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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.
2,257 entries
August 21, 2020 · 8:05 PM · FLASH
Acton, CA
Sitting outside in our backyard, my husband and I were star gazing, when an unusually fast white object with a blue/green, maybe turquoise flashing light, traveling south to north, pulsating the bluish light. At first glance, I thought it was a fighter jet, but it went faster than anything I have seen in the sky, including a fighter jet, and there was no sound. We jumped up to follow it and it continued out of view northward. We lost sight of it within 10-20 seconds. About five minutes later, it came back from north to south; however, lower than it had been and we only saw it for about three seconds.
August 20, 2020 · 10:00 PM · FLASH
Argyle, NY
Multi colored flashing orb, appears to have red and silver laser like geometric pointers as if mapping out an area.
August 19, 2020 · 3:00 PM · FLASH
Riverdale, GA
I was sitting in lobby after work, saw a huge light shoot downward in sky. It left a white streak.
August 19, 2020 · 1:00 AM · FLASH
Evansville, IN
I was outside on my phone when I saw a flash or a blink of white light in the sky. Followed by another about from my perspective 3ft from one another way far away. It looked like a star winked 2x but never seen the blink come back until about 10seconds later it looked as if a small rocket launched from the area of the wings and was green in color followed by a glowing tail of light and then disappeared within seconds and never saw another blink or star appear it was just nothing. The strangest thing I have encountered in a while.
August 15, 2020 · 12:15 PM · FLASH
Succor Creek State Park, OR
A group of us were camping at succor creek state park in eastern Oregon. We stayed up late to get some Milky Way photographers because it was a dark moonless night. The Milky Way was brilliant! After shooting a few photos I saw a flash in the night sky to the south. It was about 80 degrees altitude. I usually pay attention to anything unusual in the sky. Typically, most lot these are caused by ‘iridium flashes ‘ of satellites, however, to my surprise when the flash blinked again a few seconds later, it hasn’t moved from the position of the initial flash. I alerted a friend to pay attention. We continued to watch this supposed object to flash on a very irregular intermittent pattern. Interval being anywhere between 5 seconds to maybe 1 or 2 seconds. I could tell this object had to be in space or very high in the atmosphere. After realizing absolutely that this object was not moving And was completely stationary in the night sky I yelled to wa! ke up my wife who was sleeping in the tent. The Moment I did so, the flashing ceases completely. I have seen a similar flash at horseshoe bend, Idaho that acted the same way and also ceased the moment inwent to alert more witness. Coincidence? Maybe! Anyhow, , I am a very avid outdoorsman and accustomed to the night sky and A good level of astronomical knowledge. After spending 40 years of being under the night sky I have become familiar with what is normal and what is unusual. I practice healthy degree of skepticism to rule out any and all things conventional before jumping to conclusions. This however was definitely unusual. Therefore, I felt it was necessary to write this report. It was not an iridium flash or a drone. Never saw any craft arrive or leave the scene of the event. To me, this was certainly unidentified...
July 30, 2020 · 1:00 AM · FLASH
Farmingdale, NJ
My sister and I were looking at the night sky for those two hours by lying on our backs on chaise lounges on the outdoor patio (completely unenclosed) and looking up into an almost completely clear sky. There was an extremely bright half moon behind us, that eventually moved away from us to the West behind the house so that it was no longer shining behind us. We were looking in the direction of the constellation Lyra, in order to see if we could see any meteors from the Delta Aquariid meteor shower. We were both concentrating hard, and not moving around. We had very good unimpeded visibility of the night sky from our left at the back of the house from the constellation Big Dipper in the West (our view when turning our heads to the left while lying supine almost completely flat), and to the East turning our heads to the right almost to the horizon, which is impeded by a tree line about 9 feet tall and about 9 yards to our right. We had unimpeded views of the sky to the North at about the same height tree line but much farther away from us at a distance of approximately 30 yards, so that we had very good visibility of Lyra and a relative view to the ground from the bottom of the last visible stars Earthward under Lyra that would have appeared to us as approximately 5 feet above the horizon. We weren’t looking at the Southern sk! y, but would not have had visibility behind us for 10 feet above the horizon due to houses and a distant tree line impeding our view below that height. We were not observing that part of the sky (South) in any case. At approximately 1:00 AM on July 30, 2020, we both saw a bright flashing white light moving from our West (latitude above the Big Dipper, but below Lyra) to the East in a straight line to the East until it disappeared (or stopped flashing) as far to the East as I could see. I believe the total travel time from West to East was approximately 30 seconds. Our surroundings were silent. The light made no sound. It did not curve or bend, except to follow the natural curve of the Earth. It flashed a variably changing white light from very bright to extremely bright about every 5 seconds as it moved across the sky. Nothing was in its way. There were no airplanes near it or around it. The white flash was so bright, and so big at one point when it was almost to the furthest