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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.
6,009 entries
September 18, 2015 · 7:20 PM · OVAL
Jones, AL
At around 7:20 PM Central Standard Time I saw a red globe appear in the sky. I was siting on my porch facing North East, and a red orb appeared out of nowhere as if it had been sitting there and someone decided to turn on the lights! It hovered or sat in the same area for around 30 seconds, after which time it blinked out again. I ran in the house and called my husband to get the camera and take video. When I returned outside to see if I could view it again, there appeared what looked like plane lights, at least three of them, flying in and around the area where the red orb appeared. Several minutes later, my son and grand daughter came driving up for a visit and I had just told them all what I had witnessed, when the light show began again! The red orb appeared again in the same general area, but this time to the left of where it first appeared. It again hovered in the air with the same plane type smaller lights flashing blue, red, and white around it. My husband was trying to film it but the camera battery was dead. The orb again disappeared but the smaller lights stayed flying around the area. The larger orb appeared once again, this time to the right of it's original first sighting. My husband and son witnessed this red orb and smaller plane type lights three times. I witnessed it four. We have watched the news for any kind of answer to this sighting, but nothing. No comets', no explosions, zip! I didn't know who to contact, so googled lights in the sky over central part of the state, and came upon this sight. My son doesn't want to speak of it, but I am willing to talk with someone if needed. I've never in my life seen anything such as this. In conclusion, the large red orb would changed colors at times, with blue, green, and red, but mainly a orange/red color predominating. The smaller lights looked as if they might be aircraft as they were much slower moving than the orb. They did however, continuously circle the area where the orb appeared, each time, in each distinct area. The whole experience lasted at least 20 minutes. Again, the orb would blink on, stay on for several seconds, move a small amount in a given direction and then blink off, only to reappear in a different section of the same general area, and blink out again. This is a clear night with no clouds and all the stars shining.Also, the smaller plane type lights continue to fly around as I write this message.
September 18, 2015 · 5:15 PM · OVAL
New Lowell (Canada), ON · Canada
I was driving and saw a grey oval moving just above the horizon< about five km straight ahead of me.
September 15, 2015 · 3:28 PM · OVAL
Park Forest, IL
I spotted, then observed the large bright light for 40 minutes before going back to bed. I selected "oval" from the drop-down, but its outline was more precisely shaped like the number 8, but with the top circle slightly into the bottom circle, and solid white light. It was motionless, did not flash or change color, but did slightly dim on occasion, as if being covered shortly by clouds. It was at least twice the size and brightness of Venus (when its at its brightest in the summer, but nowhere close to where Venus is actually located in our sky.) It was directly east from us, located about 40 degrees from the horizon from my perspective. There are stars in that region of sky and airplanes flying way off in the distance (toward Lake Michigan and IN), but this was not either of those or a meteor (40 minute observation) and huge in comparison. I did get the impression it was quite a distance eastward and at a substantial high altitude, but I had! no reference point to be certain about those aspects. I know the normal sky geography in that region well... I walk my dog every night between 9:30 and 11;00 PM and look out my kitchen window in that direction often several times a night between midnight and 5:00 AM. Whatever this was, it should not have been there, was not seen days before my sighting and nothing now several days after, extremely extraordinary and not even remotely similar to anything seen in that region of sky or anywhere else! I have no way of knowing if it could have been from this planet or not, but I can absolutely attest to the fact that it was there, and it wasn't a natural object. Even at that time of night I'd bet other people also saw it, as it was that obvious.
