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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.
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October 17, 2016 · 7:30 AM · SPHERE
Key Biscayne, FL
I observed a silvery white object that appeared high in the blue, but partly cloudy morning sky. Its position remained fixed, by the rail of my balcony, for several minutes until it began to move steadily east southeast at constant velocity. The clouds were a mix of TCU, from ~ 5000-10000' at low level and high SCT Cirrus ~ 25000' (my estimates). The TCUs moved east to west in front of the object, which did not appear to reflect the morning sun, but softly, glowed organically. Through the binoculars it appeared textured and matted, and too far/ small to appear on the camera. If this object were at 10000' I would estimate the diameter to be about 5'. After watching it pass behind a few TCUs, it finally failed to emerge. I considered this may have been a balloon at a level between the lower westerly flow and the higher easterly flow, moving easterly as it rose. If it was at 10000', I could hazard a guess of ~ 100kts.
October 16, 2016 · 2:16 AM · SPHERE
Encinitas, CA
Observed a deep, deep pure black dot moving southeast to northwest, above sparse coastal clouds and below very high cirrus layer. Black dot moved swiftly and silently. I have never seen an object of ANY altitude that displayed a deep black image. It seemed to move not in a straight line but displayed an imperfect line of travel (setting itself apart from high altitude aircraft or Earth orbiting objects). Observation lasted maybe 5 to 7 seconds. Difficult to estimate size of object due to altitude. But off the cuff, would speculate it was maybe 10 to 30 meters in diameter.
October 15, 2016 · 11:15 PM · SPHERE
Philadelphia, PA
A single orange light traveled in a slow, erratic, yet seemingly controlled pattern across the sky. After two minutes, the light went completely out.
October 15, 2016 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Yuma, AZ
On the fall, or winter of 2016, possibly some time in October 2016, two of my step kids and I were using an outdoor hot tub from a home that we were leasing in Yuma, AZ. We were new to the Yuma, AZ area. We had left Southern California on July 04th, 2016, and had gone East to find a better and more affordable place to live. Without knowing where we were going, we decided to check out Yuma, Arizona, and soon it was decided that it was decent enough for us to live in and it was a small town that had pretty much everything that the bigger cities had as well. We leased a home for one year. The home had an outdoor pool and an outdoor hot tub where we would regularly get in it during the late afternoons and evenings to enjoy the water cooling off the hot Yuma heat during the summer time, and during the winter use the hot tub in order to enjoy some warm waters under the starry Yuma sky. The hot tub contained a strong and luminous LED multi-color light inside, and so did the pool, but the pool’s light was inoperable and needed repair, so only the hot tub light would be turned on at night. On one occasion, my step kids came into the home and were wild and excited that something from the sky had flashed a blue beam of light at them. Being that one was a seven-year old at the time, and the other was a nineteen-year old, I discarded their story as something that they had made up in order for the older one to scare the younger one, and practically forgot and put the entire incident to rest. As a matter of fact, we went on with pretty much a normal routine after the incident was reported by the kids, and we continued to use the pool and hot tub regularly. On several occasions I started paying more attention to the night skies. Almost daily (it’s just a matter of time here in this region) we would observe these small white moving orbs float by from star to star. They would sometimes pause momentarily, and they would camouflage themselves with other celestial bodies. Sometimes these objects would stop to pause in the sky, temporarily making one lose sight of it, but most of the time they just floated on by the night sky. For a few weeks, or months, I tried to see if there was a directional pattern of flight of these objects, but the answer was, No. These were independent objects that were far beyond our air space. I know, because next to us is the Marine Corps Yuma Air Station, and on several occasions I tried to visually compare how high the Marine planes ! would climb up in the sky to where more or less I had seen these objects, and these objects had to have been way much higher in distance from the ground than the MCAS jets flew. Some floated on fast, while others a bit slower, and they held a constant speed too, even after they started moving from a temporary pause. It was either October of 2016 or November of 2016 when my step son and my step daughter decided to go later on in the evening and use the hot tub. We started talking about the incident that they had witnessed in the sky the time that they saw the beam of blue light shine upon them. At one point, I asked them if they could show my the direction of where this blue beam of light appeared from, and they both pointed towards the northern skies of Yuma. Being a former U.S. Army Communications Soldier myself, from 2000 – 2009, I am familiar with the basics of how a few methods of communications work. Something in my mind told me to try and use the very bright and luminous LED lamp to see if I can somehow communicate with whatever was out there in the sky. I thought that the chances of something responding back was slim to none. But I was wrong. Since the LED lamp in the hot tub could be set to a specific color by a series of flicks of the switch, I had set the color to a light blue color. Once the color had been set, I went into the hot tub and I sat facing North, fortunately the LED lamp was facing north as well as it was built-in to the hot tub’s southern part. I began covering the LED lamp with my hands. At first, I started doing a series of either two counts or three covered, and then uncovering it for the same amount of time. I probably did this for a good five to fifteen minutes. In the time that I was doing this, I also varied that times that I would cover the light and the times that I would uncover the lights. At one point I saw it! The blue light came from the Northern Sky and just focused on us three in the hot tub! It was sort of like a one second burst of light upon us, but it happened! All three of us saw the blue light, and afterwards we all went into the house and shared with my girlfriend ! and other step-daughter what we had just witnessed and encountered. I never did that experiment again afterwards, and I only shared it with a few people but was met with skepticism and ridicule. Interestingly though, since that occurrence I’ve got a few skin blotches on my right hand that appeared soon afterwards and have been having some memory issues. It doesn’t help that I am a disabled combat veteran today, served in Afghanistan as a Combat Engineer in 2006 – 2007), and have PTSD. If it were not for my step kids seeing the light that night too, I would of have had thought that I was going crazy or be told probably by the VA that my medications might of have had caused me hallucinations. By the way, I am not the only one experiencing these strange physical and mental symptoms, so is my now twenty-one-year-old step daughter too, but not so much my young step-son. I hope that this report can help another person to see and bear witness that these orbs and blue lights are real.
October 15, 2016 · 7:40 PM · SPHERE
Nashua, NH
Sighting on Saturday, October 15, 2016: At approximately 7:40 PM EST I heard an extremely loud, very low-flying helicopter somewhere over the woods behind my apartment in southern Nashua. My wife and two sons were present, and we grew increasingly alarmed as it grew louder and louder. My oldest son (14) and I stepped out onto the balcony to look for the helicopter – it sounded like it was practically on top of us, but too low and close to see it over the tree line. It was dark, the full moon was still on the opposite horizon behind our building. My first thought was that it might be the police tracking someone on the ground in the woods, except this helicopter was SO loud – sounded more like a Black Hawk than the standard choppers that police/news uses. And we couldn’t see searchlights of any kind over the woods. Suddenly we saw a reddish/orange light break over the tree line headed South. Our balcony faces West and this light was running straight & perpendicular across our view. It was a large orb shape, flying very fast in a perfectly straight line – skimming above the trees no more than a few hundred feet off the ground, and a few hundred yards from us. We had a clear view of it for just a couple of seconds before it was lost behind the trees again. It didn’t weave or change course, didn’t wobble, or change colors/size/shape. There were no other lights on it, and it didn’t appear to pulse. Following just behind it was a large military helicopter which appeared to be pursuing the object. The helicopter was large and dark colored, either black or gray with only a couple of small red lights on it and no visible markings that I could see. The orb appeared to accelerate slightly while it was in view but then backed off a bit, as if it was trying to stay just out of reach of the helicopter. We had a clear view of both the object and the chopper together in the sky for a moment, and the orb appeared to be about 1/3 to ½ as large as the helicopter. The whole incident lasted no more than about 30-45 seconds from first hearing the helicopter to when the object and helicopter disappeared over the trees headed South. The object and helicopter were visible for just a couple seconds of that time. Wild!
October 15, 2016 · 12:00 PM · SPHERE
Detroit, MI
No time for the sighting is indicated by the source, who elects to remain totally anonymous, and who provides no contact information. We have assigned an arbitrary time. Hoax?? PD
October 15, 2016 · 2:30 AM · SPHERE
Aiken, SC
While watching the ISS live feed on youtube, I saw a bright white sphere in the distance. It was too small and too close to the Earth to be the moon, but seemed to be very large. It was not there one moment. I looked down to read the chat, then I looked up a few seconds later it was there. It was very far away at the horizon moving away, and moved past the horizon in probably 10-20 seconds. It was either metallic and shining or bright white. Only two other people said they saw it.
October 14, 2016 · 7:44 PM · SPHERE
Houston, TX
I lived near an airport for a couple of years. Planes and helicopters were something I was used to, and I had come to learn the flight patterns and pathways, how each craft looked, what lights it displayed, how it traveled, etc. At IAH the planes never come from the West, as they only enter and exit going North or South, with a quick, sharp turn here or there. And you could always hear them since we lived right across from the airport. The planes took off straight over the apartment (could feel the walls vibrate sometimes). That’s how I knew this was something strange. After dinner one evening, I let my dog outside to do her business. I was standing out there watching her, when I looked in the sky and saw a floating, white orb on the West side (almost directly across from me), above the treetops. It almost looked like a star, but was too big, too bright, and too close to convince me of such. It had a shine to it like a diamond. It was NOT solid white, and the “shine” would get brighter and then dim back down. If I had to guess, it wasn’t but a few miles from me. There was no sound, and it wasn’t stationary. It very slowly travelled left to right to left to right again. The object also staggered in movement, and moved up and down as well. Which then convinced me this was no star or planet, since the Earth travels in a directional orbit. Aside from that point, even during the clearest weather, it’s extremely difficult to see stars when you live in the city, especially in a city as big as Houston. This sighting lasted for about 15 minutes until I got a strange feeling that I was being watched. I became so weirded out that I went back inside. I later (don’t remember what time) mustered up the courage to go back outside, and the orb was gone. But there was now a helicopter (with an obvious red-blinking light on the tail) looking around the same area with a spotlight. It circled around the area several times, moving its spotlight around, as if searching for something. I have never seen anything like it since then.
October 14, 2016 · 10:40 AM · SPHERE
New York City, NY
Me and my fiance where driving over the Throgs Neck bridge heading into Long island at around the time i posted.. we looked into the horizon and saw what i first thought where airplanes but they where hovering still, than i thought helicopters which they can still be, but i wanted an opinion and some verification.. i have a video and photos. in one you can see a distinct range of symmetry forming a triangle.. kind of looks like the classic black triangle shaped UFO with 5 points of light. Possible hoax? We have attempted, on multiple occasions, to contact the source, regarding the photographic evidence, and have been unsuccessful in doing so. We do not know whether the time indicated by the source of the report is 10:40 a.m., or p.m.. We are uncertain whether the sighting was a daytime, or nighttime, sighting. PD
October 14, 2016 · 3:00 AM · SPHERE
Charlotte, NC
This happen at 3:00am clear skyies It was not a airplane did not fly like a plane it was not a star. i was ruling out every logical explanation. It didnt move for a while just a glowing orb or sphere of light silver in a single color the light will pulse brighter periodically the light was on the whole time, but the light would pulse bright. When it did move, it was Wobble like hovering or moving slowly then made a shape right and left it was fast but at an angle not straight. It was gone in a blink of an eye. This was the second time I have seen it. Did not believe it the first time. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 13, 2016 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Parker, AZ
Once again above the desert here where i live, red orb like lights appeared, traveled the same exact path and vanished into thin air just like they appeared. This seems to be taking place on a regular basis, question is...what are they?
October 13, 2016 · 9:30 PM · SPHERE
Gilford, NH
We were traveling South on the bypass outside of Laconia in Gilford, NH, when we noticed and orange ball of light off to the left. This ball was floating about 500 feet above the treetops. Soon we saw more following in a pack and there were a total of 5 orange orbs. Silent as they floated along. They were independent of one another and floated in various directions yet as a pack. These were watched by us for 10 minutes until they disappeared behind tree lines. Time of sighting is flawed. We will contact the source to confirm the correct time. PD
October 13, 2016 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Newfoundland, PA
Large orbs rising from behind eastern mountains,traveling s on rt.196s just After sterling corners. seen many over 2 year period. they accend slow for minutes,moving Side to side,then blink off,seconds, then reappear as airplane lights. they circle around then decend behind same mountains. never making a sound as they go over
October 13, 2016 · 7:00 PM · SPHERE
Spearhead Point Campground, WI
On October 13, 2016, my friend and I were camping at the Spearhead Point Campground in Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest in WI, we were camping at the P4 camp site. This was our fourth night at the campground, and the first night since we had been there that the sky was clear. It was about 7:00 pm, and we had just finished eating supper. I had been looking at the sky, because I enjoy looking at the stars when there is little light pollution. I had noticed a bright, white sphere in the eastern sky, and I had been trying to figure out what it was. It was too big for a star, and I thought that it might be a planet. I periodically glanced at the object trying to figure out what planet it could be. My friend and I were talking about the events of the week, and I was sitting at the picnic table looking at the object, when all of the sudden it started to move, slowly at first, then faster. I told my friend what I was seeing (my friend is blind). It was moving south-southeast, and had become obscured by