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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 12, 2018 · 12:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Gambrills, MD
Around midnight - I was awakened by a bright light in my bedroom window. I opened my eyes and noticed some lightning and figured that's what woke me up but as I laid there with my eyes open, I saw a strange light, sort of cylinder shaped that moved in all different directions. It sort of hovered over my neighbor's house for a few minutes. The light seemed to have a solid middle with a circular light flowing around it. I've never seen anything like this strange shape/light. It lasted a few minutes and then disappeared. I'm hoping someone else may have seen this.
August 10, 2018 · 9:30 AM · UNKNOWN
Federal Way, WA
I was looking out of the window into the sky. I saw a red flashing light traveling across the sky, I thought it was a helicopter or plane at first but the way the red light was flashing/strobing was unusual. He travel across the sky and hovered for a couple seconds, then it curved to the right and hovered for a couple seconds and changed its direction and shot to the left and vanished. I saw what look like the same object again about 10 to 15 minutes later but I wasn't sure, I couldn't tell if it was a plane or not. I do live in a area where I see a lot of planes take off and land but it didn't look like a plane to me but I digress. But I definitely saw this object again about 20 minutes after seeing the first object, it flew over my head and was traveling faster than a plane or helicopter would, it had the red flashing light I saw on the first UFO, and it was star like, it banked to the left and the shape of it appeared to have changed as more lights on it appeared. I can't not say what the shape of this aircraft was because it was do dark and too high up for me to see, I tried looking for it through my telescope and was unable to point to the proper spot for me to see what it looked like. There was no sound coming from this object. I am always out looking for UFOs and other strange things in the sky's of Washington State and this is by far the strangest things I have seen here so far.
August 8, 2018 · 4:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Boonville, MO
it was gray, no wings like a airplane, low flying,but fast, look like missiles shape, only one. you heard no sound from it, seen passing over the ciy buildings. For some reason, witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
August 8, 2018 · 2:36 AM · UNKNOWN
Layton, UT
A flashing lighted ship with red, greens, whites and yellows appeared in the Northwest sky and moved in a zigzagged line from West to East over the Ogden, Utah, area, disappearing over Snowbasin Ski Resort. It was moving faster than our local fighter planes, it moved up, down, closer and further as it went across the sky, and there was no sound accompanying it.
August 6, 2018 · 10:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Green, OH
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 3, 2018 · 12:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Hazel park, MI
It didn't make any noise and was moving fast across the sky. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 2, 2018 · 5:35 AM · UNKNOWN
Akron, NY
Awoke 5:35 a.m., hearing noise/soft pattern lights outside, thru west-open window, like loud mass of insects- buzzing, and my 9yr. grandson got up from same on 2nd floor and saw unknown object a few seconds (much to describe).
July 30, 2018 · 10:15 PM · UNKNOWN
Hartsville, SC
Went to bring dogs in and dogs were looking up, I heard something hovering. it went away in a distance..and came back, so I called my son down and he heard it also.. It went away like you would hear an airplane in the distance. The sound sounded like a big fan...that wasn't loud to make your ears hurt????!!! It came back but sound high then went away.
July 25, 2018 · 6:45 AM · UNKNOWN
Wilsonville, OR
This may be nothing. But I wanted to report it to corroborate in case others report it also. I drive every morning from Newberg, Oregon, on Wilsonville Rd. to the I-5 on-ramp in Wilsonville. This is a country road about 12 or so miles with many curves and heavily forested. There are no sidewalks or safe places to walk. There are many houses off the road and usually the owners are the only people you'll ever see standing on the road waiting for cars to clear so they can cross and check their mailbox. Today, about a few hundred yards before the Ladd Hill Rd. stop sigh and intersection I saw two strange looking "people" walking east along the road towards Wilsonville, i.e. in the same direction I was going. Both were tall and thin enough to notice, in other words maybe 6'2" or 6'3". Both wearing black calf-length boots and brown close-fitting clothing with what appeared to be dark colored jackets. As I came up on them they seemed to be walking with a strange sort of gait. (I'm pretty sure this is not just my imagination) I was not driving fast but I seemed unable to get a good look at their heads (almost like they were blurred) and as I drove past them and looked in my rear view mirror they actually seemed to turn their heads so I could not get a look at their faces! This all seemed unusual to me. You just don't see people walking on that road, and if you ever do it's usually a "hippy kid" who is trying to get your attention, thumbing a ride, not avoiding you looking at them. Strange. Like I said, maybe nothing but it felt weird at the time. Weird enough that I'm taking a different route to work tomorrow.
