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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 22, 2023 · 2:34 AM · FORMATION
seneca, IL
I was driving on route 6 to Seneca Illinois early in the morning, 2:34 AM, as I came around a turn I noticed the sky to my left was lit bright. I could immediately see bright lights flashing and rotating out in the corn field approx. .5 mile from the road. Instantly this terrified me. I could see the object, large in nature was rising above the tree line in the field. It was huge, about the size of a 2 story house. It appeared to be silent, but the lights were very bright.
April 15, 2023 · 2:23 AM · FORMATION
Cottage grove, OR
I am a pilot and know what to expect to see in the night sky. I do not drink or use drugs. At 2:30 in the morning there should be almost nothing. But tonight I looked out my south facing balcony window to see two very orange lights in the south west sky. These lights were too orange or bright to be landing lights. My estimate would put them around 20,000 feet up and spaced roughly 3 miles apart. What really caught my eye was how they were in almost perfect formation as if intentionally. I opened foreflight, my app for tracking aircraft locations and there was nothing shown to be flying nearby. Then one would move more eccentrically. Until eventually the second more tame one disappeared. Possibly just turning off their light. I recorded a video of the transition to one. Then as the remaining one got to a distance that appeared to be within 5 miles I tried to run downstairs to see it from outside. However when I got outside I couldn’t find it again. I heard no sound of aircraft the entire time. Within 15 minutes the sky went from completely clear to a cloud front rolling in from the west. Concealing anything at high altitude.
April 13, 2023 · 12:30 AM · FORMATION
Estimated around Grand Junction, CO
I’m a first officer on a Boeing 737-800 cargo jet and while at 38,000ft just passed Albuquerque on a flight from Dallas to Las Vegas my captain and I noticed individual bright lights moving relatively slowly in a circular motion descending from the sky a few hundred miles north and well above our altitude. We couldn’t tell whether it was 10-20 circling lights or 4-5 circling around each other. After watching them descend from high altitude from west to east they later departed in the same fashion and ascended back into the sky in an east to west direction of flight. We looked up starlink’s position during our time of flight and it would not have been visible that night. These objects also traveled in opposite directions (originally descending West to East, then ascending East to West). These objects also did not appear to be other aircraft as there were no position or strobe lights visible, furthermore the bright lights were far brighter than an aircraft I’ve seen, especially at such high altitudes. The area around Grand Junction is our best guess. We were over Albuquerque at FL380 and the objects appeared North Northwest a few hundred miles and very high altitude. Please do not release any personal information with my contact details until I give my verbal approval. Thank you so much.
April 6, 2023 · 6:20 PM · FORMATION
Ventura, CA
I was sitting at a traffic light and noticed a seagull in the sky. Then much higher up in the sky I saw a group of small golden lights. At first I thought they were a flock of birds. But then noticed the formation and pattern was more of a spiral, and the reflection of the gold color was so bright and shiny they couldn't be birds. They disappeared then reappeared a short distance away. Then disappeared again. This was in full daylight and they were swirling around for about a minute.
April 4, 2023 · 2:50 AM · FORMATION
New Martinsville, WV
I woke up at 12:45am but did not know why, I laid there and tried to go back to sleep and could not. after 10 or 15 min I decided to go downstairs to get on my P.C. At around 2:35am my dog started to whine like she wanted to go out, so I finished getting dressed and took her out to a large patch of grass behind my home. We were out for maybe 3-5 min (just long enough to get out there and start doing her thing) when I noticed a very bright star out of the corner of my eye, or what I first thought was a star. I turned to my left to focus on it when I realized it was moving. The luminosity of this first object was 3 time the brightness of Venus and was the largest and brightest of the event. I was looking roughly north, and it was roughly 45 to 50 degrees in declination (I downloaded a compass on my phone the next day and found it was roughly 50 degrees from north). This object appeared to be moving from south to north at a slow rate with a slight arc to the east. After maybe 10 sec (long enough to think "it's not a star, or a plan") when it started to decrease in luminosity (at the same time it started to arc east), and after 5 sec it had vanished. I was standing there thinking "that was #@$% awesome" when I spotted another light in roughly the same direction but lower in declination, say 35 to 40 degrees. This light was half the luminosity of the first one at its highest lamination and appeared to be coming towards me from the north moving southeast. This object moved quickly for 5 sec then slowed down to almost a hover. It remained in roughly static position while two more objects came in from almost the exact direction and formed up with the first. At this point I was dumbstruck. As many times as I have heard stories like this, and I always thought to myself "why didn't you take a video". I now understand. I stood watching what transpired completely transfixed on what I was watching. I would say that the objects I seen were controlled do to the fact that they assumed a triangular formation and started to travel to the east and descend below the ridgeline at the edge of town. I was watching the ridge to see if they came back out when I noticed another light coming in from the same direction and declination rapidly followed by another. These two did not slow but continued in the same direction as the first 3. I kept watching for a few minutes and was just starting to think it was over when a group of 2 lights at the same time came in, from the same area of the sky, and got to roughly the same spot in the sky where the first three hovered and stopped. They set there for 2 minutes or so when another 3 lights came in and formed up with the others. They hung there for a few moments, and I figured they would replicate the first set, but they remained in position for another minute or 2 when another solo light came in and formed up with the rest in no real formation, just grouped together. As soon as the last light arrived on station with the others, they all followed the same path as the first 2. At this point I actually looked around to see if there was anyone that I could attract their attention when remembered it was the dead of night. Another 2 lights started to come in and I thought about calling my wife and waking her up, when I remembered I had a phone in my pocket. I took my phone out (time on the screen when I went to unlock it was 3:14am as I made a note of the time) and turned on the camera. I set it to video but could not see the objects even when I zoomed due to the streetlights just below the area of the sky I was watching. These two objects moved continually and on the same path. At this time a large meteor started to streak above my head moving from south to north and broke up and faded at about 50 degrees of declination at roughly 40degrees from north. I remember actually saying "whoooa" out loud after it faded. Within a minute or 2 another light started to move from the same area in the same direction as the other objects rapidly followed by another entire group of lights (I did not think to count them, but the total number of lights was about 8 to 10 in this group). They all grouped up at roughly the same point in the sky, hovered for 30 seconds or so then followed the other’s flight path. This was the last sighting in this event. All of the lights seemed to be roughly the same size and brightness. I stood there for some time watching for another set, but in vain. I also scanned the rest of the sky to make sure I was not missing something else, but there was no other traffic in the sky. As I stood there my rational brain kicked into high gear, trying to rationalize it out. I know Pittsburg is in roughly the same direct, so I thought maybe I was seeing air traffic going into there. But I could not explain the hovering unless they were turning in at an angle that could make it look like they were hovering. I came back in and opened google earth and from where I was standing during the sighting to PIA it is 67.4 miles. I went to their website and checked for arrivals, and they only had 2 flighting arriving during the timeframe of the sighting. Add to that the ridgeline in front of the town being roughly 25 degrees in declination I am not sure if I could even see traffic that far off (my trig is a little rusty). I have seen star links, and this was nothing like that. I have seen a couple things in the sky in my life that made me really reason out what I was seeing. The others I could not rule out a satellite or the ISS. This time, this time I have no clue what it was I seen in the sky.
April 2, 2023 · 2:30 PM · FORMATION
Warsaw, MO
A low-flying helicopter, maybe 250ft off the ground, circled around several times south of my house about half a mile. Not more than a couple of minutes later, I heard an army jet of some kind overhead. I looked and after seeing 2 strange jet streams that were very short and tightly curved and quickly dissipated, I saw an A10 Warthog make about three circles, the last of which crossed over my property, West to East. As the A10 flew over me West to East, I saw around ten silent objects fly by in formation behind my house and disappear into the tree-line. I grabbed my phone so that I could video them when they emerged on the other side of the tree-line, but they never did. I have limited observational experience, but I fly drones, so I'll do my best. The objects had a brown body and black wings. At first, I thought it was a flock of birds. But they were big for birds, as big or bigger than birds of prey, such as eagles. And that's assuming they were close by, maybe a few hundred yards away flying over the cove. And I've never seen birds of prey fly in formation like thes were, nor in a flock. Then the sun glinted off of one of them, so I figured they were metallic. Also, they flew by horizontally, yet their wings were perfectly vertical, which would give them no lift. Again, they were perfectly silent. My best guess for size and distance is that they flew over our cove in Lake of the Ozarks at approximately 150 ft AGL, possibly with bodies the size of basketballs or beach balls and wingspans of maybe 4 to 8 feet. That is my best guess, sorry I can't be more exact. They had a slight bobbing motion as they flew by. I saw them for the span of only a few seconds and possibly 500 horizontal feet. I estimate their speed at 50 to 75 mph. I live about 40 miles from Whiteman Air Force base and about 60 miles from Fort Leonardwood as the crow flies. With the fact that these objects were preceded by other military air support, possibly scouting for them, I wonder if they were some type of experimental drone that the military is testing. But they didn't exhibit the properties of typical modern aircraft, so I am reporting it here.
March 24, 2023 · 10:05 PM · FORMATION
Rochester, MN
I was trying to wait for the northern lights since I missed them on Thursday. I was observing the sky for around 30 minutes prior to the sighting. At around 10pm I watched a Y shaped formation of lights go from east to west at a fast rate of speed. The Y part of the formation was in front and the back end was the base of a Y. There appeared to be around 10 equally spaced out dots of light that made the shape of a Y.
March 17, 2023 · 9:45 AM · FORMATION
Stockton, CA
I witnessed several red lights that appeared to be in an uneven formation, slowly crossing the sky. There were 4 to 5 of the and they slowly dimmed until I could only see one, then nothing.
March 10, 2023 · 8:30 PM · FORMATION
Columbus, MS
On our nightly walk we were looking at the sky because it was a very clear night. We were able to see the stars quiet well. At around 8:30pm I noticed a very dimly lit line of dots in the shape of a V, much like you would see a flock of geese flying. One side was longer than the other. It was moving quite fast, much faster than any aircraft and much larger. It silently flew to towards the North and appeared to be at a high altitude. I've never seen anything move like that in the sky before. I checked to see if Starlink would be passing by, but it was not scheduled anywhere near that time.
March 8, 2023 · 9:00 PM · FORMATION
Delphi, IN
08MAR23 Approximately 9:00 pm Five bright orange lights in a straight line appeared in the sky for approximately 10-15 seconds. The lights disappeared from view for a short period of time only to reappear a short distance to the west. After 10-15 seconds, the lights disappeared again. After approximately 1 minute, one large bright orange light appeared farther to the west. Commercial aircraft with flashing lights could be seen moving elsewhere in the sky. I checked Flight Radar 24 and could find commercial aircraft, but nothing in vicinity to the lights I observed. Grissom AFB is east of this location. Perhaps it was a military aircraft dropping flares? I did not perceive any vertical motion as though something was falling towards the ground. I attached a History Channel picture for reference. This is similar to what I observed.
March 8, 2023 · 3:25 PM · FORMATION
Goree, TX
I was on the passenger side of our car and looked up in the southern sky at what appeared to be two craft flying side by side high up in the sky. The craft on the right seemed to have issues with appearing and disappearing. Clearly it had the ability to become invisible. The craft on the left never disappeared at all. After the left side craft finally became visible again they both vanished very quickly. I don't know if they became both invisible or just sped off without a trace .It was overwhelming. I Googled Texas UFO sightings and came up with a website by that actual name. There was a testimonial from a husband who saw the exact same two craft behaving the exact same way while he observed from the passenger side of his vehicle while traveling northward in Dallas, Texas. These craft are around and the problem seems to be that they can't be seen if they don't want to.
March 6, 2023 · 7:22 PM · FORMATION
Marietta, GA
While I was driving south bound on I75 in Marietta, GA, I saw an odd formation of lights, all in a row in the sky. It seemed to be moving slowly. Looking at Starlink trackers, there was none to be seen at that location, at that time. It looked shorter than a Starlink satellite. The lights were very bright and did not appear to be attached
March 5, 2023 · 3:30 AM · FORMATION
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Flying between Austin, TX and Montreal at 41,000 feet over the Great Lakes, we saw four to five bright lights for a period of at least thirty minutes. They were in front of us and well above us in altitude, and although we traveled well over two hundred miles during that time they always seemed to remain the same distance out ahead of us (hard to tell how far, but they were not close….maybe a hundred or more miles ahead of us). These lights moved up and down and from side to side and would disappear and reappear, and their level of brightness would change constantly. White in color. Another airliner reported seeing the same thing. Air traffic control said they had no traffic above us and recommended we report here.
