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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
October 17, 2017 · 9:30 PM · SPHERE
Tempe, AZ
Facing North on roof top near Sky Harbor air port to the NW orange/yellow Orb dropped out of the sky and stopped about 100ft high then moved to the north toward Camelback Mountain. There was no sound or air movement. Lost site after a min behind a wall walked around wall and did not see any craft on that same course. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 17, 2017 · 6:30 PM · SPHERE
Harwinton, CT
Glowing spherical object appeared to be a plane with glare from setting sun but as we kept looking did not act like a plane. Was moving northerly in a straight line and after 10 seconds turned 90 degrees to move straight west. We watched as long as we could - did not see further deviation.
October 17, 2017 · 10:50 AM · SPHERE
Richmond, VT
While driving a light caught my eye. It appeared suddenly enough to be a shooting star. An orb of ice blue light moved slowly across the sky and then It didn't just disappear, the light swiftly eclipsed away. The large size, slow speed and the way it disappeared were all unusual.
October 16, 2017 · 9:42 PM · SPHERE
North Dayton, OH
I don't know whether what I saw this night was real or something I worked up a bit in my head. Since August 2017, I have seen red/orange orb UFO's flying near, and even directly above, my home in north Dayton. But on this night in October, an approximate date and time, I was outside alone and saw from the west the now-familiar bright red glow (which, as it begins to move into view, appears incredibly large) as if one of the objects was about to approach from due west as was their most common direction of approach. But this night the bright red glow did not seem to be moving, or moving west to east; instead, it appeared to be stopped 600 hundred or so yards west of me, low enough that it was actually hovering only around 10-12 feet above the ground in a neighbor's yard. While the the object appeared just as large as had all prior objects, this particular one was not only stationary, lower (at under treetop level), there were two other unusual occurrences. First, there were shadows which seemed superimposed over the brilliant red light. These shadows moved like humans except with jerkier movements; two or three were tall while one was short. Second, while there was (as always) no sound produced by the object, while these shadows seemed to move in front of the red light, I heard what I can best describe as "whispered internal static" -- it was not something heard aurally, but more like feeling vibrations and recognizing these as speech, somehow. Though the red orbs have never made me the least bit nervous before, this night, after the object again lifted into the air following its traditional path of flight, I watched it only until it was about halfway through the route before going inside. I wasn't nervous as much as I was confused by what I'd seen. I didn't trust myself and so I almost immediately decided it must have been neighbors with a Chinese lantern. If it was, the lantern was as large as a one-story, 1800-square-foot house and the neighbors' shadows were somehow being projected as exceptionally tall, except for the one smaller one. And, when I truly looked, there were no neighbors outside any house but mine that night; but, for some reason, that explanation made the most sense to me at the time. Before I came into the house, as I watched this orb first lift above tree level while moving northeast, then straighten its path to move directly west-to-east, a family member came outside. I told him the neighbors were setting off Chinese lanterns. "That's not a Chinese lantern," he replied. "And what neighbors?" I have started to occasionally see these red orbs nearby again, starting in February; they had been absent since that last prior sighting in October. And no, it was not a Chinese lantern; but, everything except the orb itself I'm going to say could have come from my imagination.
October 15, 2017 · 8:15 PM · SPHERE
Douglas, WY
2 of my friends and I were standing on my balcony smoking a cigarette, when we all saw this extremely bright orb or sphere slowly come over a ridge in the South and as soon as it fully broke the ridge top it shot straight up into the clouds then quickly shot down to the top of another ridge in the West, hoovered for a minute then streaked across the sky to the South and then shot North as fast as you could turn our head's.
