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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 6, 2019 · 8:00 PM · SPHERE
Newark, NY
We watched a dark ball shaped craft with a single steady orange/red light on front approach us while boating on the Erie Canal in Newark, NY. I shined a bright flashlight at it and it turned back the way it came. No noise, no wings, no anti collision lights. It flew about 1000 feet in the air. It maintained the same speed and height for the duration we could see it. It flew as close as a quarter mile from us before turning back.
July 6, 2019 · 12:30 AM · SPHERE
San jacinto, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 4, 2019 · 10:50 PM · SPHERE
San Antonio, TX
We had been watching the 4th of July fireworks going off in our neighborhood from our driveway. They had started to slow down around 10:45pm so we were going to head inside. Just at that moment we all noticed an extremely bright ball of light moving quickly from left to right rather low in the sky but higher than a firework. While watching it go by we all were questioning each other on what we were seeing. As we were watching, it suddenly turned from a ball of white to red, flashed a few times then disappeared. This object did not admit any sound and was definitely not a firework.
July 4, 2019 · 10:08 PM · SPHERE
Erie, PA
After fireworks started watched glowing sphere travel south to north glowing orange no sounds no aircraft in area and was not drone at the speed it moved and size was to big for drone.
July 4, 2019 · 9:58 PM · SPHERE
Justice, IL
On July 04, 2019, me and my fiancé ((name deleted)) was watching Fireworks at our Apartment In Justice, Illinois at 2158 when I noticed the following. Two objects floating side by side slowly Coming from the West. The two objects were one solid color, but seems to be flicking. They both slowly came from the West, then at one point stopped simultaneously, paused momentarily, and then proceeded Directly North. No more than at least two minutes passed before we saw another object, same color and all Moving slowly from the same West direction, come to the same spot where the previous two objects had stopped. It paused for about the same length of time, then proceeded on the same North heading as the previous Two objects. Almost immediately after the third object was out of sight, this forth object did not come to the same spot, pause and then head North. It headed straight north and out of sight. My fiancé was only able to catch on video the third object. We both were bewildered and shocked!! We spoke via telephone with the source of this report, and he sounded to us to be both sincere, and sober-minded. We suspect that he is a very reliable witness. PD
July 4, 2019 · 9:45 PM · SPHERE
Cecil, PA
My husband and I were on our way home, coming up a hill from 980 Road (McDonald PA towards Cecil PA) when at the top of the hill we both saw a very bright red (almost had orange to it also) sphere. For a very split second we both thought firework because it the 4th and all but then quickly realized it didn’t have a smoke tail, no immediate implosion or noises made like it could have been a firework- it was absolutely silent where we were at this moment because we had the radio off and windows down. The best way to explain or reference how high this sphere was in the sky, was that it was just above the distant tree line (10 or less miles out I’d say) but close enough to looked pretty large and to be able to see the sphere shape to it from the bright glow. We both realized we have never ever seen a tower where this sphere was and it was definitely bigger than a blinking red tower light in the semi short distance it was from us and this was entirely way too bright to not have noticed something that obvious the hundreds of times we’ve driven this route home. The sphere’s motion was pretty stagnant, did not obviously flash- it had veils of transparency from its glow but nothing could be seen indefinitely from where we were, solid but a beautiful bright inbetween tones of red & orange glow in color. We passed through some dense tree area trying to figure out what we just saw & my husband saw it through the trees but it looked further away and smaller in size. We attempted to turn at the bottom of the hill (Rt. 50) to try and follow it but half way down the road we hadn’t caught any sight of it and thought it would have disappeared by the time we could get to a good clearing. Neither of us have ever seen something that beautifully bright before. We tried to think of everything possible that it could have been and rationally there is nothing to justify it. The video of the woman in SC or NC who recorded the red sphere in the sky (Dece! mber of 2018, I believe) is exactly what we saw and she liter! ally exp lained and described the same exact thing we saw to an identical tee. Even the same questions talking through the what it could have beens. The only difference is that it was much closer to us then where it was to her, in her video. However the imagine on her video did not give any justice to what you saw with the naked eye.