September 15, 2015 · 4:30 AM · OVAL
Roseville, CA
It was staying still then would move about 5 degrees either way then a red smaller one would follow its movement then it started to move south
September 13, 2015 · 2:00 AM · OVAL
South Gate, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 12, 2015 · 12:00 AM · OVAL
Manassas, VA
In Manassas, Virginia during the month of September in ,2015. In the afternoon , My wife and I were seated in my car preparing to leave the parking lot of the Global Market on Sudley Road. When our attention was drawn to an black colored oval shaped object passing slowly overhead from east to west. Our initial thought was that it was a balloon. I kept our car in park and took out a pair of 8 - power binoculars, that I keep for birdwatching and viewed the object. Through the binoculars, it was definitely not a balloon. Approximately two feet in diameter, completely black in color, with a sheen , like that of crude oil. It was moving smoothly , on a string straight trajectory unaffected by a side wind. Emerging from and passing down equidistantly along either side of this object were frills , also of the same black color and texture. These frills emerged from and appeared to be reabsorbed into the object in a rythmic pattern. Aside from these frills, the object was featureless. When it reached a bare tree within a yard , across Sudley Road, it stopped in mid- air. At that point I attempted to drive to the adjacent mall to get closer look at it , though it was gone, by the time we reached the mall. No sound was noted. I have included a sketch.
September 11, 2015 · 6:00 AM · OVAL
Redmond, WA
I went outside at about 6 am to take my dogs on emergency potty break. We live in the "woods", and it was still very dark. I looked up at the sky and saw one very bright “star”. I realized that the sky was overcast and no other stars were visible, I then wondered if perhaps it a planet. I didn’t think it was an airplane because of its height and brightness, and the fact that it did not appear to be moving at all. I observed it for a few moments, and then thought I detected a pulsing quality about it, which seemed odd. I went inside to grab some binoculars, and when I returned it was still in the same spot. I didn’t think that I would be able to see anything, but I was able to see that it was actually a disk or oval shaped flying object. I felt like I was viewing the bottom part of it, and could see an inner ring of chasing lights, they were brightly colored. I looked several times to make sure it was in the same spot. I thought it would disappear, but I watched for about 5 minutes. I then decided to wake up my husband and have him take a look. He saw the same thing. I watched for a little while longer, than noticed that it seemed to be moving slowly further away, and eventually the morning fog obscured it all together. It was too dark and far to photograph. I would not have noticed it on a clearer night. I don’t know what to think.
September 6, 2015 · 9:06 PM · OVAL
Grayslake, IL
At approximately 9:06 last night 9/6/2015, our group of 9 people were looking west over our lake and saw a bright orange/red colored oval moving from south to north. There was no sound and moved in a straight deliberate line. No sound. We watched it until we could no longer see it in the north sky. It was not a lantern. In addition, we saw the same thing on the 4th of July but did not report it. Our group that night was 7 people.
September 6, 2015 · 7:42 AM · OVAL
Yellowstone National Park (near west entrance), WY
We were making a family trip to Yellowstone National Park this last weekend. Not far into the park (a little after sunrise) from the west entrance is a popular place to find Elk and Buffalo. This trip was no exception. We pulled over and like many other got out of our car and my wife took 3 photos of the meadow and sunrise and my daughter snapped 1 photo. At this time we did not notice anything.. We continued on through the park and went to Old Faithful, geysers animals beautiful nature etc. Later that evening everyone was eager to share photos. Since the 4 photos described above were the first 4 taken we immediately noticed an orb of some nature in all 4 photos. Green and Opaque in appearance. At that time we looked at the time of the photos and all 4 photos occurred within the same minute. My wife's 3 photos were taken from one position getting roughly the same scenic picture but the green sphere was seen moving away in a logical matter and the last photo taken close by with a different camera iPhone within that same time frame caught the sphere closer to the rising sun and showed a cool refraction of light around it. When we got home I looked at the photos in their original size and noticed a few more things. The light in photo 2 and 3 seemed also have some green that for some reason was vertical upward. Bottom line we saw nothing there and only realized what we had captured later in the photos. But Cool.. I am happy to share the photos once I speak to someone. Objects are lens flares, caused by pointing a camera at a bright light source, in this case, the Sun. PD
September 3, 2015 · 8:30 PM · OVAL
Corpus Christi, TX
While at the baseball game, I had glanced up since I noticed a bright light. It looked rather oval shaped, from what I remember, and it was green with a small orange tail behind it, possibly the part propelling it with fire like a rocket. I only saw it for a few seconds when it zoomed by and then disappeared, but I remember someone else had pointed up at it when it was still visible. I figured it was best to report it just in case.
September 2, 2015 · 9:57 PM · OVAL
Roosevelt, WA
This can be seen from here, but, it is in the southern sky and looks to be over in Oregon. I saw it moving side to side then drop down lower and come back up, it is reddish and bright. Called my husband to come see it and without me telling him what it was doing, he said, "you mean that red light that's going up and down and moving," now 22:07 and went out to see if still there. It has dropped lower in sky and is now making maneuvers like a bee going from flower to flower!! It is too far away for a photograph. A plane could not move like this object is doing. We are retired, middle class people.
September 2, 2015 · 3:00 PM · OVAL
Malibu, CA
We saw 6 orange round images hovering over the bay high in the sky they left 3 more appreared out of the west and left 3 more appeaded and left wer have pictures and video, but they are do not represent in good detail what we saw. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and he described the sighting quite eloquently. Also, he seemed to us to be quite sober-minded. PD
August 30, 2015 · 5:50 AM · OVAL
Anchorage, AK
I was walking to my bus stop on a clear Anchorage morning, until I saw a single bright ball of light moving over the Mountains. There are no there stars that can be seen and it was moving upward. It's been 2 days and I can still see it from my bus stop, and it's still moving but slowly. Too slow for a plane or helicopter.
August 26, 2015 · 7:35 AM · OVAL
Potomac, MD
I saw what appeared to be an orb shaped object that was quite high in the sky. It appeared to be smaller than any aircraft that would be flying that high. It was also very bright; the sun was not reflecting off of it like it would an aircraft. The orb moved steadily and slowly across the sky in between clouds. As it approached a cloud...and proceeded to enter the cloud, it did not come through on the other side. I turned away after a couple minutes and waited before looking up again. I then saw the orb do the same thing a second time. I cannot explain this. Witness elects to provide no contact information. PD
August 25, 2015 · 4:38 AM · OVAL
Beaverton, OR
I was having a cigarette and saw several object that looked like satellites, but this particular one came across the sky differently. It pulsated every 5 seconds and 3 seconds in different colors. Amber and green then would go dark, then light up again. It changed course once. I tried to capture video and pictures, but I was only able to get one flash cycle in the video. It flew west to east altitude maybe 20-30k not sure. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 24, 2015 · 10:07 PM · OVAL
Rosemount, MN
We now believe that the lights seen in this area are advertising lights, projected into the sky by a local casino. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 24, 2015 · 7:45 PM · OVAL
Raleigh, NC
Was a passenger in a car heading south as sun was setting, looking at a cloud with sun rays all around saw a white oval blob shape resembling a car hovering just above cloud. After about 8 seconds, it instantly disappeared. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 22, 2015 · 11:00 PM · OVAL
Ashland, NH
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 22, 2015 · 9:00 PM · OVAL
Delaware, OH
While camping near Alum Creek Lake we were sitting by a small campfire, my girlfriend looked up and said look at this light. It was orange- red and then changed to a whitish color with some red mixed in. It started above a treeline then moved in a steady but fast speed, then it accelerated upward then disappeared slowly into the atmosphere. Another orange-red object appeared over the treeline, very similar to first object it also accelerated up into the atmosphere and disappeared. 2 other similar lights appeared, then in same formation disappeared into the sky. These sightings were almost exactly what I had witnessed in Mt. Vernon, Ohio, on 7/4/15 just prior to their fireworks display at Ariel Foundation Park, the only difference, the objects started as red oval objects above a treeline, then changed from red to the white orange type lights and then accelerated up into the sky. No small plane could accelerate at the speed these lights did and then disappear into the atmosphere. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 21, 2015 · 10:05 PM · OVAL
Saint Cloud, MN
We were coming back from a movie on Highway 23 heading toward the east side of St. Cloud where our home is, and we spotted a helicopter light. The helicopter was hovering and then turned its search light on, panning it up in the sky. The helicopter hovered in an area over the east side of St. Cloud, near highway 10 for roughly two to three minutes. We pulled over in a church parking lot to film the helicopter when the two of us spotted an orange oval object heading fast from south to north. It cleared the trees and I panned my camera over to film it. The helicopter did not seem interested in the object, and headed west. We lost track of the object in the clouds, as it headed north. We then got back onto highway 23 heading back west to St. Cloud to see where the helicopter was. By now it was on the far west side of town. We drove back to our home and as we were pulling up in the parking lot, another orange object appeared from the south, heading north just like the previous object. Both this and the previous object had flickers to them, and were moving fairly quick. Also, it should be of note we spotted what looked like a normal plane at high altitude shortly after the second sighting. It was heading northwest and had blinking lights as a traditional plane would. There has been a lot of smoke in the sky lately from fires, and the moon was out. Video was taken of both objects and the helicopter.
