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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
July 1, 2016 · 1:00 PM · OVAL
Milwaukee, WI
My daughter passed this along to me. It was taken by her boyfriend in Milwaukee on South 27th Street. It appears that he was taking pictures of the clouds and when he was looking though his pictures, he zoomed in on the spot in this one and saw this. Let's figure this out together. We can't be certain, but it looks like a hole in thin cirrus cloud, caused by an airliner passing through it. Just a guess. PD
June 27, 2016 · 8:25 PM · OVAL
San Tan Valley, AZ
On June 27, 2016, I was in my back yard shooting pics of a coming storm when looked up and saw 3 iridescent blue orbs. They were flying South at a good rate of speed, equidistant from ea other. There was no sound whatsoever coming from these objects. They were about 10,000 ft high.
June 27, 2016 · 5:50 PM · OVAL
Phoenix, AZ
This citing occurred on Monday, June 27, 2016 at 5:50 P.M. in Phoenix, Arizona. I was driving home going west on Bell Road, past the 51 Freeway by a few minutes. I stopped for a red light. There were monsoon clouds in the distance, but something closer caught my eye as I was waiting. This "cloud" was unusually bright--white. I looked at it and realized that it wasn't a cloud--it was too small in the foreground, very white/illuminated, and had a very distinctive (not blurry around the ends like a cloud) shape. The light was shaped like a skinny oval. From the top, the oval wasn't flat but graduated up towards the center about 15 degrees. Suddenly, from each end a beam of a similar bright light (thin like a string) shot out at the same time then this "shape" shot straight up and was gone.
June 26, 2016 · 10:25 PM · OVAL
Kingston Springs, TN
All the power in our flash lights batterys died. Also, the power in our house blinked off. Funny thing is I heated (sic. heard ??) the craft and my sister and father did not.
June 23, 2016 · 6:00 PM · OVAL
Katy, TX
On June 23, 2016, I was driving home from work in Houston heading west toward Katy on I-10. It was around 6:20pm, so the sun was still high in the sky. It was sunny and partly cloudy. A shiny object in the sky caught my eye. I would say that it was like an oval-ish shape, I couldn't see any sharp edges but it was solid. The reflection was bright and it made it hard to see the actual shape of the object was. I did not see it appear, I just happened to notice it. I was around I-10 and Dairy Ashford and it was on my right, north of I-10. It was wasn't too high but it wasn't too low on the horizon to where the view of it could be obstructed by trees or anything. I just stared at it. There was some traffic so I wasn't driving too fast so I was able to see if it had a trajectory path but it did not move, it stayed at the same position. I was trying to see if it was a plane, but the way that it shone, it could have not been because it wasn't small enough, the reflection was too bright and it would require a lot more surface area. The shape of a small plane could of not have cast the amount to light or reflection that this object did and from that distance, it would of been too small anyway. At first all I could notice was the bright reflective surface, but the more I looked, I could see that it was silver on the bottom part. Again, it was hard to see the actual shape of the object, but it was solid. There is a small airport on Groschke Road that is between Barker Cypress and Hwy 6. I occasionally see small planes take off so its not out of ordinary for me to see things in the sky, I have even seen colorful hot air ballons come from south of I-10 in Katy, I am not too sure where exactly they come from but it has been a while since I have seen those. However, this object or I guess UFO was rather large but at the same time seemed far away. If I would guess where the UFO was on top of, I would guess that it was between the Mason Rd to Fry Rd and Saums to Clay Rd area. So as I am driving I pass under the Hwy 6 overpass and when I look at the same spot in the sky, it was gone. I looked around to see if it moved lower or higher but it was nowhere. The Hwy 6 overpass only obstructed my view for about 5 seconds. The length of time that I saw this UFO was no more than 1 minute. When I first saw it I felt curious and I was thinking of all the possibilites of what this could of be! en. When I continued to see it, I felt kind of confused because I couldn't understand what the object was and when it disappeared quickly I was just shocked and I also felt upset at myself for not taking a picture of it. I am sure that it would of been visible. If somebody knows what this object was or if you saw it too, please leave a comment. I have been trying to forget or to talk myself out of thinking that I saw a UFO. I am not one of those kind of people that think that there are aliens out there or those that do a lot of research on conspiracy theories but I cannot explain what could that could have been but I KNOW what I saw. I can't talk myself out of this and forget it so I wanted to let others know. Sorry this is so long but I wanted to be highly descriptive!
June 21, 2016 · 12:00 AM · OVAL
New York, NY
I am 57 years old and a paralegal for an investment advisor firm in New York City. I live in a studio apt on the top floor of a 4th Floor walk-up in the Kip’s Bay area on the East Side of Manhattan. There is a balcony in the back of the apt that has a view facing the skyline looking out over the East River towards Queens and Brooklyn. I often go out to the balcony on warm clear nights to look at the stars and get some fresh air. I went out 2 nights ago, on June 21st, around midnight, when I spotted a strange object hovering over the East River. It looked like a roundish, oval shape that was not illuminated except for the city lights shining up on it and the nearly full moon behind it. It looked to be about 1/5th the size of a normal full moon from where I was standing which was about 5 blocks from the East River. The altitude was higher than the Empire State Building which stands west of my vantage point. It looked to be at least as big as a house in my estimation. It was a clear night with just a few small puffy clouds still hanging in the sky near the object and I thought that maybe the object was just a small portion of a cloud but there was a breeze blowing North and the other clouds soon blew past the object and dissipated while the object remained in the same spot and hovered completely motionless. At this point I thought I might have something out of the ordinary here so I ran back into my apartment and got my binoculars. I steadied the binoculars against a balcony railing and managed to capture the object in my sights. It looked oval shaped and had sort of a greenish, grayish color. I could not discern any details such as windows or defining structure because it was difficult to keep in focus. I thought I may have seen a few tiny pinpoint size colored lights but cannot be certain. After a few moments it began to slowly move north towards upper Manhattan and I could see stars passing behind it as it moved. I could not hear any sound coming from it. After moving north for a few hundred yards it changed direction and started heading due East over Long Island City in Queens. I lost sight of it after a very tall tree in a neighboring yard blocked my view. I waited for a half an hour to see if it would return but it never did. The full sighting lasted about 8 mins. June 23, 2016
June 20, 2016 · 9:40 PM · OVAL
Gardnerville, NV
Shiny bright oval S by SW.
June 20, 2016 · 6:00 AM · OVAL
Livermore, CA
My mom (56 years old at time) was working at Walmart in receiving. She stepped outside for her first break and saw these two objects in the sky. She began taking photos from her iPhone. They were two oval objects that appeared to be glowing from the bottom. They eventually got higher and faded away. We have multiple pictures of the sighting. My mom was (and still isnt) very tech savvy. The pictures were printed from a Facebook ad promoting some type of memory book for the year.
June 19, 2016 · 4:14 PM · OVAL
Woodruff, UT
June 16, 2016. I was motorcycle camping near Birch Creek Reservoir. During my say there, I kept hearing a "wizzling sound." Did not pay much attention to it at the time. Before heading back to camp, took a photo of the reservoir, not seeing anything unusual, also once i got to camp took another photo of my camp spot. On arrival at home and loading the photos to my computer, noticed a oval craft above the reservoir. Also, the photo of my camp site upon zooming on the sky noticed three objects in triangular formation. The photos were taken within 15 min of each other. Will send those photos your way asap. Thanks, ((name deleted)) We see nothing in the first photo that suggests to us the presence of UFOs. PD
June 18, 2016 · 8:45 PM · OVAL
Eugene, OR
6/18/2016 Time: 8:45PM PST. An orange solid very bright oval object crossed through the window just to the right of my TV view screen. The window is located in my vaulted area of me ceiling above my front door. When I saw it I was awe struck with the size and orange brightness as it progressed to the right side of my window. A few moments later, another Bright orange same size solid object came into view in line. I jumped up went outside. There they were. Suddenly, a third was in view from the East coming in my direction. I ran back inside and grabbed my wife out of bed. We both saw the third and then a fourth. They seemed to be in formation. As they got closer they began to go towards the right or South. As they moved silently, I noticed there was no sound. I also looked for wind. It was a perfect dusk night. No wind. No sound. Just more lights. I told my wife to go back inside and grab her cell. At first she could not see anything on the cell display. She handed me the phone and I held it up into the sky at the objects regardless and pushed the button in hope it might see something. The photo is included with this report. Unfortunately, the image does not show a very clear shot. The good news is there is a tree, house, low small cloud in the image for comparison. I went back in the house as the objects disappeared towards the right into the trees. A put on my pants and went back out just in case. Who knows, perhaps they would circle around? My neighbor was coming around the corner in his car. He asked if I saw some -thing? Told him hell ya. He said he say them also and his daughter also saw them from the house.
June 18, 2016 · 8:00 PM · OVAL
Temecula, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 17, 2016 · 8:00 PM · OVAL
Milan, MI
Saw what appeared at first as bright star directly overhead. Told the wife it was too bright out (full sunlight) to see even the brightest star. It was moving very very slow, to the left and then to the right. I got out my binoculars and it appeared to be perhaps a weather balloon except it had a very bright light that would pulsate a bit and change color, red, blue, green, orange. The light was at the base and above the bright light it was opaque and you could sort of see through it. It was rather shaped like an old fashioned light bulb. It was in the sky for about an hour and then all of a sudden it rose higher in the sky and it disappeared rather quickly. I am going to guess it was at around 35,000 feet. In my 57 years, I have never ever seen anything like this. Over the past few weeks, I have seen a military F-18 Hornet flying overhead at various times during the day. I wonder if they are looking for what I saw last evening.
June 16, 2016 · 2:45 PM · OVAL
Box Elder, SD
I photographed 1oval shaped green mass and 1sphere shaped blue orb from a construction site on Elsworth afb both objects were moving in ways I've never seen before moments later were followed by two air force jets Greg in color not sure what type I got two photos on camera phone before they were gone
June 15, 2016 · 10:15 PM · OVAL
Tarzana, CA
It was hovering in the open space just above tree line, near business buildings east of Reseda Boulevard and north of the 101 freeway. The lights on the object twinkled white and red in color. As soon as we both acknowledged its presence, it disappeared.
June 11, 2016 · 11:00 PM · OVAL
La Puente, CA
4 of us were outside in the backyard having a cigarette, it was already late between 11pm and 12am. My back to was to the sky, but not only did I see the flash of light illuminate everything around me, but I felt the pulse of the light. It pulsed about 5 times before disappearing completely. We are all frozen during the duration of the light, except for one of us who was actually right underneath it. He saw the oval orb of light with a metal lining. He described it being as big as a bus and right over head. White light pulsing, and flashes the same as a camera flash. Since he was exposed directly to it, he then felt a burning sensation throughout his spine the rest of the night, until the next morning. During the course of the light, he was the only able to move, as he ran into the house screaming at us to go inside. We all ignored him, and as soon as the lights disappeared, we all got up in unison and walked out to the yard. The night was deafening silent! About 5 min later, the music of the nearby parties picked up again, and everything was back to normal.
June 10, 2016 · 6:10 PM · OVAL
Agoura Hills, CA
Wife shooting airplane and moon. Anomaly appeared in image 2 of 3 only. Facing west. Airplane probably originated at Burbank airport. Tried to enlarge image (attached). Another record of the anomaly evident upon closer inspection days after the photo was taken. We cannot identify the anomalous object, but it does not appear to use to be an authentic UFO. It may be debris in the lens system of the camera, but that is only a guess. PD
June 9, 2016 · 8:50 PM · OVAL
Thomasville/Greensboro, NC
Traveling right to left (NE) on a crystal clear "blue sky" evening at 8:30 pm, a circular light the size of a house "jitterbugged" across the sky in front of my car - 1000 ft OUT and 5-7000 ft UP, as I traveled with my family. It stayed very illuminated for 2 minutes then VANISHED in a split second. It appeared again 10 miles up the interstate 3000 ft out and 10,000 ft UP. We pulled over and watched it for 4 minutes over the Grandover Hotel, then it vanished again. When it vanished- it didn't speed away in a direction - it just disappeared from the clear blue sky right in front of us. It shook me up! I do not believe in alien space craft, but my wife is in the airline business and we know an aircraft when we see it (especially that close), so I am at a loss for what this could be. I am fascinated how many people were traveling up that interstate and had to see this bright massive light over the interstate - and failed to post it anywhere on the net.
June 8, 2016 · 9:05 AM · OVAL
Ridgecrest, CA
It was my second night stargazing this summer and I saw two unique objects. The first thing I saw could have been a high flying aircraft. The craft had several white lights that I could see. What I found unusual was the lack of sound as when the object flew over going south to north I heard no sound. When I first saw the object, I thought it was a satellite but when the object came closer towards me I could see individual creamy white lights on it. The white lights were solid and did not strobe. The object also seemed to be oval in shape as I could see an oval or boomerang shaped front that was silhouetted in the night sky. I did not observe any red or green lights on the object. At 45 degrees, I would estimate the size of the craft was about a quarter to an eighth of the size of my thumb. The second thing was a bright strobe-like light that lit up the sky. Not sure where or what caused the strobe but it was very bright and white. The light was seen in the south to southwest sky. Note: The light strobed vertically towards the ground and not across the sky. It was very bright and I could not see a light source.
June 6, 2016 · 11:15 AM · OVAL
Elkland, MO
My wife called me at work to report seeing an object descending from sky in a rainbow-like arc. She was driving by herself, returning from store. She turned north off of St. Luke Rd. onto Sunrise Rd., and about 100 yds from first house, in her peripheral vision on right (easterly), spotted basketball or oval shaped object and size, bright on front, red flames coming out back as it descended. The trajectory looked like it might hit neighbors' house, but then disappeared. She believes object got as close as within about a football field length from where she was. Neighbors 2 young grandchildren were coming down the road on there 4 wheelers and my wife stopped and asked them if they saw that. The youngest (about 6 yrs old) said she saw it but other child did not. Wife's car windows were rolled up and radio going so she didn't hear anything. Did not see any trail, only reddish flames that looked like they were extending 4 to 5 ft out back of object. This is on gravel road in rural location. We see meteorites all the time in the country and wife said she saw this object for approx. 5 seconds, much longer than we ever see a meteorite. I asked her if possibly fireworks rocket and she said no way. Coincidentaly, about an hour before, I saw a Google Earth camera car drive by my office in Marshfield, MO, so I questioned her if maybe it might have been a drone? Maybe related to Google activity, but she didn't think it looked like a drone. We also experience occasional low flying military aircraft on exercise, and I asked her if maybe it was a missile that got shot by accident, but she wasn't sure. I asked if maybe an engine that fell off a jet? She isn't sure about that. I called one of the local ranch hands and talked to him about it. He hadn't seen anything, but would mention to some of the other hands and would let me know. She is adamant that it descended from a higher altitude, in a rainbow like arc. Did not see any crash, hear any noise or smoke or anything else after losing sight of object. Haven't questioned the girl yet. Going to call her mother tonight to see if she can describe what she saw. Sorry we couldn't get a pic.
June 4, 2016 · 10:30 PM · OVAL
Joshua Tree, CA
This sighting was made during the "Contact in the Desert" event, held 3-6 June 2016 at the Joshua Tree Retreat Center (JTRC) in Joshua Tree, CA. Spanning an approximately 10-minute period beginning at about 10:30 PM, we (my wife and I) observed a total of seven (7) continuously-luminous flying objects approached JTRC at very high speed over the Western horizon (direction of Yucca Valley). The objects arrived singly, one after the other, and in pairs at irregular intervals over the approximate 10-minute observation period. None of the objects exhibited standard red, green or white blinking aircraft navigation lights. Each object flew exceedingly smoothly, silently and rapidly towards the East and then each turned smoothly toward the North/Northeast when they arrived directly North of the JTRC grounds. The distance to the flying craft was estimated to be less than two miles, but could have been as little as one mile away at their closest approach to t! he JTRC. Throughout their approach from the West and eventual disappearance to the North, the objects emitted a continuous pale bluish/green to soft amber light. The craft were sufficiently bright and large to be very easily observed without the assistance of night-vision optics or binoculars. At irregular intervals during their flight trajectories, each craft displayed bright flashes of an iridescent green glow. The glowing flashes did not appear to emanate from a fixed point on the craft, but rather seemed to be diffuse in nature and sweep over the craft in an uneven manner. The flash duration was about 1 second or less. As mentioned above, the craft were fairly close (estimated 1-2 miles) and when the green flashes occurred, it was just possible to make out some kind of hull structure to the craft, i.e., the craft did not appear as sharp points of light or amorphous balls of light. When the craft were targeted by one or more hand-held lasers, they sometimes flashed green. But they also flashed a green glow at times when they were n! ot illum inated by lasers. From its first appearance on the western horizon, each object took about 30 seconds (or possibly less) to complete its west-to-east flyby past the JTRC, perform the sweeping northerly turn, and subsequently gradually disappear over the northern horizon. The estimated distance of the objects when they first appeared over the western horizon was 5 miles. Similarly, the estimated distance to the point of disappearance in the north was also 5 miles, resulting in a total (visible) flight trajectory of 10 miles. Assuming this distance was traveled in 30 seconds or less, the minimum speed of the objects may be estimated at about 1200 miles per hour. Importantly, no sound of any kind was detected as the objects flew past, which would be consistent with an unconventional (i.e., non-jet engine) type of propulsion system.
June 3, 2016 · 11:35 AM · OVAL
Joshua Tree-Twenty Nine Palms, CA
I was on my way to Contact in the Desert in Joshua Tree. I was in my friends car driving on Twenty Nine Palms highway. I noticed something in the sky reflecting light in my eye. I pointed it out to my friend, who then pulled over for us to figure out what we were looking at. It was a morphing orb that was hovering and pulsated directly above our car. It was intentionally interacting with us. This event took place today, Friday, June 3, 2016, at 11:30am today. I have 4 videos of this event.
May 30, 2016 · 8:35 PM · OVAL
Avondale, AZ
2 seperate oval orange lights, not blinking, no sounds, were flying low should have heard engines, moving very slowly then just disappeared.
May 29, 2016 · 7:30 PM · OVAL
Lepoglava (Croatia) · Croatia
I and my wife seen before 3 months, in sky across 10 meters above as 4-5 light, time sunset 18:00h, i stop the car, the object was full transparent. Than the object go with enormal speed to west and drop the light trails just like in movie enterprise. That was wow!!! Sorry on my english… 10-15 sec long visible. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. Hence, we are not able to request that he send the video, which he has not done. PD
May 29, 2016 · 1:00 AM · OVAL
Concord, MA
an oval light flashing from light to lighter like a heart beat and inside were twinkling lights like stars.