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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
March 13, 2017 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Valley Center, CA
At about 10 P.M., on March 13. I noticed a flickering yellow light in the glass window of our front door. Thinking that perhaps there was a fire in the area, I opened the door. Directly to the west, I observed above the horizon and above the mountains an orb of brilliant yellow gold color. Even at a great distance, it appeared to be flickering on the edges. I called up to my granddaughter to look out also and see the bright light. Then there appeared a second orb, then it disappeared and reappeared several times. A third orb also appeared several times and would disappear. The bottoms of the orbs were at different levels in the atmosphere. This light show lasted approximately 15 minutes. As we are located atop a hill in line with the Palomar Observatory, I wonder if they would have observed the same phenomena. Also, we are south of Camp Pendleton on the coast so do not think it was a military exercise. I have always been skeptical of UFO sightings (a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science and have my Masters in business). We are enclosing 3 pictures taken by my granddaughter. IMG_20170313_221351.jpg IMG_20170313_221407.jpg IMG_20170313_221734.jpg
March 13, 2017 · 9:26 PM · SPHERE
Mesa, AZ
They circled around a few miles past me and were headed south near the Mesa and Tempe border. No noise from the smaller craft. Although they seemed to move in unison, they were 2 separate objects.
March 12, 2017 · 8:40 PM · SPHERE
Mount Airy, NC
Bright object moving rapidly from Northwest to Southeast. Clear sky, bright moon. Source of the report elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
March 12, 2017 · 8:00 PM · SPHERE
Redlands, CA
It’s now mid-March 2017, and since mid-February I’ve seen an extremely bright light (reminds me of a huge LED tactical light) early every evening in the eastern ((sic. western)) sky over Southern California. It’s large enough to make a person assume that it’s close to the observer’s neighborhood, but its size and brightness make it likely to be seen by many residents living in Southern California. The light always appears around 8 p.m., sitting low in a dark sky, without any other visible stars. The light is bright in one position for approximately 30 minutes, then the light goes out, and it pops up again nearby, again parked for another 30 minutes in a new position. I first noticed it in February and, like my husband, instantly thought of Saturn. But the light was so “artificial” and too low that I couldn’t bring myself to believe it was Saturn. My thought was that it’s more likely a satellite or a surveillance device (drone? balloon?) possibly launched by the police, or by USGS, or by CALTRANS. I’ve found no evidence on the Internet, but if any of these surveyors want anonymity, there wouldn’t be an announcement or explanation posted to the Internet. I believe I’ve noticed lights-out once a week (does the object need a break to re-adjust?), and then re-activated the following night for the rest of the week. I’m not certain why the foregoing surveyors would survey at night, except to avoid small aircraft from local municipal airports that would not be flying at night in the object’s altitude thereby not interfering with the object’s mission. Large airlines flying to Ontario or to Los Angeles can be seen and are distinguishable because they move higher in the sky than does the bright light that parks low in the sky and does not move at all while lit. Thoughts rush through my mind of foreign surveillance by China, Russia, North Korea. Could that be true? Don’t know. “It’s a puzzlement!”
March 12, 2017 · 8:10 AM · SPHERE
Elk Grove, CA
Source of the report elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
March 12, 2017 · 8:10 AM · SPHERE
Elk Grove, CA
I have video and images.
March 12, 2017 · 3:15 AM · SPHERE
Columbus, MS
Blue Orb that zipped across the sky. Very clear.
March 11, 2017 · 8:55 PM · SPHERE
Casa Grande, AZ
My son's and I saw 4 bright orange orb lights in the night sky of Casa Grande, AZ, about 8:55pm on 03/11/2017. We watched them until they disappeared one by one. A jet passed the lights and in know way could they miss the sighting.
March 9, 2017 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Valley Center, CA
Noticed two large round lights in sky over the Mt. Palomar area. At first they remained together for a couple minutes. As I watched them, one dropped from the sky to the horizon with great speed. They remained stationary for several minutes then other lights began to blink and appear. Then the lights would go out and appear in a different spot. All together there were 4 or more lights blinking in different colors. There was no noise at all. Were the two main and larger lights sending out smaller ones? The two largest lights were still separated and stayed that way. Smaller blinking lights began to appear in different spots but in the same area. Using a fence pole as an indicator of any movement by the lights, I was able to tell that the first two lights remained stationary in the sky.
