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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.
9,112 entries
June 7, 2018 · 1:45 AM · OTHER
Pensacola, FL
Pensacola, Florida, June 7, 201,8 1:45-1:55 am I was at the intersection of US98 and S 72nd Ave, facing south at the traffic light. I saw a light behind the traffic light, and ignored it because it resembled a spot light on a helicopter, and there's much military and civilian air traffic due to nearby bases and airports. I looked again, while waiting for the green light, and noticed the distant object hadn't moved, and didn't have strobe or nav lights. I squinted to see it better and realized it was a very strange object. It was about 30° or less off of the horizon, and just west of due south from my location. I turned right instead, to get closer to the object. I pulled into a parking lot at 7575 W Hwy 98, and was directly north of the object. The area it was over was mostly wooded, I was afraid if i drove any closer I might miss it. At this point it was nearly 45-60° overhead, and was extremely bright. It was the size of a fingernail at arm's length, it was a clear sky and no reference point made it difficult to discern the size. My best guess is that it was a 1-2 thousand feet away, and appeared to be between the size of a car and a bus, but i really don't know for sure. It was "smaller" than a full moon, maybe 60% of that size. I jumped out of the car and immediately took a cell phone video, but could see the aperture was too small on the cheap camera and there wasn't enough light to see it on the screen. I tried taking several unsuccessful still shots, but it was still too dim/small, and didn't show up. I gave up after 3 shots, and focused instead on observing the object. It wobbled around, much like a top but very small movements. It also seemed tethered because it stayed in one spot while wobbling. The colors were hard to determine because of the luminosity of the surface, and also there were dark areas that seemed to indicate it was rotating. It was mostly yellow/orange/pink, the dark areas seemed blue or green, but they were distant and moving. It was shaped almost exactly like a queen's crown, it was rounded like a muffin on top, but had a ring underneath, like the headband on a crown. There may have been something on top, like a point, or it may have been light glare from the object. The dark areas were on the sides, like panels or windows. I considered it may have been a Chinese lantern, or maybe a quad copter, or some type of prank drone. It was totally silent, I have heard how noisy drones typically are. I started to shout at it after a minute or two, to see if it would do anything. Maybe a minute later, a very bright red light just appeared on the 10:00 position of the object, it was a pinpoint of intense really red light. Astonished, I began to flash my phone flashlight off and on at the object. The red light "grew" upwards into a equally bright red line, like a car antenna popping up. The line was no bigger than the object itself. It remained a line for maybe 30-60 seconds. Afterwards, it retracted upwards to return to a single point of light, now with more space between the original object and the red light, but still very close. It remained stationary, when suddenly the objects drifted south. As the objects started to move they looked like they went into a thick, invisible fog. There was no cloud, they just vanished/faded into a smoky oblivion. The entire process was about 10 minutes or less.
June 6, 2018 · 8:00 PM · OTHER
Scottsdale, AZ
Hovering bright red light in southwest sky then extremely fast moving south to north. Moving in a very straight, smooth line north. Oval shape with tail that had a green light. This happened south of Camelback and Hayden Roads and moved very fast north. Color may have been light blue or gray.
June 5, 2018 · 1:30 PM · OTHER
Rochester, NY
I was with my friend and we were in my backyard which is a very wooded area and it was pretty dark but we were just going for a walk. And we saw in the sky 3 weird objects that I can't explained an it looked like it was just swaying and swinging itself in the sky.to be honest I thought it was a shooting star until it began sinking to the ground slowly followed by a loud bang and me and my friend ran back home, we were terrified.
May 31, 2018 · 10:10 PM · OTHER
Vestavia Hills, AL
A slow moving, crescent moon shaped object appeared in the distant sky just below the Antares star. In the 3 to 4 seconds that it was visible, It traveled but a few degrees across the sky, disappearing at or near the Messier 19 cluster.
May 31, 2018 · 12:12 PM · OTHER
Sauerlach (Germany) · Germany
On May 31st, 2018, I have photographed accidentally an unknown object over Lanzenhaar a locality which belongs to the village Sauerlach which lies roughly 30 kilometers south from the city Munich in Germany. On this date, I have tried my newly bought camera and on one of this photos appeared this object. I have not seen it visually on it this day. I have noticed it first while looking at the pictures on my laptop. If you could analyze it or know people who could would be great. I have taken more pictures of the same spot and it only appeared on this particular picture. We have requested a copy of the photo, but have not received it, at the time of this writing. PD
May 30, 2018 · 11:00 PM · OTHER
Myrtle Beach, SC
I was recently visiting Myrtle Beach, SC, and awoke from a deep sleep and walked out onto the ocean front balcony of my room sometime after 10pm. The moon was full and could occasionally be seen through dark rolling rain clouds. I first saw a bright orange light seemingly just turn on at the edge of a dark cloud. It was in my left field of vision. It disappeared and then another orange light appeared in my right field of vision also seeming to be at the edge of another dark cloud. It disappeared, and then three orange lights appeared coming down into formation in a break in clouds. They stopped in what appeared to be a perfect diagonal line. The lower end was on my left as I looked out over ocean from the seventh floor. It was as though they stopped to observe something. Then two orange lights appeared with a greater distance between them. It looked as though they were guiding a much larger object made of dark metal reflected by moonlight. I only saw ! one end of the larger object which was round or oval and moving away from me into the clouds. The orange lights looked like bright stars with spikes of light coming from them like bright objects often look in the night sky, but the spikes seemed more defined or like jewels would appear in bright light. I am not sure about the time. It was a restless night, and I did not even consider leaving to find my telephone to make pictures, but I now wonder why. I think I was overwhelmed, and could not get my friend awake enough to look. I hope someone else saw this. Please see other reports from the Myrtle Beach area for this date. PD
May 30, 2018 · 7:00 PM · OTHER
Stockbridge, GA
Going driving Northeast looking at setting sun and saw a dark shape that was changing shape and size, got my phone out and took a few pics but it only showed up n one frame. was only visible for a few secs.
May 29, 2018 · 8:02 AM · OTHER
Bend, OR
I pointed the object out to my spouse and snapped 4 photos. The object consisted of four black spheres that seemed connected.
May 26, 2018 · 11:00 PM · OTHER
Crowville, LA
My sister and I were outside around 10:50 p.m. testing out a thermal monocular I had recently purchased. I spotted several birds resting in trees and a raccoon climbing a tree. I heard a plane flying overhead and tracked it across my field of view with the monocular. After it had passed from view, I remarked to my sister that I could see different insects flying around the treetops. While observing the insects, I had an object come into my field of view for a total of about 6 seconds. My sister couldn't see it with her naked eye. The object, shaped like a tic-tac was rotating end over end and covered my field of view in 6 seconds. The jet I had observed earlier in the same field of view covered the distance in about 55 seconds. The object was traveling North west in a straight line from the South East. It had a faint glow to it in the Thermal monocular. I had no problem tracking it. The rotation was smooth end over end. I've spent another 2 hours viewing that night and saw nothing that resembled the object. I've watched the space shuttle fly over on its descent to land several times before and the tic tac object was moving faster.
May 25, 2018 · 8:15 PM · OTHER
Chardon, OH
We noticed an object flying in the sky from west to east that look like a normal jet with a secondary set of wings up front. The wings up front were smaller than the wings in the back. This object was flying low at 5 to 10k feet and it was abnormally loud at a lower frequency, almost like low level rumbling thunder. We both tried to get cell video, but it was so fuzzy you couldn't tell in the video. I searched all over the net and could not find one example of anything that looked like this. It was not refueling in mid-air, only one body was sighted.
May 19, 2018 · 10:45 AM · OTHER
Wapakoneta, OH
On Saturday morning, May 19th, 2018, while driving my motorcycle North on I-75 in Ohio I observed an object moving from west-north-west to east-south-east at a very high speed. There was no jinking or other manoeuvre. The flight path was completely straight. I did not note the mile mark, but it was at least an hour out of Piqua, and before the turn to US 30, where I would eventually link up with I-90. I was travelling about 75 mph, and the object moved so quickly, I felt I was standing still. My field of view was about 160 degrees and the object traversed that in about one second. There was no sound (although to be fair, there was a fair bit of wind noise despite the fairing and windshield). It was difficult to gauge height as the object’s shape was nothing with which I was familiar. But to hazard a guess, probably less than 1000 feet. But if I had been in my car, the roofline which not have let me see it. It was below the clouds (but it was not overcast – there was plenty of sunshine). There was no sonic boom, so I could conclude the object’s speed was less than Mach 1, but the speed with which it traversed my field of view meant to me that it was travelling between 250 to 400 mph. The object was all gray, similar to USAF aircraft colours, but darker. I could not see engines, nor any obvious wing shape. There were no lights, there was no trail, it emitted nothing, it stayed the same shape. The sketch of its outline below is from memory (a day-and-a-half old). (the sketch would not paste in this box - I will send the sketch to Mr. Davenport's e-mail address.) My outline is poor - the front was a smooth curve (in other words, no implied cockpit – and I did not see one). A few minutes later I spotted an airplane making a turn off in the distance to the West a couple of miles at least. No idea what type – but it had wings and moved as an aircraft moves, and it appeared to be very low. The object I saw was definitely not a commercial aircraft, private propeller driven aircraft, business jet or a missile. It was not a helicopter, nor was it a civilian drone, nor was it a bird, nor a bug, nor an imperfection in my visor – it was up, nor a floater. I am ex-military (Canadian army officer) and I had just been to visit the USAF National Museum for the Memphis Belle exhibit – nothing there would look like what I saw, even the experimentals, when in the air. Nor would any of ours. I suspect it was a large drone of unique design – but I thought no unmanned air-breathing vehicles were allowed flight over populated areas? Or maybe it was a new experimental manned aircraft and I just could not see the cockpit. Others must have seen it, so I hope my description and others, helps narrow the identification down to a few possibles.
May 16, 2018 · 8:57 PM · OTHER
Apache Junction, AZ
Not as big as moon but bigger than Venus very white bright light big. Lasted less than 2/3 minutes. It was freaky and exciting all at once. Not anything I have ever witnessed. It was east of Apache Junction just south of Superstition Mountains out towards Florence, Az. or Superior, Az. What a sight.
May 16, 2018 · 8:35 PM · OTHER
Lawrence, MI
I saw a bright white teardrop shaped light moving from west to east at low cloud level; several clouds were in the sky but overall sunny. The light appeared to travel out of one cloud then separated or ejected a brilliant blue light that turned gold and disappeared as the white light continued to the east and vanished into another cloud. It all happened extremely quickly, 3-5 seconds approx. in duration.
May 16, 2018 · 1:00 PM · OTHER
Bigelow, AR
I have spotted many of them lately, but only at night, that's why I knew this one was different. Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
May 15, 2018 · 9:45 PM · OTHER
Norco, LA
For the second time about a month I witnessed from the spillway on I-10W (near New Orleans Airport) a large commercial jet just floating in the sky, 100% not moving. No head wind issue just hovering in mid air. The first time I had just picked up my wife at the airport. Since January we have been followed from dusk till dawn every night no matter where we go even if we’re apart by these orb objects that sometimes looks like a star or possibly a drone. Have no propellers and make no sound just float. Some are very high, others are much lower and sometimes have an amber colored light. The lower ones follow us in the car, pop up over the tree line in our back yard in Ponchatoula, sometimes try to hide behind trees. Crazy, I know!!! I’m assuming these experiences are related. The second time way May 15th same place, this time a coworker was with me. This time a took a photo (came out very strange and nothing like what I was seeing) then a quick video that unf! ortunately doesn’t accurately capture what we saw.
May 13, 2018 · 5:30 PM · OTHER
McDonough, GA
Looked like a bright star, mostly red and blue twinkling lights. There were five in a semi-circular formation that were stationary in the sky. The largest and brightest one, began to move with fairly rapid speed. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 12, 2018 · 1:00 AM · OTHER
Williamsport, PA
Sitting in the bedroom my boyfriend had a "weird" feeling. A light came across ceiling twice and he grabbed a camera. He started taking pics in corner of side where I sleep and caught these images. How do I upload the pictures? No photos received, as of the date of this writing. PD
May 8, 2018 · 12:15 PM · OTHER
Colonial Heights, TN
8 May 2018 about 12:15 EDT afternoon. Sunny sky. Driving north on I-81 just north of Jearoldstown TN. A hovering or extremely slowly moving “commercial passenger jet” in appearance pointed about south. I’m driving about NE at about 60 mph uphill. It was a bizarre looking passenger jet, looks most similar to an Airbus 320. Grayish white skinny fuselage. Deep blue fan jet engine cowlings under wings. Deep blue under wing panels. It yawed in erratic motions to point in the general direction of my truck. It was either moving way below stall speed or it was hovering. No aft wing flaps deployed. The leading edge wing slats were deployed between the fuselage and cowlings but not outboard of the cowlings. They kept retracting and deploying or changed shape somehow and erratically. The fuselage was too skinny to be an Airbus. I first thought it was a predator drone but realized it was not that shape. Where the front cockpit glass should be was a thin black line. It slightly rolled and yawed in jerky motions. It was not a hovering propellor drone. But it appeared to be a fake somehow, about 1/2 to 2/3’s the size a commercial jet should be. I drove under it on the highway with the thing either doing less than 30 mph or hovering as our speed differentials were no more than about 100 mph. I estimate it AGL at about 1000 ft. No nav lights, no livery markings, no N number. The bizarre leading edge inboard slats were not normal in shape or function.
May 8, 2018 · 12:00 AM · OTHER
Apache Junction, AZ
My sister and I were driving a back road. A green beam from 3-5 miles away shot a straight beam at us. My eyes still hurt. It repeated 7 times at first it seems it was a lost hiker. I pointed me headlights at the light and turned them off and on. The light appeared to climb the mountain side very quickly. The it became 2 light sources. Sudden flicker appeared as stardust, then again back to a green beam. I flashed a flashlight in flames of 3 hoping for more communication. And only a faint light remained then disappeared. The event lasted about 30 minutes. This was not my first encounter, just a new experience!
May 5, 2018 · 11:30 PM · OTHER
Hailsham (UK/England) · United Kingdom
Myself and my husband went outside the back of our house to have a cigarette, I looked up to the sky to see the stars I noticed a bright light and thought it was an plane as we see them often, it didn't move like a plane it was stationary with red, blue, white, orange lights going from left to right along the length of it. my husband went to get his binoculars to get a better look at the strange lights all the while it didn't move, we both looked and were amazed to see a very large jellyfish shaped object with illuminous lights of different colours, my husband thought he saw smaller objects going in to the largest object, but couldn't be sure, we watched it for a good hour then went to bed
May 5, 2018 · 8:36 PM · OTHER
New York, NY
If you go to the USGS website https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/, click on the gear logo on the upper right side and in the drop down menu select Satellite under Map Layers, on the bottom right of the picture you'll see the location of your mouse as you moving it around. Go to locations 42.366˚N 70.868˚W and 42.672˚N 70.572˚W. You'll find some interesting objects, slightly out of focus and seem to be somewhere between the satellite's camera and the ground. Just curious if anyone can explane what they're might be. We have looked at the photo, and the objects appear to us most likely to be either optical aberrations, or some type of contamination in the photo. PD
May 5, 2018 · 8:00 PM · OTHER
Clinton, MA
This object was jet black in color and had strange angles to it; It seemed to hover at times, but continued in a straight NE direction. MUFON report. PD
May 5, 2018 · 7:34 PM · OTHER
Valrico, FL
On the evening of May 05, 2018, I couldn't get the dog's attention but I took a picture of her anyways. I then took a picture of the window because I thought the crystal looked pretty. For some reason I took a picture of the yard by the fence but couldn't see anything in my phone screen because it was too bright so I adjusted my feet and turned to the right and took another picture. Realizing I couldn't see anything on my phone screen still, I just gave up and went inside. I later looked at the photos and that's when I noticed the dog staring into a beam, two white figures standing by the fence and a formation of clouds flying away and over the bench.
May 5, 2018 · 3:10 AM · OTHER
Lecompton, KS
I have a Moultrie trail camera that recorded the objects. The camera is set to fire three times if triggered by movement of a physical object. Usually a deer, turkey or the motion of limbs in a tree. The time stamp is accurate. The camera during the minute on May 5, 2018 at 3:10 AM recorded the movement of 6 objects stacked vertically and separated by a greater distance than the height of each object. It is a night shot so color can’t be determined the individual objects appear white and in shape and size similar to a marshmallow or a vertebra, slightly more rectangular than square and moving across and away from the camera so the focus on the first shot makes them appear rounded on the edges in the first and squarer in the 2nd and 3rd shots due to the proximity of the camera. It was not witnessed. The camera is pointed away from any possible moon reflection and the background is trees and brush. There are no roads or driveway in the field of view of the c! amera nor behind it. The camera has been in this same location for over a year and no such phenomena has ever been recorded. I would like to provide the photos to someone for interpretation. I am a professional with a doctorate, over 70, and am rational and never reported any other such phenomena.