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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
August 2, 2015 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Johnstown, OH
Went to take the dog out one last time before bed. We were walking North. I was admiring the stars, it was a clear night, even though a storm was supposed to be rolling in later. All of a sudden I see this HUGE RED Pulsing orb in the sky. There was no noise. I don't know how else to explain it. It appeared out of no where, then faded into nothing. It only lasted a few seconds. I just shrugged it off as some weird lightning. I told my husband when we got back in and he just looked at me funny. It was bugging me what I saw so did some Google searches, but came up with nothing. That is until I Googled, "UFO sightings in Ohio 2015," and came across the database, and noticed some similar stories. So decided to report mine as well. Thank you. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 2, 2015 · 7:00 PM · SPHERE
Las Vegas, NV
Looked down to get cell phone, all of them had spread apart and only saw three in sky. They spread apart what seemed miles in less than 10-20 seconds. No sounds, lights, just reflective properties of material of which they were made of. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 2, 2015 · 6:40 PM · SPHERE
Warwick, RI
I was in my backyard around 8:40 PM EST, when all of a sudden, I saw a reddish/orange sphere that appeared to be rising straight up out of Warwick Pond, and approximately 600 feet due west from me. At first I thought it was the sun but it had already set. Also, the sphere seemed to be self illuminated. Upon assessing the estimated distance from my vantage point to the object, the sphere appeared to be approximately 9 or 10 feet in diameter and highly reflective which seemed strange, as at the same time it seemed to be self illuminated. As it appeared to be rising slowly from the pond my first hypothesis was that it was a mylar balloon, but after watching it for about 10 seconds I came to the conclusion that it was a) too large, b) too bright, and c) it seemed like hard metallic object, not mylar. I would also like to note that it was self illuminating as bright as the setting sun would be, but as I previously stated the sun had already set. I ran as far as I could to the edge of my yard to see if I could see it rise above the trees, but was unsuccessful in following its trajectory. My boyfriend and I quickly got in our car to drive around the neighborhood to see if we could see any signs of a disturbance or other witnesses, but were unsuccessful.
August 1, 2015 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Torrington, WY
The same two very bright lights were above me and a little bit west. I thought it was one large bright light, then one separated and slowly traveled towards the northeast. When I stopped watching, the one headed N.E.. The one that was standing still had gone. Speed and elevation unknown. The real time was 9:45 pm but the page would not let me put 21:45pm. I would not be surprised if they are reported over Alliance, Nebraska, or the Northern Panhandle of Nebraska tonight. The moving one was four times faster than a satellite and 25 times brighter. I reported these same two about a month ago.
August 1, 2015 · 9:36 PM · SPHERE
Lagrange, NY
At first only one light appeared, followed by a second object a few seconds later, and then a third. When the 1st object was out of range another one appeared in the same place as the first object. The object appeared from below the horizon. This went on for roughly 5 mins until the last 3 orbs were no longer visible. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 1, 2015 · 9:30 PM · SPHERE
Oak Creek, WI
I was in my family room on the couch and saw a deep reddish orange light in the distance. I shouted at my wife, jumped up, grabbed my new phone, and ran outside. I saw a beautiful deep-red, orange vehicle coming from the east, then headed northwest. It was flying low over houses only 50 feet up max. The vehicle came into a clearing in front of my house and i snapped a picture. Vehicle then stopped and observed my wife and I. I was then trying full video. Vehicle then proceeded straight north until out of sight. All excited, my wife and I were talking, and I said look for more. We then sighted another of the same type and description. This one kept going following the other one. No Sound. Vehicle consistent with other videos on u tube.
July 31, 2015 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
Stockton, CA
I was looking at the moon around 11pm, and immediately noticed about 7 massively bright orange/amber "orbs," perfectly aligned in almost a triangle shape. They were still at first, and then started to dance around each other, and some even merged into one another to form a bigger and brighter ball of light. They were pretty far away, but massively luminously bright and pulsating. I yelled for my girlfriend to grab her phone but by the time she grabbed it and opened the video app, we only managed to film the last one that was fading away in the distance. It was like nothing I've seen before. So beautiful! No air craft or drone that far could emit such massive light, travel so fast, and move in the different directions, that I witnessed. They disappeared headed northeast from Stockton, toward Highway 99, maybe more toward Lockford, CA. So beautiful and majestic and defied laws of physics in my humble non-expert opinion.
July 31, 2015 · 10:15 PM · SPHERE
Saint Johnsbury, VT
on July 31, 2015, my wife and myself witnessed one (1) bright and solid white light in the western sky. It was traveling from east to west. Then 5 mins later, one (1) other of the same object came behind. They were both round and bright white with no sound what so ever. And never blinked. We both had also witnessed the same object back in June of 2015 as well. But this one was coming from the north going south.
July 31, 2015 · 10:05 PM · SPHERE
Buffalo Grove, IL
While walking dog we noticed a bright yellowish planet type object moving in the sky from west to east at about 75 deg above horizon. It was a very clear night. It did not appear to be a plane since there was no flashing lights, noise or trail and did not have the movement of a plane as I will explain in detail. I ruled out a satellite or the ISS for the following reasons. I observed the ISS at much lower elevations above the horizon, traveling in a strait path at a consistant speed and following a NW to SE orbit. this was nothing like that. It was not a satellite or ISS because: 1. The object was not traveling at a constant speed. It seemed to slow down then speed up constantly as it moved across the sky 2. At times the object seemed to wiggle or meander at times in a sense that it shifted it's course slightly while moving very slowly then speed up again. We noticed this several times. 3. As it moved east the light did not seem to dim as a satellite or the ISS would from loosing the reflection of the sun on the solar panels. To me this indicated the glow of the light was powered by the object and not reflected from the sun. 4. The object was about the size as one would observe Venus but not quite as bright but more yellow/orange in color. The object was visible at that intensity for several minutes. Much longer than I have observed for anything in orbit.
July 31, 2015 · 9:50 AM · SPHERE
Silverthorne, CO
My brother and I went to my friend's family ranch in Grand County on William's Fork. There were five of us, as well as my friends parents. His parents went to bed, and the five of us sat around the campfire. There were hardly any clouds in the sky as dusk fell. At around 9:50, I spotted the lights of a plane in my left peripherals. I'm a pilot and I like checking out all the planes and choppers in the sky. As I watched it I found it strange that I couldn't hear any jet or propellor engine. I pointed the plane out to my friend and he and another friend looked at it. The plane had cruised from left to right and the moment after my two friends began watching it the plane lights dissolved and a split second later there were 5-6 greenish sparkling orbs of light flickering and sparkling interestingly. They disappeared and my friends and I freaked out. We went inside and didn't come out for a few hours, but when we did, there was a clear sky with a big bright full moon and lots of twinkling stars, as well as some strange lights hovering above the mountain ridges overlooking the ranch. Throughout the rest of the night the lights continued, some would move, some just hover, some would illuminate in a new spot, some disappear and reappear, some would move blatantly across the sky, others would disguise themselves as the lights of a plane and then change later or just disappear. The lights all stayed at a remarkably low altitude, hovering just above ridges or treetops. We ended up staying awake until 6 am, when we went outside at 5.30 the light of day had chased all the stars from the sky. However, two bluish orbs of light remained peeking out at us from behind a ridge.
July 31, 2015 · 4:20 AM · SPHERE
Medina, OH
I had been awake since 4am. I dressed, made coffee then walked to the sliding glass door to open it. I glanced up to the sky and a very bright, spherical object was in the process of passing overhead. It was the color of a bright star, heading from south to east. It was amazingly close and zipped out of my sight over the trees. The object took me by surprise, but what gets me is how silent it was. I had seen a fireball two years ago and this was no fireball. This morning's object was perfectly round and had no tail. This makes the second sighting I've had this year of the same kind of object. What I found interesting is that with my first reported sighting, someone in Bangor, PA, reported having had seen the same object I had. Bangor is a straight shot east from Medina, Ohio.
