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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.
11,675 entries
September 21, 2019 · 7:05 AM · SPHERE
Valdosta, GA
The object was small, round and glowing a golden white. It was roughly the size of a softball. After failing to identify the object, I pressed record. Upon doing so, the object moved to the opposite side of a vehicle, leaving a "tail" indicative of its flight path across the windshield. It made this maneuver within a single frame. I'm hoping to find someone capable of estimating the speed of the anomaly using the footage I managed to capture.
September 20, 2019 · 11:56 PM · SPHERE
Rachel, NV
Me and a friend were headed back from Rachel, NV to Alamo, NV, which is about a 40 min drive. We were approximately 20 min into the drive, when I saw an orangeish amber orb of light coming up fairly quick on the car in the rearview mirror. I was thinking in my head of what it could be. There had been no headlights, it was orange or amber colored, and definitely higher than any motorcycle light would be. So having gone through all my logical thoughts, and run out of ideas, I asked my friend to look behind me, and tell me what that was. She stuck her head between the two front seats, and it came right up to the trunk of my car. It was a little less than a foot in size, and was just a glowing translucent ball of light. Not like a bright light glaring at you, and blinding you or making you see halos. And not a reflection type light, but like an orangy amber orb, colored from the inside. A lot brighter than a lit up balloon would be. For lack of a better descripti! on. Also, we were driving about 60mph, maybe more once it was following us, and it was keeping up with and staying the same exact speed as us, and in the same spot for several seconds. Not like something mechanical that would lose and gain speed to keep up, but right there with us, and almost like checking the car out. Then it moved slowly to the drivers side back window, as if checking that out, and then just as i thought it might come right up to my drivers window, it took off super fast into the field. Just as it did that, a car came around the corner. Almost like it knew the car was coming and took off. This was in an area where there are no side roads for many many miles, and even had side rails at this spot, so no cars could even pull over. Theres no street lights around, and its complete desert mountains all around. My friend saw it close enough to know it was not a drone, and had no mechanical parts. And i seriously doubt anyone would be out there in the middle of nowhere with hardly any traffic just to pull a prank on some car they will never see again. And im not sure of any technology that is just a ball of light, that can still travel around or be directed. Im an empath, and i felt it had intelligence, and was curious. Our windows were decorated with aliens and ufos for the Alienstock event we had just been at, so maybe it was curious about the windows. It didnt seem dangerous, just curious. The next day we told many people at the event what had happenned. We had several people tell us about an orange light that came out of the sky, just above one of the stages, and kind of curved upwards before taking off at a high speed. That happened around 11:30pm according to the people, which was close to the same time as my experience. So was it connected? And what kind of orb of light can be seen from such a far distance, and up closer at the same level of light, without getting brighter? Ive searched online for similar experiences, and only find the sky orbs, but no close up ones like we saw. So I would love to know if others have had similar sightings. As for our backgrounds, I'm not sure how much, or what you want included in that. We both have average jobs, and normal lives. My friend is native american, and also a bit empathic. Obviously we are interested in the subject, since we were at Alienstock. We also follow paranormal stuff. This was her first sighting. Im of mixed white nationalities with a bit of american indian also, but mostly welsh and irish. I have had many sightings before. I live at the bottom of the Nevada Triangle, in Fresno county, and there are lots of sightings in my area. Although most of my main sightings were in the 80's and 90's, with only one incident of missing time that I know of. Im in my 40's and shes in her 50's. Any other info you wish for you are welcome to ask.
September 20, 2019 · 4:00 AM · SPHERE
Signal Mountain, TN
I noticed a large bright white light in the sky around 4am September 20th. The altitude, I would have to guess around 15000 feet, about the same for planes 30 miles out out so for take off or landing. The interesting part the orb shaped light was about 10 times brighter than the brightest star in the sky and was probably 5 times larger than any plane at that altitude. It looked like it was traveling maybe 20 times faster than a plane would cover in the same distance between the tree lines that I viewed the object. There was no trail, smoke or red or green lights and made no sound, so it was not a plane or comet.
September 19, 2019 · 7:50 PM · SPHERE
Forest Park, IL
I sky watch all the time from my balcony, and am familiar with, and often see, planes and helicopters. This was neither. Also, it attracted my sight because I have never seen a conventional aircraft flying in that pattern.
September 19, 2019 · 10:30 AM · SPHERE
Roswell, NM
The event lasted around 30 minutes where super bright lights were spotted in the desert. In appeared green but showed up at blue in photos and videos. The lights came very close and appeared very large and then faded and moved up and down and diagonal. The y were near the horizon and took on shapeshifter from large to smal.l. We have high res video and photos.
September 18, 2019 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Las Vegas, NV
Me and my husband were in our backyard talking and I looked up facing southwest direction and seen what looked like a red/Orange orb with a haze or fog on top of it. It was falling slowly and finally went behind a rooftop and disappeared. It lasted about 5 seconds, falling from about 200 feet.
September 18, 2019 · 4:30 PM · SPHERE
Lexington, NE
We were at Tyson to pick up my mom and then my brother noticed some white little spheres in the sky, I thought he was lying. I checked it out and there was about 6 or 7 aircrafts, the thing is, they were flying about the height planes fly, and they looked the size of a commercial plane, I took a video if it and I fought about 4 flying objects, it was pretty scary.
September 17, 2019 · 7:29 PM · SPHERE
Mansfield, OH
Looked up and saw white/silver orb ascending swiftly before disappearing.
September 17, 2019 · 6:40 AM · SPHERE
Geismar, LA
saw a big white round sphere looking blimp, close to the moon. stood stationary for a couple hrs.
September 16, 2019 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Palm desert, CA
Bright fuzzy glowing light orb red and green changing back and forth floating twoards my son And I, then after thinking and saying we weren't afraid of ot, come closer, it did. Then, silent as it was, it intelligently knew somehow we were in full observation of it. Don't know how I know this, but I do. Then it slowly moved from our position on our front 2nd story deck. As it went away it chose red color light, and eventually displayed two flash then none rythmic pulse pattern of lighting, as if demonstrating that blinking white lights in the sky werent always "planes" flying above. tail lights flashing, it went around a nearby church steeple. I asked it to come back as I was still very skeptical thinking maybe it was a drone in it had to be a drone. Then much to my surprise the object came around the corner this time glowing green and not changing from Green. It came around the same direction it had travelled previously. It paused just in front o! f me and by this time my son had gotten bored and went inside. In front of me this light simply disappeared. boom. Invisible. To the naked eye, it was not there anymore and that's what I saw.
September 16, 2019 · 8:51 PM · SPHERE
Anderson, SC
I occasionally spend time on my back deck observing space debris flyovers. I am very well versed in observing the ISS and space debris that is in orbit, and the way it reacts to light from the sun in relation to brightness and fading. Tonight it is a totally clear sky, so just after dark I decided to look for random space debris flyovers. While looking at approximately 275 degrees (WSW) at an elevation of approximately 75-80 degrees, I noticed what I assumed was a bright star. It was completely stationary and after about 10-15 seconds, began to dim. I thought this was odd since their is absolutely no clouds in my area tonight, and I could see stars all around the object.. The object regained brightness then it appeared to begin to decrease in size as if it was moving directly away from me. Then in an instant it was gone. As I stated previously, I am well versed in observing space debris, this object was stationary and brighter than any stars in the sky, that is what drew my attention to it. I live in a rural area without any significant lighting to interfere with viewing. On two previous occasions I observed an object that moved across the sky from north to south and then stop almost directly over my location, and remain stationary for an extended period of time until the shadow of the earth caused them to fade away. I assumed these objects were probably satellites that were being moved to a new geosynchronous orbit, so I did not bother reporting them. Tonight was a different deal altogether. I have also seen Iridium flares and I am sure that this was not one of them. I decided to report this, because I am 100% confident that what I saw was unlike anything I have witnessed from a man made object, at least the ones that I am aware of. I also decide to report on the outside chance that others might have seen and reported.
September 16, 2019 · 4:51 PM · SPHERE
Studio City, CA
On September 16, 2019, I was hiking in Fryman Canyon at Wilacre Park in the Santa Monica Mountains in Studio City, California. It was late afternoon and the day was overcast. There were some beautiful clouds. I decided to take pictures of the clouds from the top of the mountain. I did not see anything with my naked eye. However, I snapped three photographs in succession. The first photograph did not display any abnormalities. The second and third photographs showed a blue dot. When the blue dot is enlarged, a clearly visible round object is seen. It appears there are several light sources or reflections coming off of the blueish object.
September 16, 2019 · 1:30 AM · SPHERE
Arleta, CA
In the early hours of Mon., Sept. 16, 2019, at 1:30am, I stepped out onto the back stoop of my house to call my dogs in for the night. The moon was full or almost full and very breath taking with a few small scattered clouds around it so I thought about grabbing my telescope to get a closer look when suddenly I saw a blue-ish orb hovering or even “dancing” around the moon. It’s movement varied from hovering and slowly circling the moon to erratic movements like quick reversals and 90 degree turns at incredible speeds. The orb, blue with what looked like some type of small white-ish circles on top had no trail or beam of light connected to it and it was very bright and visible despite the fullness and brightness of the moon. I work w/ lasers moving heads and spotlights for a living so I knew it wasn’t either of those. As the orb danced around the moon it moved under some static clouds yet didn’t extend it’s light to reflect onto the clouds. So with no light t! rail leading from the ground up to the orb and no light reflection on the low lying clouds (that were in between the orb and the moon), I determined that it was self-luminous. And the orb’s brightness and color were not diminished when it moved around in closer visual proximity to the moon (yet still very far from the moon distance-wise), which again, was very, very bright. I took out my new iPhone XR and recorded some video of the incident which I’ve posted and shown other lighting professionals and they have no idea what it could be either. I only recorded about 4 minutes of video but it’s quite compelling. Let me know if you’d like a copy. I’d love to have professionals look at it to help determine what it was. Thanks!
September 15, 2019 · 5:30 PM · SPHERE
Lancaster, PA
The 2 of us noticed a sphere over the western part of Lancaster hovering and slowly moving eastward. We thought it was a ballon but it flashed different colors and emitted a black mist that quickly disappeared in the atmosphere. I did take video but not sure if I got all of the action.
September 14, 2019 · 10:22 PM · SPHERE
Johnsburg, IL
Me, my boyfriend, and his mom were sitting outside on the Fox River having a bonfire and noticed 3 orange balls of light in the sky in a triangular formation. They were then followed by 4 more, 1 by 1, over the trees across the river from east to west. Altitude could not be determined nor could size. Definitely not known aircraft or drones. Disappeared without going into cloud cover. They were in the sky long enough for his mom to run and get binoculars and we could make out a definite structure to the “spheres.” So cool!
September 14, 2019 · 9:45 PM · SPHERE
Auckland, AUCKLAND · New Zealand
I have only just started to reach out about a sighting my son a friend and myself witnessed one day about 3 yrs ago, this cluster of orbs manouvering around was visible until they faded out of sight. First of all, when I first sighted them they were visible quite clearly, then,⁷ as if they knew I was looking started to move higher and higher, I was straining to see them. There's more to the story but I'd prefer to talk to someone face to face. I'm hoping I can get lead to somebody that can tell me more about this information. Why I've left it this long is because of ridical. ciao 4 now. B C Nesbit...
September 14, 2019 · 7:30 PM · SPHERE
IdentifiedGigny, Bourgogne · France
Le 14 septembre 2019, à Gigny (89), cinq personnes observent durant 1h30 l’évolution d’un point noir quasi immobile dans le ciel qui semble très loin et très haut. Sur la fin de l’observation, alors que la nuit tombe, des lumières apparaissent. Une seule personne témoigne auprès du GEIPAN. Ce cas est de bonne consistance : bien qu’un seul témoin ait témoigné, cinq personnes ont vu le phénomène, celui-ci est très bien décrit et une photographie permet des calculs d’azimut et de hauteur angulaire ( voir le compte rendu d'enquête). Il s'agit d'une observation d’un ballon à gaz , le ballon USA-1 de la Gordon Bennett Cup 2019. Toutes ses caractéristiques sont connues et correspondent en tous points au témoignage recueilli. Les témoins avaient initialement pensé à une montgolfière mais étaient perplexes à cause de son immobilité apparente et de l’apparition des lumières. Or cette étrangeté s’explique de la manière suivante : - Immobilité : distance très élevée et faible vitesse du vent, - Apparition des lumières : le règlement de la compétition impose aux ballons de disposer d’un balisage de nuit, d’un « strobe » aéronautique et d’un projecteur d’atterrissage. Leur allumage nocturne est donc obligatoire, dès la tombée de la nuit. Ce cas est classé A : observation d’un ballon à gaz : le ballon USA-1 de la Gordon Bennett Cup 2019. [GEIPAN classification A — Ballon à gaz habité]
September 14, 2019 · 10:00 AM · SPHERE
Destin, FL
I was crossing the Choctawhatchee Bay on the Mid Bay Bridge, I was on the north side of the arch when something caught my eye, I looked to the west and saw something shiny in the bay, it surfaced it looked like a light blue ball, It seemed to be larger than my pickup truck, it came out of the water hovered for a few seconds and shot straight up it was out of sight in just a matter of seconds.
September 13, 2019 · 10:16 PM · SPHERE
Thornton, CO
My spouse and I noticed a round, very bright white orb hovering high in the sky just northeast of Thornton, Colorado. The object would hover, then move slightly left, move back to its original hovering point, then move slightly right, then back to its original spot, and so on. It was a very bright white light but occasionally would emit a red light. This light hovered in the same spot for several hours from approx 10:15pm to 2:00am. When we looked for it again at 4:00am, it was gone.
September 13, 2019 · 1:00 PM · SPHERE
Rockport, MA
We were watching the antique airplanes flying over from the fly in at Beverly and caught a picture of of a sphere above one of the planes.
September 13, 2019 · 1:00 AM · SPHERE
Apple Valley, CA
Large orange ball of light flying slowly west bound, disappeared after a short time like it had a cloak on it. I swear I could still see it a little, a shimmer of blue like electricity as it was disappearing. There was a helicopter in the sky flying south and at a lower altitude. So I know it wasn't a normal aircraft. It was random, I was about to go to bed when I glanced out the window and happened to see it. I wanted to take a video but it already vanished before I could think to pick up my phone.
September 12, 2019 · 9:21 PM · SPHERE
Berwick, ME
Nightly These orbs of light appear and I have several videos of them. They look at first as if they are still but when you zoom up they are erratic with the direction they go. Not like any normal craft I have witnessed. They move and stop just as fast. The sky is usually clear and I see them just about every evening for the past few months.
September 12, 2019 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Windy hill, SC
Red lights turned into 4 orange orbs.. then split off into 4 white lights that blinked fast with blinking red lights.. those lights where small and took off fast zipping through the sky then disappeared...
September 12, 2019 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Mesa, AZ
While looking North, 2 orange objects appeared in the night sky moving from North to Northeast. Moving slowly, no sound. Watched for 10 minutes as they moved out of sight.