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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
April 1, 2016 · 8:45 PM · SPHERE
Kalispell, MT
We watched 5 orange, sphere orbs come from the South West and travel towards the East. There were 2 groups. The first with 4 orbs, the second with 1. They seemed to reach a certain spot in the sky, then disappear. They were moving a bit slower than an airplane might move. One orb seemed to quit moving for a second or two.
April 1, 2016 · 8:00 PM · SPHERE
Sun City West, AZ
While taking my nightly walk I looked up and saw what looked like a massive pale orange ball falling slowly straight down in the sky. It left a short trail and I thought it was a meteor, until it got to the horizon and exploded into 5 orbs which seemed to move in a controlled way. They stayed equal distance apart and one was moving slightly up, they seemed to float for about 30 seconds and stayed the same distance apart from eachother. They then fell below the trees and less than a minute later there was a flash as if they hit the Earth and exploded. We attempted to contact the witness by telephone, but her telephone does not have a voice mailbox that has been set up, yet. Possible hoax. PD
March 30, 2016 · 1:30 PM · SPHERE
Sacramento, CA
While sitting at a light facing westbound Arden Avenue, I looked up at the white clouds and noticed a small object that was hovering and then slowly moving towards the southeast. As I watch this object move I got my video recorder on my cell phone out and recorded this object moving after a while it would stay hovering and looked like it was changing shapes and then it would travel westbound again and then it went a vertical a little bit because I was in traffic I couldn't sit for very long in the driveways that I was blocking as I was filming this. After I got home and reviewing the video frame by frame I noticed that there were several objects one a triangle and another is sphere. Several objects went whizzing by that I did not see with my own eyes but on video you could see them going by much closer than the object that was in the sky. These were not Birds because I did Capture One bird and it looked completely different which was much larger.
March 29, 2016 · 11:01 PM · SPHERE
Irondequoit, NY
After looking further we counted up to seven. They all exhibited the same characteristics: Flashing, multi-color lights and at a great distance and altitude. They were so high they appeared to be stationary until we noticed that they were moving to the west. We witnessed through binoculars which showed the lights changing. Initially, I chalked it up to low orbit satellites reflecting the sun but discovered a video on youtube shot in San Francisco the same evening showing one of the exact same objects we viewed - link here https://youtu.be/DVNhpxKjULg
March 29, 2016 · 10:15 PM · SPHERE
Myrtle Beach, SC
Yesterday (03/28/16) and today (03/29/16) we were standing on our balcony and pin-hole flashes of light appeared in the sky in a random, twinkling pattern. Orange orbs also appeared several times, moving side to side and in patterns across the sky at a high rate of speed. This evening, the same thing occurred. The orange orbs appeared in the sky for 2-12 seconds at a time. Most vividly were four orange orbs that appeared flashing one at a time, in a straight line in the sky. Then they disappeared as quickly as they came.
March 29, 2016 · 6:25 AM · SPHERE
Port Saint Lucie, FL
Driving to work I saw a green spherical object with orange and yellow sparks coming off of it about 200 ft high, slightly angled towards the ground, then it disappeared behind the trees. It was heading West to East over PGA village, Glades Cutoff Road. Possible meteor?? PD
March 28, 2016 · 10:30 PM · SPHERE
Islamabad (Pakistan), Pakistan
9 red-orange spheres witnessed by two people flying overhead from northwest to northeast. Went to the roof of house around 22:30. There wasn't any considerable wind. The first thing that caught my eye was a glowing sphere coming from northwest and disappearing into a patch of clouds at northeast. 7 or 8 more followed it with 1 minute interval, following almost the same path but with varying speeds and altitudes. Their motion was steady and were about half a mile away. The objects in question glowed like a street light lamp and moved without a sound. The ones to see it were me and a neighbour, none had a mobile/camera and couldn't capture any picture,though on searching similar ufo sightings, they closely resembled the ufo fireball phenomenon. During the passing of this 'fleet' 5/6 jets passed southeast to southwest, but they couldn't possibly be chasing the objects. Could not have been helicopters, or any other thing known to us.
March 27, 2016 · 5:00 PM · SPHERE
Los Angeles, CA
At exactly 5:50pm we were flying over what it seemed Inglewood, I saw a metallic sphere flying past our airplane. It was round, shiny, looked like it had markings on the side.
