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Witness reports, held as-reported. Each entry keeps its source, its coordinates where the record has them, and its place in the larger pattern.
13,832 entries
July 4, 2015 · 9:59 PM · CIRCLE
Grove, OK
After a couple minutes, and videos later, it flew up and disappeared.
July 4, 2015 · 9:54 PM · CIRCLE
Justice, IL
At 21:54 I sighted a red ball in the south at about 60 degrees up, slowly moving to the southwest. I called my girlfriend to come outside. By the time she came out she saw it fading away. I looked to the left and pointed out a second fireball coming toward us from the southeast. My girlfriend said it stopped for a couple of seconds and continued moving northwest. We saw it about 30 seconds before it faded out or turned out its lights. At 22:54, I went outside to see If I could see more. Within a minute, I saw another orange/reddish ball coming towards me from the south. I immediately called my girlfriend back out. We both were standing on my porch watching it slowly moving toward the north. It started to be blocked by my tree, so I went down my steps and kept backing up because I didn't want to lose sight of it. It started to move towards the East and it came right over me. My girlfriend yelled and said there was another one coming towards us. I told her I didn't want to take my eyes off the one that was moving East. Then she said there's 2 more. I looked at her and she was pointing at two that were directly in the west at a decent distance. I looked back up at mine and watched it fade away. The second one went directly north and faded away. The two out west, the one on the left was a little higher than the one on the right, faded into the distance. The duration for the 22:54 sighting was about 4 to 5 minutes. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 4, 2015 · 9:50 PM · CIRCLE
Carson city, NV
While waiting to watch fireworks, my girlfriend pointed out what we thought was a planet. It was round and was noticibly a diffrent shade of black than the sky was it also had a very slight orange tint to it. We quickly pulled up sky map to see what planet it was. It did not appear on skymap. I proceded to watch this object and it began to move slightly northwest in a slow erratic motion that turned and stopped several times then I lost track of it. If the sun is a hour past setting in the west how can I not clearly see a object that is directly overhead, and I can clearly see, just like the moon. I believe this object was using the earth's shadow to hide while it navigated through the sky.
July 4, 2015 · 9:30 PM · CIRCLE
Scotch Plains, NJ
At one point the higher green light turned red..then back to green and descended down in a straight line. Rose again above the trees and moved slowly to the right...then disappeared.
July 4, 2015 · 9:20 PM · CIRCLE
Vero Beach, FL
r. orange ball headed south fr. no. sky, hovered. Eventially in a flash headed from so. to west. HOVERED . TURNED north and faded into distance. Surely other must have seen this. EXTREMELY BRIGHT. THIS WAS WITNESSED FROM DRIVEWAY W/ BINOCULARS. (SP.?) Witness elects to remain totally anonymous. PD
July 4, 2015 · 9:04 PM · CIRCLE
Cincinnati, OH
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 4, 2015 · 9:00 PM · CIRCLE
Worcester, MA
Saw five orange/red lights moving slowly in a V-formation. No sound, lower than most planes would fly. Disappeared one after another at exactly the same point in sky. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 4, 2015 · 9:00 PM · CIRCLE
Dale City, VA
Approximately 10 minutes later, a similar object appeared from the same initial direction (south to north). Using binoculars this time, a faint but dark outline of a circle with a gray center could be discerned that had a red light pulsing directly underneath that also changed color to white, blue, and yellow but with the overall color being red. The red was a ruby red and not like an aircraft navigation light. The object turned and headed west, repeating the previous maneuver of appearing to climb and gain! distance before disappearing. A similar object appeared 10 to 15 minutes later again from the south but this time slightly further away. It also turned westward and disappeared from sight. Could have been one object total but was seen 3 times.
July 4, 2015 · 8:45 PM · CIRCLE
Surfside Beach, SC
During the firework show, there was one or two separate orange oval/ circle shaped crafts hovering near the fireworks display. It/they would go forward, backwards up, down and dim and get bright again. It would be really bright then get so dim it would disappear. We all looked up and everyone on the beach quit watching the fireworks and turned our attention to the craft that was hovering over our heads. I only saw one but a girl that stayed at the beach longer than I said there was more than one craft and they would join together and then split apart again. There was more than 3000 people there that had to see it, because it was right over the fireworks and if you were watching the fireworks in surfside you would have had to see it.
