The catalog
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.
7,422 entries
August 22, 2016 · 10:06 PM · DISK
Montreal West (Canada), QC · Canada
I was taking pictures from my attic window of the southwest view of Saturn, Mars, and Antares which appeared last night in a curved line. I gave the camera some zoom. A major airport lies in that direction. Twice I had to wait for airplanes to exit the frame. In one photo (shutter speed 1 sec), the airplane is still in the frame and appears like a blurred, slightly elongated light, as would be expected. I took 16 photos. I chose the photo that showed Mars and Saturn at its clearest. Then I did post-processing to improve contrast and saturate the colors, so that Mars's redness was fully evoked. As I began the post-processing, I noticed a streak in the upper left. I cleaned my computer screen, but the streak was still there and moved with the photo. I then feared I must have a scratch on my lens. I checked the other 15 photos--no streak. Then I enlarged the photo to see a disk-like object with six lights--3 pairs of lights that are reddish. The shutter speed was 4 seconds for that shot, so the object was not moving since it is very clear with no movement blur. I compared it to the photo that shows the airplane leaving the frame--no resemblance. The UFO is a disk with six lights and crystal clear. I also looked up pictures of satellites photographed from Earth--no resemblance. I have no idea what the object is, and I can't speculate. I am sending you the photo with the saturated colors. If you want the original photo or the photo with the airplane for comparison, let me know. Sincerely, ((woman's name deleted))
August 22, 2016 · 7:42 PM · DISK
Livingston, TX
Was taking pictures of the sunset in Livingston, Texas, the 22nd of August, 2016, and accidentally photographed a UFO. Photos at http://systemtree.net/ufo
August 22, 2016 · 12:25 PM · DISK
Santa Ana, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 21, 2016 · 9:00 AM · DISK
Asheboro, NC
Looked liked two plates put on top each other stopped in mid air and rotated for five minutes, then had red orange and green lights and went tree top level and vanished went very fast.
August 20, 2016 · 7:14 PM · DISK
Los Angeles, CA
I was at a look-out point near the El Segundo Dog Park next to the LAX International Airport on August 20, 2016. I was taking photographs of the airplanes taking off and landing with my Canon EOS 80D camera as a hobby. I did not realize until getting home that evening and uploading the pictures from the camera onto my laptop that I took a picture of a possible UFO at the top left of the control tower at 7:14 p.m. PST that evening, because I was focusing solely on the planes at that time. I took 139 shots from that location that day, and the object showed up in only one shot. It looked like a round black metal ball with a ring/protrusion in the middle. The Goodyear blimp that’s always flying around Los Angeles was miles away from the airport at the time, and it was clearly visible, so it could not have been that. We have viewed the photo, and the object appears to us to be a bird in flight, possibly a California quail. PD
August 19, 2016 · 9:00 PM · DISK
Sylvania, OH
We assume a nighttime sighting, and have changed the time above, to reflect that fact. The source of the report elects to remain totally anonymous, and provides no contact information, so we are unable to contact the person, in order to confirm the time. PD
August 14, 2016 · 5:00 PM · DISK
Allyn, WA
15 Aug 2016. 1700Hrs (approx.) Allyn, WA, Observation. 1. Beginning my observation facing west at about a 75 degree high from my patio deck. 2. Object was traveling in a Northerly direction, from my left to my right. 3. Duration of observation about 10 – 15 seconds. 4. Once object passed by my front, heading northerly at reaching about a 65 – 70 degree angle, to my right it took an abrupt turn to its left, it then zigged right and then zagged to the left once in each direction, then continued heading west and sped off in the westerly direction. 5. Not knowing the size of the object, altitude was difficult to determine, as no other measureable objects nearby gave any proportion. I will say the object was at an altitude of least 10,000 to 15,000 feet AGL. Higher is possible, however the object’s shape was still determinable. 6. My wife was pruning small tree limbs when she observed the object. She asked me if it was a (Birthday type) balloon floating? a I looked up and tried to see it as a balloon, but its trajectory and speed were too straight and fast to be a balloon. b. I then quickly thought it might be a satellite or space junk, although still day light, I thought it possible however, when it turned a 90 degree left and sped west, I knew it was not a satellite. 7. The weather was clear and sunny, with no clouds in the area in mention. 8. The object’s color was a bare metal and colorless. 9. I did not observe any wings or empennage. Its shape was circular or round similar to a balloon. 10. It emitted no sound that I could hear and left no con-trail.
