Charlottesville, Virginia UFO Sightings in 2014

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5 white lights in succession. Saw 5 steady white lights in succession, with no accompanying blinking lights. All but the last moved out from behind a tree about 60 yards from me.

They weren’t too far above the horizon, and off a long distance beyond the tree. They all looked like a steady bright light on an airliner, but there’s no way they could have been. The first one, I thought it was just an airliner flying low from West to East, but I noticed it was moving really fast.

Then it stopped. Dead stop, and took a right turn to move away from me, to the South. Then it disappeared.

The whole thing took between 3 and 6 seconds, I think. I watched, and within a few seconds, saw another one pop out from behind the tree. It was moving in the opposite direction of the first, from East to West.

It lasted for a few seconds, then disappeared. Same kind of light as before. I kept watching and it was like de ja vu.

2 more lights just like the second on exactly the same path, same timing, but I was moving towards them as I watched and I saw some other movement on one of them that was so fast it was hard to catch. That whole event lasted another 10 seconds or so, and then I saw the last one, and it was headed straight at me, getting bigger as it moved. Like the others, it was only visible for a few seconds, then it disappeared, and that was it.

The whole event couldn’t have last more than 45-60 seconds. I saw the blinking lights of an aircraft of some kind heading from the North right towards where the lights appeared within a minute of when they stopped.

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Single steady white light, no sound, moving from West to East Doing my usual star-gazing this morning, I saw what looked like a star heading West to East. It did not fly in a straight line, but had the erratic movement that I'm used to see in these things now. Reminds me of a drunk trying to get somewhere fast.

It was a about as bright as a star, smaller than Jupiter, and the light was steady. No contrail. Definitely not a meteor.

It crossed the entire sky and must've been really high, as it faded out of sight after a couple of minutes for a few seconds, and then came back into view for 20 seconds or so before fading out for good. There were no other lights, nothing blinking, and there was no noise accompanying it. Within 10 seconds or so after that disappeared, I heard what I though was a helicopter coming from where that light had originated, and looked back Northwest to where the light had come from, only to see an even bigger light moving even faster, bearing southwest this time.

At first I thought it was a helicopter, but the sound accompanying it faded out while the light kept moving. I then thought it might be the ISS, and it turned out it was. I was able to verify that it had just passed over when I came back inside using the tracker site.

I watched the ISS speed away, and immediately saw a third light directly above me, heading straight South. This one was smaller than the first, and I pegged it as a satellite because it had the usual dim steady light and relatively slow straight movement compared to the first light.

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Red ball of light, became a halo as it moved up into the sky, flew erratically then straightened out One object came up from the South. It started low on the horizon, and I thought it was just a plane heading North for a landing, as planes often fly over from that direction as they're heading North to land at the airport. The object was really low, though, and right as I was about to look away, I saw it jerk to the West suddenly.

My initial reaction was “what the hell?” I thought then that it might be a meteor that was splitting up, and that it was so low it might hit nearby. My view was partially obscured by the bare branches of a tree in front of me, so I moved out away from the tree to see if I could verify it was just an aircraft or meteor. I kept my eye on the thing as I walked out away from the building I live at, and it continued to jerk side to side as it headed North.

When I got a good view of it without any obstructions, I could tell it wasn't a plane. There were no flashing lights. It wasn't making any sound at all, and it was moving significantly faster than any aircraft that pass by here.

As I watched, I noticed it was gaining altitude. It wasn't heading straight up, but it definitely arced upwards and kept on its path North. After a few seconds, the jerking motions stopped and the center of the object actually blacked out while I still had a clear, unobstructed view, so the thing became this dim red halo of light against the night sky.

I watched it a few more seconds, thinking it was going to disappear, because it was definitely headed up, but it actually picked up speed and just kept going North. Last I saw, it was speeding off. I could barely catch it through the trees when it neared the Northern horizon, but I could still make out the light through the tree branches.

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Orange lights in sky just after midnight on New Years Eve seen over Charlottesville, VA. We just saw something very strange. Orange flying somethings.

Not blinking and silent. At first we thought embers. But they were large like planes.

And then they just disappeared. 2 at first, with one breaking away from the other and heading overhed and then they disappeared. Then 2 more with one ahead and a little lower a few minutes later.

They both disappeared. All were coming from the WNW going about East except for the one that turned to the ESE. My husband tried called the non-emergency number to the 911 center and it said it wasn't working.

We are baffled.