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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.
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August 25, 2019 · 11:30 AM · UNKNOWN
Lothian, MD
As being a skywatcher for many hours a night along with my wife we have seen and reported before. August 25 2019 at 11:30 my wife and I were sitting outside in lawn chairs looking up pointing out groups of stars with a high powered astronomy laser towards the east and as my wife pointed out a cluster of stars with the laser and as she pointed to a what we had being viewing as a star for the past 40 minutes, what we thought was a star illuminated a super bright gold flash that lasted about a two seconds. So I used the high powered laser and made two flashes right on its location and within seconds it replied back with two flashes. I followed back with three quick flashes and just like before it replies back with the same amount of flashes. Amazed at what we were witnessing I gave it two quick flashes and two drawn out flashes and after about a second or two it replies with the exact same. This all had taken place over a 5 minute period. Then it slowly dimmed down to the same brightness of the surrounding stars and slowly dropped down to the same level as the stars below its first location. It illuminated bright as before ( which reminded me of little sun ). So after we both witnessed its movements and it’s intelligent replies it sat for about 3 minutes and slowly faded out. This area along the Patuxent River and its swamps is one of the most hot spots I’ve ever lived or witnessed in my life.
August 25, 2019 · 1:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Altoona, PA
Unknown Object (1) flashing red/blue lights while slowly rising into sky before stopping and begin flashing a white light. This is when we (friend and I) noticed multiple objects blinking as well.
August 24, 2019 · 4:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Jordan, MN
White, red, green, metallic colored objects moving in brief zig zag patterns, bouncy movements and stay at stand still would form weird patterns in sky. Also formed straight lines, or bow like lines, sometimes a couple stayed together,some moved slow, fast, or lightning fast .my fiancé and I sat and watched them for over an hour and a few disappeared out of thin air and came back web they did apart from others they would be in all different kinds of patterns.
August 23, 2019 · 12:17 AM · UNKNOWN
Paulsboro, NJ
I was getting in my truck to go to work. Truck was running but the lights were off. Noticed an aircraft in front of me pretty high in the sky. Another aircraft slowly came in from the left and moved on a diagonal path downward. There was a white light on the right side of the ufo and a bright green light on the left. I could not stop staring at the green light. Object was moving slowly but I still saw trails from the green light. In my head I jokingly told myself that might be a UFO. Just then, it either vanished, or took off super fast. All that was left was a green hue in the clouds. On my way to work, I saw at least 10 aircrafts hovering in the sky. Some were helicopters but at least three of them had huge panel lights on the front and looked like airplanes hovering. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 23, 2019 · 12:17 AM · UNKNOWN
Paulsboro, NJ
Aircraft moving left to right over Delaware River near port of Paulsboro before It descended slowly diagonally down, then disappeared as it speeds up for a split second.
August 22, 2019 · 11:50 PM · UNKNOWN
Onamia, MN
Sighting in northern MN 20 mins west of the city of Onamia, MN. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 19, 2019 · 10:10 PM · UNKNOWN
Charleston, SC
Assumed a smoke trail from a rocket launch from Cape Canaveral, FL, but according to their website, no launches on 8/19/19.
August 19, 2019 · 9:50 PM · UNKNOWN
Ukiah, CA
A green object came into the atmosphere, Southwestern area of the sky. It fell towards the ground and appeared to be close. This was different than a fireball as the color was a glowing green and seemed to Be cool not hot. It fell in a diagonal pattern and I faintly heard a high pitch sound. The night air was heavy, dense, and dark. The temperature was cool for August; the air had a smell of an overheated radiator. I felt an uneasy energy .
August 19, 2019 · 12:05 AM · UNKNOWN
Shelton, CT
Around midnight, I came out to my front porch. In between the trees I noticed two bright white lights with a band of five to eight smaller lights under it. The lights hovered above the tree lines without a sound and it was illuminating the dark road (there are no street lamps on the road). It seemed to be getting closer to ground very slowly. Then the motion light detectors went on at my house as well as the neighbor's. At this point, I went inside. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 17, 2019 · 9:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Hereford, MD
Very bright, light was constant but intermittent changing of brightness and pulse timing heading east, strangest thing ive ever seen.
August 16, 2019 · 10:22 PM · UNKNOWN
Gulfport, MI
We have corrected the date. PD
August 16, 2019 · 9:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Memphis, TN
Slower than a meteor, faster than Airplane, heading east to northeast. Swerve pattern across the sky, not regular, so, pilot, but too fast for human craft with light. We have observed meteors, satellite, planets, and airplanes. This was different. . Cool, but a bit scary. Does anyone know of a possible explanation? If not, please log it. Thx Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 14, 2019 · 1:14 AM · UNKNOWN
Kalamazoo, MI
I just got home from my job at McDonalds around 11:00pm, a few hours of me playing video games my mom called me outside to the front porch and asked me if I see those lights, I tell her yeah. My mom proceeds to ask me what do you think they are? I say honestly there's no big buildings around so they're not lights for planes to see, no one owns any lights strong enough to shoot into the sky, at least not without a beam of light shooting from the ground. I then said and there's no new things opening, so they aren't ad lights, I then said well I can't see the shape because its ehind the clounds but i could see the lights. I think it was a spinning stiangle. I say this because there were 3 cirles next to each other like this ooo then there was one underneath that, and it was spinning as well so like this. o This thing had to be at least 200ft wide because the rotation of the lights went from up 2 streets down in front of my house to all the way up my street, the lights stayed there for some time until i got tired and went back inside. I tried to record it but my phone didn't pick up the faint light because of the clouds. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 13, 2019 · 12:40 AM · UNKNOWN
Fairfax, VA
I had been sitting by my firepit since 9pm, feeding the fire and thinking about life. I live near a hospital and not too far from the airports and constantly hear/see conventional aircraft of all sorts. At about 12:40 a.m., this overwhelming energy and humming/thwomping reverberation lowered over my house as well as a dark shroud/cloud. I had never felt anything like it. The interaction lasted maybe 3 minutes and then I felt and saw the energy dissipate. Didn't feel scared or threatened, if anything I felt connection and understanding. After the event I heard the most bizarre owl call that was unexplainable, like nothing I've heard before.
August 12, 2019 · 11:10 PM · UNKNOWN
Waynesboro, PA
August 12, 2019 at 11:10PM, Waynesboro, PA 17268 Saw a large extremely bright light travel across the Cumberland Valley , then become stationary. My wife thinks that there was a red light next to the white light. After 15 to 20 seconds, it made a left turn and traveled Northeast at a high speed (fifty times faster than a commercial jet and disappeared There was no sound.
August 12, 2019 · 9:29 PM · UNKNOWN
El Reno, OK
AC broken in home and cooler in backyard on lounge chair. Viewing Saturn, very bright, and Jupiter at 180° and 200°, at 50° and 30° respectfully. Jupiter looked as if red and green lights were rotating around it left to right. Get binocular for better viewing. Notice moving red and green light in same sky; 160° at 30°. Object flashing and moving west, rapidly! Followed it going west at apparent same altitude. Suddenly stopping and again moving west. Moved west of Jupiter to approximately 220°, same elevation. At this point it did a triangular move, going north, east and back west. Move back and forth, then advanced NW heading 300° rapidly and disappeared into western sky. With binocular on object it was difficult to track its movement, plus at times it was erratic. Shorty after sighting but eye glass on flight at high altitude heading 300• to 120°. Was able to distinguish large jet aircraft. No sound from aircraft or unidentified object. Heck, I'll go!
August 12, 2019 · 6:30 AM · UNKNOWN
Santa Cruz, CA
I was sitting in the car with my family parked in front of a beach. Everyone in the van was a sleep except me because we had been driving all night. I was watching the waves crash on the beach. I looked down at my phone for a second and looked up and saw a floating object above the water. I thought it was a helicopter. But there was no noise and there was no wind coming from it. It also couldn’t be a airplane because airplanes can’t stay in one spot. It sat there for about two minutes and then flew away over the houses next to where we are parked. And I never saw again.
August 10, 2019 · 11:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Augusta, GA
We were outside discussing plans for the upcoming weeks. I saw the object come into the upper part of my field of vision my eyes snapped to it. In an instant it was gone over the horizon. I looked at the person next to me and asked if they just seen it as well. They said yes and confirmed the light that I had seen. It had 5 lights in a cross formation 4 white and 1 red. The red light was right in the center. Travel direction was north-east. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 10, 2019 · 8:45 PM · UNKNOWN
Columbia, MD
Above the horizon level to the moon I could only see a row of white lights blinking in succession; the way the lights were blinking it looked like object rotating, but there was no way to know for sure. In the parking lot of Walmart in Columbia, looking south towards the 1/2 moon and Jupiter, I was in my car and watching the lights flash oddly. About the size of regular stars. Lived in this area 50 years so I know what helicopters, planes, and such look like taking off from BWI, National, Dulles etc but this was very different. \ It moved to the right, then down slowly, and seemed to zig zag and flash intermittently. Then it stayed still for several minutes while it kept spinning (or blinking lights in quick succession in a row). I was going to go home but instead got out of the car and watched it. The lights did not recede while it stood still for 5-10 minutes at least (same size). Then it very slowly started to move straight downward in the sky. I checked! my cell phone to see what it could be; when I looked back it was gone. I wanted to show someone else, but that Walmart parking lot is iffy and I wouldn't talk to anyone else there in the dark.
August 10, 2019 · 3:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Timpson, TX
Looked to be stars out was all of a sudden one started to move side to side in circles then the sky in distances started pulsating inlights like lightning then all of a sudden 20+ light where going all over and moving in hyper-speed one turned a light on lightning up the sky for about 10 seconds and then vanished as did most of the lights and the flashing.
August 9, 2019 · 9:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Phoenix, AZ
Looking at the western night sky, we thought we saw a falling star, except it didn’t fall, it went horizontally as if it caught speed and then broke the speed of light, like going out of the atmosphere. Then disappeared. It was very fast, the same size as a falling star but the only way we could tell it wasn’t is that it looked like when a plane is on a runway and speeds up. We didn’t see a ship because it was in a dark area of the sky and this little glow suddenly appeared in the sky, got bigger as it gained speed, then disappeared.
August 7, 2019 · 10:10 PM · UNKNOWN
Lake Orion, MI
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 6, 2019 · 3:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Brigantine, NJ
I was taking pictures of my kids playing on the beach with thunderstorms in the background. Object showed up in pictures was not visible at the time they were taken. Top left corner in photos. Other photos taken at same time did not have these objects so I know it was Nova smudge.
August 5, 2019 · 9:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Greeneville, TN
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD