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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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December 25, 2016 · 8:30 PM · OTHER
Whitehall, PA
It is the evening of December 25, 2016, and though I feel like I may have a great amount of difficulty explaining what I saw, I will do my best to do just that as I find I have been stirred to my core. The night sky is something I spend a lot of time staring up at. Stars, planets, our solar system, the universe, etc. has been of interest to me as long as I can remember. I also might mention that I live almost at the very top of a hill referred to locally as Eagle's Point, which provides a significantly unaltered view of the Lehigh Valley below me, as well as the many airplanes that come and go from its international airport (ABE). Quite often I find myself trying to distinguish between celestial bodies and man made aircraft - and what I saw this evening was neither of the two. If it was man made, then it's some kind of black technology or secret NASA project. As I stood in my driveway I looked up and saw something shimmering or flashing in the eastern sky low to the horizon. This is not what I wish to report. As I looked away to gain perspective by looking at stars, I noticed what I thought was at first a slower moving shooting star. But as I focused both of my eyes, the only way I can describe what I saw fly directly over my head and home was a low-flying craft that was either utilizing some sort of malfunctioning invisibility device or was just initializing this device as it flew overhead. It was completely silent and, though I feel I am struggling again to explain this correctly, it seemed like it was only visible from below. Do you know how it is when a large plane flies low overhead (like at an airport) and is so low that you struggle to make out the whole form until it is moving further away from you? It was like that, except as it moved further from me (at a quick pace), though I kept expecting that I'd be able to get a better view, it just seemed to vanish. It was the strangest thing. It wasn't like I could see an actual craft or anything. It was more like... a disambiguation(?) of the sky in what I can best describe as an aerodynamic form. Maybe like the shape of a triangle, but not a perfect one; a longer one. I'm honestly not sure. My instincts are telling me to question what I saw, but this is not something that I'm in any way unsure of seeing. Feel free to contact me. I feel like I will never find out for sure what I saw tonight, but I'm quite sure it won't leave my thoughts any time soon. I'm a college-educated guy, pretty well-rounded in my own opinion. I would say that I certainly believe in extraterrestrial life, but I wasn't looking for it tonight.
December 23, 2016 · 8:45 PM · OTHER
Simpsonville, SC
Saw very bright fireball in the sky over Woodruff Rd. Simpsonville/Mauldin area. Had what looked like molten metal dropping off of it as it went through the sky. We thought it was a meteor or space junk, but it changed direction. Heading was Southwest originally then went and turned and went Northwest, until it disappeared slowly out of sight. Looked like an Indian head dress in the sky (best way I can describe it). Pulled off Woodruff Rd into a subdivision to video it with our phone. It never lost altitude, just changed direction and went out of site. There was no trail left behind it. Happened around 8:45 PM.
December 23, 2016 · 7:00 PM · OTHER
Christiana, TN
Driving south of Murfreesboro, we saw a bright light behind light clouds. Soon joined with another large light and two smaller ones. They zigzagged across the sky, crossing each other's paths and followed us as we changed directions toward the city. Lasted about 20 mins. When we were closer to the city and they disappeared.
December 22, 2016 · 1:24 AM · OTHER
Sandown, NH
I was watching the clear night sky other than some distant clouds in the horizon. A jet black beam, shadow, or wave barrels across the sky and disappears. Since this is not a object or something that emits light I have no idea what it could be, potentially a form of Aurora borealis? It raced behind the clouds with a section still to be seen above the clouds speeding through the sky, so it is in outer space or appears that way. I have seen this before in but has been smaller multiple sections following each other, extremely fast and just cut across the sky and disappear. They almost appear as lines like in the parenthesis as a example (I, ll , lll ) but almost fuzzy like a low lit shadow along the edges.
December 21, 2016 · 9:45 PM · OTHER
Shrewsbury, PA
This was low flying, moving very slow, dead silent. Four lights in a row towards rear, a light in the center shaped like a square with a triangle on top, and two forward facing spotlights on each side of shape.
December 21, 2016 · 7:08 AM · OTHER
East Peoria, IL
Traveling to work at about 7:08 AM on 74-E, between East Peoria and Morton, IL, I happened to notice an object in the sky. It appeared to be trapezoid shaped and barely moving, if moving at all, not far from almost directly above me and at about half the height the normal flying height of an airplane. It seemed aluminum silver in color and it was either angled so that it was catching a reflection from the morning sun or there was a light on 1/3 of the bottom of the craft. After first spotting something in the sky, I put on my glasses to get a better look to see if I could decipher what it was. Seeing that I still could not identify the object, I continued to watch it. It seemed to be stationary. I watched it for a few minutes, or at least the best as I could while driving, and it did not move. I approached a big green overhead highway sign which momentarily obscured my view. When I was able to see unobstructed again, which was a millisecond, the object was gone. I scanned the sky and found nothing. I hoped that a workmate traveling on the same route saw the same thing. After getting to work I approached the specific workmate and asked if he saw something strange in the sky. He looked at me surprised and relieved and told me that he had watched the same strange object in the sky until it disappeared suddenly and was hoping that someone else had seen it too so that he didn't seem crazy when he told his UFO account. I had hoped to see or hear something on the TV or radio, but didn't.
December 18, 2016 · 8:40 PM · OTHER
Bend, OR
Spotted in the sky from the far north at 8:40 pm pacific standard time on Dec 18, 2016, several witnesses viewed what looked like bright white dots, very high, possibly 30-40 thousand AGL, moving in formation of what appeared to be a “Sickle” or half moon, in unison, at a very high rate of speed from the far North to the far South. No noise at all. Event took approximately 30-45 sec across a clear sky for around 30 miles until disappeared (unobserved) until objects were completely out of sight. The objects were star sized and it was definitely a fleet formation the thing that was apparent was that they moved together flawlessly spaced apart. There was no sharp moves just a straight over flight moving extremely fast. The Picture below is still to much like a V but the flight pater was like a cycle or half moon and moving in unity spaced equally apart. No smoke trails, no noise, blinking light, just white lights about the size of stars flying fast. The sky! was clear.
December 18, 2016 · 5:14 PM · OTHER
Jeypore (India) · India
It was time of sunset when i felt that some thing was flying in the sky. Thought that it might be an aircraft but when I observed it closely then I found that i was like a big light flying towards the west from east (in direction). I am still confused weather if it was a UFO or a Merkabah.
December 18, 2016 · 2:00 AM · OTHER
Laughlin, NV
Thanks, ((name deleted))
December 17, 2016 · 9:00 PM · OTHER
San Pedro, CA
There was an object in the sky at 100° east. After zooming in with binoculars and camera this object change colors from green to blue to purple, yellow and red. It slowly raised in height.
December 16, 2016 · 10:20 PM · OTHER
Hixson, TN
V shaped - many tiny lights in a V shape sitting still below clouds in Hidden Harbor s/d. Lights suddenly disappeared just to reappear seconds later then object began to move fast heading in direction of chickamauga dam. Object around the size of a large passenger plane, but the lights were just a whole bunch of tiny lights that formed a V shape. Noticed while out driving around looking at Christmas lights. I've never seen anything like this in my life nor am I an avid Ufo Hunter of any kind. It was simply just "there."
December 16, 2016 · 6:30 PM · OTHER
Kelso, WA
Was in back yard looked south saw a fire looking movement and colors but looked like above it was a white shape told my wife to go to the front of the house something was falling from the sky she tell it's coming this way north stopped at treeline and to off up at a high right then slowed
December 16, 2016 · 11:30 AM · OTHER
Tucson, AZ
I was out in my back yard doing yard work at about 11:30am on 12/18/16. A reflection from the west at approximately 5-10 thousand feet (only an estimate, of course) caught my attention. When I focused on it, I could see that there was something that was metallic and rotating clockwise in a slow, stable, and consistent manner. It gave the impression of being something heavy (not a balloon), if that makes sense. There was no noise at all. We got a lot of military and commercial air traffic over this location: helicopters and all manner of planes. We even saw the Goodyear blimp from this location several times while we lived there, but this sighting was unique. I had my phone and tried to take a picture, but the object was too high up for me to get a good shot. I ran inside and got my SLR camera (Nikon D60), quickly changed lenses to my telephoto lens, and ran back outside, thinking that the object might be gone by this point. It was still there, so I started taking pictures. The object appeared and then disappeared from my view based upon how it was reflecting the sunlight. Since it seemed to be several miles away, I had a hard time focusing my camera on it, but I was able to get quite a few good shots. The object’s appearance changed many times while I was taking pictures. It was very confusing, to be honest. I’ve never seen anything like it. Finally, it appeared to change shapes into something that looked like a small, white plane that circled the area where the sighting occurred. Finally, that “plane” flew off to the north and seemed to morph into a larger white plane that headed east along a typical (for that area) commercial flight line.
December 15, 2016 · 4:00 PM · OTHER
Davie, FL
Was driving South in Davie on either pine island or nob Hill Rd was coming up on Griffin Rd and saw blimp like shape. It was low and seem even low for a blimp. Didn't think much because it is on plane descent into airport. But my 4 kids started to notice so I kept trying to determine what it was. Googled image of blimps at night and nothing. There was no noises and it was no movement one place. The area has countless blimps/planes etc. This was just different. I pulled in to Publix parking, only to find it wasn't there. In a matter of turning right into parking lot than right into parking space and it was gone.
December 13, 2016 · 5:00 PM · OTHER
Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic Ocean
I was aboard the Holland America cruise-ship, Eurodam. Most of that afternoon, I had been sitting in a deck chair, watching the sea through which we were passing about one hundred miles off Cuba's east coast, bound for the Bahama island of Grand Turk, where we would arrive the following morning. All that day, Tuesday, I saw no floating debris, signs of marine life, or seaweed, until precisely 17:00 hours (5:00 p.m., ship's time). At first to the left of my perspective (I was looking due south), I observed an object that resembled the top of a post standing above the surface of the ocean, within thirty-five to forty feet out from the starboard side of our vessel. It stood three to four feet high, was approximately eighteen inches in diameter, seemed entirely round, with a tapering, rounded top; was uniformly featureless and dark in color, perhaps black; in shape, it somewhat resembled a human thumb. Most remarkably, the object was absolutely rooted in place, completely unmoving, as those driven solidly into the seabed, about two thousand feet under the Eurodam 's keel. The object was not afloat or bobbing with the waves, which instead broke around it, and never altered its unchanging position during the five or six seconds I kept it in view. For a moment, I suspected that it may have been the periscope of a passing submarine, but almost instantaneously dismissed such an interpretation, because no sub commander would so gravely risk his vessel by taking it within forty feet of the Eurodam's extremely turbulent wake. No other debris, etc. was observed on the surface of the sea the rest of that day. I forwarded a written description of the Tuesday sighting to our Captain, explaining my concern that the object may have been a navigational hazard of some kind. I am not sure that it entirely falls under the category of Unidentified Submerged Object, because at least part of it protruded above the water.
December 12, 2016 · 5:32 PM · OTHER
Salem, OR
Definitely not a star or earth born vehicle, garbage or satellite because it changed trajectory and speed. We have attempted to contact the source of the report, but have been unsuccessful in doing so. PD
December 11, 2016 · 8:00 PM · OTHER
St. George, UT
Multiple slowly moving lines of flashing light. Flashing a blue and red. The lights are spread over a large area, I want to say over 30 miles. They are also in a grid like formation with some with a odd grouping. The light coming from these things is not very bright my nieghbor thought I was going crazy, but my nieghbor has bad eye sight. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 11, 2016 · 6:00 PM · OTHER
Fort Collins, CO
I witnessed one straight line object with 3-4 red lights that hovered in place, shot straight up in the sky, dropped back down to original position, repeated this again and then as it dropped back to the original hovering location the lights went out. This was too large to be a drone and was more the size of a large airplane. However, its movement and behavior were NOT that of an airplane.
December 7, 2016 · 6:53 PM · OTHER
Las Vegas, NV
1 paramid or sort of shape..white.. thought was a puff of smoke or garbage bag.. to coherent for puff of smoke.. may have been slightly rotating??!?! thought i saw 1 greenish light in it... floated silently through 89107 zip code.. sort of right over my house.. 95 and decatur area.. I cant be only one that saw it... too cold here to float a trash bag or anything here I would assume.. moved slowly south... southeast.. could not get camera on new cell phone going in time... never used.. was at 6:53pm or 6:55pm.. looked like was heading toward luxor light.. sort of going little east of it... as I ran in house for telescope... came out.. was out of sight... not on tv news at the moment.. I can't be only one to see it... checking wind info on local news sight.. dont recall any wind.. lasvegasnow.com.. 7:22 48deg 0 wind
December 6, 2016 · 8:45 PM · OTHER
High Point, NC
I was driving home and noticed some sort of craft way down the road. As I got closer I noticed that it wasn't moving. Still I got closer until I was right under it. It was positioned just off the side of the road about 20-30 feet above the tree line (but not behind the trees, closer to the road). It had to be as big as my car since it appeared the same size that far up. I paused under it briefly in wonder. The clouds behind it were lit by the moon perfect, so I could make out the shape. It was like nothing I've seen or heard described. It had very short, stout wings, the front end (i guess the cockpit) was bulbous shaped and the back end was shaped like that of a jet (like where the air would come out). I guess it was shaped like a jet but severely squished. It had two white lights (like car headlights, but the y didn't shine outward, they just lit up) on each side of the cockpit. It had a band of read light that went across the middle with a small! red light on each side and the light appeared to move back and forth across that area. The craft was dark in color. You could have drawn a parallelogram around the outside of it, if you had to place it in a tangible shape category. It just stayed in the air, no sound, above me. I really thought somebody has got to be playing a joke, perhaps so. There was a car coming and it was late so I started to drive. I watched in my rear view until I couldn't see it anymore. Just before it went out of view it began to move to my left back towards the wooded area. I called my husband and he told me to go get a picture (a decision I regret not making immediately now). So I turned down the back roads. I believe I saw it again, moving really slow, staying at the same altitude, across a horse pasture (it was too far to get a picture with my phone). It looked like it was just exploring or observing. I don't know. Then it was gone. I got home immediately and tried to find a drawing or image of the shape I saw. I couldn't find any drones or plane s that resembled it. I drew a sketch, but now I just feel crazy and really stupid for not immediately taking a picture while it was perfectly outlined above me.
December 6, 2016 · 7:00 PM · OTHER
Austin, NV
I was following my husband (during our move to Oregon) and looking at the stars out of my driver's side window. In the western sky, I saw a dark yellow light that didn't appear to be like any of the other stars - it was pulsating and glimmering. At that moment, my husband called me on the radio and started to say "Look at the shooting [star]… "I looked straight ahead out of my windshield and saw a very bright yellowish light fall straight down in the north sky and disappear. Almost simultaneously, another bright light that resembled the shape of a "refresh" symbol appeared to the right of it, rotated clockwise, and disappeared. Then a third light of the same shape appeared to the right of that and rotated clockwise, then shot around forming a sideways "U" towards where the first light had been, and disappeared. I told my husband, "I don't think that was a shooting star." About ten minutes later, again in the western sky, I saw another darker yellowish light (that was similar to the first one I saw) and it pulsated and disappeared as well. I've seen shooting stars before, and these lights looked nothing like that. Thank you for hearing my story.
December 4, 2016 · 12:10 PM · OTHER
London (Canada), ON · Canada
I was sitting on my couch watching Netflix, when something that at first appeared to be a blue balloon hovered past my window. It was nearly motionless and I really didn't think too much about it until it rotated 45 degrees. At that point I could clearly see that it was not a balloon and it was not like any drone that I had ever seen. At that point it started to move away from my window in the living room (I'm on the 9th floor of a 10 storey building). I quickly grabbed my phone and snapped the first picture from my bedroom, sadly by that point it was a couple hundred feet away, but the picture still clearly shows the details. It hovered there for maybe 2 minutes or so, rotated 180 degrees then began to hover away again. It flew over the building just down the street and increased altitude to approximately twice the height of that building. There is stayed for another 10 minutes or so. I did not see the craft, fly off, but as I snapped a few more pictures, it was suddenly not visible to me. I've shared the first and best photo with a friend, who owns and flies a drone, and he explained he had not seen anything like it. It's either a UFO (not massive at all) or a military craft of some sort. As close as it was to my window initially, I can say it had not discernable noise - and I know how much noise a drone makes from experience. Like I said, I don't know what it is, but I know it's not a commercial drone.
December 2, 2016 · 5:13 PM · OTHER
Chester, VA
Driving down interstate, when a hurling double ball of lights kinda twirled head over head, and then just disappeared.. pretty sure a few others driving by saw it, too.
December 1, 2016 · 12:46 PM · OTHER
Escondido, CA
It was a rounded craft with a long sail looking thing pointing downward and when it took off there was a reddish orange trail.