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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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January 28, 2016 · 8:15 PM · SPHERE
Ayer/Harvard, MA
I was westbound on rte 2, somewhere between exit 39 and 37, when I saw three slow moving reddish orange orbs traveling north. At first I thought thy were planes or helicopters because this is an area it's not unusual to see air traffic. Typically when I have seen a red light in the sky, it's blinking and as I get closer I can see it has a white light and is a plane which as what I thought these were at first but these were different the were completely orangeish red and the didn't blink the pulsed never going completely off. They were far enough away that they were a bit blurry, so I couldn't tell if they were orbs or another shape and the glow made theme appear to be orbs As I got closer to them I could see sky between them so I think they were three separate craft rather than one large triangular ones. At one point, as I got closer to them, one of the orbs in the back pulled away and moved in front of the first orb. As I started to lose sight of them, as I was between exit 38 and 37, I looked to my left and saw what looked to be three more coming up from behind some trees, but I couldn't see them for more then a couple seconds, when my exit came up. I never heard any sound and if they had been helicopters I would have.
January 25, 2016 · 6:35 PM · SPHERE
Columbia, SC
Traveling west-bound on I-20, between mile markers 30-40. Coming across the hill, a bright, white, light shown horizontally from a spherical object several hundred feet above the tree line and about a hundred feet behind a cell tower (I think it's a cell tower) that had a blinking red light. The light was BRIGHT--several times brighter than oncoming headlights. As I drove closer and under the object, the light was less bright which meant to me it was pointing horizontally, eastward toward Columbia. I didn't see any propellers or blinking side lights, which I looked for carefully. On the back of the object, there was a dim red light circle, but it was dim and barely visible. The best I can describe it is like a ring of LEDs being around a spare tire on a jeep--except the lights seemed continuous and dim. Because this was after sunset, I tried to locate a pole or suspension wires for the object (although there aren't any other objects at that height). It didn't! move, and appeared to be perfectly still.
January 25, 2016 · 5:45 AM · SPHERE
San Diego, CA
At 5:45 a.m., I went outside to observe the alignment of the 5 naked eye planets. After spotting Jupiter furthest west in the southwest sky, I observed a round object with the same brightness of Jupiter (not as bright as Venus) travelling at a steady but fast rate in front of the background stars. Because the sun was not up I could not tell if the object was in our atmosphere although it was not severely refracting light as it would if it wasn't. It appeared to be at a very high altitude and was travelling at a velocity inconsistent with the speed of commercial jets. The moving sphere was round and looked like a planet. I ran to my daughter's room so she could witness it too by the time we returned (15 seconds at most it was gone). That time period would not have been long enough for object to breach the horizon. My best explanation is that it was a high altitude military aircraft or a satellite reflecting the rising sun. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
January 24, 2016 · 5:40 PM · SPHERE
Sterling, IL
We have seen these crafts before. The orbs would appear in the same area of the sky, follow a straight line a few miles across, then disappear again. The orbs pulsed from a dark red to a bright orange. They were completely silent and they were roughly 23 of them before the last one disappeared ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) I am sorry that I forgot to mention that the sighting was at 5:40 P.M. Here are a couple of pictures and a short video. Sorry for such low quality. My phone really couldn't capture the Orange glow of the objects ((END ADDENDUM))
January 24, 2016 · 2:41 AM · SPHERE
Ridgecrest, CA
Saw unidentified orange spherical object, first witnessed at 2:48 in far southeastern sky. Watched it maintain a natural orbit until 2:51, when it reached the far northeastern sky. Object started to curve west, then wander for for a bit, before it faded out just west of Neptune from my viewpoint at 2:53 AM, flaring about two or three times before it faded. It was bright enough to capture on phone camera.
January 24, 2016 · 12:40 AM · SPHERE
Probable conventionalBeaumont-Sur-Sarthe, Pays de la Loire · France
Le dimanche 24 janvier 2016 vers 0h40 un témoin sur sa terrasse voit une boule lumineuse verte passer et s'immobiliser au milieu des arbres. Le témoin rentre chercher sa compagne et durant moins de deux minutes ils vont observer les évolutions silencieuses du phénomène. La boule se déplace au-dessus d'un terrain de foot puis fait un aller et retour très rapide avant de se diviser en 4 boules plus petites. Elles disparaissent derrière une haie proche pour réapparaitre devant. Les 4 boules vertes partent vers le NNO très rapidement. Les témoins intrigués descendent dans la rue, ne voient aucun autre témoin et ne reverront plus le phénomène. Un des témoin fait une déposition à la gendarmerie. Aucun autre témoignage ne sera recueilli. La gendarmerie indique qu'une discothèque située à 9km de la commune est équipée d'un projecteur laser : ce dernier est visible dans un rayon de 20km environ. De plus un parc éolien est implanté dans le secteur. Les témoins sont fiables et font le maximum pour bien relater ce qu'ils ont vu et vécu. Suite à une enquête sur place des vérifications sont faites (voir le compte-rendu d'enquête). Le phénomène n’est pas très étrange dans la mesure où il peut ressembler aux effets (pas toujours connus et qui peuvent donc surprendre) que produirait un petit émetteur laser vert équipé de quelques fonctions (émission d'un faisceau large, ou de plusieurs petits faisceaux) manipulé par un voisin. Les éléments récoltés ne permettent pas d'identifier l'origine du laser (sans une enquête de voisinage), mais le laser reste néanmoins la cause probable du phénomène. Le GEIPAN classe le cas en B : laser ludique. [GEIPAN classification B — Laser]
January 23, 2016 · 7:07 PM · SPHERE
Concord, CA
Shortly after 7 pm, Sat. Jan 23, my wife and I arrived home from the picture show. On the way home we talked about how bright and clear the full moon is tonight. Pulled in our driveway, got out and I took these pictures of the moon. The three pictures taken with a smart phone show a green glowing object shaped like a ball in different parts of the sky as the pictures were taken several seconds apart but from the same spot and angle towards the moon. These are original pictures and are not photo-shopped. The green light high in the sky near the moon is not a street lamp. This is just weird. What do you think it might be? Reflection off the moon in the sky or some kind of UFO? Wife is a nurse and I'm an accountant, not professional photographer or ufoers. Lens flares, caused by photographing the Moon. PD
January 21, 2016 · 11:30 PM · SPHERE
Burbank, CA
My sister and I were raised as military kids. Father was an Air Force pilot. I was a Flight Attendant for many years. I am retired and my sister is approaching retirement in the next few years. On night of 01/21/16, between 23:15 and 23:40, we were outside on west side of house. I was facing NW talking to my sister when coming from the NE traveling WNW I saw a very bright orange ball of light rapidly descending. It made no noise and left no trail. I pointed it out to my sister and we watched it for a few seconds then I turned to my left to observe the full moon to try to get a size comparison. It was slightly larger than the full moon and very bright. The closest color comparison would be terracotta with a little more yellow added. We watched it continue to descend for several more seconds then I went into the house to get my cell phone to try to get a video. My sister continued to watch. She went from the backyard, to front yard, to street to watch its descent. By the time I got back it was gone. She said it went out of sight. Our street runs N to W and she said she lost sight of it right over the street facing west.
January 21, 2016 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Skokie, IL
Started from afar then was getting closer, I left just for a minute or two and when I went back it was gone. Witness submits several very good photos. PD
January 20, 2016 · 7:00 PM · SPHERE
Montpelier, VT
First, it was one flashing red orb, about the same size as a star. Then another one appeared to the right of it. As both flashed, one disappeared, then another one appeared, further to the right of the second. For a moment all three were there then all vanished, one by one. A few minutes later more appeared, as many as 5 or 6 at a time in the sky, near each other but not connected. They would disappear and reappear in a fashion that made it seem as though they were moving further off to the south in the sky until they disappeared beyond the treeline. A little later, two non-commercial planes flew off in that direction. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
January 19, 2016 · 5:45 AM · SPHERE
Mississauga, ON · Canada
SO the following day after the massive flash over the airport, i kept my eye on the skies. And while on my way toward the exit for the 427 to head down into toronto i saw this glowing orb in the skies off to the right of the highway. Its glow reminded me of a road flare, as there was a slight movement or flicker to it. it was orange-ish in color. I knew this was the same thing i saw the night before, so since traffic was slow as it always was i leaned as far forward as i could to keep eyes on this orb as i proceeded in traffic. Ultimately i followed it for maybe a minute until i saw it move down and in front of this building - 2810 Matheson Blvd E, Mississauga, ON L4W 4X7, Canada - its the brown/copper ish colored building with the credit union sign. The light moved down so that it was a few floors down from the top of the building and moved slowly across the building from right to left. Suddenly i witnessed it flash bright and vanish. It was then totally gone without a trace. it didnt flash as brightly as the one from the night before however, the flash was much weaker and more subtle, but it was there.
