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February 21, 2015 · 1:05 AM · SPHERE
Sullivan, ME
Three adult witnesses, a man and his wife, and another woman, were outdoors at their front step at 1:05 a.m. approximately. The house is located in Sullivan, Maine. The sky was clear and air temperature was in the single digits F, with no wind. They heard a whooshing noise, and all looked up and saw a circular object (perfectly spherical), bright white, with a close halo of bright yellow flames, moving north to south, coming from over their house at an estimated altitude of probably more than 300 feet, and probably less than 1000 feet. The brightly lit object's luminance overpowered the stars or any planets which might have been visible directly overhead. It was moving slowly, approximately 50 to 100 mph estimated (this speed is slower than a typical small plane, though similar to a helicopter). No "airplane" or "helicopter" sounds were heard. The object, having first appeared directly overhead over the house, as the three stood near the house, came in toward the ground to the south on a curving trajectory. The three witnesses saw this object for 7 to 10 seconds. One witness described the object as sized larger than his hand if he held his hand up to try to block out the view of the object in the sky. His estimate of the actual size ranges from that of a softball to the size of a basketball, but no larger. The object did not appear to "maneuver" but it did make a "whump" as well as a loud "sizzle/pop" when it sounded as if hitting the deep snow-covered ground directly to the south of the house, and it must have landed in deep woods, not in an open field, so the actual impact at ground level was not visible to the witnesses. The male witness believed that due to the dense woods, the object's light would not be visible at ground level if the light had somehow continued shining rather than being snuffed out by the impact. The male witness estimated that the object must have landed perhaps 200 feet to 500 feet from the house, in dense forest. This location is at least 50 feet or 200 feet into the adjacent property to the south. Due to the fact that the landing area is owned by a large landowner who is extremely prohibitive of any trespassing, and does not welcome any foot traffic on his land whatsoever, the male witness does not believe he can get permission to enter the property to look for the landing site and the object, even though it may be within merely a few hundred feet of the house. All three witnesses have agreed they heard the object "whoosh" overhead, and all agreed they heard the object hit the snow-covered ground, with a "whump" sound and "popping" or "sizzling" sound. The male witness was reminded of popcorn popping also when the object hit. The "flames" or rays emanating from the object would only have been short, perhaps a few inches. These "flames" were evenly distributed all around the perfectly round (spherical) object as it traveled overhead (the front flames were not swept backward). The white central round area had no visible variations within it, but the object was presumed to be spherical. No media, police, FAA, or airports have been contacted as yet in regard to this sighting. A proxy is used to report this to NUFORC, as the three actual witnesses have not agreed to report anything and have not agreed to identify themselves, at least not at this time. If the proxy can get permission in future, it may be possible to provide identification of the three witnesses to this event. (Flight radar systems may show some tracking of this object and need to be checked ASAP.) This was a low-flying atmospheric object which could have been an extreme hazard to passenger or military aircraft. Location of sighting is on the coast of the Gulf of Maine, directly south of Bangor International Airport, Bangor, Maine. No recovery or investigation on the adjoining property for this object has been initiated yet due to lack of permission from the property owner. It is highly unlikely permission would be granted if asked. If any future permission is gained and if a search is done, more information will be provided to NUFORC.
February 20, 2015 · 12:30 PM · SPHERE
Deltona, FL
There was a green light sphere that went across and down from the sky.
February 17, 2015 · 7:45 PM · SPHERE
Jackson Heights, NY
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
February 17, 2015 · 7:20 PM · SPHERE
Skamokawa, WA
At approximately 7:20 pm, I was driver on HWY S-4 from Skamokawa to Cathlamet to and notice a Huge White lighted UFO above the Columbia River adjacent to the Julia Butler Hansen Wildlife Refuge. I pulled over on the Highway shoulder and watched it. I notice it was traveling West, or downriver. I immediately drove back the direction I came to Skamokawa Vista Park to get a better view of it. It was then going towards Jim Crow Mountain/ Jim Crow Point, which sticks out in the Lower Columbia. It stayed there many minutes. It was about 200 ft high, and the main object was about '75 ft. in diameter. It was round White light--so bright it lit up the Columbia river from its glow! I looked through binoculars at it. It was changing shape. With the naked eye it sometimes went to a dull orange color. It was absolutely silent. There were other lights flying around short after it disappeared (at 7:55 pm) far down river and Jim Crow Pt obscured it. The other lights were blinking red and white. and smaller. You'd think that these were maybe airplanes, BUT when looking at them in binocs they have several other multi colored lights blinking on them also! These other lights were going more North and South and going back over the woods of Wahkiakum County. This is very rural area. Not many people outside...or seem to look in the air. Maybe they think these are planes! They are not! They are silent. And move very slow. Years ago I read of Police reports in the local paper of residents up East Valley, Skamokawa reporting UFOS right down LOW by their property! I grew up in this small town, and over the years have observed many UFOs of various colors and sizes fly around and go back into the woods of the Willapa Hills. This area is way downriver from Portland. It would be hard to imagine them being from the Portland airport some 80 miles away. I have seen Huge Green Lights. Huge White Lights. Multi-Colored lights fly back over these hills. Last late September 2014, approx. the 28th I saw one fly right over the town of Skamokawa going North up towards East Valley, maybe 300 ft up, it had all different colored lights blinking on it, absolutely silent!! In binoculars I could see it was like a 28 ft size Black Triangle. It seems a lot of people just don't look up! These are there if people would just take the time and go outside at night for 3-4 hours after first dark on clear nights. On Jan. 15, 2015, it was slightly cloudly and foggy, and I saw a Huge Round Green Light about as big as a house descend straight down across the river on the Oregon side into those forested hills. Its was fast, but not as fast as a meteor. As you could tell it was controlled. It went "straight" down.
February 15, 2015 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Barre, VT
This 58 year old observer is prior military Seaman/U.S.Coast Guard/ ANT (Navigation Technician) technician trained to search for lights with many nighttime missions at sea in Maine and Canada. I was walking home at night and made my usual stop to catch my breath at the top of the hill before my home, a cleared area where I look to the east towards Maine and look at the stars on clear nights. I observed one star far off in the distance that seemed unusually bright and looked closer at it to observe anything different. When I focused more attention it immediately began to move across the sky and then directly towards me at first a moderately rate, then faster, and then suddenly silently stopped in front of me approximately 100 yards away and 500 feet elevation. It made no sound. The sphere shaped object appeared to be approximately 120 ft. in diameter and was clearly honeycombed with dimples like a golf ball, bright white light with goldish fluctuating tint. It appeared to be observing me as I just remained calm and stared up at it. This lasted about 5 minutes. Suddenly what appeared to me as clearly some type of unusual flying craft, took off slowly over my head to the west then increased its speed to warp speed or mach speed and just disappeared off in the distance without a sound. Source of report indicates that the date of the incident is approximate. PD
February 15, 2015 · 9:50 PM · SPHERE
Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Brigt red sphere hovering across sky very noticeable clear sky at night no clouds in sky it was twice as big as the north star as 4 of us followed it . To slow for a meteor faster then a plane ,went from seeing it to it vanishing in literally one second ,it did not shoot away ,it just vanished like it was never there. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
February 15, 2015 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Lyndon Station, WI
We were driving east and I looked to the north and witnessed 4-6 reddish-orange orbs disappearing then reappearing just as fast as the one before it. They appeared just above the tree line that was a bluff. These orbs were traveling from west to east. About five minutes later, I pulled over when I got to town. I'm standing next to my truck and see the same orbs moving vertically, which now they are higher up. Seconds later I notice an aircraft make a complete u- turn and take off with speed I've never seen before. No sound was associated with what we witnessed.
February 15, 2015 · 1:00 PM · SPHERE
Sacramento, CA
The orb was moving at great speed and was a good distance off. It never varied from it straight line path until no longer visible. Fascinating. Witness indicates that the date is approximate. PD
February 15, 2015 · 12:00 PM · SPHERE
Murrietta, CA
Our family, including wife, myself, son, and grandson enjoy launching model rockets skyward at a suburban area, free from aircraft and people in general. I video recorded the launchings. In further review of the videos frame by frame, small bright white to grey-scaled and colorful spherical objects larger than a basketball were found moving east to west and back, near ground level at high speed. Although very bright, we did not notice the object's presence at the time of capture. The subject videos were taken during midday. While reviewing videos taken in February and March of 2015 at a later time, I noticed objects near or touching launched rocket components at altitude (approximately 1500ft) after parachute deployment. One video was shown to Terry Ray, a MUFON Field Investigator, in person, at our residence on September 25, 2015. The objects were of several shapes and colors. All of them were less than two feet in length/diameter. Some were elongated, while others were bright white, orange, yellow, blue, or neutral in hue. The videos were carefully analyzed, then imaged with a still camera, the same Nikon D5100 and 18-200 mm ED lens used in the original capture. While advancing frames I noticed extremely fast spherical objects moving east to west to east in front of a tree line located about 100 yards to the south from the launch pad. There is also a surveyor's marker approximately 3-feet tall located about 100 feet, also south of the pad. Using the marker to scale the objects close to and in front of it, their size could be roughly determined. From video, I also captured eight objects of uniform size above a small mountain crest to the southwest of the launch pad. They appear static and in sharp focus. Additionally, a series of images show a fast, diffuse object traveling south-south east in the sky, then in front of a mountain crest, before becomming a static grey metallic orb-like object much larger than the other bright and colorful spheres indicated above. Spherical objects can be seen near the top and in front of the surveyor's marker. They are white and/or orange in hue. The only sound heard were rocket launchings and human responses. I recently checked the rocket with a ultraviolet light and did not notice any unusual marks on the rocket components. Nor were there any marking on the tube, fins, or nosecone. There are many images taken that show in detail all of the above sightings. I shall return to the launch site for further study with better equipment, including a chair to sit on at the surveyor's marker during launches and after. Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
February 15, 2015 · 11:00 AM · SPHERE
Jupiter, FL
At approximately 11:00 A.M. today, Sunday, February 15, 2015, I sighted from behind my home in Jupiter, Florida, an unusual object high in the sky to the northwest. I followed it with my eyes and was puzzled by the fact that it moved smoothly along like a high-flying plane, but it seemed to be spherical in shape. It shone brightly like a plane reflecting light, but the shining was constant. I rushed around to the front of the house to watch it as it proceeded south, but by the time I got to the front street it had seemingly disappeared from the sky (although I could see the entire area of sky where the object had been headed). Then I spotted another object of the same kind (my guess is that it was not the same one) far to the east, over the coastline or the Atlantic. It glided south in the same manner as the first object. Soon another shining object of the same kind appeared over the northern horizon. I pointed the objects out to my neighbors, who were now a! rriving in a truck. For the next half hour we continued watching these spherical objects as they appeared and proceeded southward. It would take each object about five minutes to pass from our view (disappearing after moving past us and going some distance. In the course of 45-50 minutes, we saw approximately 9-12 of these objects. There were no sudden maneuvers or changes in direction, although one or two of the objects veered slightly to the east, heading out toward the ocean. Some of the objects seemed to disappear (although I cannot say offhand whether that might have been due to the interruption of light reflection). The day was bright and sunny, with only a few thin, cirrus clouds in the sky. Air force jets leaving white contrails seemed to be tracking the objects, flying due south along the eastern coast of Florida in the general direction of Miami. The jets would appear from the north and pass silently overhead at high altitude. We saw 4-5 of these jets. Other witnesses included.my wife and four neighbors: a ship captain, his wife, his granddaughter, and a middle-aged male neighbor. We tried to take photos with my wife's iphone, but the lens doesn't appear to have captured anything other than blue sky. My immediate impression was that the objects seemed to be carried by a wind current and might be some sort of balloons. I phoned the local airport control tower (PBI), the Coast Guard, Patrick Air Force Base, and NASA. A NASA employee told me there had been no launches of any kind that morning.
February 14, 2015 · 7:18 PM · SPHERE
Winter Garden, FL
On February 14, 2015, around 7:18 PM EST, while driving north-bound on SR-535, I noticed 4 red-orange orbs of light evenly spaced and moving from West to East in what appeared to be a straight line formation. I turned off the radio in the car and rolled down the driver side window in an attempt to hear some sort of sound - although the lights were still moving there was absolutely no sound. I couldn't determine if there was any solid objects behind the lights. The lights were bright, not blinking and I didn't see any smoke or trail. At first I guessed the altitude to be around 800-1,000 feet. I stopped the car on the side of the road - by this time the orbs of light were hovering high above my car still moving East and appeared much larger. Slowly they broke off the line formation, the 2 leading lights appeared to be slowing down and circling back around - the pattern was now random. As I continued to watch the orbs moving slowly, one of them, suddenly shoots or expels a small object at a high rate of speed downwards at an angle - the small object expelled looked like a white light with a short tail (looked like a tiny shooting star) - the white light and its tail quickly disappeared as it moved away from the orb - it maybe lasted 2 seconds at the most. I now believed the orbs were higher in altitude and moving faster that what I originally perceived - maybe as high as 5,000 feet. I tried to call someone on my cell phone at least 3 times to get another witness to the event - but the calls didn't go through. I tried to change to camera or video but by the time I was able to do so the lights were so far to the East that they looked as small as any other star in the night sky. The whole time I could also see an aircraft (not sure if commercial or military) high in the sky (at least twice as high as the orbs) with normal set of blinking aircraft lights and also moving West to East.
