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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
September 23, 2018 · 12:00 AM · SPHERE
Topeka, KS
Me and a friend sitting outside. I looked up twords a field and trees. I saw a bright white orb moving in a zigzag pattern and there where aircraft around it then the light dimmed the object was still visible and was saucer shaped grey and had a haze around it.
September 21, 2018 · 7:00 PM · SPHERE
Sonoita, AZ
Sept 21st 2018 from 8:00 - 8:30 p.m. We were taking turns looking through my husband's telescope. I was also looking through high powered binocular at clouds around the moon. I saw something silver that had a 3 dimensional shape, like an elongated guitar pick with a rounded top - as in a canopy on an airplane. It was between the earth and clouds, the side of it facing the moon was bright silver, then it grayed to black on the side away from the moon. Then it faded from view, literally after a minute or so, like a dimmer switch on the lamp. We kept looking for it and soon saw two objects traveling together between us and the clouds again. They looked like balls of light and would slow, then speed up. Next there were three of them in formation like a triangle. My husband saw 5 of them in the telescope, I saw 4 by the time I looked through it, but they were flying together in a formation.
September 20, 2018 · 8:45 PM · SPHERE
Atlanta, GA
I was driving on I-20 east away from Atlanta and a bright condensed white light caught my attention ahead and to my right, so that it appeared to be south of I-20. The light was like a shooting star but about 20 times as bright. It was descending rapidly at a slight angle, and disappeared behind the trees. This was definitely not a shooting star, it was moving more slowly and deliberately than that and was too bright. As I kept driving there was an accident that had just happened on I-20 not far from where the light was headed, although the light appeared to be heading more south away from the interstate. Also, the trajectory was as of a plane crashing at a steep angle, or a flare coming down.
September 19, 2018 · 7:30 PM · SPHERE
Naples, FL
Blinking light passed across the sky from W to E and was completely out of visual range in about 20 seconds. The craft did not make any sound. My brother-in-law and I saw a number of jets flying this same evening, which took a couple minutes to travel the same distance and could be heard. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 18, 2018 · 11:20 PM · SPHERE
Layton, UT
One orb that changed colors, moving in all directions inconsistently. After about a half hour two more orb like crafts began to draw closer in an inconsistent pace.
September 18, 2018 · 7:12 PM · SPHERE
Fallston, MD
Was at daughters Soccer practice in Fallston, MD, and noticed a bright looking object in the sky just after 7pm. Initially thinking it was a star, I thought it was unusually bright and then noticed it appeared to be moving. I pulled out my phone and started recording, and after zooming in, the object appeared as a white sphere on video that almost pulsated appeared to grow in size and shrink back down over seconds. This all appeared to be at a far distance. It moved gently to bouncing in no consistent pattern around the sky in a small vicinity. The Sphere then became hard to track and seemingly vanished and then a smaller black object appeared very close in the sky. It was either the same object or a second different object. Over the next few minutes the bright lighted object appeared and disappeared. Because of the distance they were easy to loose focus of, but then bright lighted UFO would prominently appear again. My second video featuring the Bright lighted UFO is ended after the object seemingly vanishes into a specific direction. There is a small local nearby airport geared for recreational flying, along with drones being used around the area. The movement and coloration allowed me to ration past these explanations for the object. I filmed 2 planes flying by very close to where I recorded the object as a reference. (At first, thinking the planes may be investigating, however not moving fast as a jet, making them seem recreational.)
September 18, 2018 · 2:30 AM · SPHERE
IA
Low ‘hanging’ light to the northeast, moved erratically like a ping pong ball in a box. It seemed to bounce off invisable walls. Its movement made no sense & it seemed to be vibrating. Simultaneously to the south, a fast gliding orb traveled across the sky and quickly paused next to another orb. The second orb seemed to be activated and it’s light got brighter & started to move north. The original traveling orb continued on its path south. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 17, 2018 · 4:17 AM · SPHERE
Harlan ((assumed from ZIP code)), IA
Brightly lit ‘star’ fell straight downwards at a slow speed, then proceeded to sway back & forth and wobble (like a penny dropped in water). It paused, then began falling and wobbling again. Color changed to orange and it grew larger & brighter as it fell closer to the earth. It began to slowly dim & shrink in size, still moving erratically, then disappeared. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 16, 2018 · 5:00 PM · SPHERE
New Bedford, MA
i was watching my niece jump on the trampoline with my mother, my niece is 9 i am 34 my mother is 52 it was on Sunday 09/16/2018. at around 5:00 p.m. my mother and i were in conversation when she said "whats that in the sky" I looked over to the right and into the sky and saw a large group of white spheres travelling across the sky they were going in a Northwest direction to paint the best picture of the sighting the sky was clear and blue not a Single cloud in the sky with a half moon the spheres were white against a clear blue sky travelling under a half moon in very much daylight hours the formation resembled a banner composed of 'little white balls' and in this long banner if you can imagine the spheres were arranged in what appeared to be constellations furthermore they also appeared to be changing maybe as if there was some sort of message i wish i knew more about astronomy so i could have identified it my mother took video the moon is in focus but the spheres cannot be seen we were talking about it while she was recording and you can hear my niece say ' it looks like stars"
September 15, 2018 · 8:30 PM · SPHERE
Rossville, GA
Was standing in my driveway about to go to dinner with my fiancee and friend from Australia, my fiancee was inside finishing up getting ready, when I was standing outside of my friends car looking in the sky to the South and talking to her saying look there is the space station. She said awe ive never seen that before I have seen it and known what it was for a long time looks like a star moving slowly across the sky. I told her me and my fiancee always look at the stars looking for ufos and satalites and of course the space station. Right as I got done talking about that there was a orb of light that flashed with no sound i said look as we both looked it flew about half mile in the sky in the blink of the eye,it flashed again and my friend said what in the world was that as it was much brighter and lower than the space station, i said idk then it flashed again then flew down couple hundred feet. Then out of no where without a sound flew off like a shooting s! tar. I was totally amazed as was she. Finally ive seen a real ufo dont know if it was extra terrestrial but i do know it wasn't a plane, shooting star, helicopter, or anything close to human possibilities. It was a light blue color and orb shape and flew in multi direction. You just know when you've seen something u can't debunk or explain. Hope its not the last time I get to experience it.
September 14, 2018 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Peoria, IL
First of all, I am not a night sky watcher, astronomer, UFO hunter, weather tracker or any form of such things. I might watch a UFO documentary once in a while, but I want nothing to do with aliens, both fictional or non-fictional. I happen to know a few of the constellations from school and my father. I saw Neptune through a telescope once, out of state. I know a little bit about weather but this is the extent of my experience with such things. I was crossing a parking lot to go home tonight and I saw a strange man cross my path. I looked up and he turned to look at me. When I realized he wasn’t interested in me, I just watched him for a couple seconds and then something caught my eye overhead of him. When I realized what I was seeing, I turned to see if the man was still around because I wanted to draw his attention to the lights but he was already gone. I looked up to see two reddish-orange orbs flying upward in the north sky. I just stopped to watch them. Usually, there are planes that cross this path going south to the nearby Peoria Airport. The lights were big like the lights of a big plane nearby. They were spaced far enough I thought they were the lights you see on either wing of a plane. Only one problem, there was no plane in-between or attached to these