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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.
6,009 entries
August 30, 2016 · 8:45 PM · OVAL
Ellington, CT
Near Pinney Street, saw an unidentified light source, about 1000 feet high, that seemed to have structure to it; the lights seemed to be shining through something. The object had 2 circular lights on top, a wide bright light below it, and a single light below that. The object was not moving at all. We watched it for about a minute, from about a mile away, until we were almost beneath it. As we were attempting to identify it and were driving down the street, the lights slowly dimmed until they were out. We then stopped the car, to see if we could hear a plane engine, but could not see or hear anything more. A senior and a teenager witnessed this.
August 28, 2016 · 10:00 PM · OVAL
Newmarket (Canada), ON · Canada
Two UFO / UAP Sightings North Of Toronto, Canada — Sunday, Aug 28, 2016. Did anyone else have a sighting in Toronto, Sunday night between 10-10:30PM? Approximately 10PM EST, Sunday August 28, 2016 over Newmarket, north of Toronto, Canada, two of us were sitting in the backyard facing East (see the photo below where the sun is rising the next morning with StarTracker Lite App superimposed to show the sky from Sunday night). Traveling from North to South (left to right in the picture above) across the eastern sky at a speed that was like a shooting star was a craft that was oval in appearance, seemingly wide like a plane, at a height approximating what a commercial jet would be flying overhead. From our sitting position on the backyard deck, it passed slightly above the trees as it sped South for a count of “1 and 2 and...” then continued with its view obstructed by the trees in a slightly wider field of view than the photo above. Initially we asked ourselves if this could be a meteorite but having already seen two a little earlier, it was clearly uncharacteristic of a meteorite. It was oval as if it might have wings but they were not perceptible wings. It was more like an energy pulse extending to each side like wings. It appeared as a quickly pulsating, oscillation with long, oval arch to each side. The rapid pulsing to each side of its center was extremely fast. Imagine for a moment, as if the pattern of a tiger’s stripes was energetically oscillating at an extremely fast rate. That is how it appeared to me, though to Alison sitting beside me, it was more like a subdued yet oval light swishing across the sky in a dark halo surrounding it. Unlike the meteorite that arched down from the sky towards the horizon like the two meteorites that we witnessed earlier, this UAP flew straight across the sky at a speed that is comparable to a meteorite. The energy was electric. The sky was the clearest we have seen all summer. Approximately 30-minutes later, at 10:32pm, we saw exactly the same phenomenon in the same exact line of vision, but this time traveling from South to North. Notably, it was moving approximately at half the speed of the original sighting for a count of “1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and...” then the trees obstructed our view. At that speed, it was speeding much faster than a jet fighter would across the sky. There was no sound at all. Again, there was an electric, energetic feel to the energy filling the air, possibly our own excitement from what we saw. ((deleted))
August 28, 2016 · 7:30 PM · OVAL
Santa Rosa, CA
Initial object was very bright in the clear eastern sky with no other stars or commercial objects visible - bright white oval, football shape initially with two internal circular lights such as jellyfish. Another object after viewing through binoculars, dark red in color, moved in and close - with no other objects in the sky. We deployed our telescope, not capturing the red entity as it moved close and disappeared from the football - as we deployed our highest resolution telescope - we observed one object of pulsating and flashing lights, stagnant in the sky - but then moving extremely down range with dark red orange.red. With our high powered telescope we kept it in range for an hour or more. A plane passed, with thin wings across my line of site with the object, not a commercial vehicle.
August 28, 2016 · 9:30 AM · OVAL
Northampton (UK/England) · United Kingdom
We were walking our child and I noticed a bright red/ orange light in the sky coming towards us - it wasn't a plane, we stopped to look up then it started to dim its lights and then was gradually moving away until it disappeared. It was some sort of craft - oval/ tear drop shape. It was dark but a clear night with fight cloud formation so we could see the whole thing relatively clearly.
