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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
June 20, 2015 · 1:30 PM · SPHERE
Tulsa, OK
Source of report indicates that the date is approximate. PD
June 20, 2015 · 12:15 AM · SPHERE
Spring Lake, NJ
My two sisters and I were sitting outside looking out over the ocean on a clear night just after midnight when we saw two lights flying across the sky. They were flying fairly low for an airplane, and they seemed to keep a perfect, unwavering distance apart. The lights were also more orange than airplanes or other aircrafts, almost like flying orange orbs, but it was a bit too dark and too distant to observe their exact shape. They saw them for about 15-20 seconds, and we actually talked about what were seeing, then, all at once, they seemed to turn away and disappear entirely. This was even more odd because it was a relatively clear night, so it's not like they were hidden behind a dark cloud, but we didn't see anything else in the air for the next 15 minutes or so.
June 18, 2015 · 10:36 PM · SPHERE
San Diego, CA
I was standing in the West Lewis Mini Park in Mission Hills, which is part of San Diego. At 10:33pm I saw a faint satellite coming from the NW and heading SE. Since most satellites I see usually are flying either N-S, S-N, E-W or W-E; I guessed it was probably the International Space Station. As it got closer to being almost directly overhead, I noticed there was not just one light, but a second light traveling the same path and speed. The second light was the leading light and was dimmer. At an arm's length, the 2 lights were only the width of my thumb apart. I checked the time when I saw the 2 lights. It was 10:33pm. I went inside and checked the ISS TRACKER web page, and sure enough, the space station had passed by San Diego at that time. I have seen the space station pass overhead several times, but this was the first time I saw another craft by the space station. I checked the NASA web page, and there was a Russian space craft docked with the space station earlier in the day. In fact, they had a planned and successful space burn earlier in the day to change the space station orbit. The article I saw did not mention if the Russian space craft that was docked at the space station was planned to undock yesterday. Maybe someone else can figure out when or if the Russian space craft left the space station before my sighting. Anyway, I have pasted part of the NASA article that was posted on June 18. The International Space Station got an orbital boost this morning after a docked Russian re-supply craft fired its engines for four minutes and eight seconds. One more re-boost is scheduled for July 10, when the station will be at the proper altitude for a new Soyuz crew to dock at the end of July. The crew onboard the orbital laboratory conducted a wide array of experiments today looking at such things as radiation, liquid crystals and life science. The trio of station residents also continued more eye checks with assistance from specialists on the ground. One-Year crew member Mikhail Kornienko participated in the Matroyshka and RADI-N studies monitoring space radiation and exploring how it affects station crew members. 6055 : 08 : 39 : 00 Station Time in Orbit Benefits to You NASA Astronauts Headline Public Events in Washington Area. This report was first reported for a time of 2033 hrs.. The witness later corrected the time to 2236 hrs., and we have reposted the sighting with the corrected time. PD
June 18, 2015 · 10:30 PM · SPHERE
Torrington, WY
My adult son and I saw a bright glowing ball of light traveling North to South. The object made no sound and seemed to be about 5000 ft. or higher. It made a slight turn to the east and then stopped. Another light came from the Southwest toward the Northeast same size same brightness for just a few seconds (maybe 30 sec.) and slowly dimmed out. When we turned back to the first one, it had vanished. I assume it continued toward Colorado. When I call the reporting center. We were cut off when he was the web address?????????
June 14, 2015 · 10:15 PM · SPHERE
Waltham, MA
While standing outside on our back porch (second floor of an apartment), a bright light which initially appeared to be a bright star, began to move east across the sky in straight line. It was somewhat overcast at the time of the sighting. We know it wasn't a satellite as it was below the cloud cover. Additionally, the object remained a constant white light as it moved, with no flashing lights. Planes often fly over our house and this object did not have any of the characteristic features typically seen. The object was also completely silent as it moved across the sky. Before the object left our line of sight the brightness gradually faded until it was no longer visible. The object seemed to remain moving at a constant speed from the beginning of the sighting to the end.
