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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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September 18, 2015 · 3:01 PM · DISK
Cape Sable Island (Canada), NS · Canada
I witnessed a UFO hovering directly overhead. I first noticed it around 3:01 pm on September 15, 2018, as I was flying my last drone footage flight. The sighting lasting over an hour. I was in the area shooting an independent short film on one of the local residents. As my drone was set to make an automatic landing, based on a GPS coordinate, I confirmed with its OS before takeoff. it hovered to its initially set height coordinates input beforehand (approx. 20 meters). As I looked up to see it hovering prior to landing, I noticed what I initially thought was a bag floating high above the drone. As I looked closer I realized it was perfectly round. Then I thought maybe it was a balloon. Then a weather balloon. But it was locked in place. Not moving. White. I wanted to take my drone up higher to see if I could match its altitude and get a better look but all 4 of the batteries were dead or dying and would not have the power necessary to take it to extreme altitudes and return safely to home without crashing or failing. It had the capability of going as high as 500 Meters with a full charge, but was just not possible at this point. The actual height of this UFO (Unidentified Flying Object) I could not say, as I'm not a commercial pilot and could not gauge how high it was. I did see a plane fly by maybe 20-30 minutes later and could tell that the commercial plane was at a much higher altitude than whatever this was purely by the atmospheric distortion that softened all of the edges and the image of the plane according to my eyes. The UFO was sharp in contrast and definition. That gave me a little information in that it must've been closer to me than the plane. My initial reaction was to run and grab my HD DSLR camera (Canon T5i) from all the gear I had in my jeep for the shoot and start filming. I was filming in 1080P earlier so all I had to do was point and click. I landed my drone safely, threw it in my car and grabbed the camera. I managed to get about 6 Photographs and as many if not more videos of the event, some of which I'll share here. I had a telephoto lens I had purchased for another shoot (55-250mm) so I threw that on to get maximum magnification and started shooting. This thing literally hung right above me for about 30 minutes. Silent, round, white. I could see with the naked eye that there was a little blue spot in the middle so I thought maybe it was a donut in the sky. Sounds weird I know. As I zoomed in with the telephoto lens, I could clearly see definition in the bottom of this thing. White lines, a design or something inside an inner round core of a light electric blue. This design stayed consistent over all the photographs and films, as you will see. As this traveled West I noticed that the shape was now slightly ellipsed which gave me the impression that this thing flat like a dish or classic saucer. I was getting a little weirded out, so I called you, then Peter Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center in the United States, as under his guidance, called you, and witnesses to come to see this thing and verify my sighting. Locals ((name of female #1 deleted)), and ((name of female #2 deleted)) arrived with author ((male's name deleted)), and all three confirmed my sighting, as it traveled over the beach at Daniel's Head Road, before heading out to sea. In all, we had 4 witnesses. ((2nd female)) met me at the Fire Hall at the head of Daniel's Head Rd. I located the object for him which he then witnessed heading south to the beach. I then left and headed to the beach. Laurie then met me there a few minutes later, and we picked it up again. A few minutes after that (it must've been after 4 pm at this point) ((male)) and ((2nd female)) showed up. By this point all of my cameras were dead, save one, but I had already gotten great shots and this thing was heading out to sea becoming difficult to track. If you didn't try hard and focus in the direction it was you wouldn't see it. This occurred at my original location once it had crossed the road and was making its way to the beach. As soon as you picked it up it became so obvious that you wondered why you couldn't see it without searching for it. Very strange. I retrieved ((male's)) field glasses from his car, and he was able to see the craft, or whatever it was, w! ith 6x magnification, if I'm correct. All four of us saw this thing on the beach. I tried to show another guy on the beach but he couldn't see it. He said he saw two drones flying around earlier, but I was flying one close to the beach earlier but I didn't see another drone or drone pilot. I sort of think that maybe he saw this thing earlier but he also saw my drone, because I did fly past him. Hard to know. The impression it left upon me was, 'What was this thing?', 'How come I can't hear it?', 'How is it just hovering there barely moving' (even though you can see when the camera is mounted on the tripod that it is, in fact, moving all so very slowly). I also felt like, 'I'm freaking out because