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July 15, 2022 · 8:45 PM · LIGHT
Fredericksburg, VA
I was setting up my telescope in the back yard for a night of astrophotography. I am familiar with where north, magnetic north and celestial north are in my yard and set up my tripod during the day roughly pointed at the selection North Pole near Polaris. The sun had not fully set and there were no stars visible at this time. I estimate that I will be able to use Polaris to polar align my scope once its dark enough in about 30 minutes. I look up and see a very bright star close to Polaris. It catches me off guard as I should not be able to see any stars at this time, but it is definitely a star and a bright one at that. I almost convinced myself that it might be the North Star and begin the alignment procedure when I realize it’s too far off to be Polaris. I then pull out my iPad to use Stellarium software to find out which star I’m looking at cause I now think it might be a super nova that just exploded. I watched this object for roughly 5 minutes before deciding to get a picture with my phone. I line up the shot then decide to switch to video to zoom in. The object immediately blinks out and is gone. It was roughly the magnitude of Venus while there was still sun light. It did not move at all or fluctuate in luminosity.
July 15, 2022 · 8:00 PM · CONE
laramie, wyoming, WY
(I am vacationing in Laramie, Wyoming when this occurred) On the evening of July 15th around 8pm, I looked up into the sky (above) and noticed a HUGE BRIGHT LIGHT--It was shaped like a I. (Like a line in the sky).I thought it was the moon--because it was so bright, but it was only an object (stationary) in the sky--to my eyes, it was shaped like an I. thats what it looked like, a very bright, very large I in the sky. I watched it for about 30 minutes, my adult daughter saw it as well from a different area of town. It completely disappeared after about 30 minutes. Just vanished.
July 15, 2022 · 7:15 PM · SPHERE
Ruskin, FL
Easiest for me to do is cut copy and paste this from my social media account First let me start with a couple of things about me; I have been a fulltime paramedic for going on 30 years and for the past 7 years a paramedic field supervisor, locally in the Tampa Bay area. Why do I feel this is worth mentioning? Training. I am trained to objectively observe things, several things at once in a high impact stressful environment. Patient condition and much much more. I have also been trained in investigations, being a supervisor a lot of times I must gather evidence, data, testimony and more to handle incidents or situations with our staff or the public. In all our training we are always reminded to remain objective, gather facts and evidence before concluding anything. Friday night (7/15/2022) between 7 pm and 730 pm in the evening, I was outside getting the grill ready to fix dinner. Now, I will tell you I live in Florida, just south of the city of Tampa on the Gulf Coast. Near me I have 2 commercial airports; Tampa International, St. Pete / Clearwater International, several small private airfields and then lastly MacDill AFB which is just off to my northwest. This is Hurricane hurricane/rainy season so while getting the grill going, I was checking the sky around me after hearing a couple rumbles of thunder in the distance to see if I needed to move my grilling dinner up onto the front porch. Seeing the clouds were forming off to my north and west it appeared that I had plenty of time and proceeded to lean up against my car waiting for my grill to finish burning so I could cover it and get ready to BBQ. While leaning up against my car and looking at the sky I could not help but notice a bright star-like object in the sky. It was definitely bright enough to grab your attention and seemed like it was more like a planet with the off to the west nearing sunset time. I thought about that for a minute while looking and realized that was not possible, working overnights like I do and following some basic astronomy the “parade of planets” has been on going in our morning sky between 4am and 6am, at that time we have been able to see 5 of our solar system neighbors; Venus, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, and Neptune. It was awfully bright to me if in fact it was a star, it was the only one visible. I sat staring at this object for a couple minutes when I decided to grab my phone out of my pocket grab a quick pic/video of it and then see if my Sky Safari app can help me solve the mystery. Now, this is where shit gets pretty cool. So, I got my camera up on my phone glanced back up to see where it was, I could see it was still just appearing like it was stationery so I quickly snapped a picture and then flipped to video to see if I could get a clearer image and zoom in. I started to record the object and began to talk so that I had some details matching the video and voice together. I rambled on about seeing the object, being in Florida and blah blah blah like a Charlie Brown school teacher for a few more seconds when the video stopped recording on its own, I had not stopped recording. A little message popped up on the bottom of my screen saying something like "internal camera failure" and exited camera mode to my home screen. (More details on this later so read on!) I was looking upwards at around a 60-75° angle, looking almost due south. It is close to 7:30p on Friday, July 15th, 2022, with an evening temperature with humidity at about Dragon's breath or somewhere in the mid 90s with high heat index. The trees that you see in the video next to the garage stand about 12-15 feet tall (The palm leaves are basically level to the peak of the garage). I had a great reference point, could clearly see the object still appearing like it was not moving so I quickly checked my camera to see if the picture and video saved, it did. Any time I have had a camera fail happen like this, it is almost always when attempting to open the app of as you snap a picture or hit record. I have never had my camera fail mid recording and worth noting, any failure I have had trying to take a photo or video, it has never saved, and I have had to start over again. So having the video capture and 1 photo, I proceeded to pull up Sky Safari to locate my star or planet. When I looked back up to my reference point and its entire surrounding area, the object was gone. I had been watching this object for at least 2-3 minutes in total, the object did not once appear to be moving, in any direction and now it is no longer there!!! With the Sky Safari App calibrated and ready, I pointed in the direction of where the object was and did find 1 possible match, Zubenelgenubi. It is one of the brighter stars in our night sky, but this is not yet a night sky and there are no other stars to be seen, anywhere. Also, Zubenelgenubi would have only been about 45-50 degrees up on the horizon which would have forced me to have X-ray vision to look through my neighbors' homes, like I said, I was looking upwards about 60-75 degrees. Living where I do, I am always used to the sights and sounds in the skies around me, like I said, several airports, a military base and plenty of medical, tourist, private, news and law enforcement helicopters... Not counting the 5 branches of military helicopters that fly in and out of MacDill plus Coast Guard. Almost daily I will see or hear helicopters fly directly over the house and when they are hovering, they are noisy! This made no noise that I could hear, which would include the winding like noises of drones, which fly overhead quite often as well. The other strange thing I noted, the absence of birds. I live about a mile in a half from the Gulf of Mexico nestled nicely in central Florida, birds!?!?? Yeah, lots of them are always flying around chirping like crazy, it is evening time which for a lot of our poultry foul like friends means feeding time. To match the coloring of what I was seeing in the sky, white, here are the birds off the top of my head that I could think of; Seagulls Egrets Storks Doves Ibis Pelicans Cranes Herons Not counting the white birds in our area, there are plenty of other birds that are always out during this time especially when the neighborhood cats are outside wreaking havoc. Mommaz and Thumby. 2 cats that rule the neighborhood most all hours of the day and night. I mention part because normally I can tell you where in our neighborhood these 2 troublemakers are by listening and watching the Blue Jays. They are territorial as hell, hate cats, squawk, and dive bomb them trying to shoo them away from their trees... Mommaz, was laying under my car. These Blue Jays should have lost their ever-loving mind on her laying there and....Nothing, silence. I was not convinced just yet that what I saw was something unknown and then proceeded to check Sky Safari for the “Big Objects” The ISS (International Space Station) and Hubble Space Telescope. Neither one of these had any orbit crossing over the state of Florida during that time frame. I could easily rule out anything from NASA or Elon’s SpaceX as the location of those from my vantage point were, north northeast of me (about 90 degrees from where I am looking and well out of my peripheral vision) and those launches do not typically happen during this time of night. (And there was nothing scheduled) So I went to my satellite tracking app and checked times and satellites and found 69 objects in space that were over the western hemisphere between 7:00 pm and 7:30 pm but, not 1 of them were crossing the south, yet alone Florida. The tracking app did list a few bigger satellites that were going to be visible and times but nothing that matched my time stamps. The next day while at work I spoke with a colleague of mine about it, he is a full-time professional pilot who works commercially and has access to flight tracking that most of us dream about. We sat and watched dozens and dozens of planes flying over the skies during that
July 15, 2022 · 6:30 PM · CIRCLE
yarmouth, ME
Three of us were eating dinner outside after our town's summer festival parade on July 15, 2022, and we saw a bright, white dot just staying still high in the sky just about overhead, but a bit toward the east. It did appear to move southerly, but just very, very slowly, and not like it was being blown by the wind. We were curious about it enough to want to get home to see if we could see it with a telescope, but by the time we got home, we couldn't see the dot anymore. When I saw the video of the recent Chinese spy balloon over Montana, I thought it looked like what we saw last summer.
July 15, 2022 · 5:33 PM · OVAL
Mason City, IA
Notice the small green light above the sun. Taken late afternoon looking due west in Mason City Iowa. Summer of 22. Pic taker says it wasn't visible to the eye-likely due to the glare of the sun.
July 15, 2022 · 3:33 PM · DISK
Pilot Mountain, NC
My wife and I had an argument so I went to stay with my parents for the night. I was sleeping on the floor in front of the window unit bc it was summer and hot outside I was awakened with the whole house being bathed in light. my first thought was who is pulling up in the driveway shining that light. I got up to go in the kitchen and try to look outside. The clock on the microwave said 3:33 Am. I looked out the window but couldn't see any vehicles, just solid really bright light. Lights stopped as suddenly as they started . Went to front door opened it to nothing.walked outside stood on porch. It was calm outside. could see the lightning bugs flashing in field across the Rd felt very light breeze blowing across my face really nice summer night/morning. Then I looked up hovering about 15 - 20 ft over house was large disk shaped craft made no noise. I kept looking up to see if I could see the sky past it behind it I couldn't it was that big ,bigger then my parents house. I stood there frozen in awe it had two smaller rings light under the craft. They produced an amber and blue color. Then the rings started to spin and there was a humming not really audible but more like inside my body .The humming increased in intensity and speed as the rings picked up speed then I was bathed in what I imagined was the same bright white light that had filled the house.It was coming from the center of the craft, it engulfed me and that's all I remember I woke up on the couch in my parents house I'd went to sleep on the floor clock said 450am strange!
July 15, 2022 · 2:20 PM · OTHER
Columbus, OH
We were coming home and my son jumped out of the car as soon as we parked bc he saw something. I was able to see a shiny object at first but as I was taking pic and video I couldn’t see it anymore. My son (4yo) was able to see it continuously. He called it Sonic’s ring. And he asked afterwards why it didn’t fall. I would like to hear what experts in this field thinks. I am not a UFO enthusiast and would be happy to hear that this can be identified. I googled possible explanations. The space station came up but didn’t cross at this time and the shape does not match. Curious to your thoughts.
July 15, 2022 · 11:30 AM · OVAL
Destin, FL
Driving Northbound on South Holiday Road while pausing for traffic at a stop sign, we looked outside our driver left window to the West and saw a white stationary oval object the size of an SUV that looked like it had a tail or streamers coming out of the back. We noticed that the object was blurry and out of focus compared to the surrounding clouds and trees. Once we passed a building that blocked our view for a moment, the object had disappeared.
July 15, 2022 · 10:30 AM · CIRCLE
Checotah, OK
The stars moved like 500 mph
July 15, 2022 · 3:25 AM · SPHERE
Napavine, WA
I just happened to see this on the video feed for my Ring camera. At first I thought is was the street light until I saw the night sky light up and the wispy clouds in the air were illuminated with the slow passing of the bright light. It’s movements were like a drone in that it went up/ down and side to side very slowly, almost in a grid pattern. I watched this intermittently on Ring video from 3:25 am- 4:40 am. The object left my cameras viewpoint, towards the west. This was NOT an airplane. I’m no longer skeptical about UFO’s.
July 15, 2022 · 12:22 AM · CHANGING
Memphis, TN
I was outside waiting on my DoorDash order and suddenly a very bright light began shining, brighter and bigger than anything like a star, it didn't even look like a star. I was so amazed I ran inside to grab my binoculars and phone but when I came back it was gone, but about 5 minutes later it appeared again... I do mean appeared, not flew back, it just appeared again and it was very silent. I looked through my binoculars and a saw something that looked like a spinning top only the bottom was slightly flatter but that's what it looked like, and it also had a little that continuously circled the craft and would change colors. At that point, I grabbed my phone and started recording.
July 14, 2022 · 11:53 PM · CIRCLE
Stanwood wa, WA
It was a circle shape and not loud
July 14, 2022 · 10:36 PM · CIGAR
Plymouth, VT
I was sitting outside on my porch. I always watch the sky stars aircraft etc. from the west I notice two red flashing lights at first I was betting in my head it was a rescue helicopter or the sort due to speed. The very unusual thing was as it moved across the sky, I clearly saw that the lights were kind of Atari ponging back and forth yet a large space between said lights. It was the fact as it approached closer and even clearer the lack of any noise is what really got me thinking hmmmm. Not sure if this would qualify. Also an unusual flight path if it is domestic. I watch and listen to my surroundings, kind of “stop to smell the roses” type of nature thing,
July 14, 2022 · 10:30 PM · OVAL
East Hartford, CT
At approximately 10:30pm on 7/14 i noticed 4 oval shaped lights hovering about 150ft above the park at the end of my street. They were extremely bright. A bright light came out of the bottom of one of the oval shaped craft. I walked down to the end of the road to see what they were. and before I reached the end all 4 flashed and disappeared with out making a sounds or leaving a light trail. I did notice while they were hovering one seemed to be going up and down and left and right unlike a plane or helicopter would be able to.
July 14, 2022 · 9:45 PM · OTHER
Bowling Green, KY
My friend and I were in my backyard late one night and observed an orb low in the sky, we got a telescope to try and see details, the orb was so bright we could not look at it through the telescope. The next night we observed hundreds of tiny lights in the 2 trees behind my house later in the evening a plane (we assumed was a police plane as it had red and green lights) flew low over the house followed by a helicopter and then 3 police drones, the drones hovered in the area my friend and I observed the orb. This continued every evening throughout the summer. I was curious as to the reason for the drone surveillance and what the tiny lights were, so I installed video cameras that soon recorded many strange occurrences as well as beings that seemed to take the shape of their surroundings. The beings seem to be the lights that we have observed all summer. When the leaves on the trees started to fall and the foliage was no longer in the back yard we saw less of the lights in that area, but the camera in the front part of the house had started to record or snap pics of odd things, things that appear to be beings but take the shape as their surrounds as well as the lights we had seen in the tree in the back yard. The cameras are still running in the front of the house and snap pics or records things that alert the motion sensors. This is a daily occurrence and has been ongoing since my friend and I observed the orb..
July 14, 2022 · 9:18 PM · SPHERE
Carson City, NV
My neighbor (Jean Smith) and I were outside talking when a bright orb caught my eye. I immediately pointed it out to my neighbor and I began recording. This was not an airplane or satellite. The sky shows a couple airplanes far off in the distance. This craft wasn't binking nor was there any engine noise. It was moving in a smooth direction but every few seconds it would jerk. Almost looked like I was seeing a "glitch." Not like a anything I've ever seen. Just odd how it was rotating and moving. The craft was incredibly bright, it was oval shaped and was rotating, making it look round at first until you fixed your sight better on the object. I have two videos. I attempted to move myself to get a better view on the other side of the pine tree. I followed the object until it flew behind a nearby hill. I had another sighting in late November 2021 around 8:00pm. I again was talking outside with the same neighbor when I saw a green ball off light swoop down and vanish. I didn't know to report it. Tonight, she admitted, she also seen green orbs not long ago. Feel free to contact me if you should have any questions.
July 14, 2022 · 9:08 PM · LIGHT
Gorham, ME
Steady bead of white light moved in an arcing trajectory from west to east. It seemed to continue straight east over the North Atlantic Ocean. It didn’t make any strange movements, and there was no noise. It was just a bright white light that didn’t change shape, no sound, and there were no colored, blinking lights. Estimated height unknown- 20,000 to 40,000 feet?
July 14, 2022 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Seattle, WA
Craft was star shaped with 7-8 points Craft was behaving oddly and waving back and forth like it was on water as it traveled across the skyline of seattle. My neighbors and I saw it. I took a video with the only camera I had available. This is the second time I’ve seen it since April. Last time I did not have my phone.
July 14, 2022 · 8:58 PM · TEARDROP
Torrance, CA
Out for a walk, heading east. I am a bit of a skywatcher and a couple of lights had caught my attention. On the second light, a dark fuzzy object popped out from the darkness. It was about 60 degrees up and I estimate about 1 1/2 miles away. It had no lights. Gray and hazy with no discernable edges. An out-of-focus Brillo pad wrapped in yarn would be one way to describe it. About the size of a 3 bedroom house and traveling around 300 mph. It flew from west to the east in a straight line with some up and down variation. My sighting was brief, but I got a real good look before it scooted off into the night.
July 14, 2022 · 8:50 PM · CYLINDER
West Melbourne, FL
It was a glowing cloud behind a flashing light and it looked like there was a spotlight all over the cloud but more specifically from the light. It was moving in downward/ side ways across the sky. Nufroc note: Rocket launch
July 14, 2022 · 8:48 PM · LIGHT
Hollywood, FL
Same as summary Rocket launch
July 14, 2022 · 8:45 PM · UNKNOWN
Jupiter, FL
I have 2 videos of something flying in the sky tonight which was leaving a strange cloud like formation behind it.
July 14, 2022 · 8:27 PM · OTHER
Marshall, TX
I saw a bright white object with a small fire like trail behind it. After recording the uap, I turned around and saw an unusual jet stream in the sky so I recorded it. I then noticed afterwards that there was a funny shaped cloud hovering around other clouds slightly moving left and right. I took the video recording of the cloud and edited the video cropping it and re-recorded it in slow motion and you can see a small disc like object circle up and then around the fake cloud and go underneath It was moving at a very high rate of speed going under the.fake cloud,
July 14, 2022 · 8:20 PM · LIGHT
Phoenix, AZ
Looking South at appx 8:20 PM on July 14th 2022 I noticed a bright green light at about 25 degree elevation from my location. There were no flashing light white or red and light source was steadily hovering. Light moved slightly east and then back west to original location. 3 to 4 minutes elapsed. Green light turned Deep Dark Red for 2 minutes then changed back to green. Light moved West 6 to 7 degrees in 1 second, hovered 1 to 2 minutes. Green light moved back close to original and proceeded to move in southern direction and became faint into storm clouds when it became un-seable. This was not a commercial craft or balloon. Military background Avionic Instrument Systems. Monsoon moving through the area but clear line of sight as noted above. No aircraft in skies until UFO was out of sight.