August 28, 2016 · 12:00 AM · OVAL
IdentifiedMardie, Centre · France
Le témoin se trouve en compagnie d'une trentaine de convives lors d'un dîner lorsque vers 00h02 le dimanche 28 août 2016, il aperçoit dans le ciel une lueur orangée se dirigeant du Sud vers le Nord dans un silence absolu. Après quelques minutes, une seconde lueur apparaît et refait le même trajet que la première. Le même phénomène va se répéter entre 7 et 10 fois, toujours avec un aspect identique, une vitesse et une altitude invariables. Une photographie est prise. Un seul témoignage est recueilli. L’ensemble est en tout point conforme à une observation de lâcher de lanternes (voir le compte-rendu d'enquête : - le déplacement est conforme au sens du vent ; - l’aspect du PAN, sa trajectoire, sa répétition sont conformes ; - l’analyse chromatique grâce au logiciel IPACO indique une compatibilité avec l’origine lanternes ; - c’est une nuit de week-end propice à un évènement festif. En conséquence le GEIPAN classe le cas en A : observation très probable de lanternes thaïlandaises. [GEIPAN classification A — Lanterne thai]
August 25, 2016 · 9:35 PM · OVAL
Pacific Palisades, CA
Two small deep orange glowing orbs heading from north to the south witnessed in Pacific Palisades, CA (cross streets Temescal Canyon and Sunset Blvd) 90272 at 9:35 pm 8/25/16. Sitting on my deck facing north, to my right I witnessed first a smaller oval-ish deep orange orb flying at first from north to south and then erratically starting a decent yet almost hoovering; at that time a larger likeness orb appeared higher in the sky as the other was dissenting. I noticed this because they were not flying in the normal flight patterns for the planes landing at the local airports (LAX & Santa Monica). I was dumbfounded and at the same time my brain was telling me to take a photo, call my daughter, get binoculars, etc. The best I could do was run out to the front of the house as quickly as I could to see if the orbs I had lost behind a tree would still be there….they were gone!
August 24, 2016 · 8:00 PM · OVAL
SeaTac Airport, WA
At first I thought it was just someone playing with a drone because it was moving around all over the place, but it kept moving in a relatively straight line until it was out of view. The object had a faint ring around it and it stayed about the same size the entire time it was visible.
August 22, 2016 · 6:00 AM · OVAL
Elkhorn, NE
white sphere standing still, than vanished in seconds , we thought it might have been something on a telephone line, but after passing miles on dodge street (high way 6) the sphere stood in the same place, not moving an inch. than vanished.
August 21, 2016 · 5:45 PM · OVAL
Golubinci (Serbia) · Serbia
After repeatedly watching the video every day, I have accidentally noticed the three dots among the clouds. The white dots appeared from nowhere and it can be noticed that the dots are standing at the same place from the beginning of the video recording, to be precise all 10 minutes long (at least). The white dots were standing exactly at one fixed place, and also seemed to generate a trail/turbulence/disturbance when blowed/passed by the clouds. They seem to be invisible when the clouds are not passing over them. The clouds where a kind of very thin and quite transparent layers at the distance of at least 6 km from recording point. When magnified, the dots appear to have an oval shape, as can be clearly seen from the video I am sending (and also from the same video attached to youtube). What kind of aircraft can be standing fixed at one point at least 10 mins long? Balloon? Not, probably it would be moving with the clouds. Satellite? Not, why leaving turbulent trail in the passing clouds. So many questions. I have never seen something similar before. I DO NOT CLAIM THAT THE WHITE DOTS ARE THE FLYING SAUCERS WITH THE ALIENS INSIDE, BUT I'M OPEN FOR EVERYTHING. THE WHITE DOTS CAN BE EVEN DUST ON CAMERA GLASS, DISPLAY OR CAMERA MALFUNCTION, BUT I'M NOT SURE. The original video (the one of 10 min length) had been deleted immediately after compressed to 9 seconds length, but luckily the recording resolution kept the same. You can see the video on youtube: https://youtu.be/UldkcMfY05o
August 21, 2016 · 2:45 AM · OVAL
Milwaukie, OR
At 245am, I went out for a cigarette and was looking north in the sky over downtown Portland, Oregon, when what I thought was a bright red light from a plane moved very quick tword Milwaukie, then to the right, but way farther back another red light again I thought it was a plane light and it did the same thing and I thought shit those two planes are gonna hit they sat in the same spot almost looked like two fireballs now not planes but there not moving now there about 2 inches from each other kinda flickering yellow red orange then within 20 seconds it almost looked like they either turned around or just kinda flickered out they got to a spot in the sky and stopped next to each other never have I seen anything like this that I can't explain
August 20, 2016 · 10:57 PM · OVAL
Brockton, MA
On the night of Aug 20th approx. 11pm, I was on my back porch with a friend hanging out observing the sky, when my friend said hey what is that. We both observed what looked like an orange light traveling from SE to NW. The sky was clear of clouds and there was a bright moon. As the craft approached us, I grabbed my Iphone to record video and my friend grabbed my binoculars. He couldn't zero in on the object fast enough to get a good look but I got it on video for the duration of the event. Right away, we both thought it was a drone, but when it traversed such a great distance at a relatively fast speed we were convinced it was not a drone. There were no aviation lights on the craft, and it was a dark orange in color; it almost had a pearl type glow to it. Meaning the color kind of had a swirl to it. It was shaped sort of like an egg on it's side. There was no noise and it appeared to be pretty close and low in the sky although it was difficult to tell with no clouds to judge altitude. My friend who is also an avid sky watcher said it resembled a rocket launch, so we right away started researching any launches for that night and there was none. It wasn't a star, meteor, plane, drone or helicopter. We were both amazed at what we were seeing and could not believe our eyes. Thank goodness I was with a witness and got video of the event.
