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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.
8,980 entries
November 4, 2016 · 7:20 AM · UNKNOWN
Framingham, MA
This morning on my commute to work, I witnessed an inexplicable occurence. I was making my way around a corner, and all of a sudden there was a giant flash of light, as if a lightning bolt struck the ground ~3 cars in front of me. The surrounding area lit up accordingly, however there was no logically complimentary sound alongside it. At the same time, there was a low whirring sound, comparable to that of a car accelerating, however there were no aircraft present in the sky, and there was no wreckage or debris that might be found if a car explodes or something like that. This was a large flash of light, so it couldn't have been a streetlamp going out, it was something large and encompassing. Shortly after the flash of light, the sky quickly filled with clouds, when before the occurrence, the sky was clear. The cars in front of me stopped, and a few people got out and looked around to see if this was an ongoing event. I was concerned about the incident, but I didn't want to stick around to see what happened next(if anything did happen next).
November 4, 2016 · 5:22 AM · UNKNOWN
Mississauga (Canada), ON · Canada
Was sitting in car seen two bright lights, one red one white, nothing strange as toronto.international airport is north of my location, lights approached and got brighter, but seemed to get slower to almost a stop, opened window looked at it thinking it was in dstress, it then headed west suddenly,attempted to locate it, gone.
November 3, 2016 · 8:42 PM · UNKNOWN
West Jordan, UT
Flying over west Jordan higher than a plane not making noise. Red and green lights.
November 3, 2016 · 8:30 AM · UNKNOWN
Whittier, NC
Driving back home from school and I noticed there were 3 lights in the sky not far off the ground (About 20 or 30 feet?) I thought it must have been and airplane or helicopter (it resembled the same kind of lights you would see underneath a plane) but discarded that idea realizing it was to close off the ground and it stayed in one place, not moving! The lights were blinking in the colors of red, blue, and green. I slowed down looking up in passing underneath it and drove home. Turned around to go back and try to see it again but it was gone. Weirdest thing I have EVER saw!!
October 31, 2016 · 7:55 PM · UNKNOWN
Pennsburg, PA
Driving down 663 and saw 3 orange ligts low in the sky. Got out of my car to look and then saw a copter coming towards it and I looked away, then back and the lights were gone. There was no clouds in the sky.
October 29, 2016 · 12:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Lansing, MI
One continued east, while the other hovered right above US 127 S. as we drove over the Clark Rd. overpass. Drove pursuing the other end that headed East, we turned south on Chandler Rd., and again saw it hovering. Again, as we aproached, it took off. This time headed West. These were not drones. They were large and low. Flashed similar to what a plane would, with the exception of one very bright, yellow colored light that turned on and off intermittently. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 26, 2016 · 11:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Knoxville, TN
On 26OCT2016, at approximately 2315 EDT, I heard several instances of noises coming from outside of my house. The noise that most caught my attention was similar to someone riding a skateboard on pavement but was accompanied by a notable amount of low frequency energy as a steady drone, no rhythmic interruptions, just a Doppler effect as through passing slowly by my observation point. After the third such occurrence in an estimated 15 minute window, I exited my house and attempted to locate the source of these aural events. Upon looking to the northeast sky, I observed two slow moving, flashing red lights in what appeared to be a loose, staggered formation traveling away from my location in a northeast direction. The lights pulsed with only a saturated red color in a slow, steady pattern, similar to a communications tower at night. They were quite intense, despite the perceived distance but were not blinding--certainly brighter than any aircraft I've witnessed. The lights also flashed in perfect unison with each other but, given the distance separating them in the sky, I have no reason to believe they were in fact attached to the same craft. The only sound witnessed as they departed was a low frequency rumble similar to that of a distant freight train, or high powered jet engine.
October 26, 2016 · 12:20 AM · UNKNOWN
Broad Brook, CT
Saw this hovering in the sky, two bright white lights, on the left and right side of the craft. I stopped at the stop sign and just watched it hover there. Saw it again on October 24th, thought it strange!
