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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
November 20, 2015 · 11:00 PM · CHANGING
Eagle, PA
This was in the Southeast sky. A single light trailed behind the cluster farther south and as moved in a more intentional direction south to north. As it caught up many of the other lights faded rapidly. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 19, 2015 · 9:20 PM · CHANGING
Charlotte, NC
I was driving back from school where I attend at ITT Tech North Charlotte campus. I was driving down I-485 inner southbound towards exit 13 which led to the I-85 southbound ramp when I had caught sight of a strange pattern of bright lights behind the tree line. It looked like a mountain was lit up with stadium lights, triangular in shape but very very bright. I tried my best to catch a better glimpse of it and when I did catch a better glimpse the object in question had changed from a triangle pyramid like structure to a straight line in the sky. I stared at this in awe for a moment, tried to make sense of it. I almost missed my exit from staring for so long. Just as i was turning each light appeared to leave a long trail behind it connecting to the next as if they were all moving in unison. When I had merged onto I-85 southbound the structure was now behind me and I could no longer see it however I obsessed over the thought of it on the rest of the way home, and filed this report immediately. I had thought that they may have been planes but I had also seen a plane on my car ride home and the two were not similar at all.
November 18, 2015 · 8:00 PM · CHANGING
Naples, FL
Around 8:15 PM, my girlfriend and I went outside to walk our dog. After about 2 minutes, we saw two objects moving slowly through the woods behind the house. They were about treetop level and initially appeared to be round and then flattened a bit into a teardrop or mushroom shape. The front most of the two went from a white-gold color to an orange flame hue. The second was smaller and its color went from an orange hue to a deep red color and both of them had black outlines. The smaller one almost had a tail to it. They moved in a southwesterly pattern, though they seemed to be independently "hovering" and gently glided past the house. The entire episode lasted about five minutes and we managed to get some cell phone video before they disappeared. Will try to upload the video and submit it to you, though unsure how much it will reveal. My girlfriend is drawing a picture of them.
November 18, 2015 · 6:30 PM · CHANGING
Taylor, MO
I wanted to yell at my husband but he was asleep on the couch after a grueling day of going to the doctor in St. Louis so I didn't wake him. I ran to our back door and looked out...I felt scared..I heard no sound. I was afraid to go outside. I returned to the window and watched it float over our farm field to the east over the Mississippi River toward Quincy Illinois. It made no sense to me. I hesitated to make the report because I don't know what it was. Why didn't I take a picture or record it.?...that disturbs me that I did not do this.. I was so mesmerized that it didn't occur to me until later. I watched it for six minutes until it was out of my sight. An airplane would not take six minutes to go over my house. It was like I was under a spell because I know that a video or picture is imperative..I did know to note the time though. Thank you.
November 17, 2015 · 8:50 PM · CHANGING
Tucson, AZ
A sequence of square lights appeared in the sky over central/west Tucson, AZ, at 8:50 pm Arizona time on 11/17/15. The lights were yellow/orange in color and lit up in square like configuration from right to left looking west from east. This took about 10-15 seconds and then they disappeared. They appeared again a few seconds later miles away to the south for about 5-10 seconds more and then disappeared again. Traveling much faster than aircraft seen in the same area of the sky. These square like lights were much bigger than any known aircraft we have. There were multiple square like lights at least 5-10 maybe more. Observed this for about 30 seconds and continued to observe the sky area for another 30 minutes. Did not see any more of these unusual lights. They were traveling from north to south.
November 16, 2015 · 11:50 PM · CHANGING
Myrtle Beach, SC
My fiancée and I were on our ocean front deck facing the ocean I think it was near 11:30 and saw some crazy light patterns coming and going offshore. First it was 2 square shaped figures with about 4 circular lights in each moving parallel over ocean then disappearing and coming back, Then to the left of that lights came shooting up over the ocean like fireworks and I kept saying that it must be that. But when the lights reached their heights they didn't fizzle like fireworks they stayed in a v shape then just disappeared. There were multiple occasions of this pattern. Then it just disappeared. Then after that to the left of that we saw multiple light moving around and flickering and moving upwards towards something. It could have been a star cluster but I have to research what star looks like that. It looked like they were moving upwards and entering something and then the lights were gone. I swear I thought I was going crazy I kept asking my fiancée if he was seeing it too and he said yes. He said in the 5 years he lived there he never had seen that before. The next morning he spoke with a friend who had said they saw someone posting about the same thing I'm Facebook but I don't know the name yet of that person. I am at a loss to what it could have been to describe it rationally.
November 16, 2015 · 4:30 PM · CHANGING
Springfield, MA
A co-worker and I stepped outside of work to have a cigarette and we both noticed to bright white lights in north west sky just before sunset. I wondered if they could be stars but I could see no other stars out and they seemed too bright to be stars especially while the sun was still partly out. About 10 minutes go by and we noticed the two bright circles in the sky began to change shape from circles to diamonds and they slowly started moving to the left at the same time. Than they stopped and started to change to a dark reddish color. About 10 minutes go I after that and I start to notice the two lights that were super bright this whole time are starting to slowly dim down. This lasted about 5 minutes untill they just vanished away out of thin air.right after the objects vanished we watched a couple jets head towards where the objects were. it was one of the craziest things I ever saw and im glad I had two other people witness it with me.
November 16, 2015 · 4:30 PM · CHANGING
Somerset, NJ
I tried to zoom my phone in but the object was to far. But if you zoom in in my pictures you can see it change shape. Because i was in traffic i had to keep looking away for a few seconds at A TIME AND ABOUT 20 minutes later it was completely gone with no trace of the object even being there. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 15, 2015 · 6:35 AM · CHANGING
Marshallberg, NC
Very bright orange light zigzagging across southern sky then disappearing and coming back. My husband is an engineer and I am a therapist we are 61 years old.
