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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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May 30, 2015 · 10:15 PM · SPHERE
Otis Orchards, WA
There was a bright orb or sphere hovering in the sky above the hills. Then it rose into the west and looked more like a moving satellite. The movement was not in a straight line though. Then it stopped changed direction and flew off straight northeast until it became too dim to see.
May 30, 2015 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Rock Hill, SC
Sitting outside on Saturday night, May 30th, about 9:30-10PM we saw a bright orange ball pass over us. It was larger than the light on an airplane with no blinking, no trails, no sound, moving very fast. It went from south to north directly above us. We watched it until it went behind the trees. Took about 30 seconds to pass over. I’ve seen a meteorite pass overhead and this was nothing like that. It did not light up the area around us as it passed. This experience almost exactly mirrors the descriptions from Ridgland, SC (5/24/15) and Charleston, SC (4/18/15.)
May 29, 2015 · 10:10 PM · SPHERE
Coram, NY
We went outside on a decently clear night. There may have been a light overcast, but we saw three red and orange spheres moving quickly through the sky. Comparing them to the average speed of a plane, they were moving at least five times as quick. They then went behind the tree line, and when they emerged again, they seemed to become one larger red and orange sphere. The spheres moved north very quickly. After that, and within 10 to 15 seconds, they were no longer in range of sight. Note that the average plane in the same area would be in range to be seen for at least 15 minutes for a passenger jumbo jet, and 3 to 4 minutes for f-16's that fly overhead every once and a while.
May 29, 2015 · 9:30 PM · SPHERE
Damascus, MD
I was leaving my old house. We haven't sold it yet, and my friends and I used it to film a scene for English class. In the back up camera of the car, i saw an orange orb zooming in and out of shot of the camera, and going up and down. I'd imagine it'd only be about 2-25 inches in radius. It had a longish tail as well. My mom and I both saw it, my friends did not because they were too busy chatting in the back. It disappeared after around 10 seconds. It was low to the ground. It was also night time, and no lights were on except street lights in the distance. I am not sure if this is important, and I do not fully believe it, but our old house was presumably haunted by the spirit of the guy who died there. I lived in that house all my life until a few months ago, and the only paranormal stuff I've seen is moving furniture. However, we'vre hired three cleaning ladies and they were all too scared to clean and were "haunted away" despite us never telling them about the "ghost". It could be the spirit, probably not, but that's a possible explanation in case anyone was interested.
May 29, 2015 · 4:00 PM · SPHERE
Geyserville, CA
White object in the sky looking SSE from Lake Sonoma at an inclination of approx 60 degrees. No stars when the object was first noticed, but the 3/4 moon had already risen in the SW. Object was brighter than the daytime moon, looked to be extremely high in the atmosphere. Was too big to be a star. Object remained stationary as compared to the horizon, while the moon progressed through the sky. The early stars also appeard in the sky near sunset, and the object still remained stationary, even though the moon and stars progressed across the sky. Object disappeared as soon as the sun had set. Used 10x binoculars, but could not make out any distinct markings, other than it appeared to have a round shadow cast from the sun, and potentially a red marking in the upper right
May 29, 2015 · 10:30 AM · SPHERE
Big Bear Lake, CA
Friday, May 29, 2015 at approximately 10:30am, my 11 year old son & I were driving East on Highway 18. We were roughly 20 minutes West of Big Bear Lake. The morning was clear. Blue skies, not a cloud in any direction. As we were driving on this narrow two-lane, winding road, I saw a shiny, round ball in the sky, I’m guessing it was a couple thousand feet up. It looked like metal, and reflected the sunlight like a really nice chrome finish on a classic car. It was textured, like it had different shapes of metal covering the outside; it was not smooth or flawless. We were listening to music, so I can’t confirm if there was any sound associated with the object. We had the car windows down, but all I heard was music and the sound of our own engine. It didn’t look like it was moving, and appeared to be stationary in the sky, although I can’t say that positively because I was in a moving vehicle. I looked at it intermittently for approximately 5-10 second! s. It didn’t look like it was connected to anything, however I figured it must be. Then we drove around a curve in the road and my view was obscured by trees and hillside. This mountain area has a good amount of forest cover. I remember wondering what it could be, and figured once we came around that curve it would be obvious what it was… I was expecting to