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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.
7,422 entries
August 22, 2015 · 11:40 PM · DISK
Holiday, FL
Bright glowing orange light seemed to be at the base of this craft. It seemed to be getting closer to me, but then I noticed it was actually moving upwards in a slight zig zag pattern. There was a fog like cloud above it and it disappeared into this cloud. It made no sound and had no other lights like an airplane would. I waited for it to reappear from the clouds but after 5 mins of waiting it did not. This is the same place I noticed the same object about a week ago, but dismissed it as someone shooting off a left over firework rocket.
August 22, 2015 · 2:00 AM · DISK
Newport, OR
My experience took place on August 22nd, 2015, at about 2:00am in Newport, Oregon. My husband and I were sitting on the balcony of our fourth story hotel room, enjoying each other and the ocean. I saw what appeared to be a shooting star appear from the side of our hotel and said, "Look! A shooting star," so my husband saw it also. After a second, I realized it was white and disc shaped. It appeared to be smaller and a whole lot closer, maybe about the elevation a drone would have been at. It was angled downward and slightly towards the ocean as it slowly fell. We kept watching as it as it changed angles and speed, darting directly parallel to the ocean. As it continued to travel, it slowed again making a boomerang type movement, then darted up to the shore. It was nearly directly in front of my hotel room and approximately 3 feet above the ocean, it moved slowly back and forth over a few feet of length directly parallel to the shoreline. It appeared to fade in and out of vision a few times, then reappear a short distance ahead of where it was. It was as if it kept travelling the same speed and distance, but was fading in and out. Directly underneath, it appeared 3 beings with white faces that appeared to glow. They were very visible, even in the dark. After about a minute, the disc disappeared, but the beings remained, and they were directly aligned. From the fourth floor I could not judge size exactly. These beings had dark bodies, it was easy to see their movements. They would bend down to the sand, or sit down, then get back up, all at the same time. They stayed in formation, most times a line, and pretty soon they multiplied. Nothing flew in or out, they just appeared. 3 became 6, 6 became 8 and at final count there were about ten. My husband had decided to go out and see up close what was there. I watched as he made his way down to the ocean. The beings appeared to become smaller, my husband said he saw that as well. He said there was a strange energy as he got closer to them. What he saw were about 10 large birds that were not sea birds. He was able to walk up closely to them, but they did not startle. He then shooed them, and they flew off. When he did that, from the fourth floor, I was able to see that as soon as they moved they were flying. That means if anything would have flown into view, I would have seen it clearly. I am not looking for scrutiny or publicity, so I would really appreciate if this post could be kept confidential. This event lasted about 40 minutes in total, but i did not want to take my eyes off of them to go and get a camera. I figured they could have vanished any minute and I wanted to see as much as I could. I have additional details that I did not put in this report. Please contact my husband or me with further questions. Much Respect, ((names deleted))
August 21, 2015 · 5:30 AM · DISK
Oakdale, CA
On 8/21/2015 at approximately 0530 I was driving to Oakdale, CA, and a noticed a circular craft hovering at a stand still at about 5,000 feet. As I drove closer to the object, I got out of my car because I could not believe what I was seeing. I could not hear any noise coming from the craft and it at 530 in the morning, it's extremely quiet. I remember my mind was stuck at a daze just staring at the object, as if I was stuck when I was visualizing the object and I find that very odd and not normal for me. The saucer shaped object took off diagonaly into the sky extremly fast and dipped down and shot back up into the sky and it was gone! I could not belive what I had just witnessed. We are definitely not alone in this universe.
August 19, 2015 · 10:58 PM · DISK
York, ME
Driving down dark road, saw a bright light high in the sky, remarked it "looked like a planet" to friend until it started to get closer and closer and became blinding as it got nearer... Pulled over in a park and ride and observed the blinding "headlight." The object swooped down in a path like a "J" where the as the "pin point" of light got closer and larger and brighter, at the bottom of the "J" the object slowed to a near stop and was absolutely SILENT; the object was dark but appeared disk-like to me, triangular to my friend shooting the video on her phone; we observed lights on three parts of the object, glowing red "panel" of light along one entire side, not a flashing strobe light, light was a steady red glowing panel of light; object looked like the size of a helicopter in the sky, but silent and disk shaped, no wings, no rotor, etc; the front had a very bright (blinding) "white light&! quot;, the other side was a glowing greenish blue "panel" of light, again not a strobe light but a glowing side of the object about the same size as the red panel of light; object was completely silent and moving very slowly but moving forward in a Westerly direction coasting over us and out of sight as the trees obscured it from view... VERY scary... not the UFO "type", can't explain what I saw, I know what an airplane or helicopter looks and sounds like, this was silent... WOW! Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD
August 18, 2015 · 8:45 PM · DISK
Lauderhill, FL
I saw a formation of five or six illuminated round crafts moving overhead from East to West under the low cloud cover.
