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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
August 18, 2022 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Phoenix, AZ
I was outside looking at the clouds and it was raining lightly. I turned to look west and 2 separated white lights approximately 1000 feet in the air. The lights were striking across the sky for about 10 to 15 seconds. The light on top was going faster then the 1 underneath and they were traveling from north to south and then disappeared from sight. They were not military aircraft as they have more lights on them or afterburner. My husband and I were stationed at Luke AFB for 1 1/2 years so I have seen night flights and they were just lights coming from my first seeing them until they disappeared.
August 17, 2022 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Fredericksburg, VA
My wife, kids, son-in-law, and myself watched a bright white light move quickly in a C shape across the sky above our horse field. It then turned to the north and proceeded in a straight line. We lost sight of it in the tree tops only to see it, or a second light come back in the opposite direction across the sky and then vanishing. It had no sound nor any FAA blinking lights.
August 17, 2022 · 5:02 AM · LIGHT
St.Charles, IL
I was laying looking at the sky from my window when i see a extremely bright light with a blue grey aura travel over my house and slow down to a stop in the sky above the road in-front of my house. It appeared to be just hovering for a few seconds and then went back the way it came faster than before to a place i could no longer see. it had such a strong bad presence that gave me the chills and all I could do was freeze.
August 16, 2022 · 10:50 PM · LIGHT
Summerfield, FL
Approximately 10:50 pm. Outside in yard on a phone call. A bright white flash on my far right field of view. It moved across the sky at level and straight flight path at unknown altitude(guessing 10-15k feet) It crossed my entire field of view moving from the south headed north in about 3-4 seconds. I have a clear view of the sky with nothing to block the view of its path until it vanished over the horizon. It was completely silent. I’ve heard sonic booms and supersonic aircraft flying several times before. This was nothing like that.
August 16, 2022 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Enfield · United Kingdom
My daughter was putting the bins out and called me to the door. She was at the front gate and looked quite shaken up. She couldn’t talk, but just pointed up to the sky and kept her gaze on me. I couldn’t hear anything so wondered what on earth was wrong. I approached her and then she pointed up again and I was very shocked to see this object. I couldn’t process what I was looking at at first. When I saw the formation of lights I felt a bit sick and shaky, it really looked so intimidating and like nothing I’ve ever seen. This object was seen at night and it seemed to be about 200 feet up but it could have easily been more. It moved very solidly and steadily and looked like it was quite large. It made a low humming noise. We thought about it being a drone, but it seemed too big and the noise didn’t sound like a drone. Every one of the 12 lights were flashing on and off together at 1 second intervals no other lights were visible just the 12 lights which were very clear. The individual lights were quite large and circular in shape. It looked very menacing to be honest. It moved in a straight line, not deviating from it’s path at all, whereas a drone would surely move around a little. It carried on and even in the distance looked substantial in size. It then disappeared from view over the roof tops and across a field. We didn’t have our phones on us and are so angry that we didn’t manage to film it. We both drew what we had seen when we had calmed down.
August 16, 2022 · 9:32 PM · LIGHT
Dateland, AZ
I'm Siro Saracino, professor of piano in Italy and owner of some properties in US. I was on my property in Dateland with a friend when it was 9:32 pm. We had seen light up like a very strong oval light in the sky, on the horizon above Dateland, to the west, in Yuma direction. Shortly after, another light comes on, always oval and then gradually others, up to 7 objects. While the others lit up, the previous ones turned off and others lit up at various points and directions. Some were in pairs and some were single, and one of them moved quickly from right to left. The color of lights was orange, like a fire and they were very bright. Lights left no trails. Everything lasted more than half an hour and I was able to take lots of photos and lots of videos.
