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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.
4,558 entries
June 25, 2016 · 1:15 AM · FORMATION
Oakridge, OR
Getting into my car in the early AM, facing west I looked out my windshield and saw a large, blue orb shaped object shoot across the sky where it broke off into 3 other orbs that shot different directions and then disappeared.
June 18, 2016 · 1:29 PM · FORMATION
Ridgeway, CO
I was taking pictures at Silverjack Reservoir in Colorado on June 18, 2016. My camera is set to “continuous high” and takes 2-3 shots at a time. This particular time, it shot two frames. The first shot the unidentified object was not in, the second it was. I did not see this with my naked eye. It was not until I got home and was going through pictures that it was revealed. There was no sound. We have looked at the photo, and we are unable to determine what the anomalous object in the photo is. It does not look to be a bird or insect, in our opinion. PD
June 16, 2016 · 9:45 PM · FORMATION
Bridgewater, PA
I went to take the dog out for the night before the start of a coming storm and saw about 50 bright white lights clustered in a long formation. As I called for my 20 yr old daughter to come out my neighbors were both watching it. No noise and all seemed to float at a steady fast pace in the same direction. During the 5 mins we watched the brightness never changed and the pace stayed steady. I told my daughter to video it with her phone. I had considered weather balloons since we were just getting the start of a thunder/lighting storm, but there were too many to be weather balloons. My neighbor said there was a Relay for Life at the park 1 mile from the house so I thought maybe Chinese lanterns, but their website had the event only on Sat 17 to Sun 19. No activities tonight, plus again we had an approaching storm.
June 15, 2016 · 11:00 PM · FORMATION
Lancaster, OH
Me and a buddy were just cruising along and happend to look up and see a strange display of unusually bright lights, The formation was larger than any plane I've seen. It was made of super bright white lights in a curved shape with another smaller curve on top, sort of like a saucer. It was first noticed above a red cellular tower and then it appeard to tilt over and began to fly down the street so we followed it. Then it began moving incredibly fast unlike anything possible by human technology. It vanished into thick trees. After driving as fast as possible down of few roads we thought it might have went we spotted it moving slowly over Arlington avenue then it stopped and tilted back up but only a few seconds later and took off and almost in an instant it tipped over and zipped off into the horizon in the area by Walmart and mernards before vanishing. During the whole thing it changed speeds and the way it was moving. It was somewhat erratic and incredibly! huge, the size of a building almost a saucer shape. Not any flashes but made of a bunch of lights and it seemed to change intensity slightly. Most incredible thing I've ever witnessed. Hope more than me and my buddy saw it. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 15, 2016 · 8:00 PM · FORMATION
Gilbert, AZ
I am former USAF. I observed what I can only described as orbs going across the sky from 9 to 3 oclock direction wise. There were quite a few I can not even guess on the number of them. They were moving at a good pace, but they also would disappear and reappear. These were not Chinese lanterns because they would not turn off and then back on. Nor where these aircraft because they were not blinking simply would shutoff for a few seconds then turn back on. I personally had not seen anything like it. My wife was also with me and so everything and she was very frightened from it. Witness indicates that the date of the event is approximate. PD
June 11, 2016 · 9:40 PM · FORMATION
Westland, MI
My wife called me outside when she saw a flashing light in the sky overhead. It was heading north to south. Appeared near the clouds. Multicolored...red, orange, yellow. They almost looked like planes at that distance. Yet smaller. But no noise as a jet. Not a sound. One after another. Just guessing... 2 miles apart. Exact same path. After the eighth one, the ninth came from a slight different pattern. More from northeast but heading in the same direction as the others. No commercial planes ever fly that close together. Just as the last one was gone south, a commercial plane flew over our house. We are close to the DTW airport. It was loud, flashing lights like all craft of its nature. And then a second. My question is can you ask a pilot landing here if they saw the same lights? I know they had to at least seen one or two. We did not video record it because it happened so quick and certainly didn't expect to see that many.
June 11, 2016 · 9:30 PM · FORMATION
Dothan, AL
Tonight, 6/11/16, at approximately 21:30 or so, while sitting outside our apartment building in Dothan, Alabama, my friend and I saw a wide cluster of twinkling lights rise up over the buildings downtown, and move in formation across the sky towards us. Over 50 plus lights of various sizes, or maybe size variance in individual lights created by individual distance from us, created the illusion of different sizes. They moved very slowly and the whole incident lasted about 5 minutes. The cluster was very similar to a fireworks burst, only it didn't dissipate. There was no sign of smokiness as with fireworks. Each light was distinct and singular and moving in formation over the buildings and trees and then, still moving very slowly, moved straight up into the dark evening clouds. One of the lights broke formation and traveled downwards very slowly then blinked out. The cluster was still visible among the evening clouds but barely. Then eventually faded and disappeared altogether. This is real. It did happen. It was very exciting and scary at the same time! My friend and I really want to know what those lights were and why they were visible over downtown Dothan!
June 9, 2016 · 10:50 AM · FORMATION
Charlotte, NC
I was on my way to work this morning and I saw an interesting cloud formation in the sky. I took a photo of it, and when I reviewed the photo, I saw several glowing orbs in the lower right hand corner of the photo. There was a larger one behind a tree and several in a line formation above it. Very interesting craft. We have reviewed the photo, and the only definitive image, located in the right hand lower corner of the photo, are multiple objects which appear to be reflections off the inside of the windshield. PD
June 7, 2016 · 9:30 PM · FORMATION
Milwaukee, WI
I am seeing bright lights in formation in the sky. The sky is very cloudy in some areas can only see when pass through the clouds not when reach the clear sky. Moving very fast they are circling through the cloud spread out in an open formation each will make like a circular motion in their separate area then speedily move inward touch for a very brief second then spread out again. Circle around as individuals then speed to the center again where all four touch. They are moving very very fast can compare to airplane that can be seen not to far away. These lights are much faster covering a vast amount of space. Hypnotic in their movement almost looks like they are playing and tracing the clouds. The objects appeared as large round balls of light that could be seen through the clouds very bright yet could not be seen when reached clear night sky areas at first but after about 35 minutes could see two of them in night sky also. Seemed very patterned mov! ement and purposeful. Don't know if others saw also. I did video but have not watched yet to see how turned out.
June 4, 2016 · 10:30 PM · FORMATION
Santa Clarita, CA
from south end of the sky to where they disappeared in the northern sky in a matter of minutes. reddish dots in a random steady formation, a couple of them on the outer side did seem to change pattern slight but kept formation with the group. when they passed overhead they were completely silent. ran for my cell phone but battery was about 4% plugged in, as I was using it to stream music, the phone at this point will not allow me to enter camera mode.
June 2, 2016 · 11:00 PM · FORMATION
Sun City, AZ
First, I noticed a bright light , bluish, which drew my attention . The color changed to red, orang-ish, seemed to be in the formation of a circle or oval, from the light blue to the reddish color back and forth . Saw just north of where I am in sun city, maybe 5 miles north. At first was very low, and circled for about 6 minutes, then travelled East , I lost sight of it 10 minutes in ..... I have seen this before, and now I am positive it is not human aircraft , at least not the kind any division will admit too . WAY BIZZARE ! It swormed for a few mintues in every location it went ... As if it was searching for something .... Almost looked like a jailbird, but I know for a fact it wasn't. That's how low it was . Possibly the same object reported by the news as a probable meteor. We agree. See photos of smoky trail left high in the sky above Arizona. PD
May 29, 2016 · 9:08 PM · FORMATION
Madison, WI
I saw 5 lights floating in a formation.. They "burned out" or "turned off" one by one... I took a video and tried to figure a rational explanation.. Flares burn out amd shoot up quicker.. Lanterns do not stay in formation. The lights stayed in formation for the duration and went out one by one. Then I heard planes.