East on its path, that it looked like a giant white star-like shaped photo flash bulb firing down from 30,000 feet up in the sky. If I were standing up and holding a brand new pencil straight up and down by the pointed end in front of me with my right arm extended all the way out and the eraser up where the light was at its brightest, the light would have looked approximately the same size as that new, unused eraser looked with my arm extended and angled up. At that point, the light, which otherwise appeared mostly round, appeared starfish shaped when it flashed its brightest flash, which occurred only once. Otherwise, it was various sizes, but always larger than the visible stars/planets (per the Internet, 5 planets were visible that night) and always round. The only thing that was larger in the sky that night was the moon. The light was very high the whole time, and I believe it was traveling at the very highest height that an airplane could travel, around 30,000 feet. It did not look at all like an airplane. Neither did it look at all like a natural phenomenon. It looked like an extremely white artificially created light. The pulsing of the light seemed intentionally regular, not sporadic, but not at all like any airplane light that I’ve ever seen. It was much too bright, and much too big. It was also solo. There were no other lights emanating from whatever was moving the light along the sky. There was no vapor trail at all, like the kind that follows an airplane. I could not see any kind of structure attached to the light. The flashing white light was the only thing I saw. There was nothing carrying or holding it that I could see. I have never seen anything else like it. It truly looked as if something was taking pictures of our community from way up there. We exclaimed to each other such things as “Did you see that? Are you seeing this? Wow! I see it, yes, I’m seeing it too! It’s so bright! What is that?”. We talked about it for quite awhile afterward. About 3/4 of an hour later, we finally saw one very bright, long meteor flashing from East to West, lower in the sky than the flashing light, and lasting about five seconds, traveling at the same latitude in the sky as the bottom most two stars in the constellation Big Dipper. Its ending point was directly under the constellation Lyra (but much lower, almost eye level), just where instructions on the internet indicated one should look. It was definitely a meteor. We both saw it at exactly the same time, and remarked similarly to “Oh! Finally! A meteor!”. We talked about how it was the largest, longest, and brightest meteor that either of us had ever seen. It was not anywhere nearly as bright or as large as the earlier flashing light had been, and it had the natural quality of every “shooting star” I have ever seen, not an artificial quality like the earlier flashing light. Later, each of us independently saw a very quick, small, barely visible meteor at separate times. I missed seeing my sister’s because I was looking through binoculars at Lyra. Then I saw one a short time later through the binoculars, but my sister didn’t see it because it was small, even through the binoculars, and very fast, and not very bright. We didn’t see anything else that night, and went inside at 2:00 AM on July 30, 2020.
July 28, 2020 · 9:10 PM · FLASH
Albuquerque, NM
Was driving East bound on I40 was getting off at the Rio Grande exit. As I was exiting the freeway I noticed in my upper left Peripheral vision there was something traveling at an extremely high rate of speed too fast to be an aircraft. There was a white light at the front of the craft, and a blueish light toward the back of it. As my eyes focused on it the aircraft must have hit hyperdrive or something but the blueish light toward the back of the craft sped up (And got brighter) toward the white light in the front and as the two lights got closer together when they met the aircraft disappeared altogether!
July 25, 2020 · 12:00 AM · FLASH
Sapulpa, OK
Flashing object had a duration of 15 seconds, starting from the bottom of the cup of the big dipper, and ending in the direct middle of the sky (looking straight up) having a flashing pattern of one very bright flash followed by two faint flashes, a half second later
July 21, 2020 · 9:50 PM · FLASH
Temecula, CA
A very bright blue ball caught my peripheral vision while in my backyard late this night, and it was moving in a western/downward trajectory; what seemed not terribly high in the night sky. When I glanced at it to get a full view, it continued to fly past towards our treeline at a continued velocity (seemed slower than a fireball or meteor or shooting star) and didn't seem to break up or change shape. It was a bright white-blue color, with a small trail behind it. It vanished quickly from my vantage point with trees all around, but was the largest and brightest and bluest object I've ever seen that low and that slow moving. My husband was with me and only caught a small glance at it...
July 15, 2020 · 11:00 PM · FLASH
Spokane, WA
Saw a large bright light in the sky to the south , it flashed twice , then disappeared quickly , it didn’t appear to be moving when it was flashing , just two flashes and then it was gone. It was a clear night , no clouds around.
July 15, 2020 · 1:52 AM · FLASH
North Highlands, CA
This is not the first time i have seen this flash of light. its not steady like an air craft. and there is only 1 white light. the first time i saw it was several days earlier. it did a tight circle and dis appeared then it moved and flashed going to the south east. I grabbed my cell phone a d had it ready if i was it again. and i have a video. I also saw it on one of the nights i was the ISS go over it was like 30 insteps behind it. wish i hade better camera equipment. my daughter saw it again two weeks ago when we were star gazing while camping.
