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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
September 26, 2017 · 8:30 AM · SPHERE
Salt Lake City, UT
On September 26, 2017, at approximately 0830 MST, I was entering the building where I work as a security guard, and I looked up into the sky to the West of my location. I observed what looked like sunlight reflecting off of a plane very high up, probably at least 100,000 feet altitude. It was above the wispy cloud layer. I observed that the object that appeared to be reflecting was not moving and just hanging in the sky. I notified another guard and he also witnessed the object in the sky. I notified an additional guard, and at least three employees also were notified and observed the object. I checked my star and planet finder app on my phone and there were no stars or planets in that section of the sky. I attempted to look at the object with binoculars and could see it since it wasn’t moving, but it just appeared to be a white light. The object stayed in the same location in the sky for roughly 30 minutes, then when checked periodically appeared to drift very slowly to the north. The object was in the sky in fairly geosynchronous orbit for over an hour. From 0830-0930. I took several photographs of the object with my phone. I notified another guard at a different facility, approximately 10 miles to the Northeast of my facility and asked him if he could see it. He later advised me that he and at least one other guard at his facility did see the object, but not until 1300. This guard advised me that he saw the object to the NorthEast of my location, and possibly higher since it was harder to see than the photo I’d sent him. This guard advised me that he’d seen the object for about 30 seconds before it did a “J loop” and shot off to the Southeast. This guard advised me that when the object left it appeared as if a shooting star or a comet, similar to the objects photographed and video-taped over Salt Lake City between 09/15/17 and 09/17/17. I had work to do inside the building so I wasn’t able to observe the object after 0930. When I was next able to check at approximately 1020, I could no longer see the object, apparently because it had moved to the north and east of my location. This means the object remained in the sky over the valley for 4.5 hours. A little about my background. I was a police officer for 9 years prior to becoming a security guard. I also have a military background. I do consider myself to be a trained observer with a lot of experience. The other guards who witnessed have varying levels of experience, one has military experience, the others are experienced security officers and also trained observers.
September 25, 2017 · 10:15 PM · SPHERE
Granite Falls, NC
While waiting on a friend to leave, I was watching the northern sky, as we had been star gazing all evening. I was alone, focusing on a star, when a single, small, orange light began to move horizontally. With the movement, I could tell that the light was somewhat close and thought it may be a reflection on a spider's web. This was until the light started moving up and down, left and right, very erratically, but not all over the sky. It stayed within a small area in the sky. I then thought it may be a drone. I watched it intently, by myself, for about 10 mins., move around. It never blinked or flickered once. The orange-ish light looked similar to fire, not electrical or gassy. It almost had a little haze around the orb. The size was small, comparable to the size of a large star. My friend then comes out to leave, I tell her to watch, and she sees it, too. It lasted a couple of more minutes until vanishing. It just dissipated, like the fire had gone out. I did feel an overwhelming sense, it brought me to tears, and I was covered in chills. I've been a star gazer my entire life, even seeing two shooting stars earlier that night. Never have I seen or experienced anything like this.
September 25, 2017 · 7:35 PM · SPHERE
Escondido, CA
A shooting star appeared to enter the atmosphere and became a grey sphere travelling at high speed from west to east at around 19:35. It was silent, left no trail or sonic boom, had no lights or blinking lights of any kind. It went from directly above to the eastern horizon in 3-4 seconds. As it left the sunlight that's when we could see the shape and greyish matte color as the object grew larger in size and disappeared into the darkness of the night.
September 24, 2017 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Lake City, AR
I walked to the front yard, and saw a large light crossing the sky. There was no sound, and no flashing lights. I went inside, got my phone and recorded it for a few seconds. When i enlarged the it appeared to be spinning. It then vanished in the distance. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 24, 2017 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
North Beach, MD
I did not really give this too much thought until I heard Peter Davenport on coast to coast radio during an interview. He stated how common these occurrences were. This is where my story comes in. I was walking along the boardwalk with my wife it was a clear warm night when I noticed an orange ball floating in the air over the bay, at first I thought it was one of those Chinese lanterns, but I did not see any flickering flame. This object was perfectly round and was moving very slowly, it came off the bay over the beach across the street. It was over some of the local stores when it just disappeared and I don't mean like a light shutting off it was like it went through a doorway.
September 24, 2017 · 8:50 PM · SPHERE
Knoxville, TN
Orange light appeared between the moon and Saturn in the southwest. It showed up about two minutes after the ISS passed over. Intensity was a bit brighter than the ISS but was about twice as large and orange colored. It moved at about the same speed to the northeast directly overhead and did not strobe or blink like an airplane might. After about a minute or two, the light disappeared. It did not slowly dim like the ISS arid but rather winked out. Looking at the small amount of video I took, I could not see the same color but did see a slight flash as it disappeared from sight.
September 24, 2017 · 8:30 PM · SPHERE
Dayton, TN
This is going to be one of the more unremarkable sighting reported to you, but I felt it worthy of sharing just the same. On Sunday evening, 24 September, at about 8:30 PM, my wife and I were returning home from a restaurant when we observed an object in the sky traveling from approximately west, 15 degrees south toward the east, approximately 15 degrees north. The object appeared to be comprised of two white lights connected to one another and moving at a speed of approximately 5 arc degrees per second. I have no idea as to its actual speed since I was unable to determine its altitude. What I am reasonably certain of is the object was not an aircraft since there were no blinking lights, no red or green lights marking the wing tips, just a solid white light. There were high clouds present in the sky and our view of the object was blocked as it moved over the clouds. I would estimate the altitude of the clouds to be approximately 15,000 feet. The object emitted no audible sound as it passed us overhead. We did observe an aircraft to our east, moving from the south, approximately 15 degrees west, toward the north, approximately 15 degrees north, which is the direction we would surmise as an aircraft going from Atlanta, to New York City. Given the aircraft we observed at the same time was likely traveling at ~30,000’, the object we observed also appeared to be moving at the same rate—5 arc degrees per second. My first inclination is to surmise the object we saw was the international space station, but I hadn’t heard any announcements of its presence in our area, which is the usual case on our local TV stations, but if it were the space station there is one curious matter remaining unsolved: When the object we observed reached a point where it was some 30 degrees above the horizon, it was no longer visible to us. It seems to have disappeared at that point. While I will not discount the possibility that the object was blocked by some clouds we could not see, or that it might have been blocked by some other atmospheric phenomenon, the fact that it disappeared from our view is what has prompted this communication. If you do think we were looking at the international space station, I would appreciate your letting us know. Thank you!
September 24, 2017 · 6:30 PM · SPHERE
Lebanon, OR
It was an orb in the sky pretty far up. Wife thought it was drone for personal use, but it did not move for 10 minutes, and then seemed to leave around the time some planes were flying by. The original reason to look in the sky was the sound of a fighter jet, and in looking to the sky for the jet, seen the orb. Light clouds did pass over it and it remained for a while. Then dissapeared .