June 13, 2015 · 9:50 PM · SPHERE
Sumner, WA
Took dog for a walk. We were on our way back home, walking down Elm Street. I turned to my left, looked up and seen a bright orange light in the sky. The brightness excited me because not many known aircraft are bright orange around here. The night was warm, the sky dark and clear, many stars out. I thought to myself, that's super bright. Walked a few steps, looked again and it was coming in my direction. I had my binoculars in my bag as I am always watching the sky. I looked thru them and could see that it was definitely bright orange and sphere shaped and was drifting in my direction. I watched it for about 30 seconds and it just disappeared. I thought to myself, 'that was weird'. And continued walking for about 30 steps and looked back. There was another one or the same one??? It was further back then the last one I seen. So, I stop and look thru binoculars and it looks like the first one but has red tiny spots inside the sphere. I lower the binoculars and suddenly another appears behind where it appeared. I am super curious now and watching the second one which is heading towards the same direction as the one before it. I'm not good with directions so all I can say is that they all appeared just above the flight path, above a field next to Mission Avacados, most of them appeared there, bright red and rose up above the horizon and moved to the east towards Lake Tapps area except one would always move in my direction. One after another they would fade out and disappear. This time, I walked about 1/2 a block to the 4 way stop at Parker Rd & Elm and here's two more. I began watching them and then two more appeared. The ones that closest to me, did not emit any sounds. None of them moved past me. This time one appeared directly across from one and began moving quickly to the other one - I thought! they would collide but it just moved directly underneath. Then moved across so they looked like headlights, coming in my direction and then they disappeared, all of them gone. Sometimes, I get a little paranoid and to get to my apts, there is a big field and I was nervous about it. That's when I fell in a hole and scratched up both of my knees! We come around the corner and no lights. I get in the apt and ask my daughter where the camera is and in my search for it out in the car, I see another bright orange light in the sky. I wanted to video it but once I found the camera it was too late. Throughout this sighting, I seen at least 3 airplanes flying about. The very first observation of these lights was around 10:50 pm The last observation was about 11:25 pm. ;:
June 13, 2015 · 9:45 PM · SPHERE
New Berlin, NY
I was going out to the front of my house at 9:45 pm when I noticed two orbed red lights with white halos in the sky moving I called. My girl friend to come look cause she don't believe in ufos so she came out to the front of the house she did see them. they then went behind my neighbors trees. i could still see them through the trees, then they disappeared.so I continued to watch the sky then another one showed above the street light same size same color that moved just for a little bit then hovered over street light. then disappeared. its awful funny how these orbs where over a electrical substation and now there are trucks at the substation 4 trucks as a matter of fact this is very suspicios to me.
June 12, 2015 · 10:39 PM · SPHERE
Boise, ID
As I gazed to the western skyline to observe Venus, around 10:39 p.m. MST, I noticed two stars that I have not noticed on other evenings. Upon further observation, I noticed that they were very slowly heading to the western horizon. One light was approximately five degrees higher, and to the northwest, than the other light. The distance between the two lights were about the size of a human fist, with the arm fully extended. I have observed Japanese Lanterns once on New Year’s Eve and logically assumed that was the answer. I am not ruling out the possibility of Lanterns, but when I observed Lanterns before, they slowly burned out and simply disappeared. These however must had been creating light for quite some time, before I noticed them, to reach the altitude that I recognized them to be. Furthermore, when I went back inside to check my photos, they were still just as ambient as they were when I had first noticed both 15 minutes earlier. The tree lines began to obstruct my viewing, and that is when I checked my photos.