July 14, 2020 · 10:00 PM · FLASH
Winfield, IN
In June 2020 my husband and I started seeing small flashes in the sky(about 5 times) then one day I saw a flash behind a large cloud then we saw about 9 or 10 more flashes in different places happening all at once. All behind a cloud
July 14, 2020 · 8:45 PM · FLASH
Largo, FL
The streaking flash of light seemed to move from an arrow shaped streak to a pencil line of light as it disappeared in a white flash. The velocity at which it was moving was well beyond the speed any aircraft could traverse in the three seconds its streak manifested.
July 14, 2020 · 10:15 AM · FLASH
Aylett, VA
sitting on my front porch and looked up, thought it was a plane but it kept flashing super bright every minute or so across the sky in a different place -vertical line
July 14, 2020 · 3:00 AM · FLASH
Cobb island, MD
Completely clear night, the moon was rising and you could see it though the trees. Then flash the first flash was super bright like a camera flash, no sound I waited for thunder but nothing. Then it flashed a total of 4 more times each flash dimmer than the one before. No clouds a beautiful clear night sky full of stars, no noises it was completely silent.
July 4, 2020 · 10:15 PM · FLASH
Catalina Island, CA
We were sitting outside looking up at the sky when we saw a small blink of light. After the flash of light that looked like a small star, there was a object that traveled North for a few seconds and then stopped. Once it stopped it made a 45 degree angle turn and shot out of sight. We had been using the CE5 tones at the time.
July 3, 2020 · 9:00 PM · FLASH
Quitman, MS
There was a flashing light that was stationary and really high up .it then went really fast and came to a sudden stop. it stayed in one place for at least ten minutes. it took off and sped across the sky for several miles faster than if ever seen an aircraft went and then came to an instant halt. Then went another direction super fast and disappeared out of sight.
July 3, 2020 · 8:30 PM · FLASH
North Plains, OR
We were driving across highways around north plains OR and 3 of us saw a medium sized flash above the trees slightly in the sky. It lit up the sky for a second and flew away in an instant as if it was going hyperspace from a movie and we couldn’t see it after a split second.
July 3, 2020 · 2:26 AM · FLASH
Peoria, IL
Around 230am in peoria illinois, a witness observed a flashing light in the sky that seemed to be changing colors rapidly. The witness called me over and I seen the bright multicolored light as well. We were amazed because of the bright colors that seemed to be flashing and continued to look at what resembled a flashing colorful star. As we observed the object we both watched it rotate and even noticed it get closer and further away. In addition to the changing distance between us and the object, it looked as if it was darting from side to side, dipping, and elevating. We watched this for at least an hour. Eventually the light got further away and lower in the sky and dimmed out. Witness 1 is a 50 year old Male who does not believe in aliens or UFOs and he brought the object to my attention immediately. I am a 30 year old female who has not experienced such a thing but have always been interested in the unexplained. We were in the back yard playing cards whe! n this happened. Witness 1 was actually so perplexed that he called 911. I couldnt get a photo. Peoria IL July 3rd 2020
June 29, 2020 · 9:20 PM · FLASH
Bel Air, MD
I was sitting on my deck looking up at the moon when suddenly there was an orange flash, this continued in intervals of 3-4 seconds three more times then it disappeared
June 11, 2020 · 12:20 PM · FLASH
Upland, CA
It maintained a height of about 4,000 ft. based on the scale of the mountains. From that point it continued going up pretty high. Lost sight after about 4 min. This was not a plane or a helicopter.
June 10, 2020 · 11:15 PM · FLASH
Seattle, WA
My girlfriend and I went outside for a smoke and as were walking I notice a big bright red flah coming from the north side of the sky, inside of a big cloud. I tell my girlfriend, who has seen the same thing the day before but blue, and we see the red flash 2 more times, a second or 2 inbetween each flash and lasted for a second or 2 as well. Did not move directions stayed in the cloud and lit up the cloud and the sky in the area. There was no sound from it that we could hear. Tried to get it on camera but it did not flash again. Will go out again to see if we can get it on video.
May 29, 2020 · 12:45 AM · FLASH
Eugene, OR
Was looking at what seemed like a star in the sky. Then a bright flash low to the ground but far away from me lit up the sky. These bright flashes kept happening every few minutes. Then that 'star' disappeared. The flashes kept happening. That star reappeared. The flashes still kept happening. Don't know what's lighting up a small portion of the night sky tonight.
May 26, 2020 · 10:32 PM · FLASH
Indianapolis, IN
Four adults (2 with PhDs, one in a scientific field) simultaneously observed a rapidly moving green pulsing light moving across the sky almost directly overhead. The speed of the flashing green light was 4-5x faster than the commercial aircraft on far-approach to KIND (Indianapolis International Airport) flying directly overhead just minutes before. After one adult in the group asked "what is that?" the blinking immediatly changed from once per second to once every three seconds, but the course (roughly southeast, across Franklin Township, Marion County) remained constant, as did speed. The object moved from Northwest to Southeast across the entire visible night sky in about 90 seconds. It was far too bright to be a meteor or satellite (it was blinking brighter than the commercial aircraft at 2k-4k altitude), and was moving far too fast to be an aircraft.