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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
September 15, 2016 · 7:30 AM · SPHERE
Knoxville, TN
This morning, after arriving to work I stepped out to smoke. I was watching a plane fly by pretty low in the sky just as the sun was coming up. I noticed behind the plane what looked like a bright star. Slowly rising straight up into the sky. It was far to daylight to be a star. I ran inside to grab a friend and upon arriving again to look the object was gone.
September 14, 2016 · 10:30 PM · SPHERE
Bradenton, FL
two circular shapes with orbs of red lights with in them. moving very slow but event only lasted about two minutes. last month i saw something similiar but that time there was a large circle with orbs of light and a smaller one behind it. it appeared as though the larger one was towing the smaller one like a tractor beam. really fantastic.
September 13, 2016 · 9:30 PM · SPHERE
Lakehills, TX
Orange sphere bigger than your regular star appears in the night sky for a few seconds and then blinks off. We were facing south looking towards Medina Lake. The lake is visible from my house and is about two miles away. Lakehills, Texas is about 40 miles northwest of San Antonio. The orange ball then reappears a bit further from original appearance but not by much then blinks off again. Then another appears further to the west and also blinks off. Then one blinks on and two more blink on next to it. Another blinks on a short distance away from it. Then one by one they blink off. At one point about six or seven were blinking on and off. All of them were the same color which was orange. There was no sound, no moving any direction either sideways or up or down. There were no flares and they were not fireballs, aircraft, flares or drones. Though they appeared in different parts of the sky they were all aligned at same altitude. They were not very hi! gh and best guess is probably no more than 2500 feet and could have been less. They were round like a basketball and they glowed on and then off. After about 5 minutes or so the show was over. They reminded me of the Phoenix lights. There was some moonlight and a few clouds. They did not appear behind clouds and we could not discern if they were connected together. I believe they were separate because at one point one or two would appear above each other. Tried to take a photo but they would blink off too quickly. Fascinating little show to say the least. Though this is my personal opinion it seemed to me that they knew we were observing them and thus the display. Who knows?
September 13, 2016 · 3:30 AM · SPHERE
Gardner, MA
Wife and I walked outdoors to our patio on the northwest side of our new country home at approximately 3:15 AM ET in Gardner, MA. We're new to the neighborhood, so we are diligent about opening and closing the door silently as not to disturb the neighbors who often have their windows open during the warm summer months. Being a sound engineer, I immediately noticed a deafening quiet that was unmistakable to me. No crickets, no wind, no cars, nothing. I whispered "Wow, it's really quiet out here. A little too quiet". My wife said nothing. It was dark enough so that you could not see the sky behind the trees. I realized we had a huge moon the night before, so the 'no moon' darkness had struck me as weird. Elapsed time we were outside was about 2-3 minutes. We were both facing west toward our neighbors house when we both saw a single spherical light appear, with no dynamics in luminosity. Nothing at first, then right to full-on brightness. The singular amber / orange glow was the same exact color as the street lamp but much brighter, and the shape was spherical instead of oval, about the size of a baseball or softball. The street lamp seemed to be about 10+ feet directly behind the object we saw. The object kept an altitude approximately 5 feet below the street lamp from our perspective. The glowing sphere never stopped moving at any point since it appeared. It moved at about the speed of a house fly, in a perfect counter-clockwise circle, with a slightly accelerated figure 8 pattern every few revolutions. The object moved in a circle pattern that was about 2 feet in diameter. It left a trail of light behind itself in the same color that faded linearly, but was overrun by the sphere again before the light trail fully dissipated. I whispered, "Do you see that?". Standing slightly in front of me, my wife leaned toward my viewpoint on the patio and said, "Yea, what is that?". It seemed that once this object felt us notice it's presence, it disappeared with no fade, instant off and gone. The object was gone even before I could open my Camera app. I noticed some trees between the object we saw and our patio. So I waited until daylight this morning to see if it could have been street lamp light refracting off of a bunch of shiny leaves, but there are barely any leaves to obstruct the view apparently. We never saw anything block the perspective of the object while it appeared and danced for approximately 15-20 seconds in total. After it disappeared, I came to my senses and opened my Camera app. I was surprised to see a Camera flash to our far right from across the street. I was sure the neighbors saw the object too and were taking a photo, while forgetting to disable the camera flash. When I looked over, I saw another 5000k temp flash in the gloss of the neighbors car, but no light hit the street or tree next to where the source would be. Neighbors were asleep with all lights off an nobody was outside at all. No activity so far yet tonight. But I will be ready for it next time.
