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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
June 14, 2017 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
Leander, TX
IT WAS HEADING IN SOUTHWEST DIRECTION.
June 13, 2017 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Murrieta, CA
I was about to enter my home with my brother around 9:00 pm on June 13, 2017 after a couple hours playing Pokémon Go when I saw a bright white spherical object moving at about the speed you would expect an airplane to move almost directly above my location. It was a fairly clear night but the elevation of the object was unclear. The object was brighter than the stars behind it and was moving north to south from my location in Murrieta, CA. I decided to watch the object to see if it had the blinking lights that you would typically see on an aircraft such as an airplane or helicopter. As I watched the object I never saw any of those blinking lights. Then the strange part happened. The object gained speed over the Temecula valley and it also started to rapidly gain altitude. The once bright spherical object that was over my head was now abruptly getting dimmer and further and further away and eventually completely disappeared over the constellation Scorpios. This all happened in a time span of about 2 minutes. I continued to watch the sky for several more minutes and I did not see any sign of the object again. Description of Observers: Observer 1--27 year old bartender. Observer 2--33 year old retired marine.
June 13, 2017 · 3:19 AM · SPHERE
Gunnison National Forest (Almost), CO
Summary: The event occurred on June 13, 2017, at the Lodgepole Campground in the Gunnison National Forest adjacent the Taylor River. The event began at exactly 03:19 and continued until dawn. During this time, an orb of light circled my tent, split into at least two separate orbs, re-combined while hovering over my tent, and rose into the aspens, as daylight broke. The passage of time from the appearance until dawn (roughly 06:30 Mountain Time) felt as though it had been accelerated. In other words, my biological clock did not account for the 3+ hours that passed during the event. I did not fall asleep during the event. The lights came within arm's reach of my tent door, but did not enter the tent/rainfly vestibule. Full Account: NOTES: 1. I made camp that night with a rain fly over my tent. 2. All that can be perceived on the inside of the tent is diffused light and shadows. 3. The tent was an REI Halfdome 2 with the orange rainfly. 4. When approaching the campground from the south, it's accessed via a right turn off the road. 5. My campsite was the penultimate site on the strip/loop (to the right upon entering the campground), the most isolated, and the furthest into the forest. I was awakened by light diffusing through my tent fly. At first, I believed this was the result of a very bright moonrise or the breaking of dawn. I turned on my GPS device to check the time (phone was charging on motorcycle); the time displayed was 03:19. It was far too early for dawn, and moonlight isn't this bright. Slightly alarmed, I reclined with my eyes open and began to rationalize what the source of the light might be. I told myself I believed the light to be that of a NFS ranger performing nightly rounds. As I watched the light move in a circular pattern around my tent (estimated some 20 yards away, I noted a few things: 1. The light moved slowly and steadily as though hovering on a stationary plain. 2. The light didn't move like a flashlight or headlamp operated by a human — the motion was too smooth, too perfect. 3. There were no footsteps associated with the light's movement. 4. There was no other sound associated with the light's movement. 5. The light was a cool blue/white — white at the center with a blue aura. Unable to sleep, I watched as this light split/manifested a twin. They continued to circle my tent (between foot and hip level), occasionally approaching from behind and from the side before withdrawing and continuing their silent "march." At one point, one of the lights came close enough my tent that its brilliance shone up underneath the fly. This was the first and only direct observation of their radiance without obfuscation by the tent fly. At this point, there was no more kidding myself: these things were real, wholly other, and I was terrified. My only recourse was to pray silently while watching the event unfold. I uttered no sound, sat motionless and upright in my sleeping bag, and watched as the energies moved about. Near the end of the event, one of the floating lights hovered directly above my tent and remained there for some time. As day broke, it moved off/ascended into the aspens, re-combined with the other, and dimmed until it was no longer visible. Un-nerved, exhausted, yet unable to return to sleep, I arose, took care of the morning necessities, and began preparing breakfast. I felt a deep need to discuss what I experienced. When a fellow camper (some 50-70 yards away) began stirring, I approached him. I must have appeared visibly shaken because the look on his face was that of concern. Without volunteering anything specific, I simply asked him if he slept well and if he noticed anything during the dark hours. His response was validating, but disturbing. He said, "I saw lights near your tent . . . but didn't think much of it." At that time, I told him everything. His conclusion was that I was being "scanned," but I can't know that for sure. He clearly believed in the other-ness of my experience. Personal Conclusions: 1. These weren't solid objects because as the two interacted, they would've cast shadows of each other. 2. These objects originated from the wooded areas behind my tent because they cast distinct tree-trunk shadows while on initial approach. 3. These objects were utterly silent and so couldn't have been drones in the recreational sense. 4. These objects moved with such slow, methodical refinement that they couldn't have been drones in the recreational sense, nor could they have been mounted on humans (e.g., a flashlight or headlamp). 5. These objects were definitely interested in ME. The focus of their movement was my location and that didn't change throughout the entire encounter. 6. My prayers had NO effect on their movement or position. In fact, as I prayed for them to leave, they drew nearer.
