Synonyms for sighting
sight·ing

Princeton's WordNet

1. sightingnoun

   the act of observing

   "several sightings of enemy troops were reported"

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1. List of paraphrases for "sighting":

   observation

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1. Ian Harrison:

   I'm satisfied that none of the alleged sightings was a genuine sighting of Mr Dawson.

2. Lowell Police:

   The boy was dropped off at his babysitter’s house by his parents at about 7 a.m. Lowell Police have spoken with a neighbor who saw the boy in the babysitter’s yard at about 9:15 a.m. That remains the last known sighting of the boy.

3. Police Chief Yunus Wally:

   It's true, an AMA (Associated Mission Aviation) aircraft reported sighting aircraft debris around Oksop waterfall.

4. Gideon McKean:

   They got into a canoe, intending simply to retrieve the ball, and somehow got pushed by wind or tide into the open bay, about 30 minutes later they were spotted by an onlooker from land, who saw them far out from shore, and called the police. After that last sighting, they were not seen again. The Coast Guard recovered their canoe, which was capsized and miles away, at approximately 6:30( Thursday) evening.

5. Nick Pope:

   Scientific advice should be sought when necessary for instance, if a soil sample needs to be checked for radioactivity, but one doesnt need to be a scientist, or even adopt a scientific methodology, to interview a witness, cross-check with information about flight paths and find out, say, that at the time and location of a particular UFO sighting, the Goodyear blimp was in the area.