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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 10, 2016 · 6:30 PM · OVAL
District Heights, MD
I regret not jotting down the actual date that I spotted a UFO in the 2nd week of August 2016. I didn’t think it was anything, until someone encouraged me that I wasn’t “seeing things” that didn’t exist. I was walking the dog at approximately 6:30 pm. I saw an oval shape that shone like a very bright star. It moved at a speed faster than a jet, or anything I’ve ever seen, and it didn’t have a smoke trail. I stood and watched until it went out of sight. It was way above the clouds. Usually when I see planes that high, I see a smoke trail and the speed appears to be somewhat slow. The speed is what caught my eye. Witness indicates that date is approximate. PD
August 10, 2016 · 1:30 AM · OVAL
Mankato, MN
I had been watching the sky in a dark area for meteors from the recent meteor shower when I saw something fairly dim moving like a satellite but with a silhouette of a shape that was probably twice as long as it was wide. The lighting was steady, no flashing, but again very dim, if even light at all and not just some faint reflection. It was moving from east to west as I looked towards the north initially, at a fairly decent pace, but nothing unusual for known aircraft. After a couple of seconds it began to move laterally in a fast and seemingly random zig zag pattern. Never turning itself, and with no hesitation in its directional changes. This went on for maybe 2-4 seconds until it snapped back into its straight line steady pace only this time going back from the direction it came from (west to east) and faded away shortly after that. This is without a doubt the first time in my life where I would confidently say that I had seen a UFO of some kind, based simply on the movement of the object. I recall feeling pretty depressed as I watched it fade away, knowing there was nobody else there to see it with me, and that it didn't hang out longer, and perhaps show off a bit. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 6, 2016 · 11:30 PM · OVAL
Roanoke, VA
Craft over the city with two bright lights on the middle. It just sat there with out moving. It was as big as a blimp.
August 6, 2016 · 8:17 PM · OVAL
Meridian, ID
On August 6th, 2016, I was in attendance at the stock car races at Meridian Speedway in Meridian, Idaho. The lady seated next to me and I had been talking about my line of work as a pilot, and she began to put a couple of eye drops in her eye. As she looked up, she said, “Oh, and there’s an airplane now.” I, too, looked up and immediately noticed what she was looking at was most definitely not an aircraft of any kind. At first glance, the object appeared to be directly overhead the speedway at an altitude of approximately ten to fifteen thousand feet AGL (above ground level). The object was quite bright in the evening sky. The object was VERY slowly moving west. The object’s shape was hard to decipher, but it was definitely not perfectly circular. The shape was more oblong than anything, or perhaps even cylindrical shaped. I noticed other people in attendance at the speedway were beginning to watch the object as more people had their heads turned. I kept a keen eye on the object and noticed that it’s almost imperceptible movement began to slow after a few minutes. The object moved from directly overhead Meridian, Idaho, to directly over what appeared to be Nampa, Idaho, in the span of fifteen minutes. During the first few minutes of observation, my guess was that the object was a weather balloon. Weather balloons are launched over the Treasure Valley twice daily from the National Weather Service station in Boise, Idaho. I looked at my watch and discovered that the last weather balloon was launched over two hours ago. The object never decreased in size during the entire hour that I watched it, indicating to me that this was definitely not a weather balloon. Weather balloons decrease in relative size from the naked eye as they gain altitude. This object was not gaining altitude and was remaining the same size during the entire viewing. The object appeared to be emitting its own light, and as the sun set and the other stars and planets became visible the object appeared to become much more red in color. The lady seated next to me was quite interested in the object and tried taking numerous photos of the object with her iphone, but none of the images showed anything of merit. After about 45 minutes of watching the object the lady seated next to me decided to go to her car and view the object with a pair of binoculars she had in her car. She left and I last viewed the object almost an hour after first witnessing the object. I looked up again a couple minutes later