October 15, 2017 · 8:00 PM · SPHERE
Winder, GA
Object was seen at dusk. Not sure of the exact clock time. Facing east. Looked like a very large bright star. Stayed in one spot for about 4 minutes. Began to move away slowly from left to right horizontally. Then picked up speed rapidly and and began to climb upward in a slight ark. It went from being at a one o clock position on the horizon to being out of sight at the right side of the horizon in about 1 second. There was no sound. It definitely moved faster than a human could survive. Not sure if this is related, but, the next day, during the day, it was cloudless. In the same relative spot from my vantage point, small single clouds would form only one at a time and then disappear in less than 30 seconds or less. This was the only cloud formation in the sky. Very small clouds from my vantage point. Never saw anything like that before. Witness indicates that the date of the event is approximate. PD
October 14, 2017 · 9:19 PM · SPHERE
Franklin, NC
Very bright, low flying orb
October 14, 2017 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Montreal, MO
Source of report indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
October 14, 2017 · 8:30 PM · SPHERE
Newport, OR
Two red orbs the first one came down the beach line up in the sky at night and then it just went straight up into the sky and disappeared within a second and then the second Red Orb follow the beach line and look like it was coming right at us and then went straight up into the sky and disappeared
October 14, 2017 · 8:00 PM · SPHERE
Des Moines, IA
On the aforementioned date the Des Moines airport had to close due to heavy rain we had came here to purchase a car at a local dealership, afterwards we went and ate at Denny's and as we were walking out to the car after eating I looked north and at 45° about 500 to 800 ft in the air I saw it; a sphere that looked identical to the center petrospere on display at the Kelvingrove Gallery and Museum moving through the very well lit low hanging clouds from east to west against the wind.
October 14, 2017 · 7:30 PM · SPHERE
Middletown, VA
Background: I am an engineer and work for a defense contractor. One of the ones that conspiracy people get really paranoid about, but I promise that I don't work on any spooky projects. My father was with me. He works for the government. Also, nothing too spooky in the conspiracy sense. I have a passing familiarity with military and commercial aircraft, he has a pretty detailed knowledge in being able to profile and identify aircraft. He also has one of those augmented reality aircraft identification/tracking apps and makes plane-spotting (along with hawk-spotting and star watching) part of his hobbies. The area it was observed has a clear view of traffic routes flying into IAD, DCA, and BWI, plus some other private airfields in the area and Andrews AFB. Observation: We had already seen 2 satellites pass over, 3 shooting stars (two parallel to the quite clearly visible milky way and one perpendicular), and probably a dozen aircraft. The night is super clear, probably the clearest we have had in a week. I was staring at the shocking amount of stars out but didn't immediately identify any planets I wanted to check out with a telescope or set of binos (silly, Saturn was right behind me). I walked around the truck and asked dad to turn off the garage lights, and when I turned around again there was a shockingly bright light in the sky that I hadn't noticed before. 'Not too strange, just didn't see it.' And then it started moving, looking like it was dropping down in the sky. 'Well, okay, it's flying away from us not quite in the traffic lanes'. It was moving pretty fast. Faster than the satellites, slower than some of the closer low flying planes that had red/white blinking lights. Also was just one steady tone, a cream-white color. Very bright, brighter than any of the stars by far, brighter than Venus or Mars. Then it hooked a starting to a reverse J, then into an L turn to the right. Then it started... jigging? Bouncing up and down, left and right. At first I thought it was my eyes playing tricks on me just because it was so bright, so I steadied myself, set my head down on the truck bed, and kept watching. Still jigging. Then another aircraft passed below it in my view and it and the stars around it were rock steady, not moving strangely at all, but that light was still jigging around relative to all of it. Dad got the AR app out and it showed a couple aircraft in the sky kinda near it, but one of the craft was not identifiable on the app. The other was a clearly visible commercial plane (the one I mentioned above). Then it started to fade. Didn't change color, just rapidly went dark over the span of about 10 seconds and that was the last we saw of it. Speculation: First guess was it was a flare because of how it faded out, its color, and how bright it was. But, the flare explanation didn't cover the jigging. It didn't look like any of the other aircraft in behavior or appearance, so I don't think it was one of the commercial craft. ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) Thanks for the reply. I asked a group what they thought, and they suggested I check the ISS orbit. NASA says I should have been able to see the ISS 65 degrees off the horizon for about 5 minutes, disappearing 19 degrees above ESE, at 19:28 pm. That would have lined up exactly with what I saw. That's going to be my going explanation. Thanks again! ((END ADDENDUM))
October 14, 2017 · 4:00 PM · SPHERE
Polson, MT
Stopped behind a store overlooking Flathead Lake and shot a panoramic photograph using my cell phone. Did not visually see these objects until after posting them.
