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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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June 17, 2016 · 8:05 PM · SPHERE
Oro Valley, AZ
Very bright sphere sighted traveling from west due east. Object appeared slightly larger than Mars. With a nearly full moon in the sky it was very to estimate objects brightness (much brighter than any star). The object disappeared beyond the Catalina mountain range.
June 16, 2016 · 1:00 PM · SPHERE
Boise, ID
Around June 16th, I was out in my backyard talking on the phone to my friend. This is something I do all the time. I live fairly close to the Boise Airport and I see planes coming in all the time. I also watch them fly over all the time on their way to other locations. In my backyard that day as I was watching an airplane that clearly was not landing in Boise because it was I would guess about a half a mile away in the sky. I was watching this airplane fly over and away from me and I always watch the vapor trail dissipate as I was doing on this day. As the trail broke up into clumps and evaporated one of the clumps did not evaporate and was in fact a perfectly round white ball. It looked like a giant ping-pong ball hanging there. I thought that was odd that it was so round and did not evaporate like the rest of the trail. As I stood there watching it I was trying to figure out what it could be, I have never seen anything like that and I had a light bulb moment and got excited because I was thinking oh cool I’m seeing a weather balloon. However, as I kept staring at this object it did not ascend, or descend it literally just stayed in one spot so I ruled out weather balloon. I stood there watching it for about another couple of minutes and then it just was gone. It just disappeared instantly. It was a clear, sunny day and there was nothing around this object after the trail evaporated. It was very interesting, so I thought I would share. I am a stay at home mom and a student currently studying for my degree in education. I am a down to Earth person and do not go around looking for spooks and such. I thought what I saw was very strange and I could not identify what it was, not only that but the fact that it just stayed there and appeared out of the vapor trail of the airplane gave me pause. This airplane was a passenger jet heading East flying over the south-east part of Boise. ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) Hello, I apologize for the mix up with the dates. I was wrapped up with my daughters upcoming wedding. I remember it being a Thursday as I was speaking to my best friend about her leaving the upcoming Sunday to drive up to Boise. I hope this helps you and thank you for the email. Sincerely, ((name deleted)) ((END ADDENDUM)) We have changed the date above. PD
June 16, 2016 · 12:50 AM · SPHERE
Rapid City, SD
I could not sleep, so I was sitting on my front porch, and heard a helicopter approaching at low level from the southwest and automatically assumed it was LIFE FLIGHT, our local medical transport unit, as tourist season brings more accidents. As the aircraft got closer, I could see a large bright gold orb flying approximately 100-150 feet in front of the helicopter. I immediately ran in to get my husband out of bed and grabbed my phone to try to record it. As we looked up, we could also see far above the two lower aircraft in unison were two blue orbs flying and following them. The blue orbs appeared to move both smoothly and erratically while the gold orb flew smoothly and continuously in front of the helicopter in direction toward the northeast. We are skeptics but thought this was worth reporting as it was something we cannot explain. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 15, 2016 · 9:55 PM · SPHERE
New Hope, MN
An orange ball looked like it was glowing red-orange like a fire, moved across the sky about the rate of an airplane. Looked like it was on fire, but kept flying. At first sight, I thought I was seeing a hot air balloon (the round flame lit sphere). It made no sound
June 14, 2016 · 10:35 PM · SPHERE
Probable conventionalBlagnac, Midi-Pyrénées · France
Le 14 juin 2016 à 22h35 un témoin dans son jardin observe le passage successif de plusieurs boules lumineuses de couleur orangé, évoluant sans bruit, avant de disparaitre vers le Sud-Est. Un seul témoignage est recueilli. Le témoin a probablement vu des lanternes thailandaises. La forme, la couleur, la configuration et trajectoire dans le ciel indiquent un lacher de lanternes, et ce d'autant que la direction de déplacement des boules enregistrée ce soir là sur les lieux est exactement celle du vent de Cap 130°-140° (voir Infoclimat. En conséquence GEIPAN classe en B: probable lanternes thailandaises. [GEIPAN classification B — Lanterne thai]