August 21, 2015 · 10:00 PM · OVAL
Corunna, MI
Higher than anything I have ever seen before in about six seconds. All four were a bright orange and red and no blinking lights. They also did not make any jet or sonic sounds.
August 20, 2015 · 9:31 PM · OVAL
Toronto (Canada), ON · Canada
August 20, 2015. Tonight, my wife and I have witnessed our first UFO sighting since we have started living in Canada. We live in North York, Toronto and we are very close to the Pearson International Airport. We see hundreds of airplanes flying over our heads on a daily basis. At around 21.31PM, we saw from the basement window an orange oval craft that was flying mid-air through the sky. We were surprised to see something flying at such a low altitude, and of such a distinct and luminous color. I promptly jumped off the couch and started following the orange light as it was moving left from my point of view. I have followed the movement of the orange craft as long as I could before it went off sight, as I wasn’t able to look past my neighbors’ trees. I started running upstairs and left my bungalow and, once in the driveway, I could still see the orange light moving towards the Goddard/Waterloo intersection (which is north from where my house is). The orange craft kept this very peculiar, almost fluid motion in the sky for about other 20 seconds. When I got closer to the Goddard Street/Waterloo Avenue intersection, I have noticed, as always, two airplanes flying in opposite directions. One was on its way to landing at Pearson International Airport; the other one, instead, had just taken off from the same airport. In between them there still was the orange oval craft. Compared to the two airplanes, it was pretty amazing to notice how the craft did not present any other lights that could possibly resemble an airplane or any other known aircraft. My wife was still able to see the orange craft from the driveway. The craft stood there for a few more seconds before it disappeared before our eyes in the dark, blue sky. The other two airplanes were still following their trajectories.
August 19, 2015 · 9:00 PM · OVAL
Grants Pass, OR
This event accrued last night 8/19/2015, at approximately 2100. I was sitting in my hammock facing south. I happened to look at the sky toward the west when I noticed a white looking light moving west to southeast. I first thought it was just a satellite, but then I noticed it was slowing down and speeding up. It also began to flash red, blue, and white lights. It appeared to be around the size comparable to what a star would look like with the naked eye maybe a little bigger. It continued to move across the sky from west to southeast and then it stopped in the southeastern sky. When it stopped the flashing of the blue, red and white lights began to be more prominent. While it was stopped I grabbed my phone and began taking a video. The light stayed in the same spot for around 2 minutes. It then began to slowly move out of sight in the southeastern sky. As I watched the video over and over again last night pausing and looking and some of the still frames, it appeared to have a ban of light with darker spots above and below the lights.
August 18, 2015 · 9:00 PM · OVAL
Hesperia, CA
The object appeared straight overhead to the right over the mountain. It was over the mountain and I know there's no tower on top of that mountain.then as quick as I saw it it faded rather quickly and in three seconds it was gone. It was large like more than half the size of a full moon. I see the full moon a lot over this mountain so I kind of know the size for comparison. There was no noise no sound it just was in one spot. I would also add that it was rather beautiful in color. It was very bright. I also have Skyview so I was using my SkyView to see if this objects could be identified as a particular star. This light was seen in the east sky.