March 26, 2016 · 11:40 PM · SPHERE
Oklahoma City, OK
Me and son were driving by the state capitol and saw a red light in the sky to the east. The light was the top half of a sphere. The object was bright orange and phased out after we looked at it for about 10 seconds. The moon was to the south of the object.
March 26, 2016 · 11:30 PM · SPHERE
Pelican, AK
I work at the bar in town and when me and my wife went outside to go home I smelled something burning. We went and looked for the source couldn't Fidel the source. Turned around and a flash that was just over the houses in town. Then the light went away and got smaller. We walked home which was close and could still see it. Stood out on the porch and watched it come back towards us. It then looked like 5 other red dots around the main body of light, which then shot of in different directions, and disappeared. Then it shot off white balls of light that kept moving fast in a lower elevation, down the Inlet and over the house. Several people then showed up with our son. We then called next door. That family came out and watched. I flipped the porch light off and on and the main ball reacted. Then the neighbor brought out a high powered flash light and went down to the beach and waved it around. The main ball of light definitely moved toward him and stopped and backed up and moved closer again, like it hesitated. It went a great distance. It then retreated and finely left.
March 26, 2016 · 8:15 PM · SPHERE
Sarasota, FL
These objects are similar to two orange orbs that were seen over a month ago in the general area.
March 26, 2016 · 9:50 AM · SPHERE
IdentifiedGrasse, Provence Alpes Cote d'azur · France
Le 26 mars 2016 (et non le 26 septembre comme indiqué dans le texte libre) entre 09h50 et 09h55, le témoin depuis un parking suit l'évolution d'un objet sphérique et brillant qui passe au-dessus de la ville. Il décrit une sphère qui rejoint deux autres "boules". L'ensemble vole alors en escadrille, avant d'être rejoint par une quatrième "boule". Elles disparaissent ensemble hors de la vue du témoin cachées par les immeubles environnants. Un seul témoignage sera recueilli. La description du cas d'observation faite par le témoin laisse à penser de prime abord à des hélicoptères. Au sud de la ville de GRASSE à 12 km environ, dans la direction d'ailleurs indiquée par le témoin, il existe un centre de formation au pilotage d'hélicoptères, situé à proximité des pistes de l'aérodrome de CANNES-MANDELIEU-LA NAPOULE. Un appel téléphonique à l'entreprise AZUR HELICO a permis de confirmer cette hypothèse : en effet, son responsable a affirmé à l'enquêteur après de rapides recherches « qu’au moins 3 appareils étaient en vol » avec des instructeurs, ce samedi matin 26 mars 2016 et à l'heure de l'observation soit entre 9h30/10h00. L’étrangeté perçue par le témoin réside dans la forme sphérique des éléments observés. Il faut savoir qu’à des fins de formation, AZUR HELICO dispose dans sa flotte aérienne, de plusieurs hélicoptères de Type R 22 et/ou de Type CABRI G2. Or ces 2 types de petits hélicoptères de formation, lorsqu'ils sont vus de face prennent bien l'aspect de sphères et sans doute même de coté au regard de la finesse de leur queue. Leur couleur est bien foncée, et le soleil les éclairant pouvant leur donner l’aspect « brillant » décrit par le témoin. Si la vitesse de déplacement semble rapide pour le témoin, il faut savoir que ces engins volent à 180 km/h. L’absence de bruit est aussi un élément qui semble avoir intrigué : or le témoin se situait à proximité de l’hôpital de Grasse, lieu pas particulièrement bruyant certes (« des bruits de circulation des véhicules ») mais suffisamment sans aucun doute, pour ne pas percevoir la finesse de certains sons : de plus les hélicoptères étaient a priori bien au Sud, par conséquent leur son pouvait être beaucoup plus atténué (à la différence d’un témoin qui se trouverait juste dessous), avec qui plus est un son non-porté par le vent. Par ailleurs des normes limitant la pollution sonore sont de mise dans cette zone densément peuplée et les R 22 ou CABRI G2 ne sont pas particulièrement bruyants. En outre, s’il y avait eu autre chose dans le ciel à ce moment-là, cela n’aurait pas manqué d’être mentionné par d’autres personnes (zone peuplée) et notamment par les instructeurs en vol. Or tel n’est pas le cas. Finalement, le temps d’observation de 15 secondes est vraiment très court pour bien appréhender le phénomène, tel un vol d’hélicoptères qui s’éloignaient en direction de Mandelieu-la-Napoule et disparaissant de sa vue, cachés par les immeubles environnants. Le GEIPAN classe ce cas en A : méprise certaine avec un vol d’hélicoptères. [GEIPAN classification A — Hélicoptère]
March 25, 2016 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Kirkland/Kenmore, WA
