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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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August 11, 2016 · 11:00 PM · CHANGING
Woonsocket, RI
This light changed shape from a diamond to a circle. There was no sound other then branches breaking. Also there was a blue amd white color coming from the bottom I watched it slowley move towards the side of my house. This light was hovering and I was blinded by the light. It hovered for 15 minutes and i was able to grab my camera. I took a sequence of photos in which shows the exact movements. After i took the photos it vanished.
August 8, 2016 · 6:15 PM · CHANGING
Boise, ID
My niece called me from Nampa, Idaho, and asked me if I could go outside and see if I could see what she was seeing in the sky, I live in Boise, Idaho, approximately 20 miles away. I went out in the backyard and looked toward the southwest, and it only took me a minute or two to spot it. It looked like a white shiny sort of ball-shape ship of some kind floating through the air, way up high. My only camera is my Galaxy S6 smartphone, so I started taking photos. This white ball moved quietly through the air above me for about 40 minutes. I took many photos of it through clouds and a background of bright blue sky. It seemed to be on a northeastern path, exactly toward Bogus Basin Ski area in the Boise Mountains above where we live. As I was taking photos, I noticed that this ball changed from the single big white ball to a single smaller ball then two balls the three balls in a triangle shape, then a purplish looking tube shape, then a couple of odd shapes before it went back to the bigger single white ball shape. When my niece sent me photos of this ball shaped thing in the sky, it wasn't really a ball shape, but she was taking pictures through a high power telescope lens. This was really an odd thing to see in the daylight. We have alot of ships or?, they are in the Bogus Basin area at night I have watched them until 6:15 am, they are there every night starting about 1:30am. They move super fast, darting around, bouncing up and down, zigzagging and doing perfect square patterns in the sky. They are super bright glittery ball shapes that are so high up that they are about the size of the head of a pin.
August 6, 2016 · 7:45 PM · CHANGING
Boise, ID
Sitting outside at neighborhood pool in nice bright evening light and all at pool witnessed a white object, way farther up than a drone, remaining in a general stationary area. Sky view says Arcturus is up there but this is bright day light and seems closer. Seems like a dimensional object. Sometimes looks oval, sometimes looks angular or triangular. We have photos.
August 5, 2016 · 9:00 PM · CHANGING
New Britain, CT
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 4, 2016 · 7:37 PM · CHANGING
Kamloops (Canada), BC · Canada
On WestJet flight 166 from YVR to YEG, we spotted an object out our starboard window, approximately 700-1000 meters from the plane. It was about 40-50 minutes into our flight. We had reached cruising altitude approx. 35k ft. When we first saw it, it looked like a large ball at the front with a long net-like or skirt-like structure trailing it. At first we thought it was a scratch on the window, then it started moving in a flowing like manner. The ball shape at the front was always at the lead of the direction it was moving. Same direction as the plane - or so it appeared. It was black. We were stunned and trying to understand what we were looking at for about 1-2 minutes before I started taking pictures. At that point it had flattened out or turned and appeared flat. The object was by our side for approximately 3 minutes until we past it. It had structure. It was not smoke or a contrail. I can only roughly approximate the size as it was far away but close enough to see detail. 10-15 meters long and 5 meters wide when spread out. We stayed on the plane until everyone had left and asked the pilots if they saw it. They said they did not. Trying to understand what it was. Can't explain it currently. Looking for help or someone that has seen something similar. It was a safety concern. It was close to the plane. Whatever it was, if it got in the engines, it would have been trouble. Thought it might be a drone, but that is high for a drone, especially with the long thing flying behind it. Aerodynamically, the flowing skirt doesn't make sense. It creates drag. Kites use ribbons for stabilizers, not for lift. Only thing similar I can think of is a sail, but the ball thing was at the lead, not the skirt. Photos and video: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/zrq9uorr1vbsm46/AACbF_Xk5wWWLRVZ90o1GPSHa?dl=0 The video is faint. You see it similar to the photos when zoomed in on the video on my iPhone. Don't know if you have a way to zoom into the video. A sketch is included, but we need more detail. I'm attempting to sketch it further. (( We spoke via telephone with the witness, and we found him to be quite sober minded. We have requested that the other witness submit
August 1, 2016 · 9:00 PM · CHANGING
Old Orchard Beach, ME
Saw a yellowish, irregularly shaped craft of some kind in the north sky. Standing on the beach at Old Orchard Beach, I watched the craft move slowly southward for 2 minutes or more. I got out my IPhone and zoomed in on the yellowish craft and tried to focus on it. I suddenly saw a disc shaped object in its place with lights spaced intermittently around its perimeter. I fumbled to push the photo button and by the time I got ready, the disc suddenly disappeared. First time I have ever had this kind of inexplicable observance. I have not stopped thinking about it.