I'm alone out here and this thing is just hovering above me'. I also felt anxious, excited, nervous I wasn't going to get it recorded, and completely full of awe. I was also completely confused at why nobody who passed by in cars (and there were several) didn't stop to asking me what I was filming in the sky. There was actually a cyclist that bikes right past me as I'm trying to get his attention to look at the UFO! You'll see all this in the clip I've provided via Google Drive link. Please excuse all the expletives as I was rather flustered and flummoxed. Tonight as I'm looking at the photos and footage, I'm elated that what I saw was not my imagination, as the design on the bottom showed up in my videos and photos. My reactions are sincere. I want everyone to know that the strange things that have been reported in this area are still happening!! The man I was filming that morning saw a sea monster there off the coast in 1976 with about 5 other people and other reports go back in time. UFO's have been consistently captured there over the years, and stories still persist of strange incidences of weird visits by otherworldly beings. Let's not forget that in 1967, just down the road in Shag Harbour, the world's only gov't documented UFO crash occurred. The witness to my event, ((female #1)) is the very same ((female #1)) that witnessed that crash back in 67'. It gets weirder. Heather, the other witness has been photographing these things for years and as it turns out, is the cousin of the man I had spent filming all day. Lastly, ((male)), the 3rd witness to my event, just so happens to be the guy who has written 2 books on that crash of 1967. He also just happens to be the subject of another film I'm making on his life. While traveling out of Ontario filming this film, we both had another experience together involving a UFO. It gets better. The night before I saw yet another UFO over Citadel hill. A month or so back, my wife saw two UFO's over North St, and my dad watched a small white orb trailing a commercial plane flying over the Joe Howe Superstore. There is this saying, 'Once you stare into the Abyss, the Abyss starts to stare back'. I feel like there's more truth to this, especially after yesterday's events. Attached are a couple files. Zoom in on the photos and video. It's very compelling evidence of something still happening on Cape Sable Island. This was not a trick of photography as we all 4 saw this with our naked eye. Thanks for reading this far, ((Name of source of report deleted)) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KxM3vpRN2VkG_iCXQRNINwrITETG7rmg/view?usp=drive_web
September 17, 2015 · 10:30 PM · DISK
Fall River, KS
Witness corrected the time, to reflect a nighttime sighting. PD
September 17, 2015 · 7:35 PM · DISK
Yucca Valley, CA
SITTING OUT SIDE YUCCA VALLEY HOME 7;35 PM. OBJECT APPEARED, WHAT MADE US NOTICE WAS THE LIGHT BEAM OBJECT STARTED TO PROCEEDE TOWARDS US , WE THOUGHT IT WAS A HELECOPTER ONCE NOTICED. HAD A BEAM LIKE LGHT MOVE FROM THE EAST AND SHINE FACING US AS IF THE OBJECT KNEW WE HAD NOTICED IT , AS OBJECT GOT CLOSER I NOTICED 5 GREEN LIGHTS ON IT AND IT WAS DISC LIKE. RAN INSIDE AND WAITED APPROX. 4 MINUTES WAS TERRIFIED FOR OUR LIVES AND WENT BACK OUT SIDE AND OBJECT WAS HOVERING OVER HOUSE AND FLASHED A BRIGHT WHITE LIGHT AT US FROM DIRECTLY ABOVE THEN WE RAN INSIDE AND WENT TO THE CAR AND LEFT .
September 17, 2015 · 4:15 AM · DISK
Bobcaygeon (Canada), ON · Canada
I came home from work when I notice my back yard light was on. I went to inspect the light which was left on by wife. When I turn east there was a orange light moving slightly back and forth about 2000 feet from me and at an elevation about 200 feet. This craft was not there when I past by this area a minute before in my car. I was very tired so I just went into my house and went to bed. The next night, I checked the sky in the same area to see if there was the same light there and to prove it was not just a star, there was not any light there, which proves I did see some. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 16, 2015 · 8:00 PM · DISK
Tucson, AZ
On September 16, 2015, at approximately 8PM, in Tucson, Arizona, I saw a silent stationary UFO. I was awake and sitting upright on a sofa. I had my eyes closed. Suddenly it appeared in the upper right field of my vision. I saw a gray disk with a plate-like central part on the undersurface. There was some type of inscription on this central part. No running lights. But, an orange aura slowly formed starting at the outer border of the UFO. The orange aura slowly expanded for about six or seven seconds, held its position for a couple of seconds, then slowly regressed to the body of the UFO. It repeated this orange aura expansion-regression process about ten times. Then, the UFO disappeared. My wife was nearby. I described this occurrence to her as it was actually happening. This is the only time I had this sighting. I don't drink or take drugs. My eyes were closed during this entire episode. ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) Hello, I have not experienced any similar sensations regarding UFOs, but I've had many different synchronistic happenings which have astounded me. I narrated this one UFO phenomenon in real time to my wife as it was unfolding. My wife says she has never experienced anything that might be considered preternatural. I want to emphasize that in this UFO experience what I saw was a clearly-defined physical entity rather than the results of an eye pathology. The object I viewed from the underneath vantage had some type of scribbling in its central circular area. I have listened on Coast-to-Coast to your reports of physical sightings. I was somewhat hesitant to send you my report because I saw the object with my eyes closed. Could it be that there is a psrapsychical dimension to my experience? I'm open to all possibilities...even way-out bizarre ones. Have you ever had anyone express to you anything like my experience?.... ((END ADDENDUM)) Source of report describes himself as a retired military officer. PD
September 15, 2015 · 10:00 PM · DISK
Yucca, AZ
It will be two years ago this September. When the weather is nice, I put a foam rubber pad in the back of my pick-up truck with a sleeping bag and sleep out under the stars. It was about 10:00 pm mountain time. I was laying on my back looking up at the stars when I saw a bright white flash of light directly overhead. There was absolutely no sound. It was the equivalent of a flash camera at about 40’ away. A couple of seconds later, there was a second flash of light in the same area of the sky. Again, there was absolutely no sound. Then I saw a dimly lit elliptical shaped object, bluish in color, move out to the east at a moderate speed. The object was visible for about two full seconds, then it went dark. My opinion: The craft was from a different time. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 15, 2015 · 3:15 AM · DISK
Vincennes, IN
I was standing out back as usual just taking a break from care planning to get some fresh air and love star gazing when I noticed a red and white light that I thought was simply the abrupt, flashing of a passing airplane. However, something about the pattern seemed more controlled, deliberate, and smooth. It moved even slower across the night sky than what you would see normally with an airplane. There wasn’t any real consistency about the way it moved though. It wasn’t moving in a straight line. I continued to observe it go by until I could no longer see it past my house’s roof top. This lasted for about 9 or so minutes. It was just a few minutes later that an unlit object moved rapidly back from exactly the direction I had just seen the lit object disappear to go right back to where I first noticed the prior object before vanishing. I don’t know if it was the same object or a different one, but I saw two totally separate events happen just moments apart. I know this needed to be shared. I sought out somewhere to do so, and as much thought as I’ve put into trying to make sense of something so seemingly simple, I know what I saw wasn’t of this world.
September 14, 2015 · 2:50 PM · DISK
Annapolis, MD
Two white objects were visible 25 degrees above the eastern horizon from Annapolis, Maryland. Objects were stagnant with respect to the horizon and each other for at least 15 minutes
September 12, 2015 · 2:00 PM · DISK
Hudson, NH
Object caught my eye. It was a silver colored object, clearly & obviously Not a plane. I was entering route 111 in hudson when the sighting Occurred. It wasn't moving. It was an incredible experience. The object began to descend. It appeared to be rotating. It was perfectly still in the sky which was very clear at the time. It was witnessed by me & my girlfriend. As we proceeded, the object ( as large as it was) just vanished
September 9, 2015 · 1:00 AM · DISK
Omaha, NE
I was in my living room on my phone, I was looking out to see the weather and then I see something above (what I think is a government building), it was floating there for a good minute or so, it was twinkled like a star but it was orange/red and way too close to be a star. Then it started to move real slow away from the building, I looked away for one second then poof, it was gone. I'm a 16 year old highschooler, and I accidentally fell asleep all evening, which is why I was up at 1am. I wish we could post pictures because I took some but oh well. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 8, 2015 · 9:30 PM · DISK
Attleboro, MA
I was driving down the road. I observed a saucer with a dome shaped top. There was only one. It looked to be 1-5 miles away judging by the size of the craft. The craft did not have any lights shining off of it, but it seemed as though it was glowing with a blue aura. It was floating in the distance above the town of Seekonk. I could see this due to the fact I was driving along a main road on top of a hill. There was not a cloud in the sky that night. As I observed the saucer, it stayed in one place completely still as I continued down the road. I continued home to pick up my girlfriend. I drove back to the same spot two minutes later and it was no longer there. I was the only one who observed this event. My background is as follows: 22 year old Caucasian male. High school diploma with some college. I work in the aviation industry as a fabrication department supervisor for a ground power cable supply manufacturer.
