The catalog
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
December 4, 2015 · 6:30 PM · SPHERE
Victoria (Canada), BC · Canada
At approximately 6:30 pm PST, with clear visibility to the east, a couple and their daughter from Victoria, BC, were gazing out at the eastern evening sky from inside their house, when they observed a bright orange circular light, orb like in appearance traveling across the sky directly overhead towards them from east to north west. This was observed for about 20 seconds. It was an extremely bright light, unlike anything else they had ever observed in the night sky before. There were other aircraft visible in the night sky and they were more distant, so the orange light appeared to be much lower down. As the light passed overhead, it changed to a more northerly direction and seemed to climb to a higher altitude. At one point, the light seemed to become stationary, gained altitude, then grew dimmer and eventually vanished. Approximately ten minutes later, while the family was still gazing out, a second slightly more intense light appeared. It seemed to be lower on the horizon, and traveled overhead in a more direct east to west trajectory. The couple opened their window to see if they could detect any sound, but it was silent. The second sighting seemed to last about 20 seconds before the light vanished into a cloud bank. The intensity of both lights was much brighter than the brightest star in the night sky. The size of the objects appeared to be about 10 times the diameter of the brightest star. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and he sounded to us to be exceptionally sober-minded. We suspect he is a very good, and reliable, witness. PD
December 3, 2015 · 5:45 PM · SPHERE
Edgewood, NM
I lost visual contact, like it could have crashed near Edgewood. Family member in Edgewood home said there was a concussive, window shaking noise at same time I saw this large orb. Dogs all jumped up and started barking. See report from Copperas Cover, TX, at 2010 hrs. (CST) on the same date. PD
December 3, 2015 · 5:30 AM · SPHERE
Bay City, MI
LOOKED LIKE LIGHTS BARS, OR SPIKES, RED, GREEN, AND WHITE EMANATING FROM A CENTER POINT TO FORM A SPHERE. FIRST NOTICED JUST BEFORE 05:30, STILL THERE AT 07:25. AT LEAST 5 UNITS, SPACED APPROX. 40 DEGREES APART. ONE 15 DEGREES EAST OF MOON. GETTING LIGHT OUT (DAWN), AND I CAN SEE THEM BETTER. I AM NOT CRAZY, WENT OUT TO START CAR, AND BEEN WATCHING SINCE. 07:40 NEARLY DAYLIGHT. CAN BARELY SEE ONE 20 DEGREES EAST OF MOON, BUT THE NET ONE EAST, APPROX. 65 DEGREES EAST OF MOON STILL VISIBLE. OUT Possible sighting of Venus?? PD
November 28, 2015 · 6:00 PM · SPHERE
Derry, NH
Bright-green, sparkling orb of light witnessed about 60 ft above ground roughly the shape of a basketball; it was quickly maneuvering behind some trees, before descending, and then disappearing. Went to investigate area, there was nothing there - it was behind a closed down warehouse in an industrial park that me and a friend were walking through at the time. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 27, 2015 · 10:30 AM · SPHERE
Probable conventionalLeguevin, Midi-Pyrénées · France
Le 27 novembre 2015 entre 10h30 et 11h un témoin à son domicile observe et filme le déplacement de plusieurs objets dans le ciel. Un seul témoignage est recueilli. Le témoin a vu plusieurs PAN (voir les deux vidéos jointes). A part l'un d'eux de forme sphérique, ces PAN sont des avions, certains volant haut et laissant un trainage blanc et d'autres volant bien plus bas (et donc sans trainage) suite au décollage de Blagnac. En effet, l'analyse du trafic aérien (Flightradar) montre une situation de deux avions évoluant en sens inverse, Nord Sud pour celui volant bas et Sud Nord pour l'autre, situation exactement conforme à une des vidéos et à la description du témoin, y compris pour l'aspect allongé et sans ailes que l'on retrouve classiquement pour des avions à altitude faible et vus selon un éclairage soleil incident et rasant (10H30 en novembre). Le PAN de forme sphérique est probablement un ballon ludique, sa taille angulaire est de l'ordre 0,5 dixième de degrés (taille estimée d’après la taille (de quelques cm) des feuilles résiduelles de l'arbre voisin dans le champ de la vidéo et distant de 30 m de la prise de vue) et son élévation est entre 15 et 20° (toujours d’après l'arbre voisin). Cela peut être un ballon d'enfant à très basse altitude ou un ballon thermique solaire (de quelques mètres de diamètre (voir vols de ballons solaires) à une distance de quelques km et une altitude pouvant aller jusqu'à 1 ou 3 km. Le ballon thermique est plus probable car le vent au sol (Ouest vers Est à la station de Blagnac) explique difficilement la forte composante Nord Sud de l'observation tandis que le relevé de vent à plus haute altitude est bien de Nord vers Sud. Cette situation d'inversion de vent avec l'altitude peut expliquer aussi l'inversion de trajectoire que l'on distingue à la fin de la vidéo relative au PAN sphérique et que le témoin décrit comme un" arc de cercle, le ballon se trouverait en effet dans la plage d'altitude (~1km) correspondant à l'inversion du vent (voir le document de reconstitution des trajectoires des PAN avions, de la géométrie de l'observation et de la vidéo du PAN sphère, ainsi que les sens de vent au sol et à plus haute altitude). En conséquence, en ne considèrant que le PAN sphérique (les autres étant des avions), le GEIPAN classe le cas en B : observation probable d'un ballon thermique. [GEIPAN classification B — Ballon thermique]