July 4, 2015 · 8:00 PM · CIRCLE
Keansburgh, NJ
It was 4th a little before the fire works when we saw this circular flying object in the sky hovering steady in place way in the sky showing read and green lights in what seem to be a pattern. Not only did that struck me as odd but the way it stood so steady and slid left to right so smoothly as if gliding in the sky did this a few times and then flew steadily off.
July 4, 2015 · 8:00 PM · CIRCLE
Strasburg, OH
This is a follow up from my prior report posted. I saw a mention of "Chinese lanterns" and never heard of them, so did the homework. I found youtubes of them. On one hand what we saw "could maybe" be Chinese lanterns BUT, it was a "still" night. Little to no winds. The "size" of what we say would have had to be very BIG Chinese lanterns. What we saw proceeded from south to north, other north to south, one headed east. Wind currents would have carried Chinese lanterns all the same direction and speed. It "could" be said that at a distance the slow depletion of the fuel cell as it dimmed and extinguished itself could appear to be confused as "speed". BUT, four of these remained "brilliant" AND traveled at high speed. Two of what we saw disappeared but then reappeared. I don't think that Chinese lanterns fuel cells when extinguished have igniters to "relight" themselves. None that I have found available. None "flickered".
July 4, 2015 · 12:40 AM · CIRCLE
Butler, MO
Walked into bedroom to start getting ready for bed about 12:30, after all the fireworks around the neighborhood had died down. There are three high windows in the back bedroom, at 12:40 noticed a reddish orange sphere like object moving in a north westerly direction, visible for about 15 seconds, and then partially obscured by the tops of the trees for about 10 seconds. After that it wasn't visible anymore. There was no noise at all, the wind was not blowing. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 4, 2015 · 12:23 AM · CIRCLE
Hatboro, PA
There were 4 total white lights high in the sky from the east that continued to disappear and reappear in different formations. No noise was heard. The event lasted approximately 20-30 seconds. They stayed in the check mark formation the longest before changing shapes. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 4, 2015 · 12:15 AM · CIRCLE
Chillicothe, MO
I was standing outside, smoking a cigarette and looking at the (nearly full) moon. A large tree blocked most of my view of the sky to the left of the moon. Through the tree branches I noticed a very large, bright "star", or so I thought at first. I moved several feet away from the tree to get a better look. "What a big star!", I thought. "I wonder if that is a planet, maybe mars, that is closer than normal. But I've seen mars many times and it's never THAT big." It was big and roughly circular, though hard to tell the shape because it was bright. After looking at it for a few seconds I saw it start moving. It was a sort of dirty orange or orangish-brown color. More orange than brown, but not a neon orange. It did not blink or pulsate at any time. I've never seen aircraft with lights of that color and aircraft lights usually blink. When it started moving I at first thought maybe it was some sort of sattelite that was! very close. But then it didn't move in a straight line. This was definitely not a meteor or an airplane. I doubt a helicopter could have moved the way it did, and again, I've never seen helicopter lights this color or helicopter lights that don't blink. There would be no reason for a helicopter to move in this fashion and I've never seen a helicopter move this way, though I suppose it might be possible. A helicopter is the only craft I know of that can fly in a non-linear way like this. Also, I never heard a helicopter noise, or any other noise during this sighting. After roughly 15 seconds of watching it, the craft "disappeared" (hard to describe). It seemed as though it flew away from me (not to the right or left, but directly away from me) and sort of looked smaller as it did so. This happened quickly. I was left wondering what I saw and if anyone else saw it and if there was anything I could or should do. I stood around looking all over the sky for! a while to see if it would reappear and so far it hasn't (I'm! typing this about an hour after I saw it). I was hoping it would come back so I could be ready with my cellphone camera. I should also note that there were a lot of fireworks earlier in the night, but this was definitely NOT a firework. There was no noise, it could fly any direction it wanted or stay stationary for a few seconds at a time. After looking at the sky for a while I went inside and looked up "how to report a ufo" on the internet and found this site and called the number. The guy who answered the phone suggested I write a report.
July 3, 2015 · 10:00 PM · CIRCLE
Weldon Spring, MO
Traveled pretty slowly at first, then began traveling at a speed much faster than the commercial plane. After traveling for some distance, the orange flying light suddenly changed its flight direction and it looked to be quickly flying directly away from the atmosphere, disappearing from sight.this orange light looked to have an ora or light trail, and sometimes it seemed as though the trail was in front of it, rather than behind the flight path.
