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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 6, 2017 · 8:12 PM · SPHERE
Inglewood, CA
3 miles east of lax I stepped outside at night, looked up to see a shrinking flaming orb moving slowly until it disappeared in front of a star.
September 6, 2017 · 11:00 AM · SPHERE
Warsaw, IL
I was in my garage, when all of a sudden, there was a giant sonic boom it knocked a few things off the wall it was so big. i immediately ran outside to investigate because i could hear a jet off in the distance. when i stepped out of the garage and looked in the direction of the jet sound, i saw a giant silver sphere, just hovering. It was about a half mile away and maybe a hundred yards up in the air. My son was standing in the doorway of our house and i said, "check this out it's a ((word deleted)) ufo!!" he took 2 steps out of the house and it moved to the right a little bit and just faded away. It didn't speed off, it just literally faded away.
September 6, 2017 · 12:45 AM · SPHERE
East Otay Mesa, CA
Having finished my shift, I was driving east on Otay Mesa Road, when a luminous ball of white light caught my attention. Given the fact that there are two airports nearby, Brown Field, which was just behind me to the west, and Tijuana International Airport, two miles south of my location and over the border, I figured it was a commercial aircraft preparing to land. But when my passenger, a co-worker, mentioned that the light wasn’t going to make either field, I decided to pull over, close to the right side of the curb. Before I could come to a stop, however, the headlights failed and the engine died. It was just about 12:45 AM when the light glided over SR 125, which was approximately one-eight mile in front of us. As the ball of light approached the vacant field to our right, I became aware of the distinct feeling of pins and needles about my face and in my hands, especially around my mouth and in my fingertips. That’s when I reached for my phone, only it was dead. My coworker reached for the pair of sunglasses that he kept in the glove box. I would say the ball was twenty-five feet in diameter, but I couldn’t make out a distinct edge. At first it remained motionless, about fifteen or twenty feet above the ground, and about forty yards from where our jeep had stalled. Then, after four or five minutes, there appeared to be a quarter panel of the ball that grew brighter. Given the detail that became visible, it became apparent that the ball was turning clockwise, about a half turn every minute or so. I would say eight minutes had elapsed before the ball began to move forward and then climbed smoothly toward the western horizon. The skies were clear, and at no time did the object make any sound. Out of employment concerns, both of us wish to remain anonymous. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 5, 2017 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Matthews, NC
It then moved 90 degrees south again and stopped. We all agreed that this is totally bizarre as the light didn't blink and remained solid red the whole time. Someone mentioned that it is probably a drone, but I have no idea how to determine if any drones were in the air at that time. The light would have been over Indian Trail or maybe further west/south.
September 5, 2017 · 4:00 PM · SPHERE
Dallas, GA
I was traveling down Ivy Gulledge Road on 9/5/17 at 16:00 hours, when I looked up and about 25 feet above the road was a black ball about the size of a softball just suspended in mid air. It wasn't spinning or moving at all.
September 5, 2017 · 3:50 PM · SPHERE
Fayetteville, PA
Fast moving white orb that pulsated twice as it flew through a cornfield right before a big storm.
September 5, 2017 · 6:30 AM · SPHERE
Concord, CA
I was driving west on Evora Rd. towards Concord, CA, when I hit some stop and go traffic. The traffic stopped for a moment, when I saw what I thought was a star, but then I noticed it was moving upward slightly. It then moved into the clouds and never reappeared again. I thought it might have been an airliner glinting in the morning sun, but I could not make out any wing structure.
September 4, 2017 · 9:36 PM · SPHERE
La Salle, IL
Called my son to come look at it. We both observed it moving back and forth up and down for another minute, then it moved closer to us and shot up up so fast I can't even describe it to you. No sound. Just brilliant orange light. And it moved like nothing I ever seen before.