My girlfriend and I (during our college spring break) were driving near my home in Kenmore, WA, at around 9:50 PM. All of a sudden, we spotted strange lights overhead. We started freaking out because of how eerie these lights looked, and we opened the doors and got out of the car several times to take pictures and look at the lights. They were orange and very illuminated, sphere shaped, and were "floating" in a certain pattern in the sky. They seemed to be clustered into triangular formations, 3 in each triangle. All in all, around 15 lights were seen, maybe more, and no more than 7 or so lights at any given time. The lights vanished at different places, and when I say "vanished," I don't mean they simply faded instantaneously. When they would disappear, my girlfriend and I could both clearly see the back of each light when the front would vanish, almost like they were "sucked into a portal." While that sounds corny, it's the only analogy I can really think of. During the entirety of the sighting, all sound was noticeably quieter, almost as if it were being suppressed, with the exception of an odd rippling sound coming from an unknown source. The window on the driver’s side of my 2006 Trailblazer wouldn't roll down during the sighting, and has been faulty since. A plane was spotted flying near the lights during the middle of the event, and about a minute or two after the last light disappeared, another plane flew in the direction the lights were headed, this time at a speed faster than a plane normally flies. All of the lights were going exactly west, towards the! Puget Sound. The final lights were seen shortly after 10:00 PM. Throughout the encounter, both I and my girlfriend were freaking out. My girlfriend was scared during the entirety of the sighting, and I was on edge as well. While neither of us have any background or extensive knowledge about any types of aircraft, we both agreed we had never seen anything like it. I have one good video taken via snapchat, and while it shows several of the lights, it doesn't even come close to what the real encounter was like. During the video, you can see one of the lights "accelerate" as some of the lights would do, then disappear.
March 25, 2016 · 5:30 PM · SPHERE
Fairbanks, AK
Lens flare confirmed. We have assigned an arbitrary time. PD
March 23, 2016 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
Meadow Creek, KY
As I took the dogs out for their last break of the evening before bed (11:00pm), I was on the front porch admiring the full moon and noticed a red-orange sphere coming over the ridge from the southwest. The dogs were scared and wanted back in the house quickly. I thought at first it was a helicopter but then realized that there were no running lights and absolutely no noise. I called for my husband to come see it. As it passed overhead to the northeast, it eventually got smaller until it was gone. It wasn’t but a few moments before two more started over the ridge one by one. Hubby got his camera and took photos of the spheres. As they disappeared into the northwest night sky, another would appear over the ridge. We witnessed 9 of these red-orange spheres in total within 15-20 minutes; each one of them moving at different speeds, in slightly different trajectories, and their red-orange color would change as they flew overhead. We tried to come up with logical sources, like Chinese lanterns or emergency flares, but upon closer inspection of the photos it was clear that they couldn’t have been either of those things. Hubby also took photos of the aircraft in the night sky and the spheres looked very different. The camera batteries were drained but the camera continued working. *We will email photos. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and she reports that the prevailing wind, at the time of the sighting, was from the west-northwest. She says that they live in a very rural area, and that there are fire warnings in place in her community. Therefore, she believes that the objects were not so-called "Chinese" lanterns. PD
March 22, 2016 · 10:20 PM · SPHERE
Ocean Isle Beach, NC
I stepped out onto my second-floor porch, facing 260 degrees West, at approximately 10:20 p.m. ET. Just to my right, I noticed 6 small, but bright lights, like “strobes”, the brightness of LED-type white lights. They were lined up one behind the other, not in a straight line, but in a broken pattern, still flashing quickly. I assume this was due to deviation in altitude or alignment on one side or the other. If you picture a straight line, then they would look like one above, one below, etc. They were not in a tight formation. There was some distance between them. I would estimate that they were no more than a quarter mile in front of me and an approximate altitude of 2,500 feet, give or take. (This is a little harder for me to establish.) They were moving from North to South, at a steady pace. After observing for about 20 seconds, and questioning myself as to what they were, I opened the door and called for my friend to come outside. He came straight out and the last two were just to my left, and no longer right in front of me. All told, about 45 seconds. We watched them continue about 177-180 degrees South, toward the beach. It is about a .2-mile walk to the water‘s edge. (This island, the next to last on the southern NC coast is no more than one-half mile wide at any point, and actually runs East-West. It is less than 20 miles above the NC/SC state line and probably less, as the crow flies.) We watched them until they could no longer be seen from our vantage point. The street is lined with two and three-story houses on both sides and some with palms out front. I must add that the western atmosphere was completely