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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
October 1, 2016 · 8:00 PM · SPHERE
Graham, WA
While walking our dog between 7-8pm - not sure exact time - we saw a bright white light in the sky. It was at similar elevation as the aircraft that frequently fly over from seatac but further to the east. It appeared three dimensional- like an orb. It was silent and very bright. It was not flying in a straight line - rather it was more erratic. It was heading away from us, but we were able to see the light. No strobes. NOT an airplane. We stopped and watched it for several minutes, then it faded within 10-15 seconds and was gone. The bright whiteness of the light caught our eye.
September 30, 2016 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Mooresville, NC
a co-work saw light (3 time in less 3 months), same place, no clouds, 9 pm, and i was thinking about that day to see light because i had my kodak camera ready to zoom it !! and guess what !! the co-cworker saw it and sid to me : " the lights are outside", i went to my car, grab my camera and took a short video, trying to focus, it was awful with this camera, the light is in same spot, but in my video looks moving up, down , etc, and noise is from machines where i work in Mooresville NC, the lights i saw from there, i don't know what city are really below, it's just far away from Mooresville, ok? 1 big light far away front of me and 3 small light to my right but almost over where i was , i cannot focus these with my camera , this is no focus steady and shake to much , kodak 42x. This is no a joke , no a hoax , it's real !!! I am hispanic from Colombia.
September 30, 2016 · 7:10 PM · SPHERE
Eastvale, CA
At 19:10 in the evening I went outside and noticed a bight white light in the NE part of the sky. I live near an airport, so I assumed it was a plane. Then I looked closer and noticed a plane fly directly above it and the white orb was descending. It continued to float slowly as it fell from the sky. As the white orb fell the light was getting smaller and dimmer until it eventually vanished. It was floating downward for 3-4. It seemed like forever.
September 28, 2016 · 8:44 PM · SPHERE
Louisville, KY
Approximately 20:44 on Wednesday 9/28/2016 one object observed moving from Approximately 224° SW toward 44° NE moving too slow to be a conventional aircraft, too fast and steady to be a balloon. The object appeared to emit a clear and hazy white/silver shimmering light. The object was appeared to be orb shaped. Not ISS. Event lasted approximately 15 to 20 seconds. The object faded slowly but too soon to be out of sight. The object did not increase speed. The object appeared to simply disappear.
September 28, 2016 · 3:00 AM · SPHERE
Grand Rapids, MI
Was driving north on a road running parallel to the Grand River and noticed a metallic looking sphere in the sky. Seemed to reflect light from all around, only there were dark clouds and only partly sunny. The sun was more to the west, but it still seemed to reflect light from the east, or possibly emitting it it’s self. It did not move, and was also windy so I ruled out a balloon. I was about to pull over to the side and get my phone out to try and get some video or picture, but when I drove under some trees and came back out into an open area (lost sight of it for about 1–2 seconds) it was gone. There was nothing in the sky for as far as I could see.
September 27, 2016 · 3:00 AM · SPHERE
Palm Beach Gardens, FL
I woke up to smoke a cigarette outside double tree hotel balcony that faces pga blvd when I saw a light flickering underneath a lamp post. I realized it was wasn't a bug or reflection as the way it was blinking it broke into 2 other smaller orbs of light. I recorded as long as I could phone battery was.low. I witnessed orbs just a few hrs earlier off of pga blvd. sent in a separate report for that event as well.
September 25, 2016 · 5:15 PM · SPHERE
Cranford, NJ
An orange sphere much too high to be a blimp or helicopter was seen in a cloudless sky. At first it did not seem to be moving. 4 tiny white spheres appeared to be orbiting it and one by one they drifted away from it and disappeared except for the last one which drifted away and then back again before disappearing. Eventually the orange orb moved away and out of sight. It was either aliens or maybe a giant party balloon with small white party balloon friends. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 25, 2016 · 12:00 AM · SPHERE
Bellingham, WA
I was outside looking at the stars when I saw an extremely bright (like LED light bright) white orb fly across the sky a few hundred feet up with a eastward and downward trajectory. It was completely silent and it was extremely fast. Much faster then an airplane or satellite. I actually braced myself for an impact, which never came. Did anyone else see this!