August 17, 2015 · 8:00 PM · DISK
New York City (East Harlem), NY
I was having communications I felt that I should go out that night with a camera because I might see something that night. I live in East Harlem, and I was instructed to go south at first down 3rd Ave. I saw several fast moving lights but they were too fast for me to photograph, or once the camera on the phone did not work when I pressed the little camera icon on the screen. When I got to 109th Street I received instructions to go west one block to Lexington Ave. When I got to the corner I saw a strange whiteness in the sky behind some distant clouds to the southwest. I put the phone up to take a picture and there was a big flash of light when I took the picture. I tried two more times right away and the same thing happened. 'When I looked at the photos later I was surprised to see some strange photos. I checked the details of each photo and the flash was off it said. I can't explain these photos, but the saucer like object in the first photo reminded me of a black saucer I saw before. Also there is a video on the internet of a black ship rising up from the ground in the mountains somewhere, then hovering in front of a power station or something, and lights like the windows light up like in my photo. Something to consider.
August 12, 2015 · 10:15 PM · DISK
Sparks, NV
The object's body was in the shape of a desk, but the peak may have been a cone shape. There two witnesses, myself and one other person. It was dark so I couldn't see the object very well. I managed to capture a very low quality picture of it, but you still see the distinct shape of it. I didn't converse with the other witness. I was afraid he or she assumed I was crazy taking a picture of what looked like a plane from a distance. After examining the picture I took, I concluded that it was not an airplane nor a helicopter. It was stationary for a moment and only had yellow lights. After taking a picture, the lights changed to green, blue, and red colors. Then, it began to move. This eliminated the possibility it was an airplane. Airplanes can't remain stationary in the air for that period of time. A helicopter doesn't emit the previously mentioned lights. I had to conclude it was a UFO. I only have one picture. That is all the evidence I have.
August 12, 2015 · 9:00 PM · DISK
Spanaway, WA
During the meteor shower my girlfriend, my daughter, and myself were outside watching the very beginning of the shower. All of a sudden we start seeing a very bright light in the sky jumping around all over the place like a bouncy ball in the sky, nothing our crafts can do, as we are watching it, a HUGE disk-like object appeared out of no-where and accelerated at a speed i have never seen in my life.It was completely quiet, extremely close, and lit the entire sky and surrounding area up like day light when it took off. It took off so fast from a dead stop that it left a tracer of itself momentarily and had almost a plasma looking tail coming off he end of it, and in a flash it was gone, leaving a trail behind it which lingered for a moment. It shot off towards FT. Lewis, SW direction, and lit the ENTIRE sky when it did. However, it was faced almost in a downward direction when it took off, and looked like it could have landed in the FT. Lewis woods. Almost immediately afterwards, the sky lit up with unmarked helicopters which searched the back woods of Ft. Lewis for HOURS. They were definately looking for something, thry flew extremely low and had no lights or markers on, could only see the red blink of a safety light occasionally and you could hear the thunderous engines of the helicopters working overtime all night. We also noticed that almost right after the "ufo crash" or whatever it may have been, there were bright dots in the sky which would randomly show up, do some extremely crazy aeirial acrobatics, then appear to fade away. One of them came extremely close, and was bright as a spotlight, it was a completely round, extremely bright, white light that seemed to scan the area. I also think it's important to document that both my daughter, my girlfriend, and I kept feeling as though we were being watched, even before te sighting when we were just watching the meteor shower, and when the craft first appeared, it did seem to appear out of no-where. I have seen MANY meteor showers, as have my daughter and girlfriend. What we saw WAS NOT A METEOR, nor were the other objects. We also noticed more military planes and helicopters in the sky as the night went on, all neglecting to put on their main lights, just a couple red lights keep from having mid air collisions. I finally went to bed at a.m., and I could still hear the helicopters searching for whatever. It is important to note that there was not a single military vehicle in the air or area until literally RIGHT after the UFO sighting, all neighborhood dogs were going absolutely CRAZY. It was as if this thing un-cloaked itself and went into warp speed right in front of us. It was absoutely incredible, and I will NEVER forget what we saw last night for the rest of my life. Being during a meteor shower, I'm sure everyone will write it off as a meteor, but we know what we saw, and so does the military apparently, and that was NO METEOR. Thank you for listening and for giving people somewhere to report our! sighting without feeling like we are going to be called crazy, I hope this is able to help someone in finding out the truth about what is going on in our skies and our world.
August 10, 2015 · 11:00 PM · DISK
Atlanta, GA
From my window, on the 7th floor of my apartment building in downtown Atlanta, I noticed the dark silhouette of a thick disc shaped object over the Westin hotel, it appeared creased in the middle, and hovered. Judging from the distance from my window to the Westin I could approximate the height of the object as being 1000 ft or so from the ground. I shined a staples laser pointer at it, and it slowly flew south west over the city and banked out of view to the West. Also judging from its height and flight trajectory over buildings I know the distance to, I think it was at least 30 ft in diameter and perhahps 8-10 ft tall. I also noticed some odd looking red flickering lights in one of the adjacent skyscrapers while the disc was present.
August 5, 2015 · 12:30 AM · DISK
Maiden, NC
My sister continued on home, and to the right of the car, which was north, as I was the passenger, I could see over the tree line a large object that was disc shape and almost look like a Zeppelin or some type of blimp. At first, I thought it was a blimp and just dismissed it, but then as I look closer, I could tell it was spinning at a rapid rate. It wasn't much farther above the treeline and must have been less than a quarter of a mile away from me. The object was approximately the size of what appeared to be a tractor trailer, from end to end, floating in the sky, and it hovered without making any noise. As we had stopped on the side of the highway to look at the object, our car had made no noise there were no other cars on the highway there were no other of street lamps or any other light sources visible to misconstrue what we were seeing as the driver of the vehicle I was in also Witnessed The event The object was amber and orange in color and seem to change color Variations as it hovered it seems when it was spinning that they were multi colored lights and I could make out blue are yellow in a red it was slow and then it started to appear to disintegrate as it's fun quickly and then disappeared in a zigzag motion leaving some type of smoke trail that was also zigzag behind it I tried To capture all of this on film and didn't think I was able to catch anything because it was so dark and I was using the camera on my phone. As I was witnessing this object hover in the sky then disappear I was completely surprised yet arrested by what I was seeing because I was not sure what exactly it was I have heard reports of people seeing things in the sky and I've never really believed in any of it until ! I saw what I couldn't describe and I was extremely shocked by ! the size of this object and its close proximity to the tree line and the fact that none of the trees were moving as if being blown by wind and then it was completely inaudible. Just shocking. Also, to mention I'm a guest to this area just visiting Maiden, N.C. from New Jersey!!!!
August 1, 2015 · 12:30 AM · DISK
Miamisburg, OH
It stopped and went away after a few seconds, but came back and did it once again. After that, we did not see anything else. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 31, 2015 · 11:00 PM · DISK
Orlando, FL
Needless to say, at that point, I'm starting to freak out, looking for anyone that I could find to witness what was going on, while still keeping my eyes on the craft. Then all of a sudden the craft while stationary makes a quarter turn to the right clockwise and there were four more lights the same size but these were all red in color emanating the same brightness, and they began a random blinking as well. From my left peripheral view I caught sight a commercial air liner descending and approaching in on its flight path for a landing into Orlando International Airport (MCO) which is approximately four miles south from this location. That was when the craft started descending straight down at this time and it felt as if it was avoiding the airliners pathway. It slowly descended out of my view behind some tree tops and houses and I would guess about maybe three to five blocks away at most. That was when I made a dash into the house for my point & shoot digital camera, phone and car keys and decided to search out what exactly this craft was. My first thought was, it was some sort of expensive really big hovering drone and surely I would be able to track who ever was flying it while they were packing it away, but I found nothing so I extended my search even further out than I anticipated and still nothing. I drove back to the main road SR 436 hoping to catch some people perhaps gathered talking about the lights but there also I found no one... Approach and descent of craft: From the S/E sky, heading S/W. Speed: Slow. Approximate size: Ten feet plus in diameter. Shape: disk like. Lights: Four per quarter side (but could only see two sides of craft) Color of craft: N/A Sound or Humming: None (and it was a really quiet night) Height in the sky of craft: Just below the over cast at the time of descent. Side notes: There was also a smaller solid blue light off to the bottom side of the craft. ((name deleted)) Orlando, FL.
July 31, 2015 · 8:00 PM · DISK
Dodge Center, MN
never seen anything like it before, have pictures. Seemed to be light, shiny, silver, and bright! Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. Witness does not send photos, and we have no way of contacting him/her. PD
July 31, 2015 · 1:30 AM · DISK
Hartford, CT
They stood still for about a second then just took off with lighting speed. I, my boyfriend, and his godfather all saw it.
July 30, 2015 · 1:30 PM · DISK
Troutdale, OR
While driving northbound from Clackamas to Troutdale, Oregon, I witnessed a large, very flat object, hovering in mid air. The size of the object isn't clear to me, but seemed to be the size of a medium size jet plane. It was very thin, almost looked flat and was bright white or silver in color. The object seemed to move very effortlessly and was not in any known flight path that I have seen in the area. It seemed to be gravitating towards other aircraft in the area but never got too close. I watched for roughly 10 minutes before arriving at a location I could pull over and take a photograph. At this point I had lost sight of the object for less than 30 seconds, since the last point it went out of view because of trees. It had completely disappeared upon my arrival to my destination. Was not an airplane or helicopter. Looked nothing like any drones I had ever seen. 95 degrees, clear skies and sunny. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and he seemed to us to be quite eloquent and sober-minded. We suspect he is a very good witness. PD
July 30, 2015 · 12:37 PM · DISK
Des Moines, IA
I was on a two-hour flight from the east coast, to go to my grandmother’s funeral. I was sitting in the row directly behind the first-class passenger seats on the right side of the plane in the window seat. Since I was on a smaller flight, this put my seat to where I was able to see clearly outside the window and still be able to see the front of the wing. During the majority of the time of the flight, I put my ear buds in and napped, as I usually do. About 20 minutes before landing, a bell went off waking me up. The bell was followed by an announcement, which caused me to remove my ear buds. The announcement said to please close the windows as the craft prepared to descend. Once this was said, the lights inside had dimmed. I have been on many flights before and really thought nothing of this. I figured maybe the announcement to do so, was a courtesy to others who might still be resting, or due to the summer heat in order to keep the plane cool when it had landed. Regardless of what was said I kept window open, and watched the sights of the plane as it prepared to land. About twenty seconds of looking at the flooding of the many creeks and rivers of the area, I witnessed five shiny silver “tear drop/saucer” shaped objects in a formation of four on the bottom and one on top. Each one was the same size, looking about the size of a mini van, but I could not tell how far away they were. They looked as if they were floating, but due to how fast the plane was going, they had to be moving at some sort of slightly slower speed than the plane. I was definitely stunned and confused at what I had just seen, and looked at the businessman next to me, who just shrugged his shoulders.
July 29, 2015 · 10:00 PM · DISK
Columbia, SC
To: National UFO Reporting Center Subject: Reporting UFO sighting last 4 days I have observed a saucer shaped UFO sitting in the same basic spot for three ot of the last four days. Last night the cloud cover kept me from observing it. The UFO is very high in the sky, I would guess about 4000 to 5000 feet, I am judging that distance because a commercial airline flew fairly close to the UFO and it was about half the distance I altitude than the UFO. I do not have a camera to take a picture of it nor binoculars. However, I have a rifle with a 50x scope and I can see the UFO clearly. It must be very large disk, I would guess 100 to 200 feet in diameter. The UFO just hovers in one spot. I have not seen it dart or move around any at all. Through my scope I can see it continually bobble like a ship in the high seas. It is very colorful like the rides at the state fair. Red, green, yellow lights are flashing continuously. I would very much like to find a local group of UFO watchers so that, I can contact them to send someone to my house with some recording equipment to take pictures or video. Please, inform me if you know of such a group.
July 29, 2015 · 1:30 PM · DISK
Chula Vista, CA · Mexico
My friend and i were leaving his house, only a few miles away from the US/Mexico border. I looked out over Mexico as we were driving down the street and saw a large silver object just hovering over what i presume to be the Tijuana area. We stopped the car and looked, my friend wrote it off as a large bird. Upon resuming our drive, while i kept an eye on the object. After passing a tree, the skies were clear. I leaned out the window to look in all directions, but the object was gone. The object appeared to be disc shaped, with a definite metallic color and shine to it. To me, it appeared silver. I've end was lighter, almost white against the sky, and the usually hazy air was clean around the object. It was hovering in an area i have never seen any aircraft in before.
July 26, 2015 · 1:08 PM · DISK
Los Alamitos, CA
My family and I were at a hotel in Orange County and enjoying the outdoor pool and hot tub when I noticed a weird white pearlescent object in the sky. At first it was just hovering and then as I began recording on my phone the object slowly became flatter and flatter until it completely disappeared. As I was recording my sister noticed there were jets seemingly chasing after the flying object. When the aircrafts got closer to it is when the disc disappeared.
July 23, 2015 · 2:00 PM · DISK
Saskatchewan (rural) (Canada), SK · Canada
Telephoned Report: An adult male telephoned the UFO Hotline and reported that a group of fishermen, while on the water, allegedly had witnessed a large disk descend through solid overcast, stop momentarily, and hover for a few seconds. It then rose vertically back through the clouds, and disappeared from sight. NUFORC has received no follow-up written report, and the witnessed who called has failed to respond to several messages which have been left on his telephone. We wonder whether the report may have been an attempt to hoax us. PD
July 22, 2015 · 11:45 PM · DISK
Monroe, NY
The object was in the distance, late at night, not so easy to make out as to exact shape. It basically hovered for a long time. It seemed to be getting closer for a few minutes, but then did not appear to have actually moved. We both thought it looked like a classic hat-and-brim shaped flying saucer, as depicted in films, with red lights at either edge and a greenish-blue larger light, almost like a spotlight directed towards the ground, in between the red lights. My husband thought he could make out a tower-like structure extending up over the object with a red light at the top. I attempted to shoot video with a small camera, but it was too dark; object just appears as a whitish blob. Can’t rule out a drone, but appears large from a distance.
July 22, 2015 · 12:00 AM · DISK
Persian Gulf (at sea), Persian Gulf
I found a UFO in the background of a photo used in a very recent NY Times article about piracy at sea. If you look at the fourth/fifth picture (depending on where you start counting) in the article, of security contractors working out on the deck of the ship Resolution, you will see on the left side upper middle of the picture a disk shaped object that looks similar to a classic UFO saucer. I have sat on this for two days wondering if anyone else would comment or notice it. LINK: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/20/world/middleeast/murder-at-sea-captured-on-video-but-killers-go-free.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=span-ab-top-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0 Seagull?? PD
July 21, 2015 · 4:00 PM · DISK
Taunton, MA
While fishing on a small lake, I looked up and saw the clouds, took a picture and saw this object. It was gone in an instant. Definitely disk shaped.
July 20, 2015 · 9:00 PM · DISK
Monroe, NY
On the night of July 23, 2015, I was arriving home from a friend's house and I heard a small whirring sound, ignored it and entered my home. I had to run out to bring my cat back inside my house, and I noticed a strange blue light all around the back part of my yard, so I try to get a better view and I see two dimly lit red lights and a blue aura surrounding an oblate disk about 300 or so feet in the air, so I instantly ran inside to get a witness, that witness being my mother, by the time she came out in disbelief, it was still there, and I tried to take a video of it but I had 4% battery life, I was able to capture the full image of the disk but before I could save the video or stop the recording my phone turned off. Weirdly enough, when I re-entered my house my phone turned back on but with double the amount of battery life and all of my pictures, videos, and apps deleted off my phone. I was stunned by seeing this, I felt very strange and later on I. The night I heard the whirring again and again but I never saw the object again. Also to add in, my cat was no where to be found and still has not returned home, or eaten out of her food bowl we left outside that night.