August 1, 2016 · 8:45 PM · CHANGING
Jacksonville, FL
I was outside on the phone when I saw a large flickering red light moving west, then a second light, moving slowly, then a third. As they move closer, the light lowered, and one by one, they went straight up and out of sight. I managed to get my wife out to witness this, as well as a neighbor. I also videoed with my cell phone. This was something I will never forget. I'm glad I got to finally witness something like this for real.
July 28, 2016 · 1:35 AM · CHANGING
Buckeye, AZ
Appeared to change shape from boomerang to linear to point. Did not have a defined structure or outline. Just reappeared 1:46am divided into three.
July 27, 2016 · 10:43 PM · CHANGING
Salt Lake City, UT
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 27, 2016 · 10:40 PM · CHANGING
Heber City Canyon, UT
My friend and I were driving through the very beginning of Provo Canyon, barely out of Heber Valley, when all of a sudden traffic was at a standstill. We looked up and saw a large group of golden colored lights that started in the shape of a UFO but broke apart into a group of about 10-12 lights with long streaming trails behind them that's took on a V shaped formation. They were moving very slowly and steadily, in a horizontal manner across the sky. This was then followed by a circular green light that appeared to be ushering them along. The entrie thing lasted about three to four minutes. Then all at once the objects didn't fade but just completely disappeared all at once. The whole highway was at a standstill watching and we took a video on my phone, which we watched save, but when we went back to look at and it had been completely deleted. Witness indicates incorrect date, which we have corrected above. The correct date of the sighting was July 27, 2016. NUFORC, in error, reported this incident on Coast to Coast AM on the night of July 29th, believing it to be a legitimate sighting of an authentic UFO. We apologize for the error, and will correct the error at our next appearance on radio. PD
July 27, 2016 · 10:35 PM · CHANGING
Cedar Valley, UT
There was a very, very, large object which was multi-colored, low in the sky, headed north east. It seemed low and slow. It appeared to be breaking up. It was massive! Space debris re-entering atmosphere. PD
July 27, 2016 · 9:30 PM · CHANGING
Alpaugh, CA
Space debris. PD
July 27, 2016 · 9:20 AM · CHANGING
Concord, NH
I got outta my truck told the people to record it cause my phone was dead they saI'd it waa too dark aND it wouldnt record... The ufo was slowly spinning like you flip a coin. Stopping then gyrating again in each direction. Then stop and doing it side ways like a coin. But really slow. Like a spin per 5 seconds. Then it just shrunk, or took off directly away from me.. it just diminished into nothing. I watched it just shrink in one spot. It just disappeared, no sound, no lights, just a dark obect. 3 girls were stari! ng at it, and staring at me, literally like "wtf was that" word for word. They were as astonished as i was. but I was so frustrated my phone was dead, I think I must have swore from the main st theatre where they do plays, all the way to cumbies. It was amazing..
July 24, 2016 · 12:15 AM · CHANGING
Toledo, OH
I was driving home from the store heading south on I-75 toward I-280 . On the bend, I noticed 3 bright white lights in a V formation, coming from the southeast heading north west moving in perfect unison. At first I thought they were helicopters flying low but the way they were moving made me think it was one large triangular ship. So I slow down to about 35 miles an hour to watch these things glide over the highway close to the jeep plant. I lowered the windows and listened for any chopper sound, jet sound, propeller sound, could not hear any sound. Three solid spheres of light no blinking lights. They also changed to a red color as the flew over head stretching slightly. When the one stretched at least the one I mainly focused on, you could see a little yellow and orange in the center of it. I'd say they were between 3 to 5 hundred feet up, moving 100 to 200 mph. about the size of small helicopter my wife thought they were drones but she also says it was! something like she never seen before. This I know, these were no common man made flying machines. And we were not the only ones who witnessed this event there were a number a vehicles on that bend.
July 23, 2016 · 10:35 PM · CHANGING
Kure Beach, NC
While looking east at the ocean a bright orange and yellow elongated shape appeared over the water. It traveled slowly in a straight line north. It became smaller and circle shaped but still had a yellow and orange glow like a fire ball. It got smaller until it disappeared. There was no sound and it was above the horizon. It did not disappear into the water. From when I first saw it to when it disappeared, was maybe half a mile.
