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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
December 25, 2016 · 12:30 AM · SPHERE
Oxnard, CA
At approximately 12:30 am on 12/25/16 I received a frantic call from my neighbor telling me to come outside right now. There in the eastern sky were six or seven red glowing lights in a circular pattern following each other in a spiral as they were moved further away, yet still following each other at about the same distance between, in a circular pattern until they disappeared. Then another by itself came out of the northern sky followed by another and then another and then another and another. Each one followed the other towards where the circular group had been towards the east. Then one by one they gained altitude and then disappeared. When we would spot a new red glowing light coming out of the north, they were larger and seemed at a lower altitude and were timed to be spaced out by about 20 to 30 seconds. There was no sound associated with these red lights. No other color lights or glows were seen on each, just a solid red glow, that never changed. This lasted about 15 minutes.
December 25, 2016 · 12:15 AM · SPHERE
Salinas Victoria · Mexico
We saw a sphere at a 60 ° altitude angle in the northeast direction, traveling in an EES-WWN direction, at the coordinates 25 ° 57'38.1 "N 100 ° 17'27.3" W, with an orange light and star-like flashes, At an approximate speed of 100 MpH, without presenting sound, with a size smallest than the moon.
December 24, 2016 · 10:45 PM · SPHERE
Menifee, CA
My wife noticed the two orange lights first. We pulled over so I could take a picture, but couldnt capture one. We saw two bright orange lights in the sky if you were looking North East of the 215 and newport road in Menifee Ca. One looked higher in altitude. Both were montionless. After 2-3 minutes of observation, the higher altitude craft just fanishes, 30 seconds later the 2nd one disappeared as well.
December 24, 2016 · 10:10 PM · SPHERE
Kalispell, MT
While taking out my garbage at 10:10pm, I noticed a truck pull into a parking lot next to me a gentleman exit his vehicle and shouted and pointed for me to look up and see a light he was observing. it was snowing lightly and the cloud deck was low enough over kalispell that the city lights were causing the cloud deck to be slightly illuminated. what i saw was a very bright single orange orb moving slowly from the east to the west. after about 60 seconds it appeared to fade out. then i noticed another orb appear behind it moving in the same direction. it became very bright and after another 60 seconds it became stationary. it then appeared to either fade or maybe gain altitude and fade after another 60 seconds. i then observed another orb in the eastern sky moving south. it became very bright and then faded after about 45 seconds. the whole incident took 4-5 minutes. the man who was watching these with me said he had been watching them for about 5 minutes before pulling over and parking. he did film them towards the end with his phone camera. i know it's christmas eve but i don't think it was santa's sleigh.
December 24, 2016 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Anthem, AZ
2 sets of 3 + 1 bright orange lights in the shape of a round sphere. They were all in a line. First, 3, then 3 more, then 1. The sets of 3 were anywhere from 1/2 mile to 1 mile in separation all traveling in the same line. The second set of three were about 3 miles behind the first set. The last 1 also followed the same line but was farther behind the rest approximately 4 miles. All were silent. They came out of the south east from the Scottsdale, Arizona area. When approaching Anthem, Arizona, they made a turn on the eastern side of Anthem and turned to the north east. After making an arcing turn. Once on the north east heading the bright lights dimmed and vanished into thin air. There is a flight path for the airlines that looks to pass over New River, Arizona, which is just north of Anthem, on their way to Sky Harbor air port. The flight path also makes an arc turn as they pass over New River and brings them out on the western side of Anthem, then on to Sky Harbor. These orange lights looked as though they were on parallel flight path to the air lines, with a separation of about 2 to 3 miles.
December 24, 2016 · 8:30 PM · SPHERE
Port Orange, FL
I saw five orangish-red twinkling round objects in the evening sky around 20:30 - 21:00 traveling in a straight line from horizon to horizon, equal distance apart from east to west on Christmas Eve 2016. Each object appeared to be at least 1000 feet in altitude and were traveling at a constant speed, except for the middle one which seemed to slow slightly before disappearing. Each light twinkled and had the same illuminosity until the light faded somewhere over or near the Spruce Creek Fly-In Airport. The light source acted like a looping (repeating) laser projection, although the cloud deck was broken or scarce that evening. The only other conclusion I could reach was that the objects were highly illegal drones which had situational awareness of one another. They traveled in a straight line along a consistant heading from somewhere near Ponce Inlet, Florida (New Smyrna Beach Airport) and the Fly-In.
December 24, 2016 · 5:45 PM · SPHERE
Olympia, WA
Went out to get mail, saw very bright light in southeast sky. Grabbed the binoculars, took a peek. It was a very ornate sphere that was lite on the outside from the outside but I could not see a light source. It resembled, on the outside, one of those intricately carved stone balls that has a carved stone ball inside that and another carved stone ball inside that. It was white but occasionally a black stripe or band would appear as if it were rotating. However, when I was looking at it it did not seem to be rotating until the black band zipped through. Guessing it was about 1500 feet up and I estimate it to be about as big as a modest sized house. I did notice air traffic so they had to have seen it. I did take video of it with my cell phone and snapped a few photos.
December 21, 2016 · 7:15 PM · SPHERE
Waynesboro, VA
Noticed a bright sphere hovering at approximately 10000 ft. Object moved in an elliptical manner, and hovered for short intervals.
December 20, 2016 · 10:30 PM · SPHERE
Santa Rosa, CA
Right around 10:30pm the evening of December 20, 2016, I saw what looked like a bright, orange planet the size of Venus, just Northeast of Caph in Cassiopeia. I stared at it for about 30 seconds and I thought I perceived it to be moving--very slowly so I assumed it was an aircraft. I went inside to get my binoculars in the 45 seconds it took me to come back outside, the object had vanished. I stared at the spot where I had seen it and I noticed another object nearby, about the same size, only dim and fuzzy grey in color. It was moving quickly, roughly North to South trajectory, and disappeared from view within 30 seconds.
December 17, 2016 · 8:00 PM · SPHERE
San Diego, CA
I ask my girlfriend if she is seeing the same thing I am and she confirms I am not seeing things. We then spent the next 10 or so minutes watching this object brighten and dim while moving back and forth, gaining and losing altitude erratically. The object was out over the pitch black ocean so I could not actually see the horizon so I could not determine how far away the object was. There was no sound associated with the object. I figure if the object was as close as two miles, its movements probably covered 0-1500ft in altitude and back and forth across the horizon a minimum of 3 miles. It dimmed out once about 4 minutes in and appeared to be gone but came back about 3! 0 seconds after. After it disappeared the second time I did not see it return and we left the location.
December 16, 2016 · 9:45 PM · SPHERE
Luther, OK
An evenly spaced string of 15 to 20 bright white spherical lights, brighter and larger than any stars or planets were seen near Luther, Oklahoma, Northeast of Oklahoma City, all moving at a constant rate in a straight line, maintaining even spacing, moving from North to South in the general direction towards the North Star. Each light disappeared as it reached the identical location in the sky.
December 13, 2016 · 9:15 PM · SPHERE
Fort Lauderdale, FL
Noticed a small green orb traveling very rapidly rapidly from south to north. Based on its size and speed, it was not a typical aircraft.
December 12, 2016 · 6:50 PM · SPHERE
West Collingswood, NJ
The craft were scene by my wife first. We live in the flight path of PHL and see aircraft on a regular basis. I also fly in medevac helicopters. These were neither and had no engine noise. They were in formation aprox. 500 meters apart moving very slowly southwest. Both craft were light with red lights. I want to say 4 of them on each. They were not blinking and not navigation lights. I reached for my phone and tried to capture video of them, but hit the still frame button instead of the video key. I looked up from the phone and caught a red streak shot directly upwards and out of view. There was light cloud cover, but none in the area were the craft disappeared. There was a commercial flight making an approach coming from east to west. There was also a few aircraft in the distance with flashing nav lights. I could also see a plan at high altitude leaving a contrail. That is how clear that area of the sky was. The moon was not full, but bright in the sky. My friends have drone and these were definitely not them.
December 11, 2016 · 5:45 PM · SPHERE
Helena, MT
Wondering if anyone saw light in sky above Helena Montana on Sunday Dec. 11th 2016 approximately 5:45 pm? Walked outside to get some wood for stove and a bright light red or orange in color moving north over Mount Helena from the south, speed was slow like a helicopter but no noise, maybe about 1000ft in altitude. My neighbor was outside so I told him to look also and neither of us knew what it was. I went inside and grabbed my binoculars and it appeared to be bright orange on the bottom, very bright through my binoculars with no flashing lights, just solid bright orange bottom. It began to move west then came back to the east, not circling but more in straight line. It seemed to hover in place for a brief period then moved east while gaining altitude. It seemed to climb at a very steep rate, but with not so much horizontal movement. Eventually it climbed altitude out of sight. There are many national guard helicopters that fly over this area all the time and I am used to seeing them and understand the difference. It was not an airplane, as planes cannot go west then east on which seems to be almost identical course. A plane would have to circle, also small planes could not climb as steep as this seemed to do. It was in the sky for around 5 minutes. It moved almost like you would expect a drone to move, but was much bigger.
December 11, 2016 · 8:56 AM · SPHERE
Trabuco Canyon, CA
A white light appeared above the mountain tops just north east of saddleback mountain looking from Portola Hills, Trabuco Canyon. The light increased in intensity for about ten seconds. At its brightest point, the light appeared much larger then the relative size of a full moon (about 2-3 times larger in circumfrence). The light was so intense that it hurt my eyes to look directly at it.. It stayed at full intensity for about 30 seconds and then suddenly turned off instantaneously like a light switch. It still stayed slightly dim after the light stopped shining like a hot light would after it is turned off.
December 9, 2016 · 9:39 PM · SPHERE
Oldsmar, FL
I was walking my dog on the very clear evening. I was admiring the very bright partial moon and after taking my dog back in, I got outside to take some pictures of the moon. I used my Apple 6S phone camera and took 10 pictures. In two of them, I got my finger on a way of the lens but you can still see the orb, one seems to be a mistake picture of streetlight, and couple of the pictures are without zoom and don't show anything odd in them. But in those pictures I took with a zoom you can see a blue round object flying this way and that in my photos. With the camera having the feature that when you take a still shot it gives you first c. half second "live" movement. With this feature it is easy to see from which direction the object flies from right at the time when I take the photo and the speed of it. It is interesting that I did not see any orb or object in the sky while looking up, but I did notice the blue dot after taking a picture but I thought it was a reflection from something. That is why I took so many picture trying to get one without the blue dot. Also you can see a halo around the object, faint version of the moon's.
December 9, 2016 · 4:15 PM · SPHERE
Fredericksburg, VA
Driving on River rd saw a huge chrome sphere. The were no clouds and sun was reflecting off of the object so bright it was blinding. My view of the sky was unblocked 240°. When I first saw it, my first thought was I have never seen anything like it before. Then I realized it was hovering. I looked away for 2 seconds and looked back and it was gone out of sight, not possible.
December 8, 2016 · 4:00 PM · SPHERE
Atlanta, GA
Seeing orange orbs on the ground and in the air as the airplane was taking off unbelievable!
December 7, 2016 · 7:00 PM · SPHERE
Bend, OR
On December 7th, 2016, I was driving west on Baker Rd. to my boyfriend's house, and noticed an object just to the right of the moon. I lost sight after trees got in my line of view. So, 15 minutes or so later, as I am driving east towards Hwy 97, I couldn't help but notice, THE MOON IN FRONT OF ME AGAIN. In front of me while driving west and now, a few minutes later, it is in front of me again, but this time driving east...........I have to say, this really freaked me out. Thanks for reading! Signed, "Always look up"
December 6, 2016 · 5:30 PM · SPHERE
Holland, PA
I couldn't get my camera working quickly enough. It was extremely bright red, without sound.
December 3, 2016 · 8:45 PM · SPHERE
Macomb, MI
I've reported this sightings in the past. I don't believe it was on this site that I had reported it.. these lights have been showing up since November of 2014.. I have numerous cell phone videos of these glowing objects from the passed couple of years. I don't see a pattern to when they will show up but all last summer 2016 every couple days they would apear anywhere from 20 minutes to 2-3 hours hovering and at times all of a sudden another will appear (not as bright as the first one) right next to it or possibly more (have only ever seen 4 One time). They glow a white/orange color but when take binoculars and zoom in you get what seems like every single color illuminating (yes like a star) and here is where the star theory dies.... these objects HAVE been seen below the clouds... what is interesting is when first one appears it is always the brightest and dims then gets bright again and moves slowly gliding right to left... and when they leave it's just boom...GONE. (For whatever reason it is always the same exact location/spot it shows up to, then moves right or left from there) (Have videos)
December 3, 2016 · 4:00 PM · SPHERE
Santa Cruz, CA
Santa Cruz, California, USA 95060 Approximately 4:00pm (16:00) Dec 3, 2016. The Place and Time, Weather, Orb Count and Equipment I was standing in my back yard on the Westside of Santa Cruz, California, December 3rd, 2016. This approximately places me at the Santa Cruz Lighthouse on the cliffs overlooking the Monterey Bay. It was approximately 4:00pm (having checked my watch a few minutes later at 4:05pm). The sky was mostly clear, and sunset was about an hour away; though the sun, close to the horizon in the west, was hidden behind hazy cloud cover, which I believe I have now identified as wispy Cirrus or Cirrostratus clouds. These clouds covered about half the sky in the west, breaking up overhead. A couple of wispy Cirrus (I believe) clouds lay 40 degrees over the horizon, East by North East, opposite the low sun, and it was from one of these I saw three bright orbs, seemingly lights, appear, heading South, to the right. They traversed the distance from my first sight of them to out of sight behind various trees at about East by Southeast, so I had a view of them in the sky for about 45 degrees of the horizon. They traversed this distance in about 15 seconds. At this time, I called for my girlfriend to get my glasses from inside, my astigmatism causing the first sighting to look distorted and fuzzy. Bringing them out immediately, she also left and returned briefly with a pair of binoculars (Sans & Streiffe #889 Viking, 8x30mm, field 10& #730;). We waited for a bit, and then at approximately 4:06pm we saw another single light orb leave the same cloud, heading in the same southerly direction of the others. This too passed out of sight in about 15 seconds. The next 25 minutes were spent in their entirety by myself scanning the sky for more orbs/lights, and my girlfriend coming outside intermittently and surprisingly being present for most of the orbs. At no time during this period did I think to take more than one image with my phone, as its picture quality is notoriously awful. The one I took at approximately 4:04pm was not of orbs, but of the first of two clouds that the orbs apparently came from. This was for reference, in hopes of understanding how high up they were by the cloud type. As I mentioned before, I thought these were Cirrus, but they may be medium level clouds. They lacked any of the “fluffy” features found in low level clouds though. The clouds were clearly either obscuring the orbs as the orbs flew behind them, or in fact were the source of the orbs. I should say, every time we saw any orbs during this event, they either appeared from behind/within the clouds, or as I'll mention later, materialized next to exi! sting orbs. Every couple of minutes from 4:06pm until approximately 4:15pm, a single orb, or two orbs would appear from within/behind one of the two clouds (whichever was approximately in the position of the first sighting) traveling South, to our right, for about 15 seconds until passing out of sight from our narrow, 45˚ field of view. At the end of this period we waited another 5 minutes until it was about 4:20pm without any further sightings in that area of the sky. My girlfriend headed inside again and I stayed to watch the whole sky now. At approximately 4:21pm, looking directly above me, at the zenith of the sky, I saw the brightest of the orbs, a single orb, also heading South, materialize from within a high cloud bank: these clouds I have researched and I suggest they are Cirrostratus. Because of the place in the sky it arrived, this orb remained in my view for longer than 20 seconds, being lost to sight behind trees to the south. From 4:00pm to 4:21pm, both my girlfriend and I guessed that we had seen about 1 dozen orbs, with two groups of three, two groups of two, and the rest single orbs. The Orbs, Their Properties, and the Binoculars With my glasses on and the Binoculars well adjusted, I watched the orbs singly or in their small flights of two and three. The first group of three, though I didn't have my glasses or the binoculars then, flew in a loose pattern, one ahead of the others by twice the distance from the second and third. The two that trailed followed at perfect distance, but approximately half way through their short 15 seconds in my field of view, one of the rear objects overflew the other, switching positions. This appeared to be an smooth, non-linear acceleration and deceleration. As this was the first sighting, and I didn't have on my glasses to be sure, I thought perhaps they were stunt planes far up, and one was performing a maneuver. The rapid change of location in the formation however made me second guess my assumption. I'll state here, I have never before seen a UFO; that is, a saucer, ship, craft or other phenomenon which I took to be extraterrestrial or black-ops in origin. I am, however, keenly interested in the subject of UFO phenomena, and I have researched how these assumed extra terrestrial and/or government vehicles and phenomena behave and move. What I saw in the first sighting from one of the three orbs immediately alerted me to very improbable behavior for a conventional aircraft. With my glasses on and the binoculars in hand, the third or fourth sighting of orbs, a pair, were clearly visible. At first, only a single orb flew Southward from the second of the two drifting clouds, but at near half its distance in my field of view, another object appeared next to it; without a snap, more of a quick “fade in”. It was flying in unison with the first orb, but unlike the first orb, or any of the other orbs seen in this report, it was not totally a ball of light, but had physical definition. At a distance it looked less bright, and seemed to have a physical form. My perception (through the binoculars) was that it was a dark, hard, physical object, but with a glowing orb obscuring its center. From my vantage point, given the angle from which I was viewing it, it looked like a glowing orb with two rounded “wings” or structures coming from either side of it, (as the physical parts were extending from the light orb perpendicular to the object's flight path, and seemingly level with the ground plane). On second consideration, I think I was seeing either an oval shaped craft flying parallel to its short axis, or more likely, a disc at an oblique angle. Either way, it had a bright light in the center which obscured all but the outer thirds of it. This was all in very small detail on the less-than-powerful binoculars, but allowed for at least some observation. Like the first observation at approximately 4:00pm, this darker, “physical” object changed attitudes from behind to in-front-of the other orb in the flight, though the latter never cha! nged speed or direction. The rest of the dozen orbs before 4:21pm were regular in their appearance every couple of minutes; appearing in the same part of the sky to the East by North East, stable in their aspect of bright orb without physical form, straight travel paths, 15 seconds in view in a 45˚ field of view of the sky, at presumedly high altitudes. At 4:21pm, the last of the orbs that I saw in this report was the orb that passed directly overhead. It, unlike the others, seemed to strobe in light intensity over a cycle of a few seconds. Perhaps growing bright then dim in 3 or 4 seconds. I was careful to consider whether I thought it was the orb passing within cloud layers, a light (totally unlike an aircraft's multiple lights and colors), or the glow of the haze-covered sun reflecting off of a tumbling object. I felt that an oscillating light was the best impression. Other Observations in the Area, and Thoughts on Speed During this half hour that I stood in my back yard and made the sighting observations, I also decided to note as much as I could about the normal everyday sky and its more mundane occupants. Many air corridors exist over Santa Cruz, and I spotted jetliners and cargo jets flying several times. I used one j
November 29, 2016 · 11:30 AM · SPHERE
Green Bay, WI
We were in my 2003 doge ram pick up. We were turning off military ave. into the parking lot inbetween sears and cvs on greenbays west side. When my trucks front tires initially drove up onto the parkinglots driveway it was at an elevated pitch wich subtly angled my trucks windshield up towards the sky briefly as we pulled into the parkinglot. At that moment the front end of the truck tilted upwards . Out the corner of my right eye ,i seen a bright red light that popped out of the middle of thin air about 40 feet above the sears building on west mason st . Initially it was a semi transparent bright red orb that i seen pop out thin air . However immediately after the one red orb popped out the red orb split into two(2) orbs now.. one red and one green. Both the orbs then began to do what id call Re-Igniting sum kind of fusion failure . Both orbs seemed to be trying to regenerate/reboot a fusion spark as both were igniting back and forth with one orb moving forward abit then then other moving forward abit past that. Then instantaneously they both caught the charge im assuming the ship needed and immediately like went into a warp speed and were gone like in the movies . This all happened in less then 20-30 secs. I also seen a mothership sail over us a few yrs prior that theres multiple witnesses to. Our news stations have a sky cam amd the Green Bay Packers have a cam on their stadium that can see that area of sky. Maybe someone is able to retrive footage from then.
November 29, 2016 · 6:45 AM · SPHERE
Happy Valley, OR
My property sits at 1000 feet on Mt Scott, facing West. Approximately 6:45 we observed a very bright orb emanating colors of green, red, blue, but mostly bright white. The object moved very slowly south-west. From Happy Valley, the object appeared first from the direction of Wilsonville. We observed the object for about 20 minutes as small aircraft in the area apparently saw it as well. The smaller planes over Portland started flying in circles over the area and towards the object. It was far bigger than any landing lights as there is a flight pattern over Portland that goes from South to North. I verified the sighting with a Meade Telescope using a 22mm lens, and binoculars of very high quality. I captured some pictures and video, but quality isn't much to share.