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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.
3,717 entries
August 22, 2017 · 9:30 PM · CHANGING
South Bend, IN
after playing a game on my phone I looked up and the light had moved closer. This caught my attention so I stood up to look a little longer. It was moving south east . thought it was a plane but there were no wing lights or sound. as I watched, I called to my wife to come look at this.. then all of the sudden the yellowish light changed into a a white highlighted arrow shape, it changed patterns a few times, then stayed on the arrow head shape and dissappeared. have never see anything like this ever. as far as my personal background, I'm an artist, and my eyes are trained to see what's there not what I want to see.
August 21, 2017 · 9:30 PM · CHANGING
Truro (Canada), NS · Canada
Me and my women were drinking coffee in our car when suddenly she says look! on her side of car, I heard A loud aircraft aprox. 200ft from ground level... 1 green light on right side of triangle aircraft That I just happened to see flying over my side of car now. I rushed for a video and got it. I was videoing this thing, and when it got a distance away it changed to 1 solid red light!!! And my video only caught 2 seconds of this thing which Is complete ((one word deleted)) because I captured it perfectly. Also people this sounded like a helicopter low to the ground, but no visibility inside triangle.
August 21, 2017 · 1:00 PM · CHANGING
Warren, MI
Oddly, I didn’t watch the video until the following day, and what I saw was totally "out of this world" (pun intended). I saw several white orbs with lights and a mist of particles or gases of some sort. But the most INCREDIBLE sight of it all was the circular Extraterrestrial Craft that darted out of the mist or gas. It then made an abrupt stop, then what appears to be fire or lights come on or out of it, it then spins in circles for a few seconds and finally shoots off in a zigzag form at a speed that is totally unbelievable! We spoke via telephone with the witness, and he seemed to us to be quite sincere, in describing his sighting. PD
August 20, 2017 · 12:00 PM · CHANGING
Winslow, AZ
Two spheres one huge other smaller and one smaller flying around very fast the spheres would pulsate and change colors purple and green. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 19, 2017 · 6:50 PM · CHANGING
Elk Grove, CA
At 6:50 pm, my wife and I were in our backyard discussing Mexican food, when I looked up and saw at approximately 900-1000 feet high an odd looking object that was definitely not a plane or a helicopter and appeared to be carrying a triangle shaped second object. The main object (don't know what else to call it) was very shiny and appeared to be metallic. The top of the object resembled the shape of the letter S if it were faced backwards and seemed to have several strange cable like “arms” that were attached to and carrying the second object. My wife also saw the object and also was in awe and not sure what top make of it. We watched it travel in an awkward zig-zag pattern heading North-East as it gained altitude for about 2 minutes, until it was at a out of site. Shortly after, an airplane flew overhead in the direction of the strange flying object. I took a few pictures with my phone and a short video, which I will attach. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and he seemed to us to be quite sober-minded, and sincere, We suspect he is an excellent, and highly reliable, witness. PD
August 16, 2017 · 4:00 PM · CHANGING
Vernon, AL
We were driving down highway 17 from Sulligent, Alabama to Vernon, Alabama, at 4 p.m. central time. I noticed there was a object in the sky flying along over the treetops. The object was a blinding white cigar shaped craft. It then changed shape to a fat line. There was a slight glow around the object as well. It was flying slowly along going in the opposite direction that we were driving in. Then it vanished. My daughter saw it also.
August 15, 2017 · 11:00 AM · CHANGING
Seattle, WA
It was just after walking with my girlfriend to the bus stop. She needed to go further into the city for the day, so after that I walked to the nearby store to get something to snack on, and after that I wanted to walk my dog on nearby city trial. I had just started the trial, I had a feeling to look up and notice what to me appear to be a ball of light getting closer. I thought maybe it's just a plane flying by, and I was wrong, this was a pulsating Orb, it was changing colors from violet, to green and white. So I was to capture 50 seconds of film from my iPhone 6. Notice from the film, the Orb would disappear in some parts of the clip and negative photos show that the UFO is solid. When the object disappeared and reappear in frame. I notice I was the only person on the trail. It felt strange to witness something alone, and not to have another opinion or experience.
August 13, 2017 · 7:00 PM · CHANGING
Placerville, CA
UFO had running lights on, very similar to what you would see on a police helicopter. It was stationary, but very still. I noticed it and remarked on why is a helicopter sitting like that, right there? Then it moved, morphed shape several times, changed color of lights, disappeared all together several times, and flew at very high rate of speeds, at very low altitudes, and even though it appeared to be very close to us, it had no sound. Shortly after it left the area, several military type aircraft circled around where it had been. And up very high in the night sky, what looked like moving stars (not meteors) much like a commercial airliner up high in the sky, but it looked like a tiny star moving in different directions, towards where the initial UFO had gone out of sight.
August 12, 2017 · 9:00 PM · CHANGING
Mayfield Hts, OH
Saw this bright orange light traveling from NW to SE, moving very slowly. It wasn't a plane, no flashing lights or beacons. Thought it might be one of those fire floating lanterns, but it was too big for that. After a minute of viewing it was almost overhead and the brightness of the object would waver, gradually getting smaller and less bright. Could not make out a defined shape. After a few minutes viewing it passed into a cloud, probably around an altitude of 5000-7000 feet (I know cloud formations, relative heights). A mystery. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 9, 2017 · 10:30 PM · CHANGING
Los Angeles, CA
I noticed while I was standing on a friend's terrace, looking up at the skyline of buildings in the Koreatown neighborhood of Los Angeles. It was so faint, almost as if it blended into the sky and had to focus really hard to see it. It moved slowly across the sky, much slower than the planes and helicopters flying in the same view. It hovered for a few minutes traveling north/northeast and began to fade and disappear. The color of light was a pale blue and it wasn't luminous and slightly transparent. The sky was clear and very close to a full moon (which just passed a few nights ago). When I first noticed it, I could see enough that I would notice the shape of it slowly changing, affecting its brightness at times.
August 9, 2017 · 9:25 PM · CHANGING
Corona, CA
I witnessed a bright orange light traveling from the southeast abruptly stop. The light diminished, then the object became shrouded in a sphere. It then abruptly changed direction, traveling due South at high speed, until disappearing into the void of space.
August 9, 2017 · 12:20 AM · CHANGING
St. Petersburg, FL
My friend and I were camping at Fort De Soto. As we were sitting outside by the campfire, a strange mist started to fall (not quite rain, but definitely could be felt on the skin), we found it strange because there was not a cloud above us. As we were looking towards the sky to try and find where this mist was coming from we noticed what initially looked to be a plane in the sky that had a strange flight pattern heading towards us. It was too far away to see much so we thought that maybe it was a plane in distress. We decided to run past the trees into a field to get a better unobstructed view of it. At this point it was probably two football fields distance away from us and about as high as a helicopter is when they are searching for people on the ground (it was quite low). A few things became apparent as this was happening… 1. Both my friend and I got goosebumps all over our bodies (including our cheeks) and the hairs on our bodies stood up at the exact same time. 2. It was now close enough to see the shape and what jumped out at us first was that it was round in the front with a cigar shaped tail (definitely unlike any plane we'd ever seen before-it had no wings!) 3. It had absolutely no sound coming from it other than a low hum, and 4. It was blacker in color than the night sky. It had 4 round white lights around the front which quickly morphed into 1 bright center light and then morphed back into 4 individual lights, again. It then made a sharp U-turn towards our left, went into some trees for about 5 seconds to where we couldn't see it, and came back out and over us again heading in the opposite direction, only now in an entirely different shape! It was now in the shape of a 4 engine military looking plane (completely different from its original shape). It proceeded to head in the opposite direction away from us and into the trees where we could no longer get a visual on it. About 30 seconds later the mist was completely gone. The whole incident probably only took about 2-3 minutes.