October 25, 2016 · 7:15 PM · UNKNOWN
Bethlehem, PA
My granddaughter and I were out for a walk with our dog on the evening of Oct. 25, 2016 at about 7:15 PM. As we were walking South on Madison Ave. toward Dewberry, I could see a bright light behind the trees. As we continued walking, 2 low flying, silent craft were heading straight for us. They were descending all the while I was watching them. I could only discern the bright white lights, no shapes. We turned around and high-tailed it home. I kept looking back (praying all the way home), they turned a bit west (we were headed northeast). I could see them as I looked down the side streets on our way home. I checked for a while, looking out the front of our house - they never came this way.
October 25, 2016 · 7:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Chandler, AZ
The event took place about 7:00pm and we were driving east down Hunt Highway. We looked up and saw lights that looked like they were circulating around an object. The event lasted about a minute and then it disappeared. We stopped the car and got out to try and see if we could see anything but there was nothing. This is my third sighting out here in Chandler. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 25, 2016 · 6:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Mesa, AZ
Didn't look like military flares and used to live next to AFB and Army base that used them all the time. No sound and not like any aircraft I've ever seen. 40 yr old educated Hispanic American.
October 25, 2016 · 3:45 PM · UNKNOWN
Atlanta, GA
While out for an afternoon walk with my wife and 3-month old twins, we noticed a white dot in the sky. The object appeared to be in a location that was not the place for a plane or helicopter to be. The object also seemed to be too big to be a drone. I own a couple of drones and so I am familiar with their shape, size and flight characteristics. This white object was stationary for a number of minutes and then zoomed off. We lost it behind a building. A video (sorry, iPhone only) was taken at the time. You can see the footage here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/sd8riguvv45hq5u/IMG_5709%202.MOV?dl=0 Interested to know if anyone else reported this?
October 22, 2016 · 12:46 PM · UNKNOWN
Grand Rapids, MI
At my residence, I noticed an orang-ish -- what appeared to be triangle shaped, but couldn't tell for certain because of how high it was -- ball of light track at very high altitude, it was above an airliner (looking up the flight history, I believe it was ETD150, 777 from Chicago to Abu Dhabi). This organg-ish ball was tracking north to south at a moderate clip -- there was no con-trail observed. When I went to grab a witness the anomalous object was overhead, still tracking north to south. Several minutes later, with the witness in hand, we observed that the object was now way off to the east and was tracking to the southwest. It made quite a course correction in a short amount of time! Eventually the object got too far out of range for us to see. Neither the witness, nor myself have seen anything like it before. It could not have been a satellite because of the course change -- maybe it was a weather balloon.
October 20, 2016 · 9:01 PM · UNKNOWN
Madison, WI
Saw 2 bright, orange lights to the north. Very slight flicker but constantly visible. No visible aircraft lights or identifiers. Absolutely NO sound. 1 following the other about 4 fingers apart at arms length. Direction was N-NW. Easy to see the Big Dipper for reference. Unable to determine distance or altitude. Second object turned in a arc toward the north and disappeared. No clouds visible. The first object continued N-NW, in a straight line. A third object quickly appeared behind the first. Separation again about 4 fingers width at arms length. These continued now W-NW and again in a straight line. Speed about as fast as the International Space Station travels across the sky however these objects were brighter and orange. The second object then appeared from the area where it had disappeared from, traveled south for a short time. Then turned and followed the First and Third object to the W-NW. This object appeared to be traveling faster. Until the objects went over the horizon, all three were visible, in a straight line. Total visible time approx. 5 minutes.
