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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.
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October 7, 2016 · 12:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Foley, AL
A large, crescent-shaped object moved through the sky at a constant speed and altitude. The object had no lights and appeared to take on the color of its environment- the night sky. Its outline was visible, and it made no noise. It made me and my friend very uneasy. Moments after, a smaller, sphere-shaped craft moved erratically through the sky at a lower altitude with a greater speed. It appeared to be brown in color with no lights. It quickly vanished into thin air.
October 6, 2016 · 8:24 PM · UNKNOWN
El Cajon, CA
I noticed two lights traveling from West to east. Leading light was constant green (no flashing), trailing light was an intermittently flashing red and white light which when flashing was a consistent distance behind leading green light. Travelling at very high rate of speed. Went from one side of skyline to over Laguna mountains in less than 35 seconds. There was no audible sound emitted.
October 3, 2016 · 5:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Greensboro, NC
I was outside, waiting to be picked up for work, and looked up at the moon. At that same moment, an object that reflected the moon's light began to move away from the moon. It was a pinpoint of light to the naked eye, and the further it went away from the moon, the less bright it was. I was facing south, and it moved easterly away from the moon, at a steady rate.
October 2, 2016 · 10:45 PM · UNKNOWN
Kettering, OH
I rolled my trash containers down my driveway to our street at about 6:30 pm or 18:30 hours. After I finished dinner and washed dishes, I took two small bundles of trash down to my trash containers. As I reached the bottom of the driveway I turned left (west) to put my bundles into my trash containers. As I looked up after turning left I was astounded. I saw two gigantic beams of light coming from the sky. The beams of light were aimed at the ground right beyond our neighborhood. From my perspective, the beams made more than a 45 degree slant angle from the sky to the ground. These beams were huge. The width of these beams were about 80 feet and 60 feet in diameter respectively. These beams had very little spread. They were located about 1/2 mile away from my location. The beams were more of a washed out white. The beam edges were very sharp. The beams were very close together. There was a distance of about 20 feet separating one beam from the next. The trees on my left were preventing me from seeing the source of these beams. Then bang both beams were turned off very suddenly. I heard no noise. I saw no craft. I was astounded. I know of no aerial or atmospheric phenomena that can cause such beams. A long time ago WPAFB were testing airborne to ground bright beams. But they were very small compared to what I observed. 50 UAVs could not duplicate what I observed. I did not call local authorities. I did not call Federal Authorities. I did not call WPAFB. I did not call the local paper, radio or TV stations. I did not take a pic.
October 2, 2016 · 4:50 AM · UNKNOWN
Watsonville, CA
I got up early to walk my dog before heading to Sjc airport from my mothers house in Watsonville, ca. I live near Dallas tx. The sighting occurred about 30 min or so before sunrise. I looked up into the sky an noted how clear it was compared to home I then looked over at my dog and saw from my prerfrial vision almost directly above what I thought was a shooting star heading south. I looked at it and focused on it and saw that it was not a single shooting star but a cluster 4 or 5 points of light all moving together at high rate of speed and different intensities, but each one looked no different than any other star in the sky only moving at high rate. As I watched it move towards the horizon I saw two of the lights swap places once and then twice. As it neared the horizon it seemed to slow down as it should from my perspective only more than I would expect and it also turned to the east and went behind a tree and house. During the first half of the sighting I was looking for a tail or sparks coming off the cluster but didn't see any. Due to the odd trajectory of this, I suspect it was over central or Southern California and when it turned east, was heading for Edwards afb or groom lake. I also suspect the points of light swapping places was in fact sunlight reflecting off a shiny surface. There was no sound from it and no sonic boom. There was a passenger jet at high altitude I noticed to the east of the sighting going north and within a minute of the sighting I could hear the jet but no noise from the area the lights were seen. After thinking about it makes sense to land a secret spacecraft on a Sunday morning when the least amount of witnesses could view it. keep looking up in the sky an hour before sunlight if you live on the west coast on Sunday mornings.
October 1, 2016 · 10:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Laona, WI
Possible UFO sighting: Above Laona in the northeast sky saw an unusual light, thought at first it was a star, but was blinking erratically, then looked through binoculars and there was a pattern of red, green and white blinking lights that were stationary. Then on the next night the same light appeared further to the north, and as I was observing this light pattern, a plane flew across the sky, so I ruled that out. Just curious if anyone else is seeing this and also curious as to what this is. It is definitely not a star, but seems to be at a very high altitude. I wish I had a telescope to get a better view. We suspect a "twinkling" star. PD
October 1, 2016 · 8:00 PM · UNKNOWN
River Oaks, TX
I was taking pictures of the 2016 Blood moon with a 35mm camera about 5/10 minuets apart. Only checking the photos every few snaps. When I saw a blur of different lights. when I looked at it it seemed to be about 8 stories tall by counting the what looked like maybe windows. Small square green lights in rolls. Perfect centralized. there looked to be a oval shaped looking top in the middle of the thing with one roll of the green lights. There were different colored lights also around the object but seemed to be all on the outside of it. Some seemed to be triangular, while a different color was square. A blue light appeared to be the lowest. It only took me a second to view the photo and when I continued to get another photo it was gone, but after that there were many different lines going through the shine of the moon that had not been there before. I sent the photos to Mufon and after months they sent me a letter stating that it was undetermined. It still! haunts me to know what I saw. so decided to try again with some other researchers .
October 1, 2016 · 12:01 PM · UNKNOWN
Madera, CA
Jumped up and looked outside.
September 30, 2016 · 7:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Oxnard, CA
This happened in the area of Oxnard-Port Hueneme, CA. This was the evening of September 30, 2016, approximately 7:30 pm in the backyard of a co-workers home there were about 15-20 persons in attendance, when someone asked what is that? I looked up to see what was a red light illuminating to a bright white light growing in intensity and size to 1/4 of the moon, but not directed at the ground just in a straight forward direction. There was no visible shape or size of the object, again it was dark outside. It was moving from a northerly direction, to the south towards us at a fairly rapid rate coming from the Pacific ocean inland. It seemed to be approximately 1200 to 1500 feet in altitude. The object all of a sudden the object stopped on a dime in mid-flight and became static (hovering). There were no navigation lights (the usual red or white flashing lights). The craft never turned or rotated to where the bright light could be seen turning direction. After staying static for approximately 5-8 minutes, it then began to go in reverse at the same speed and identical flight path just like it had come into view (back over the Pacific ocean). After about a minute and a half the bright white light turned off and changed to dim red color and slowly faded as it moved further away over the ocean. This flight exhibition was performed 3 separate times at about 10 minute intervals in between appearances that evening and witnessed by all in attendance in that backyard that evening. Same flight path, same white lighted pattern-faded to red over the ocean return flight, same no sound performance. Waiting to hear either blade or propeller wash sound or jet engine sounds, this craft made not one sound, "ABSOLUTELY" nothing. Either during approach-return flight pattern or while it was static. I've been around alot of aircraft in my lifetime, my grandfather being a pilot since the 1930's and working on alot of military air bases, I have never experience anything flying that does not make any sound at that close of elevation to the ground. We happen to be close to a couple of municipal airports and Point Mugu, a naval station which is 3-4 miles away. We are accustomed to seeing military, small personal aircraft and helicopters quit often. This was in no way a military, civilian or helicopter aircraft. I can truly say I feel I have seen my first UFO sighting. I wanted to see if anyone else had experience the same occurrence that evening. I also have a small cell phone video clip which I took and will be submitting with this report.