August 13, 2016 · 1:00 PM · DISK
Leawood, KS
Two disc shaped objects circled each other in 3-5 mile circle. Objects were synchronized, and would stop at 90 degree intervals, hover for a few seconds and then resume flight. This was daytime sighting, very few clouds in sky. Circling lasted for approximately and hour.
August 13, 2016 · 6:57 AM · DISK
Elizabeth City, NC
August 13, 2016, 6:57AM. My background: I am currently a private investigator and former law enforcement officer. I was traveling northbound on US 17 in Elizabeth City, NC. A wind farm is under construction and wind turbines are being constructed on some of the massive areas of farm land at that location. I was looking to my left and checking out how many turbines were under construction when I noticed an object above the height of the turbines and a little to my north west. The object was of a classic “saucer” shape with a domed top. It was silver in color and reflected the sun like chrome. It appeared to just hover and then slowly glide through the air. There was no visible exhaust and no sound noticed. No lighting on the vessel was observed. I thought to myself, “I need to stop and video this.” I looked to my right to see if the right lane was clear so I could pull to the side of the road. I looked back up and the vessel had vanished. There was no sign of it anywhere. I have seen other questionable lights and lighted objects at night but this was my first daytime sighting that I can say for certain was a UFO. I am also posting this, wondering if anyone else observed the same object that morning.
August 12, 2016 · 9:00 PM · DISK
Inkster, MI
I was inside of my home and had a sudden urge to go outside. I stood up abruptly, and went outside and looked up at the sky. The sky was darkening, because the sun was just going down, and I could see a reddish-orange light on a moving black object. The light looked as if it were fire, so I assumed it was a lantern being released, but then the fiery light went away, and I was left seeing a disk shaped black object. It was close enough to where I could see the wobble in it, like a saucer that wobbled. No sound. I watched it until I couldn't see it anymore, and went into a sharp direction change.
August 12, 2016 · 2:00 PM · DISK
Bayonne, NJ
I went up on my deck to take a few pictures of the sky; it was after a rain storm. I did't see anything unusual until I uploaded my photos and noticed a gray streak in one of the photos. I enlarged the area to take a better look and was taken back by what I saw; it was a pretty clear image of a flying saucer looking craft. You can even see what looks like windows.
August 12, 2016 · 1:00 AM · DISK
Lewiston, ID
I feel I should report what I experienced even if I believe it was a lucid dream. Few years ago I woke up one night to an intense buzzing like everything was vibrating and a other worldly blueish white light. I walked to the front door looked out the window and seen 3 crafts stationary.1st was 3-4 feet off the ground 2nd 20ish feet and the 3rd was 40-50 feet up. I was overcome with fear I pounded on the wall to my neighbor while yelling but there was no sound but the buzzing. I grabbed a knife thought to myself don't open the door but couldn't stop from doing it . As soon a I touched the door knob I woke up in bed confused. I asked my neighbor if he heard me pound on the wall he said no. The crafts looked to small to be piloted but I did feel a presence.
August 11, 2016 · 9:16 PM · DISK
Salt Lake City, UT
Driving north on I-15, looking northwest, 3 of us saw what first looked like a strange disk shaped cloud, dark grey to black in color. The sun was low in the sky (just past golden hour) joking about it being a ufo, driving closer it appeared to have form, and we realized it wasn't behaving like any cloud, it was moving eastward slowly until it started to split into 3 forms and turned moving due north. It was perhaps 3 objects in formation from the beginning. I say this because they remained horizontal to each other, spaced equally apart. They stayed in this formation as it moved away (northbound, west of I-15) in the distance until it was too far and dark to see anymore. The smaller objects had a similar form as it first appeared while larger. We estimate size (first formation size) to be about 500-600 ft across due to position in sky and distance.
