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July 4, 2015 · 10:13 PM · SPHERE
Forte dei Marmi (Italy) · Italy
Saturday, July 4, 2015, with my partner, we were on the beach of Forte dei Marmi - Italy to attend the International Festival Fireworks' fireworks when, before the show, around 22:05, we were impressed by the vision of a luminous body that He advancing in the sky proceeding at a speed similar to a motorized hang-glider, about 300/500 mt. in height and parallel to the coast line. At first we thought it was to a motorized hang-glider lit, then not hearing the noise of the engine, in a drone or a weather balloon. We then began to take the phenomenon with the video camera (Sony digital 30X OPTICAL ZOOM, ZOOM EXTENDED 60X, 350X DIGITAL ZOOM: http://www.sony.it/support/it/content/cnt-specs/HDR-CX330E/list) to figure out what it were, there appeared glowing, as you can see from the attached video https://youtu.be/vH9BoAacUpA And equipped with a red nucleus surrounded by a bright halo and always spherical in shape. The horizontal progression lasted about 10 minutes from the time of the sighting with linear north-south direction and, again thanks to the video camera, we have observed that the body came shortly before we started to rise above our heads with a vertically abrupt speed change and then disappear at the top. The feeling that therefore we tried was that this body had commanded. After a few minutes near the spot where he had disappeared we saw very high altitude (the impression was a stratospheric level) as a lightning flash. The original clip is copied directly from the camera. The recovery was made by hand without tripod with excellent visibility and starry sky. Has anyone had experience of this kind? (Sorry for any mistakes in the translation from Italian to English)
July 4, 2015 · 10:10 PM · SPHERE
Seattle, WA
On the 4th of July at about 10:10pm, before the fireworks show at Gasworks Park, I was standing on Lakeview Blvd waiting for the fireworks show. I saw a red light come from the East heading West and stop over I-5 at the south end of Lake Union. The light wasn’t flashing, it was high in the sky and it hovered for about 10 minutes. That was while the helicopter was flying around with the American flag. Then at 10:20 pm, the fireworks started and the red light turned to green and headed East. I didn’t see it again.
July 4, 2015 · 10:05 PM · SPHERE
Bemidji, MN
bright reddish orange orb 1000 feet from ground flying from south to the north. No noise no airplane helicopter or drone saw it for two min. if u held a dime in your fingers and held it up with arm extended that would be approximate size. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 4, 2015 · 10:05 PM · SPHERE
Bristol, RI
It was the year July fourth 2015 in Newport Rhode Island! My wife and I were down in Newport Rhode Island To view the fourth of July fire works. I was traveling west towards fort Adams when I saw a Orange dot that was moving ,at first I thought it was Mars but it was moving slowly. So I decided to pull over to get a closer look ,and there was a girl on a bicycle and my wife and I . At this time the orange Orb was traveling slowly in the middle of the Narragansett bay over towards the fire works that were coming to an end . At 10:00pm the main Event of the fire works went off! I was out of the car with my wife and a girl that was walking her bike ,we all saw this Orange Orb except now it was coming towards the three of us. At this point in time the orange object or orb was directly over our heads 18 feet above all our heads. . At this time I noticed the girl walking her bike dropped her bike on the ground ,was crying shaking and had called her parents and I heard her say to her mom ,I think I am seeing a UFO. I told the girl and my wife not to move one inch. This Orb sat there over are heads for five minutes straight ,I have no idea what it was doing but I had some ideas of what it was doing. The orb was the size of a basket ball maybe slightly bigger so Brite and orange flickering of a purple ish streak with in it that it lit the area up,with no sound what so ever. The object did this for five minutes then started to move slowly to the East where it kept on going till it was out of sight. I will never ever forget this moment in time and I always think about this event every day!
July 4, 2015 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Patchogue, NY
I live near a lake in North Patchogue so the area is often clear enough to see fireworks on July 4th. My sister and I walked a few blocks, arriving there around 10pm. As soon as we got there, we stood in front of the lake, facing north, and watched the fireworks until 10:10. Around that time I pointed out a glowing red circle in the sky. It wasn't any plane or aircraft I have seen before. The red circle was still and not blinking like a plane or helicopter does. It moved from the northeast were I spotted it, across the north and after looking at more fireworks, moments later it suddenly disappeared. We saw 4 or 5 of these lights before leaving. They all appeared and disappeared without notice. There were some clouds that night but after watching these orbs disappear behind the clouds they never reappeared on the other side, but instead disappeared abruptly. They were high up in the sky but were very bright and we did not hear any sounds coming from them. Each orb appeared in the east/northeast direction and moved North/Northwest. The most of these orbs I saw in the sky at one time were 2, one in the East and one North. We left around 10:30, with these orbs still appearing in the sky as we were leaving.
