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November 6, 2016 · 6:30 PM · OTHER
Delco, NC
On Sunday, for close to 45 minutes, an object was observed in the distance. The top had a green light, and the bottom two sides had a white light. It moved back and forth and bobbed up and down in a stationary position. Within 30 minutes, 6 helicopters arrived high in the air, which caused it to move more rapidly up and down before moving away. Eventually the helicopters disappeared, following it. Afterwards, saw to streams of light fly in the direction after it and the helicopters, like it was 'shooting stars'. I watched this for the whole week of 11/6/16. Saw the same on 11/7/16. On 11/8 and 11/9, there was a lot of Light Pollution in that general direction. On 11/10, saw the same light in the sky when driving from work and watched it disappear in the sky within seconds. On 11/11, while I was not home, younger sibling, called, who had witnessed event on 11/6 and 11/7, reported to me he saw the same thing. While driving on Highway 87, I could see the light from a distance and could watch it move in the sky until it disappeared. On 11/12, I watched it for a full hour, until it disappeared completely in the sky. All sightings happened at the same time, after sunset, roughly around 16:30 (sic. 18:30 hrs.) (6:30pm), and ended around 17:10 (7:10pm) daily; give or take a few minutes. Ironically enough, this all happened this week, of the 2016 Presidential election.
November 5, 2016 · 5:15 PM · OTHER
Philadelphia, PA
On Saturday, November 5th, 2016, roughly some time between 5:15-5:45 PM EST, myself (driving) and another male occupant (passenger) in a moving car traveling South on Route 1 in Northeast Philadelphia witnessed 4 objects in the sky that appeared to have either been being chased or observed by 3 military jets. It was at that point in the late day, when the sun is just starting to go down, so it was still very bright outside. The sky was extremely clear, and there was not a single cloud in sight anywhere to be seen. As I was driving South on Route 1 in Northeast Philadelphia, I was passing right at the area of Route 1 (Roosevelt Boulevard) and Oxford Avenue, and I was in the far left lane of the middle lane. I just happened to look up at the sky in front of me and to the left, when I noticed what I right away assumed to be just a white cloud stationary and not at all moving up in the sky. After passing Oxford avenue, I got stuck at the next traffic light. I kept looking at the object and noticed that it was not moving at all, and that there were no clouds anywhere in the entire sky. As I kept staring at it, I thought it was a very starge looking cloud, and then very quickly realized it was not a cloud at all. When I realized this was not a bird, cloud, or an airplane or helicoptor, or any known aviation object I have ever seen before, I asked my passenger, "Do you see that up there?, What is that?" He was amazed just like me and we sat in traffic for about 30-90 seconds just staring at it. It was not moving at all, niether were we. That is how we know it was not moving. I was driving, and because we both were staring in confusion at just what exactly we were looking at, it never occured to either one of us to get a photo of it with our phones. I'm not sure it would have turned out anyway. We started driving again, and I could see it starting to move downwards, or in the direction coming closer to the ground. But it was very, very high up in the sky, and it was oviously very big. In front of me and to the left there were high trees, and we both lost sight of the object for a few seconds, then we saw it again after passing the trees off the side of the road. We came to another traffic light and were stopped. And then thats when we could see it more clearly, and we had the trees as an eye-sight-marker, as the object was in back of the foreground trees in our sight. So once we were stopped we could clearly see the object more visible in detail and how it was movong and traveling using the tree as a marker. It kept moving downward in back of the trees, and as soon as we started driving again, when we got out in the open more where the sky was more open and visible, thats when we saw them. 3 more of the same exact kind appeared out of nowhere to the left of the first object we saw. We dont know if they were already there and were just obscured by the trees or not, but I only saw the one at first, when the viewable sky was all open for my vision. And like I stated above, it initially was not moving and was actually closer. The more we drove in it's direction (South) the further away it became. It was oviously movong very fast. There were a total of 4 objects in the sky, and they were all the exact same shape and white-brightness, still not known if it was the sun refecting off the object, making it so bright during that time of day, at least thats how I percieved what I was looking at. My passenger said that the other 3 to the left just dissapeared and then reappeared right in the air. I did not see that myself. The Description of the Object: - It was a very bright-white, possibly from the sun reflecting off it's surface, and it was either the shape of a cigar, but it was tilted. And when it