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October 4, 2017 · 7:40 PM · SPHERE
Edmonton (Canada), AB · Canada
The same orb appeared again above me flying West to East at 2115, but this time disappeared when almost directly above me. This orb has flown over me about 7 or 8 times now. It is white, silent and can behave differently each time it appears.
October 4, 2017 · 6:40 PM · SPHERE
O'Fallon, IL
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 3, 2017 · 8:40 PM · SPHERE
Edmonton (Canada), AB · Canada
I was at work again on Oct. 3, 2017. It was 2040 hours and I was on a 25 minute layover and was outside. I was looking toward the West in the sky and i see a bright light approaching me high up. How high I am not sure. It seemed to be cloud level perhaps higher. But when i see the light it is very bright. This time it flies almost directly over me, but not quite, from a West to East direction. I see the light and zoom in on it with a powerful monocular I purchased. I see it is the same light orb I have seen previously. I take out my phone camera and start filming it. I get about 1 minute or so then my phone goes dead. I revert back to my monocular and watch the orb continue from West to East. After a few minutes the orb dims somewhat. On previous occasions, the orb has traversed the sky till out of sight or veer in a different direction and on 2 occasions it disappeared as I watched it. This time it did something it has not done before. It stopped. The orb came to a stop and ! sat in the same spot for at least 50 minutes. While I was watching it with the monocular as the orb was still, another light travelled past it perpendicular to the direction the stopped orb was travelling. The moving light moved south to north just below the stopped orb. 5 minutes later another light did the same thing. I don't know what those lights were. If you were to look at the orb that stopped it would appear as a star had you not seen it cross the sky. I phoned my wife in excitement and some nervousness and told her what I was looking at. I then filed the report. Conditions in sky were clear with some high cloud cover. No real wind that I noticed. No sound from object, no trail left behind. The color of the orb was a bright white light that later dimmed before coming to a stop. The color if the 2 other lights that crossed the stopped orb were dim white as well. I am a male, 50 years old, married 25 tears with 2 children. I have a University degree and 2 college diplomas and work full time.
October 3, 2017 · 11:32 AM · SPHERE
Boise, ID
As I was walking down the sidewalk with my 6 year old son, I stopped to put sunglasses on my son. Just after my son put the sunglasses on he looked up toward the sun and said "ah, now I can see better." Followed by "theres a rocketship daddy". I looked up above us at about a 45 degree angle expecting to see a jet headed towards our local airport. What I actually saw was a shiny orb looking object moving suddenly downward while what looked like smoke was coming off of it. The object then moved upward, zig zag down and then move upward again and disappearing very quickly like it was just clicked off like a light switch.
October 2, 2017 · 8:30 PM · SPHERE
Gordo, AL
My husband and witnessed a sphere shaped craft appear and lite up very bright and dimmed out numerous times. We seen a second craft behaving in the same manner. They seem to dimming out when airplanes are in the area. We were looking towards the NW and then they turned and went back towards the north. They are still in the area flashing their lights. (as if they are signaling each other) they are moving unlike any other aircraft I have seen. They were in the area a few nights ago, doing the same thing, except they were staying lit up, and moving at a very fast speed, then suddenly, coming to a stop before hovering and moving off in a different direction. I witness this for a couple of hours before moving off. One object is blue and the other object changes from red to blue. No sound associated with the objects. They fluctuate in brightness. No trails are being left.