July 4, 2015 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Monroe, NC
We have amended the time above, and reposted on July 10, 2015. PD
July 4, 2015 · 9:52 PM · SPHERE
Brunswick, OH
We were out watching fire works. From the direction of Elyria there came 1 sphere which traveled at slow speed, then just dimmed out. This was followed by 4 more exactly the same. Then at approximately 2210, another 4-5 appeared coming from the Independence Area. At 10:45, another 3 were spotted, they formed a triangle, then 2 veered away and then all three dimmed out. Watched local news and there was no mention of anything. Hard to believe nobody else has reported this. These were NOT fireworks. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 4, 2015 · 9:45 PM · SPHERE
Colfax, NC
On the evening of July 4th, not long after sunset, my girlfriend and I were driving West on Business 40 (we had just passed Interstate 40/Business 40 split) and noticed a bright, glowing orange orb passing in front of us above the tree line at approximately 50-75 ft above the ground, moving in a direction from our left or out of the south, towards our right, or to the north. We both noticed it immediately because both of our eyes were transfixed at the sky because we had just witnessed a lot of fireworks just above the tree tops as we drove out of Greensboro heading towards Winston-Salem, with it being Independence Day. My first thought was that we were viewing a falling ember from an exploded firework cascading down from the sky, however it was quickly evident that this wasn't true because the small craft was clearly flying in a trajectory perpendicular to our vehicle not losing altitude. We were both very intrigued and I quickly looked in my rearview to che! ck for other cars, and slowed down to get a better look. The orange light kind of resembled a flame almost like an oil lamp, with a distinct glowing orb surrounding it. The only thing that I could reasonably think that this small craft could be was a drone, possibly attempting to get views of the evening fireworks, however several factors lead me away from this assumption, because there were no houses or business around the area. It was a darkened and desolate portion of the highway, with trees on both sides and neither myself nor my girlfriend saw any wings or any identifying signs that would lead us to believe it was a manmade drone or craft. Drones typically need the operator to be fairly close, and with no homes or side streets anywhere near the area a drone seems unlikely, especially when it was fully dark and a drone would seemingly have no photographic value in darkness. Both me and my girlfriend were very interested in what we had saw and neither of us could explain! it. There is no possible way it was a firework or ember acting weird or caught in the wind, it was definitely flying. I wish I would have had more time to view the craft and contemplated pulling to the side of the roadway, but more cars were coming up behind us and the vehicle was close to crossing the tree line on the northern side of the road. Neither of us can identify what we saw, albeit briefly.
July 4, 2015 · 9:30 PM · SPHERE
Seattle, WA
While sitting outside with a group of friends, I noticed an off-white (to orange) point of light. I was facing west, the point of ligh was at a 10 o'clock position and heading in a southerly direction. Instinct indicated an altitude of a commercial jet at cruising altitude, but it might well have been beyond the atmosphere. What caught my attention was the lack of strobes. We live just east of Boeing Field with it traffic as well as inbound/outbound flights from SeaTac are also clearly visible from our home. I was beginning to think I was viewing a satellite, but it didn't have the look of something high enough to be in orbit, then it changed course. It was at this point I pointed it out to others around me. The object altered its course gently to a an easterly heading where it held that heading for maybe 5 seconds before gently altering to a southerly course which was held for 5 seconds. It then gently altered it course again to due west for about 5 seconds, before vanishing. The area of sky covered would have been roughly the area of 2 fists held at arm's length, and the speed was roughly what satellites travel. It was a constant smooth motion.
July 4, 2015 · 9:29 PM · SPHERE
Tempe, AZ
Myself and a few family members went to the Tempe Town Lake festival for the fourth of July 2015. We are enjoying our time and being very proud to be American. About 30 seconds before the fireworks stared we noticed a red light floating around where the fireworks are about to take place. While the show was taking place the light was stationary, then the light started moving from east to west. The object then stopped, and changed course and headed back to its original location. It then proceeded to move directly up and directly down, the object then started moving towards superstition mountains then disappeared. This craft was unlike anything I have seen and I was an aircraft rescue firefighter for the United States Marine Corps. I have seen very many aircraft from our military and other countries' military. This was neither, nor was it civilian, and I say that because, where the craft was located was directly in the flight path of Sky Harbor Airport. I have v! ideo
July 4, 2015 · 9:15 PM · SPHERE
Tempe, AZ
The object appears to move and stop suddenly and then fly away. It was in the flight path of Sky Harbor Airport.
July 4, 2015 · 9:15 PM · SPHERE
Ocala, FL
The Orb was moving from the east to the west when it disappeared into the clouds. Have video.
