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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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August 23, 2015 · 8:40 PM · SPHERE
Brandon, FL
I saw a an orange yellowish bright sphere last night outside my window. It was just hovering there, then started to move away. It was pulsating and seemed to have energy radiating off of it. At first I thought it was a street light but I wondered, why is a street light moving? Took a few to realize there's no street lights in the sky. Witness does not indicate time or date in the report, but we have divined that information from her illustration. PD
August 23, 2015 · 3:30 AM · SPHERE
Paradise Valley, AZ
Approximately 3:30 am on 8-23-2015, Sunday Morning, Paradise Valley, Arizona, I work as a Protection Specialist (bodyguard) for a wealthy family that lives at the base of Camelback Mountain in Paradise Valley, Arizona. Currently I work the night shift and conduct night patrols around the perimeter of the property. Here in Arizona the desert nights are very still with a sky that is crystal clear, the stars are amazing. It’s so quiet that I hear the small desert rats rustling in the low lying bushes as I walk by them. I have even walked up upon a bobcat stretched out on a nearby wall. Sunday morning, I was about half way finished with my patrol. I was walking down a path on the side of the house and had my flashlight out shining it into a dark corner of the house. Right then, a bright flash from above caught my attention. The strange thing was that I only saw the flash with my left eye as if something was trying to get my attention, although nothing lit up around me. Another strange occurrence was that I knew to look straight up into the sky. The light caused the hairs on the back of my neck to instantly rise up. I stopped and looked straight up to see a round bright ball of light above me. After looking at it for about 30 seconds it disappeared, then moved to the right and lit up again. It was moving slow and methodical. It was going way to slow to be a falling star or satellite. As I watched this thing move, it was as if I was trying to talk myself out of what I was witnessing. When it would reappear it looked as if it was falling a bit and then would stop. I served in Iraq and Afghanistan, where I have witnessed flares, and this was not a flare, but when it would appear it looked like it was falling like a flair, then would stop, stay still then go dark and move to the northeast. During the entire time of watching it, I tried to convenience myself that it was something I could explain, until I watched it do something very peculiar. After observing the object for about 5 minutes while it moved slowly to the Northeast towards Fountain Hills, it did a button hook maneuver to the left and headed in the opposite direction of travel. Almost instantly after the button hook, it conducted another 180 degree turn just as fast and headed towards the Northeast again. I watch it for about another 2 minutes and then it disappeared. It was something I could not explain. To remind you this was the area of the famous Phoenix lights. Camelback Mountain was a prime observation point for people here in the Valley that witnessed the Phoenix lights. I’m convinced that I witnessed a UFO from another world, or some sort of secret government aircraft.
August 22, 2015 · 10:12 PM · SPHERE
New York City, NY
My girlfriend and I were walking home from getting dinner, when I saw in the distance what looked like a orange orb of light that seem to come out of nowhere. At first, I was wow look at that! It looks strange!! Then as my girlfriend observed it another just like it appeared!! I said wow look another one!! She was like, "What you think that is??" I told her I don't know but it looks weird! Then another popped out of nowhere from in the area of the first we saw!! It was amazing!! So I started watching the the third one as to see if it was following the the first two and as I watched them they started to kind of disapear! My back facing where they came from I turned around and observed another coming my way from the same direction! I had to take my phone out to record this!!! Next thing you know, one after another flying in the same direction started popping up! I couldn't get a good view of them with my phone so I stopped recording to use a app I had on my phone! It's like a binoculars app. I took some pretty good pictures and then proceeded to film again! At that time a young lady with what I guess was her father asked what was going on. As they looked up they were amazed as well! The father suggested I call the cops, as by that time, about fifteen passed us all going in the same direction. So, I proceeded to walk home, while filming as much as I can. There wasn't many people in the street, and the few that were around weren't paying us attention. I know what a helicopter looks like at night and that was not helicopters!! Nor were they drones! Over twenty of those things past by Us! I have film and photos!! Amazing!!! And they were not lanterns! Lanterns don't fly! They hover!