September 12, 2016 · 5:45 AM · SPHERE
Bradenton, FL
Orange/Golden Light hovered at Orbital level for roughly 3 to 4 minutes. Then took off to the right very quickly then straight up out of sight....
September 11, 2016 · 10:37 PM · SPHERE
Paris, KY
Was driving home and noticed a blue light that looked odd so i stopped the car in the middle of the road (back road Jackstown Rd) and got out and looked at the light and i noticed there where 3 blue orb ufos moving south southwest at a fast speed 2-3x faster then a airplane no noise then 2 red orb ufos came following the blue ones then a blue one then finally a finale red one they where all going roughly the same direction they where solid in collar and did not blink for flicker
September 11, 2016 · 6:30 PM · SPHERE
South Berwick, ME
Silver object looked to be reflecting sunlight for about ten seconds high in sky then disappeared in a period of 2 seconds.
September 11, 2016 · 7:30 AM · SPHERE
Moosomin (Canada), SK · Canada
730 am going to work in underground facility 2km under. Greenish orb came into view looked odd so took three pics very quickly I did not see odd cloud on third one until looking at pics but will say the object just vanished. Thanks Peter
September 10, 2016 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Selkirk (north of)(Canada), MB · Canada
My husband took our dog out for his nightly bathroom routine. In the sky, travelling from SE to NW at approximately a 45 degree angle from the horizon, he saw red orbs travelling at a pace like a small plane and he called me out to see them. There was absolutely no associated noise with these orbs passing at intervals of approximately 30-45 second intervals - the preceding orb would still be visible when the next was starting its path and there was no deviation in the arc of the path nor the speed of the movement. On one occasion, there were 2 lights travelling together but spaced apart to a distance that would appear too great for both lights to belong to one recognizable source.
September 10, 2016 · 7:10 PM · SPHERE
Wilson Lake, KS
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 10, 2016 · 1:00 AM · SPHERE
Hilton Head, SC
9/10/2016 UFO Sighting ~1:00 a.m. in Bluffton and Hilton Head, SC. Two friends picked me up at the airport in Savannah and as we were traveling north on the Bluffton Parkway toward Hilton Head, we all saw a meteorite, or shooting star, go low across the night sky. We all laughed and said, “Good luck, make a wish.” A little bit later, we had turned into the Moss Creek community and were about a quarter of a mile down the fairway talking and laughing, when a ball of light came from the right, zoomed across the windshield and then disappeared to the left off into a grove of trees. Two of us saw it and said, “What was that!?” At first, I thought it might be a weird huge bird, but thinking about it a minute later, I realized it seemed completely round, about 6” to 8” in diameter. It was really bright white in the middle as though it was glowing from within and it moved very fast without any wings. There was no sound either (although we did have the windows up in the car). It looked like it zoomed over the hood of the car, about 3 feet from the windshield. It went from right to left and then swooped off into the distance, making an "s"-curve across what I later found out was a clearing in the golf course. From there, it flew into a grove of tall trees on the left side of the clearing. We immediately turned the car around and drove back about 20 feet to the clearing and trees to see if we could still see it. I did see two dim lights, one brighter than the other, in the trees about 8 ft from the ground. However, these may have been lights from houses behind the trees, but until we look at that area again, I don’t know that for sure. I’ve been told that’s all golf course and there are no houses there. Later, we wondered if the “shooting star” and the “ball of light” were connected. Maybe, maybe not, either way this was an exciting start to my vacation and I don’t know how to explain it, so I believe it was truly a UFO. A little history on me: I have investigated light anomalies in the past, including the Marfa lights and the Brown Mountain lights. (This light didn’t look anything like those lights and took me totally by surprise.) Also, I have taken photos and videos of mists and unexplained lights in séances, cemeteries and buildings. Still, I try to take a skeptical approach and am constantly questioning.
September 10, 2016 · 12:45 AM · SPHERE
Hilton Head, SC
After the 3 of us ladies on the way back from an airport pickup of a friend from Savanah airport, we saw a shooting star like object in the north in Bluffton, SC, on Bluffton Parkway, just over the outlet mall... Less than a mile away, we were driving to our destination into the Moss Creek gated community north, and turning onto our street at 10 miles an hour...around 12:45 a.m.. The area is extremely dark because of the sea turtles. A soccer ball size extremely bright object crossed directly in front of the windshield of our car, lighting up the entire area inside of our car, and the ground around the car, traveling from north of the golf course, going south, like it was following the golfing green south toward a golf course pond, and disappeared. We were excited but not frightened! ((ADDENDUM FROM ACTUAL EYEWITNESS #1 OF 2)) Hi, Peter, my name is ((name deleted)) and I'm reporting on an incident that took place September 10, 2016. It was 1:30 am, and I was delivering a friend from the Savannah airport to Hilton Head Island area, about 1 mile from the bridges. As we were traveling down route 278 about 3 minutes lee from our destination, my friend in the passenger side of the car and myself who was driven by both spotted what we thought was a shooting star, heading right toward the area of our destination. We both saw it at the same time, and dismissed seed it as just a shooting star. It didn't seem to be quite as high as a normal star though, as I recollect. We continued into moss creek area and got our pass to enter the plantation area. We continued on three the winding roads and turned a sharp right onto our street. About 1/8 mile on all of a sudden from our right side of my car no higher then my eye level threw the windshield came a soccer ball of bluefish white Sent from my iPhone ((END OF ADDENDUM))
September 9, 2016 · 9:30 AM · SPHERE
Wichita, KS
There was a white orb in the sky towards the south and east in Wichita, KS. The orb seemed to not move, and stayed in the same position for a while. There is also photo proof by multiple witnesses, including a news reporter camera. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 9, 2016 · 7:45 AM · SPHERE
Minneapolis, MN
7:45am, high, dense clouds to the east of the city. Heading east on 50th St from the Edina/Minneapolis line while riding my motorcycle, I noticed the usual low flying air traffic over head. As a plane passed overhead and out of my line of sight, I noticed a round, pulsating light in the distance. It was backed by significant dark cloud cover, but didn’t seem to be moving. I was able to watch it for about 2-3 minutes before it became obscured by trees. I rode on approaching the west side of the I-35 overpass, and came to a high, open spot giving me the opportunity to see the ball of pulsating light again. It hadn’t moved, changed size, or direction in the 3-5 minutes since I had seen it last. I was able to watch for another minute or two, noticing again the pulsation as well as a lack of any discernable movement. I decided to pull over and try to record it using my phone. I made the first possible right immediately after the I-35W overpass. This gave me a high vantage point with no obstructions or interference of visual contact with the object. I briefly looked away to get my phone out, entered my code to unlock it, and selected the video option under the camera mode. This whole process took less than 20 seconds. By the time looked back up, the object was gone. There were no signs or indications it had been there at all.
