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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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May 7, 2015 · 11:25 PM · OVAL
Ft. Lauderdale, FL
At approximately 11:25 p.m., I observed a very large object off the coast, due east of my location. It was approximately the size of a full moon. It looked to hold a constant altitude and was slowly moving north to south. It was shaped like an oval on its side and had bright burnt orange light emanating from it. The bands of light were roughly vertical and were moving from left to right on the object. The light seemed to bend, with the ends of each band curving towards the center. When the light bands were towards the left side of the object, the ends bent to the right. When the lights had rotated to the right side of the object, the bands bent to the left. As the light bands reached towards the center of the object they appeared vertical. It was observed during the beginning of a lightning storm a few miles off the coast, just about where the Gulf Stream scoops and towards the coast. After maybe 15 minutes it quickly faded and the disappeared, possibly into ! the clouds. Shortly thereafter I heard choppers but saw no lights. Very strange for around here as we have a lot of air traffic and to run without lights would be extremely risky. I tried to snap a picture but considering it was with the camera phone the quality is very poor. We spoke via telephone with the source of this report, and he sounded to us to be quite sober-minded. We suspect that he is a very good witness. PD
May 7, 2015 · 9:30 PM · OVAL
Glencoe, KY
Started showing up about 3 weeks ago every evening. At first, I only noticed one but lately more seem to meet in sky. They hang around a while moving around slowly. Now tonight I saw at least 5 in the sky. I only have binoculars but when I look through them I see one main light seems to move around. Sometimes I can see a few blue lights with the naked eye. Its long in shape with the blue lights towards the bottom of the object. They seem just hovering over the area here. I did make my roommate go out and look one evening. He saw it but didn't really seem to care but he did see it. I'm really just curious on what i'm seeing. If anyone could give me a idea of what it could be I would appreciate a answer. It's not scaring me; I'm just curious.
May 7, 2015 · 9:00 AM · OVAL
Chicago, IL
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 7, 2015 · 12:00 AM · OVAL
Eagan, MN
Driving Northbound on 35E at Yankee Doodle. Look North West and As a green light illuminates and starts accelerating downward (Maybe a half mile in the sky). Light turned off for a second and reappeared right above trees before disappearing into them. We suspect that the correct time and date are midnight, Thursday morning, May 07, 2015. We have amended the date above. PD
May 5, 2015 · 9:30 PM · OVAL
Port Crane, NY
It was a bright circle of bluish-white light hovering what looked to be a few miles away from my house. It was too bright to be a star or any other celestial object. It did not move until about 45 seconds later, in which it started moving rapidly in a westward direction. To me, it appeared to be moving faster than any helicopter. Also, the light on the object appeared to be too bright to be a helicopter at that distance. The object made no noise at any time.
May 3, 2015 · 11:30 PM · OVAL
North Canton, OH
On Sunday, May 3, 2015, at approximately 23:30 hours, the reportee states he observed 15-20 orange, oval shaped objects in the western sky travelling east. The was no specific formation to them. The objects travelled east for a short time, and then changed direction, travelling north, until they were out of sight. The speeds of the objects were steady, smooth, and did not appear to be moving rapidly. The reportee stated he and a family member witnessd this event together. He decided to report it to his local law enforcement agency on Monday, May 4, 2015, at 13:15 hours.
May 3, 2015 · 12:00 AM · OVAL
Muskegon, MI
I went to get my phone to call 911 about it and it was gone just that fast and 911 gave me the ufos number so I called them. It looks like it was in the west.
May 2, 2015 · 12:00 AM · OVAL
Anchorage, AK
A clear star lit night when in the southern sky heading west over Anchorage was a bright small orange oval at a very high altitude moving three times the speed of a jet. It traveled for what seemed like half the distance of the city when it just disappeared. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 28, 2015 · 3:30 PM · OVAL
Mississauga (Canada), ON · Canada
I WAS FLYING MY KITE AT MY PARK THE KITE WAS PRETTY FAR UP THE WIND WAS BLOWING SOUTH I WAS TRYING TOO UNRAVEL MY STRING FROM KNOTS, WHEN I LOOKED UP AND BEHIND MY KITE WAS A SILVER ROUND DONUT SHAPED OBJECT COMING CLOSER TOO MY KITE! IT WAS SHINY SILVER, AND REFLECTING THE SUN. AS I TURNED TO THE OTHER GUY AT THE PARK AND SAID, "HEY, LOOK BEHIND MY KITE, WHAT IS THAT?" HE SAID, "I DON'T KNOW. STRANGE, HUH?" IT LOOKED LIKE A SILVER INNER TUBE BUT THERE'S NO STORES THAT SELL SILVER INNER TUBES. IT APPEARED TO BE CURIOUS ABOUT MY KITE. MY KITE DETAILS ARE A DIAMOND SHAPE DELTA SUPERMAN SYMBOL. ALSO THE WIND WAS BLOWING SOUTH. THIS INNER TUBE/DONUT SILVER OBJECT WAS APPROACHING MY KITE IN THE SKY, HEADING NORTH TOWARDS MY KITE. IF SOMEONE PLAYED A TRICK AND PUT A HELIUM SILVER INNER TUBE AND LET IT GO TO FLOAT AWAY, THEN IT WOULD NOT APPROACH A KITE WHEN THE WIND IS BLOWING SOUTH! IT WOULD JUST KEEP HEADING SOUTH AND UP. We have changed the time to p.m.. We suspect the witness was not flying a kite at 03:30 hrs., i.e. 3:30 a.m., as he indicated in his original report. We have edited the report extensively, to make it understandable. PD
April 28, 2015 · 1:00 AM · OVAL
Orland Park, IL
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 27, 2015 · 6:00 PM · OVAL
West Valley, UT
Sitting in back yard facing east, looking toward the backside of our home. Our home is in the flight path for the Salt Lake International Airport. As I looked over the top of our house, I saw what at first I thought was a large jet, but it was approaching from the wrong direction (from the east). It appeared to have 3 large, bright white lights, and one red light on the top. None of the lights were blinking. At some point during this experience, I realized I was looking at an extremely large craft. I called to my wife and asked her to bring me my camera while I continued to observe. It was coming closer, but was still quite high, obviously I don’t know the size of the craft, but I would guess it was at 8000 to 10,000 feet altitude. My wife called out that she could not find the camera (I was preparing to go on a trip the next day and had put it in a bag) so I started toward the house. At that point I could tell the craft was slowing down. As I walked toward our deck I nearly lost my balance and felt like I was becoming quite dizzy. I grabbed onto the handrail of the deck and looked back up and the craft was continuing to slow, then it made an approximately 90 degree turn to a northly direction and began to increase its altitude and speed. A cloud started to form around it as it climbed. I watched until it was completely out of my sight.
April 25, 2015 · 9:45 PM · OVAL
Houston, TX
st saw my first ufo. It was so fast. There is heavy cloud coverage and contrails are heavy here in Houston. I am downtown. I am.. just Shocked. It was just like a quarter second of lights through the clouds. 2 guys in front of me saw it too. Compass pointing south. About 45 degrees from horizon line. Saw it around 945pm central. Located at east down warehouse in downtown Houston d. I honestly thought it was a plane at first. We have lots of air traffic here, but it was too big and the lights were different. It could have just been the right time right place for a cloud to open up to the meteor that skid across only a small patch of clouds It was fast. It felt close, like in a low cloud. It was so fast. The lights seemed out of this world. They are a blur in my memory now, but they were amazing from what I remember
April 25, 2015 · 9:45 PM · OVAL
Galveston, TX
Saturday night looking to the West from beach house located at Terramar Beach I with two friends witnessed 3 large slow moving hot pink/red orbs in a following formation over West Bay. The orbs had an intense color of hot pink/red and appeared a little smaller than a BB held at arms length. Orbs were three fingers above the horizon, quite low when first seen with the middle orb higher than the front and following orb. Orbs moved from west to east along the bay then turned over the bay toward the mainland. Leading orb did not appear after it's view was blocked by a house. Higher orbs continued across West Bay and faded out. 5 min in view. 10 minutes a second formation appeared just like the first but now 4 orbs were in a right to left very low trailing formation. The lower orbs were blocked by a house others turned and faded out. Viewed thru 10x23 mm binoculars, orbs were ALL LIGHT and SOLID in tight focus. 3 photo's taken.
April 25, 2015 · 5:22 PM · OVAL
New Plymouth (New Zealand) · New Zealand
On Saturday the 25th of April 2015 I was at work. I am a keen amature photographer and seeing a beautiful sunset starting to form I grabbed my camera, went out the front of the store I work in and took around 30 photos. I didn't even look at them until the next morning but when I did noticed 1 only frame with three (3) black dots on it. Zooming in I was shocked to see they were not plains, birds, bugs or anything I have ever seen before. I'm sure you understand that I do not want to look like a crack pot, but am very curious as to what these may be. below is all the information about my camera and the photo. I have attached two photos taken 13 seconds apart to show one with the objects and one without. The first photo does not have the objects in it. To get an idea of scale, the building roof in the bottom of the photo was around 400 mtrs away and on top of a rise around 40 mtrs up. This photo would be pointing west out to sea.
April 24, 2015 · 2:00 PM · OVAL
Rogersville, MO
I have seen this same object twice, but not in the same location. The first was afternoon time in the northern sky. I happened to look up and see a silver/metallic oblong oval shape sitting in the air very high up. It seemed to fold into itself and disappear in the blink of an eye.I know it was sometime in the spring but do not know exact date. The second time I saw this I was driving west and looked up and the exact same thing happened. It seemed to fold into itself and disappear. It happened to fast to take a picture. Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
April 22, 2015 · 2:30 PM · OVAL
Laukaa (Finland) · Finland
It was flying over a forest, near a village. It was pretty far away. It went faster than a jet, produced no sound at all. It turned downward, then started quickly going upwards and vanished in the blink of an eye. Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
April 20, 2015 · 8:30 PM · OVAL
El Paso, TX
Oval shaped, blinking lights. A blinking white light going around the craft. And a blue light,orange light, and a purple light under the craft. There was exactly one craft. The craft was going in a ziz zag pattern then curved quicker than any thing the US has. Then went straight up then came back down real quick. Then came closer and then went far away then came back closer. Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
April 12, 2015 · 8:00 PM · OVAL
Fort Wayne, IN
Walking my Shih Tzu around pond I noticed a light in the sky with some blinking red heading north east. I thought it was just a plane until it cut sharp to the right and then down and then to the left. The only shape I could make out was round or oval. As I got almost around the pond it reappeared and was to the north of me. The thing had like a heart beat as it pulsed. I was so shocked I couldn't take my eyes off it. It was high up above houses before it went up into cloud coverage. I did get two videos but it's very hard to see as it looks like a dot in them. I used my iPhone. I will say I saw my 1st real UFO!!
April 11, 2015 · 8:00 PM · OVAL
Laguna beach, CA
5 orange oval shapes in formation were seen as we were driving south on pacific coast why at about 8:15 pm PST We pulled over to film, but all but one disappeared. My phone could not pick up the object. I did try and film. They were in a diamond formation with one in the center. Bright orange. They were visible despite the bright street lights and traffic.
April 11, 2015 · 3:30 PM · OVAL
Mercersberg, PA
My husband and I observed an oval object in the sky, not moving. At first we thought it was a star but it was daytime and this object was very bright, no clouds in the sky and no aircraft at first. My husband got the camera, zoomed in as close as he could and started taking photos....he took a lot of photos cause he wasn't sure he was getting the pics. He looked at pics and zoomed in and realized that the object was definitely there. The last photo he took was a sideview, the other 2 appeared to be of the bottom of the object. Then a jet was coming into the area and the object disappeared, so my husband went to get our neighbors and told them about it and showed them the pic. The object came back but in a different area in the sky, my husband got his pair of binoculars and we all 4 got to look at the object, this time it looked round and still very bright and changed location again....it seems to be hovering near Camp David. My husband has seen other questionable objects, but this is the first time where he had witnesses to what he saw. My husband is former military, he knows what he sees and this was not military aircraft. We do have photos but I don't know if I can download them correctly to see the image. My husband is going to get the photos processed and will be available upon request.
April 6, 2015 · 9:00 PM · OVAL
Glendale, AZ
Just after 9 pm, I took the dog out in the backyard to go potty before bedtime, I looked up and there it was, at first I thought it was a plane crashing down, then it zoomed up, side to side, then up and down again.. I called out for my roommate , he came out and saw it too!! It was purplish pink, and white on bottom, with it moving so fast, it was hard to see the actual shape.. but it was round or oval. Now we live near an airport and we see planes and helicopters constantly, day and night.. this was NOT an airplane or helicopter.. now you could see this thing as clear as you see a stop sign, and there's lots of traffic here , ground and air, now I KNOW other people had of seen it.. I saw a report of people seeing globes hovering in 1 spot for about 20 minutes, this is not what we saw.. we saw 1 object.. and from the back n forth movements.. It looked as if it was searching for something.. it was moving quickly and almost erratically.( it almost! looked like a object being held from a string.. like kids do.. but clearly this was not the case.. it was large.. but at some distance and that made it hard to gauge the actual size). but did slow down during this duration and hovered still at one point before moving again.. then it was going away from us.. and we lost sight of it past the horizon. I will have the camera ready tonight in case we see it again.. People rarely believe these stories until you see it with your own eyes.. I know what we saw.. and it was no plane!! or any other aircraft I've ever seen. and while we saw this.. there were planes in the distance!! There are always planes in the sky here, 24 hours a day.. So they had to of seen it too!!
April 5, 2015 · 8:45 PM · OVAL
Victoria (Canada), BC · Canada
I was flying with my instructor (working on my commercial night rating) over Victoria around 845pm on April 6th. We were at 2000ft heading Southbound pretty much directly over the Empress Hotel (Victoria Harbour). To our 11o'clock and about 10 degrees above horizon we both saw a orange orb illuminate, make a 3/4 "C" shape movement towards the ground (reversed it's track), and immediately disappeared. The entire phenomenon lasted only about a second. It was not an airplane, it seemed close, and in my opinion it was at too shallow of an angle to be a meteorite. It is also in an Fight Service Station advisory zone, so we would have immediately been advised of a traffic conflict if it was on radar. It could have been in the distance, but it seemed very close (maybe 300 - 500m away). I have seen falling stars before, as well as really unusual falling stars that delineate slightly due to naturally occurring conditions. It DID not look that way. The orange was so deeply intense, and unlike anything I have ever seen before. I'm trying to find a rational answer to what we saw.
April 5, 2015 · 2:00 PM · OVAL
Stevensville/Washington, D.C., MD
As I drove across the bridge, it did not move. I pointed it out to my passenger, who was also able to observe it. However, it then suddenly vanished. I kept a look out driving over Kent Island, but there was no sign of it, or any other object that could have been mistaken for it.
April 4, 2015 · 8:20 PM · OVAL
Lansdale, PA
Multiple Red objects seen on Saturday, 4-4-15 – ((address deleted)) Drive, Lansdale PA At approximately 8:20 PM we were in front of my home with a relative from New York. We were looking at the rising moon in the East and noticed how clear and warm it was in comparison to the previous weekends. We first saw a group of 13 red objects coming from the North West and they appeared to by flying in several formations. The first few flew in a configuration that looked like the constellation Sagittarius with two vertical V shaped formations of 3 objects following this constellation resembling formation. Since we live in the landing patterns for Philadelphia International Airport we are quite familiar with the heights, speeds and sounds of approaching, circling and departing aircraft. There were no sounds associated with these objects and they seemed to fly past us at about 4-6k ft at about 400 mph. About twice the speed we would normally see landing aircraft and about the height you would anticipate a plane to be landing at PIA. The objects were about twice the size of a passenger jet at this height. They all seemed to be identical. My cousin seemed to think they were V-shaped but all I saw was an oval Red Light. The objects were bright Red in all the groups. The second group followed the first after an interval of about 10 seconds. They were heading on the same course, Northwest to Southeast toward the rising full moon. The second group was a group of 9 objects flying almost at the same heights and speed as the first group. I had my cell phone and began taking video and stills. Surprising but the Video did not capture the objects, but my stills did. The second group flew with the first 6 objects flying in a half moon shape followed by 3 in a vertical line. At this point I called my wife outside and she did not know what to make out of them. When we thought they were gone another group of 3 following the same course, height and speed flew by, followed by another group of 3, then a few seconds later another group of 3. All were Red and all followed the same course. These were flying in a triangle, isosceles, with the two creating the base flying East and one tailing the other two. As they flew towards the rising moon they all disappeared climbing out of site, as they flew East. However, they all were climbing through the area of our vision, but seemed to be starting at a lower altitude from the West and climbing going East until they faded out of view. We have never seen anything like this especially with no associated sounds or flashing lights. Observers were an electrical engineer(male), tax accountant (female) and kindergarten teacher (female). Previously all skeptical on UFO's. Someone else had to see these with the amount of objects in the sky. We look forward to hearing if anyone else saw these.