October 2, 2017 · 8:05 PM · SPHERE
Lawrenceburg, KY
On the evening of Monday, October 2nd, at approximately 20:05 (8:05 pm) Eastern Time, I was in the yard putting up some tools. I had been doing yard work until sunset and as the light was fading, I was putting away the last items and enjoying the near full moon. The international space station was going to make an observable pass at 8:14 in the northwest, and I wanted to have everything put up and be in position to take advantage of the overflight. I saw the first ‘orb’ in the south east, just under the moon at about 10 degrees above the horizon. (Just over the roof tops and about level with the star ‘I PSA’ (the upper right star in the constellation Pisces). The weather was clear without any clouds in the sky. The orb appeared to be orange in color and was moving at a diagonal to the usual air traffic. Because of this, I grabbed a pair of binoculars and saw that it was not a plane, but a solid ball of orange light. At that point, I ran inside and called for my girlfriend to come see and then ran back outside and over to the neighbors (husband and wife) that were sitting on their front porch. There was just enough light from the setting sun and the near full moon to see the ground while I ran. At this point the first orb had crossed into the south east and faded out of view. The second was almost due south and about 1/4 the size of the nearby moon. By this time I could see in the binoculars that this was not a Chinese lantern, their was never any flickering (like from a candle) in any of the five orbs observed, rather, the light remained constant during the observational period. The orbs were circular and a solid shade of glowing orange. The second orb passed to from south east to west, almost overhead of us, then changed course and headed upward, into (what appeared to be) the atmosphere, fading out of sight. The path the first three orbs took lasted about a minute to transit from southeast toward the west, this second orb shot off in a sort of southerly angle going up into the sky before disappearing. I was using my phone to verify that there were no satellites in the area as I have an app to identify stars, planets, and satellites. Oddly, I did not think to take a picture with the phone until someone suggested it. However, the camera (for the first time since I bought the phone 10 months ago) did not work very well and ‘refused’ to take video, it only allowed one picture which is of limited quality. The other adults present had difficulty getting their cameras to work also, although they were able to eventually have some success. The third orb appeared in the distance, just over the houses in the same area as the first two (Southeast). From my point of view this was just ‘left’ of the moon and geographically would be (approximately) in the direction of Versailles, Kentucky. The third orb followed the same path as the first two and drifted behind some trees before disappearing. Being that the fourth orb was approaching, we focused on it rather than trying to change locations to reacquire the third orb. Again, the third matched the description of the previous two orbs. The fourth orb appeared to change direction to travel west, south-west, it then performed a quick circular maneuver and resumed heading south and away and out of sight behind trees. The fifth orb appeared to dance in the starting location moving around in circles and up and down (similar to watching a child jumping up and down on a trampoline). This fifth and final orb faded from view kind of like ’winking out’ the ways the way stars do in the morning when the sun is rising. Distance is difficult to judge in the fading sunlight and with a target that is of unknown size. I will estimate that the orbs starting point was approximately ten miles away and that at their closest point (of the first three orbs) that they were between a 1/2 mile and 1 mile away. Based on these assumptions, I would suggest that their ‘cruising speed’ was approximately 480 mph. However, when the second orb accelerated into the atmosphere is appeared to streak out of sight within a second. As an amateur astronomer of 40 years, and as a disabled veteran (4 years US Navy, 9 years US Army) that served on the aircraft carrier Midway (CV-41) I am very familiar with terrestrial aircraft, satellites, and other celestial bodies. Further, I have experimented with Chinese lanterns and am familiar with how they look and act in the night sky. Finally, as a trained weather spotter, I stay abreast of local weather conditions. The wind was out of the south at 2 mph. Although the wind direction roughly correlates to the direction of the first three orbs (they were moving in a north westerly direction) the 2mph wind would not allow lanterns to fly at anywhere near the speeds observed!
September 30, 2017 · 7:57 PM · SPHERE
Twin Falls, ID
No blinking lights No audible sounds
September 30, 2017 · 7:50 PM · SPHERE
Chester, PA
I was sitting in my car talking to my buddy who was facing me. As I looked up at his face to respond to him I saw a super bright electric blue perfect circle go flying by in the sky way above the cloud shelf. It was flying faster than anything I've ever seen in my life and I am 30 years old. I've seen plenty of shooting stars some in person and meteors in video. It was not like those at all. I am having a hard time describing what I saw, but I would say it was a perfect circle, it was electric blue very bright possibly the brightest thing I've ever seen. It flew faster than any man made object. It was flying at a million miles an hour, it was that fast and it had absolutely no trail behind it and no rays coming from it and it did not flash or flicker it stayed lit. It was flying from the north towards the direction of the moon. The only reason I lost sight of it was because of very thick cloud cover and then it was gone. I hope this is descriptive enough for others to envision what I saw. I am not a huge believer of UFOS but I'm not closed minded either. I don't know why we are so special that we are the only things that exist. But I can say this is the first and only time I have witnessed anything like this. I'm still having trouble understanding what I just saw. It is not man made in my opinion because the G's this thing was pulling due to its speed would surely kill anything from this planet. My background is that I am 30 years old a white male and work at a private golf club in PA. College educated and extremely mechanically inclined and I am an avid fan of cars mostly muscle cars. I own a supercharged Buick daily driver and a 68 Chevelle Complete and a 69 Camaro in progress. Okay so that's about it for me. I hope Im not the only person who saw this tonight in PA.
September 29, 2017 · 8:00 PM · SPHERE
Kennett Square, PA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 29, 2017 · 7:00 PM · SPHERE
Rockford/Belvidere, IL
Objects would dim and disappear, then light up again. After roughly 5-6 minutes, they seemed to mimic normal aircraft with flashing lights, then would return to the orange sphere and slowly rise until out of sight.
September 29, 2017 · 7:00 PM · SPHERE
Levittown, NY
I was walking with my daughter when a white orb--about the size of a soccer ball--rapidly flew overhead in a shallow descent and disappeared. The incident lasted approximately 2 seconds, only one was seen, had a bluish tail, and disappeared suddenly. It was maybe two stories high, which seems unlikely for a meteor. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 29, 2017 · 6:50 PM · SPHERE
Lampeter-Strasburg, Reading, PA
I was sitting in the away stands at Lampeter-Strasburg High School’s football field looking at the cloudless sky when I saw a small blue orb high in the sky fly for a distance and then disappeared. This took around 2-3 seconds. I cannot recall if it had entered my field of vision and then disappeared, or if it had appeared and disappeared within my field of vision. It made no sounds like a meteor does. The orb was light blue and had no discernible features. Based on where I was sitting, it flew from west to east. If I had to guess, it started at perhaps 60 degrees and flew downward to 30 or 40 degrees. It did not occur directly above the field but a little to the left (north). Three of my friends had also seen the anomaly, and it’s likely that more people in the stands had seen it. Upon talking with my great-aunt a day later, I found out that she and maybe some other people had seen a very similar phenomenon at Muhlenberg High School’s football field at approximately the same time. The event had occurred just before marching bands at both high schools were going to march onto the field for their pre-game show (around 18:50), so it can be concluded that they were the same event. It is also worth noting that the high schools are 32.08 miles apart. To my knowledge, the sightings at both locations were not caught on camera.
September 29, 2017 · 6:42 PM · SPHERE
Linden, NJ
Crazy, so I'm looking up at the sky as I always do. I see the airplanes going by and what looks like a close call but I know the planes are super far apart. But then I looked closely behind the plane that looked like it was hitting the other. There was this little white orb following it from a distance. I was like what is that? Then, the white light orb started speeding up, going faster than the plane. I was like OH OH OH SNAP let me get my camera out lol... Well, the orb caught up to the plane went directly behind/under it and disappeared? What was this? Alien or military stuff? #alien #ufo #orb #airplanes #airplanes #ufos #orbs #weirdnj #NJ #military #US (I copied and pasted what I posted from my Instagram post) Industrial technology major. Process Operator.
September 29, 2017 · 2:15 PM · SPHERE
York, ME
I can find zero corrobative evidence for star, planet or known craft. It was about 45 degrees to the NW of the moon which is due SE of my viewing position. It was very high, initially acting reflective to setting sun. Initially large; with almost stationary placement. Over ten minutes in moved towards it moved from overhead straight SE towards the moon; losing size and luminosity as it did. The sky was blue and cloudless. I have a picture that shows the object, but as you know, it’s not great from a phone. There is a second dark sphere that I did not see when pic was taken. I saw no birds, but can’t extrapolate beyond that. The primary object move barely a degree per minute. It was extraordinary in a blank sky. I used SkyView app and online search to research. Nothing matched up or showed as an option. As you ask, I am passing this along while fresh. I will look tomorrow to verify if it is a planet in the same spot. As of now, it is unknown to me. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 29, 2017 · 1:38 PM · SPHERE
Denver (Denver International Airport), CO
At 1:38pm, on Friday, September 29th, 2017, I saw a number of translucent spheres flying below me, as we were 1 minute into our initial ascent above DIA. If you have a guess as to what these UFOs were, then I would love to hear from you. The objects were as follows: •8 perfectly spherical objects •Translucent with "soft" edges, unlike the defined edges of a balloon. They appeared to have the exact same texture as the surrounding clouds. •6-12 ft in diameter and all the same size •Appeared stationary, but possibly moving at low speed •Each maintained a distance of about 3x their own diameter from the next object •Arranged in no particular order or on a particular plane
September 29, 2017 · 4:00 AM · SPHERE
Centerville, PA
I was able to locate it on my camera and while propping my elbows on my step ladder I managed to capture some great footage. I was a sphere shape and it kept changing colors
September 28, 2017 · 7:37 PM · SPHERE
Seattle, WA
I was on the roof of my apt. building with my Manager to view ISS coming from SSW to NNE at 7:47 pm this evening. We went up early and around 7:37 pm we noticed a bright red disc moving and stopping and standing still. It then pulsed white colors and changed to green and white. It stood still for a while and went North. Stopped again and dove down beyond our view. It came back up and headed south and then north again. It dove down and came back up. We lost sight of it going north. It did change colors quite often. I do know what a plane transponder looks like since I am in the flight path of SeaTac. This was no plane or helicopter with those moves.
September 27, 2017 · 4:00 PM · SPHERE
Edmonton, AB · Canada
On September 27, at 1600 hrs., I was at work on a short layover at the University of Alberta, relaxing and stretching my legs in a parking lot. It was a sunny day with moderate cumulous clouds. I was looking up and a small melon sized black orb appeared and flew above me and past me in a southerly west direction. It flew by at about 60 km hour and traversed a wide arc until I lost sight of it. It made no noise and had no wings or anything particular aside from it being a black melon sized sphere or orb. It seemed solid to me. The unusual thing about the sighting was my ability to see it flying in the air when it was so far away from me. It had to be over 2 miles away but yet i could still see it. I thought that was odd. It eventually flew where i could no longer see it. I am a 50 year old male. A University graduate with a BSc. degree as well as a Technical college degree and 2 year Diploma in Bible Theology from a Saskatchewan college. Married for 25 years with 2 children. Work full time.
September 27, 2017 · 5:00 AM · SPHERE
Lakeport, CA
September 27, 2017: 5:00 am I had a supernatural experience. I was laying in my bed, facing my art room. Something bright outside made me look to the window, I moved my neck forward to see a better because it just look odd. All of a sudden, the light started getting brighter and brighter until it exploded, coming inside my art room on the left side moving forward until it was floating in the center of the room. This bright light turned to a small circle, maybe like a golf ball size. It went in my bedroom, stood still for few seconds. Then all of a sudden the light went flying across the room at extreme speed and went through the wall and disappeared.!!!!! The light was a super clear clear light not yellow just bright white. It scared me so much…. I was not able to say a word; I was kinda paralyzed for few, then I started screaming… Woke up my husband we checked outside there were no signs of anything.
September 27, 2017 · 2:00 AM · SPHERE
Adamstown, PA
I had just turned out the lights to go to bed when I saw what looked like a bright star which then began to move, so I assumed it was a plane's lights in the distance. Soon the light acted unlike any plane or helicopter ever could. The light moved very quickly down up sideways, across. Then it disappeared very briefly but reappeared in a different location. Even though all my windows and door was opened, I heard no sound. I could not sleep most of the night, trying to figure out any good reason what the light could have been. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 26, 2017 · 11:10 PM · SPHERE
Wellton, AZ
We were stargazing outside of Yuma, Arizona, when an orange orb heading South shot through the sky as we were facing West. The strange part was the huge arching air streams coming from the top and the bottom of the orb. Nothing directly behind the object like a jet would have a contrail, but more like waves of air flowing over and under it. After sighting it in my binoculars, it just disappeared.
