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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
July 15, 2016 · 5:00 PM · SPHERE
San Diego, CA
Waiting for a friend at the curb, I looked up and saw what appeared to be a black and white sphere a couple thousand feet straight up. Rotating about once a second, the sphere was "rolling" from West to East couple a hundred miles an hour.
July 14, 2016 · 11:30 PM · SPHERE
Lapel, IN
I suddenly noticed a single bright object coming from the east heading west directly over my neighbors' yard. It appeared from behind a cluster of trees and passed over my neighbors' house, before then disappearing behind a wooded area on the opposite side. There were no trees behind the house, so I had a good visibility. The house was roughly 80 yards from my porch. The distance between the two clusters of trees would be roughly about 100 yards. It was flying slightly below tree level, which I would guess to be about 30-40 ft. I lost sight of the object after it disappeared behind the trees, and out of my view. The object appeared to be a basketball size sphere, with a silver glow to it. It also left a trail behind it, also silver, that I estimated to extend roughly 7-8 ft behind the object. It wasn’t extremely bright, more dimly lit I would say. It did not illuminate the trees or the ground it passed over. It was also moving very quickly. If I would have blinked, I might have missed it. I would say it cleared 100 yards in about 3-4 seconds. I also did not notice any noise coming from the object. After the sighting, I was in shock over what I had just witnessed. What shocked me the most is how low to the ground it was flying. I hope someone may be able to shed some light as to what this object was.
July 14, 2016 · 2:00 AM · SPHERE
Apopka, FL
I walked outside to get my cigarettes from my car, when suddenly, I felt a strange feeling. I looked up and just beside the trees was a red and green flashing light, moving erratically in a zig-zag fashion, only to stop and hover for some time, leading me to conclude it was not a plane and could not be a star due to it's various flashing colors. A hazy beam of light could then be seen emanating from it as if searching for something. I stood there for nearly 10 minutes until I heard a dull humming noise coming from the direction of the UFO. I felt suddenly overwhelmed with fear and ran back inside.
July 11, 2016 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Milwaukee, WI
At approximately 22:00 I was out walking my dog and noticed a very large glowing red orb moving silently above the houses. It was pretty high up yet moving at a steady pace without a sound. It was bright red with an amber flickering light in the bottom center. I though it could have been a Chinese lantern, but it was not moving upward in any way, just from south to north. Besides that, I feel it was much too large to have been a Chinese lantern. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 11, 2016 · 9:11 PM · SPHERE
Lafayette, LA
They came from the horizon North-Northeast and grew increasingly brighter until they reached a bright flicker, and continued to travel in a straight line until they faded dark as they approached the horizon Southeast. The objects appeared to be flying at a high altitude. They were flying above the community of River Ranch. We saw them when we were in a parking lot of the River Ranch area. The objects moved across the sky at a steady pace and was visible for about a minute. The objects came into sight randomly between 21:10 and 21:19. There was one earlier sighting of which I did not note the time, but I estimate to be 21:00. I heard what I believe to be a low hum coming from the objects. My close friend and elder brother were with me. I witnessed the first one alone. They didn't believe me and thought them to be drones. After they witnessed the other three together with me, they also could not explain what they saw. One witness is a programmer, the other an editor, and I am a student, musician and writer. The fourth witness was a cleaning lady who was passing by, and said that she had never seen anything like it and believed it to be alien crafts.
July 10, 2016 · 10:34 PM · SPHERE
Greenwich, CT
10:34 P.M. 7/10/16 I smelled airplane fuel. Living near Westchester airport for 30 years and a business flyer. I know the odor of fuel. This has never happened. Thinking a plane had crashed I hit mute and turned off lights. Looking east over Long Island I saw 4 orange pulsating orbs shaped in a Y formation. They never moved. Then a large craft came over our house west to east (never happens) low, slow and pretty silent with a white light forward. No other lights. It passes and the 4 orange orbs disappear. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 10, 2016 · 7:00 PM · SPHERE
Ensenada (Baja; Mexico) · Mexico
Flashing light then sphere comes close floats in the air at pretty close range then disapears like a diming light 6 people there. One day before i saw flashing light then light comes down close close to me and seems to be inspecting then i run inside house and hide scared. Almost every time we go outside we see lights flash and orbs all over the sky.
