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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.
9,368 entries
March 1, 2021 · 7:45 PM · FIREBALL
Sturgis, SD
While sitting in my driveway, my friend and I witnessed a large ball of light that was lime green in color fall from the sky and crash behind a large hill. When it fell behind the hill, there was a really bright flash of light.
March 1, 2021 · 7:00 PM · FIREBALL
CA
It began as a fireball pulsating and moving very slowly. Stops and goes dim then proceeds on traveling at moderate speed. Changing direction up and down but still moving forward. Pulsating brighter and brighter. Bright orange reddish glow with black hole in the middle. Sighting lasted for about almost 2 minutes. It left no trails. Then it slowly just dematerialized and vanished. Unexplained. There was only one big fireball. I have the video footage with extreme close up zoom in on the fireball. (In the video you will see a line of street lights that I filmed with the sighting because I needed for my hands to be against a surface while I was filming and I also needed to see the movement of the object.)
February 27, 2021 · 5:00 PM · FIREBALL
Santa Ana, CA
Very large falling & blue-white flaming ball falling into earth. So low it looked as if it was going to strike the ground. Huge & fast. Silent, completely silent during & after.
February 21, 2021 · 6:55 PM · FIREBALL
Austin, TX
Approximate 6:55 pm, while driving northbound on Westgate Blvd from Davis Rd, my family and I saw a red/orange flaming large object in night sky floating/hovering slowly from east to the west direction. It was hovering rather low, and we were able tell it was not a plane. I stopped the car on a median by Bryonhall Dr. The object was clearly parallel to our left side. I had the windows down and the moon roof open. We noticed the object was flame like in structure, it then slowly turned slightly southbound and appeared to be rotating then disappeared. We tried to take video and pictures with our cellphones, but it images are not clear.
February 14, 2021 · 6:57 AM · FIREBALL
Folsom, PA
At 6:57 pm est i video recorded two glowing fireballs flying @1600’ right behind one another, with constant speed 300mph right behind each other in the same pattern. Never changing altitude or course very straight in the flight pattern. We watched until they disappeared in the clouds i checked with my phones siri to check on flights above me and nothing was scheduled. As a drone pilot these made no noise and am very familiar with drones and flights of them. This was not two drone flying the same flight pattern and speed and direction impossible.
February 11, 2021 · 7:15 PM · FIREBALL
Staten Island, NY
This is an area of NYC where plane routes are generally from south to north and its very busy with plane traffic since there are 3 major airports in the area. I was pumping gas at a station and for some reason I looked West and witnessed a fireball traveling from west to east not too fast. I said to a man pumping gas next to me and asked him "Do you see that". He answered yes and stated " We need all the help we can at this point" It definitely was not fireworks or a flare. because it kept the same steady trajectory until it was out of sight. It made no noise.
February 6, 2021 · 7:00 PM · FIREBALL
Tramonto, AZ
Around 7:00 PM Saturday evening 02-06-2021 I went with my father to the grocery store. We were driving westbound towards highway I-17 on Carefree HWY. I looked out the drivers side window which would be south and noticed I believe 5 orange fireball like unidentifiable objects. It immediately caught my eye and as we turned left at the intersection we witnessed them changing directions. Initially they appeared more vertical (although not straight lily vertical but more like a kite but still seemingly together) I noticed about 5 of them. I noticed 2-3 were moving in irregular fashion but still amongst the other and more “up/down” then fully circular. Best way to describe them would be out of position but together. As we turned left which is South several of the pack I would say 4/5 began to ascend and quickly. When we pulled over I got out of the vehicle to film briefly the 2nd video. The orange fireball seems to hover, probably for 20 seconds maybe 15, and then as it was out of eyesight range in less than 3 seconds likely 2 seconds. I have good eye sight I was able to track it for 1-2 seconds and then it’s as if it hit supersonic speed and was more far than the nearest stars and out of sight. It didn’t burn out, rather it moved so quickly I couldn’t see it almost darting away. The 4 orange “fireballs” ascended with similar speed but together and the last one stayed behind. I’ve seen hot air balloons before during the day, and the glow was very much like the fire you’d see that powers a hot air balloon but round - and all of them were similar size. It was a glowing fire not a constant orange but the glow was strong/very defined. My father retired from the aviation industry and I work in financial services. In Colorado I’ve witnessed similar orange glows which seemed to move across the sky at very high distances - similar to stars in size but I’ve never seen anything this close
January 30, 2021 · 7:10 PM · FIREBALL
Riverview, FL
While walking my dog, he suddenly got scared and ran for home. Neighbor walking by said “what’s that?” I looked up to see red ball leading group of 5 red balls in a circular formation.The neighbor took pictures, I was dragged into my home by my dog.
January 27, 2021 · 6:30 PM · FIREBALL
Buckeye, AZ
All in all, I have 10 videos of what I observed over the hour or more we were out by Stardust Ranch. Most of the lights would form out of a bigger orange light and once they got a certain distance away from the bigger light, they would start flashing like an airplane, blending in with all the other twinkling lights in the sky. And after a while they would come merge back or get close to the bigger Orange ball and the flashing would intensify between them. One video you can see them form into a triangle (as we're driving away). Another you can see a plane flying high above the ufo and the bright orange UFO appearing to be mimicking the airplane lights (changing color to match) to the point of almost dimming completely. Another you can see, what I describe as the mothership because it was bigger and brighter and dropping another ship out.
January 24, 2021 · 7:15 PM · FIREBALL
Meridian, ID
We were driving on Linder Road to the village at meridian when my companion pulled into sawtooth middle school and pointed the 12 lights in the sky just sitting there. I noticed that they were grouped together and all glowing orange my companion called her sister and brother-in-law who stated they could see the same fireball/orbs in their area a couple miles away. A aircraft flew around the objects while we were observing. After a few minutes the fireballs randomly disappeared and could not be seen again. I am a counselor for the school district and my companion is a stay at home mother. My son is a science enthusiast who first thought it was drones or Elon Musk however after he did more research he has said that it could not be either based on my description.
January 23, 2021 · 8:33 PM · FIREBALL
Saint Augustine, FL
We witnessed a bright fireball through the clouds. It moved about the speed of a jet at high altitude and resembled what a rocket launch looks like, except it was going from NNE to SSW instead of from the south where we see rockets. It never got smaller and fainter like a rocket leaving the atmosphere, but maintained brightness and speed as it left our eyesight without a sound.
January 21, 2021 · 1:39 AM · FIREBALL
Middletown, CT
It was just hovering and blinking and moving strangely
January 20, 2021 · 8:15 PM · FIREBALL
Tampa, FL
Around 8:15pm tonight as I approached and sat at a traffic light, I noticed a red fireball (a bright glowing but flickering red circular object) in the clear sky hovering overhead east of my position. I watched slowly moving in the sky without a clear path for several minutes as I drove. When sitting at the red light, an airplane began quickly approaching the object from the east. As the airplane neared the object, the fireball appeared to divert its path and began to move away heading southwest for roughly 10 seconds. When the airplane neared the fireball again, the fireball stopped glowing appearing to turn its lights off and it disappeared. I watched the object visibly disappear in the sky as there were no other objects that could possibly be obstructing my view of it. This is the second time I’ve seen what appears to be this object. The first time around the same time (roughly 8:15pm on Dec 10, 2020), I noticed the red glowing object above the tree line as I was getting out of my car close to area where today’s sighting occurred. Since it was so odd, I stopped and waited to watch it noticing that it was silent. The red glowing fireball was hovering above the tree line for several minutes. Again, another seemingly unrelated plane was flying towards the object. When the plane neared, the object drifted away horizontally from the plane and then appeared to fly downwards towards the tree line. I thought at first that I saw the object stop glowing, but after some thought I rationalized that it must have just disappeared behind the trees. After today’s sighting and watching the fireball stop glowing in plain sight, it lends credibility to the object dimming in my first sighting.
January 17, 2021 · 8:00 PM · FIREBALL
Boise, ID
Whole back yard lit up orange fiery sphere no more than 30 feet over head went north west to east really quick then just disappeared
January 17, 2021 · 6:50 PM · FIREBALL
Maderia Beach, FL
Driving home....we saw four very very bright orbs steadily traveling across gulf blvd toward the Gulf of Mexico. They were red glowing almost flame like. All exactly alike.
January 15, 2021 · 4:00 PM · FIREBALL
Lakeland, FL
At roughly 1600hr a fireball from my locate toward Orlando FL. entered our solar system dropped strait down and did a 90 degree turn west towards Tampa. As the fire went out it had no lights on, that's when I lost sight of it. The object made no sounds when entering at all.
January 9, 2021 · 9:32 PM · FIREBALL
La Mesa, CA
As I was going out to my car I grabbed what I needed shut the door and looked up at the sky and saw a huge Orange fireball but it didn't have fire 360 degrees around the circle it was on the back end. I watched it for about 3 to 5 seconds then ran to get my husband and told him to come outside. It was still slowly moving across the sky. When he came back out I ran in and grabbed my phone it came out and took a couple pictures and then took a video. Right at the four-second mark it vanished. I saw it traveling across the sky oh, it was under 35000 feet because then I saw a plane at 2 o'clock from it but the airplane was much higher than this object so I know the object was under 35000 feet. As I'm watching this orange ball of light slowly move across the sky from west to east, I then saw it to ascend up towards deep space and away from Earth. It was moving from west to east as I was facing north. I then saw it slowly ascend back towards space and then it vani! shed. I saw it so well with the naked eye.
January 8, 2021 · 8:30 PM · FIREBALL
Saint Peters, MO
I was standing outside my home in Saint Peters and was disturbed by the entirety of my immediate surroundings being lit from above. What I saw above was definitely fire-y, and it gave the same sort of impression when it lit the ground and house below and behind me. It WAS CLOSE. The sky is overcast tonight and it was between me and the clouds. It swept over my house from the east and down toward the west. It was most certainly aflame, and glowed a yellowish orange color and moved incredibly fast. It felt so close that I thought that it certainly had crashed into the neighborhood behind my house, but when I followed it back into the subdivision I found nothing. There was no sound that I can remember. but I do remember feeling a rush of wind. There were a black sedan on my street corner stopped at the time, though I did not manage to talk to the people inside.
January 4, 2021 · 6:00 PM · FIREBALL
East Hartford, CT
I was driving west toward Hartford on Route 2-West. I saw a bluish/green fireball with yellowish flames/tail flying east to west at what seemed to be warp speed. It was flying horizontally, not like it was dropping out of the sky. As I was watching it, it simply vanished, near the CT river.
January 4, 2021 · 6:17 AM · FIREBALL
Safford, AZ
I was heading North into the Safford Mine this morning. I had just passed the main gate and looked up to see an incandescent colored fireball streaming at a E-NE heading from the San Juan pit to the Lone Star pit. The object was roughly 300 feet above the haul road and seemed to follow it directly. I originally mistook it to be a low flying helicopter but the object had no anti-collision lights. My suspicions were confirmed when the object passed in front of the Southern mountain peak (Peak 2) of the Lone Star pit. The object disappeared as it passed in front of the mountain. The object covered the roughly 3 mile distance in less than 3 seconds. It had the beginnings of the curved shield shape forming in front of the object like those typically seen in objects entering the atmosphere. Earlier this morning there was an unusual amount of helicopter traffic in the Gila Valley. I live in the flight path for the local hospital so, I thought there may have been an accident on the highway or at the mine, etc. The local med evac chopper is a small helicopter. The traffic heard this morning sounded more like multiple heuys hovering over my neighborhood. The noise diminished slightly when I went to get in the car. There were no helicopter lights visible in the sky at the time.
January 1, 2021 · 8:28 PM · FIREBALL
TAMPA, FL
From backyard of home, 3 adults and 2 children witnessed fireball type object swiftly moving horizontally, south to north, around 55 degree over the horizon, remaining in view for approximately 1 minute. Object was glowing a bright orange-red color and had no tail. It appeared to be on fire, and not a flickering type of fire, but intensely blazing. We watched object until it went out of view. Video was taken but quality is poor.
January 1, 2021 · 12:00 PM · FIREBALL
Marcus Hook, PA
Minutes after fireworks I had noticed an orange fireball in the sky. It was moving fast and it skipped speed a few times. This lasted about a minute until the object went into a cloud or disappeared.
January 1, 2021 · 12:15 AM · FIREBALL
lehigh acres, FL
Over the course of a half hour, just after celebrating the new year, my family and I were shocked to see an orange fireball floating high above my neighborhood. After viewing it for a short period of time (2 minutes or less), the orb flew off. We thought this was weird, but possibly connected to the fireworks going on around us. We then were even more surprised when it appeared that there was another orange fireball-like orb floating in a similar spot. Over the course of a half hour, we saw over 20 of these orbs slowly float above our street, speed up, and disappear into the sky. The orbs were simply a ball of fire, and were extremely bright and high up in the sky.
January 1, 2021 · 12:12 AM · FIREBALL
Rocklin/ Roseville, CA
My husband and I were driving East on Highway 80 from Roseville, off of Eureka. I was watching the fireworks from the new year celebrations in the Northern Sky and noticed a bright red ball of fire that I thought was a unexploded firework. For several miles, I watched it and it wasn't falling as a firework would. I then got out my camera and recorded 23 seconds of video. You see that the ball was hovering and not falling. It was too bright to be a helicopter or drone. You can see in the video that it is red in color and brighter than anything else I see. in the video, I am surprised by a firework that exploded just above us, so you can see where the fireworks where being done from, not even close to where the light was. Looking at the video and my memory, the ball of fire looked to be possibly over Loomis, Newcastle, even Auburn CA. It is hard to tell but there might have been more than one, as the one I recorded seemed to disappear for a while and come bac! k. It hovered low enough, I wouldn't be surprised if it was seen by several people that lived in the area.