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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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January 1, 2015 · 5:40 AM · SPHERE
Newington, CT
While driving down my street on my way to work on New Years Day, I noticed a large green glowing sphere up above the tree line. I slammed on the brakes and watched for a few seconds, and then it suddenly shot straight down to earth in about a split second. So fast! I drove around to the next street or two to see if I could see it again, but it was gone. I would like to note that even though this deeply impressed me, I somehow forgot to tell anyone about it for two days. When I remembered and told my husband, I was covered in goosebumps. Very eerie and weird.
January 1, 2015 · 1:00 AM · SPHERE
Marsolan, Midi-Pyrénées · France
Le 1er janvier 2015 vers 1h du matin plusieurs personnes d'une même famille sont intriguées par les évolutions dans le ciel dégagé de 5 sphères lumineuses de couleur rouge vif pour l'une d'entre elle et orange vif pour les autres. Aucun bruit n'est entendu durant leur déplacement. Les objets changent de position, montent et descendent avant de disparaître les unes après les autres en direction de l'Est. Un seul témoignage sera recueilli. L'observation de boules orange traversant le ciel en quelques minutes, une nuit de grande fête, fait nettement penser à des lanternes thaï, probablement lâchées à proximité à l'issue d'une fête privée. Le déplacement est observé du Sud-Ouest vers l'Est, ce qui ne correspond pas bien avec le léger vent de Sud relevé à Auch, à 30 km (voir le relevé Météociel du jour de l’observation à Auch. On note aussi un comportement assez atypique du phénomène dont l’altitude est très variable, peut -être en rapport avec le grand froid de cette nuit (-4°C). Du fait de l'incertitude sur le vent local, et l’absence de photo ou d'autres témoins, le GEIPAN classe ce cas C, par manque d'informations météo et de recoupements. [GEIPAN classification C — Manque d'informations fiables]
January 1, 2015 · 12:30 AM · SPHERE
Mesa, AZ
I saw this same thing earlier in the year but it was 3 lights. To the south of me I saw one orange sphere glowing brightly almost like it was on fire. I thought at first it was a firework because it was New Years, but it was slowly coming towards me. It didn't take a straight path however. It seemed to randomly move forward. It was too high to be a helicopter. I thought maybe a plane and the light was a weird color because of clouds, but it was moving in such an odd manner. It stopped moving eventually and the Orange light seems to get dimmer until it finally disappeared.
January 1, 2015 · 12:12 AM · SPHERE
Mandeville, LA
My wife, daughter and myself observed a spherical shaped object flying at approximately 15,000 ft agl, moving on an approximate 190 degree heading on the approach path to KMSY (Louis Armstrong airport in New Orleans). Estimated speed was around 400 knots. As it approached the 30 mile mode c veil for KMSY, it rapidly changed its heading to approximately 270, accelerated and disappeared within 5 seconds. The entire event lasted approximately 20 seconds. It appeared to maintain its altitude during the entire observed path. It was orange to orange/red in color that pulsed/shimmered that change the hue of its colors. It appeared to be completely silent as it traversed the airspace I described above.
January 1, 2015 · 12:04 AM · SPHERE
Oakville, MO
Was outside to watch firworks on New Year's and looking towards the west starting at 0:04 and lasting until 0:10 observed a string of orange lights or gloves coming from the west towards the east at a slow rate. The first was about 3 in a group, no real formation, and as they got closer you could see several more in the distance approaching. They were separated by about 1/10th of a mile between groups. Some had two and some had three in a group. They seemed to be at an altitude lower than a normal aircraft for this area, but higher than the normal flight of a helicopter. You could not hear any sound from them, (yes there were fireworks going off but during the quiet pause times no sound from the craft). I had my Sony handycam and was trying to video them with normal and nightshot but could see no details. Have some video but do not know what you will be able to tell other than their slow movement. I am 65 years old and a former Police Officer, an avid skywatcher, and amateur astronomer. Yes it's New Year's Eve but I only had one drink earlier in the evening. By the approximate distance I believe they were from me and the estimated altitude, the lights or orbs would be estimated at about 4 to eight feet in diameter if you were next to them.