some evergreen trees. I ran from the picnic table, down the steps to the dock at the campground, because I thought that would give me a better view as the object moved SSE. When I got to the dock, the object was gone. I walked back up the stairs to the picnic table where my friend was still standing. I told her that the object was gone by the time I got down to the dock. I was describing the sphere to my friend, when I looked to the east again, the sphere was back. I told my friend that the sphere was back, and was describing it to her. While I was describing the sphere, and scrambling to find a camera or our video recorder, the sphere split forming two spheres. When it split, it appeared as though the new sphere dripped off the original sphere. These spheres were originally aligned vertically, and then the lower sphere moved upward to be aligned horizontally. Once the spheres were aligned horizontally, one of the spheres split again. There were now there spheres aligned horizontally. Each time there was a split, the spheres became smaller, and they were all bright white. The two sphere on either side, just seemed to turn off, leaving the sphere in the middle. That sphere began to change colors, cycling through white to red to red-orange. This continued for about a minute, and then that sphere just turned off. The original sphere was slightly bigger than a BB held at arm’s length, and it was oriented approximately 45 degrees above the horizon. Since I’m not familiar with the area, I don’t have an estimate of how far away the object might have been from the campground. The object(s) did not make any noise, and I didn’t see anything like an exhaust trail. The overall sighting lasted around 40-50 minutes. About 20 minutes after all of the objects had disappeared, a plane flew over our campground. It was easy to hear the plane’s engine, you could see the outline of the plane in the sky, as well as see the aviation lights blinking on and off. Unfortunately, we did not get a photo of the object(s). My camera had fallen out of my backpack on to the ground under the picnic table, and I didn’t see it there until the next morning. We did get the video camera out, but were unable to record the object(s) due to a camera malfunction (?). Both my friend and I are in our early 50s, and have postgraduate degrees. I work in law enforcement, and my friend is not currently employed. We grew up together in Northeast Iowa. My friend still lives in Iowa, and I live in Tennessee.
October 10, 2016 · 3:35 PM · SPHERE
Vicksburg, MI
So, I called my fiance back and after being on the phone 2 minutes one object began travelling north and I watched it travel about the speed of a plane at probably 400 feet in the air completely silent it was a perfect black metallic orb/spherical shape. Nothing after that and I had to go inside the building at that time.
October 10, 2016 · 1:30 PM · SPHERE
Edmonton (Canada), AB · Canada
Drone video recorded in Parkland County at Hasse Lake in Alberta, Canada I was recording some video footage of top of trees trying to capture the fall colors, and I did just that. Later on while showing a friend of mine the video from my drone I have noticed objects in my film that were unusual, I loaded the video into video editing software and went frame by frame and to my surprise I have seen spheres of light ? going extremely fast below my drone, then one came with in feet of the drone passing it at very high speed. The original videos are uploaded into drop box account, the initial video that I released is located on youtube under the link below. https://youtu.be/D_CZghp1c9k I am extremely interested to figure out what did my camera actually recorded. We have viewed the video, and seriously doubt that the objects, which are very difficult to discern, are UFOs. They are very small, it appears, and we wonder whether they might be insects or seed pods, flying past the object lens of the video camera. PD
October 9, 2016 · 6:00 PM · SPHERE
New York City (Brooklyn), NY
My girlfriend and I were looking at some odd cloud formations that seemed out of the ordinary to us, and they were moving VERY quickly. I was looking further across where the cloud came from and then I saw another cloud coming that was similar to the one we had initially seen. This cloud, however, seemed to grow in size significantly as it left our view. At this time, I noticed a small black dot which I had first nearly disregarded as being a bird. Upon closer inspection of it, I noticed that it had a light that blinked, which then made me think it must be a plane, but I noticed that there were no wings whatsoever, and then I saw the glint of the sun off of the right side of it revealing it as a perfect sphere. I tried to point it out to my girlfriend, but before I could get her eyes on it it had moved behind a tree out of sight. I have never reported nor SEEN what I believe to be a UFO and I am a Marine Corps veteran, fully aware of most aircraft that should be flying in the sky. I hope this report can be useful to anyone else who may have seen what I saw over Brooklyn near Avenue M and Ocean Avenue is my general vantage point of the sighting. The best description of the object I can give is that it appeared dark, as it first appeared to me to be a black dot. It was metallic in nature because I saw that it had a metallic type reflection, once the sun glinted off of it. It was perfectly spherical and had a white blinking light that went off periodically with absolutely zero sound accompanying it. It was not very flashy at all very basic seeming. The most bizarre thing to me was that I think it may have been generating its own form of cloud cover, as the clouds that were very nearby it seemed to be growing in size in a very unnatural seeming way that I had never witnessed before. I was unfortunately unable to grab my camera in the timeframe of the sighting due to it only being visible from where I was for a very short period of time, I didn't even have enough time to get my girlfriend's eyes on it before it moved out of sight.
October 9, 2016 · 4:30 PM · SPHERE
Madison Heights, MI
I believe this picture is a orb with a funnel above it. I was taking a picture of airplanes when I caught this picture of a pink circle with 3 dots inside of it and a funnel above object. This picture was taken inside my vechicle with my window rolled down.
October 8, 2016 · 9:30 PM · SPHERE
Polk, OH
Oct 8, 2016. I was locked out of my house and car waiting for police to arrive. I was standing in my yard in a very rural area, mostly Amish neighbors, no street lights, rarely see cars come down the road. It was very dark and I was looking to the west waiting to see headlights of the police car I was expecting, when I saw a very bright, large ball of yellow light outlined with a thin green light in the sky. It fell straight down rather slow, much slower than meteors I have seen before. It fell for a couple seconds then paused briefly. It then took a sharp right turn. traveling north in a straight line, then shot rapidly down and to the left in a slightly curved trajectory and then shot straight away moving west, directly away from me. The entire event took 4-6 seconds with the initial falling and pause lasting more than 80% of the duration of the sighting. The last half of the sighting was very fast.
October 6, 2016 · 12:00 AM · SPHERE
Slate Hill, NY
I have been watching this thing on and off for several days. At dusk, and sometimes late into the evening, I have been observing a very bright light that seems to pulsate from white to red. With binoculars, it is clearly a spherical glowing white orb or disk encircled by rotating red lights. It hovers in the sky Southwest of my house, for 20 minutes or more, then disappears. Last night I observed it, and watched it with my binoculars on and off for a hour. It hovered in place, with the red lights rotating. Some evenings it seems closer to my house, but last night it was the furthest away I have observed, yet the binoculars were able to pick up details and shapes quite clearly. When I went to look later, it was gone. We suspect a "twinkling" star. PD
October 5, 2016 · 12:00 AM · SPHERE
Poland, ME
Huge falling fireball. This was a significant meteor across my back field. Only 10 degrees high - about 135 degrees falling. I was facing NE 36 degrees. Meteor flew in from right to left. Not even 5 minutes later in my back field, I saw three huge round white lights flash for 30 seconds. It was significant light- like I was at a concerts from 100 yards away. Perhaps the size of a porthole from that distance.I have three acres of forest in my backyard that slopes downhill. The lights were mid tree level at least 50 feet high. 5 minutes or 10 minutes passed and they were followed by orange paneled lights also significant is size, but a dull color. Same exact spot as the white lights. Double layered 4 across in square sections. I opened my window and kept staring. Now consecutive purple flashes in the sky where the fireball had last been seen. THEN we heard the noises on the ground. Deep grumbles like you'd hear in your abdomen of the D tone and prolonged. We have raccoons, porcupines, and a healthy coyote population. I know what those all sound like and this was NOT it. Coyote's were extremely quiet whereas normally I hear them every night hunting. I even left food out for our raccoon friend (he likes my cats food) and it wasn't eaten the next day. THEN... an hour had gone by so around midnight we started to have a search light in my bedroom window. This one was round and significantly smaller - something you might except to see on a helicopter only there was no sound associated with flying aircraft. First it was just flashing through the trees then, it came in and focused right on my partner and me. I've never been so scared in my life! Shaking in my boots. What a night.
October 4, 2016 · 7:30 PM · SPHERE
Brentwood, NH
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 4, 2016 · 12:25 AM · SPHERE
Carrboro, NC
While I was driving down Highway 54 at 12:25am on October 4, 2016, in Carrboro, NC, out of the corner of my left eye to the southwest of 54 A rather prominent & radiant spherical shape suddenly appeared in the night sky, hovering above at about the distance a helicopter would be. This low-flying ball of light was bright green/turquoise and translucent; the light emitted seemed to glow and rotate within itself it also seemed to leave behind a fast fading light trail as well. It moved quickly and silently across the night sky and seemed to be descending. My windows were down and this Light-Object did not make any sounds, it faded out of view and the entire experience lasted only a handful of seconds. I exited onto Jones Ferry Road and kept my eye on the sky, but did not notice any further activity. This object was unlike anything I had every previously seen. It did not seem to match the traditional description of any aircraft, or astronomical activity that I am traditionally familiar with or have seen.
October 3, 2016 · 6:00 PM · SPHERE
Ellsworth, ME
This is further info, correcting a previous report. (1) Object sighted was spherical, shiny, with downward "jet trails" which looked like thruster trails but were only limited length and ended abruptly. The jet trails angled outward pointing downward, giving the overall "triangular" appearance of the object with vapor trails. Object itself however was spherical and glittered in the sunshine (reflective rather than self illuminated). I was not the witness; I am summarizing the report given by the witness, and trying to get it more accurate with this second report.