moved, it stayed titled, no matter which direction it moved, the tilt stayed. Im not sure about the cigar-shape, but I would describe it more like this: If you took a frisbee and looked at it directlyin front of you looking at the side, so you not seeing a circle, but the other way, it would look like a sstraight line, but slightly ovaled, but then on top of that, tilt it so that the left end it pointed down and the right end is pointed up. There were no colors or visible features, but it was also very high and far away to be able to clearly see it. When I thought it was traveling downwards closer to the ground, I really think it was traveling further away. That is how fast it was moving. It, and the other 3 just kept getting smaller and smaller, you could tell they were moving very fast. And as it moved, like I mentioned, the "tilt" of the object never changed. Still driving, I looked to the right up in the sky to see if there were more of these things, and that's when I saw, very, very high up, 3 jets/planes of some kind, looked to be classic silver/metal in color of a jet, traveling in the same direction as the objects. All 3 jets were moving what seemed to be slow compared to the other 4 objects. Each jet was leaving a clear small air vapor behind itself which quickly dissapated. As soon as I turned my head away from the 3 jets to the right sky, I watched the 4 objects to the left start moving extremely fast, as if they just caught wind of the 3 jets coming their way. If these were, oviously, military jets sent up to observe or chase these objects, they would most likely have been sent from Willow Grove Air Force base in Warminster, Pennsylvania, which was roughly 20 miles away from our driving location. They must have gotten there quick, because when I first looked around after seeing the first object not moving at all, I saw nothing else anywhere. And the 3 jets were pretty high up. At this point we both observed the 4 objects, which seemed to be each about 2 miles apart from each other, and the other 3 further ahead now from the 1st object we witnessed, traveling at great speed, still with the "tilt" not changing at all, all 4 objects within 3 seconds, just took off southbound at incredible speed, and then they just dissapeared over the horizon. To describe the 1st object, as it was stationary and not moving in better detail, it just hung in the sky, like a cigar, tilted, shining very bright white, as if the sun was reflecting off it, I am pretty good at judging distance with my eyes, so just a guess, I would say it was about 1-2 miles in length, and roughly about 5-6 miles away. I really wish I could have got a photo of it when is was just sitting there in the sky, but I was driving and it all happened to fast. This was the first time for both of us ever seeing an object we could both say was a UFO for sure. If it was a black-project type object, who knows. But we are absolutely both sure of what we witnessed, and this was not a mistaken known aircraft. And also we both have never seen such a thing, or expected to ever see such a thing in this area of Northeast Philadelphia where we were at the time. The entire thing was very strange. We did look around at other drivers to see if they were looking up at it too, and we did not see anyone looking at it. Although, people were driving, it would have been hard to have witnessed it, unless you were stuck at a light, and just happened to look up. I even had my window rolled down with my head out the window, so I know my vision was not obscured in anyway. That was it. The objects vanished once they took off southbound at an incredible high rate of speed, staying at their "tilt" in the sky, and 30 minutes later, the sun was gone and that was the end of it. We witnessed nothing else afterwards as we drove in the opposite direction going home.
November 5, 2016 · 6:45 AM · OTHER
Sweetwater, AZ
On these sightings, I only had my low quality phone, and unable to get a good picture of it and I don't have a camera. When I did take it with my phone, it was to blurred, and unable to get a quality zoom (looks like dirt on my phone lens). There have been many other sightings on this beautiful, wide-opened reservation and filled with flat area, canyons, and undiscovered, hidden areas. It's friends and relatives that just have no one to tell or report to anyone.
November 4, 2016 · 7:22 PM · OTHER
Columbus, OH
Was out photographing the moon, Venus, Mars, and Saturn. While focused on Venus, I saw 2 red lights or objects go past one above and 1 below Venus and about a degree apart. They were blinking in synchrony. Saw no body go over Venus, just the 2 lights, west to east. Took pictures with an iphone. Then ran to a camcorder & turned it on. I could still see the blinking red lights off and on. There seemed to be more of them- at least 3 maybe 4. They would make different patterns. There seemed to be white lights too. Filmed dancing lights, flashes, move around, sometimes synchronous, blink, changed configuration, soundless, nothing like airplane lights, etc. (Still Photos and Video). They were soundless. Know what drones, balloons, ad aircraft etc. looks like. Have photography on Youtube and facebook (but not as good as the originals, but can give URLs).
November 4, 2016 · 6:00 PM · OTHER
Marianna, PA
Since summer 2016, there have been small glowing stationary lights (resembling) stars, but, with a alternating red light and amber colors. Since they were small like stars and silent and have been many each night over the 2016 summer, I assumed they may be satellites, but not sure and this happened each night throughout the entire summer in all areas of the sky, but most noticeable in the same places each night. Then as the night grew later more would appear. They are spaced out over the entire night sky surrounding my area. However, last night, November 4, 2016 at approximately 8 pm, along with the smaller glowing, alternating amber and red star like objects (which I assumed were satellites, and still many of them over the sky in all direction, there were 2 additional and very very different objects. Not only bigger in size (they were huge) but not clear on the shape even with my binoculars. These things were glowing red and stationary, but, began fl! ashing, on and off in no particular sequence (as if speaking to each other) then, they began moving simultaneously, side by side across the sky at a speed different from any airplane or craft, not making any noise whatsoever. They would stop and hover for a bit, then begin moving and again side by side, simultaneously, and flashing their lights periodically until they were out of view. I have never ever seen anything that big and completely different than any airplane, blimp or craft that I have you see in the night skies. There is something strange going on and that unnerved me a bit. I am a little scared about these objects, but, mostly excited...I pray others have or will see them, too, and report it.
November 4, 2016 · 4:00 PM · OTHER
Sheffield, MA
I saw a sphere of circular light with three linear lights shooting off from it - almost like a squid turned upside down - the bottom was the squid body and the lights were on top of it. The lights lasted for about five minutes and then faded.
November 1, 2016 · 8:20 PM · OTHER
Miller Place, NY
At 820 pm, I of served a military hellicoptor flying low following a blue round light in sky which appeared small and traveling the same speed of the helicopter
November 1, 2016 · 8:05 PM · OTHER
Circleville, OH
3 sets of huge burnt orange and burnt yellow lights above been field were there then just disappeared, hard to tell all in a text.
November 1, 2016 · 8:00 PM · OTHER
NATICK, MA
Crashed in water. 4 small UFOs tired out to not be usos old watercrafts possible reckage. God bless. Over and out +1 bigger fireball. 5 at dark. 42.300081,-71.370313
October 31, 2016 · 5:30 PM · OTHER
Thomasville, GA
Several Star looking objects, mostly white and some red, far in the sky but not as far as stars, moving south rapidly. Too high for balloons.
October 30, 2016 · 9:00 PM · OTHER
Hickory, NC
Four red/white lights in traingular formation gliding noislessly at approx. half mile high followed up by a single identical object
October 27, 2016 · 8:40 PM · OTHER
Gardner, KS
From my position looking north/east at 20:40 hours on Oct. 27, 2016 I spotted 4 lights in a square with one blinking red light in the center. Lights moved in a north/west direction. At an approx. 60 degrees from first sight lights reversed direction little stopped and began to flicker. Lights began to blink out and appear to reanimate in another place. Lights did this about 10 times. And moved in a north direction until out of sight.
October 27, 2016 · 8:30 PM · OTHER
Edmond, OK
It made a very small course adjustment. And when it did, the objects moved around inside the flying wing shape.there was no sound at all. 200-300 ft. off the ground. headed Nw.
October 27, 2016 · 8:00 PM · OTHER
Tucson, AZ
Fast moving straight line from east to west, no sound, completely covered underneath with dim white light, slower that a meteor, much faster than an aircraft or satellite, I looked up and caught it at 45 degree above the east horizon and watched it move into the clouds closer to Tucson. Considering the elevation of the cloud base and a craft disappearing into the clouds I would have to say that it was much larger than any craft I have ever seen over Tucson.
October 27, 2016 · 7:00 PM · OTHER
Petal, MS
Driving back roads going home, car in front of me hit their brakes, thought to myself, what are they doing... then I saw it... Boomerang shaped, bright lights, Huge, flying at treetop level. Changed direction, than disappeared, freaked me out, then I saw it again, right to my left.. again slow n treetop level... no flight pattern... hovered.. then it would disappear... 20 minutes this went on, got to my home... my son came out n saw it.. just hovering and then disappeared, we watched it an additional 15 or so minutes, , he got creeped out.. we went in house... ..new military aircraft? I know what I saw!!!! Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 26, 2016 · 8:20 PM · OTHER
Denver, CO
V shaped craft with 4 red non flashing, dimmed huge lights flying over us while we were waiting to go inside the pepsi center for a concert
October 26, 2016 · 7:10 PM · OTHER
Oklahoma City, OR
On Thursday 26 October 2016, at 1910, sighting occurred in Oklahoma City around NW 50th & Portland Avenue. Three of us were on our way to a family function, when we were getting in the vehicle 1 of us looked straight up into the sky & witnessed a BRIGHT orange flare like object. The object moved in a straight line traveling north, I observed the object through binoculars. Another took several photographs. From the time I observed this object, straight overhead, until we could no longer see it was about 3 minutes. At the time this occurred there were no stars visible. We immediately contacted a local tv station & newspaper. The next day we contacted NORAD & the local astronomy club. Common opinion amongst my little group is that it was a satellite reflecting the sun. Although, no satellites were listed to be visible at that time.
October 25, 2016 · 6:40 PM · OTHER
Globe, AZ
My sons and I were leaving the College, when we saw 5 lights in the sky, they faded in and out then disappeared. The 5 lights were in the shape of an arc, and one at a time they faded out.
October 25, 2016 · 4:00 PM · OTHER
Great Smokey Mountains National Park, TN
My daughter and I were recently driving on the Foothills Parkway in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee. It was a beautiful day and we stopped at several overlooks to take pictures. Later that day we also drove through Cades Cove which is also in the park and we continued to take pictures of the mountains. Later, while viewing the pictures, we noticed an anomaly in two pictures from two different locations. The pictures were clear but the anomalies were oddly fuzzy and without defined edges and a bit different from each other. If it was just in one picture I would not think too much about it, but we were in two different locations taking pics of the same mountains from two different vantage points. All the rest of my pictures that day were fine. No problem with the camera, a Canon EOS T31.
October 22, 2016 · 7:40 PM · OTHER
Beaver Dam, WI
On October 22, at approximately 7:40PM Central standard time, we saw an unidentified flying object (UFO) over our home in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. We were having a campfire in our backyard and I was looking up at the clear, starry sky as we often do. I stood up to warm myself by the fire and continued to look up at the sky. About a minute after I stood up, I noticed something strange coming from the west over the trees in our neighbors yard. When it went over the pine tree in our yard, I said something like "what is that?", and my wife and daughter began to look for it. My wife suggested it might be a meteoroid as there was a shower expected, but then she saw it as well and knew it wasn't a meteoroid. Shortly thereafter, my daughter saw it as well, and they both saw it long enough to identify it in a way similar to what I was seeing. The best way I've come up with to describe it is like this: Imagine the night sky reflected in a still, dark pond. Now imagine dropping a single pebble into this pond and how the waves created alter the reflection of the sky. The UFO looked like a single one of these waves, but cut into an arc of about 1/4 of a circle, slightly pointed at the center of the leading edge. As it moved across the sky, it obscured the stars causing a small amount of refraction, with only the leading edge clearly visible. I'm not sure if the leading edges visibility was due to it emitting or reflecting light, or if it was just a more intense distortion of the night sky. The objects speed and direction was constant, and it moved silently. It's hard to judge the altitude and therefore the size of the object, but it was at least 200 feet above the ground because it was above the trees. If it was only that high up, then it was approximately 16 feet across from wingtip to wingtip. The total time the object was visible to me was about 8-10 seconds, in which time it traveled from behind my neighbors trees to behind our house as it moved west to east. This is a distance of about 50 yards. Jamie and Libby picked up the object as it was about half-way through this path. At first I thought it was an optical illusion, a problem with my vision or perhaps due to me standing up too fast. I also considered that it could be related to smoke or heat from the campfire. However my family's observations, and in particular their descriptions matching what I saw (before I described it myself) ruled-out a problem with my vision as the explanation. The other explanations (smoke, heat) didn't make sense as we continued to see the object long after it was beyond the range of these local effects. Other possibilities we considered were animals. The general shape was not unlike the V formation birds fly in, but you don't usually see flocks of birds flying at night, and the shape was too smooth to be made up of group of birds. Also, the effect it had on the starlight isn't something that would be created by flying animals that I'm familiar with. I'm familiar with most civil and military aircraft, and the shape, speed and translucency of the object was unfamiliar to me. The fact that it was silent would indicate that it was either unpowered, or so far away as to be unheard (which would indicate that the object was of gigantic proportions). Experimental aircraft may be an explanation as we frequently spot military aircraft flying nearby, and we also live less than an hour from the Oshkosh airport, home of the Experimental Aircraft Association. At this point a clear identification or explanation isn't available. The most rational explanation I can come up with is that it was some kind of cloaked/stealth glider, using one of the recently described optical cloaking mechanisms. This would explain the shape, motion and visible signature of the object as well as its silent flight. That said I've never heard of such a vehicle, and if it were a glider it would have had to have been dropped from an aircraft as there are no natural high elevation points nearby. It would have also presumably landed within a few square miles, and so far I haven't heard any other reports of the object being sighted in the city of Beaver Dam. There may be other environmental explanations as well. Being a clear, cold night I'm not aware of any such explanation but I'm hoping that by sharing this story others with more knowledge of the subject can contribute additional possible explanations.
October 21, 2016 · 11:50 PM · OTHER
Phoenix, AZ
I live in Phoenix Arizona. I am an adult male, never used drugs in my life, non alcohol user, no mental issues and of sound mind and body. I am the type of person generally speaking that has to see something with my own eyes, see it, touch it, taste it, feel it or witness something to believe it when it comes to things of this nature. I am just an average Joe with above average street smarts and intelligence in the game of life. Arizona is known for having high visibility and fosters the type of environment where things can be seen from a distance. I have never in my life seen anything like I did On Friday October 21st 2016 approximately 10:50pm. I saw something in the sky in the northern part of the skyline when I was taking out my trash to my dumpster. What drew my attention to it was the light it emitted and how it moved. The light was all one color and of a white light clear in nature. This was a flying object in the sky that moved like nothing I have ever seen in my lifetime. This was not something of commercial or military aircraft in nature. If it was one of ours it was of discrete nature or kept very secret. I have seen stealth bombers and fighter jets in person and this was NOT one of those. I have never in my life witnessed anything of this nature previously. I used to laugh and have doubt at people that claimed to have seen things of this nature and were so adamant about it. My opinion now has changed after what I witnessed. The way this thing moved laterally side to side was like nothing I have ever seen in my life. I will never forget that aspect of it. It was THAT fast the horizontal/lateral movement was just unreal. I stood and observed this thing in the sky for about 6 or seven minutes. I saw one of our aircraft approach it. I knew it was one of ours because it had red and blue lights and moved entirely different from how this thing moved. When our aircraft approached it whatever it was I saw disappeared in an instant. I checked online and on the news and there was nothing about this reported that I am aware of. Someone knows something about this as it was investigated by our aircraft approaching it. Another piece of the puzzle is that Luke Air Force base is close to where I live and also we are really not that far from an installation known as Area 51. What I saw was not something created by mankind. Again, if it was it was something kept very discrete and secret. That is all I have to say about it.
October 21, 2016 · 9:00 PM · OTHER
Denver, CO
So at approximately 9 pm on October 21st, 2016, we were sitting outside in our front yard star gazing due to the metior showers when all of a sudden we saw a boomerang shaped ufo flying at about approximately 200 ft above the neighborhood but completely silent There were square shaped white reflector type things on the bottom of the craft but only on the wings of the object and nothing in the center It was flying at a slow pace completely silent towards the south west direction It had appeared out of nowhere and lasted about 5 minutes before it disappeared from our sight I've never witnessed anything like this in my life I felt really shocked and scared at the same time I tried recording but it was too dark for the phone to catch.
October 20, 2016 · 8:00 PM · OTHER
Playa Del Rey (Dockweller Beach), CA
Three of us–2 men and a woman–were sitting at our fire at Dockweller Beach sometime around 8PM last night, October 20, 2016. One of us said, 'Look at that'. I turned and saw off in the not too far distance something a couple of thousand feet in the air moving at the speed of a helicopter and was about the size of a helicopter, but there were no blades spinning above it. It was red orange and looked like it was on fire; especially underneath the "carriage." It was changing color from yellows to red to orange like, as I said, it was on fire. It proceeded to move forward for another 15 seconds then stopped dead in the air. It stayed fixed for about 10 seconds then turned sharply to its right and started go forward, away from us. After about 5-7 seconds it started to flicker, get smaller, go-in-and out of sight, then blinked out. The object made no sound that we could hear. Dockweller Beach is right below LAX and planes take off over us all night long. There was a plane behind the object a good distance away and much higher. It could have seen the object. I am a musician and an artist. I had just met the only female with us, so I don't know her background. And the other man is an actor and writer.
October 19, 2016 · 8:45 PM · OTHER
Stow, MA
Stepped outside this evening and glanced up and saw a stationary lighted object, I would guess it was at an altitude of about 15,000 to 20,000 feet. The object then began moving slowly in a southern direction. There was no sound. I got a pair of binoculars and observed three red lights, horizontally linear in arrangement. The center light was blinking around once per second. My two young daughters also observed the object. They each described it as being circular. I was unable to see this, the night sky was too dark. Later we all independently drew pictures of what we saw. Both girls drew a football shaped object with three lights. The object continued southward, stopping several times and then continuing. I was able to observe the object with binoculars as it moved farther away, even while it was no longer visible with the naked eye. Eventually it was so far away that it was very difficult to see with binoculars and I stopped my observation.