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Sightings
Witness reports, held as-reported. Each entry keeps its source, its coordinates where the record has them, and its place in the larger pattern.
9,368 entries
May 30, 2022 · 9:30 PM · FIREBALL
Marathon, TX
We were sitting and viewing due west from Marathon, TX towards Alpine, TX just after sunset in anticipation of the meteor shower. Shortly after sunset as darkness was about 90% closed in we both noticed a bright green flash over the mountains. Something like lightning, but there was no weather in the area at all—skies were completely clear. A second or two later we saw a giant array of green sparks in a circular type pattern (as if a giant fireworks display—but there was no fireworks display in the area because there is a permanent burn ban out here right now). This mass array of green sparks appeared to pulsate on and off for a period of 2-3 seconds after the flash. If I put my thumb in front of me with my arm extended, I’d say the array of green sparks in the sky would be about 3-times the size of my thumb. We both looked at each other and said, “What was that?” Neither of us had ever seen anything like that before, and we spend lots of nights under starry desert skies observing satellites and stars. Our exact location was: 30°12′34″ N 103°15′13″ W at 4060ft. Elevation facing west towards Alpine, TX, from Marathon, TX. I truly believe it was my first UFO/UAP sighting. I’m 54 years old and always been curious about them. Thanks for all the great work you do.
May 30, 2022 · 12:58 AM · FIREBALL
Toms River, NJ
My partner and I walked out back of our house on Route 571 to check our camera footage we take of the foxes, opossums and other animals that come out at night. As we moved from the first camera to the second, I look up into the northeast sky behind our property and see what looks like a single fireball hovering a moment before slowly moving west (the same direction we were walking). The fire looked like it was swirling in like a clockwise rotation but it was difficult to tell. I only checked off the "lights on the object" box below only because the light from the fireball itself was all we could see. The aura was the sphere it seemed to make as the fire was moving. I vocalized and pointed at it to my partner to which she then noticed it as well. It must have been only for two or three minutes, but we both noted how there was no sound to it at all. We live by a four lane highway, so we are used to hearing noises of cars, but at this exact moment there was no other noise at all. The object did not move at a constant rate either. It seemed to move slow and slightly pick up speed but move slowly again. Finally, it continued northwest towards Jackson Township passed the tree line and was out of sight. The diagram attached shows the spots it sorta slowed down and when we first saw it to when we lost it. We never took our eyes off of it. Side note: Right before witnessing the craft we both heard a loud crashing sound in the development facing where the craft was. Probably unrelated.
May 29, 2022 · 4:19 AM · FIREBALL
Flint, MI
Went out to grab a few things in my car and after locking my doors I just happened to look in the sky and notice this light with another light at the bottom of it following it perfectly. It disappeared for a second and then popped back up and if you zoom in on the video it looks like a fireball ...guessing it could be a meteor rock entering the atmosphere or something but I am not sure.
May 27, 2022 · 12:11 AM · FIREBALL
Stafford Springs, CT
Bright orange red orb grew bigger after pulsing twice, I opened window and it shot up! Instantly same house that nearly caught fire the other day. Bathroom lights flickered
May 24, 2022 · 9:15 PM · FIREBALL
Santa Cruz, CA
Where I live I look out to the ocean and a dark night sky. Last night I saw these lights in the sky that at first I thought must be fireworks since that is common to see where I live at certain times of year, but I realized that what I was looking at was not fireworks. The objects were a glowing orangey color and they appeared to be stationary for a bit- at first I saw a collection of about 7 or 8- not sure exactly how many of them. They changed formation, but they did not move in a constant way. I grabbed my binoculars and looked at them but I couldn't see anything better. Then they completely disappeared while I was watching them. Five minutes after I saw these glowing lights in the sky that I can not explain what they are, I emailed a bunch of my neighbors who also live in homes where they might have looked at the night sky to see if they saw them but no one else saw them.
May 21, 2022 · 10:35 PM · FIREBALL
Warren, PA
At night I was driving around the city limits to get some fresh air after a very hot day....I noticed a bright red light high up in the sky to the north, it looked odd, and at first I thought it was the planet mars, but there was too much cloud cover as storms had been passing by, also there were no others stars visible. As I was driving I was able to see that it was actually 3 separate luminous objects, red orange, like fireballs. Seemingly just hanging out over the city. When I was finally able to pull over I got out of my car to look, but they had completely disappeared. Very spooky, and it happened on a day where there were electrical problems being reported all over the city. Everyone could hear sirens all day long, and even heard them into the night at nearly 2 am. Not sure if thats just a coincidence but I thought it seemed at least worth mentioning.
May 21, 2022 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Thunder Bay, ON · Canada
Was in my back yard noticed two bright orange lights to the Northwest moving up and down independently of each other. They were moving up and down from 40 degrees to 70 degrees off the horizen. They did this for about a minute then traveled to the southwest one at a time fast and flickered out. Once one flickered out another one apered where the fist two were spotted moved in the same way and traveled to the same spot and flickered out. A total of 8 of these objects did the same thing. There was no noise, but they seemed close they were large. I would say 8 times bigger than mars on its brightest and biggest night. I though maybe a flair at fist but the way they moved could not have been a flair but the way they flickered out would be comparable to the way a flair burns out. There was 5 witnesses and I have a short video of them moving up and down to the northwest.
May 11, 2022 · 10:15 PM · FIREBALL
Patrick Springs, VA
Riding home from work all 3 of us were in the front of the truck and me and the driver seen a green ball of light dropping down and the third person looked up and seen it as it dropped out of view. We are in a mountainous terrain and the mountains/forest blocked the view after it dropped so far but it was very large and didn't appear to have any tail it looked almost like a ball of green fire and it dropped very fast
May 8, 2022 · 10:38 PM · FIREBALL
Tennille, GA
At or around 10:38pm on May 8, I was on our property that runs parallel to Ga State Hwy 68. I was recording a small, white, blinking, erratically moving, flashing light across the highway, when a fireball looking object came shooting down to the west of me. It did not land, but looked like it ricocheted back up. There was no sound when this happened.
May 8, 2022 · 8:40 PM · FIREBALL
La Vergne, TN
Large bright orange light resembling a flickering flame flew steadily across the sky for about 20 seconds then completely disappeared. Like the light went out.
May 2, 2022 · 4:03 PM · FIREBALL
Cumming, GA
Two white balls of white light totally independent moving from many miles away but extremely visible clear totally independent moved from two separate areas fast slow then up towards the clouds on a clear partly cloudy day. They were far apart then moved together I would have gotten my phone but I was walking back from pool my phones were in my backpack I could either watch these incredible whatever they are or try to video and miss . They were mesmerizing. Never seen anything like this. Not aircraft. I am a student pilot. Not ballon’s. Satellite etc just something never seen before. Wow.
April 22, 2022 · 9:23 PM · FIREBALL
Fremont, CA
Was walking with a friend around 9:23 we saw a orange ball of fire hovering and moving around in the sky. We took our phones out to see if we could get any pictures. When a neighbor came down the middle off the street asking us what was that? His phone was doing an update. It hovered there for a while and then disappeared behind the clouds. We walked further down the street when it reappeared again. We began taking pictures of the orange fireball with the x through it. Again no sounds. My friend was making a move of it when out the corner of my left eye I saw a second one. It moved closer to the first one. Both of them were hovering there making no sound. After a bit the both disappeared.
April 14, 2022 · 5:03 AM · FIREBALL
Loganville, GA
The orb/fire ball was glowing yellow and orange moving slowly through clouds. When I looked back in the area it was located . It was gone
April 14, 2022 · 1:30 AM · FIREBALL
Peoria, IL
I grew up in the area until 21 years of age and was always fascinated in the night sky and would say I’m familiar with stars, moon, comets, satellites, aircraft, and such. I even know what a Chinese floating lantern looks like. What I saw this night at around 1:30 am wasn’t anything I’ve ever seen before. A friend and I were working late night on a car in the garage and I went out to grab a part that was needed from my car. I called for my friend to come outside to see this and he can not explain what it was either as it too was something he has never seen before either. It was a glowing ball of fire the size of my thumbnail at arms length. It wasn’t omitting any noise and the orb was pulsating lightly heading to the East and with a wide sweeping arc slowly turned and headed to the Northwestern direction. It did not have a red or green blinking light like aircraft have and certainly was not a helicopter with a search beam. Again, a glowing reddish orange fireball making no noise and floated slowly changing direction to almost 180degree in which it came from and disappeared out of sight. I know that what this object I was looking at was a UAP/UFO. I hope this helps with recent sighting and for the location.
April 5, 2022 · 7:53 PM · FIREBALL
Whitefield, OK
This was moving extremely slow you almost didn't see it moving it at all. We debated it for a very long ways of if it was moving. We saw several jets go through and they were moving extremely fast compared to whatever this light was. It was a lot brighter as well we watched it for approx 25 minutes and it was still visible even after it moved into the clouds as a bright light but we got into an area with to many trees but I'd love to know what this was
March 26, 2022 · 9:30 PM · FIREBALL
Daytona beach shores, FL
A Fireball what at first looked like a shooting star soared across the water about 600 ft off the water, it went toward the horizon not going up or down. Went very fast and disappeared
March 26, 2022 · 8:15 PM · FIREBALL
Moncks corner, SC
We saw a fireball appear out of nowhere. It cut diagonally across the sky like a laser. It did not have any trail or noise that we could hear. It flew across the sky for about 10-15 secs and then completely vanished.
March 22, 2022 · 6:46 AM · FIREBALL
Upland, CA
Same as above. The thing itself did not move and appeared to hover. I took several pictures.
March 20, 2022 · 10:17 PM · FIREBALL
Grants Pass, OR
I was setting up my telescope when a friend of mine stopped by. He mentioned that he had looked through a telescope but hasn’t ever actually seen anything through one. So I set up the telescope and first focus on Saturn abs have him look. Then I gave him check out Jupiter and it’s different colored layers. Then I say to him the fun part is when you point it in an area where you can’t see anything and play with the focus. I set the focus to see past Jupiter and turned the telescope 180 degrees. My friend looks through the lens and says, “What the f***, you’re going to want to see this.” When I looked I could see two of whatever they were.(I’ll include a drawing of what we saw). They were red and yellow circular in shape with multiple flame like tails trailing behind them like some kind of propulsion system. For the matter of their size the circular part at the front looked to be about the same size Jupiter has appeared maybe 2 minutes before seeing these, but the trails were massive. I looked away for a second to look at my friend and say,”whoa.” When I looked back they were gone. I instantly did a drawing of what we had seen so I wouldn’t forget. I’m a fairly decent artist although you wouldn’t be able to tell from this drawing because I did it fast so nothing would be lost from my memory. I’m pretty Good with proportions seeing as how I have to make drawings to scale for my company. But this is what they looked like.
March 11, 2022 · 9:12 PM · FIREBALL
ID
assume not a UFO & man craft of some sort. Just wanted to tell you about it. 9pm MST. it appeared. It basically turned on burners and created a tail. About a foot long from my prospective. lasted about 5 seconds. tail diminished then it disappeared. Travelling completely linear, West to East. Guessing directly over like SLC, Utah. I'm in Boise and saw it while in my hot tub in Boise ID. (it was very bright orange color.) Think I recall it being a white looking star before & after the burning tail.
March 5, 2022 · 1:02 AM · FIREBALL
Amesbury, NH
At around 01:02 I was traveling through Amesbury heading north. It an area I have been through multiple times during the day. At the intersection of Rt 150 and S Hampton Rd I noticed a light to the approximate 5° of north. Maybe along the direction of Rt 150, I had already turned onto S Hampton Rd. I have worked in the cellphone tower constitution industry, and my first thought was a tower light. That is until I noticed the color, and lack of blinking. I have also spent six years in the military. What it reminds me of is a military handheld illumination flare. That is a flare lacking illumination radius, smoke, or noise. A solid yellow fireball. At the time it looked stationary It wasn't till I was up S Hampton Rd approximately a quarter mile that I saw the other two objects. They were approaching me from the west across the field at Amesbury Elementary School. They looked to be separated by a couple hundred meters. Because of their shape and size, about the size of a basket ball. An there was absolutely no sound. I could judge distance or altitude. At this point I stop. After referencing Google maps. I believe I stopped at 22 S Hampton Rd. The objects passed just south of me, moving east. The first object started to fade. Fade as in moving in a straight line away from me. Not over the horizon. The second object seemed to stay the same. I left the area shortly after. If I can upload the short video i took. It does not do what I saw justice. I'm my time in the military I have seen all types of flares and aircraft. I would even say these were aircraft. But there was absolutely navigation lights. Nothing was blinking.
February 24, 2022 · 5:36 AM · FIREBALL
Cutler Bay, FL
Hi, this morning I woke up at 5am and when I walked out the door at around 5:35am I noticed that the sky was pretty bright and it wasn’t a full moon ( I tend to look up at the sky in the morning around this time because I find the the night sky fascinating). I looked up and noticed what appeared to be a “fire ball”. At first I thought it was a meteorite but when it began to divide itself I observed very odd behavior that doesn’t occur from a meteorite, asteroid and even space debris. As you can see in the video 8 lights appear to create some type of pattern in the sky and as one light starts to descend the others follow. Also, if you noticed on the left side of the video towards the end, there are two lights that appear that weren’t part of the fire ball. They all start to descend towards the same direction. I was facing South of Princeton mobile homes when recording in Cutler Bay, FL.
February 22, 2022 · 6:50 PM · FIREBALL
Lafayette, GA
I'm always looking in the sky to see if I can see anything. I was in car waiting for my boys to get done with practice and I noticed this bright circle light. Then I noticed more in shape of a triangle. I'm not sure if this is anything but I believe with every feeling in my body it is. I have serial pictures and videos.
February 21, 2022 · 7:00 PM · FIREBALL
Morgantown, WV
Monday, 2/21/22 at 7:00pm. My wife & I were outside on the patio enjoying warm temps & had a fire in the fireplace. The wife noticed a orange/yellow flickering round object pop up from the south west horizon. Immediately there was a second one. While watching these two, maybe 30 seconds, I noticed a 3rd one. They were in the same trajectory, an angled line. Made no noise, dead quiet silent. Sparse clouds, but able to see many starts & planes, not alot of ambient light behind our home. We watched all three disappear into a cloud bank, approximately the same spot, all following the identical trajectory. We spend hours on our patio in the summer time, late into the night by the fire place. We make a habit to unplug when were out there and typically do not take cell phones-so no pictures. We see stars, planets, satellites, aircraft at various altitudes, but never seen anything like this before.