September 24, 2017 · 4:30 PM · SPHERE
New Windsor, MD
While walking outside to do farm chores just after dusk, I happened to look up at the sky, as I usually do, to look at the moon or passing aircraft. At that exact moment when I went to look back down a flash of white caught my eye and I saw 4 round balls glowing bright white, like a LED bulb in brightness. These lights were in a diagonal and were just above the horizon and shot straight down and disappeared. A house in the distance obscured whether they reached ground level. They appeared suddenly in a 4 orb pattern then extremely fast they went down and disappeared. I continued to see normal planes flying high with normal lights but this was definitely different. I have seen shooting stars and meteors, but this was completely different and larger. So in conclusion...4 bright lights in a diagonal line moving extremely fast downward at angle. Just after dusk. Looking at the southern sky. No clouds, no storms, no lightning. Just regular sky with passing airliner traffic and suddenly 4 bright round lights. Lasted 3 to 4 seconds at most. No time to even grab the phone for video. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 23, 2017 · 11:45 PM · SPHERE
Manassas, VA
My daughter was on the back deck smoking when she called my wife and I to come look. There were at least 100 orbs moving across the sky with the same trajectory, from NE to SW. If it was just one I would say it was a satellite but there were so many. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 23, 2017 · 11:35 PM · SPHERE
Corona, CA
I was standing in my driveway smoking a cigarette, facing the street. For some reason, I turned around and looked above my house, and in the distance, I saw the object. It looked like a horseshoe only sideways and it was all light and emitting a sort of glow around everything but the center. I screamed to my wife, “Look up at the sky!”, she was in the backyard letting my puppy out. She came out to the front yard when she heard me screaming but by the time she came out it was gone. It was moving very slowly over the horizon, the center of the object was a very bright orb, like a bright star, but the outer shape, the horseshoe-like tail was all red and leaving a trail, like a hazy glow. It glided by for about 20 seconds and in an instant, it flashed into nothing. It honestly scared me, my hairs all stood up and I was breathing heavily. When it happened, I brought out my phone to record it but when I checked it, nothing had shown up on the video. This has been the strangest thing I have ever seen in the sky. It was not a plane or a meteor or anything I have ever seen before. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 23, 2017 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
Redlands, CA
Object started as a red speck in the darker part of the sky personally I thought it was a red star until I saw it moving then it moved closer and started leaving a trail behind it and the after 3 minutes it just disappears. (( Rocket launch. PD)
September 23, 2017 · 10:50 PM · SPHERE
Pasadena, CA
One red llight, encircled by a lesser orange colored illuminated orb, moving slowly from west to east (about 70 - 80 degrees above the horizon). Appeared to be somewhat ‘tethered’ to a helicopter or small plane which just passed in the same path, possibly five lengths behind. Rocket launch from Vandenberg AFB. PD
September 23, 2017 · 7:00 PM · SPHERE
Northglenn, CO
Some friends were driving in separate cars northbound on Huron St. from 104th Ave to 112th Ave. It just started to rain and there was lightning and clouds north of us. During a large multiple flash sequence of high altitude lightning, my friend and I saw a large grayish white spherical object with a black crescent shape at the four o’clock position on the sphere. It was a perfect sphere, like a giant cue ball in the sky. The sphere appeared to be 2-3 times larger than a full moon. It was due north of me and about 45 degrees above the horizon. My first thought was that this was a hot air ballon, but much larger and without any basket below. No one would be piloting a balloon at this time in the evening. It emitted no light other than a dull reflection of the surrounding lightning. When we arrived at our destination, I asked my friend if he saw this object, and to my surprise he said he also saw it and thought it was awesomely amazing. I’m an amateur astronomer with over 40 years of telescope experience and ten years of astrophotography experience. It’s hard to say how long this object stayed in the location, because I was driving and could not pull over to observe it. I turned east and lost track of the object behind buildings. It was only visible during the lightning flashes.
September 23, 2017 · 9:30 AM · SPHERE
Cedartown, GA
We then drove around the building and witnessed it eventually came to a complete stop. As we watched it for another minute or so we saw it now not only move to the left or right. But change direction and climb upward into the sky and slightly to the right. Then it came to another stop and moved left yet again. The light was too large and bright to be a controlled drone. It moved therefore it wasn't a star. And when it moved it changed direction multiple times and almost seemed to float therefore to the best of my knowledge it was no plane or small meteor. Lastly, we had to drive out of sight as the cars behind us became impatient and that was the last we saw of it.
September 23, 2017 · 5:00 AM · SPHERE
Commerce City, CO
Orb light .. Was Traveling 5 To 10 Times Faster Than the Comercial Airplane circular in Shape.. It was Camouflaged with the Constellation's Because It Came From There I Saw It Moving At A Tremendous Speed. ((name deleted))
September 23, 2017 · 3:38 AM · SPHERE
St. Petersburg, FL
Watched a very colorful flashing sphere in the northeast sky. Thought it might be a star until it actually moved very fast a short distance. Took my cell phone camera and zoomed in as much as possible, could see the flashing spinning red, green, blue, red and white lights. Another person was with me and also took cell phone video. Went back the next early a.m. and did not see it. Will look again in the morning. "Twinkling" star?? PD
September 22, 2017 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Okmulgee, OK
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 22, 2017 · 8:30 PM · SPHERE
Fort Collins, CO
Both of my boys, ages 5 and 7 alerted me and my brother-n-law of some lights in the sky. As soon as we looked up we all witnessed a cluster of spherical shapes moving in a southerly direction traveling along the front range. We didn’t get an exact count of the objects, but my brother-n-law and I agreed between 12-15. Each object was red, blue or white in color. Some were larger than others, but unknown if they were flying at different elevations. There was no sound. It was partly cloudy at the time and I noticed they were traveling under the clouds. The whole experience lasted about 1.5 minutes. The largest sphere I noticed was white and looked like a glowing bubble with something glowing in the center. They were clustered together at various distances, but they were traveling in a v-shaped pattern. We watched them until they were out of site in the south.
September 22, 2017 · 11:00 AM · SPHERE
Robertsbridge · United Kingdom
Just saw 2 white spherical craft flying from NW to SW direction in Robertsbridge UK. Craft were moving perfectly and with greater speed. The one on the right was slightly behind the one on the left. I see so many air traffic here and have never seen anything like this before. Checked flightradar24 and there was no aircrafts moving at that direction. They were moving very fast and lost sight of them as they entered some clouds.
September 20, 2017 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
New Baltimore, MI
I was outside having a cigarette, when I noticed two brightly-lit Orange orbs coming over the tree line from the southern direction in the area of where Selfridge Air base is. So I quickly got my phone out and snap the photo, after realizing it was just on picture I switched it to video and started filming. As I was filming there was a series of these bright orange silent orbs continuously coming from the south heading north to me they looked about 5000 ft in altitude and where about the size of two airliners and traveling at a speed three times that of an airliner. Sometimes they would be in pairs and sometimes there would just be one but I films them going right over top of me completely silent to the north towards Port Huron for about 10 minutes. And even my neighbor said that those could not be any type of Chinese lanterns or drones for that matter. I contacted local police and they said that there was a candle light visual going on in the area but when I ! investigated into that they said they never released anything in the air. I'm still waiting on answers from Selfridge to see if they had any operations going on. But other than that, there is no other known or publicized activities that we're going on that night that would explain what they were. I hope that there were others with video or witness testimony, because there is no way that all those big bright anomalous objects flew over and nobodu else notice. And if it were known craft the air base should have radar record. If they will even disclose such info.
September 20, 2017 · 9:45 PM · SPHERE
South Saint Paul, MN
On September 20th at about 9:45 PM in South St. Paul, Minnesota, I witnessed what I would describe as two dimly lit reddish orbs traveling from north to south at a moderate speed. They looked to be about the size of my index fingernail, held at arm’s length. I would estimate their altitude at 600 feet above the Mississippi River Basin, as I was on a bluff looking east over the river. Their angle above the horizon was near 15 degrees. Also, they seemed to tumble over each other as if they were linked somehow. About 45 seconds elapsed from the time I first saw them until the objects went out of sight. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and he sounded to us to be quite serious, and sober-minded. PD
September 20, 2017 · 8:30 PM · SPHERE
San Tan Valley, AZ
As soon as I could (within several minutes), I grabbed my binocs and looked in the area but saw nothing. About 15 minutes later I saw a plane fly into the area where the object(s) was and flew around there for, at least, 10 minutes, before flying off in the direction it had come from. The orbs were quite similar in appearance to a sighting I had several weeks ago in the SE sky.
September 20, 2017 · 6:04 PM · SPHERE
Yalikavak/Bodrum/Mugla/Turkey · Turkey
I did not aware the object until I wanted to look at the pictures. Then I realize it is an ufo. I was green sphere with windows like white spots or lights on it. The observation time was 18:04 to 18:06 local time Gmt+3 (Summer time period) The position 37.099-27.083 to west-north west. Lens flares. PD