August 16, 2022 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Avanos, NEVŞEHIR · Turkey
Just came out to my balcony and see two little object far away in the sky blinking soon i realized they are actually three and moving 3o clock but they changed thier direction towards me and i saw the fourth one as well three of them moving in a triangle formation they have passed almost direct above my head and i was keep fallowing them when they were passing quiet my location an airplane crossed at intersection point with UFOS they were blinking the entire time like cars left right signals
August 16, 2022 · 2:00 AM · LIGHT
IdentifiedSolomiac, Midi-Pyrénées · France
Le 16 août 2023, le témoin principal, depuis son domicile de Solomiac (32), observe de 2h à 2h30 au nord-est, assez bas au-dessus de l'horizon, un PAN très lumineux, de forme ronde, montant lentement dans le ciel.Ce PAN conserve une forme constante durant toute l'observation et émet des reflets rouges. L'observation prend fin lorsque le PAN est occulté par des nuages, ainsi qu'en raison de l'heure tardive. La compagne du témoin a également brièvement observé le PAN, sans fournir de témoignage. Initialement, le témoin pensait avoir observé un phare d'hélicoptère, mais a relevé une anomalie en raison du déplacement lent et soutenu de l'objet sur une période de 30 minutes. La consistance* est moyenne, avec un témoin unique et une absence de photo ou de vidéo du PAN. Le témoin a toutefois pu faire une photographie de reconstitution qui s'est avérée être particulièrement utile pour la détermination de l'origine du PAN. *selon les critères du GEIPAN, la consistance est la quantité d'informations considérées comme fiables et objectivées, recueillies pour un témoignage. Après avoir étudié puis rejeté les hypothèses d'un avion puis d'un hélicoptère, l'enquête a conclu que le témoin avait probablement observé l'étoile Capella (voir le compte rendu d'enquête). Cette conclusion repose sur les éléments suivants : - Forme « ronde », souvent décrite par les témoins en présence d'astres ponctuels fortement lumineux. - Couleur blanche, conforme à celle d'une étoile, et reflets rouges, caractéristiques d'un effet de scintillation causé par la faible élévation angulaire de l'étoile au-dessus de l'horizon. - Déplacement à faible vitesse sur une période de 30 minutes. À l'aide de la photographie de reconstitution fournie par le témoin, nous avons pu vérifier et affiner l'estimation des azimuts et des élévations (de début et de fin) du PAN, initialement erronée dans le questionnaire. Une fois cette précision établie, la différence entre la position du PAN et celle de l'étoile varie de 5 à 9° en azimut et de 6° à 8° en élévation, ce qui n'est pas significatif au regard des marges d'erreur associées aux calculs et à la reconstitution du positionnement du PAN. Il convient également de souligner que si le PAN n'avait pas été l'étoile Capella, il aurait été surprenant que le témoin ne l'ait pas mentionnée, étant donné qu'il aurait observé deux points lumineux identiques proches l'un de l'autre, ce qui n'a pas été le cas. Le témoin avait écarté l'hypothèse de l'étoile en précisant qu'« aucune étoile aussi brillante n'était présente dans ce secteur du ciel ». Or, Capella est la quatrième étoile la plus brillante visible depuis l'hémisphère nord (source : Wikipédia) et se trouvait effectivement dans la portion du ciel observée ce soir-là. Le GEIPAN classe le cas en « A », observation très probable de l'étoile Capella. [GEIPAN classification A — Capella]
August 15, 2022 · 10:20 PM · LIGHT
Doral, in Miami florida, FL
I along with a friend were Facing west at the planet air sports parking lot in Doral miami Florida, not even looking directly at the UFO just in its vicinity it was not blinding but VERY hard to ignore that this object with these bright colors essentially popped out of nowhere. Immediately I locked eyes onto the UFO for 1missipi2missipi and exactly how it came out of nowhere it disappeared as if it was never there. It moved as fast as pointing at the sky and letting your hand drop almost as if had it’s own gravity. No sound whatsoever.
August 15, 2022 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Half Moon Bay, CA
While I was looking for meteors of the Perseid meteor shower on August 15, 2022, at approximately 10:00 at night, I saw two cool-colored soft glows traveling from the southeast to the northwest parallel to the coastline. They travelled one behind the other at a high altitude and lasted about 3 seconds and then faded away. They covered approximately 30 degrees of view during their travel and were separated from each other by about 5 degrees. They looked different than the meteors I saw during that time. Unlike the two soft glows, the meteors were warm in color, sharp in outline and brighter.
August 15, 2022 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Chino, CA
Objects too far to distinguish but move around very fast and higher than commercial jets. Looks like a star at first but move around constantly.
August 15, 2022 · 8:50 PM · LIGHT
Greenfield, MA
Flashing greenish light moving from left to right suddenly stopping then quickly moving to the right again did this a few times then stopped and dropped quickly then stopped dropping then dropped below the trees
August 14, 2022 · 10:15 PM · LIGHT
Leader, MN
We saw a stationary pulsating light bigger than surrounding star that got our attention. Then all of a sudden, many very faint small lights seemed to be shooting out from the larger pulsating star. It was almost like a Roman candle. They came out one at a time and excelerated faster than a satellite could ever go. They seemed to be shot out from somewhere at 1 second intervals then disappeared into the darkness. They moved to the North East extremely fast once the became visible. We all witnessed about 30 of these lights that just seem to appear and then accelerate out of sight in a few seconds. I have seen SpaceX and what witnessed wasn't anything like that? Thanks
August 14, 2022 · 3:10 AM · LIGHT
Oriental, NC
I was running a tug boat heading east on the Neuse River approx 3 miles NE of Oriental, NC heading towards the Pamlico sound. I observed 3 white lights to my east in the sky in a triangle formation. The lights seemed to be moving to the SE. at times they would separate from each other briefly then come back together in a triangle formation. The movement I can describe only as unusual. The lights were white in color and dim brightness. I would guess they were at a distance of 8 to 10 miles and no higher than 5000 feet in altitude. After observing for approx 5 minutes they just disappeared. I see lots of lights and stuff running boats along the coast at night but this ranks with me as unusual.