August 9, 2016 · 9:40 PM · DISK
Bel Aire, KS
About 5 seconds later one light at a time flashed bright in a circle pattern, and slowly disappeared.
August 8, 2016 · 10:30 AM · DISK
Las Cruces, NM
While driving this morning, west, between Las Cruces and Deming, New Mexic, I noticed a bright circular disk shaped object to the south, perhaps 10 miles away and just above the mountains. It was bright and very distinct. As we proceeded my wife and I continued to try and guess what it might be. What made me think it was a UFO was the fact that it stayed along side of our vehicle, which was traveling at 75 mph for about 30 minutes, at the same distance and altitude as when first noticed. I thought this was too slow to be an aircraft and too consistent in speed to be a weather ballon, cloud, or anything else. At the end of the 30 minutes the object started to move at an incline in a southerly direction toward Mexico and disappeared. Photos taken with the iPhone while moving show a football shaped object that does not look as solid as it appeared to the eye.
August 8, 2016 · 1:30 AM · DISK
Longview, WA
On August 08, 2016, at 1:30 am, I witnessed a white saucer shaped craft, with a continuous row of square black windows that ran the circumference of the craft. At the closest point of my viewing field the vehicle, was only about 150 yards of my location, and 200-250 feet above ground, clearing a large group of trees and a cell phone tower to my West. I would put this craft as being 70-90 feet across. The craft approached my position with a moderate rate of speed, from the WNW, to within 150 yards of my location. At that point, it turned abruptly South and flew away at a high rate speed over a factory and across the Columbia River into Oregon. During this entire encounter there was no sound whatsoever from the craft or from the atmosphere being disturbed by its arrival or departure. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and he sounded to us to be quite sober-minded and eloquent. However, his telephone now does not accepte calls, which is a warning sign as to the authenticity of the original report, we believe. PD
August 1, 2016 · 7:33 PM · DISK
Blythe, CA
I seen A cloud so i went to the end of my street to take a picture! I took 3 pictures in the same location I just zoomed in on different angals! I didnt think anything of it, untill i looked at my pictures and was amazed at what i had captured!
July 31, 2016 · 8:00 PM · DISK
Toronto (Canada), ON · Canada
In July 2016, my girlfriend at the time and myself watched a craft hovering in the sky while we were tako.g the dogs for a walk at West Dean Park in Toronto. I grabbed my phone and started to film it for about 3 to 4 minutes. We uploaded the footage to YouTube. Recently I found another video filmed not far from us that we as from the same date. This led me to assume that it was the same craft. So there are 2 videos from 2 different people from different cities(next to each other) that seemed to have filmed the same craft. The craft was disc shaped and had lights on top and bottom. It hovered slowly and it had a sound of a low buzzing frequency. I've seen a few other strange sightings more recently as well.
July 31, 2016 · 4:00 PM · DISK
Sherwood, OR
Object was a saucer shape, white in color to half of it, and transparent to the other half. It was tilted at 45 degrees not rotating, but still and moving so slow as to appear motionless, but took 3 hours to move from my Sherwood location to East to over Tualatin, OR, area. Wind direction was from North to South blowing on the object, but no effect. Appeared to be as big as an airliner and about 10 to 20,000 feet high. With my close up binoculars, I could see evenly spaced ridges all around the rim perimeter. I have video and still images.
July 31, 2016 · 3:00 PM · DISK
Fort Wayne, IN
I was outside taking pictures of the clear blue sky after cleaning my Canon Rebel T3 digital camera checking for dust on the mirror. I noticed one of the photos, a cream colored saucer shaped object towards the top left. I didn't see it with the naked eye, so I don't know what direction it was traveling. It appears large and at a high altitude.