August 8, 2017 · 10:00 PM · CHANGING
Portland, OR
I used binocular glasses to watch the craft. Throughout maybe 12 minutes, I could see it split into multiple crafts, morph color and shape, and shoot another brighter craft outward. The new craft quickly disappeared completely. I used Morse code to send it messages, to which it would often respond with numerous things. I first told it that we are peaceful, and that we would like to see it do something. It quickly blinked very rapidly and brightly after that. Seconds later, the craft that earlier disappeaed came back. It flew close to the ground in a zig-zag pattern. Soon after it once more vanished completely. After that, it went back to flashing and morphing around. I asked it to make a sound, I then heard a noise that sounded like a repetitive "bloop bloop." It stopped after I noticed a light floating behind a nearby tree. At one point it peeked out and flashed a light at me that seemed to resemble the flash on a camera. At this time the other three witnesses had left. I had left when I started to hear a loud ringing noise in multiple directions. Out of curiosity, I came back a few minutes later and the main craft was completely gone.
August 8, 2017 · 7:30 PM · CHANGING
Victorville, CA
It was not especially high in the sky, appearing just over the view of the homes across the street from us, no higher than an average helicopter height, but it did not move at all like a helicopter, nor did it have any sound. If it had been a helicopter it would have been closer to where we sat based on the perspective of its position and relative size to the homes and we would have heard a sound, seen its lights and the manner that it moved. It began to slowly change directions and altitude getting higher and heading north. As it did, the light extended out looking more like a rocket's contrail; however you could faintly see a dark elongated shape in front of the contrail. It did not accelerate quickly or move in an exaggerated way, rather it steadily gained altitude, steadily moved in a north-easterly direction, and the contrail continued to elongate and stayed quite bright almost white. In other words although it resembled a rocket's contrail it never had a fiery look. As it reached a zenith height of what I estimate to be approximately 10 to 15 miles its contrail began to fade until it simply faded out and vanished. There were no clouds to obscure it, no darkness to cover it, it simply disappeared, but slowly as if it were erased bit by bit. I know of no known rocket that can hover and then proceed to leave the atmosphere at such a relatively slow controlled pace, let alone disappear or fade out.
August 7, 2017 · 5:30 AM · CHANGING
Waupun, WI
Hovered above highway 151 slowly moved across fields and back across highway then disappeared into the clouds.
August 6, 2017 · 9:11 PM · CHANGING
Mississauga (Canada), ON · Canada
I have reviewed my pictures and found that during my series of shots the object just appeared. I checked the time stamp of the picture of when the object appeared and it said 9:11 pm. (little weird). Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 28, 2017 · 8:50 PM · CHANGING
Sacramento, CA
We were flying down for landing when we noticed a strange object in the sky from the plane's window. At first it was primarily circular, with a white glow in the center and a slight red tint/outline (similar to that of a flare, but it was far larger, stayed in the air for far longer, and did not flicker or flash.) It seemed to last a while, and as time passed the object began to seemingly stretch and lose the white glow, obtaining a more oblong shape before dissipating and leaving a lingering red haze/glow. It is also important to mention that it was off in the distance so the size of it could have been relatively large. The number of witnesses is unknown but there could have been many, due to the fact that the event occurred in a city.
July 27, 2017 · 9:30 PM · CHANGING
San Bernardino, CA
I quickly grabbed my cell phone and tried to take a pic of it, but i couldn't see it in my phone. Then my phone died. I just took it off the charger at 100 percent. I turned it back on and turned on my video recorder and started to record it. my phone died again. I turn my phone on again and check my battery and notice i have 60 percent left, so I begin to record again and it shuts off again. I went inside my friends house and told her and everyone inside to come out and look. Once again i turn my phone on and record it in the sky until my phone once again shuts off and as i look up in the sky to see what i thought was the moon going down down down and then disappeared i didn't see the other lights around while i look at it in the sky. I could only see them on my phone on my phone. It was very odd, but very interesting just thought id share it
July 26, 2017 · 12:16 PM · CHANGING
Green Valley Lake, CA
I observed beautiful pink and blue laced clouds in my backyard in the San Bernardino National Forest. I took 2 pics. I did not see objects at that time. Later, while viewing photos I saw 1 blue cigar shaped object in first photo then acended and broken into multiple (4-5) blue objects on 2nd photo taken seconds after the first. Not sure what it is. We had storm clouds intermittently over past week.
