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July 4, 2019 · 8:30 PM · SPHERE
Burleson, TX
I was driving west and as I looked to the moon I saw three spheres in a row to the left going south and after about 30 seconds of travel they disappeared. I waited to see if they may reappear but nothing followed. The next day my sister saw what we believe to be the same crafts when she was riding her bike that evening.
July 4, 2019 · 8:30 PM · SPHERE
Scottsdale, AZ
I walked outside of my shed in my back yard only to look up and north to see what looked like a shooting star. It was a round bright ball with a trailing effect behind it. I then saw two more appear. They began dancing around the sky in this one area I first saw them. Moving sporadically and they would disappear and come back. They appeared to be in a triangle formation moving around from side to side. They looked to be dancing all with this trail following them across the sky. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 4, 2019 · 8:20 PM · CHANGING
Port St. Lucie, FL
The object traveled in a straight line from the SSE to NNW during the entire observation. A little about me: I am an amateur astronomer with thousands of hours of observing time and know the sky well. This includes many naked eye objects and locations of objects that can only be seen with binoculars or telescope. I was in the Air Force and my specialty located me near the runway. I have observed MANY types of craft and objects in the sky under a variety of conditions. I attended a brief but informative police sponsored training session, provided by a former employer, in looking for and noting details when witnessing an event. I will send you a sketch of the sighting to the address listed on your website, and I intend to contact the local radio station and newspaper. Summary: While in the street, in a residential neighborhood, I noticed a rather bright orange light about 15 degrees above the horizon moving directly towards me. At first I thought it was a helicopter with a spotlight, but helicopters around here never have orange spotlights, only white. I could only see the bright orange light, and not the body of any craft. As it approached it grew in size until it expanded into an orange orb, the closer it approached the larger the orb appeared. I don’t think the orb actually expanded, it just appeared larger, as perhaps an approaching car moving in ones direction would appear as it drew closer. The object wasn’t that far away. The orb grew in size until features became visible. It was clearly NOT a helicopter. There was no propeller, and no body of a craft of any kind visible at this point. The craft made no sound AT ALL during the entire observation. The apparent size of the object from our position was a little smaller than a dime held at arm’s length, and appeared to be about 1000 to 1500 feet in elevation. The entire orb was orange, but down the center of the orb was a straight and solid ‘semi-wide line’ of solid orange light that was somewhat brighter than the rest of the orb. It was easily seen. It extended all the way across the orb, except for the center, from one edge to the other. It essentially split the orb in two. The axis of the solid orange ‘line’ pointed in the same direction the orb was travelling. The ‘line’ did not have a sharp edge but quickly blended into the light orange on either side of it. The circular outer edge of the entire orb was also a little brighter but not quite as bright as the ‘semi-thick line’. It did not have a sharp edge, and quickly blended into the lighter orange as well At the center of the orb, between the solid ‘lines’ was a pulsing light (not blinking). It was not a sharp point of light. It could also be described more accurately as a throbbing light. It was orange in color and pulsing-throbbing dimmer and brighter, dimmer and brighter at a steady and even rate of about 2 ½ pulses per second. The solid orange ‘line’ described two paragraphs ago came close to the edges of the pulsing light at the center, but didn’t appear to connect to it. The pulsing center light was separate and pulsed on its own. The orb was travelling in a path that would take it directly overhead. At about 80 degrees overhead it started to slow down, gradually and very smoothly. The other witness who was also observing the slow down stated… To paraphrase… It’s slowing down to look at you!... I felt the same!! This was a little concerning, and almost spooky for both of us. The orb only slowed down but did not stop. I estimate it slowed down by 25-30%. I don’t recall it regaining its previous speed, but it may have. 5 to 10 seconds after noticing the orb slowing down and passing in the area overhead, the lighted orb began to turn off and on at random on either side of the pulsing center light and solid orange colored axis ‘line’. The throbbing center light did NOT turn off and continued to pulse unchanged. The axis ‘line’ of solid orange light on either side of the pulsing center light remained lighted and unchanged most of the time, but flickered a few times and sometimes fragmented into separate distorted pieces of light, then reformed very quickly. The random turning off and on of light on both sides of the orb occurred more often than the fluctuations of light on the center axis ‘line’. When in the area directly overhead, ALL of the lights on the orb suddenly blinked off and the object tuned completely dark. They did not turn back on even for a moment for the rest of the observation. After all the lights on the orb blinked off, a solid dark shape remained that is best described as a distorted square with uneven rounded corners. The distorted square appeared to remain the same size or very close to the same size as the orb when it was lighted. It continued moving at the same smooth speed. It was dusk and the sun was down but the sky was light blue and clear at our observation site and objects could easily be observed against the background sky. After a few seconds the dark distorted square changed shape into a round disc. This occurred while the object was directly or nearly directly overhead and moving away. The disc remained dark and continued to move smoothly toward the NNW. Because of its changing angle as it moved toward the horizon it became apparent it was a flat disc. I watched carefully to see if ANY type of lighting reappeared. None did. I observed the dark disc as it smoothly cruised in a straight line toward the horizon until the line of sight approached a row of trees about 250 yards away. Because of the dark, brownish black color of the object after the orange lights blinked off , it would have been impossible or nearly impossible to spot the distorted square or disc in a dark sky. The light blue background of dusk is probably the only reason we could observe it.
July 4, 2019 · 8:15 PM
St. Cloud, MN
No information provided by source of report. PD
July 4, 2019 · 7:15 PM · CIRCLE
Glendale, NY
Seen three silver circular objects in a perfect triangle formation fly over our house observed for about a minute and then they just disappeared. Much higher than any commercial or military jet than we have ever seen.
July 4, 2019 · 7:00 PM · OVAL
North Arlington, NJ
This was seen a few thousand feet above ground. Light was refelcting off it, it was oval and had a little red to it.
July 4, 2019 · 6:00 PM · CIRCLE
Amarillo, TX
They were not balloons, planes, or toys. They were huge, round, matalic and silent.
July 4, 2019 · 1:00 PM · DISK
Chicago, IL
Sitting on terrace at the Shedd Aquarium having lunch when we saw a few different aircraft/ could explain most of what we saw but I managed to catch two images on phone. One has just the 2 saucer like objects then in second there would appear to be a helicopter or even a pulled banner from smaller planes flying between them.
July 4, 2019 · 10:30 AM · CIRCLE
Rich Hill, MO
I have video footage of this event I seen it 3 different times in 30 min. And have a photo of it. We have not received the photo, at the time of this writing. PD
July 4, 2019 · 8:55 AM · CIGAR
Holladay, UT
Lost site after one minute because of trees.
July 4, 2019 · 3:45 AM · LIGHT
Warren, OH
Bright light traveling from south to north at a modest/high rate of speed. The light was similar to the color of Venus. The light stopped at what looked to be north of Cortland, Ohio, very high in the sky. The light hovered and flashed a very bright red and and whiteish color. At times it looked to dart up and down and left to right 40 to 60° N.E. and even in a circulator motion. We viewed this from our our back yard then from bedroom window until sunrise. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 4, 2019 · 3:13 AM · CHANGING
Ninilchik, AK
Large bright orange donut-shaped object hovering southeast of Iliamna volcano for about an hour and then slowly moved north along Cook Inlet shoreline until it hovered around the base of Iliamna volcano for several minutes. Its light dimmed until it was no longer visible after that. In moments it appeared to split into two separate objects and then rejoin while it was hovering. The donut shape was only noticed while looking through binoculars. At a distance it just appeared as a growing and shrinking orb.
July 4, 2019 · 2:00 AM · FIREBALL
Honolulu, HI
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 3, 2019 · 11:50 PM · TRIANGLE
Morgan Maumelle, AR
A single line of 4 bright orbs, with one out in front. Soundless. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 3, 2019 · 11:30 PM · FIREBALL
Columbus, OH
When we realized it was flying upwards and towards the East, it flew behind a tree. We ran across my yard to get better perspective. When we found the object in the sky again, it had risen and appeared as a if it were riding along the Earth's outer atmosphere. My perspective made it appear like a distorted circle of light with a dark dot in the center, that I assume was an aircraft or missile. The event took less than 2 minutes and neither of us can determine what we really saw. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 3, 2019 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Sevierville, TN
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 3, 2019 · 11:00 PM · CIRCLE
Alexandria, IN
We have assigned an arbitrary time. PD
July 3, 2019 · 10:02 PM · FLASH
Williamsburg, VA
The flash of whatever this was flitted across the night sky from west to northeast. It went faster than anything I’d ever seen before and flashed about five times. The light of each rapidly progressing flash was pencil thin but very bright.
July 3, 2019 · 9:37 PM · UNKNOWN
Ooltewah, TN
I have a video that I recorded during the town's firework display. The object in the video was red and, upon slowing down the video and capturing a freeze frame, it appeared to be shaped like the Starship Enterprise from Star Trek. Most people might dismiss it as a "shooting star" when they see the video. Although it wasn't perceived as a threat and was never reported in the media, I'm not an expert on this matter. I'm simply making the video available for anyone to view and form their own opinion. In the attached video, it's between the 9 and 10 second mark entering towards the top right of the screen traveling to the bottom left of screen. [NUFORC annotation: Meteor - Possible]
July 3, 2019 · 9:35 PM · LIGHT
Big Bear, CA
There was a star like object that was the brightest in the sky. It started to move faster than a shooting star. It went one direction then went dim and went back in the opposite direction. The light went dark and then blinked a few times before moving in a circular motion only to disappear.
July 3, 2019 · 9:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Oak Harbor, OH
Saw a strange object hovering approximately 500 ft above town just before fireworks last night 7/3/19 at 9:30pm west sky of town. It had not normal green and red softly pulsing light(s), thought was airplane at first but appeared hovering motionless and soundless for several mins... then very instantly and effortlessly fast traveled south-southwest and continued until disappeared in a cloud seemingly couple miles away! It reappeared after several mins apparently making a big loop and back to its original spot where it’s lights turned to pulsing white and red... For about a minute. It then speed straight north-northeast? Across sky and was gone... interestingly its flight course correlates to loc of beryllium plant down river and northeast is nuclear plant, very strange... wife thought it was a drone... but if it was it was, it would have been navigated over huge 5 plus mile area and was well out of visual sight range several times for several mins...? Not t! o mention battery life considerations and an altitude that would be very illegal for a drone... town People had to see it cause they were all out waiting for fireworks show to start by portage river. If it was a drone it was not civilian, and had incredible capabilities. I worked on military a/c and I don’t know what it was? Spent another hour scanning sky but it never returned. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 3, 2019 · 9:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Olmsted TWP, OH
Bright large stationary light high in the evening sky. There were 3 to 5 large lights being stationary even suggested blinking in a set pattern. We thought it was fireworks when we first saw at around 9:30 pm. When outside it was silent with no sound. We live near airport and flight patterns do not come over our residences however for about two hours last night planes were flying out of there way to avoid area of blinking lights in sky bringing them over our neighborhood. After two hours of so after first seeing the weird lights I was watching then they all stopped suddenly and were gone. The odd thing was they never moved and definitely was above clouds. If it was some sort of heat lightening it does not make sense it appeared to be in same area the whole time. We have some cats that seemed to watch the lights in the sky from our bedroom windows. This is not a usual thing for our cats to do they watch the yard but rarely notice the sky unless a bird is swooping in.
July 3, 2019 · 9:15 PM · SPHERE
Smithfield, VA
I was at Ivy Hill Cemetery with a close friend on 07/03/19 waiting for the local fireworks show to start. About 15 minutes prior to the firework show, an orb appeared in the sky from behind a large tree. The orb was orange and flickered like a candle. It was like a ball of fire. It appeared to be very distant, maybe over the James River, but high in the atmosphere. Two more of these orbs appeared from the same location and they each went in separate locations until they formed a large triangle in the sky. From our perspective they seemed to be travelling slowly, but considering the distance and likely height of the orbs, they were probably moving quickly. Then one by one the lights vanished as the orange lights slowly faded out – from a sizable orange ball to a pin of light to nothing - they vanished slowly. Then, just as the fireworks began a fourth orb appeared from the same location and traveled like the first three until it was obscured by the fireworks display. After the fireworks, we stayed in the cemetery until midnight and did not observe more of the phenomenon.
July 3, 2019 · 9:00 PM · OTHER
Highland Lakes, NJ
At 9:44EST I saw it fly from NNW to SE approximately 1.5 minutes fly over time. I see TONS and TONS of airplanes fly over my home. It was not an airplane. There were no flashing lights. It was moving fast but not fast like a meteor. It had that consistent shine of a satellite passing by. At first, I thought it was the ISS but when I searched for sighting info of ISS for my area the times did not match up. I just want to know what it was. Thanks!