November 27, 2015 · 7:15 AM · SPHERE
Millbury, MA
Orange glowing objects moving approx SE to NE identical trackin for all six. Went from horizon to horizon in separate groups. Viewed from hilltop home right overhead. No sound, no entrail (sic. Contrail) although at that time the sky was filled by commercial air craft entrails in a full moon.
November 26, 2015 · 10:45 PM · SPHERE
Colts Neck, NJ
The object I am currently looking at at first glance looks like a star or a plane. However, it is blinking red, green, and white. It continues to move right to left and vice versa. It moved up as well. If you look closely, it appears that it sometimes moves in a small circular motion while basically staying in the same spot. Only one was observed. Looking at it now, after the past 30 minutes, it has moved significantly to the right since the first time I saw it. I am a soon to be 19 year old visiting home from college for thanksgiving and me and my dad were in the living room when I pointed it out. He thought it was a plane but when I told him to just watch it, he clearly saw that it really wasn't getting any further or closer. A few years ago there were reports from our neighbors that in the skies behind our house there were 3 floating orbs that were green, so I don't know if this would have any connection with what my neighbors saw years ago. Within the last 5 minutes I have seen this spec shaped light/object gradually move upwards and it seems like it has come closer to my house (not so in the distance). I tried to take a video but for some reason, it's not showing up well on my phone. Probably a sighting of Sirius. PD
November 26, 2015 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Staten Island, NY
Ate thanksgiving dinner, and went out onto my back porch for a smoke, followed by my two sons, my oldest son (4 years old) points towards the Moon and says, "What's that?" and i look up preparing myself to say "it's the moon" when I noticed two stars zig zagging left to right from each other like so o<------> <----->0 meeting up then going apart this was going on about 4 inches away from the moons right side if you were to use actual inches and pointed it at the sky. then all of a sudden the dropped rapidly and were now about 100 feet off the ground in formation one behind the other, to which I started yelling at all my guests in the house to come outside quickly, My friend and my wife came out, and we witnessed two spheres glowing orange and pulsating kind of like they were made of flame, the flickering type of light movement and my friend was trying to see if they had the usual plane lights ( red and green) somewhere within these crafts , and they did not. They just stood there for about 2 minutes then they proceeded to "drift" slowly towards the ocean ( this is all happening on top of Father Cappodano Street right by the beach) the drift was going in an easterly direction parallel to the Verazzano bridge, in other words these spheres were heading towards Brooklyn ( Bay Ridge area). By the time they reached about waterfront level, the first globe sped away and became a small dot real fast and disappeared then the second one followed suit in the same manner. Absolutely No sound and we made a remark about it because there was a plane flying real high in the sky ( with contrail)and we could hear the plane very well. these spheres were 100 feet off the ground and made no noise, they only slickered in a bizarre way and they were opaque orange kind of like a flame off a campfire, but solid spheres. the most amazing thing i have ever seen in my life, and i pray that there were many witnesses because the Bridge is right there and it was very busy because at around 9 pm the mall opened for a huge sale and people were out and about. (( We spoke briefly
November 26, 2015 · 8:00 PM · SPHERE
Cranford, NJ
At 8:00PM, Thanksgiving evening, I was sitting on my second story deck in Cranford, NJ, stargazing, when I observed a strange, orange light in the sky off to my right. I watched the light for a few seconds to see if it had other lights on it and if it was possibly a plane (as I am in the flight path for Newark Airport), but it did not and was not… I grabbed my binoculars, and through them observed a bright orange sphere, flying due east, at the same altitude that small aircraft fly to get to Newark Airport (North West of my location), but it wasn't going toward the airport. The orb did not pulse or strobe, and it seemed to be a brighter white light in the center, with the warm orange light surrounding it. I could not make out a definitive outline for the object, and there were no discernable features from my perspective. I watched it in my binoculars as it flew impossibly slowly and level for about 45 seconds or so, and when it reached a point in the sky whe! n it was exactly in front of me I said to it, 'Where the hell are you going?", and at that moment it flickered brightly and just disappeared! There were no clouds for it to disappear behind, and the moon was large, bright, and full to my left. The reason this object initially caught my eye was because it was the same orange color of another UFO that I saw flying over my yard on July 4th of 2015 (which I will also file a report on, and should have back when I saw it!), although that one was a pulsing rectangle which was flying due South...This is the 3rd UFO that I have seen in my lifetime, and the 2nd one I have seen in the last 4 months! I would be interested to know if anyone else in my area observed this orb. I would also be willing to speak to an investigator about my sightings. Thank You…
