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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.
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October 30, 2014 · 7:45 PM · FORMATION
Fairlee, VT
**Thursday October, 30 2014 Approx. 7:45pm Fairlee, VT Driving north on Rt 5 into town of Fairlee, looking up into night sky just above the town street lights, triangle shape of soft orange lights come on all at once out of nowhere then fade out one by one disappearing completely..was pointed like a large arrow pointing northward. Store clerk also saw something, I drove west to the public beach, walking out to the beach looking north was several lights moving around. Noticed what looked like a jet flying north – very high up. As it reached the north end of the lake, half a dozen orange disc lights came downward one after another then disappeared quickly. Watched as the jet flew away, did not see anything else.
October 29, 2014 · 8:55 AM · FORMATION
Lexington, KY
I was on my front porch when I saw a single light staying motionless but was blinking rapidly like a helicopter, but then numerous small craft, blinking just like the mothership, began ejecting from the larger craft and then they started to perform erratic movements around the mothership and then after maybe 8 minutes they disappeared and the mothership started moving at a slow but constant straight path away from the area until it was out of sight.
October 29, 2014 · 5:10 AM · FORMATION
Merriam, KS
I was standing on my balcony at 5:10 am having a cigarette, looking at the stars when out of nowhere I saw what looked like a flock of birds, if I recall correctly was about 10 birdlike shapes, moving south through the sky. There was no sound, just complete silence, and the birds or whatever they were pale yellowish in color. They were in a bent straight line as they moved south through the night sky. The group of pale lights “birds” did not make any sound and after about 5-7 seconds were just gone. The sky was clear and no clouds in sight…so not sure what it was, but due to the pale glowing figures moving fast and not making a sound has me baffled.
October 26, 2014 · 2:00 PM · FORMATION
Portland, OR
While driving on 99 northbound from Sellwood to Portland I witnessed a grouping of fifteen- twenty metallic objects flying in various patterns above SE metro Portland. At first I thought it was a flock of white birds or geese, but the changes in direction and the size did not seem birdlike. Also wondered if it was a grouping of balloons that " got away" from a car lot or something similar, but then I witnessed several groups break away from the main cluster, accelerate rapidly and fly against the cloud/wind direction, and then rejoin primary group and this occurred several times with different groups forming and then breaking away in different directions at different speeds before rejoining the main group. At various points the group would shift and almost disappear, but during shifts they would also deflect light giving off a metallic sheen. I cant't explain what I saw, but I pulled my car over and watched this for about 10 minutes before the objects disappeared into the clouds. Did anyone else see this as well and if so any idea was it could have been ?
October 25, 2014 · 11:00 PM · FORMATION
Fresno, CA
On 10/25/14 around 11:00 p.m. my daughter, husband and I saw pale green lights swirling in a circular fashion around in an elliptical circle. No lights were emanating from the bottom as a spotlight would have. We watched them and then went inside to get a jacket. When we came back out they were still then but stopped. We then saw above us a "Y" shaped grouping of colored lights (red,greeen,pink,white fading in and out).It was very cloudy; we would see this grouping of lights come in and out of the clouds as they moved; motionless, hovering; the lights stayed in formation. We then saw at different times two triangular shaped formations with 3 lights. In the distance at one time we saw 3 lights in a straight line, which later disappeared. As the clouds moved, we would see the Y shaped lights again and again. They were hardly moving. Later in the distance the green swirling lights occurred again, first only one, then it seemed light 2 to 3 and they w! ere "dancing" in swirling formations. There was a triangle of lights to the right of it. As this triangle faded, so did the green swirling orb like lights disappear. We watched this for 2 hours. We were in West Fresno; the lights were to the Eastern portion of the sky.