August 14, 2022 · 1:00 AM · LIGHT
Corinth, MS
We watched the white lights show up bright in the same part of the sky to our N, and fade out in the same pattern while moving toward the SE. Some lights would show up higher or lower in the sky in conjunction to our horizon, but all showed up in the same direction of our view and faded out in the same direction. I tried to video them with my phone, but for some reason they didn't show up. We watched a pretty steady flow of them for over an hour. They were showing up at the rate of one to four visible at a time with no more than a minute between seeing any. They all had the same pattern to them. They would show up at first really bright, over double the size of any star, and fade slowly as they moved off toward the SE. The way that they all showed up the same and faded out the same we started thinking that maybe they were either coming into or leaving from our capability to observe them.
August 13, 2022 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Somerville, MA
I’m a skeptic, but open minded when something defies my understanding. This is one of two unexplainable physical objects I’ve perceived outside of dreaming and experimenting with substances. This is also the first sighting I’ve had with another person present and aware. My partner and I went out at 10:00pm on Saturday (August 13th) to watch the Perseid meteor shower in his backyard (located in Somerville, Massachusetts). It was surprisingly clear, and we saw a total of three meteors heading south before rotating our lawn chairs at 11:00pm. My partner went to chat with our neighbor at her door while I pleaded for him to return (I was giddy at witnessing two more impressive meteors shooting southwest). He returned and immediately commented on the neighbors outdoor lights—and how they were not automatically turning off at a reasonable hour—when I perceived something big flying overhead in the opposite direction of the previously observed meteors. I said, “is that a bird?” before realizing that it did not resemble anything I had ever seen before. My question prompted my partner to silently observe with me. The object was almost plane shaped, but somewhat transparent like matte plastic. It was catching some light—I could make out it’s overall shape—but light or electricity seemed to cascade off of it in waves or sparks (like when you push your hand through water). I remember cursing when it suddenly changed direction. It flew faster than anything I have seen in the sky, and it did not obey the laws of gravity or momentum. The weirdest part—that still haunts me—is that it made no noise. It flew overhead in a matter of seconds, and changed direction in ~15 degree increments about four times before leaving sight. For a moment I hesitated. Then, my partner and I started talking over each other. “What was that? A bird? No, right? It was transparent. Light was cascading off of it. It changed directions!” Within 15 minutes we were both trying to pretend nothing happened. “Nobody would believe us” was my first thought, and my partner basically lost interest in trying to have conversations about it. The lack of noise and observable detail prevented any guess as to its size or altitude, but subjectively it seemed like a plane that had taken off a few minutes before. That’s basically my entire report—I need to get some rest before work tomorrow—but, my partner and I do believe whatever we saw was entirely real (although unrealistic). It looked like a hologram or CGI, and I think it will have a massive impact on my life for the next several years at least.
August 13, 2022 · 10:11 PM · LIGHT
Hertford, HERTFORD · United Kingdom
The white dot, assumed was a satellite coming from west going east, if illuminated briefly for a few seconds, for by 39 others, not, all illuminated. Did check satellite tracker, initially thought it was Elon Musks StarLink, but they are not scheduled over my area, and have seen this in Jersey on holiday, they appeared illuminated a lot longer and were different.
August 13, 2022 · 9:32 PM · LIGHT
Decatur, GA
We were waiting for the moon to rise watching the stars and then saw a fireball in the sky heading south east at a constant speed never slowing down or speeding up. It was seeming to cool gradually getting dimmer until it disappeared into the dark sky. Could see planes as we are close to the airport but they were at a lower altitude. Have seen this pattern multiple times.
