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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
November 18, 2014 · 11:00 PM · FORMATION
Socastee, SC
I walked outside to smoke and looked to my right at the stars and saw lights turning off and then one comeing on and fadeing away and then another one comeing on in a circular or ovalish shape, ive seen this in the same place before just a few months ago but it lasted much longer that time and there was more lights around going to and from the object with the lights that were going on and off but in the very same place where i just saw it whitch is south west of socastee south carolina. We suspect that the sighting occurred at 2300 hrs., and have changed the time in the report above, to reflect that fact. PD
November 18, 2014 · 8:00 PM · FORMATION
Glendale, AZ
I was turning out of my college parking lot headed west onto Happy Valley road and in the sky approximately 2000-4000 feet in the sky I could see five orange lights fairly close together. The orange is a very unique orange and is similar to single lights I've seen hovering in the sky in the past. I was driving so my view was constantly being obstructed but i got three very good looks at this object. It would fade out of view like a light bulb being turned off and was only lit or visible for a few seconds at a time. It was either five lights in a line or 5 lights fixed onto a round craft. I could not quite make out the shape.
November 18, 2014 · 7:00 PM · FORMATION
Waynesboro, VA
While walking our dog tonight at approx 7:00 p.m. my wife and I noticed approx 40 bright white objects moving west to east in a large spread out group. This is the second time that we have witnesses this in the last 7 or so months. The last time we saw these objects the weather was exactly the same, clear & cold with gusts from the west. The only difference this time is that there were twice as many objects, all traveling the same direction, but at random positions up and down back and forth. It is very hard to say how high they were, but maybe at a few hundred feet is all. This only lasted for 10 min before all were out of sight to the eastern sky.
November 18, 2014 · 2:05 AM · FORMATION
Fort Wayne, IN
The lights slowed and stayed in one spot low in the sky then slowly moved south again where a fourth light became visible. Then it was gone. Definitely not an airplane.
November 16, 2014 · 6:00 PM · FORMATION
North Canton, OH
3 spherical forms in V-formation, followed by 6 more in V-formation. One took lead position, other craft in deep V-formation, from South to North. No obvious sound of aircraft or helicopter rotors. Speed slower than commercial aircraft or small craft.
November 16, 2014 · 1:30 PM · FORMATION
Marysville, WA
To the West , we saw approximately 50 small UFO's floating. It could have been balloons, but they appeared to be much too high. They appeared to be at approx. 15,000 - 20,000 feet and were pink in color, probably from the reflection of the Sun. They were floating North and in the formation of a type of star constellation.
November 15, 2014 · 9:30 PM · FORMATION
Riverside, TX
I live in a rural area around Riverside, Texas. The sky is very spacious here. It was on a clear night on November the 15 at 9:30 p.m. I was taking my dog out for a potty walk. I noticed how beautiful and clear the sky was. When I noticed some aircraft that I have never seen before flying low in the sky. They were bright orange lighting, not flashing, much larger than an airplane. They resembled the size of a space station that I have seen when it passes over. They were traveling from east to west across the sky. About the speed of an airplane. I could not hear a noise coming from them. There was an airplane in the sky at the same time which I could identify and hear at the same time the other aircraft were out. It was traveling from south to north. The other aircraft all traveled about the same distance apart comeing from the same direction. I counted about seven when I first noticed them. There could have been more. I went in the house and notified my daughter and she came out and witnessed them also. Then we counted about 17 but there were probably more that we didn’t set our eyes on.
November 15, 2014 · 8:20 PM · FORMATION
Elmira, NY
Formation of 20 Orange lights, chevron in shape - could have easily been one craft as all 20 lights moved in unison. I have never seen this in person, until now - but looked exactly like the video of the Phoenix lights! Watched for about 60 seconds before running inside to get my wife - by the time we got back outside the lights had traveled over half the town and quickly began "turning off" lowest light than in perfect sync all lights until only lead light was visible. Lead light continued traveling for about 30 secs before fading quickly. Not sure if there are any airforce bases in the area, as it could have been described as flares - but in my six months of living here I've never seen any airforce activity and it would have been dropping hot flares right into the city neighborhoods - and I cannot imagine them doing this. Furthermore, the perfect sync of the lights seemed unlikely for a flare drop. Absolutely amazing to see.
November 14, 2014 · 9:00 PM · FORMATION
Asbury, IA
A very large formation of red lights was sighted at the intersection of Asbury road and Hales Mill Road near the Asbury, Iowa City hall at about 9:00 PM. The objects were observed looking to the south to south west from the Asbury road side of the Asbury city hall Hales Mill Road intersection moving from the west to the east. From our viewpoint, the entire South to south western sky was filled with many red lights that we estimated to be comprised of 50 or more objects. We were driving so we proceeded about 1 mile east on Asbury road to a parking lot near the Hy-Vee store on Asbury road where several cell phone photos and a short video were taken of the objects. Then what appeared to be a green vortex was sighted just to the west of the object cluster. The objects looked like they were heading in the direction of the green vortex structure.
November 14, 2014 · 5:45 PM · FORMATION
Allentown, PA
My wife and I live between Allentown and Emmaus, Pa., in a residential area. Last evening, Nov.14, 2014, at 5:45 PM, while departing our house to dine with another couple, we spotted approx. 10 white lights in an up-side down "V" formation which were moving slowly towards us (Northern direction) in the Southern sky. After several minutes they stopped movement. The formation consisted of three lights on the left leg, one light on the point and six lights on the right leg. All were bright white/red. My wife remembers them as being red. I believe they were white with red in the central area. They did become almost all red. They appeared as very slightly flickering but that might've been due to the atmospheric conditions. I'd guess the brightness was that of a car's headlight from two miles away. Altitude was unknown and we estimated their location above as between Emmaus and Hellertown, Pa., and several miles from us. they were brighter than any star or planet. Shortly after stopping the three lights on the left leg started an upward movement and faded becoming mostly red in color. They might have went into a cloud but I could not see (the cloud). I thought they might be helicopters however we didn't detect any sound. After the three faded away we heard and saw a one engine light aircraft to our right coming out of the East and heading in a Westerly direction on an intersecting pattern with the lights. I'd estimate the aircraft's altitude was approx. 2,000 ft. There is a small airport less than two miles from our house. At the same time three very bright white lights appeared below and farther out (South). They appeared to be moving to meet the lights that were stationary. They could've been the three lights that were in the left leg that climbed and faded away and were returning. The skies were clear with few spotty clouds that were illuminated by ground lights. Meanwhile each light took turns becoming brighter as a landing light would appear. No distinct pattern was seen. The two leading lights in the right leg came closer together almost touching and their color became more red than white. The aircraft appeared to be very close to the unidentified lights and crossed in front of them. By then the engine sound of the light aircraft faded away. The four lights remained stationary so we entered our car and drove in a Southernly direction to meet our friends who were about three miles from our house. A Norfolk Southern freight train passed us 150 ft. to our left (Lehigh Line to Reading and Harrisburg). The track elevation rises as the line enters Emmaus,Pa. After stopping for a series of signal lights, I saw four lights appear just above but farther out than the train. This would be in my 10 o'clock position. While noticing they were yellow, three additional lights appeared to their right (my left). These were a bright and deeper amber color. All the lights were considerably larger than our first sighting but could've been the same lights. I'm a military veteran and they resembled flares but no smoke emitting from them and they were stationary. Our road dropped in elevation and between that and the moving freight train we could no longer see the lights. The time was about 6: 10 PM. I am retired and have excellent eye sight with glasses used for reading and have been a lifetime aviation enthusiast. The lights were not any type of aircraft or flares. Today I stopped at our small airport and they indicated they have not heard about the sighting and they close around 6 PM. Lehigh Valley Airport (ABE) is about 8 to 10 miles from our house and I'm sure they would've warned that light aircraft about the light objects if in fact they appeared on their radar. We were very surprised the aircraft headed directly towards the lights and came very close. Well over 100,000 people live in this very spread out area, which includes Allentown, Emmaus, Bethlehem and other small towns. Pa. Rt. 309 joins with Interstate 78 and both are very heavily traveled plus it was Friday night at rush hour. The lights had to be seen by many people.
