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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
November 27, 2014 · 8:00 PM · FIREBALL
Phoenix (northwest part), AZ
My son and 17 y/o daughter were walking our dog and saw a fireball in the SW sky that was falling slowly to the ground. There haven't seem to have been any reports on the local media about it but they did get pictures on their phones. They said it looked like a helicopter was flying near it.
November 27, 2014 · 6:16 PM · FIREBALL
DeLand, FL
While driving on SR A15 I saw the yellow-orange light in the air. There were 3 of them flying in a triangle formation - very slow, heading from Northwest to Southeast. A couple seconds later, a single one appeared and flew the same direction. This one could be seen almost 1 minute in the sky.
November 26, 2014 · 7:30 PM · FIREBALL
Treasure Cay (Bahamas), Bahamas
Sitting on the beach on a perfectly clear night. I saw a yellow ball of light which was red on the lower edges moving vertically down towards the sea. It was about one tenth the size of the moon, it made no noise and took around 5 seconds before it disappeared behind the horizon. An Amazing sight! Source indicates that the date is approximate. PD
November 26, 2014 · 7:00 PM · FIREBALL
Dallas, TX
My husband and I saw an orange light moving fast and in different directions. The light was flickering. There was no noise associated with this light, just complete silence. It then came a little closer to us and the light started to flicker more and then it started to fade until you could only see a little silver thing moving away very quickly. We see lots of planes outside at night and this was not a plane or a helicopter.
November 26, 2014 · 3:00 AM · FIREBALL
Lancaster, CA
i am so frightened right now, i have been scared for two days, i cant get over of what has happend to me. i had just came home from the pizza parlor i made my sons birthday around 7pm here in lancaster california, when i arrived home i was so tired that i went straight to bed, i got in bed i put my cell phone on charge. then slippid into my pajamas. my bedroom door was shut. and the light were off. my room was dark. it was around 10:pm give or take 11:pm i put my head down and i fell asleep, suddenly something woke me up, it surely wasnt me that woke up, like my body arose from a sleep and made me look straight out the window, now my bed is facing a big window, and i have thes white floral print see thrue sheers. when my body woke up i stared at the most brightest fireball that i have ever seen in my entire life of 32 years. this ball looked to be 20 miles away from my house. but it shot a beam of light that was gold as the sunset like orange gold fire. it w! as so powerful, that i couldnt bare to look anymore i shut my eyes after 10 seconds and even shutting my eyes i still got blind thrue my eye lids. it was like nothing ive ever experienced in my lifetime. as i opened my eyes it got bigger and closer, i tried to reach for my phone but my body was scared. n paralized as if i had no control over my body i seen how it took off over my house my whole room was ligh up as if the sun was in my room. and it left with my entire yard ligh up golden orange. i wanted to see more but my body fell back into a sleep. i woke up that day with my eyes hurting burning. and now im really scared. i dont know what to do i told my mom n dad and they believe me because i always tell the truth, im a father of 2 children and i never experienced this befor. please am i in danger. what do i do im terrified to fall asleep again. scared my mom sleeps with me in my room with the light on. i feel that i got beamed or something this isnt right, i dont believe in ufo. or ghost, but this wasnt right or normal. this really happen ed to me and now i look at this life in a different way. please get back to me. Thanks
November 23, 2014 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Peoria, IL
It was november 23 around 9 oclock im a sky dweller so I look up at the uh sky alot very often u know and this time I uh see a star u know and it was moving faster then plane and it illuminated and turned back into dimond this isnt a joke u know im vrry serious about situataion and this isnt first time many many more times this has happend to me and not just star shaped I mean fireballs in the sky and very very close it didnt freak me out I was just cunsern and I still am and will be for rest of my life (and this no name is bullshit I know what I saw and im not ashamed).
November 23, 2014 · 5:25 PM · FIREBALL
Dover, NH
We were letting the dog out because he was freaking out inside. The weather was abnormally warm for New England in late November. Hardly any wind and around 50 degrees. My wife noticed it first. Moving left to right from the horizon were what looked like orange orb fireballs. Moving very slow high up in the atmosphere about the size of a ping pong ball if you were holding it in your hand stretched out. It was like watching meteors entering our atmosphere one by one but in slow motion. They were travelling very slow. The formation was way too consistent for it to be a Chinese Lantern. I would say between 10-15 objects came through then vanished. My video caught them as you see in most videos but it was nothing compared to the experience. The video actually picked up more of them coming in real fast then zig zagging out of the atmosphere at speeds I have never seen before. I am 39, my wife is 42, and my daughter is 19 and we all were pretty freaked out by the experience. I have seen nothing in the Dover/Somersworth area on the news, but I do know that 10 miles from my house was the Exeter sighting 30+years ago. The Dover Police dept did take a few calls similar to mine. I also saw a woman in Rochester 2 years ago documented the same thing I saw. That town is only 7 miles away. We spoke via telephone with the witness and he sounded to us to be quite serious-minded and credible. PD
November 23, 2014 · 5:00 PM · FIREBALL
Philadelphia, PA
20+ fireball crafts flew over philadelphia and surrounding area. May have been military presence, but did not appear to have flickering lights like most aircraft.
November 23, 2014 · 1:00 AM · FIREBALL
Play Vista/Marina del Rey, CA
I was in my room which has a balcony off of it and I decided to glance over to look at the stars through the sliding glass door. As soon as I did I noticed the object. At first glance it appeared to be a meteor, but I do not believe it was a meteor. The object was in the NE part of the sky. It appeared in the sky just above the horizon and was streaking down with a long white trail. It seemed to move much slower than the average meteor. Also, the light and size were incredible. It looked like a bright white sphere. From my vantage point it was about the size of a softball with a long bright white light trail. I have never seen anything like it. It seemed to linger longer than an average meteor in the sky. This object was so bright. The light coming from the object was such a bright white light than it reminded me of the led xmas light. I'm not sure of the exact time of the sighting, but it was between 1AM and 1:10AM. I'm located on the Playa Vi! sta/Marina del Rey city line. The object was in the North East part of the sky. The object became visible to me in the horizon and looked as though it fell to earth. It lasted about 5-6 seconds. I would love to know what I saw??? I do know there was a meteor shower recently, but this did NOT look or act like a meteor.
November 22, 2014 · 11:50 PM · FIREBALL
Dover, NH
Driving into Dover near the traffic lights, four people in the car, and the two people in the front seat both witnessed it. 50-100 feet from the highway, a bright green fireball (the color of a green traffic light) fell out of the sky, with a tail, and faded away after 4-5 seconds of first seeing it. Large enough to know that it couldn't have been a shooting star and was definitely very close to highway.
November 22, 2014 · 9:34 PM · FIREBALL
Orange, CA
On 11/22/14, while standing outside facing West, a silent fireball of orange/red color appeared from the horizon at 21:34. Over the course of a maximum of 4 minutes, it slowly (floating like a lantern) went diagonally up to the right then, at about half way up, it slowly faded then disappeared. Within less than a minute, another fireball appeared, following the exact same trajectory, then faded. About a minute later, a third fireball appeared, floated the same path, then faded away. In total, there were three fireballs within 10 to 15 minutes. We took a video but it is such poor quality that it doesn't seem worth sending. The three observers are mostly novices to astronomy. Two of the three have, on multiple occasions, seen unidentifiable objects in the sky. However, they have never seen fireballs before the previously mentioned incident, only round objects which emitted a red light which varied in intensity. They moved in a way which did not correlate with the current wind direction.
November 22, 2014 · 7:00 PM · FIREBALL
Detroit, MI
Witness provides no information about the event. PD
November 22, 2014 · 7:00 PM · FIREBALL
Detroit, MI
I then looked around to see if anyone else had witnessed what we was seeing, people in the barbershop was looking, people that was coming out the grocery store was looking and some traffic had stopped and was looking, I turned back and looked at the objects and called my wife on her cell phone but I kept going to voicemail so I called my daughter and ask where was her mother and to go get her and look out the back window and look at all these UFOs in the sky, she woke up my wife and told her, all I can hear was my wife saying oh s***, what is going on an invasion, now all 15 or 20 of them were in a pyramid formation, I noticed that the last two on the left was coming down and stopped and went back up, they then lined up in a straight line never making a sound, they was changing colors red,orange, yellow and getting brighter they hovered a little more and then slowly moving towards northeast very slow still not making a sound I then started driving home but still looking at them, when I pulled in my driveway and could still see the last two of them and I noticed the last one was getting so bright it looked like it had a ring around the bottom that really kept getting brighter like it was drawing energy from something, it looked like a donut shape or Saturn ring, I went in the house and talked to my wife and daughter and said I'm about to follow them but when I went back outside I didn't see them anymore,I drove in the direction that they were going still didn't see them, and then rain just started pouring down instantly, I drove back home and called fox 2 news to report the objects and the news said that they had several calls about that and was waiting on video footage
November 21, 2014 · 11:05 PM · FIREBALL
Savannah/Jacksonville, GA
On Friday evening, November 21, at 23:05 hours, I was onboard ((company name deleted//a cruise ship) from the Caribbean. We were sailing north and I was looking out of my stateroom window located on the starboard side of the ship. I observed a extremely bright light which I believe was on the water. I could not tell the distance of the object or ship. While looking at the object, I observed a orange glowing light traveling from the direction of the light with a trajectory towards the ship. The object's trajectory was arching up and quickly traveled over the top of the ship. As the object was being observed, the neon light tubes on the stateroom mirror began to glow. This continued for about one or two minutes, then stopped. The bright light on the ocean appeared to be stationary. We were traveling at about 14 knots. The bright light eventually left my field of vision towards the ships stern. This event was also observed by my wife. (It is noted the size of the very bright light was about the size of a pencil eraser including the halo surrounding the light.) My best guest of the location was between Jacksonville Florida and Brunswick Georgia. We have spoken via telephone with both the husband and wife, and we deem them to be exceptionally qualified, and exceptionally credible, as witnesses. The report originally indicated that the sighting had occurred on a Saturday night, but the witness corrected it to Friday, November 21st, 2014. PD
November 21, 2014 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Hidden Valley, CA
After a rain storm went through and most of the clouds cleared, there was a sudden darkness that fell of the night there was a large ball of light hovering above the Ridgeline... well above 500 feet when that ball of light was drawn to another's attention and acknowledged, it immediately disappeared... leaving no trail never moved.
November 21, 2014 · 8:20 PM · FIREBALL
Roseville, CA
I rounded the HWY 65 North exit from I-80 in Roseville and once over the hill I noticed one large red/orange fireball in the sky directly north. It stayed in the same spot before going dark.
November 20, 2014 · 9:20 PM · FIREBALL
Snellville, GA
On the drive home from the gym my mother and I saw a large green ball falling from the sky with an orange light in the front. It looked like it was going to land on the earth but it disappeared behind the trees before we could see anything more. It was between a quarter and a third of the size of the moon.
November 20, 2014 · 9:17 PM · FIREBALL
Decatur, TN
Tennessee- Meigs County- Decatur- Hwy 58… My son called me to come get him from ball game tonight, while driving on our way back home about 9:17 pm, my attention was drawn to the sky, We saw a round green to yellow ball falling from sky. no tail on it, perfectly round, color went from green to yellow, no sound, no flash from it at all and as quick as it appeared it then disappeared. While it only lasted about 15 seconds it was amazing.
November 20, 2014 · 8:40 PM · FIREBALL
Winter Haven, FL
Well, me and my sister was sitting outside around 8:40pm, when we noticed a glowing fire ball with lights around it an it looked as if 2 helicopter were keeping an eye on it. This object stood in the same spot for like 5-7 minutes, but when I went to go get my phone, it was gone. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 20, 2014 · 7:00 PM · FIREBALL
Old Lyme, CT
Object falling looked like "star," no visible tail. May have been comet, no variation. Hard to pick up any details. One of many reports submitted by the same source, who elects to remain totally anonymous, and who provides no contact information. Probable hoax?? PD
November 20, 2014 · 6:20 PM · FIREBALL
Salinas, CA
I went to Costco to get a pizza for dinner I was heading to my car, As I was getting to my car i looked up because I noticed a glowing orange orb in the sky. The orb was very bright in the sky glowingd bright orange red. Then the other two appeared coming out from behind the store the orbs were in a line heading the same direction. The forth one appeared from out of a cloud. The forth one dove down a little then back up and moved towards th-e rest. They were moving slow like if they were cruising the night sky. As I started looking at it the people in the parking lot started noticing them and started recording then. They flew over for about for minutes before they into the clouds. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 18, 2014 · 8:30 PM · FIREBALL
Eagle River, AK
Large, fireball stationary and smoking. Estimated 300 feet above the ground, 1 mile away, the size of a small building or boat. Mistaken for a street light because of the size and color and relative brightness of the fire. Completely stationary, smoking, a large spherical fire without visible flames really, the size that would be expected from the estimated size and distance, but certainly burning with lots of smoke. At first sight, after realizing it was not a streetlight, the first thing I assumed was that it was a plane, on fire, that was flying directly in our direction, but on further inspection, I realized it was completely motionless. After a little over a minute of watching it, the thing collapsed on itself, rolling in less than a second into a singular point, it seemed, in the center and disappeared leaving only the smoke plume. My friend, his friend I had just met, my friend’s girlfriend and I we’re there and saw the object for around two minutes. His girlfriend though didn’t see it, it was so unassuming, as I said it looked from our perspective exactly like a streetlight, the same size and color. It was only after seeing the smoke and flickering fire that I realized it was so much farther away. It should be noted that the object was either directly above the Air force base, or over the inlet past the base. It was absolutely not an aircraft, however, and wasn’t so much flying or floating as just completely still, like a bonfire burning on nothing at all.
November 17, 2014 · 10:50 PM · FIREBALL
I-65 (Mile Marker 250), IN
Saw a green fireball with an orange tail off highway 65 in Indiana going south at about mile marker 250. It was much bigger than a shooting star (like a baseball). It lasted for one second, flashed, disappeared, reappeared and then it was instantly gone. Possible meteor? The annual Leonid Meteor Shower begins on this date. PD
November 17, 2014 · 9:30 PM · FIREBALL
Mansfield (Rte. 30; near I-71), OH
The object was below the cloud deck and moved at a very high rate of speed toward the northeast sky. The object was in view approximately 4 seconds.