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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.
27,433 entries
December 4, 2020 · 7:15 PM · LIGHT
Middleton, ID
girlfriend and I saw between 10-12 white illuminated objects moving from an SW to NE direction in the sky at night. They appeared to be coming from ground-level, reaching several thousand feet into the air. They were fairly slow-moving and faded-out seconds after first appearing on the horizon. The looked similar to flares, but were slower, bright white and all following the same path, forming a perfect line in the sky. They were spaced about a second apart from one another.
December 4, 2020 · 7:05 PM · LIGHT
Riverton, WY
A round light object moving from the northwest then stopping(note:no blinking lights...object made no sound)....then start moving again.The object stopped,stood still for several seconds then the round light object faded out at a fast speed straight up until it disappeared.
December 4, 2020 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Pacific City, OR
I noticed a stack of lights in the sky to the SWW over the Pacific Ocean. Spaced out like Orion’s Belt. I noticed it and immediately mentioned it to my partner. As we watched the lights moved closer together in an upward motion stacking and upon reaching the upper most point of light disappearing into the darkness.
December 4, 2020 · 6:46 PM · LIGHT
Blair, NE
We saw 12 lights moving from southwest to northeast. They were evenly spaced apart. The lights were all the same intensity. No flashing lights were associated with them. As they moved to the northeast they gradually faded away, one by one. We observed this for about 1 – 2 minutes.
December 4, 2020 · 6:15 PM · LIGHT
Lafayette, CO
String of lights, each following each other in formation of a line. Slowly traveled across sky from south to north horizon. Some lights traveled closer to one light then back to a well spaced distance from the other light. Each was about half the light of Venus. They only were white light in color. No flashing lights like air planes. Seemed to hover and float. No sound. Took about five minutes to travel from one horizon to the other. I was the only one that witnessed this although I'm sure anyone in my city probably saw it too. I am a retired computer network engineer. I witnessed this in front of my residence.
December 4, 2020 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Nashville, TN
As I was leaving work tonight I saw an odd light in the sky above my office. At first I thought it wasa shoot light or maybe a plane. It didn’t move so I ruled out a plane. I didn’t see a light trail out source. It changed from several lights to a single source or so appeared. No sound. I never saw the actual object creating the light. I do not know what I was seeing.
December 4, 2020 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Probable conventionalBeecher, IL
While on a walk, we witnessed 20-30 small lights in a row, perfectly spaced out and silent, going at the same rate of speed from west to east. Viewed for 5 or so minutes, then vanished. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]
December 4, 2020 · 5:45 PM · LIGHT
Santa Fe, NM
No hoax here, as both my wife and I saw them. Some sort of crafts - only visible as bright white lights - equally spaced and moving at hyper speed at super high altitude. Traveling from west to east - roughly the direction of Menkalinan towards Altair. Super fast and in perfect formation. So fast that they went horizon to horizon in less than one minute. Thought they might be fighter jets, but could see no green/red lights. Only bright white lights. Wow. Bizarre.
December 3, 2020 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Salina, KS
My boyfriend was outside smoking a cigarette when he called me to the front porch there was at least 10 lights in a row going the same direction headed north they went all the way up to a certain point and disappeared in the sky.
December 3, 2020 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Boise, ID
I was heading to Boise on the highway from Mtn. Home, I saw what looked to me like an airplane coming towards Boise Airport. It stayed in about the same place for several minutes and then suddenly in less than a second it flashed across the sky in less than a second and vanished.
December 3, 2020 · 7:01 PM · LIGHT
Clifton, CO
Looked like a straight line of dim stars that didn’t move they just dimmed till I could no longer see them. I took a picture.
December 3, 2020 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
springfield, IL
saw a vertical line of 6 lights that were equidistant apart rising in the distant sky. They appeared to disappear into the clouds slowly one at a time from the highest to the lowest.
December 3, 2020 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
niwot, CO
saw ~10 lights in the sky, evenly spaced in a line, fading in and out like i've seen before. some would get brighter, others would dim and it would repeat. eventually they all faded out after 1 minute of watching. hard to say if it was multiple crafts or part of 1. what made this especially weird is they were not moving, from what i could see, about 5 miles away? and they were perfectly diagonal in the sky. been looking for news on what it could potentially be but nothing yet. i've had similar encounters and they behaved the same. my footage is shit but it was completely black out and i'm shooting maybe 5 miles away.
December 3, 2020 · 4:00 AM · LIGHT
Great falls, MT
At about 4 am Thursday morning December 2020 from the west end of town where I live looking south east seen what looked to be an artificial light with a bright green tail witch at the distance the "light" took up a good portion of the sky and lasted about 4 seconds stared bright and then tapered off
December 2, 2020 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Richmond, VA
What I really want to report are the sounds I heard for a short time while the craft was present. There was a strange craft that was only a few miles from the tree tops about 2 miles from me. It had strange flashing lights and kept hovering straight up and down. When it got very high in the sky, it would almost look like it was trying to mask itself as a star except that I could tell the lights were flashing and I had been following it since it was close to the tree tops. It kept going up and down and hoovering, and my attention was first brought to it by my dog and many other dogs in the neighborhood barking at it. I do live near naval bases and DC, so it could have been something military related. I did see at least one jet "flying dark" above my head with all its lights off except for a blinking red light. I cannot be sure of what the craft was except that it stayed in the sky for a very long time, but at a much higher altitude to mask itself as! a star maybe, but it's not part of our normal night sky. It seemed that it could mask itself to look like a star if no one really looked at it, knew that it isn't part of the night sky, or saw it at a lower altitude like I did. I felt like it might have been a form of camouflaging itself. I take all of that with a grain of salt. What I truly want to report about the incident is that at one point I walked outside and could hear what sounded like whales or dolphins speaking to each other from all around me in the sky. The sounds were not in any pattern or rhythm. It sounded organic and fluid, and it sounded like a beautiful conversation. It felt like it was all around me, just as if I were under water listening for the origin of a sound. The best I can describe it as the sound of whales singing songs, but in the sky. That lasted about 5 minutes. That part was roughly probably at about 11pm.
December 2, 2020 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Fairfield, CT
two objects that appeared through my camera as white, seem that they had the ability to become one and seperate at high speed.
December 2, 2020 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Loveland, CO
We just witnessed a string of perfectly spaced lights traveling together for at least a few minutes. Long enough for us to stare and repeatedly ask ourselves what we were seeing. Estimated total was between 30 to 50 objects. At first I thought they were coming from the ground and exiting the atmosphere but I now believe what we were seeing was them crossing or skimming the upper atmosphere. They seemed to appear from no where on the horizon, would then get very bright as they entered the middle of the stream, and then fade out. All while maintaining perfect spacing and formation. The stream of bright objects flowed for an estimated two to three minutes nonstop.
December 2, 2020 · 6:45 PM · LIGHT
Tucson, AZ
Traveling west to east. Objects were steady traveling dots of light that at first seemed like a helicopter formation. There were no beacon lights nor any color than white dots. It was as if a line of dots was being pulled across the sky. There was not any sound such as propeller, jet or rotors. The pattern was an imprecise pair of dots with a space between each pair similar to the width of the pair. Picture:dot, small space, dot, large space and then repeat. As the lights were steady, I can not be certain they were not connected. Almost as strange, there was a finite range of the lights as if they turned north and so out of sight. The dots were no brighter than the stars they were flying before. Imagine looking at a neon sign in Times Square where the message banner went around the corner. The lights were moving when I first noticed them and stopped within a couple of minutes. I am in this area often and have never seen anything like it. I asked a coworker who recently left the Air Force what he thought. There is a base on the opposite corner of Tucson. He offered ideas but without beacons eliminated helicopters, military drones or planes. We also eliminated the large flares since there was no loss of altitude. The sky was quite clear and sunset was more than an hour earlier so the view was fairly optimal. I did not try to take a photo and think the lights were not bright enough for a phone photo.
