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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
July 24, 2019 · 1:02 AM · SPHERE
Carson, CA
A small bright, bluish dot came up over my house as I sat in my backyard hot tub. I stargaze out there almost every night so I am well accustomed to airplanes, helicopters, shooting stars, and satellites sightings. At first I thought his object was simply a bright satellite as it was tracking in a smooth slow trajectory up over my house in an area of sky where I usually spot satellites as they traverse at night. It was after about 10 seconds of observation that I witnessed the small bright object pause, then continue slowly, then pause and hover again. This told me it was definitely not a satellite and had to be a craft of some sort. It then continued forward but made a slow "S" shaped squiggle of its flight path unlike any airplane, drone, or helicopter would generally execute. It paused once more and then began to get brighter. I realized it was descending from a much higher altitude to a lower one. It was not quite directly over me at this point but very near vertical as far as the angle at which I had to look up. Once it got low enough I could distinctly see it was circular and convex on the bottom, perhaps a sphere, but possibly more flattened. Color was black or dark gray from what I could make out. The bright light was not on the bottom but rather pointing out horizontally from one side. I was a brilliant white/bluish hue and did not flicker or blink at all as an aircraft lights might. No sound was audible from it. I observed the object hovering at this lower altitude of roughly 750-1000 feet up for about 5 minutes. I ran inside after that point to grab my camera. It was still present when I returned but had ascended much higher. I attempted to get a picture but it was too hard to get a clear focus as it continued to ascend and then the light faded out suddenly and it was gone. I have been stargazing for years now and have never seen something I couldn't ID as I am familiar with all kinds of aircraft, satellites, and shooting stars that frequent the night sky. This was something very different and I cannot figure out what it was other than a definite flying object with a circular profile when viewed looking up from the ground. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 23, 2019 · 1:00 AM · SPHERE
Lodge Grass, MT
About thirty seconds later, saw orb reappear slightly northeast of last location gradually gaining brightness. It moved westward until out of sight. It was flying under the cloud cover, no stars could be seen. There was no sound of a motor and was about half the size of a smaller full moon.
July 22, 2019 · 2:30 PM · SPHERE
Seattle, WA
Small round white sphere, about the shape of a soccer ball in the sky. It looked almost translucent at times, and was tensile, reminding me of a large cell wall. When I first noticed it, it was roughly 60-80 feet above me. There were no clouds in the sky, which is rare for Seattle, and I was able to follow it up until my eyes couldn’t focus on it any longer. The sphere moved left and right erratically but ascended quickly, moving by two commercial planes, and continued far above them.
July 20, 2019 · 9:29 PM · SPHERE
Ann Arbor, MI
During the first night of a massive power outage I was in a hotel room with my curtains open. Looking probably north or east I saw three round yellowish lights hovering in place for a long time. One, the largest moved up and to the left and the other two remained stationary. I have photos.
July 20, 2019 · 12:00 AM · SPHERE
Bozeman, MT
On July 20 about approx 10:45 PM my family and I was sitting outside enjoying a bonfire. We looked up into the night sky and saw the big dipper and we noticed a bright orbital light traveling from south west. Moving across in a east north east direction. It was traveling at a constant speed and seemed to waver a little bit at least it looked as if it was wavering in the sky. it moved eastward until it was completely out of sight over the mountains. it was higher in the night sky than an jet airplane and it was moving faster than any plane because we observed a plane going by from the south to the north end at the same time. I thought it might be the international space station but I checked the times and it was not supposed to be traveling overhead until after 1 am 5 adults and 1 child witnessed the event.
July 19, 2019 · 11:22 AM · SPHERE
Palm Bay, FL
a glowing ball of light was flying and moving very fast across the sky into orbit
July 18, 2019 · 8:00 PM · SPHERE
Santa Fe, NM
Orange orb traveling at low altitude from north to south in a straight line and constant speed. 1,500 - 2000 ft, as fast as a plane or somewhat faster. No sound at all. Brighter orange spherical "nucleus" toward front (direction of travel) with less bright orange translucent orb behind. As it passed, we could see a slight pulsation in the larger orb area, more subtle than a blinking light. Continued in a straight line until out of sight to the south.
July 18, 2019 · 1:00 AM · SPHERE
Laredo, TX
Bright orange and red sphere that streaked directly overhead for about a mile. No sound. Approxmently one mile from the ground and flying completely horizontal. This was a dark cloudy night and was well below the clouds. Lit up in a streak of light at an amazingly fast speed.
July 17, 2019 · 12:00 AM · SPHERE
Asheville, NC
I saw a round sphere pop out of a low lying cloud then slightly adjust direction and go back into the cloud.
July 15, 2019 · 3:30 AM · SPHERE
Nantasket Beach, MA
white orb, flying straight to the ocean direction with steady speed about 100-200 feet off the ground and there was no sound from the object. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 14, 2019 · 5:30 PM · SPHERE
Meadville, PA
Seen shiny sphere following multiple commercial aircraft. Craft flew a horizontal line, stopped motionless the flew erratic loops the made dramatic 90 degree turns at extreme velocity the disappeared. This happened 3 times at 10 -15 minute intervals.
July 13, 2019 · 10:15 PM · SPHERE
Tacoma, WA
@12 orbs of yellowish lights flying in triangular formations followed by 2 orbs following linearly. Seen by city employed electrician and his mother.
July 13, 2019 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Loveland, OH
After shopping at Branch hill Guinea Pike Kroger's, we left store to see three large sphere shaped objects with pulsing red light. They slowly hovered going away from each other. One floated down to tree line behind Walgreens across the street and hovered in top of tree. Noticed it was pretty large. Easily man sized. It was no longer blinking.
July 13, 2019 · 3:00 AM · SPHERE
Logan, IA
Was sitting down to have cigarette at 3.00am look out window to the north observed light orb float across sky for apoxamatley 4 minuts then turned off. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 11, 2019 · 1:00 AM · SPHERE
Vancouver, WA
Was out around 1:00 AM that night. I saw a glowing orb in the sky for a split second. There looked like there were aircraft chasing the object. Was hiding in cloud cover. Was a cloudy night.
July 10, 2019 · 9:35 PM · SPHERE
Chesnee, SC
My 2 Kids - ages 14 and 9 were laying by pool reading and swimming in pool back and fourth - at dark the kids put the books down and began swimming continuously with no lights, in the country, pitch black... come out to check from doing laundry and they were fine went back in and 5 min later they come running inside saying they saw a round sphere like shape that just appeared over the house that was hovering.. with numerous lights all over it - that they were stars at first but began looking harder and noticed it was on an aircraft of some sort - they also reported dark red lights on it.. they said that it dropped two smaller versions of itself and they went two opposite directions and they began to get really scared and ran inside.. I ran outside and nothing was there. They said it didn’t make any noises. When I told them I didn’t believe them that it isn’t a joke they started to get really upset and swore on it. I believe it - wish I could have seen it.
July 10, 2019 · 8:50 PM · SPHERE
Arvada, CO
On my way home from fishing, stopped at Stinger Field for a quick break to view the mountains. Looking westwards,noticed multiple orange/yellow looking lights high up on the mountain range. Lights were fading in and out! Sometimes two appear at once, and then one again by itself! These lights have been seen by me, almost every night when I come back from fishing. During the winter time, the same lights can be seen as well. The lights seem to be intelligent and controlled! The lights reminds me of the orange orbs I used to see in Hooper and Center, in the San Luis Valley for many years now. I will continue to report this summer and year of these orange lights seen here in Arvada and the Metro Area! If any one else sees what I am seeing, I encourage you to give your details and report it here too! I am certain there are others out here who are seeing the same! Also, last night on July 9th 2019 at the same time, the lights were seen along with a meteor! It was a bright white fireball streak that broke up over the mountains where the lights were!
July 10, 2019 · 7:30 PM · SPHERE
Santa Maria, CA
We have attempted to contact the witness, in order to correct the time and date, but have not heard back from him yet. PD
July 9, 2019 · 10:30 PM · SPHERE
Walpole, MA
I was taking out the trash when I noticed a bright yellow/white circular object hovering above my neighbors’s house. It appeared to be about the size of a softball and no bigger than a basketball. As soon as I looked at it, it moved in a straight line at a high rate of speed, and then vanished after traveling roughly 100 feet. While moving, the object looked like a shooting star, but was only about 60 feet above the ground. It made no noise.
July 9, 2019 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Pomerene, AZ
Six strange lights in a “W” formation flashing several variation of colors began to do sporadic movements in the sky. They divided into sets of two, some going north, some going south and some going west. At some point 2 of them shot back towards the east and then joined into one orbit and then simply vanished. Approximately 15 minutes later two very large red orbs appeared flashing simultaneously. They were several miles apart but clearly at the exact same height and very much in sync! Then disappeared as if to just fade away.
July 9, 2019 · 2:01 AM · SPHERE
Murfreesboro, TN
Seen a very quick glimpse of an orb like object maneuvering in a circle like pattern, then a fast course change to out of sight.
July 8, 2019 · 7:00 PM · SPHERE
Wilder, ID
Moving east Northeast along the Boise River. At a very slow flight. Pearl in color orb.
July 7, 2019 · 9:35 PM · SPHERE
Manchester, CT
Watching the manchester fireworks and a green light was continually flashing and immobile. It stayed still for over a minute then sped towards direction of fireworks. It looked much higher than the fireworks. Then, sped to left and shot back in the opposite direction going higher until couldn’t see it. 5 minutes later it returned to a nearby spot in the sky and moved about in the same manner. Towards the end of the 23 minute show, another craft appeared. It was triangular with a light on each tip..one red, one white, and one blue. This was nowhere near the fireworks and the lights did not flash like an airplane. There are airports nearby but this did not look like a plane. It was high up too. The police had heavy security for the fireworks snd had been using a drone earlier and it was unlit and had a distinct noise. There was no noise coming from either of these objects. My cell phone would not work when it got dark...could not reach server.
July 7, 2019 · 12:30 AM · SPHERE
IdentifiedCartelegue, Aquitaine · France
Le 7 juillet 2019, vers minuit trente, le témoin est dans son jardin. En regardant vers le nord, il voit deux boules assez grosses de couleur orange se déplacer parallèlement, sans bruit, sans clignotement, avec une luminosité constante, à une allure identique, sur une trajectoire ouest-est, et à une distance qu’il estime entre 500 et 1000 mètres. Deux autres boules identiques rejoignent ensuite les deux premières pour créer un trapèze dans le ciel, volant en formation. Puis, ces boules disparaissent tour à tour dans le ciel. Bien qu’il y ait deux témoins, la consistance de ce cas est moyenne : un seul témoignage, pas de questionnaire technique (uniquement un PV de gendarmerie), une photo mais sans sa source originale. (voir le compte rendu d'enquête). L’enquête a conclu à l'observation de lanternes célestes . La description des PAN est tout à fait typique de ce type d’observation : - Date et l’heure : l’observation a eu lieu vers 0h30 durant la nuit d’un samedi au dimanche, c’est-à-dire à une période traditionnelle des lâchers de lanternes effectuée lors d’une fête privée, telle qu’un mariage par exemple. - Couleur orange des boules tout à fait typique, confirmée par l’utilisation de l’outil d’analyse photo IPACO. - La trajectoire apparente des PAN, d’ouest en est, est parfaitement cohérente avec le sens du vent. - La disparition une par une des lanternes s’explique par leur simple extinction, arrivées en fin de vie. Le fait que le témoin ait observé le second groupe de deux lanternes rejoindre le premier s’explique par une simple différence de distance au témoin, le second groupe étant sans doute plus proche, et se déplaçant donc visuellement plus rapidement que le premier jusqu’à le rejoindre. Enfin, l’absence de pluie et la faiblesse du vent au moment de l’observation sont des conditions idéales à ce qu’un lâcher de lanternes s’effectue sans risques. Le témoin a été informé de cette hypothèse le 08 juillet 2019 et le 13 juillet l’a réfutée pour les raisons suivantes : - "Les sphères étaient plus grosses de taille identique, de couleur orange sans vacillement ni différence d'intensité lumineuse entre elles, se déplaçant sur une trajectoire rectiligne, Ouest - Est, à la même vitesse, au nombre de quatre, en une formation parfaite en trapèze, deux par deux sur une altitude constante. " - "De plus nous avons fourni une photographie sur laquelle on peut observer une trace lumineuse du phénomène. Avez vous pensé à faire une analyse spectrographique de cette lumière ?" - "Avez vous pensé également à demander aux autorités aériennes si une observation n'a pas été signalée par un avion de ligne, ou si elles n'ont pas de traces d’échos radar à ce moment là ?" Concernant les deux premiers points, on a montré qu’au contraire ces éléments étaient typiques de la description de lanternes célestes, y compris l’analyse de la couleur de la photo. Concernant le dernier point, le délai écoulé entre l’observation et le démarrage de l’enquête n’a pas permis de récupérer les traces radar de l’Armée de l’Air et de l’Espace. Ceci étant, l’hypothèse lanternes célestes est suffisamment robuste pour que l’hypothèse aéronautique ne soit pas retenue. Le cas est classé A, observation de lanternes célestes. [GEIPAN classification A — Lanterne thai]