June 12, 2015 · 7:00 PM · SPHERE
Beaumont, CA
DATE OF SIGHTING: June 12, 2015 TIME OF SIGHTING: Approximately 7:00 pm I was standing in my backyard. The weather was odd; very tropical for a pass situated just about seven minutes west of the desert. It feels more like Florida today than Beaumont, CA, which is located in Riverside County. The sun, while setting, was still lighting up the sky enough to call it daylight, rather than twilight or dusk. To the south, the clouds were generally spaced apart with large patches of clear blue sky in between them. To the north, there was a complete cover of darker clouds. There was a light sprinkle in my backyard at the time, and I was indulging in the few scattered cold raindrops, which were a welcome escape from the heat that had prevailed during the earlier part of the day. As I looked up into the sky to watch a small number of tiny birds flapping around above me (almost straight up and a little south), a small, spherical object caught my eye. At first, I thought it was just another bird. But as I followed its course, I realized it was an actual craft of some sort on a particular flight path (moving in a straight line from the west to the east). I also realized that it was much higher in the sky than the birds I had been watching. In fact, as it passed a few of the scattered clouds in that area, I could see it actually pass through the very bottom of a few of them. The object was black (almost a matte black, to be exact), although I’m sure that at that height, it’s impossible to be sure that it wasn’t just shadowed due to the weird time of day and the strange, partly rainy, partly sunny weather we were having at the moment. To my naked eye, it was a smaller, black sphere going about the speed of a prop plane. As its straight vector took in either into or behind a fairly small darker grey cloud, it disappeared from view. I waited longer than needed given its speed and trajectory, but never saw it emerge from the cover of that cloud. There was no sound, may have been multiple witnesses (I’m not sure, it being less than an hour since I saw it) due to the fact that the Beaumont Sports Park is only separated from my backyard by my picket fence, and from the time I noticed it to the time it mysteriously disappeared, I had personally viewed it for maybe 20-30 seconds. One small final detail that somewhat solidified for me that what I had just witnessed was not normal was this: Maybe 2-3 seconds after the object had disappeared behind the cloud, a fair sized propeller plane came into view from behind the same cloud, on nearly the same trajectory as the sphere, but moving in the opposite direction (from east to west)! There was absolutely no way that what I had seen was this plane for three reasons off the top of my head: One – The sphere had no extensions protruding from it anywhere. It was just a perfect sphere, while the plane was instantaneously recognizable by its perfectly distinguishable wings and tail… Two – There was no way a plane could have banked and done a complete 180-degree turn in 2-3 seconds… And Three – The plane, as it passed overhead, made the humming sound that all propeller planes do, while the sphere that I had seen only seconds before emitted no sound whatsoever.
June 11, 2015 · 11:30 AM · SPHERE
Twenty Nine Palms, AZ
I was on a Southwest fligth from Tucson, Arizona, to Los Angeles, California, on June 11th, 2015. It was 11:30 AM and we were about more than 30 minutes from Los Angeles. I decided to open the window and watch the scenery from the right side of plane. It was all desert. I saw patches of uniformed green squares and realized it was the Arizona California border The Colorado Rriver. A few minutes later it was all desert, sand as far as the eye can see. Then I noticed a plane was moving from East to West diagonally from top right of window to center of window. Plane was moving fast and thought we were doing the same thing. Then I saw another plane right below us going the same direction but way low compared to us. All of the sudden a bright orange sphere caught my eye, I close my eyes to make sure it was not some type of illusion. Nope it was there and was about 1/8 to 3/16 in diameter. The sphere was right above the clouds that were 80 plus miles from plane on top left of window. I was trying to take a picture with my cell phone camera but it would not come out right the focusing and how little it was would not look right. I looked at passenger 2 seats from me and tought of asking for help seeing it but he didn't seemed the friendly type. The sphere just sat there above the clouds not moving. All of the sudden it disappeared. I continue looking but never came back and plane moved on.
June 9, 2015 · 11:30 PM · SPHERE
Istanbul (Turkey) · Turkey
I was walking next to the Obelisk (there are three with in meters of each other there and the Mosque is where you see all the sea gulls flying) and I noticed a red ball way up in the sky. I watched it for a minute. It was moving erratic so I pulled out my camera to try and catch it on video. It slowed down and then disappeared. It was completely silent. I heard a jet coming up behind me, and he passed right by where it disappeared, but sorry I stopped filming before that. (( Video, at the link provided below, indicates a single light, possibly orange, which appears to be hovering in a clear nighttime sky. We do not know what the object was. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvmVEnFGocQ PD))
June 8, 2015 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Spring Hill, FL
Shortly after 22:00 hours on the night of June 8th a red sphere appeared on the horizon east of our house off of a Spring Hill Drive. The sphere moved in a zig zag pattern at a high rate of speed just above the tree line. Every time the UFO made an abrupt turn it changed colors, from bright red to bright blue and back to bright red. Based on my estimate I would have to say that it was 1-2 miles away at most, and was between our house and veterans park which is also located on Spring Hill Drive. After about 2 minutes the sphere dipped below the tree line and vanished. I remained outside to see if it was going to reappear for about 10 minutes and didn't see it again.
