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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
June 1, 2015 · 1:13 AM · CHANGING
Saginaw, MI
I was looking at the northern lights above the house. I attempted to take a picture, but the lighting was too off for me to take a quality picture. I turned and took a look at the nearly full moon to which I saw a tiny flash of light to the right far side of the moon. I thought it was just a mere near by star. I took my phone out and took some pictures, and that is when I noticed this strange blue object moving, seeming to come from behind the moon moving erratically. I took 5 pictures, in which 4 came out clear with this rather odd object, and the last picture was just black. The object was round, at first, but seemed to change shape ever so slightly. It seems to have a defined outer ring with a blue center and something pulsating in the very middle. I observed the object for about 30 seconds and than it was gone.
May 29, 2015 · 2:30 AM · CHANGING
Chase City, VA
Walked out onto back porch, surrounding trees were full of small, swiftly moving objects. All emitted white blinking light(s), but shapes varied: rectangular, orb w/ point on end (as a teardrop laid on it's side) & half-circle w/flat portion on bottom. There were so many, but they were WAY too big to be fireflies. We watched using a pair of Nikon binoculars & a night vision scope. But they were easily seen with our naked eyes also. I know it sounds insane, but we would both submit to a lie detector if asked. We've seen strange, erratically moving lights in the distant skies about 1x/month for about the last 7-8 months. Movements extremely fast and directional changes very abrupt--very different from airplanes, jets, etc. These have blue, green, white or a combination of same lights. Most often the lights will change as one watches in telescope, binoculars &/or night vision scope.
May 28, 2015 · 9:40 PM · CHANGING
Middletown (west of), NY
I noticed a very large bright star, west of Middletown, CT. My husband and I then looked through binoculars and saw red (I saw some blue lights too, he didn't ) lights that looked like sparks under it. Then at approximately 10:00 pm it changed completely to a sphere shape with circles. Light was illuminating through some circles in a cross pattern with the brightest light in the center. Possible sighting of Venus?? PD
May 20, 2015 · 10:00 PM · CHANGING
Courtland, MS
I first noticed anything in the sky 4 nights before I observed the object I recorded the last night. On the first night I noticed that there was a real bright star above my house and it looked as if maybe was barely twinkling then. I kept a watch on it and it never moved but was really bright. Well on the 4th night I went outside and was staring at it and then that's when it split apart into the 3 sections with red blinking lights on each end of it. It turned and twisted and then a whole bunch of rainbow colors exploded out of it and it made a design pattern with the lights for about 30 seconds then the colors went away and then it came back into a round looking bright star then just slowly went away. Star or planet? Possible hoax?? PD
May 20, 2015 · 9:31 PM · CHANGING
Ocean City, NJ
We were sitting on the beach looking up at the stars, it was a clear night. A shape resembling an amoeba floated overhead and came to rest above the ocean, about 300 feet up. It immediately changed into spinning orbs of white light spinning counterclockwise. They spun for several minutes then just disappeared. Did not fly away. Just disappeared.
May 19, 2015 · 11:00 PM · CHANGING
Carlsbad, NM
It was quite a ways off and very dark. As soon as it turned to reveal the other arm it virtually disappeared. I drive at night for a living and I am very familiar with things in the night sky. I've never seen anything like this and wish it would have lasted a lot longer than just a few seconds.
May 19, 2015 · 8:53 PM · CHANGING
Lafayette Hill, PA
Fast moving, large, bright light low in the sky from East to West. Definitely Not a plane or satellite. The light suddenly vanished without a trace. After a minute, a long, narrow cigar-shaped cloud appeared in the same place. It looked like a con-trail from an airplane, but it was much shorter and there were no lights. It continued West, but moved up and down in a random pattern as it moved quickly across the sky- I've never seen a plane move in such a way. It also kept fading in and out- sometimes appearing substantial and sometimes appearing to be just a cloud in a cloudless sky. Then it vanished, too.