March 9, 2017 · 5:55 AM · SPHERE
Saint Joseph, MO
Was going out to car and saw a white sphere with blue tint streak across the sky. At one point, it was an elongated blur, as it moved to the north.
March 8, 2017 · 4:54 PM · SPHERE
Ypsilanti, MI
At 6:54 pm EST, I looked out my back window and noticed 9 white dots in the sky. They initially looked like stars, but they were very low in the sky and it was still light outside. I grabbed my camera and tripod and began taking pictures. They started in 2 formations, one with 5 dots (the left formation) and one with 4 dots (the right formation), both were pyramid in shape. Two of the dots in the formation on the right began to move towards the ground. They seemed to merge back into one dot, leaving what looked like 3 dots in the right formation. The two dots at the top of the left formation split into 2 dots each and began to shift in their formation. One of the orbs on the left began flying towards the right, crossed over top of the formation on the right and went behind trees and disappeared. The orb on the bottom of the left formation then split into two orbs and then split into a third orb. A set of 3 orbs then appeared in the middle of the left! formation. Those 3 orbs proceeded to fly to the top of the left formation, then across the sky over the right formation, then disappeared. The dots in the right formation faded away and eventually disappeared. Then by 7:49 p.m. EST, the last orb on the left formation disappeared. None of these flew away, they just stopped shining.
March 7, 2017 · 8:10 PM · SPHERE
Summerville, SC
Tuesday, March 7, 2017, at 8:10 PM, my wife and I were traveling in two separate cars SSW on Royal Rd in Summerville, SC. She was about 200 yards behind me, when we both witnessed from our driver side windows a green glowing orb traveling 100 feet from the side of the road, and just above the tree tops moving in our direction. The object was in view for about 15 to 20 seconds, before we lost sight of it because of the trees. Based on my speed of 35 MPH I would say the object was moving about 45 to 50 MPH. I looked for the orb when I came to the next clearing over the junk yard, but the object was not visible in any direction. The object was silent, solid, glowing steady green, spherical, and moving with definite purpose. Source of the report elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
March 5, 2017 · 11:05 PM · SPHERE
Nashua, NH
We have changed the time above, to reflect a nighttime sighting. PD
March 5, 2017 · 10:28 PM · SPHERE
Brookline, NH
We first observed a flashing light in the sky over the tree line. Blue, yellow, red and green lights were flashing on what seemed to be a craft. The light seemed to hover around quickly moving from one point to another within a small area. A few minutes later three blue lights appeared to the right of the original lights and were in a equally spaced line. Minutes later the original light had moved substantially higher and to the left while the three lights remained in the same area. After heading inside for a bit (being physically shaken and paranoid) we returned back to see that all four lights were no longer visible.
March 5, 2017 · 8:29 PM · SPHERE
Anchorage, AK
the bright white circular orb flashed at few second intervals and remained in the sky for a long period of time. Possible sighting of Venus?? PD
March 5, 2017 · 2:00 PM · SPHERE
Anola (Canada), MB · Canada
I just took my 4 dogs for a walk in the woods. We got to a clearing and looked around for signs of deer or coyotes, when all the dogs looked up. I looked up and saw, to my surprise, two black spheres above our heads. I gasped a took my phone out and snapped a bunch of pictures. They zoomed north to the opposite tree line and hovered over the trees. Then they were just gone. Only one of the photos shows them. Of course, it's not clear, but you can see more than two. Like I said, they were black spheres that were reflecting the sunlight. They were about the size of a medicine ball or bigger. No sound. They seemed to be spinning, but it was so fast that I couldn't really see much. We spoke with the witness, and she seemed to us to be exceptionally sober-minded. We suspect that she is a highly reliable witness. We have requested copies of her photos, which she saws are not very distinct. PD
March 4, 2017 · 9:48 PM · SPHERE
Sioux Falls, SD
I was traveling west on I-90 between the Cliff Ave. exit and I-29. I observed an airplane approaching the airport and the plane was traveling south across the interstate and preparing to landing at the airport. After the plane had passed by and landed, I observed a large singular white sphere of light fly down toward the ground and then it changed course and curved up towards the sky again. It was traveling east to west. It traveled as a high rate of speed and then as it came down it appeared to increase speed before changing flight path and curving up into the sky again. As it curved up it abruptly disappeared and I seen two quick flashes of light where it disappeared. I never seen it again. It had no streak or tail behind it. I was in my car but heard no jet noise. It traveled at a much faster rate of speed than any fighter plane I’ve seen. I also observed another plane that appeared to be preparing to land at the airport and this object streaked ! through the sky in between the two planes that were landing. At first I thought it might be a meteor but it did not have a tail and it changed course and turned up into the sky again. It was also significantly larger than any star or flashing light on an airplane in the sky.