January 18, 2016 · 5:40 AM · SPHERE
Mississauga, ON · Canada
I was driving to work and was stuck in slow traffic on the 401. It was still dark as it was winter in canada and the sun doesn’t rise so early, but due to the airport being off to my left there was ambient light that lit up the low and dense cloud cover above the airport. I was driving when suddenly this bright spot of light caught my eye above the airport just below the base of the blanket of clouds in the sky. It got just up into where I could see some cloud mist between me and it, though it wasn't anywhere near "in" the clouds yet. Then BAM the brightest flash and it was gone. I recall residual light bounce through the clouds kept the spot illuminated enough after the flash that I could see there was no debris or anything falling. I verbally yelled out expletive's when I saw the flash because it was insanely bright and surprising. I was in heavy traffic so maybe thousands would have seen it along with me. That was it. I was shocked and thought about the event throughout the rest of that day at work. The light the 'orb' emitted was bright white. All I can say was it was kind of light how a lightbulb burns out, where it flashes bright and then its dead.
January 15, 2016 · 10:00 AM · SPHERE
Desert Center, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
January 14, 2016 · 6:25 PM · SPHERE
Antioch, IL
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
January 14, 2016 · 6:20 PM · SPHERE
Antioch, IL
Spotted 8-10 glowing orange orbs in formation, with a leading triangle and the rest side by side heading West to East then turning North. The orbs appeared over the Antioch, IL, downtown area. Saw them for at least 3 minutes, until we drove out of line of sight. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
January 12, 2016 · 8:30 PM · SPHERE
Lake Havasu City, AZ
At 20:30 we let the dogs out to go to the bathroom. In the sky above us we noticed a large orange sphere traveling from North to south east. After viewing for three minutes it fast disappeared. My wife tried to take a moving picture with her phone and was right on it, after she tried to play it back and there was no picture at all, just one flash and nothing.
January 12, 2016 · 7:48 AM · SPHERE
Wichita, KS
At 7:45 am, my dad and I were leaving our house to take my children to school. One of them points up to the sky and says "Hey! Cool! Look at that plane!" We all looked and saw an airplane leaving a contrail lit up by the rising sun. It was amazingly defined, you could see both lines in the contrail. Then as my dad was driving after we pulled out of our drive, I kept watching this contrail and noticed a disturbance in part of it and pointed it out to him and that's when we both saw an orb-like white thing next to the contrail. The disturbance I can only describe as it looked like it was almost swirling! The orb was too big to be a star. From my perspective it looked like it was right by the contrail. It moved in a figure 8. I noticed it looked as if one side of the contrail was straight as normal while the other made a curvy wwww-shaped line the whole length of it. All of a sudden, the contrail started dissipating! Almost instantaneously! It was then the orb thing made a 90 degree turn and shot off so fast I lost sight of it.
January 9, 2016 · 9:30 PM · SPHERE
Bainbridge Island, WA
2 shimmering red lights flying slowly close together in a formation about 500 ft difference in altitude. No strobe lights like an aircraft. After witnessing for about 10 minutes they disappeared. From the island they looked to be about 3000 ft up and 10 miles N by NW.
January 7, 2016 · 5:15 PM · SPHERE
Candler, NC
I was conducting a safety audit outside the shipping and receiving yard on the property of the company where I work in Candler, NC and I looked up and noticed a cluster of black circles or spheres. They were about 8 to 10 of the spheres all the same size, all black, some were slightly scattered from the cluster pack, some higher and lower and spend out, but all close together. The height I would guess was about 3 to 4 thousand feet above ground and they were travelling across the sky east to west at a speed of about 50 miles per hours – I’m guessing. At first I thought it was a flock of birds, but no flapping of wings, maybe a cluster of black balloons, no, moving too deliberate and at a the same height and speed during the whole time I watched them. Maybe a balloon powered micro lite, never heard of one and no engine sound coming from it. It appeared to gain height to cross over a nearby mountain. ???