August 22, 2015 · 8:35 PM · SPHERE
Mechanicsburg, PA
Witness 2: We were driving in our car heading towards 1st 114. My mom asked what's that off to the right. I saw a pinkish orangeish sphere hoovering in the sky over interstate 81 and rt 114. I saw it for about 5-7 seconds. We turned right on to 114 but the object disappeared. Witness 3: I was driving east bound on rt 944. My wife asked what was in the sky off to my right. When I looked I saw an orange pink fiery sphere static in the air over interstate 81. I observed it for 5-7 sec. I continued on rt 944 for 20 sec then turned right(south) on rt 114. 114 crosses over 81 after 1/4 mile. By the time we got to 81 the sphere was gone.
August 21, 2015 · 5:00 PM · SPHERE
Hwy 63 (northbound)(Canada), AB · Canada
It was daylight.
August 21, 2015 · 12:10 AM · SPHERE
College Station, TX
On the above date and time, I witnessed a solid white ball of light, traveling at a good speed followed by what sounded like a military helo. The event was seen about 3/4 to 1 mile to my west. The helo and light was traveling from the SW to N/NE. I could clearly hear the motor from the helo but no notable sound coming from the white light and no blinking beacons were noted coming from it either. I first noted the crafts when they were in close proximity to Easterwood Airport in College Station Texas. The white orb appeared to be gaining distance from the helo. I have a military and police history. This was the strangest event I have witnessed
August 20, 2015 · 9:15 PM · SPHERE
St. Louis, MO
My son and I along with a neighbor witnessed eight orange spheres traveling SW to NE. The first three that we saw traveled separately, but along the same path, approximately 2 minutes apart. The fourth one that we saw stopped and remained stationary for roughly one minute, before ascending straight up until it disappeared. The fifth light that we saw followed the same path as the first three but seemed to travel faster and was much brighter. The last three traveled one right after the other and formed a triangle, then separated as they traveled out of view. The elevation was that of the helicopter traffic that we see, but the speed was much faster. While we watched the fourth sphere hover we heard and saw a military jet.
August 19, 2015 · 9:19 PM · SPHERE
Metairie, LA
Near Louis Armstrong International Airport, there was a high orbit bright ball of light. Thought it was a star, at first, then noticed it was moving. About 15-20 seconds later a high altitude plane was following it. It was heading SE towards Old Metairie. It was not headbeam reflection. It was two distinct craft, the craft, and the plane following it. If you've ever seen a satellite fly over, that's what it appeared to be in shape/size/brightness.
August 16, 2015 · 3:04 AM · SPHERE
Sparks/Spanish Springs, NV
Stargazing at night in hills with friend. Saw the usual meteorites, planes and satellites and then later in the early morning hour of 03:04 we saw a bright green light flash 3 times and disappear. The light was not in earths atmosphere. It was appeared to be the size and distance of where stars are located and was small in size. Seen in the eastern sky over sparks hills facing south reno. No, we were not drinking or doing drugs.
