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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.
9,368 entries
May 31, 2014 · 11:15 PM · FIREBALL
Grants Pass, OR
At 11:15 pm my father in law called my wife and outside. He was yelling about something in the sky. My wife went out first because I was preoccupied. Then my wife started yelling for me I thought something was wrong because of how she sounded. I ran to the front yard ready to take care of who ever was causing problems. My wife told me to look in the sky and I saw a huge redish orange ballon the sky. At first I thought maybe a comet or something of that sort but then it started moving away from the earth towards space. After it started moving it only a few seconds before it was completely out of sight. I have always believed in extraterrestrial beings and have been studying the subject for close to a decade. I have always hoped to be lucky enough to see something like this but never expected to really see it. So far I have asked 20-30 people if they had seen anything in the sky last night but so far we are the only ones. It's not a hoax, I know what I saw, and it couldn't have been anything else.
May 31, 2014 · 11:05 PM · FIREBALL
Warren, MI
It looked almost like it was gliding... It did not blink, and suddenly disappeared.. We even pulled over in amazement, as we never seen anything unidentifiable before. My husband is police officer and said it was not a plane …
May 31, 2014 · 11:00 PM · FIREBALL
Elburn, IL
We were driving west in Elburn in a car with four passengers. The driver noticed an orange light in the sky. We all looked up to see four bright orange jellyfish shaped lights in the sky in a straight, diagonal line moving faster than any airplane we have ever seen. They stayed in our vision for about ten minutes. Something notable about this encounter was that one minute into the sighting, a military plane swooped under the four bright lights.
May 31, 2014 · 10:27 PM · FIREBALL
Redford, MI
I live in redford michigan. On 5/31/14 at 10:27 pm i saw 13 Orange looking orbs moving slowly across the night sky. Some of the orbs were in a triangular formation of sorts, at least two of the orbs were flying alone together and as i watched the orbs move at least two just seemed to vanish in mid flight. Then two of the orbs that were in one of the triangular formation vanished .
May 31, 2014 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Elgin, IL
Saw 2 fireball shapes flying side by side. One seemed to disappear into thin air. A few minutes later another appeared and disappeared very quickly.
May 31, 2014 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
West Bend, WI
5 Orange/Red orbs/fireballs in a parallel line with the last one trailing behind. The last caught up to the 4 other orbs and they disappeared. I would estimate they were 5-10 thousand feet high and about a half mile away from our location. Total time we observed was about 6 minutes. The orbs looked to be about the size of an average house.
May 30, 2014 · 9:50 PM · FIREBALL
Eden, NY
While driving, we spotted 2 flickering orange (fire colored) spherical, slow-moving silent objects in the sky. Since I was driving, I couldn't get a good depth perception. I knew right away that they were the same things I had seen sitting on my deck a few summers ago only that time there were three and they were much lower. I would guess that they were larger than a basketball but not bigger than exercise ball. Both times, they were moving faster than the wind current and seemed directed. I never did figure out what they were and still can't.
May 30, 2014 · 9:38 PM · FIREBALL
Daytona Beach, FL
At 9:38 P.M. me and a friend stepped outside to leave my house. I live right off A1A, 200 yards from the ocean in Daytona Beach Shores. In a direction of SSE, we saw what I thought to be a rocket. Not to miss the night launch, I called into my wife in the house to come out and see. Most rockets disappear quickly here in the general direction they are launched, but even with taking her time of half a minute to come out it was still visible. Only at this point instead of moving up in altitude, becoming more and more dim, it was moving across the horizon about 45 degrees high over the ocean until it disappeared at ENE. It was an orange ball of flame like seen in launches. I would estimate it traveled from Cape Canerval to Jacksonville (160 miles) slightly off the coast in about 90-120 seconds. I couldn't find and information of a launch at 9:38 on 5/30 and would like to note heard no noise at all like when a military jet flies over the ocean. I'm convinced it was a rocket flying over the coast but can't find any record of a launch so I'm reporting it as a UFO.
May 29, 2014 · 9:50 PM · FIREBALL
Englewood, FL
I had my friend come out to see and, as the first it slowly disappeared. We went back inside and I looked out the window and noticed 2 more going in the same direction, so we watched them slowly disappear. after going back inside again, peeked out and seen 1 more all going the same direction and fading away as if they went out to space.. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 27, 2014 · 6:51 PM · FIREBALL
Colorado Springs, CO
I took a picture of a storm, I zoomed in and saw a double fireball shaped object, I wanted to report this because I don't know what it is.
May 26, 2014 · 12:30 AM · FIREBALL
Nampa (Treasure Valley), ID
It was 3 orange orbs in the sky, probably flares or a lantern. rising, not losing altitude and eventually flickered out. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 25, 2014 · 11:26 PM · FIREBALL
Monroe, WA
Coming home @11:26PM Sunday, May 25, 2014, driving NORTH into Monroe, WA. Noticed a formation of what looked like red-orange rocket flames with two next to each other parallel to horizon with the third one above the right one of the two below. No sounds associated, appeared to be way off in distance. Noticed the top one was moving upward, the bottom right one was moving upward after the top one and the left bottom one was then following the second one such that though initially they formed a right angle triangle, they ended up in a straight line following each other. I watched as each one went into the clouds, as I could see them get "fuzzy" as they entered the clouds and as they approached a thinner portion of the clouds they got less fuzzy but continued to get dimmer due to distance. Where would any rockets be coming from that could be seen from my location and since when do rockets get launched in rapid succession? Actually, I could more likely believe they would be interceptor missiles or something similar. I am eager to find out if other saw these and what explanations there are.
May 25, 2014 · 11:00 PM · FIREBALL
Methuen, MA
Orange-red, travelling in a spherical trajectory but not lined up in succession, sort of out of formation but still in a uniform direction.
May 25, 2014 · 10:40 PM · FIREBALL
Miami Township, OH
Slow moving red ball about 50 feet above ground. Picked up speed as went higher.
May 25, 2014 · 9:28 PM · FIREBALL
Boca Raton, FL
I was driving in my neighborhood when I noticed a strange light up in sky. I quickly pulled over and pulled out camera phone. The light looked like a flame kind of. It looked fire like, I guess a fireball type. At first I thought it wasn't moving, but when I stopped I noticed it was moving slowly across the sky. I thought maybe I would hear a noise, maybe it was a hot air ballon, I thought, but it was completely silent. Then I thought, no air ballon, what is this. I tried playing with zoom on my camera then lost it in the camera but I kept my eye on the flame, fiery, fireball like object as it slowly flew across sky. Then, it all of sudden went from a very slow rate of speed, to the speed of light, at an angle into space. Only a short line or trail of light was seen angled in to space. If I blinked I would have missed it. It was gone!
May 25, 2014 · 8:00 PM · FIREBALL
Phoenix, AZ
Eight balls of lights passing over. One dimmed out to grey object.
May 25, 2014 · 9:15 AM · FIREBALL
Pittsburgh, PA
Observed Larger orange glow. Grabbed Binoculars, observed for another minute. Had to be over 30,000ft. Orange glow with small tail stopped very suddenly and was gone. The Orange glow was like a halo with a brighter spot in the middle.
May 24, 2014 · 10:15 PM · FIREBALL
Murfreesboro, TN
Four burning red lights in the sky, not moving, just hovering. In triangle formation with fourth light hovering above top point of triangle. Hovered there as other cars around slowed down to watch. As I drove for about another 1/8 of a mile I looked back and they were gone. Have two pictures of said lights.
May 24, 2014 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Mukwonago, WI
We saw a red orange not quite round object flying north. It was moving slowly across the sky.
May 24, 2014 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Yorkville, IL
Me and about 15 other friends were sitting around a bonfire last night, we all at once looked up to see a bright red-ish ball of light in the sky, I know for a fact that it was a possible UFO and or 'being' and was not a conventional aircraft. I see normal aircraft on approach to chicago airports Midway and O'hare all that time. This object moved slowly then stopped 3 different times then went straight down towards the earth at crazys speeds than stopped around 10k feet for about 5 seconds and without a sound vanished as if it were never there. This is my first time ever seeing something like this, and kind of scared us. I am still having a hard time understanding what we all saw last night.
May 24, 2014 · 9:30 PM · FIREBALL
Huntingdon, PA
On Saturday, May 24 at approximately 21:30 I walked outside to let my dogs in. I looked up into the sky because something had caught my eye. It looked like a bright red/orange fireball. It was not moving. I called to my family to come out. As my son and daughter came out it started to move slowly away from us, then it stopped again. Then it began to move from left to right, not a lot, but it continued like this for two or three minutes, then it finally faded away. Total time we saw it: about 10 minutes.
May 24, 2014 · 9:30 PM · FIREBALL
Lynchburg, VA
My wife and I had just dropped off my roommate's girlfriend and when we drove up to the stop sign we both witnessed what appeared at first to be a very, very bright constellation in the sky. My first initial thought was, wow a constellation - but this only lasted a millisecond because these were no stars for sure. There were 5-7 objects, bright, round, with a definite orange/red glow to them. They were obviously very far away from us and I could't guess at their altitude quite honestly. I want to say the best way to think of these would be to imagine seeing the constellation Orion in the sky, but the stars were bright and orange. Of course it wasn't this exact shape but there were something like two lights, left to right, then below another two, and then on the bottom of the formation at least two more. They were headed west, southwest and we were basically at Timberlake (the lake, not the city) Virginia. I looked at a map and I'd guess the lights would be somewhere close to Smith Mt. Lake or between that and us. We sat there in the car watching them and I was really flustered and didn't know what to look for. Had this been a regular occurrence I would have paid more attention to the details. I can say that there was some movement among the individual objects, but very slight. We watched them for at least five minutes. They kind of just faded away one by one and there was a large cloud formation they seemed to get lost behind. My wife and I drove in the general direction as best as the roads would allow but we never did see them again. Definitely a very intense few minutes and I only wish I could see them again. Oh, the color would be exactly what you would expect from a hot air balloon come to think of it, that fiery red/orange flame color.
May 24, 2014 · 9:20 PM · FIREBALL
Bradenton, FL
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 24, 2014 · 2:30 AM · FIREBALL
St. Petersburg Beach, FL
Red fireball, bright. I thought it was a meteor because there was a meteor shower tonight. It was very close and did not burn out. So I look a video. It was traveling slowly across the sky going south towards the skyway bridge. I kept watching it for around 60 seconds as it travels across the sky. It was very bright and changed shapes like a flame does on a candle stick. It made no sound. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD