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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
January 29, 2017 · 7:30 PM · SPHERE
Saint Petersburg, FL
I was sitting on my porch smoking a cigarette when i saw a red orange ball of light moving eastward. The ball of light had no blinking lights, which immediately raised a red flag in my mind. It slowly flickered out and then disappeared behind the clouds. Once it disappeared, another rose from the west and followed almost the exact same trajectory. This one disappearing in a section of the clear sky. I called my family outside to show them as one by one they came out of the west only to disappear. This happened a total of seven times before it stopped
January 29, 2017 · 3:17 PM · SPHERE
Phoenix, AZ
I was in the front yard, time was 3:00 pm. I was looking at the trees in the yard, when this light caught my attention. It stayed in one position for approximately six minutes, I could see what looked like a shaded (dark) area at the lower portion of the sphere. The object appears to pulsate the light it was giving off. At this point in time, I went into my house and brought out my digital camera and took a few shots. Then I noticed an airplain from Scottsdale airport fly from east to west underneath the object, bringing to mind that it was farther above and away from my location than I originally thought it to be. A little later it moved upward and south and disappeared.
January 28, 2017 · 11:30 PM · SPHERE
Greenville, NC
At first I saw a bright red orb float directly upward then disappear. Then it came back into site and floated downward. Then it appeared somewhere else and disappeared and then came back to wear it was. I haven't been watching the sky nonstop but I have been checking occasionaly and I have not seen it again. This happened about half an hour ago, so I guess it stopped. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
January 28, 2017 · 12:10 AM · SPHERE
Jenks, OK
January 28th, 2017, at roughly 12:10 a.m., my boyfriend called me outside to see something, telling me to hurry. As a smoker, he is outside rather frequently. I dropped the late night dishes I was working on and hurried to the back door assuming he had spotted an owl. He pointed at the sky and said, “WHAT is THAT?” Frankly, I started to say helicopter but I got this out, “heli…” as I took in the sight and realized how large, how bright, how pulsing, and how it was NOT moving like a helicopter. Furthermore, helicopters don’t use shockingly green, pulsing lights. The very bright, and I mean bright, neon-electric green blob shot in 90-degree angles multiple times where I heard myself blurt, “What IS that?” Just like my boyfriend had done. It gave me the impression it was darting from place to place like it had not prepared a logical route and had to backtrack frequently. I’m sure that’s not true but that is exactly what went through my logical, planning mind. I would plot a course and have a plan of action, not dart and backtrack all over town if I was trying to accomplish something. It flashed, I really should say pulsed, this green light but it wasn’t logical pulsing like an aircraft does. I live near a very small, businessman’s style airport, RL Jones in Jenks, OK and having lived here about 15 years, I know what the airplanes coming and going look like and what they do night and day. Additionally, my former step-father of 10 years was a pilot for American Airlines and I’ve been in his open-cockpit airplane, a private jet he flew and have detailed experience being in and around aircraft. This was NOT an airplane. This thing was brighter than anything in the sky. If I had to compare its brightness to something I would go with something in Las Vegas. One of their casinos. That bright. Bright enough that when my boyfriend pointed it out, I didn’t have scan the horizon and search or squint. My eyes snapped right to this green flashing light. It made no sound I could hear. The pulsing lights it had would flash very quickly but not in any discernable pattern, and then turn off for a split second. When the lights would return, all but once it would have moved a decent distance. At one point it shot so far away, it became a pinpoint of green light, but then it immediately shot back to where it had been. Like I said, this pulsing, vibrant light had no logical sequence of illumination I could detect and I got the visual feeling that the lights were rolling upward, sideways and down to create the undulating, pulsing type light I was witnessing. Right as my boyfriend returned with his phone to try and record this thing, the light went out for about 1 second. It illuminated again still in the same spot, and then the object moved a great linear distance over the rooftops in my field of vision. It was gone in a second. 1 single second after traversing what is visually to me at least two miles. Probably more like three as we sit on a bit of rolling hill and can see very far from our vantage point. It disappeared after it made that long, inexplicable stretch. The trajectory it took generally takes the airplanes I see a couple of minutes to cross. I watch airplanes take the similar route daily and I can watch them for minutes. This was a singular second. I have to assume this object was large to be where it was and so visible, because typically those aircraft are 747’s when they are at that altitude, or much lower and loud if leaving RL Jones and obvious. I can see airplanes from both airports from where my house sits. This thing was markedly brighter, like incomparably bright. You might be tempted to assume it was a Friday night and we were drinking. First, I’m 48-years-old and so is my boyfriend. Secondly, he just got out of the hospital with diverticulitis. One of his antibiotics he must take is alternatively used to help people quit drinking and will cause vicious migraine headaches if the patient attempts to drink. The pharmacist heavily warned him not to dare drink anything alcoholic while taking this antibiotic, so not only was he not drinking, I wasn’t. We don’t take drugs, either. Neither of us has mental disorders of any sort, nor would be so insane as to take time out of our day to write a fake report. I actually was very unnerved. I said prayers, to be frank, for a good while before I went to bed about 30 minutes later. I didn’t get a happy E.T. feeling. I got a hair-raising, yuck, I-don’t-like-that-thing feeling. I’m not a fearful person. Yet, my arm hair stood on end several minutes after coming back inside the house. It was a clear night. No clouds, no weather, if that matters. Anyway, thank you for letting me report this. I actually came to this site to check your information hoping someone else saw this. With the hills we live atop I shouldn’t have been one of two people to see it. It was over the Arkansas River a good while, so I assume people on Riverside Drive on the east side of the river, (I’m on the west side of this river) which is still Jenks, could see it. As far as it darted it also spent some time (seconds that I saw, no more) over south Tulsa, and when it took its pinprick size, long distant jaunt for that second, I would say it was over Glenpool but it went so far it may have crossed into another small suberb. (I’m on the Jenks/Glenpool border.) Thanks again.
January 25, 2017 · 8:45 PM · SPHERE
San Antonio, TX
I saw a white light in the sky it almost looked like a star but was too close to be a star I thought it could've been a plane light and it wasn't I kept staring at it and it shot a green light orb out of it to earth. The white light it shot out of had a haze around it. Possible it's a laser of sorts that make crop circles? The white light was so close I captured a picture and usually stars you can't get a picture of. It look like a mini moon with an aura. ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) I don't think Venus disappears around 11 pm, or shoots green orbs of light out of it. Thanks. ((END ADDENDUM)) We suspect a sighting of Venus. We have corrected the date above. PD
January 25, 2017 · 8:00 PM · SPHERE
Desert Hot Springs, CA
Got home and used binoculars almost looked like 3 lights…couldn’t be certain of shape but almost looked triangular. Orb did not move, did change color looked like amber color then dropped straight down out of sight approx 8:45pm. Did take picture but pic is grainy and just looks like a light ball in sky. Venus?? PD
January 25, 2017 · 3:00 AM · SPHERE
Newport, TX
Jan 25, 2017 at 0300, Spouse and I went riding around starting at 0120 after going to bed early. The stars were extremely bright out, and we had seen more than twenty deer, with multiple raccoons, hogs, the normal country back road animals. We have been doing this on and off the past two weeks and nothing seemed out of ordinary. We decided before going home to go to a hidden place we found early on that was secluded off of hwy 1125 and Speights Road. Car turned off, husband had the night vision and was sitting out of the window, my window down occ. Flashing my light. I had seen a bright star but initially didn’t think anything of it. I layed my head on the car door and stared at the stars for a second then would turn and turn my flashlight on again. This time the brightest largest bright white light/star but it was moving slightly just enough to notice from like being in a box and bouncing off the sides. I called out to my husband two or three times quietly, then knocked him in the leg. He climbed back into the seat. I pointed at it and said, “Is that what I think it is?” He was quiet and just looking then said, “Look at these coming in.” Four circular, hazy, orange, orbs came up to the left of the bright “star.” The orbs went from a straight line to a chevron form two or three times before noticing there was more orange orbs coming from behind us. The bright star moved closer but stayed just below the tree line, looked like when the star blinked the orbs changed formation. When number 8-9 orbs showed up I was too nervous to stay any longer, but never got the feeling of being threatened. We were able to see them until very close to 287 and just before town there was a very large plane/shuttle that crossed from our right to our left at a fairly slow speed for a “plane.” The back of it had red and green lights on the back of it. Once we went over the overpass/287 we didn’t see them anymore.
January 23, 2017 · 6:43 AM · SPHERE
Seattle, WA
I look at this camera almost every day and have never seen anything like this before. I have photo that I will send along. Please let me know if you can tell me what this is. Thank you, Paul
January 23, 2017 · 12:00 AM · SPHERE
Gila, NM
The object zigged and zagged for 1-1/2 hours in the southeastern sky. It would make circles and go off in multiple directions in a second. At first I thought it was a satellite, but it was making bizarre patterns all around itself. Up, then down, then sideways, then in a circle--constantly for that length of time I watched it. The speed in which it travelled was in the blink of an eye, very quickly and haphazard movements. Star or planet?? PD
January 21, 2017 · 6:40 PM · SPHERE
Holly Hill, FL
At first I didn't think much of it as we are near the flight path of the Daytona International Airport. However these lights were brighter and they did not blink like planes do when they are flying. I paid more attention to these bright orbs and they were moving from west to east at a steady speed when the first group of 5 suddenly disappeared. The next group of 3-4 did exactly the same and disappeared in the same spot. Two more groups of 3 or 4 followed that pattern. I couldn't tell if they made a sound as there is a lot of noise from traffic etc in this area. Note: I have seen Chinese lanterns and these were not moving in the same way or at the same speed. Also there was very little wind at ground level. The first group of 5 were positioned with one in each corner and the last one in the center and they maintained these place locations until they disappeared. I tried to video tape this event but did not catch them through the screen and due to their speed, did not want to miss them by taking time to get outside.