May 10, 2015 · 1:00 PM · CHANGING
Elkmont, AL
Mother’s Day after church sitting by the pool eating barbecue a large object came over a large hedge in our back yard. It was low, approximately fifty feet. It was made like a soccer ball, roughly spherical but the octagonal pieces flexed and stretched. It was black. It was like nothing I had ever seen. I was alarmed and ran ten yards to my patrol vehicle for my rifle. I returned in about thirty seconds and the object had taken form and ascended approximately fifteen hundred feet. I then retrieved my phone from inside and photograph it. But by that time it had ascended too far and the pics were useless. The front was pickle fork shaped. The rear had red tail lights or engines. The nose pitched up and down about twenty degrees. It kept ascending and traveling southeast towards Huntsville AL.
May 9, 2015 · 10:00 PM · CHANGING
Sierra Vista, AZ
Strange object that changed shapes and colors Twice it appeared to be two object, like a shadow of itself and I know it wasn't glare because my son saw it without the camera The creepiest thing about this object is that it appeared to have a face. I uploaded the footage here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bzToY2_fQ4
May 8, 2015 · 1:32 AM · CHANGING
Ormond Beach, FL
Early this morning, 1:30 AM, at Ormond Beach, Fl. My wife and I witnessed beach and sky activities as follows: Orange, red fire structured presence on the beach, winked gone reappeared high in the sky three times (clock referal) 10.00... 2:00 3:00. Facing due east. All winked gone in 12 seconds. My wife witnessed the third sky site, proceeding south. Likely unrelated, our building lost one third power today at 1:30 PM. ((name and e-address of witness deleted)) We spoke via telephone with the witness, and he seemed to us to be quite sincere and sober-minded. He stated that he did not believe that the objects could possibly have been so-called "Chinese" lanterns. PD
May 6, 2015 · 3:05 PM · CHANGING
Scarborough (Canada), ON · Canada
While on my afternoon break at work in Scarborough, Ontario May 6, 2015, I went outside to our work parking lot for a smoke Looking about in the sky for anything unusual After about five minutes looking to the north -slightly west Noticed a strange low bizarre object - less than half a mile away It was moving east to west changing appearance I then instantly took out my camera out at 3 :05 pm est and took some pictures - eight in total After about thirty seconds taking four pictures I yelled and pointed to two co-workers that were about 30- 40 yards away--- UFO ! Each one said 'plane ' paying little attention to it I continued to watch and take more pictures It was quite low under 200 feet a guess ? Again the movements were strange and very slow Added to it had a flashing like light appearance - maybe sun's reflection off surface After about one minute lost sight of it due to the buildings northwest What is interesting the first picture taken reveals 'two ' unknowns ? One even appears to really look like a distorted spaceship I could only see one smaller unknown one So could the larger one photographed had just released a smaller one - morphing probe type ? After the sighting I approached both co-workers Showed them both the pictures taken revealing the clear pictures Both said ' not a plane ' and looked stumped to the images shown
May 3, 2015 · 10:30 PM · CHANGING
Boise, ID
I'm a retired city fireman and forest ranger who served his time in a firetower. While walking my dog on the evening on Sunday, May 3rd, something bright caught my eye in the NW sky. At first I observed what I thought was fireworks returning to the ground, but I quickly realized that this was way too big for that. I witnessed a firey mass streaking to earth. The mass was multicolored with an extremely long tail. As it traveled straight down very fast, colorful spark-like pieces were released. The colors were green, red and yellow and were florescent. It was quite the sight and was about 3 seconds in duration. It kept traveling straight to earth so low it appeared it was going to crash, unfortunately it disappeared behind some trees... again, very low. As a 12 year boy I witnesses a similar object (same color scheme) but it was traveling horizontally and I believed it turned out to be a meteoite I believe. I never witnessed space junk returning to earth, but I would be willing to bet it looks like my sighting.