June 12, 2016 · 7:42 PM · SPHERE
Tacoma, WA
On the evening of June 12, 2016, I was sitting in the living room of my aunt & uncle's house, talking to my cousin. I was facing a large bay window and through it I saw what I thought was a plane. It was heading south, towards us, and had 3 blinking lights. Two on the left (when facing us) and one on the right. These lights blinked 2 then 1, 2 then 1, left then right, left then right. As it got closer I couldn't make out its shape so I asked my cousin, "What's that?" He thought it might be a helicopter. To check if it was a helicopter I went outside to see if I could hear it. I could not. By now the craft was overhead and west of us. It was essentially flying over the Narrows Bridge along the course southward over the Puget Sound. This is when I took out my iPhone and shot about 35 seconds of footage. It was now 7:42 pm. I stopped filming because some trees would soon obscure my view. So I went in the backyard to continue watching it. I asked my uncle what it was. He didn't know. I asked if it could be a helicopter, but he said it was too high. It was definitely very high and flying at a constant velocity on a flat trajectory. I asked my uncle if he had binoculars. He went inside and grabbed a pair while I continued watching it. I pointed out the object to my aunt and 8 year-old son, too. None of us knew what it was. The object continued moving southward and was soon nearly too small to see. When my uncle returned with the binoculars I was only able to find the object in my sight once before losing it again. The sun was lowering and bright enough to where I needed to block it with my hand. It made finding the object at a distance challenging. The object then became too faint at such a distance and I lost it. The whole event must've lasted approximately 10 or so minutes. Maybe 15. A review of the National Weather service showed that at 7:53pm in that vicinity the wind direction was NNE and velocity of the wind was 5mph.
June 12, 2016 · 4:00 AM · SPHERE
Indianapolis, IN
First, let me begin by saying that i have NEVER reported or seen anything like this before in my life. I know that we are not the only ones living in the universe. However coming in contact with something not from here is very eye opening. I was laying down in my bed, there is a dog in our neighborhood who was barking. There is a window right above the head of my bed. I see a light out the corner of my eye. I turn my head to look and there it was: A large bright orange orb. I couldn't even say it was a plane or a helicopter. It was close enough that I could see exactly what it was. I got scared, ran downstairs to wake up my 73 yr old mother. I can't get the image out of my head. This happened at 4:00 am, it was still completely dark outside. I'm still scared, because I just don't understand and I can't justify what I saw.
June 11, 2016 · 11:00 AM · SPHERE
Walden, CO
So I was up in the Colorado Mountains this weekend, Thursday through Sunday approximately 25 miles southeast of Walden. Saturday, I was in the camper preparing lunch. It was about 11:00AM. My son, a friend of mine, and his son were sitting outside chilling when someone noticed an object way up in the sky behaving oddly. They were talking about it for a bit when I finally couldn't ignore the conversation anymore. When I went to check it out, it took me a bit to find but there was a clear object way up. About airplane altitude. Or at least that is how it appeared. It was a white dot or ball. No wings or any other shape was discernible. It moved across the sky with about the speed of a high altitude airplane or maybe a little faster but made no sound and its movements were definitely not an airplane. While watching, it did a couple of 360 degree turns and a hair-pin 180 degree turn. We had no cell reception, so I didn't have my phone handy or I would have filmed it. I was really wishing I had my binoculars but I didn't pack them. We watched about 10 minutes before we lost sight of it and we never did come up with a good explanation. A bird could possibly explain the behavior but it was WAY up there and again we couldn't see anything that resembled wings. We were already at 9500 feet of elevation. I just don't know if a bird would be that high. It could have been a weather balloon I suppose. It looked like that but I'm not so sure about the behavior. How would a balloon move like that? The other option could be some military aircraft I suppose. Or a drone but it seemed too high for that.
June 11, 2016 · 7:00 AM · SPHERE
Buckeye, AZ
Was standing outside at a cemetery, my whole family was there. I was looking up at planes (like I do often). I saw this object in the sky. My cousins and I flipped out when we saw this object change direction to the south and VANISHED. It made no noise, it was just a really shiny craft.