November 13, 2014 · 10:00 PM · FORMATION
Tucson, AZ
Looking in west horizon from ramp of I-19 and Valencia; three disc shaped objects approx 100 yards in length each and split approx 200 yards in distance creating a formation and composing a sequence of alternating on - off lighting amongst each other. Lightning was yellow and appeared in a static like display. After about a minute, the lights faded and disappeared
November 13, 2014 · 5:00 PM · FORMATION
Columbia, AL
I approach everything with skepticism. I'll be the first to call most "sightings" a big pile of bologna. But this report, is entirely accurate. This report, I saw with my own eyes. Let me get started by explaining the "sighting" in its entirety. It was just before sunset, I was facing east looking toward a tree line. Out of my peripheral vision I noticed 4-5 orange glowing "orbs" in the cloud line. They seemed to be moving in some type of formation, appearing and reappearing at will. They "danced" around in what I would describe as a figure eight like motion for the majority of the time I was able to see them. One of the "orbs" shot across the entire sky until no longer visible, followed by the remaining anomalies at an alarming rate of speed. They were there, and then they were just gone. No sound, no reflection , no nothing, just gone. Ok, so no big deal right? Unless I were to take you back to my childhood, in which I saw the exact same type of anomaly, but not yet old enough to understand the difference. I would not have even thought to much about it, had it not been for a Youtube.com video I recently viewed, depicting the exact same experience I have mentioned here.
November 11, 2014 · 7:30 PM · FORMATION
Delray Beach, FL
My neighbor and I were in the hot tub and I noticed numerous objects (12) flying in a symmetrical formation (elongated hexagon) overhead at least 200+ feet above the ground... or they were all part of one much larger object. I alerted her to it, and we could not identify what it could be other than some sort of UFO(s). It was dark clear night, and I could tell the objects were far too big to be birds. They all had a hazy whitish light on their underside and were moving uniformly in the same direction (going due south) - which makes me believe it was all part of the same object as there looked like there could be an outline against the contrast of the stars in the sky. Additionally, there was a noise overhead as they flew by that sounded like a jet engine... but much more subdued and muffled. Both my neighbor and I are professionals, and neither of us were drinking alcohol nor under the influence of any other substances at the time of this sighting. Neither of us could tell what it was that we saw. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD
November 11, 2014 · 6:00 PM · FORMATION
Pittsburgh, PA
My father and I drove to Walmart in West Mifflin, I saw a group of strange lights over the airport, at first i thought it was a plane until I noticed they weren't moving, nor were the lights blinking. The 5 lights seemed to be randomly scattered, then 3 of them made a triangle shape. It then looked like the triangle turned in the sky, as one bottom light eclipsed the other.. then one by one, the lights slowly disappeared until one remained and that slowly faded away. I knew it couldn't be a plane or helicopter. I thought it may be Chinese lanterns.. But then I saw somebody saw something similar EXACTLY one month before me, same time and everything...that can't be a coincidence.
November 11, 2014 · 5:00 AM · FORMATION
Pittsburgh, PA
while lying under the stars holding my neighbor's toy poodle next to a campfire, alone as he ran to the local store…I observed 2 lights growing brighter and what appeared to be closer coming from the west toward me. They were parallel to each other, left and right, and completely level with one another. As they appeared to grow closer, the left-to-right space between them increased but they always remained level to one another. once they became about 5-6 thumbs apart at arm's length, a sparkling light departed from them. it looked like a firework with multi-colored sparkling lights in constant and consistent intensity and activity. red, blue, green, white. sparkling and lively. it traveled off to the south with a steady and constant speed/trajectory. afterwards, the two lights (star-like. if only gazing up quickly one would never realize their position was changing) seemed to back up, becoming more distant. i said to them "what is your intention" over and over again. i never saw the shimmering light again. the two "stars" never deviated from their relate position to one another.
November 8, 2014 · 10:15 PM · FORMATION
Spring Hill, FL
On November 8th, at approximately 10:15 pm in Spring Hill Florida, on a clear weather night, I was outside to check the wires for the cable company because we had lost net and phone at 10pm est so we called them from our cell phone. When I looked into the sky I saw a FLEET of unusual objects traveling southwest at about four thousand feet high and close to 50 or 60 of them. There was no sound coming from them they also had no exhaust or tail to speak of. They moved at a medium speed across the sky.They was a redish yellow color. They was lined up in a row but not a perfect row at first two rows that became one row. They did not loose altitude nor gain a big amount of altitude as if your looking at a plane traveling, but these was not any aircraft! They stayed the course of southwest with difference in space between them. The strings of objects lasted about 5 minutes. The length of string of objects would be approximately 2-4 miles from first object to last. Two strings one on top of the other was the first mile worth of the objects, again not in a perfect formation.
November 7, 2014 · 7:15 PM · FORMATION
Portland, OR
We were returning from a birthday party. Myself, my 3 year old and 6 year old. We were driving down a hill (near Mt. Tabor) and saw three big white lights in the sky that were in a horizontal line..not moving. Then they formed a triangle. Then vertical line...which....what? Horizontal line. I video taped some of it with my phone camera as my battery died and tried to take photos which all turned out crappy but I have never seen anything like this and it is freaking me out. The final freak out moment for me was when one of the lights moved over to another light and they merged for a moment and then went back to some strange formation. I saw three. My daughter says she say four. I did see a plane behind these formations about five minutes in. I am reporting this due to the methodical way the lights moved. They were NOT planes. Then, they dispersed. One light headed North, one headed Northwest and the third one..who knows!! Thank you.
November 5, 2014 · 9:00 PM · FORMATION
Minot, ND
Traveling with my co-worker and got out so I that I could show him moving satellites and we lights form huge triangle shape. Line up with an airplane and move incredibly fast. Not ufo believer but this was super stranger, have never seen anything like it. (( We have spoken via telephone with the source of the report, who corrected the date.
November 5, 2014 · 6:30 PM · FORMATION
Bismarck, ND
I was sitting at a stop light, a couple of lights up in the sky caught my eye. It was three lights in the form of a triangle.
November 3, 2014 · 5:50 PM · FORMATION
Eurodisney/Marne La Vallée (France) · France
This happened at the Disney Parade, at Eurodisney Paris, on monday evening the 3rd of November, just before 6PM. I was standing on the Main street USA watching one of the floats and taking pictures. I only noticed those dots in formation after I got home, not while watching the parade. We have amended the time and date above. PD
November 2, 2014 · 7:30 PM · FORMATION
Matthews, NC
My brother and I were standing in a hospital parking lot talking, and I noticed a bunch of reddish-orange lights coming over the treetops and rising up into the sky. I asked him what it was and he said he had no idea. A nurse walked up and started watching them also. she had no idea what they were either. I started counting and got 35, but there were more before I started counting. Once they got up in the sky overhead they appeared to line up in a type of formation of 3's. What was so strange is they made no noise at all. Once they passed over us they completely disappeared or turned off the lights. My brother thought they must be some type of stealth military aircraft. I did not see anything on the news that night so I just brushed it off until today when I read a post on this site from some other people in the area that saw the same thing. I am a retired dispatcher, my brother is a businessman and the third witness was a nurse.
November 2, 2014 · 7:00 PM · FORMATION
Matthews, NC
My neighbor knocked on our door in a frantic when she went to take her dogs out. "QUICKLY, COME SEE THESE LIGHTS!" Me and my wife scrambled out the front door to see the lights fly in a pattern. triangle followed by three in a straight line followed by a triangle repeating. ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) This is the picture of the UFO we saw. My neighbor is the one who alerted us that there was lights in the sky when she was outside walking her dog. She knocked on our door saying “Hurry! Come see the lights!” me and my fiancée rushed out to see about 50+ orange balls in a formation coming from the Fort Mill/Rock Hill direction of SC. We are close to the border so we can see the objects moving from that direction. Article of a Fort Mill man who caught a object on video and had burn patterns in his grass the same time we saw the objects. http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2014/11/02/5285017/rock-hill-man-reports-ufo-other.html Here is the attached picture of what I took. When I took the picture the flash went off on my IPhone. I switched to camera mode to take video and my phone rebooted. I also felt nausea that night, after seeing the objects. Any more questions, feel free to contact me. Thanks. ((END ADDENDUM))
November 1, 2014 · 10:20 PM · FORMATION
Troy, OH
There where about nine or ten hovering above the city for about three minutes. Then a few disappeared while the others moved arcossed the sky till they disappeared as well. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. Time and date provided by witness are incorrect. Possible hoaxed report, we suspect? PD
October 30, 2014 · 8:00 PM · FORMATION
Tuftonboro, NH
Slightly below Ossipee Mtn. Range. No noise.