June 8, 2015 · 9:30 PM · SPHERE
Kissimmee, FL
I was sitting on my back porch around 9:30 and noticed 3 orange orbs glowing from the South. I figured it was a plane since I live close to the Orlando airport but when I looked again about 10 min later there were 6 orange globes grouped in 3. The 3 on the right formed a triangle, 2 in the back and 1 in front. The 3 on the left were in a straight horizontal line. I then went inside to tell my parents to come outside to see it but when we came back out the 3 orbs in a straight line were gone. We stared at the remaining orbs for about 5 minutes and then one by one they started blinking and then disappeared. We sat outside trying to explain what we just saw and then my dad pointed out that they were back. We went to the roof to get a better view. This time they looked further away and there were only 2 of them, it lasted less than 5 minutes and they were gone again. I managed to take a picture of the 6 that I saw but since it was dark and I took it from my phone it’s a little blurry. When I went on the roof my mom handed me her camera and I was able to record it.
June 7, 2015 · 1:00 AM · SPHERE
Joliet, IL
Standing on my front stairs having a smoke facing west and saw two orange and reddish glowing balls looking almost like fire to my right. One was smaller and a little further in front of the other one and a bit lower in the air. Noticed the bigger one first due to it being brighter and changing in intensity. No sound and did not appear to be lanterns. They appeared north of me and seemed to be heading in a southwest direction almost towards me then changed and headed a bit northwest. They were moving sort of quickly and there was almost no wind. Went to get my phone to take a picture and they were already too far away heading in a north/northwest direction almost side by side.
June 6, 2015 · 12:30 AM · SPHERE
Harrisonburg, VA
I was leaving my friends house late in the summer to head back to mine a few streets over. He had grabbed a cigarette and we sat on the chairs outside glancing up at the stars, it was a clear warm night. He was an avid listener to coast to coast AM so we would always joke about if/when we were gonna see something. We were chatting about plans and I said alright I'm out bye! As I turned and walked he said my name as to get my attention. When I turned back to him thats when I saw it... A orange orb hovering between us and the house across the back yard, distance to house would be under 50 yards and typical 1 or 2 story height. The orb was close though with a size of maybe beach ball or yoga ball, its honestly hard to tell because of what it did and the shock of seeing it but it seemed to be above the house but nearer to us. They or whatever it was knew we were there. I know this because of the ending of sighting which proves this was not a reflection or hallucination. It was real not "earthly" but very real. It lasted at most a minute or two, at first it was hovering still like a mini sun almost. Then it did a weird jellyfish or dead leaf motion, in and out, getting slightly bigger then slightly smaller and with each pulse in and out it went up maybe 10ish feet. It did that roughly 5 times until the last one it shot off upward and instantly disappeared, we both turned to each other, thinking we just saw something very weird. Here is the freaky part... I took steps out into yard to fully look for it and saw nothing. No less than a minute later we hear this noise from off in the distance, louder and louder until a single military fighter jet, no lights of any kind came screaming down in an obvious dive chase from higher up. I've seen blue angels and others do tricks and show off at norfolk/va beach multiple times, very familiar with the sounds they make. This was a jet looking for that orb, which was obviously toying with him when it decided to come show off to us or say hello, who knows. All I know is we were in shock and out of nowhere that jet probably high up in the sky saw it again and dive chased it not knowing we had front row seats to the whole thing. I would love to have a chat with that pilot because he must've had that control stick fully pulled back when he crossed over us, he was that low. We had both seen questionable things like lights or things in the sky but they could've been anything really. Those combined events however will forever be engrained in my memory. I still get goosebumps thinking about the sound that jet made as it passed us...
June 5, 2015 · 8:30 PM · SPHERE
Folsom, CA
I pulled over into a parking lot, got out of my car and took 1 photo before the objects disappeared. I was just about to shoot a video, but they were gone as soon as I started to record. The entire event lasted approx 1 minute.
June 5, 2015 · 3:00 AM · SPHERE
Mount Pleasant, MI
Last Thursday night, I was sleeping at home, when I woke up with the feeling that somebody was breaking in my house. I went to have a look, and as I went to get up out of bed, I found myself paralyzed in place. I felt really scared, like I was having a nightmare or something. When I tried to close my eyes, I couldn’t close them, and I looked around up in the air, I assumed myself to be in a dream, but I couldn’t wake up, so I started scream, and before I could get a sound out in a single second, I was floating above my bed and I felt a deep very low frequency hum like a large transformer was inside my body. Then I could see behind me back at my bed, and my cat, who sleeps by me, didn’t even seem to care or notice that I wasn’t in my bed anymore. I was absolutely terrified and right, as I was about to scream, I started floating toward my wall of my bedroom. To my shock, I went right thru the wall, like I was a ghost or the wall was liquid, and as I saw thru my wall, I was feeling this vibration intensify greatly, like a force of my body was going to explode from inside out. I passed out completely, and when I remember waking up, I realized that I was in some type of white science looking laboratory room of some sort. I again, assumed I was dreaming, until I saw a face looking down at me. It was a large head, with black bug-like eyes, and in my head as I went to scream, I heard it say don’t be afraid of me, you are safe with me. I don’t know how to explain it, but it said it thru my brain, like a mind reader would read your mind. The voice sounded like I was saying it to myself, instantaneously to myself. Then I went to ask, what’s going on, and before I could talk, again it said don’t worry, and said we’re zeta brothers. I didn’t really understand what that means, but as I could see more clearly, I immediately noticed, that the! se weren’t people at all, it was an oblong looking bug eyed grey skinned, probably around 3 feet tall, with a silver suit made of some kind of spandex. It had a tiny little slit where the mouth was, and just holes for ears. It's head was wobbling on what I remember thinking was a tiny neck right in the middle, and it's hands looked like they were really skinny and long, with almost no texture, just like the texture of the lining of a hot dog casing. This thing that I can only explain look wise, as an alien creature. When I asked it to go home, another one came in the room, and they were talking to each other without talking, and one said, something in a weird sounding almost African type of language, and they came back next to me but in an instant, no walking, just teleporting back to above me, and the other of the two took off my pants, and put a strange circular light orb on my genitals, and it was very painful. I immediately felt as though I was being burned on my penis, and it then took the ball off me, and the pain instantly stopped. Then the one holding the light ball disappeared in a flash out of my view, and the other above me said I want to show you him, and a different taller bright white one of these things came out walking with what looked like a little girl, but with some of the facial features of these creatures, and it looked up at me and said “you know who I am”, This scared me terribly and immediately I remember falling back asleep. When I woke up again, it was the next morning and I was back lying in my bed, without my covers being disturbed, and immediately assumed it was very scary nightmare. Then, I when I went to get out of bed, my ankle felt as though the same vibrational burning sensation was coming from under my skin by my bone in my leg, so I looked down, and noticed that there is a small maybe 1/8th of an inch circular cut out and burned mark on my leg, but it goes down like 4 layers of my skin, as if someone had literally punched a hole with a paper punch out of it, and then burned it closed. For the past few days, I haven’t really been able to tell if this was a dream, or real, but strange feelings happen to my leg and I hear weird static sounds in my head when I feel it. I keep also, seeing a strange pattern of a triangle, with two circles in it, which looks like some sort of geometric constellation when I start to fall asleep every night since. I don’t know still if I was just dreaming of this, or if it really happened, but I can't explain why I am still feeling and seeing weird things, or the hole on my leg I found the morning after this all happened. We have tried to contact the source of the report, principally to inquire whether the report is a sincere one, or whether it might be a hoax. PD
June 4, 2015 · 10:50 PM · SPHERE
Lexington, KY
I am a retired 64 year old woman, and not crazy! I was walking the dogs at 10:30pm. I noticed two very large red lights blinking simultaneously about 5-600 (maybe more) feet apart on a diagonal. I quickly put the dogs in the house and grabbed my cell phone to film the unusual lights. Nothing seemed to be showing up on my phone at all. (Later, I was able to capture a section of the video that shows light streaks and not the two red orbs.) I continued to watch them until they were out of sight - about 10 minutes. There was no sound, and they were moving extremely slow. They stayed in the same formation the entire time. These lights were too large to be from any plane and the angle was like nothing I have seen before. Had it been a plane, I would have heard some kind of sound and the lights would not have been on a diagonal or as large as they were. I have never seen anything fly this slowly and still stay in the air. This is my second sighting in Lexington. The last unusual sighting was a large white light - like a very large star - that moved very quickly with no sound.
June 4, 2015 · 12:30 AM · SPHERE
Pendleton, NY
I woke my husband up and he did see it through binoculars. It was a full moon and this object was south west of the moon. I tried to take a picture with my phone camera and my sony camera but neither one worked. Just weird...no sound either. We suspect that the object may have been a "twinkling" star. PD
June 2, 2015 · 8:00 PM · SPHERE
Blue Springs, MS
White orb in the sky heading toward Tupelo at a moderate speed. A helicopter was following it at a safe distance. It seemed to be following along Magnolia way and Hwy 78.
June 1, 2015 · 9:49 PM · SPHERE
Pocatello, ID
Both objects were seen for approximately 2 minutes each as they crossed the sky.
June 1, 2015 · 6:00 PM · SPHERE
Pineville, LA
My husband and I were outside preparing to grill steaks. A couple of ultralight planes fly over fairly regularly and were making their trip North that afternoon. As we watched them fly over, a silver sphere shimmered into focus about 20 feet above the ground near the corner of our porch. My husband spoke at the same time I did. I said, "Holy crap!" He said, "did you see that?!?" Had he not seen it and spoken also, I probably would've just attributed it to some crazy anomaly that I was seeing because of the angle I was looking. From my vantage point, it seemed to shimmer back out but he said it shot to the East from his viewpoint. (We were facing in such a way that our lines of sight were perpendicular). I had never seen anything like that before. It kind of reminded me of a giant bubble with the iridescent shimmer just before it became a solid silver. Then, again, as it disappeared, it became iridescent before it completely disappeared.! We live on a military facility but didn't say anything for fear of sounding a little crazy...or of inciting panic. It hasn't been back but we always watch for it when we're outside.
May 31, 2015 · 1:00 AM · SPHERE
Tarawa Terrace, NC
My husband and I were taking a walk at night like we usually do. We then notice what we thought at first was a shooting star, but the extreme bright greenish coloring and size caught our eye. The object stopped and hovered over Camp Lejuine area. It then moved slowly through the sky downward (away from base) at the second my husband pointed to it and said, "Look at that." We then stopped and watched it until it disappeared, it moved slowly down to the treeline, but before it was close to the line where it would actually be out of our sight, it just vanished. It moved with a diagonal downward movement and wasnt "falling" like spring stars do... it looked controlled in its movements. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 30, 2015 · 11:30 PM · SPHERE
East Carbon, UT
I was in my car traveling towards Price, Utah, on US Highway 6. I was approximately 3 miles out side of Willing, Utah, when I noticed what I thought was a really bright star. It was noticably moving east. I pulled over to the shoulder of the road to get a better look to make sure I did not imagine what I have witnessed. Shortly after, the electronics in my car started behaving abnormally. My compass was changing direction and my radio could only pick up static. What was even more odd behind the static I could hear what sounded like faint chanting in a language I could not identify. The object was traveling east in a serpentine manuver, making frequent stops, as if surveying the terrain. Since it was a full moon I could see the outline of the mountains. Using the mountains and the surrounding terrain, my best judgment, the object was conducting its maneuvers over the city of Price. After it was well east of Price, Utah, the object headed north north east as the mist thickened until it vanished. The object was the same color as the stars only brighter and much larger with a haze surrounding it. It had a sphere shape. As for its size. It appeared larger then a Black Hawk would appear at 300 ft above the ground.