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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
June 26, 2014 · 10:00 PM · FORMATION
Litchfield Beach, SC
Saw two horizontal formations of 5 glowing red/orange lights. They were side by side over the ocean, but not completely parallel. The appeared to be hovering approximately 1000 feet above the water. Distance appeared to be 1/4 to 1/2 mile out. The two formations strobed and faded out. Within 30 seconds two single red/orange lights appeared and danced in a similar fashion and faded out.
June 24, 2014 · 9:00 PM · FORMATION
Lake Charles, LA
I turned around at I-10 and headed back to look again, a total time of 90 seconds, and they were all gone We wonder whether the date might be flawed, and whether the sighting might have occurred on July 24, 2014. However, the witness elects to remain anonymous, and provides no contact information, so we are unable to corroborate the date. PD
June 23, 2014 · 8:05 AM · FORMATION
Cottonwood, AZ
witnessed what appeared to be at first to local craft or skydivers that held position over Verde Santa Fe development three more objects swooped in from the right just below them the initial 2 stationary objects the smaller behind the primary danced around the other. three following in formation one of the three that followed formation was red the other four remaining objects were silverish in nature very faint very small have taken pictures but unidentified on video the objects remained for approximately 5-0 minutes then eventually faded from sight.
June 22, 2014 · 10:00 PM · FORMATION
New Albany, IN
Northeast sky 3 reddish color lights hovered in a side-triangle formation. Two eventually "flew" toward the east in a sideways manner (very fast) and the 3rd one streaked downward and then hovered over a tree line - eventually lifted up and we thought possibly towards us, then slowly remained going upward and then away from us until out of sight. They did not get close enough for us to see any shape, other than 3 round lights - and they may have "pulsed" very slightly. My 1st time ever witnessing anything like this!! Objects may have been too far away to get picture with cell phone...
June 21, 2014 · 11:00 PM · FORMATION
Portland, OR
I was up on the roof of my apartment complex, lying on my back and taking the night sky in. I saw what I thought to be a shooting star in the sky to the east. As I looked through my binoculars, I discovered 6 oval-like shapes moving in formation. They emitted no light nor made any sound, and were dark brown in appearance. The shape of the objects reminded me of the cap of a mushroom, and they moved slightly from side to side while in formation. They moved westward through the sky, at an apparent high rate of speed, similar to that of a satellite. As they headed toward the western horizon, the two objects on the flanks shifted away from the group and quickly fell back in formation. This event lasted approximately one minute.
June 20, 2014 · 10:35 PM · FORMATION
McMinnville, OR
At least 7 orbs of light flying in some kind of formation, all whizzing around each other and then leaving one by one, the last light fizzled like a candle, it was the weirdest thing I have ever seen and I honestly can not explain how unnatural it was to see.
June 20, 2014 · 10:30 PM · FORMATION
La Puente, CA
Altitude unknown. Observed a zig-zag formation of 5 red-orange orbs from the NE. Orbs lasted about 10 mins. before fading Walking NE, we noticed a zig-zag formation of 5 red-orange orbs. Altitude unknown. The lowest orb moved side to side slightly before fading out. Seconds later, the top orb began fading. Right after the rest started fading out.
June 20, 2014 · 9:00 PM · FORMATION
Washington, D.C., DC
I live on the top of a big hill in DC that overlooks the Potomac river. I was looking out my window towards the South East and over Virginia or the river, I saw a slow moving formation of lights. Not unlike what I've seen of the "Phoenix Lights." I watched them for a little while 15-30 mins. I took some photographs, which I will submit. This view also encompasses the takeoff/landing path for Reagan National airport in Alexandria, VA, but I have been watching the planes come and go for a couple of years, and have never ever seen something like this. The lights in the formation moved in inconsistent ways. Some moving up and down some left (south) some right (north). I went out to the street and could see them there as well. I went in to get something to eat and when I returned they were gone. Also to note, the lights were orange, not yellow or white. I did see aircraft take off from the airport while the event was occurring and it appears the the lights were further off than the aircraft.
June 19, 2014 · 9:45 PM · FORMATION
Londonderry/Merrimac/Nashua, NH
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 17, 2014 · 9:15 PM · FORMATION
Fort Morgan, AL
Me and five other family and friends observed a strange series of lights while watching a lightning storm East of Fort Morgan. We saw a single orange round light that had an orange hue and was very bright due South of us out over the Gulf. The light appeared to be stationary. It glowed for about 20 seconds and then extinguished gradually. About a minute later the same shape and brightness appeared again about 10 degrees West of the first appearance. It extinguished in the same fashion as the first one. Then a similar light appeared slightly West of that one. This object added lights sequentially from left to right (East to West ) one by one to a total of four evenly spaced lights horizontally side by side and evenly spaced, then they extinguished. No sound accompanied the sighting.
June 16, 2014 · 11:30 PM · FORMATION
Jonesboro, IL
Me and my boyfriend went outside cause the dogs were barking when we got outside I immediately looked up and noticed 3 stars and to the right was another v-shape of 3 stars. Then we both noticed the lights were slightly moving, wobbling. Then I looked to the left of the middle cluster and noticed light blue tiny lights, the top 2 we solid whete there was 2 more below it which sporadicly blunk very fast. I was pointing out some other odd looking lights to him, when we looked back and there was about 20 more lights that just appeared all around. They way they moved in almost seemed like watching a storm cloud rolling in. The formation would change almost like making diffetent shapes. Or designs. as they wrre moving. As I realized just how many objects were in the sky, it kinda started freaking me out and I went inside.
June 16, 2014 · 10:00 AM · FORMATION
Colorado Springs, CO
I was parking my car on North Academy outside of the Dollar Tree when I saw a large object moving directly north towards me. I could tell it was going way too slowly for a plane or a helicopter, and it took about 10 minutes to reach right above where I was standing and then veered off north west. I grabbed the binoculars out of my car and I could barely make out a huge bunch of what looked like balloons (hundreds of them), BUT what was really weird is it had been followed the entire way by an escort of 8 or so silver colored lights. They were up way higher than the large object and seemed to be following it. I pointed them out to another lady who got out of her car and she said she could see them too. When I first saw them I honestly thought it was a squadron of jet fighters, tailing a plane of some sort but they were not jet fighters and they all disappeared into the clouds when I lost sight of them all. We spoke via telephone with this witness, and she sounded to us to be quite eloquent, and serious-minded. We suspect the the report is quite accurate. PD
June 16, 2014 · 12:00 AM · FORMATION
Gilford, NH
I was driving home from work in Sanbornton going to Gilford, NH, and saw 4 lights in the sky, 4 light formations, flying, hovering, merging together and then coming apart, seemed to be making some sort of pattern in the sky with its movements but it was not a 100% consistent pattern, it changed slightly each time they merged together and came apart. Not sure if these lights had something to do with the motorcycle Bike Week Event going on in town of Laconia, NH. Maybe they were just some light reflections of some sort, that I was seeing, coming from another source, I am not sure. The description makes us wonder whether the witness might have been observing advertising lights. No other reports PD
June 15, 2014 · 8:31 PM · FORMATION
Napa, CA
The UFOs moved in the sky in curcular motion and formed different geometric patterns. The show last for hours and seen by multiple witness. The way the UFOs moved were not like any aircraft that we have today. These UFOs were luminous objects that demonstrated the ability to appear and disappear at will. Also, the UFOs could launch more ships from a what appeared to be one.
June 14, 2014 · 10:05 PM · FORMATION
Pikesville, MD
I was walking my dog in the rear of my home, when my motion detectors came on. I looked up towards the lights and noticed a line of moving objects coming over the trees. I stared at them and ran to get my son. We witnessed these flying, orange glowing objects, first flying in a line formation and then, as they climbed higher, they changed formation again. They disappeared, one by one into the clouds. There was six separate object.
June 14, 2014 · 9:50 PM · FORMATION
Fairfield, CA
I SAW ABOUT 8 RED LIGHTS IN A CIRCLE IN THE WESTERN SKY, ABOUT 20 DEGREES ABOVE THE HORIZON, JUST BELOW THE BIG DIPPER. THE LIGHTS MOVED INDEPENDENTLY OF EACH OTHER AND THERE WAS NO NOISE. ONE BY ONE, THEY FADED AWAY OVER ABOUT 2 MINUTES. THEN 2 MORE APPEARED TO THE WNW. THESE 2 LIGHTS SEEMED TO FOLLOW EACH OTHER AND APPEARED TO BE CLOSER (LARGER). SIZE APPEARED TO BE MUCH LARGER AND BRIGHTER THAN MARS APPEARS TONIGHT. WE HAVE NEVER WITNESSED ANYTHING LIKE THIS!
June 14, 2014 · 9:45 PM · FORMATION
Chandler, AZ
Myself, daughter, friend and several other drivers pulled over to watch the formation of possibly 16 lights. Flying slowly in formation, all lights were the same size, color, and seemed to fade away. not fly up, across, but just disappeared.
June 12, 2014 · 10:00 PM · FORMATION
Mesa, AZ
20 Green Floating/Flying Lights The Greens Lights Were Flying In Formation and moving around in synchronization Constantly There Were 20 Green Lights The Shape was round and they Appeared Green in Color Complete Dark and black Background With Stars Shining in the Distance
June 12, 2014 · 9:30 PM · FORMATION
Wichita, KS
I am a pilot living in a suburb of Wichita. My home has a view of both the aircraft on arrival to the Air Force Base as well as Jabarra airport. I am used to seeing planes at night. What I saw I cannot explain as an aircraft. I saw three bright, green and red lights evenly spaced move from a standstill west to east across the horizon. When they moved however it was as if they followed a sinusoidal wave like a snake moving through the sky. The sine wave was slow but the movement of the three lights as a group was very fast and with no sound. The lights disappeared from my view behind a house, presumably. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD
June 11, 2014 · 10:45 PM · FORMATION
Indianapolis, IN
A coworker and I were taking a break in a second floor conference room in the building we both work 2nd shift on tonight 6/11/14! As we were looking out of one of two very large picture windows in the room facing east directly towards the downtown area of Indy, as we were both looking up at the sky, we were both amazed as we saw three yellow/orange lights, slowly flying right over the downtown area in a triangular formation! As these lights/objects moved slowly in the sky over downtown Indy after several minutes had past, they each began to fade away in the semi over cast sky one at a time which was very strange to us both!
June 7, 2014 · 9:30 PM · FORMATION
Lancaster, SC
Driving west on #9 Bypass, I looked out of the passenger side window and saw multiple lights in the sky. My husband pulled over so we could get a better look. From our perspective, the lights were in the north and appeared to travel in a north westerly direction. Each light seemed to consist of three red lights, with the center light pulsing. We watched for approximately 10-15 minutes as two groups of 12-15 lights each passed by and eventually disappeared behind clouds. They weren’t moving extremely fast, but they were not slow either. My husband noted that each group appeared to be moving in a “V” formation.
June 6, 2014 · 9:45 PM · FORMATION
Hatfield, MA
Two in unison one left behind.
June 5, 2014 · 6:22 PM · FORMATION
Johnson City, TX
I drove back from Dallas on Thursday afternoon. I came back via HWY 281. Now, right before Johnson, TX, there was a manufactured home slowly being moved South, bringing a line of south bound vehicles to a crawl, sometimes to a dead stop. I pulled out my camera and started taking random pictures of the clouds and fields around me. This evening has been my first opportunity to take a look at the photos. I have 2 pictures that are identical, you can distinctly make out 2 bright items in the sky on the right side and a 3rd just above those. On the left side is a bright object in the clouds. I was traveling South and just shooting pictures to the east, I was not even looking through the view finder. The window was up, but none of the other pictures have these objects on them. I don't believe, but I certainly question what these objects are in the picture.
May 30, 2014 · 9:30 PM · FORMATION
Madison, AL
Approximately 21:30 central time. Cluster of 20 to 30 sphere like lights. Cluster (staggered) seemed to travel north to north east for at least 1 minute then disappeared. May have been military craft or hot air balloons... not 100% sure. I have no way of knowing. Very strange. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD