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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 1, 2020 · 7:30 PM · LIGHT
Trexlertown, PA
I was driving east on Route 222 in central Pennsylvania, a few miles west of Allentown. It was around 7:30 PM yesterday (1 December) and nighttime, but the sky was clear and there was a full moon, so it was a bright night. Suddenly from the south I saw a massive beam of bright green light shoot up from the ground and into the sky. It held there for a moment, maybe ~2 seconds, and then just disappeared. This light was massive, I had a good view of the landscape and it lit everything up for miles around. My first thought was maybe some kind of spotlight or holiday lights, but immediately I knew that was impossible because of the magnitude of the brightness. It lit up everything and was much thicker than a spotlight.
December 1, 2020 · 5:58 PM · LIGHT
Granite City, IL
I was standing in my backyard and when I turned around and looked up I saw two bright round lights hovering above me with no sound and they turned in unison and slowly went up. In around 4 more seconds, the ufo rapidly disappeared. I didn't have time to grab my phone/camera before it disappeared and was wondering if anyone else in Granite City seen it too.
December 1, 2020 · 5:50 PM · LIGHT
Birmingham, AL
Just south of Birmingham Airport. A bright light was noticed by an airline pilot and reported. The light was moving around up and down really fast. The light was very bright and more maneuverable than any drone or aircraft I’ve ever seen. The light just suddenly disappeared and the pilots confirmed that there was definitely something flying around out there within the Birmingham Airport airspace.
December 1, 2020 · 2:45 PM · LIGHT
Weidman, MI
I was travelling westbound on Weidman road when looking into the sky in a southwest direction,I saw what appeared to be a round very bright light that resembled the sun reflecting off a mirror in the sky at a long distance away. It appeared to be moving horizontally in a southerly direction and after about a minute it started leaving a short vapor trail like a jet might leave, but the vapor trail never got any longer and after about 2-3 more minutes the object and vapor trail just vanished with no evidence that they were there at all. The sky was clear and there were no clouds at all that it could have went behind.
November 30, 2020 · 12:40 AM · LIGHT
Huntsville, AL
Saw a teal light , thought it was lightening at first but the teal color was solid and stayed there for a few seconds and blinked a few times. Reached for my phone to record it, it disappeared with no traces . It wasn’t a power outage. The teal light was a distance away but very large .
November 27, 2020 · 4:00 AM · LIGHT
Eden, ID
Very bright somewhat light pulsating, bright to slightly dimmer. No movement just stayed stationary. I finally went back to bed
November 26, 2020 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Irving, TX
At approximately 8 PM CST we were stargazing in our back yard. While I was lining up my telescope with the moon and mars, we observed an object come across the sky. It was moving so fast I could not get it lined up in the telescope. It moved from the southwest sky flying towards the northeast. In total, there were 3 objects, spaced approximately 2-3 minutes apart following the exact same pattern. The objects glowed red or orange as they approached and from behind. There was no noise. The object was at least 5,000 feet up and rapidly moved across the sky. We are near an airport and there was a SW flight in the landing pattern (they may have seen it) and it was significantly higher than that and the objects we saw were going much faster. As the 3rd object passed us, I ran to the front of the house and saw it flicker and disappear a moment later.
November 26, 2020 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Fredericksburg, VA
I was out in my back yard walking the dog around 8:00pm. The moon is bright and it's a clear night, I can see the stars every well. I'm looking up and notice theses solid white lights. They seem to circle some stars and then they stay still. Kinda like if they notice me looking at them. There's not just one of these solid lights sometimes they move in groups of two or more. They change directions very quick.I thought I was seeing things so I went in the house and I grabbed a flash light. I flashed it at the night sky. Probably 5 or 6 times. Next thing that happened was amazing and scary at the same time. Only way I can explain it. Was about 15/20ft from me and about 15ft high was a orange circle something shot out of it looked like a big bright light of energy that was orange and very beautiful odd shape and shot back into some type of circle. This happen so fast. If I blink my eyes it would have been gone. I've never seen anything like this. Very amazing. I! work full time been there 15 plus yrs
November 26, 2020 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Denver, CO
Light's looking like stars moving in a circle formation lasting all night to high to be a drown and to low to be a star.. blinking multiple colors
November 25, 2020 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Carson City, NV
We were driving on 5th St coming off of Fairview just as we got over the bridge just right after the old barn in the big field in the right of us there was a strange light in the sky just sort of hovering. It was not very big that we could tell and it seemed to be darker in color in the middle of it and then a sort of glow surrounding the glowing middle part. The middle was a sort of darkish orange yellow color and the soft glow on the outside was a bit lighter in color more of a yellowish tint. It just kind of hung there almost thought it was a street light, but no it wasn't because it just was hanging there kind of floating or hovering like moving slightly side to side but still remaining in one spot above the field. Unfortunately since we were driving, we could not say how long it had been there before we saw it, nor could we say how long it remained there either. It was a very beautiful soft glowing light. Hopefully will see it again one day!
November 25, 2020 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Hampton, AR
There was a white light to the southwest looking towards union County that flickered and zig zagged right above tree line of our pasture. Then disappeared.
November 25, 2020 · 4:00 PM · LIGHT
San Diego, CA
I have been followed by lights for a while now, all throughout the US, even when I was in Hawaii and Puerto Rico. I do not always see them, but they seem to be in all my pictures. I have pictures of the lights following me, which jump from frame to frame. I am unsure as to what these things are, but it scares me that they are always watching me.
November 23, 2020 · 6:12 PM · LIGHT
Sauk Rapids, MN
My dog (Shih Tzu mix) is on a very strict schedule. He usually doesn’t go outside until 9 PM CST every night like clockwork, but on Monday, November 23rd he demanded to go outside at 6:12 PM. I was admiring how clear of a night it was and looked Northeast towards Cassiopeia, and saw a bright light moving across the constellation. I first thought it was a plane, but planes don’t typically look like a bright star, and planes usually move in one straight line. This light moved fast, but there was a slight wiggle to the line it moved in. It moved in this wiggly line for about 15 seconds, before looking like it was absorbed or swallowed by the sky. Another thing that doesn’t usually happen to planes. My dog had a case of the "zoomies" (hyperactivity) when I was watching the object. Which is odd for my super mellow older small dog. Growing up in the country, I’m no stranger to stargazing and have never seen anything like it in my life. I immediately walked into the house and told my fiancé what had happened I was so shocked. I wasn’t expecting my dog’s spontaneous potty break to be so eventful. I'm glad it happened when it did. I went out to get the mail 20 minutes later and the sky had completely clouded over.
November 23, 2020 · 1:30 AM · LIGHT
Douglasville, GA
We then drove in another direction to try to see if we could get closer. And finally went home and the light was completely gone from view - when it literally lit up our whole room in the beginning. Super weird. I didn’t think to take pictures, hadn’t crossed my mind. I actually looked up a couple of sites just to see if anyone else saw it.
November 21, 2020 · 7:37 PM · LIGHT
San Marcos, TX
I was out walking at night and I was on a semi busy street in the neighborhood, there were a few people by their car at an apartment across the street. Suddenly, either something caught my eye or I had the urge to look up, and about 12 (from what I counted) round lights were hovering above, heading from south to north/north west, going decently slow but fast enough to fly into the cloud line with a minute or so to where they were not visible. It was light overcast and they were hovering just within or above the clouds, to where you could clearly see the lights but through a light haze. I remember there were a few purple, green, and I believe the rest were yellow/white?? I took a photo and the front leading lights appear to be two purple lights. I was the only person who saw and almost yelled out to the people across the street but I felt like it was for me to see if no one else saw it on their own, and I was just in awe staring at them feeling lucky to see s! uch an anomaly.
November 21, 2020 · 5:58 PM · LIGHT
Oak hill, NC
Looking up thinking we saw a satellite. Watched it move for about 20 seconds then it began getting brighter and brighter for about 7-10 seconds and then started to fade. We watched it until the original dimmer light faded into the night sky.
November 20, 2020 · 7:30 PM · LIGHT
Kingston, ON · Canada
Light tracking airplane then turned back returned from over lake Ontario to over Kingston then straight up out of site
November 20, 2020 · 6:25 PM · LIGHT
Center Conway, NH
A bright white light in the NNW, 60 degrees above horizontal, flashed then disappeared. It reappeared three more times moving downward, a flash then disappearing for five seconds each time . The last flash in the downward direction was red before disappearing. Five seconds later the flash (white) reappeared moving to the left, disappearing and reappearing five seconds later continuing leftward as a red flash. The next two flashes were white, at five second intervals, and moving to the right. It then disappeared.
November 20, 2020 · 5:00 AM · LIGHT
Fremont, WI
Let dogs out at 5a. Looked up at stars (facing east) and saw three bright white lights traveling at exact same speed heading south. They were equidistant from each other the entire time, no sound, constant bright light. Appeared to be at height of a jet. They moved very fast.
November 20, 2020 · 3:30 AM · LIGHT
Naperville, IL
At approx. 0330, I stepped outside to take a look at the sky. Looking to the north, I noticed an "extra" star in the bowl of the Little Dipper, between the stars Kochab and Pherkad. I estimated the brightness to be about second magnitude. Being not quite fully awake, my first thought was, "That planet is out of place". After a moment, I realized what I was thinking, came fully awake, and started watching the light. After approx. two minutes, the light simply faded out over a period of about three seconds. I've observed probably hundreds of satellites and the ISS over many years and the thing that strikes me was the total lack of motion against the fixed stars before it faded out. I suppose though that might have been a projection effect. I noticed no aircraft in the area, shy was clear, and wind was calm. Heavens Above site showed a pass of "US3A07" but the timing was somewhat off and there was no track, contrary to that predicted on HA.
November 19, 2020 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Snohomish, WA
Leaving my parents house in the evening after having dinner I got to a part of the road that overlooks the valley and the hill on the other side. At the top of the ridge on the far side I noticed a very bright light hovering about 200’ up approximately over glacier view high school. Initially I thought it might be a helicopter with a directional light but as I drove across the hill towards the highway parallels to the light it did not dim. From this it was clear that it wasn’t directional and was too bright to be a stationary light from that distance. At this point I called my parents and asked them to look out the upper Windows of their house which can see that area in the winter when the leaves are off the trees. They, while on the phone with me confirmed that they could also see the bright light over the ridge line. We ended the call after that. I continued onto highway 9 headed south across the valley from Snohomish towards the light and the high school. As I got to the base of the hill I saw the light quickly move to the west out of sight within 1-2seconds. I had intended on going to where it was hovering to look further but it was gone. While it was there there were at least two other planes in the air near the area as there is a municipal airport in the valley but none seemed interested in the light I saw.
November 19, 2020 · 5:00 PM · LIGHT
Arlington, VT
Driving on Rt 313 heading west,we saw a light similar to a shooting star but much closer, dropped downward, vertical -out of the sky in front of the mountain backdrop, vanishing before it hit land about halfway between the horizon and land There wasn’t any fading, it just disappeared suddenly.
November 19, 2020 · 6:15 AM · LIGHT
Vienna, GA
Ok I was walking with my dog and my cousin witch was on a horse and we would meet up in this feild because she loved my dog, and we meet up and it was just turning dark when I look up at the moon and saw a very bright light, I asked my cousin if it looked like it was moving to her. Because it looked like it was to me, later after her looking at my dog and petting him, I look back up and u can tell it was moving. I tell her and she saw it too, it was moving a bit faster when she grab her phone 2 minutes later then I asked if she was going the record and look at her to say it and she said maybe so I look back up and it was gone! Out of thin air just gone.
November 19, 2020 · 6:12 AM · LIGHT
Parkesburg, PA
I was driving East and the sun was beginning to rise. I frequently take pictures of the sunrise, so I was looking in anticipation for the right moment. When I looked up, a small reddish orange light appeared in the dark sky. The light then moved down and up again and disappeared. The shape it formed was a tight letter U. The light was on the right what it appeared then went slightly down and straight up to the left as if it made a letter U. I then looked for afterburner smoke trail but there was nothing in the sky. The whole view only lasted about 2 seconds. It was quick.