I can come up with is drones flying in a formation shape out to sea. Nothing else I can think of makes sense. There has to be other people that saw this from the beach, it was huge bigger and brighter in size than the Pleiades or 7 sisters constellation. The sky had no clouds and half moon.
March 14, 2019 · 9:00 PM · FORMATION
Micco, FL
We saw a large formation of individual lights split apart into probably about 100 small blinking lights of red, green, and white.....
March 14, 2019 · 8:45 PM · FORMATION
Vero Beach/Indian Riverr Shores, FL
I walked out of dinner with two others and saw the most incredible sight in the night sky northwest of where we were and probably close to Sebastian. It was a large formation in the sky with many twinkling lights. Some of the lights were colorful and were rotating reminding me of a Spirograph design I had made as a child. There seemed to be a brighter center object which emitted an orange /red glow. The lights swirled but then gradually came to center shrinking the formation significantly before dropping too low on the horizon to be seen. I actually do not believe in the exsistence of UFO’s but now my opinion has changed completely. This did not resemble anything I have ever seen in the sky, in print or reported on before. It was an amazing sight, quite large in the sky and completely consuming.
March 14, 2019 · 8:45 PM · FORMATION
Vero Beach, FL
I saw an irregularly shaped cluster of lights (50-100) similar to a planet seen at night. They were mostly white, but I did see a larger amber colored object. They cluster changed shape as the objects moved. Sometimes they moved quickly within the cluster. Some seemed to be rotating, though I couldn't see the actual shape of the objects. They looked like different sized stars. They also seemed to disappear and reappear but it could be that there was cloud cover. Every once in a while I saw a brief red light flash, similar to an airplane. At one point, some of the objects came together more or less in the middle to form a larger shape. I watched for about 15 minutes and got a very grainy photograph. The cluster got smaller and began sinking into the tree horizon. I was with two women who saw what I saw but may describe it differently. I am encouraging them to also submit a report. Today I met a woman who also saw it - her two story home is on the river and she got a really good look at it. Her description was similar to mine. I will encourage her to also submit it report. All I can say is that when I saw the shape, I said "Oh my God, Oh my God!" I called my one friend over and we were both "freaking out". Neither one of us had ever seen anything like it. About 5 minutes later our third friend came over and had the same reaction. We knew we were seeing something highly unusual. When I told my brother about it he said it might be a cluster of drones. I suppose that is possible and it should be easy to check out from some entity in Vero Beach.
March 13, 2019 · 4:18 AM · FORMATION
Kingman, AZ
As soon as I walked outside into my backyard, I looked up into the Eastern sky. I saw 5 very bright lights shaped like orbs in the sky but low in the sky below the clouds. They were moving southwest. They were in Chevron formation at first. Then right in front of my eyes the pattern broke. They began flying in their own pattern and flying around each other, in a very unnatural manner, as if they were playing with each other in flight. They changed course, QUICKLY, and began moving East again then changed course again and began moving southwest. They flew into a cloud and I could still see them illuminating in the clouds and then they just disappeared, right in front of my eyes. This lasted about 40 seconds. Amazing.
March 10, 2019 · 8:00 PM · FORMATION
Sherman Oaks (Los Angeles), CA
My husband was Barbecuing in our back yard at 8:00 pm on March 10th, 2019. While BBQ he always looks up at the stars, planes and helicopters in the sky. It was a mostly cloudy night with a clearing in the middle of the night sky. He was looking North at a star when he noticed through the clouds at an approx. 40% angle from the horizon a group of glowing discs (approximate total of 18 disc objects) coming out of the clouds into the clear sky (cloudless)area. When my husband first saw the objects, he yelled loudly for me, my daughter and son to come outside immediately to view the disc formations. We were able to watch and witness the last half of the visible formation flight until they disappeared into the clouds to the south . The glowing discs were traveling from North to South over the Los Angeles San Fernando Valley area in a straight line at approximately 10,000 feet of altitude and about 85% of perpendicular. There were two sets of flying triangle formations with one formation having 6 discs and the other formation having 8 discs. Those two formations traveled on a steady course North to South. In between the two formations 4 same sized glowing discs moved independently around the entire time. The entire observation time was approximately 20-22 seconds. No aircraft that we know of can travel at that speed and altitude and change direction that quickly. The discs all were the same and they were all a glowing steady bright white light. There were no flashing white lights, green lights or red lights at all like a normal airplane. I have seen many civilian and military aircraft in my years and these glowing discs were not aircraft or any known man made objects I’ve seen personally or in videos. I would never report anything like this unless I was absolutely sure about what we saw. I am willing to provide a drawing or with help do a video recreation of what everything looked like.