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December 23, 2015 · 10:30 PM · SPHERE
Oklahoma City, OK
Eight red ball of light flew together, low, just above the tree line. The lights passed across Council Rd., heading West. I saw them just before I turned West, into my Addition. I watched them and kept an eye on them as I passed each block. Looking South down each street I passed; they were there. I accelerated to 45 MPH to get home and retrieve my camera. They kept up with my speed. I turned South onto my street, I saw them flying slowly over the trees at the end of the block. I pulled into my driveway and jumped out. I heard my next door neighbor's front door shut, I ran over and knocked; saying, "You've got to come out and see this!" He and his friend were witnesses to these lights. We watched them, their comment was, "Those aren't planes," as there was no sound coming from them! I then ran to my house and got my camera, they had thinned out and were now heading North. I filmed them. (in viewing my video the red balls looked as if they were tumbling). After filming I didn't see them anymore. I got in my car and and drove South, to the other side of the addition. I saw one in the sky heading West. I drove onto the main road and did a U-turn, parked on the side of the road. I got out ready to film, I saw it disappear. It was gone, like that! I posted my video to YouTube. I have the video as evidence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z27zZcS_Lw ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) Dear Mr. Davenport, I appreciate you getting back with me so quickly. I've filmed lanterns before and they will emit a swaying, flickering light from inside. Also, lanterns will rise in altitude. These red lights kept their same altitude; 40 to 50 feet above the ground. They were flying (west) close together for 5 blocks, (They also kept up with my speed increase). They started spreading out and heading North, when I came back out with my camera and filmed them, they were continuing North, then completely disappeared; lanterns don't do that. That's when I drove to the other side of my addition to see if there were anymore. I saw one in the sky and it disappeared as I started to film. I've had several UFO/UAP experiences and only reported two sightings, this one with y'all and one with MUFON that happened in 1970, (quite significant). I've been filming since 2012 and have captured many anomalies with my camera and night vision. In 2016 I started my own Meetup Group, OKC UFO. It has been therapeutic for me and other members, as we need an outlet to share our experiences and try to understand the UFO phenomena. Makes life interesting, defies logic and challenges our reality for sure! Sincerely, ((name deleted)) ((END ADDENDUM))
December 23, 2015 · 10:07 PM · SPHERE
Oklahoma City, OK
December 23, 2015, at approximately 10:07 PM, l was in the area of NW Expressway and Council Rd,. I was getting out of my car in the neighborhood and observed several glowing lights, no noise or sounds of any kind moving around in the sky. Some moved fast, or circular motion, flickered on on off and moved in ways unexplainable. It caught the attention of everyone in the neighborhood and we all began to film but we did not see anything on the news about any events or light shows on tv. We though maybe the flame bag hot air things that will float up, but these moved in circles, circle in shape, moved fast , slow, backwards...every direction and angles. The strangest thing I've ever seen. Any ideas?
December 23, 2015 · 8:15 AM · SPHERE
Weymouth, MA
During most of the sighting it was difficult to tell how many spheres/shapes there were, but it was a tight group of multiple dark black spheres (they seemed to occasionally change shape) moving roughly east to west. No way to tell how far away they were, but there was a solid cloud deck, so they were under that altitude whatever it was. This was sighted at the Weymouth Landing train station at around 8:15 am by more than 5 people. Object(s) were still visible as people boarded the train and left the area. Object(s) were transiting a normally pretty busy airspace used by aircraft using Logan Airport. Didn't see a single conventional aircraft in that area however, which is odd. I have held an FAA certification as a single engine pilot in the past and previously never witnessed anything I'd consider to be a UFO. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 22, 2015 · 8:28 PM · SPHERE
San Tan Valley, AZ
From the witnesses backyard, noticed a bright orange ball of light traveling east to west across the sky. Object was initially under the cloud ceiling, which was 4,600 feet at the time of event. Size of object appeared to represent a size similar to that of a single large aircraft light. No other lights present in the area. The color remained a bright orange with edges that seemingly danced like a flame would. Object maintained an even altitude and one witness confirms it was not a flare. Said witness is a former Air Force technician with sixteen plus years of experience. Other witness is an aviation enthusiast. The length of the event was roughly two minutes and the light eventually disappeared behind cloud cover in the western sky.
