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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
November 7, 2015 · 6:05 PM · SPHERE
North Hollywood, CA
It looked like a giant shooting star, and then like it lit on fire. It then turned the sky white and left a green streak in the sky behind it. It eventually burnt out and the looked like a faint white orb that was possibly smoking.
November 7, 2015 · 6:03 PM · SPHERE
Oxnard, CA
Saw a bright turquoise light in the otherwise dark gray sky. A white light emanated from the turquoise light. A white object - sphere shaped - emanated from the white light and moved in a west-northwest direction. It was not a typical airplane as many planes fly overhead and this item did not look like a plane. It also appeared to be flying higher than normal aircraft. I watched the white light and sphere move slowly across the sky for about 20 seconds. I decided to take a photo with my iPhone. By the time I got my iPhone out of my purse, the sphere and white light dissipated then disappeared. However, the bright turquoise light remained in the sky for about 20 minutes. I was able to get a photo of the turquoise white and will email it to your address. I went online to see if a rocket it may have been launched from the West Coast (such as from Vandenberg AFB) and found nothing posted. U. S. Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:01 PM · SPHERE
Carlsbad, CA
We have amended the date above. Missile launch
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · SPHERE
Rialto, CA
Appeared to have an explosion on the front end of it. US Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · SPHERE
Ramona, CA
On the night of Nov 7th, my 2 sons and a friend of theirs walked out our house to the back yard, and when they did, they shouted, "Oh my god, what is that thing!?" I ran outside to see what was going on, and in the sky over us was a large glowing blue orb thing, with a huge circle of haze around it. The blue was an intense, ultra blue. And it was night, so the sky was black. As we watched, the orb lights seemed to be moving VERY slowly, which I guess was an indication of it being pretty high in the atmosphere. The part of the scene we saw slowly dissipated until we couldn't make it out anymore, and the circle of haze around it disappeared. Our friend called her grandmother who lives on the outskirts of Ramona to see if she witnessed the event, and her grandmother said yes she had been watching it for a while. She said before we saw the orb thing, she had seen some type of explosion out of the light, and she said she thinks the blue orb and haze were a result of the explosion. And the full event was over an hour. While we were outside, I heard our neighbors all around us freaking out over the orb and they were taking pictures too. And my kids also saw a green line on the orb, but I couldn't see this with my poorer eyesight. I did capture a bit of the event on my cell phone, but it's hard to see because it was dark and the object was not extremely bright. You can see a bit though, and hear not only us, but our neighbors talking about it too. US Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · SPHERE
Santa Barbara, CA
Living on the 154 came out the house with my friend and saw a white cloud that left a blue glowing trail flying north almost right above our heads then out of the cloud a yellow orb came out slowly and traveling slowly changed direction heading north up the coast. I saw flashes around it then it made like a blue hourglass underneath it at one point while it was traveling. We saw it pretty close. Next day navy said it was a tritan missile but it wasn't and it was silent. Me and my griend were stunned
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · SPHERE
Sherman Oaks, CA
My name is Michael, I am a pilot working on my commercial lic. in rotorcraft. My mother in law first spotted this light to the west of our location. She then asked me what it was. I first thought it could be a helicopter but after a few seconds of observing it I knew it was not. I also knew it was not an airplane. It had a short spotlight and looked like it was pretty close to the gournd. It looked like it was 1000-2000 FT. AGL. The spotlight slowly dimmed away and then the UFO slowly vanished out into the sky looking like it travelled miles away. I've then noticed a faint turquoise trail the orb left behind. The trail started as a thin line and then expanded into a large cloud like shape. I noticed the turquoise cloud it left behind last for a minimum of 5 minutes. I did not see the turqoise glowing mist disipate. U. S. Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · SPHERE
Rialto, CA
US Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · SPHERE
Escondido, CA
Light greenish hazy cloud perfect spherical in shape, about the size of a football stadium. Three witnesses approximately three miles apart and saw it at the same time. Stayed in the same location and had soft edges. Cloud was due West of Orange Glen High School and due South of Escondido High School, both in Escondido, CA. Elevation approximately 600 feet. US Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · SPHERE
Riverside, CA
US Navy missile launch. PD
November 6, 2015 · 8:30 PM · SPHERE
Jacksonville, FL
We were driving east down highway 202, around the exit for Southside blvd. Me and my fiancee looked up in the sky and both saw the same thing: A large green, low flying ball, about the size of a golf ball from its altitude. It moved VERY quickly from north to south and then just disappeared, as if it had just blown up. We didn't hear anything and it was gone as soon as it appeared. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 6, 2015 · 5:15 PM · SPHERE