July 9, 2016 · 11:49 PM · SPHERE
Clemmons, NC
My husband and I were sitting outside on our apartment front porch when I saw a bright orange light coming from behind the trees northwest of us. As it came from behind the trees it was obvious it was not a plane, drone, or helicopter because of the size, brightness and consistency of the light source, and also how low it was and how fast it was going. The color of the orb was bright neon orange, and it did not look like head lights, or any other lights I have ever seen before, but it had a glow to it. I got up and started video recording it, from our point of view it flew south towards the back of our apartment building, but was further past our apartment, then started going east then back south east. In that process, the light dimmed a little bit then they dimmed even more and within a few seconds it disappeared. When I say the object starting going different directions, I don’t mean sharp movements, but just slowly turning in those directions. Also, besides the other factors I mentioned before about it not being a plane I could also tell it was different because of the way it flew it was obvious that the way it was never in seen in a perfect straight course line like planes are seen doing. My husband as well as my neighbor, the whole incident lasted about a minute to a minute and 5 seconds long. I do have a video that is 46 seconds long but because it was a cell phone recording you cannot see the orange glow. If I am able to send please forgive the cussing I was very excited. We spoke with the wife, who submitted the report, and she sounded to us to be quite serious-minded. We suspect that she is a very reliable witness. PD
July 9, 2016 · 10:15 PM · SPHERE
Herron Island, WA
This event happened on the night of July 9, 2016, at approximately 10:15pm. At the end of a week-long camping trip, myself and a friend and his son were staying with friends at their cabin on an island in Case Inlet in Puget Sound, just north of Olympia, Washington. My friends’ cabin is on the south-west side of the island. The day had been mostly overcast and breezy, but the clouds had been clearing off in the evening and the breeze had died down. All five of us were enjoying the evening conversations on the lower deck, standing around a campfire we had built in the pit. I started to walk up the path towards the upper deck and the cabin when I noticed an orange light/orb rising up through the trees, towards the center of the island. It really surprised me because the light was very bright and very orange/red and seemed out of place. I turned back to the other four people and asked “what is that?” as I pointed to the sky. They we perplexed as well. The light looked like an orange or red LED light. It was very intense. I thought it looked like fire, but with no flickering. We thought that maybe it’s a firework floating under a parachute, since the day was just past the fourth of July. But the light continued to rise and come towards us from east to west and slowly arched towards the north. The breeze that was blowing around 5 to 10 mph, was blowing towards the east, so the light was traveling against the breeze. As the light arched to the north and was almost above us, it suddenly blinked out. I mentioned to the others that it made absolutely no noise. I would estimate the light/orb to be approximately 800-1000 feet high. Just as the light “blinked out,” another light appeared from the same area as the first and began to come towards us. It took almost the same path in the sky as the first, but came further to the west. Again, no noise and it arched towards the north and disappeared above us. This time I noted the light was higher, but still below the clouds. We again began conversing as to what this could be. Someone mentioned a drone. But no noise and why would its lights turn off above us? Someone else asked if it could be military flares. But no variation in the light and no smoke visible or no parachute. Maybe a paper lantern? Again, no variation in the light like a flame would make. And why were they moving against the wind direction? Again, just as that light disappeared, another rose through the trees, followed immediately by a fourth light. At this time my friends wife and I began walking through the yard and around to the front of the cabin and on the road to get a better view. My other three friends remained in the back yard. Both lights traveled the same but slightly wider arch across the sky, moving about the same speed as a small airplane would move. Both of those lights disappeared behind some trees that were blocking our view now. A fifth light appeared from a slightly different place (or maybe us changing our location