June 11, 2016 · 1:00 AM · SPHERE
Cranston, RI
Over the course of 15 minutes starting at 1 am 9 bright round but fuzzy orange orbs drifted by S to N in the Eastern sky. First, a cluster of 3 followed by two twice, and then 2 singles. I could easily glance at Mars, which has been prominent in the South. These appeared 5 to 8 times bigger. They have a silent drifting quality but always in a straight line. Movement is about half the speed of a small plane. I am a retired Psychologist and my wife is an airplane buff. She was initially in the house and only saw the last 4.
June 10, 2016 · 11:30 PM · SPHERE
Chino, CA
On 6-10-2016 @ approx. 23:30, 5 orange lights swarmed into the sky in front of us to the south of Chino, Calif., and kind of maintained an orbit, almost hovering for several minutes, then a couple of the orange lights just disappeared as 3 more appeared followed by 2 more. I thought at first it looked like helicopters no noise all of the lights just vanished. There was a minimum of air traffic which is unusual since approach for LAX is in that path. Shortly thereafter air traffic seemed to resume and noticed some high flying aircraft criss-crossing in the skies above jet sounding like military.
June 8, 2016 · 8:30 PM · SPHERE
Indio, CA
Saw 3 huge red-glowing lights coming over the North Indio Hills.. heading East to West.. later turned into traditional white light orbs in sky...disappeared heading Northwest
June 7, 2016 · 11:15 PM · SPHERE
Fall Creek, OR
Earlier tonight, me and my other half were out camping in the woods.. just as the sun set our electronics that were playing music started making a slight pop sound.. then it would stop and start again after a bit.. then as the sun went down and we crawled into bed which was around 10:30pm 6/7/16--we were laying in bed and looking at the sky and stars and noticed some stars that were moving in some very strange ways.. they were jerkey and fast and moved in all different directions.. then as we layed there and watched it. the crafts came to a dead stop and broke aprart into 3 other objects and were all moving in different directions but they stayed some what close to each other but yet were moving all around.. i looked at my other half and said you seen that right.. and he said YES.. so we layed there and kept watching... Now rember we have clear skys tonight... the sky was very visable.. just as we started to talk about what we seen bright flashes of a bright, white light started... after the sencond bright flash we packed up our car and got the hell away.. as we were paking in a mad rush there were 4 more flashes of the light and it seemed like it was getting closer each time.. as we were driving away we seen 2 more flashes in the same area... i dunno what in the hell is out there but its scared 2 full grown adults with guns and weapons and a dog.... oohh and the whole time while this was going on the dog was scared which hes a big tough black lab but what ever it was spooked him.. anyways if you wanna hear more in detail please contact me..
June 6, 2016 · 4:20 PM · SPHERE
Quaker Hill, CT
((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) Hi yes! I was standing in my driveway, looking up at my gutter, when I noticed something just above the house. What caught my attention was the glare that came off of it, kinda like the way the sun reflects off a plane . As I'm watching it , it seemed as tho it was descending toward the ground. It was orb shaped, silver metallic in color, no sound coming from or following it. I was watching this object for a good 45 seconds and then it just disappeared. After it was gone, I scanned the sky to see if I noticed any planes or anything else, but there was nothing! It was a clear sky, no clouds around. No wind at all. It was approximately 4:20 in the afternoon. ((END ADDENDUM))
June 6, 2016 · 4:30 AM · SPHERE
Mohave Valley, AZ
At first I thought it was a planet or star, but as soon as I looked hard it moved slow at first to the right, then accelerated sideways, then stopped and barely moving. My wife at this time also witnessed the object. We tried to film it but it was to far in the distance. Note the most disturbing thing about this object was it at least three times emitted some sort of light under it that appeared to go to the ground where very small almost unseen dots of lights moving to the underside of the object. After observing the UFO for twenty minutes, or so, it just vanished.
June 4, 2016 · 9:35 PM · SPHERE
Lakeland, FL
Approximately 21:35, June 4, 2016, a group of what appeared to be some type of aircraft passed over the camping area at Sun ‘n Fun, Lakeland, Florida. Four of us saw approximately 40 to 50 orange orb shaped objects proceed from south to north. The sighting lasted about 15 minutes, starting with large group, then appearing on the southern horizon in smaller groups. Some photos, but only on phone, not good quality.
June 3, 2016 · 11:45 PM · SPHERE
North Adams, MA
((ADDENDA FROM SOURCE OF REPORT)) 1. The date of the sighting was the third. I apologize for the typo. 2. As for an illustration, I will email it to you shortly. I am hoping to go back to where I saw the craft(s) on Friday night to see if I can get a photograph of the craft(s). 3. This is a rough illustration of what I saw. Each orb emitted bright light. ((END ADDENDA))
June 1, 2016 · 6:00 PM · SPHERE
Mechanicsburg, PA
It was the summer of 2016, and I was walking my now deceased, male American Eskimo, Frosty, in our Fairwinds development. Frosty began barking and I looked up in the sky and saw a large disc shaped object, with flashing multi-colored lights, that appeared to have windows, hovering over me. It followed me, at close range, in slow motion. I tried to get the attention of neighbors, but no one was home. While following me, the object traveled from side to side and up and down and this continued for about 10 minutes. Then suddenly, it sped across the sky, out of sight with lightning speed. I had never seen anything like it, and it definitely was not a traditional aircraft. I remember calling TV stations to report what I saw and asked if anyone reported anything similar, but nothing had been reported.
June 1, 2016 · 1:30 PM · SPHERE
Cambridge (Canada), ON · Canada
A glowing blue sphere, moving at very high speed, then stopped and hovered for about 1 minute. I hit it with a high power hand held laser pointer it avoided the laser beam moving in a zigzag back and forth motion, then started moving behind the trees and took off like a shooting star and made a sonic boom.
May 31, 2016 · 6:00 PM · SPHERE
Pittsburgh (near), PA
I was flying in a plane was descending to Pittsburgh Airport and was looking out the window. I was looking forward out the window and saw a sphere approaching the plane going the opposite direction, moving fast, since we were going in the direct opposite. My first thought was, what is that up here, then it was abreast of the wing, then gone. I had a good look as it was close to the plane. Round looking slightly reddish with one antenna sticking out that I could see and appeared to have others wrapped around the sphere. It was not smooth in that sense. The whole event was a second or so but caught my attention. I didn't say anything to the crew, as I departed, though I wanted to ask.
May 30, 2016 · 10:15 PM · SPHERE
Elyria, OH
My husband, neighbor, and myself were star gazing...Coming directly out of the west, was a bright amber sphere with one white smaller sphere on each side of the craft. There was no sound to the craft. The altitude was 2000ft, moving very slow. There were no navigation lights on the craft as seen on a plane (red and green). When the craft went over head and towards the east, we could see white circular motion lights moving around the craft. These lights were very small. The craft moved northeast and it was gone. Description of our background: My husband is a machinist in research and development. I'm retired from working in a biology lab. My neighbor works in landscaping and is a Boy Scout leader.
May 30, 2016 · 9:15 PM · SPHERE
Palm Coast, FL
Sitting on balcony and observed a faint, reddish object in NE sky. Thought it was Mars at first, but realized it was in wrong position. Then the object commenced moving in a Southerly direction and broke out of the clouds as a definite glowing orange ball, travelling at a high rate of speed toward the Southeast. It continued on a Southeasterly course over the ocean until it disappeared from sight. It was a definite fully formed orange ball, reminiscent of a tennis ball. At no time did it blink, flash or change its form or strength while it remained visible.
May 30, 2016 · 9:11 PM · SPHERE
Central Square, NY
It moved from straight overhead to beyond the trees, I ran beyond the trees and looked around in the sky, it was gone, no trace. I felt amazed/surprised at seeing this. I lost sight of it behind the trees and then I ran behind them and looked around in the sky it was gone. About 30 seconds or about 1 minute long, not longer. I saw it in the binoculars and it was bright as or brighter than Jupiter. We have corrected the time above. PD
May 29, 2016 · 10:45 PM · SPHERE
Lynden, WA
Three red, yellow spherical objects flickering and pulsating; larger than an airplane lights; in a triangular formation flying in the night sky from south to north followed by two of the same types of lights all five flying in the same path, faster then an airplane.