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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
June 16, 2015 · 8:30 PM · FORMATION
Pascagoula, MS
At approx 20:30-20:45, myself and a co-worker seen a series of lights that seemed at first like a set of flares that a fighter jet would release if he had a missile locked onto him, but instead of it only going in one direction of travel, it had a mirror effect with it. The lights started in the middle and went outwards in sequence. Example: Imagine having around 20-30 lights, half on each side of a center, one light on each side came on at the same time as the next light on each side came on the previous light went out one it went through all if the lights in the series. It happened again SAME location not higher, not lower, not left or right. I tried thinking of things that might resemble or even make this light show, but can't seem to figure it out. This is the THIRD TIME we have seen this light show in a year, and it's ALWAYS in the same location out one the Mississippi Sound.
June 16, 2015 · 7:45 PM · FORMATION
Myrtle Beach, SC
I was in Myrtle Beach with a group of my friends for a vacation and we all had decided to go sit down on the beach itself and just take in the waves and wind. The sun had just set, and there was a fair amount of light still illuminating the western sky, but the shoreline faces east in South Carolina so the sky over the ocean was about 80% of the total darkness it would reach, by my estimation. My friends and I were sitting in the sand directly facing the ocean. I was looking above the water at the stars and the various aircraft traveling through the sky when I noticed something odd. There were three sustained white lights in a very close and tight triangular formation. When I first saw them they weren’t moving, and I shrugged it off as a natural occurrence but still kept my eye on them. Suddenly, all three objects began advancing westward (toward land) in perfect unison. This is when I alerted some of my friends to what I was seeing. The lights kept perfect formation and moved very slowly. The lights continued to move for a minute or two before stopping on a dime and maintaining the formation. The lights held there for another minute or so, and then they simply vanished. No movement or anything. The lights were there and then they weren’t. It was almost as if they were switched off somehow.
June 14, 2015 · 12:30 PM · FORMATION
Reno, CA
I was driving my car along the 395 North leaving, Reno, NV, on the 14th June, 2015, when I saw 5 silver objects traveling in a cluster between me and a mountain which looked a bit like an asteroid but there was no fumes or smoke. They were travelling at a steady pace east. I pulled out my phone and opened the camera and pressed record, but when they were gone, I stopped and then I realized it never recorded. It recorded me screaming with excitement from when I pressed stop in started recording.
June 11, 2015 · 8:49 PM · FORMATION
Weston, FL
5 separate circular objects following in formation, going east to west seemed to form as one, approximately 30 seconds later one more crossed over. No noise, but other airplanes were seen going east towards Fort Lauderdale airport. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 11, 2015 · 1:06 AM · FORMATION
Molokai (above), HI
The round spheres seamed to shift in colors as they were in a formation of 5 going from bottom to the top taking turns. A better description would be a mating dance of some sea creatures. This would go on and be repetitive and ongoing. Made no sense and I placed my view to see if it could have been a star and since there were five spheres they would disappear out of view from the wall I used to see if it was just a twinkle light from a star. By using a building and the stars to measure their movements I knew this was not just a light source. They were seen from far away but their speed they could accelerate in was astounding. The most common color shifting was grey blue to deep blue with some pink hues. The objects had no base or top. Just a perfect sphere. This was not close up, but this I could see. This is my second time I encountered this phenomena. The first time I only could see three spheres. On June 10 the day prior to see the five spheres at sunset, ! the electric turned off at the house without explanation.
June 8, 2015 · 11:00 PM · FORMATION
Twin Falls, ID
I looked out the window at 23:00 and I saw a bright light, shaped into a teardrop, with what It seem like two tentacles moving back and forth. So, I immediately wake up my boyfriend and he says, “Wow, that is strange!” I couldn’t stop looking at it and I wanted to get closer to it. I grabbed my keys and started to drive towards it, and then it disappeared and reappeared on my right side. It just looked like it was hovering over something and after driving for 15 minutes I decided to turn back. When I arrived at my home, the light was gone, and right when I was going to turn away, it reappeared and changed into a blood red color. It seems to change shapes from an oval to a perfect circle. After staring at it for about an hour and a half, looks like the mysteries object is fading away, it just keeps getting smaller and smaller.