February 14, 2015 · 7:00 PM · SPHERE
Sequim, WA
Just below the Little Dipper, at approx. 5000 ft., a brightly colored pulsating red orb slowly moving SE, then stopped, again moved slowly southeastward. It then appeared to fade in its brightness until it was a very faint glow. It continued at a faster slide stop, slide stop movement toward Bremerton shipyard location. The town streetlights obscured any more visual.
February 13, 2015 · 4:33 PM · SPHERE
Guilderland, NY
On Friday, February 13, 2015, I was driving west on U.S. Route 20 approaching the intersection of New York State Route 155 in Guilderland, NY when I spotted a bright, unidentified flying object in the distance to the northwest, thousands of feet in the air. At first, I thought it might be a plane either descending toward or flying away from me (since there’s an international airport about 6 miles northeast of where I was driving), but as I continued driving toward it I became more convinced that it was actually a spherical object hovering stationary in the sky, since it had no wings and was staying in place. It was also too high in the air to have been a helicopter hovering in place, in my opinion. As I continued toward the intersection keeping my eyes on the object I drove past some tall trees to might left, which came between me and the object and caused me to lose sight of it for about 5 seconds. When I came out the other side of the trees the object had vanished. This was strange to me because the sky was completely clear of clouds and the sun was well-off to the southwest, so there was nothing for this object to fly behind and the sun could not have obscured my vision. The entire event occurred over approximately 30 seconds. The time of day was 4:33 p.m. EST and the sky was clear. I continued searching the sky for the object as I continued driving west on Route 20, but I was unable to locate it again.
February 12, 2015 · 4:11 PM · SPHERE
Magnolia, AR
I was in a light airplane about 1000 feet above the ground, when I noticed a copper colored spherical object moving through the air towards me at a very high rate of speed. The ufo passed my left wing seemingly lower than me at an unknown distance. I watched it for as long as I could until it disappeared from my sight. I could not gauge the ufo size very well but it seemed small. Much smaller than any aircraft. But, it was very noticeable none the less. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
February 11, 2015 · 9:30 PM · SPHERE
Phoenix, AZ
Then saw them again on 2/12/15. Same time but only saw one for a minute it then disappeared and returned a few minutes later. Same flame-like glow. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
February 7, 2015 · 11:35 PM · SPHERE
Natrona Heights, PA
Bright blue orb appeared above horizon facing southeast, rapidly ascended, making full stop. Object then drifted in a downward in a slow arc to the east, came to full stop, paused, then made a lateral move to the west. Object then descended at same speed as ascension. Upon reaching starting position above the horizon, object then paused, and disappeared. Overall movement can be described as a reverse “P.” Size, altitude and distance of object indeterminate. Note: Area has routine helicopter traffic due to proximity with local hospital. Behavior was inconsistent with normal observed activity, no noise, engine or otherwise, accompanied sighting.
February 7, 2015 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Dayton, OH
Witnessed two orange red spheres (solid emitting light) (both had no blinking lights) west on US-35. Were gliding in the air, emitting no sound. Both appeared out of the sky and traveled opposite of each other. Lasted for about 5 minutes. There was a commercial airplane coming from the Dayton International Airport that had to have witnessed one of the orange spheres. Both spheres faded into the dark. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
February 7, 2015 · 8:00 PM · SPHERE
Columbus (New Albany), OH
I saw a slow moving, pinkish (red/orange/pinkish) sphere track across the sky this evening. Totally silent. No usual lights from an aircraft (no blinking tail lights or wing lights).. just a pink, slowly moving pink sphere heading west to east, slightly low in the sky (35 degrees). The size and intensity of the light oscillated.. changing from larger sphere to a smaller sphere and then back again. It shifted from small to large about about 4-5 times. I watched it for about 60-90 seconds. It continued in the same direction and eventually faded to a glimmer and then gone. (Although it did *not* continue 'over the horizon' like a rocket..it continued in a straight line and faded out. My impression was that it was heading in a totally straight line, taking it "outward" through the atmosphere and not simply down-range.
