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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
August 10, 2018 · 9:00 PM · FORMATION
Conway, AR
My wife and I were talking our dogs for a walk and we saw four orange lights in a formation with no sound or blinking lights. They banked right and disappeared. Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
August 9, 2018 · 1:00 AM · FORMATION
Sturgis, SD
At the Buffalo Chip in Sturgis in the campground in front of Bikini Beach. 4 silent crafts in very close formation and very low flew over at high speed. They were barely visible with only a glow, and so close it looked like they were only one craft. One craft on the left side broke off from the others straight to the left. Was like a fighter jet formation buzzing the campground, but silent and way fast! ((BEGIN ADDENDUM #1 FROM WITNESS)) Sorry about the confusing date, you got it correct though it was the 9th of this month. I also saw a bright light just sitting in the sky like a real bright “star” and then it started moving slowly down towards the horizon. This was on the 7th, a couple of nights before I saw the formation, the formation was just so awesome I had to look online and see if I could find any one posting about it, that’s when I found your site. I spottted this one at the house we were were renting at the house address listed below from my post in Sturgis. I watch the sky all the time and see plenty of satellites and this didn’t follow the normal path of any I have seen. Usually they just go straight out and disappear out of sight getting dimmer and dimmer, not down towards the horizon like this one. I recorded it but the file is too big to email on here, can I send you a sendspace link for you to download it? Not sure if you are familiar with there service but it lets you upload larger files and then I can send you a link to download. Or if you have another way let me know. Thanks, ((name deleted)) ((END ADDENDUM #1)) ((BEGIN ADDENDUM #2))
August 7, 2018 · 9:08 PM · FORMATION
Austin, TX
Triangular formation of three solid orange lights appeared in the southeast sky on a cloudless evening. After observing for 30 seconds, we noticed a fourth orange light trailing the three that made the triangle. The three that made the triangle looked like they "turned" and we thought it was coming out way and were hoping they would pass overhead, but then they all faded. The fourth "trailing" light remained visible for maybe 15 seconds after the first three were gone.
August 7, 2018 · 9:00 PM · FORMATION
Millington, TN
The past year has been very surreal. We moved into an old plantation house in the middle of a cotton field.I have documented several ORBS on my phone shadows of people moving through the house, I have caught tons of orbs outside and triangular formation that looked like 3 separate crafts and they hovered in the same spot and came straight down to eye view of me with a cloudy haze surrounding them, as if to disquise the view of the crafts. There is also a LG craft that hovers above my house that is high and radiates a bright light that changes colors it is as if it is trying to blend into the stars. Whisp of cloudy white smoke often floats by me inside my house it is a uneasy errie feeling here and outside my animals have tore curtains down they bark at nothing well to the human eye it is nothing radio and lights come on and off and things in my house are moves come up missing then are returned days to weeks later in odd spots
August 6, 2018 · 11:40 PM · FORMATION
Lincolnshire, LINCOLNS · United Kingdom
Night fishing on shore, great clear skies, minimal crescent moon very low on horizon, was watching satellites, shooting stars etc. Mainly monitoring my fishing rod tips, so staring in small area where rod tips were - to include taking in of night sky behind. Observed what I thought to be a shooting star - it fell as a shooting star, looked like a shooting star... As entered atmosphere, white shooting star object lit up for split second as most do when burning through atmosphere entry... Also within this split second - Object broke into 4 pieces. ( I thought disintegrated from 1 into 4, was in awe had never seen this). Is it military, flying from outer atmosphere - re-entering? Now 4, flying in a diamond formation - still as if shooting star (unsure of measurements as miles out to sea) but then... maybe mile above sea level, all 4 objects uniformly straightened up, flew maybe mile high, horizontal to sea level, then flew out over the sea towards Denmark & out of my sight. How did it / they level up, not continue falling as all shooting stars do? How did it glow on atmosphere entry / split into 4? I reported at time but heard nothing, also contacted local Skegness Police & Council & seaside beachfront amusement parks - for CCTV pointing in direction. Heard nothing. Only found this site today, hence delayed report. At time of observation I posted exact time to record. Now not sure of time, sure of date. Now social media post i made at time only displays date. People ask why didn't record on phone - mainly was night time and low lighting so doubt old phone capable to record + happened within 12 seconds - so quick, consider - observed, realised what was observing within say 5-7 seconds, if then (when did think too) reach to find phone, switch on to record etc, would have missed it. No noises or flashing colours or humming, was like watching a shooting star, enter atmosphere, split into 4, continue to fall, but... then straighten up and fly horizontally for at least 5 seconds -= then continued horizontally - flying out of view, towards Denmark. Back story - Happened while spent 2 years on UK coastal night-fishing tour. Only once observed strange objects in night sky unable to explain. Clear skies permitting - observed satellites, shooting stars + Space-x train - multiple times.