clear, no clouds whatsoever. There is a street light outside, and, although the artificial lights do not allow the beauty of all the evening stars, it did not interfere with what we observed. It was about 63 degrees and the wind was approximately 10 mph, S to N/NW. We then went through the house to the back porch, facing East, but turning our attention South. My friend went down the back staircase to the seawall and stood about 35 feet away from where I was standing on the steps. Within a minute we began to see the lights again, as they were now moving West to East. We did not have a great vantage point though, as they were emerging from behind rooftops and there was a slight cloud cover looking South. Now their appearance was in a “soup”. However, we continued to watch and in another minute or two, there appeared a large and somewhat muted yellow-orange orb or light, I expect due to the cloud cover. This was at approximately 160 degrees South and high above the rooftops. It wasn’t completely round…almost like a fat tear-drop…lighter, pale yellow, at the top and more of a light orange around the bottom. It was illuminated for about 2 - 2.5 seconds. In about 5 - 7 seconds, another one appeared to the right, but was somewh! at smaller, and appeared for about 2 seconds. About 30 seconds later, my friend could see only 3 of the lights, now moving West, still in formation. The houses along the beach blocked his view. He then walked through the yard to the front and stood in the street. Still, the houses blocked his view. He stated that they were at a lower altitude. I continued to watch toward the South, but nothing. However, within about 3-4 minutes, a red light appeared from that area (about 140 degrees SE), from behind the cloud cover, and turned Southeast to North. It was at a higher altitude, and farther away. It was traveling very slow. I could not detect any other color than red. My friend had come back through the house to the back and I pointed out the red light that had appeared. I watched it off-and-on for at least 6-8 minutes. Nothing else happened. It was still traveling on a northern path when I came inside about 10:45 - 10:50 p.m. ET. At that point the red light was at about 30 degrees North. (My back door face 80 degrees East.)
March 21, 2016 · 11:55 PM · SPHERE
Westminster, MD
While outside with my dog me and my uncle were talking, I look and see a very bright "star" looking object moving very slowly toward the moon, rainbow looking trail/tail on top side. Slowly orbits for well over 20 minutes, no flashing lights, higher than any plane or helicopter. Disappeared while watching it. Captured video on phone camera
March 21, 2016 · 11:15 PM · SPHERE
Hampton, VA
Observed single green stationery light, after about 2 minutes light changed to red and began moving Northwest. Not blinking, stayed solid, no noise and moved at a good speed. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
March 21, 2016 · 1:00 PM · SPHERE
Albuquerque, NM
Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
March 20, 2016 · 7:30 PM · SPHERE
Canton, MI
March 20th 7:30 to 7:45 I was on my phone talking with my girlfriend driving due west down joy rd in Wayne county, Mi. The sky was clear, pink and blue as the sun set. I made a comment to her on what I thought was Venus ((sic. Jupiter)) making an appearance in the evening sky. I thought it odd for it should be in the East. The UFO was 45 degrees 55 degrees off the horizon due West and holding still. I made a mental note of 2 aircraft. The 1st a passenger jet flying due east at high elevation (Contrail) full visibility less than 100 miles out and closing fast with UFO off its South/East at the 1st planes 2 o’clock and at a lower ceiling.(UFO). Pilots had to see it. 2nd passenger jet was flying due North West at lower altitude full visibility of it in forefront climbing and closing in at 30 miles out. UFO would be maybe 80 miles due North/West of 2nd plane at a slight elevation to 2nd plane 10’oclock. Pilots had to see it. So as stated the UFO looked like VENUS bright and clear light. But when it dimmed which at first I thought maybe a light skim of cloud pass through it, I noticed it “Twinkling” the light it look as if it was rotating left to right. It grew bright again and then I thought Venus does “Not Twinkle” like a star. All the time I was giving play by play to my girlfriend on the phone. As both planes closed in on the UFO air space it just went dark, turnoff, disappeared, and vanished!!!! Just was not there anymore!!! It did not fly off it just went it to Cloaking mode. My original Face Book post 20 March at 20:08 Okay I thought I would share this with you all about 20 minutes ago I was driving due West and noticed a bright shiny light that I thought was Venus in the Western sky it kind of faded out and then got bright again. I thought it was the clouds fading out Venus in the Western sky but then the two planes that were flying in that direction got in view and the bright white light disappeared it wasn't Venus I saw in the Western sky and it sure wasn't a reflection of some plain headlight because it was way too big I thought it was the planet Venus, but I think I just saw a UFO it was a white bright orb and it disappear just like that !!!!!!!!!!!!
March 20, 2016 · 1:26 AM · SPHERE
Albuquerque, NM
Best description of the objects was two orange orbs about twice the size as Venus and Mars. My first thought was I was looking at planets Venus and Mars. They appeared to be moving, and I referenced to a roof point on the house next door, and they were moving way too fast to be planets. They appeared to be moving east over Albuquerque, towards the southern end of the Sandia Mountains. Within a minute and a half, the one orange orb to my right disappeared, and within 30 seconds, or more, the second orange orb gradually faded out. The orbs were a continuous dull orange in color as they moved without any flashing of color.
March 18, 2016 · 9:35 PM · SPHERE
Grants Pass, OR
Was outside last night locking the outbuildings and having a smoke. Saw a yellow flame moving slowly from the east right at the (partial) cloud level. Thought it was a meteor at first, but the flame kept going. It headed towards a almost stationary green thing, about as bright as a big star, and they appeared to circle each other and headed lazily south. Then two more "flames" came from the east, one after the other, and followed the green "star" and first "flame" which was much brighter than the rest. The brightest one illuminated the clouds a little, the rest were above the clouds and didn't illuminate them. They continued slowly south until they disappeared from view due to clouds & mountains. Don't think these were Chinese lanterns (but I've never seen one) because they were moving contrary to the clouds. Clouds were moving towards the NNE at the time. There is a commercial air corridor here, but the aircraft only go north and south. Took a phone video of the last part of the event when they were moving away, but it's poor quality, all that can be seen are white dots.
March 18, 2016 · 4:40 PM · SPHERE
Ludlow, MA
While heading east on Mass Pike in Ludlow on 3/18/16, at approximately 4:40 PM, I noticed silverfish small round shape object in the sky on the right (one o'clock). It was clearly visible against a dark blue cloud, near a bow of rainbow, which originally drew my attention to that spot in the sky. I shortly noticed a second such object closer to the center of the view, and later two more on the left side. The objects disappeared very shortly. It started raining and no more sightings happen after that. Upon reviewing the recording form my dash cam, I saw not the four objects but numerous like flashing briefly objects showing up and disappearing very fast in that area. The quality of the recording sadly is not that great.
March 17, 2016 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Stamford, CT
My husband called as he was approaching home to tell me to come outside with two of our children to take a look at some strange, bright lights that he observed over our area. We live on the Long Island sound in an area called Westcot Cove. A short walk down to the beach area, we can see clear across to Long Island. These lights were orb shaped and very bright. My husband initially stated that he saw about 5 at first hovering over the area at a seemingly low altitude. By the time we ran out and approached the beach, we saw about 3. They traveled very tightly together and made no noise, came down a bit lower over the sound and headed towards Long Island seemingly side by side. Once over Long Island, they just hovered very brightly. One of the lights eventually dimmed and went out as did another. One remained bright the entire time. I started to think maybe they were helicopters but the brightness of the lights and the way they moved so closely together confused us all quite a bit. Even when they moved away from us towards LI, they just seemed like balls of light.. Light all around. We wound up leaving as the one remained and continued to hover around. Maybe someone will post what it was by morning. Also, a dog in the area along the sound starting making a god awful howl while we were observing this.