Manchester to Baltimore, MD, NH
Passenger on Southwest flight observed dozens of UFOs traveling in a northeasterly path on Nov. 6th, 2015, between Baltimore, Maryland and Manchester, New Hampshire. On November 6th, 2015, from 5:00 to 6:10 PM, I was on a Southwest flight from Manchester Airport in NH to Baltimore Washington International Airport. The plane’s cruising altitude was 34,000 feet. The sky was clear and stars were visible but far below there was a blanket of clouds with some breaks through which I could see cities. I saw dozens of red pulsating objects far below the plane, perhaps three miles below. At any one time I could see five to ten ufos over a wide area. They seemed to be at about the same altitude and were almost all traveling in a line in a north/northeasterly direction above the low cloud cover. This continued for about forty minutes of the flight. The objects were red and pulsating but some flashed a bright white before going back to pulsating red. Some blinked off at times but came back on. Some of the objects seemed to stay in place while others traveled by. A couple of times it seemed as it there was going to be a joining or collision of two or three of the objects. My cell phone was in the bin overhead because I had taken a front row seat and didn’t think to keep it out so instead I focused on watching the objects. I am guessing that these objects were at least a mile or maybe two miles to the east of the plane and maybe three miles below. It is hard for me to estimate this. From my perspective they appeared to be about the same size, about an eighth of an inch in diameter as I held my fingers up to the window. They were all spherical shaped. As the plane was descending I saw one very bright white light in the distance. This was not like the other objects. At first it was about a half dollar size as I held my fingers up to my window but it was distant at that point. It was not pulsating at all, it was just a steady bright white light. It was not far below the plane like the other objects but was flying straight towards us at about the same altitude as our plane. I could not make out any shape because of the brightness of the light. As the light continued to get closer to the plane, I asked the woman sitting next to me to look out the window. She saw it, too. I made a comment that no plane should be traveling directly toward us. There were no blinking lights that planes have on their wings; it was just a very bright light. I think it was about two minutes that I watched this light. Then the plane swerved to the right suddenly, about a 45 degree turn toward the west. The plane banked slightly to make this turn and I lost sight of the object for a short time. Then the plane leveled off and I saw it off and moving behind the left wing. I think it was closer than half a football field. It continued past the wing and I lost sight of it for good when it disappeared from my view behind the tail section. The plane continued descending through the dense cloud layer and touched down within five to ten minutes of that last sighting. When we broke through the clouds/fog, we were so close to the runway, maybe a hundred feet off the ground. The fog was so low and dense that nothing was visible in the sky from the ground. I’m still trying to make sense of what I saw. I wanted to ask the pilot, copilot, and FAA inspector, all of who had to see what I was seeing but I didn’t. It would have meant holding up everyone on the plane and I didn’t think I would be given any information anyway. I am hoping that one of the three pilots on board will look for this or another report for that Southwest flight on November 6th, 2015, and maybe file their own reports.
November 5, 2015 · 4:15 AM · SPHERE
Berlin, NJ
The orb arrived from the north, paused briefly over the highway in front and above me, and then ascended at a high rate of speed out of my field of vision.
November 4, 2015 · 10:15 PM · SPHERE
Florence, AL
The first sighting was approximately two months prior to the sighting I am posting about now from this last Wednesday (11-4-15) at exactly 2:50 a.m. I am a Private Investigator my late twenties and work crazy long hours so needless to say I was asleep on the couch when my Fiancée woke me up in a frightened state saying that she just observed something unexplainable in the sky upon walking outside to have a smoke. I immediately walked outside and much to my surprise there it was. Distance, size and altitude were obviously impossible to determine due to it being far up in the sky. However, I can say with certainty that it was large and was at a far distance from my position in the field behind my residence. This object was absolutely silent and the only observable features about it was that it was a bright glowing white orb (I refer to it as an Orb because it appeared this way from the constant bright light. I don’t know if it was a craft or what) with what a! ppeared to be flashing lights of blue red green and yellow (however this was just observation by the naked eye and could have been a larger or a smaller spectrum of colors). It is hard to say if the changing “flash’s” of different colors was from a spinning movement around the center of it was flashing from the center like a strobe. I want to point out that while this specific experience I am speaking about is from me and my Fiancée’s first experience from two months prior, both experience’s had the exact same type movements that I am about to describe. The main difference is that the first sighting was at approximately 2:50 