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Cicero · NY, USA
bright lite making fast moves and complex
Kuna · ID, USA
Two strings of lights traveling from SW to NE that totaled about 40 lights over about 20 minutes. ((Starlink satellites))
Phoenix · AZ, USA
Very High star-like dot of light, high speed, crossing sky, then abruptly 'shot' into space, faded out.
Topsail Beach · NC, USA
Near Topsail Beach, 3 silent, star-sized objects each come to a stop, then one at a time, shoot off to disappear seaward
Glennie · MI, USA
White Ball of light responds to flashing headlights!
California desert/laughlin Nevada · CA, USA
Glowing ball of light
Clarksville · IN, USA
Small brightly defined light, changing colors, zig-zagging across sky for 5 mins, then disappearing.
St. Joseph · MO, USA
orange florecent or glowing light the shape of a doorway seen above large tree , and feeling like something happened to us.
North Kingstown · RI, USA
Bright light, sunny afternoon sky, Aug. '89. Stationary for 2 hrs. plus, highly visible, eerie.
Waterford · MI, USA
1989 bright light high in the sky still then vanishes, felt like I had lost track of time.
Mansfield · OH, USA
Ball of light enters van twice and dissolves through door and occupants experience missing time.
Cape St. Claire · MD, USA
An extremely fast zig-zag of light in the North sky.
Jackson · NJ, USA
Objects moved very fast made right angle turns and varied in light intensity. Disappearing and reappearing for approx. 20 minutes.
Myrtle Beach · SC, USA
Lights over Myrtle Beach.
Groveland · NY, USA
A bright White Light seen by 4 teens in 1988
Palm City · FL, USA
Bright orb, hovering just above the tree tops for about 5 minutes. It was a light green color.
Weeks Island · LA, USA
Two lights, moving as one in echelon, starting north at 9 o’clock horizon to straight overhead and stopping, no noise, faded into dark
Sparta · TN, USA
very fast in a straight line like no airplane I ever saw.
Palo · IA, USA
A bright light floated slowly ( and silently) over the barn.
Denver · CO, USA
Light observed above Jefferson County, Colorado moves from over-head stationary position to beyond the East horizon in seconds.
Tyler · TX, USA
The Abduction of a Little Girl
Fort Worth · TX, USA
A bright blinding light followed me for Several miles
North Vernon · IN, USA
Just a few weeks before I graduated high school in the early months of 1989 I was on my way to pick up a friend at his apartment comp
Memphis · TN, USA
On sequential nights during the month of January, 1988, I witnessed from 2-4 bright amber lights hovering or slowly moving in the weste