July 23, 2017 · 12:45 AM · CHANGING
Springdale, WA
We suspect that this may be a hoax. Source of the report does not indicate a date of the event, so we have assigned an arbitrary date. PD
July 21, 2017 · 10:32 PM · CHANGING
West Chester, OH
After about 2 minutes 3 lights appeared, probably 4-5 miles in a different direction. The sky seemed to be lit up like lightning, but it wasn't lighting. The 3 lights then disappeared. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 20, 2017 · 9:30 PM · CHANGING
Reno, NV
Was outside my apt complex and noticed an extremely bright dot in the sky that's never been there before. It moved up and down and I caught it all on film. It dimmed in and out. It finally moved down and almost disappeared behind my building, but I backed up and lifted my phone it got very very bright directly st me then, disappeared completely
July 19, 2017 · 8:09 PM · CHANGING
Lynnwood, WA
This sighting was very much a spontaneous encounter on my part, and ended almost as quickly as it began. I was in my car, parked outside a strip mall next to a park, with a Taekwondo studio and Scuba Diving store in front of me. I had just dropped off a family member, and was reading a book for college while waiting in the vehicle for my family member to return in about an hour. A friend called me on my cell phone; I became distracted from reading, and so we talked for about five minutes before the beginning of the UFO encounter. I was casually looking outside at my surroundings without much attentiveness, when I spotted this apparent craft. I did not actually think it was an aircraft at all, at first. I was looking up at the dark/grayish clouds in front of me, and I glanced in the craft’s direction, thinking I had just seen a small dark break the clouds in my peripheral vision - as if I could see through to a darker cloud layer. I was not at all alarmed, nor did I suspect it was a flying object. I continued talking, and when I turned my attention to the area again maybe about 10 seconds later, I looked more closely, and noticed this was not a break in the clouds. Something was definitely there, well below the cloud layer. I knew very quickly it wasn’t a bird or plane, because it was hovering completely motionless in the air. My immediate assumption was that this was a helicopter, which is perfectly reasonable, as I see them fly by from time to time, even at this particular parking lot. I like to check out aircraft whenever I seen them, so I asked my friend to wait a moment while I sat up closer to my dashboard to focus in on the supposed helicopter. I saw it was smaller than a helicopter; it had no tail, no propeller blades or moving parts, and made no audible sound. It was unusually difficult to make out its shape. This may have been because of its size and the dark backdrop. But I stared at it for maybe about 20 seconds as it hovered there in the sky, absolutely motionless, expecting it to move. I was so surprised at how still it was, I even moved my head left to right, just to be sure I wasn’t somehow staring at a speck of dust on my windshield. I am pretty sure it had corners; it was not an oval or sphere exactly, but it seemed like it was maybe rounded slightly. I can’t say for absolute certain, like I said earlier, the shape was hard to make out - but if I had to guess, it was perhaps a cube or triangle with rounded edges. Very dark – basically black in color, and may have had a small gray or white marking on it, but I cannot say for certain as it could have been a reflection of the sky, if it was metallic. But from my angle at least, I would describe it as fairly dull; a matte black. In terms of size, I would say it was one to two meters across, and one-half to one meter in height. I was still on the phone, and began describing the object to my friend, who was listening closely, and became a little concerned for me. I did not feel threatened by it, but was very curious nonetheless. I sometimes keep a pair of binoculars in my glove compartment, and so I began quickly rummaging through papers, napkins, and tools I keep in there, while still keeping an eye on the object, only occasionally glancing into the glove compartment fo r a second or two. I had two plausible explanations in my mind; it was either a big balloon of some kind, or a drone, but I wanted to find out for certain. At the exact moment I thought that, it started to move slightly to the left, and then a second later bolted off at high speed, traveling backwards, away from me. It did not tilt, turn, or otherwise look like it had control surfaces or a