January 6, 2016 · 7:00 PM · SPHERE
Goliad, TX
Adult male sighted an orange orb in northwest sky of Goliad County, Texas, on January 6, 2016, 7:00 p.m... It was 316 degrees on a phone compass. Using a protractor with it squared, the orb was 20 degrees from the horizon. Using the thumb as measurement, it appeared to be the diameter of a man’s thumb…approximately 5/8 inch. Appearing to move slowly northerly, then at once, it speeded up and disappeared due north….visible for only a couple of seconds. Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
January 4, 2016 · 6:30 PM · SPHERE
Roberts County, SD
Just after sundown, in evening chores, my fiance and I were returning to the house, when directly north, at approximately 35 degrees above the horizon, I noticed a very bright white light that appeared, in a slow illumination, like one would see with a roman candle effect. I blinked in thinking my eyes were playing tricks on me and it was gone. We decided to go for a walk and as we were trying to ascertain what I had just seen, we both witnessed about 3 minutes later the same white slow flash of light, which was now about 70 degrees in the sky, and had moved closer to us, having moved at a southwest direction. We both noted as the light faded, that a very small pin prick light was still visible at the center. There are commercial jets in this area which is flyover country, and this was moving at a higher speed than they would, and seemed to coast as the light faded. The light appeared again in the bright illumination, followed by the pin prick of light and then it completely disappeared. The direction was north by northeast. This was not a commercial craft in it did not have running lights. It was the size each time of a rural neon security light approximately a mile away in viewing, which would be about 5 times brighter than the brightest star. There was not any sound or any other features of this object, which changed course and direction. The light was not an illumination light either as in military craft have in landing strobes as it did not project. It was pretty like a falling star, but meteors do not change course or wink in and wink out.
January 2, 2016 · 8:00 PM · SPHERE
Meridian, ID
Orange amber colored orbs slowly drifting, approaching from NE, then changing direction to west, slowing fading out. Called second witness (lives within a mile) who confirmed sighting as well. Two airplanes flew by during sighting, one of which (a single engine prop) flew underneath the formation.
January 1, 2016 · 11:32 PM · SPHERE
Branchland, WV
We were all just standing out by our campfire near the river in the local area when I saw something come over the horizon just as it was getting dark. It made no sound was very low, but seemed small in size no bigger than a small mini coop or something around that size. But the speed was at least 3x faster than any jet engine I have ever seen there was no vapor trail or anything just the orb of white it-self and the speed with no sound which was what caught my attention. Because usually when a jet flies over you know it and it leaves a very loud sound but this thing nothing zooming around in ways I couldn't imagine. An aircraft doing complete 90 degree turns yeah right no plane does that at full speed I am 100 percent positive this was a UFO and I also have 6 others who will admit the same. I have no idea but I have experienced other encounters as well a lot closer scarier ones which I won't get into because this isn't the place for it and it has me concerned about my safety and that is why I am reporting it here. Because I have now seen them near my home in the sky and its kind of scaring me. -- Thanks Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
January 1, 2016 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
Windermere, FL
While going on a night walk with my friend I noticed something from the corner of my eye, as I turned to look at it I noticed it was hovering next to one of the apartment buildings in my neighborhood. It was hovering next to the second floor window, on the side of the building, and as I looked at it directly it immediately moved to the right, now at what is essentially the 3 floor level but only further away. Then it moved again back to the left and was now hovering near the gutter on the roof of the building before making a curve like motion back behind the rooftop and out of sight, maneuvering in a matter of 3-4 seconds before disappearing entirely. Each time the object moved with such speed it would appear as a blur when moving. It zigged and zagged at incredible speeds, it would move, come to a full stop suddenly. Now when I say suddenly I mean unlike anything I've seem before. My friend who comes from Haiti said that he has indeed seen these objects bef! ore, and it was his belief that it was a spirit or something supernatural. I come from ohio, born and raised in the USA and I don't believe it was a spirit or ghost, simply because of how it maneuvered and stopped. The object was blue, spherical in shape and about 2-3 feet in diameter. The 'ball' was very bright like a small star, however I noticed that not the building next to it, or the tree, or the grass below was illuminated what so ever by this object despite it being very bright when looked at directly.