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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.
27,433 entries
May 7, 2021 · 9:45 PM · LIGHT
Placerville, CA
A single line of lights, first moving from south to north, just above (the big dipper), then the lights re-appeared, this time from west to east. the lights were moving all in a row, no sound, in groups of 2, 4, 5 with spaces between the groups. they were in the sky for only a few minutes, then disappeared, then again in a row west to east direction. I have never seen anything like this before.
May 7, 2021 · 9:20 PM · LIGHT
Grove, OK
Lights following each other, nearly equidistant from each other, from west to east over Grand Lake. First saw 14 lights at 10k ft moving in a steady straight line. Ten minutes later there were many more in following a similar path all in line. I couldn't see where the lights originated through the trees but they vanished over the lake to the east. They traveled like the speed of satellites in the night sky, but were much closer. Soundless. My phone went to emergency only mode during the parade of lights and stayed in emergency mode for an hour after.
May 7, 2021 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Raleigh, NC
Near Falls Lake walked out of the house. Wife looked up and said "what's that". I said probably birds. She then said "birds that have lights?" Conditions sparse clouds, dark. Second look I could see a string of lights heading west to east in an subtle arc. Moving at a pace probably double to triple a commercial airliner. Evenly spaced if I held a ruler to the sky I would say 1/2 inch apart from my vantage point. Some were a little higher than others all moving steady in the same direction. When they hit a certain spot in the sky they disappeared one by one as if going behind a curtain. They came into view in the west about 25% (1/4 distance from horizon) across the night sky disappearing at about the same point in the east. My 18 year old son also saw this. We tried to film it but it came out too dark to see. The lights were very very high in the sky
May 7, 2021 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Antioch, CA
They were moving from West to East. In all there were probably 15-20 pairs before the phenomena ended.
May 7, 2021 · 8:50 AM · LIGHT
Albuquerque, NM
About 10-15 degrees from zenith west. The lights followed a straight line but were somewhat staggered. The lights appeared from about 10-15 degrees south from zenith and traveled due north 10-15 degrees. They appeared from nothing visible in the sky and disappeared behind a small cloud. Me my wife and son all saw them. My son was the first to see them and called to my wife and me to look as well. He tried to count but lost count to tell us. They were traveling fast and they could have been Elon Musk's satellites before they dispersed. My son is here on a vacation and we live here. He's 37 and we're 70 and 71.
May 7, 2021 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Littleton, CO
I am a seasoned amateur astronomer. Went out to look at the night sky to check out my new eyeglasses. Looked upward toward the zenith near the north. Movement of "stars" caught my eye. Then I saw more moving points of light. First thought was a satellite array moving together; then it became evident that there were scores of objects (maybe 20-30) following in a straight line moving from SSW to NNE through tail of Ursa Major. I would estimate the brightness of the points of light to be -2 magnitude. All followed the same path. Spacing was not uniform. No noise. They flickered out before reaching the horizon (possibly passing through the earths shadow terminator. Might have been multiple deployments of satellites.
May 6, 2021 · 10:55 PM · LIGHT
Burlington, KS
Over New Strawn Ks, a line of white bright objects traveled in a uniform straight line, slowly aprox. 200 to 500mph im guessing. It might of been further north by I 35 interstate, im not sure bc they were pretty high up.They appeared out of nowwhere and traveled visable in a straight line in a east s. East direction. Then after 3 to 10? Miles later dissapeared suddenly into the dark sky. I didnt hear any sound. I tried takinf video w my cell phone but it is a crap vid. Couldnt show up.This is no bs.
May 6, 2021 · 10:33 PM · LIGHT
Rockville, MD
Standing in front of 4819 Eades St. Aspen Hill, MD, we witnessed multiple lights with the constant brightness of the ISS moving from the NW towards the SSE but with CHCB. These lights were moving in a near line formation (see accompanying video).
May 6, 2021 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Lafayette, IN
As I was waiting outside for my uber I looked up to see a sting of 6 lights flying right behind each other . It got my attention so I continued to to watch as more lights added on coming from out of nowhere and getting in the back of the line .In there 3 minutes or so that I watched I counted331 lights . When my uber arrived I pointed the lights out to him .He alsofoundthem very unusual .just white round lights .There were no colored or flashing lights visible . If I had to guess from my view on the ground about an inch apart and were going from my left to the right staying at what seemed to be the same height.
May 6, 2021 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Parker, CO
My son and I witnessed 20-30 bright lights in a row, moving across the night sky in a row, following each other. They were steady. No blinking lights, no colored lights. I have a video that is poor quality from my Iphone but you can definitely see what we saw. They did not resemble airline or military planes, nor helicopters.
May 6, 2021 · 9:45 PM · LIGHT
Metropolis, IL
I was taking the trash out and I look up and saw a line, literally a straight line of lights not flashing and all moving at the same speed. • ••• ••• • This is what I saw moving across the sky
May 6, 2021 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Fitchburg, WI
Me and my wife were traveling down Fitchrona Rd, just outside Fitchburg Wisconsin, when I looked out the car window and saw what appeared to be 20-30 stars lined up like oriens belt. It immediately struck me because they were all lined up together, and from the side window I was looking out of, it almost looked like a halo of stars around the earth. At the time, I couldn’t tell if they were moving, so I told my wife to pull over so I could get a better look, because I wanted to see if they were stationary. When I got out I could see that they were traveling from the west to the east. We were traveling north to south. I did shoot a video but is is rather difficult to make out without a big screen. When I watched the video some of the craft were a little out of line with one another, and I was looking for identifiers as I used to work on planes in the navy, but they were just bright glowing lights. I also have never seen such a large number of aircraft ! flying together like that. It reminded me of when you see all the military vehicles on the interstate driving together. Just one big line going to the same place.
May 6, 2021 · 9:10 PM · LIGHT
Redding, CA
High altitude string of non-blinking yellow lights viewed in eastern sky traveling north. Most were evenly spaced apart. Looked like a very long string of military formation planes but way too fast, lasting way too long, no blinking lights and so many it would have to be some sort of massive movement larger than I’ve ever seen outside of the history channel for a world war. Giant tracer rounds would make sense if they were not so precisely traveling straight across the same path at the same speed across the entire skyline without changing color speed or drifting. All 4 of the 5 witnesses work in healthcare
May 6, 2021 · 9:01 PM · LIGHT
Colorado Springs, CO
9pm was alerted by a helicopter sound. Looked outside apartment to see a helicopter following a solidly lit bright white light about 20m behind. About 500 ft above traveling north about 100-150mph. Watched fly from mid colo springs to north end colo springs towards AFA. Then light vanished.
May 6, 2021 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Arroyo Seco, NM
I was setting out side on the porch when I saw a roll of light in the night sky moving very slow , I could not hear a sound. I ran in to the house to get the wife and went out side and they were gone.
May 6, 2021 · 8:43 PM · LIGHT
Longmont, CO
Lights very high in the sky moving aircraft speed moving from SW to NE direction. Evenly spaced in a straight line, appeared to be same height as a star but definitely much higher than aircraft. The lights seem to be diffused. There were about a dozen first pass, then slowly one by one faded out in the sky. About 10 minutes later they appeared again near the same star as first sighting, only there were many more this time. Still seeming to be in formation but with a couple of them spaced closer together. There were 30 or more this time which led me to believe maybe they were flying in a large circle. It was hard to decide if it was a large circle or if there were that many more flying in a straight line. No other aircraft visible in the sky at this time however aircraft sighted several minutes after disappearance of sited crafts. The lights did not vary in brightness but they were not as bright as aircraft or stars. I was looking NW when i first spotted them.
May 5, 2021 · 10:35 PM · LIGHT
Cleveland, TN
I have night vision, watching the sky. But these were also visible by the naked eye. There were four of us who saw them. Even without the night vision. Other aircraft we saw had blinking lights. These were solid lights. Traveling in a line. No blinking as aircraft do. Traveling eastward. Nearly uniform in spacing. Seemed to appear and travel Eastward.
May 5, 2021 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Silver City, NM
I saw seven flying craft with lights all flying in a line and then disappearing within seconds with no lights
May 5, 2021 · 9:25 PM · LIGHT
Reno, NV
Witnesses 40-50 lights in a general line headed north to east. Time was about 9:25pm. Close proximity to each other. My location is West Reno at the time of the sighting. Never seen aircraft in that large of a number before. I tried to get video recording but was talking on the phone so the video option was not available. By the time I called my wife to come outside and help me figure out why I was unable to record a video it was gone. Figured I share what I saw in case of others saw it also.
May 5, 2021 · 9:24 PM · LIGHT
Bliss, ID
I saw these lights and Bliss Idaho.They were all in a straight line.Possibly a little higher than a small plane would fly.Moving slowly from west to east,And then after they went over my head they dissipated and disappeared.
May 5, 2021 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Sylmar, CA
UFOs sighted May 5, 2021 around 9pm. Lights in a single line flying similar distance from one another. It had been seen by my husband first. I went outside about 1 to 2 minutes after his sighting. I saw the last 10 lights flying south west. My husband said there were about 100 lights flying in the form I saw of the last 10.
May 5, 2021 · 8:50 PM · LIGHT
Camarillo, CA
These objects were flying quietly in a very long straight line.When I first looked in the sky I thought it was a bunch of stars until I noticed that they were moving in a perfect straight line going in a northeastern direction.I watched for about ten minutes.
May 5, 2021 · 4:45 AM · LIGHT
Los Osos, CA
At 4:45 AM this morning I saw a line of 10 lights that looked like super bright satellites but they were moving in a straight line going south east towards San Luis Obispo. I was in los Osos and thought that was odd and waited a minute and then saw another line of them and went to wake up my wife. Then we watched a line of 50 or 60 of the same kind of bright lights without sound moving south east in line in close formation at a steady speed going from the coast towards San Luis Obispo down los Osos Valley. The cameras wouldn’t capture the trail of lights.
May 5, 2021 · 4:40 AM · LIGHT
Minden, NV
I went outside to watch for meteors at approximately 4:40 am. As I looked straight up I observed a train of starlight objects travelling in a straight line coming from the northwest and heading southeast directly towards the moon. Some were closer together than others but all were in a straight line and moving very fast across the sky. I went inside to grab my phone in time to try to photograph them. I counted the last 20 of them as they disappeared into the moonlight, but there was at least that many more before I ran back into the house to get my phone. I've never seen anything like that before.