September 8, 2015 · 10:30 AM · DISK
Vernal, UT
I went outside to feed my animals and looked up at the sky over U Hill and noticed that there were 4 lights in a row and were blinking. They sat there for about 15 minutes then started moving north and I could see that the saucer tilted to the right and then the left and then sat there for a while longer. Then moved south very slowly. Then looked like it was slowly going towards the ground but it was too far away to tell. Then it gained altitude again. I had a client call me and I told him to go outside and look toward U Hill and asked if he could see what I was seeing so I knew I wasn't going crazy and he said he could see the same thing.
September 8, 2015 · 10:00 AM · DISK
Providence, RI
Followed by a helicopter with its giant search light looking as though it was trying to locate object
September 8, 2015 · 3:15 AM · DISK
Pottsville, PA
Saw an object flashing red, green, and while lights. Thought it was Sirius, but 15 minutes into the sighting we saw Sirius rise over our into our line of sight. A sky watching program confirmed this. We watched the object for over 30 minutes. It moved closer to our position. That's when we could tell that it was saucer shaped. Also, our dog refused to go outside. She acted like she was afraid! There is no way that we were the only people who saw this! It was almost exactly between Sirius and Orion.
September 7, 2015 · 12:00 AM · DISK
Miami, FL
orange red saucer 30 feet wide in a round shape. 50 ft above ground. nw 98th st and 2nd ave. in Miami florida Source of report does not indicate the time of the sighting, and elects to provide no contact information. Hence, we are not able to contact the witness, in order to confirm the time. PD
September 6, 2015 · 10:00 PM · DISK
Burnsville, NC
While traveling east on Highway 19, I was observing a lightning storm slightly north of the highway. Approximately 2 miles west of Burnsville, NC, I observed a disk shaped craft, illuminated by the flashes of lighting. I only saw the craft once, I searched the sky several more times, but was unable to spot the craft again. At arm's length the craft was at least the size of a quarter, probably 800-1000 ft high and was extremely shiny. I cannot say about sound as I was driving at the time.
September 5, 2015 · 11:30 PM · DISK
Ashland, OR
We live slightly up in the hills of Ashland about 10 minutes out of town, surrounded by trees. Both of my sons (ages 9 and 7) were outside camping in a tent they had setup on our deck facing East toward Grizzly Peak. This was the third night they had slept out there alone in a row. Around 11:30pm they came running into the house, petrified. I was dozing off lightly on the couch on the north side of the house. Same level. My older son leads the way, his face is white and jaw is dropped. He's stuttering for words telling me that a big disc flew down over their tent and around our house. I asked them to elaborate, and they both started telling me the story in tandem and in agreement, practically word for word: My older son was playing on a device when he saw a very bright pulsating light through the top of the tent near a small opening. He saw it, but didn't care. He said moments later the light became so bright that he had to investigate. When he got out of the tent and looked up he said directly over their tent was a very bright light pulsation from a craft. The light was alone and pulsating from an eye shaped hole. He stared at it confused and thought for a split moment that it was a helicopter or an air plane. He said it then started showing different lights all around its body, and he saw that it was a disc shape, and that it was much closer than he thought, just near the tree line. He screamed for his brother to come see and shouted that it was a UFO. My younger son now begins telling the story: He said to my older son 'yea right --- your lying shut up', my older son insisted and stuck his head in the tent and yelled at him to come up. The younger boy comes out of the tent and said that he saw the large disc shape object moving slowly now over their heads and down to the house, blinking multitudes of lights. Both boys are simultaneously speaking and using hang gestures to show me how the lights were moving around the spherical center of this disc. "So many" lights trailing everywhere. Multiple colors, blue red and yellow. Then, perfectly timed they both say "then boom! One huge light came from the center! Shining all over us!." So bright it lit up the trees. They described the object as having a round dome on the top and bottom that the lights ran down. The the dome being bigger on top, with a bright light going around it horizontally. I was stunned at their reactions! This is extremely odd, especially for my older son who does not believe in anything other-worldly, and my younger son who seldom tells a lie. And never tells a lie without obviously displaying it with his body language. I asked them what the object looked like. They said it was "amazing", "beautiful", "like something they had never seen before ever". My son described it as metallic and struggled to find words through his emotion. I ask him how big it was, and they both agreed it was at least the size of a bus, if not 2 buses. I asked them if they thought maybe it was a drone or quadcopter? My older son said it could have been but that it was huge. I suggested that if it were a drone and were large that it would be very loud. He immediately realized and told me that this object was completely silent but may have had a faint humming sound which came from it (my younger son did not comment on this, and only agreed! that it was extremely quiet). I began recording them immediately on my phone without them knowing so that I could replay it later. As they are telling me, my younger son sprinted back through the hallway to my baby daughter’s room (3 years old). Also on the north side of the house. When I yelled for him not to wake her up, he came back out and said he wanted to make sure she was still there in her bed because it had flown that way. Which I found heartwarming. I continued to ask them what it did and why was it here they thought? My older son said he didn't know, but that it was "pacifically, pacifically at our house and interested in us" ('specifically' he meant). They described again how this