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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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August 4, 2020 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Miami Beach, FL
My friend and I were on our patio in Miami Beach about 10 PM and I looked up and saw a strange object moving across the sky. It looked like flames were coming off the sides of a fast moving object making a delta shape. It was moving fast and on a consistent path across the sky. It seemed to be high altitude and fairly bright. I am an airline pilot so have a lot of experience lookin at objects in the sky and have seem nothing like this before.
August 1, 2020 · 10:50 PM · FIREBALL
Bentonsport, IA
I noticed looking in a North Eastern Direction in the sky beneath the clouds, approximately one mile away from where we were we saw 6-8 fire balls that were slowly moving toward each other and formed into three dimensional looking diamond before it disappeared behind the Treeline. They were visible for approximately 5 minutes. We were you able to snap a photo of it, and after cleaning up the image the fireball actually looks like a Cube with round globular light inside of it. This must have been what they all look like up close. The rest of the night I had this sensation of unease, fear and that we were not alone- when we absolutely were.
July 31, 2020 · 1:00 AM · FIREBALL
Willseyville, NY
Many nights for the past year there’s “star” like lights in the sky but they move and will follow me. When looking at them threw binoculars they appear as a ball of energy. Some nights there’s 3. Some nights there’s 50 or more. They will dim and/or brighten there lights to appear to be stars. Also there are groups all together with no lights. These ones can only be seen threw binoculars or some magnification. Most times where I can notice one there’s 2 more with it. Use binoculars, or scope and the difference between a star and these is obvious.
July 30, 2020 · 7:45 PM · FIREBALL
Prescott Valley, AZ
My wife & I take our dog out at sunset in our yard to enjoy the cool evening air almost every sunset in Prescott Valley, Az. They are so beautiful here. I am an amateur astronomer who has been trying get my wife involved in my hobby with me, I have a 10” reflector telescope a 10x50 binoculars and 15x70 binoculars that I bought for her. We make a game of who see’s the first star or planet and name it. This particular evening just after sunset from our GPS position of N 34° 40’ 19.56”, W 112° 17’ 24.00”, we were expecting to see Antares, Arcturus, Spica, moon, Jupiter & Saturn. I looked up and at approximately 50-55° azimuth and approximately 200° on the compass and saw a very unique, stationary, bright object that was not normal, it should not have been there. To me it appeared stationary, very bright whitish and seemed to have a orange reflection of the sun in it too, this is with my naked eye. I quickly pointed it out to my wife who immediately went into the house to get her binoculars and she was able to see the object with them. She said to her it looked like a glowing fireball orange in the center and yellowish on the outer edges and seemed to be spinning, pretty much what I saw only magnified. We watched for a few minutes, she with her 15x70 binoculars and me with just my eyes, it seemed to rise straight up growing fainter as it did so and eventually disappeared. I did not look at my watch but know the approximate time due to always going out at this timeline. We were dumb founded, neither one of us has ever seen anything like it before. My wife was convinced it was a UFO and talked about reporting it, I was not so eager, although I think it very possible we are not alone and UFO’s are a real possibility. I did not want to come forward. I did not know it but my wife kept looking at the news online to see if anyone else had reported it, when she found someone else did report it to this website we decided to also report what we saw.
July 29, 2020 · 12:30 AM · FIREBALL
Seaside, OR
over hwy 26, a golden shape at plane level did a u-turn movement and then disappeared
July 28, 2020 · 9:03 PM · FIREBALL
Downers Grove/Chicago, IL
It was 9:03pm Tues July 28th. I was sitting on patio in backyard facing south talking to a relative who was facing north. I was looking up at the sky as I often do watching the planes fly into the city when I suddenly saw one solid orange/red ball of light appear as though it came from the southwest heading East towards Chicago. Growing up directly under one of the many flight paths to one of the busiest airports, ohare, ive seen my fair share of planes. These were no usual aircraft/helicopter/drone. No blinking lights to indicate aircraft. It was not a meteor or comit there was no tail/debris trail. The first one flew in our line of sight for approx. 30 sec before shrinking to a tiny speck in the night sky (on the same horizontal plane as it appeared.). As the first one vanished, two more appeared flying in the exact same trajectory as the one previous. Same speed, same altitude. One about a thumbs length in front of the other (if holding thumb out sidewa! ys up to the sky). Those two repeated the same as the first, passing before us in a perfectly horizontal line as they diminished to specks as quickly as they had appeared. Best way I can describe it read as though they materialised/dematerialized by illuminating/extinguishing. They appeared to head in the direction of the city but never descending - 2 more appeared. Same path, same distance apart same everything. Then two more and same thing. It appeared as though once they got closer to the city the went from solid orbs of light to specks instantaneously. Was able to see them through binoculars but couldnt identify anything more then orange/red glowing orbs. We were left dumbfounded by what we saw. Hope someone else besides us got to see it also!