see the ball connected to something else, maybe on a wire. It didn’t look like a vehicle of any sort. But once we were around the curve, maybe 10 seconds later, it wasn’t anywhere to be seen. I was looking all over, as best as I could while driving, but didn’t see it anywhere. Before I could say anything about it, my son commented about how he had seen a shiny ball in the sky. He had seen the exact same thing I did. But like me, now he didn’t see it anywhere either. We talked about it for a few seconds, then I pulled over to the next turnout on the road, and it happened to be a part of the road which came to an overlook for a huge valley. We were mainly facing East, but we had a good view in all directions, due to the fact we were at a valley overlook. There was no shiny metal sphere in any direction, nothing in the sky, nothing on the hillside in the trees. No balloons, no helicopters. I’m willing to accept any logical explanation, but it didn’t look like anything I can think of, and the fact that it was up in the sky and then gone within a matter of seconds throws me off even more. I have no idea what it was, but “unidentified” certainly is an accurate description.
May 29, 2015 · 4:00 AM · SPHERE
Rohnert park, CA
Around 4pm, I was observing and recording all of the unnatural and odd cloud formations in the sky. I saw a white sphere/orb high in the northeast sky that I at first thought might be a balloon. It was not rising and disappearing like a balloon would. It was stationary, yet slowly coasting west and northwest. I have 4 others who witnessed this as well. For the next few hours, I watched this white ball in the sky drift west towards the sun that was beginning to set in the sky. It was intelligently controlled whatever it was. It would stop and remain stationary for a while, then it would start to coast west again. I have video footage of this orb and will send it.
May 28, 2015 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Trenton, OH
I saw a blinking light crossing the sky going east towards Trenton, Ohio. Decided to watch it. A bright glowing orb appeared after I lost track of that. The orb split into two or maybe three smaller ones, then disappeared. I wouldn't think think anything of this, passing it off as nighttime skydiving or something. There's an airport in that general direction. However, a few months back I saw some orbs of the same color going North and ascending at roughly a 45 degree angle that were the same color as the ones I saw today.
May 28, 2015 · 9:10 PM · SPHERE
Willow Spring, NC
Heard loud roar like from a low flying jet for about 10 minutes so I went out to see how low it was flying and how many planes/jets there were since it went on for a while. Did not see anything at first but still heard the noise, then I saw a small red sphere/orb high in the sky moving south, then it suddenly went north and then started almost dancing up and down, and back and forth for about 15 minutes. While I was watching it it looked almost like something shiny or some sort of light dropped from it and then the roar stopped. It stayed in the sky for another minute and then disappeared. Unsure if it is a "UFO" but I have never seen or heard a jet/aircraft do or sound like this thing.
May 28, 2015 · 9:00 AM · SPHERE
Summerville, SC
Three large circular yellow lights aligned above the tree line appeared one at a time. Then vanished sequentially from left to right.
May 28, 2015 · 12:30 AM · SPHERE
Goldendale, WA
Observed three "glowing orange ball phenomena," one of which appeared only briefly, the other two kept appearing for a full hour and kept appearing, but I left after one hour of observation. Location was on a ridge between Goldendale, WA and Mt. Adams. The spheres would begin as a small point of light visible from my position of approximately ten miles away, then would slowly grow in size and luminosity over a period of about three minutes, then gradually diminish respectively until no longer visible. Spheres appeared to be a couple hundred feet off the ground. Spheres demonstrated no defining features and were perfectly spherical in shape. Though the orbs never changed position when observed, they would shift to a slightly different locations each time they would materialize. The two frequent spheres appeared in close proximity to one another each time. The orbs were very close to a 'backfire' that firefighters were lighting to fight the wildfires occurring at the time. The fires were not visible from my position. The spheres were distinct, very bright at times, and as a military trained observer, my opinion is that these objects cannot be explained by fire, aircraft, or anything else that I am aware of. It was possibly the most awesome and profound event I have observed in my life thus far and made quite an impression on me. I returned to same sight of observation for the next two nights, though time of observation of these two nights was 1 hour earlier each time, from 2230 to 2330 hours. Nothing observed on these two occasions. I contacted the Klickitat County Sheriff department later in the day of the observations and was informed that no reports were received regarding this incident.