made it seem as so). As this fifth light moved across the sky I heard the sound of a small airplane approaching. I turned to the south and saw the plane flying towards the light. I could tell it was an airplane. The sound and the navigation lights, definitely an airplane. The plane flew what looked like beside the light, but I noticed the light was a little lower than th! e plane. I lost track of the airplane, but the light was straight above us and it had stopped in the sky. This time I took a very good look at the light. It looked like fire, but with absolutely no flickering of the light. It had the intensity of LED lights, both red and orange like in a small cluster. I noticed stars above it, because the sky was clearing. As the light was stopped straight above us, it also blinked off. I looked at my friends wife and she looked at me and we both asked each other “what are we looking at?” and “what is this?” I told her I was going to my car and getting my dsl camera. I also grabbed a very powerful flashlight. I remembered all of our cell phones were inside the cabin being charged. Another light rose through the trees as I returned with my camera. I tried to take a photo, but the camera only flipped up the flash and wouldn’t take the picture. Too dark. I took out my flashlight and turned it on and shown it directly at the light which was now moving directly above us. The orange orb stopped in the sky when I did this. I was flashing my flashlight on and off. My friends wife looked at me and said “what are you doing?” In my mind I suddenly realized that I might not want to signal this thing. I turned the flashlight off and the orb again moved across the sky. As it got to our north, it also blinked out. I guess I was trying to see if there was a balloon or parachute holding up these lights. I saw none. After these six lights, there was no more. We waited for another 5 minutes and saw nothing. It was getting cold outside, so we decided to go in for the night. My friend (the owner of the cabin) went down to the lower deck and made sure the fire was out. When he returned to the cabin, he said there was one more orange orb that appeared. The whole evenings events lasted approximately 30-35 minutes. The next day we discussed the occurrence from the night before. Two of my friends seemed to laugh it off. The other three of us were still perplexed. I have never seen anything like this before and I cannot get it out of my head. I checked on the internet and ran across the UFO reporting website. While scanning through the sightings database, I came across a report from the town of Enumclaw, Washington 5 nights prior to our sighting. The similarities sent chills down my spine. We spoke via telephone with the source of the report, and he sounded to us to be quite sober-minded. We suspect that he is an excellent witness. PD
July 9, 2016 · 1:30 AM · SPHERE
I-196 at Mile Marker 7, MI
As I looked up I saw this object streak across the sky clearly blocking the stars as it went by.. It looked like a sphere, dark light in the center and a haze surrounding the core of the lighted object. The haze was compared to looking at the moon on a drizzly night hoh it sometimes has a lower glow around it. I am a Christ believer and definitely know what I saw.
July 8, 2016 · 12:00 AM · SPHERE
Oscoda, MI
My brother and I went outside and have a smoke, and in Oscoda it gets really dark. We see a jet passing over head like usual... Then it all happened. two bright orbs chasing each other over Lake Huron. 3 times and 10 to 12 second intervals. It was like a jet dog fight with no noise and making anti gravity turns at extreme speeds. It stopped on a dime and make a crazy turn. No jet on earth can manuaver they way we seen these two orbs chasing each other. They looked very high in the sky, above our atmosphere. It has changed my life.... We still can't believe what we seen with our eyes....
July 7, 2016 · 6:10 PM · SPHERE
Southampton, ENGLAND · United Kingdom
Whilst waiting for my Chinese food to be cooked I went for a walk when I saw a man looking skywards. I walked up to where he was and at saw a large orange and red plasma like sphere at house roof height. It slowly descended towards us I had my phone in my hand yet for some reason didn't take any photos. When it got to about 10 meters from us my memory of the event ends. At its closest approach I could see what looked like a structure within the plasma looking light surrounding it. The next thing I remember was being at home with my wife. She asked why I was so long and where the food was. After the initial confusion I recalled the sighting. She said I'd been gone nearly two hours. I've learnt this could be what's known as missing time.