May 24, 2016 · 2:04 AM · FORMATION
Kalama, WA
On 05/24/16 at 2:04AM, I was wide awake reading the news of the day on my cell phone, when suddenly I proceeded to hear an oncoming sound that was rapidly increasing in volume. This noise was so distinct that I could make out the direction of travel from inside my home. The increase in volume became extreme in a matter of seconds to where I was expecting to see lights before actual impact. The reason I say lights is because I live very high up on a hill and the only thing that could be that high would have to be an aircraft. The problem was that the unbelievably intense sound that I heard was that of what a semi truck would make when it gears down, not that of an aircraft. The moment I was sure of impending impact, everything became silent. My first reaction was "a commercial plane just buzzed my house and it was way too close." I was mad enough to where I looked out my large window into the overcast darkness to get a visual of this "plane." What I saw was a large white light appearing in my window while slowly moving until it disappeared from view due to the window frame. All of a sudden I see a second large white light now appearing in my window where the previous light had been before it moved out of my sight. I thought that it must of been two planes that buzzed my house and made the noise I heard. I got up and walked to the window to get a look at the source of my anger when I realized that not only was there two white lights, but a large steady red light that had been out of sight because of my window. These three lights made an absolute perfect triangular shape in the sky. So precise was the formation that I was searching to see the body of what was holding these lights in such perfect form. I could see nothing except these three lights. There was no solid body, blinking lights, noise, straying out of the formation, nothing. I stood in awe due to the perfection of the formation as it slowly started to disappear heading North over the tree line. I did not leave the window but watched until all I could see were the trees. I had to have some kind of affirmation that I was not alone in what had just happened, so I called 911 asking if anyone had called in due to hearing an unbelievably loud noise. I knew there was no possibility a person could of not heard what I had. The operator told me that there had been no reports of such a noise and then asked me what had happened. After I explained what I had experienced, she gave me the phone number of the Washington State UFO Center and also the Air Force Base located outside Seattle, WA. I then called my husband who had been at work and told him what had happened. The next day I called the UFO Center and was instructed to document my experience. Since I did not have internet access up and running yet, I told the UFO Center that I would as soon as I am able. I also proceeded to call the Air Force, wanting to see if they had a report of anything unusual. I was told someone would look into it and get back to me. A day later I received a call informing me that the Base had 3 Black Hawk Helicopters flying over my area on the same day around the same time frame of my experience. What is interesting is that 2 weeks after my incident happened, my husband found on the internet that on the same day of my sighting there were 2 other sightings in different locations of 3 solid lights in triangular form moving North.
May 22, 2016 · 11:43 PM · FORMATION
Ogden, UT
As I was coming down 4600 towards Harrison Boulevard, I saw a vertical row of 3 large white lights flanked by 2 or 3 smaller lights. When I saw it, my heart almost stopped because I immediately thought a commercial plane was flying too low. It wasn't until I slowed my car down at the corner of 4600 and Taylor Ave that I saw no movement with the lights and that it wasn't at all close, it was just the size of the lights that had made it appear low flying. They weren't flashing, but I immediately assumed it was an airplane or a jet from Hill Air Force Base, until I processed how incredibly large of a plane it would have to be and that it wasn't moving at all. I turned and continued driving a block north before deciding that even if this was a plane, it wasn't one I had ever seen before and wanted a closer look so I turned back down to Harrison and it was completely gone.
May 21, 2016 · 9:45 PM · FORMATION
San Diego, CA
While starting to drive my car away from a party at 9:45 pm, Saturday, May 21, in the Mission Hills area of San Diego, I saw what was like a constellation of bright white stars, maybe about 12, in the area clear of trees above the street, towards the west. I thought to myself, "What’s Cassiopeia doing there, and the Big Dipper, too low in the sky and in the wrong direction." I pulled my car over and got out, and saw that the lights were slowly moving from west to east. Seeing them in motion was quite a shock. Not planes, not helicopters, just steady bright white lights floating slowly to the north of where I was, from west to east. I ran back to the house and told everyone to come out to see what was happening. The 15 or so still there came outside onto the driveway and sidewalk to watch the show. The lights seemed to be drifting, slightly changing position in relation with one another. They seemed to be slowly ascending as they moved east they neared the posi! tion of the full Moon, which had risen about an hour or two earlier. They gradually faded from sight. A retired policeman was among the witnesses. Our guess on the most mundane side was that they could have been balloons with attached lights, launched from Ocean/Mission/or Pacific Beach and were riding the nightly onshore breeze which was taking them to the east, directly over Mission Bay then Mission Valley to our north. I later went to Ocean Beach and asked fishermen on the north side of the pier if they had see balloons launched from the long stretch of these three above beaches to the north, but none had seen anything. I recall seeing in the news a similar report of floating lights a year or two ago, also in San Diego. I was just visiting in San Diego for the weekend, from Minneapolis, for my brother’s memorial service.
May 20, 2016 · 10:10 PM · FORMATION
Seattle, WA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. We have changed the time, to reflect an evening sighting. PD
May 20, 2016 · 10:00 PM · FORMATION
Seattle, WA
I was looking East, toward the U of W campus on Friday night around 10pm when I saw 3 aircraft flying in a triangular formation toward me. They were identical, with a kind of pulsing sweeping red glow. They approached flying East to West over the University District and then turned South and flew toward downtown, as they headed South, they appeared to accelerate, and two more identical craft appeared from the East and followed the same path. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and he impressed us as being quite eloquent and sober-minded. We suspect that he is a highly reliable witness. Please see his video, taken with a cell telephone, posted to the NUFORC website. PD
May 18, 2016 · 10:18 PM · FORMATION
Ronkonkoma, NY
Flickering lights in a V formation with one trailing far behind disappearing into the sky.
May 18, 2016 · 10:18 PM · FORMATION
Ronkonkoma, NY
Flickering lights in a "V" formation, with one trailing far behind, disappearing into the sky.
May 17, 2016 · 9:10 PM · FORMATION
Syracuse, NY
I wanted to report a possible UFO sighting. I had seen an exact same sighting just a few years ago. This one has the exact same flashing, floating, vanishing lights. The following is what happened tonight at about 9:10 p.m. May 17, 2016. I heard a bunch of sirens outside my apartment, so I looked out to see what was going on and what direction they were going in. I live in a pretty big city and a bad section where there’s always something going on. I thought I had heard a car chase so that was what had me curious. It was twilight and the sky was that beautiful mix of colors -of dark blue, light blue, green, yellow, and then pink and red. I saw two lights in the far distance rising up into the sky. I could tell immediately that they were odd by the way they were moving and the way they looked. They were floating at two different spots. Blinking on and off. Red all the time and the white was flashing. I could tell they were on the horizon but not as far away as stars would be. They were not planes. They made no noise. They flashed on and off, moving at the exact same speed and in the same direction as the other. Then they simply faded, disappeared, vanished before my eyes. Just like the ones in 2013. I could not tell the shape. All I saw was two lights moving and flashing at the same speed, vanished at the same time. (I think it was 2013 when I went to Westcott Beach/Henderson Harbor/Sackett’s Harbor in New York State. We were camping and I saw a whole bunch of them floating across the sky. They vanished before my eyes.) It gave me a chilly, startling feeling. I see airplanes all the time since I live in a highrise and there’s an airport across the city. These were NO airplanes.
May 16, 2016 · 9:47 PM · FORMATION
Tehran, Iran
U.F.O Phenomena over Talleghani Park (world of kid Park) It just appeared several seconds shook, moved very small and a little rotated. then disappeared. I decided to take photo as note down to remember the location, time, it's place and ... I just took a photo from the black sky, free from any light. When I opened the photo at home, I wondered. Because the lights were recorded on the photo! Maybe because turned into infrared. When I was taking photo, it was about 30 seconds after the phenomena and the people said: "what R U doing? It went...." I took 2 photos by my cellphone. and in next photo, the Unidentified Flying Object has changed it's place. I searched on the internet and saw that a photographer has recorded a U.F.O exactly over this location 20 years ago. Most cameras such as SONY can see infrared. Now when I zoom it, I see there are more the one UFO that have recorded in this photo by infrared. Image looks to us possibly to be a lens flare, caused by pointing a camera at a bright street lamp. PD
May 15, 2016 · 9:00 PM · FORMATION
Salt Lake City, UT
4-5 orange orbs, flying in a diagonal formation, ascending to the left (south) seen to the west of SLC over Kennecott Mine/Oquirrh Mtns at dusk. Orbs seemed to be slow moving/hovering at the time. I was driving along 215 facing north at the time of the spotting. I the time I saw them the lights started to fade out eventually to nothing starting with the lowest orb, then the second lowest, before I lost sight of them. Witness indicates that the date is approximate. PD
May 14, 2016 · 11:49 PM · FORMATION
Fayetteville, NC
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 11, 2016 · 4:00 AM · FORMATION
Payson, AZ
While outside using night vision goggles, I observed 6 faint dots (faint with NVG's, would've been impossible to see with the naked eye) flying North at what had to be an incredibly high speed. I had already seen a few satellites, and they were traveling at least twice the speed of the satellites, if not faster. They were in somewhat of an "M" formation, but not precise or constant enough to be one object. They were able to cross my entire field of view in approximately 5 seconds..