May 27, 2015 · 1:42 PM · SPHERE
Yucatan (Mexico) · Mexico
While traveling in Mexico in the highway 180D in the Yucatan Peninsula I was taking pictures of the landscape, I never notice anything unusual. After I came back from my trip, I download the pictures to my laptop and organize in folders. While checking them I notice something unusual in one of the pictures. It looks like a dark sphere traveling over the tree line in the opposite direction . I double check all the pics of that part of the road, that “thing” appears in only one of my photos- the more I look at it, the more I wonder what is that…
May 27, 2015 · 11:35 AM · SPHERE
Indian Lake, FL
The objects in the video appear to us to be insects. One of several similar reports and photos from the same source, between April 13, 2015, and May 27, 2015. We strongly suspect that the objects photographed are not UFOs, but we cannot be certain. PD
May 27, 2015 · 12:30 AM · SPHERE
North Tonnawanda, NY
i am a pro truck driver comming back from my run in toronto canada.driving on river rd south looked into sky and saw a red blicking light . thought it was a plane or hellocopter so i kept driving untill i could see it better.came up to ward rd where it opens up .no trees or buildings blocking my site.what i saw i cant belive.object was just traveling slowly not over head but looking streight out over the niagara river and coast line of grandisland ny. what caught my eye was a white or silver lite comming from underneath the craft.it dropped this lite 3 times.the lite did not hit the ground at all.noticed object to be red in color with a white lite like maybe a small window.i heard no noise like a engine or rotterblades just silent.kept watching it until it faded away flying over grandisland south to north direction.there was no clouds in the sky that nite and it just faded away no high speed.reported to local tv radio station gr55 buffalo ny.to see if anyone might have seen the same thing.i now belleve we are not alone . We spoke via telephone with the witness, and he sounded to us to be quite sincere and sober-minded. We strongly suspect that he has reported the incident quite accurately. PD
May 26, 2015 · 12:46 AM · SPHERE
Stahlstown, PA
Step outside in grass. Look to the southeast sky through moderately thick clouds, camouflage patterning the sky %90 covered. Moon is down below some trees to my right, only 3 sparse stars are seen. Immensely bright orange at first, extremely rapid (cannot detect black period) phasing as compared to an electronic, orange candle flickering yet observed motionless. Size, as represented by an average candle, would compare to that candle being seen at an approx. 10 FEET, IF observing only orange flame. True size and distance are unknown. After holding pulsing intensity for 7 seconds, brightness dims to star-like over 1 second changing color to white whilst doing so, motionless. Without holding at low brightness, color reverts to orange halfway through coming back to initial light intensity in approx. 1 second. Now, really truly, object ascends at 85 degree angle at the speed of a floating candle while looking like one, weaving cloud mass. Object is dimming down a b! it during latter third of "ascent", getting finally lost behind a SMALL cloud splotch. Object possibly seen once more in same location behind stagnant cloud displayed at star-like intensity in white color, pulsing. Total practical distance traveled in sky, 1 foot. My cat had been gone for hours, appeared to come back in I can't say more than immediately after final sighting.