August 15, 2015 · 11:30 PM · SPHERE
Faribault, MN
While out in the backyard stargazing with a friend a very bright single light was seen approaching from the east at low altitude (approximately 2,000 feet ). At first was thought to be an aircraft with its landing lights on. This would be normal as it was passing over the local airport to the NE and operating under, well under, the flight path of air traffic departing or approaching MSP International Airport. Proper procedure would be to have the landing lights on in this scenario. We had a pair of 125x astronomy binoculars and a pair of 12x24 zoom binoculars with us at the time this event was unfolding. I trained the 12x24 power binoculars on the object and began to relay what I was observing to my partner. I was expecting to hear and see an aircraft come into view with a jet or prop sound, navigation lights and have the landing light dim as the object passed just a mile or less to the north of our location. None of this occurred. I must emphasize that this light was very bright, and I feel safe in saying if it were any brighter it could have been very difficult to look at through the optics I was using. As the bright light passed over us at about 60 degrees azimuth North it made not a sound. It never dimmed or changed in appearance. There were no strobing lights or red and green navigation lights. No structure was visible associated with the light but clearly and logically it must have been attached to something. It briefly passed through the branches of a tree and continued on a steady constant speed and course to the East. This is when things became even more baffling. As it reached a point a mile or so East of us it stopped, grew in intensity, changed to a small dim rusty red colored dot, lost altitude in a straight downward decent, stopped, turned white again grew again in intensity turned again to a small rusty red dot and simply disappeared. I was relaying all of this description to my partner as it was happening. It left us baffled looking for an explanation as to what we had seen. As it turned out the event was not over. We spotted another bright light coming from the same direction as the first light/object. This light appeared different from the first and as I focused my binoculars on it I could clearly see three sets of lights. Two bright outboard lights and one dimmer middle light. It was clearly an aircraft and the sound of twin turbo props were audible. This aircraft behaived exactly as expected: sound, strobes, red and green navigation lights. Even the structure of the aircraft was visible. The lights changed as expected when it passed. Its flight path was the direction and altitude of the previous object. It even passed through the tree branches very close to the same spot. As this aircraft reached the approximate location where the first object had disappeared it made one and a quarter tight orbits and took on a Northern heading. I checked the landing light pattern of the second aircraft and found only one possible match. A Canadian built Dehaviland Dash 8. These are operated in this area by Air Canada, the US Air Force and the Office of Homeland Security. The latter two using them as survalence aircraft. I can in no way confirm who was operating either craft but can state with a high degree of certainty the second aircraft type. Clearly the second craft was in trail of the first object either through purpose or as a coincidence. Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
August 15, 2015 · 10:10 PM · SPHERE
Thackerville, OK
12 to 15 dim orangeish spheres traveling N to S, 3 to 4 m in diameter, had no lights and produced no sound, flying less than 1000 ft off the ground, near OK/TX state line.
August 15, 2015 · 9:16 PM · SPHERE
Fort Myers, FL
Received a call from my daughter who went to the mailbox and saw in the western sky over Cape Coral, Florida, a series of 7-12 red pulsating spheres that had movement to them. Some hovered and some moved in various directions. I ran downstairs and saw them on my own along with my wife and two neighbors. We were all left amazed and confused as to what they were. After about 2-4 minutes they began fading away, getting smaller, and disappearing. I tied taking a picture from my iPhone but due to light pollution it was washed out in the image.
August 15, 2015 · 9:10 PM · SPHERE
Eden, VT
I know it wasn't a plane cause a few flew over with their standard red and green lights and the sound of jet engines. Jola (my wife) was inside the house and I was calling out for her, but for some reason she couldn't hear me even though most of the windows were open. I ran inside to call her as a witness calling out to her and she still didn't hear me (almost like my voice was muted). I grabbed her camera and snapped these photos. I'm not tech savvy, so I don't know how to zoom them in. You'll have to do it manually. This is exactly what I've been seeing for the last couple of years and I FINALLY got pictures!!! I saw a large bright "orb" but the pictures tell another story almost like it was alive!! I would say it was approximately 5,000 to 8,000 feet above. Even though I zoomed in the pictures still came back small. I am sending pictures via email.
August 15, 2015 · 8:49 PM · SPHERE
Amberg, WI
I observed an orange glow towards the southeast and thought it to be the planet Mars or Venus the first star in the sky. I continued unloading my trailer and proceeded to unhitched it and then started rolling up my hold down straps. That is when I noticed that the "star" was moving at a slow speed to the north. It was not flashing. I grabbed my phone and began recording the last 2 plus minutes, it slowly moved until it was approximately directly to my west when it stopped, stayed there for awhile, then moved directly west until it went behind the tree tops. I sent my video to my brother and brother in law and my brother in law said it looked similar to one he had observed at the same place 20 years ago.
August 15, 2015 · 4:00 PM · SPHERE
Woodbridge, NJ
This video was shot on August 15th, 2015, around 4 pm eastern time, in central New Jersey. I had noticed I was able to see something if I stood where just the corona of the sun could be seen, so I decided to aim my iPhone camera at that direction. Coming in from right and from top left are two orb like objects that change speed and path. Today, I zoomed in for first time, having forgotten I have this video, and noticed numerous bright flashes of light in the sky in the direction where the objects seemed to be headed. When I had noticed it, I showed it to others, all coworkers- some of which are very much skeptics of these things. Everyone's general reaction was the same- startled and in awe. This actually spanned a few days. No rhyme or reason as to when it started or stopped. We have looked at the video, and tiny white objects can be seen moving across a clear, blue sky. However, we wonder whether the objects might be insects, brightly illuminated by sunlight. PD
August 15, 2015 · 2:00 AM · SPHERE
Ely, NV
Very early morning. I was awaken when my entire bedroom was illuminated in red. I was laying in bed, facing south, when a small, very bright orb on the outside of my home flew West. Then made a perfect corner at the end of my house and headed North in an skyward direction. It was only 4 foot off the ground. I could tell it was on the outside of my home as I could still see the interior walls, but the brightness illuminated my room.
August 14, 2015 · 9:38 PM · SPHERE
Raleigh, NC
On a clear night at 9:30pm, I sat in a lounge chair with my girlfriend on my back deck to do some stargazing, maybe catch a meteor or two, and then view the International Space Station that would later pass at 9:57pm. At 9:38pm I noticed something unfamiliar in the sky with my naked eye in the area of the Andromeda galaxy. At first I thought I was looking at a star. However, after looking at it for a few seconds, I noticed it was moving very slowly from East to West, it was larger (not brighter though) than a star and it was egg-shaped. At this point I figured it was some unique satellite so I ran to get my binoculars for a closer look. Within 30 seconds I returned with my Bushnell 10x50 wide angle binoculars. After focusing in on the object I was completely astonished. It was two concentric rings of light with two bright spots on the leading edge of the outer ring. As my girlfriend and I passed the binoculars back and forth, it continued to slow down ! further until it came to a complete stop (relative to the stars in the binocular's field of view) at 9:43pm. We continued to take turns with the binoculars in complete amazement. I then decided to go to my neighbor's house to show them this amazing object in the sky. The parents were out for the evening, but their three kids, their babysitter and I went out onto their back deck. Everyone had a couple good looks at it. It was still frozen in place in the sky, however the bright spots on the outer ring of light were on the other side, there were more of them and a little less bright. I then returned to my house to retrieve and set up my telescope. I knew it would take about 5 minutes to assemble so I went back to my deck to view the object again. Now, at 9:53pm, it had started traveling back very slowly in the opposite direction, now going from West to East. We watched it travel slowly for three minutes, until 9:56pm. Then we both looked down to talk to each other, ! looked back up and it was nowhere to be seen. A minute later, at 9:57 pm, we spotted the International Space Station, traveling West to East, across the northern sky. We continued to search the sky for the object off-and-on for another hour, until 11pm, but never saw it again. In total we viewed this object for over 15 minutes. I would estimate it was at an altitude comparable to that of satellites orbiting the earth. I have been an avid stargazer for over 30 years that can easily distinguish the planets (by name) from stars with the naked eye, easily spot satellites and have viewed the International Space Station many times, but this was a truly unique object and experience.
August 13, 2015 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Mt. Washington, KY
Walked outside to smoke as soon as I closed the door to my house is seen them. barley .owing the stoped. hovered for a minute or so then faded away.but before they faded I took 2 pictures.i came back in house and made sure it took pictures then I closed my phone and didn't look at them until a couple weeks later then I pulled them up and I zoomed in and seen the shape of them.clasic ufo's.
August 13, 2015 · 3:30 AM · SPHERE
Delmar, NY
Multiple white orbs of light seen traveling silently across the sky while watching the Perseid meteor shower over an hour period. All but one moved quickly across the sky at airplane speeds (W-E). Two crossed paths (N-S and W-E), nearly colliding into each other. The last orb displayed erratic behavior. It traveled slowly (N-S), stopping occasionally. When it stopped, it appeared to turn or wobble for a few seconds. None of them flew in a straight line. They had a bit of a zigzag flight path, as if the operator were unsteady "behind the wheel". There were also planes in the sky, so there was a clear distinction between the white orbs and the planes, which emitted an alternating red and white blinking light and traveled in a straight line.