lights. I watched them ascend, in a slight curve and then turn right (my left) and as they went over this one spot in the sky, they dimmed, almost turning white and completely fizzled out. There was a single light coming up from the tree line, same kind of light but single. I watched it ascend, also take a right turn and disappear in the exact location as the first two. But again, before it completely disappeared there was another light ascending. Also, these were doing this as in formation and pace and such. All together, there were the first pair of lights and then 5 single lights after - 7 lights total. Every one of them disappeared in the exact same spot and in the same manner. I was searching my brain for an explanation of what these were: planes, weather balloons, hot air balloons, falling stars, fireworks, comets, Chinese lanterns, helicopters, flares, you name it, I was thinking about it, and ruling each one out. I am colorblind with reds/greens/browns and can see these colors if the brightness and hue and lighting is just right. When Mars was visible people would say, “Look how red it is!” And I could not see this for the longest time. At one point, when it was at a different location, I was finally able to see a faint redness to it. These orbs were very distinct, bright, true color-there was no question what color they were. Because I was coming home from a bunch of errands, I did not have my digital camera with me and I was not wearing a watch. But it was somewhere between 9:00 PM and 9:30 PM and lasted close to 5-10 minutes. I was also questioning how the orbs just disappeared when I saw the first two and thought it was just a plane turning and making it skinnier from the angle. I also thought about the fact that maybe this set of lights went into/behind a cloud. But it didn’t take me long to realize, there’s no clouds! I could see the big dipper to my front left, another constellation (forget the name) to my front right and I could see a cluster of stars and individual stars where these lights kept disappearing. I scanned the sky to see when I would see the lights again and it was evident that when they looked like they fizzled out, that was the last I was going to see of them. It almost gave the impression they went into a door, portal or whatever it was, to make them disappear. I waited after the 7th one for almost 5 minutes to realize that the show was over. The thing too, is that had they turned to make it harder to see them, they would have eventually straightened out and I would have seen them again. This did not happen. I rushed home, set all the stuff down, grabbed my digital camera and went back out there. I waited around another 10-15 minutes; I was hoping to see something again but nothing else happened. I called NBC WEEK 25 to inquire about this sighting and was transferred, but no one answered and it did not go to voicemail to leave a message. I then decided to E-mail them but no one has responded as of yet. I have also been scouring the internet for the past two days, to see if anyone posted this sighting, to no avail. I really want to know if anyone else saw these and possibly know if these orbs are indeed UFO’s or drones or something else. I only know they are nothing I have ever seen before. One last thing I would like to point out is that when I was back out there with my camera, a plane went overhead that was very high-the height of a cross-country flight. And I could see it fairly well, the blinking lights, the movement and such and the orbs I had seen earlier made this plane pale in comparison.
September 14, 2018 · 5:20 AM · SPHERE
Geneva, OH
My partner and i woke at about 5:15 a.m. to our dog barking upward at the sky out our the bay window, in-which brought our attention to notice what looked like a bright hovering star made of multi-color pulsating lights just SE of us. The unidentifiable object seemed to be a solid to our eyes (with pulsating red, white, bluish green lights). After a few minutes of staring, we decided to video the unbelievable sighting. Prior to that, the object seemed to hover and slowly change position in a hovering motion.. When zooming in upon the video taken the object looks more orb/sphere like, than what we witnessed w/our naked eyes. During the event we saw 3-4 helicopters/planes go near the object then abruptly change direction nw(notsure if it was the same helicopters/planes that just circled around). We both were mesmerized by the object and lost sight of it, especially with the multi color aura like beams that emitted from it, and only when checking the newly taken! video of the UAP to see if it recorded well on our IPhone 6/along with trying to view so we could get a better look at what it was. We both have experienced other uap’s (2 to be exact in the past) and odd synchronized events that we could not explain, but nothing that we were able to get pics/video of and as mesmerizing as this.
September 13, 2018 · 12:00 AM · SPHERE
Sherman, TX
It was blow clouds then it was like not moving at all then just went straight north an was moving real real fast like where if u blink it’s was gone an I couldn’t see it any longer. It’s was not real long are wife just like a tight little box an there was a wired sound in the air not like how things are like everything went quit all around us. No birds chirping are anything like that. Then after it was gone everything went back to normal an I was shaking an I’m still shaking. I called a friend of mine an he told me how to reach this web site cause he two has seen things like this. I thought he wasn’t going to take me for real are any one else but there’s no reason for me to want to make this up I want to know what I just seen an if there’s going to be more of this. An I didn’t take picture cause it was hard for me to even move are think about anything it was like I was in a Trance are somthing. I’m just not sure of what I saw are what todo now about it. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 11, 2018 · 10:30 AM · SPHERE
Moberly, MO
Sphere object described as being white to silver held static in the sky but changed shape some. The object was seen nearly straight overhead very high in the sky, north-west of the sun's position. The object then slowly moved off north until out of sight. This lasted for at least an hour. There were at least 6 white "orbs" spotted during this time as well, flying at a high rate of speed silently heading south to north. They were spaced out some and not close to each other. These were overhead but not as high in the sky as the large object. Maybe a few hundred feet up. At least one was seen heading back south, then diverted upwards toward the object and disappeared out of sight. Many people saw this incident and a couple of pictures were taken of the object high in the sky, but there not much detail to be made out. Some said they could see something on the sides of the large object that were described as antenna shaped or fin-like. There were other aircraft seen coming toward the area of the main object, but did not interfere and passed by.
September 11, 2018 · 2:44 AM · SPHERE
Cape Girardeau, MO
2 large sphere shaped objects were seen hovering above the Mississippi River/city line. Both objects were bright white and not flashing. One of the objects appeared to fly away abnormally fast and disappeared in a matter of seconds while the second object stayed hovering in the sky. Neither objects were present the next night.
September 9, 2018 · 5:00 PM · SPHERE
Sunset Beach, NC
Sitting on the beach and high in the sky was a shiny object that stayed there until we left 2 hours later. It was not there today?
September 9, 2018 · 7:50 AM · SPHERE
Hobbs, NM
Bright orange orb hovered high in sky then disappeared.
September 7, 2018 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Philadelphia, MS
On 9/07/2018, I was standing in my yard. I was feeding my dogs, when I looked up and saw a bright object that I could not identify. I know it wasn’t a aircraft. The object was probably 1500-2000 feet. The object was bright white moving fast from south to north, around 10:00pm the object was not blinking. You could see normal aircraft flying with the red and green lights around their normal cruising altitude. It was probably visible for about ten minutes.
September 7, 2018 · 8:10 PM · SPHERE
Myrtle Beach, SC
2 observers, husband and wife, simultaneously observed several (7-10) hovering orbs in the vast night sky of different sizes, colors and locations. The brightest was the furthest south location, the 2nd brightest which was multicolored, was the furthest north and west. There were about 7 others which were much smaller and white appearing in between the distance of the aforementioned 2. The sighting lasted about 10-15 minutes as we went inside while they were still present. There was one large orb which was solid white (the southern most) in color. Most of the rest were tiny in comparison and appeared further away. There was one furthest away from the largest white one which appeared multicolored. After viewing with the naked eye for about 2 minutes, my wife got binoculars and we could see the surface of these orbs were not one solid light, but much smaller lights making up their mass, reminiscent of an LED flashlight or "golf ball" dimple configuration. Upon viewing the multicolored 2nd largest "orb", the shape was clearly a triangle which seemed to have changing color lights. Some red/orange, green, yellow and white. There was no discernible movement of the orbs, they were just hovering in one spot. We went inside after viewing them for approximately 15 minutes. I took 3 poor quality photos with my phone before going inside. I sent a report to MUFON and just before downloading 3 photos, I decided to go outside and see if they were still there. The largest white one was gone, and didnt see but a couple of the much smaller ones. However, the multicolored triangular one was still in the same location and one of the other smaller ones was now larger and appeared closer and it appeared to change colors as well as very slowly moving from south to north. I didnt have the binoculars with me so I couldn't see detail.
September 7, 2018 · 5:45 PM · SPHERE
Port Saint Lucie, FL
While outside in my backyard, looking at my neighbor's bush tree, something punch through the sky and drop almost to the ground then stop. It righted itself and flew into a hole in the cloud and came out another hole in the cloud. it tilted to show me the top of the craft and then flew off.
September 7, 2018 · 4:00 AM · SPHERE
Tampa, FL
4am I was up listening to podcasts on my smart phone. I work overnights. And I was up relaxing after a week of work. I went to relieve myself outside of my screened in pool area. The door is on the west side of my house. My house faces south. I looked up in the sky and saw the constellation Orion. But just south of Orion I saw a mettalic disk with 3 black orbs directly under me. I guess it was about 1,000ft above me. As I looked, I tried to comprehend what I was seeilg. Then it shot of southward like a bullet leaving a streak of white light.
September 5, 2018 · 9:39 AM · SPHERE
Kinnelon, NJ
On September 5th, 2018 at 9:39 a.m. EST, I walked out my front door to bring my recycling out. A turkey vulture was riding the air currents at a hundred feet in the sky. As I traced its glide from dead center of my visual field to my left, I saw the following at well beyond 50k ft. altitude: - Due Western Sky @ 268 degrees (I checked this later with my iPhone Compass App, thus I can confirm that) - Conditions of sky/weather: Clear Blue sky; No Clouds – not one; No precipitation; unobstructed view; “Rural” sky – no city/urban/sub urban type of interference - Duration of sighting: approx. 20 to 30 seconds, not having looked at any time device - Witnesses: Self only - What: o Bright white/silver round orb. VERY bright, which is why my eyes fixed upon it. WAY too far up altitude to make out any distinguishing features. Object well beyond cruising altitude of any commercial jet, never mind military (SR-15 or U-2) type jet either. Object seen simply standing stationary in the sky - no movement. Non-orbiting. Knee Jerk mental reaction was, “Why is there a star in the sky so bright that I’ve never seen, and especially because it’s nearing 10 in the morning?” Caught my attention due to its brightness and unexpected sight as I pondered the above, staring at it through my polarized sunglass lenses… THEN! It moved! o It almost instantaneously ‘zipped ‘from where it had been standing in my eye sight to another “close in the visual field” 2nd location and stopped for approximately 5 seconds. I continued watching in awe. o Five seconds later, it ‘zipped’ again almost instantaneously to a 3rd location, still within my “visual field”. There it sat for another 5 seconds. I removed my sun glasses to make sure I wasn’t “seeing things”. It was still visible to my naked eye. o Then it ‘zipped’ again to the 4th still “close in the visual field” location, where it rested for another 5 seconds. o Then it ‘zipped’ again to the 5th still “close in the visual field” location, BUT: this 5th location was to the right of where I first witnessed the object, crossing over its previously traveled path o There at the 5th location, the object again paused for 5 seconds, where after it simply “vanished” from sight. I stared. I looked for more movement. I scanned my visual field. I put my sunglasses back on. It was no longer visible or locatable anywhere in my visual field. The object did not “zip” to a 6th location from what I could see. There simply was no trace. o All the above described was immediately documented by me by hand as I rushed back into my residence. This includes a sketch of the objects pattern of movement in my visual field until it was no longer seen. - Considerations: The first person I spoke with after my sighting was Peter Davenport. I found him through a quick Google Search, as I wanted to report my sighting to “not just anyone” – but to an ‘authority’ on such things, not an ‘authority’ that could care less (i.e. the police, the mayor’s office, etc.) I later that afternoon told my daughter, and my girlfriend. They urged me to contact a news organization(s), which I did, but without photo or video evidence they (the news organizations) were disinterested in my account. I, so far as I know it to be, was the only witness to this event.
September 4, 2018 · 5:15 AM · SPHERE
Charles Town, MA
it was still dark out the object had no strobe lights or red and green light like an aircraft would and did not make any sounds. observed at 100 feet at closest pass, for 90 seconds. Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
September 1, 2018 · 10:30 PM · SPHERE
Superior, WI
My first thought was that this object may be one of those floating lanterns...but when I saw it change directions...and color...I'm thinking it wasn't. I checked my weather app for a wind speed and direction....wind was at 0. object was moving slowly...I have several photos