July 4, 2019 · 9:42 PM · SPHERE
Laurel, MT
Before the firework show started, my husband and I noticed a small white light in the shape of an orb, the altitude was higher than the fireworks and potentially the clouds. The object appeared in the sky, moved to left for 5 seconds, stopped changed color to green, then back to white. Then instantly disappeared
July 4, 2019 · 9:16 PM · SPHERE
Palm Coast, FL
Witnessed and photographed bright amber colored orb in the night sky over Palm Coast, FL. My fiancée and I were looking facing SE to SSE toward the south end of town. Seemingly out of nowhere, this bright object seemingly manifested itself and slowly traversed about 1/3rd the visible night sky above us. The object was observed traveling from west to east at approximately 45 degrees above the horizon. The object didn’t blink and had no glare like a bright light in the distance; nonetheless, the object was easily the brightest point in the sky. The object silently and steadily moved across the sky; stopping In place and hovering in the sky a few times before taking a 90 degree turn that appeared to be up and to the east. At this time (2116 hours) I photographed the object with my iPhone camera.
July 4, 2019 · 8:30 PM · SPHERE
Burleson, TX
I was driving west and as I looked to the moon I saw three spheres in a row to the left going south and after about 30 seconds of travel they disappeared. I waited to see if they may reappear but nothing followed. The next day my sister saw what we believe to be the same crafts when she was riding her bike that evening.
July 4, 2019 · 8:30 PM · SPHERE
Scottsdale, AZ
I walked outside of my shed in my back yard only to look up and north to see what looked like a shooting star. It was a round bright ball with a trailing effect behind it. I then saw two more appear. They began dancing around the sky in this one area I first saw them. Moving sporadically and they would disappear and come back. They appeared to be in a triangle formation moving around from side to side. They looked to be dancing all with this trail following them across the sky. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 3, 2019 · 9:15 PM · SPHERE
Smithfield, VA
I was at Ivy Hill Cemetery with a close friend on 07/03/19 waiting for the local fireworks show to start. About 15 minutes prior to the firework show, an orb appeared in the sky from behind a large tree. The orb was orange and flickered like a candle. It was like a ball of fire. It appeared to be very distant, maybe over the James River, but high in the atmosphere. Two more of these orbs appeared from the same location and they each went in separate locations until they formed a large triangle in the sky. From our perspective they seemed to be travelling slowly, but considering the distance and likely height of the orbs, they were probably moving quickly. Then one by one the lights vanished as the orange lights slowly faded out – from a sizable orange ball to a pin of light to nothing - they vanished slowly. Then, just as the fireworks began a fourth orb appeared from the same location and traveled like the first three until it was obscured by the fireworks display. After the fireworks, we stayed in the cemetery until midnight and did not observe more of the phenomenon.
July 3, 2019 · 2:15 AM · SPHERE
Champions Gate, FL
Walked outside have a smoke and i see two sphere objects flying very fast no sound one in front of the other the second one had a long tail of fire. The were flying east to west.
July 2, 2019 · 9:58 PM · SPHERE
Vernon Rockville, CT
While watching the fireworks for July in the Sky in front of a church lawn, I saw a bright light in the corner of my eyes. I looked up to the right of the fireworks going on and saw a huge circle/sphere of a bright white light. It was way too large to be a star. Many others looked up and were amazed at what the object could be. It stayed visible about 30 seconds, then disappeared completely. It came back in same spot as if a light switch (on and off, and on). Then the grand finale began for the fireworks show, and the sphere/circle of light disappeared then in the same spot three tiny green lights in the shape of a triangle appeared where the orb was. The three triangle light began to move bling on and off in a zig zag pattern away from the fireworks for about 3 minutes, then stayed in one spot blinking on and off about every 3 seconds in one spot as if watching/analyzing the fireworks maybe? I went to watch the end of the show and then when I looked back the lights were there and disappeared. Never seen again. Could not have been a plane moving so fast in direct zig zag motions. Never seen anything like that before.
July 1, 2019 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
Saint Louis, MO
Bright blue orb of light high in sky and within seconds it took off and created a streak of light that faded to green before completely disappearing. Happened on 2 occasions. Once standing in the walmart parking lot facing west towards 270/Saint Charles. The other incident was very close in proximity occurring a few months prior while driving east on 270 between st charles rock road and 370/missouri bottom. It was directly ahead of me looking east. Both occurrences were brief and photos were unable to be captured.
July 1, 2019 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
Saint Joseph, MI
First I saw a white small sphere traveling by the house right behind ours and then every night since then I have seen what I believe is meant to be a sidewalk solar light except it moves around a lot. It moves up and down, left and right. This was seen by me and both my parents also noticed that it moves around and then sits stationary until it knows we are looking at it. Also this orb changes color from blue to white which is also how we know it isn't a sidewalk light. We have curtains that come up half way on the kitchen window and this is definitely moving up and down and left and right. I believe we are being spied on. Also I see a larger orb sometimes more than one higher in the sky and it changes color from white to red at times and also it changes shape into a Cross (Christian Cross) also these orbs emit small objects at times and seem to be able to build haze or fog around them as to not be seen and I don't know what to think about these things. These are such unusual kinds of sightings and my health has been affected negatively since them that I thought I had best report these sightings which still continue. The orbs overhead have been happening for a while unlike the other small orb sightings. Also I have seen some small orbs of light in my house a couple of times. I also see small flashes of light at times about I would say 1 inch in size and they look like sparks at times as well.
July 1, 2019 · 8:00 PM · SPHERE
Houston, TX
I was standing outside enjoying the weather and smoking my cigarette right after/middle if a rain spout storm. Clouds in the sky and I looked up enjoying the breeze and silence due to us moving away from an airport and saw it. It was there in the sky about 3× the size of a star you'd see looking up at night. The sphere zoomed left then right and left again. I've never seen such a thing before in my life. I looked down due to a temporary distraction and looked back up and saw it zoom off after than anything ive ever seen in my life. I'm not one to believe in these things but this spooked me. There's no manned aircraft in the world that can do what this one did...
June 30, 2019 · 7:56 PM · SPHERE
Las Vegas, NV
Walked outside to let the dog pee and noticed two floating orbs of light off in the distance just above my eye line of sight and fence line. I noticed they started coming closer it appeared then they started rising high into the altitude. Suddenly one disappears. I follow the second orb and suddenly it vanishes as well. Look for two little pin tip size white spots near the middle of the screen. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 30, 2019 · 8:25 AM · SPHERE
Akron, CO
REPORT FROM THE DENVER AIR ROUTE TRAFFIC CONTROL CENTER ("ARTCC"): At 07:50 hrs. (Pacific) on June 30, 2019, NUFORC received a telephone call from an FAA employee at the Denver, Colorado, Air Route Traffic Control Center (“ARTCC”), who reported that an Air Traffic Controller at their Center had received a UFO sighting report from an airliner crew. The aircraft was 16 miles northwest (311 degrees radial) of the “AKO” navigation facility near Akron, CO, at the time of the sighting, which occurred at 08:25 a.m. (Mountain Daylight Time). The airliner was at 34,000 feet, at the time of the sighting, and all crew members in the cockpit saw the object, which they estimated was within 1,000 vertical feet of their aircraft. Thecrew reported to the FAA Center that the object looked like a “metallic sphere,” and they estimated that it was the “size of the flight deck” of their aircraft. Please listen to audio clip, posted to the NUFORC homepage, related to this report. We spoke via telephone with the FAA employee, and found him to be thoroughly professional, in every respect. We are grateful to him for his having contacted our Center over our UFO hotline. PD
June 29, 2019 · 11:50 PM · SPHERE
Nanaimo (Nanaimo), BC · Canada
We had just gone outside and the sighting was between 11:30pm and 12:30 am, during the late hours of Saturday, June 29th. I was admiring the view, when a strange sphere caught my eye. I was looking to the south as if it were above Duncan, BC. It was angular (a faceted sphere), orangish-brown (sort of like rusted metal) and was reflecting the light emitted from the city along one of its flat parts. It was rotating slowly as it smoothly glided across the sky, similar to how a satellite moves. But it was HUGE. It looked to be higher than an airplane's altitude, but large enough for me to clearly tell its colour and shape. There were no lights coming from it aside from the reflection, and it was silent. I alerted my boyfriend who was also bewildered by it and then we noticed a second one following behind at the same speed. They were sort of smoothly gliding/tumbling across the sky to a similar speed you'd watch an airplane fly across and eventually entered cloud cover. The whole ordeal was about 1-2 minutes of uninterrupted observation on our part. Curious to see if anyone else saw these.
June 27, 2019 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
Orr, MN
Staying at a cabin on Myrtle Lake, I was enjoying the night air as I've done many times over many years on Myrtle. I was looking at the lake then turned my head back to land. About 35 feet in front of me & 15 feet above was a silent glowing orange ball. A bit larger than a basketball. It made no sound. It hovered for about 15 seconds then quickly took off thru the trees over the lake. I thought it was odd. Couldn't make sense of it as in those seconds I stared at the lake. I turned my head away from the water and it was there again. This time only silently hovering for about 5 seconds & it took off again in the same direction. Still cant explain what it was. Never experienced anything like that.
June 27, 2019 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Corte Madera, CA
Multiple quick forming formations of sphere star like objects appearing near Corte Madera marsh area. Very distict triangular and diamond formations of lights hovering, rotating around each other changing positions etc.. In just 15 minutes these strange lights appeared out of nowhere and interact with each other. These sightings like this are continuing nightly through July and now August but nobody seems to be paying any attention.
June 27, 2019 · 8:00 PM · SPHERE
Terryville, CT
Witness 1: About 8:30 p.m. eastern time, I observed a number of objects moving across the sky. Each object looked like it didn’t have wings and solid red lights on the side and some had solid white lights on the side. The objects moved across the sky one at a time and it lasted about five minutes. There were approximately twelve of them, one at a time. Witness 2: At about 8:15 p.m. eastern time, I observed a silver color object moving across the sky, until I couldn’t see it anymore because it went behind the trees. I stayed looking into the sky and saw the same object again from where I first had spotted it as if it went backwards. About 15 minutes after I saw the first object I saw approximately twelve after that but they looked different. They had solid red lights on the side and some with solid white lights. They appeared one at a time and the timing between each one seemed to be the same length in time. Witness 3: At 8:15 eastern time, I was sitting outside with my mom. I all of a sudden looked at the sky as a flat silver colored object was moving across the sky. I then pulled out my phone and began taking pictures of the object I was seeing. This object was flying left in the sky. I didn’t see it for two seconds and this same silver object now flying left in the sky as if it turned around and started going right. We then called down my grandfather and started showing him what we were seeing. This object had no lights and just looked like a disc. The pictures we took weren’t coming out well since I was capturing these pictures on my iphone. All of a sudden several different objects were flying out one after another in the matter of 30 seconds. They all looked different though, as in different colors around. Some with red solid lights that were not blinking. And some with solid white lights that were not blinking. There were at least twelve in total, two of them that were flying in the sky were in sync and were flying above each other.
June 27, 2019 · 10:07 AM · SPHERE
Flora, IL
I was standing in my backyard at 10 pm looking at the stars through the camera lens on my phone. suddenly, i noticed a bright, red, round light appear out of the southeast. the light looked as though it was only a few hundred feet high and seemed about 1/4 a mile away. i began recording it on my phone. it moved quicker than i realized at the time, and within a few seconds it had made it’s way towards me and seemed to hover about 100 foot away and much lower. it flew right above the rooftop of the church that is aprox. 5 yards from my backdoor. it went behind a tree on it’s slow path and once it was observable again it had moved incredibly further away to the northeast. about 10 minutes later, i went back outside and the same scenario happened again for a 2nd and even 3rd time. i was able to video all three occurrences. i wasn’t sure what it was, the actual size, or the actual distance away from me at the time or even to this day. i assumed it was a drone b! eing flown by a hobbyist in the neighborhood or law enforcement. i told my dad about it today (a week and a half later) and showed him one of the videos and he encouraged me to share it. he’s a respected military vet and is pretty confident also that we are not alone!!! :). hope this helps the study!
June 25, 2019 · 4:30 PM · SPHERE
Savannah, GA
I had just moved my yard chair around to the side of the garage in back of the house to get out of the sun.It was nice and shady there and I was looking up at a big sweet gum tree that needs a couple of big limbs removed that hang over the house. I noticed a jet traveling north at a high altitude with no vapor trail and wondered why there was no vapor trail because it was cloudless bluebird sky. Right then I noticed three round pearly white orbs or spheres traveling due south and they appeared to be much lower in the sky. They were in a triangle formation and were moving a bit in the formation but maintaining the triangle. They were probably at 11:00 position in the sky. They were moving across the sky at what appeared to me at the same speed as the jet traveling in the other direction. I thought to run grab the binoculars, but wouldn’t have had time. They were about to go behind the tree and the front one became two (2) right before it went out of sight behind the sweet gum. I jumped up and ran inside through the the house and out the front to try and see them further but did find them with all the trees around. There was no sound from them. End.