August 20, 2016 · 9:10 PM · OVAL
Gorham, ME
My wife and I driving home from Watchic Lake in Standish @ 9:10PM, driving south on Rt. 25. We had crossed the Standish/Gorham line and were about half of a mile from our next turn, when I (the driver) noticed very bright orange lights above and to our left just over and amongst the tree line. I glance up a second time, and noticed how close and bright they appeared. My wife noticed I was weaving slightly and I told her to look up to our left. She was a little more concerned with my driving, but looked up and confirmed that she could see the orange lights. I purposely started to count them and said I saw seven lights. It was then that I realized that our turn was up ahead, so I stepped on it so we could turn left onto Spiller Rd and be facing the line of lights. We pulled over, now watching as the lights were going from right to left fairly slow and steady but in a staggered formation. I was telling my wife to take a video quickly while we could still see five of them, before they went behind the tree line. She just got the new cell a few days before and was pressing buttons frantically trying to find the camera app. I was pleading with her to hurry up because they were moving away, and by the time she took a picture there were just two of them. The last orb seemed to speed up closer to the one in front of it. I thought she got a video but she didn't. As they flew out of view I hurried to get to the end of the road where the fields start and we would have an unimpeded view. From time to time we caught a glimpse of bright orange light through the trees, but when we got to the field area we scanned the skies northward to our left but they had disappeared completely from our view. The bright moon was in front of us to our right. We drove to our daughter's house in Gorham to tell them and show them the picture.
August 20, 2016 · 12:00 PM · OVAL
Michigan City, IN
A co-worker at the car dealership we work at saw this in the sky and took a picture. He just showed the picture to me yesterday, 12-14-2016, I found it to be very compelling to share it. Undulating swarm cloud of thousands of multi-colored blinking lights in the sky for 10-15 minutes. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. Date is approximate. PD
August 20, 2016 · 7:56 AM · OVAL
Essex, CA
I was on a plane going to start my first semester in college a year ago. I was sitting on the window seat when some lights in the nearby sky caught my attention. These lights looked like they were just hovering. I had never seen anything like it. As our plane got closer I proceeded to Snapchat what I was seeing. This object was oscillating its lights and didn't look like it was too far away. It looked pretty big from what I remember. It disappeared behind a cloud formation and I didn't see it again. I don't know what it was but I'm finally submitting it. I will be emailing the video and location. I can't explain what it was.
August 19, 2016 · 6:55 AM · OVAL
East Los Angeles, CA
My two daughters and I were seeing my wife off to work, just a few moments ago. We were standing in our driveway, as she was backing up the car. As she left, my daughters and I turned around to see a silver oval object hanging in the air. It was low enough to be very visible. I could tell this was a rather large object and from where I was standing, it seemed to be hovering above the 710 freeway which is just a few blocks away from our house. The object hovered silently in the sky for about 5 min. and suddenly went straight up in the air at a super-fast speed. There was a mist or vapor that came off the object as it sped into the air, this vapor rapidly dissipated, leaving no trail. It made no sound. My youngest daughter was actually frightened and I had to calm her down. My eldest daughter thought it was pretty cool...as did I. My two neighbors who were standing above us on their second floor balcony saw the object as well. I asked them if they knew what it was, the Brazilian men said it was a UFO, and they used to see similar objects in Brazil.
August 18, 2016 · 7:00 PM · OVAL
Waterloo, NY
I had pulled out my Meade 8” lx200 telescope, so they could view it. They told me they had been watching it for some time, when it was NE. 4 adults and 4 children looked through the telescope and saw an oval almost circle with a dozen plus lights that gradually went from bright white to dim yellow as if on battery power, and draining down. There was a flashing dim light on the bottom of this object like a distant airplane. One of those looking through my scope said she could see a person in the middle wearing green. She took a picture through the scope with her cell phone.