May 25, 2015 · 11:45 AM · SPHERE
Toledo, OH
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 24, 2015 · 11:30 PM · SPHERE
Artesia, NM
My girlfriend and I were leaving from visiting my parents house. We were saying out goodbyes and noticed a very bright light moving at a very high rate of speed, coming from a west-southwest direction. My father dismissed it as a satellite. I have seen satellites and honestly, I felt this was nothing of the sort. No sound, nothing odd in trajectory as it moved east-northeast. Simply larger than any satellite I have ever witnessed. It moved further on its course but never faded. We then re-attempted to get ready to leave. Within a minute of the first light losing our interest, we noticed three more lights coming from a similar west-southwest position. I could tell they were not moving in straight lines. The first of these three was a little smaller than the light that had passed moments before. The third in line was similar to this size and brightness. The second of this line was the slightest bit smaller. The second light started to move off of its course and got behind the third light. When they were approximately at a 90 degree above us, the smaller second light sped up and seemed to contact the third light that was ahead of it. The entire time there was no sound what so ever. The second and third light continued to "dance" across the sky until they we at a 45 degree, still following a general east-northeast path. Here they moved into a line. I relate it to Orion's belt. They stayed in this position for many minutes, with binoculars we watched them for ten minutes or more, almost as if they had paused in place. We had to attend to animals so we said our goodbyes in awe.
May 24, 2015 · 9:19 PM · SPHERE
Katy, TX
Coming from SE traveling West over Katy, TX. Flying like a fast plane in a straight line and looked like a reddish-orange orb. Around 15 to 18 seconds after sighting it starting getting smaller and faded until it disappeared. That on took about two seconds.
May 24, 2015 · 8:00 PM · SPHERE
Bristol, NH
i was eating dinner one night, and i saw out my window an Orange Sphere. Much brighter than any star in the sky. And it appeared to be moving. It was pretty far out, but you could see it perfectly fine. It moved slowly then would stop, and then repeat until it faded out. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 24, 2015 · 2:02 PM · SPHERE
Indian Lake, FL
Orb sunday , screenshots of three different orbs taken at indian lake estates 5-24-15 early afternoon. Photo shows very small, fuzzy object, against a blue sky. We have no reason to believe that the object necessarily is an authentic UFO. PD
May 23, 2015 · 11:15 PM · SPHERE
Evansville, IN
One red orb appears in the sky. It was just hovering at first, then slowly disappeared behind the clouds. Shortly after that one vanished, two more appeared coming from the west moving slowly and flashing red and orange. These two appeared more closer than the previous one. Finally 2 more appeared beaming down from the sky toward the others. Then they all van. ished. My region has an abundance of owls, they started howling as this anomaly took place. They were not any kind of aircraft I had ever seen before.
May 23, 2015 · 10:45 PM · SPHERE
Norton Shores, MI
Two sphere like orbs, reddish-orange in color, were moving through the sky, originally we only saw one because of the trees and thought it was the planet Mars, but then the other one moved in our line of sight from behind the trees. They moved away from us together and eventually disappeared, which took several seconds. Within a 30-60 sec they reappeared! Then they proceeded to move away again till they disappeared. This whole process took about 30-45 sec. They did this 4 times as we watched! I went in the house to get my phone and came out and then never saw them again!
May 23, 2015 · 6:26 AM · SPHERE
Oxnard, CA
I am hobby drone pilot that owns two such crafts and have been flying for fun and amateur video for about a year. On the morning I have indicated, I was flying my drone early one morning in a park very near my home and was recording as I normally do. I shot this video at 1080P 60 FPS and did not notice the anomaly until viewing it later the same morning. While shooting toward the sun and into the middle of town this "orb" of sorts came rushing toward my craft at a high rate of speed in a straight line but not straight at me. At first I thought it might be a hummingbird, but seems much too fast and if you watch it pass into the lighter sky you will see that it just disappears as if it is made of light only. The video I will send is clipped from a larger 4 gig file and if you want the whole file I can arrange that. I would be very interested in any thought you may have regarding this anomaly.
May 22, 2015 · 10:05 PM · SPHERE
Merrimack, NH
A ball if light shot over my house on the river in Merrimack, then proceeded to fly in a circle around a field and wooded area. I was terrified.