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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
September 13, 2014 · 8:30 PM · FORMATION
Houma, LA
I noticed 4 of these red lights in the sky while driving. When I looked to my left there were around 7 to 8 more. They were moving from East to West. They were strung out over a large area, and seemed to be pretty low in altitude. Some looked like they were hovering, but some were clearly moving in a stop and go characteristic. Pretty fast too. They weren't flying in any specific formation, just spread out all over.
September 12, 2014 · 9:30 PM · FORMATION
Grant, AL
There were what appeared to be two large crafts though bright orange lights were all I could see.One craft had 5 bright orange lights.The lights were in the shape of a bell like a connect the dots picture.I saw a large cloud standing alone and it was kind of bright lit by the moon it was bright.The lights moved toward the cloud(not very fast) and as it approached the cloud another craft suddenly came into view.This craft appeared to be rectangular in shape,again all I had to go by were the lights.I did not count them but I think there were twelve(12),they were in two rows six in each row one row over the other again like a connect the dots rectangle.The lights were also bright orange. The first object began to disappear into the cloud and as it did the second object accelerated toward the cloud and they both disappeared into it.The cloud was the only one in that part of the sky and I could see the whole thing it was not huge but I never saw either craft exit the cloud.Also the cloud was not really high in the sky,one of those low hanging clouds,it was a very clear night .I have not seen anything like that before or since.I know they were UFO's.
September 12, 2014 · 8:00 PM · FORMATION
South Riding, VA
The lights were white and flashed randomly with red light flashing randomly at the highest altitude. Watched the cluster move slowly and disappeared.
September 11, 2014 · 9:45 PM · FORMATION
Orlando, FL
I was at a pool at a hotel lying my back on a chaise long. I was gazing up at the sky when I gazed what appeared to a Flying V. The crafts had purple lights and it looked the formation was in flowing pack. It looked like it was electric geese...with pink lights underneath. The formation travelled across my line of sight in about 10 seconds. They looked like they very high in the sky. Another formation came after the first and floated quickly across my line of sight.
September 10, 2014 · 9:00 PM · FORMATION
O'Fallon, MO
Around 9-10 pm on the night of 09/10/2014, my son and I were driving to my house. As we drove on the street before turning into my subdivision, we saw a line of lights, all the same size, to our left-hand side up in the sky. They “sparkled” like a star appearing to change colors somewhat…my son described it as looking like a “burning ember”, basically white, but they would flicker, sometimes reddish, sometimes orangish…maybe from the gases in the air that make stars sparkle? There were no lights on the object that could be likened to a plane. The line was traveling from a southwesterly to northeasterly direction. A direction if maintained could lead directly to St. Louis International Airport. They were traveling in a single file, straight line horizontally across the sky with approximately the same amount of distance between them. We kept watching them as we turned into my subdivision, and they just kept coming…at least 20 had passed by in a straight line fashion either singularly or in formations of 2, 3 or 4 before we pulled over to video tape what we were seeing. So, we made a right turn into the parking lot of our subdivision swimming pool to pull over to watch them and take a video with my cell phone. They just kept coming and coming, some singularly, some side by side, some in a triangular formation and some in a diamond pattern. There was virtually no sound. They seemed to be flying fairly low and there were so many of them we surely would have heard any sound emanating from them. At one point, I commented that we thought we heard a very slight sound, but cannot confirm it came from the objects As you can tell my comments the number of them was quite impressive and inexplicable. Our guesstimate of total numbers would be about 50 or so. This whole incident lasted approximately 20-30 minutes from the time we first spotted them until stopped taping. I am going to attempt to forward the video I took. On the left side of the screen at times you will see the lights of the pool house, the poolhouse itself and the fence…but you can clearly see when I “zero” in on the flying objects. There is also a little “floater” of a light that shows on the screen but that is not related to the flying objects either…and you can tell the difference because the objects in the sky are brighter and all the same size. PS – my son and his family are currently living in Orlando, FL, and reports seeing something similar in the sky a couple of months ago,
September 7, 2014 · 4:10 PM · FORMATION
Minneapolis, MN
I did not observe these craft at the time of the incident, but only saw late them in photos I took (two photos 3 seconds apart). I was out taking photos at a park near my home. It was a sunny afternoon and I took some pics of the sun behind a large tree and a commercial jet making a contrail next to tree (visually speaking). I did not notice several small shapes to the right as I was focused on the tree when taking the pictures. My camera is an iPhone 5s. I can send you the picture setting details if that helps. So, I took two photos where the objects appear. They were taken 3 seconds apart, but, the objects have changed shape and are apparently further away and in a different area of the sky (you can see this in the two photos). I have enlarged these images and looked at them from different angles and experimented with changing the contrast and sharpness of the pics. You can judge for yourself but so far I have not been able to debunk them as balloons or Chinese lanterns or conventional aircraft. To me the second picture has even more oddness to it in several respects. If these are UFOs, my impression is that they are possibly trans-dimesional, based on the shape changes and the difficulty deterring the exact shape of the objects (edges are a bit fuzzy for example). I would interested in hear what you think.
September 5, 2014 · 10:00 PM · FORMATION
Cumming, GA
On Friday September 5th at around 10 PM I was in my driveway when I witnessed a cluster of red or orange lights in the distant sky that were moving in a south west direction. Some of the lights appeared to be moving in formation, one behind the other, while others at the end of the formation changed to a sideways V shape. Still others appeared to be moving freely all over the sky. As the lights moved across the western sky and out of view more lights could appear over the tree line. I phoned my neighbor for a witness. He joined me and we watched this process continue for approximately 15 more minutes. There were too many lights to count and we both estimated that there were at least 20 to 30 lights. Eventually only 1 or 2 new lights at a time joined the others and they all finally moved out of our viewing range. We discussed the sighting; compared notes and both agreed that this could not have been birds, planes or helicopters. Neither of us have ever seen anything like this.
September 2, 2014 · 11:00 PM · FORMATION
Rapid City, SD
It was a large meteorite type object that broke apart over Rapid City, SD, and disintegrated ... No plain or simple shooting star or fire ballon or seasonal meteor shower. This was an impact on the atmosphere that blew me away, and my girlfriend too! Like a Hollywood movie of a UFO breaking up in space crashing into earth! It was THAT cool! ((ADDENDUM)) We wonder whether the event might have been caused by re-entering space debris. If the estimate of the duration of the event is accurate, the object probably was not a meteor. PD
September 1, 2014 · 1:00 PM · FORMATION
Hobbs, NM
Sky was very blue,no breeze. I was laying on my back in pool staring at the sky when out of nowhere, I noticed a group of shiny metalic objects kind of orb shaped darting around very high in the sky, almost impossible to see if you were not staring at the sky. I asked my daughter (she is 30 ) to lay on her back next to me and see if she could observe them. She could not believe what she was seeing. They were grouped together but moving around in different directions .We watched them and they seemed to get higher and just dissipate. I have no clue what we witnessed. The air was still, no breeze at all, they were so high in the sky they kind of looked like shooting stars in the daytime.
August 31, 2014 · 6:10 AM · FORMATION
Glenpool, OK
While looking to the eastern sky, early Sunday morning I noticed something odd. There was three distinctive lights horizontally in the sky. At first I thought that they must be stars doing what they do best, even though it was very light outside. I then decided that these pulsating lights were much to bright to be stars when all of a sudden the one on the far right spit out a orange/peach colored light that hastily went off to the south. After watching that happen I went inside telling myself that I was nuts. I don't know how long the lights stayed around for, because frankly putting it, It scared me! I don't ufo hunt/watch or whatever and have never been on this website before. I just wanted to mention this because aircraft don't do that, and as far as I know neither do stars!
August 30, 2014 · 9:05 PM · FORMATION
Dayton, OH
Cluster of five white lights, after a few seconds, two disappeared. They reappeared a few seconds later. All 5 were there briefly again, then they disappeared altogether.
August 30, 2014 · 9:00 PM · FORMATION
Porirua (Titahi Bay)(New Zealand) · New Zealand
One light (looked like a star) - sped across the horizon, i assumed it was a shooting star which made be stand up to get a closer look as the roof edging was blocking my view. As soon as I lost sight of the first moving light it was followed by another 5 to 7 lights, which travelled in the same direction as the first. They were all in a formation (distancing between them didn't change for the few seconds I witnessed them in the sky).
August 30, 2014 · 8:00 PM · FORMATION
West Chester, OH
Driving home on 8/30/2014 from Monroe, Ohio, after a birthday party was on interstate I-75 North. I looked to the western sky and seen some lights I asked my wife and kids to look and they also seen them. We watched 3 light on the far right side of the formation moving together to the north. They stopped after going so far and reverse direction from where they came from and stopped like as they were forming a certain formation. The formation was like a check mark, and all of a sudden one light disappears and then another now there is 1 then the lights come back on (like a light switch) then there was 5 lights. the length was very long unlike no plane or hot air balloons they moved too quickly. My wife and kids were freaked out and let it be known my don’t believe in ufo’s but even she says she can’t explain what we saw.
August 30, 2014 · 8:00 PM · FORMATION
Monroe, OH
In Kroger parking lot in Monroe, my fiance and I witnessed a formation of orange, glowing, triangle-shaped crafts hovering in sky over Middletown in distance. Triangles first hovered in arrow shape and glowed. Some went dark, others glowed brighter, then the others appeared again. While they glowed in and out, they moved into different formations, including an arc shape. Then some went dark. The others went dark and they totally disappeared.
August 29, 2014 · 8:40 PM · FORMATION
Shrewsbury, MA
I rolled down my window I couldn't hear anything they seemed to be about as high as a chopper would fly. Myself and about 4 other cars pulled over to view objects, then they just seemed to disappear .
August 28, 2014 · 7:30 PM · FORMATION
Seattle, WA
Six or more lights across Seattle, partially obstructed by Seattle Space Needle and bushes. At first appeared slow moving, disappearing all sequentially. Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMTQJFKOJmU ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) Hey Peter! Sorry, I broke the link apart in case there was some kind of anti-spam that stops youtube links, but the full link is here: http://youtu.be/kMTQJFKOJmU Let me know if there is anything else I can do! ((END ADDENDUM))
August 28, 2014 · 5:10 AM · FORMATION
Linthicum, MD
My wife and I saw one of these in Maryland (USA) this morning. August 28, 2014, at 0510 hrs EST., it was large like bigger than the moon usually appears, but the moon was not in our sky this morning. It had a spiral movement as though something was emanating from it and perhapse one revolution per 5 seconds. looked like a opening tunnel vortex and it changed from a deep-red corona to a white haze as it dissapeared. It came back a few seconds later, like 30 seconds later, more hazy the second time. We freaked out and sat on the ground as I was worried that there would be a sonic boom, but there was no sound effects that I could hear after all... it was hand size at arm's length away and seemingly not in our atmosphere because it had a far distance look similar to the aurora borealis.
August 28, 2014 · 5:00 AM · FORMATION
Columbus, OH
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 27, 2014 · 9:00 PM · FORMATION
Baguio City (Philippines) · Philippines
On August 27, 2014, 9:00pm, my friend and I just finished classes in law school. We stood in the parking lot, waiting for her to finish her cigarette. The parking lot is located within the city district. The sky was a little bright due to the city lights. The sky was very clear and no clouds in sight, no rain nor lighting. There is was no moon. The first group of lights A few minutes later as we were chatting, I looked up to the sky. To my surprise, I saw four orange lights travelling very fast and in a very high altitude. They looked like orange dots similar to that of a star. The first group of lights flew in a straight line heading south. Then the first light started to wobble and the 3 lights did the same. Afterwards, the two lights in the front made a straight line, and the other two lights behind made another straight line as if they formed two different segments. They then disappeared in the horizon. At this point, my friend was not able to see it due to the speed they were travelling at. The Second group of lights. The second group of lights came within 20-30 seconds after the first. It was composed of 6 – 8 lights in the form which looked like a jet. They did not change formation. The distances of the lights from the others did not change. Neither the lights were blinking. Like the first group, the lights were also travelling fast in a very high altitude, headed a little east of south. This time, my friend saw it too. Third group of lights After a few seconds, another group of lights appeared in the night sky. I was able to bring out my camera phone but to my extreme disappointment, the camera could not focus on the sky so nothing but our reactions to the lights was recorded. The 3rd group was composed of 5-8 lights this time. They formed a circle, or an ellipse. As they flew towards south at high speed, they slowly converged in the middle. The lights may have traveled approximately 45 seconds to 1 minute from horizon to horizon. The lights were above us when I started to record with my phone’s camera and ended at the point where they vanished. The video had a duration of 23 seconds.
August 27, 2014 · 1:20 AM · FORMATION
South Bethany Beach, DE
RIGHT AFTER MY 11-YR.-OLD SON AND I WITNESSED UP CLOSE A SILENT V-SHAPED UFO GO OVER OUR HEADS AND OUT OVER THE OCEAN, WE WITNESSED SOMETHING DIFFERENT. WE WERE OUTSIDE THE RENTAL VACATION HOME AT 1:20 IN THE MORNING (STILL EXCITED AND IN AWE ABOUT THE FIRST SIGHTING) I WANTED HIM TO GET A CHANCE TO POSSIBLY VIEW A SHOOTING STAR OF WHICH I HAD SEEN QUITE A FEW AGAINST THE STARRY, MOON-LESS SKY AT THE SHORE. I POINTED OUT A HIGH FLYING LARGE JET APPROACHING FROM THE SOUTH. AT THE SAME TIME...A SMALL JET (SO I THOUGHT)WAS APPROACHING FROM THE SOUTHWEST. THEY WERE AT DIFFERENT ALTITUDES. WHEN THE SMALLER CRAFT CAME CLOSE ENOUGH (FROM MY VANTAGE POINT) TO INTERSECT PATHS WITH THE LARGER PLANE...ALL OF A SUDDEN ...4 MORE CRAFT APPEARED OUT OF NOWHERE.ONE POSITIONED ITSELF IN FRONT OF THE PLANE AND THE OTHER 3 SPACED BEHIND IT...WITH THE ORIGINAL SMALL CRAFT (WHICH I THOUGHT WAS A SMALL JET) TRAILING OFF FURTHER BEHIND. I WATCHED THEM CONTINUE ON THEIR PATH FOR ABOUT 5 MORE MINUTES COINCIDENTALLY ON THE SAME PATH OVER THE OCEAN AS THE V SHAPED UFO (FORMATION OF LIGHTS) THAT WE HAD WITNESSED 20 MINUTES EARLIER.
August 27, 2014 · 1:00 AM · FORMATION
South Bethany Beach, DE
IN FRONT OF A BACKDROP OF A STARRY, MOON-LESS NIGHT-TIME SKY...MY 11-YR.-OLD SON AND I HAD A V-SHAPED CRAFT SLOWLY GO OVER OUR HEADS. IT MOVED LIKE A SINGLE CRAFT, BUT NOTHING CONNECTED THE 7 OR SO LIGHTS. IT WAS 1:00 AM AND MY SON AND I WERE ON VACATION AND DECIDED TO DRIVE OVER FROM THE BAY WHERE WE WERE STAYING TO THE OCEAN SIDE ACROSS RT. 1 TO CHECK-OUT THE WAVES BECAUSE THEY WERE SOUNDING SO LOUD. ON THE WALKWAY TO THE BEACH BETWEEN TWO OCEAN FRONT HOMES I LOOKED UP AND SAW THIS SILENT "CRAFT" AND SHOUTED U.F.O. WE WATCHED IT SLOWLY DISAPPEAR OVER THE OCEAN AFTER A FEW MINUTES. IT WAS A COUPLE HUNDRED FEET IN THE AIR AND ALSO A COUPLE HUNDRED FEET IN TOTAL SIZE. (I AM SENDING IN ANOTHER REPORT WITH ANOTHER DIFFERENT TYPE OF SIGHTING WHICH I THINK WAS SOMEHOW RELATED)
August 27, 2014 · 1:00 AM · FORMATION
Bethany Beach, MD
V-formation of lights, flying northeast along coastline. Center (point of V) appeared to be square and was brightest. Span looked as if it would be several city blocks, consisting of 4-5 dimmer lights on each side of the "point" (or lead craft?).
August 26, 2014 · 11:00 PM · FORMATION
Peterborough (UK/England) · United Kingdom
Diamond shape formation (UFO's) in Peterborough. Appearence resembled faint stars. Seen surrounding a bright star and then swiftly moved diagonal, then switched between a diamond formation to a slight square and back. The bogus contact information the source of this report provides makes us wonder whether it is a serious report, or a hoax. PD
August 26, 2014 · 7:00 PM · FORMATION
Pine Bush, NY
Son was playing with neighbor's kids in the backyard, when they all observed two large oblong fuzzy shapes that appeared to be glowing yellow-orange from within. Tilted at about a 20-degree angle, the two objects flew slowly and silently in formation from north to south. Son and friends observed objects for a few seconds, but when my son ran around behind a tree to take a picture, objects had disappeared.