August 13, 2022 · 3:20 AM · LIGHT
Nampa, ID
The first ufo was a bright white light that would speed across the sky and then sit still would go right to left up and down. The entire ufo was white light that seemed to shoot off the main middle section in one big crescent and several small crescent lights. The second ufo was seen 20 minutes later and was a bright white light on a circular shape. There was no interaction between the two and the second was close for a few minutes before suddenly speeding into smaller less visible light. The first ufo appeared within seconds after a big fireball explosion in the sky it looked as though a shooting star collided with another object and was gone within seconds of impact. The impact was close in view. After observing the first ufo for several minutes there was what appeared to be a small blast of light that hit the ufo as it was in one position in the sky without moving. When the light hit the ufo the ufo moved back for a moment and then flew back to the previous spot it had hovered. When I went inside the first ufo was still visible but the second was not. The observers were two females in early 30s late 20s driving home. They have had no sky watching experience's in the past. The objects were first seen in Nampa Idaho from the interstate 80 near garity Blvd exit and observed as the witnesses drove towards Boise Idaho. The last seen location was from Boise Idaho. Ufo 1 was seen closer to the moon coming from the direction of kuna Idaho and hovered mostly to the left of the moon. The explosion was seen from garity Blvd exit directly under the moon's position in sky. Ufo two came from opposite direction and left in the same direction towards direction of bogus basin mountain.
August 13, 2022 · 1:00 AM · LIGHT
Between Corinth and Burnsville, MS
I saw the white light back to the north of my location. Watched it pulsate 5 times as it was moving toward the SE. I grabbed my phone out of pocket to tried to get video of it, but by the time I got my phone up it had stopped pulsating even though there was plenty of sky left to view it. The light itself was more than double the size of the stars in my view.
August 13, 2022 · 12:01 AM · LIGHT
Chapel Hill, NC
It was a Friday night and I was playing with my insomniac toddler in our apartment which is on the top (third) floor. Then our neighbor started smoking which came into our shared bathroom vent and filled the apartment. I had no choice but to open our sliding balcony door which runs the length of our living room. It was approaching midnight and suddenly I saw a satellite flying very close above the distant trees to the point that it was as large as an airplane. It had red lights on one vertical panel and blue lights on the other and flew silently and slowly. Since it was odd, I threw a ball into the other room so my toddler would run out of sight. Less than a minute later I looked and it was flying the same path with the same slow speed which confused me because it should have passed out of sight already. This time it did and passed over our building out of sight. Ten minutes later I decided to go outside the balcony and hope my toddler would not notice. It was probably after midnight and then I saw three satellites across the sky above the trees and among the stars. They were not stars because they had that distinct satellite flashing with red or white lights and were moving slowly in different directions. My toddler found me and ran on the balcony. “Look at all those satellites!” I exclaimed. “Wow so many!” Leaning over the railing, I pointed to each one— one on the far left higher up and two directly ahead in the sky. Combined with three stationary stars in a diagonal, they made a formation that reminded me of the Big Dipper constellation. Then suddenly right after I pointed, all three satellites disappeared within a few seconds of each other. The sky went completely black where they had been flying. They were nowhere to be seen and never re-emerged. We could only see the three diagonal stationary stars. Up till that point, I had assumed these were all satellites owned by a private company or government…but I don’t believe satellites just suddenly disappear without a trace like that. They didn’t slowly fly out of sight like the original satellite with the red and blue. So I thought I better report this odd incident in case it helps form a bigger picture of something…
August 12, 2022 · 2:07 AM · LIGHT
Franklinton, LA
I have video and live photo of the sighting. The live photo shows it taking off!
August 12, 2022 · 2:00 AM · LIGHT
NY, NY
Looking at what appeard to be a star. High above it another pulsing object that changed direction and seemed to phase in and out. I could see the star looking object with both my phone camera and my naked eye. The other pulsing moving object,I could only see through my phone camera. After the pulsing moving object was no more, another object appeared to shoot down from the sky like a commet, but larger. It crashed landed somewhere in that direction.
August 11, 2022 · 11:15 PM · LIGHT
C.B.R.M. (Canada), NS · Canada
Using a pair of bushnell star Gazer I watch an followed a bright white light about a 4 magnitude crossed into my vision from SW bye S 25deg. It contimue north towards the Big Dipper at an extreme speed in an arc for about 90deg. as it was passing over the first star in the handle of the bigdipper another light passes about 15deg.south of the first light going the oppesite derection heading south.I follow the first light going north for another 45seconds until it was out of range.I turn my glass back too find the other light going south I got sight of it in about 10second an followed that light heading south in another arc for about 120deg. until it also went out of my range.It was a very clear night no moon an no clouds or fog a good night. This was not the first time I have watched these same lights and I know it wasn't the last Date is approximate. We note that the lights described are not inconsistent with typical satellites. However, we do not know what the witness saw. PD