October 24, 2014 · 9:00 PM · FORMATION
Tulsa, OK
Saw 4 red or orange lights grouped together in a square formation in the NW sky; they did not flash. There was an airplane flying by the formation at what looked like a pretty good distance away from them. I got a good look at the formation for a few seconds and then all of sudden the reddish lights went black and were gone. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 23, 2014 · 8:30 PM · FORMATION
Chillicothe, OH
While driving I saw 4 orange/white lights in a perfectly straight line. I thought I saw a cigar shaped shadow behind them as if it was one large object, but I can't be sure. I thought a large, low flying, jumbo jet must be headed straight toward me and about to crash land. It was frightening at first, but then it seemed to change directions and gain altitude. At the same time as it changed directions each light slowly faded out one at a time. They even seemed to flicker just a bit as if burning out. As soon as they all disappeared they flickered back on again slowly and one at a time and in a new position (consistent with an object that would be moving). Also there was a direction change again as they were coming back on one at a time. I was driving so I was not able to continually watch as much as I would have liked to, therefore I only saw them fade out one more time – again one at a time, and as if they burnt out, not instantly on or off. The lights never once broke a perfect line formation, so if it was not a single object, it was an impossibly accurate formation of 4. This object (if it was one object) was either large and low flying, or REALLY large if it was far away. Hard to tell the perspective at night, but the lights were fairly large, round shaped and seemed almost like balls of light. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 23, 2014 · 8:00 PM · FORMATION
Lucasville, OH
I was driving North on St Rt 139. I witnessed 5 bright orange lights in a chevron formation over the tree line at the top of the hill to my right. 10-15 seconds. 15-20 minutes later when arriving at my home, approximately 7 miles, I witnessed the same lights traveling north over the hill behind my neighbors farm 500 yards from my home. I am a Marine Corps veteran. I am married and a father of 5. I have a business degree and am currently working on an education degree.
October 21, 2014 · 7:46 PM · FORMATION
Tunnel Hill, GA
Daughter called wife outside and seen craft flying about three hundred yards above the trees. After clearing the trees noticed the craft had a colored light pattern across the back going horizontal from right to left. The engine sounded like a staticky television, but louder
October 21, 2014 · 7:30 PM · FORMATION
Wauwatosa, WI
Orange orbs moving from north to southwest direction seemed to be 7-10 K feet above but moving higher and at a high rate of speed. All moved similar direction but no clear pattern except that the orbs started with 3-5 then about a dozen or more followed by a handful then one orb in the end. Varied size and some changed color from Orange to red and some seemed to split apart into two pieces and the second piece changing from Orange to red and small change in direction and even slowing down. These objects had intention and were not falling from sky.
October 20, 2014 · 10:17 PM · FORMATION
Saint John (Canada), NB · Canada
Close encounter with a ufo. Very Intense. We were watching tv--the voice. It hovered by toward Irving Oil refinery then came back and watched us in the window.
October 18, 2014 · 9:15 PM · FORMATION
Orlando, FL
Last night.I saw 5 dull orange glowing lights. They were traveling from west of West North West to East east south east. The lights traveled from horizon to horizon in approximately 15 seconds. The formation of lights was 1 followed by 2 offset from each other and then another 2 parallel to each other. They flew above an airliner so I know that they were at a very very high altitude and were not Satellites. They maintained their trajectory and heading. for the altitude that they were at they were travelling excessively fast. Does anyone know if we bombed someone in the Central African region? They appeared to be something like final stage rocket reentry vehicles of some sort. There were no sounds or vibrations associated with the over-flight. And, no vapor trails associated with them. So, they were either traveling in near earth or upper ionosphere. There was also no change in appearance or fading of their glow and maintained relative distance from one another. Neither they nor the aircraft that they passed over seemed to pay any attention to the other or deviate from their course for fear of collision. normally, if I see satellites they are singular but also behave in the same way. But the glow was more like a planet then a satellite. Possibly like a Mars type appearance but traveling.
October 18, 2014 · 8:17 PM · FORMATION
Northlake, IL
I was going outside to try and see Jupiter which was next to the moon, as soon as I opened my back door I first seen 4 objects in the sky, I called my dad and told him to come and look, he seen the 4 objects too, he told me to go and get my camera, when i came back, there was 25 - 30 flying objects, we called everyone in the household to come and look, they were just flying in our direction then another 6 came after the first 25, they vanished behind some clouds, leaving us all dazed and confused....
October 18, 2014 · 11:30 AM · FORMATION
Somerville, AL
On October 18, 2014, I witnessed a strange sight in the sky over Somerville, AL. I was at an equestrian event with our daughter and lunch was around 11:30 am. As I was making my way to the serving area, I was taking in the beautiful, clear blue sky. Looking north, toward Huntsville, AL, I noticed what immediately struck me as a group of 15 white orbs meandering from west to east. They reminded me very much of the many photos I’ve seen of such orbs, meaning that they are sort of strung out in a line, and spaced up and down, in no particular pattern. As they moved, they would sometimes be strung out in a long line, and then form into the usual “V” of a migrating flock of birds, then string back out again. Also, while they appeared to be migrating to the east, they slowed, stopped, and started “milling about,” like they decided to stay in one spot, as if riding a thermal. I went and got my camera (which I was using to shoot the equestrian event), and upo! n zooming in, I could see they looked like birds, albeit, none I had ever seen. As I watch, I was struck by the feeling that while they appeared to be birds, they were not. First, they were so bright, and stark white against the sky. The individual ones did not have that shimmery look, like one would expect if the wings were flapping. I do remember that they would vary a little in brightness, and in looking at a zoomed-in image, I see they are white, in general, with dark trailing wing edges. The objects moved together, much like a school of fish. There was no apparent random motion of one object with respect to another. They all moved in unison and seemed to be riding a thermal. Their altitude, or range from my camera never changed, at least not to my eye. After I had shot 34 images in about a minute (to get some clear images for later study), I stopped shooting and watched a bit more. My observation was that the brightness of the “flock” would decrease then increase. Studying the sight and my images, I think it was because they were quite wh! ite, but when going away from me, the dark stripes on their wings would be toward me, decreasing the apparent brightness. As I was watching them “mill about” and darken and lighten, it suddenly appeared that there were a LOT more objeccts. I never observed another flock in the sky, nor saw one merge in. It was just that when going from darker to lighter, there were just more that appeared. I put the camera back on them, and fired off more images. You can look at my images DSC_6044 and DSC_6045, which were taken 14 seconds apart. As you can see, there were a LOT more objects in the second, (and subsequent) image. In looking at the images, the ‘flock” increased from 15 to around 74 within seconds, as I was watchinge. I don’t know where they came from, they just appeared. I quit firing shots after a while, figuring they were birds, and that I just somehow missed the other huge grouping of birds joining the original group. I don’t remember if, from here, they kind of faded out of view, or if they disappeared while I went about my business of getting lunch, but the “birds” eventually were gone. About 2 or 3 hours later, we were done and headed for home. As we got to the intersection of Hwy 36 and 231, in Lacey’s Spring, AL, about 5 miles from the event, I again saw the same formation just north of my location, toward Huntsville, and closer, this time. I called my wife, who was driving in the car in front of me, and she was able to see the same thing (she had not seen the original sighting). Determined to get more, but closer shots, I watched both the road and the formation, until we got about a 1/2 to 3/4 miles closer to Huntsville, and found a good pull-off, with a broad view of the sky. When I got out of the car, the objects were gone, vanished. I looked and looked, both with my eyes, and through the camera, but could not see them. That was it. When I got home, I looked at my images on the computer. Zooming in, they did look like birds, and after doing some research, decided that I had seen a flock of migrating pelicans. However, Huntsville, AL, is hundreds of miles from the ocean and any migratory path that I could research, and no one that I know has ever seen a pelican in town. I totally forgot about the whole sighting after that. On Sunday 8-30-15, almost a year later, after reading the book “Messages”, by Stan Romanek, I was thinking through several past sighting experiences, and suddenly remembered this "bird" event (which I had totally forgotten about – odd). I did some Googling of “UFO Birds” and found some very informative links which showed exactly the same “birds”, in Mexico! The people who had that sighting went through the exact same though process on identification, and came up with the same results I did (pelicans). While it is somewhat plausible, pelicans do not exactly match what I saw or the behavior I observed. For me, this sighting is unexplained. Here are links to the “UFO Birds” story I found and some of my images are attached: http://www.openminds.tv/a-fleet-of-bird-like-ufos-in-mexico-913/18623#comments https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjBlkx3mcN0 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JmiS7q72u1s
October 17, 2014 · 9:01 PM · FORMATION
Fort Myers, FL
My 12 yr old son and I were looking up in the sky using google star maps to look at constellations on our lainai at approx. 9p - the object was a curved boomerang shape with lots of white lights with red outer glow on the underside of it, you could discern the harder outlined edge of the object behind the lights. It was about helicopter height in the sky and below the regular flight paths of the RSW flights and "glided silently" North to South across the Gateway neighborhood. SR82 and Griffen Drive. It was so quiet if we hadn't been looking up to star gaze we would not even have seen it at all. It just vanished abruptly after 12 seconds or so.
October 17, 2014 · 8:40 PM · FORMATION
Indianapolis, IN
On October 17, 2014, at approx. 8:40 pm, I saw mysterious lights in the sky as I was driving in Indianapolis, Indiana on I465 eastbound between Meridian Street and the I69 exit. It was cloudy and cool. These lights were moving in a synchronized fashion, 4 to 5 lights, coming together and then swooping out, circling around, then coming together again. They would repeat this movement over and over as I traveled eastbound. They were dim flashes at first, white color, getting slightly brighter as I watched. The speed that they moved was quick, but not fast or frantic. I was watching them ahead of me as I drove. They seemed to be moving slightly ahead of me, but not as fast as I was driving. I exited I465 at the I69 northbound ramp, and couldn't watch them as close, but I saw them briefly when I turned my head to the left.
October 17, 2014 · 7:00 PM · FORMATION
Knoxville, TN
I looked up and saw something falling from the sky that looked like a fireball at first as I continued to look at the object it changed shape then a long disk shaped object approached it from the east at the same time another disk shaped object approached from the west along side this there was a smaller object that was oval and lit up red appeared and disappeared then all the objects vanished except for the one that appeared to be on fire falling slowly and at that moment a military helicopter flew close to this thing falling from the sky I heard no noise from any of the objects except for the helicopter when all of this was happening hundreds of bats were flying around acting crazy I've lived here five years and never saw one single bat until this also all of the dogs in my neighborhood were howling and freaking out and I heard a lot of car alarms going off all at once my husband and his brother both saw all of this I have pictures of the crafts on my phon! E
October 17, 2014 · 6:30 PM · FORMATION
Alexandria, NH
Myself, My Wife, and 4 Teens witnessed at 6:30pm eastern time, Alexandria, NH. Driving East on Route 104 Towards Bristol, NH. Saw 2 bright lights close together in the North Eastern sky that dipped down to reveal a third bright light, seemed to disappear and reappear and then gone, only to reappear in a large triangle formation and then go out one after the other in rapid succession.
October 16, 2014 · 8:00 PM · FORMATION
Franklin, LA
Two lights perpendicular to each other in the shape of a colon move from the horizon in a 45 degree angle towards the sky followed by another set and another completely synchronized with each other. I'm not an irrational person I immediately took into consideration possible explanationshowever what I couldn't explain was that the top row of lights never moved out of alignment with the bottom it remained in the shape of a colon signifying a solid object the lights came in sets distanced a few seconds apart until there were roughly twenty to thirty pairs of lights moving perfectly in sync with one another like the world's largest plane taking off from too sharp of an angle not one light dimmed or strayed from the shape it kept structure until it moved into the zenith and was no longer visible. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 14, 2014 · 2:35 AM · FORMATION
Parker, CO
We have fighter jets fly over our neighborhood all the time and just two of them shake our house, but the first five this time hardly made any noise at all and I would have expected 5 jets to make a lot of noise. Within seconds they were all gone, as they were going so fast. The 5 clear and translucent aircraft were in a formation like a flock of geese with one in the middle and the front two seems to make turns really fast compared to an F-16, which I have seen turn and it takes them a while to bank. Just saw two F-16 or 18s at the Centennial airport a few weeks ago, when they landed and flew over the Family fun center golf course. So, I do know what jets look like. Either the military has a new kind of jet or a bunch of UFOs... Seriously strange.
October 13, 2014 · 1:00 AM · FORMATION
San Jose, CA
My sister and I took our dogs out one last time for the night and while we were sitting there, I told her to look up at that bright stars...At that time (one am in the am) there were 3 far apart from each other almost triangle appearance. Then I noticed two of them were blinking red lights. I would say near and way high above the east hills in San Jose, CA. About 2 mins of watching these lights, I went and got the binoculars and I watched one of them and it was jumping around, moving high and coming back down. Then all of a sudden we hear coming up from behind us (right about where San Jose Airport is) a helicopter. He went over our heads and straight for the middle of the two bright lights. To our disbelief, he took his place in between these two bright red blinking lights and now there are 4 perfectly spaced bright stars blinking red. Right now as I'm writing this, a helicopter just flew over the house back towards San Jose Airport. All I can say is they must be doing some kind of training or exercise .... I saw on this site others from San Jose saying some of what I'm saying, so I think it might just be routine ... Thanks
October 12, 2014 · 8:25 PM · FORMATION
Winterville, NC
i saw what started out looking like the Big Dipper but I thought it was to low and then noticed it moving. It moved from west to east very slow then when straight above me the dipper part fell into a straight line with the lights behind it and they just floated in a slight angle and disappeared.
October 8, 2014 · 9:30 PM · FORMATION
North Myrtle Beach, SC
We're on vacation. It was around 9:30pm when my friends frantically called me outside. (I am a lover of all things UFO, so they couldn’t believe they were seeing it and I was missing it.) They saw 6 diamond shaped shadows with bright red-orange lights in the center. They lit up one after the other, all in a row, and each light lasted 5 seconds before fading out, one after the other. They started almost directly in front of our condo 1-3 miles out from the shore and much higher in the sky than the advertisement planes that fly over in the daytime. That first time two of my friends both got to see them through the binoculars and saw that the light in the middle seemed to change like an LED light- red, orange, green, yellow. As the lights were going out, my boyfriend called me out, and I just barely missed it. They said the diamonds appeared to be close enough they were touching and as soon as the light faded they disappeared completely. We were discussing it- they were all very solemn, I was more excited/upset I missed it- and a little less than 10 minutes later it happened again. It gave us all cold chills. There was something so ominous about it-maybe just because the unknown of it was terrifying. I saw as 1 red-orange light lit up, a second, a third… there were 6 again, though they appeared to be in a slightly diagonal line from our perspective, but still lined up. I was not able to see the shape of the crafts. They seemed to be farther and farther apart from one another which each sighting. There was also a group of folks who came from our condo out on the beach taking pictures. (Unfortunately the only clip we were able to record was as the last two lights were going out.) After the lights went out and theories started circulating between us I told them to watch for military jets- as they are often seen trailing UFOs in many reports. Within 5 minutes a black jet with a blinking white light came soaring over the beach. There were at least 5 or 6 jets flying- circling over the beaches and out in the spots where we had seen the lights. This gave us some perspective on the size of these crafts, which were very easy to see even that far out, whereas we had to strain to try and count the blinking lights from the jets. We had given up seeing anymore, though we remained on the balcony, shaken, and maybe 15-20 minutes had passed, the jets had all vanished, and we saw them again, even further down the beach (toward Myrtle Beach, from North Myrtle Beach). This time I only remember seeing 5. Each time we saw them they lit up one at a time and disappeared 1 at a time. This happened a few more times- At least 6, but maybe 7. Though, by the last time or two there were only two red lights visible. There were about 10-15 minutes between sightings- more if the jets were circling. It seemed that intermittently between sightings there were more jets scrambling around. Its as if these crafts disappeared as the lights faded. Over all the event lasted about an hour and a half. There were 4 of us outside after the first sighting (for which there were three) and my boyfriends mother saw it happen one time, making 5. We tried our best debunking different possibilities. It wasn’t fireworks as it didn’t move. Mother tried to pass it of as kites or flares, but there was no smoke, no movement, just blinking lights of different colors. And the three of them saw diamond shapes with their naked eyes. It certainly was unlike anything we had ever seen before and from my search, seems it is definitely NOT the first time something like this has been seen over Myrtle Beach.
October 8, 2014 · 8:00 PM · FORMATION
St. George Island, FL
I'm at the beach and have seen this set of lights 2 nights in a row over the Gulf. I'm on St George Island one mile to the East of the highway that leads to the island. Last night I saw these three amber lights at approximately the same time of evening but during a rain shower and same approximate location. There are 3 lights with one lighting and when it starts to fade another one lights up, the first goes out and the second one is on for approx 2 seconds, starts to fade and the 3rd one lights up and the 2nd one goes out. Last night I saw this in a diagonal to the upper right pattern with the bottom light starting the sequence. Tonight it was in a horizontal pattern with the lights lighting from left to right. There's a full moon right now with a total eclipse "Blood Moon" that happened this morning.