June 8, 2015 · 10:00 PM · FORMATION
St. Cloud, FL
I called to my husband who was in the living room and asked him to come and see the 3 lights. He said, it’s probably Venus, Jupiter and Saturn all lined up. I did see the planets lined up, but they were north of our house. The lights I was observing was in the southern sky. When my husband came out and looked at the 3 lights, he was baffled. Just for reference, my husband is a former Air Force Captain. He also holds a degree in electrical engineering. Needless to say he is a very logical thinking individual. He was speechless as he gazed on the 3 lights. Then as we were watching the stationary lights, all of a sudden a formation of 3 more lights appeared east of the first set of lights. It was extremely close to the first set of 3. Size and luminosity was identical, but it did not form a perfect triangle. The first and second set of lights may have been on the same entity. My husband said “go get a camera”. I went inside, looked for a minute or so, but all I could find was a pair of binoculars. I went back, took a look through the binoculars, then I handed them to my husband. I continued observing the lights with my bare eyes, but my husband was looking at it through the binoculars. Then about 1–2 minutes into our viewing, the second set of lights began to turn off one by one. The first set remained stationary. Then about a minute later, one by one it began to turn off. The last light did not turn off but began to diminish in size and luminosity until it finally was off. It was a clear night, where you could see lots of stars and planets in the sky. What we saw was not a planet or star. It was not very high up in the sky. I did not have to tilt my head to look up, as you do with the stars in the sky. We just looked south. It looked as if it was right on the other side of Lake Gentry.
June 8, 2015 · 9:47 PM · FORMATION
Hatteras, NC
2-3 glowing fireballs. Saw formation disappear several times in various spots above coastline. Intermittent display of several objects.
June 8, 2015 · 9:45 PM · FORMATION
Hunters Creek, FL
At 9:45pm 6/8/2015, 3 orange lights in delta formation appeared stationary or slowly descending on horizon. After telling another person on the phone about them, she too did see them (lives close by) About 5 minutes after another 3 orange lights in delta formation appeared out of the blue right next to the first formation. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 8, 2015 · 9:30 PM · FORMATION
Poinciana, FL
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 7, 2015 · 10:20 PM · FORMATION
Berkeley (above), CA
I was just looking outside of my window, having a smoke; admiring the Oakland Hills until I noticed a large bright light in the distance, just right by the radio towers. It was had quite a large shine and would begin to fade after 5 minutes. After the first light, another small orb began to glow what looked like just a couple miles away from that, but seemed to be even brighter. That one blinked quite a few times, and even changed color. At one point. (green, red/ orange) it slowly died off, and then it got really bright, like a flash. Almost like someone was taking a picture from really far away (I live in Emeryville). After that light stopped, another light appears not to far from the last blinking. The three lights became sequenced, but only one at a time. They look like signals, really. Really bright signals…
June 7, 2015 · 5:28 PM · FORMATION
Portland, OR
Three bright shiny objects in the sky, I spotted them nearly directly overhead at what seemed quite a distance, two objects were closer to each other than third. As the cluster moved southwest, it felt like they got closer, eventually I was able to see a tether between the three that seemed to keep them in a colinear formation. While mylar balloons is the most likely explanation, they didn't seem to be as flighty as I would expect in this wind. The objects also felt like larger objects further away than mylar balloons would have been.
June 7, 2015 · 1:32 AM · FORMATION
Glendale, AZ
At approximately 1:30 am, my boyfriend was out back with the pups and asked me to come outside to see what he had been watching for a couple minutes in the West sky. There was this cluster of 20 bright crisp silvery metallic white lights in a loose grouping. The angle we were looking up into the sky was 30 degrees. The lights appeared to have a pattern they were blinking off and on through but neither of us could tell you specifically what it was. This grouping of lights, for lack of a better description, moved in a westerly direction as if attached to a drunken butterfly. Slowly, left, right, forward, stationary, rinse, repeat. Although the lights were moving farther west and away from us, they were still very bright white.....not soft or amber but clear bright white. We spoke with both witnesses, and both appeared on a radio program. They were both very objective, and sober-minded, in describing the event, and we suspect that both of them are quite reliable, and capable, witnesses. PD
May 30, 2015 · 10:30 PM · FORMATION
Nottingham (just east of Baltimore), MD
A few minutes later, another cluster appeared and spread across the evening sky. We have never seen anything like this before. I tried to film this, but they do not show on film.
May 30, 2015 · 12:32 PM · FORMATION
Riverside, RI
I have no recollection of taking this picture, but found it while going through my iPhone. I suspect we were out on our boat taking pictures, because this one was amongst several other pictures. I tried to enhance the photo myself to see if I could bring more detail into focus, but wasn't really able to. This is the unadulterated photo.
May 24, 2015 · 9:00 PM · FORMATION
Crystal Lake, IL
Single fireball, followed by another and then two pairs in formations. Orange fireballs, bright, silent, relatively faster than commercial aircraft normally observed in this area. Unidentified by any standards familiar to me.
May 21, 2015 · 12:30 AM · FORMATION
Santa Ana, CA
Looked like an L shaped lights at least 5 of them disappearing downward into a v shape and gone. After about a 1 min or 2 it appeared againg straight from where they were first seen at. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 1, 2015 · 9:00 PM · FORMATION
Meridian, ID
It was exactly like the Phoenix lights, and someone has a photo of the formation.
April 26, 2015 · 10:00 PM · FORMATION
Berkeley (above), CA
i was d home on I-80 west towards Berkeley. There's a big turn just passed the Carlson exit which gives you a view of Berkeley. Right then I saw the formation. It was about 25 degrees off the horizon, so pretty low. They were not higher than the red pulsating lights from the radio tower near by. Seeing the formation made me feel uneasy. I quickly got off the freeway at the next exit and drove down to see it from a safer viewing point. The formation by then had dispersed, but the orbs still seemed relatively close together, until they finally either went dim or flew away. There was no sound heard from these orbs and it was a clear night. I have a video which I will link later.
April 26, 2015 · 7:10 PM · FORMATION
Scotch Plains, NJ
On 26 April 2015 at 7:10pm, in full daylight before the sun began to set, I saw a large grouping of 12 white or silver dots pass slowly east, beneath the daytime half moon. The leading three dots held steady in the shape of a large right triangle. I could not tell if the other 9 held a pattern or moved around slightly, due to their faintness and some light wispy clouds. Viewing them through binoculars did not reveal any details, still just bright dots. I could not tell if they were mylar balloons, but they probably weren’t birds because the formation was moving too slowly. The sighting lasted about five minutes as the lights moved slowly and very steadily toward the eastern horizon, until they were no longer visible. I live about 20 miles southwest of Manhattan, and this was very similar to the mass sighting there on 13 October 2010.
April 26, 2015 · 1:00 AM · FORMATION
Edmonton (Canada), AB · Canada
I am on my days off from working nightshift, and I am unpacking, as I recently moved. It was about 1:00 AM (01:00HR's) when I was looking out my window wishing I had the lenses for my telescope when I noticed a peculiar star just above the horizon. It was blinking in a • • - • • - patter if it was morse code. Moving from White to red. After looking at it for about a minute, I noticed another smaller object blinking in an on/off pattern moving closer to the first star like object. I watched it until came to approximately the half way point, form its immediate position. At that point a formation of red lights appeared in an almost trapezoid pattern. I then went to grab my dSLR camera with a telephoto lens, by the time I got back the lights and formations where gone. While viewing the objects it almost appeared that the normal shade of horizon lit up. I looked away and back again to make sure it wasn't something I was hallucinating. It was a strange experience. There was aircraft following normal commercial flight paths, no other known behaviours.
April 20, 2015 · 1:30 AM · FORMATION
Pullman, WA
As I'm lying in bed in my apartment, I see outside my window a really bright light, so I kept staring at it. It was a fixed white light with a red flashing light right beside it, sometimes it looked like it was underneath the white light and sometimes it looked like it was to the side of it. As if it was changing direction. I first womdered if it was a planet because some flash colors but it started to move really fast up and down, and side to side. I watched for two hours as it hovered and moved back and forth across the sky, to eventually disappear. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 17, 2015 · 10:45 PM · FORMATION
Tampa, FL
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 15, 2015 · 3:00 PM · FORMATION
Blanchardville, WI
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD