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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
November 12, 2016 · 7:00 PM · SPHERE
Glendale, AZ
Bright orange circular lights with flashing green and red light markers left and right of orb. Proceeded north to south over 67 avenue, then proceeded west towards Luke Air Force base. Could have been ospreys on training mission?? Twice, there we're rotary (helicopter) moving perpendicular to the formation of lights once when north of 101 freeway again when lights were well westward of my position at 67 avenue and union hills in Glendale.
November 12, 2016 · 2:00 PM · SPHERE
Bristol, VA
My girlfriend & I witnessed 4-6 dark grey to black spheres hovering in the sky in broad daylight. We thought it was puffs of smoke, but while watching, we realized they were spinning and would grow a little and then shrink again. All of them combined into one and suddenly vanished. We drove towards the direction they were in but could not find them. Never seen anything like it.
November 11, 2016 · 6:30 PM · SPHERE
Boca Raton, FL
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 11, 2016 · 11:46 AM · SPHERE
Greeley, CO
At 11:46 Am, November the 11th 2016. Myself and my children were outside playing in the yard, then abruptly the dogs around the neighborhood started barking and a car driving by had its engine stop without reason, suddenly a loud roaring was heard by everyone. It was loud enough that the windows on our home were shaking violently. I grabbed my children as my first thought was that it was a crashing airplane, or a missile. We looked up as all of the neighbors on the street exited their homes in fright. Up high in the sky was a "very" large spherical object streaming through the sky at high speeds emitting light grey smoke trailing behind. The object was metallic in appearance, shortly around 15-20 seconds into the sighting two military jets were seen flying at high speeds toward the object. It was clear at this point that the object was descending very fast towards the Rocky Mountains. I am very familiar with all types of government aircraft, civilian and astronomical objects. This was neither. I'm not normally one to believe in the paranormal or extraterrestrials, but this was undeniable. The next day I checked the news and local papers and nothing was said about a sighting or an meteor crash, I found no other way to report this other than here. (I would like to stay anonymous due to the fact that my reputation as a ((deleted--public employee)) is at risk.) Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 10, 2016 · 7:45 PM · SPHERE
Indianapolis, IN
Multiple orange orbs, glided in a fluid motion in a north east direction. They glowed an orange red color. Followed them but disappeared.
November 10, 2016 · 5:20 PM · SPHERE
Lester Prairie, MN
Driving West Hwy 7 from Mayer area, seen a bright sphere shape hovering what appeared to be about 1000ft which lasted at least 45 seconds from when I first spotted the object. It then proceeded very quickly at the same elevation from South to North covering the horizon line and out of site in about 3 seconds.
November 7, 2016 · 9:15 PM · SPHERE
Boise, ID
Heading home after sunset, to the west I saw a very large, bright light. At first I thought it might be an airplane. I see airplanes frequently. But the light was so large that I had to keep watching it. It seemed to be barely moving so I drove in its direction (west), and every time I was able to see it, unobstructed, it seemed to be moving very slow and very low to the ground. When I was able to get a better look (south), I could see there was some shape to it, so it was not just an orb of light, but the shape was not like anything I’ve ever seen. It was still moving very slow and barely above treetops. No sound.
November 7, 2016 · 7:45 PM · SPHERE
Reinholds, PA
Possibly a bright and "twinkling" star, obscured by clouds? PD
November 7, 2016 · 7:00 PM · SPHERE
Oregon House, CA
while feeding my horses about 19:00 pm I looked out at the dark horizon (eastward) to see a large blue orb with light blue haze around it (no tail) slowly heading north for about 15-20 sec disappearing in the sierra mountain range by Reno.
November 7, 2016 · 6:03 AM · SPHERE
Creston, IA
It was orange with a little bit of red, and when my grandpa was out it was about 15x the size from when I saw it. There weren't any blinking lights or sounds, and it was just going one direction. I'm going to guess it was only a mile and a half away, because it was still pretty big when I got to see it. It was moving pretty fast, and flying really low. But not really low.
November 6, 2016 · 8:35 PM · SPHERE
Villa Park, IL
Clear evening. Looking at an airplane light (small, red) in sky to south/southwest. Suddenly saw orange orb travel from south to north. It was not glowing, but was barely visible, and seemed to shad darker at the top. Height unknown. Size comparison: the airplane light would fit 20 to 30 times into the comparative size of the orb. There was no sound, and it's movement was straight and extremely fast. It was a bit hard to see, but it sped faster than my head could turn. No chance of it being a reflection in my glasses, by the way it sped ahead of my turning head.
November 6, 2016 · 8:15 PM · SPHERE
Las Vegas, NV
Hey there, I was sitting on a bus bench at the a bus terminal waiting for my bus to go home, I decided to have a little snack and as I was opening it I seen from side of my glasses a ball of light over a building. Naturally I thought I was a lamp or post on top of the building and didn't pay any attention to it. Still waiting for my bus I stared at the light,dazing off and notice there comes another ball of light. Didn't think much because the bus stop is near a airport and helicopter pad, but then I notice that the way it move could not have been either since it was moving in a wired motion. Soon one orb got bright then the other and then the other dies out. Then 2 more showed up and the one that Burt out showed itself again. I watched for 15 minutes straight watching. At first they made a line and then kind of broke off. After then I didn't see them anymore.
November 6, 2016 · 8:03 PM · SPHERE
Hoschton, GA
It was a clear sky. There was no noise connected with this sighting, only silence. We did not observe any breeze or wind at ground level. The dog did not react in any way. We did not feel frightened or threatened. We did not receive any mental images or any thoughts of being contacted. We did not experience any missing time. We did not experience any further aerial or other phenomena that evening. We did not experience any strange dreams. When I first saw them, I said “Are those Chinese lanterns? I hope not because we are under extreme drought conditions.” I then went inside and got my Canon digital camera. My husband stayed outside, observing while I got my camera. We were standing in the dark. The backlit screen on my camera was extremely bright and annoying and was so bright that I could not put my eye up to the view finder in order to get good photos. Because we were in the dark, I could not find the movie feature. After a futile attempt to take some still photos, I gave up. The light from the backlit screen was too frustrating to deal with. I have not yet gone back to see if I captured anything on my camera. I turned the camera off and my husband and I stood there, observing. The lights glowed steady. They did not flicker or blink on/off. They seemed to drift as a group and did not seem to bob up and down or sideways. They drifted steadily together. The lights did not form any sort of discernible shape or pattern. The lights did not seem to be piloted or under intelligent control. Nor did they weave, bob, or dart around. To me, the lights were not round orbs. To me, they looked as if they had a vertical portion, with a brighter glow at the bottom (toward the earth) section of the vertical portion and due to that extra brightness, the bottom portion sort of appeared like more of a roundish light. The time noted after the lights drifted out of view was 8:08 p.m. This was the first day of standard eastern time as daylight savings time had ended at 2 a.m. the morning of Nov. 6 and I had set the downstairs clock to the “new” time earlier in the day on Nov. 6. Curious to see if the event would reoccur, my husband and I went outside our front door and looked eastward twice more that night, but did not see any more drifting lights.
November 6, 2016 · 7:30 PM · SPHERE
Mortimer (UK/England) · United Kingdom
On November the 6th, 2016, I was looking out the window and noticed a white orb the size of a star moving through the night sky. After a matter of seconds, the light illuminated really bright and then in a matter of seconds dimmed down to the brightness of a star again. The object was cruising in a southerly direction and passed the house until I can no longer see it. The object showed absolutely no signs of flashing lights or sounds such as aeroplanes and helicopters make, this is completely an unknown. This is now the third time this year I have reported and seen a UFO.
November 6, 2016 · 1:00 AM · SPHERE
Palmyra, WI
After midnight we noticed a very bright object that seemed to fluctuate in intensity and color. We examined it, sharing 2 binoculars for an hour. It stayed in the same spot all that time and was still there when we retired. It changed colors from green blue to white and red, sometimes very bright and clear, sometimes fading. It definitely was not a plane or planet. Not sure how far away, maybe a couple miles. The night was very clear. My wife and I saw it again the next night at the same location in the southeastern sky. We again studied it with binoculars for half an hour. I took 2 pictures with my phone that aren't clear but do show the color change.
November 5, 2016 · 12:15 AM · SPHERE
Holland, NY
Just after midnight on Friday (I listed date as Saturday because it officially was) I was returning home from work. I stepped into my backyard to use the bathroom. I observed an object in the south east direction that appeared to be spherical in shape and was changing colors. The object was moving north east then appeared to change direction and head south. I watched it then drop elevation and it appeared to be circling. I took a series of photos and went back inside. I zoomed in on the photos expecting to debunk them but was shocked to see it was a sphere shaped object. I have it in several colors. I went back out and took two videos. I am 39 years old and an avid outdoorsman. I observed this object for over an hour. I have never witnessed anything close to this ever.
November 4, 2016 · 1:00 AM · SPHERE
Tempe, AZ
On November 4th, right about 1 a.m., I walked outside to smoke and immediately saw these three amber orbs coming in my direction from the north-northeast. They were eerily silent and must have been about 100 feet off the ground. They felt quite close. One of the orbs was a lot more independent and was away from the other two; it jerkily, but yet subtly (if that makes sense), zig-zagged up and down. The other two were constantly side by side and floated in a smooth manner. They must have changed direction when I was desperately trying to get my phone camera out (I managed to get a decent video) and began going west down my street until the lights disappeared from my view.
November 4, 2016 · 12:00 AM · SPHERE
Ellsworth, WI
I was driving from River Falls to Ellsworth and aboutique 4 miles before I reached ellsworth I noticed a few miles ahead of me a translucent sort of silver circle just below the clouds. It didn't move at all and after about 30 seconds it was just gone! It hadn't moved! One second it was there and the next....it just wasn't anymore.
November 2, 2016 · 8:00 PM · SPHERE
Junction City, OH
I was facing south looking down and a light shined above me enough to get my attention. As soon as I looked up almost 90 degrees I saw ano intensely bright white bluish orb travel from straight up to accross the horizon headed southwest. It was completely silent and I have never seen anything travel this fast ever. It was comparative to 2/3 the size of a full moon.
November 2, 2016 · 7:00 PM · SPHERE
Canton, OH
was sitting outside 7:30 p.m. saw an orange orb floating over the trees with no sound when I stood up to see what it was it shot off extremely fast, going north-northeast and disappeared
November 1, 2016 · 6:30 PM · SPHERE
Phil Campbell, AL
Bright white light crossing sky 045 to 060 course from SSW to ENE. Silent. Looked just like ISS. I thought it was the ISS, but my programmed alert didn't chime, realized this after object passed almost overhead. I went online and verified ISS was not visible at time of sighting. Estimated magnitude -2.5 to -3. Much brighter than usual satellites other than Iridium flares or ISS. It was probably reflected light as it faded rapidly in NNE direction like it passed into earths shadow. No noticeable direction changes and light was very constant in intensity until rapidly fading as previously stated. Probably a rather large orbital object.
October 31, 2016 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
Easley, SC
Brilliant perfectly round orange orb spotted in Easley. It was Halloween night, I stepped outside on the porch just before bed. I spotted what I thought was a falling star at first but just before going behind the tree line it made a left turn without changing speed or shape and seemed to slow a bit as it moved across the sky parallel to the ground in a northwest direction (toward Pickens). My husband and I watched it until went out of sight, beyond a house up the hill further up the street. It wasn't a light but more like a glow that you would associate with a fire ember. It was perfectly round. I couldn't tell the size or distance because it never went below a tree line or behind a power pole, etc so I didnt have a reference. I recall this being the spookiest Halloweens I ever experienced.
October 31, 2016 · 7:03 PM · SPHERE
Wichita, KS
On Halloween night (31 OCT 16), at approximately 17:03, while trick or treating with my son, my wife, and myself witnessed a green object flying in the sky in the city of Wichita, Kansas. Initially I thought this was a joke, a balloon, or drone, but the more I looked at it, I realized I was looking at an event I still cannot explain. I am ex-military, aviation, meteorology, and astronomy are hobbies of mine. I posses a science degree, and this was an exceptionally bizarre sighting. Light appeared to be in the shape of an Asian paper lantern, but cropped at the top and bottom, was lime green and was internally lit. Object was completely silent, and due to overcast, could not have been more than 500 feet in altitude maximum. Object was lit in a manner that I have never seen, it was not a LED, or filament bulb. No light rays extended from the object. Object did not deviate in altitude and flew very level, and crossed from South to North, where it became obscured by trees in my line of sight. I asked my son who was in a slightly differing position, where it went, he said it continued in a straight line for a about another second, and curved upward at an accelerated rate of speed and disappeared in the cloud cover. Again, I cannot explain what I saw, and can honestly state that this was not a drone, or weather related phenomena, and I have never seen a light source of this type.
October 31, 2016 · 3:00 PM · SPHERE
Tuckerton, NJ
I was outside with my Husband and saw a strange looking round shiny Metallic object for about one Minute in the sky heading North, then the Object just disappeared. We both saw it. There also was a Jetliner coming in from the East. The Jetliner was leaving a Contrail as well as all the Jets were on this day. We live 20 miles near the Atlantic City Airport so we see Airliners often. The shiny Metallic Object left no Contrail.