September 5, 2016 · 10:10 PM · SPHERE
Delaware (Canada), ON · Canada
I live in southwestern West of London Ontario Was just outside having a smoke. Seen a strange orange light coming up behind the tree line to my east. Seen another on farther up in the sky. Got my binoculars out and took a closer look. Arms on the body of the truck to keep it steady. They were very far away. They went up on about a 5 degree angle and then disappeared. Each light stayed visible for about 2 minutes.But when they were about a 1/3 of the way they were dropping something, white globes. seen this on at least 2 occasions.They were not planes and they were not flares. The Orange globes were very large. I would say 4 times the size of Venus with the naked eye in the sky.They were large enough in my binoculars to see it was some kind of structure, not a point of light. Seen one after another exact same pattern. Seen 5 or 6 in a row. Don't know how many there were before I went out. Time frame was about 10:10 pm on September 5 2016.They also seems to be brighter orange on their bottom.
September 5, 2016 · 8:45 PM · SPHERE
Spotsylvania, VA
A bright green light caught the corner of my eye and I turned and a large neon green orb fell out of the sky over interstate 95 and then all the neighborhood dogs went crazy
September 5, 2016 · 8:30 PM · SPHERE
Pittsgrove, NJ
Was moving the Lawn Mower to the shed for the night - something caught my eye in the sky - looked up saw a large white sphere in the sky much bigger then the stars in the sky. Moved straight up and away till it was out of sight - as it moved up and away the sphere got smaller very quickly and disappeared into the night sky.
September 5, 2016 · 8:00 PM · SPHERE
South Park Township, PA
The evening of September 5, my cousin and I once again found ourselves in the general vicinity of an incident from the previous morning. We were about 3 miles upstream from the previous morning, at a small swimming hole along Piney Fork Rd in South Park Township, PA. Just after dark we noticed what looked like flashlights descending the hill on the opposite shore of the small third-order stream. The hill is particularly steep and would not be anyone’s chosen route to the bottom of the hill, especially since there’s a bike trail atop the hill with a trailhead within sight from there. It became weird once we couldn’t see any of the people who would be carrying the lights, nor did we hear anything or anyone walking down the forested slope. I remember seeing four different lights, which somewhat resembled incandescent flashlights, only as they seemed to get closer there were no flashlight beams shining through any of the trees. These lights appeared to only ill! uminate a very localized area of leaves in front of them. Also, as they grew closer, one would be near the top of the hill again, their beam also unnaturally contained. My cousin and I got a little freaked out and walked to the road near my truck, only about fifty yards away through a small patch of riparian forest. We gathered our thoughts and decided to head back down to the creekside. “After all,” we said, “who cares who those people are, we aren’t on private property.” As we approached the creek it looked as though the “people” had finally reached the bottom of the hill near the water. My cousin had grabbed my 12-volt spotlight and a portable power pack from the truck and he shined all 20-million candlepower toward them, trying to see who they were and also as a type of passive intimidation tactic since we had no idea of the visitors’ intentions. After all, they had just chosen the most difficult way possible down the hill, which no s ane person would do in any normal c! ase. We got to the streambank and stood on the small beach. There was nobody there. After seeing the lights only moments before near the creek, nothing, nobody in sight. We were now even more freaked out. It felt as though they were hiding under cloak of darkness stalking us or something. Thinking we may be at the mercy of a team of psychopaths or something, we stood there quiet and in total darkness, no flashlights, just listening. As we stood there a township police car drove up to where I had parked, stopped and shined their spotlight on the vehicle and into the woods toward us. They wouldn’t have been able to see us if they wanted to anyway because of where we were at. The light went out and it appeared as though the police cruiser had parked and shut off their headlights. We assumed they were coming over to investigate or something. So a sense of both relief and irritation set in, because we now thought that maybe the lights were other police officers instead of killers. We also were kinda pissed because we were about to be harassed by so! me bored rural policemen for no reason…. But then I saw the police car cross the small bridge right upstream of our location and continue up the road. It was puzzling. We assumed there must have been two cars or something originally but one had left…. So we stood there, making sure to talk so they’d know where we were and that we weren’t a threat. But no flashlights, no footsteps in the woods. Suddenly the whole energy changed around us, and a very unsettling feeling overcame me. Mike also conveyed his feeling of unease. We stood there, and I heard maybe two very small sticks crack in the woods. There was also a beam of orangeish light shining down the streambank from the road up near the bridge, as if someone was looking for someone or something. But we hadn’t seen anyone leave the woods and it had been a long enough time since seeing the police car that the cops would have made their presence known, even if they had tried sneaking up on us. At precisely that moment, we sa! id screw this and gathered our stuff so we could dip outta the! re as fa st as possible. Still thinking that we were now surrounded by possible killers or freaks we walked to the road with the spotlight on full blast just in case someone had tried hiding, planning to pounce on us. But nobody was around. Just us. We put our things in the back of the Blazer, shined the spotlight around quickly, and were getting in the truck when the same lights appeared in the woods right where they had originally been. Only there was also a very bright yellow ball of light over there as well, in the treetops. Then one more, an orange-lighted craft or orb, whatever it was flew across the road clearing about a quarter mile in front of us and probably no more than 200 feet off the ground.. We were frantic. We high-tailed it outta there as fast as we could! After leaving we drove up the road and stopped in a random neighborhood cul-de-sac off of Connor Rd. What appeared to be a formation of some type was to the left of the very bright half-crescent moon. It was comprised of singular, small lights but covered a very large area of the sky, not across but upward. The lights appeared as though they were stars, only they were red. I think they may have been trying to camouflage themselves in the sky amongst some real stars because not all of them were odd, just a handful. We sat there and caught our breath. Right before we were about to drive away my cousin pointed out a small white light in a tree near someone’s house. I didn’t see it as anything more than a high-mounted exterior light. So we didn’t really give it too much more thought. It may or may not have been an orb, who knows...We ended up stopping in Finleyville for cigarettes, then drove toward home. As we passed an old chapel/cemetery, Mike had a sudden urge to stop there ! for some reason. It’s weird because I had thought of it while still in Finleyville but didn’t say anything. The place we stopped is called “James Chapel and Cemetery”, and is located at one of the highest points for miles looking north. The top of Pittsburgh’s UPMC building is even visible. That’s a pretty far view for this area due to the topography. Anyway, we ended up sitting in the cemetery behind the church under the moonlight. The atmosphere was actually very comforting and serene, a welcome contrast to what we had been experiencing ever since leaving Piney Fork. Just being there felt safe and mellow. We ended up sitting in that old cemetary for a couple of hours. The vibes were good there, a peaceful oasis in the center of pure madness. It seemed as though the church had some type of repellant effect on them. We were still able to see many orb-like lights in the sky, but many more were either in the semi-distant treetops, along the power lines, and especially in the! area where we had come from. We were able to clearly see acro! ss the P iney Fork and Peters Creek Valleys from there. The amount of unexplained lights in that valley was astonishing. They were either white, orange, or yellowish in color. While sitting there I witnessed one of the orange lights split into two separate orange lights in the treetops. There were also some that would pulsate, becoming very bright for awhile, then dim, and sometimes even not visible, as if their lights faded out how a bad wire connection would fade out. They all did their things for varying amounts of time. The oddest part of our experience near this chapel and in the cemetery was how the orbs that had been moving seemingly became “frozen” in place or something. None of them came anywhere remotely close to us or even moved at all for that matter. Only pulsating, vanishing, or splitting as the one did. Once we left we took a different way home. We ended up seeing some nice things someone had left out for the trash, possibly a cleanout or something. So we stopped to look through it. This was about three miles from the chapel, at the intersection o
September 5, 2016 · 9:35 AM · SPHERE
Wake Forest, NC
The sphere or disc moved from North to South at a speed too fast for a ballon. It had a gold/bronze color. There was no sound or vapor trail emitted. The speed it moved was comparable to what I recall as a commercial jet; however it did not have the shape or color of commercial jets. A few minutes later a commercial jet passed over head with the normal sound being emitted. What I saw earlier was not a commercial aircraft. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 5, 2016 · 4:00 AM · SPHERE