a.m. and the most recent sighting was at 10:15 p.m. and BOTH SIGHTINGS HAPPENED IN THE SAME LOCATION IN THE SKY. It helped me out that I had the same two tall trees in my field to use as landmarks while looking up in the sky and allowed us to be able to tell that the objects maneuvers were actually being done and that it was just a trick to our eyes. The object’s maneuvers are what really took us by surprise in th! at it changed in speed at random while going from a hovering position to suddenly darting to the left or right. Also it made circular flying motions as well as moving from a stationary hover to the left then suddenly making nearly a 90° turn and going vertical. All of these types of maneuvers were observed many times and at multiple patterns (Such as darting to the right then shooting straight up all while never changing speed, or while flying in one direction suddenly maneuvering into making an almost perfect circle in the sky) I do not feel that this was a standard aircraft of any kind as it showed no lighting like any citizen passenger or military aircraft I have ever observed. It also did not appear to be moving farther away from our position or so much closer either as its size should have decreased or increased as it flew away or flew closer to us. All of the patterns and sudden changes in speed were observed in a relatively local area in the sky for a very long period of time. At the end of the sighting on the first night, we observed the orb as it ended up flying down out of the local area where it had seemed to hang around and appeared at this point to start flying away from us towards the horizon. However while it was still easily observable in the atmosphere, it seemed to us as if it almost blinked out of existence. The most recent sighting we never witnessed when or how it departed due to both of us having to call it a night and go to bed due to having to be up early for work the next morning. While observing this anomaly on both nights, I first grabbed the first thing with a camera which was my Galaxy S5 with a 16 mp high definition camera in it. While I know that this isn’t super great camera wise, I thought just maybe since this orb is illuminated so well it would pick it up. However, I was wrong. So I can to one of my gear bags I have for my job and just grabbed the first handheld camcorder I could find and it was my Samsung camcorder ! which isn’t anything fancy just a 32x zoom but usually has don! e me alr ight even in most low light scenarios. And again seeing how illuminated this object was I thought surely it would pick it up at least somewhat. But no. I am just hoping that someone else could have observed this event near me. I do want to put out that being the I live in the very northwest part of AL, this object easily in my opinion was hovering and doing these crazy maneuvers over the state of TN or MS. I know MS has an Air Force Base however the only one that comes to mind right off is a bit south of where this orb would have been flying over. So anyone who can help me out here explaining this please don’t hesitate to contact me.
November 4, 2015 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
San Rafael, CA
I was watching a group of 5 to 10 objects in a straight line and at times in a triangular formation to the southeast of where I was standing. These lights were incredibly bright at times and incredibly low just barely above treetop level. 5 of these lights would dip down behind the treeline and come up again and remain basically stationary sometimes a bright yellow gold and other times really dimly lit but still visible. The object on the far right was giving off a purple and blue light as well as yellowish green at times. I watched this object for a solid 20 minutes in basically the same spot hovering until it finally took off and started heading north very slow and silent. All of these lights were just kind of swarming around each other and gradually moved to the southeast. The 5 main objects were basically hovering from about 10 after 10 until about ten-thirty P.M.
November 4, 2015 · 4:00 PM · SPHERE
Henderson, NV
A small, luminous orb was witnessed to the North, slightly above rooftop level, traveling swiftly from West to East at an upward angle of approximately twenty degrees. It traveled some distance at this angle, came to a quick, sudden stop in mid-air, then shot straight up and disappeared in to the clouds.
November 4, 2015 · 3:00 AM · SPHERE
Paris-Winchester, KY
On 11/4/2015, around 3:00 AM I was awakened by an odd feeling and drawn to look outside my bedroom window. Once I looked out my window, what was seen has left me convinced, confused and wanting to know more about what it is exactly, that I saw. I live out on a cattle farm, and on that particular night the cattle were in the field from which I saw the UFO. It appeared to me as a very large, round light about the size of a softball, that was swirling with many different colors; purple, pink, red, green, orange that could have resembled a head lamp in its movements. The light floated in mid air for about 30 seconds as I watched it, then suddenly vanished moving to the east and appeared to enter the shadow/body of a single cow. This sounds highly unlikely and crazy at that, but I know what I have seen and no one can tell me that it was a drone or anything human. About two or three days after the sighting, while walking through the field, I came across the remains of a cow, missing its entire skull, clean cut- this could have been due to coyotes/birds of prey, etc., but for whatever the reason those two events to me seem as if they may be related in some strange way.
November 3, 2015 · 7:50 PM · SPHERE
Campbell, OH
While standing on Wilson Ave. and Snyder on the boarder of Campbell and Struthers, Ohio, witnesses observed 2 triangular shaped objects in the northwest sky. Witness B was the first to notice them and advised the other two witnesses. All looked to the northwestern sky to see 2 seemingly equilateral triangular-shaped objects with lights at each angle. The lights appeared to be an unwavering bright lime-green, with one light forward and the other two in the rear. Due to the limited amount of stars in the night sky, witnesses were unable to determine at this time if the objects were solid or not. The 2 triangular objects were traveling at a very low speed from northeast to southwest. The two objects were also traveling very close together. At this time the 2 objects had crossed over the Wilson Ave. reference point when witnesses observed a single, lime-green in color, orb-like object following the same flight path, but seemingly lower than the other two. At this time t! he two triangular shaped objects further crossed the Mahoning River reference point, and began to spread out. The lead tip light stayed slightly ahead while the two rear lights moved up and further apart, causing an almost straight-line appearance. The lone orb-light object still trailed in the same flight path and slow speed. As the object flew farther away, witnesses retrieved a pair of binoculars to view the objects. All that could be observed were the lime-green lights, no structure or other characteristics. The objects were observed in the same almost straight-line pattern until they traveled so far that they could not be viewed with the binoculars. Witnesses attempted to obtain pictures and video with their cell phone cameras, however due to the objects altitude and distance from the witnesses, the lower focal power of the cameras could not pick up the objects. Due to the single object being of the same characteristics of the lights that created the triangular shape then broke apart, all witnesses believe that there were seven object in total. All witnesses agreed that they had never seen aerial crafts with these characteristics before. All three witnesses have extensive law enforcement careers and all three are military veterans with extensive service time. One witness is a current MUFON Field Investigator. It is also to be noted that the Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport/Vienna Airbase (1453 Youngstown Kingsville Rd Vienna, OH 4447) is approximately 14 miles north of the sighting. This region is also a very busy travel route for commercial and military planes arriving and departing at Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport/Vienna Airbase and the Pittsburgh International Airport. During the sighting, which lasted approximately 9-10 minutes, there were several commercial airplanes flying in several different directions and altitudes over the immediate area.
November 3, 2015 · 8:30 AM · SPHERE
Scottsdale, AZ
I'm at work and I see 2 bright shiny orbs over Scottsdale and they slowly headed east over the mountains. Before they started moving, they stayed close to central and Bethany for a short period, and then took off towards Scottsdale. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 2, 2015 · 6:30 PM · SPHERE
Plainfield, IL
In the western sky, just after sunset, a bright lime green circular orb jettisoned into the sky at a rapid speed. It then sped in a horizontal direction across the sky, sometimes changing colors to a bright red. At other times, it would hover in one spot. Eventually it completely disappeared. About 3 minutes later, it approached the same area in the sky, but this time it came speeding from the south. It was flying both in a horizontal and vertical pattern at rapid speeds, all the time changing from bright red to lime green. Although this seems like it could be the red and green lights of any plane, the formation it moved and the color it changed were unlike a plane. Again, it would just hover at certain times and eventually it disappeared. While continuing to watch, a bright white light came out of the south. This appeared to be plane, as we have planes flying to Midway or O'Hare nightly. However this plane came speeding to the same area of the sky, circled the exact location of the changing orb and then sped off to the north.
November 2, 2015 · 11:36 AM · SPHERE
Colorado Springs, CO
My dad and I were looking at a tree with bees all over it, then saw a white orb like craft fly very quickly overhead and past the house. We quickly ran around the house to try and follow it but it very quickly disappeared toward the north towards Denver.
November 1, 2015 · 12:00 AM · SPHERE
Arvada, CO
We suspect advertising lights, although the witness believed that not to be the case. PD
October 31, 2015 · 8:07 PM · SPHERE
Otsego, MN
I was helping my neighbor install a garage heater when I went to go get some tools from my house next door. Upon returning I noticed an orange-red sphere moving very quickly in the North moving to the Northeast. I’ve seen space junk and meteors through atmosphere and this wasn’t any of that. The altitude and speed didn’t make sense to me. It was fairly low altitude, approx. 2000 feet and moving in a straight line faster than jet but slower than a meteor. I watched it trying to verify flashing wing lights, sound or anything that would show to be some sort of man-made object. The object wasn’t totally glowing solid, it had a somewhat clear hazy luminescence to it. I observed it for about 8-10 seconds before went behind a cloud bank to the Northeast. What’s funny is I watch Sci–Fi channel and have said to myself a million times, “I will never see one”. Now I have.
October 31, 2015 · 3:22 AM · SPHERE
Oregon City, OR
I tried to get my wife but the clouds closed up.