July 28, 2018 · 9:00 PM · FORMATION
West Haven, CT
The lights also seemed to go far higher very quickly. Witness 1 wondered why no one at the Fair seemed to be looking up. Witness 2 asked someone at the Fair about these lights and that person reported to Witness 2 that he saw them, and didn’t know what they were. They were completely gone for about 10 minutes and all of them came back in a similar linear/rectagonal form and then moved and then each one disappeared, except one of them. Witness 1 had to urinate and was searching for a portapotty, but first saw a row of about 4 truck cabs that were parked at the Fair and was thinking of urinating there, but looked up and sure enough there was 1 amber light moving slowly towards the trucks high up. Witness 1 decided it was not the best idea to urinate there and before he/she found a portapotty, the light completely disappeared. The motion was not like any type motion that Witness 1 ever saw before. Witness 2 was not very impressed at the sighting. “Even if this were aliens, so what,” she/he said. Witness 1 was very impressed at the sighting but both witnesses are rather concerned that there was no one they felt they could make this report to. That is the entirety of the report. By 22:00 H there seemed no chance these objects would! return. Both witnesses walked home. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 28, 2018 · 4:30 AM · FORMATION
Valparaiso, IN
While walking south with my dog in the front of my property, I saw what I thought was a very close and very bright view of Orion's belt, within seconds the three star vertical formation looked as if it were pulsing/blinking and fading/dimming out and moving downward. At first I thought it was covered by a cloud, but it was a clear sky it that direction, with some visible clouds above me. The sky was very still, with no wind. I continued to watch the area for several minutes and they never reappeared. The formation did not make my dog react, as it was in the distance.
July 27, 2018 · 5:00 AM · FORMATION
New Russia Township, OH
On July 27, 2018, I was working in a small city in northern Ohio. At approximately 5 AM, I was parked in a lot facing south and observed 5 lights in the southern sky in a perfect line, with a noticeable gap in between them. The lights appeared white with the top light brighter than the ones below it. It appeared the lights were at a very high altitude and they did not blink or flicker as aircraft lights do. I observed the lights for approximately a minute before they disappeared one at a time in order from the bottom light to the top light. It did not appear that the lights were moving prior to disappearing. I also did not observe any sounds or other disturbances during this event. During this incident I contacted another individual that was working in the area and advised him to look into the southern sky where he also observed the lights. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 26, 2018 · 4:30 AM · FORMATION
Lewistown, MD
On July 26, 2018 I was driving southbound on US15 in Maryland. Between Emmitsburg and Thurmont, Maryland, I observed a large slightly yellow object hovering in the southeastern sky just above the horizon line, but below the scattered clouds from 4:32AM-4:45AM. The object could have been a conventional aircraft flying towards me, however, there were no wing marking lights and the object never changed in scale or location. At 4:46AM, I realized object had disappeared. At that time, I was still southbound on US15, near the Powell Road intersection, near Lewistown, MD, and the clouds began to part. As the clouds parted, at the 1 o'clock position in the southern sky, I saw two small shining objects in extremely close position to each other emitting a blue-white light. One by one, four additional lights appeared in close proximity to one another. The lights illuminated one by one towards the horizon. When all six were illuminated, they formed a perfectly straight line at extremely high altitude. From my position, the objects were located approximately 14 inches above the horizon line, and the line they formed was approximately 1 1/2 inches long. There was no structure visible, only the light the objects emitted. The light did not twinkle, strobe, or otherwise alter in luminosity. The line they formed was at about a 100 degree angle relative to the horizon line. All objects maintained position. After about one minute, the objects faded one by one, in the reverse order that they appeared (disappearing low to high). No additional anomalies were observed.