Jefferson Hills, PA
My cousin and I went fishing at a local pond in Jefferson Hills, PA. The Iron Bridge Ponds was the spot, tucked in a valley along Peters Creek Rd. near PA 43. We arrived at the spot and my cousin Mike pointed out what he claimed to be “imposter stars” in the sky. They were in the area near Orion’s Belt. They flashed in many different colors, mostly greens at this particular sighting. We walked back to the ponds, which sit in between the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad line and the steep embankment carrying PA 43. Once we arrived near the water I noticed a white light atop the hill above said embankment, on the opposite side of the highway. At first glance it looked like a street light, but upon further examination I realized that it was not behind the trees, but rather within them. It was a bright white, similar to the color of a 6000K LED. As it hovered in the trees he pointed out a second light that appeared suddenly in the canopy of a small patch of woods along the opposite shore of the pond, roughly 100 yards away from us. Also white, this light was very dim in comparison to the one atop the hill, which had now moved down to t! he crest of the highway embankment. The embankment is probably 100 feet high and treeless. The light appeared to be an orb or orb-like, much smaller than any aircraft I’ve encountered. This was also the case with the second, dimly lit light.Atop the embankment, the first orb hovered silently for about 5 minutes before vanishing. Almost instantly it appeared in a different location about 200 yards north and roughly 150 feet in the sky over the highway. Shortly after, the dimly lit one in the woods below vanished, as if it just fizzled out or faded away. Eventually the original light made its way higher and eventually left the area after it reached a fairly high level off the ground. As the twilight approached we stood along the shore opposite of where we were when we witnessed the phenomena, but in the same general location. Heavy fogs would roll in and dissipate in very short periods and the cirrus clouds above were illuminated by the sun in a unique shade of pink. Shortly thereafter, just before the sun was about to peek over the horizon, another larger light, similar in color to a traditional incandescent light rose out of the valley about ½ a mile in front of us and advanced toward us over the treeline along the railroad tracks, which were about 75-100 yards away. It flew straight toward us silently, still ascending slowly. It flew over the pond and made a quick southward turn in front of us, probably only 200-300 feet above the water. As it turned, the sound of what I can only explain as a very quiet jet turbine, so quiet that most people wouldn’t even notice on a normal day It continued south, before ascending into the wispy layer of cirrus clouds! , then disappeared into the distance. Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
September 4, 2016 · 3:03 PM · SPHERE
Port St. Lucie, FL
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 3, 2016 · 11:57 PM · SPHERE
Forest Grove, OR
Just before midnight, my friend and I were walking home and the sky lit up behind us, we both turned to look by that time it was passing over us traveling at a high rate. We watched as it traveled over heading NW. It was low flying very bright it lit up the soccer field next to us. Multi in color, green, yellow, purple ,red. It was orb like with a light trail behind it. If we stacked two fire truck ladders together we could touch it. After it passed we saw that two other guys were near and asked if they just saw what we saw and they said yes!
September 3, 2016 · 9:30 PM · SPHERE
Hamburg, NJ
We witnessed dark orange orb flying in irregular pattern traveling southeast to northwest, moved slowly then fast; then slow, also moved slightly up and down kind of like a bouncing ball, no blinking lights, no sound Then Instantly vanished. It was very very weird, I wish I had filmed it
September 3, 2016 · 6:00 PM · SPHERE
Bainbridge Island, WA
Pulled into my driveway and last of afternoon sun hit a plane flying up in sky - caught my eye. As I looked at plane I notice four round white objects way up in sky and wondered what they were. They seemed to move into a formation of a Z and held their position. Then one white orb starts moving up and looks like it's going to hit one of the orbs and then moves and hovers over the top. Either a cloud passed by or they recessed into clouds then next thing there are three in a vertical row with one off to the left. Shortly thereafter,again, a cloud either passes or they somehow recess and next there's only three and they haveformed an upside down V. I watched until they disapeared and did not come back. I was freaking out.