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September 13, 2014 · 8:00 PM · FIREBALL
Napavine, WA
Green object above tree tops. Seemed to fall in trees, but then rise back above tree tops before disappearing. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 13, 2014 · 8:00 PM · FIREBALL
Chehalis, WA
My son and I were amazed to see a orb of light come from nowhere to the middle of the dark sky, we were traveling home from my sons football game headed north on I-5 as the object appeared at the same time almost we both said, "Did you see that?" as we watched the object float across the sky then zip from east to west across the sky to finally disappear as quick as It first was seen.. Trying to use logic I thought it was a comet as it was a massive light, but it was able to almost control its movements, it was what any person who watched the sky would die to see, it was amazing and a once in a lifetime object that will never be forgotten!
September 13, 2014 · 7:46 PM · FIREBALL
Ignacio, CO
Our Strange sighting Event Date and Time: Saturday September 13, 2014, 7:46 p.m. I was visiting with my cousin on my cell phone just outside my front door on Saturday evening (9-13-14) at 7:46 p.m. when I noticed a single cloud up in the Southern sky. Just off to the left (perhaps the South by South East direction) of the cloud I also noticed what I thought was a helicopter heading directly for our local airport. We are used to seeing helicopters fly from the direction of Albuquerque to the airport several times a week. As I looked at this incoming helicopter, I noticed it had a rather large orange-reddish glow to it. It soon came clear to me that this was not an approaching helicopter, as it was not showing the usual outline of the shape of any aircraft at all. The incoming light was nothing more than just that, a large, soft, glowing light. I don’t feel real confident speculating the distance that the light was from me or even guessing the size of the object, it’s hard to estimate as I had nothing to compare it with as far as scale is concerned. As I proceeded to complete my phone call with my cousin, I immediately ran into the house to grab my video camera. With my camera in hand and on my way out of the house, I told my nine-year old daughter to come outside and take a look at what I was witnessing on this nearly cloudless early evening. I powered up my video camera and began zooming in to get a closer look at the glowing object. I was unable to zoom in on the object, which made me think that it was probably farther away then I had first thought. I continued to look above the viewfinder with my naked eye to check for the object’s presence, it was still there. After numerous cycles of checking the viewfinder and looking at the object with my naked eye, I was convinced that I was not going to capture the object in my zoomed in video. My daughter continued to ask me what the object was as I just kept the camera rolling with the object in my naked eye’s view. My daughter became frightened and decided to go back into the house. I watched (with video camera rolling and it collecting my verbal frustration of not being able to zoom in on the object) the object growing smaller as if gaining distance between itself and me, the observer. The object soon grew very small, made an upward climb and was soon out of my eye’s natural vision. As I collected my thoughts about what I had just witnessed, I thought to myself; “What makes this experience different from any other visual of a typical man-made aircraft?” My conclusion and rationale to my self-imposed questioning of this experience made me think of the following: If I summed up the time from the moment I first saw the object to the moment that it was seemingly its closest to me and compared it to the time it took for the object to leave the area and vanish, I would say that there’s no comparison between the two sums. The object was able to vanish in much, much shorter time than it to took to arrive, plain and simple. My daughter thinks the object was red, I think it was more orange, hence, the orange-reddish description. I am over fifty years of age, I’ve had a long career in the same occupation in public service, I am well respected in my local community, and I consider myself a very rational, logical, and reasonable human being. I know what both my daughter and I witnessed this evening and it (the object) was not normal or typical of any man-made aircraft that I have ever seen. Event Date and Time: Saturday September 13, 2014, 7:46 p.m.
September 13, 2014 · 6:40 PM · FIREBALL
Lincoln City, OR
Looked like a fireball hit the ocean, small meteor looking with a red tail.
September 12, 2014 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Pittsburgh, PA
Around 9:35 PM on September 12, 2014, as me and my daughter and her friend were leaving our high school football game when it was over, I looked up and observed three balls of round looking objects. Two were following in a straight line, and the third one was lagging behind than the one in the middle moved quickly to the one at the far left.
September 12, 2014 · 8:19 PM · FIREBALL
Prosser, WA
On Friday evening, September 12th, at 8:19 pm, I saw a very bright light that appeared as a burning object falling out of the sky. I live in Prosser, Washington, and I was facing approximately 290deg azimuth or a little North of due West. It lasted about 5 seconds and from my viewpoint it appeared to moving vertically directly towards the ground. It was big enough and slow enough that I definitely had the impression it would impact the ground and I would see an impact flash. However it either appeared to burnout before impact or traveled below my horizon which is the Cascade Range (approx 75 miles away), though it appeared closer than that to me. More like 40 to 50 miles away. If I had to describe its appearance, I would say it looked like the sparkling white/gold spark remnants of a very large fireworks shell as it drifts to the ground after exploding if you were sitting in the immediate vicinity of the launch area. The speed was similar to that type of occurrence as well. To be clear though, there was no explosion, noise or flash preceding its appearance. Just the appearance of a sparkling trail of burning material that started very high in the horizon and came straight down. We spoke via telephone with the source of the report, and he sounded to us to be quite sober-minded. We suspect that he is a highly reliable witness. PD
September 12, 2014 · 8:15 PM · FIREBALL
Buxton, ME
Seemed to burn out after 5 minutes or so.
September 12, 2014 · 6:00 AM · FIREBALL
Novato, CA
I walked on my drivway to the end of the drivway, I looked up in the sky.I saw a orange round light moving from my left to my right. It was bigger then a plane and was moving at A somewhat slow speed. I looked at it for apx. 10 seconds. While I was watching it, I pulled out my cell phone and walked another 10 feet to get out from under a street light.I started filming the orange light, I could see the orange light on my phone then after another 5 to 10 seconds there was light comming from under the orange light. These lights came in the shape of an upside down funnel. The colors of these lights were a greenish, blueish, yellowish, whiteish in color. As I was watching the lights, the orange light just disappeared. I countinued to watch the lights and then the lights seem to dissipate, and after a few more seconds all the lights were gone. I went back into my house and drew a sketch of what I saw.I then contacted a local T.V. station channel 5 and asked them if anyone else reported seeing what I saw. They contacted me later by email and asked me if I would explane what I had seen,I said yes and a reporter came apx.1 hour later. Before they came I called the local police station and asked if anyone reported seeing any lights over Novato. I also sent a email to the U F O center. the reporter came and filmed me, while I explaned what I had seen.Shortly after that I recieved a call from someone from the U.F.O.Center. I had the reporter record the phone message from my phone from the U.F.O.Center. I called back to the center and followed his instruction to file a report. I don't know what I saw, it was there
September 12, 2014 · 6:00 AM · FIREBALL
Red Bluff, CA
I was outside smoking, when I noticed a orange light floating north closer to town. It suddenly stopped in mid air, the orange faded to white, and became very bright. It looked like it started spinning while releasing some kind of mist or smoke. I think it was spinning because the bright white light kept highlighting the smoke/mist. While still letting off the must it started moving west. Then its lights went out, smoke stopped and it was gone. This happened right before dawn and I was able to watch few a few seconds till I couldn't see it anymore. I tried to get video but happened too fast. I've never seen anything like this, and it did blow my mind. There was no sound either just a strange fireball looking light.
September 12, 2014 · 6:00 AM · FIREBALL
Charleston, OR
Was bright orange with glowing tail then appeared to burn out.
September 11, 2014 · 9:07 PM · FIREBALL
Las Vegas, NV
I just got home when I seen what looked like a fireball floating in the western sky. It was bright orange with blues in it. Of course, I tried to jump out of my car to take a video but it disappeared by then. This is the 4th time I have seen something like this since July 4th, 2014, when I first thought it was remnants of fireworks. Each time, they've always been floating from west to east.
September 11, 2014 · 7:43 PM · FIREBALL
New York City (Brooklyn), NY
At 19:43 this evening of 9/11/14, I was walking West to meet my husband at his job.I was walking down 40th Street in Brooklyn toward 3rd avenue. I was on the phone with my friend from work and to my left, in the sky, I saw a ball of flames gliding in the sky. It was gliding at the rate which a balloon would glide,not fast or slow just an easy glide...I kept looking to figure out what it was,all I could tell was there were flames bouncing up and down inside this ball. The sky was dark behind it. You could still tell there was a dark halo above the flames,as if they were encapsulated in a ball, sort of oval/egg shaped encapsulated. It continued to glide in a North Eastern direction for about 2 minutes, until it passed over buildings and out of my view. There was only one,the color of the flames were red/orange glowing with white tips. I am going to draw a photo of what I saw and mail it to you, along with emailing a photo I got on my cell phone. My phone would not allow me to video. The video part was not showing up for me to activate, that was weird as well. I was able to enable video, once the fireball disappeared. It was at a height where you knew it was high up ,but low enough that it was clear to see the bouncing flames within it. I have never seen anything like this in my entire life.
September 9, 2014 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Martinsville, OH
Tuesday evening on September 9th, 2014, at approximately 9 P.M., I was outside walking my two dogs, when I looked up and saw a large bright orange/red orb floating slowly in a horizontal line. It looked like it was on fire and continued to move across the sky for about 5 minutes. A helicopter came into my view from the southwest at 9:05 P.M. and the orb seemed to burn out and disappear. The helicopter then flew in the exact path of the orb. The whole thing was very strange.
September 9, 2014 · 7:15 PM · FIREBALL
Winsted, CT
On the evening of 9/9/14, I was at a house in Winsted, CT. I was there in a professional capacity, and am not at liberty to disclose information on the house or its resident(s). At 7:15 pm, to close approximation, I was sitting in a chair on the front porch, smoking a cigarette. I was facing due west. The sky was overcast, low-lying cumulous. From a point on the natural horizon (forested hill), west by south-west, I saw an object with the appearance of a fireball-type meteor, i.e. “burning,” orange-color, about an order of magnitude brighter than Venus. It ascended at apparent high velocity from the horizon, dead vertical. I initially thought it was a firework. It ascended at constant velocity to approximately 40 degrees celestial latitude. Then it stopped and had no motion, as though it had contacted a solid obstacle. This is to say that its velocity instantly ceased. It then had the appearance of a star in the sky, except that it was brighter than Venus, as stated. It was below the solid cloud deck. It illuminated the cloud deck, as though its radiance was omnidirectional, at least on hemispherical coordinates. This sequence of events repeated til I lost count. I approximate the total number of objects as, three dozen. When several of the objects had ascended, they formed an asymmetrical grouping, maybe five to fifteen minutes of arc separate. When several (the number was different each time) were collected, the grouping ascended up into the cloud deck, cohesively, and faded from sight per the opaqueness of the clouds. There were approximately six such groupings and ascensions. While gathered in these groupings, which resembled tight constellations of exceedingly bright stars, as if “waiting for the next one” (teleology inferred), these objects sometimes separated into two or three components. Sometimes one component would circle the other, or others, which remained stationary,then apparently rejoin and reintegrate back into a single object. Several times one object moved or was ejected from the grouping, at apparent high speed, one to several degrees of arc laterally. It then reversed direction instantaneously, like a ball deflecting off a wall, to instantly stop at its original location. The luminosity of all these objects never varied, except when several times they seemed to show internal structure, as of two or more of them fixed to a nonluminous body or frame, not inconsistent with the several lights fixed to an aircraft. This differentiation was at threshold visibility, on the order of 15 or 30 arc seconds. One time, and one time only, the differentiated light detached itself from the presumed structure of the object, circled the object and returned to its original place, before this differentiation ceased and the object again appeared as a unitary “fireball”. This entire phenomenon was soundless. There was no engine noise, or propeller chop, or any sound from this event at all. The phenomenon ceased at 8:00 pm, to very close approximation. The phenomenon was witnessed initially by myself alone, then by a resident of the house. About halfway through this event, a neighbor walked by, and I called out to him to come observe it. He then went and came back with his wife. The four of us together witnessed the last twenty minutes or so of the event. So far as the subjective, human aspect of this event, there was unanimous bewilderment, astonishment and incomprehension. I know of no airfields or military bases in that direction to, with certainty, the New York State border; I do not know with certainty of any airfields or bases in that direction whatsoever, albeit at some distance they undoubtedly exist. Because the ascension of the objects was dead vertical, and there was no variation in the luminosity of the objects, I assume the distance of their apparent origin from my location was equal to the elevation of the cloud deck, whatever that was at that time, divided by the declination of the region of the cloud deck where they vanished, which would be to say ~9/4 the elevation of the cloud deck. If called upon to guess, then if the cloud deck was ~2000 m high, the apparent origin was 4 or 5 km distant. I know that to be an area of state forest and farmland. At the beginning of this event, many coyotes at different locations began howling and wailing, and continued doing this until the end of the event, when they all simultaneously ceased. By 8:00 pm, conditions were as normal. ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) Dear Sir, Last night, 9/9/14, I submitted a report about an event that occurred a couple hours prior, in Winsted, CT. I tried to be as factual and precise as I could. But reviewing that report, I see I was sufficiently disraught to forget my high school geometry. Given the altitude of cloud deck, whatever that was, and what I reckoned a point at somewhat less than a vertical right angle, the distance from my location to the apparent origin would have been equal to, or slightly more than, the altitude of the cloud deck. I feel that this event was important. I hope that my report will not be rejected because of my error, but that this correction can be made to the report. I apologize for any convenience. ((END ADDENDUM))
September 8, 2014 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Phoenix, AZ
We saw five red orbs hovering in the western sky. They stayed hovering moving only slightly for about five minutes then suddenly disappeared one at a time. they did not slowly move from sight they instantly disappeared.
September 8, 2014 · 6:15 PM · FIREBALL
Liberty, NY
Driving on rt 52 going west saw a ray pointing north east in the sky - small not moving. A Star to the right of the ray and then another ray right of the star - ray was pointing northwest. Star disappeared (still light sky)
September 7, 2014 · 5:30 PM · FIREBALL
West Springfield, MA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 5, 2014 · 11:24 PM · FIREBALL
Wexford, PA
2 adults and 1 child saw dark orange/reddish round "fireball" traveling across sky, moving from South to North above McKnight Rd. at approximately 11:30 pm. No sound heard. Did not flash or anything like that. It maintained a steady speed and even/equal brightness for around 2 minutes, then light dimmed (briefly) and then returned to original level of brightness, disappeared quickly traveling North. Seemed to have smokey ring around it. I haven't seen anything like it before. Very interesting. Tried to record a video clip but object wouldn't show up on video; however a still image was taken; and is somewhat visible. Would love to know what we saw! Comet? Meteor? UFO?
September 4, 2014 · 11:00 PM · FIREBALL
Milford, CT
A bright orange light ridge across the sky. It was so fast and left a streak of orange light as it flew by in the sky. It was a circular shape. I was at Froyo World in Milford, CT, sitting outside eating froyo, and the light caught my eye. I said, "Mom, look!". As soon as she turned her head it was gone. It was very fast an maintained its speed. I haven't written about my experience until now because I have seen others on the internet take pictures of this UFO, and it looks exactly what I saw that night. Original date is flawed. We have attempted to confirm the date with the witness, but she has not responded to any of our three messages. We have assigned an artificial date, until we hear from the source of the report. PD
September 3, 2014 · 11:00 PM · FIREBALL
Nags Head, NC
UFO Sighting by 7 people Nag’s Head beach, North Carolina, USA September 3, 2014, 11pm I am a 51 year of woman. I was on vacation with my brother, (55), my sister-in-law, (51), my niece and nephew and 2 of their friends. My niece, nephew and their 2 friends are in there mid-twenties. On the date above we were all sitting on the beach having a bonfire and roasting marshmallows. We were facing east, towards the Atlantic Ocean. Suddenly, at approximately 11pm, my sister-in-law saw an orange glowing ball in the sky to the north above the land were the fishing pier meets the land. She yelled out: “Look at that!”, “What is it?” We all turned in the direction she was pointing and watched the orange, glowing ball move silently towards us and then out over the ocean, on a southeast trajectory. It grew brighter (larger), as it moved towards us. After about 1 minute another glowing ball, (exactly the same in appearance), appeared from the same location, (above where the pier touches the land) and began following the first ball’s trajectory, exactly. Meanwhile the first ball moved out to a location over the sea and simply grew fainter until it disappeared totally. The second ball did the same thing and then a third, fourth, etc., until we had seen a total of 7 orange fireballs move along the exact same trajectory and disappear over the ocean in the exact same location. Each ball was visible for about 45–60 seconds. These ball were exactly equidistance apart, as they arrived and disappeared. All seven of us witnesses were in awe. We tried to capture the glowing balls on cell phone cameras and video, but they just look like specks on a black night sky as it was so dark there are no reference points in the images. Some of the witnesses had had a few beers with dinner, but were not intoxicated. My sister-in-law and I were 100% sober as we don’t drink alcohol. I should mention later that night, I believe around 2am, (technically Sept. 4), my nephew and his 2 friends report seeing blue neon-type streaks of light flashing before them on the beach, at lighting speed and then going into the ocean, towards the same location the fireballs had headed. They said when they ran towards the ocean to get a closer look the blue neon lights, now under the water, they slowly disappeared. I personally did not witness these blue neon colored lights. I should also mention that earlier on the same day, Sept 3, 2014, at 9:30 in the morning we heard an incredible “sonic boom” type sound that was so loud and caused such a vibration everyone on the beach jumped up and was looking around in panic. There were no planes in sight or anything else to be seen in the sky or the ocean at that time.
September 2, 2014 · 10:30 PM · FIREBALL
Spearfish, SD
As it went along, different pieces seemed to stream underneath the main light, which slowly dissipated in the night sky.. Almost seemed to have a sparkle to the front. Suspected to have been a re-entry of a portion of the Russian Cosmos 2495. Our gratitude to Mr. Ted Molczan for his proper identification of the object. PD
September 1, 2014 · 8:00 PM · FIREBALL
Parma, OH
Very weird and it just in a few seconds it just flew away northeast so fast. I was shocked to see this with my girlfriend next to me in dismay Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 31, 2014 · 10:15 PM · FIREBALL
Elkhorn, WI
I was at Lauderdale Lakes, north of Elkhorn at a party. I notices a red light through the trees flying south to north over Green Lake. It was very bright in the twilight, and I pointed it out to another person. We both thought it looked odd but was probably a plane and we assumed that just couldn't see the rest of it through the trees. About 15 minutes later, I was alone on the pier when a second fireball, identical to the first, flew overhead on the same south to north path. It was several thousand feet up. There was no sound. The red light flickered like a flare but there were no sparks and it was not falling. It moved steadily north across the lake at about the speed of an airplane. My daughter came out and saw it as it headed away and we watched it until it blinked out.
August 31, 2014 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Dayton, OH
I walked out on my front porch saw saw a bright light reflecting from my blk truck I looked up and saw a bright fireball in the sky really close yelled for my girlfriend we watched it fly north until out of sight. Lasted about 5 min… Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD