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October 31, 2016 · 5:30 AM · SPHERE
Delta, CO
Unidentified Pulsating Object Spotted over Delta County Colorado. At 0530 on October 31, 2016, I took our dachshund outside for his morning constitutional. We live on a farm, so I go out with him because of coyotes. While waiting, a very distant speeding green orb caught my eye the same way a shooting star catches your attention, but you aren’t quick enough to see it. It was in the South Western sky. That caused me to notice a VERY bright star that looked unusual. It seemed to be pulsating red, blue, and green. It was VERY far away, but I watched it for about ten minutes to see if it was plane. It stayed in exactly the same spot. I was very curious, so I went in to get the binoculars to study this phenomenon. I watched it carefully, trying to think of scientific or man-made reasons behind what I was looking at. Then, through the binoculars and with the naked eye, I could see the green orb near it. Then, I saw a blue orb move around it. I ran to get my son who is 17 and quite skilled with a telescope. I continued observing the pulsating bright light which now seemed to incorporate the blue and green flashing pulses while my son was setting up the telescope. The light was so bright it was illuminating the moisture in the atmosphere in its vicinity. It was too bright for the telescope to see without a filter. By the time we got the telescope figured out, there was too much light pollution from the sun to get a better look using the telescope. I snapped a few photos, but it is so far away that they look jiggly. One photo clearly shows a blue orb near the star-like object. I really think I saw a craft that was using a star as camouflage. It was lined up with Sirius perfectly. I watched it until 0700 and light out when I had to get ready for work. It continued to pulsate with the addition of some red flashing. My son and husband also saw the phenomenon with the naked eye and through the binoculars. The only natural explanation I can think of was maybe I saw balls of plasma illuminated by Sirius as the blue and green were the same type of color as the Northern Lights. I really do believe it was a craft though, trying to hide in the light and position of Sirius. My son is convinced that it was outside of our atmosphere. I think it was closer because of the clarity I could see the flashing colors through the binoculars. I know this sounds really strange, but please know that my husband and I are both college educated professionals who are also very conservative Christians. We do not know what the streaking green object was, but we suspect that the stationary object probably was a "twinkling" star, and possibly the star, "Sirius." PD
October 31, 2016 · 12:25 AM · SPHERE
Columbia, SC
I am a 17-year old male, currently done with high school, and am employed. I am on two medications, ((deleted)) and ((deleted)), which are used to treat ((deleted)). These medications have not caused hallucinations during the 2+ years I have been taking them. This is my first sighting of something like this, although I've read very much about UFOs and seen many photos and videos of strange objects in the sky, but no videos I've seen match exactly what I saw. Very early this morning (Oct. 31 2016) I was sitting at my desk, which faces a window, while watching videos on my laptop. Sitting at my desk and looking up, the sky takes up about 40% of my window, with my neighbor's house and yard toward the left side of the window taking up the other 60%. At about 12:25 AM (00:25), a sudden moving light in the sky caused me to be distracted from what I was doing and tilt my head to get a better view of the light, adding about 10% more of the sky to my view. The light was an orb/circle shape and was moving very fast, much faster than any plane I've seen in person, including military jets (at high altitudes). It was bright orange in color. The orb was, from my perspective, about the size of a quarter. I can't accurately estimate the altitude because the sky was dark at the time of the sighting. The orb flew into my view from the area of the sky to the right of my house and seemed to curve in a flattened, inverted U shape, like a ball being thrown, while moving away towards the horizon. The light disappeared after about 1 second of flight from where I saw it; it could have been in flight longer but I can't be sure because I only saw it once it came into my view of the sky. After 3 hours, I have seen no other lights.
October 30, 2016 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Fort Lauderdale, FL
Sitting in my backyard at night while on my laptop (computer), facing towards the west, I noticed an orange sphere. It flew in a straight line & occasionally it would start blinking. It looked like an aircraft navigation light, however I thought it was odd that it clearly was orange & not red. It so happened that I was about to read reports on NUFORC & read that there were other reports in our state of "orange" lights/spheres. If I had read these reports before seeing the orange light, I would have watched it longer. But again, it was not a red navigation light; it was clearly orange like orange fruit, & I could see other red navigation lights to reference as there were multiple aircraft in the area. I just wanted to point out that I'm an Air Force veteran & have witnessed the "triangle UFO" & I have witnessed a "green fireball". Both incidences included multiple witnesses. This "orange light" incident however was not as vivid & clear and therefore, it may have been an actual aircraft; however, I believe that taking the other similar sightings into consideration, that for a few reasons it would be better to report this incident.
October 29, 2016 · 6:55 PM · SPHERE
Racine, WI
It disappeared behind the tree line in about 10 seconds after I first speed the object. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 27, 2016 · 11:45 PM · SPHERE
Ashland, NE
At approx.. 11:45 PM, as I approached a T on a gravel road and made the turn, I saw a bright green glowing sphere traveling across the field. It was not going very fast, maybe 15-20 mph and it was about 10-15 feet off the ground. It followed the contour of the land and I was driving parallel to it at about 75 feet away. The sphere was about 1 ½ to 2 feet in diameter and very bright neon green. My first thought was that it was some type of fireworks, but it made no sound and did not seem to be affected by gravity as it followed the land contour, so it was not fireworks. I lost sight of it when the hill at the edge of the road blocked my view. I stopped my car and turned off my lights and watched for about 10 minutes, but saw nothing else. I also returned the next night at 11:30 and watched the field for a half hour, but saw nothing.
October 26, 2016 · 10:15 PM · SPHERE
Apache Junction, AZ
I got off of phone. I opened my video camera on my phone and started getting what I could of what I was seeino. It was pretty amazing. I've never seen anything like that ever! 5 orbs all hovering in the sky. Together not moving. In a second at 2216 the orb on south side of group vanished. At that point there was now 4 of them together in the sky 3 looking like a stoplight figuration stacked and then one look as it was moving towards the Southwest because it got smaller and higher and then you can still see there was three that still look like they were stacked on top of each other and the way that they were stacked it didn't look like they could be aircraft at least not commercial planes anyhow. Tthen two proceeded rather quickly to continue out into the North Area of the sky ratherrather. They just went out of eye sight. the other one just kind of hovered in the air and then went up and disappeared. that I got on video. for a while you could see it flashing different colors before it was gone. Then, I looked to the north again. Out of nowhere there were 2 very bright light that flashed and they look like they were hovering in one spot their brightness was very noticeable. Much like dimmer switch. they were in one spot then would separate. and then they proceeded to get even brighter and I was able to get that on my camera then I came back to look in the same spot over across the street in the sky. And it was back! Bright and it looked like it was getting closer and bigger and brighter and then it started to get smaller as it look like it was climbing in elevation on a 60* angle, across the sky coming towards the east. It moved across the sky above our north corner of the house out here in Apache Junction I watched it come all the way from the other side of the valley over South Mountain toward my home, and its lights just disappeared. The lights cut smaller as it got closer and went up. There was no sound no nothing. It was gone like it went right up. Nothing like an aircraft when it goes by over head, you hear jets. I was coming back in and then all the sudden I heard this loud deep rumbling and you couldn't see lights or anything just a odd void. I have it on video. Then I started looking up airport flights etc to rule out planes. I could not believe I witnessed this. I began to fill out report sitting on my truck when my neighbors friend walked over asking what that noise was. He was waiting smoking a cigarette, and asked if I seen the weird lights. and then I heard that odd deep rumbling again. The guy was looking around to see where it was coming from. He could not see anything nor could I. That was at 2249..I was working on report so I looked at time on phone. I and this other guy witnessed a black void go across the sky fast towards the east like the other one. Only a little further north. It looked to be above the houses next to field. The guy grabbed my arm when he seen it first, (as I was looking up), pointing at it. About 6 seconds later we heard another rumble. I decided I had enough so did he. He went back to friend's house. I came in to finish report.
October 25, 2016 · 3:00 AM · SPHERE
Willow Grove, PA
Witness provides no contact information. Possible sighting of a star, we suspect. PD
October 22, 2016 · 11:20 PM · SPHERE
Trenton, MO
10/22/16 – reddish oranges flashing sphere. Close to the eastern side of town. Not only does it flash but also moves in a pattern. From the eastern sky to the southern sky then to the western sky. The way it moves is like when you put a protractor on a piece of paper and draw a line around the semi-circle; that’s the directional movement of this.
October 22, 2016 · 9:27 PM · SPHERE
Madison, WI
Six reddish-orange spherical objects appearing to be engulfed in flames, low in the sky, traveling in an East-Southeast direction over the I-90/94 interchange at about the speed of an airplane. They were silent.
October 22, 2016 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Pickerington, OH
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 22, 2016 · 7:30 PM · SPHERE
Derby, KS
Just after dusk a witness spotted numerous orbs of light in the sky ranging in color (green, blue, red, white, white/red) and told the rest of the group to look up. For approximately 2 mins there was an assortment of orbs that flew from south to north in no pattern. They were to fast to be planes and to slow to be shooting stars. There was no noise associated with these crafts. We were in the backyard when this incident occurred. The crafts were different colors and could be seen a long ways off and never disappeared until they were far away. They seemed to all be at the same altitude and speed. Their flight path was erratic in the fact that some were close to each other and others were weaving. This was seen by the entire group. Pictures were attempted to be taken but they pictures were not coming out in the dark.
October 22, 2016 · 12:55 AM · SPHERE
Stevens Point, WI
On October 22, 2016, at 0:55, my 21 year old son and I were driving home. I was driving; he was sitting in the front passenger seat. We were traveling north on a street one block from our destination at about 20 mph. At the north end of the street is an intersection with a row of houses going east-west. To the north of those houses is farmland. We had made the last turn north to our destination. About 100’ north of the turn, at about the 9 o’clock position, we saw a very intense white ball-shaped object about 50’ to the west of the road. It appeared to be about 20” in diameter. It stood out in the total darkness. Because we had just come out of an Orionid meteor shower, my first thought was this was part of that. However, my family stargazes at night and have never seen anything without some sort of downward curve. I also recalled my encounter during daylight two months earlier; both objects were alike. It was moving straight north no more than about 30’ above the tree tops and traveling up to about twice our speed. It was not descending or moving in a downward angle. We watched it as we continued on about 400’. The trees and final house then blocked our view. It appeared to have an approximately 16” heavy tail like that of a comet’s tail, but I don’t know if it actually did, or if that was my brain’s perception of a! blur in tracking it and it was actually more of an oval-shape. This incident occurred about 3 miles as-the-crow-flies from an August daytime incident which I have filed separately.
October 21, 2016 · 4:00 PM · SPHERE
Johns Creek, GA
Hello, earlier I had reported an object that I had sighted at Johns Creek, GA. I just want to follow up with you. A person had posted a video taken near the BB&T tower in downtown Atlanta near Atlantic Station on 10/25/2016 at 3:45pm. The object in the video is what I saw that I had reported earlier on 10/21/2016. It is difficult to make it out in the video, can be seen faintly above the bb&t building on the right hand side of the building. Thanks. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 21, 2016 · 12:40 PM · SPHERE
Carrollton, TX
This was not a space craft or a plane. It looked like a comet with a tail that expanded out from the ball. It was visible in the southern sky for 2 to 3 minutes over the Dallas, Texas, area. It eventually went out of site. I sent this message to a local TV station but did not get a response. Around 12:40 to 12:45PM today, I saw what looked like a Meteor or Comet in the southern sky. It was visible for 2 to 3 minutes. Do you all know what it was? It defiantly was not a plane. Do you know what this was? Thank You, Jeff PS I have seen the space shuttle come over our area 2 times. The smoke trail that it left was visible in the sky for several minutes. The object I saw yesterday tail diapered a few seconds after it had reached any certain point in the sky. The farther it went the less of the tail I saw. Eventually as went went farther away you could just see a round light. I would think that it was very high or in a high orbit. It may have been a meteor but all the falling stars that I have seen only last a second or 2. I think it was some kind of a celestial body and not a spacecraft of some kind. I really would like to know what it was. Possibly a high-altitude a/c, with a contrail behind it? PD
October 21, 2016 · 2:00 AM · SPHERE
Ilwaco, WA
Saw a large round orange object in the South, possibly traveling over Columbia River. The center of object looked like yellow fire with bright glowing orange on outer rim. Witness provides no contact information. PD
October 20, 2016 · 7:40 PM · SPHERE
Orlando, FL
about 7:30-7:40 pm- just dark about 15 min. had just unloaded some brush from the back of my truck and finished just as it became too dark to see what I was doing. Drove the truck back up to the other end of property. After I got out I noticed a bright light. Didn't think anything of it at first as I am only about 3 miles north of the international airport. I stood and watched a moment. I immediately noticed that it was barely moving--- way slower than a jetliner would be going...... it also appeared very bright and large as well. I had binoculars just inside the door of my shop. I grabbed them and watched the object. (7x50) It showed to be perfectly spherical and a bright white light evenly distributed over the surface. The light was a pure white-- not the red-orange that is reflected off satellites just after dark. It seemed to be moving very slowly across the sky. Jupiter (or Saturn) was just setting in the western sky--- and the object was was about 1 to 2 times the diameter of the planet. The objects speed seemed to vary from very slow to all most stopped. Judging by the very slow speed --- a satellite at that slow speed would have to be several thousand miles out to go that slowly---- and to have THAT angular diameter at that distance--- it would have had to be many miles across. However I don't believe it was a satellite- as it was the wrong color and the brightness did not decrease as it went off zenith towards the far horizon as a satellite would have. I watched it from just north of zenith at about a 020 compass heading------ and ended at about 150 degrees near the tops of the far pine trees. I estimate I watched it through about 60 degree arc ------ and for about 2 to 2.5 minutes through that arc. I watched it move very slowly along the above path. as it approached the top of the trees to the south-east---- it slowed to nearly a stop---- and then it changed direction to going straight down and behind the trees. I did not see much decrease in brightness except that would be consistent with the object getting farther away gradually. It did not "wink-out" like satellites do ( which they do long before they get near the tree line) I am a physicist by degree and have piloted airpcraft. The object had NO navigation lights of any kind and no tail beacon. The light did not have the look of a bulb ( a tiny point) either a nav light or a landing light. I compared its color to several passing airliners which were about 10-20 miles away. The aircraft's white lights were more orange than the object. It was a bright white sphere with the illumination evenly distributed across the whole surface. there seemed no way to estimate how high it could have been. I don't believe it was any normal aircraft or man made satellite. My location was about 4 miles e-ne of the Orlando international airport.
October 20, 2016 · 4:05 PM · SPHERE
Johns Creek, GA
On Friday afternoon at 4pm, I noticed a bright white spherical object above normal approach aircraft traffic to Atlanta. I estimate the object was above 20 thousand feet. The day was sunny with very few clouds. The object was headed south in the direction of Atlanta City above the clouds. At times the object reflected sunlight as it was a sunny afternoon. I observed the object for about 7 to 10 minutes. The object was moving at a steady rate of speed in the direction of Atlanta. It did not move in an erratic way. There were no visible lights on the object. It appeared to be the exact same color as the white clouds. Eventually the object disappeared as I could no longer see it due to it's height and distance from me. The object was not easy to see. I happened to notice it as I was watching an aircraft overfly my location. The aircraft that overflew my location was a fly-over not on approach to Atlanta. The spherical shape just happened to catch my eye as it was bright white and well above the fly-over aircraft. While the object appeared spherical in shape the bottom of the object appeared to be of a saucer shape and had a somewhat grey color. The object was significantly higher than the flyover at my location but was not moving at the same rate of speed. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. Date may be flawed, but we have no way to contact the source of the report to confirm whether the correct date is October 20, or October 21st. PD
October 20, 2016 · 12:00 AM · SPHERE
Bloomington, IN
Various and odd light orbs in woods and low sky I am a married 59 year-old woman with a college education. I spend part of my time in a home surrounded with thick woods, at least 400 acres, near Bloomington, Indiana. There are a couple of neighbors about one acre of wooded area away from me on one side. The landscape is hilly with ravines and trees up to 100 feet tall. Since October 2016 I have witnessed countless observations of strange lights from all sides of my home. I have become addicted to “orb gazing” every single night I visit this country home. In a nutshell here are the types of lights I have seen over the year: Singular, stationary, white light orbs in various parts of the woods, usually from one to five feet high. I’m guessing they occur anywhere from 25 to 250 feet away from me. I have shined a flashlight on them and sometimes I can see a glowing “orb.” It’s hard to gauge their sizes, but from where I stand at the edge of the woods they are anywhere from 1-7 inches. (I’m just guessing. I’m not good with measurement.) Orbs that grow bigger and seem to shine right at me like a very bright flashlight. This scares me a bit. (I’m alone out there.) I get the sense the orbs know I’m there. The last night of observation a “flashlight” glared at me as I stood transfixed in my long driveway, then suddenly just went out! I scurried away fast and stayed on my porch. Lights that literally move as though they were eyes and are peering around. They also wobble and will sneakily move position so that I have to keep moving my head to see where they went. Morphing orbs. I swear they sometimes divide into two or more lights and then sometimes back to one. They sometimes change color from white to yellow, gold, orange or red. Mostly they are white. Sometimes the orbs present themselves as “headlights,” but their lights are closer together. I get a bit spooked by these types of lights, as it appears to me that they are gawking around. Lately I’ve observed bright flashes of light that appear like “flashlights” that move around. It’s difficult to explain how they move because they seem to be controlled by “someone” or “something,” but I am absolutely certain no human is out there. I open my windows to listen and I hear nothing. Large reflected areas in the tree tops. I have no idea what these are. I have only been seeing them recently. 8. “Fake Stars.” I call them that because they used to fool me into thinking they were real stars. I will be looking out the upstairs windows at the trees and see sneaky little lights that first appear as stars suddenly disappear and move to another spot near, on top, or in front of the tall trees. I’ve noticed these fake stars only come out if there are real stars out. Last night I saw one on the same night as a full moon. It seemed to twinkle at me and when I watched it, it disappeared. I found it moments later in a lower segment of the tree. Then it disappeared again. I have been able to sometimes catch the lights with my smart phone. I wish I had a really good night time video cam. It frustrates me not to be able to show what I see to others. A friend and my son have both seen at least one orb each. I used to be such a skeptic and never believed in ufos or ghosts, but I have opened my mind to many possibilities. I go from thinking these lights are mystical, spirits, ghosts, entities from another dimension, and ufos. Because I am observing more “flashlight” movement and am getting the feeling that some of these lights are being controlled by some hidden force I am actually getting scared (again, like when I first started seeing these crazy things) and feel the need to share this information with others who are interested. Why is no one I know interested? This is phenomenal stuff happening and everyone I know doesn’t care. My god, something’s going on and we need to pay attention. At the very least it seems scientists would be all over this. They know everything about glow worms and fireflies and planets, but they are mute about the light orbs in the woods and fake stars in the sky. So in conclusion of this long-winded essay, I just want to know what these lights are. UFOs? Should I be concerned? Source of report indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
October 19, 2016 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Gainseville, FL
Date 10/20/16 My name is ((name deleted)), I am 23 years old, I was formally a server trainee at ((restaurant name deleted)) until recently. I live in Gainesville, Florida, where these sightings take place. Earlier this evening, at around 10:00 pm 10/19/16, I went outside to enjoy a cigarette and lurk at the stars. The sky was clear. Within 5 minutes of being outside I had seen what appeared to me as a satellite. It was blinking blue and white light and coming from the north heading south. It was completely silent and too far to be an airplane, also it was moving quite fast. It went from the north horizon to the south in a matter of about 2 minutes. I thought nothing of this, I was certain it was a satellite. I continued to watch the sky, just moments after the first object had disappeared into the distance, I became aware of another blinking light coming from the north heading south. This light was blinking red and white. It behaved similar to the first object I had seen. No sound, very distant, yet fast. Every blinking light I saw after this was red and white. Things became stranger, as I layer out in my front lawn I kept seeing the same blinking object move from North to south like clock work. As soon as the light had become to distant to see I would without doubt expect to see it reappear in the north again, and it would. I saw what appeared to be the same object fly across