May 1, 2015 · 8:45 PM · CHANGING
Winchester, VA
One sphere, circled with bright white lights, arrives about 20:45 in W sky, parks, in same area each evening lower than a landing pattern airplane. It spins and at times appears as an oval. Background is black. About 22:00 the object quickly departs site to the NW. Second sphere with same description is located very high in the west. As first sphere departs, second moves quickly to the first position. About midnite or later, third sphere appears from very high position in the east to the former position of second sphere. As second quickly moves to the NW, the third sphere replaces the same lower position as one and two held. Sometime after 1:00 am the third moves quickly to the N. Every clear evening, we have witnessed the same patter since about the end of April. This report originally was posted with a flawed date. We have corrected the date, to the best of our ability. Witness indicates a date of "May 2015." PD
April 26, 2015 · 9:30 PM · CHANGING
Fremont, OH
Was driving home and admiring the sky because it was clear and I could see alot of stars. I observed what I initially thought was a bright star, but it was so bright that I thought maybe it was the moon. So, I scanned the sky and the moon itself was obvious. So I took my gaze back to the anomaly and first it looked like a bright sphere, and then it seemed to wiggle into two but closely held. It continued to seem to wiggle, so I took my cellphone and captured the object. When I got home, I cropped my photos and saw the strangest thing ever. It looked like a cross between a cylinder and an ameoba. I dont know what to make of it.
April 26, 2015 · 9:00 PM · CHANGING
Newcastle (Australia) · Australia
I was sitting out side and I seen trees green light just in my back yard I was like wtf is that my dog came out side and started to bark like never be for so I went in side. Then I hear a Big Bang I went out the front this time and could see like this big mother ship above my head I ran back in side to get my camera as I started to take pics I looked it's not the same as I look in the camera. Looking at it its going so slow but when I look at it in the camera it's like going 1000 miles a hour looks like all diamonds all over the ship. Every where was not a sound and time should still as I'm taking pics no cars on the road no trains going it was not right. It's not the first time I see this ship as I think it's looking at our army base we have here close to my house. We are uncertain as to whether this was submitted as a serious-minded report. PD
April 24, 2015 · 9:04 PM · CHANGING
Missoula, MT
I noticed three or four orange dots in the sky while driving west. Something seemed out of the ordinary, so I pulled over into the first metered parking spot on the north side of the street. I sat in the car just watching to see if the objects had blinking lights. I saw orange lights pulsating very slightly, but no other lights. I called my wife to see if she could spot them, she and the neighbors were able to see them (the neighbor’s friend took out his phone). That is when I noticed a few more objects coming over the mountain range in the direction of the sunset (which had set about 30 minutes beforehand). I hopped out of the car and crossed the road to the south sidewalk on the street. I tried to call my friend who drives taxi and always has a camera on him, he didn't answer. I could see the silhouette of a couple of the objects, they looked like monolithic type pillars (square four sided rectangles pointing straight up and down lengthwise). At this point I noticed the orange lights where on the bottom of the objects. They seemed to all go different directions, with two sets of two going in the same directions (north and south). One kept a west to east direction and got fairly close to my location. The orange glow was in a ring shape on the bottom of the object. The object still traveling west to east shut off its single orange “light” as it moved over the city. I could make it out in the still slightly lit sky. The object looked like a pyramid spinning, almost slowly. It slowed and lowered in altitude. It seemed to be within a mile of me and larger than a large size van. When it was due south of me, the object had leveled out and begun to fly over just south of the downtown area. The object rose slightly and sped up as it started to gain altitude. I then lost track of it behind trees and houses. I looked to see if any of the other objects were still visible. They were not.