October 20, 2016 · 8:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Colorado Springs, CO
At approximately 8:30 pm (20:30) on October 20th, 2016, my girlfriend and I were heading North on a back road we commonly go down when I noticed a bright light in the center of my rear view mirror. I commented on it and my girlfriend said that it was probably just a plane as we live near an air force academy. I agreed but kept watching as a second bright light appeared next to it, then a third and the final fourth light. I immediately did a U-turn so we can get a better look and watched for about five minutes while driving towards it. It should be noted at this point that the lights were off in the distance directly over the city lights. My girlfriend started recording the lights with her phone and one by one the lights started disappearing as if they were never there until the last one faded out. I uploaded the video of the lights to YouTube where I explain in text everything I have outlined here and explain that we know a plane or aircraft when we see one and this is definitely not just a plane. I should also add that each light went out about twenty seconds after the previous one. I don't know if this is frowned upon but the link to the video is provided below. Thanks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASaCVyhrSSc
October 20, 2016 · 7:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Pacific Palisades, CA
I was passing by the cliffs that overlook the Pacific where I usually pause for a view. I noticed several strobe lights and a small boat close to shore and at first thought; it was a fishing vessel. I have lived here for over 50 years and never seen a fishing boat so close to shore. I watched the lights for some time expecting to see some sort of circular or semicircular formation that would suggest net but the pattern was all over the place. I drove into Santa Monica and looked from the bluffs there but they couldn’t be seen. Driving along the coast, they were also out of site. When I stopped, again at the first place I had noticed them it was still going on. It sounds more like a test of some sort, point Magu military base is not far off but I am unable to find any indication they were there. Maybe you can pass it along or make sense of it. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 19, 2016 · 9:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Dobson, NC
I heard a loud aircraft come over my house. Thought it might be a helicopter, but the sound was similar to a turbo prop, but deeper in tone, but without the sound of the props. It continued moving east,maybe fifteen miles and begin hovering. As it hovered,I begin observing the lights hoping to identify the craft. There were red lights,one at the top,one at the bottom,and one in the middle. The top light blinked once every to seconds.the bottom light randomly blinked three times every two seconds. There was continuos white lights through the middle and randomly blinking lights at the bottom, sometimes blinking in sequence. It appeared to be three lights along the bottom. Running diagonally,from lower left to upper right white,green,and blue lights that appeared to blink with no apparent pattern. It seemed this first craft would be joined by three others ,similar to the first, but two disappeared before joining, they came from the south. The fourth came from the north and began hovering some distance from the first, just above the horizon. While hovering , both craft would move short distances in random directions while maintaining their approximate positions. After about an hour I returned to the inside of my house. Tonight 10/20/16 another craft appeared above the horizon in a similar area for about an hour.. Commercial and military aircraft fly by and seem to not notice the hovering craft,however I noticed they all turned before entering the craft's air space. There is no noise from these craft as thy hover.
October 17, 2016 · 5:35 AM · UNKNOWN
Jacksonville, FL
I was driving to work, saw a bright blue light hovering a mile or two south of me. It stayed still for 20-30 seconds, then zoomed away faster than anything I've ever seen.
October 15, 2016 · 6:03 PM · UNKNOWN
Prescott, AZ
A strange bright light just before sunset hovering over the Northwest territory beyond the city of Prescott. It was moving erratically and then just drifted farther west and faded out completely. What was strange is that it was so brightly lit up, but it wasn't night time, so it looked out of place and then the way it moved was odd. There was a short trail in the sky near where the light faded out. Maybe a helicopter?
October 14, 2016 · 3:45 AM · UNKNOWN
Middletown, NY
At approximately 3:45am, I saw through the window what looked like a "star" in the sky which was moving and "undulating" with jerky movements unlike any aircraft, and which "shimmered" with bright light which varied in color from white-with-blue-hue (most of the time) to occasionally red-ish and green-ish colors. At about 4am I went outside to continue observing--mostly to try to figure out if it was a high-flying small copter drone, which was the only thing I could think of which could have similar jerky movements in all directions. The Little Dipper was just to the right of where the object was moving around in the sky. I occasionally saw little "poof" flashes of red light nearby to but not part of the object, like it had let out a silent firecracker. At approximately 5am I went back inside to mention the event to a friend, and to get a pair of binoculars to try to make out a shape of the object. Unfortunately all I could make out of the object through the binoculars was a bright white light with a blue hue -- not any detail as to its shape. The friend came outside and observed the object from ~5:30am-5:45am, going back inside after feeling chilled. I remained outside observing until 6:30am. From 6am-6:30am the movements of the jobject seemed more subtle than earlier and was slightly less bright, so I assume it was moving away from my observing location. If this was some kind of surveillance drone it would have had to be one that was brightly illuminated, could dart around like a nimble quadcopter, and stay aloft continously for 2.75 hours.
