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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
December 31, 2014 · 8:10 PM · FIREBALL
Jacksonville, FL
I was heading south on a residential drive in westside jax fl to go to the store, looking forward driving I noticed a bright ball of red flame with 4-5 flames coming down from bottom of the flaming ball. Since this was New Year's Eve, I thought the object was some fireworks but had no sound. I slowed down to look at object ahead of me and I noticed the two other objects, a total of 3. Being in communication technologies I thought it was a radio tower but realized there were no towers by the house in this direction. They were in a triangle formation. The object that was flaming was the top left (east) of triangle. The other two, one was to the right (west) horizontal to the flaimng one. The third was below the other 2 and in a center position. As I turned left there were several couples with children walking , they were all looking and pointing at the objects. As I ended the street I lost sight of the 3 objects due to trees and houses. I took a right turn an! d saw the flaming object still in the same place. The other 2 objects were gone. People walking on Blanding blvd were also looking and pointing at the object too. I was not the only one who saw this. The flaming one stayed stationary till I reached the next light. The object was still flaming, then it moved toward the east at a fast pace and was gone. It did not go away in a flash. This all occured just 1 air mile away from Naval Airstation Jacksonville (NAS JAX)
December 31, 2014 · 8:00 PM · FIREBALL
Hayden, ID
Around 8:30pm in my back yard, I saw a red/pinkish color circle in the sky, that looked like a fireball orb. It was coming from the West heading south west. It had no sound and was visable for about one minute, and then lit up to where I could see an outline of a very large circular craft object just before it vanished. I ran inside to grab my Samsung Galaxy s5 to film. When I got back outside, I looked up for approximately 1 minute, and then saw another fireball orb coming from the same location I spotted the first one, and it flew the exact path and then vanished the same way. Two more followed, one at a time, in the same flight pattern as the first fireball orb I spotted, and then vanished in the same fashion. I have three on film all together. I live near the airport in Hayden. These objects were not human aircrafts. My daughter and I have seen one fire orb before about one year ago in my backyard with different movement patterns, but never got it on film. I think whatever was in the sky was interested or attracted to the airport. Silent, large, circular, pinkish orbs that vanished made the hair on my neck raise. What an incredible sight. I wanted to call law enforcement but then though they would just think I was crazy, so I Googled it and found this site so I decided to rapport it. I hope others also got to witness this amazing event.
December 31, 2014 · 7:15 PM · FIREBALL
Clarksville, TN
I had previously posted about four lights in a triangular shape sometime in November. This evenings sighting was much different than the last and much longer. My husband began loading his car with laundry baskets, when I hear him call my name and come see "them" again. I am sure it is highly unlikely to see UFO's more than once but it seems to be a re-occurring theme here in Clarksville. I went outside and saw a slow moving fireball type aircraft in the sky with the occasional firework going up. It seemed as if though during this time we saw this light everyone paused their fireworks. After a minute or two the fireball type aircraft completely vanished in the night sky. We thought that must be it this time but then another appeared from the western treeline moving towards Oak Grove, KY, (we are fairly close to Oak Grove, KY, and our house is situated northerly). This second fireball type aircraft made no noise whatsoever as did the first. We then saw a! plane flying towards into the direction of the UFO. The plane made noises as a plane would but the UFO was completely silent. The UFO rose into the sky in a eastern direction. Then a third came from the exact spot as this one had and at this moment the second UFO vanished without a trace. The third UFO did as the second had and followed the same flight path. And just as the second had vanished when the third appeared so did this third when a fourth fireball aircraft appeared from the same exact spot. The fourth UFO followed the same flight path as the previous three had. It was during this time a plane had circled around into the direction of these UFO's. All during this time you can clearly hear the sounds from the plane and still no sound from the UFO's. Also, while the fourth had followed the same flight path as the previous, a helicopter coming from the eastern sky began flying towards the direction of where the UFO's were appearing in the western sky. Unlike the plane, the helicopter did not reach in time before the fourth vanished. We waited for a fifth UFO but that was it. No more appeared. It seemed so for our neighbors as well because after this "show" of UFO's ended, the neighbors began lighting their fireworks more so than during the appearance of the UFO's. This is becoming more unsettling, here in Clarksville. We do live near a military post, and everyday you can see small planes and helicopters flying over head. We are used to it, of course. We have lived here for 10 years but these occurrences are much different than seeing planes and helicopters flying over head. If there are others here in town seeing these same objects, please don't be embarrassed to post because you are not alone in these experiences. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 30, 2014 · 11:00 PM · FIREBALL
North Pole, AK
30 purple/orange, silent, "fireballs" flying side-by-side at three top level, then shoot up into space
December 29, 2014 · 11:00 PM · FIREBALL
Granville, OH
Bouncing ball of orange light turned into two balls of orange dancing light. They would chase or play with each other, (one was smaller than the other) move vertically and horizontally, change sizes and shapes, then disappear without leaving the sky.
