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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
February 6, 2018 · 2:30 AM · SPHERE
Santee, SC
Saw a strange light hovering across lake marion from the summerton side by the I-95 bridge. I was outside on my porch smoking. I didn't have my glasses on but as I looked out across the lake I noticed an odd bright white light. I stepped inside to get my glasses so I could get a better look and sure enough it was a bright light that appeared to move just a little and I could see a faint red light every now and then. I watched it for about 5 minutes then had my wife come out and look at it. She mentioned it moving before I did, even though I thought it was moving before she came out. I have no idea how far away it was but it must have been quite a ways away. It was a cloudy night and no other stars were visible on that side of the lake. Also, it didn't appear to be high enough in the sky to have been a star. I thought at first it may have been an aircraft heading toward the charleston airport or the air force base in Charleston, but it never moved. I worked on F-16's for 10 years in the active duty USAF and know it def wan't an aircraft as it never moved across the sky. It would oscillate every now and then, but randomly. I have no idea what it was. I was out smoking again tonight 2/6/2018 and looked in that direction and there's nothing there today. Don't know how long it was there, but it def wasn't an aircraft.
February 5, 2018 · 7:00 PM · SPHERE
St. Cloud, MN
White sphere moving from west to east , and disappeared! It was recorded!
February 3, 2018 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Albany, OR
The lights then took off at high speed flying towards the East. Orange reddish colored spheres, completely silent in flight. Vanished at very high speed.
February 2, 2018 · 6:40 AM · SPHERE
St. Cloud, MN
Yellowish sphere traveling from west to east, no other lights just the yellow color...moving slow!
January 31, 2018 · 6:00 PM · SPHERE
Aliso Viejo, CA
Sphere ufo on toll road 73 south, appeared orange at first. As traffic approached Aliso Creek exit, sphere approached traffic with intense light shining on my car, and two others. All vehicles braked hard, felt dizzy feeling. I yelled at sphere to stop, It abruptly retracted the bright white light, and flew away. Left me with headache, two days later 2/2/2018, same sphere light on 405 n before university exit, 6am, followed me to Costa Mesa, hovered above my building as I walked in.
January 30, 2018 · 12:00 PM · SPHERE
Bryceville, FL
Leaving from home, i turned to say by, when I looked at the sky I observed two orbs in the clear blue sky. I told my wife to look up a tell me what she sees and she said, that shouldn't be there. The orbs looked like two small moons and there was no sound at all. We returned to our home a got our spotting telescope and looked at them, they were very bright and no type of markings on them. They were not moving fast just sitting there, they drifted from the west to the east and stayed for around an hour. We called the local radio station and they said we will let our weather team look into it. Yea, right. We also call my mom in another town and she also could see them but they were smaller in size from her prospective. I hope this will be verified.
January 28, 2018 · 8:55 PM · SPHERE
Olathe, KS
I was leaving a movie with my two kids on Sunday, January 28th, at Olathe amc 30 .. was about to start my car to leave the parking lot. Facing west towards I35 hwy.... But this bright orb like light caught my attention. So I watched it just hover about a minute. Decided to start videoing. You can hear one of my sons say, “What is that?” This orb sortve slowly moved upwards not north or south (toward either closest airport ) ... and it flared into a bigger orb several times then got smaller, and finally disappeared into dark clouds. I only videoed only short time but took a few pics... I didn’t know there was a local reporting site for Kansas until tonight .. my nanny found the site and encouraged me to share this video. Because several friends agree. It looks like a UFO. I’d love to get opinions back on it!
January 28, 2018 · 3:00 AM · SPHERE
Eureka, CA
It was very large, bright and orangish in color. Too big and round to be either a planet or an aircraft. It was moving rather slowly from what I could see, but probably because it looked far away, even for its size. It seemed to fade out a bit after I first noticed it. I rushed back into the house to get binoculars but, as soon as I was back out in the yard with binoculars, it was completely gone.
