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April 12, 2018 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
San Diego, CA
This was seen in the lower part of the southern sky. A yellow cluster of balls began and then popping up as single balls. they would disappear and 30 seconds later appear again. we have some good close ups of them as well. Many other people in Mexico and Los Angeles have seen them too, posting a video of them on the internet. What were they?
April 12, 2018 · 8:35 PM · SPHERE
Spokane Valley, WA
I witnessed my neighbor outside looking at the sky, he has never seen the stars as he is night blind. I stepped out onto our shared porch and he asks what that light in the sky was. I observed a bright white orb in the western sky, seeming to hover in place, my wife then stepped out to see what we were looking at. She observed the same object. I attempted to Google the planets as I am not an astronomer. The object stayed in place while I did this. I knew it wasn't Venus and far too bright to be a satellite. Fifteen minutes later, convinced it must be a planet, I went back inside with my wife. 20 minutes later I stepped out to leave for the grocery store and it was just gone. I viewed this object myself for about 15 minutes, my neighbor was viewing it 5 minutes before I stepped out on the porch. The light was brilliant white. It did not change intensity. No blinking, flashing, or any movement that I could discern. My wife said she felt like it was shifting positions ever so slightly, but I did not notice this. The sky was clear and stars were visible. We have regular air traffic in the western sky from our vantage point and have lived here for 4 years. My wife and I have not seen this before.
April 9, 2018 · 3:00 AM · SPHERE
Orleans, IN
Witness had just awoke for the day, and looked out the window of his home, and he saw this orb-like object large as a silver dollar (at arm's length?). It was hovering to the South, and after observing it for a few minutes, another orb-like object size of a dime (at arm's length) shot out of the larger orb. It surprised him, but he had seen objects in the night skies before but they were pillar shaped with numerous lights, nothing like this. The smaller object that departed from the larger orb/object disappeared. The original object soon disappeared.
April 8, 2018 · 1:30 AM · SPHERE
Fort Collins, CO
I was the only witness to this event and therefor can only give information about myself. I am thirty-nine years old and have spent a great deal of time outside and looking to the sky. Most of my life, I have worked in kitchens and bakeries but I am currently taking classes at the community college. I hope to earn my associates in science and hopefully transfer to our local four year to study ecology. I make the same walk often and have never seen anything like this before this time, nor have I since this event. I believe that this event occurred somewhere between 1:30 and 2:00 Sunday morning. I was walking through the neighborhood on my way home and noticed a star that looked out of place. When I was able to find a break in both the branches of the trees above and the clouds then I was able to be certain that this was not a star. It began to glow more brightly and then made some quick movements with angles that would form a triangle. Once I knew that I was actually seeing something that was out of place I kept the object in sight and continued my walk home. With the craft in sight and well above the level of any clouds, I noticed that the white light that was coming from the craft was getting brighter and realized that it was descending very quickly and moving straight toward me. In only a matter of seconds it was at the level of the street lamps, and I was now able to see that the craft was a sphere roughly the size of a basketball. It was no longer emitting white light but had begun to glow red. The red lights on this craft seemed to move in sort of a rubics cube manner and then it began to ascend back to about cloud level. I walked the last about six blocks to my home with this craft not following me but staying within sight and almost leading me to my home. During this time the craft descended to within thirty to forty feet of me two more times. Each time emitting white light when high up in the sky and glowing red when at street level. The lights were broken up and moving rapidly on the outside of the craft and it sometimes appeared that there was no solid object but more of an organization of tiny lights moving in a cooperative manner through the air. I was turning onto my street where I live at the fourth house down and was surprised at how un afraid I had been through the first two descents. The craft then came down to within eight feet of the ground and still moving ahead of me, it went past and around to the other side of my neighbor’s house. This last descent was when I first really got my anxiety up and being relieved to be at my house I went inside and tried to wrap my head around what I had just seen. Once inside my home I noticed a wound on my hand that looked like someone took a tiny spoon and scooped out a tiny bit of my hand. There was no bleeding, it just was already grown over with a very smooth concave scab. I am pretty certain that I did not have such a wound when I left my last destination to head towards my house. The next day I also had what felt like a sunburn on my face. When I looked in the mirror my face appeared red but unlike a sunburn it this burn was evenly spread throughout every part of my face. Even under my nose and in the creases around my nose that are rarely hit by the sun was burned. This burn lasted about a day and a half before I began peeling and within a day or so my face had peeled completely. I am certain I was not burned by the sun. I suspect that the craft was burning my skin when it was emitting the white light. My face was the only part of me that was exposed and when the craft was at cloud level the white light seemed to foc! us right on my face as I looked directly back at the source. There was no visible beam of light, but I could see and feel this light much more than the glowing red light that would be seen when the craft was at street level. The basic description of this object would be a bright white light when high in the sky and a formation of small red lights when at a level where it could be seen easily. It could make this type of altitude change in barely over a second and during the first two descents the mass of the object hovered completely still while the red lights rotated around a central mass. very rapidly. It made no sound and was almost the size of a basketball. The third descent was the only time I saw the craft move in any direction other than up or down while near the ground. The red lights would move rapidly almost as if they were being worked very quickly in the same manner a rubic’s cube would be solved only spherical and with thousands of tiny red lights instead of the 54 panels one would find on the standard rubic’s cube. The object moved slowly as it went around towards the back of my neighbor’s house. As it hovered across my neighbor’s house it maintained a height just below th! e level of the first-floor gutters on the house. It seemed to glow more of a golden or white glow that would overpower the red lights and then fade back to a low enough level that the red lights could be seen once again. I was trying to post about this shortly after the event but I had a lot of trouble using my keypad to form the words that I had intended on typing. This continued for until I had slept a full night’s sleep. It felt as if my mind was partially disabled for a bit of time after seeing this object.