July 25, 2018 · 1:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Snohomish, WA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 22, 2018 · 10:58 AM · UNKNOWN
Vero Beach, FL
https://youtu.be/Y-N1svvpsUw Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 21, 2018 · 2:21 AM · UNKNOWN
Phelan, CA
From West to North East toward Las Vegas, NV.
July 20, 2018 · 10:10 PM · UNKNOWN
Kelseyville, CA
Saw a super bright white light with a green light in the rear traveling slowly east to west around 1,500 ft. Couldnt see the shape and made Zero noise. It also made every dog in the neighborhood bark.
July 20, 2018 · 5:50 PM · UNKNOWN
Manchester, NH
I saw a single object. At the start of the occurrence the object at first appeared to be a distant jet liner. But it produced no contrail and its motion seemed slower than that of a typical airliner cruising at altitude. Furthermore the object "flickered". Whether this was due to light emitting apparatuses or protrusions reflecting sunlight off of them is not clear. It's size and distance was impossible to determine. It did appear to me to be high up in the sky and distant. The object appeared to be solid as it was dark against the sky when it was not flickering. The color of the flickering light was white in hue and the period between flashes was rapid in frequency. There may have been two points of light as the object flickered but I could be mistaken in the recollection. There was no sounds coming from the object all through out the entire time I witnessed it. The path object traveled was from southeast to northwest. The object's path took it across Moon which was approximately 40 degrees above the horizon at the time. In fact, as I recall, I first caught sight of the object as it as slightly below the Moon's position in the SE sky. When the object moved over head and passed my vantage point, the object appeared to slow almost to a halt and remained in that position for about a minute before it seemed to vanish. The estimated elapsed time from when I first spotted the object till when it vanished was under three minutes. I was riding a bicycle at when I first spotted the object, but I dismounted and walked along the street and pausing frequently to observe the object. I was traveling south and traversed a distance of a block and a half through the entire duration of the occurrence. I do wear glasses to correct distance vision. I had them on through the entire time. I was in a residential neighborhood however there was nothing obscuring the object all throughout the entire time it was observed. It was mostly clear skies at the time and sunny. There were no clouds in the part of the sky the object traveled through. The wind at the ground level was southeasterly a little over 10 mph I'd estimate. It was warm at the surface; over 85 degrees F. No other aircraft was operating in the sky at the time the object was visible as best I can recall.
July 19, 2018 · 10:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Port St. Lucie, FL
waited a couple minutes before i left and the noticed towards the north a bit what looked like a meteor or more like one of those rockets that fall when they launch rockets and the propulsion part falls to earth.... spooked a bit. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 17, 2018 · 11:27 PM · UNKNOWN
Elephant Butte, NM
We were taking night photos of the stars with a 50mm lens on a Canon EOS Rebel T2i by laying the camera lens up and setting it to take long exposure shots. In one photo we caught a small unknown image. The stars all show up as single dots, but there is one very bright light with a tail that is in a curved, non-uniform line. We did not view with our eyes, we discovered the image after we looked at the photo the next morning.
July 16, 2018 · 11:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Richmond, MI
Last night i was on my phone, when it started acting up. When i went exit a page it would a slurping-like noise, In general it was slower.after this i look out my window i see a object flashing white lights about 10 or 20 feet above the treetops (I think). I didnt go and investigate as it was late and I didnt want to wake anyone. It is now the morning i have been hearing planes outside. If it was not a ufo it could have been flying out of Selfridge which is a nearby military base.