October 13, 2017 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Bristow, VA
As I was Driving home around 9 pm on 10/13/2017 from south Manassas to Bristow, Va. with my 27 yr. old son. (a well educated financial director). We turned the last corner to home. We suddenly spotted a glowing green ball or sphere shaped object in the sky.. We are Not exactly sure of its shape, because of the intensity of the glow. It remained a steady bright green and was moving slowly toward the East. It then increased speed somewhat and took a course of a more ENE direction. After it was finishing the course change, we immediately noticed that as its speed was accelerating, it began to change color from brilliant green to a brilliant white. It continued to fly of to the ENE until it was out of sight. It made no sound and flew beneath the overcast. We Could only give a guess it its size. Somewhat like holding a pea out at arms length. We estimated it was a fairly large object about 7 miles away. Altitude about 3000 ft. silently crossing a large field of view from our vantage point. I am a 59 yr old aviation industry veteran with 40 yrs of experience. I am intimately familiar with almost everything that we have operating in our skies. This was one airborne object that I could not identify, which is baffling to me. I did not see any navigation recognition lights, red lights or any strobes, and there was no sound at all. It did not exhibit any strange, gyrations or excessive speed changes. The overall flight characteristics were very fluid. It appeared to be intelligently controlled, flying a straight horizontal heading, until the course change, altitude remained steady while making very smooth course corrections. If there was a crew in there, hand flying, I would say they are well skilled, but more likely on some version of a flight management system. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 13, 2017 · 8:10 AM · SPHERE
Allentown, GA
My father-in-law informed my wife and me, on 12/2/17, that he had seen and photographed a UFO while driving East on I-16 on 10/13/17. He has photographs on his phone that range from poor to extraordinary quality. I would very much like for someone to review them. He texted them to me and I have converted them to emails and sent them to myself.
October 11, 2017 · 3:45 AM · SPHERE
Wenatchee, WA
I was laying in the tent with the rain fly off and saw a weird light dimly through the mesh netting and through the trees. Curious, I got up to see what it was and went for a late night walk from the campsite to the rivers mouth. That’s when I saw the sphere zooming silently and erratically across the lake.
October 10, 2017 · 6:30 AM · SPHERE
Cougar, WA
work partner and I was on Pacific corp property building roads for them. we start work in the early mornings at 5 am. about 6:30, partner said, hey I keep seeing lights on the mountain, meaning Mt. Saint Helens. It is a few miles across the way, and we would see these flashes of lights in different spot on the mountains south side. you had to keep from blinking your eyes or you would miss it, cause they were very fast and very bright lights, almost white lights. I got my phone out and took three pictures of it zoomed to the highest level it had on a s7 Samson phone, one out of three pictures caught the fast light. and zoom that picture you can see top to the light is a black orb. we think that the other pictures I took and missed the light have black orbs in it too. did notice that the lights flashed in different places on the mountain at different times. seems like you had to wait a few minutes for the next light to flash and sometimes they wou!d flash several times same spot.
October 9, 2017 · 8:30 PM · SPHERE
Farmington, NM
Bright Sphere looking West North-west a sphere with changing lists red green blue yellow. moving a steady rate. cross field of vision in about 15 - 20 min, upon other air craft ie jets coming near the sphere lights went off. able to capture with 70-2000 zoom camera. light came back on after air-craft passed - always came back as bright white with blue halo. Then return to multi-colors. @ around 8:30pm 10/09/17 ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) Thanks. You guys are good. It was the star. Sent from my iPhone ((END ADDENDUM))
October 9, 2017 · 5:39 AM · SPHERE
Anaheim, CA
It was 5:39 in the morning. I was on the 91 freeway headed westbound, when I saw what looked like a satellite entering the atmosphere going eastboud. It has a red light with smaller red lights following behind it. It looked like a fireball with a trail behind it at first. It was there for maybe 10 seconds. Then it came back maybe 20 seconds later and now it was white colored. It broke off into smaller dimmer lights with the main light in the center. These smaller lights broke away and did a dance and then faded out. Then it came back again maybe a minute later as a red glowing light headed west bound. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 6, 2017 · 8:30 PM · SPHERE
Claymont, DE
While going for my nightly walk, in the sky I noticed three sets of four lights in the clouds (12 lights total). The lights moved in a clockwise circular pattern, drifted out to a fixed perimeter, and drifted into the center of the circular formation. There were three sets, two of which, when at their fullest 'bloom' touched each other. The other seemed to be separated, from the group. I was alone on my walk, but there were other people in the area. I did not ask them if they noticed the lights, because my neighborhood is not always the safest place.
October 6, 2017 · 7:30 PM · SPHERE
Parsippany, NJ
I was in a school parking lot, had gotten out of my car to speak to my husband who was in a car behind me. I looked up, noticing the lights. It was traveling due south and quite bright. The view was free from the glare of streetlights (or the full moon). I looked up and saw the craft which was quite low and prior to becoming hidden by a tree line, I told my husband to look up. There were white and green colored lights on the sphere.
October 5, 2017 · 11:20 PM · SPHERE
Conway, SC
A Strange green orb went over the woods behind my house and behind the tree line and seemed to slowly descend as it went past. Source of report elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. We suspect that the sighting occurred at 11:20 p.m., not a.m., so we have amended the time above. PD
October 5, 2017 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
Simpsonville, SC
On the night of Thursday, October 5th, 2017, ~10:58-11:15pm, EDT I was in the den, when my wife came in and said, “Look out the side window, there is something there I can’t explain!” As we looked into the NE sky at approximately 45-50 degrees from 0 degrees north, we observed a colorful sphere about the size of a small marble or a large BB at arm’s length seemingly bobbing up and down just above the tree line approximately 45 degrees from the horizon. To the naked eye, it appeared like spherical net lighting that you use on Christmas shrubs or small trees and it looked like it blinked from red to blue (or green) to yellow (or white). We also focused binoculars on it and was the same effect (changing colors spherical net lighting). After scrambling to find my camera (a Cannon T2i with a EF-S 55-250mm lens) and took the following footage and pictures (will be sent). It was the most amazingly beautiful, non-living thing I have ever seen as it appeared to be series of images of different colored balls resembling our planets and/or other colored spheres including Earth so the view with the naked eye and even with the binoculars looked different! As I took several short clips (to make their file sizes small), I was waiting for my battery to die, which it eventually did. One weird thing are the triangular blue and red "reference points" or dots on my images slightly to the left of the pictures and footage. I also noticed that the camera would work sometimes and not others so I kept restarting it. When I was recharging the battery for the Canon, I tried my iPhone 6 which did not provide any discernible images. Later shots about ½ an hour afterwards with my battery charged just enough, I noticed it had moved much as a star would but at an angle up (towards the East up and clockwise), not straight up as most stars would rise. I knew it wasn’t Venus or Mars because as I remember it, Venus and Mars were due to rise at the same time (~5:22am) about 6 hours later that same morning. It did resemble Venus in intensity but not in color. Also, there was no noise coming from the object. When I went to bed around 2:00am it was higher in the sky but still visible. I am currently a High School Physics teacher, posses a BA in Physics and worked on three different NASA contracts in the 1980s and 90s for 5-1/2 years: Space Station Freedom (which never materialized), COBE (Cosmic Background Explorer) @ Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD, and at NASA Headquarters in Washington DC. Also, as part of my MS degree program, I have a Graduate Certification in Space Operations which includes Remote Sensing, Space Environment and Space Operations.
October 5, 2017 · 1:30 PM · SPHERE
Chatelard (Le), Rhône-Alpes · France
Le 05 octobre 2017 à 13h30 un témoin, allongé sur le sol lors d'un exercice sportif, est surpris par la vitesse de passage Ouest-Est d'une boule blanche opaque. Le témoin ne remarque aucune trace dans le ciel laissée par le phénomène. Aucun bruit n'est entendu. L'observation dure entre 15 et 20 secondes. Un seul témoignage pour ce phénomène a été recueilli. L'observation du témoin pourrait correspondre au passage d'un bolide (météore de grande intensité lumineuse) bien que nous n'avons pas trouvé la trace formelle de ce passage. Les bolides de jour sont plus difficiles à voir, certains peuvent être identifiés (caméras ou radar) sans jamais avoir fait l'objet de témoignages humains. La position allongée du témoin au calme (exercice respiratoire) a sans doute favorisé l'observation. L'aspect décrit pourrait correspondre mais la durée indiquée paraît longue et aurait nécessité des précisions. Le témoin n'a pas donné suite notre demande de remplir notre questionnaire. De ce fait, le GEIPAN n'est pas en mesure d'explorer plus cette hypothèse ou une autre. Le GEIPAN classe ce cas C : manque d'information fiable. [GEIPAN classification C — Manque d'informations fiables]
October 5, 2017 · 11:40 AM · SPHERE
Shediac (Canada), NB · Canada
Did anyone else witness this? October 5, Thursday, 2017, around 11:40 a.m., north northeast was the direction. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and he sounded to us to be quite serious and sober-minded. We suspect that he is a very good witness. PD