September 23, 2016 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Indianapolis, IN
I saw two orange orbs from my backyard. Both were moving in different directions, one west, the other north-east. The lights looked very low, and didn't flicker or wobble. No sound, as one flew nearly directly overhead. I called my girlfriend outside, who managed to witness one before we lost sight. They followed a straight path before disappearing behind trees and houses. I work at night at a busy airport, and I have never witnessed anything like it. Unsettling because of their altitude and how close to home they were, and their silence. A friend of mine several blocks to my north witnessed five orange orbs in a formation while looking my direction, on the same evening. He watched them disappear all at once, "as if turning off an old TV." Best rational explanation I can think of is Chinese lanterns or drones, though those explanations don't satisfy me.
September 22, 2016 · 8:45 PM · SPHERE
Portland, OR
My wife and I walked out on our back porch and immediately noticed a brighter than usual light high above Portland. I was looking west from eastern Portland. The light was bright, like a star but would occasionally flash a light but I couldn't tell the color. The object was stationary, but would float slowly from side to side and sometimes up and down. At times it would do extremely quick short jumps in all directions. It took the object about 15 minutes to move what appeared to be maybe a couple miles......in the same amount of time I saw multiple airplanes fly by at normal speed. The object eventually disappeared behind the incoming cloud coverage. PLEASE TELL ME SOMEONE ELSE SAW THIS!
September 21, 2016 · 9:50 PM · SPHERE
Wilmington, MA
driving at night on highway and saw one glowing green orb of light that shot across the sky and disappeared.
September 20, 2016 · 9:04 PM · SPHERE
Louisville, KY
Approximately 21:04 on Tuesday, 9/20/2016, two objects were observed approximately 224° southwest at approximately +38° the 2 silver white shining orbs hovered for about 15 seconds. They seemed to just disappear. There was a large orb and a small orb.
September 20, 2016 · 8:00 PM · SPHERE
Amherst/Tonawanda, NY
I was driving to pick up my daughter in Amherst, NY, and in the sky a green sphere shaped object was moving slowly west toward Tonawanda. It seemed quite large considering it was a good mile from me (I was near Millersport. It was roughly at Bailey Ave) no sound. lost sight of it, but when I picked up my daughter, she had seen it also. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 20, 2016 · 4:34 PM · SPHERE
Oakville (Canada), ON · Canada
I witnessed a round/sphere shaped object flying in the daytime sky at a significant altitude. I took video on my cellphone and after careful examination, it certainly looks like some type of unidentified flying object. Witness corrected date to September 20, 2016. We have corrected the date above to reflect the correct date. PD
September 20, 2016 · 1:00 PM · SPHERE
Conway, AR
We were playing golf. A couple of C130 airplanes flew over the course. When I looked up at them I saw a white circular shape higher than the planes. The object stayed in one position in the sky, very high. The weather was sunny and clear. We have corrected the date above. PD
September 19, 2016 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Saucier, MS
Beginning on the night of 9/19/16, a large orange light appeared stationary to the south of my home. It appeared approximately 2 or 3 times the size of a regular star & had a light orange glow. It would move very quickly in a direction and then come to an immediate stop and become stationary. There were also 2 white lights to the west of the orange light making similar movements. This continued until one white light slowly moved to the southwest until out of sight, then the 2nd white light moved west until out of sight, and the orange light moved south until out of sight after about 3 hours of hovering in the same area of the sky. These same lights came back to the same area for the next 4 days and did the same things. The 2nd & 3rd night the orange light wasnt as large as the 1st night because I believe it was a little higher altitude or farther from me. The 3rd night after the 3 lights began to move away I noticed a large white sparkling light coming from the Northwest towards my property. It then stopped and began with the same movements and sudden stops as the others. The 4th night the orange light was larger again and there were several more of the white lights, I recall probably 6 or 7, that were in all directions in the sky. Each night the was an unusual amount of planes that kept flying in the general area of the orange light. My property may get the random plane, but this was 7-12 planes per night. The last night I was out watching it was a crystal clear night. Not a cloud in the sky. I noticed a strangely shaped "cloud" to the northeast right above my property. There was a large white orb shaped light moving around in the "cloud" and it began changing strange colors as the orb moved. It eventually went completely dark. I will send the video I took of this incident because it seemed to be the strangest of all. Nights 5 & 6 were cloudy,so I plan to go and see if there is any activity going on tonight. I have been a skeptic my entire life so I hope this sighting is tak en seriously. I work in law enforcement and unless I was absolutely sure of what I saw I wouldn't have submitted this. Thank you for all your work you do and I hope this is helpful data.
September 18, 2016 · 2:34 PM · SPHERE
Fairbanks, AK
This is not a joke. My significant other and I are really scared. We were looking West, and an EXTREMELY bright orb appeared in the sky above the Mt. Evans area. We were outside with our neighbor, who actually got BURNED by the heat emitted from the orb. His skin was all red and blistery after the exposure to the orb--possible radiation? I am religious, so I do not want to call it a UFO, but it was without a doubt, not of this world, or any. It was close enough that my wife, ((wife's name deleted)), could feel the heat RADIATING off the orb on her face. Please help.
September 17, 2016 · 7:30 PM · SPHERE
Durango, CO
We noticed a bright spherical shaped orb in the sky south of town Durango, Colorado.
September 16, 2016 · 9:40 PM · SPHERE
Cumberland, MD
Source of report describes himself as having a Ph.D. degree in a hard science. He currently works as a professor in his chosen field of science. PD
September 16, 2016 · 9:25 PM · SPHERE
Lewis center, OH
Looking through foyer window seen very slow moving bluish grey object with a couple of colored lights, then it disappeared, just vanished. I looked for clouds or anything else in the sky and could see nothing but the normal night sky. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 15, 2016 · 9:55 PM · SPHERE
Hyannis, MA
As a native Cape Codder, I have witness several of these UFOs over the years. I think that it is important to note that there is a Naval Air Staition on Cape Cod. If you come to the Cape, after coming over the Sagamore Bridge, there was once a military sight directly off of the first exit, for years the sign in front of a small gate was called “Space Command”. (Yup!) the name has since been changed. The site has been dubbed “Pave Paws”, and is now said to be a hub for drone command. What it is really used for, truthfully, I do not know. Growing up on the Cape, there was not much to do. It is a small suburb of Boston for those adventurous enough to make the hour and a half plus commute in the morning, and it is also a well known summer resort area. For those of us who lived here outside of the season, which runs from Memorial Day through Labor Day, there is not much to do. We have some of the most beautiful beaches in the world, so that is were we go. You sit and look at the horizon, you count the waves, you enjoy amazing views, and when the horizon gets boring, you look to the skies. I can’t tell you how much of my younger days included good friends, a couple of beers, and a day or night at the beach. Most of my high school weekends included at least one bonfire on an empty beach, looking up at the sky. We used to look for “shooting stars”. We had a lot of them. Big, bright, bluish-green balls of light that would regularly, though not often, streak across the sky. It did not take too many seasons of looking to realize that these shooting stars ran in a familiar pattern depending on where on the Cape that you were watching from.in the area of the “upper cape” they tended to run West to East. If you lived east of “Otis, AFB” they ran West to East. Curious. Fast forward ten or so years, and I was living in my first real home of my own, Cotuit Bay Condos, lying with my wife in bed ,”spooning”, looking out our sliding glass doors towards the north. on a regular basis we watch jets take off from Otis AFB on a West to East trajectory. on this night, circa 1993, we watched a glowing ball of blue-green light “take off” from the same location and travel the same path. The size of the orb was 2-3 times the size of a fighter jet, and its speed was much faster. MUCH FASTER! It got to the point about halfway across the horizon, quickly paused, dropped bit, and then took off almost straight up at an even faster speed and was gone. I have witnessed these balls of light all my life. Several years after the previous sighting, I was visiting my brother at his house in East Falmouth, MA, I was staying there while recovering from surgery. I was bed ridden and from my bed I had a view of the sky to the North of the house. Several times during my stay there I witnessed, mostly at dusk, these orbs flying across the sky in a West to East path. I casually mentioned them and it was laughed off by most. One afternoon, the mailman, Phil, (Yes, in small town America we still have them.) came running in the house, yelling about how we wouldn’t believe what he just saw. We swapped stories, and sure enough, they matched. The last time that I was at my brothers house we sat and watched the sky looking for them but all we saw, seriously, were two Marine-1’s (the President’s helicopter) and a couple Osprey aircraft.(Barack Obama had been vacationing on the Vineyard.) They ran in a South to North Pattern which intersected the UFO’s regular path. Fast forward to tonight September 15th, 2016, I am living in Hyannis, MA, by the airport. Out of my bedroom window I can see the take of flight path from Hyannis Airport. I watch them take off regularly from North to South. I saw the glowing balls, greener this time, but still a bluish green. They travelled east to west so much faster than the jets that take off. and were only a few hundred yards from the end of the runway, this time, I was looking up at them, not across. I was able to watch them for only a second or two and they disappeared into the canopy above. the time was 9:55 P.M.
September 15, 2016 · 9:30 PM · SPHERE
Bear, DE
I'm driving down Springfields Blvd in Bear, DE, at around 9:30 pm EST on 9/15/16. The road is long & windy & goes past numerous residential homes & is surrounded by trees. I'm making a turn when I see an object in the sky, straight ahead of me, in the distance, above the tree lines. Now, of course, I see planes all the time but this caught my attention because of two things: It wasn't moving at all & it was circular or spherical in shape. There is no tail or wings like a regular aircraft. And it's not flying in any direction. It's just sitting there, in the air. But another major thing that caught my eye was how bright it was. From what I could see, the entire object was covered in bright lights. Also, the object was far enough away that it was clearly above & beyond the tree line but large enough that I could see the individual lights on the body. And they were BRIGHT. I pulled over & was opening the camera app on my phone but when I looked back up it was descending down behind the tree line! I figured I could catch it around the next bend if I could just get there fast enough but it was nowhere in sight after that. I even went all the way back to drive that same road again but saw nothing. About 20-25 minutes later (I made sure to keep a close eye on the clock), there were numerous (actual) planes in the sky. Way more than normal in my opinion. As if they were searching for something. About 5-10 after that, I called my brother & mom because I just HAD to tell someone. I should note that I've seen unidentified bright lights in the sky on that road once before but tonight I actually saw the craft clearly. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 15, 2016 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Lakehills, TX
I took my dog out for a walk at 2100 hrs last night, Sept 15. I live in Lakehills at Medina Lake in Elm Cove. I spotted two big white round balls of light above the two cell phone towers just south of me. I just thought they were the towers & didn’t think much about it, then realized they were much higher than the towers. They were bright for five seconds or so then disappeared. Then a few minutes later I saw two more just NW of the towers. Same thing, they stayed bright for a while then disappeared. Then I saw the two above the towers again. Then I saw one further NW a little higher than the others & then one to the left which was lower. This happened several times with the object in different places. The last time I saw them there were three all at the same level & close together. There appeared to be smaller lights in between them. Then they seemed to merge together & then disappeared. There never seemed to be any movement on any of the sightings except at the end when they merged together. This all happened between 2100-2130 hrs on a clear night. There were stars out and the moon was almost full. I never heard any strange noises. These objects were maybe 15-20 degrees above the horizon & I was looking to the west. I was so glad to find this website & see that someone else NW of Medina Lake had seen the same type objects two nights before. He/she described them as orange. I will definitely be out there looking for them again tonight!
September 15, 2016 · 5:15 PM · SPHERE
Gladwin, MI
Husband, neighbor and I watched a brightly lit sphere at the dusk line of the southwest skies of Gladwin sit still for several minutes before slowly descending toward the ground or horizon line. Not a star or plane.