July 16, 2018 · 8:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Fruita, CO
I was going to the store, when a light caught my eye. I looked at it, assuming it was an airplane. But when I paid more attention to it, I realized that there was no noise. I looked at it for about 5 seconds, and then the object flew backwards and flew off faster than anything I've ever seen.
July 15, 2018 · 3:30 AM · UNKNOWN
Keswick Ridge (Canada), NB · Canada
When I rose, I saw a light in the sky. It was overcast, and the light had to be less than a kilometer away. It flashed regularly with an extremely bright light. Nothing like an airplane. Or helicopter. There were no other lights on the craft, just one single strobing light, very bright. The night was still, no wind, and the air was completely silent. There was no engine noise of any kind anywhere nearby. If it had been an airplane, there's no doubt I would have heard it. I followed it for a few seconds until it went behind trees, and I watched it through them intermittently for the next two minutes. I did not catch sight of it again. There's a hydro-electric dam nearby, and it was heading in that rough direction. I've never seen anything quite like it. I wish I could have seen it close-on.
July 14, 2018 · 10:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Bradford, IA
First I want to point out, I’m not sure if the 14th is the exact date. It was a Saturday in July, but a I can’t remember which. My girlfriend and I were fishing late at a farm pond outside of Bradford. The pond is a ways off the road. You can’t see it from any roads or homesteads. Unless you are local, you wouldn’t even know it’s back there. It had gotten dark and the dog was still swimming and playing so I just threw in a catfish line, and we just stood side by side quietly just looking out over the pond. It was a beautiful night when we heard the strangest noise. It kinda makes my hair stand on end just typing this. Something came from behind us moving really fast, and it was gone as quick as it came. It kind of sounded like a oversized bottle rocket, or a big arrow that was spinning making like a quick “ssshush” sound. I half thought something was going to blow up in front of me, and looked for some sort of smoke trail but there was nothing. The water didn’t even ripple. I turned to her and almost in sink we both said, “what ((words deleted)) was that?” I’ve lived around here my whole life, spent time out in the sticks a lot and never heard anything like that. I half expected someone to be playing a trick on us but there was no one within miles, I pulled out my spot like in the truck and couldn’t see a thing. We both were kinda freaked out at that point so we grabbed the dog and took off. I didn’t tell many people this, and the ones I did reacted about like I would. They just laughed and said we were hearing things. Also, we weren’t drinking, no drugs, nothing to alter our minds. I don’t know if that was alien or not, but whatever we heard couldn’t be seen, moved very fast, and was not made by nature.
July 13, 2018 · 3:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Birdsview, WA
I was camping with family at a private members-only campground on the Skagit River, near Birdsview, WA. Our camp site is located on the Skagit River, about 400 feet from the river and in mostly old growth forest. I have been camping at this location for 8+ years and at this campground for 25+ years and have never seen anything strange at night. We turned off all light sources and no one else was camping nearby. Our fire was out when we went to bed. I was awakened by my young daughter sleeping next to me inside our large tent, who was having a bad dream. I noticed what appeared to be a bright moon beam hitting the top of out tent, but as it turned out, this was a night of a new moon (no visible moon). I turned around and then noticed white lights projected onto the outside of our tent, dancing near the roof of the tent. I could see leaf silhouettes from a nearby tree outside our tent. The overall effect of the projected lights was that it appeared to be fire-like, moving quickly and morphing rapidly into various wispy shapes. The color of the lights was white interspersed with light yellow. I had the impression that somehow my camp fire had reignited and was casting shadows on our tent, but the height of the shadows and angle of the leaf silhouettes was too high to be such a reflection. After a minute the lights changed to two horizontal rows projected onto the outside of the tent, near the top of the tent wall where it meets the roof. These rows were about 4 feet long and 8 inches high, and extended past the edge of the tent. The rows were comprised of many rectangles (maybe 5 inches x 8 inches) with diffuse edges. I also noticed that other lights were projected onto the roof of the tent but I could not see any details since the dark maroon-red rain fly was covering the roof. I had two ear plugs in that I then removed to check for noise, but the forest was extremely quiet and I could hear nothing. I examined the light projections closely and noticed that the rectangles were moving and overlapping each other, and each rectangle was a slightly different hue. The rectangle edges were rapidly