March 3, 2017 · 9:38 PM · SPHERE
Fairbanks, AK
As I drove through an apartment complex on Davis road, I noticed an unusual bright glow approaching from the south. I immediately stopped my truck and started recording video. I pointed it out to my passenger who was also stunned . The object was moving from south to north, before changing to a eastern course and disappearing behind a cloud layer 7000-10000 feet. It was difficult to judge distance, but I believe the craft was at a much higher altitude. Likely massive size.
March 3, 2017 · 5:30 PM · SPHERE
Wetumpka, AL
Driving southwest at around 17:30 with another passenger and we saw a sphere in the sky that seemed to blink in and out of existence. Very similar in appearance to the planet Venus as it appears in the evening sky, yet this was before sundown. Sky was bright and well lit, and object was gray and reflective. It appeared briefly, as if it had been there all along and was suddenly reflecting sunlight. It disappeared then "reflected" light once more before we lost line of sight due to surrounding treeline.
March 2, 2017 · 11:20 AM · SPHERE
Burbank, CA
A silvery orb high up to the east northeast. Appeared to be moving steadily in a line. It could still be a high flying plane I thought. Then it made a shared clean unnatural turn to an opposing direction. A second later I lost it. It was I think high over Edwards AFB and was similar to those in the San fernando valley in 2012 flap. Same weather also. High. Wispy clouds.
March 1, 2017 · 12:00 AM · SPHERE
Merced, CA
I did not remember the event for two days. I don't know why and that still bothers today. I can't begin to describe how I felt when I did remember. I must have replayed the event in my mind a thousand times. I still do. It has taken a lot of courage for me to write this because I believe my sighting is different than most people who have seen orbs. On Friday March 1, 2019 exactly two years the day, my wife of 39 years died on that patio no more than four feet from where I stood when I saw that orb. I don't want to see another one. So to whoever is reading this I want to thank you for your time.
February 28, 2017 · 4:50 AM · SPHERE
Vacaville, CA
Before it disappeared, it made a trail of what looked like sparks or fire
February 27, 2017 · 6:11 PM · SPHERE
Folsom, CA
I was driving east bound Highway 50 just before sunset, to my 10'oclock I noticed an orange light about 30 deg above horizon. It seemed odd to me due to the color of the light being orange. I noticed that there was a dark spherical object that the light was on. I thought it may have been a helicopter or plane since it was near the flight path for Mather Field. There were no FAA lights on the object. As the object came closer I kept looking to see if it was a helicopter, but still looked spherical as it passed over me. It seemed to be flying in the direction of Mather Field from the area of the Intel building in Folsom. The lights were orange and I could not see any green, red or strobe lights that would indicate FAA regulated lights. I saw no wings or propellers. The object stayed spherical in shape. Please feel free to contact me if needed.
February 26, 2017 · 8:23 PM · SPHERE
Prescott, AZ
Glowing and pulsing orange and dark yellow orb, about 100ft up in the air. Floating in a northbound direction on the west side of the courthouse square. Seen for 30 seconds and then disappearing.