September 4, 2017 · 8:43 PM · SPHERE
Voorheesville, NY
I was walking out of family dinner with my wife, and in this particular town outside the Albany, there is very little light pollution. You are able to see much more of the night sky very clearly, so I always get lost looking when I'm out that way. As I walked outside and looked up, a flash caught my eye that seemed close, like a BRIGHT orb. Just as fast as it flashed, it dimmed out and just looked like another star in the sky, except this started moving north at a very fast pace; faster than you see normal aircraft move. And it was very high, I'd say 50-60,000 feet up. Then as I followed it, it stopped, reversed direction very quickly the way it had come, and disappeared. This isn't the first time I've seen strange craft out that way, but this was the one I could best explain. I'm hoping someone else saw this on that Monday night as well. It's puzzled me because I have a pretty extensive knowledge of aircraft--and this thing did not move like any aircraft we have developed here
September 4, 2017 · 12:39 AM · SPHERE
Aurora, CO
I was at my old house (I just moved three days ago) Setting up My cameras and Tripod facing south in the sky. I was preparing for my fifth skywatch that evening of September 4th, 2017, at 12:34 AM. Since I was have been seeing this Blinking orb (What looked like to my naked eyes) I got my best camera with a night time setting to capture the object. I first noticed the object four nights ago. It has been moving and hovering around the same section in the sky for the past few nights and I finally got the chance to see what it was. At first, I thought this object was a star, but it was moving too quickly and blinking/flashing rapidly. Until I finally got a closer look. All it was doing was stopping at times, then moving to the right. It was not a straight line either. It would occasionally, as it moved to the right, move a little upward or downward. It did this for two hours straight, I recorded it for 33 minutes with my cannon camera. I felt no fear. If anything I was rather excited to see this. I was filled with shock and awe looking at it move across the screen of the camera. At times I could feel my body vibrating and burning from the inside. A warm feeling throughout the whole body. A bit of adrenaline, heart racing. I even actually lost sight of the object when I started to grow paranoid being outside by myself with no other people. I did not know why, but after I felt this I packed my gear and headed inside to view the results. I write Times and such in a record in my skywatch sessions. I will paste my written session below. Day five of skywatching. Times set during Skywatch - 12 am through 1 am Friday, September 4th, 2017, Location - Colorado Springs My backyard 12:34 AM Going out now. I'm bored and cannot sleep. I was outside earlier and spotted a big blue, moving orb above my house. Might as well do a Skywatch tonight. 12:39 AM Just set up, spotted Blinky in the same sections of the sky the previous night. I'm naming the orb Blinky. 12:58 AM Filmed Blinky. It moved behind the tree though. It's in the usual spot, circling the sky miles away from my house. Maybe just one mile. The burning feeling is back. Everything went silent. I can hear the street cleaners. Or this wubbing noise. Freaked me out for a second there. It's pretty loud. Feeling allot of adrenaline pumping through me. I feel dizzy, hearts racing for some odd reason. I'm not afraid though that's the thing. I hear this machine hum in the sky above me. Someone said "film" and it was not me. I feel calm suddenly after that voice. Blinky moved from behind the tree. 1:14 AM. Filming again, but I switched cameras. My video camera can pick up many flashing lights after I zoomed in in my video editor. All I do is crop it and I see the flashing lights. I cannot wait to see the picture/video results later. 3 minutes in of recording. We have some visible to my human eyes blinking flashing again. Hmm... 1:41 AM Still stalking Blinky. I got good footage of them. Still moving. I'm going to head inside now. 1:49 AM I'm inside now. I feel pretty joyful tonite. Let's take a gander at the results. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 3, 2017 · 11:30 PM · SPHERE
Broomfield, CO
My son (aged 32), wife (aged 59) and I (aged 60) were sitting on my son’s back porch, smoking cigars and talking when I noticed a bluish white orb moving from north to south. It appeared to be moving at 150 mph and at an altitude of 5,000 feet above ground. This was estimated by judging against planes lining up for landing at DIA. It did not emit a sound and had no flashing lights. The orb moved at a steady speed and heading. We followed it with binoculars until it was lost behind trees and houses. It was tracked for about 15 minutes. After about five minutes of discussing what we might have just seen, another orb on a similar size, shape, heading and speed was spotted. We were able to get some pictures and video of the second orb. We could not discern any structure to the shape but we are reasonably sure it was not a hot air balloon due to the duration of the flight and perceived size of the object. Plus we checked wind directions at various altitudes and! all were in different directions from the orbs flight path. The sky was clear. I am a former Air Force Nuclear Officer and very familiar with aircraft and flight characteristics. This sighting did not fit the normal flight profile.
September 3, 2017 · 9:40 PM · SPHERE
Spartanburg, SC
My husband and I left my parents' house at 9:40PM on 9-3-17, we were backing out of their driveway when I saw these 3 strange lights vertically staggered in the distance. My parents have lived in that house for the past 21 years, and I grew up there, these were NOT normal lights. So, I immediately told my husband to look, and we quickly drove down the street to investigate the right/yellow blinking, yet stationary lights. That's when I took the first picture, it was too dark for my iPhone to get a good picture, so I circled the 3 dots in red because my phone couldn't focus. We decided to go home the long way so we could follow the UFOs, we made it just down John Dodd Rd out of my parents neighborhood and we BOTH saw a white colored lighted object fall out of the bottom of the red/yellow blinking object. We were flabbergasted! We drove a little further and parked at the intersection of John Dodd Rd and New Cut Rd where I took the next picture and video that I attached. The red/yellow blinking objects were now coming very far apart in a single file path following one another. They were headed West towards us, then the one coming closest dropped out another white lighted object out of the bottom, then waited a second and dropped another, it then turn right, and started heading N.. As soon as it began heading N, it disappeared from our sight VERY quickly. It was followed by 4 other red/yellow blinking UFOs. They all followed the same path, and as soon as they all began to head N they disappeared so fast, but only the first one we saw after we stopped at the intersection dropped out two lit objects. As they were headed towards us, which was west, so we were looking east, they did not seem to be moving fast at all, and they definitely had the ability to hover in a stationary position as when we first saw them, and then they were stationary momentarily as they dropped things out of the bottom of their ship. It should also be noted that a jet flew above us during the sighting and was MUCH higher in the air than these objects were. I wouldn't put it past the government to be testing some random aerospace stuff, but the part that is seriously throwing us for a loop were the following things: 1 - Stationary first 2- Glowing objects released from the bottom 3 - Speed in which they disappeared after turning N, because they were not moving that quickly as they were headed west towards us 4 - They were fairly low to the ground, way below the jet that flew above us. I would be glad to answer any more questions that you may have. Thanks for listening. This is my second UFO sighting in my lifetime of 31 years, the other was in the Austrian Alps when I was 15 with my best friend, but we were young and never reported it. I definitely believe in life outside of our tiny universe. I hope this helps in some way, or you all can give us an answer to what it may have been, or if anyone else had reporting seeing something similar to what we saw tonight.
September 3, 2017 · 8:00 PM · SPHERE
Staten Island, NY
On, or around, September of 2017, while watching TV (8 or 9pm), I felt a strange pull/need to look to my left out my window, where I saw a golden orb hovering about 6-8 feet out from my fifth floor apartment window ledge. I got up and went to the window where it continued to hover for 30-45 additional seconds. The orb, which was slightly larger than a full moon, glowed with a golden light. While it hovered there I thought, "What is this, a drone?" I tried to see an outline within the glowing orb, but couldn't detect any image whatsoever. It hovered for at least thirty seconds then slowly moved from east to west then northwest. As it moved away it seemed to be on a level altitude. I watched until it was blocked by a neighboring building from view. A helicopter followed the orb a minute later, following between the two buildings! As I live close to three airports, and live in a densely populated city, I see airplanes, large and small, and helicopters (traffic and others) regularly. All follow the same flight paths. I have never seen any orb, much less an aircraft (i.e. helicopter), travel between two buildings. ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) Dear Mr. Davenport, I filed my report from Staten Island yesterday regarding sighting a golden glowing orb. Upon further thought, I should have included the following important details: 1. The orb was completely without sound 2. The golden glow of the orb neither vacillated, nor flickered. It was a continuous glow. 3. When the orb moved away, it did so slowly and steadily and proceeded to maintain the same speed as it moved east to west and then northwest until it was obscured from view by a building. The distance traveled that I could see of approximately 2 miles. I know this because it is the distance I travel daily on my route to work. Thank you. ((END ADDENDUM)) We spoke via telephone with the source of this report, and we found her to be exceptionally eloquent and sober-minded. We suspect that she is an excellent witness. PD
September 2, 2017 · 9:30 PM · SPHERE
Oil City, PA
My wife and I were in our hot tub around 930 at night, when in the eastern sky, we saw a white glow out of the glow shot 2 pale green lights that were coming straight in our direction, then suddenly banked off to our left, then the green lights and the glow all disappeared at the same time, like someone flipped a switch. my impression was it was like a portal opened and a craft flew threw I think the green lights were one object, but my wife tHought the 2 green lights were 2 separate objects it made no noise it was perhaps a half mile away...very strange. Witness indicates that the date above is approximate. PD
September 2, 2017 · 9:15 PM · SPHERE
Probable conventionalAlbi, Midi-Pyrénées · France
Le 02 septembre 2017 aux alentours de 21h20 deux témoins, situés à 1,3 km l'un de l'autre à Albi, observent le passage silencieux d'une boule orange dans le ciel. Quelques instants plus tard une seconde boule lumineuse orangée est observée sur la même trajectoire que la première. Un des témoin (T2) a le temps de prendre le PAN en photo avant qu'il ne disparaisse. D’étrangeté faible et de bonne consistance (2 témoins indépendants, photos), ce cas s’avère être une méprise très probable avec 2 lanternes thaïlandaises (voir le compte-rendu d'enquête). Au vu des caractéristiques du PAN et des photographies prises par T2, les 2 témoins ont probablement observé le passage de 2 lanternes thaïlandaises sur Albi, et il est même plus que probable que les lanternes observées soient les mêmes. L’un des témoins a rejeté cette hypothèse car la trajectoire du PAN ne correspondait pas selon lui au sens du vent. Cependant, il s’avère que le vent était très changeant au moment de l’observation. La station d'Albi, qui est la plus proche des 2 lieux d'observation, montre qu'à l'heure de l'observation, le vent soufflait de l'Ouest-Nord-Ouest. Or, en comparant la trajectoire du PAN d'après les deux témoignages, il s'avère que le PAN part en direction du Sud-Est. C'est très proche de la direction qu'un objet porté par le vent prendrait. De plus, l’observation a lieu un samedi soir, sans pluie et avec un vent très faible, offrant des conditions parfaites pour le lancement de lanternes thaïlandaises. Le cas est classé B, méprise probable avec 2 lanternes thaïlandaises. [GEIPAN classification B — Lanterne thai]
September 1, 2017 · 10:20 AM · SPHERE
Dearborn, MI
My co-worker and I were taking a break outside of our work, and continuously saw 1-3 spheres at a time steadily flying directly west, well above the clouds. They were all over the sky, but headed in the same direction, one group right behind the other and spread far apart. At the same time this was happening, the sun had a faint halo around it. When they stopped appearing, the halo was gone, and it started getting cloudy. We are almost directly under the flight path of DTW, so you can obviously tell what was an airliner and what was a sphere. The spheres did not leave any kind of trail, and would sometimes zig-zag their flight paths. ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) Hello again. I just spoke to someone at the NWS who stated a couple of things. There was a high Cirrus overcast (I assume thats what was causing the halo around the sun), and lower sparse clouds moving in another direction. I can’t tell you the exact altitude of the orbs/lights I saw, but they seemed to be a bit higher than the lower clouds. Also, I don’t think I made it clear that the objects were not just in one spot in the sky like a flightpath or a line, but rather spread out in the entire sky, and as far as I could see. They were just as visible from a distance, or directly above me. If this was a weather phenomena, then what a sight! Very cool indeed! Here are the specifics from NWS- This Cirrus Overcast at 25-35k ft. Wind direction - from SW-NE (240 degrees) @60kts Lower cloud altitude - 4-6.5k ft. Wind Direction from East to West (coming from 060 degrees) @20 kts
August 31, 2017 · 7:30 PM · SPHERE
Magna, UT
Two other friends and I were walking around a cemetery in Magna, Utah. It was just before the sun was setting, so still day time. I looked up directly above me for some reason and noticed a circular object hovering in the sky. My friends noticed it and we thought it was a balloon, but then noticed how big it was but also bright. It didn't move; clouds moved away from it and we saw it clearly and it was definitely a stationary object of some sort. It didn't move at all for the 30 minutes we observed it. It almost looked like it was changing shapes slightly. It reflected the colors of the sunset as the sun was setting in that half hour. When the sun faded, it seemed to get smaller and smaller, and then by the time it got dark it almost seemed like just another star in the sky. When we first saw it when it was still light out, we called a couple of friends who were driving and asked if they could see it. They could as well and didn't know what it was, but commented that it seemed large, stationary, and bright. We all felt as if this was out of the ordinary. We are all educated, logically people who tried to explain this away, but couldn't. There was a brief moment when we got somewhat frightened, not sure what it was. But at the same time, we felt like it was a lucky thing to see.
August 31, 2017 · 10:00 AM · SPHERE
Grass Valley, CA
I seen it twice in one night. Once with a witness bright orb traveling through the sky bright flash then disappeared. I also was taking to friend on phone.
August 30, 2017 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Henderson, NV
While leaving work and walking to my Jeep that was parked on the top level of a parking garage. I observed two amber orbs (the color of fire) defending from rain clouds and disappear behind a mountain range. The mountain range is directly south of Area 51. I was looking straight north when I observed this event. There were thunderstorms in the area at the time and it appeared that this object descended as one object and split into at least two objects. I work as a Surveillance Supervisor at a Casino and was able to review video from a camera on another parking structure, and it confirmed what I saw, and the times.
August 30, 2017 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
San Anselmo, CA
I was seeing multiple formations of swarming darting objects that were sometimes hovering and then would disperse like a swarm of bees. I took a walk closer to this activity when I ran into 2 other people that were also watching the lights. The 3 of us then witnessed a tight group of 7 to 8 objects at pretty close range. These were the yellow-white foo fighter type lights as seen in clusters frequently around this area. After this night within 24 hours we have this record shattering heat wave in San Francisco on 9-01 and 9-02 etc.
August 30, 2017 · 9:30 PM · SPHERE
Sells, AZ
As we drove on the highway heading west on highway 86 as I looked in review mirror I noticed a very large flying object almost moving in the same direction, It had lights like little windows, and was looking in my rear view mirror, I asked my passenger to look back, and he saw the same. It seemed to follow us for a bit, then as on coming traffic lights showed up it seemed to go black and was gone. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 30, 2017 · 8:15 PM · SPHERE
Miami, AZ
8/30/2017 I was driving to Mesa, AZ, from Globe, AZ, via the US 60. I had already cleared the city, and was well on my way through the back country of the US 60 when the siting occurred. It was roughly 20:15 and the sun was still setting to the west. However, to the east, the sky was already dark. As I came around a bend on the highway, I glanced towards a dark empty part of the sky. The bearing of my sight was roughly 120 degrees SSE. I noticed a light in the sky that appeared to have a reddish orange glow. Upon further inspection, I noticed this light was more of an orb positioned just over the horizon, but close enough to tell that it was not a star in the sky. The orb was so odd looking that I could not focus on anything but the light, only taking my eyes off it to glance back at the road. Having a background in aviation communications I was quick to make the judgement that this was not an anti-collision light of any sort and not an aircraft light that I had seen in the past. The glow was almost incandescent as opposed to having an LED appearance. The orb did not waver at all. It held its position, and that’s what I found so odd about it. About 15-20 seconds in, the orb shot out an additional orb to the east of it. The second orb maintained the same position once it shot out from the first orb. Both orbs now were the same exact size and luminosity. If I were to guess they were about 100 feet away from each other in the sky. It was also apparent that the second orb traveled from the first orb to its position because a slight tracer of light was visible; the second orb did not just appear. It traveled from the first orb to its position. At this point, there were two identical orbs in the sky and just as I thought that was crazy enough, a third orb shot out from the second orb. Now 3 identical orbs maintained their positions in the sky. They did not move or flicker. Roughly 10-15 seconds after that, they all disappeared rather quick, almost as if they quickly! faded, but it was hard to tell. I will attempt to display what I saw. * 5-10 seconds * <- * 10-20 seconds * <-* * 20-30 seconds (GONE AFTER ROUGHLY 1 MINUTE) We spoke via telephone with the witness, and he seemed to us to be quite sober-minded and sincere. We suspect he is a highly credible witness. PD
August 29, 2017 · 10:30 PM · SPHERE
IdentifiedVillejust, Ile-de-France · France
Le 29 aout 2017 en soirée, plusieurs témoins sont intrigués par un morceau de faisceau lumineux vert, dans le ciel nuageux, disparaissant puis réapparaissant quelques instants plus tard, toujours au même endroit. Le témoin prend des photographies. L'observation dure environ une heure puis les témoins partent se coucher. A posteriori sur ses photos du PAN, le témoin "découvre des boules" blanches ou bleues. Un seul témoignage sera recueilli. D’étrangeté faible et de bonne consistance (3 témoins, mais un unique témoignage, photos du PAN), ce cas s’avère être une observation du faisceau laser IPRAL, de l’Ecole Polytechnique, ainsi que d’étoiles ( voir le compte rendu d'enquête). La description et l’aspect visuel du PAN principal semblent très cohérents avec un laser. Notamment, la couleur verte et le fait qu’il soit vertical, évoquent fortement le laser utilisé par l'observatoire de l’Ecole Polytechnique. La direction d’observation du PAN, également, correspondant à celle de l’observatoire SITRA, gérant le laser IPRAL. Contacté, l’observatoire SITRA a confirmé le fonctionnement du laser IPRAL au moment de l’observation. Les points lumineux ("boules") découverts après l’observation sur les photos du PAN sont très probablement des étoiles. Leur position relative ne change pas sur des images prises à plusieurs minutes d’intervalle. Dans cette enquête les points lumineux doubles peuvent être un effet lié à un bouger pendant le temps de prise de vue. Le cas est classé A, observation du laser IPRAL de l’observatoire SIRTA (Ecole Polytechnique), ainsi que d’étoiles. [GEIPAN classification A — Laser]
August 28, 2017 · 10:20 AM · SPHERE
San Gabriel, CA
White spherical craft.