and the object was gone. The lady returned a few minutes later looking rather flustered and stated that she was at her car viewing the object with her binoculars, looking directly at the red orb, when in vanished into thin air. I know this was not an aircraft, as I’m a full-time pilot, and I’m quite aware of what aircraft of all types look like in the sky. This object was not a weather balloon, drone, or blimp of any kind. The object emitted a very bright light in the evening sky and emitted a very bright red/orange glow after sunset. The peculiar shape of the object and the odd movement of the object are what baffle me. I know dozens of other people at the speedway that night witnessed the object, so hopefully they too will write reports. I first witnessed the object at 20:17 and last saw the object at 21:13 local time. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 6, 2016 · 7:30 PM · OVAL
Garner, NC
It was raining that day in the evening while the sun was out. A double rainbow formed outside the restaurant we were in, and my father and I went outside to take a few pictures on our phones. Afterwards, we realized a UFO was in one of our pictures, in between both rainbows. To be exact, the UFO was on the other end of the rainbow. It was curious how one end of both rainbows started right outside the restaurant on the road, meters from where we were. The UFO was oval and white and was there for a few seconds only. The photo shows an object, which appears to be almost transparent, or diaphonous. We assume that it is either some type of reflection, or perhaps a lens flare. We doubt that it is an alien spacecraft, but we cannot be certain. PD
August 5, 2016 · 12:00 AM · OVAL
Apopka, FL
At midnight I was taking out our dog and noticed a light in the sky that was rapidly changing colors. I called my Daughter out to view. We used a telescope to get a better look. It was oval in shape and hovered to our west before slowly moving westward out of site.
August 3, 2016 · 1:36 PM · OVAL
Costa Mesa, CA
On August 3, 2016, I was driving to a recycling center in Costa Mesa, when I saw 2 rectangular wall shapes made up of white circles. One wall was coming in from the left and the other from the right and they looked like they were going to collide with each other. Suddenly, they came together into a huge ball and then split like atoms. I saw the individual white circles glow like flames as I was approaching the recycling center. I parked my car, grabbed my cell phone and started to record the lights move in a dance. Some white lights glowed brighter than others. The lights looked like alternating flames of brightness. I screamed and told folks to look up. All the people ran and stared. At first, we thought the lights were balloons until the alternating light and dance happened in unison. Folks grabbed their phones and started screaming and filming. The man filming next to me can be heard saying “there’s too many of them” and I can be heard agreeing with him. I was very excited. It was impossible to count how many crafts there were. I estimated about 15. A few minutes later, they started leaving as they ascended past the clouds. Only one lingered behind, sitting on top of a cloud. After all the others were gone, the one that stayed behind flashed and disappeared!!! The video footage I posted was slowed down so that you can see the white lights. When played in slow motion, you can see some of the lights glowing. I paused the one light that lingered above the cloud. Look at it on the left. The sun was too harsh and made it difficult to capture the video. This is why my camera is moving so much. I have been following these lights for over 4 years now. Most of my encounters have been at night. This encounter, however, is the biggest cluster of lights I’ve come across.
August 2, 2016 · 10:15 PM · OVAL
Clovis, NM
Purple oval shaped opject with no center east of clovis watched it took picture then it dropped like a rock and disappeard.
July 27, 2016 · 10:10 PM · OVAL
New Milford, CT
Had three white lights and one red beneath them. Flashing. Continued to move towards New York for twenty minutes. At same pace. Only 69-75 feet above ground. Very quiet very slow and eerie. I videoed it for two minutes but my cell phone only shows black fuzz with a little sound for one second. Very strange. Very awesome. Not sure what it was. But it's a very clear starry night tonight. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 26, 2016 · 2:32 AM · OVAL
Newbern, TN
I was driving home to Dyersburg on highway 51 South. When I came on the outskirt of Newbern, TN. I seen this big green ball of fire and it had a tail follwing. It flew over a tree. I seen the object for about 5 seconds. And it vanished behind the trees. I looked at the clock and it was 02.32 AM.
July 24, 2016 · 1:30 AM · OVAL
Canada (west coast; Alaskan cruise), BC · Canada
My husband and I took an Alaskan cruise for our 10th anniversary. It was through the inside passage going past Canada and stopping at Ketchikam, Juneau, and Skagway. We had a cabin with a small veranda on the port side of the ship. I have insomnia so at about 1:30 a.m., I was still awake. My husband was fast asleep and I didn't know what to do with myself so I decided to sit on the veranda. The veranda was very small just big enough for two chairs and a very small table. The veranda was covered by the floor of the veranda on the deck above us so to see directly above the ship you had to lean out. The area directly below the ship and maybe 40 feet out could be seen because the ship had some lights on. The area had fog rolling in in patches. I was looking out over the water, towards the land, and then up at the sky. In between wispy patches of fog, the sky was clear. I started noticing a small "lighter" area in the clear sky that would come from directly above the ship and move more west then go back over the ship. When it went back over the ship I couldn't see it anymore. I decided to get our binoculars that my husband had bought for our trip. They are very expensive binoculars with image stabilizers. I retrieved them and went back outside. I was leaning over the railing trying to see if the "lighter" area would come back and sure enough it did, moving westward again. I looked through the binoculars and couldn't believe what I was seeing. There were 6 dull yellow oval orbs flying in a group. I can only explain the movement was like animals moving together and "jostling" each other. I ran in to wake my husband. He wasn't happy about it, but he went on the veranda half asleep. I explained what I saw but they were gone. He went back to bed. This happened 2 more times. I would see the group coming from over the ship and I would get my husband until he finally said he didn't care if it landed, he didn't want me to wake him again. The ship had 11 decks and on the t! op deck there are no cabins, it's where the main restaurant is and from mid section of ship to the aft end is completely open. I decided to go up to that deck where I can observe directly over the ship. I was a little apprehensive as it was by this time 2 in morning. There were some crew members but I didn't see any passengers. I asked a crew member if they had any lights that shone up toward the sky and he said no. I did not see the lights again.
July 22, 2016 · 1:03 AM · OVAL
Billings, MT
Two and a half hours later, there was a string of lights outside my house, then they disappeared, when I went to grab my phone to get a picture. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 21, 2016 · 2:00 AM · OVAL
Norwood Young America, MN
This bright oval shaped light appeared in the sky very abruptly. Each end of the object came to a point. It hovered over my area for about 60 seconds, and then very quickly moved to my left and disappeared. It was an intensely bright light.
July 17, 2016 · 10:00 AM · OVAL
Syracuse, NY
I was out taking nature photographs in New York state. When I got home, I looked at my photos and found an object in one of them. I took 3 photos in 1 minute and noticed the object in only one photo. I will say the shutter speed on my Nikon camera was 1/500. Can you help me identify the object in the photo? We believe that the blurry, gray object may be a bird or insect in flight. PD
July 16, 2016 · 1:00 PM · OVAL
Vancouver, WA
It was silver colored moving very slow. It could have been a blimp, but too far away. I've never seen a blimp here that's why i wondered. i,ve always been interested when young in ariel,wash walking up n dubois road my cousins and i all seen an object zigzag entire sky and disappeared. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 15, 2016 · 8:30 PM · OVAL
Boise, ID
On 7/16/2016, at approximately 2030 hours, an object was observed above the South Boise Correctional Complex. This object was silver and oval shaped. It stayed in the same place in the sky for approximately an hour and a half. It was seen by almost all the staff and some of the inmates at the prison. The next day a man wandered out of the desert, stating he'd been lost in the desert for three days. This mysterious man was whisked away by local law enforcement. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 13, 2016 · 1:30 AM · OVAL
Camano Island, WA
Random appearing spacecraft about mid Camano Island remains stationary for a few hours with blue, green, red and yellow lights projecting in patterns. Moves very very slowly to the right from my view facing north.
July 9, 2016 · 9:30 PM · OVAL
Richland, WA
Looking west from our backyard last night, there were anywhere between 2 to 5 oval shaped white lights going in various patterns above us in the sky. One would go right, while 4 may go to the left. Two would stay lower, while the other two would shoot up and join the singular one. Sometimes some would blink off & on, while others stayed white. At times they would go in a complete circle. There was no noise with their presence. The only thing we had to try and get a picture was, an IPad. They did not come out well as there is no zoom lens on it. The other person observing this went to get his LED flashlight that is very bright, to see if he could replicate the lights in the sky. They could not. What was in the sky was far beyond the capability of our flashlight. But within 30 seconds of shining our light towards the sky, they came together, stopped all motion, and then vanished.
July 6, 2016 · 4:30 PM · OVAL
Warrington, PA
It did not pivot and turn. It just simply moved off after 4 or 5 minutes at a steady speed and height. It did not gather momentum, it simply moved off instantly to a certain speed. We were in a field behind Culcheth high school, and we can see a fair distance. It just kept going and we could see it go towards cadishead. My stepdad believe we had both witnessed a ufo, and i am of the same opinion. We had a friend with us but he did not land his drone. My stepmum also seen a large ufo fly over the flat in Stockton Health in May 2017. When i look out i could not see any craft but the sky was orange now this was at night! time around 9 pm. I could hear the craft this time and were we were is quite built up and we were on the first floor so you cant see in the distance due to all the houses. I walk over the road to the chippy to check if the noise was an air vent. It was not. It sounded like some sort of jet propelled enging. All the sky was orange and my stepmum said it was a strange shaped ship. Many thanks.
July 4, 2016 · 10:30 PM · OVAL
Fountain, CO
On July 4th, 2016, 4 of us seen 15 glowing objects in the sky NO it wasn't fireworks, we watched as they flew behind the fireworks, they looked like orange/red balls of light. We live in the flight path of COS Airport and PAFB, and these objects flew on a DIFFERANT path. They just coming more and more of them and when they got to the same spot in the sky the all just winked out and where GONE. They didn't fly away they Disappeared, They were NOT airplanes or helicopters that had NO aviation lights, they made NO sound at all. They were UFO's I'm not saying they were Aliens but Unidentified Flying Objects On July 4th 2016 after we seen these UFO's I called the Fountain Police who told me all I saw were fireworks, I called Ft. Carson, who said they had no other reports, I called Peterson Air Force Base who said they had NOTHING in the air that night, so I don't know what we ALL seen, BUT I can tell you there were NOT Airplanes or Helicopters, they were UFO's and by that I mean Unidentified Flying Objects. 4 of us seen them, they were LARGE Orange/Red balls, some where closer, but they ALL fly on the same Path the simply winked out and Disappeared, did ANYONE else see this ???
July 3, 2016 · 11:21 PM · OVAL
Fitchburg, WI
An oval shaped orange light was observed in sky for about 40 seconds in South Fitchburg. It was estimated to be 10ft in diameter and was approximately 400ft high in the sky. It hovered directly above the 2 eye witnesses for 26 seconds before heading west toward Madison.
July 3, 2016 · 10:15 PM · OVAL
Cranston, RI
Over the course of 15 minutes, 4 bright orange orbs drifted S to N in the Eastern sky starting at 10:15 pm. Each disappeared to the North before the next one became visible in South. They were silent and moving about half the speed of a small plane. I took pictures, but having seen 9 on June 11th (see report) I was a bit disappointed because there was only 4. (ah, how quickly we get spoiled)
July 3, 2016 · 10:05 PM · OVAL
Baraboo, WI
At around 10:05 pm, (July 3, 2016) two people, who were star gazing witnessed three UFO’s just east of Baraboo, WI, USA. The first was perceived as a dim red, roughly triangular light, point down, about 5° above the northern horizon moving SSW. Inspection with binoculars confirmed that this was not an aircraft, although it sometimes ‘shined’ as if there were navigation lights or a rotating beacon of some sort. This wasn’t the case as, none were present when examined with the glasses. While the first continued toward the SW, another came up fast from the SE, heading NNW from behind a bluff (long, hills about 500 feet high, the couple were on the north base of a bluff east of Baraboo). The object continued to the NE (about thirty seconds to a minute or so from about 45° south from zenith until it passed into the earth’s shadow). The second object was a glowing red/orange shape, roughly triangular (point downward) until you looked at it through binoculars, when it showed as a bright yellowish light with a soft aura around it to the front and diminishing behind. Oddly, the red orange triangular shape was not observed. The light was rather oval in shape. When this second one neared the northern horizon, it faded and one observer realized it had passed into the earth’s penumbra. This was evident because a black oval continued to travel without any light around it, suggesting this was a solid object that had been illuminated by the sun, rather than a self-illuminated object that had ‘faded’. While it traveled this way, the first object faded and was lost to view, about 20° from true north. As far as the observers could guess, it continued on a southwestern heading. After about five minutes, a third object followed the path of the second where it had appeared over the bluff. It looked exactly the same and faded in the same place near the horizon as the second had, but could not be observed after ‘vanishing’ due to light conditions. It is not impossible for this to have been the first object that was sighted moving SW, having regained altitude and followed the second’s path. Other observations: No sound, no deviation in course. "Altitude and size are unknown, but a little simple math applying the altitude of the earth’s penumbra at 22:05 on July 3, 2016, for Baraboo at 43.4711°N by 89.7443°W would give at least the altitude for when they entered the shadow. Observers assume that this would indicate a descent from a high altitude. Relative size was approximately ¼ of a thumb nail when observed with the naked eye from the ground. Overall shape or form is unknown. Although the object was observed in silhouette through 20 power binoculars, the ‘oval’ observed is far from conclusive as far as any structure is concerned. One witness is a former airport employee and military / combat zone veteran who has a very WIDE visual lexicon from fixed and rotary winged aircraft, flares, bombs, missiles and such. This was NOT a phenomenon of this type, nor did it seem naturally occurring. There were no navigation lights on the object when it passed into the shadow and was observed for an additional thirty seconds until it blended in with the atmosphere. No conclusions to what the object was have been drawn. It was ‘unidentified’.
July 1, 2016 · 10:00 PM · OVAL
Ham Lake, MN
8 months earlier my wife and I saw 2 balls of fire flying together in the dusk sky. They were low and fast and caught my attention because I could not discern their marker lights. I thought to myself that some hotshot private owners were out for a fighter joyride and acting like hooligans. Their flames made them look like fighter jets, but these were not fighter jets. They were completely silent and I noted aloud as they flew that we should have at least heard their roar by that point in time and at that distance. The speed they were travelling would have produced more of a scream at that proximity. They approached from the East in a staggered flight pattern and proceeded South perpendicular from my perspective, single file. By their appearance at profile, they did seem to each have a craft in front of the fiery ball, but it was nearly invisible. Truly the size of a fighter jet. Absolutely silent. I was chided by my wife, my witness, for being overzealous in my intrigue. 7/1 My wife and I were out stargazing when a single orange fireball made its way into view above the tree line. I pointed it out immediately and we both discussed its features and lack of markers again, as it approached. At this time we noticed a smaller, single propeller airplane at a much higher altitude, moving along the same path of travel. The sound of the plane was obvious, yet there was no sound from the fiery object, again. We watched as it approached from the East and swept South just like the first 2 we'd seen last Fall. This time, when the object turned South it became obscured by a small bunch of leaves and immediately disappeared. The bunch of leaves is that of a dying willow, so they are small, sparse and not continuous. At the speed and proximity of the object, it should have reappeared from behind the small leaves in a fraction of a second and would not have been completely obscured at any point, yet it never reappeared. My wife repeated that it'd come back about 6 times before she realized it'd just disappeared before us. We were amazed. We are not UFO people and have never had an experience like this before, so we were apprehensive to believe what we'd seen...until Google brought us here. These other sightings and immense similarities make us believe.