moving and they appeared to be comprised of hundreds of frantically moving vertical lines, when I examined them for several seconds. The lights then grew dim and stopped two or three times before coming back brighter and with additional rectangles extending up to three feet below the two horizontal rows. After another minute or two I climbed completely out of the sleeping bag and kneeled in the middle of the tent, waiting for some sort of escalation or attack. I did not wake up my wife or two young kids since I did not want them to see the lights and be scared. I thought about unzipping the front door of the tent and looking outside but this is where the lights were coming from and I feared that doing so might escalate things in a negative way. As my daughter continued in a sleep-walking state and began whining and climbing toward the bottom of the sleeping bag, as if to get away from the lights (which later she said she never saw), the lights suddenly stopped and went pitch black. Then they started up again for a few seconds and stopped, and did this once or twice more before suddenly ending. Within a few seconds my daughter then woke up and announced she needed to go to the bathroom outside. I was afraid to go outside so soon after this incident, but grabbed a flashlight and took her outside and behind the tent. I searched the sky, trees and area with the bright LED flashlight but noticed nothing unusual. The sky was amazingly clear and many stars were visible. I also noticed that our fire had somehow reignited and a small flame was leaping out of a log and creating a strobe effect, which was visible well above our camp site since the light from the fire could be seen across the bottom of the old growth canopy. This fire-like strobe effect was one of the images projected on the tent wall when the lights first began. I had the strange feeling that we were visited by something that resembled an animal that was scouting up and down the river for something. However, this "animal" somehow emitted lights with patterns. The animal may have seen the strobe effect from our fire and came down for a better look. This is just my impression. We did camp in the same location for the next 5 nights, without anyone noticing the lights again. I did examine this situation for the possibility of a drone prank, but the old growth canopy would have been very difficult to navigate and the incident happened in the middle of the night. I checked with a few trusted local sources and no one had ever heard of drones in the area, or of similar incidents. Please note that there have been several big foot sightings in this same area, and that an old Native American Indian burial ground resides in the area of our camp site, though the exact location is still unknown. We have installed a game camera to capture video or photos, in case the lights return.
July 13, 2018 · 12:30 AM · UNKNOWN
China, ME
As we were watching, there was a metal clanging noise and the green lights were no longer below the white light, they were now above it. Then, as I was watching the white light dropped from the sky, leaving the green lights in the sky. It dropped too fast for it to be a person on a ladder or stairs and too slow for it to be a fall. The light flashed a few times on the way down but it reminded me of when you see a person repel from a plane. We went for a ride and from another angle there is also a blue light. There is no longer a spot light in the sky but the 2 green dots are still there. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 10, 2018 · 11:40 PM · UNKNOWN
Evansville, IN
Funny thing is, that night I had a dream about multiple yellowish orbs flying past my house and some would stop for a moment then would continue circling around. Also, when I woke up I found myself laying on the other side of my bed. Another thing is that I got a fortune from a fortune cookie that said, "You will have a close encounter of the surprising kind." I also had another dream some months later, but this time it was a black rectangular craft and one bulbous looking craft that had two engines in the back glowing a light blue.... For all I know is that this was all real… Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD
July 10, 2018 · 11:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Myrtle Beach, SC
My boyfriend and I were on vacation and sitting on the balcony overlooking the beach. We were looking at a very bright reddish color star which we found out was Mars via the skyview app. All of the sudden, something appeared in the distance over the ocean close to where we were seeing Mars. It had red lights that seemed to be in certain places around the object. The red lights dimmed and white lights followed in a straight line around the object. The line of lights trailed off with the end of the string of lights disappearing before the front. Approximately 10-15 minutes later, the exact same thing happened again, this time to the left of the original sighting. This time, a man sitting on the ground level patio alone turned around. We asked if he saw anything and he replied “what the heck was that thing?!” He also mentioned the red and white lights. Another 10-15 minutes later, we spotted the object again further down the beach.