February 7, 2015 · 7:00 PM · SPHERE
Lamar, CO
The light traveled up and to the right for a few minutes in a bouncing motion. Then it slowly descended to the other side of the small hill behind our home. We have anew airport 1 mile from our home and frequently see Army planeso and Blackhawk choppers flying overhead. The aircrafts that came from the airport surrounded the light and just stayed over it.. They are still there though the light descended out of sight 10 minutes ago. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
February 7, 2015 · 2:41 AM · SPHERE
Novato, CA
at 2:41am, my fiancee and I were using the google sky app to try to identify strange star formations, and the google sky app wasn't able to identify the constellations we were seeing. Then, we realized that the supposed constellations were moving from southwest, coming from the direction of the coast, and moving across the sky toward north east. We realized that the entire constellation had moved from one part of the sky, directly over us, and continued moving in formation until we could no longer see them. Waves of what looked like constellations or formations of flying stars kept coming from the southwest and crossing the entire sky, all passing over us. It took roughly five minutes for each wave of them to appear and cross over the entire skyline. However, there was one brighter "star", and once it crossed above us, it seemed to go only a few more degrees toward the northeast, until it hovered in place, then seemed to go back and forth as to stay visible to the new waves of "star" or craft formations that appeared. it would get up to 80% brighter than it's original appearance, as if it was guiding the waves of flying "star formations" that continued to appear from the southwest and travel to the northeast. We went and got our mom and her boyfriend after 2 minutes of witnessing the first wave of stars, which we thought was a constellation-but once it was over the house we realized it was moving and brought them outside. After that, we witnessed at least 6-7 formations moving across the entire sky-each had approximately 6-9 stars in formation with each wave. It looked as if Cassiopeia started to move and cross the sky, with a wave of more cassiopeia constellations successively moving across the sky. There was a lot of fog, but the moving "stars" would go behind the fog and emerge so that we could see that they had traveled and kept their momentum while continuing to fly in the! direction of the one bigger, brighter craft. They were all s! ilent. With the exception of the bigger "star" that seemed to oscillate within a small area of the sky to stay somewhat in one place as its lights grew brighter, none of the other starlike craft grew brighter. All maintained a veritable "starlike" lighted appearance. Again, no noise heard at all, no blinking red lights, and they were all way too close together to be actual airplanes. I have never seen 40 planes so close together and all traveling the same altitude, the same direction, and without any noise or without some kind of blinking identifying light for safety, especially on a foggy night. Each time the fog and clouds had a break, you would see more and more of these moving constellations, all following the brighter craft. The brighter craft seemed to have illuminated its sides, and looked triangular. However, you could only see this feature when it increased its brightness every few minutes, as if to light the way for the next wave of craft. I tri! ed to take a video with my iPad, but it captured blackness. someone please let me know the best equipment for filming at night. Please! Thanks!
February 6, 2015 · 10:30 PM · SPHERE
Trucksville, PA
Tonight on my way home from work around 10pm I spotted 4 UFO's in the PA sky's near Dallas PA. The first I saw while driving then two more followed. I was able to video tape these. Then a 4th came by but my smart phone was out of memory so I only have the video of the two. They were bright orange and round with deeper almost red highlights. All four follow similar tracks through the sky. I have two other witnesses to the lights who stopped while I was taping them. Here is the video. https://www.dropbox.com/s/uob9w0leb5os78m/VID_20150206_215103218.mp4?dl=0 Thank you,
February 6, 2015 · 9:15 PM · SPHERE
Fox River Grove, IL
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
February 6, 2015 · 7:58 PM · SPHERE
Cape Girardeau, MO
While out filming objects in the night sky with my night vision camera, I saw this orb out of my peripheral vision. I got the object in frame as soon as I could. You can see it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV3gAgCTOFY
February 6, 2015 · 4:00 PM · SPHERE
North Canton, OH
At just after 4 PM on February 6th, 2015, I witnessed no less than 3, and possibly 4, bright craft high in the skies over North Canton in Northeast Ohio, very close to the Akron/Canton airport. These were very high in the sky and seemed to be close to freshly sprayed Chemtrails/Contrails. I believe that they were emitting some sort of light because every so often, they would turn dark for a few seconds and then turn very bright again. I am pretty certain that these were not conventional aircraft because they were gracefully and quickly turning, pausing and looping in and around each other. This doesn’t seem like what a typical aircraft would or should do, let alone near an busy airport.