September 28, 2016 · 9:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Black Mountain, NC
I am a retired community college instructor with an engineering background. I have an interest in astronomy and have built several telescopes. From 9 pm till 9; 15, I watched a very bright light (brighter than any star or planet) shimmer and vibrating low in the western sky. I live 30 miles east of Asheville. It never changed position and finally set with the surrounding stars beyond the horizon. I am an amateur astronomer and have never seen any star or planet this bright. The light flickered and shimmered but the surrounding stars did not. It was a very clear calm night, no moon, with the Milky Way quite bright. Associated with this light were smaller red, green, and blue lights that detached themselves slightly at times, The little lights seemed to blink very fast (faster than aircraft lights). The phenomenon seemed to be very far away and beyond the distant mountains a mile distant. It was unlike any light I have ever seen in the sky. It was unlikely to have been aircraft landing lights because it was stationary for over 15 minutes. As it set with the surrounding stars, I watched it through binoculars and it did not move in relation to the horizon. Even with the glasses, I could see no physical object but I clearly saw sparking, shimmering, and smaller flashes of color (almost as if it was emitting sparks). It set with the stars without changing its position with them. Note; Venus and mars had also set in the west, just after sunset (hours earlier). There were no other bright stars in the low western sky at the time of the sighting. It was a clear calm night. I live far out of town in a rural area (I cannot see any other lights or houses from my home). I enjoy a great unhindered view of the night sky. I have never seen a UFO before.
September 27, 2016 · 10:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Redmond, OR
My boyfriend, my friend, and I were sitting on my back porch talking. My back porch faces south towards a city park. We have a clear view of the sky with no houses or tall trees or lights to obstruct our vision. I always have my eyes up because I've seen quite a few "strange" things in the night sky over the years and I'm very familiar with the flight patterns of helicopters and planes in our area because we have a local airport as well as a flight school. I'm also very familiar with satellites, the ISS, planets, stars, constellations, etc. I've been a sky watcher and amateur astronomer for almost 10 years. I try to remain level headed and logical when I see "objects" and I've seen plenty over the years but have always debunked them as one thing or another. I have only had one other incident besides this one that I believed was report worthy. I just want to say that so people know that I'm not "sighting happy" or anything. Anyways, we were all outside talking and I caught something out of the corner of my eye over my left shoulder going at a rapid rate from north to south. I gasped and pointed it out to everyone. It was a dimly lit, fast moving object that seemed to be within our atmosphere. It flew south very fast, I actually thought it was a dim shooting star for a second. But instead of fading out like shooting stars do, it stayed constant and fluidly dipped and zig zagged and then changed course from north to south to south west, then disappeared. We were all in shock and have no idea what we saw.
September 27, 2016 · 9:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Spokane, WA
As the two witnesses observed, jets were scrambled to intercept these lights. As the jets approached, the two lights shot straight up and out if sight. We have requested that the eyewitnesses be invited to submit reports, and we have expressed a desire to look at the video. PD
September 27, 2016 · 1:45 AM · UNKNOWN
Lathrop, MO
We were driving home and saw what appeared to be an airplane at first glance, but was just a ball of white light that wasn't moving. My husband and I were looking at it when it took off at an incredible speed and disappeared. It wasn't close enough to tell what size or shape it was. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 27, 2016 · 1:30 AM · UNKNOWN
North Pole, AK
I was letting out my dog and noticed something that looked like a big and very bright star hovering over a vacant house across the street. As I was watching it and walking closer to the end of my driveway, it dimmed the light and started to slowly move until I could not longer see it. There was no sound. Again, I saw the same thing on 10/6/2016 around 11:00 pm when letting my dog out. Hovering over the same vacant house and it did the same exact thing as the first time I had seen it. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 26, 2016 · 11:26 PM · UNKNOWN
Providence, RI
At exactly 11:22:16pm, while I was watching WPRI 12 channel news they cut to a live view facing the cameras East towards the Biltmore and Westin Hotels. At this time some type of object coming from the North and heading South was flying past at a fairly low altitude but was going at what appears to me as an extremely fast (beyond Hypersonic speeds). I needed to slow it down and watch it over again (which I did about 20+ times) at about 1/6 of the normal speed and pausing at different times. I noticed at this 1/6 speed that it was on camera for less than 2-3 seconds total which indicated to me that its speed was unbelievably fast. Upon watching it over and over again, at different speeds, different time frames etc, it appears to be as best I could make out some type of aircraft (of Unknown origin). It honestly could have been some type of fighter jet at hypersonic speeds....but why so low? I tried to DVR this and my DVR said it was having "difficulties at! this time." (<--Im not saying there is some conspiracy I am only indicating to you why I couldn't record and save this event). I would ask for help in getting a copy of this from WPRI channel 12 news of this live broadcast, re-analyzing it, and then possibly contacting TF Greene Airport officially to see if they have record of what, if any, aircraft was flying through there. Unfortunately, yet very awkwardly, is the fact that this airport is approximately 10-15 miles from providence and in the same direction of this probable aircraft, however I do know for a fact that given its speed it was NOT coming in for a landing and it was definitely NOT some plane taking off as I have seen 100's of planes do both of these and this aircraft was flying at extremely High rate of speed that I can't even explain in words. It almost looks like a streak across the sky like a meteor, but it was not at all bright like one, it didn't "fizzle out" like a meteor and it was clo! se by....like right over the city it appears. The trajectory (! i.e. ang le) of this "UFO" is completely inconsistent with a meteor also. I hope you don't think this is a joke, or just some crazy red neck farmer who had been drinking too much… I am a highly educated, liberal college professor and Registered Nurse from the Northeast who is 100% sober and yet dumbfounded as to what this could be/is. Please help me if you can. Thanks
September 25, 2016 · 7:45 PM · UNKNOWN
Rocklin, CA
I went outside to put out the garbage Sunday night, it was dark, but a large formation of lights appeared to be traveling slowly in the sky. It didnt count how many lights there were, but over 50. They really stood out. I yelled to my wife to come outside, she did, and she tried to take pictures, but they didnt come out. Some of the lights were brighter than others. They were traveling from the east to the west. As they passed over the house, they began to turn in a southerly direction, but instead of staying in a formation, the turned and went single file. Then they really accelerated and disappeared pretty quickly. They were pretty high in the sky, and I never heard a sound. When the sighting was over, my wife and I were talking about what we saw, and the next door neighbor walked up to us and said "did you see that, and pointed to the sky". So he saw it too!
September 25, 2016 · 1:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Kansas City, MO
My dog cowered inside her kennel (pitt bull so she's not scared of anything) I opened the door and all the car lights were on even though the keys were inside! Next thing I know I shut the door and it's 2 hrs later. Today I have a very weird bad headache. I've experienced missing time before but I had a dream about seeing a ufo that night. I don't remember having a dream this time.
September 24, 2016 · 8:45 PM · UNKNOWN
New Holland, OH
Me, my wife, my brother, and my sister-in-law were driving to visit my in-laws at 8:45 pm. As we came around the corner, we all noticed what we thought were lights on one of the many grain bins in the area. However, as we got closer I realized that they were too high in the air (roughly 200 ft) to be a grain bin, plus there was no bin in that area. The lights were roughly in a rectangular shape, four or five white lights and a small red one. They seemed to sit still and were clearly too low to be a plane (low enough that at first they were thought to be a grain bin) As we pulled into the house the trees momentarily obscured the view of the lights. I parked in the driveway and my brother and I got out to look for them and they were gone. This was startling and we began to question what was going on. My mother and father in law were sitting in the heard star gazing (it was a pristinely clear night). They said that they saw nothing and heard nothing (which ruled out a helicopter or low flying plane). My brother and I ran back down the road in the direction we'd come from, thinking that a change in perspective might show us what the lights were, but they were gone. This is where it got strange...we knew they had been there, and they were stationary enough and close enough so that all four of us in the car had assumed they were part of the surrounding farm equipment....in fact, we all assumed this was the case which is why none of us commented to each other upon first seeing them. As we searched, we say a low flying, VERY slow moving, and silent line of lights in the distance....as we watched it glided over the horizon and was gone. The following morning we told the neighbor (a farmer whose lived in the area a long time) what we had seen. His response was, "oh, you saw them too? I've seen those four or five times before, always in the Fall." He continued to explain that he's seen the lights often (4-5 times) before and that they will appear, hover, and then disappear, only to reappear again somewhere else. He even said that, in the past, they've hovered for a time and then shot off quickly. Always in the Fall he said, and usually October....this was an early sighting and he was surprised to hear it.