July 3, 2015 · 10:00 PM · CIRCLE
Westminster, CO
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 3, 2015 · 9:45 PM · CIRCLE
Old Orchard Beach, ME
Suddenly the craft changed directions, dropping lower, then went sideways for a spell, then it came to a complete stop. When it moved again, it went up, and appeared to kind of bounce slowly as rose, then started moving sideways, back towards the fireworks. As the show ended, rather abruptly, without the usual "grand finally (sic. finale), the craft veered North, until it was right above me. I could see that it was round, surrounded by red lights. It then changed directions again, back towards the beach, slowly. It was over the water when it suddenly dropped, VERY QUICKLY, and then vanished into thin air. This is not the first time I've seen unexplained flying objects over the water but it's the closest, and longest, I've seen one. There is nothing else it could be other than a UFO because nothing moves through the sky (and disappears) like that. It was crazy. Freaked my kids right out.
July 3, 2015 · 9:00 PM · CIRCLE
Kingston, TN
This red object was low flying, silent and moved slow. It traved north east diretion and slowly gained attitude, and then traveled out of our sight.
July 3, 2015 · 12:30 AM · CIRCLE
Eugene, OR
I thought it was a satellite, at first, but then I noticed it was moving way too fast. More like the speed of an airplane, but it was flying low enough I should of heard its engine if it was an airplane. It was also flying in a zig zag pattern. At first the color of the object looked yellow, then as it went by blue or red, I can't remember. It could of been an airplane, but I've never seen one move like that ever, and it was quite.
July 2, 2015 · 9:57 PM · CIRCLE
Seattle, WA
On Thursday, July 2nd, at approximately 10pm, I raised my camera to take a picture of the Seattle skyline during a boat trip on Lake Union at dusk, and saw an object streak across my viewfinder from one side of the screen to the other. Thinking it may have been a reflection of a light that could have provided an interesting visual effect upon the photo, I swiped to the picture immediately to find a still capture of what was in fact two side-by-side saucer shaped lights flying across the city! They were bright white/blue in color and seemed to have a ring of light around two parts of each saucer. They appeared to the eye during the initial sighting as a streak going across my view at a very high speed, but the photo shows two clearly defined objects.
July 2, 2015 · 9:00 PM · CIRCLE
Winston-Salem, NC
Venus & Jupiter? PD
July 2, 2015 · 9:00 PM · CIRCLE
Makinen, MN
We spoke via telephone with the witness, and he sounded to us to be quite sober-minded. He said he would send photos of the six objects he witnessed. PD
July 1, 2015 · 11:30 PM · CIRCLE
Omak, WA
As my wife and I were sitting out in our backyard on recliners, we started noticing 3 red blinking lights at a 45 degree angle to the right of the moon where we were sitting. They blink out and appeared minutes later on the other side of the night sky. They moved across the night sky from southwest to northeast bouncing around in different formations. Then they combined as one and disappeared. At this time I had ran in the house and got my iPad and filmed as much as I could. Then a then a fourth white/red blinking light moved across the sky southwest to northeast starting just above our neighbors trailer. It moved very slowly and disappeared in the horizon. My wife went inside she was spooked. As I sat there I watched it come back and I tried to film it. I thought maybe this was just a plane or a fire helicopter during the night, but as it got close I saw the full shape with my eyes it was cylinder and had light around it and slanted light on the bottom. The lights moved in sequence and reminded me of led moving dolor lights. I was frozen and scared, since it was night above about the size of a button. I got up ran in side and got my wife out of bed. I brought her to the front to see if we could see it together. I was in sight and moving at a steady pace south and disappeared after a minute. I told her what it saw and that was it. I have what my iPad recording getting sent to the e-mail below.
July 1, 2015 · 8:00 PM · CIRCLE
Shirley, NY
All of a sudden I see this large white light kind of looked like the moon like fly up And stop. It stayed in 1 place for a few seconds I stood their and stared st it As I was trying to figure out what it was it took off to my left And was gone in less than a second. I told my son about it the next day and he said his friend saw the same exact thing. This is the same area where supposedly a ufo Crashed in smith haven park