July 25, 2018 · 3:00 PM · FORMATION
Guerneville, CA
Three lights in a triangle formation. Very ( very ) bright lights. They were far away, but each one would have been as bright as a stadium lit-up at night, and this was in broad daylight. They weren't connected, I could see some sky between them and they drifted apart a bit after just hovering motionlessly. I watched them for a while and then walked past a tree which blocked my view of them, when I looked again, they were gone, just vanished.
July 18, 2018 · 3:34 PM · FORMATION
In-flight (California), CA
We are on a direct Alaska Airline flight 3377 from Albuquerque to San Francisco and during the trip I like to take pictures of clouds. My wife then tell me have you seen those lights I said no but look back and there 3 objects each one with 2 bright lights that were above ground and were all line up. I took pictures with my phone. During the observation at one point one of the object would disappear, its lights were no longer be visible then it will reappear after no ore than 10-15 seconds. This happened twice during the observation, the second time it was a different object than the first time. The objects seems to remain in the same position not moving from one other. I have recorded a 4 minutes clip until I couldn't see any longer the objects from the plane window. We didn't advertised our observation to any flight personnel to avoid creating chaos on the plane. No one on our side of the plane seemed to have their window shade up to look outside (couldn't see all the way to the back of the airplane). We were sitting in seat A and B.
July 15, 2018 · 5:30 PM · FORMATION
Vancouver (Canada), BC · Canada
I was sitting on the bleachers at a Powwow In North Vancouver watching the Dancers, I was facing the South East. I saw an eagle flying in the distance across from me, I kept following it with my eyes to see if it was indeed an eagle and it flew almost overhead and as I turned my head I saw behind it in the distance a group of shiny bright objects looking like stars. I counted eleven and they were spread out, and some in between from top to bottom made a sort of curved line. I wondered if they were stars in some kind of constellation but I’ve never seen such kind of stars in such daylight before. So I kept watching for twenty minutes and I noticed some of them slowly moved around, and others were more stationary. Some were slightly smaller or dimmer than some, a couple were significantly brighter, and some did not blink, but most did. As I kept watching I saw them eventually after about 25 minutes they came very close together and then very very slowly they moved towards the East. That's when I remembered I had binoculars in my vehicle and I went to look with those. they eventually went to far to see, or disappeared. There were a number of aircrafts during the couple hours I was there, Helicopters and sea planes because I was beside the Harbour. But the lights may have been too high for them to easily be noticed. There were no clouds in the sky and it would sometimes become difficult to spot them again if I walked around and and tried to spot them in the blue sky. I tried taking photos and video but the sun was shining on my cell phone screen making it difficult to see wether I had the lens aimed at the objects. Got a bunch of blank blue sky photos and video with maybe a tiny blip or two but hard to tell.