July 30, 2015 · 1:30 AM · SPHERE
Browning, MT
A single, bright white, sphere was moving west at high speed. As it got farther away, it appeared to slow down some. What then rapidly headed north, at the speed this thing was moving and for it to change direction that fast, there is no way it was aircraft that we currently have.
July 30, 2015 · 1:30 AM · SPHERE
Philadelphia, PA
My daughter, her husband, and I were sitting on her front step, at approx. 0130 on July 30, 2015. We happened to notice a strange looking star-like object, maybe 45 degrees from the horizon. We were looking north. It was faintly flashing blue and red lights. After observing it for a while, we started to notice tiny little lights going to and from it. We got out the telescope, but having never used it before, it took us a while to find the object. When we did, it appeared to be just a round white sphere. We didn’t see any little lights with the telescope. The object didn’t move for approx. 2-2 ½ hrs. As we were looking at the object, it took off at an extremely high rate of speed in an easterly direction. There is a tree across the street, and I tried to run down the sidewalk to see where it was going, but by the time I got to other side of the tree, it was gone. Might I add that I was not a believer until I witnessed that. I know that whatever I saw, was not from this world. Even if I hadn’t seen it move, it might be different, but I saw it go from a complete standstill, to moving like nothing I’ve ever seen mover through the sky.
July 29, 2015 · 9:48 PM · SPHERE
Grove City, OH
Went outside to put the trash out. Spotted a light in the western sky. I am a former Army helicopter crewchief!, so I immediately recognize the light pattern was nothing I had ever seen before. It seemed to have a reddish Corona and a white center. It was pulsing and moving slowly to the northeast. It sort of swayed left and right, as it moved forward. I went inside and asked my wife to come out and validate what I was seeing. By the time we got back out, it was moving north. Then, suddenly, it faded and disappeared.
July 29, 2015 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Bristol, RI
Three purple/red objects traveling southeast to east-northeast. The objects were spaced about 30 degrees apart and traveling slower than most small aircraft. Because of trees each was visible for only 6 seconds. I managed to get my binoculars in time to see the second and third objects. The outline of the spheres was diffuse and not clearcut. Each object had a slow flashing white strobe light. The objects were quite striking color wise and appeared about 1/4 the diameter of the moon which was very bright that night.
July 29, 2015 · 1:32 PM · SPHERE
Waterloo, IA
Tried to video tape. Objects then fell behind tree cover within my city N.E. vantage point. Originally assumed they were balloons from some event. Called ALO airport control tower, no other reports at that time.
July 27, 2015 · 7:15 PM · SPHERE
Berwick, PA
July 27th. Berwick PA. 7 miles south of the Nuclear Power Plant. Looking West slightly SW. Bright sky, cloud formations very odd for this area. Puffy funnel type cloud. Sunny sky about 7:15 pm. I was walking the dog and looked up and noticed how odd the cloud looked in relation to the rest of the sky. A bright silver object that looked like a lifesaver appeared to the right of the cloud and then it quickly darted back into the cloud formation. If I held my arm out the object would have been the size of a pencil eraser end. The center circle was well defined as was the outside edge. The shape was perfectly round. The inner ring appeared to encompass 2/3rds of the entire object. The center was darker. I saw small flashes in the cloud, not like lightening but like dots. I do not know if these flashes were from the object or from the sun glinting off of the object. I then took my camera out and took photos but I did not get a good photo of the big one I saw but! I did get one of a much smaller dark silver sphere. No birds or bugs were about, I think due to the 90 degree temp and high humidity. I will email the pic. P.S. the dog was not impressed. Photos show tiny speck. We are unable to determine what it is, but we have no reason to assume that the object is an authentic UFO. PD
July 26, 2015 · 1:00 PM · SPHERE
Johannesburg (South Africa) · South Africa
Hi there, On the 26th of July, 2015, I was sitting on my front porch, looking directly into the sun. I was wearing sunglasses and my eyes were just shielded from the sun's direct gaze. I then noticed many many many small, round objects start to appear from directly in line with the sun. It was almost like they were "warping in" and moving passed in an easterly direction. The were pretty much balls of light, some moving slower than others, some zipping around lower in the sky. I started counting the smaller balls of light and lost count after 50+. I also noticed 2-3 larger ships in the sky. I say ships because I could make out tail fins. They were exceptionally high up, but I could measure them to be roughly 10mm in the sky with regular eye sight. They seemed to be "arriving." The event lasted the entire afternoon, petering off around 16:00. Today, the 27th, there are still some of the round balls of light slowly moving across the sky from behind the sun. I did panic a bit, and I only managed to grab exceptionally poor footage of the balls of light. I was too flustered to try and capture the larger ships, and didn't have the right tools to do so nicely. There are at least 8 people now that have seen the balls of light, and the count seems to be growing. Hopefully, you take me seriously.
July 25, 2015 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Milwaukee, WI
Was driving, saw something burning in the sky, thought it was a plane crashing because it was completely on fire, object then broke apart and split into 5 orbs of bluish light that then formed trapezoid, Then the orbs split apart and disappeared completely.
July 24, 2015 · 11:30 PM · SPHERE
Pierz, MN
Driving home on highway between two corn fields in country setting. Saw one flashing bluish orb soaring across corn field blinking in durations. Too fast and too low to be a helicopter. Car radio was also acting up. Every radio station was fuzzy.
July 24, 2015 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
Louisville, KY
Me and my brother was outside last Friday early morning we saw a blue sphere light orb the same size a carrier, it was gliding while pulsating a blue hue light blue, it had shape but didnt have a form, well it had a form, its weird to explain, IT was semi transparent, the light orb looked solid, but like a hazy light,o t faded in and out twice, like disappeared and then reappeared. then finally disappeared, it was a very clear night that night, and a plane followed behind it, but it was 15 mins later.
July 24, 2015 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
Delaware, OH
My husband and I were just arriving home around 11pm, and we noticed a red orange sphere in the sky. It appeared stationary and then moved slowly towards us. It then stopped again, and changed color from red to orange. It then dimmed down to a white light then became bright again and then blinked out completely. There was no sound. There were no tail lights or trail left from it. I would estimate the object to have been at around 10,000 feet. It was a very clear night not a cloud in the sky. We both found it strange that it just blinked out and disappeared. We had a good view and would have seen it, if it just flew off. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 24, 2015 · 9:53 PM · SPHERE
Rural Hall, NC
While my husband took our dogs out he started calling me. I ran out. There were 3 sphere shaped red lights in a trangle in the distance. We watched them as the moved then they disappeared. After we came inside I heard a helicopter. We ran back out again. My husband a military man said that's a military helicopter. It wasn't flying the the same path as the three red spheres went. It went in a half circle around.
July 24, 2015 · 9:30 PM · SPHERE
Green Bay, WI
Me and my friend were out for a walk, and on our way back to the house, we saw 2 orange glowing orbs floating, perfectly in sync with one another. Roughly 30 seconds after we first spotted them the orb on the bottom started to fade out and eventually disappeared. Another 30 seconds after the bottom orb faded away the top one started to fade out. When me and my friend turned onto the road we live on we saw another orange orb floating in the exact same direction at the same speed. This one also lasted roughly 30 seconds before fading away. For the next 5 minutes or so, more of these orbs were appearing and fading away all the exact same way as the first 2. The orbs also seemed to be moving farther away the closer we came to them. These orbs had no flashing lights or trails from behind them.