November 25, 2015 · 4:15 AM · SPHERE
Corvallis, OR
Observed a very bright set of lights hovering (but Def moving east to west). The lights seemed to show a consistent bottom but intermittently (as it would move from East to west) would extend out and for a brief time it revealed what could only be described as a translucent top of saucer like object. After observing for at least 20 min, 3 much smaller orb like lights appeared 2 fly towards the object (one at a time) and disappear into it. Eventually the object faded out of sight. Probable sighting of Venus? PD
November 24, 2015 · 9:20 PM · SPHERE
Polson (north of), MT
In the evening of 11/24/15, I was unloading my pickup at apprx.9:20 pm, when I saw a bright large full emerald green light streak downward extremely fast to the right just to the right of an almost full moon which was extremely brilliant and huge. I do not believe it was a meteor, because it as so wide in the front but have never seen that before in my 75 year old life. I am a real estate broker of 37 years, {still working} and often go to my cabin which faces Flathead Lake and is located in the Mission Mtns just North of Polson, Mt. I would also like to speak to someone directly about a grouping of unusual orbs which I photographed with a big Canon camera {would be happy to send you the photos} when an unusual incident happened while I was picking berries last summer, We all in the neighborhood, feel for some reason that our area is extremely magnetic. Last year I had lightning strike three giant fir trees all at once just about 30 ft from the end o! f my cabin in October...highly weird, all I heard was thunder for a moment and then almost like an explosion. When Istepped outside, there was wood for over 200 feet clear aross and to the end of my lawn. Bizarre, blew up my computer in the house even though it was off and had a surge protector, which also blew up.
November 24, 2015 · 6:11 PM · SPHERE
Taos, NM
Toward the east ridge of Talpa mountains, I could see a large round pulsating light sitting still and approximately 6 other small blinking lights moving in different directions around the larger light. Quickly large globe shot up towards the moon and the other little lights moved away and dissipated. The large globe was video taped and when reviewing with zoom it looks like a ball of energy pulsating.. I have seen these before and have recorded them last year in the same direction i saw this current one.
November 21, 2015 · 7:30 PM · SPHERE
Nampa, ID
Light blue orb hovering underneath an airplane flying over. There for 30 seconds then zipped off no light. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 21, 2015 · 6:27 PM · SPHERE
Auburn, CA
Saturday, 11/21/15, 18:27 was the date and time on the sales slip as I walked out of the Dollar Store in North Auburn along Highway 49 at the address of: 2136 Grass Valley Hwy, Auburn, CA 95603, having just paid for my goods and walking due west into the parking lot to my car. I immediately noticed two very strange bright red lights that were far in the distance and very high up, the kind of altitude you would expect to see a high flying jet, or even higher. It just seemed high up and distant. They were roundish and brilliant red, no other colors. It did not look like airplane lights since no other colors appeared, just extremely pure brilliant red. One seemed to be heading upward and getting closer and the other appeared to be heading downward and getting closer, coming toward my direction in other words and they had a roundish appearance to them. I did not think to take out my cell phone and try taking photos, they might not come out since it's not really a good camera for in the dark anyhow. As I watched, soon the lights came near to one another, maybe touched, but I could not know for sure. Then one shot outwards to the left and going higher and disappeared out of sight, in the matter of a few seconds. Then the other shot up and outward, at an angle heading exactly back in the opposite direction while going up - and it seemed to accelerate as it got smaller and smaller, then disappeared in a few seconds also, like it had traveled out of sight in a very short time. There was no noises from these lights, but I doubted there would be given how far away and high they appeared. The only noises were sounds in the parking lot and long the main road of cars driving by or peoples' voices in the background going in and out of the stores. That is all I know and can report on what I saw tonight here in North Auburn, CA, 95603. I am 61 years old, male, non-drinker, non-smoker, non-drug user, of clear mind and body, do not suffer from haulucinations or anything of the sort. So I am certain I saw what I saw with my own two eyes and have reported what I saw as accurately as I can remember. It is now 1 hour and 20 minutes after seeing what I saw. So my memory is still very fresh and clear too. The event lasted about 1 to 2 minutes, no longer.
November 21, 2015 · 6:00 PM · SPHERE
Salt Lake City (north of), UT
ORANGE BALL OR ORB On Saturday evening, October 21st, 2015, I was flying from Albuquerque to Seattle. We left Albuquerque at 4.35 Mountain time, arriving in Seattle at 6.45 Pacific time. Somewhere north of Salt Lake City, looking at the flight path it could have been northern Utah, Idaho or Oregon – I really am not that familiar with the area, I looked out of the window on the left side of the plane, looking to the west. We were flying, I think, at 36,000 feet. The mountains were some way below us. It was dark by that time, but I could see towns and communities lit up and I think there was some light from the moon. Generally the sky was clear. I suddenly noticed a large, orange ball approaching from the north or north-west, below the plane, travelling very fast to the south or south-east. It was very steady – glowing with light – lit from within – a bit like a huge ball of fuzzy orange felt! It soon went behind the engine of the plane – I was sitting near the front. I can’t begin to assess how big it was – it was far below our plane – I had the impression it was very big. Many of the pictures I have seen on the Internet show the exact colour – a true orange – and shape and look. I remember there were some mountains overshadowing a small town. The object was travelling below the tip of the mountains, around the tree line. The trajectory was unwavering – no other lights to indicate it was a plane or helicopter. It seemed to me to be travelling way too fast to be a plane. I don’t think I have any more to add. I didn’t have anyone beside me to verify and it all happened so quickly. I wonder if you have any more reports from passengers on the plane. Being my first trip to and from Albuquerque to visit my daughter, I was very interested in looking out of the window all the way.
November 20, 2015 · 9:05 PM · SPHERE
Morris, MN
Bright ball of light moving quick and low across the sky then disappeared.
November 20, 2015 · 4:00 PM · SPHERE
Leesburg, FL
I was checking traps in the swamp by my home. I was walking a game trail when went around a big oak tree. After I walked around the tree it was all of sudden almost dark. Like and hour went by in a second of time. The ground starting almost pulsating or coming to life. Everything around me was glowing from the sphere like object in the trees. The object was translucent and seemed alive somehow. It had a golden glow inside and out. It hovered over the line and then slower ascended overhead. Within a few seconds the sphere completely vanished like instantly. I was terrified to say the least and haven't ever spoken of this till just recently when a friend told me he had seen something similar as a child. I started researching and found this site so here is my report. Hope it helps.
November 18, 2015 · 8:38 PM · SPHERE
Corbin, KY
I was outside working on a water line with my step son and son in law when the area became light up in a green glow, I looked up to my right and they did as well to see a 20ft by 20ft bright green orb descend down out of the sky and hover above a single wide mobile home, it hovered in 1 spot for 2 or 3 minutes with out making a sound as we walked closer to it then when we were with in 30 feet from it it started hovering slowly off to the right then with in a minute of that it took off and it was gone it didn’t make a single sound and was gone in out of sight within seconds, the middle of the orb was a lighter green and a darker green around the edges, I tried to take a picture of it but my phone would work and when it did it just took a picture of everything around looking green but no orb it was the same orb the spotted in Canada but with in 4-6 months after that my step daughter seen the same orb but at another property in Corbin with 4 miles or so from where I seen it
November 18, 2015 · 8:00 PM · SPHERE
Charlotte, NC
5 orbs of lights moving in an in and out sequence joining in the middle. Was seen on 11/17/15 at about the same time but near Huntersville, NC. Possible advertising lights, we wonder? PD
November 18, 2015 · 8:00 PM · SPHERE
Charlotte, NC
Possible advertising lights, we wonder? PD
November 18, 2015 · 6:00 PM · SPHERE
Safford, AZ
I was driving East on I-10 with my husband in the passenger seat shortly after seeing the exit sign for Safford, AZ. Orb lights caught my eye in the sky outside my driver-side window. I saw 4 large orb shaped bright lights, and within a few seconds there were only three, and my first thought was it was a low flying plane that had turned and obscured one of the lights. Within seconds the fourth light reappeared and at that point realized I was looking at something quite unusual. I told my husband to look and he saw them for a brief second before they disappeared. Seconds later they reappeared and we watched them for a few moments before it repeated the pattern of four lights to three and then all simultaneously shut off. The orb lights seemed to move in unison, were very close but were not aligned. They were moving very slowly. My husband's description: they were very bright, very large, but not so high that they could not have been mistaken for a star or planet. He is a retired EE who worked for a top defense contractor. One of his projects included development of computer-assisted maintenance of military aircraft and he had top secret security clearance.
November 17, 2015 · 7:00 PM · SPHERE
Boone, NC
THIS IS AN UPDATE TO A POST SUBMITTED AT APPROX. 19:30 ET. by myself. ***update*** After seeing the objects described below I had to return to my studies inside. Approximately 2 hours later at roughly 9:15 PM the objects were still there in the sky. The only notable changes was that the area they were moving across had expanded substantially and that the sky was generally brighter in their vicinity. I also wanted to note the lights are BLUE in color - not the typical orange or red that is often reported with orbs of light. I have notified a few friends who are seeing the same thing but all are in the local vicinity. We are all college students and seeing as it is a Tuesday night, no substances are in our bodies. We all agree that the phenomenon is almost mesmerizing. This is 100% genuine. I have a picture of the orbs from a smartphone that I will email to ufocntr@nwlink.com. *prior post: Looking east, above the cloud layer were two - but at times three - orbs of light. They were about 45 degrees above the horizon and stayed within a small area in the sky. The lights looked large but may have been enlarged due to the glare on the clouds. The orbs would track over the area in either oval or figure-8 patterns, often circling around the other. The third orb would appear out of one but disappear soon after. The motions were not uniform, although they were not erratic either. It looked as though they would leave a sort of chem trail behind them, and the general area they were n cleared up of clouds - but not entirely. Could not have been spotlights, the source of the light was above the layer of clouds. A fire alarm was set off nearby in the direction of the orbs, not sure if EM related but worth mentioning.
November 17, 2015 · 7:00 AM · SPHERE
Boone, NC
Looking east, above the cloud layer were two - but at times three - orbs of light. They were about 45 degrees above the horizon and stayed within a small area in the sky. The lights looked large but may have been enlarged due to the glare on the clouds. The orbs would track over the area in either oval or figure-8 patterns, often circling around the other. The third orb would appear out of one but disappear soon after. The motions were not uniform, although they were not erratic either. It looked as though they would leave a sort of chem trail behind them, and the general area they were n cleared up of clouds - but not entirely. Could not have been spotlights, the source of the light was above the layer of clouds. A fire alarm was set off nearby in the direction of the orbs, not sure if EM related but worth mentioning. Advertising lights circling?? PD
November 17, 2015 · 3:00 AM · SPHERE
Ardmore, OK
While I was working security in Oklahoma, watching a storm coming in around 3 am on 11/17/2015. I was facing west, when I noticed a bright red/white light, like an orb. At first I thought it was a radio tower light but I noticed it was moving. The bright light looked like a radio tower light you would see off in the distance while driving. The bright light was moving south half way above tree line and the clouds. The light then suddenly started going back north for a little distance the suddenly headed back south. It traveled a little more distance and stopped and hovered. All of a sudden the light dropped down towards the ground, at a pace a little slower than dropping a ball, disappearing behind the tree line. After a few second 10 to 20 seconds the light came straight back up at the same pace and place, it descended. It came to a rest and hovered at the same place it fell from. The bright light then started to move south again for a short distance until it sto! pped and hovered and fell again. After the same amount of time, approx. 10 to 20 seconds, it came back up to same spot, it stopped, and hovered. The bright light then moved to the south again where it did the same thing only this time it didn't come back up watched for 5 to 10 mins never seeing the light again. The bright red/white light was several miles off like looking at a radio tower hazard light at the top. It was dark and storming with mild to strong wind and rain so the light stood out very well. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and he seemed to us to be quite sober-minded. We suspect that he is a very good witness. PD