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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
August 27, 2019 · 4:45 AM · SPHERE
Lake Forest, CA
just left my house to walk to the gas station down the street. right as i look both ways to cross the street i see to my right, between some tall trees i see a spherical light bounce, came down then went up and away really quick
August 26, 2019 · 8:45 PM · SPHERE
Hamer, SC
I was sitting on my porch and saw a flash of light. I thought it was lightning so I looked up and saw a very bright sphere with an orange glow. It was moving very slow and the light was pulsating or the object was rotating. I ran in the house and got my son and father-in-law. Came back out and saw it again. It would go from dim to dark to extremely bright. It was still moving slow and stopping. All of a sudden it shot up into air and disappeared, but came back just as fast. While looking for the first one a second one came in just like it and followed a very similar pattern. The objects appeared like a sphere but the light or glow around it was similar to an upside down top.
August 25, 2019 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
White Lake (Canada), ON · Canada
August 26, 2019. Several star like objects observed to north, west and overhead. August 24 through to 26, 2019, around 11:00 Pm to 2:00 am. Dark sky and no moon. Very bright objects Flashing light white, red, green, and blue lights observed moving erratically and defying gravity. Very unnatural movement. Overhead light had very bright white turning on and off moving North to South for about 10 minutes then disappeared. I have never observed lights like this before. Observed 1 light on night of 24th in northern sky 25 degrees above horizon, 1 light on the 25th to the west 20 degrees above horizon and 4 lights on the night of the 26th 2 to the west 1 to the north and overhead. There were 3 witnesses over the 3 nights. It will be cloudy this evening so will not be able to see if they will be back again tonight. Will check again tomorrow. Very unusual especially as these objects have appeared on consecutive nights.
August 24, 2019 · 2:15 PM · SPHERE
Sacramento, CA
i was smoking a cigarette and saw what could be a blue green weather baloon which dispeered then about 15 white dots in the sky which would come and go. never have seen anything like it
August 23, 2019 · 11:35 PM · SPHERE
Arcola, MO
A family of 4, all adults, college graduates, 3 with advanced degrees and one in law enforcement. We were camping at Mutton Creek Marina in the East campground. We had set up our chairs in a clear area to observe the Perseid Meteor Shower and had seen multiple meteors. Out of the north, about 50 yards above the tree tops was a sphere of light. It looked about the size of a frisbee from where we sat and traveled about as fast as a person walking. It went right over us and after traveling at that speed and height for about 200 yards it began to rise, straight up. It then began traveling southeast and sped up and then it turned into a streak of light and disappeared into the Milky Way. Amazing! There was no sound, no sign of windows or doors, only bright, white light.
August 23, 2019 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
West Hartford, CT
A SKYWATCH team in Connecticut was conducting routine observations and running equipment tests on older and newer skywatch systems. They were tracking a conspicuous orange twinkling orb at around 22:00 hours (10:00 pm local), 02:00 UTC. The object on the western horizon first caught the attention of one of the group, who quickly alerted the rest of the team. Another team member had the night vision camera running with a tripod-mounted 20" flat screen with the NV camera on top. At first the orb was stationary. Once the target was moving, they had to manually track it on-screen, as it slowly moved from left to right (W-N). As it moved to the right it decreased in altitude. At one point the motion was described as "fell like a leaf". They watched it until it went below the tree line and out of sight. No noise was ever heard from the object.
August 23, 2019 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
College Park, MD
First noticed one blue-white sphere in the sky, moving in and out of the night clouds. Then there were two. A friend and I watched for a few more minutes when we noticed a third light. Three spherical lights zig zagging and doing loop the loops in and out of the clouds. They were still dancing through the clouds when we left the area.
August 22, 2019 · 4:55 AM · SPHERE
Napa, CA
On my way to work i came to a red light on the highway. While at the red light there was a bright flash and a streak in the sky right in what i thought i had a fron row seat to a beautiful shooting star. There was a flash and a tail however as it fell the tail got smaller and almost reversed to where now there is a short flame out of the bottom to slow the object down and brought it to a stand still hover in the sky. The object that had been an orangish red had illuminated to a very bright white orb and then proceded to fly to the east side of the valley very fast. Id say its altitude would bounce between 200 -1000 feet off the ground and changed direction several times. I filmed the orb flying while it was on the east side of the valley with my phone but unfortunately did not film when i thought it was just a shooting star and actually watched it enter the earths atmosphere
August 21, 2019 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Belgrade Lakes, ME
Saw multiple white and red spheres dropping from high in sky quickly to mid point on horizon, then stopping and shooting off quickly horizontally, then stopping in an instant, dropping almost to horizon, blasting a bright glow of light and then shooting up back into the stats at amazing speeds. Black Blackhawk helicopters arrived 8/22/19 and flew up and down long pond in the belgrade lakes region for an hour as if searching for something.
August 21, 2019 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Kalaloch, WA
My friend and I are big outdoor enthusiasts and took a trip out to Olympic National Park back in August 2019. The night of our sighting we were camping at Kalaloch Beach. We walked down close to the water after dinner and were star gazing. We saw a ton of shooting stars, and even a few satellites, but what we saw next was nothing like those. It was a glowing orb that hovered for a couple minutes high in the sky. After staring at it for a couple of minutes it literally shined a directed light specifically at us. It didn't light up the sky or anywhere else but only shined on us. Not like a laser pointer but like a very narrow beam from a flashlight. It wasn't bright enough to hurt our eyes. My friend and I grabbed each other out of fear and disbelief. A few seconds later the orb split into 5 separate orbs. 4 of them flew off at a moderate speed, and the last one hovered for another minute or 2 then zoomed off at a rapid speed in the opposite direction. I hadn't done much research about it afterwards, but today I saw 2 videos online that were very similar to what we saw. We are both healthy, active, late 20s males. I've always been a skeptic when it comes to UFO's or the supernatural, but there's no denying what we saw. Another thing to note is that prior to our sighting that night we were blown away by the bioluminescent algae we saw all over the beach. The beach was glowing everywhere we stepped. It was incredible to see, but when we recall that night we hardly even think about the bioluminescent algae because of how incredible our UFO sighting was.
August 19, 2019 · 8:30 PM · SPHERE
Seaside, CA
We observed a very high speed, star-like object traveling in a south/west to north/west direction holding altitude. This particular direction is uncommon for commercial aircraft along the central coast of california. Miltary aircraft don't fly this particular direction at that altitude either. That includes fighter jets or larger. When they do fly higher, they leave trails with this object did not. We observe military aircraft with regularity in this area. This object had no navigation lights and made no sound. It appeared as a white to slightly orange color and except for its odd speed and altitude, looked similar to a star. We were able to determine its height to be between 'two and three times' the altitude of commercial aircraft traveling along the south to north route, (so-cal to the bay area), by using cloud layers and other aircraft at the time of sighting, (appox 30,000-40,000 feet as I often watch them on the flightradar app),. There were more than one commercial aircraft on the evening of sighting flying along the usual route. The sky was extremely clear in places and commercial aircraft could be heard and navigation lights clearly seen on all aircraft. We counted off the seconds and estimated the speed to be appox ten times that of commercial aircraft seen? It held a straight line until out of sight - approx half the observable sky, in 10-15 secs. Four family members observed it. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 18, 2019 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Hamilton, MT
Went out to turn off my sprinkler and noticed a bright orange light coming from the NW and traveling slowly towards the SE. The sky was already dark with no cloud cover and stars were out. National weather service out of Missoula reported winds aloft at 60mph out of the NW over Hamilton, MT at 10:00pm mountain time. Once I noticed the first light, I could see another traveling along a similar path as if one was following the other. They were both equally bright and where much bigger than any object such as Jupiter or other planets or stars. They were easily10x bigger than the biggest planet or star. They were circular in shape, possibly slightly elongated when at their brightest. The first one slowed and stopped directly overhead making no sound at all. While the first one remained stationary and the second one continued towards the first, the first one dimmed and became smaller to about the size of the stars out at the time. Then the first one vanished compl! etely. Meanwhile, the second one while still moving also dimmed down to a smal star sized object and completely vanished as well. While all that was going on further in the distance a third object following along the same path caught my attention as well. The third object was orange as well but different than the other in that it appeared to have an orange energy field surrounding it making it much brighter. The main part being what seemed about the same bright orange as the first two objects, and the surrounding orb surrounding it a much lighter shade of orange. This energy field that I call it made the third object 4-5x bigger than the main center object that it was surrounding. The third object never came as far south as the other two so my view of it was not as close. It may have been as far away as five miles to the NW when it reversed its direction and started traveling back in the direction from where it had come from. Then it too faded down to a tiny orange object, like the others and vanished as well. Hamilton is in a valley that sits at an elevation of around 3,500ft with surrounding mountains between 8,000-10,000ft. I would guess that these objects had to be over 10,000ft in elevation or higher. None of them made any sound that I could hear and it is very quiet here on a Sunday night with almost zero wind at the time.
August 18, 2019 · 8:30 PM · SPHERE
Porquis Jct. (Canada), ON · Canada
My wife and I were driving along the highway between Porquis Jct and Iroquois Falls Ontario at around 8:30pm-9:00pm. We both witnessed 2 separate glowing spheres appear above us but below the clouds, we still had a bit of daylight left. I watched one out the passenger window above me and my wife watched one out the driver window on her side of the cat. . They disappeared as quickly as they appeared. The sphere that I was watching started moving horizontally than quickly shot up and disappeared.
August 17, 2019 · 4:39 PM · SPHERE
Provo, UT
Objects in floating in the sky for the past three hours now it has not moved in anyway regarding the amount of wind that we have at my wind instrument measurement of 21 mph object is cylinder shaped shows a white silver base color from when I can see you when I zoomed in on my camera for several people are witnessing this says everybody at this resort which is Sundance Mountain resort seeing this are wondering what it is.
August 17, 2019 · 5:00 AM · SPHERE
Wuppertal (Germany) · Germany
i started staring at it, then it cames near to my face, near, more near and i easily pushed it with my right hand away. i touched threw it, there was nothing to toch or feel. these thing was going threw my hand and id needet 2 seconds till these orb startet going slightly backwards and when doing that it changed his form. it was an orb and startet to be an cube then dodecahedron, and even much more i cannot explain. it was like it is rotating then from the inner side, wich i could see threw all the gaps and the outside was routating too. the color stayed all the time the same. it was like a glowy green mandala machine wich can transform to every sync geometrie even ones we never saw on earth yet. it dissapeared when it reached my window by going back from me while transforming. it has just faded out by the glas from the window. just wantet to tell my story. it was some day june 2015 i dont know it exactly. not 2019.
August 14, 2019 · 3:49 PM · SPHERE
Oklahoma City, OK
I was on S. Miller Ave. and S.W.61st St. walking north. The UFO heading West toward Will Rogers World Airport. I heard a helicopter, so I looked up . When I did I saw that the helicopter was flying higher than they usually do. I noticed a flash go past the helicopter. That's when I saw a ball or sphere. They were going in opposite directions. Like if to be playing a game of chicken. As it passed, the sphere looked to be close enough to gauge a measurement. From what I could guess it looked to be half the size or just a tad smaller than that to the cab of the helicopter. This is your standard size the police and news use. I watched as the helicopter would fly in a circle keeping up with but keeping a far distance . Huge circles what might be 2 mile circles. stay high really high up. The sphere was fling slow and it seemed to spin. I say that because the sun would reflect off of it in increments.
August 13, 2019 · 5:20 AM · SPHERE
Chesapeake, VA
It was the early morning hours of September 13th, and the last day of a three day meteor shower. I often enjoy these events and didn’t want to miss the last morning of the event. I got up and went outside with a pillow to lie down on our bench to get a good general view of the sky before the sunrise. My feet were facing south, my left shoulder to the east coast (the sun was beginning to rise a bit). I caught the first meteor in the upper right quadrant of view…. It was orange in color and zipped the usual speed (1/4-1/2 second in length). A few minutes later I saw the second…in the bottom left quadrant….same seed. It was bright white in color. I then noticed an airplane…flashing lights in the right, middle area of my general sight. It was going the usual speed….and quite a bit slower in speed as the meteors….I do not recall if I heard it. Then (at the same time as the plane was flying from right to left in the middle of my vision), all of a sudden a white orb appeared to the left of mid-field.... out of nowhere. It was a circle/ball of light….opaque in substance as best as I could tell with my eyes. There were no clouds in the sky (except a long thin one that was at the bottom of my field of sight). The orb was quite a bit larger than the meteors…..about the size of a red light when you are stopped about 4 cars back. Best I could tell it was way over the tree line but below the height of the airplane. It traveled south to north for about 5 full seconds and then just disappeared. It was traveling at least 4 times as fast as the airplane, but at least 4 times slower than the meteors. It didn’t waver; there was no sound; no pulsing; it followed a straight line….and just…was gone. I have never seen anything like it and I am an avid sky-watcher. Whatever it was…it seemed to follow the coastline.
August 12, 2019 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
Utica, NY
Red Sphere hovering at about the height of the base of the roof on the house it waas nearest. My husband and I were walking the dog and as we went over a small hill it was there hovering in the middle of the street, It looked like it was only a few houses away from us. From where we stood it appeared about 2 ft wide maybe? It was hard to tell. It was a bright red, glowing sphere. This street is well lit, so it was easy to tell that it was hovering all alone with nothing attached to it from any direction. It made no sound. We got nervous and headed the other direction, looked over our shoulders, and it had disappeared completely. The entire sighting lasted only a few minutes.
August 10, 2019 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Jarratt, VA
Looked to the sky and saw a red orb shoot from east to west and lasted about 1-3 seconds and then disappeared behind a tree line
August 8, 2019 · 11:28 PM · SPHERE
IdentifiedLandouzy-La-Ville, Picardie · France
Le 07 août 2019 à partir de 23h28 et durant plus d'une heure et demie, deux personnes observent (oeil nu et jumelles) des phénomènes lumineux dans le ciel nocturne. Six vidéos avec un téléphone portable sont réalisées. Un seul témoignage est recueilli. D’étrangeté et de consistance moyennes (deux témoins, vidéos du PAN, mais un témoignage peu précis), ce cas s’avère être une méprise probable avec l’étoile Arcturus, tout du moins pour le troisième PAN. Les deux autres PAN ne sont pas identifiables par manque de données (voir le compte rendu d'enquête). L’aspect visuel du troisième PAN évoque très fortement l’étoile Arcturus, dont la couleur et la luminosité correspondent très bien. Les changements rapides de couleur du PAN sont tout à fait typiques des scintillements de cette étoile. La direction d’observation du PAN est tout à fait cohérente avec Arcturus. Seuls les déplacements rapides et la forme de "méduse" décrits par le témoin paraissent incohérents avec cette hypothèse, mais la très longue durée de l’observation implique que le PAN n’a pas pu se déplacer rapidement. De plus, la forme de méduse est vraisemblablement due à la mauvaise optique des jumelles, car elle n’apparaît pas sur les vidéos. Le cas est classé A pour le troisième PAN, méprise très probable avec l’étoile Arcturus. Les deux premiers PAN ne sont pas identifiables ni exploitable par manque de données. [GEIPAN classification A — Arcturus]
August 8, 2019 · 9:40 PM · SPHERE
Ocean Isle Beach, NC
At 9:40pm looking directly over the North Carolina ocean on a clear night with a half moon, we saw first one, then 2, deep orange glowing orbs over the ocean at an angle of 30 degrees. On this night, that means these lights appeared stationary, halfway between the ocean horizon and the half moon. From Ocean Isle Beach, 30 degrees into the sky and almost straight out into the ocean, but more like 20 degrees to the right/south. Which was almost directly under the half moon at this time on this date. 3 nights prior, my brother and I saw a green fireball (meteor I assume) Bright green and going straight down into the water, directly straight over the ocean (probably burning up prior to hitting). This night was another clear night and I was on the beachfront deck with 3 others: My wife, my friend, and my sister. All 4 of us witnessed the event: brief but long enough for everyone to turn their heads and witness enough of it (both lights). The event itself: 1 deep orange stationary light appeared in the sky. It was about the overall luminosity of the half moon in the sky, so quite bright. More of an orb than a small point. Since we were spotting meteors, I yelled to look at that one coming right at us. (Thinking it was a large fireball headed directly at us since it appeared stationary.) But then it lasted too long and didn't move, and then started going out exactly as a 2nd one started glowing. Briefly this was like 2 orange headlights in the sky coming at us. As a guess, it seemed like 3 miles out over the open ocean at a 30 degree angle into the sky off the horizon. No boats in the area (some to the distant left and right), and no planes in the sky, at least none anywhere to be seen with lights on them. Visibility was strong, with the milky way band of stars visible directly overhead despite the half moon. The 2 orange lights only lasted about 15 seconds and each appeared stationary, and locked, horizontal to each other. Based on the distance away they appeared like they were 1/10 of a mile apart in the sky. The first light lasted 6 seconds, then started to fade concurrent with an equal and opposite brightening of the 2nd light to the right of the first light. Then the original light was gone and the light to the right was on, for about 5 additional seconds, then both were gone. They came on and off but didn't move otherwise. I went online to see if this is common in NC, and it's ultra common over the last 20 years. Lots of people seeing this type of thing and not a lot of good theories. But this video from 6 months prior seems to show exactly what the 4 of us witnessed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkUs79K940E Closest guess would be military exercises, flares on parachutes. But the lack of planes and the lack of smoke trails and any movement at all are an issue. Also, some other events seem to last longer, this one was rather fast and not useful for flares unless they failed somehow. Kind of a Chinese lantern glow but it was super windy that day and there was no movement, and we were watching the sky all night for meteors and I'm not sure how they could get out over the ocean and only ignite themselves briefly like that. The shutting off of the one on the left and concurrent turning on of a new one on the right make it 10x more eerie than if it was just one odd light, because it seemed like it could signify intelligent intent - which could of course be a coincidence. When filing these reports does anyone get back to you to say what it was, or to see if they can confirm if there were military exercises off the coast of NC that night? In the above similar event video online, it was in December and on a Tuesday rather than a Thursday night, but they said it happened "between 9 and 10 pm" which was a match, also a match in terms of appearing out in the ocean and slightly to the right. Though above video appears like a 20 degree angle and our event was a bit higher in the sky. Just after and seemingly unrelated, way to the left/north up the coast was a very distant storm cloud with frequent lightning within the cloud, looking like stranger things type movie effect. Visible lighting but eerie, and all within 1 cloud. Very distant though and to the left rather than straight/right, where there were no clouds, boats or planes. Though I guess that means some sort of exotic orange ball lighting could an angle.
August 8, 2019 · 5:40 PM · SPHERE
Barnes, LONDON B · United Kingdom
Me and my friend getting some fresh air on the balcony when we spotted a bright orange orb flying around 200ft above us and moving from east to west, then we spotted another orange orb travelling west to east. The two orbs came together to from one and became extremely bright. The orb then stretched out into more of a oval shape and within a instant completely vanished without a trace
August 8, 2019 · 6:10 AM · SPHERE
Parrish, FL
UFO Thursday 8/8/2019 - ~6:10 am. Walking the dog in Parrish, Florida. To the north, and possibly over Tampa, I see a very bright light shaped like a relatively small orb (probably bigger than a plane would have looked at that distance). It was moving extremely slowly and had 5 bright beams of light shooting out of it to a good distance and evenly spaced. The object had a trail of what appeared to be a cloud of smoke behind it in a trail which was erratically shaped as if the object had been mobile for some time and moving from over the ocean toward land. The trail was not straight, suggesting a non-linear path, and their was no apparent wind as the clouds were still. Interestingly the “smoke” was lit up, very much in contrast to the clouds around it, of which there were few, so this object was not obscured by clouds. After a couple of minutes, the object began moving more rapidly (but still very slowly) toward the earth and appeared to be naturally extinguishing itself as it got c! loser. At this point the projections of light also dimmed and disappeared. When it got a bit over the tree line where I was, it was totally out, but the “smoke trail” behind it continued to glow as if lit up from within, light hues, not just one color but mostly bright white light. I did not bring my phone with me to walk the dog so I could not take pictures. I ran it to get my wife to look but at that point is was already almost out. It was the most unexplainable thing I’ve ever seen in the sky.
August 7, 2019 · 8:00 PM · SPHERE
Salem, IL
I was washing my father's Jeep, he recently had a stroke & asked me to clean it for him, we ran to the car wash.. This was a bit before 8:00pm. After finishing washing the Jeep, my partner & I drove out behind NAL (business in town) to drive down the road & dry off the majority of the water. I stopped the Jeep before the end of the road, under a streetlight, to get out & finishing drying it off with a towel. When I was almost done I noticed a VERY bright object up in the sky (circular but bright), towards the east. At first, I figured it was an airplane or helicopter but the object was moving in too many directions for an aircraft(bobbing up & down, but moving left to right far too quickly for a plane). I yelled for my partner to look & when he got out of the Jeep he said it was probably a drone, but I’ve never seen a drone with a hazy orb around it. We couldn’t tell if the bright object was very far away or somewhat close. As I told my partner to go get his phone, to take a video it became I creasingly brighter, & the color changed from a bright white to what almost resembled fire. The object seemed to shoot off in a matter of seconds to the North & left a small faint trail of yellow light behind where it originally shot off. We heard the noise of cars on Main Street & the Jeeps engine running. There was no loud boom, like a jet breaking the sound barrier. I have never believed in aliens visiting Earth (UFOs), and to be honest, I still don’t know what we saw. After witnessing whatever this was we were both were confused & just laughed about it. My partners bestfriend is married to a police officer, so we called to see if he was on duty, he was, & to see if anyone else had reported this weird light in the sky. He thought we were joking & after we explained what happened he told us that it was probably an airplane headed back to the airport or something from Scott Airforce Base. Again I don’t know what we saw, but I know it wasn’t a drone or airplane. Maybe it’s something else & you’re sites employees can answer what it was? We are both scientifically minded, educated adults with good careers & don’t want people thinking we are crazy, but we have gone from confused to almost scared by what we witnessed. We just want an answer. Ps. We didn’t know there was a hotline until coming home & researching what happened & finding your site.