December 22, 2015 · 6:10 PM · SPHERE
Susanville, CA
While taking an after-dinner walk, in my neighborhood, I observed a spherical, bright object, of an orange-amber color,and with the approximate intensity of a welder's torch, moving in a south-southeasterly direction, toward Reno, Nv. It also left a contrail, visible in the moonlight.It was making a sound, similar to a jet-engine sound, only quieter. At first glance, I thought it was a conventional jet-aircraft, and appeared to be moving at about the same approximate cruising-speed, at an altitude of approx,10-15,000ft,AGL, but then I noticed that it had NO running-lites, or red tail strobe-light, as required per FAA regs. Then, I thought that it may have been a meteorite, but it's light never changed in color, or intensity, as they typically do. I'm 52 yrs.old, and have NEVER seen anything, quite this dramatic! As it disappeared behind a cloud-bank, I was almost tempted to "brace for impact", I thought that it could have been an incoming N.Korean ! or Chinese I.C.B.M! Re-entering space debris. PD
December 20, 2015 · 1:30 PM · SPHERE
York Valley, AZ
12/20/2015 1:30 P.M. As I was Walking back form my garage to the house, I noticed a strange cloud formation east of the house, at first I thought it was a con trail, but as I looked at it I realized it was some other formation, it did not look like any cloud formation I had ever seen; it was several miles long and narrow like a contrail, but there was no variation in the optical density it looked more like it had been painted white in a north, south orientation. As I studied this formation I noticed a faint circular light approaching the north end from the east, it got increasingly brighter until my first thoughts it was the day time moon then I realized it was moving to quickly for the moon as it touched the north end of the cloud it looked like the daytime moon in shape, size and intensity. I started fumbling for my cell phone then realized the orb was changing in color and appearance so I just watched transformation which happened in seconds I was not able to get a photo. The final stage: concentric wavy rings started to form and the colors went from bright light to yellow and reds then appeared to implode with a flash. The orb was gone along with the cloud there was some remnants of the cloud left on the south end which I got a photo. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 19, 2015 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Ponte Vedra Beach, FL
I was driving (at 10pm, Saturday, December 19th, on Solana Road (west) in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fl. I looked up at the moon, and to the right I noticed a large group of orange lights. I noticed that a group of maybe 5 lights were in a perfect, straight line. Another group were grouped together like a triangle, and about 10 others were just spread out randomly. Sometimes they were blinking, and sometimes disappearing. After disappearing, they would reappear. There were no other lights on them anywhere. Some moved quickly around the others that were just drifting. I pulled over and watched for a few moments, trying to get a video. Nothing would show up on my phone so I drove home. I told my boyfriend, and we drove back down the road and he was able to see about 3 of them coming up over a golf course. Then they just disappeared. Very strange. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 19, 2015 · 6:05 PM · SPHERE
Victoria (Canada), BC · Canada
Went outside for a cigarette at about 6:05pm. The person with me said, "That's a strange light color for a plane". I look up and see an orange light/glowing orb moving across the sky fairly quickly with no tail or anything behind it. As we watched, it slowed down and seemed to come to a brief stop, then it did a 90 degree turn and started moving back in the direction it had come from, but moving much slower this time. Then it just disappeared... No noise, nothing. Very strange.
December 18, 2015 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Kingsland, GA
My fiancé and I were traveling S on I95 near the FL/GA border, when we witnessed a small, bright, pulsing spherical light, white/yellow in color, very high in the sky. The light remained stationary and then flew upwards at an extremely accelerated rate. At this time we noticed several other lights moving in various formations. Some of the lights moved horizontally, while others moved vertically. Many of the lights changed directions over the course of 15 minutes. Most of the lights remained visible in the sky for 10 minutes, moving in various directions at various speeds until they quickly accelerated vertically and disappeared. Total, there were around 8-10 lights. The event ended when two planes appeared in the sky and headed towards two remaining lights. At this time, the two lights converged into one and disappeared. I grew up near Cecil Field (Yellowater) and an outlying naval field, so I am used to seeing strange aerial phenomenon. However, I have never seen craft move with this much variance in speed and direction. This was my fiancé's first experience witnessing aerial phenomenon.