propulsion system. I became upset it was leaving, and I could not find my binoculars. Still talking to my friend, I figured I took them out of the compartment a few months ago to bring on a boat trip, and forgot to return them. The craft left the location pretty fast; in about 15 seconds, it was a tiny little dot, and disappeared somewhere behind buildings or trees. I found it very unlikely to be a balloon because if it was, it probably would have been smaller and round, likely would have had a string or something attached to it, and would have been ascending at a constant rate, not to mention being bobbed and brushed by the wind - not sitting perfectly still in the air, before suddenly bursting off at a very high speed in basically one direction. It is hard to guess how high and far it was from my location with only a limited number of items for a point of reference, but I would say no more than a quarter mile from where I was parked. It was relatively low; my best guess, I would say between 6! 00 and 800 feet above the ground. When it moved, it began gently, and increased speed very quickly. I would approximate maybe 250 to 300 mph the last I saw it. Also note, there was a young man, maybe about 25, sitting in his car parked next to me, but he was facing the opposite direction and was staring at his phone, so I did not bother to ask if he had also seen the craft after it had left. As far as I could tell, we were the only two people in the parking lot capable of viewing the craft. Once the surprise and adrenaline rush had worn down, I resumed my conversation with my friend, speculating what it could have been. I regretted not taking a picture with my phone, but on the other hand, it probably would have been too small to turn up as anything more than a few pixels on the image anyway. I decided to take a picture at least of the sky conditions where the craft was, about five minutes after it left, to give some perspective as to how I saw it. The only plausible and conventional explanation I have was that it was a large, black, very fast moving drone, with long range wireless capabilities. This is a suburban area, so it was hovering and passing over small buildings, houses, and some forested areas. I have walked near the place where the craft was in the past, and I know there are some small fields and depressions in the ground, as well as a high school it most definitely would have passed over or near. I do not know how long it was hovering there prior, but I know it sat still for at least the minute or two that I saw it from when I first glanced it in the sky. For a craft that size and altitude, it should have had some light beacon to indicate its presence to other aircraft, and I would have expected it to be flatter with four or more distinguishable copter propellers if it was a drone. This craft did not possess any of those features as far as I could tell, but I would be willing to accept a drone as a conventional answer. I readily acknowledge that it is just an unidentified flying object. I am not necessarily trying so suggest this was some event so extraordinary that it exceeds all conventional reasoning, nor that it is of extraterrestrial or otherwise supernatural origin. It was certainly very odd though, and this is not the first instance in the time I have lived here that I have seen unusual or inexplicable aircraft. There was one other event that occurred on my thirteenth birthday when I was walking home from a store. I was on the top of a hill nearing my neighborhood next to a forested area with only a couple sleepy houses to my right side, when I spotted a silvery metal craft, oval in shape flying over the forest, completely silent, and traveling at similar heights and speeds to this one. Unlike the case I am presenting here, I do have a picture of the actual craft itself (albeit a poor resolution one) taken from my phone, and posted on Facebook. In the original image, the craft was too small to see without zooming in, but it was nevertheless in the image. I searched old data folders and even tried to revive the (now dead) phone I took the photo with to see if I could retrieve the original file, but unfortunately could not bring it back. In the Facebook photo of this so
July 17, 2017 · 8:00 PM · CHANGING
on mass pike between boston and worcester, MA
saw this object traveling on the massachusetts turnpike traveling west toward worcester from boston. It started out as a small black dot then became a large jelly fish like shaped object before it passed ou of view. saw 2 or 3 other black dots but we lost sight of them.