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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.
9,112 entries
November 29, 2016 · 6:20 PM · OTHER
Janesville, WI
I was in my driveway, waiting for my ride to work. I was looking up at the stars and thinking it was nice to see the stars for once, since I live in town with a few lights that usually hinder the sight of them. Then just like out of a movie! Something seemed to shimmer into existence...I want to say about half a mile up. It was crescent shaped with what appeared to have seven engines. Then it darted to the Northeastern direction with no sound at a speed I cant even guess. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 28, 2016 · 11:00 PM · OTHER
Sutherlin, OR
We have corrected the date. PD
November 22, 2016 · 9:00 PM · OTHER
Santa Clara, UT
Sometime between 9pm and 11 o'clock pm, I saw this semi close or low to the ground un-identified flying object. The UFO was silent and had three dim lights in a straight row. Visually it appeared about the size of a dime or nickel making this my first and closest appearance. I know it wasn't a plane as its proximity to the ground would have been audible. It seemed to cloak rather than speed off. It went dark in a area of clear sky well below any horizon. Not a satellite. My explanation for this is usually a reflection from the moving horizon sun on a satellite. I can't use this excuse here. Too cold outside to be reasonably a drone user. Too high as well. It was 52 degrees outside. It had rained that morning with thunder and lightning.
November 22, 2016 · 9:00 PM · OTHER
Santa Clara, UT
Sometime between 9pm and 11 o'clock pm, I saw this semi close or low to the ground un-identified flying object. The UFO was silent and had three dim lights in a straight row. Visually it appeared about the size of a dime or nickel making this my first and closest appearance. I know it wasn't a plane as it's proximity to the ground would have been audible. It seemed to cloak rather than speed off. It went dark in a area of clear sky well below any horizon. Not a satellite. My explanation for this is usually a reflection from the moving horizon sun on a satellite. I can't use this excuse here. Too cold outside to be reasonably a drone user. Too high as well. It was 52 degrees outside. It had rained that morning with thunder and lightning.
November 22, 2016 · 4:17 PM · OTHER
Atkinson/Kingston, NH
At 4:17 on 11/22/2016 on Route 111 in Atkinson, New Hampshire, below a cloud cover, hovered an unknown, potentially hazardous object. The object, initially appearing to be a star or planet, emitted a strong white light. It would have been impossible to determine this object as a star or planet as the sun was in full shine and the object was against the backdrop of the cloud cover. While first being obscured by the powerful luminescence it emanated, a witness travelled on the road, growing closer to the object. To the witness, this craft was nearly indistinguishable from the altitude of approximately 3,300 feet above sea level. However, what appeared to be a metallic object with the shape of 4 claw-like arms emitting a white light became apparent as the witness drew closer. Approximately 5 minutes after the initial sighting, the craft accelerated at an extraordinarily fast speed directly up into the cloud cover. The witness’s motor vehicle was temporarily incapacitated by what appeared to be the movement of the craft. Lights, heating systems, and windows ceased function for 11 seconds. There was no apparent stalling of the engine. 15 minutes later, near the junction of South Road, Brentwood, and Exeter Road, Exeter, the object reappeared to the same witness, this time in much closer vicinity, approximately 1,000 feet above the ground. The shape of the object was not of human design that we know of. Four appendages, each extending from a single circular base, formed a claw shape, with each “claw” pointing downwards at the surface. The object was a silvery-black metallic color, and pulsed several times with white lights. At this point, malfunctions in most systems of the car began to occur. Heating was cut, electricity went dead, and the engine stalled as the car pulled to a stop. At this time, there was nobody else on the road. The witness noticed a strange, constant howling noise coming from the craft, almost like an animal scream combined with the running of a jet engine. The object or craft hung over the road for several more seconds, before shooting up into the sky with what sounded like a sonic boom, or a similar explosion sound. Directly after the object disappeared, the car’s systems rebooted and the witness continued on his way home.
November 22, 2016 · 7:00 AM · OTHER
Gainesville, GA
One brightly lite object was seen in the western sky. The lights were too bright to tell the shape.It stayed in one position for about thirty minutes, until it was too cold to remain outside and watch. The lights on the object would go dim and at times disappear then reappear. After one hour it was gone. My husband said that was a real one wasn't it? The same object appeared on 11/24/16 in the same area and stayed for about one hour, until finally moving westward out of site.
November 21, 2016 · 11:15 PM · OTHER
Victoria (Canada), BC · Canada
From 9th. floor balcony overlooking the city, I observed a glow in a heavy cloud that hung over it. The glow moved at intervals, breaking through where the cloud was less dense, in a back and forth line of travel of about two miles. The glow was not bright or colored. How many times it traversed the two mile course, I could not say for sure, probably half a dozen. There was nothing apparent from the city that could have caused it (eg beam of light) besides, it was definitely above the cloud. There were no aircraft type noises. It disappeared after about ten minutes, but obviously the phenomena could have been in motion before I entered the balcony.
November 21, 2016 · 3:30 AM · OTHER
Honolulu, HI
I was awakened around 3:30 am and I was lying in my bed wondering why I had woke up. Then something outside on my back lanai caught my eye. My louver windows were closed but I saw a reddish-orange floating light outside the window. It was about 5 ft. in the air. Then 2-3 more of the same kind of lights appeared, making the total number of lights outside the window to being 4. They seemed to be interested in the string of pinkish- red colored lights that I had on my lanai that were on at the time. Then one of the lights left the others and flew close to my bathroom window that is located towards the back of the lanai behind the washer and dryer. When the light came close to the bathroom window, which was also closed it illuminated the bathroom with a reddish -orange light. It then floated back to join the other lights that were still floating in the air. They remained there for awhile, about 15-20 minutes. Then they just disappeared. I was frozen sitting in my bed. I was frightened by it and didn't get a friendly feeling from these lights. Source of report indicates that the date of the incident is approximate. PD
November 20, 2016 · 3:08 AM · OTHER
Victoria, TX
This event occurred at 0308 hrs, 20 November, 2016 in Victoria, Texas. I saw an object in the moonless sky that was not a legacy saucer shape nor was it metallic, or have lights. This object was organic, fleshy, and ‘seemed’ to be several miles long. The object described above was traveling from ESE to WNW. My field of vision was 30% blocked by a tree to the east, I was facing south, and the object came into view over the tree. It took about 5 seconds to traverse my vision field to the westerly horizon. But before doing so it changed direction by about 15 deg to the NW, and within 1 second my LOS was blocked by a neighbor’s rooftop. The object was estimated to be at or above earth’s atmosphere. From my point of view, the object was approximately 4 inches long, if you able to measure it with a ruler. Morning astronomical twilight was 0601 hrs, and sunrise was going to be near 0727 hrs on this date. Moonrise was going to be near 2257 hrs, which places it underfoot. The bottom of the object was reflecting light from the approaching sunrise. The color range was from ‘pony tail badge’ to ‘pastel yellow’. The estimated position (near edge of atmosphere) and length (several miles long) was calculated by the angle which light might hit an object at 300 miles ASL, estimated sunrise, trajectory (speeding away from sunrise), and it’s actual length perceived (4” long). The object can be described in this way: Its dimension was 10 units long, 1 unit wide, and 0.1 unit thick. Its horizontal axis was along its length. Shape was not unlike a colored crepe paper streamer when twisted like a double helix, DNA strand. It was almost certainly translucent. I could see through it. If it were not for the sun’s illumination I would not have seen it. It was ‘ribbed’ across it’s width. The ribs were narrow, rounded, and approximately 0.25 units thick. I would estimate that there were 25 ribs spaced evenly across a 10 unit length. The object rotated slowly on its horizon axis and looked like the above mentioned streamer if thrown into the air.
November 19, 2016 · 5:30 PM · OTHER
Louisville, KY
For about the last week I have seen a strange light in the sky at the same time at night on every night for the past week starting back from 11/19/16 . The strange light looks like a straight line that is a bright white light with a V shape tail at the end of it on the right side if you were looking at it from the east . It almost looks like and arrow , a straight line with a V shape turned on its side with the open part of the V facing away from the straight line . But doesn't have a point on the front of it unless it has a small point on the top only . And there is a red round light on the bottom side of the V shape tail that changes colors . All of it is a bright white color except the red light at tail section that chan! ges colors. But the red round light isn't at the end of the V shape tail . It's at the point where the bottom of the V shape starts . It has been in the southwest area of the sky . Closer to south . At the same time at night and every night for a week at least . And it stays there in the same spot for at least a hour . But it could be more than a hour I will time it tonight if it comes back . It doesn't move at all it just stays in the same spot and it gives you a feeling like it is watching you . Don't know how to describe it . It just feels like it is watching you as soon as you start to look at it . I have showed it to a couple of people to make sure I wasn't seeing something normal in the sky . And they have all agreed with me on what it looks like and that it isn't moving . ! I will report back with more information tomorrow .
November 18, 2016 · 2:00 PM · OTHER
Kittery area, ME
As I was traveling south on rte 236 in Eliot, Me, I saw in the distance what appeared to be a BIG plane traveling with 1 with pointing to the ground, and the other straight up.. I thought it was the airforce doing some kind of fancy manuever.It was silverish. As I am getting closer to the Eliot DPW barn, I saw that it was not moving foreward but turning right side up.. As soon as it was " normal ", it dissapeared... As I got to the Eliot Mall intersection, I saw that the sky was 100% clear of anything.
November 16, 2016 · 10:15 PM · OTHER
Schenectady, NY
I was driving to get something to eat @ 10:15pm. When I was about to turn the corner in the opposite direction, I saw out the corner of my eye, what I thought would have been the moon-I saw 6 distinct bright white lights in a line, slightly arched...stretching from the South to the North miles across one part of the sky wayyyyy to the other side. A dark shadow also could be seen behind the lights. They were moving West. I started to follow them in my car. My radio was staticy. Then within 30 secs of following-they changed into 1 reddish orange light. The white lights never moved or changed positions or faded out. It was just all these white lights, then the reddish orange and then it was gone. No sound, no streak of light. A little flicker from red to orange. It was just there so massive and then gone. The cell phone battery was no where near dead, but as soon as the camera opened the phone died.
November 16, 2016 · 6:00 PM · OTHER
Egg Harbor Township, NJ
Driving down rt 40 in between ubel and English creek ave. I noticed 3 lights lined up. It was kind of cloudy; however the lights looked attached to an object. The object was swooping up and down through the clouds.
November 14, 2016 · 7:21 PM · OTHER
Irving, TX
Standing in the parking lot facing east, I began taking photos. I noticed an anomaly in the photos which seemed to be a smaller sphere to the lower right of the bright moon. I looked with my physical eyes at the moon and saw something darker than the moon and sky in the same area. I took more photos and each one contained the sphere. It looked very solid. I decided to clean the lens and take the case off the phone and use an additional lens that hooks on the back of the iPhone 6 Plus. I saw the object even clearer at this point. I zoomed in without losing resolution and took a few more. I examined those with my partner and he was very intrigued and we zoomed in and were awe struck. It was a sphere but it was a moon. It looked exactly like our moon only smaller. In the photos, there is a visible lens flare/glare that is bouncing off of the overhead lot lights. This sphere/additional moon was not a lens anomaly. To further debunk the oddity, we walked to the park in the middle of our condos. We saw the bright big moon through the tree tops. I took out the camera and began shooting more pictures. We figured if it was a lens or camera issue, it would project this second moon overlapping the tree branches, thus copying the image of the actual moon. Much to our surprise, this secondary moon was shadowed by the branches in the actual placement of where it corresponds and the actual moon/supermoon was not shrouded by branches in real visual observation nor in the photograph. This blew our minds.! We took several photos and then went inside to grab the very ! large te lephoto lens for the SLR camera and came back out. We took more photos from the original device, my partners device, and the SLR and there was no second moon present in these photos. So this phenomenon was present for roughly 5-7 minutes then gone.
November 14, 2016 · 4:30 PM · OTHER
Cardiff (UK/Wales) · United Kingdom
I just came home from picking my child up from school. I was stood at my kitchen window looking over at the hills. It is very foggy WHITE FOG. A black moving shape caught my eyes and I looked straight at it. It was like a elongated rugby ball coming in and out of the fog. Then it moved of into the thick fog at a high rate of speed. By using trees as a reference point id say it was at least a quarter mile in length. I AM STILL SHAKING FROM SEEING IT.
November 14, 2016 · 4:15 PM · OTHER
Wilkesboro, NC
Me an my grandson (he's 18yrs old) were working outside our house on this day and time when, from a sunny and clear sky, came a sudden rumbling or "quaking" that seemed to come from directly overhead and was very loud (like thunder) and could be heard echoing off the nearby mountains. It lasted between 5-10 seconds. I am ((deleted--sixties)) yrs old, retired from the military with ((deleted--20+) yrs service, and I have never heard anything like this from any kind of aircraft. The closest thing i could compare it to from my military experience would be the sound of a Vulcan Helicopter machine gun. It came of in an instant like the flip of a switch and ended just as abruptly. Several people we have talked to in this area heard this and so far no one has said they saw anything in the sky when it occurred.
November 13, 2016 · 6:28 PM · OTHER
Tacloban (Philippines) · Philippines
I have seven photo to show which seems that the yellow dot is encircling the moon in a matter of seconds only.
November 13, 2016 · 5:00 AM · OTHER
Bagley, IA
At 5 a.m. Sunday November 13th 2016 I was looking out my bay window at the bright moonlit morning. I noticed 3 large brightly lit stars in the eastern sky. They were at the 10 o’clock and 12 o’clock positions with the third star just to the right and down of the 10 o’clock star. The 10 o’clock star was flashing red, green and blue. The 10 o’clock and 12 o’clock stars also had an elongated or even an 8 shape to them. Suddenly the third star shot down at a 45 degree to earth. It did not have a tail. It was a perfect bright circle. About 5 minutes later, a fourth bright star from about the 12 o’clock position shot straight down. These falling stars landed very far away. I continued to watch the skies for about 2 more minutes when I noticed movement on the street in front of my home. (The street is about 50 feet from my window.) What I saw is very hard to describe, so here goes... “It” was about 6 feet tall and 8 to 10 feet long and in the shape of a flat and slightly distorted semicircle with no real volume or thickness. “It” was see through and did not have any defining edges. I must add that it did not shine or glisten in any way, but did have a faint light gray color to it. I was able to see it because of the faint color distorting the corn stalks on the other side of it into a blur as it glided down the street. The speed of the glide was a casual walking pace. Anticipation grew within me as it neared the corner street light. If my eyes were playing a trick on me, the light would surely show what was truly there. Now I could see what it really was in the light,but just before it got to the light, it disappeared. I continued to watch the skies and the street but nothing new happened until my husband walked into the room a few minutes later. I told him that something amazing just happened but first to look at the two bright stars in the sky. He too noticed the flashing colors of the 10 o’clock star. I was watching the sky at the time but he averted his gaze to the street. He saw something too. I asked him to describe in full detail what it was in size, shape,color etc. He described exactly what I saw just a few minutes earlier. His encounter was exactly the same as mine,right down to the way it moved (glided). We agreed that it reminded us of the movie “Predator” with Arnold Schwarzenegger. You have to actually LOOK for the disfigurations to really see them.
November 11, 2016 · 8:30 AM · OTHER
Herod, IL
A plume of smoke/vapor/trail was seen by 2 witnesses on 11/11/16 looking south from the Herod, IL, Hwy 34, toward the Ohio River. Witnesses did not see if it came from the ground up or sky downward. The trail of white smoke/gas/vapor lasted about 5 min. Never seen anything close to this.
November 10, 2016 · 3:30 PM · OTHER
Glendale, AZ
I saw three light in a line cross sky from north east to north west. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 9, 2016 · 5:12 PM · OTHER
Portage, IN
My dad had called me, he said to look to the southwest of me. He was sitting outside on his patio and this V shaped object appeared out of nowhere. I began watching. I took video and pictures. It was easier to distinguish the shape with the naked eye as my equipment is not the best. I continued to watch the object for around 25 minutes. I came inside to swap batteries and when I returned, the object was gone. I forgot to mention, there was not a star in the sky
November 8, 2016 · 9:50 PM · OTHER
Garden City, ID
Just a few very bright lights just sitting in the sky it was so bright and it was wide I can't think of any airplane that just sits like that it didn't move at all at first I thought it was maybe just a really bright street light but it was too high up we kept looking at it and then it went to my left and the color changed and was several colors and then it was gone.
November 8, 2016 · 8:00 PM · OTHER
Tulsa, OK
I have great pictures. Been going on for over a week. They are reddish some flash bright white and moves from left to right . See crafts move zigzag .making some type of formation. I wish I had a good lens or telescope. It's amazing. Even see some at dusk. I wish someone would come and watch these with me. It would blow your mind.
November 7, 2016 · 10:30 AM · OTHER
Portland, OR
Looking NNW a single object transited east to west across approximately 60 degrees of my point of view approximately 20 degrees above the horizon. Conditions were mostly cloudy with periods of bright sunshine and blue skies, temperature around 62F. Object appeared below the cloud line, and changed color from white to reflective/metallic, to bright metallic red/orange, then back to reflective/metallic. Seemingly more square shaped and moving at a high rate of speed. Distance down range of my POV was difficult to determine as there was no point of reference. There is an Air National Guard base at PDX, the flight path of this object would have crossed out-bound traffic from the base at 45 degrees from my POV. There was no contrail or exhaust. No sound could be heard but that could have been due to distance and that I was inside the house. (Though airplanes can be heard from within the house.) I am near the out-bound flight path for the Air National Guard and in and out-bound traffic for PDX. There are also a number of smaller regional airports within a 10 mile radius. I have been observing the local skies for over 20 years. I am not a trained observer.