January 20, 2017 · 8:19 PM · SPHERE
Cocoa, FL
Two bright orange orbs/globes, travelling S. to N. slow at first then separating slightly and appearing larger when overhead. Two observers on screen porch with a good view of sky. Clear sky. NOTE: Atlas rocket launch from Cape Canaveral at 7:42pm. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
January 20, 2017 · 8:15 PM · SPHERE
Orlando, FL
Around 8:15 pm, my uncle and I were in my back yard talking after watching a rocket launch at Cape Canaveral through our binoculars at about 7:42 pm. We witnessed wave after wave of orange flame like balls of light coming from the west and heading east northeast. They first started going over in pairs and then the rest were staggered. Objects appeared to be moving at around 800 to 1000 mph at about three thousand feet altitude. On some of the objects the flame would go dim but you could still see a blue glow around the object and track it across the sky. The objects made no noise and were probably five miles to the north of us as they crossed the sky. I am a ten year naval aviation veteran and my uncle is a retired airforce veteran. Neither one of us has ever seen anything like that before.
January 20, 2017 · 2:00 PM · SPHERE
Fayetteville, NC
7 sphere like objects that reflected the sunlight off its surface seen in western part of sky in a circle formation. Appear to be going in a circle than disappearing in clouds.
January 17, 2017 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Deltona, FL
First seen the orbs on the back porch, they were a soft off white light, when they would move, they'd then become red. When seen, they'd turn off their lights, but still flash red and leave. 3 of them were in a triangle formation, when seen, they turned off their lights and dispersed. Tried to film one that was blinking red, but it turned green and started to follow me
January 14, 2017 · 9:18 PM · SPHERE
Hudson, FL
On our lanai and looked up to sky saw a glowing red orb shaped object it was low in altitude and made no sound as it traveled north to south. There was a total of five orbs.
January 14, 2017 · 8:35 PM · SPHERE
Edneyville, NC
I was sitting on my porch looking into the night sky towards the east. A red light appeared as if it "turned on." It was very large, larger than a star, and about half the size of the moon. It started dim, but began glowing. After hovering in place for a few seconds, it started to move slowly in the sky towards the right and then "turned off." It was bright red in color as if it were glowing. It was difficult to determine the distance, but it appeared to be a mile or so away, but depending on the size, it could be different. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
January 14, 2017 · 1:00 PM · SPHERE
Yerington, NV
also have time lapse photos of the strange orb seen next to the sun. looks like it may be 3 orbs but they are peeking thru the clouds with the sun coming out.
January 13, 2017 · 10:30 PM · SPHERE
Reynolds, GA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
January 13, 2017 · 9:30 PM · SPHERE
Hilton Head Island, SC
Orange object moving rapidly through the sky. It then moved up and down rapidly before coming to a stop and soon disappearing completely. A couple minutes later it reappeared with a dimmer, darker orange color; almost red to part of it. At this point it was slowly moving and the object began to drop what looked like molten pieces down off of it. As we watched, it then moved rapidly down before coming to a stop again and becoming very dim and darker red, occasionally dropping more molten-looking objects from it. After only a few more minutes it then disappeared again. We did not spot it any more after the second disappearance.
January 11, 2017 · 8:45 PM · SPHERE
Castle Rock, CO
I saw three orb like objects appear above the roof of the first house on the street, to my right. They were diffused whitish-blue in color and appeared to be ascending in the sky.
January 10, 2017 · 7:30 PM · SPHERE
North Port, FL
2 large spherical objects, very bright orange-red, lifted upwards towards the sky, stopped briefly. One craft remained hovering while the other shot across the sky heading east. The hovering craft remained for at least 10 seconds,both silent before disappearing across the sky again.
January 9, 2017 · 7:15 PM · SPHERE
Chandler, AZ
Bright reddish light with darker red undulating 'aura' around it. It seemed to be moving upwards, getting smaller. It eventually began to fade and went out as if extinguished.
January 8, 2017 · 3:30 AM · SPHERE
Macfarland, WI
It admitted (sic. emitted) no sound as it disappeared out of my range view. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
January 8, 2017 · 2:18 AM · SPHERE
Ball Ground, GA
Reviewing security video, from last night, due to my dogs barking last night. When I was reviewing the security video I noticed a very bright orb enter the left top of the frame. Almost the diameter of a full moon. The diameter of the object is surprising. From the time of entry into the video frame, to loss of site behind the treeline is 45 min. I don't know the scale, but about an 3/4" of travel in the video. I have never seen a planet nor a star with that much luminance, nor the diameter. We live in a heavily wooded area. This video was taken through a dense tree line. The density of the orb overcomes this without distortion to the intensity until it dropped below the distant mountain tree line