September 24, 2016 · 7:30 AM · UNKNOWN
Lacey, WA
Flying at what seemed to be about the same altitude as a military helicopter might fly, we saw a craft that had 2 rows of parallel lights. Each row had perhaps 4 or 5 lights. The top row was at first a bright pink. Then changed to turquoise, then red. The bottom row remained white. The brightness and size of the lights were all we saw. There was no body of a vehicle visible. Though the lights were a bit odd, the speed of the vehicle and it's ability to change or reverse directions without slowing down, and it's silence were truly unusual. Sitting in our back yard facing west, the object flew at about a 45% angle from the horizon, flying north to south, back and forth, turning sharp angles and reversing directions without slowing down. This took place just south of the Thompson Place/Tanglewilde area of Lacey WA. After flying north to south, back and forth for about 4 minutes + or – it disappeared behind the treeline to the north and was gone. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 23, 2016 · 7:10 PM · UNKNOWN
Ocoee, FL
I was driving and looked up to see the sunset. I noticed a pulsing bright light, which I thought was a star. I thought it was strange to see a star so early. Then I realized it was getting lower, towards the horizon. After a few seconds, it disappeared, then reappeared after about a second. At that point I ruled out an airplane. I recalled that when there are such sightings, there are usually more than one. I looked up a little bit, and suddenly saw the second one. Both were descending, slowly to me, but they were so far away it's hard to gauge speed. The lower one continued to blink in and out, while the other stayed solid. In both cases, once they reached a certain point, they just disappeared. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD
September 22, 2016 · 4:47 AM · UNKNOWN
Livingston, NJ
Star gazing while waiting on my dog. Size of a star, moving slower than a plane, no noise, could see blatant small reflection from the moon, looked like a moving star and I watched it fade quickly into the black sky. This was not a plane, no blinking lights, no colored lights and was up in space! This is the second time I've witnessed something like this.
September 22, 2016 · 4:15 AM · UNKNOWN
Petersburg, VA
There has been an object hovering outside of our home for almost an hour now. It moves zigzag and in a circle while changing pattern and colors of flashing lights.
September 22, 2016 · 2:02 AM · UNKNOWN
Columbia, SC
I am currently sitting in a parking lot in Columbia, SC, and I just witnessed a type of aircraft extremely unusual in size and pattern of flight. It had a green figure of eight lights as if it had parpellars with LITTLE TO NO SOUND. Visibility was bad due to light pollution. Very unnerving, as I am someone who does not believe in this type of thing.
September 21, 2016 · 10:14 PM · UNKNOWN
Mebane, NC
I wish to submit a report even though I did not see nor suspect I may have heard a UAP. The purpose of my submission is to serve as additional evidence in the event anyone else submits a report from my area. At 22:14 I heard a deep rumble of what may have been a low flying jet. The ceiling was low due to rain clouds. This also prevented any visual confirmation. The sound was loud and intense. I judge that based on how long it took, it must have been a slow craft. At 22:15 I heard a second, higher pitched craft approaching in the same direction from magnetic west to east. The second sound overtook the first and passed it. I make this judgement based on the doppler effect. At 22:16, the doppler effect of the second craft fades below my ability to hear it. However, the first rumble is still loud. Based on the doppler effect, I can determine that it has passed overhead. At 22:18 the initial deep rumble fades below my ability to hear it. As I stated before, I submit this in support of any other possible reports you may receive related to tonight from my area. I have no confirmation of this being anything more than rerouted air traffic. I generally don't see or hear low flying aircraft overhead unless they are military helicopters.