July 6, 2016 · 3:00 AM · SPHERE
Grande Prairie (Cutbank Bridge Campground)(Canada), AB · Canada
Group of us camping at cutbank camp site. Bridge visible from our site. 3 am we were all watching what looked like the northern lights. One of us Saw a shooting star emerge from northern light cloud formation. Zig zagged at unimaginable speed. Light went out and reappeared at tree top level at our camp. Light moved in a descending s curve past three trees then disappeared. Reappeared behind us over the trail into camp. It made several s curve maneuvers then disappeared. Reappeared across hi way above and behind tree line again making extremely quick movements and direction changes. Could have been several objects working in formation and turning their lights on and off together.
July 5, 2016 · 1:26 PM · SPHERE
Midwest City, OK
My husband and I was driving westbound on I-240 saw a white shiny spheric shaped object in the sky hovering and then slowly flying northbound, and it suddenly disappeared. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 5, 2016 · 12:29 AM · SPHERE
Denton, TX
I was on the balcony with my girlfriend watching the crazy lightning in the sky, when a mysterious orb showed up out of no where. I was extremely terrified at the sheer speed it had to be moving. The crazy flight patterns blew me away as I have never seen something that agile in my life. The orb seemed to be trying to hid within the stormy night. My girlfriend and I are both college students and we were near a local university at the time. With multiple videos and a few pictures from two different sources the mysterious orange orb I saw tonight will, in no doubt in my mind be one of the most compelling cases. Right after my sighting, I called the UFO hotline and the man I spoke with said many similar sights happened all over tonight. I already believed we are not alone im just so glad to finally catch one on film. We have changed the date above, and asked the witness for confirmation. PD
July 4, 2016 · 11:15 PM · SPHERE
Salem, VA
I was walking my dogs and started watching the end of a fireworks display when I noticed a green sphere off in the northeastern sky far from where the display was going on. Put the dogs away and just watched the sphere from my pouch through a set of power lines. The green object changed altitudes several times as viewed through the power lines then turned to a glowing red and sped off the northwest. It reappeared after a few minutes to the previous position and turned back to a green color where it stayed for a while. After the display was over the object turned red and shot straight up in the sky. I need to mention the weather, which was solid low cloud cover with no stars visible and thunder storm clouds with some variable amounts of sheet lighting.
July 4, 2016 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
Post Falls, ID
Three red/orange orb shaped objects started off together in the west, they then began moving through the sky at a 230 degree heading. Through out the travel the objects separated themselves from one another and spaced equally apart. The whole sighting was witnessed by 8 people and lasted nearly 5 minutes. We recorded as best we could the objects from cell
July 4, 2016 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
Vancouver & Portland, OR
While watching fireworks in Vancouver I noticed a non-blinking red light extremely high in the sky traveling quickly from NW to SE. I had my girlfriend look and she also stated it was bright red and wasn't blinking. There were a couple of commercial jets also visible at very high altitude and you could clearly see white blinking lights on them. As we were watching it, it blinked out and was gone. Approximately one hour later four of us were heading home and were traveling south and had just crossed the Willamette river when I noticed what looked to me like three bright red balls all connected in a triangular shape. This object was to our right towards the city of Portland and was very low. It also appeared to be extremely large. Three of the four of us were looking at it when it simply vanished. A few moments later, I looked back and it had reappeared but then we lost it due to the trees and terrain.
July 4, 2016 · 10:45 PM · SPHERE
Yachats, OR
My boyfriend, our friend and myself watched the Yachats fireworks show tonight at the Yachats State Park. The beautiful show finished up when my group noticed a bright purple orb/round craft hovering eastward over the mountain tops. It stayed stationary before steadily moving upward and in erratic circular motions before disappearing over the other side. I have a feeling many people witnessed this considering how many large groups were all gathered outside at the time.