July 31, 2016 · 2:30 PM · DISK
Canby, OR
Stayed in the same sky about 1-2 hours. Many photos, and photos of photos, submitted with report. They indicate an oval, or circular, white object. Object hovered in the sky for approximately 2 hours. PD
July 26, 2016 · 7:00 PM · DISK
I-49 south toward Joplin, MO
UFO Sighting Southern Missouri (driving south on I-49 toward Joplin) Tuesday, July 26, 2016 Background of observers: My father, mother, and myself (female, age 30, adjunct professor of philosophy) were in my parents’ van driving back to their home in Tulsa, Oklahoma, from our relatives’ home in Minnesota. I was visiting my family for several weeks while my husband was chaperoning a high school trip to Europe. This report was written down on July 27, 2016, one day after the sighting: Driving south on I-75 in southern Missouri, we came to a line of dark clouds, but there was no rain or storm. However, as I was in the back seat of the van, looking out of the window to my right, I saw the strangest disk-shaped flashes of light. I have never seen anything like it and told my Mom to look. She saw it too. Dad was driving but he said he also saw it a few times out of the corner of his eye. I saw the light between 15-25 times. Sometimes it was behind a very small, light grey cloud. Other times it was in the pale part of the clear sky, and other times in the dark storm clouds, but I only ever saw it in one place at a time. It appeared to move south, towards the dark cloud line, faster than we were driving south. However, sometimes it appeared to have “backtracked” a bit. The light itself never moved, but each time it appeared, it appeared further to the south, faster than we were driving. The light was exceedingly bright and blinding, and exceedingly quick, flashing for only an instant and disappearing. Wherever it appeared—-behind a small light grey cloud, in the clear sky, or in the dark clouds—-it was an elongated disk or elongated diamond shape, like this: (Note: There is a hand-drawn picture here in my original account), and it was quite large in the sky. It was so bright and so fast and very frightening for both reasons. It did NOT “light up the clouds” li! ke lightning or heat lightning, but it was so bright that it seemed to shoot out its blinding white light all the way to me in the van. It was as bright as the sun, if you were to look at the sun, but it was not near the sun, even though the sun was still brightly shining in the clear part of the sky. Both Mom and I tried to film it on our iPhones. I took a video longer than a minute, during which Mom and I both saw the light multiple times, but it does not show up in the video. Strangely, after watching the video later, I did see a very quick, bright flash that appears for an instant on the telephone poles as we whiz past them in the video. In reality, the light was up in the sky, and not on the telephone poles. However, we think that the light was perhaps a type of St. Elmo’s Fire or similar natural phenomenon, and my own guess is that the light did shoot from the sky to the tops of the telephone poles, which is why it appeared so blinding to me from the van, and why it appears on the telephone poles in the video footage. It was very, very strange looking, whatever it was. At one point, Dad even pulled over along the freeway so that we could all watch for the light, but we did not see it at all while pulled over.
July 24, 2016 · 6:30 PM · DISK
Butte, MT
The object appeared stationary for about 2 hours. It then moved to the East, then the South, and then to the west. The object moved after jets were seen in the sky.
July 24, 2016 · 12:45 AM · DISK
Hamilton (Canada), ON · Canada
About five seconds had passed, when I then said out loud to my mother, who was sitting next to me, “What is that?” I watched it for about another five seconds, and as I stood up to get a closer look, the light started to move again. As it moved, I got a clearer look at if the light was coming off of anything – it was coming off of a grey disc/saucer shaped object. The object made a slight turn, almost like a U-turn, and then ascended up higher into the sky and came towards my apartment building, flying up and away above it. The whole time it was moving, the whirring sound occurred. I went outside onto my balcony and looked around but I could no longer see it. My mother had not seen anything but she believed me when I told her what I saw. I only observed one saucer but it was moving much faster and stranger than an airplane or helicopter would. I am not sure if anyone else observed this, whether from their balconies or the street below. I am almost positive that what I saw was a UFO. About 5 minutes after the sighting, my cat started acting extremely weird. She started running around the apartment, jumping and sliding on our rug. I don’t know if UFO’s have the tendency to affect animal behaviour, but I found it extremely weird for her to starting acting like this all of a sudden. As for my background, I am a female born and raised in Toronto, Ontario, having recently moved to Hamilton. I am Caucasian.