the entire sky and reappear close to 20 times. Each time only taking about 2 minutes to go from one horizon to the other. Then a few minutes later would appear again. At this point I was at disbelief. My niece who is 21 saw the object I was looking at and reassured me it was a satellite. I am convinced this is not the case. She was very uninterested. At a certain time during my observation I noticed not 1 but 2 blinking red and white lights within my sight. There were multiple objects all the same but there is without doubt no way these were in orbit. There is no way this was of human design. They would always start north and head south and as I observed it became hard to tell if they where traveling in a straight line or hovering freely. At one point I took my eyes off the object only to find that when I had looked back it actually had moved further back north in a matter of seconds. It had jumped from one area of the sky to the other. I know because it was going behind a tree then suddenly it was visible right above me again. I continued to observe for a couple hours. Every time I walked outside I could find the blinking light coming from the north. However they stopped reappearing and it was surprising to me. I had seen the object nearly 20 times. It seemed around 1:30am the operating time for these machines came to an end. It was hard to see anything besides just the blinking red and white light. It seemed as if at times the light would become dimmer or more vivid as it moved. Although I did capture some video evidence I was more focused on observing it with my own eyes. I managed to obtain 4 short videos of 4 different appearances of this object. In other words I would start recording every time I saw the light coming from the north on 4 separate occasions. All together I saw this event unfold before me a total of about 20 times. After one too many cigarettes and mosquito bites I decided to write my report and end my observations. personally it seems there were far to many satellites to be satellites at all. And they reappeared to often to be in orbit. https://youtu.be/gXxK6Rpr7AU Here is a youtube link of one of the 4 videos. This was the first video I captured. https://youtu.be/_rZj8RCOtxg https://youtu.be/zM12C9dXoBc https://youtu.be/L7uQ765WwCA
October 18, 2016 · 9:20 PM · SPHERE
North Dartmouth, MA
I am a photography enthusiast and often photograph landscapes, airplanes, and night scenes. On this night I went to the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth to capture the library. I was standing on the hill of the amphitheater when I turned to photograph cars passing on Ring Road in front of the wind turbine. I saw a very strong, twinkling spherical light over the woods behind the turbine. I initially dismissed the object for a star, but quickly realized that it was too bright and moving too quickly at much too low an altitude to be a star. Having photographed Chinese lanterns before, I knew that this object could NOT be one, because it lacked the proper light diffusion pattern within the object. The light was also too bright, almost white, and looked solid. There was also a small airplane flying in the vicinity, at a much higher altitude. I walked all the way to the turbine, while attempting to get better photos of the object. I took as short exposures as! possible while also using a tripod. I set the camera on a timed shutter release to prevent motion blur. It made no noise, and had a flight pattern that was almost completely against the wind at the time (very strong winds on the ground that night, I had to hold my tripod). I took several photos and am very unsettled by the lack of an explanation. Zooming in only furthers the mystery and I would like assistance in finding out what this object was. I am emailing the photos for review immediately.
October 18, 2016 · 9:01 PM · SPHERE
Mountain Top, PA
Looked like a very bright star until it moved and became super bright ad disappeared. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 18, 2016 · 7:30 PM · SPHERE
Waynesboro, VA
I went outside to get something from my truck I happened to notice I bright light moving across the sky above me. I was traveling slow I seen air planes in the sky and they have blinking lights this was a very bright object and did not blink now I did get a short video of object but at a distance.
October 18, 2016 · 7:00 PM · SPHERE
Colorado Springs, CO
My two brothers and I observed a white orb hovering over (which seemed about 100's of feet above) Pikes Peak. It was stationary in the sky for a aproxamitly 30 minutes, where it slowly desended and then it quickly disappeared behind the mountain.
October 17, 2016 · 7:00 PM · SPHERE
South Orange, NJ
My wife and I were walking through the South Mountain reservation, A star like sphere, bright white, flew over our heads a thousand feet or less, it was silent, it never blinked, and it seemed to slightly wobble as it flew along. It changed direction and headed east towards NYC, we watched it ascend out of sight.