December 18, 2015 · 1:00 PM · SPHERE
Sonoma, CA
It was a bright, clear day in December 2015, about 60 degrees and sunny, and I went out to get some firewood. I happened to look up and there was a round (spherical), bronze-colored craft sitting stationary over my house. It had a metallic looking appearance and on the side that I was looking at it looked to me like there were part concave or convex areas to it. I was looking at it facing north, looking up over my house. There were no propellers, so it could not have been a drone, and no sound. It was approximately 300 ft. above my house and if I were to estimate width, I would say maybe 20 to 30 feet wide. I was the only witness and I watched it for about 1 to 2 minutes. Here is another additional part to my story. I have followed the UFO media reports for quite a few years and always thought that it would be great to see one, to validate for myself that they exist. I would get my camera, get a witness, document everything, etc. After watching the craft, I continued on out to the wood pile and got the logs for my fireplace, and forgot about the entire thing… I remembered about 3 ½ weeks later, into January of this year , about witnessing the craft. I am totally perplexed about that part of my story. I am a 62 year old woman with grandkids, have run a business for many years, and have lived here for 28 years. There would be no reason for me to fabricate this event. As to who was piloting it - ??
December 17, 2015 · 6:50 PM · SPHERE
Madison, MS
The lead mechanic for ((deleted)) in Madison, MS, came inside the FBO and requested that all the employees on staff step outside to witness the objects. We initially saw five, red, spherical objects in the western sky traveling southbound at a rapid but steady pace. (The objects were approximately two hand widths vertical distance from ground level). The red light on the objects was not blinking. All of the objects began to disappear (their red lights faded slowly, as if burning out) once they all reached the same point in the sky. A sixth and final object emerged, appearing to lag behind the initial objects but heading in the same direction and traveling at the same approximate speed. It, too, disappeared once it reached the same point in the sky. The entire event lasted between four and seven minutes. The sighting was witnessed at an airport by personnel who have had numerous years in and around aircraft. This was not typical aircraft behavior.
December 15, 2015 · 8:30 AM · SPHERE
Penndel, PA
At approximately 8:30 am, Dec 12, 2015, I was outside my home, waiting for a co-worker to pick me up for work. It was a very mild & breezy morning & the sky was mostly clear except for some clouds here and there. As I'm usually want to do when outside,I enjoy the nice sky. This morning I noticed an airliner very high up, at a guess anywhere between 10-20,000 feet traveling in a roughly east east-westerly direction. As a I watched it, a glint of light far behind it caught my eye. I suddenly saw 5 gleaming spherical objects trailing the airliner going the same direction at approximately 1-1+1/2 miles. The objects were keeping pace with the airliner & were in a "diamond" type formation with the closest object behind the airliner being the "bottom tip" of the diamond & the other four, one each, at the "points" of the diamond. All objects traveled in the exact same direction & were equidistantly spread apart one from another, perhaps hund! reds of feet. At no time during the brief sighting did they speed up, slow down, change direction, move away from their positions or "phase" out of view. I immediately ruled out the possibility of high flying birds as all the objects were visibly flying, at some points, ABOVE the highest cloud layer, which the airliner was also doing. If they were birds at that height (which as a far as I know, birds don't fly that high) they would've been far too small to see with the naked eye & certainly would not reflect a metallic gleam as these objects did. Also, being that far above a cloud layer that high, as I saw their shape, they would've been FAR too large to be birds. If I had to guess at their size at that distance in order to be seen from the ground the way I did, they would've had to have been at least a hundred feet in diameter apiece. As mentioned, the sighting was very brief, merely a minute and a half or so. I was anxiously awaiting my co-workers arrival to h!elp me verify my sighting but sadly, he arrived literally a few seconds after they & the airliner they were tailing, all disappeared into the distance. If anyone has seen these objects at nearly the same time I did, I would very much like the corroboration. I've only ever seen a few "unexplainable" airborne objects in my lifetime but this was by far the most exciting!
December 14, 2015 · 8:00 PM · SPHERE
Elk City, OK
Light appeared to the west of town. Appeared blue in the center with a white aura around it also had a "tail" like thing hanging from the back. No audible noises, would have called it a "shooting star" except it changed directions and moved forward and away. There one second and then completely gone the next with no signs it had even been there. Possible meteor?? PD
December 14, 2015 · 7:00 PM · SPHERE
Madison, MS
Witness provides a minimum of information, so we can only guess at what he might have witnessed. However, We wonder whether he might have been observing a so-called "twinkling" star, and possibly the star, Sirius. We don't know what time Sirius might have risen above the southeast horizon, in the area where the sighting occurred. PD
December 12, 2015 · 7:00 PM · SPHERE
Niceville, FL
There was no noise heard from them or there direction. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 12, 2015 · 1:30 AM · SPHERE
Colorado Springs, CO
I was traveling in my car going home from work when I saw a sphere shaped object drop down from the sky. It slowed as it lowered from above.. It was quite large in size. About 500 feet across or larger. It was just a shimmer to begin with then saw the outline. Then it just disappeared. Like it was cloaked.. Possible flare from an "Iridium" satellite?? PD
December 11, 2015 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Webster, MA
Three large orange globes 2 went speeding by 1 after them going slow stoping and going like looking for some thing. 49yr old male 41yr old female observers
December 10, 2015 · 9:25 PM · SPHERE
Madison, WI
Saw a bright green orb/circle while I was going East on 12/18 hwy. The circle appeared out of nowhere, stayed in place for about a second, shot up into the sky and disappeared. The speed of the orb was incredibly fast. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 10, 2015 · 7:00 PM · SPHERE
Newburgh, ME
I always slow down at this point because I live on the side of a hill, and coast to my driveway. It seems like it stopped when it saw my car. I slowly came down the hill as I felt it watched me and pulled slowly into my drive and stopped my car and rolled my window down to listen but heard nothing. When I pulled into my driveway, it also went to the left, in behind my neighbor's house, and slowly came over my property, behind my house, and then into the corn field next to my home. I watched it all the way, and it made absolultey no sound at all. The night was clear and cold. It was a very very bright light and because of that I could not make out any shape but the light was round and I assume the thing was also round. I know it was not a helicopter, airplane or drone as I would have heard t! he noise. It was completely silent. Source of report indicates that the date is approximate. PD
December 9, 2015 · 3:05 PM · SPHERE
Mount Ida, AR
I was working outside hanging up holiday decorations. I always look up at the sky because there is often aerial spraying going on...I like to keep my eyes on the sky. I was moving a ladder into place and looked up at the sky...saw 5-6 small white spherical lights dancing around in the sky close together -- they were way above a few birds flying around in the wind underneath of the spheres. I yelled for my husband to come see them. I probably observed them for 10 seconds. I kept my eye on the sky where the spheres were. After I yelled, the spheres seemed to fade away -- I kept watching to see if they may have disappeared behind an invisible cloud. I never saw them again after they faded away.
December 7, 2015 · 10:35 PM · SPHERE
Keene, NH
Later that night, after being dropped off by friends with whom we carpooled to the Christmas party, my girlfriend and I got into our car and headed north on Route 12, heading toward the city of Keene. At the junction of Route 12 and Flat Roof Mill Road I noticed a bright orange orb hanging in the sky to the left of our position. I pulled over to get a better look. My girlfriend could not see the object from the passenger's side, so I pulled her over toward me until she could see it. The orb was traveling south at a distance of perhaps a mile from our position, at an estimated altitude of 1,500-2,000 feet. Estimated speed was 25-30 mph. Looking at it through binoculars I could see that the orb had an aura about it, with a bright orange center. I was convinced at that point that what I was looking at was a Chinese lantern. I put down the binoculars and continued to observe it as it made a slow change of direction, away from us, heading now west. The turn continued until now th! e object was traveling north, and nearly at twice the distance at which we first observed it. The maneuver lasted about one minute. It was now heading north, against the prevailing breeze. After watching it travel for another minute or so, it vanished abruptly. Were it not for the fact that the object changed direction, I would not be reporting this sighting, nor the one from earlier that evening. Having myself investigated independently the UFO phenomenon for over 30 years on two continents, I've become a bit of a skeptic, and am convinced that a great number of sightings are the result of misidentification. The meteorological conditions that evening were clear, with a light north-south breeze. This is the third time I've observed orange orbs transiting the sky in this region: the first time was two years ago, at approximately 3am. This orb moved faster, at an estimated speed of 80-100 mph, at an estimated altitude of 5,000 feet, traveling east to west, at a distance of approximately five miles from my vantage point. Said observation was from inside my home, through a window facing north. The intensity of the light remained constant throughout the period it was visible, with no other lights visible, until it disappeared in the distance. Let me be clear that I have observed on many occasions aircraft on approach to Manchester Airport, something which at first glance sometimes resembles these orbs (as the aircraft travels directly toward the observer it can lend the illusion that it is a stationary luminous object), and am acutely aware of how common it is for people to mistakenly report these as UFOs. I also monitor air traffic via an application on my smartphone, which provides accurate aircraft ID and flight information, with the exception of military aircraft.
