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Sightings
Witness reports, held as-reported. Each entry keeps its source, its coordinates where the record has them, and its place in the larger pattern.
4,558 entries
July 29, 2015 · 2:30 AM · FORMATION
Cedar Falls, IA
We noticed a blinking light very low in the sky to the west of us. It would dip above and below the tree line and occasionally blink red, as well as disappear and reappear on multiple occasions. The light did not move with the skyline. We continued to watch this light until at approximately 2:30am a group of lights in the formation of what looked like a question mark appeared in the east. It was very bright at first, blinking orange, green, and multiple variations of blue. There were five definitive lights, and a few other less bright lights that would fade in and out. The question mark would frequently look as if someone were drawing a line through the question mark. A few of the lights would move so quickly they would look like they were making a shape. For instance the top left light kept making an oval shape. The lights were not a definite shape. They appeared to us as circles at first, and the next minute would look like small triangles. We continued to watch this formation for about an hour, over the course of this hour the formation dimmed, and rose in the sky. The formation did not follow the skyline either. We watched it pass a star next to it as it was rising. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 28, 2015 · 7:57 PM · FORMATION
Seabrook, TX
On July 28th, 2015, at 7:57 pm EST, I witnessed 9-15 ufo's flying over Galveston Bay. I was going outside to get my dogs ready for a walk when I saw a bunch of orange-red lights swirling and dancing about 10 miles East from where my house sits, which would put them over Galveston Bay. I didn't know what i was looking at at first, thinking they might be small aircrafts, but more than I've ever seen in one place. When i tried to focus on them, all i could see was balls of light, no structure to speak of. I called my father out to watch them and ask him if he knew what they were. They didn't look like standard air craft, no red and blue signal lights and they seemed to make no sound. We watched them for 4 min, about 15 light globes in total, maybe more, and they moved around each other as if bouncing or bobbing. They headed south to north, and when they got about 30° north of due east, they disappeared, one at a time. They moved in clusters of 4 to 5, swirling and bobbing around each, but not smooth or precise. Almost drunkenly. After the main "swarm" disappeared, one more rose up and floated the same path, bopping and bouncing like the others and disappeared around the area as the rest. They moved more like living creatures than aircrafts, almost like giant orange fireflies. Total event was 4-5 min, from initial sighting to the disappearance of the final "straggler."
July 27, 2015 · 10:00 PM · FORMATION
Atglen, PA
15-20 large orangish red lights or orbs of light witnessed hovering, or a better word would be stationary, for minutes before they vanished. A light on the "right" hand side of this extremely large cluster of lights slowly descended and then shot out to the EAST at a crazy high speed, moments after is when the lights went out. On the night of July 27th, at 10 pm Eastern Time, I was outside burning trash and yard clippings. Once I got the fire going in my burn barrel I had turned and began to walk to the house to get my kids to grab the marshmallows and stuff to have s'mores. While walking back to the house, a brightness in the north sky. I paused in my tracks for a few moments. When I realized there was no valid explanation for these lights, I dashed to the house and began to yell and bang on the living room window to get my 2 kids to come outside and see. I turned on my iPhone 5S and began to record. Unfortunately it did not pick up anything, except for the sound where my 13 year old daughter says, "I am so confused." My daughter, son and myself stood in shock as we witnessed these lights/orbs just sitting in the northern sky. We were throwing out ideas as to what these lights could be. Fireworks and Chinese lanterns are not a possibility as all of these lights seemed to be connected like it was one extremely large craft and the lights were not moving by the force of air/wind, nor were they falling so space debris or falling stars are not options either. When the lights "went out" we stood outside for minutes looking for them to reappear somewhere. After a few minutes, we all came inside and we each drew a picture of what we had witnessed. We did not speak about it beforehand and I told them we would not discuss until after we drew what we seen and compared drawings. Needless to say, the 3 drawings are nearly identical. From that night forward, I have spent quite a bit of time outside at night looking in the sky. When I used search engine to see if anyone else had witnessed this, I came across this website which have way too many similar sightings reported but none on that night. I can also tell you I witnessed a few more very strange occurrences since that night. I am puzzled as to what all this could be. There are no local Air Force bases that I can think of for this to be explained. Besides, these lights were way to big and not moving at all for these to be explained with what we know about today with aviation and Gravity.
July 27, 2015 · 9:25 PM · FORMATION
Chattanooga, TN
I got out of the car with my 17 year old son. We both saw what we thought was aircraft at first over the ridge near our house. They were bright as street lights, three lights in a triangular form. They were stationary until the bottom corner just vanished, I thought maybe it was moving behind the clouds that were thin and sparse. Then the next lights just poof! It was gone, then the third. We watched these lights for 5-8 minutes. The sky behind was clear, the only clouds were way in front and extremely thin. The moon is bright and these lights were vivid. I stayed out until I was sure they were gone, I didn't want to miss anything. I tried to video what we were seeing, but for some reason the camera didn't pick up the lights.
July 11, 2015 · 11:30 PM · FORMATION
Garyville, LA
At approx. 20:30hrs CDT, I witnessed swarm of bright orange flickering lights, rising from the ground, ascending into the sky, moving at a slow speed toward the northeast. The location I observed these objects was one half mile west of the Marathon Oil Refinery located in Garyville, Louisiana. I was parked at a local salvage yard on highway 61 facing south. These objects began rising from the distant tree line due south of me at a distance of approx. 12 to 15 miles. The objects were flickering in and out of various magnitudes, the brightest being close to the planet Jupiter at present time. I ruled out the possibility of aircraft or balloons due to the lack of navigation or beacon lights on the objects and the speed at which they were moving. Also the objects seemed to be interacting with each other, flying a pattern that indicated some type of control and deliberate change in direction as they ascended. They were orange in color however, some of them did transition into more of a reddish hue. As they rose they were following each other, all moving in the same general direction and then flying towards and then away from each other in an eccentric pattern. at times they seemed to cross each other. Much to close for civil or even military aircraft to be allowed to do. This is what really caught my attention being a pilot myself. I watched them for about 30 minutes and counted at least 30 orbs in total. They rose to a height of 25 degrees above the horizon and then flickered out. I observed no sound of any kind and no other aircraft in the area.....
July 11, 2015 · 10:45 PM · FORMATION
Byron, GA
Thinking they were done we looked away. About that time more began to come across the sky. This lasted for about 15-20 minutes. Someone else must have seen this. Also there was not any noise coming from the objects.
July 7, 2015 · 11:00 PM · FORMATION
Astoria, OR
I went out on my porch to have a cigarette and look at the stars, around 22:30 to 23:00. The fog hadn't moved in yet and the sky was very clear. I noticed a light traveling from the northeast to southwest of my position. At first, I though it was a satellite, which I often see at night from my porch about the same time. However, then I realized that it was going in the opposite direction of how they usually go, and I also realized that there were two lights traveling side by side. As they got overhead of my position, one reversed and went back toward the northeast while the other continued on toward the southwest for about a minute or two. When the one going southwest was almost out of my sight line, it reversed, heading toward the northeast and sped up to travel along side the other light. I watched them until they disappeared in the northeast, out of my sight. They stayed in a side by side formation until they disappeared. The most intriguing thing about these lights is the way they changed direction. There were no turning maneuvers. They simply changed direction by reversing their fight path. There was no sound, but they were very high; about the level of what a satellite would travel. They flew very smoothly, steadily and about the same speed a satellite would travel. I see many types of aircraft flying, at night, over my area, because we are on the flight path for the Portland Airport and also because there is a Coast Guard station nearby. These lights did not maneuver or travel in the same way a plane or Coast Guard helicopter would and were not following the same flight path as the satellites that fly over this area. Also, satellites do not change direction in flight.
July 5, 2015 · 8:07 PM · FORMATION
Melbourne, FL
At Babcock and US1, 4 big lights appeared in a partial triangle formation. They seemed to be above the Indian river shore by US1 and Babcock street. They didn't move, they just hovered for a few minutes, made no noise, and then they blinked out. They were white in color and didn't blink.
July 5, 2015 · 4:21 PM · FORMATION
Santa Clara, CA
Prior to these appearing, a small plane created a visual smoke effect of a peace sign and a lightning bolt by releasing smoke and making several maneuvers. After these smoke effects were broken up and dissipated but still remnant, after about 20 minutes. These two fairly large clouds were just hanging out right around where the peace sign was. The details were incredible, every detail of human skulls, with eyes. Every part of each cloud was a significant feature, nothing was obscure and cloudlike except they appeared as clouds in every way with the light, shadow and color. They appeared to be living, with facial expression and eye movements. The grateful dead were playing the stadium a few hours later. I did not discuss this with others there at the time or notice if others were observing them. I figured that this is what those deadheads out in California figured out and it all made sense. I didn't get a picture, but there were thousands of pedestrians there that all could have seen the same thing. Pictures may exist by others.
July 4, 2015 · 10:43 PM · FORMATION
Freehold, NJ
Traveling in the sky in a south west to north east direction. Observed three bright orange objects which appeared to be flying in a straight line one after the other. Took approximately 2 minutes to traverse field of view. No sound observed even though altitude did not seem to high.
July 4, 2015 · 10:40 PM · FORMATION
Marysville, WA
These object seemed to be suspended in air and just hovering over the area just south of the Marysville exit (again on the west side of I5). This event went on from the time we drove up and passed the event. Approximately 2-3 minutes. One of the lower lights did how ever seem or appear to be moving. We have amended the time above, and reposted on July 10, 2015. PD
July 4, 2015 · 10:00 PM · FORMATION
Sandusky, OH
Crazy stuff
July 4, 2015 · 9:00 PM · FORMATION
Providence, RI
I happen to look out my front door at all the colored fireworks in the air and noticed at first 5 round shaped disc shaped crafts w/4 or 5 orange lights at the bottom of same. They made no noise at all and they weren't that far, whereas I wouldn't hear the noise of a normal type craft. The formation was not totally straight. Five of them stopped for approx. 30 seconds and seemed to be observing the fireworks, then they continued to proceed south, they came from the north. They were not going at a high rate of speed either. They were at approx. 1 mile apart from each other. Then as they seemed to disappear into the clouds another one showed up and then two more. All crafts seemed to disappear into the cloudly sky. I waited to see if they would reappear for quite a while, but they did not. They weren't very far in the sky, no where near what a plane would be, yet not one noise was heard even when the fireworks stopped you still couldn't hear a thing. They also seemed to have a top to the disc shape...it was rounded. I'm unsure if I was the only one who saw these crafts but I think folks were more interested in the various colors in the sky which the crafts also seemed intereted in too.
July 3, 2015 · 10:15 PM · FORMATION
Bangor and Bloomingdale (between), MI
Was heading west on M-43 Highway, from Kalamazoo to Bangor. Saw formation of 5 non-blinking red/pink lights in a zig-zag formation in the sky. Lights were to the left-side of M-43 Highway near 40th Street. Traveled along 40th Street about 3 miles and lights moved in a slow-steady path. Turned the car around and drove past several trees, lights were gone once we got back to M-43.
July 1, 2015 · 7:00 PM · FORMATION
Calhoun, LA
Lens flare. PD
June 30, 2015 · 8:00 PM · FORMATION
Willemstad, CA
Saw three single lights in straight formation. Would appear far in distance, then come closer, and go back. Lasted maybe 10 minutes
June 29, 2015 · 8:20 PM · FORMATION
Haifa (Israel) · Israel
There were 3 objects, round shaped, flickering light. Looked like stars in the sky, only they were aligned in a diagonal line, and soon as they appeared they were gone, like they faded into the background. There was still light and sky were bright, it couldn't have been a cloud covering them. Near the diagonal light there were more objects, looked the same but they were bright with different colors, like red, blue, white light. Date appears to be flawed. We have amended it, to reflect a sighting on June 29th. PD
June 28, 2015 · 4:30 PM · FORMATION
Hollywood, FL
Craft were not illuminated and no sound was heard. All craft disappeared when looked away momentarily to get binoculars. Witnessed by me and my 2 kids, 8 and 10 years old. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 27, 2015 · 9:45 PM · FORMATION
St. Peters, MO
Observed small lights of different colors red, green, blue and maybe purple south-southwest, toward Cottleville. Initially, separate they approached each other and assembled into a close diamond shape and proceeded toward the south-southwest. Just as they approached the treeline they became a very bright white/yellow light and stayed bright enough to see through the trees. There were fireworks going off at the time in the direction of the UFO but closer to the ground. These were clearly different. Duration of observation was a few minutes, maybe 2 or 3.
June 26, 2015 · 11:15 PM · FORMATION
Palmyra, NJ
A total of 3 UFOs were seen flying in a triangular formation on Highland Ave. (CR 602) in Palmyra, NJ. The object in question was moving very fast towards the east. (Atlantic Ocean) Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 26, 2015 · 1:30 AM · FORMATION
Rochester, NY
Sitting in car, originally observed 3 orange balls of light in triangle formation, slowly traveling southwest towards Brighton area. The lead light moved over trees and out of sight, then the two in the rear of the formation started to move towards each other until they were basically one ball of orange light. It then proceeded to move alone back the way they came (northwest, towards Irondequoit) after a couple of seconds it stopped and a 4th ball of light moved into view from behind trees heading in the same southwest route the original 3 were taking. The now 2 orange lights moved in what looked like a parallel formation, with one leading just a little in front. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 20, 2015 · 9:00 PM · FORMATION
West Valley City, UT
I first noticed an object at about 9:38 PM, Friday, June 19, 2015. This object was about the size of the ISS and was brightly lit by solar reflection. I watched it for some time, it was moving from south west to north east. It looked like 3 balloons tied together in a triangular pattern. Skip to 9:00PM Saturday, June 20, 2015. I was talking to my neighbor and he was showing me a bright star to the west of the Moon. I told him that I had seen something that was strange looking the night before and pointed to the region in the sky where I had seen the object the night before. Low and behold the same object was was in the sky as the night before and in the same general location. The object was still visible as the sun had just set. It looked like 3 balloons tied together in a triangular pattern. But there was a reflection from the sun reflecting off something at the top of the uppermost ballon. Size: From my vantage point the size of the 3 connected objects appeared to be as large as the diameter of the fuselage of a commercial jet. If you were to look at a map of the Salt Lake City Valley, I would have seen the object directly over the Murray region. The object was relatively stationary for about 5 minutes, then it traveled west south west until it was in the direct path of jets on final approach to SL International Airport. Then it appeared to climb in elevation from what appeared to be about 20,000 feet until it disappeared straight upward out of sight moving directly southward over Camp Williams. The path was in a slow "S" pattern. but the strange thing is the same object was in the sky 2 days in a row. Military drone of some kind???????????
June 19, 2015 · 2:30 AM · FORMATION
Yuma, AZ
((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) Mr. Davenport, ...Sorry for not responding to you in a timely manner but since I got back from our family vacation a ton of work was waiting for me. The correct date for my sighting was June 19, 2015... ((END ADDENDUM)) Date in original report was flawed, so we have assigned an arbitrary date, until we hear back from the witness. PD
June 18, 2015 · 3:00 PM · FORMATION
Cheyenne, WY
At first it looked like a cluster of stars. But once we really looked, it was like six little lights, all floating really close together. Way too bright to be stars. We live on south House, and it was so bright it lit up the whole backyard. We have sent an e-mail to the source of the report, to make sure that the time indicated above is correct. We suspect that a correct time may be 0300 hrs., but we cannot be certain. PD