November 14, 2015 · 12:05 AM · CHANGING
Palos Park, IL
Over Palos Park, IL, Nov 13, 2015 around midnight. Southeast sky, about 40 degrees above horizon, but very far away. Looks like a small cluster of 2 - 4 stars that change color and position but stay very close to each other. At first we thought it was a plane very high up, but it was not moving relative to landmarks. Could it be a star cluster, galaxy or a UFO?
November 8, 2015 · 6:30 PM · CHANGING
Panguitch, UT
Red light in sky. It seemed as it turned there was a luminous light emitting smoke or mist that lit up the whole canyon. After it cleared horizon the smoke or mist remained as an enormous glow.
November 7, 2015 · 8:00 PM · CHANGING
Los Angeles, CA
It appeared from upper the horizon line, i went to get my cam,it morphed weirdly like if the night sky was a black silk and someone was pointing the most potent flashlight to earth from a little hole in that black fabric sky, then the light or light source, got lost behind that black silk night.
November 7, 2015 · 7:30 PM · CHANGING
Phoenix, AZ
U. S. Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:15 PM · CHANGING
La Jolla, CA
U. S. Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:05 PM · CHANGING
Laguna Beach, CA
U. S. Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:05 PM · CHANGING
Napa, CA
U. S. Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:05 PM · CHANGING
Fremont, CA
I was outside just after sunset at approximately 6:05 PST when out of the South from the direction of San Jose I notice a bright pinpoint of light. At first it looked like an aircraft light in the sky, but as I watched it began projecting two searchlights from underneath, creating a V-shape of light, like two searchlights. Then I noticed the lights were creating a cloud or mist in the sky where the shone. The intensity of the searchlights grew in size and intensity as I watched. The searchlight-like beams below the light stretched down and grew brighter. Two distinct beams were being projected at about a 30 degree angle below and to the left of the light. The light appeared to be at a high altitude, and I thought at first it was a satellite reentering Earth’s atmosphere. It was moving at a rate of speed similar to an aircraft, and as it moved Northwest, the beams grew in intensity. The cloud beneath it remained luminescent for some time as the light progress! ed, and it left a separate, fainter blue-colored trail, behind it marking it’s direction of travel. As I watched the light went behind some tall trees, and I lost sight of it. It reappeared much dimmer when it emerged from the trees, with no lights projecting from beneath it. It slowed, and became an amorphous light (more like Haley’s comet the last time it came around) and seemed to change shape, from a point of light to a vertical shape. I watched for another couple of minutes as it grew dimmer, changing direction and heading Westward towards the ocean until I could no longer see it. Entire event lasted about 5-7 minutes? U. S. Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:01 PM · CHANGING
Thousand Oaks, CA
U. S. Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · CHANGING
Frazier Park, CA
US Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · CHANGING
Sylmar, CA
Starts off as blue flash, moved to the side, left a green mist trail. As it moved away, it changed from a circular shape to a vertical and continued morphing as it moved away.Shot out a projectile(?)Moved away until no longer visible. US Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · CHANGING
Escondido, CA
Saw a fireball type thing going up into the sky with a fire trail, shortly after saw large white cloud like mass with a tail of lighted cloud as well, illuminated but dull, in a blue color, became less visible over time, but it did seem to be coming closer at first. US Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 5:55 PM · CHANGING
Fairfield, CA
A little before 6pm tonight, to the West, Southwest, about 30 degrees above the horizon. It looked like a comet at first, with the tail pointing down to the right, but it traveled very slowly to the North, lasting 10 to 15 minutes before it moved out of my sight. At times it broke into several white lights, almost a vertical streak of light with two or three white lights that fluctuated in brightness. To the south was a horizontal streak of blue light. US Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 12:00 PM · CHANGING
Wichita, KS
Bright white orb maintaining position to the north west position of waxing moon. Around 11:45 AM I am contacted by friend who is over 900 nautical miles away to go look outside at the waxing moon. I went to the back yard (north side of house) and found the moon and then saw it. A bright white orb that was stationary, moving in progression with the moon. It appeared big enough to see clearly with 6 x 25 Bushnell binoculars and easy to see with the naked eye since I was standing in the shade of the two story house. The weather was not a factor and there was no clouds and the sky was bright blue. There was no sound or anything emitting from the object. I then proceeded to get my 50 X zoom digital camera out and took still photos from 12:08 through 12:40 PM. The photos are taken at normal focal length and then full zoom, with date/time stamps. Also without any filtering (polarized or UV). In fact it could not be seen with the filtering on the camera, only without. There is no video. The photos show in one frame two separate orbs of light separated by three widths of the moon, but not detectable with the naked eye. I also had time to set up my Meade refactor telescope and have a very detailed look at the orb. It changed shape many times going from an elliptical to flat white shape with white light emitting from it. While I was getting the telescope setup my wife also observed it with the binoculars and later looking through the telescope as I took photos. There were no aircraft in the area at low or high altitude. No contrails. Very similar to other sightings seen since 2009 in the daytime.
November 7, 2015 · 4:00 AM · CHANGING
Coldwater, MI
A friend of mine posted seeing weird lights in the sky near my house not even .5 miles away. Sure enough, I go outside to go to work and they were still there. It was HUNDREDS of small lights changing for and dimming in and out. Small individual lights would shoot off of it and then zoom back! It was crazy.