July 23, 2016 · 5:50 PM · CHANGING
Ritzville, WA
On Saturday July 23, 2016, 5:50 pm, my fiancé, my niece, and myself were heading home from downtown Ritzville. Heading north on Columbia Ave., we just passed Alder Ave. My niece had looked up to the right (east) and asked what that was in the sky. I looked up and didn’t see anything at first. As we approached Birch Ave. I saw something moving in the sky. My fiancé parked the car at the apartments on east Birch and I grabbed my phone. I aimed it towards the silvery white shape I saw in the sky to the east. It had a weird shape to it almost reminding me of a cigar pointed at one end and flat at the other. I snapped 2 pictures at approximately 5:52. I looked at pictures and didn’t see anything at first. As I zoomed in I found the items I was looking for. It looks different in the picture almost block shaped. This shape was moving in a south direction first. It started to turn to a south west and finally west. As I saw it turning I noticed another craft in the air with some sort of trail behind it. It was silver in color and had a similar shape but heading north. As I grabbed my phone to capture the north bound one it vanished. I looked west saw the craft and then it was gone. I asked my niece what she had seen and she tried to explain it looked like a sideways cross but then it changed shape. I hadn’t mentioned to her what I saw and she described a cigar type shape with a piece coming down from underneath. I had her draw it for me.
July 18, 2016 · 9:56 PM · CHANGING
Shallotte, NC
Orange/Yellow lights appearing one after another due south of Holden Beach about 15-20 degrees from the horizon. The lights appeared to “turn off” one by one and then back on. Several lights peeled off from the larger lights and headed east and west. The smaller lights flashed at a faster rate as though they were sparkling.
July 18, 2016 · 8:00 PM · CHANGING
Collegeville, PA
Clearly a UFO, 3 dots in a line with a faint outline of standard UFO shape. Hovering in the same spot for about a minute, then started moving in one direction, switched directions, and transformed into a plane. I couldn't believe it. ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) Honestly, I still do not believe it to be a plane, based on the way it moved. It was clearly stationary for about a minute before it headed towards the moon, stopped, and went the other way. Also, the only air ports around here house small personal planes. Thank you for responding. I do appreciate it! ((END ADDENDUM)) We suspect that the object was a C-17 military transport a/c. We just witnessed a C-17 in the night sky on the night of July 21, 2016, and noted that it had three landing lights, one in the center, and two toward the tips of the wings. PD
July 15, 2016 · 10:30 PM · CHANGING
Big Lake, AK
Orange orb intercepted by oncoming orange orb. Separated into three orbs after becoming large and bright. Have videos. ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) No, it was last night July 16th (sic. 15th.) 2016. Apologies for the misinformation. I was somewhat befuddled by the whole incident. Thank you for the inquiry. I wasn't sure how to correct the date. I have three videos ranging from 5+ minutes to just over 1. Sincerely, A very sober and non drug taking/using, ((name deleted)) ((END ADDENDUM))
July 13, 2016 · 1:00 AM · CHANGING
Blackwood, NJ
The "UFO" was at first a little orange quarter moon crest shape. At first I thought it was the moon but, Then started to turn into an odd round shape. I was about 80-100 yards away and it was late at night. I was in a well open area of a park. The orange round thing turned to a almost blood red color. It was just floating in the air maybe about 120 feet from the ground. It staid still but looked like a red blob changing shape but staid relatively round. I took a picture knowing my wife or anyone for that matter wouldn't really believe me. At that point it had bin there for 8-9 minutes, and I started to walk closer to see what this thing was. As I got to around 50 yards from it it started to get smaller witch I thought was odd because I was closer now. I stoped and saw it get smaller and smaller until it was a little red dot and then just disappeared. It didn't fly up into the sky and it didn't look like it was moving in any direction it just got sma! ller until there was nothing left. I walk over to where I thought it was and there was no sign of anything, no people, nothing strange, no animals or bugs just quiet. I called my wife as I walked home and told her what I saw she said it was probably a drone, I told her that it definitely was not a drone and once she saw the picture she agreed it was no drone.
July 9, 2016 · 4:00 AM · CHANGING
Aurora, CO
The morning of 7/9/16 at 4:35 am - I took my pups out in my backyard, the sky was clear and dark. Looking up I seen a bright object coming from the S/W towards the N/E. The flying object was high enough to be out of the shadow of the earth so the sun made it very easy to see. I pulled out my phone camera and took a series of 9 pics over a period of a minute and half. The ship took less than 2 minutes to move from horizon to horizon. While passing over head what appeared to be a star moved and the first object and the second joint together as one and the one continued towards the N/W and the sun rise out of my site. Standing in my yard about 2 minutes later thinking about what just happened, I was still looking up when a second much smaller craft coming from the same direction appeared to chase the first much larger ship, cover the same distance in about 15 seconds. I took my dogs in the house and got ready for work. I have a pic of the both ships joining. The whole thing took lees the 4 minutes. To me the second ship seemed to be ours, just a thought.
July 6, 2016 · 12:45 AM · CHANGING
Venice, FL
It's almost 3 a.m. Earlier tonight we decided to take the five minute drive to the beach here on gorgeous Venice Island. The vibration around midnight is quiet and calm with the background sound of crickets starting to audibly tune in to the land's energy, or could it be that the sound is tuning the land and the airwaves? The Stars were a million in the sky. The New Moon was yesterday, July 4th, 2016. Tonight's sky was so clear without a moon, that looking at it made us feel as we we were one with all of the vastness. We are. Yes, we all are. We each had a beach blanket and a chair. Kaitlynn was on her beach blanket, staring up to the sky as I had my focus on my camera, looking away at the perfect time to catch a bright shooting star sailing across the sky. Within a 20 minute time she saw 4 more falling stars, as my eyes were intent on getting the perfect shot. The camera is new to me and it certainly doesn't lie. Ever. Especially when I'm a little shaky with the hand, it always tells the truth, and nothing but. My camera is my boyfriend. We sat back in the chairs for one last look before we left. Kaitlynn pointed towards the pier, slowly following something with her eyes and her pointer finger, asking if I see "that." I saw a blurry, short white line of faint, slow but steady flashing light, that appeared to be moving south to north amongst the top of the low clouds on the horizon. At first I thought an airplane, but the light was too smooth, too straight, and low, plus we could not hear anything to reference that it was a plane. A plane that close to the water would echo. It was silent. I said "Someone on the pier must have a laser." It did appear that they were shining a little laser light into the clouds, moving it forward. When it was at the point in front of us, it instantly changed course moving west to east under the surface of the water, directly toward us; dim, yet now, solid light. Its size did not change as it moved toward us, coming from the horizon. As its distance closed in on us, about 20 feet away under the surface of the water, Kaitlynn grasped onto her chair handles like bracing for something, this was real. The moment after she braced, it moved to the north a little and emerged about 10 feet away, 4 feet off of the ground, looking like a firefly, then gently hovering just over the sand. It lingered along the shore momentarily. Us, losing it in the darkness, like it was hiding it's light. It came to check if we had noticed it, and we had. We started to walk towards where it surfaced, but since it was not lighting up, we did not find it and had that certain feeling not to look for it any longer. I would think that it would appear to grow larger, the closer it came, true? It's mathematical. This did not change its size, although each atmosphere that it entered, it was a different and a constant other size. In the clouds it looked like a small plane but mathematics ruled that down to someone pointing a laser echoing in the humidity of the clouds. In the water it appeared as a quarter-sized white light, over the sand it was the size of a lightning bug and yellowish. Kaitlynn saw a blue color at some point too. Prior to the sighting, I wanted to hear a song that describes the sky perfectly since it fit the moment. A few lines are simple metaphors that we all can relate to. I love lyrics like that. "...the sky resembles a backlit canopy with holes punched in it." was this starry night. The song is Incubus' "I wish you were here." It goes on to say "I'm counting UFOs, signaling them with my lighter ... and in this moment I am happy. Happy." A few minutes later was the sighting. This is real. Whatever it is was mind-blowing. I don't know how else to describe it.
July 4, 2016 · 8:00 PM · CHANGING
San Gabriel, CA
I was looking for fireworks, I sa 2 red light's with an alternating green light flashing on what appeared to be the rear of the craft, It hovered in place and I watched for a couple of minutes. I went to put my cat inside because of the noise, when I returned outside there was no trace of it.
July 1, 2016 · 12:00 AM · CHANGING
Sandpoint, ID
Only a small amount of people were affected by a random power outage, we were the few and stayed at a friend's house for a while till it came back on. While driving home my boyfriend my brother, and I, all saw a line of very bright orange dots that were larger than any of the stars in the sky, (they almost looked like a bunch of Mars when it was at its closest to the earth). We quickly parked and got out of the car to see what it could be, it stuck out like a sore thumb and we all thought maybe something was falling out of the sky, possibly space debris. We moved up onto a nearby tall deck to get a better look and as we looked above the roof we saw very clearly, these three orange dots slowly form into a perfect equilateral triangle. We all tried taking pictures, but none of our phones cameras were able to pick up on them. As soon as it had formed a triangle it stopped and from left, to right it disappeared, then the top lingered a bit more and vanished as well. Needless to say, we no longer belived it to be space debris.