August 18, 2016 · 6:00 AM · OVAL
Perrysburgh, OH
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 17, 2016 · 3:00 PM · OVAL
Tygh Valley, OR
At approximately 15:00 on July 17 2016 we were getting ready to leave Boulder Lake campground in the Mt. Hood National Forest. We were observing hundreds of insects buzzing overhead and trying to discern what kind they were. (Mayfly species) Skies were crystal blue, no clouds. Occasional airplanes with contrails overhead were observed throughout the day. While looking at the insects flying directly overhead, I noticed a strange object out of the corner of my eye, away from the main group of insects. Turning to look, I observed what appeared to be an oval or egg shaped object as it quickly dissolved into the blue sky. Edges of the object were not hard to my eye, but clearly something there. Maybe a halo. Object then proceeded to disappear, or fade, very quickly into the blue of they sky. There was no perceived lateral movement. Direction would have approximately S/SW, but very high due to trees. I took pictures of the insects, but failed to take a picture of the object as it happened so fast. I stayed for quite a while trying to see if it would reappear. It did not. There were no jets, or contrails overhead at this time. This was also away from the main body of insects overhead and appeared to be at a great distance in relation to the tops of the trees overhead and insects. There was no sound. Total length of observed time was less than 10 seconds. I was the only one who saw it in our group. I was a little stunned and didn't say anything to anyone at the time, waiting to see if anybody else saw anything. Nobody did, however I was the only one in the group looking in that direction at the time. I'm an avid outdoors person, and am familiar with most types of aircraft and cloud formations, though not an expert. It certainly could have been some kind of atmospheric phenomenon that I am unaware of. It was odd, and not something I've ever observed before.
August 16, 2016 · 8:15 PM · OVAL
Biglerville, PA
My wife just happened to call me on the cell phone at the same time from home. I told her to look in the sky behind our house for 2 lights. She did report seeing both oval shaped lights. They seemed to be above the field behind our house, heading toward Biglerville. She said the 2 bright lights all at once changed directing, heading north, and disappeared together all at once.
August 16, 2016 · 2:00 AM · OVAL
Newark, DE
This sighting occurred while I was staying with my parents in the suburbs of Pike Creek. During this time, I was visiting with my slightly older cousin, who only lived five minutes away at my aunt and uncle's house, which is also in the suburbs. He lived in his parents' basement, which had a door leading to their backyard, and it overlooked a small field. While hanging out, we would frequently use the door to go outside and smoke cigarettes, as we were both heavy cigarette smokers at the time. On this particular occasion, my cousin and I were in his parents' backyard smoking cigarettes and conversing as usual, when all of a sudden, my cousin stopped mid-conversation, and proceeded to point to the sky, and he began to exclaim: "Oh......oh......oh....my....God!" I immediately looked up to see a glowing green craft that was more oval-shaped that spherical. The color of the craft was gorgeous, and I can only describe its color as a bioluminescent! green. The craft was flying over the field that the backyard overlooked. Then, it accelerated at a high rate of speed until we could no longer see it. What I also found interesting, was that the craft gained even more speed when it emitted a small flame that was approximately halfway between the bottom and back of the craft. The flame was comparable to a rocket or a jet, which was yellowish/orange/red. When the craft began to emit the flame, my cousin and I could even hear the "ppffffftttttt" sound that the jet-like flame was making due to the fact that it was approximately 2:00 A.M. and its almost always quiet that late at night in the Delaware suburbs. P.S.: Approximately 1 to 2 years after this particular sighting, I had witnessed a similar craft (bioluminescent green, oval-shaped) on two other occasions; however, on both occasions I was alone on my parent's deck smoking cigarettes late at night, so there would be no one to corroborate my story for those other two sightings. The other two sightings were even quicker than the sighting I had with my cousin; and had occurred within 6 months of each other. P.P.S.: Roughly 2 years ago, my cousin (who witnessed the craft with me in my first account) and his father (my uncle) witnessed a silver cube-shaped craft in broad daylight while they were working in their garage. During this sighting, my cousin took a picture of it on his phone, and I will make sure to get the picture from him. I can personally attest to the existence of this picture, as it depicted this silver cube-shaped craft that had a long grayish / smoke-like trail behind it. The trail was almost cigar-shaped, and it emitted from the back of the craft. My cousin and uncle stated that the craft was moving at a high rate of speed, and it appeared to disappear along with the long trail in an instant. My uncle is an avid airplane enthusiast who once had a pilots license. He frequently enjoys looking up at the sky and identifying the airplanes that are flying about by their appearance and sound. He told me that he had never seen anything like this, and both him an! d my cousin seemed extremely perplexed and somewhat uncomfortable with what they saw. Every now and then, I bring up their sighting of the cube-shaped craft during family get-togethers, and they both get slightly uncomfortable; but, I believe that I could get them to report their experience on this website.
August 15, 2016 · 9:00 PM · OVAL
Nags Head, NC
When in 2016 on vacation I looked outside in the sky and saw three disks with 9 lights on each all flying in formation, and the way I knew it wasn’t a plane is because it was very low flying and it made no noise
August 12, 2016 · 9:30 PM · OVAL
Fayetteville, NC
It was my mother’s birthday. It was dark out. We were outside setting up her new telescope when we got system alerts on our phones that there was “Strange metal detected”. Almost like some kind of magnetic field interference. (iphone 4 and an old google phone) We look up and can see (because of the bright moonlight) in the sky there are these round objects zooming almost parallel to eachother, followed by what I can clearly see is shaped as military jets of some kind. But they were no match for the circular objects ahead of them. I will never forget witnessing this.
August 12, 2016 · 4:30 PM · OVAL
Tijeras, NM
At approximately 4:30 PM on August 12, 2016 my wife said 'I see a UFO!' We noticed it a few miles to the west rapidly heading towards Albuquerque. It was small and looked like a star. As we discussed this, we noticed a second, rather large oval shaped object nearly overhead just slightly to the south of us. It looked silver and we saw no indication of wings or tail. It traveled very rapidly on the same course as the first, quickly becoming a small white dot racing for the western horizon. We have never seen a phenomenon like this! It seemed as fast or faster than a military jet in hot pursuit. We'll never forget this odd experience.
August 11, 2016 · 8:30 PM · OVAL
Kennewick, WA
UFO report of sighting 8-11-16. The purpose of this report is to identify objects that I have seen through my telescope, and not to claim a sighting of extraterrestrial aircraft. On August 11, 2016, at 8:10 pm I observed a bright spot in the sky with my naked eye that was obviously not a star as the stars were not visible this early in the evening. After a few minutes I realized what I was seeing was not something I have seen before so I shot a picture and a short video with my cell phone and got my wife to come outside to have a look also. Using a 7x35 binocular I was able to resolve the object into a disc shape but no other detail was visible. I set up my C-8 Celestron telescope to have a better look. The object resolved into an orange color object that was oval shape, had a flashing light on top, was rimmed with what appeared to be many lights around the circumference of the bottom side that were dimmer than the light on top, and seemed translucent like a fabric. After a few minutes of observing, I attached a video camera to the telescope and recorded a few minutes of video in two recordings. After bumping my telescope I was not able to find the object again as it was getting farther away and dimmer during the observation. The video capture settings, frame rate at .844 per sec. is to slow to stop movement so there is some motion blur in the images but enough detail to see structure of the object. The orange color had faded to whitish purple by the time I got the video recording. I do not see the lights that were around the bottom of the object in the video image that I saw through the eyepiece of the telescope. The sighting lasted from 8:10 pm to 8:53 pm about 43 minutes until I lost sight of it. The direction of travel was southeast, and the object got smaller by about half and was viewed by me and my wife, before I went to video capture. My telescope was hastily set up and there were no stars to polar align the mount so the tracking is off a little with respect to the stars. The tracking motor is running at sidereal rate and I used the manual slow motion controls to center the object when it ran out of the field of view. I have been using this telescope for 18 years and this camera for only a few times. I am experienced with deep sky astrophotography with several camera types and several telescope types for 17 years. Technical information: Telescope, Celestron C-8 telescope, 200mm mirror f/10 with f/3.3 focal reducer. Calculated focal length 686 mm. Camera, ZWO ASI 120 MC color video camera with 3.5 x 3.5 micron pixels, 1280x960 image size. Capture at .844 frames per second. All technical data is available. Approximately 420 frames of data available with object visible. Two video files 903 MB and 893 MB. Three still captures from video. Approximate RA 21h 46m, DEC 9 deg..