July 28, 2020 · 8:55 PM · FIREBALL
Albuquerque, NM
Bright blue ball with trail burning bright blue entered atmosphere falling then broke into 3 fireballs before dissapearing into. Started in northeast sky falling more to the east.
July 28, 2020 · 6:15 AM · FIREBALL
Prescott Valley, AZ
It was glowing like a orb and seemed to change shape from triangle to round. Its altitude was as high as air liners fly. It stood still in the sky for thirty minutes and the slowly went straight up and disappeared into the atmosphere. My wife and I watched it and I alerted my neighbors who watched it too. it was daylight out. I took pictures on my phone. I know it wasn't a plane or rocket, having worked for the Air force twenty years I knew the difference. No exhaust like a plane or rocket. Just a glowing mass with no contrail.
July 27, 2020 · 1:08 AM · FIREBALL
Lone Pine, CA
I called my son in to look at them and he believes that we caught a small spacecraft leaving a plasma trail behind it. He noted that the craft itself acted similar to aircraft in how the trail went bright, then faded as the object moved. Then we got curious and started calculating where the craft started to where it ended. We made a rough guess that the craft was at an excess speed of 4500 mph...going about Mach 5.85. The area is Lone Pine and the camera is facing towards the North East.
July 23, 2020 · 11:00 PM · FIREBALL
Evergreen Park, IL
(1) object appeared first , and slowly disappeared. (2) object appeared 30 seconds later and slowly disappeared also , but this one kept a shape that 2 witnesses were able to track for 15 more seconds . Second object eclipsed a star in the sky .
July 23, 2020 · 7:30 PM · FIREBALL
Tonopah, AZ
It was in the afternoon around sunset, I love in tonopah Arizona and I still don’t have electricity and my pump for my water went out, we sit on 2 acres, and we have a shared well, luckily the neighbors had the well turned on so I had water pressure outside, so I told my wife I was long to shower outside and she brought the soap and my 2 sons were with me, then something catches my eye in the sky and it was a fireball with small fire balls beside it, my wife right away trout it was a meteor, I told her no because the meteor did not dissalear or impact land , what we saw was the object become a fire in the sky and moved like a snake, then that’s when you could see the lights a and the flames were gone and the lights would contract and expand a few times, I would say it was a total of 8 lights or more.then they disappeared. But not 10 seconds later you could see them again and did the same thing , contract and expand, it was exciting to see but later on some f! ear kicked in.
July 23, 2020 · 7:30 PM · FIREBALL
Tonopah, AZ
It was in the afternoon around sunset, I live in tonopah Arizona and I still don’t have electricity and my pump for my water went out, we sit on 2 acres, and we have a shared well, luckily the neighbors had the well turned on so I had water pressure outside, so I told my wife I was long to shower outside and she brought the soap and my 2 sons were with me, then something catches my eye in the sky and it was a fireball with small fire balls beside it, my wife right away trout it was a meteor, I told her no because the meteor did not dissalear or impact land , what we saw was the object become a fire in the sky and moved like a snake, then that’s when you could see the lights a and the flames were gone and the lights would contract and expand a few times, I would say it was a total of 8 lights or more.then they disappeared. But not 10 seconds later you could see them again and did the same thing , contract and expand, it was exciting to see but later on some f! ear kicked in.