July 4, 2016 · 10:40 PM · SPHERE
Everett, WA
Did anyone else see at least 2 fluorescnet or bright orange boomerang/sphere shaped objects float directly across Silver Lake in SE fashion - Everett WA? They were both very quiet - my first impression of 1st object was a drone, but wondered why it was so bright?? when I saw the 2nd one about 3min later I was wondering if it was a flare? which didn't seem right either... both objects were eerily quiet, very small and flying under 500ft. Both certainly had a purpose, on a mission - like it was documenting our fireworks displays...?
July 4, 2016 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Buckley, WA
We had invited a couple over to have dinner and watch the neighborhood fireworks. At 9:50 we walked down to our lower field so that trees wouldn't block our view. After a few minutes I noticed an orange orb gliding across the sky. All of the others noticed it and we watched trying to guess why it was acting odd. I thought it might be a parachute from a firework that was on fire and drifting towards us. As it got closer, we realized realized it wasn't on fire, so we thought it might be a drone. The problem with that was it was starting to move faster towards our upper field and during a lull in the fireworks it was almost over head and there was no noise. It was approximately 500 to 800 feet high. We ran to the upper field to watch as it went towards Enumclaw, gaining speed. It had started from the direction of Orting. Of course, no one thought of using their cell phones to take pictures. We were standing around trying to guess what it was, when I noticed that another orb coming from the Sumner direction, heading towards Enumclaw again. It was about 2 minutes after the first orb. This time one of us thought to use a cell phone to video it. Again it moved quietly and fast. At that point I ran into the house and grabbed my iPad since the phone video didn't come out. The color was consistently a red-orange with no variation in appearance. There was no clear outline of structure. The orbs were below the cloud layer and gained altitude as they headed towards Enumclaw. 3 of the 4 of us had been inspectors for Boeing, and one had been an air traffic controller, our facts are accurate. We stood around for about 5 minutes scanning the sky. To hell with fireworks! Ten minutes later another orb appeared coming from the South Prairie area, heading towards Enumclaw again. This one was higher than the previous two. I was able to get a very short video and several pictures as it came closer to us. Another orb followed following the same path about 2-3 minutes later. We stood around waiting and watching and finally gave up on seeing more. About 50 minutes later, the ex controller spotted another orb, this time coming from the Wilkeson area and heading towards Enumclaw again. This one was even higher, approx 3000 feet. Another orb followed the same path about 2 minutes later. By then, everyone was tired and the couple decided to head for home. As we went inside to gather things up, my husband came and said we wouldn't believe what he saw. Another orb had followed the last two at a slightly lower altitude. The orb stopped and split into two orbs and went into the the cloud layer. The first sightings started from the Sumner direction, and ended coming from the Wilkeson area. The locations are almost in a straight line and approx. 10 miles apart. The closest air field is privately owned Connley Field in Buckley and there was no air traffic. This was the best 4th we've had in a long time!
July 4, 2016 · 9:45 PM · SPHERE
Westbrook, ME
As fireworks were going on in the distance I observed a bright orb shaped object slowly approaching from the distance. I pulled my iphone out and began trying to capture this object on video. This isn't the first observation of similar objects. I have multiple videos of these objects. I know for a fact these object are not planes or any other aircraft I have ever seen. I live within 5 miles from the Portland International Airport PWM. And I've lived here for over 10 yrs. Never have I seen anything like this before my first siting. We've changed the time to reflect a nighttime sighting. PD
July 4, 2016 · 9:45 PM · SPHERE
North Canton, OH
While watching fireworks at Dogwood Park on July 4th, I saw a single white light orb floating to the right of the display. It hovered still In the sky and it quickly ascended and descended a few times during the course of the fireworks display. As soon as the display was over it quickly descended out of site. Movement was straight up and straight down. Clearly not the way a helicopter could maneuver...
July 4, 2016 · 9:30 PM · SPHERE
South Elgin, IL
My family witnessed about 20 or more orange lights in the sky.... not too high up. They looked like they were hovering bot not moving too much if at all. My wife and I agreed that the only explanation would be helicopters. I have a cell phone picture.