January 1, 2015 · 12:00 AM · SPHERE
San Antonio, TX
At midnight on December 31 2015, we were watching the fireworks on New Year's eve downtown, I was actually video recording the event on my iPhone 6. When the fireworks began everyone was cheering, when I heard multiple people around me saying what the hell is that? I looked to my right, and above us a UFO came across the night sky, hovering red and green lights. It was round with green lights one one side but it had red lights on the other side of it, it flashed in both colors, at first my sister claimed it was the news filming the event, but the people including myself said that not a helicopter, it maneuvered across than accented up and than down, it turned and began trailing back. This isn't the first time I recorded this red and green flashing light UFO. Last year, on Fourth of July, I recorded a craft with this same descriptions at a fireworks display going off. It hovered over our home. I wasn't sure if I could display the link to my actual video recorded footage from you tube. I have also sent a description and uploaded my video to MUFON. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 31, 2014 · 11:59 PM · SPHERE
Salem, UT
When I reported the incident, I saw others who lived in Elk Ridge also reported seeing the same incident. We have spoken with the witness, in order to confirm the time and date of the sighting, which was New Year's Eve in December 2014. Witness had a second, and similar, sighting on December 31st, 2015. PD
December 31, 2014 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
Poquoson, VA
9 years ago my dad and I were driving home after dropping off my then-girlfriend. We saw an unusual big red glowing orb in the sky, bigger than the average star. It caught our attention so we pulled over to look at it and it split into 8-12 different glowing red dots. They moved across the sky erratically for about 30 seconds at unfathomable speeds. After that, they all formed a vertical line in the sky and shot up into the sky disappearing in a flash of light.
December 31, 2014 · 10:45 PM · SPHERE
Bear Lake, UT
Stayed in one place for about 5-6 min and then suddenly disappeared.
December 31, 2014 · 10:15 PM · SPHERE
Vancouver, WA
It was on New Year’s Eve 2014 at about 10:15pm. I went outside in the back yard to walk next door. My son was over at the neighbor. It was a clear night and as I stepped out in the back yard, I looked up in the southeast sky and saw one orange orb like light that hardly moved. I could only tell it was moving because of one bright star off to the left of the orange light. It was not blinking there was no noise of a plane or other aircraft. Then about 30 seconds the light disappeared. Immediately after the first one disappeared another orange like orb formed slightly to the left and down from where I saw the first light. This one moved in the same manner as the first but after about 40 seconds it too disappeared. Then two more orange orbs appeared. I was trying to get the attention of my neighbor and his girlfriend and my two boys. Then the girlfriend came out and saw the two orbs and asked said, “What the heck is that?” Then my two boys and neighbor all came out and we watched this go on orbs appearing and disappearing for about 2 more minutes. Then 3 orbs appeared into a tangier shape, and moved from east to west. Then one orb went out leaving two which seemed to move faster than the others but not by much. Then the other two disappeared. Before all three disappeared, I had got my other neighbor to see what we were seeing and he was really not sure what to think. Then another one showed up but more off to the right from the others. This one seemed to be the same size but appeared to change colors like red, green and blue and kind of was spinning. Then that went away and one last smaller orb showed up to the left of the colorful one and then went away. Then there was no more light or orbs.
December 31, 2014 · 9:30 PM · SPHERE
Port Ludlow, WA
Orange ball coming from north to south in sky, about size do dime at arm's length, traveling very slowly and with no sound. It was so unusual I ran outside onto the front porch in my bare feet to see it. There was no sound, it was flickering orange, there were NO red/green port starboard light. When it reached to the point of being overhead it slowly dimmed and disappeared. A second one showed up following same track and also dimmed after passing overhead and disappeared. Shortly after an aircraft passing by to the west was completely audible and identifiable as a plane went by to the west. What we saw was not a plane, it was not a meteor, Don't know what it was. Tow observers, first saw it from inside the house. Lasted about 15 minutes overall, 10 minutes between. Witness provides no contact information. PD
December 31, 2014 · 9:26 PM · SPHERE
Cayucos, CA
I saw a orangish, yellow white orb. It had 8 spikes like those of the points of a compass. I was able to snap a photo, which I do have. I feel con tried to get a video of the event but, it vanished before my eyes. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and he seemed to us to be sincere and sober-minded. PD
December 31, 2014 · 6:07 PM · SPHERE
Spokane, BC · Canada
I have felt like speaking about this after seeing some strange shit in the Cascade Mountains in Washinton State. I seen multiple orbs and potentially a critter...take that as you may.
December 31, 2014 · 12:00 AM · SPHERE
Waimanalo, HI
On 12/31/14 at 12 midnight, I was watching the fireworks from my apartment and noticed that an orange/yellow (mostly orange) sphere appeared in the direction of Waimanalo Beach Park. These popped into the sky like bubbles coming out of boiling water. I counted six. One was far inland over the homestead area where I live. The fireworks were so beautiful. Figured they must have come to watch too. So after that I did not pay attention to them and I watched the fireworks instead.
December 30, 2014 · 12:14 PM · SPHERE
Anaheim, CA
Around 50 silver spheres flying in circles and also forming shapes, seems they were protecting something. We saw the spheres 50 meters about Walmart on Euclid Ave. So many, that we got scared.
December 30, 2014 · 4:20 AM · SPHERE
Ver-Sur-Launette, Picardie · France
Le 30 décembre 2014 à 4h20 du matin un témoin observe le passage N-S d'une boule jaune mat. Le passage est rapidement caché par des arbres. Aucun bruit, aucune trainée ne sont remarqués. Un seul témoignage est recueilli. Compte tenu des éléments présentés dans le rapport d'enquête, et en l’attente de davantage d’informations du témoin suite à notre demande, le manque d’information ne permet pas de trancher en faveur d’une quelconque hypothèse. Ce témoignage est d’une consistance moyenne : assez précis et détaillé mais ancien. Témoin oculaire unique et pas de documents photo ou vidéo. L’observation pourrait être moyennement étrange, cependant l’ancienneté du témoignage empêchent de juger de façon véritablement valide son étrangeté. Ce cas est classé provisoirement en « C » comme observation d’un phénomène non identifiable en l’état, le manque important d’éléments ne permettant pas d’établir un avis solide. [GEIPAN classification C — Manque d'informations fiables]
December 29, 2014 · 3:00 PM · SPHERE
Niles, MI
While we were in her back yard with aour dogs after lunch, I spotted 2 cylinder-shaped UFO's traveling East toward Dowagiac, Michigan. As they went into a big cloud a group of 10-12 small spheres came out of another huge cloud. At first we thought they were birds but they were way to high up to be bird's. As they came closer we realized they weren't birds they didn't have any wings. They were silver and sphere shaped moving in formation going northwest. We watched them for about 15 min until they were to far away to see them clearly. My mom had never seen anything like that in her life and would be watching the sky from now on. I wish I would've had my camera with me. Hopefully someone got a picture of them.
December 29, 2014 · 2:30 AM · SPHERE
Penacook, NH
On 12/29/14 at around 2:30am, I looked out my son's bedroom window, which faces east. I saw a large green, glowing orb that was falling straight down from the sky, to behind the treeline and I assume to the ground but I could not see where because of houses and trees in the way and also, I had no idea how close or far it was. It lasted all of 2-3 seconds. It had no tail, just solidly falling down. No sound. The sky did not light up around it. It did not fall at an angle, completely vertical. It was about the size of a small full moon you would see in the sky – nothing like the size of a shooting star. It was big.
December 28, 2014 · 8:30 PM · SPHERE
Salt Springs, FL
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 28, 2014 · 4:45 PM · SPHERE
Effingham, IL
They were all white and at times looked comet like.
December 27, 2014 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Montreal (Canada), QC · Canada
Color red; up high in the night sky (no clouds). 15 est of downtown Montreal don't know approx. lets say 35000 ft small sphere uncloaked (appeared out of nowhere) and shot out into outer space in a blink of an eye. Trajectory was in an ARC fashion. Very weird definitely not a meteor
December 27, 2014 · 7:45 PM · SPHERE
Pearland, TX
This is NOT a UFO sighting, but an intensive light flash December 27, 2014 Saturday evening 7:50PM Location: Southfolk Drive, 2 miles east of Hwy 288, near the junction of County Road 90, Pearland, TX Weather: cloudy after rain, 51F, 89% humidity Ambient Condition: evening, dark, street lights on; 2 lane one-way road (there were 2 other lanes for the opposite traffic, divider in the middle with small trees). Residential neighborhood, houses on both sides, 30 miles/hour speed limit. Light traffic (estimated about 5-7 cars driving behind my vehicle). Event Observation: While driving back home through the residential neighborhood, there was an intense white light bursting into scene. It happened by my vehicle’s immediate right, located near the lane divider, about spherical, diameter about 20 feet, height about 15 feet from the ground. It lasted about 2-3 sec. My vehicle drove right through it. There was no sound, no smoke, no smell, no other phenomenon except the intense white light itself. It appeared as a camera flash light, but magnified about 1 million times in size and intensity. The street lights about 1 mile in radius went off (because the street lights have auto-light sensor and come on-off by themselves). Then after about 2-3 minutes, they came back normal again. The traffic light which was about 50 feet away from the spot was not affected. The street lights came back none damaged. None of the cars or other objects was damaged. Personal Experience: I came back after a long meditation session and a bad day with family conflict. My mind was very negative and dark, full of recursive heavy thoughts. It was bitterly complaining about the meditation center and rumbling about it. The exact thought while I was witnessing this event was, “These 2 spiritual experiences can be dangerous, people need to be careful about joining spiritual centers, they will brain wash you” (the 2 meant my previous Buddhist meditation center and the present one). I have been practicing meditation for a while and keenly aware of my inner state. Then the light came on, completely shocking to the minimal. My 1st reaction was it felt like the street light above the vehicle (which is the modern yellow glowing high voltage powered one) or the high-voltage power line exploded. It happened so fast that my car drove right through the light. I had the aftermath wondering that how come my car did not get melted by it and I was still alive (I nearly felt my car would be exploded with it too). The car behind me also drove right through, along with several other vehicles. This made me feel safe that I was not hallucinating or hurt by anything, and my mind became very clear and calm. All the negative thoughts suddenly stopped and vanished. I felt like being changed to my normal state again. Meanwhile, all street lights completed shut down. Driving further 50 feet, I stopped by the traffic light which was red at that moment, and appeared to be very lonely in the complete darkness (a very interesting ethereal feeling). I turned right as the way of going home, noticing the entire street lights on this road were also shut off. After driving a further 50 feet on this road, the lights started to come back again. I was very puzzled exactly what happened, and thought maybe something malfunctioned with the power line or street lights. I thought I need to call the city and it would be unsafe for people driving through the dark roads. I took a U-turn through my house and drove back to the event location – this was about 5 minutes after. Everything went back to normal, as if nothing had ever happened. There was no trace left whatsoever, except my mind was wondering about exactly what this was about. Afterwards, a very close friend came unexpected and immediately when I got home, keeping me engaged busily for 2 hours before I went to bed. The next morning when I recollected about this experience, it felt even more strange. So I decided to file this report to see if other people have reported it or other similar events.
December 27, 2014 · 11:00 AM · SPHERE
La Canada, CA
I was out hiking and came to a bench and sat down. A shadow passed over me from a Red Tailed Hawk that was flying. The Hawk was near the sun and I stood up to photograph it with my cell phone camera a Samsung Galaxy 5s. With the Hawk near the sun, it makes for a good picture showing the colors of the Hawk really well.I was holding the camera out away from me arms length. I Noticed A LIGHT IN the picture and figured it was sun light because I was taking pictures with the sun in them. When I brought the camera down to view my shots there was a sphere in the background in some of my shots. It was white and had brighter dots of raised lights that changed patterns seemed to rotate from top to bottom I have 6 or 7 very clear pictures of it. I was standing a 1/2 mile away to the south from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in LA Canada California.
December 27, 2014 · 3:15 AM · SPHERE
Waddell, AZ
Bright orange big orb...at first thought planet but was too big...then a smaller orange orb dropped from big one then split into two one went east and one north. Then big one disappeared????? Was about 3:15 am dec 27 was only a few minutes...????