March 4, 2023 · 11:49 PM · FORMATION
Enid, OK
It appeared like a spining cloud of lights and formed into a V shape... it almost looked like a flauk of ducks but it was lights. Absolutely no sound what so ever. My wife and I watched it until it disappeared. My wife took a photo.
February 27, 2023 · 11:54 AM · FORMATION
lutz, FL
I was sitting outside doing my photography for my and looked towards the left facing the west coast of Florida and saw a group of what seemed to be 15-20 metallic objects in a close formation from a distance, at first I thought it was a flock of birds but they appeared for about five seconds coming from a southernly direction then disappeared. The altitude was above the tree line and I wanted to say the altitude was between 15,000 - 20,000 feet. The approach path for aircraft descending into Tampa International is 2,500 -10,000 on the approach path here.
February 25, 2023 · 7:33 PM · FORMATION
Grand junction, CO
Will walking dogs there were 2 very bright lights low in the sky. When I got home I took my big telescope out to the street and I saw two bright circles one with a hole in the center and were falling to the horizon my telescope has a bad stand and the video was very brief but what I saw was not normal I have a video but it was too long
February 24, 2023 · 8:40 PM · FORMATION
Shreveport, LA
Bright light in woods behind fence, something in right corner of picture taken. My grandmother took this picture from her back porch.
February 20, 2023 · 8:32 PM · FORMATION
Poulsbo, WA
The first sighting was sometime last week, and I saw a twinkling object in the sky and a triangle object next to it asked My if she saw it too she said yes, we went in the house and left the situation alone. Today my spot it to unknown objects floating on top of the Bremerton base took a picture of it and sent it to me and it look like UFO. One of them was glowing green around the object. The other one was shining, really bright, but had four dots two buy two in a row. Venus and Jupiter are the lower bright objects
February 19, 2023 · 7:25 PM · FORMATION
Bonita Springs, FL
3 weird lights in a row and then another 3 weird lights above those. Not moving. Just sitting. Looks like big windows in the sky.
February 18, 2023 · 4:50 PM · FORMATION
Pasco, WA
My daughter thinks I’m nuts and she thinks it a flock of birds. However these birds would have to be huge because it was nearly 2 miles away. It could be clouds, maybe? Or a weather balloon or space junk falling to earth. Well it’s your job to tell me what we saw! I have pictures but they are not very good.
February 12, 2023 · 8:50 PM · FORMATION
Hagerman, ID
The objects looked like small balls in a straight line. It appeared they were moving towards the ground in a row. There was six objects really bright white lights then they began to dim and each one went out and disappeared in order from rear to front. I observed them first then called my family out to see them. I am a veteran and served in the army field artillery and military police. The objects reminded me of flares from mortars but the location of them is not close to the military training area.
February 12, 2023 · 7:45 PM · FORMATION
Arcanum, OH
While observing Venus and Jupiter, a point of light was seen 30-45 degrees to the North of Venus rising from the horizon. At about 30 degrees it appeared to be a well-lit contrail though the sun was well below the horizon . At 45 degrees, it became evident it was a straight-line formation of 18 or more white lights spaced at irregular intervals. At 60 degrees overhead, the lights brightened to the intensity of Venus and appeared to be made up of both points and rectangular lights. The formation was longer than the space between thumb and index finger of an outstretched arm. No aircraft navigation lights were seen, and no noise was detected. After continuing eastward, the lights rapidly dimmed out. No clouds were detected in the sky. Video was captured by other witnesses several miles away and both sightings were reported to the local Sheriff’s Department. In my opinion, given the size of the formation, the intensity of the lights, complete absence of sound, and lack of navigation lights, it is unlikely the formation was that of a commercial aircraft. Likley Starlink
February 12, 2023 · 7:40 PM · FORMATION
Grand Rapids, OH
Starlink
February 12, 2023 · 7:40 PM · FORMATION
Ewing, KY
At 7:40 pm 2/12/23 I arrived from a trip from town and upon exiting my vehicle I noticed what appeared to be 5 Star like orbs in a line similar to orion's belt moving in a slow line for roughly 10 seconds then promptly vanished each dot disappearing in a eclipse like fashion. I've observed your starlink page, while they are similar looking there was only 5 orb shaped objects.