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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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August 8, 2016 · 9:35 PM · UNKNOWN
Wethersfield, CT
I was coming home from work and had just pulled into my driveway. I exited the vehicle and glanced over the top of my house to the north...I always do this when I come home from work. I do not know why. I live in a pretty dense neighborhood (my lot is .18 of an acre), but being a weeknight it was quiet..no dogs barking, no people out so pretty typical. I live in the flight path of two airports, one that houses mostly business jets as well as recreational aircraft; the other regional jets to international flyers. I also am subject to the hospital emergency helicopter, aka LifeStar, from time to time and also grew up in the flight path of a military base and get buzzed by the Met Life blimp once a year due to a PGA Golf Tournament that is run a few towns over, so I am pretty familiar with what I should and should NOT be hearing above my head. Like I said, I exited the vehicle and glanced above my house to the north. My routine. I was stopped short because I heard something that didn't sound right. It was a low steady frequency with absolutely ZERO movement to it. It did not sound mechanical. I focused my eyes to where it was coming from. Then up and above my house and over the tops of the trees this massive vessel/craft/ship appeared, strong and steady. It was a long, blunt triangle shape. Think of a triangle with the tip cut off. On each of the 4 points there was a steady bright white light I took to be the indicator lights. Between the back 2 white indicator lights, there was a big bright red light that blinked, not fast..slow and steady. On the blunt tip between those 2 indicator lights there was what seemed like a wall of lights that only shone straight ahead...like headlights per say. This ship was either very low or very big. As it passed overhead heading in a southerly direction, I just stood there, quite literally frozen to the spot, mesmerized by what I was seeing. I had my iPhone in my hand but I didn't want to take my eyes off it even for a second so I could be present and remember what I saw so I could keep every detail in my head. As it passed,it was all I saw, all I heard and nothing else mattered. I was not scared.. I was more, interested and curious. After I got my senses back, I went inside and drew a picture so I wouldn't forget what I saw in the morning.
August 7, 2016 · 11:55 PM · UNKNOWN
Elliottsburg, PA
Me and my sister saw four orange lights in a row illuminating the windows of the craft with a white light circling the exterior. It stood in one position then moved north from South East. Then it hovered. Then it moved behind the mountain and we didn't see it again
August 6, 2016 · 9:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Mt. Lookout, WV
Very bright lights above Mt. Lookout. Could not tell the shape was foggy. Looked like lights in a row and blinked.
August 5, 2016 · 2:39 AM · UNKNOWN
Oak Hill, KS
The other set of pictures is a burst of 12 pictures taken within a few seconds of each other. Most of the pictures appear dark and not much can be seen. The other pictures though show an object that appears to go into the cloud and back out again. The object is near the center of the photo. The object can be seen in the cloud in a couple of the pictures but it can clearly be seen in two of the pictures. I took the pictures on my cell phone with an application that is designed to take pictures of lightning. I did not see the objects or hear anything, other than thunder
August 5, 2016 · 1:30 AM · UNKNOWN
Lexington, SC
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 3, 2016 · 10:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Philmont Scout Ranch, NM
UFO Sighting: We were a Philmont Boy Scout crew of 8 hiking 2016 Itinerary 20 which included an overnight stay at Elk Horn camp (not staffed). At about 10 pm, after most of the crew had gone to bed in their tents, we all heard a loud whirring noise; 3 of us that were still out of our tents looked up to see what was making the noise. About 75 to 100 yards away was a matrix of green lights, some in evenly spaced square formations and some appearing in diagonal formations; we estimated 15 to 20 lights were visible. The slowly moving object appeared quite large as the wall of green lights passed over the trees. Our view of the object was at about 20 to 30 degrees from horizontal. My headlamp was pointed directly at the object, but no form could be seen other than the wall of lights. There was no wind or air disturbance which might have been evident if a conventional aircraft or turbine powered hovercraft were taking off or passing over. After about 15 to ! 30 seconds the wall of lights and whirring noise vanished. The U.S. military is known to conduct exercises in the Philmont Scout Ranch so there is a possibility that this was some type of military hovercraft, but nothing like I have ever heard or seen.
August 2, 2016 · 1:15 AM · UNKNOWN
Puyallup, WA
1:15 A.M. August 2, 2016, I was standing in the backyard of my home. I was looking nearly straight up and facing the northeast watching the stars, looking for satellites and early Perseids Meteors. I had actually seen two meteors and about 5 satellites. I had been outside for about an hour, when I got my first really good view of a phenomenon that I have seen on three previous occasions. I was looking into a clear sky with no obstructions, the same as the three previous times, when I saw what looked like a flash bulb going off in the sky above me. This is the first time that I have seen this clearly. On the previous occasions, I only saw it out of the corner of my eye and never got a clear view. In fact, I have seen it so infrequently that I had figured that it must be a trick of the light. I starts in a black, starless area of the sky (about 20 degrees east of Alkaid at the end of the big dipper) a small pin prick of light, like a star, suddenly appears and then seems to explode with a flash that leaves a very faint, momentary, aura around it. The very bright flash expands out to three or four times the diameter of a star and then it fades to black. It’s almost as if a meteor were coming straight down towards the earth and then quickly burns up in the atmosphere while being directly in line with my line of sight. Not sure if that’s possible but that seems like a pretty good description of it, except that the color isn’t quite right, it has an almost blue-white hue to it and not the more yellow-white of a shooting star. More of a cool color look. I have seen plenty of satellites that are rotating in and out of reflection and I am 100% sure that it was not a satellite. It may have a perfectly simple explanation, but I haven’t seen anything on the internet that ! describes exactly what I saw. I guess it’s not really a UFO, by the strict definition but it is an unusual phenomenon that I can’t explain. Maybe you folks have an answer for me.
August 1, 2016 · 9:45 PM · UNKNOWN
Shoreline, WA
The craft was heading south and slowly disappeared out of our skies (my sight) Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 31, 2016 · 5:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Somerville, MA
On July 31st @ 5:31 pm I was coming out of Home Depot in Somerville, MA, when I looked up and saw something hovering in the sky that I did not recognize. I took a quick video and some pictures and because I did not have time to spare, I headed home. The object made no noise, and just hovered. It was up in the sky to far to be a kite and if it was a drone it appeared to me it would have the capability of holding passengers. The shape was not an airplane, helicopter or kite The pictures need to be rotated (they are sideways. Picture #3 gives good perspective of distance and size of object. Not sure how to convert video but I can text it.
July 29, 2016 · 9:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Grants Pass (Murphy Area), OR
My mom passed the day before, I was heartbroken. I had taken care of her for six years. I decided I would go outside that that night and take a picture of the night sky with my infrared camera. What I saw next was a huge blue eye looking back at me. I had many sightings of some explained and some unexplained things since moving to Oregon in 1993. So at this point nothing surprised me anymore and I was numb anyway grieving the loss of my beautiful mom. I had more blue eyes show up later in my pictures, and even one after I moved to AZ. I was told this could be a portal? I understand too, if you don’t post this, because it’s not a typical UFO type. Just very strange. I just came back across it in my photos. I thought, I would share it anyway. Thank you
July 28, 2016 · 9:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Cambridge Springs, PA
Moving North/Northeasterly I observed an object that was below clouds moving slowly and made no noise. It took about 2 minutes to cross the visible sky from the point in which I saw it. I wondered if it was a satellite, but it was below the clouds. It had no flashing lights and at one point moved so slow that I thought it was almost hovering. I`m guessing between 3-5 thousand feet but was definitely below the clouds.
July 28, 2016 · 1:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Yakima, WA
Witnessed at around 1 am on July 28th, 2016, in Yakima, Washington. As I work nights, I walk my German Shepherd on my nights off, and we usually go for a 5-mile walk. The night is clear, the stars are out and the moon is just rising. We were walking on a section of the road that curves up around a church and housing area and is higher than the surrounding area, which gives a good partial view of the surrounding city, of which in the day time also gives a great view of Mount Adams. My GSD stopped to sniff the air when there was a sudden and very bright flash of light to the South West of us. For a brief second, I could actually see Mount Adams in the distance. Then it was gone. Right after that, there was a very loud boom sound, not the sound of thunder, but more a sonic boom. I stood there for a couple of minutes watching the area where the light flash had happened but saw nothing else other than the stars in the sky. It was most certainly not heat lighting, of which I am very familiar with in that it happens a great deal in the area in the summer time, and I have spent a great many hours outside at night watching it flash along the surrounding mountains.
July 27, 2016 · 11:00 PM · UNKNOWN
St. George, UT
While driving to the gym, headed North on I10, at mile 3, I noticed a light overhead. Looking up, I saw a streamer like object about 5000 feet up, being pulled by something. I also saw an aircraft of some kind following the streamer. The streamer appeared to be 100 meters long and very colorful. No flashing lights, but it was bright from internal lighting. The streamer was traveling about 50-100 kph, north east bound. No noise I could detect, but I had the radio on. The object "disappeared" behind terrain and buildings and I never saw the aircraft behind the streamer after the first sighting. Very light traffic at that hour here in St George. The only thing I really saw was the streamer like object, which was very colorful and bright, mostly an orange color. Space debris. PD
July 27, 2016 · 10:35 PM · UNKNOWN
Centerville, UT
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 27, 2016 · 10:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Washington, UT
I spend alot of time outside at night. Tonight i saw what started as two bright lights and two small blue lights then its broke up into a long stream of lights and a tail then vanished. last maybe 2-3 mins started at around 22:30.
July 27, 2016 · 9:35 PM · UNKNOWN
Huntington Beach, CA
Re-entering space debris. PD
July 27, 2016 · 2:30 AM · UNKNOWN
Surprise/Glendale, AZ
Actual object was further north, and appeared to be over Glendale
July 26, 2016 · 11:10 PM · UNKNOWN
Aiken, SC
My boyfriend and I were sitting on our front porch when he pointed out these rapidly flashing lights in the sky. There seemed to be 3 rows of 2. There was no sound at all. We live near an airport and would immediately recognize a typical aircraft. They were traveling west to east. At one point it seemed the first two lights slowed, almost like they were waiting on the others to catch up. But, that did not happen. They continued blinking rapidly and moving until they were just gone. The lights were so small and fast at first I thought it was fireflies. I really would like to know. My boyfriend has told me before he has seen this. I thought he was crazy, until now.
July 26, 2016 · 9:38 PM · UNKNOWN
Poplar, MT
My friend and I were out fishing off the Missouri River, when we looked up we notice two extremely bright fast flashing lights like jet propulsion blasts flashing every 2 to 3 seconds. Moving far quicker then your normal jet or airplane, at a super sonic speed chasing each other and doing 45 to 90 degree turns high up in the atmosphere, then they disappear and about 15 minutes later one flash of light reappears doing 90 degree turns and before we knew within in 10 seconds it was further up north from the when we saw the first location from where it reappeared. We also noticed there was no sound, no jet stream trailing the fast moving objects.
July 24, 2016 · 11:45 PM · UNKNOWN
Vantage, WA
My friend and I were driving eastbound, after waiting for an accident to be cleared off I-90, we both had a memory laps of roughly 15-45 minutes and had feelings of "being in a trance or dream state," staring at the moon and seeing faces, feeling paralyzed. The last thing I remember was the giant red metal train bridge you pass under just before Vantage, we have no recollection of crossing the Columbia River on the bridge or seeing the wild horses monument or George, WA. We both "came too" sometime after George, WA, and being confused as neither of us could remember anything about crossing the bridge. The moon was 3 times its normal size and bright red, I couldn't stop starring at it and it made me uneasy I kept seeing screaming faces in it. It felt like I was dead or dreaming, this morning my friend called me and talked more about how confusing everything was and he asked me to check if there was blood on my pillow as he experienced nose bleeding for the! first time ever.....there was blood on my pillow. I am a reasonable guy and honestly never buy into anything like this and if my friend had not experienced the same thing I would not have thought anything of it, if anyone saw anything in WA last night please write an article.
July 24, 2016 · 10:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Franklinton, LA
At first I thought it was thunder in the distance but as it came closer to the house i truly believed it was either a tornado or plane crashing into the house. It was a clear night and the moon was full so I knew it wasn't bad weather. I ran outside as it went over the house and into the field across the road. The shape was blacked out and all i could see were the different colored lights as it slowly moved further away. It stopped at one point, turned and flew slowly in a different direction. Scared me so bad, I thought I was going to have a heart attack! We seen red flaming orbs in the back field several years ago that were flying straight up, then went 3 different ways.
July 23, 2016 · 3:30 AM · UNKNOWN
LaBelle, PA
I witness a bright light in the sky moving slowly towards me. I then witnessed a second object rise from the river very slow and silent.the first object gradually faded. The second kept gaining altitude and gradually faded.
July 22, 2016 · 12:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Seattle, WA
At around midnight, I started watching a movie on television. For the record, the movie was "Straight Out Of Compton", which I mention only to disway any notions that I was watching anything related to the paranormal and my imagination got the best of me; thoughts of UFOs were very far from my mind! Just to the left of my TV is a large, south-facing window that I keep open this time of year. While there are a few tall but thin trees across the street from me, I have a pretty good view of the sky from where I was sitting (on my couch). There was not a cloud in the sky this night. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw what I initially thought was a distant lightning strike as the entire skyline lit up enough to put the trees in silhouette. But.... no thunder... I dismissed it, believing perhaps a distant power transformer had popped...even though the hue of the light was markedly blue. Ten to fifteen minutes later, it happened again. At this point i! dismissed it as some kind of visual distortion... it was late...perhaps i had my eyes open too long and glanced at the window and imagined the flash...and as I was looking out the window, it happened again. My cat started going berserk about this time. Normally, he is lazy. Suddenly he was all about chasing invisible things, and meowing incessently. This went on until approximately 3am, at seemingly irregular intervals. I finally decided to get up, go outside with ALL of my house lights off and look to the sky to make sure I was actually seeing what I thought I was seeing. I noticed that the dogs in the neighborhood were quite vocal, which is unusual. I was nearly finished with my cigarette, when *FLASH* it happened again. I immediately activated the stop watch on my iphone to see if in fact the flashes were occurring at regular intervals or not...and, of course, not a single other flash happened after that... I did not see any *craft* per se, but this was bizarre... and after reading the post from thie person in Renton on the same night at the same time, I felt highly compelled to let them know that they were not alone in seeing this strangeness. Renton is to the south of me, so it stands to reason we saw the same phenomenon.
July 21, 2016 · 10:30 AM · UNKNOWN
South Kingstown, RI
On this morning and day, I was inside, windows closed, air conditioning on. Two of my four dogs were outside in enclosed large back yard. I then heard my Newfoundland barking, as if something was wrong. As soon as I stepped into my breezeway, which leads to the back yard and the door being open, I was hit with this very strong smell of something sweet and 'heavy' in the air. It was a sickly sweet smell that I have never smelled before in my 60 plus years. When my dog barks like that it means something is of concern so I always check it out. The smell had no certain origin but all around. I opened the back gate and walked to the wooded area and saw no one. I looked into my neighbors' yards and saw no one. I then looked up into the clear blue sky, thinking maybe it came from above but saw nothing. I have, in the past, seen a cylinder shaped stationary UFO above my house, and have read that sometimes UFOs have been associated with smells or drifting silk-like substances. Only the smell was there. My dog stopped barking and the smell went away after maybe ten minutes. I then felt a little dizzy and nauseous but that went away, also. I'm reporting this in case anyone else has experienced something similar and because it is a bit odd. My dogs who were outside show no effects but I am keeping an eye on them.