June 11, 2017 · 1:30 PM · SPHERE
Jacksonville, FL
Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 11, 2017 · 12:00 AM · SPHERE
Baltimore, MD
Possible advertising lights?? PD
June 10, 2017 · 8:50 PM · SPHERE
Alexandria, VA
My wife alerted me to the sighting and called me to come out of the house to see it. She was very enthusiastic about it and exclaimed “Isn’t it neat!” The orbs were approximately 1000 feet above ground level, moving fast (more than a hundred plus miles per hour, I estimate) and mostly stayed together in a series of loose formations, yet there were some lone “stragglers” that would come along after groupings of 5 or 10 had moved along together. They were luminous, but perhaps not self-luminous, as they may have been reflecting light from the setting sun. The orbs also appeared to be “pulsing” light. We live within about 4 miles of Reagan National Airport and the Pentagon; so, the direction they were traveling would seem to have taken them near, slightly south, of both locations. I took a short video of the sighting with my iPhone. We have not seen in the news media or heard of any reports to explain what the orbs were.
June 10, 2017 · 1:00 PM · SPHERE
Manalapan, NJ
While mowing my grass, I noticed the sound of a loud jet engine. I looked up and noticed a fighter jet flying over and circling my neighborhood at a low altitude. I ran in the house to get my phone to take a picture of the fighter jet. Upon returning to my front yard, I looked off into the distance to locate the fighter jet. At that time, I noticed a round object hovering off in the distance, near the fighter jet, at a very high altitude. It was visible to my naked eye, but when I zoomed in to take a picture of the object, it would not show up on my camera. I continued to watch it hover for about 30 seconds, with no apparent sound. The sphere then darted to the right, made an immediate stop, and hovered for about 5 seconds, before it darted back to the left the same distance and continued to hover. At this time, the fighter jet was not visible and had disappeared off in the distance. After hovering for another 5 seconds, motionless, the sphere took off across the sky at an incredible speed, covering a great distance in a very short period of time, and disappeared beyond the tree line of my back yard.
June 9, 2017 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Boulder, CO
A few minutes after 10pm, a slow moving large bright white orb slowly flew over the hills in North Boulder from a northwesterly to a southeasterly direction. Approximately around the center of Boulder the white light suddenly turned a dull orange, shrank to a pinpoint in a matter of seconds, then disappeared completely.
June 9, 2017 · 5:29 PM · SPHERE
Anaheim, CA
At my apartment complex, I had just walked out to toss trash in a dumpster, when I heard, and then saw, a Cessna model 172 flying in an Easterly direction, above the trees and housing area nearby. The sky was blue, and without any clouds. The Cessna flew at an altitude that suggested it would land at nearby Fullerton airport. It was perhaps about one quarter mile south of my location. Just a moment after looking at the Cessna airplane, I noticed a mostly round shaped object, about one third the length of the Cessna in size, was flying just slightly higher and behind the Cessna plane. The object was colored mainly white and black, and had a single and very bright white light near its top that flashed regularly, like a beacon or strobe. The object flew on at a slower speed than the Cessna, and I followed it for about one minute as it flew farther away and farther South than the track the Cessna had taken. When the object was then just a tiny point in the clear sky, it suddenly just vanished. I watched for another minute or so, but it never came back. The best thing I can compare the object to would be the flying ‘drone balls’ that are in the Tom Cruise Science-Fiction film called “Oblivion”. The object flew and looked much like those round drones in that movie, though I estimate it to have been much larger in size than those in the film were. Maybe the size of a Smart Car or Fiat 500. I believe whatever this object was, that it was a remotely controlled vehicle. Whether it was of an alien origin, or a secret military device, I can only speculate at this point. But I can say that it is the second time I have seen a drone-like UFO flying in the vicinity of my apartment in Anaheim, seeing another one just last year, also in the afternoon daylight hours. Lastly, I had the feeling it knew it was being observed.
June 9, 2017 · 12:30 AM · SPHERE
Allen Park, MI
While me and my wife came out for a smoke break, between Orange is the New black episodes we noticed a red light that would have a blue light shine as well. The red light was extremely bright and could only see the blue light when the object would turn slightly. It was south of our location maybe in Southgate or Taylor area. The object would move to the left a little then stay stationary then it move again. The movements were very quick. The sky was clear and there was no noises at all. (Hoping to hear helicopter blades spinning) the object made one more quick movement towards the south direction before just disappearing.
June 6, 2017 · 10:30 PM · SPHERE
Seattle, WA
The white glowing orb glided less than the height distance of what an airplane would. I was caught by surprise due to the silence, I didn’t hear the sound of a plane, the object didn’t make a sound. As I watched the orb travel by, it appeared to make a slight zigzag motion on two occasions, it didn’t seem to elevate in height and was on a trajectory. I watched until the glowing orb disappeared out of sight continuing in the SE direction. We suspect a sighting of the ISS at 22:15 hrs.. PD
June 6, 2017 · 7:30 PM · SPHERE
Reno, NV
Source of the report provides no contact information. PD
June 4, 2017 · 4:00 AM · SPHERE
Adams, WI
first spotting it out through my kitchen window. then moved to the front door, right next to kitchen. that is when i spotted it down below the row of trees, at end of road. which is about four car lengths away. then the orb just seemed to vanish. it acted if some kind of intelligence was behind its operation. the size of this white orb was not much larger then a basketball. then it occurred to me the night before i notice the same bright white light moving through my back yard.even then it was not moving very fast. it was if it were looking/searching for something. i have seen on my inside home security camera see through moving orbs. they seem to be coming out from under the bedroom floor. i could not see them with my naked eye, but the camera picked them flying through walls and so forth. i do not know if these orbs are same as the bright white orbs.
June 4, 2017 · 12:30 AM · SPHERE
Lake View, IA
Ok, it's exactly like 2 of the may and April reports from Des Moines. It looked like a spherical orange fireball or Street light in the sky. I got 1 pic that turned out OK. It came from northeast moving slow at first then came close to above town directly. Then it turned and sped up fast and disappeared behind trees to the north. No noise at all. No wind. I ran to higher ground with less trees and it circled around and came back towards me from the Northeast again. It dimmed and got brighter randomly. It was moving faster this time. Again, I get it excited for it to be directly over me. And it turns right before town again and goes and disappears to the north and never saw it again. It was insane. It changed speed, direction, brightness, but not color or shape. First time ever seeing anything like that. I was skateboarding after I got off work when this happened. The two people that described similar sightings in Des Moines. Their descriptions. Literally took my ! words out of my mouth. The 1 person described it as an Amber Sreet light and that's exactly how I described it. It's reoccurring. I know a lot of people had to see it. It was very obvious and attention grabbing.
June 1, 2017 · 6:00 PM · SPHERE
Lakeway, TX
At 6 to 7 seconds in in 3rd pan camera movement, upper left just above the sun you will see a potential metallic object reflecting off the sun, pass in front of the Sun's brightness, its reflection then is overcome by the sun's brightness until the object reappears below to the lower left and then takes a 30 to 35° jog to the right. Space rocks and satellites do not maneuver like that, it's against the laws of physics, their trajectories are set in motion and can't deviate! The military does navigate their satellites, they can change direction, never in the way you see in the video. Could be coincidence but the altitude of the aircraft to the upper right means that it is military. Notice that you can see contrail but not reflection off its airframe, because it's so small compared to the UFO. I have 15 years professional experience as a videographer/ photographer. 10 years of which, was with Cox communications. I know what artifact is. You will see a lens fl! are which is obvious and normal in a lens as one pans up into the Sun. A lens flair follows the direction of your pan movement. The UFO comes down from above in opposite direction of the lens movement and lens flare up. Also the speed of the object down, is faster than the lens flare up. Keep your curser on pause button to click, to stop and review. I have additional pan movements, in same take, with lens flare moving with the pan up, but no object coming down in frame like this. Also object continues it's variable trajectory down, after pan and lens movement stops. We suspect that the anomalous object is an insect in flight. PD
June 1, 2017 · 11:00 AM · SPHERE
Buford, WY
I was photographing a thick chem-trail that was being released by an airliner at approx. 1100 hrs. I observed and photographed a bright sphere that appeared near the end of the chem- trail. Upon review of the photos at a zoom view revealed several bright dots in geographical formation within the orb itself. It quickly moved across the sky and disappeared from view
May 31, 2017 · 4:00 AM · SPHERE
Norman, OK
object was hovering in the east skies of Oklahoma as white in color by. taking a spot light and flashing it in binary code it would report back in multiple colors but would return back to white. it took off twice disappeared in a second, but returned minutes later in a different spot have pictures of the craft on 2 phones and a Nikon camera. hovered around for a hour and half with a snap of your finger it disappeared out of sight. cant download pictures now will email when I can
May 29, 2017 · 4:00 PM · SPHERE
Monroe, MI
One orb followed a plane heading east. A second orb heading west flew and took an abrupt 90 turn into the clouds, north.
May 29, 2017 · 3:30 AM · SPHERE
Northvale, NJ
I went out back to smoke a cigarette while on the phone with a friend of mine. I noticed what appeared to be an aircraft, very low flying coming from the east and heading west in front of me. A rain storm was just hitting my area so it would have been normal for a low flying plane. I recognized it as a plane because I noticed the red steady light and the green flashing light. Suddenly, the red light dropped straight down and was out of view behind an enormous tree, about 4 house lengths from where I was standing, I interrupted my friend who was speaking at the time and started explaining to him what I was seeing because I couldn't believe it. The plane instantly became a red glowing orb and was doing a figure 8 pattern behind the tree in front of me, it would drop down heading west then pull up and around and head east over the top of the tree where I could see it. It did this a couple of times - then as it was heading west again above the tree it stopped dead! in front of me. I couldn't move, a part of me thought to run inside but my body wouldn't move. It stayed still in front of me for a count of about 7 seconds I would say, then it instantly became an "airplane" again with the blinking green light and continued west in the same straight "flight" pattern it had been on initially. The orb was a constant red light - not flashing and it's edges were fuzzy. Also, when it stopped in front of me there was what appeared to be a dark line through the center of the orb. It's hard to say how close the object was to me, but after seeing the area in the daylight today, I'm thinking that it was probably a 1/4 to a 1/2 mile away from me, over the main intersection in our town. I've never seen anything move like that - I wish I had gotten a video of it but I was so shocked, all I could do was talk to my friend and explain what I was seeing. My body shook for a couple of hours afterwards. I've read about UFO's and I'm not a disbeliever, but seeing it first hand is quite an eerie experience, I just had the weirdest feeling it was watching me.
May 28, 2017 · 6:53 PM · SPHERE
Malibu, CA
I arrived at the Venice Beach boardwalk in the Los Angeles area to pick up my lovely lady Annette at approximately 6:50 p.m.(PST) and as I walked up to the boardwalk where I was going to meet her, I also looked around absorbing the beaches scenery and greeted her with hug. I looked North towards the Santa Monica pier from where we were and I thought to myself what a beautiful sunset. I'm not a big social media guy but I like posting pictures of scenery and places so I decided to post one that moment. I stepped up with my phone and tried to focus on placing the beach, sun, and mountains as the primary objects in the shot. I took a the first picture and quickly glanced at the result on my phones screen, immediately realizing that there was a shiny aqua colored spot in my photo, I quickly assumed it was a reflection spot of some sort. In my mind I wasn't too satisfied with my picture so between the glance at picture 1st, and tapping the phone to zoom in a l! ittle closer, it took me approximately 8-10 seconds to take the 2nd picture later from the original shot. As we drove home I told Annette to check out the picture I had posted on social media and I handed her my cell phone. Immediately she pointed out the aqua sphere in the first picture to me as I drove, and without looking at it or skipping a beat I said to her, "I know it must be a glare or something," while I said that she had shuffled to the second picture and quickly replied. "the shiny spot's, on the two different pictures, and in two different locations?" We stopped and zoomed in on the phones screen and to our amazement there were also multiple sphere's within this electric blue sphere. The picture also captured the glowing spheres reflection in the sky.
May 28, 2017 · 4:15 PM · SPHERE
Camas, WA
At approximately 6:15pm, I walked from my great room area into our adjacent kitchen area. I had noted that there was a high level of electrical activity and energy in our home that day. Lots of static electricity and pulses felt by my children and I throughout the day and an odd sense that something was happening worldwide in reference to terrorism and a sense of potential earthquake. As I walked into the kitchen area I felt something watching me and I looked instinctively to my dining area windows located in the back of my home on the western side and I saw a gold sphere hovering in the middle window. It was completely round, gold in color and was larger then a basketball but smaller then a beach ball. It seemed to almost follow my movement from the greater room into the kitchen area and was as if peering through the window observing me. I wondered about drone capabilities and or other forms of surveillance equipment as I looked at the sphere which then seemed almost zipped up into a stealth mode right in front of me and was not visible any longer. I thought I should report this.
May 27, 2017 · 10:45 PM · SPHERE
Edmonton (Canada), AB · Canada
I took note of time and thought to be outside at the same time the next day. Went out at 2350 and the same light flew over again at same time and what appeared to be same flight line. The next day was cloudy and maybe rainy and saw nothing. On the fourth day I was walking home from work at about 22 45 ish and the light flew over me again. This time I had my phone and got it out to record the object as it flew over me. Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
May 27, 2017 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Spring, TX
On the eve of May 27, 2017, 9pm, my family and i were out looking at the moon thru the telescope we had bought for our son for his 8th birthday that friday. When my nephew started yelling look look over there what is that flying. When i turned around we saw the 1st orb looked like fire red and orange glow fly by tree top lvl abot 50 feet in the air. Flying very fast and moving in all directions very quickly. I knew i had to film, it so i pulled out my camera phone. While doing so other people in passing by cars and people walking by started yelling what are those. A second orb same color and size flew in at a faster rate and chased the 1st orb turn by turn they seemed to dance. I finely got my phone to record and only caught the second one, but was very excited to capture it before they flew off into the sky. They made no noise at all. And the orbs were so bright not sure what we saw, but hope others will see this and have more info
May 27, 2017 · 9:00 AM · SPHERE
Marysville, MI
Well as the fighter jets aproached the light, the light disappeared for about 2-3 minutes. Enough time for my dad to jump up and for me to grab the binoculars from the house. Came back out and the light appeared again but this time going exceptionally fast South (toward the canadian border) and was gone. As i set my phone down to grab binoculars again to see, my phone opened up google and began recording! what we were saying. I swear to god as my witness I NEVER touched my cellphone to open up google. Never said "okay google" nothing. I screenshotted what was on my screen and made sure the video of the incident was saved. My neighbors about 45 minutes ago messaged me and stated that they could see what appeared to be the northern lights which is very very odd considering we are smothered with light pollution from Canadas "Chemical Valley". We went outside and only saw a streak about in the same area as the jets were headed and going north east to west. Had a greenish tint to it but nothing extremely noticible to the naked eye. On the way in I looked north and saw what i imagine to be a jet following a solid white light proceeding east to Canada (at this time its about midnight). Very unusual and creepy night here. At this time i am very shooken up and quite frankly startled about what we saw and my father is as well.