December 6, 2015 · 4:45 PM · SPHERE
Ottawa (Canada), ON · Canada
It was just starting to get dark 16:45 EST. I looked out my bedroom window and saw a sphere, bright and shining like a star in the western sky, just above the horizon. It was appearing as it were between two of three hydro wires about 75 feet away, so I had a good bearing on it. I thought it to be a planet like Mars or Jupiter but it was about 3 times too large and a little too high above the horizon. There were absolutely no clouds in the way. There were no stars shining. It was completely still in the sky. I looked at it for about 30 seconds, then I decided to log the time. I turned my head about 90 degrees for about 3 seconds to do just that and then I turned my head back again to focus on the object through the window and IT WAS GONE! There were no clouds nearby, the sky was clear! The object was nowhere near the setting Sun. I kept looking for about 5 minutes, but it did not reappear. Witness provides no contact information. PD
December 5, 2015 · 10:56 AM · SPHERE
Green Bay West, WI
December 05, 2015 UFO report 8 to 10 round objects flashing and glittering flying over head. I was looking out my window around 10:30 am on December 05, 2015, west of Green Bay Wi at the weird clouds that formed after contrails had dissipated I thought I would get the camera out to take pictures of the sky filled with these long wispy clouds. I snap some pics of the wispy clouds and look to the west and a jet is flying east laying down a contrail so I snapped a couple of more pics. I than looked to the south over my roof line and saw another jet laying down a contrail going north. I take pics of this one also. Then, I see way above those wispy contrail clouds another trail forming but no jet until it comes out from above those wispy contrails. I see it's a jet going north also but this jet was moving way faster than the other two so I snapped a couple of pics of that one. It was heading north fast so I barely got a couple of shots when I lowered the camera I looked over the woods to the north in the same direction as the fast flying contrail jet and there I see a formation of metalic flashing and glittering round objects flying south in a line formation as if a V had one side cut off looking like this \. I was excited and tried to guess there were at least 8 to 10 round flashing objects in a line like this \ moving south quickly. I raised the camera, tried to get them focused on the view screen but couldn't find anything so began to snap pics wildly as they flew over head and to the south. These round objects were roughly about 2 thousand feet above the woods, totally silent and over head as they flew south. I kept snapping pics and hoped I got something. It lasted maybe 5 seconds but I can be more accurate by looking at the first time stamp shot to the last time stamp shot as they were just even with my southern roof line. I think I got 6 or 7 shots and 3 have the objects. One shot was the first facing north as they came south, then one over head and the last over my roof line facing south. I went in the house and checked the time which was 11:03 so it was around 10:56 am when all this began. Although I could see round objects glittering and flashing as if metalic flying south into the sun, The camera shots came out as round gray objects with bright spots on the objects. They were fast and they were silent. It was awesome and I was excited and hoped I got them on the camera, and I did. I'll try to forward the pics to the center.
December 5, 2015 · 3:00 AM · SPHERE
Aldie, VA
Large, bright white sphere/globe streaking at about 45 degree angle to earth, from west to east. No sound, no tail or trail. Expected to see or hear some sign of impact/crash, but nothing. Couldn’t tell distance to object, but it was not very close. It most definitely was not a meteor or aircraft. Source of report indicates that the date of the incident is approximate. PD