December 2, 2020 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
San Jose, CA
I live in San Jose, California and today is December 2, 2020. I went outside of backyard thinking that I have not seen a satellite in months. I was watching at the sky around 6:00 pm (was already dark) and few minutes later I started seeing 3 or 4 satellite going in different directions. After minutes not seeing a satellite I started seeing a row of 3 or 4 flying light objects in a single file and I was surprised that more flying objects light were traveling from West to East. I was thinking that I was feeling dizzy but I was not and started counting 6, 7, 8, 9 and I was standing 4 feet from our bedroom windows and was thinking to call my wife to come outside but I felt like frozen and I was not able to talk. Finally I counted 22 flying objects lights but I know I missed I least 3 more flying objects lights that flew from west to east across my house up here. They were in a single file and going really fast. And the last flying object followed at a different distance that the others. I know those flying light objects were not satellites because these objects were moving fasters compared to the satellite. Unfortunately I only had my cell phone that was not going to be able to capture the event.
December 2, 2020 · 5:44 PM · LIGHT
Chula Vista, CA
On Wednesday December 02, 2020 at approximately 1744 hours while working out at Norman Park in Chula Vista, California located at Del Mar Ave and F Street I observed 20 to 30 lights that looked like the size and brightness of satellites you would see in the night sky. The objects were traveling above me in a straight line spaced evenly apart. This was observed for 1 minute flying from southwest to northeast and another male person working out also observed the lights. The park lights were bright which made it hard to record, but when observing the recording you are able to barely see the lights in a single row. The other male witness called his family (3 members) telephonically and they walked to the park a few minutes later but the lights were gone. However we did spot 2 more lights traveling in the same direction and both instances were recorded on an IPhone X.
December 2, 2020 · 5:30 PM · LIGHT
laughlin, NV
A single file line of lights in the night sky with the exception of one light set slightly off to the side. Estimated altitude of 10,000 to 25,000 feet. Heading East to Northeast. I can only guess that it was a military formation.
December 2, 2020 · 3:20 PM · LIGHT
Simpsonville, SC
I was moments away from arriving home when in the sky I saw what looked like a plane with a contrails at first. The difference was is that it was not a plane and instead of moving like a plane this object first moved down torward the ground emote stopping and remaining still for what seemed like an eternity. That was when I noticed a smaller light above the larger object then directly below those two coming from the left side of the sky there was what looked like a plane with a trail flying from left to right but it was a straight line. My video looks identical to a sighting that I found from exactly one year ago in South Carolina also. Same time of day and all. Very strange
December 2, 2020 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Hopkins, MN
I was smoking outside my apartment that night. Since Ilive in thecity there are no stars in the sky. The only thing I can see in the early evening is Mars shining in the night sky. I looked over to my right and there the were, 2 very bright lights moving in the sky. the left light moved upward, and as I watched both lights moved eastern into a cloud and disappeared out of sight.
December 1, 2020 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Tyler, TX
12/01/20 2200 hrs Smith Co Texas At approximately 10:00pm, I was standing in my driveway (which is orientated approximately E/W, relative to my street which runs N/S). The air was crisp, and the sky was partly cloudy with large parts clear and open. The moon was somewhere to the south of me, and lighted the clouds. I looked up and noticed a solid (not flashing) bright white light, traveling roughly from NE to SW on a straight and steady course which I first took to be a satellite. A few civilian and commercial aircraft were clearly present and visible contrasted against the clear part of the sky as well. I could not tell how high or how fast the light was moving, but it seemed to be a similar speed to that of satellites I’ve seen on other occasions. As I watched, I noticed two other, smaller lights, which appeared to be keeping station with the larger light. I did not notice these smaller lights at first, as there were clearly visible civilian aircraft in the sky. These other two lights were flashing in a rhythmic fashion, and at first I guessed they were also small civilian aircraft. However, as I focused on the “satellite,” the two smaller lights began to, rapidly “crisscross” each other’s flight path (it seemed to me quite close to each other) and in a fashion I have never see done before by either civilian or military aircraft. While the smaller lights crisscrossed each other, they maintained course and speed with the larger light, neither gaining on nor falling behind the larger light. Though I can’t be clear as to speed, they were clearly moving faster than the aircraf! t I could see in the distance. That is, of course, unless the objects were closer to me than the other aircraft. The entire event took no longer than perhaps 30 seconds to a minute. All three seemed to vanish after passing behind a tall pine tree at the SW corner of my property. I am 58 y/o male AF veteran Husband and father Small business owner