April 21, 2015 · 8:30 PM · CHANGING
Salt Lake City, UT
My friend and I were just leaving my house, when I felt compelled to look up. When I did I instantly saw two black shapes in the sky above my house. One was much larger than the other. When we first saw them they were stationary but seemed to have possibly been one craft at some point. We watched for a moment trying to make sure that it wasn’t something more recognizable. But it wasn’t moving and they were way too close together to have been human craft. As soon as we decided it wasn’t anything it should have been, I decided to go back inside to get binoculars and my camera. In the small amount of time I took to get the camera they had moved a lot more. My friend who stayed outside to keep his eye on them said it almost seemed like they started moving faster after we began to take notice of them. Once I got outside I was trying to get my camera setup and gave the binoculars to my friend who instantly got the best look of it and said, “Oh my God!” aloud as he was looking at it. I snapped two photos and got some shaky, zoomed in footage of them. My friend described the hull of the craft to be almost like a liquid state that was consistently transforming as it was moving up. He said it made edged shapes with points that shifted and changed. My first thought was Ferro Fluid, but he said that it was only similar to that. The crafts were black and did not reflect much light at all. When we first saw them they were lower to the ground and the large one was shaped more triangular while the smaller one was more of a sphere. They both eventually moved straight up and disappeared. The photos I took look just like black dots, but when I zoom in it reveals the spiky shapes that are coming off of it. I have always believed in the existence of Extraterrestrials anyway, but never had a definitively weird enough experience to justify their existence. But this has me feeling the contrary. We have changed the time, to reflect a nighttime sighting. We have no way of contacting the witness, as he/she elects to remain totally anonymous, and provides no contact information. PD
April 18, 2015 · 10:00 AM · CHANGING
St. Clair Shores, MI
Been seeing this ufo for over a week now. Only visible when skies are clear at night It started around 4/10/15 and the date is currently 4/22/15. Bright white light, slowly rotating and hovering, disguises itself as a star or plane sometimes. Usually is in the same spot but will disappear and reappear in the same spot or will move locations. I see it outside of my friend's house and from my house and we live 15 minutes away. On 4/18/15, me and my two friends witnessed it and managed to get a photograph of it. In the photo it did not look the same as it did to our eyes. There appears to be three lights in a triangle shape. Two of the lights are blue and one is yellow.
April 18, 2015 · 9:00 AM · CHANGING
Haymarket, VA
About three weeks ago my uncle saw a light in the sky that was very bright but off in the distance. My father, mother, boyfriend, and daughter all came out and witnessed this event. The object remained at the same altitude and location in the sky for several hours and this leads me to believe that it was not a planet or a star or it would have moved with the earth’s rotation. It was an object that changed shape and appeared to have blinking blue and red lights. We all looked at this object first with binoculars then with a telescope and it was constantly changing shapes. After a while this object began to make erratic movements with G forces that no human could endure. My uncle who watched this object for several hours noted that at one point he witnessed a beam of light emitted from this object that lasted only a couple of seconds. This has occurred every night for several weeks now. On one occasion there were three of these objects in the sky for sev! eral hours. I have searched to see if anyone else has reported this however nothing resembling this observation has surfaced. Not sure what this object is but would like to know if anyone else has witnessed this strange phenomena.
April 18, 2015 · 1:30 AM · CHANGING
Tampa Bay, FL
as I was crossing the causeway from Tampa to clearwater FL. I saw what appeared to be a "Door" clearly on a cloud about 2.5K feet, 2.5 miles out. It was stunning and clear, almost to clear and oddly familiar design.. Several other people passing me saw it as well. I pulled to the side and watched it.. It was to the eye about fairly large, but very, very slowly disappearing from the bottom up on a puffy cumulus cloud. After 10 min it became a small line and totally disappeared.. I live on Tampa Bay on the Clearwater side. As I looked across the Bay at Tampa, fog had set in, but raising. The fog became redish in a non analog manner. That is, in a step or degree that has to be "man made", not natural. then a orange color. I could see the sun and it was not its reflection. Being a engineer, having 40 years TV and Radio professionally behind me, I recognized it as some type of projection from some source. I then saw a beam of light about 1 mile south of it refracting on the fog going south... That was the dead giveaway... At the south end of Tampa Bay by the Gulf of Mexico lays MacDill Air Force Base! What I was looking at was a laser projection, AKA Laser Show, of a digital picture or video projected on a cloud. The key is having something to project off of.. Clear air doesn't work.. That night I heard you say a UFO over the Bay was seen in Safe Harbor at the Same time. That is 1 mile to the north.. I said I recognized it.. It was the door on the intro to the old Twilit Zone, I looked for Rod Sterling in the passenger seat.
April 17, 2015 · 5:55 PM · CHANGING
Garden City, NY
On Friday April 17, 2015-today in fact, at first I saw an object that looked like a bird flying up in the air not too far from a jet, which I assume was on a flight path for a landing at either JFK or LaGuardia airport nearby. It was 5:55 pm, sunny, and most people in suburbia here on Long Island were on their way home from work. What caught my attention first was the fact that the object was up so high. And the next fact was that although it appeared bird like, it was traveling at a high rate of speed. It looked white at first then silver. In fact, it was going faster than the jet! It had descended and as I watched (with my prescription sunglasses on), from my car in a parking field, the object went from a northeasterly direction on my right towards the west on my left. I grabbed for my phone to take a photo but decided to keep watching instead-the object became an orb joining another orb that spun around it. The two continued on then met up with another 3 or 4 orbs encircling them before ascending and disappearing! This was near Roosevelt Field, Long Island, NY. A Marines base is nearby. Is this military? Does the FAA know about this, I'm a former newspaper reporter and editor.
April 17, 2015 · 12:40 PM · CHANGING
Baker City/La Grande (between), OR
Driving N between Baker City OR and La Grande on hwy 84. Cloudless sky with the exception of one small dark grey cloud. Cloud turned white and morphed into a structure with visible points of light. It banked to its right, turned into a white cloud, then darkened to grey and disappeared. About 5-15 seconds later it appeared again, but closer as a dark grey cloud, turned white and morphed into a structure with visible points of light, looked like a chevron or winged shape with the lights on the leading edge. It banked to the right again, it then turned into a white cloud, then darkened to grey and disappeared from sight. It appeared again, closer as the dark grey cloud performing the same change; grey, white, points of light. It banked to the left this time and disappeared. Did not show up again. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 16, 2015 · 8:00 PM · CHANGING
Ft. Worth, TX
I was staying at valley motel room 24 on the end, went out side to smoke a cigarette so a blinking light floating towards the road got phone camera, started first video on on side of Jacksboro high to film the one when I noticed as it went across the street there were a lot more, one man walking across street, asked him what those were, he said satellites and he didn't know and walked off, filmed the on it stayed hovered above street light, half way there 12 min video I got a chance to run across street film other half. I only filmed there that long because I was being yelled at by manager asking what I was doing, I said you don't see them. Poor old man couldn't. He made me go in. I tried to upload video but it was to big by mobile so I went back out and saw took small couple second video and 3 stills. the manager said the police were called because I was in the street, I went in side. It was about 20 mins before the police came and the video is not the best! I was worried I was going to jail and looked over the officers there were 2 shoulders and saw one, and said look see it. and they did. the put in report I was looking at night sky. They left and I watched in the door for about 10 more mins manager made me go back in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmRJi7faBQk
April 15, 2015 · 9:30 PM · CHANGING
Stamford, CT
9:30 pm. Neighbor called me to come out and view bright light in the street above his house laying low in the sky. His household had 4 observers and I came out with 3 observers. By the time I came out with binoculars, the object moved from above his house to another angle in the sky. It was still very very bright and hung within the scope of the tree lines. The shape was circular and it had a haze, aura around it. The light would brighten and fade, brighten and fade, on and off. When looking though the binoculars, you could see a red and at times blue ring around it as well. Before I came out, my neighbor said at times it appeared circular in nature, but would also change to a rectangular shape. It was not a drone. In fact, my neighbor took some great pictures of it when it was above his house. It is a very odd picture, as in one shot in particular, it appeared that you could see the shape of someone or something standing in the center of the bright light. We stood out there for about 30 minutes. I know this sounds all very strange, but it was nothing I have ever seen or could identify. We suspect a sighting of Venus. PD