July 22, 2020 · 9:36 PM · FIREBALL
Dash Point, WA
On Saturday July 25, my wife and I and our little bichon went down to what we call the "Zen garden" -- which we just completed with slate rock and gravel -- to create a little patio, it's little spot about a 150 ft² nestled in trees, bushes and shrubbery ... as we sat down in 2 adirondack chairs next to eachother, to enjoy the evening around 9:30 I was admiring the floor slate slabs that we had installed, when my wife grabbed my right forearm and asked " what is that ?" ... I looked up and instantly knew it was the same vehicle I had reported on July 10, a huge circular object with a very bright white lighted center making up about 90% of its belly and the edges a red Orange glowing, shimmering ring ... but this time I was able to see more because it was a lot darker outside and we were out in the garden looking up -- as opposed to the July 10 incident where we were on the upper deck, looking almost sideways at it --' this vehicle was the same vehicle, t traveled from the North East to the South West in the same flight path as the July 10 event ... it seemed to have a misty white "shroud" to its rear and above it, that was billowing behind -- it was made up of white misty light, it had the shape of a cape, or cloak, and followed the vehicle like a condensation trail.... below the vehicle i noticed it had a conical shaped red light beam thst was being directed to look back-and-forth, downwards, towards the Earth ... the red beam didn't have a "center" (like a flashlight would in its beam), but just a ring, in the shape of a cone that expanded as it reached further out from the ship ... the "outside" of this cone shaped beam was solid, bright red/burgundy color. It looked like it was a search light, looking at or for something. When it first appeared. It was about half way over the Puget Sound, between Maury Is. and the Dash Point Pier. When my wife first noticed it, it virtually appeared right over the Sound as if it "turned its lights on." It moved silently and smoothly in a straight line. Maintained altitude, it made Slight changes in acceleration, a little appearance of slight bobbing, but maintained its straight line course NE to SW. The vehicle was round, and defined by the light it was shining. It's possible the actual shape may differ because nothing is visible behind the light. The center was made up of and entire "belly" of white light, it was a surreal looking white color ( like LED light white, but without the bluish hue LED has). The outer ring was a shimmering red/orange, seemed to be flickering at the edges, and bright. The moon was in the sky to the SE of us, better part of half-moon to 3/4, brightly lit by the slow setting Sun in the NW we're accustomed to see in the summer. The light intensity of the UFO's center white light was almost competing with the brightness if the moon. As soon as we saw it, we stood up and looked in amazement as wellas a little fear that we're encountering this again. I instantly said "It's the same UFO we saw" because i recognized it. My wife was a bit fearful and was standing slightly behind me with her right hand on my left shoulder, as we visually followed its travel. I asked her 3 times, "Look at it, you tell me that's not a UFO" And she kept saying "it looks like a gigantic chinese lantern" and then "it looks like it has a flowing, misty looking shroud behind it" It flew right past us in what seemed to be slowing down, and then sudden acceleration, and slowing down again, until it went right over the horizon behind our neighbors house ... the whole incident lasted about 45 seconds ... it is hard to tell how high and therefore how big this object is but based on my July 10 incident report -- I know that when a 737 flew underneath this object, it was about 4 to 6 times larger than the 737 and it was higher than it --- so it gives an optical illusion of being lower, but it's actually a very large vehicle, very high ... we were a little freaked out so we went back into the house... and then I reviewed the security video camera, one of which points out the front door and in the direction of where the vehicle passed looking West ... and nothing showed on the camera because the angle was not high enough into the sky, its focused on the door and the driveway. While reviewing the security camera it showed us entering the house at 9:36, and the incident happened between 5 to 7 minutes before that, so the whole thing lasted between 9:30 and 9:36 PM.
July 21, 2020 · 8:00 PM · FIREBALL
Blaine, MN
I was out in my front yard yesterday evening watering my plants while my 2 children were riding their bikes in our street when my 10 year old son started yelling mom a shooting star! I didn’t think anything about it and went about watering my flowers. Then my daughter also yelled out and then they both yelled mom you gotta see this it’s spinning! So I thought that’s strange shooting stars don’t spin! I walked into the street where they were and I witnessed an orangish glowing orb stop spinning in a circle (spinning as if you were to draw a circle motion in the sky with your finger) and then went up higher straight into the atmosphere until it went behind clouds and disappeared.
July 18, 2020 · 10:31 PM · FIREBALL
Sullivan, OH
I submitted a report earlier but have since found a reasonable explanation from a fellow camper at the same campground, when I posted it on social media: “ As I was leaving Saturday at 10:30 I saw a group of people launching one of those “memorial” hot air mini balloons that you light a fire on a pan suspended under a paper “balloon” over by the little pond. Sounds like that’s what you saw.”
July 18, 2020 · 10:31 PM · FIREBALL
Sullivan, OH
Sullivan, Ohio, Saturday July 18, 10:31 PM. Sighting occurred while sitting on the deck at our camper on a partly cloudy night. We saw a roundish, glowing, orange ball glide across the sky from south to north. It moved with the silence, steadiness, and speed of a satellite but it was definitely below the clouds and visible to the horizon, where we lost sight of it due to trees. It was a soft orange glow; easily visible but not bright, just a glowing ball of fire gliding across the sky. My husband, the typical naysayer who doesn’t believe anything he cannot see for himself said “Well, it took almost 60 years but there it is; I don’t know what that was.”
July 15, 2020 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Hellertown, PA
I was walking my dog behind my townhouse when I noticed a red "fireball" moving toward me in the sky. It reminded me of the embers that rise from a bonfire or the light ball that represents a fairy in movies. It moved very fast and then seemed to hover for a few moments before veering off to my left in the direction of Allentown and then just disappeared. I stood there for a few moments thinking WTF did I just see then continued to allow my dog to sniff around but stayed pretty much in the same spot. I looked up again a few minutes later and saw the exact same thing, coming from the same direction and behaving in exactly the same way. I heard my neighbor come out of their place and i called him over. He watched the second one with me. It did the exact same peel off toward Allentown and then after a distance just disappeared. My dog did not respond to either sighting. We saw planes on their normal flight path from ABE airport in Allentown but they ! all looked normal and did not appear to be anywhere near whatever it was we saw.
July 15, 2020 · 3:45 AM · FIREBALL
Chillicothe, OH
Past couple weeks thought I was looking at the space station at night while working in my shop all night. Tonight I walked out and seen it fly with great speed from western sky through the northern sky and settle in the Eastern southerly sky. I sat outside recording it and observing with binoculars till it slowly faded away as if going further out of the atmosphere. Would like to know if it's something lik e a SpaceX lunch as I have seen it several nights and wouldn't be surprised if I see it again. Was under the impression it was space station untill it moved with great speeds.
July 14, 2020 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Lancaster, CA
This object look like a fireball coming towards us from the West in the direction of the Pacific Ocean, it looked like it was coming straight at us at first and then was going straight across the sky in front of us not at a very high altitude, looking like it was burning and sparking the entire time it was in our site it looks to be maybe 50 miles to the north of us, and as I stated it came all the way from the Western Horizon as far as we could see and we watched it pass in front of us all the way to the Eastern Horizon as far away as we could see until it was out of sight. But it maintained the orange sparking Fireball round shape the entire time and we watch this or at least 15 to 20 seconds. The object was more orangish red in the middle and a sparking yellow orange around the object. I would really like someone to contact me so I can speak with somebody about this.
July 12, 2020 · 11:37 PM · FIREBALL
Merrimack, NH
I was on my dock below the trees. I saw an orange round object flying overhead with no tail. It was under cloud cover going in a straight line. I had to run up my dock stairs to follow it. I saw it through the trees and then had to run to the front of my house to keep following it. It continued in a straight line until it the trees blocked my view. There was no sound I could here. It lasted about 1-1/2 minutes. There were no blinking lights.
July 11, 2020 · 8:15 PM · FIREBALL
Phoenix, AZ
Blue/green small round fireball with red tail of light coming out from behind. Flew very fast east to west over the I17 freeway then abruptly stopped and disappeared.
July 10, 2020 · 10:39 PM · FIREBALL
Dash Point, WA
WE HAD JUST SHUT THE LIGHTS OFF AND THE MASTER BEDROOM HAS GLASS SLIDERS THAT LOOK OVER THE PUGET SOUND ACROSS TO MAURY AND VASHON ISLANDS-- LOOKING NORTHEAST TO NORTHWEST (EXPANSIVE, UNOBSTRUCTED VIEWS). AS SOON AS THE LIGHTS WERE OFF I SAW TOWARDS THE NORTH WHAT SEEMED TO BE A "LOW FLYING SMALL AIRPLANE COMPLETELY ENGULFED IN FLAMES" (OPTICAL ILLUSION AS EXPLAINED BELOW). THE CONSTELLATION ORION WAS IN ITS BACKGROUND AND THE NIGHT SKY WAS CLEAR AND CLOUDLESS. IT WAS FLYING DUE SOUTHWEST FROM A POSITION NORTHEAST, WHEN I FIRST OBSERVED IT. I QUICKLY GRABBED MY SAMSUNG 10 PHONE AND FLIPPED TO VIDEO MODE AND STARTED FILMING AS I LOOKED OVER THE PHONE TO GET DIRECT VISUAL VIEWS AS WELL. THE OBJECT MADE NO SOUND, IT WAS MOVING AT A "RELAXED" SPEED, NO FAST MOVEMENTS OR CHANGES IN ALTITUDE. IT WAS WHITE HOT IN ITS CENTER (THAT MADE UP 90% OF ITS SIZE) AND HAD A NEON LIKE RED/ORANGE OUTER RING OR HALO. THERE WAS NO TAIL LIKE A SHOOTING STAR TRAILING CLOUD. THERE WAS ANOTHER SIMILAR LIGHT TO THE LEFT THAT DID NOT MOVE BUT ABRUPTLY "TURNRD OFF" AND WAS NOT VISIBLE SO I TRAINED MY CAMERA ON THE UFO THAT WAS APPROACHING THE SHORE. THE OBJECT SEEMED LIKE IT WAS THE SIZE OF A "SMALL PLANE ON FIRE", UNTIL A COMMERCIAL JET LINER PASSED BELOW IT AND I REALIZED THE UFO WAS HIGHER THAN THE JET, AND ABOUT 4 TIMES LARGER. THE JET WHICH SOUNDED AND APPEARED TO BE A 737 (I'VE BEEN WORKING LINE AND HANGAR OPERATIONS ON 737'S FOR 25 YEARS, SINCE 1995) SO THE SIZE AND SOUND WAS VERY FAMILIAR. THE JET WAS ALSO ALONG THE USUAL ATC/TRACON ROUTE AND MANY 737'S OPERATE IN THE AREA. AS SOON AS THE JET FLEW BY, THE UFO CONTINUED BRIEFLY IN ITS SOUTHERLY DIRECTION THEN STOPPED AND STARTED TO ASCEND AT A HIGH RATE OF SPEED, WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY REDUCING THE LIGHT SIGNATURE (WHITE CORE, RED ORANGE HALO )IN WHAT SEEMED LIKE A "VISUAL SPUTTER" (FLAMES DYING DOWN IN SPURTS) AND QUICKLY BECAME INVISIBLE, JUST SHORTLY OVER LAND AROUND THE DASH POINT PIER. AS A NOTE, METEOR NEOWISE WAS NOT DUE TO BE VISIBLE UNTIL 4AM JULY 11, ABOUT 6 HRS INTO THE NEXT MORNING, AND IT WAS A SHOOTING STAR MOVING FAST IN SPACE, WITH A WHITE LIGHT IMAGE AND A DISTINCT TAIL, AND ABOUT 5 DEGREES ABOVE THE HORIZON -- UNLIKE THE UFO THAT WAS ROUND, TAIL-LESS, RED ORANGED HALO, LARGE OBJECT, MOVING OVERHEAD, SLOWLY FROM NORTH TO SOUTH. VIDEO AVAILABLE.
July 8, 2020 · 9:45 PM · FIREBALL
Allentown, PA
Round very bright orange object traveling west to east, turned south, ascended quickly, getting smaller then disappeared into blackness.
July 4, 2020 · 11:00 PM · FIREBALL
Seattle, WA
O.K, first & foremost it was the 4th of July- Although, I'm 62, & have been watching the sky for yrs.(& I've seen some stuff)Anyway, it was coming from the north- I could see it quite a ways out, but since it was the 4th of July, I just thought it was some kind of a firework that was gonna go off any second-It was rectangular bright bright orange, going so fast, I have no clue, & disappeared right in front of our eyes! (there were 5 of us) I've seen a lot of weird stuff, but this was really odd?