October 14, 2016 · 12:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Smithtown, NY
I was talking to my friend before she was leaving my house one night, and I remember, looking up at the night sky. There were quite a number of stars out, as I live in the woods, so it was always nice to gaze up at them. Then from the corner of my eye, I saw something orange. Looking over, I noticed lights in the sky, moving at the same speed and parallel with each other. Upon seeing them, it turned out there were two more sets of lights. One of the sets of lights, reminded me of a colon symbol from the keyboard, moving straight over my house and over the trees. Following the same path was another set of lights only the looked as if a colon was on it's side. The third set of lights, broke the formation by going diagonally across the sky. It seemed to have started off with them but ended up breaking away, still staying parallel with itself. It was almost as if the sets of lights were attached in the pairs by a bar. These lights didn't blink, and they weren't slow like a plane. They also seemed to be flying too low for them to be a plane as well. I'm pretty sure they were actually in the atmosphere. As I watched them, I had three thoughts cross my mind. One was just surprise, but the other two thoughts stood out. These thoughts were "get inside" and "what are you looking for?". Of course, I had stayed rooted to the spot until they were out of site, before my friend and I said goodbye. Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
October 10, 2016 · 9:40 AM · UNKNOWN
Austin, TX
Strip of bright orange lights in a "S"'shape or 2, rotating slowly, moving slow and silent. Heading East. Time above may be flawed. The source of the report indicates a morning sighting, but a corrected time may be 2140 hrs., 9:40 p.m.. PD
October 9, 2016 · 12:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Morrison, CO
My boyfriend and I went to see Tech N9ne at Red Rocks Amphitheater in Morrison, Colorado on October 9th, 2016. When we got there we stood outside of the concert to smoke a cigarette when we noticed a helicopter flying over. I thought it seemed odd because you could not actually see what the helicopter looked like, but based off of it's lights and sound you could tell how close it was. The first time it went by I hardly heard it until it had gone by, but the second time it flew directly above us and hovered for a minute or two. It was very loud, very big for what I've seen news type helicopters look like, but again, I could still not actually see the helicopter itself, I only state this based off of where it's lights were placed. After a minute of it sitting there and me watching this, a man came over the security guards walkie-talkie who happened to be standing on the staircase we were at the bottom of, and he stated "Looks like our helicopter 'friend' i! s back". I then looked up at the security guard who was staring up at the helicopter almost concerned and confused. I continued to watch him and judge his reaction before he glanced down and noticed me watching for reassurance, he then just walked down the stairs, into the building. The helicopter came back maybe one more time after that, but it wasn't as weird as before, and it did not hover again. After this incident we heard the music kicking up and decided to go jump back into the crowd, when we got to our spot we noticed tons of unusual activity happening in the skies above the Red Rocks stage. Off to the left of where we were looking there was about 5 lights spaced out sporadically in the same general vacinity, but they didn't move. We then noticed 3 off to the right of the stage that were just as bright as the other 5, and didn't move. The five off to the left would get brighter and dimmer, some dimmed out and "flew" away as if a plane would.. some would just completely dim out and disappear. The 3 off to the left did the same, until they all disappeared. But the ones on the right dimmed and moved until there were 3 left, which eventually all dimmed out to nothing once again. We watched this happen multiple times, in different ways. At one point we saw one light flying through the sky which seemed to have an LED light shinning from it, it didn't look li! ke the normal plane lights, it was much brighter. We continued to watch and witness these "strange" flying objects, or just sitting lights at points. At another point towards the end I noticed that there was this much larger strange orange glowing orb which seemed to be on the surface of some hills way off in the distance more towards Castle Rock, and it would flash and disappear, then reappear on the hill next to it. This happened 3 different times before it stayed on the 3rd hill, where it flashed rarely, but it continued to still flash occasionally. The unknown activity seemed to slow down more and more until the concert ended, and then I no longer noticed them. We just thought it was all very strange and thought we would share our experience since many others may have witnessed this too. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 8, 2016 · 10:17 AM · UNKNOWN
Coweta, OK
I never realized there was anything in the sky other than the birds until I went inside to sit down and look at te pictures I was able to get. And that when I noticed it.. When I went back out to look it was gone. And it only apeared in 1 pictire out of 10.99th