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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.
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October 8, 2016 · 8:15 PM · CHANGING
Murfreesboro, TN
We spoke via telephone with the husband of the couple who allegedly witnessed the lights, and he sounded to us to be quite sober-minded and sincere. The husband reported that the lights were distinctly blue. PD
October 1, 2016 · 2:00 AM · CHANGING
Minneapolis, MN
I am amazed I haven't heard any reports on this sighting this following morning. I was out on my front porch last night at about 3 AM. Clear sky, and I was admiring the stars. I then noted a strange light in the Eastern sky. Very difficult to describe. It was multi-colored, red, white , blue. The colors shifted, or pulsed. It seemed to hover, but did make a very slow Southerly progression. After viewing it for approximately a half hour, I went an woke my wife. I didn't do this easily, but felt she would be upset if I told her what I'd observed and didn't let her know. She was as awed as I was. She grew up in Old Ford Town, which is the neighborhood of the old Wold Chamberlin Field, and right close to MSP. So, obviously she is not new to seeing aircraft in the night sky. Neither of us could explain what we were seeing. We were watching with binoculars, and we could come up with no explanation for this sighting. Obviously, not a plane, nor a helicopter. We watched until almost 5:00 AM. Any other reports? We'd love an explanation. We were never freaked, but very intrigued.
September 30, 2016 · 11:22 PM · CHANGING
Naples, FL
I walked out my back door to smoke and looked west toward the Gulf. I noticed a grouping of lights moving from north to south. As soon as I noticed them, I began moving away from my porch light. The lights were a dull orange, as if covered by clouds. At first it seemed to be like a glider, then similar to a dragonfly, to the point where the lights were flowing like on the tips of a manta ray. I followed further when the lights disappeared, only for a few seconds. The disappearance was then disrupted by a bright circular flash, and then concluded. Witness provides no contact information. PD
September 29, 2016 · 7:15 PM · CHANGING
Marietta, GA
September 29, 2016 7:15 PM EDT. I stepped out on my back deck to enjoy a break in the summer heat and heard a large airliner pass by overhead in a north-easterly direction, which is a normal route out of Atlanta Airport. The airliner probably had not reached its cruising altitude but was above 15,000 feet. I could hear and see it very well. As I watched the airliner travel away from me I noticed another craft that was west of the airliner traveling to the southeast and was quite a bit higher than the airliner. The craft looked as if it were descending directly at me in a nose down fashion. The setting sun reflected brilliantly from the craft in a golden color, which made it difficult to know exactly what color it was. If I had to guess the color was probably silver. At first it looked like the International Space Station with two sets of solar panels extending from each side making it look similar to a bi-plane. The reflected sun light radiated around the craft revealing a solid object, at this point its direction of travel was due east. After a few seconds the object changed course to due south as it approached where I was standing. It travelled south slowly away from my position but the appendages similar to bi-plane wings or solar panels had changed and appeared to be on the west or right side of the object. I called my daughter out to see the object. Her first reaction was “it’s a plane”. I sort of disputed that by saying “where’s the wings”. She said “well it doesn’t seem to have any”. At that point the object was cigar shaped with appendages on its right side. We watched it continue south and I looked away to come inside the house and my daughter said it disappeared. I looked one last time and didn’t see it. Summarizing: the object had physical shape, brilliantly reflected the setting sun producing a gleaming effect, made no noise, had no blinking lights, traveled in very steady manner, changed direction and shape.
September 28, 2016 · 7:00 PM · CHANGING
Chesterfield · United Kingdom
Saw two small clouds much like other cirrus type clouds in the sky. Video a/v online taken by others further afar, but I saw little clouds, not lights as reported by others. (Please view this video for movement timings, with several web entries for the same video, but I don't know at what time the video showing lights was taken. The video also helps estimate distances). Difficult to estimate distances but whilst viewing I thought probably 400 metres high and each moving horizontally, roughly like a pendulum and its mirror image, with a 1000-2000 metres estimated horizontal movement. Background was clear deep blue with many almost still standard clouds clearly visible. I was located directly under the east end of the horizontal movement, where the strange clouds were each more or less stationery for a couple of seconds with each pass. I think this was probably the best location to view. The moving clouds were almost the same white colour as the standard clouds, but with a slightly grainy texture, and slightly whiter. At no time could I see though the two strange clouds to the clear deep blue background. Viewed for about 20 minutes, and then viewed again about an hour later with same observations except that the blue background was darker. Assumed that the repeated movement had continued for this hour duration. On just one occasion I and another person saw a light (white or yellow??) for about a half second, looking similar to a light bulb being switched on and off. I could not see any trace of a source light beam coming from the ground, and the strange clouds showed a uniform texture unlike what would have been expected if there had been illumination from the ground and associated reflections. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 27, 2016 · 1:42 AM · CHANGING
Roseville, CA
I went to the bathroom in the middle of the night, then went back to bed. I was facing the bedroom window (westward pointing). I saw a really bright twinkling light in the sky but, I knew it wasn't a planet. It twinkle so wildly it gave the illusion of moving but, not across a trajectory. I saw and photographed something like this before JAN 2014: https://goo.gl/photos/ngv9AMW6zQNfj2mX8). So I ran downstairs and grabbed my camera gear an proceeded to take photos. I took these shots early this morning 1:42-1:54am 09-27-16, facing west approximately 25-30 degrees from horizon line: https://goo.gl/photos/qLddXwnp1iqMmqNt5 If you click on the link there are a series of images I took. The strange thing is that there were 3 of these 'light/plasma anomalies" in the sky last night. And they seemed to be synchronized with each other! All images taken using standard astro photography protocol & settings to prevent any movement of the camera : -tripod -trigger release -lens on eyepiece closed off -settings: iso 1600 - 6" - f2.8 I've also reported this incident to Linda Moulton Howe. Apparently, others have actually seen the same thing in 2008 & 2010. My original sighting was in Jan 2014 and now, here again, in Sep 2016. What are these?! And, why are there multiples now? I be be happy to provide the original camera raw files if needed.
September 26, 2016 · 4:00 PM · CHANGING
Apple Valley, UT
On Sunday, September 25, 2016, I was in my backyard and saw a bright object in the sky and went into the house and told my wife that there was a drone flying over our yard. It looked to me to be about 600-700 feet in the air, above the mesa behind us. I watched it move slowly along the mesa from west to east until it was out of sight. The following day, Monday, the object appeared again but was higher in the sky. My wife came out to look at it, and I called some neighbors also. This was approximately 3:30-4:00 pm. One neighbor had a rifle with a high-powered scope, and some binoculars. He said that the object was definitely not a drone, but looked like a disk. He described the object as having a red light and was glowing. His estimate was the object was at about 1500 feet. He apparently took photos, but unfortunately he left town for his work, and we do not have access to his photos yet. I took pictures with my everyday camera but there is not a really good shot. The object appeared to change shape from round to triangular. I found an old pair of binoculars that were water damaged. I did manage to get a better look. My wife and I both saw the object as a glowing orb; it was luminescent and slowly shifted its shape and colors. Our small camera picked up bright pink “auras” or “energy waves,” which were also sometimes visible to the naked eye. At one point a low-flying jet appeared out of nowhere, and not on a regular flight route or elevation. It looked almost like two aircraft were flying together, one just above the other. A few minutes later, another plane flew by. My wife describes them as “ghost” planes, because they were so out of place and looked like they were in a haze. The object moved slowly, almost imperceptibly, towards the west and the setting sun. When the sun disappeared behind the mesa, the object remained in the same place above the mesa. I made a small fire and stayed outside well after dark to watch the object. Around 8:15 pm, I saw it become slightly larger and brighter, then it suddenly extinguished. My wife and I are over 60 years old, and neither of us has seen anything like this ever. We have lived in our home for 18 years and have never seen anything unusual in our skies.
September 23, 2016 · 10:00 PM · CHANGING
Sarasota, FL
At first we saw a line of flashing lights in the sky, then they just started to move faster and changed into different shapes. It was hard to tell what it was. They just kept on flashing as the moved across the sky until they disappeared in the distance.
September 17, 2016 · 8:33 PM · CHANGING
Summerlin/Las Vegas, NV
At approx. 8:33 pm PST on 9/17/16, I was walking my Dog. I happened to glance up In the sky to look at the full moon. While doing so, I caught a glimpse of , what I first thought was just a bright star. I noticed it moving a bit and thought it may just be a flickering star. The light moved left, up down, then right, then back up slow at first then quick patterns of movement. I went back into my house to grab my phone to try and catch a picture / video and I took several. A couple finally came out to also walk their dog and I asked them to look up at what I was seeing to confirm I was indeed seeing a moving light. I have this on video but it is hard to see it with my cell phone camera but it is visible in the video and in the pictures if you expand them a bit. At that moment, one of the other individuals saw another object just ahead of the first object that appeared red in color and also seemed to be moving about in a strange pattern, and then another bright light appeared to the left of the first one and they formed together a sort of pattern in the sky. All 3 lights seemed to have the same side to side/up – down quick movements then would at times be stationary. The shape of this object was a center light then almost a point on either side (which is why I selected Diamond shape) . I have not ever seen anything like this in the sky, definitely could not explain it. I looked up to see if any other reports had been made and someone did report lights the Summerlin area on 9/15 and in Blue Diamond area on 9/11. Thank You.
September 17, 2016 · 9:45 AM · CHANGING
Oklahoma City, OK
I thought I saw an aircraft circling but it looked more like a thick mist it kept moving and changing....it looked close to the airport.
September 16, 2016 · 9:00 PM · CHANGING
Richlands, NC
Large triangle shape change to a hamburger bun shaped. Red yellow green surrounding lights bright flashing.tiny white lit objects flew out and awy from it. In the western sky
September 11, 2016 · 12:00 AM · CHANGING
Hartsdale, NY
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD
September 8, 2016 · 4:00 PM · CHANGING
Goleta, CA
I am a lifelong skywatcher and have seen many ufos. This event was unique in that the object metamorphosed. It happened as follows: After a long day of work I accompanied my kids to the community pool at 4:00 pm. While the kids were swimming I was laying on my back in the grass. After a few minutes I observed what looked like a 6 inch soap bubble a hundred feet or so off the ground. After twenty seconds the object transformed into what looked like a small jet at 10,000 feet more or less. After fifteen seconds the object became a white dot that faded into the blue sky. The trajectory of the object was a strait line until it disappeared. The direction of the object was southerly, toward Point Mugu, which is an area having multiple sightings per month seemingly exiting and entering the Pacific Ocean. Common thought relates these sightings to the mysterious booming sounds heard centered around Alhambra (LA). It is hypothesized that an undersurface excavation is occurring under Los Angeles. Food for thought? Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD
September 6, 2016 · 2:00 PM · CHANGING
Palm Spring, CA
Too big to be birds. 1 squadron high was changing shapes from v to flat lines to curves (about 8 white balls forming the shapes) next to this was a 4 balls line compact (lower in the sky) and another 3 ball line lower than the 2 other formations They moved pretty slowly even slower than airplanes. The shapes were forming and shifting slowly as well (as migrating birds does) the 2 "following lines" integrates the major shape, fade away to a V shape that slowly disateared
September 5, 2016 · 7:50 PM · CHANGING
Magalia, CA
from Magalia ca. looking SW toward Chico ca. about 25 Deg. above the horizon approx. same area as Uranus but higher up a few degrees. Orange Light object UAP appeared to be changing length and brightness, floating very slow, changing from a singular dull orange color to a very bright orange color changing shape from large planet like object to a long banana shape possibly made up of smaller objects. viewed object for about 50min. from 7:50pm to about 8:40 pm object then faded out from view..
September 3, 2016 · 6:13 PM · CHANGING
Pasco, WA
Riding in a car, I thought I saw a white helicopter coming our way-told the driver-she said it was a drone-I thought a plane-then we both watched it change form to real narrow-as a bright white light appeared as it took form of a space ship-the bright light changed to a narrow form and as it turned away heading away and to the right it disappeared. It seemed to have changed three times different shapes. It didn't go into any clouds-they were the other direction. By the time I decided to take a picture it was long gone. This was during the day time. Sun still out. Never saw any thing like it before. The night before a friend came over saying he just saw a UFO in the dark night hours. So odd that I saw one that next day.
September 2, 2016 · 10:00 PM · CHANGING
Westminster, CO
Three lights in a triangle formation west towards Boulder. Took picture, went to get video recorder, but all the lights were gone. These lights changed shape on binoculars.
September 2, 2016 · 5:20 AM · CHANGING
Riegelsville, PA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 30, 2016 · 8:00 PM · CHANGING
New York City (Bronx), NY
at around eight pm, eastern time. I was sitting on the back porch with my roommate. We were observing everything in the sky as usual. For some reason this night we noticed more airplane activity than usual. i kept noticing to the right of me there was a object in the air with red and green lights, but it was just hovering over some buildings. it had to be at least four blocks away from us. About ten minutes later the object dropped rapidly and then came back up, the red and green lights were still lit up on the object the whole time hovering over the same location. my roommate and i were trying to figure out whats going on and what is it. I thought it was a drone or something. Around 8:45 pm we noticed a small,white, clear, rectangular shaped object gliding around the corner towards us. As it came closer i noticed a bright light in side of the object that looked like a light bulb. it was gliding towards us slowly. The object was actually within our reach. The object changed its form into a golden sphere, but it looked like a cage that was shaped into a sphere. It was still gliding towards us, the object still had the golden light inside of it. The object flew higher and started to travel to the right of us, i caught that part on video. The object changed its form again into some sort of mechanical ball, it then folded itself and disappeared. My room mate started to scream dial 911, and I called channel 7 news. I was told to send in the pictures. I was terrified because i could not understand what was going on. I called all my friends and family to tell them what i just witnessed.
August 27, 2016 · 6:45 PM · CHANGING
Caledonia, WI
We noticed the lights hovering in the sky and truly did not know what they were. We were driving south on I-94 and we pulled off the side of the road to take pictures. The "string" of these lights started merging together and then went up higher in the sky to disappear. The pictures I took with my cell phone, shows them initially as bright red, and one light yellow irregular round in shape. The final pictures before they disappeared looks as if they were unraveling. First time in my life to have witnessed anything like this before. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 24, 2016 · 11:30 PM · CHANGING
Thornton, CO
I noticed a very bright blinking light that looked pretty far away from where we were. As we watched it closer we realized there was 2 giant spotlights that looked like they were surveying the area. As soon as I pointed out the spot lights, they turned off. The object began moving faster while changing colors and then in the blink of an eye it began flying over us and changed shape into a more conventional looking aircraft but was still strange. It looked like a square/diamond shaped craft with circle lights on all four corners that were changing brightness and color. The object was flying very low and it was easy to determine that it was not an airplane of any sort. About a minute after observing the diamond shape aircraft it was out of sight
August 23, 2016 · 10:54 PM · CHANGING
Seminole, FL
Leaving our home next to Seminole High School, we noticed an odd light arrangement in the sky over the school. It appeared to be four small round balls stuck together. They each had a separate color, orange, green, red and blue. They were moving counter clockwise. I stumbled for my phone to get this on tape while screaming for my boyfriend to call my sister a few streets away, as the video starts you will notice all of the other lights turn red and it takes off too fast to be anything that could fly, it returns rapidly with now white lights, it shoots more toward Indian Shores beach, it shoots back over Seminole and then gone. It appeared to be heading east/south east. I own a Kyocera and they are very bad at night camera, but I did get a video of it.
August 20, 2016 · 3:30 AM · CHANGING
Atkinson, NH
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 19, 2016 · 10:00 PM · CHANGING
Salt Lake City, UT
Looked to the sky to observe possible meteor shower sighting. Observed a larger bright light I assumed was a planet in the southwest sky. Many smaller stars were visible which surprised me since I live in the city. The light then proceeded to move in a southeast diagonal direction. It stopped and the light went completely out. To the left of where the light went out a smaller red light appeared. It did not blink. I watched that for a while and then it went out. I was thinking to myself that I wished I had gone in the house to beckon my husband outside but I knew it would be gone by then so I stayed put. Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD