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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 5, 2019 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Isle of Palms, SC
Isle of Palms, SC. On about the 5th or 6th of August, 2019, my wife and I went to the beach to observe meteors and we both saw out over the ocean two different times within a ten minute timespan five orange glowing orbs which looked to be pretty high above the ocean. They seemed to come on in succession and fade out. There were no ships nearby.
August 4, 2019 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
Knoxville & Gatlinburg, TN
a solid, unmoving white orb that stayed there for a moment and then darted past. my boyfriend in Knoxville told me he saw a flash past his window that was nothing like a plane/bug/various light/etc, it was too fast. then, I went to check Facebook and a local group had a video of the event from 40 minutes away in Gatlinburg.
August 4, 2019 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Samson, AL
I observed a solid light on the horizon moving rapidly from the South headed Due North. It was at high altitude with no flashing white or red lights. I am very familiar with helicopters and plans as we live in the middle of 2 bases one is a helicopter base the other is an air force base where they fly jets, ospreys, c-130s and other aircraft. This object displayed none of the normal light arrays of standard aircraft. The object moved in a relatively straight trajectory from south to north. The sighting was approx. 3 min. I attempted to video the object but it was too high and too dark to show up on my camera.
August 3, 2019 · 10:25 PM · SPHERE
Livingston, TX
One bright orange sphere was traveling SE, at a steady pace, in the NW sky, at about 45 degrees. No sound, no pulsing or blinking lights, much larger than stars and as bright as a street light. Clear night with minimal cloud coverage.
August 3, 2019 · 10:15 PM · SPHERE
Lewis, IA
As I was standing outside in my yard, there was a very bright white orb hovering closer to the ground than most domestic planes do, maybe a few thousand feet. It did this for less than 10 seconds before jetting up and off at an incredible speed before disappearing.
August 3, 2019 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Bondurant, IA
Watched for about 15 seconds and it disappeared in A SECOND. Witness provides no contact information. PD
August 3, 2019 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Vienna, WV
Looking south at Venus in the night sky, noticed a bright sphere rapidly rising from the horizon, then quickly disappearing as it gets close in the sky to Venus. It reappeared again about 25 min later in the west as a bright flash, and as soon as it lit up it vanished. It appeared to be making a 90 degree when it lit up making almost like an ell shape trail. The object was as bright as Venus in the night sky. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 1, 2019 · 10:30 PM · SPHERE
Marin County, CA
7 brightly lit yellowish gold and aqua bluish green lights were seen hovering between 2 hillside homes near the foothills of Mt. Tamalpais. The lights made no sound and were all within a 100 yard space in between these two homes. I was standing about 3 blocks away from this activity. The lights went out one by one. 3 of the lights were slanted in a 7 to 2 o:clock position with one of the 3 lights in the middle. Other lights appearing in pairs slanted in a 11 o:clock to 5 o'clock position were also seen after this sighting but in a different location out near the Ring Mountain Open Preserve hiking trails near the Bay.
August 1, 2019 · 8:00 PM · SPHERE
Denver, CO
I was walking south down Lipan street toward my home and for some reason I looked up in the sky and I see this white light which at that point im thinking its a shooting star and I'm about to make a wish like I normally do, that is until it stops for less than a second more like a millisecond and takes off in a whole other direction at a complete 90 degree angle out of orbit. The whole thing only lasted about 30 sec I think but to me it felt like 2-3 seconds It wasn't a satellite it was not a drone nor was it a meteor or rock/star it couldn't have been "man-made" unless our gov made a star wars xwing straighter but I'm going to say thats absurd so yeah it was a UFO an unexplained flying object that was faster than the speed of light and defied the laws of nature as we know.
August 1, 2019 · 11:30 AM · SPHERE
St. Peter, MN
I was working on a jobsite in Minnesota Square park in St Peter, MN, on the morning of August 1st and happened to look up and see an odd object in the sky. It appeared to be two spheres methodically rotating around a center axis or one sphere orbiting one in the center. The objects stayed the same distance from each other the entire time I witnessed them and if I had to guess I would say there was about the spacing of half of one sphere between the two. They were fairly close together. I am certain there were 2 objects. The rotation was fairly rapid, maybe 20 cycles a minutes and the speed seemed very consistent. The objects were to my north, and seemed very high up in the sky. I am unsure the size, as I had nothing to reference them against. The sky was clear and cloudless. I stopped and watched these objects for approximately 15 minutes. I pointed them out to several of the other guys on site who saw them but didn't take as much interest in them as me. One said there had been a person flying a drone at the park the previous day, but that it had been black. These objects were white. I looked away for approximately 3 or 4 minutes to do something and when I looked for it again it was gone. I did not see the manner that it left in. I don't believe it was a drone. If it was it was not a design I have ever seen. After the fact I did some googling and see the local collage in St. Peter has a summer program where they launch high altitude balloons. https://gustavus.edu/camps/ballooning/ The balloon in the first picture on that website looks like the color of the spheres. The dates listed are not when I observed this object. I cannot find any pictures online of two balloons being tied to one payload. I have reached out to 3 people at Gustavus for comment and have not yet got any replies. I also have seen news reports of testing of high altitude reconnaissance balloons being tested over the midwest, including Minnesota. I have not seen any pictures of these and don't know how to account for the methodical spinning or how it departed in 3 minutes after not appearing to move for 15 minutes. I would appreciate any thoughts, comments or questions.
July 31, 2019 · 9:40 PM · SPHERE
Black Forest/Colorado Springs, CO
Three bright orbs were seen floating in the sky when one disappeared suddenly, and the other two were seen slowly descending towards the ground for landing.
July 30, 2019 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Folly Beach, SC
My wife and I were stargazing near the water on a clear night. There was light cloud cover and a storm very far out to sea. Our first sighting was what appeared to be 5 orange lights, all in a row parallel to the horizon, slipping from behind a cloud, moving out and around the cloud, then moving back into the cloud and fading. This occurred in the skies south of our position. Total visible time was about 10-12 seconds. These objects were circular, with a slight twinkle to them. The hue was definitely a bright orange, almost yellow toward the middle when they were at their brightest. Throughout the night we saw several single flashes of orange light. The flashes were primarily located in the south eastern sky and only lasted a moment. They resembled jet engines, but we heard no sounds that might indicate military aircraft. Our second sighting, coming just before returning to our house, was of a long string of orbs that seemed to extend/“come from” a single orb that appeared/“turned on” first and began to move slowly. The orbs moved in unison and were bright enough that the orange light they gave off reflected on the ocean surface. Again, they faded into clouds and were gone. Total visible time was again about 10-12 seconds.
July 30, 2019 · 7:56 PM · SPHERE
Victorville, CA
At the time of 19:56 near the city hall of Victorville, CA, a friend of mine and I were inside my truck facing the South-East direction as we waited at a stop sign to proceed on to the main road. As I first came to the stop sign, I noticed an extremely bright metallic looking sphere in the sky that flew across at speeds much faster than the speed of any aircraft or missile that I have ever seen or heard of. Its height was around 2,000 to 4,000 feet above ground and from checking 2k quality surveillance footage of our property camera that faced to the West. I determined that the object did not come from behind me and perhaps from above me. It flew to the East which was the direction I was facing at that high speed and then after nearing the 15 freeway a few miles out it began to dive at a forty-five degree angle at half of its previous speed until it was a thousand feet or less above ground and it nearly came to a full stop just outside of our view in which a large building was in the way of our line of sight. As we drove past the building to get a better view, it flew away travelling at its top speed in the South-East direction. The object was by far the brightest object in the sky shining a white/grey absolute metallic looking shine as if it was reflecting the sun. At that time of day, the sun has just set behind the nearby mountains and was hardly visible at all. The sky was mostly clear and there was still near full daylight outside. As the IT tech for the large facility in which I work at here, I went back and searched all of the surveillance footage from dozens of high definition cameras, but sadly all except for one camera was aimed high enough to view at the sky which was the North-West facing camera which is the one I used to see if the object came from behind my location. My roommate who was a Marine and I have never seen anything like that object online or from any other media source. I can only wish that one of our cameras had caught that occurrence, the object was so vivid an! d pronounced that it would have spoken for itself on video as it was the brightest object I have ever seen in the sky other than the sun itself. What is also interesting is that this occurred one day after the night a double meteor storm (Southern delta Aquariids/alpha Capricornids) was to be the most active. This object did not act in any manner of a meteor, it was very low flying, greatly reduced speed, was visible for a large number of seconds and was undeniably metallic.
July 29, 2019 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Charleston, SC
Observed large orange lights/orbs in the night sky. The bright circular light appeared suddenly, splittling from 1 to 2 to 3 to 4 orbs in a straight horizontal line and then back down to 1 in the same progression in a matter of seconds- disappearing immediately after. Lights were orange and seemed relatively close.
July 28, 2019 · 1:30 AM · SPHERE
Montreal (Canada), QC · Canada
Sunday July 28th 2019- 1:30am Montréal, Québec, Canada. I came home late from babysitting my sister's kids. I let my dog out in the yard for her nightly pee. I noticed my potted herbs were wilting and despite feeling very tired, I decided to take the time to water them. As I was doing that, something bright caught my eye. It was a large orange orb in the sky. It was moving rather slowly and eventually came to a stop for a moment and then continued its course in the sky. Eventually, I lost sight of it. At first I thought a plane was on fire? But it was very clearly a bright orange bubble of light that appeared to have two smaller and sharper lights towards the bottom of it. The colour appeared more saturated along the circumference and it seemed as though there was something more “structural” at the centre of it. I didn’t have my phone on me for picture.
July 28, 2019 · 1:15 AM · SPHERE
Foster, RI
Visiting with my parents we were by the pool when my dad said “hey what is that?” I looked up and we both saw a shiny sphere I would estimate to be at around 10,000 feet. Not a plane or drone by the high reflectiveness, speed and way it moved. Size of a car. Moved in a straight line with no trail. Went to grab my phone for a pic and it was gone. Weather balloon maybe...
July 27, 2019 · 11:30 PM · SPHERE
Levittown, NY
I was sitting outside against the tire of my car waiting for a pizza delivery, just sitting there looking at Jupiter/Ceres whilst I notice a circle (Not sphere) moving slowy at low altitude (Seemed to me at the time being). It was honestly seemed like just a balloon at first and moved at the same rate. But what was absurd about it was it really had no definition/value it just seemed to be a 'flat' round point in the sky, It was about a size of making a circle with your thumb and index and holding it at arms length. It was a warm gray color and lost sight of it after a minute going behind the tree line Characteristics of Object* There were aircraft but as I live on long island this is very common.
July 27, 2019 · 10:40 PM · SPHERE
Bridgewater, VT
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 27, 2019 · 1:00 AM · SPHERE
Spokane, WA
This same thing happened 3 clear times. There were other high flying US planes to compare speed, trajectory etc. as well. Locater in the PNW, I was facing westerly centering myself with a bright star I later determined to be Zenith. The more complex part is that while trying to telepathically communicate with this star, when showing emotion the object were responding to my feeble attemps at communication. I dont drink or use drugs. I was sober. I absolutely believe we all should be looking up. Not just for a moment or two. But spend and hour go sit under the stars. Let your eyes adjust. You CAN communicate with it all if you let it happen. This is also the first of any such article I have ever written on this or any similar subject. I believed enough to find this page and offer my contribution. I now believe. I will be back out tonight and each night! Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 26, 2019 · 11:18 PM · SPHERE
Poulsbo, WA
It was around 11:18PM, and my friends and I were hanging out outside when I see an orb appear out of nowhere in the west. At first I thought it was Arcturus, but it got brighter and was moving towards me. (I love astronomy, and am always looking up when I'm outside.) It was a bright light yellowish color, not blinking and no noise. It was flying as close to us as a lower flying airplane, so I thought maybe it was a drone. As it headed east and passed above us, we noticed there was a smaller orb following at the same speed behind it probably as far back as a plane's length or a little more. It looked like the smaller orb was following it or being “towed.” Again, no noise or blinking lights. There was no deviation in its brightness. I was able to grab a video on my phone but it only captured the larger or the two. It kept moving east at the same speed, and we watched as it continued out of view.
July 26, 2019 · 10:57 PM · SPHERE
Alexandria, VA
I had just backed our car into our parking spot. Although it was a crystal clear night, there was a lot of light pollution and only a few bright stars were visible. My husband got out of the car to walk to the mailboxes. I took the moment to look up at the sky and appreciate the view from our convertible before closing the roof. While looking up westward at the sky, I saw a very bright white ‘star’ move across the sky SE to S (about 5-6”) in my peripheral vision. There were no other visible stars in its vicinity, nor were there any aircraft. I slowly got out of the car without taking my eyes off the ‘star’ and turned to look up at it directly in its very high south position. It continued to move in random directions, not varying much between 160 degrees S and 150 degrees SE . I called for my husband to come over quickly, I pointed out the ‘star’ and asked him if he could see it moving, too. He said yes, and we stood watching the star dart around for about five minutes. Then we laid down on the sidewalk to stabilize ourselves to be sure it was the ‘star’ that was moving and not our bodies. We continued to watch it dart around for another 10 minutes or so. Although it did not waiver in its brightness until it seemed to move away, my husband also observed periodic white lights to the sides of the star. I did not see this detail. We didn’t try to take any photos or videos because we only had our iPhones with us. The movement seemed to start to slow down and the star seemed to move out further at 154 SE degrees towards the Aquila constellation. We got up and walked to our house and encountered our neighbors. We pointed out the moving star and they could both see it and its movements but it was getting harder for any of us to make it out. At 11:21 pm we went inside as the star was now too far away to discern from the light pollution. This morning, a knowledgeable friend did a quick check on a satellite tracking app for the evening of the 26th and the brightest thing during the time frame I cited was an ISS pass (a very bright magnitude -1.1), but that was at the opposite side of the sky and skirting the northern horizon from our area's vantage point. The only satellite transiting Aquila at the time was a GPS sat on a polar orbit, which are very faint.
July 26, 2019 · 8:02 PM · SPHERE
Adirondack, NY
We were on the east shore of Schroon Lake, on our deck, when a broght light appeared over the lake. It slowly came towards our position, then curved towards the northeast. It was a steady bright orange on color, completely silent, no blinking outboard lights. From our vantage point the object went behind some trees, turned sharply northwest, then simply disappeared. I have one photo, video did not record.
July 24, 2019 · 11:07 PM · SPHERE
Leominster, MA
The object appeared out of the clear night sky and disappeared with 2 bright perfect circular rings around it that almost immediately disappeared when the object disappeared. No sound at all. The tail was perfect to a very fine tip at the end of it. The object itself had a measurement of a Chevy Silverado floodlight roughly 25 to 30 meters away. It was huge and apparent that it was close to earth.
July 24, 2019 · 9:30 PM · SPHERE
Newton, NJ
Observed a strange bright light hovering and then slowly moving in a diagonal pattern across the sky from north to northwest. The object was emitting a strange glow, it then became piercingly bright (prior to video recording)then dimmed again and maintained a steady hovering altitude. The object then faded away into the night sky. The object made no sound and was observed on a clear night for a length of about 7 minutes or so.