object became very active and moved down more into their field of view as if for them to watch. There is a clearing on the south side of the house that has no trees. Where they described seeing this object was not at all hindered by trees. It would have been completely clear of obstructions with the nights sky behind it. Using a lot of hand gestures they told me the disc started circling downward slowly on the south side of our house into the trees (the deck is on the east/south corner of the house). I asked them how low it was they thought and they adamantly said they could have thrown a rock at it and that it was very low. They then said in the same corkscrew fashion it went back up and directly over the top of our house, still d! isplaying the multitudes of lights and colors. They said it went across our house slowly and headed towards our neighbors house (northward toward the side of the house I was sleeping on). They said it then rose above the tree line and started flying away. They knew I was on that side of the house and ran in to come tell me. At my feet there are very large windows and my younger son insisted that I must have saw it. When I said I hadn't seen it they were shocked and disappointed. I asked them how long the ordeal took and my older son said at least 3 minutes. I asked them again if they thought it may have been a plane or some other sort of craft, and they both said it looked like something they had never seen ever, and my younger son insisted that he thought they were aliens and that he was very worried. My older son agreed and said he could not imagine it being from this planet, but that he was not scared just shaken. He told me how shocked he was that he would ever get the ! chance to see something like this in his life. Something that ! would ma ke him change his mind about UFOs and aliens existing. I told them that I believed them, and that I believe it to be likely that there are other beings in and around this planet and that perhaps these beings seized an opportunity to touch the minds of 2 young boys. They were very relieved that I believed them and insisted I message and tell their mom. They also asked to sleep with me because they were too scared to go into their rooms. This is also very odd behavior for them. As was it for them to both agree on every aspect, and be so worked up.
September 4, 2015 · 6:00 PM · DISK
Muskogee, OK
Was on my way to my mothers from Augusta st got out of my friend's van at Robinson Park and walked thru the basketball court saw6 to 7 white bright the brightest ive ever seen in the daylight and it was on a mirror like disk shape from what i could observe flying from the tree's so i started yelling at all these people telling them to look up a ufo they didn't notice until one of the soccer players started running with me towards the disk we chased it until it vanished with a burst of energy or something, so me and my daughter walk back looking for what i told my family i saw me and my daughter noticed a object west of the sighting but no lights on it and then we looked at the only clouds in the sky and seen what looked like a white needle shaped object poking out from the clouds there was very disticnt chem trails
September 1, 2015 · 8:30 PM · DISK
Oil City, PA
Around 8:30 PM on September 1st, 2015, my significant other and I witnessed some kind of craft hovering over the center of our city. We were facing North, and we live at the top of a hill in our city. We are both in our early twenties and work most of the day, so we spend most of our time on the back porch at night. That night we witnessed what I can only describe as a black "twinkie" with reddish-purple lights on both ends, and a very bright blue light in the middle of the craft, situated at the bottom. The lights on the side would change from bright red to a very deep maroon, almost purple. There was no reflection on the actual craft itself from these lights, although there were halos of the same colored light around the craft. We watched it for at least a minute, as it was motionless. I thought it to be a satellite or some kind of plane, but then it began to move. The movement was erratic, moving in zig-zags and up and down at an extremely fast speed. We watched it move for about 45 seconds, until it came to a halt. It moved slightly upward and then just seemed to disappear. My significant other and I have witnessed this kind of craft in the same location before, once on July 22nd, 2015, for about 10 minutes at 10:45 PM, and once again on July 15, around midnight, for less than 5 minutes. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and she sounded to us to be quite eloquent and serious-minded. We suspect that she is a very good witness. PD
September 1, 2015 · 1:00 AM · DISK
Kentucky, AL
Source of report provides only minimal information; elects to remain anonymous. Hoax?? PD
August 28, 2015 · 11:00 PM · DISK
Gorham, ME
Two of my family members where outside talking on the porch as I was inside, they both notice this large disk shaped thing and yell my name (as they know I am a alien fanatic). I come running out of the house and I spot it immediately, I walk out into my yard and that's when it started moving towards me. My family had said that before I had come outside that it was still and stayed in one place. As it moved forward it became very close, it was not high up in the sky at all. You could see every edge on it, the center where there was a large white light and all the other light around the center. You could hear it as it went above me, and look right up into it. It did not go by fast and seemed to linger. Soon enough we hear police sirens and other airplanes come towards our location. Then the UFO was gone. Source of report indicates that the date of the event is approximate. PD
August 27, 2015 · 9:00 PM · DISK
West Bloomfield, MI
I saw three bright orange disc shaped objects hovering over the North side of the sky, making a triangle shape. It was way higher then any airplane and did not having flashing lights, only the orange light. One craft disappeared suddenly straight up. The other two stayed up and did not circle for two minutes. Then suddenly, one craft flew towards the last remaining craft and it appeared as if they became joined. The craft, or crafts suddenly flew upward and completely disappeared within five seconds.