April 7, 2018 · 11:10 PM · SPHERE
Philadelphia, PA
Witnessed a bright red-orange light in the sky to the north, heading east, from the back yard. It was traveling linearly; horizontally to the east at a uniform speed. Showed my wife before it blinked once and finally disappeared. Another appeared. And then a sequence of 4, like the letter C, came. Then a sequence of 3. My wife watched and shot footage in front of the house. One or two more single orbs flew by. They flickered like fires and would blink in an out at what seemed like the end of their path, so they disappeared, but not behind trees or buildings. They produced no sound. It did not seem like a full ship, to me, but a series of lights in the sky on the same trajectory. I say this because the lights, from my vantage point, seemed random. Not like the Phoenix Lights, which sound similar. (MUFON site has good photos)
April 7, 2018 · 8:00 AM · SPHERE
Butte, MT
One stayed stationary for three hours, the one next to it was moving up and down and made a sharp right then shot faster than anything I have ever seen East and right now 4/7/18 10:25 pm there is one with bright red and blue light not moving. Witness indicates that the date of the event is approximate. PD
April 6, 2018 · 10:45 PM · SPHERE
Cherry Valley, IL
At around 10:45 PM CST, I happened to be up yet and noticed a pulsing light in the sky from my bed located mostly in the westward, to slightly north direction halfway above the horizon. What made me look twice and observe for over 15 minutes was that this object was emitting a pulse of light in an irregular interval as well as at different speeds. At some times, the object would emit a slower pulse of light lasting maybe a second, but then at other times the object would emit a more rapid pulse of light lasting maybe half the duration as the slow pulse. As I said, the emission of light was also seemingly irregular. It would emit light maybe every three to four seconds, and as rapidly as every two seconds, but mostly emit light in a slow manner. When it traversed the sky it almost seemed to travel slightly more south-south-east rather than east as time went on. So, the point I’m getting at is that the orbit of this object didn’t seem to be in a straight line. I add this because we were starting to analyze the information and evidence at hand to determine if this was a satellite or not. I would imagine that a satellite would proceed in a straight line and not slightly deviate like this object was seeming to do. Also, we were considering that a rotating satellite may cause a reflection which would appear to be a burst of light like we were seeing, but not different pulse types unless in was rotating in multiple directions or out of control, which of course would be unlikely and not typical. Finally, it did seem as I was watching this object further, that at times when it wasn’t emitting light that I could see a faint bit of light (perhaps sunlight bouncing off of it; which would suggest that this object was in orbit around Earth) and kind of follow it, but this wasn’t always true. The French doors I was watching this object through from bed is a typical place that I stare quite a bit before falling asleep. This is the first time I have seen anything like it. I would be curious if anybody else saw this or if there is an explanation to what I saw. Thank you!
April 5, 2018 · 8:20 AM · SPHERE
LaGrange, OH
Witness was driving to work down a country road and noticed a fast moving ball of light following a train track. Thinking it was a train the witness groaned, hoping not to be late for work. But looking again it was apparently just a ball of light that followed the tracks and disappeared. It seemed to disappear into the horizon toward the sun, but when it was observed, it was definitely a ball of light. There was a person in a car in front of this witness who must have seen it as well, but they did not communicate nor did the witness get a license plate number. This lasted only about 10 - 15 seconds, tops, but it was" the oddest thing I've ever seen in my life." 10-15 secs. (MUFON}
April 2, 2018 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Waterford, CT
Two white orbs hovering in the sky above the woods near my house. They were about the same size. Completely silent. Suddenly just disappeared.
April 2, 2018 · 5:00 PM · SPHERE
West Paris, ME
As I was watching deer feed in the field behind my house, a small dark sphere of no more than 16" diameter passed quickly thru my yard at an altitude of no more than 3'. I did catch the object by accident on a cell camera. It appears to be sliding along on brilliant somewhat flat bright reddish orange glow, as best as I can describe it. I have noticed the color of this objects glow more than once in the woods behind my house, and became cold just after it passsed my back window, only 30' feet away. We spoke via telephone with the source of the report, and he sounded to us to be quite sincere and sober-minded. We suspect that he is a highly reliable witness. PD
April 2, 2018 · 8:15 AM · SPHERE
Belo Horizonte · Brazil
Eu vi um objeto de formato esférico na altura das nuvens em cima do da pista do aeroporto da Pampulha se escondendo nas nuvens . Ao perder ele de vista depois de uns 4 minutos eu vi outro objeto identifico ao do primeiro voado novamente na altura das nuvens no sentido do bairro São Tomas para o inicio da pista próximo a barragem da Pampulha . O objeto não emitia nenhum barulho e tinha um movimento de rotação no seu próprio eixo no sentido horário .
April 1, 2018 · 9:15 PM · SPHERE
Bellington, WA
Witness was leaving cousin's home returning to Portland after the holidays and reportedly saw a "big red ball" or orb in the sky over Lummi Island, approaching the Reservation . Witness was on Smokehouse Rd. when the object turned North and came almost overhead. It then proceeded North, stopped, and then reversed its course, came back over the Reservation, and finally went out to Lummi Island and hovered there a bit. It then disappeared behind the island. Object was observed for for 10 to 15 minutes. Witness tried to take picture with cell phone but it "wouldn't work right". Color and size doesn't sound like an aircraft navigation light. No sound reported. (MUFON).
April 1, 2018 · 3:15 AM · SPHERE
Portland, TX
Saw 6 spheres separated but close all and not in a pattern or shape traveling noticeably faster than stars, but not extremely fast going from North to South.
March 31, 2018 · 10:30 PM · SPHERE
Port St. Lucie, FL
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
March 31, 2018 · 9:30 PM · SPHERE
IdentifiedMarseille, Provence Alpes Cote d'azur · France
Le 31 mars 2018 entre 21h30 et 21h41 un témoin depuis son balcon est intrigué par une boule lumineuse de forte intensité et aux couleurs variées. Le Pan suit une trajectoire descendante et disparaît lentement derrière la colline de Notre Dame de La Garde. Un seul témoignage est recueilli. Le témoin a vu Vénus. Il utilise l'expression suivante " L'analogie la plus descriptive est comme si une étoile tombait lentement du ciel, au ralenti". Effectivement Vénus, bas sur l'horizon, "tombe du ciel au ralenti," car sur la durée de l'observation (10 minutes) Vénus passe de 2° à 0,5°. C'est lent, mais quand c'est observé au ras de l'horizon le mouvement est clairement perceptible. Vénus (283° azimut) est bien légèrement à gauche de Notre Dame de la Garde (290°) et à droite de Rigel (237°) comme le PAN décrit par le témoin. Mais le témoin exclut Vénus car il est persuadé que Vénus est cachée par la colline de Notre Dame de la Garde. Et il se trompe. La reconstitution ci-jointe montre que dans la direction de visée Vénus, l’obstacle le plus haut est à environ 60m plus élevé que la base de l’immeuble du témoin, soit environ 50m plus haut que le témoin au 4° étage. Situé à 3900 m, ce point correspond à un élévation de 0,7 ° et donc Vénus à 2° est visible et il est normal qu'au bout de 10 minutes elle soit passée sous l'horizon (à 0,5° pour un obstacle à 0,7°). L'aspect du PAN est parfaitement conforme à Vénus bas sur l'horizon, avec des couleurs changeantes en raison des effets de l'atmosphère. En conséquence le GEIPAN classe le cas A : Vénus. [GEIPAN classification A — Vénus]
March 29, 2018 · 11:00 AM · SPHERE
Las Vegas (northwest), NV
This sighting occurred on 4/30/2018, approximately 2230 hrs., in North West Las Vegas, Nevada. I was looking out my window at the sky and surrounding hills. I saw what I thought might be an airplane, high up; maybe 200 feet. It was solid red in color. It moved toward my house, in an eastward direction. It then stopped in the air and stayed there for approximately 45 seconds. It then seemed to move away toward the sky and the image evaporated or disappeared skyward. On July 4th of 2017 at lower elevation, a red orb appeared about 150 feet from our home...stayed stationary, then flashed brighter two or three times and then took off over the top of the hills in the distance.
March 26, 2018 · 5:15 PM · SPHERE
Ridgefield, CT
03/26/18 Late afternoon Ridgefield, CT, single shining light orb flew right across sky then back split into 3 orbs. Looked like something larger was behind it. Was in broad daylight 10 minutes and left.
March 26, 2018 · 12:01 AM · SPHERE
San Jose, CA
On March 26, 2018, about 1 minute after midnight a very loud explosion was heard & felt in the southern portion of san jose, ca (Robertsville area ). Video was taken by a Nest camera. An object crosses the sky from left and then ~ 1 minute later explodes and appears to fall. The explosion/report was heard and felt by many neightborhoods on the NextDoor App.
March 25, 2018 · 12:55 PM · SPHERE
Beaverton, OR
My wife and I were taking pictures of the sun's halo with our cell phones. After we were done we went into the house. While relaxing later I reviewed mine as the sun was sort of in my eyes so I was snapping photos blindly and wasn't sure how they turned out. I see a blue planet like spot on two of my photos. The first photo shows no object, the second photo shows the object just outside the halo, the third photo shows the object much further away from the halo. I understand this could be something from the sun as we were looking towards the sun as see by the photos. You will note as per the photo, info I sent all three were sent within a 60 second time frame. We see in the photos what we believe are lens flares. PD
March 25, 2018 · 5:10 AM · SPHERE
Chicago, IL
from my position there were 2 lights hovering above the willis tower (looking south), and 1 light to the west(looking west and almost right above me). I sat and watched the lights for 30 min and they never changed position in the sky. I observed planes in the air moving in the background behind these objects. I knew the other objects were planes because they had red flashing lights on them, unlike the 3 objects i saw which had no change in light color and never changed in intensity. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
March 24, 2018 · 8:00 PM · SPHERE
Syracuse, NY
I was looking at what I believed was a very bright planet, when I realized it was moving across the sky to the WNW. It was moving slowly and was about as bright as the brightest planet I’ve seen. I’m used to seeing all kinds of aircraft and have lived near airports and army bases most of my life. This thing eventually left a pinprick of a red spot but faded out before it had gotten far enough away TO fade out. I knew it wasn’t an airplane or a helicopter. I can only assume it was something to do with that Chinese spacecraft coming back into the atmosphere. This thing seemed to follow the curve of the earth. I am in a suburb with some light pollution, but it is VERY clear tonight, with the waxing moon fully visible. I am an amateur sky watcher and took basic astronomy in college. Witness seems to suggest that the object was traveling in a WNW direction. Satellites rarely travel to the west in a retrograde orbit. PD
March 22, 2018 · 10:55 PM · SPHERE
Watertown, CT
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
March 22, 2018 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Athens, TN
At 21:00, I was sitting in my tractor trailer in a dock door, getting loaded and enjoying the clear night sky, with the moon almost straight ahead and up and the little dipper down and to the left and a bright white star left of that which I assume to be Venus or another planet given the brightness. While focused on that planet, a movement in the sky caught my eye and it appeared as if one of the stars began to move slightly to the left of the presumed planet and then I realised there were no blinking lights or noises, and then I tried to film it with my cell phone, but it didn't appear on my sub par camera, so I watched it move further in the same direction then it appeared to zig zag slightly then just fade out as if it were never even there. I wasn't at all freaked out as it seemed peaceful, almost like it was just enjoying a nice flight under the stars or amongst them. I would like to point out that there were no visible clouds as I am posting this while still sitting in the same location.
March 21, 2018 · 12:00 AM · SPHERE
Ajo, AZ
This is interesting because it sounds like what we saw was seen in southwestern CT a few days later – in the daylight (see other posts). We were camping in our rented RV in Organ Pipe National Park, in southern Arizona, about 40 miles from the Mexican Border. We were sitting outside of the RV. It was about 8:45 pm. Suddenly, my wife noticed a bright stationary light in the northern sky, close to the horizon. I looked quickly and saw it too. From that one bright light, another bright light came out of it, then another, and another until there were four bright lights, all stationary. Then, one by one they merged back into the first light until just the original light was left. The single orb flickered once, then disappeared. No noise, and no movement, other than moving in/out of the original orb.