September 26, 2017 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Hilton Head Island, SC
My brother and I were fishing in the surf off of the Palmetto Dunes community. I noticed a very bright orange light over the ocean. It was silent, did not move, and was pretty far out. It's also worth noting that it was high above the horizon, nowhere near the offshore boats that we could see. It stayed lit up for about 10 seconds, then faded out. I thought to myself, "Hmmm... that was weird... whatever." It was very out of place and did not look natural and was definitely not a plane or helicopter (which we had seen many of that night). The bright orange light returned a few minutes later, in the same area. This time (sure that my mind was not playing tricks on me) I pointed it out my brother. His response was, "What is that?" And I said, "I have no idea... this is the second time I've seen it." It did the same thing as before, fading out after about 10 seconds. We were still standing in the surf with our fishing pole, but we were looking at that area now and not fishing. Neither of us had our phone (because we didn't want it to get wet or get fish guts on it), but I wish we had been ready to video what happened next. About 5-10 minutes later, the bright light appeared again, but this time it either split up into 4 distinct lights, or it faded to a smaller size and three other lights appeared in the same area. They faded in one by one and seemed to be coming from the same source. So now there was a stationary cluster of 4 independent orange lights where there was previously just one brighter light. What really blew us away was that as soon as all 4 were visible, they immediately arranged themselves into a perfectly straight diagonal line formation. The space between them was precise and orderly, and the line just absolutely straight. The line of lights remained visible for only several seconds, then it faded out. My brother and I were stunned and excited, and were especially amazed that we had both seen this. We kept watching the sky over the ocean, and about 20-30 minutes later, we saw two orange lights moving rapidly to the north from a more southern position than we had seen the lights before. They were moving about the same speed, and there were no blinking lights. Just two solid orange balls of light flying silently through the sky at an altitude that was probably less than a mile above the ocean. At one point, one seemed to jump up what could have been been hundreds of feet in the blink of an eye. It was hard tell distances without having anything to reference it with in the dark, but it moved like no aircraft we'd ever seen. They continued toward the area we had seen the lights earlier (but at about half as high in the sky as the previous lights) and faded out after about 15 seconds or so. This all happened between the hours of 9-10pm. We kept watching for another hour didn't s! ee anything, plus the bugs were biting pretty bad, so we called it a night. We came back the next night hoping to catch a glimpse of something again, and we were prepared this time. We had chairs to sit in, fresh coffee, and our phones were fully charged. I even brought my son along. This time we didn't see any sign of strange lights in the 2+ hours we looked. It could be nothing, but the second night (when we saw nothing) we did see fighter jet patrols on the coast in pairs of two (loud noise, blinking red/green/white lights on wingtips, and we could see their silhouette in the moonlight when directly overhead). They probably flew out of the Marine Corps Air Station in Beaufort, SC. In all honesty, this may just have been a coincidence, but they were deployed right around 9pm and the last pair returned close to 10pm... the same time we had seen the lights the night before. It's also worth noting that a pair flew right through the same general area that we had seen the lights the night before, and then turned in toward land and headed inland toward Beaufort. Once we got back it was really interesting to find quite a few similar sightings with orange lights off the SC coast with videos on youtube from over the years. Whatever we saw, it was extremely strange, and it was really exciting to see something that was unexplainable. ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) Peter and Christian, Thanks so much for posting my sighting to the website. http://www.nuforc.org/webreports/136/S136513.html I just wanted to let you know that I seem to have entered the date of the sighting incorrectly, when I submitted my info. We actually saw this on Sept. 26th…not Aug. 26th. This is significant because someone up the coast at Folly Beach reported seeing orange lights the same night less than an hour before we saw the lights I described. If you could fix that, I’d appreciate it. Thanks so much, ((name deleted)) ((END ADDENDUM)) Date corrected above on October 11, 2017. PD
September 26, 2017 · 5:00 PM · SPHERE
Oglala, SD
It remained visible until sundown, then appeared to diminish before disappearing altogether. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 26, 2017 · 9:00 AM · SPHERE
South Tampa, FL
I was sitting on my lanai and I looked up and saw a round sphere up in the sky. The color was metallic silver. I watched it for 30 seconds and I told myself maybe its a drone? I looked at it again for roughly 2/3 minutes and it moved very slowly. I live close to MacDill Airforce base but I have never seen anything like that before. I've been searching to see if anyone else might have seen it also, so far nothing.