January 25, 2018 · 6:30 PM · SPHERE
Chilpancingo (Mexico) · Mexico
Site of Observation: Chilpancingo, Gro. MEXICO Date of Occurrence: 25 of January, 2018 Aprox. Hour: 18:30 hrs Local time. Atmospheric Conditions: Mostly Clear with few low altitude clouds towards East. SHAPE: Spherical semi-transparent with a girdle of White bright lights like V. NON COLORED OR FLASHING. Observation method: Telescope( CELESTRON Astromaster 76 with 20X and 10X Eyepieces) and with naked eye sight. Pictures: No time to take pictures. Number of Observers: 2 Adult and One Child. Duration of Event: More than 15 minutes. Altitude: High Altitude Like at level of Cirrus clouds or higher (Higher than any Jet plane but lower than a Man made Satellite. Speed: Slower than a Trans continental Jet. Direction: From West towards East (No wandering or hesitation and with an exact course or Direction. Brightness: Very Bright like a Planet(Venus) but with an Inner bright Lights from start to finish of Observation. No Experience and Background of Observers: Master in Sciences Oceanography and Every day sky observation of Stars, planets and Man-made Satellites, Experience with Could Shapes at different altitudes and Atmospheric conditions worldwide. Other Tools to corroborate sighting: Apple Computer with an actual time Simulator of the Stars, Planets and Artificial Satellites like NOAA and so forth(STELLARIUM). Other references in the Sky: Quarter growing Moon almost at Zenith and visible with Clear Sky, Low Clowds drifting from S.E.. SIMILITUDE: Like a Meteorological Sonda, but with a very precise direction and very fast, Shinning and accurate for a drifting object within the wind currents.
January 25, 2018 · 6:25 PM · SPHERE
Bethel, OH
I was driving to a school event on Thursday 1/25/2018, when I noticed three orange lights in the sky. They would move along, and then stop. When theu stopped the first time, one of the lights just went out, when it re-appeared it was closer to one of the other lights. Then a fourth light appeared, as if coming out of one of the other lights. They move up and back in the sky then just disappeared. These lights were orange in color and sphere shaped. I sat there in the parking lot I had pulled into, waiting to see if they would reappear, and they did not.
January 25, 2018 · 5:30 PM · SPHERE
East Monroe, OH
One mile down Monroe road coming from Leesburg, OH. Me and my boyfriend were standing on the porch smoking a cigarette when a light appeared (bright orange orb is what I'll describe it as) above my neighbors tree appeared, it was by itself. We thought it was a drone at first, so we watched it as it moved to the left of the tree and over the neighbors house but then out of nowhere three more "orbs" appeared in a perfect diagonal pattern. (Like the big dipper) They didn't move , and the first orb we seen stopped slightly to the left of the other three. They glowed for only a short two minutes, then literally just disappeared completely. All at once. There were no sounds that we heard. But all of our dogs were barking and looking that way. We were in shock,and it happened so fast we didn't have time to record. Never seen anything like it out here before and have no clue what it could've been. It was only 6:30pm.
January 20, 2018 · 7:30 PM · SPHERE
Toronto (Canada), ON · Canada
Disclosure: ((deleted--not high quality)) iphone that i don’t know how to effectively use. I was able to get the more distant ones coming in our direction, travelling NE. That night CTV news reported strange lights at Yonge/Sheppard, 10pm news. Local police chalking it up to a hobbyist w/ an expensive toy... In total, my mother and I witnessed 12 of them. We live in the NW part of the city. We are located close to the highways and airport, however these objects did not have the shape of airplanes, nor did they make any sound - an entire line of fhem and no sound. At one point my mothers voice faded away as did the sounds of conversation from the tenants in the parking lot below us. That is when I noticed one bulb-orb was bright white emitting more light than the rest, not just glowing. I barely noticed the first three bc we were having a smoke and chatting; they were passing directly over us at that point. I could see more coming and ran in to the apt to get the phone...i came back out to photo the end of the line which was just travelling over us by that time but the phn woudn’t work - I thought it was over but then another light started coming up frm the horizon (7:35pm) and before I knew it another line was forming, coming our way. This is what I was able to capture. I had frequent pauses and panic trying to work the cell phone. I got a really good look at one orb-bulb. It was almost like I could see into it. My mother was with me and witnessed everything.
January 20, 2018 · 8:20 AM · SPHERE
Shamrock, TX
On 1-20-18, at 8:20 am, on I-40 east of Shamrock, Tx, I seen a glowing sphere in the sky. The sky was visible and clear with 5 other air craft flying leaving contrails/chemTrails. You could make out each air craft and the glowing sphere was closer to where you could see that it was not a air craft, it caught my eye while I was driving by glowing bright like a LED light. It started going bright and dim for about 2 mins and then faded out and blended in with sky. It reappeared 1min later, and I stopped to try to get video with my phone, but the phone could not detect the glowing sphere only the aircraft in the back round. It continued to glow for 4-5 min then disappear.
January 20, 2018 · 1:00 AM · SPHERE
Burlington, VT
was walking with a friend up at the Ethan Allen tower. once we got the top, we both saw three red orbs equally spaced and high flying silently up the lake. maybe a half a mile high. high speed. I've worked with commercial, private, and military aircraft, this was none of those.no blinking lights, perfectly round, and no noise. eventually flying out of view. unfortunately left my cell phone at the house.
January 19, 2018 · 7:15 PM · SPHERE
Cheyenne, WY
I was north of mile marker 22 on I-25, south bound. Out of the east I saw 2 green orbs that had a large circumference, if I held my fingers up towards my windshield to circle around them there would have been a gap between my index finger and thumb. There were no strobe lights, only the green orbs and they maintained the same latitude with each other and the same distance was maintained between them and it is my estimation that they were moving about a 125 knots per hour, about the same speed as a small plane such as a Cessna. It took awhile for them to get to the interstate, cross it and for me to intersect their trajectory. By the time I was intersecting their trajectory I was in alignment with their westbound direction and I could see one was directly behind the other. I watched until I couldn't see them anymore. I reported to my local sheriff.
January 19, 2018 · 6:16 PM · SPHERE
Chipley, FL
On Friday, January 19, at approximately 18:16 in the afternoon, while traveling from Cottondale to Chipley, west bound, myself and my spouse noticed a spherical spectrum of light towards the west of the Chipley area that seemed to change shape and color the object was observed for approximately 30 minutes before disappearing.
January 15, 2018 · 10:20 PM · SPHERE
Fort Lauderdale, FL
Originally in a V formation but after getting closer, or it coming closer to me, a straight line 6-8 metallic spheres with a small red light towards top on all of them. 1 Helicopter was seen chasing behind.
January 15, 2018 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Northbridge, MA
Red/orange glowing orb. It came out of a cloud, stayed staitionary for about 20 seconds then went back behind a cloud. No sound.
January 7, 2018 · 6:00 PM · SPHERE
Loveland, CO
First my son and boyfriend noticed a green light in the sky above us and slightly west and a light yellow larger orb shaped light directly above. They yelled into the camper and I came out and saw them also. We pointed them out to a neighbor who then watched them with us. My boyfriend went to his mother's camper and had her come out and look also. The lights moved and changed directions a few times. We watched for about 5 mins then 2 helicopters flew towards the lights at which time the orb stopped moving then proceeded north west and the green light headed west. When the lights were too dim to see clearly, I was headed back into the house when my son yelled at me to look because there were more lights. When I looked to the West I saw two hot pink very bright lights with a green light in the center lined up perfectly spaced vertically coming over the mountain straight towards us. We then yelled at the neighbor and my boyfriend to look and I knocked on my ! other neighbor's door and had him and his girlfriend come out and look at the lights as they were so shocking amd unusual. The two pink and green light moved in a strange manner, shifting position and changing direction quickly moving towards us but always keeping in a triangular pattern with the green in the center. Just to the east of the pink and green lights was a smaller red light we noticed at one point that was harder to see and it did not follow the pink and green lights as they traveled so we lost track of it. We saw what we identified as a plane come across the sky from the West towards the formation at which time the green and pinklights paused then moved off to the northwest, shifting an appearing to get farther apart but still equally distanced and triangular in nature. At least one other neighbor at the campground came outside and witnessed these lights while we were out there. He was on the phone at the time and told the person on the phone about the light! s. We saw the lights move off into the distance until they wer! e so fai nt we could not see them any longer. Then above us and to the west we noticed a bright blue light which came towards us and appeared to come lower then moved north west and higher until out was also out of sight. We stayed outside for about 10 mins after that and saw no further strange lights but an incredible amount of air traffic flying much lower than usual which we also found strange. All of the strange lights we witnessed stayed solid and did not flash or change color. One neighbor tried to record and photograph but the lights did not show up on his phone camera. My son tried to photograph the lights but they did not show up for him either. I did not try to photograph it myself because I did not want to break away from viewing to go in the house and get my phone.
January 7, 2018 · 1:00 AM · SPHERE
Sarasota, FL
My wife and I were on vacation in Sarasota Florida on that date and, before this story was published, I told my wife and daughter the same story. I gave them more details and described what the lights looked like while hovering over the (totally black) Gulf of Mexico. It was an amazing sight. The website asked for input from others who might be able to solve the question of the light source. As a result, I provided a full recounting of my experience. That was two weeks ago and I've not heard any feedback. My questions are: was any source/explanation ever found? Did your observatory cameras pick up anything? Is any follow up planned? Did anyone else report the incident? These lights must have rotated with the earth because I saw them in exactly the same position until 4:00 AM that morning (4 hours). How is that possible? I'd appreciate any input you might have.
January 5, 2018 · 6:45 PM · SPHERE
Milliken, CO
It's not the first time I've seen these lights. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
January 4, 2018 · 7:00 PM · SPHERE
Riverton, WY
I was by myself driving from Shoshoni to Riverton. The sun had gone down a couple hours earlier and it was cloudy, so it was a very dark night. The roads were icy so my attention was very firmly on the road. Out of the corner of my eye I saw a light to the right of my car. I turned my head and looked at it. About 20 feet to the right of my car was a glowing sphere. It was about the size of a basketball. It shifted colors every few seconds going from green to red to yellow. The light coming off of it wasn't extremely bright, but in the darkness, it stood out clearly. The sphere was going exactly the same speed as my car. I was driving under the speed limit because of the icy road. I was going about 45 mph. I kept looking over at it and it stayed in the same position relative to my car outside the driver's (sic. passenger's) side window. The ground dropped off sharply a few feet beyond the guardrail. My first thought was that there must be a parallel road down below and another vehicle that happened to be going the exact same speed as myself had a tall pole attached to it with a weird color changing light on top of it. As strange as that would be it was the only explanation I could come up with. After 15 or 20 seconds of this sphere matching my speed and direction perfectly it was becoming clear to me that my initial assumption was extremely unlikely. I decided to slow down abruptly to see if the sphere would slow down to stay alongside me. I hit the brakes and slowed to about 20 mph very quickly just as a small hill rose up between my vehicle and the object. It took about a second to pass the hill. I expected to see the sphere shoot forward ahead of me alongside the highway but it never appeared. I looked to the right to the place where the object had previously been and it was gone. I could still see the light from it, though, for another couple seconds. A green glow was reflected off of tree branches as the light moved away from the road. It seems that the moment I slowed down, the sphere made an abrupt 90 degree turn to the right and vanished into the woods. ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) Yes, I did mean the passenger’s side window. Thanks for the advice. ((END ADDENDUM))
January 1, 2018 · 8:06 PM · SPHERE
Morristown, VT
We spotted the object in the southern sky with pulsating red, green, and yellow lights. The object was situated at the 30 degree angle from the horizon. After approximately 1/2 hour, it move to a higher altitude to aprroximately 45 degree angle. An airplane flew right by the object but it’s unclear the distance between the two. The object did not move when the airplane passed by. As of now, the object remains in the sky and it’s more of a diamond shaped object. We’re not UFO hunters. We just happen to spot it.
January 1, 2018 · 4:41 PM · SPHERE
Seattle, WA
Bright orb hovering Southwest of Puget Sound. Hovered then disappeared or blinked out.