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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.
9,112 entries
November 22, 2017 · 3:31 PM · OTHER
Pueblo, CO
We have looked at the photo, which was submitted by the witness, and believe that the optical effect in the photo may have been the result of an insect in flight. However, we cannot be certain. PD
November 19, 2017 · 5:50 PM · OTHER
Menomonee Falls, WI
When exiting the car to enter the apartment, 8 year old boy looks up at the sky to wish on a star then asks if the object in the sky was a hang glider. I looked up and saw a large, gray lined outline moving silently in the air around a low cloud level. The object had to be at least 200ft wide (tip to tip) shaped similar to { shape. It looked like nothing more that that, with evenly spaced ridges along the outline. It was moving a minimum of 50mph across the sky silently. I maintained a visual for about 1 minute before it was too far to see.
November 16, 2017 · 12:15 AM · OTHER
Milford, OH
6 balls of light following one massive ship. Main ship was very bright and slow moving. A very low pitch sound was heard by me and a few friends.
November 15, 2017 · 4:30 PM · OTHER
Perris, CA
I thought it was a Cessna at first with wings up and down flying sideways but was too fast. no lights or colors.
November 14, 2017 · 8:47 PM · OTHER
Silverpeak, NV
It started with one fairly large light in the sky, we thought it was a drone. It had moved to the northwest of our location and almost crossed paths with another one of these objects. The sighting had ended once the first craft had moved over the mountain to the northwest, and the second craft had moved more west away from our location. Mind you all crafts that were seen were moving very very slow and were identified by me as a U shaped craft. 5 to 10 minutes after the first sighting there was a formation of crafts flown over our location, the formation was a 3x1 formation, they were all in a straight row from north to south formation, one flew directly over us while one flew, on the south side of the craft directly over us and the third craft in the formation was north of the one over our location. We thought this was the end of it. After ending the call with you, there was one more craft following up behind them, still moving slow, and no sound at all. It was very strange. Also on 11/16/17 there was another strange light in the sky more to the south of our location on what we call the "Salt Flats" we believed it to be a ufo and not an airplane because of the unusual flight pattern. It seemed to move east then move back west but an airplane wouldn't be able to do that flight pattern.
November 14, 2017 · 5:35 PM · OTHER
Sunnyvale, CA
Location details: Driver seat of my car facing south, stop at the intersection of I-101 and Lawrence Blvd in Sunnyvale, CA. Observation Details: While stopped at the intersection a split second vertical streak of light in the distant horizon caught my eye. The light resembled a falling star. It started above the horizon and ended at about the horizon. The thin light was constant in shape and red/orange in color. The odd thing was the path of the light. As the light traveled down vertically, it made a 90 degree turn to the west followed immediately by another 90 degree turn down (toward the ground) then disappeared. The whole event lasted a split second but the path was clearly visible. Background of observer: Kansas native with aviation manufacturing background. Commercial Multi-Engine Instrument Pilot.
November 11, 2017 · 8:00 PM · OTHER
Glendale/Pasadena, CA
I was driving around 8 pm or so east on the 134 freeway toward Pasadena, CA, on Saturday 11/11/17. Around Glendale area before heading into Eagle Rock or so, I noticed on the left hand side up above the horizon above hills an object in the air that struck me as strange. At first it was going in and out behind things. The lights were strange, and movement strange. Nothing like that has ever caught my attention before. I watched it intently as best I could while driving on the freeway. It then began following along the freeway the entire way I was going in a basically straight line, perhaps 10 miles? At times I thought maybe it could be a blimp. But it moved very unusually, not at all like a blimp moves -- gliding easily at high speed. It kept pace in a straight firm line gliding along the freeway way too fast for a blimp, and somewhat farther down (lower) than you would expect on the horizon, for several miles. It seemed almost like it was partially sh! rouded or camaflouged, like it was intentionally trying to be non-descript in its appearance/color, deflecting light. For some reason I had an instinct or sense like the object usually has camaflouge not expecting to be seen, but that wasn't fully working at that moment for some reason. It struck me that if I was a UFO, I would not want to be seen and would want to be camaflouged rather than flashy and conspicuous, so the non-descript quality seemed reasonable to me. I wanted to take a picture or video, but I could not safely do so while driving on the freeway. I kept watching it as a drove the whole way. I then exited LAKE avenue off the 134/210 freeway into Pasadena, turning left and heading north. The object appeared to change directions almost like it was following me. It too turned left and started heading north parallel to the direction of my car, just as it had been heading in a straight line along the freeway east before I exited and turned. I know this sounds od! d and strange, but it almost felt like it could somehow sense ! that it knew I saw it and was intent and curious about that. It caught my attention because it definitely did not seem normal or quite like anything I had seen before, and I could not explain what it was. It did not move like any aircraft I know about. Too smooth and fast, not a typical flight path, speed or positioning vis-a-vis the horizon. It seemed almost casual, like it was observing and didn't think it could be seen, and then somehow noticed I noticed it (though I don't know how that could be the case). I'm thinking possible Jacques Vallée resonant, a subjective, different order component to it. I then pulled over on the road on Lake Blvd. in Pasadena so I could try to photograph it, and took the pictures attached here with my phone. The first pic is a ZOOM IN on the second pic so you can see it better/closer up. You can see where it is in the sky in the second because the perspective is stepped/angled back. In the first zoomed in pic, the object looks like a shaded circle/orb shape titled partly 3/4 back with 3 round glowing lights on the bottom. It continued to "follow" along side on the horizon up Lake Blvd. parallel to my car for a couple of miles. I then turned off right to a side street going toward a residence and lost sight of it. It held my attention as something strange I observed for around 15 minutes in total, a pretty long duration. This is the first time I have ever felt like I might have seen a UFO. It did feel instinctively like it was something unusual, and was something I could not explain or recognize. I would like to know if there were other sightings reported at this same time and area. This is reported anonymously, to add discovery and investigation. You can feel free to freely contact me with questions, information, or follow up, however.
November 10, 2017 · 11:00 PM · OTHER
Acworth, GA
Very Large inverted Boomerang-shaped object moved from North to South across the North Georgia sky at 11:00 pm Friday night. As the object moved, visible stars in the sky disappeared behind the object. The object had a filtered white light along the front edge of the craft. The object moved at a high rate of speed making it only visible for 5 seconds.
November 10, 2017 · 8:30 PM · OTHER
Eaton, CO
While closing blinds in north window, noted a grouping of clear lights in sky above neighbor’s roofline. The configuration was sort of plane-like, in that it appeared elongated. Lights were numerous, not like those on an aircraft. They (lights) appeared small but could have been that object was further away than I thought. It hovered in place for maybe 3 minutes then very slowly moved off to the southwest. Tried to pick it up from a west window, but had lost track of it. (? Drone ?). Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 9, 2017 · 10:45 PM · OTHER
Baton Rouge, LA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 7, 2017 · 5:15 PM · OTHER
Pueblo (Belmont), CO
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 6, 2017 · 10:00 PM · OTHER
Norristown, PA
While unloading my trunk of shopping bags, I noticed 4 blinking lights in the horizon towards the Elmwood Zoo area. The lights were all red in a curved line blinking in no specific order. Looks like the lights could have been the side of a saucer shape, but I did not see a craft. I watched for a few minutes then went inside and told my husband. A few minutes later he came outside and looked acknowledged what I saw and wanted to go back in. I often sky gaze looking for the most mysterious things but he could not deny this one. They were not that high either, maybe as high as a helicopter or a drone plane which I had seen twice in the last month locally here. I have never seen drone planes here before. It could have been a tall structure that I don't know about, but I doubt it. I have lived here for 3 years, and have never seen the lights before. Also it was a very clear night sky with a big bright moon, very cool. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 6, 2017 · 8:40 PM · OTHER
Knoxville, TN
Was driving home with my girlfriend and I spotted what I thought was a large flag on a strangely tall pole from interstate 40. It was irregularly shaped, and had an orange hue from the city lights maybe. We looked at it for about 15 seconds and decided it was just a cloud. That was until it began to get smaller and smaller over the course of 10-15 seconds before disappearing completely.
November 6, 2017 · 7:00 AM · OTHER
San Diego, CA
I was outside this morning and noticed a bright object in the sky. The sky was clear and there were no other objects in the blue sky except a large view of the moon off to the west. I was looking almost overhead when I saw the object and what appeared to be a bright light coming from it. I thought it might be a reflection from the sun. I got my binoculars but the image was still not very clear, but I could see the basic shape and that it had 5 lights - not reflections. I set up my camera and tripod to catch the object as it was slowly moving away, now at about a 45 degree angle. I got 5 quick photos before the object was too far away to focus. It drifted off to the southwest. No sounds or movement/change in the lights on the object.
November 1, 2017 · 7:00 PM · OTHER
Basra (Iraq), Iraq
I work in southern Iraq. I am assigned to a small camp there as support for various Exxon Management personnel. First of all, let me tell you, I am a sceptic for any of this, but open minded. I have a an extreme level of competency and common sense. I am not easily fooled. I don't remember exact dates, but it was about this time last year. I walked out of my modular building to got to dinner. It was dark out. When I turned to lock the door, I looked up to the west and noticed a bright object headed right towards us. It was up about 25-30 degree above horizon. There were no visible clouds in the sky. There were NO planes I could hear and NO plane lights visible in the sky. The object immediately didn't feel right- I had a sense of dread in my gut because it was not anything recognizable. It was like a rolling white cloud with a bright white headlight beaming directly ahead of it. But it produced its own white cloud that was in front and around it rolling or billowing over as the object flew towards our camp. I did no see any tail or wings. I did not see any tail or wing lights. This is part of why it seemed unearthly. It was actually frightening because it was headed down towards us about 1-2 miles away. It was very distinct- meaning not fuzzy or unclear. It was clear and obvious, but not normal. (Made no sound at) all I was actually kind of afraid and began running to get help when another person walked by me outside and I said "look at that thing up there in the Sky" He is a engineer and he looked and said, "What is that?" Just then the light went out, but the cloud that was rolling in the sky kept moving and turned south. So now I was witnessing a white cloud about the size of a large aircraft moving across the sky with nothing around it. We could see the cloud do to to regional surface lighting. This cloud was about 500-1000 ft above the ground, moving about 100 miles/hr southwards. There was NO WIND and no other clouds in the vicinity. It was not normal. I was shaken. I consider myself a smart guy, but this was unworldly. I told someone at dinner- a retired military guy here. I said "either I just saw a UFO, or the USA has some extremely advanced cloaking technology for their drones. He said nothing.
October 31, 2017 · 6:45 PM · OTHER
White Bird, ID
A bright object perhaps one sixth the size of the moon, traveling from east to west, appeared and traveled quickly looking like a balloon with flame/fire at one end. Traveling counter to prevailing winds and swiftly. Looked like a hot air balloon with flame.
October 29, 2017 · 4:45 PM · OTHER
Oak Harbor, WA
((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) I work for ((deleted--aviation company)). The object was not visible on radar, but it could be that our filters took care of that. The time is UTC and I do not have the contact information of the PA24. ((END ADDENDUM)) We have converted the time to Pacific Daylight time. PD
October 29, 2017 · 10:00 AM · OTHER
Rancho San Diego, CA
I sighted a disk shaped object making a large rumbling sound, before disappearing. My neighbor had seen the craft late the previous night. Her cat freaked out and ran away. My pets seemed less energetic. I was not able to snap a photo of the object. The craft had a light blue circle on its underside that glowed before it disappeared. No beings or entities were seen. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 29, 2017 · 2:35 AM · OTHER
Bellingham, WA
I saw a transparent grey inverted V shaped ship. On the V it had 5 circular shapes in the bottom of the V. Possibly could have been lights but it was transparent. It made NO sound at all, was flying above the power lines very slowly. I tried to call my husband over, but it seemed so close I didn't want to draw attention. I looked away for a second, to get my husbands attention, and when I looked back into the sky, it was gone. I did see something, was close, transparent, quite and slow miving... Never seen anything like it before in my life. Witness provides no contact information. PD
October 25, 2017 · 7:00 PM · OTHER
Fort Collins, CO
I was driving North on i-25 around 7pm. Movement to my left (west) caught my eye. I looked over to see something with green and blue flames engulfing the back end of the object. I was looking at it from its side. The front of the object looked something like the nose section from the side of a C-130 plane. There were no wings or elongated fuselage or tail section and it was much too short to be an airplane. The front half of the object was lit by the bright green and blue flames coming out of the back section. The back section was completely engulfed in flames. Then the flames stopped suddenly when the object was about 200 feet above the ground. For a second I saw a dark object, but I couldn't make out what it was or its general shape and then it was completely lost in the dark. Other than the blue and green flames, the object was not lit up in any way. It was heading mostly north with a little easterly direction too and moving at a 30 degree angle towards the ground. estimate its speed at around 130-150mph. In my opinion, considering the length of the object and the quick glimpse I had as the flames were extinguished, that I was looking at a saucer shaped craft from the side. I have checked multiple times tonight and there have been no reports of a crash site. I also drove around the area where it would have crashed and there were no wrecked buildings or police or fire trucks anywhere to be seen. I saw no fires or smoke. My guess is that there was not an actual crash despite the steep angle towards the ground and the 200 feet or so until impact. No airplane could have navigated away without impacting the ground. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 24, 2017 · 10:00 PM · OTHER
Great Falls, MT
I saw a bright gold light in line with the lower handle of the big dipper. The light was station keeping for about one minute. The light increased as it sped east about one mile. Once again stationary. The light luminosity decreased and the light sped west until out of sight. a platform with two bright red lights appeared at the same location. Too far away to make out any details. So as the initial gold light sped west, the platform slowly moved eastward until out of sight. The speed of the platform was much slower than the initial gold light. Odd that the red lights illuminated and turned off in sync. Not like a rotating beacon and the red lights were quite bright.
October 24, 2017 · 8:45 PM · OTHER
Hillsborough, NC
Flying very slowly in the Southern sky near the Aquarius constellation were a total of 4 large red lights in an "L" formation. 3 vertical with 1 to the side. It appeared to be very, very large and to be one craft that blocked the stars behind it. It flew very slow, silently and the lights blinked in no particular order randomly and without pattern. The round lights were very large. Suddenly a white light, like a vertical beam appeared below the single red light that was off to the side and the entire craft slowly dropped below the tree line and was gone.
October 24, 2017 · 8:30 PM · OTHER
Lincoln, KS
It was a very dark night, we had just turned south on to Highway 14 from X Road and approximately 2-3 miles down the road the driver said "look at that ufo in the sky". I saw numerous (what I think were 5 or 6 at minimum) large bright orange lights with what seemed to be bright LED like what "long" connecting lights. It was a pattern similar to a triangle or pyramid or similar and it was LARGE. We were all immediately talking at once and everyone saying "what is that" etc. I watched for possibly approximately 60 seconds as were ascending a large hill. I thought and it "appeared" as if once we came to the top of the hill I could see it better, but when we crested the hill it was completely gone. Literally within seconds. We could see for miles and miles from the top of this hill and there was NO sign of anything in any direction we had just seen.
October 23, 2017 · 8:00 PM · OTHER
El Paso (NE; Fairbanks & Rushing), TX
Could not determine altitude. Shape of contact was a flying wing. It had 5 to 7 small lights on forward edge of the wing. Color black. Contact was flying Northeast and turned hard and turned like a kite. Contact couldn't be heard over ambient sound. Contact appeared and turned before tracking into the night sky.