July 11, 2018 · 11:55 PM · FORMATION
Owasso, OK
Saw something kinda weird last night. I really enjoy sitting on my back porch on warm clear nights and just watch the sky. To me it's much better than TV. I watch for satellites (21 last night, a record) and meteors (only two but...) I see lots of airplanes as well. Of course you can tell them by their flashing beacons, sometimes you can make out the green/red lights as well. Normally, and I mean almost always, you see one and you can watch it cross the sky until it either goes behind a tree or a house or just slowly gets dimmer and dimmer until it totally fades from view on the horizon. It was getting late, near midnight and my eyes were getting tired but I believe that I saw what I saw. Looking to the southeast, probably forty to fifty degrees off the horizon, near the star, Altair, I noticed a sort of oddly lit plane with at least four white-ish lights flickering on and off what I would call randomly, about once per second. It was odd looking but nothing that I thought was totally out of the ordinary. The lights were not real bright but this meant to me that the object was at a very high altitude. It was moving very slightly south of due west at a speed consistent with a high altitude aircraft. Again, not real note-worthy. But then I noticed a second identical object following the first. (If you held a ruler out at arms length then the second was about two or three inches behind the first.) Even this was not that surprising to me as I've logged a lot of hours out there skywatching and seen lots of aircraft. I assumed that if I watched long enough that I would realize that they only seemed to be in a straight line and that in time one would be headed in a slightly different direction. What I didn't expect was for the first object to disappear. It just kind of faded away in a second or two. I kept waiting for it to reappear after I refocused (again, my eyes were tired) but no. It was gone. This got my attention. I could still see the second object for a few seconds...and then IT disappeared as well. The entire event, from the time I noticed the first then the second object, to the time they were both gone lasted maybe 20 seconds. Not the weirdest thing I've ever seen while skywatching...but pretty close.
July 10, 2018 · 11:30 AM · FORMATION
Rohnert Park, CA
Looked West into sky at 11:30 a.m. today and noticed what I thought was a flock of white birds. Their movement wasn't bird-like and they didn't form into any sort of distinct patterns together. The way they moved seemed as if in all directions including backwards and sideways and they sort of swarmed around like kites but independent of anything holding them. They were all white and shaped like boomerangs and kept moving in a swarm and all of a sudden simply disappeared. My friend and I both watched them trying to figure out what they could be. No idea. As for background, I have no scientific training and we were simply standing out by my car. I wish I had thought to take a photo.
July 7, 2018 · 9:00 PM · FORMATION
Santa Maria, CA
While sitting outside enjoying the night sky a flash came from what I thought was a comm sat in the area I observed the planet alignment the year before, or so. The time when Mars, Venus, Saturn closest to this report date. I saw what looked like an anomaly, like a rolling distortion in the star field, then the field began to roll back on itself and a opening occurred. This was at some distance as that the craft that I observed coming through were large and different shapes. Because of the distance, altitude, and angle size was distorted, but not with the sizes I observed. These were transport size looking vessels the biggest would pale any aircraft carrier we have. My home back yard runs North / South. I observed the event looking to the South and at about a 45 degree up angle. Ships were crossing the N/S line heading towards the East. The formation I saw traveled with several smaller ships in the lead, what looked like several larger ships alongside the large one one then several different sizes in formation above it’s line of travel. They just came through and kept going. A battle group, US Navy type would take some time, hours to do this. Their speed would have been very great, Space Shuttle times 3. Oh, this was a very clear night.
July 7, 2018 · 7:45 PM · FORMATION
Oakland, CA
i was blowing bubbles with my son around 7:45 pm tonight and looked up and saw a light that appeared too high to be an airplane. i thought perhaps it was a planet as it was glowing brightly. I could tell it was moving, but quite slowly and could make out six less bright lights glowing around it. They were traveling southeast all in tandem, though the six lesser lights seemed to move slightly as well, but all seemed to be traveling around the main star. I called my partner to see it and he confirmed and saw it too. i cannot say for certain it was a ufo, but it certainly was unlike anything I've ever seen in the sky.
July 4, 2018 · 10:02 PM · FORMATION
Sarasota, FL
They then took off very fast to the West...then 3 more came approx 30 seconds later. I have a video on my phone. I stopped the frames and enlarged it. I can forward it wanted
July 4, 2018 · 10:00 PM · FORMATION
Manchester, NH
After watching for a couple minutes they split apart in different directions and disappeared. Most definitely not fireworks or an airplane.
July 4, 2018 · 10:00 PM · FORMATION
Lexinton, KY
Watching fireworks on residential hill, we saw, low in the sky (10-15 degrees above horizon) a group of 4 - 6 very bright like a stars (no navigation lights) traveling N.E. to S.W. at a moderately slow speed. They were visible for about 3 -7 minutes, then they dimmed and disappeared. That's not all. About 4 '8 minutes later, a smaller group, 4 - 6 did the exact same thing. Brightens, route, degree above horizon etc. They too dimmed out at same area as previous group. We kept watching the area, where they first appeared, and another two appeared and began their "flight" exactly the same. Finally, a lone "star object" appeared as the others. This one was brighter, and followed same flight path. These objects displayed NO navigation lights whatsoever. No sound. Nada. Just bizarre. I did take one picture and one short phone video.
July 2, 2018 · 8:30 PM · FORMATION
Clinton, MO
While driving South on Hwy 13 my wife and I noticed 4 orbs in a horizontal formation brightly glowing white to blue. Thinking of all the things the lights could be and considering the fireworks season we didn't immediately jump to the conclusion of UFO, until 4 more lights appeared in vertical formation to the left of the first 4. The horizontal lights then motioned left and right and the disappeared entirely and shortly after the vertical ones did the same. We then turned off at an intersection and quickly found a parking spot to stop and hopefully observe more activity and sure enough 4 more lights appeared out of nowhere a little farther north, 3 in a vertical and 1 off to the right of the third light. They grew very bright white and then vanished same as the ones before. The lights were far to high to be a firework and had no characteristics of fireworks other than being lights in the sky. They appeared from nothing having no sound and moved around as if! controlled. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 30, 2018 · 7:54 PM · FORMATION
Todoroki (Japan) · Japan
Sitting outside just after sunset during a small cook out; family member noticed stationary lights in the sky in formation. It almost looked like older style radio towers, but not as bright nor flashing. In this area there are not towers or buildings this high. Because we were further away from Tokyo, the sky was not washed out by the city light, so you could see the sky well and probably why not many noticed. We took several photos with an iPhone – they appeared to stay hovered for more than 20 minutes – maybe slightly moving to our right of view. The formation was like that of the 6 dots on Dominos. Then they were gone in unison.
June 28, 2018 · 10:00 PM · FORMATION
Niagara Falls, ON · Canada
around 10 o'clock thursday night june 28th 2018 i came out of my garage to get a drink of water when i looked up and there was a object stationary in the sky not moving it had a big red flashing light on the left upper side and three tiny lights be side it on the right. it stayed motionless in the skyon a doward type angle so i said what's? that thing?? my friend was looking at the same thing HE said look its not moving? what is it? its not a plane OR HELICOPTER they move!! it's frightening to see a object with a flashing red light on the left upper part of the object not moving in the sky the size of a plane it was facing downward on a bit of a angle we were all dumbfounded after watching it for 5 minutes then i went in garage to get other friend too see it and said look up and tell me what you see? he says a flying object motionless in the sky not moving with a red flashing light and 3 other little lights then after watching it for 5 minutes it started to move west really slow we watched and it stopped in mid air for a couple minutes again then it just went away
June 21, 2018 · 10:30 PM · FORMATION
Torrance, CA
Was in the back yard with my dogs when I noticed several objects to the West and moving towards me to the East. They were dark black against a gray sky. At first I thought they might be drones but the objects were different shapes. There were a few round objects that seemed larger than a helicopter and one large object near the middle that looked like two large tubes in an "L' shape. The objects approached fairly rapidly, then stopped others slowed or moved more up than forward for a few seconds. One of the round ones came almost directly overhead. It looked like it had lighter colored parts on the outside I could make out as it got closer. It was odd. I felt like we were aware of each other. I don't know how to describe it. Then two more objects came from the same direction. The moved more rapidly than the others but from the same direction and slowed down over me. They were several hundred feet up. They didn't come close. They were silent. Then they started disappearing. First one, the poof poof, two more. A larger object stayed over head for a while, then it also slowly disappeared. It was strange...
June 21, 2018 · 12:00 AM · FORMATION
Woodstock, VT
(( Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD))