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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 7, 2014 · 11:00 PM · FORMATION
Mastic, NY
I have never seen anything in the sky that I could not find some explanation for. I was outside on the front porch with my mother for a cigarette. She pointed toward the sky behind me, suddenly very animated. I turned around, still sitting, and saw what looked like huge glowing orange lights in a perfect V formation moving in sync over the trees across the street. It was silently heading our way in a cluster. We hurried to get a closer look and stood watching from the highway. About three more appeared as if out of nowhere; if anything they were already up and lowered to meet the rest as opposed to floating up or rising. They were moving together, the first three more in sync though the spaces between them were not perfectly in unison as we continued to watch them head our way. My mom was panicked and thought they were actually coming to us, since we were the only people out watching (it was a little before 11pm and we are mostly surrounded by shopping cente! rs that were closed.) They had to be either very big or not that high, though higher than the trees. The first three then began to curve around and turn away, going over the lake and disappearing. The rest followed suit one by one, becoming more of a line and getting smaller as they travelled away from us. They all vanished into the sky except for one, which slowly glided away before it was blocked by the top of some buildings or condos over on the further side of the lake. I have heard of orange lights before but until you see it, you don't understand how far out and perplexing it can be. My mother kept saying how she felt like it was aware of us and though I do not like to make such quick assumptions, it felt a bit eerie. I had tried taking a picture but they didn't show on the camera preview on my phone, possibly because of street light glare. I did a search online and am going to keep checking to see if anyone else saw this but so far (its been 30 mins since it happened! ) nothing else has come up for tonight though I'm reading acco! unts fro m five days ago around NY and before that the same description was in Britain. I read "explanations" blaming Chinese Lanterns. These were not Lanterns. I've seen Lanterns set off in the sky at night, I've seen balloons with flames set off at festivals, air balloons, sky divers, flares, this was nothing like that. They moved with precision. My stomach is still fluttering. It was like a one time event sighting. In my mother's 56 years she has never seen anything like it. My window faces the sky where she first spotted them. I think I'll be on watch all night...
October 6, 2014 · 3:00 AM · FORMATION
O'Fallon, MO
Animals did bark for short period, dimming of street lights, a few car alarms went off, as well as, electrical low buzz & strange sound emitted went car door lock button was pushed. The sky was was a gray haze color due to multiple storm clouds passing, but there were multiple open areas in the sky where it was clear. Light over tones can be seen in various areas where the clouds are darkest (almost transparent in view) lit areas in the clouds are not from an outside source or the moon. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 4, 2014 · 9:30 PM · FORMATION
Garland, TX
I stopped at a stop sign and recorded them, they were moving quickly in my direction. They began changing formation, but someone was coming up behind me, so I had to start driving, and lost sight of them before I could pull over again. They seemed to be heading North, from where I could see them, they'd have been over South Garland or Mesquite before losing sight of them. By now, they're probably in Oklahoma from how fast they were going. I got poor cell phone video of it: http://goo.gl/up7nHx
October 4, 2014 · 8:01 PM · FORMATION
McHenry, IL
5 reddish orange lights emerged across lake over treetops simultaneously and traveled northeast at varying speeds. Separated as they moved. Scale of light remained consistent. College graduate observers.
October 3, 2014 · 9:00 PM · FORMATION
Omaha, NE
I stepped outside and began to stargaze, my daughter was with me. From the North a light white fuzzy streaked and decelerated. it blinked into existance, it then opened up into an echlon formation with 9 indivudual lights on all sides of the triangle and proceeded on a direct southern course. it was out of sight in no time at all.
October 3, 2014 · 6:45 PM · FORMATION
Manchester, NH
A week ago, not sure because I dismissed it, around 6:30 pm. It was one red light that seemed to travel upwards very swiftly. On October 3, 2014 around 6:45pm, while on my porch, I saw two red lights hover. These lights looked close because the light seemed large. I live within an airport pathway in a small city, I see planes and flight patterns as they enter airspace and prepare to land and take off. What I found alarming was that they seemed very close together too close and brightness of same intensity. The lights were bright red, they made no sound and then one traveled northeast at one o ‘clock and the other northeast at almost three o’clock. They both were very fast.
October 2, 2014 · 9:00 PM · FORMATION
Hillsboro, OR
Traveling from east to west, 10 craft traveled at high speed equally spaced. They passed in front of Cassiopeia, glowing red with a pink radiant center. At one point, they shifted position, one by one, much like in the 1980's video game "Centipede" when it was avoiding an obstacle. The look of the individual 'craft' was reminiscent of what was recorded during the Phoenix Lights.
October 1, 2014 · 11:00 PM · FORMATION
Mexico, NY
it took me some time of thinking about reporting this. i have no doubt that there is life from other words who have been and are still visiting earth. i am from a native American tribe which has lived in NY for 7000 years and have listen to stories from many tribes in our state about visits from other beings. However I have never til last night seen a craft or anything that I would call a UFO til last night. it started about 11 pm when the Apt I live in shook and rumbled. when i walked out my back door there was a very low flying military black hawk chasing three low flying objects that had no sound coming from them. The black hawk had no other reason to be in area and was not searching or looking for any thing or anyone, It was chasing the objects. it is however possible that it was just one object with lights. I am shocked how low it was but it was very dark and only saw the lights. Three. I even thought it may have been three black hawks but it was not. they the lights in front made no sound and the black hawk had a hard time keeping up with it as they banked from NNE to SSE in a manner that made no since to me . the objects were maybe 600 ft to 800 ft high at the highest till the object or objects in front just were gone. It cause me to lose sleep and my wife did see it for a short time because I woke her. I did tell our Adult daughter who then told me that her and her boyfriend had just seen something the night before which seem to land this happen about 5 miles from where i saw the objects being chased. when they banked it was towards where my daughter and her boyfriend saw something the night before. They were not going to tell anyone til I mentioned what i saw to her , it left them very afraid. i watched News and searched net to see if anyone else reported it, i lost sleep over this. It was so low yet i could not even grab my phone however the black hawk chasing it means someone knows about it . Also 20 mins later i h! eard what may have been a Drone searching same area. That is about it Oh I almost forgot both my dog and birds in my house reacted to it and would not sleep afterwards.
October 1, 2014 · 3:00 PM · FORMATION
Vancouver (Canada), BC · Canada
Not really sure what I saw happening, but I saw 4 un-marked black helicopters following a craft of some kind. Didn't look like another helicopter or airplane that the helicopters were chasing or following. It really struck me as odd. It was the middle of the afternoon, a clear day. I watched the activity until all of the helicopters disappeared behind a hillside covered with trees. I was at sea level, so I lost sight of everything. Could have been nothing, but didn't look normal.
October 1, 2014 · 2:00 AM · FORMATION
San Jose, CA
I have been seeing these for weeks now and I know they are not stars, planes or satellites. They hover around in the night skies and some are higher up an some come as close to the ground as flying in between taller trees. Most of them kind of flash a color that looks likes red, white, and blue at the same time (instantaneously) some of them are a lot more active, almost as if they are patrolling areas. I can't describe the shape because they seem to shift and some of them blink just red. As weird as it sounds, I feel like they can tell when you stare at them and when you pay attention to one or two for a long enough time and then turn around there is almost always another new one that pops up in sight that you can tell was observing you when you were paying attention to the other one(s). There are also more circularish ones and square ones too with multiple lights. These are the ones that cruise closer to the ground in an almost sneaky manor. The ones highe! r up almost look like a fleet. As hard as it may be for some to believe, these things are really out there and if they were something easily explainable like planes or satellites believe me I would not keep ending up trying to follow them around and observing them with such interest. I don't know about you but I grew up on one twinkle little star that stayed put and not tens and tens of them that move around and react to my actions. My stars never hid hovering behind big trees and buildings in different colors, fly to different locations, and react to some of my movements(chasing or walking away). These objects seen to be very small by the way too. Can anyone else relate to anything I just said in this giant paragraph?? We spoke via telephone with the witness, and we were not convinced that he was looking at anything but stars. However, we cannot be certain. PD
September 30, 2014 · 10:30 PM · FORMATION
Delray Beach, FL
On Tuesday night I first saw five separate lights flying north to south in linear formation. A couple of the lights flew erratically. They were flying at extremely high altitudes at a very high rate of speed. Thirty minutes later there was another formation, consisting of around 8 lights, which flew in a v formation. There were a few lights in this formation that were also flying erratically. Neither formation was perfect, each were clearly formed of individual craft.
September 27, 2014 · 10:10 PM · FORMATION
Hollister, CA
It was three in a row then they formed a triangle shortly after they become one and took off. No noise
September 27, 2014 · 9:00 PM · FORMATION
Hickory, NC
Three of us were coming back after dark from looking at a new house a friend was buying when the driver noticed strange lights in the sky. Both front seat friends saw them, but I was in the back seat and couldn't see them initially. As we moved the vehicle for a better vantage point, I too saw between 13-15 bright orange lights in the sky, just over the horizon but high enough over the treeline to be plainly viewed. These objects flew slowly, first in a P pattern, then a V pattern. We watched them for roughly 10 minutes, and also viewed a plane in the sky, just off to the left of these lights. They eventually drifted and faded. I am a non-believer, but have never seen anything like that in my life. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 27, 2014 · 8:30 PM · FORMATION
Edgewood, WA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 27, 2014 · 8:15 PM · FORMATION
Houston, TX
On September 27, 2014 at approximately 8:15 pm I and my parents witnessed orange lights in the night sky. These are exactly like the ones that have been reported in different parts of the world. We witnessed these lights on Barker Cypress Rd located in Houston TX 77084. We are in shock. There were originally 3 lights in an L formation then after 20 seconds about 20 orange lights appeared. They were in the sky moving for about 2 minutes then they just completely disappeared. These Lights were large. We were and are in shock. The whole process took about 4 minutes. We stopped the car at the edge of the street and tried to take photos but our phones would not capture them. We are perplexed by these orange lights. They cannot be planes since they were silent and completely disappeared plus the huge number just would not make sense. I hope this is helpful with any studies or anything in particular. The unknown is quite frightening but awfully interesting. We have! 1 blurry image.
September 25, 2014 · 8:45 PM · FORMATION
Homewood, AL
I went out to smoke a cigarette at my apartment and was gazing at the moon, when suddenly lights appeared from the west at an instantaneous pace. They were one behind the other in a line and came upon the city lights and seemed to stop and file into a V formation. The within a second disappeared up and west again. Then they were absent from sight. Like if they were aircraft I have never seen any US aircraft move that fast and suddenly. I froze and gasped! This was not of our planet unless there is another country far ahead of the US. I believe they were from another planet just scoping. I am not nuts. I ignored it til I saw a film "Forgotten Phoenix". It was supposedly base on a true story about the "Phoenix Lights". OMG the footage whether real or not looked very much like what I saw in Birmingham, Alabama!!! Source of report indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
September 25, 2014 · 7:40 PM · FORMATION
Reno, NV
On September 25, 2014, at approximately 1940 hours, I was outside walking my dog, when I heard a teenag boy nearby shout "Oh my god, look at that!" as he pointed into the sky. He was speaking to his friend who was standing next to him and when I looked over they were both looking up in the air pointing. From where I was standing the trees were blocking by view so I quickly ran over and as soon as I could see the sky, I was blown away, as I initially saw a formation of aircraft moving through the sky; there were approximately 6-7. I then looked further to the right and saw a second formation in the sky of 6-8 more. They seemed to temporarily hover in the air and then continue to move sideways through the sky in formation. They all looked just like a solid bright light and what caught everyone's attention is that they were all flying so close together, or at least closer than an normal aircraft would fly together. Also, they appeared to be far higher in the air than I had ever seen any aircraft in my life, and that includes my time in the military and and as a civilian. I have never seen even military aircraft moving in that type of formation. They were extremely high in the air. Higher than I believed normal aircraft could fly. There were two aircraft that were not flying within the formations and were larger and brighter than the others in formations and it was amazing because they would be moving in one direction and then instantly change direction at like 45 degree angles unlike anything I had ever seen and s movement normal aircraft is not capable of doing. It was not a turn it was an instantaneous pivot in the sky. Those two appeared to be able to fly more freely but also seemed to be guiding the formations almost like how one man marches a formation of soldiers; he is not part of the formation but he is giving the orders on how they move. And then there was one other aircraft that was flying out of both the formations, and was also brighter and bigger than the others. At this point I ran over to my house to inform my wife to get me the number for the local press and for the local police (who referred me to your call center). While she did that I pulled out my ipod and began recording their movements through the sky and narrating the entire experience. As I looked up I noticed three aircraft that were not in the formations could no longer be seen. I ran back to the two guys who were still there watching. They explained that the three big and bright aircraft had all disappeared. They said that two of them had shot up into the air making an X and then disappeared into the sky. They said the third one simply moved upward quickly and then disappeared as well. I again went back over to my house and by at this time I could no longer see any of the aircraft. Then entire incident took what looked like directly over the Reno Airport. I have never seen anything like this in my life. I did did not know whether to be amazed or scared as I am not sure what they were doing there. At this time I do not wish to include my video recording of the event due to the sensitivity of the content.
September 23, 2014 · 8:00 AM · FORMATION
Gilcrest, CO
Just outside of Platteville, Heading north towards Gilcrest via Highway 85, 3 craft flying low in a triangle formation, spinning in a circle while in formation, then one after another, they vanish suddenly. They are not much different from a sighting I saw over Gilcrest this year. They were 3 dots in the sky of varying sizes, all just bright white lights. But the difference was that this sighting the UFOs were in formation and the radio reception got fuzzy and the streetlights were flickering. The cows in the field noticed it too. Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
September 21, 2014 · 10:34 AM · FORMATION
Longmont (north of; on I-25), CO
On our way back from a camping trip in outside of Estes Park. We drove home through Loveland south on I-25 towards Broomfield.. After we were going down I-25 for about 15 minute south of Littleton. To the west I seen a blob in the sky. It was transforming but sort of a circular shape, it almost flowed like an amoeba, it was probably 3 or 4 miles from i25 and at least 5000 feet up in the sky, the off thing is that it seemed to have a cloaking device. We could all see the UFO once I spotted it, but it wasn't a defined color, it was not opaque but translucent, you could see the sky behind it but you knew it was there because it was an off color to the sky, a darker gray almost. But there was definetly a cloaking device, it didn't seem to advanced of a cloaking device for we were able to see the ship, so I wonder if this wasn't a secret military craft rather than an alien, the UFO seemed to just hover in the same area but it was still slightly moving. The cloaking device was seemingly flowing but the movement of the object was glitchy, almost laggy, but it didn't seem to move from the location it was over. We eventually got excited talking about it and we quit looking but we'd look back and see it for about a minute or two, then we couldn't see it anymore. I was with 3 other people + myself so 4 people total. I am 21, the other 3 observers were 20, there was 3 males and 1 female in our group. Excuse my grammar and structure of this report, I was excited and had to type this ASAP.
September 20, 2014 · 11:30 PM · FORMATION
Pullman, WA
We stopped and looked up and saw what looked like a circle of light that consisted of many small individual lights (perhaps 8). It seemed as if one or mre of the lights was of different color & blinking sporadically. Trailing this main group of tightly grouped lights were approx 5-10 small lights to the south that seemed to be following the main group. I was stopped in my vehicle with the window rolled down and asked several people that were still walking out of the stadium what they thought it was, and none of us had seen anything like it. There were 40,000+ people at the game. Many of them had to have seen the same thing. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 20, 2014 · 10:45 PM · FORMATION
Alpharetta, GA
8 lights flying in formation ( arrow shaped) Followed by another 8 in diamond formation, next 8 came in single file, then one more diamond formation. Took photo with iphone.
September 19, 2014 · 11:10 PM · FORMATION
Socastee, SC
Solid cloud cover. Saw 4 lights in formation moving together, stop, one separated, rejoined, continued. Motion indicated constant acceleration and was not jerky. Also, as lights continued further in the distance there was no spreading of the light, as if it was a projection.
September 18, 2014 · 9:30 PM · FORMATION
Augusta, GA
I noticed the lights in the sky while at the corner of Kissingbower Rd. and Walden Dr. There were two distinct lights that blinked off and on then disappeared completely. As I stopped at a store a on Deans Bridge Rd. I saw them again. This time there were 3 lights in a formation that disappeared on by one.
September 16, 2014 · 7:00 PM · FORMATION
Webster, MA
When my iphone warned me for low battery, I had to get plug from the car. I wish I bring iphone with me, but it is just happened (too late) I went outside and looked at the sky, I noticed lights, I thought it was a plane but the way it looks didn't make any sense to me. It does not match any aircrafts I know. I had to see/study those lights until it went down below the tree line. It was 5 bright light orbs, not like plane light. That is different. The dots were in group flying toward East. I was looking at East. The color of lights are white-yellow. It was short sighting.