December 29, 2014 · 7:45 PM · FIREBALL
Southington, CT
On December 29, 2014, at approximately 19:42 hours, my dog had to go out, so I headed to my back yard. As I stood along the fenceline of the yard, which runs parallel with I-84, I noticed a massive and extremely bright-lit reflection in my neighbors 2cd. Story window. It was so bright, that it illuminated the area around the window pane as well. At this point, I looked up in an easterly direction to figure out what could create such a glow and that is when I saw a very bright and very large white in color fireball with a pink-ish white in color tail like shape appear to be fixed in the sky however, within seconds of noticing it hovering, it shot across the sky with such a high rate of speed it blew my mind. It literally appeared as though it hovered for a second and then completely darted into oblivion, it literally disappeared. Now my first thought was a shooting star or meteor however, it didnt fly away or in a downward motion like when stars die out. It lit! erally disappeared, like it shut its lights out. I am a retired firefighter with respectful credibility who is a "show me the evidence" kind of guy, so I chalked it up to some weird shooting star. Yes that's what I did, of course, that was until I went outside again for my break (I work 3rd. Shift) and what I saw blew my mind! It was approximately 1:02 AM (now on 12/30/14) and I was standing up against my employer's building, which ironically is about 1 mile down the street from my home (north), when I witnessed 2 of the same shaped fireballs that I saw earlier in the night appear out of nowhere in the sky above my employer. They were literally identical to the first sightings object, but this time they appeared different in color (again, the 1st. object was white/pink-ish in color). They were a very bright red-ish orange in color (and again, this time there were 2). They appeared completely out of nowhere as if someone turned on a light. They were side-by-side and then within a few seconds of appearing (in which they were all so simply hovering), they completely darted again across the sky so fast that if I blinked I would have not seen them. I have NEVER been a believer in UFO's nor the paranormal, but one thing is clear, certain and for sure, what I witnessed both times was NOT a shooting star, they were not regular aircrafts and nothing about them was "normal" by any means. This time I called my wife, whom was in bed sleeping, to tell her because I simply could NOT wrap my mind around what I saw. Now I am not an expert, I am not an astronomer nor anything else in the related field, but this my friends was NOTHING from earth nor was it the standard meteor-type incident. This was certainly paranomal!
December 29, 2014 · 7:00 PM · FIREBALL
San Luis Obispo, CA
We were driving south on the 101 at the top of the grade at spotted a large white object with fire trailing behind it. Object appeared to make a right angle turn away from us. The fire stopped. We lost sight. The object was descending at a shallow angle when it turned. ((ADDENDUM FROM A SECOND WITNESS, LOCATED NEAR VENTURA, CA)) We saw a fireball driving home from Utah last night that matched this very closely at the exact same time - 7PM. We were on Hwy 126 about 10 miles east of Ventura when I saw a white fireball streak across the sky in front of the car slightly to our left. That would have put it to the South of us toward Oxnard, likely out over the ocean. It was traveling left to right, meaning it was heading pretty much due South. It seemed to turn slightly green and left a long trail behind it. It was low in the sky, I'd estimate 10 degrees, was obscured by some trees, then reappeared on the other side of them, then we lost sight of it. I'd estimate we saw it for 5 seconds. Since in the report below they were looking south I think this was the same object. I however did not see it make any turn (although we lost sight of it at the end) and assumed it was a very large close meteor. ((END ADDENDUM)) Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 29, 2014 · 6:32 PM · FIREBALL
Trumbull, CT
Aqua fireball trailed by orange flames followed by white tail. Northeast to northwest direction.
December 29, 2014 · 6:00 PM · FIREBALL
Essex, CT
shooting star like, but very close and very bright. purple, green and white bright colors. fast.
December 29, 2014 · 10:00 AM · FIREBALL
Simpsonville, SC
My first experience with these red worms was on Christmas night where I had the most surreal experience of my life. The days following I was in a haze, knowing something was off but thinking better of questioning if I brushed it off. A few days after Christmas I left my parents house and Pickens and drove to my apartment in Simpsonville. As I was driving I began to spot one or two of the same orbs. Panic set in and I did not know why. When I got to my apartment I noticed one of them was maybe a mile away from me. Panicked, I ran into my apartment I locked myself in. As I sat on my couch trying to convince myself that I needed to calm down but I couldn't shake it. Minutes later, through closed blinds a very bright orb flashed at me and was immediately followed by another. Again I remember watching them for at least two hours, wishing I could go to sleep but never allowing myself to even try fearing I would be harmed in someway. At some pointI remember losing The clarity in my hearing and hearing a low drum buzzing noise. But this point my phone died and I was too afraid to go get my charger from my car. And that was it. I woke up sometime later on the floor again in a sweat and totally confused. Is about 9 AM I got up took my dead phone and drove to a friend of mine's place. Upon arrival, she criticize me for standing her up the day before. That was even more confusing because I knew that she wasn't going to be home until the next day. As it turns out I had missed the day. It was a day later and I had no recollection of the events, if any, that occurred the day before. 24 hours was just completely missing. The buzzing kept coming back randomly for a week or so.. My fear got the best of me and I uprooted myself and moved up to New York very shortly after.
December 28, 2014 · 8:10 PM · FIREBALL
Sun Prairie, WI
Coming home from church Sunday night, close to our place, we saw 6 red-orange fireballs or something moving in a southward direction in formation just above the lowest clouds. No sound. One or two disappeared, and another one had something come off of it and seemed to fly away from it. Were they lanterns or something else? Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 28, 2014 · 7:45 PM · FIREBALL
Kanata (Canada), ON · Canada
In the clear night sky were more than 12 orange fireballs coming from the east going southwest, floating in a line with erratical spaces between them, some slowing down while others were trying to catch up. There was a building obstructing my view so they were not visible once they reached that point. I was on my terrace so there was nothing that could be called a reflection of anything. I actually ran in and took a picture, but it just looks like little white dots in the sky.
December 28, 2014 · 6:25 PM · FIREBALL
Sarasota, FL
Saw a small orange or fiery ball going out or away, going higher leaving our air. if that makes sense? Not following a planes orbit but leaving ours... It was bigger than stars in the sky by twice or three times,, Just checking.... Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 28, 2014 · 6:12 PM · FIREBALL
Portland, ME
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 28, 2014 · 6:00 PM · FIREBALL
Campo Grande (Brazil) · Brazil
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December 27, 2014 · 9:30 PM · FIREBALL
Reddinton Beach, FL
I was sitting on my deck looking at the ocean and I see a ball of fire slowly moving south above the coast. Then a minute later 3 more came in an almost perfect horizontal line. A few minutes after those went away, one more came. Same size, same speed, going the same direction. This was at night.
December 27, 2014 · 8:30 PM · FIREBALL
Fayetteville, NC
Bright blue light falling from the sky.
December 27, 2014 · 5:05 AM · FIREBALL
Gresham, OR
I noticed two objects with orange or red glow plodding West in the sky roughly above the Red Sunset Park area. b*computer crashed*
December 26, 2014 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Phoenix, AZ
A series of red orbs flying in a row from the west valley across the entire city of Phoenix to the east valley a little after 9pm. I did record it on my phone and posted to fb. I am surprised no one else has reported it yet.
December 26, 2014 · 6:15 PM · FIREBALL
Los Angeles, CA
Orange flame or fire ball gliding in the sky. We thought it was coming closer but just as we figured that, it started rising up. I stared at it and in under a minute it disappeared. And not going sideways or down. It went up! Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 25, 2014 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Cincinnati, OH
Was sitting in my car warming it up before leaving for work. I reached over into the passenger side for my purse when I noticed through the tree five Orange lights. One was alone and the others were in sets of two next to each other. My first thought was plane headlights but they were orange/red and traveling to close to each other. I got out of the car when I noticed them begin to move around each other almost dancing. One slowly went upwards and faded. I ran to the house to get my brother. He came outside in time to see the last two move upwards and fade away. I don't know how long they were tthere before I noticed them but the whole incident was less than five minutes.
December 25, 2014 · 9:30 PM · FIREBALL
Kent, WA
It was around 9:30 PM and I was just returning home from picking up my sister at my brother’s house. I was parking the car in the driveway and when I got out of the car, I noticed several reddish orange fireball like lights streaming across the sky very low, just barely above the tree line it seemed. I quickly told my sister who was getting out of the car as well, and she looked up and saw what I was seeing. We watched them fly across the sky from the south heading north. After the first group went, I looked back and saw that more were approaching as well. The objects did not appear to be making any sound at all as they flew across the sky. I watched them fly by in the distance and they appeared to be getting smaller and then started to look like stars in the sky in the distance. I am not for sure, but it almost seemed like they were going upward into the sky at that point and not across. My sister took pictures with her cell phone and posted the photos on her Facebook page. I also called family and friends startled by what I had witnessed and told them about the experience.
December 25, 2014 · 8:45 PM · FIREBALL
Virginia Beach, VA
As they got closer I could not hear any sound I called my wife out an she saw them also. It was three reddish orange looking balls, then all of the sudden they were gone. I was just wondering if any one else may have seen this also and of course what they might have been.
December 25, 2014 · 7:03 PM · FIREBALL
Glendora, CA
At 7:03 PM (PST) December 25, 2014 at (XXXX) South Vermont Avenue Glendora, CA 91740; My mother and I witnessed a fireball yellow at its center and amber red around the outer edges (Circular) but "flame-like" came from the north (Angeles Foothills - San Gabriel Mountains) at approx. at 35 yards distance from us at approx. 60 ft., moving directly south towards us and parallel, as we were proceeding north on the west side of the street. There was "no" vehicle traffic, "no" air traffic, and "no" pedestrian traffic around us. Completely quiet surroundings. The night sky was completely clear, no fog, no rain. This fireball that itself was completely "noiseless" was proceeding fast at approx. 60-75 mph but then immediately stops next to us. No movement, we stop and watch this fireball as I examine it carefully. We were walking our two dogs and they became agitated. I called my girlfriend but was unable to make a connection; however, I then called my friend "Ed" and was able to make a connection that faded in and out but strong enough to talk to him clearly. As we observed this fireball hovering with absolutely no sound next to us, I kept looking down at my watch to ensure there was no missing time. I continue to describe the event to my friend on the phone. I then told my mother to not look at the object, and continue to walk our dogs away from this fireball as she was now very nervous. I continued to talk with "Ed" on the phone. The fireball then starts moving again slowly approx. 30 mph making a looping turn to the southwest direction. After proceeding approx. 1/4 mile it vanishes into thin air. No sound at all. Approx. 2 min. later it returns (Or a second fireball came by); The same trajectory, but this time 1/2 the height in the air, approx. 30 feet up. The fireball slowed to a crawl as it passed by us, and, just as it passed us, poof-gone. Afterwards I was able to make a connection on my cell phone with my girlfriend and told her all about our sighting and event.