August 25, 2015 · 10:00 PM · DISK
Calhoun, GA
Sighted on 8/25/2015. Approximately 10:38 pm in Calhoun, Georgia. Duration of sighting: Approximately ninety seconds. I was in my driveway, after letting my two small dogs out to go to the bathroom. I glanced up to the west and I’m guessing here, about a mile or mile and a half away I saw a large object. From my location it was two inches in width, so say two miles away, visually two inches across, how big would this thing have been? It had exactly four red lights across it that blinked steadily, one after the next. It was moving slowly northward. It stopped and then the whole object canted to the right and dipped downward as if it was landing. It disappeared beneath the tree line from my vantage point. I can’t be the only one who saw this but I haven’t found any mention of it in the news anywhere.
August 24, 2015 · 8:58 PM · DISK
Eden Prairie, MN
I was leaving work and walking to my car, which can be seen in the lower left of some of the pictures: the silver colored Chevy Volt. While it looked like the moon was shining through some clouds (it was overcast that evening), the shape of the lights caught my attention: they looked disc shaped and they didn't appear to be moving or changing shape which is what you'd expect them to be doing if it was the moon shinning through clouds: as the clouds move, the moonlight shining through them will change shape too... but the shape of these lights didn't change for as long as I was watching them, which was approximately 5 minutes. My first thought was that it was just the moon poking through some clouds and so I fired up the star-chart app on my smartphone, and sure enough the app indicated that that's approximately where the moon was located. But... the next night (or it might have been a couple of nights after) it was clear outside and as I was leaving work -- at approximately the same time as before ( 9 pm) --, I noticed that the moon was nowhere near where I had seen that strange series of lights, it was approximately 20 degrees higher up in the sky. In fact, upon paying closer examination to some of the pictures I took, I can make out exactly where the moon was that night: the moon's directly above the storage building, it's in the top 1/3 of the picture and looks like a bright dot of light (my car is in the lower left), and you can see that the disc-shaped anomaly is much lower in the sky, and from where I took the picture it appears directly above the rh side of the storage building off in th! e distance. From where I was standing ** at the entrance to RFA Engineering and looking south **, the disc-shaped light anomaly didn't appear to be moving or changing shape. I thought it might be spotlights too, but as you can see there's no spotlights shinning up at the disc-shaped anomaly. After observing it in the RFA parking lot, I wanted to try to snap some pictures where there was less light pollution, and so I drove over to the nearby Wells Fargo and snapped a picture from the parking lot there -- the disc-shaped anomaly still had the same shape as before and didn't appear to be moving. Because my smartphone star chart app told me that that's where the moon was -- and as I already mentioned, the app was wrong (because I hadn't calibrated my phone's compass before using the app) --, I just dismissed what I was seeing as a curious play of moonlight and really slow moving clouds. But why would the moon only illuminate this one particular bank of clouds and not anything else, especia! lly considering that the moon was so much higher up in the sky. I was really intrigued, and if I hadn't dismissed it as the moon poking through the clouds I probably would have paid much closer attention to the disc-shaped anomaly, including trying to take better pictures of it, and I would have watched it for a much longer period of time. After dismissing it as the moon poking through some clouds -- which it turns out that it couldn't have been --, I left for home. What I saw is a dead ringer for what other people witnessed on August 9th, 2015 in the southern Minneapolis metro area. It looks just like the light anomalies captured in those pictures: a ring of lights that are arranged in a circle, or an elliptical pattern. This can't be spotlights because there's no light beam going up to the pattern of lights in the sky. We suspect the lights were part of an advertising display at a nearby gambling casino. . PD