July 4, 2015 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Red Rock (Las Vegas), NV
This will substantiate similar sighting posted for July 4 event in Las Vegas. We were in Red Rock, NV, same time and spotted green orb darting and stopping going from west to east and back again to the northeast of strip. One pass was above our tree line another just below. Changed color to red. Could be drone filming Vegas fireworks but the speed in which it moved was very fast at times. The video of previous post is accurate and we can back up its authenticity.
July 4, 2015 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Las Vegas, NV
July 4th Sighting Over Las Vegas 2015 Las Vegas Sighting _ July 4th 2015_ 9 P. M. On a night when you'd expect to see an array of lights, my family / group and I never expected to see what we saw over the trees to the southeast of our driveway. Seven of us, my wife, two daughters and three of their friends, all grown, were over and enjoyed the 4th's activities, when at 9 P.M. we went outside to watch the fireworks. I noticed one of our company looking into the nighttime sky to the southeast, when I looked up and saw a lit up object that seemed to be something other then fireworks. It was just hovering bright and blue-green in color at first, then it moved ever so slowly and I thought it was a helicopter, meanwhile it had all of our attention by now, except my wife who went inside for something. It was then that the airborne craft started to move and made a sudden turn and as it did it began to fade and reappear as a bright reddish-orange color, turn back to the direction it had been visible as a blue-green object and darted back to it's original position in the sky that we had first noticed it. There it turned back to to the blue-green and started to maneuver through the sky as something very different then fireworks or helicopter or anything that I've ever seen. I called for my wife to hurry back out side and look at this object. I called to her twice and finally asked her to drop whatever she was doing and please come now! (Meanwhile fireworks are going off all around us and this craft has our rapt attention)! My wife came back out and immediately started to film it on her smartphone, we ended up with approx. seven minutes of video but during that time all we could do is watch this object in between the burst of the fireworks celebration which it seemed very int! erested in as it seemed to be drawn to the larger explosions. It continued to change color between the blue-green to red-orange as it changed direction or sped up and slowed down. It had a range of speed from just hovering to darting through the sky in an instant, ascending, descending at times and changing course at very unusual angles, sometimes slowly, other times quickly. We all thought about what it could be, a very different firework, a helicopter, a blimp, a drone, a prank somebody conceived because everyone in the neighborhood would be watching up into the nighttime sky and what a dupe or "viral-video" that would make but in the end none of these made any sense. As in the end it darted out a bit of instant, returned half the distance and started to descend beyond the trees and went out of sight. We all at some point thought it was a UFO and explained what we each saw and all agreed it wasn't anything like any of us had seen before. My wife later uploaded her video to her computer and we both understood why 99% of the videos you see of the UFO sightings are so grainy, you just don't expect to see something like this and when you do you use the best tool available to you to record it and in this case it was a smartphone. Aliens, I don't know. UFO, meaning that none of us in our group could identify it, yes. I'm just hoping to see something about this on the news tomorrow to verify what we saw wasn't a July fourth event the city of Las Vegas put on to wow it's citizens! We're hoping others saw this as there have had to be dozens of witnesses with it being the 4th of July and so many would have been looking into the sky enjoying the firework celebrations. FOR DESCRIPTION OF THE EVENT BY VIDEO GO TO THE FOLLOWING YOU TUBE LINK; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn8GYeG7ajo
July 4, 2015 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Stallings, NC
Constant Orange glowing spheres the size of a basketball travelled over the subdivision in straight lines. Elevated off the ground 100 ft in the air with no sound. Each light would disappear in the horizon and another shortly would appear. They travelled around 30 mph . Video was taken of the event. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 4, 2015 · 8:30 PM · SPHERE
Strasburg, OH
Sighted all craft at N.E and S.E of our position. Our position was as we were sitting on our back porch. First craft sighted was S.E. of us headed north at altitude. It was a large brilliant red circle. It all of a sudden just disappeared. The second craft was sighted at the same time but was NE of us and "at" altitude and headed in a southern direction. The third craft was soon then spotted NOT AT altitude but came "from behind" the distant ridgeline I would say that is approx. 5 miles away. My location is on a ridgeline of a valley. The fourth craft followed the third soon after. The fifth came out "in front of" the ridge line and the sixth came soon after from behind the ridge line again. The last craft headed to the south and one headed to the east. As they raised up above the ridgeline they were HUGE and BRILLIANT RED CIRCLES or orbs. By comparison they were several times larger than any commercial aircraft at that distance! . The brilliance of the red lights and size was ..geesh. They all rose relatively slowly at about a 45 degree angle then when they reached a certain altitude they gained speed. Two of them disappeared then reappeared then the lights got smaller as they took off. The others gradually reduced in size or brilliance as they "quickly" distanced themselves until they disappeared. What you would expect from a craft going from close to distant quickly. No sound at all. About a half hour or so later two "air craft" were seen flying from south to north. One at about the same altitude as "the craft" before they took greater speed and a second at a lower altitude very close to where we saw the majority of the craft come above the horizon or ridge line. Wish I had a camera! One did change color from red to white then back again. This was NOT fireworks.
July 4, 2015 · 8:00 PM · SPHERE
Greensboro, NC
While watching the fireworks show in Greensboro NC around the Coliseum, I noticed a green orb that appeared to be watching the fireworks as well. It moved in a very unusual way and finally disappeared.
July 4, 2015 · 12:00 AM · SPHERE
Greensboro, NC
Watched Green light orb travel over the coliseum during the firework show. Hovered over the coliseum for 10 to 15 minutes as if it were observing fireworks. Then sped off towards UNCG. We tried to follow but its speed was unreal.
July 4, 2015 · 12:00 AM · SPHERE
Westbrook, ME
Just after sunset my nephew, brother in-law and sister noticed a very bright singular light moving at a steady paces from SW heading NE. This light changed its direction an brightened an dimmed at various times throughout the sighting. I have had similar experiences with a similar light many times. Living very close to the airport I know this is no aircraft for sure! I also have pictures and videos of similar sightings from a variety of dates since my first sighting of this nature. I also have attempted to communicate using a very high watt LED flashlight whenever I do see them and I seem to get there attention having mimicing responses to my sequences of flashing my light. An have also encountered them coming back around several times from all different directions in one sighting. Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
July 4, 2015 · 12:00 AM · SPHERE
Seacaucus, NJ
Then it slowly descended after red green light fades out. Have cell video taken from NY side of sighting. We have attempted to contact the source, to confirm the time of the sighting, but have not yet received a reply. We would like to look at the video, as well. PD
July 3, 2015 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
Freeland, PA
We saw an orange orb or circular object moving at a high rate of speed from west to northeast. The object did not have any navigation lights and did not make any noise. A few minutes later another orange orb or ball came out of the west and followed the same path as the first one. We never saw anything like this before and are curious about what we saw.
July 3, 2015 · 10:15 PM · SPHERE
Tyrone Township, MI
Witnessed a red pulsating light (red/orange/yellow) adjacent to Saturn and Venus in the western sky. Travelled slowly to the south and then faded from view.
July 3, 2015 · 9:20 PM · SPHERE
Phoenix, NY
On Friday, July 3rd, 2015, at 9:20pm, as I was leaving the Nice-n-Easy parking lot in Phoenix, NY, I saw a stationary object in the southern sky above St. Stephen’s Church. I extended my left arm toward the object and raised my thumb as a reference for size. This object was the size of my thumbnail. I estimated it to be approximately eight hundred feet above the ground. I based this estimate on the objects location in relation to the peak of St Stevens Church below it, and the cumulus cloud cover behind it. I would describe this object as a ball of light. It was bright red, and twinkled orange to yellow at its core. I had determined at this point it was not an airplane, helicopter, drone, or fire work flare. It was stationary. There was no sound associated with the object. I drove out of the parking lot on to Culver Street and traveled west intending to cross the bridge to lock island. I continued to view the object. I slowed down in order to observe the object for three or four seconds at a glance. The object was now moving west parallel to my line of travel. It had matched my speed of fifteen miles an hour and was visible at sixty degrees to my left as I traveled South West. While I was on the bridge I again compared the object to the landscape and my thumb nail. The cumulus cloud cover remained a reliable reference in the background. It was now just above the trees located in the area of the old paper mill. I estimated the object to be approximately two hundred feet above the ground. Its size was still consistent with my thumbnail. I continued on Lamson Road and turned onto Pendegast Road. After traveling only a short distance, I pulled to the side of the road. The object was behind me. I stepped out of my truck. At this point the object passed very close to me, approximately fifteen degrees off my zenith. As the object moved in front of me I began to record it on my cell phone. It was now in front of me traveling in a Northwest direction. The object climbed steadily and maintained a trajectory of approximately sixty degrees above the horizon. The length of my recording was forty-one seconds. The time stamp of the recording was 20150707_213513. I estimate the entire event lasted approximately fifteen minutes. If you have questions please contact me I would be happy to talk with you.
July 2, 2015 · 10:40 PM · SPHERE
Ahmedabad (India) · India
Due to summer I have decided to take a sleep over terrace and as I was about to sleep and suddenly this bright like object appears in the sky. I was totally shocked after seeing this view. It was like a spherical object with a red light surrounded by blue ray of light up and down. It appears for about 10 seconds in the sky so we are unable to click the pictures. 2 of my neighbors hve also seen this view. They were too shocked like me.