August 13, 2015 · 12:40 AM · SPHERE
Scunthorpe (UK/England) · United Kingdom
Was standing in my back garden with my wife looking north between 00:30 and 01:20 to view the Perseid meteor shower. The sky was cloud free with good visibility, and there was no wind. During this observation period I saw 11 shooting stars, 4 aircraft, and one UFO. The UFO was first seen by us in the north East at 00:40, and moved parallel and close to the horizon (approx. 15 degrees elevation) across our field of view towards the north west. It was internally illuminated, but not as brightly as the aircraft we also observed at other times during this sky watch, equivalent in brightness to a second magnitude star. The UFO light was not a point source, it appeared more as a very small diffuse orb with brightness varying slightly as it moved, and it left no trail. Colour was white with a tinge of orange. It moved generally in a straight line, but with some up and down movement too, and after moving an angular distance of about 45 degrees from our right to our left it stopped abruptly, remained visible for about 2 seconds, then blinked out. Brightness of the UFO varied a little throughout the observation period, but not with the regularity typically seen from flashing aircraft lights. The most puzzling aspect of this sighting, which clearly marked the UFO as something out of the ordinary, was its apparently high velocity. In comparison with the shooting stars that moved rapidly with angular velocities of around 10 degrees per second, and the aircraft flying over at cruising altitude moving about 0.5 degrees per second, the UFO moved at an estimated 4 degrees per second having taken about 10 seconds to cross our field of view. The UFO was certainly not a conventional aircraft. I would estimate that conventional aircraft which typically fly at 200 to 600 knots would have had to be relatively close to us to have displayed the high angular velocity observed, perhaps no further than a few hundred metres to a kilometre in distance. If this had been the case the noise of the engine(s) would have been clearly audible, this UFO was silent. Furthermore, when the lights of a conventional aircraft appear to stop moving in the sky, when it enters a turn and starts moving away or towards an observer, a significant time elapses as the aircraft completes the manoeuver. When this UFO stopped moving it did so immediately. The UFO also did not resemble in any way a shooting star, meteorite, or a satellite. It certainly was not one of the Perseid shooting stars because it's trajectory was aligned about 90 degrees away from the path of this meteor shower in the region of the sky where it was observed.
August 12, 2015 · 10:30 PM · SPHERE
Priest Lake, ID
Location: Near Outlet Bay, Priest Lake, Idaho. Five adults viewing the meteor shower witnessed UFO (round, bright white object) travel in zig zag pattern (western direction), then disappear. Approximately 6-8 seconds. Definitely not a satellite or airplane. Approximately 45 minutes later, similar or same object appeared in northern sky, moved in zig zag pattern, then move backwards and disappear. Approximately 6 seconds.
August 12, 2015 · 6:38 PM · SPHERE
Marina del Rey/Playa Vista, CA
I was on my balcony when I noticed a white translucent UFO orb. It then appeared to glow and float. I was able to film it until it eventually disappeared. There were a few others I was watching before that, but they would not show up on my iPhone camera. I uploaded the footage into iMovie. I was able to slow it down and zoom in. Not sure what it is, but I think its a good video. Below is the link I just created. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHLTUoF4ZXw&feature=youtu.be
August 11, 2015 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Thomasville, PA
I witnessed two helicopters flying in an erratic fashion, stopping, changing direction frequently. From a distance, I could see that there were additional steady illuminated red lights that could not belong to the helicopters. The two helicopters seemed to be travelling too close to one another and had their searchlights on, which seemed odd so I continued to observe. When they flew above me, (approx 200-250 ft) I saw that the searchlights were spotted on the red lights and the red lights did not attach to any aircraft. I witnessed two helicopters, each "chasing" a red orb. The orbs sped off due east and the helicopters followed. I attempted to continue my observance by vehicle but could not keep up.
August 11, 2015 · 8:30 PM · SPHERE
Minehead (Somerset)(UK/England) · United Kingdom
Driving home after work along A39 near St. Audries it was a clear night you could see the stars, there was a sudden flash of blue light then a bright silver orb in the sky then it just exploded like a nuclear bomb going off with a ripple of light then nothing the sky was clear again.