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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.
11,675 entries
September 13, 2014 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
Duanesburg, NY
Bizarrely, staring at the object gave both of us the perception of VERY large, red lightning streaks emanating from it. I vocalized this red streaks experience and my wife said the same was happening to her; the streaks appeared more orange to her. At this point we pull out and iphone 5 to capture the brilliance of it on camera. Naturally, the video just shows a bright white sphere against a black background. The camera could not see what we saw. We must have watched the sphere for a few minutes. We had the inclination to drive another .5 miles to go home and get a better camera. We started the car and the object lost its red brilliance. Within 5 seconds of losing the red streaks characteristics, it disappeared by closing in on itself. While driving and lamenting this fact, a much faster moving and closer red and white object was visible in the Southwestern sky. The first object was far away. This second one was so close and so low that it appeared to descend quickly just over some trees not that far away. The road did not exactly allow us to investigate exactly where we thought this thing was aiming to land. The second red object lacked the red streaks characteristic of the first one.
September 13, 2014 · 10:08 PM · SPHERE
Trenton, ND
I was driving east on highway 1804 heading towards Williston, North Dakota, when I spotted an object flying south to southeast across the highway. I pulled over where highway 1804 approaches the northwest corner of Lake Trenton to observe. I took a video using my iPhone. It was too dark for the video to be of any use, but it did provide me with accurate location, time, and duration of the sighting. The object was approximately 100ft in the air and 200 ft from me when I pulled to the side of the road. I flashed my head lights at it, but got no response. I exited my vehicle and watched it continued to travel silently, perhaps fifteen to thirty miles per hour, away from me at a consistent altitude until disappearing out of sight. The object had a reddish orange flickering light at its center. It was roughly the size of a large trash can and spherical to ovoid in shape, but the central light made its boundaries diffuse and hard to definitively make out.
September 13, 2014 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Hagerstown, MD
We observed a sphere shaped object hovering in the sky, it had red, orange, and green lights flickering the whole way around the sphere. It stayed in one place for at least 20 minutes and then slowly moved north. We suspect that the object might have been a "twinkling" star, but we cannot be certain. PD
September 13, 2014 · 8:45 PM · SPHERE
Grand Junction, CO
I was sitting on the patio of the Grand Vista Hotel in Grand Junction, Colorado around 8:45 pm with my Aunt and her friend. Her friend interrupted our conversation and pointed out there were strange lights in the sky facing SW of the hotel. I immediately pulled out my phone and started capturing what we were seeing. I had seen the recent reports with similar descriptions and the red color we first noticed. There were at least 15 spheres moving together and changing color from red to a brighter almost yellow gold color. Some were breaking off and forming triangle formations. I took off running on Horizon Dr heading West. I was capturing these objects and talking to people near by alerting them to look at these lights in the sky above. A few thought they were Chinese Lanterns that were launched, but being so close to the airport and freeway it seemed like it would be a dangerous thing to do. I e-mailed the Bookcliff Country Club GM on the 14th inquiring if they had hosted a party that may have launched some Chinese Lanterns. I have not heard anything back. In my opinion they did not resemble or move like Chinese Lanterns would have and they match similar recent reports, including the UFOs over Olympia, WA.
September 13, 2014 · 8:15 PM · SPHERE
Port Townsend, WA
I was leaving Fort Warden front gate and turned right in my car. My husband was about ten seconds behind me and turned left in his pickup. I was just at the first stop sign and began driving and looked up to my left with my window open, and saw what I initially thought was a firework or low flare that was blue, but as it moved over the tree tops it was glowing blue white with no sound as my window was open, and it was not falling but went down behind the trees in front of me towards Chinese Gardens/North Beach area. My husband saw it just before me, as he turned left on the same road and as he turned onto the small road with his large pickup he ended up on the side of the road in the ditch.. When he started up the ditch he was looking directly up at a blue white disc with a circle around it but the center was the blue energy type light and there was no sound as it passed over him. It was at the same height over the trees and he didn't even think it was anyth! ing else but some type of flying craft but nothing he had ever seen before. About the same time 8:20 our daughter who was in Port Angeles was on a walk and she saw a bluish white light fly across the sky over the water but it went out of her sight as it went down behind the trees at Crown Park. She said she didn't know what it was, but it wasn't a jet or a plane or a helicopter and it was too close to be a star and that it was silent.
September 13, 2014 · 7:45 PM · SPHERE
Edmonds, WA
Bright green orb, very large shooting downward at extremely fast speed. Movement, trajectory, all how I would think a fireball would travel without the fire. It disappeared behind trees & I expected an explosion when it hit the ground but nothing. It was larger than what I think a meteor would be but that's my best guess. Early evening but sky quite bright. Possible meteor?? PD
September 13, 2014 · 7:00 PM · SPHERE
El Cajon, CA
At approximately 7:00PM, Saturday evening, September 13, I observed an orange sphere shaped object, motionless, about 35 degrees elevation from level ground with an estimated distance of 1/2 mile. The sky was clear with clouds in the far distance. At first I was convinced it was an amateur weather balloon, but it was very breezy out and the object did not move at all. The wind was blowing out of the southwest at about 5 knots, gusting to 7-8. My viewing angle was north-northeast. After watching the object for about 90 seconds, seeing no movement, I ran inside to get my binoculars for a closer look. When I returned roughly 20 seconds later the object was no longer visible. I had an unobstructed view of the sky within a 120 degree arc of the sighting. The approximate location would be near the intersection of Interstate 8 and Second Ave. Approximate diameter of the object is 4'. No lights or illumination noticed. The color was a solid international orange. Guestimate of altitude: 800'.
September 13, 2014 · 7:00 PM · SPHERE
Albuquerque, NM
Light on north side of Albuquerque. Went from large white orb shape to large red orb shape and then quickly turned small to where it was about the size of a star. Probably a planet or solar flares. Was very bright and had an aura/blur around it, once viewed thru a slit could see regular round shape. (( We suspect that the object was a hig-altitude, helium-filled balloon. One was reported to have been released from Ft. Sumner in New Mexico. http://www.topix.com/city/fort-sumner-nm/2014/09/enormous-balloon-will-carry-black-hole-hunting-telescope-aloft PD))
September 12, 2014 · 10:15 PM · SPHERE
Calgary (Canada), AB · Canada
A round orange white sphere was seen traveling North to South just above the horizon. The object traveled at an extremely high speed in a straight line without stopping or slowing down. The speed of the object was faster than any thing I have ever seen and could not have been any known man made object. It made no sound of any kind.
September 11, 2014 · 6:30 PM · SPHERE
New York (Remsaleer Train Station), NY
3 spiraling and circling orbs over the Rensaleer Amtrak train station. They appeared to be intelligently moving, and winked in and out. They also darted off at high velocity and steep angles. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 11, 2014 · 5:30 AM · SPHERE
Altadena, CA
Friday morning, I was at work and saw a sphere that had a mist around it. It had 2 light beams coming down that looked like a drooping fuzzy mustache. The a very direct beam of light came out of its side and pulsed a few times. It made no sound had the just disappeared
September 11, 2014 · 2:58 AM · SPHERE
Houston (Canada), BC · Canada
((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) The siting was at a Copper Mine, 120 km from Houston BC. I had just stopped for my last coffee. The night was bright because of the moon overhead. High, thin clouds. I saw a haul truck cresting the hill with its headlights on. Behind and above that haul truck was what looked like a very large light falling from the sky. It was a sphere in shape and very bright. It was falling at about a 45 degree angle. I was thinking there was gonna be a loud crash. Maybe this was a plane or something. It was only a short distance from the ground, maybe 100 feet. It disappeared behind a large stockpile. The light object was about the size of two haul trucks. There were four other people who saw this from all sides. The object passed over a large roadway we call tmf2. Crossed a water area and went just over the hill. There it disappeared. No crash, no fire, just disappeared. It was a solid light with no tail or anything following it and no noise of any kind. If you have any idea what it was, please let me know. I am so sure of what I saw as well as confirmation from the other eye witnesses.
September 11, 2014 · 12:10 AM · SPHERE
James Island/Charleston, SC
I was laying in bed just now shortly after midnight reading on the computer. All of a sudden I noticed an extremely bright white and royal blue light in the sky from my bedroom window. Couldn't have been more than a few hundred feet in the air. Both lights were moving in unison together in a Southeast to Northwest direction. I'm pretty sure it was one entity because the lights themselves were not very far apart from one another, maybe 10-20 feet from my perspective. The speed was constant and slow. Lights were both extremely bright, almost to the affect of looking into a cars headlights. I thought it was a helicopter at first because of the speed and low altitude, but it couldn't have been because it was completely silent. Very eerie feeling to witness something like this.
September 10, 2014 · 8:15 PM · SPHERE
Asheboro, NC
I was driving home from work after making my delivery and when I got about 2 miles outside of Asheboro, NC on I-73, I-74, I saw something I hadn’t seen before and I make this trip every day. I looked to my left about 2 or 3 miles ahead (it was dark) and there are some power poles/towers together that have some white lights going up the sides of them. They are not the tallest towers around, because there are a bunch of them around the few mile stretch of road, but those two are the closet two that are together. As I got closer I noticed the color turquoise was illuminating from between the two towers. The closer I got the more distinguished it became and at 1st I thought it had to be a blimp. But then I realized it wasn’t big enough. It was about half the size of a blimp. I kept looking for some kind of support under it like posts or metal legs holding it up and then I thought it must be a water tower they just put up, but I saw none when I got closer and it actually moved just a bit. I noticed as I got closer it had a string red lights all the way around it protruding like Saturn’s halo but I think was attached. When I got as close as I could, which was about probably a ¼- ½ mile to my left off through the woods, I saw it the best I could. It was the shape of a sphere. Almost like you would see in a cheesy sci fi movie form the 50’s. Illuminated in turquoise with the red lights going around it. It was actually chaos on the road as others saw it and were struggling to continues to drive straight as they tried to make out what they saw. I thought I’d be side swiped, The only thing that saved it from happening was there wasn’t very many cars on the road…I saw 2 cars pull over, but I was afraid to, because I feared someone would ass end me looking at the site as opposed to seeing me on the shoulder, so I reached for my iPhone to take a pic/video and struggled to get it on and just as I held it up, the damn trees blocked my view. So I drove real slow for the next mile, hoping to get a break in the trees as everybody else did as well. The speed limit is 65 there and everybody was doing 40. I took my exit about a mile later to go off on the split where I-74 leaves I-73 and hoped to get to an elevated spot where I could still see it. Finally as I began to give up I looked back and turned my neck as far as I could and I saw it! It had taken off and was headed due west (I was! headed north) and it had climbed high in a short amount of time, and it looked like a green airliner disappearing in the night sky. In about 3 minutes or so approx, I saw what appeared to be an air force jet go by high in the sky in that direction. I also saw about 10 NC State police doing about 100 mph headed south toward where I just came from.
September 10, 2014 · 6:30 PM · SPHERE
San Diego, CA
I pulled into my driveway at around 6:30 p.m. on 10 Sep 2014. I saw an object just to the right of my home and seemed to be hovering slightly above and behind my next door neighbor's home. The object reflected the late afternoon orange glow. The sky was clear that evening. At first I thought it may be a globe commonly seen hanging on power lines, but then realized there were no power lines in that area. I could see no means of flight and there was absolutely no sound coming from the object. I thought it was about 500 ft above the ground and I could see some details. It appeared to be a small object about 4-6 ft in diameter. The object appeared to gently sway as if impacted by a breeze, of which there was very little. It eventually drifted away to the Southwest and out of sight. I went inside and got my camera and took almost 3 dz photos. Also during the observation, I picked up my video camera and took about 12 min of video of the object toward the end of my sighting. I observed the object for about 45 min in total (according to the time and date stamps on my photos). I had to move my position to a different part of my backyard in order to continue to track the object as it drifted away. Finally it became too dark to track. Also I forgot to take my video camera out of auto focus, so as it got darker and the leaves of the trees moved, the object appears to go in and out of focus. That was my error. The first 2-3 min were observed without equipment. Then I secured my camera(s) for the remainder of the time. When I put the photos on my computer I could see more detail and noted 3 antenna or rods attached to the object. There is an airport a few miles away and airplanes were flying in the background, but none came near or even close to the object.
September 9, 2014 · 10:30 PM · SPHERE
Willow Springs, NC
This sighting was on a Saturday night August 9th approximate time was 22:30 hours i was burning brush and logs on this night and i had started the burn around 1900 hours and it was raining light off and on and a raining mist as i was under tree's as my pit is in back yard under three large tree's and fire was steady and being in a wheel chair a power chair that reclines i was having time to reflect on the up coming week at the national VA wheelchair games as i was flying out Monday! so i was enjoying it and as i was under the tree's had a perfect few of big tree's and my roof of my house and it was nice because my chair reclines so i was warm comfy and just kicking back as i looked toward the east around 2230 hours as my view was limited to my neighbor on the lefts front yard big pine tree then the roof line of my house and a large three that divides my neighbor on the right who is only here during mid winter months as he lives in the new York area and was n! ot home the street as i could tell was empty as everyone was in there houses .as i said i looked up towards the east and what i saw kinda shocked me because i thought it at first to be a loose weather balloons at one time i was stationed aboard aircraft carriers and land based air fields and have been around all types of aircraft in and out of military service! But this orange sphere was moving against the slight breeze at 2-3 mph going west and it had like two and at a time four pulsing light inside of sphere its orange color looked a little metallic as it was a orange and slightly teal not bright orange but going to bright as it passed my view did not see any thing hanging down as you would for a weather balloon no visual exterior lights! it was moving at this 2-3 mph past me at say 70-100 feet off the ground and i watched pass trees on my right but it either changed its course or direction because it never passed the stand of trees on my right toward my other neighbors! house! did not see anything as i was cleaning up from the bur! n and to ld my wife and kids what i had seen , well you can guess there reaction!! look i have seen about every kind of military or civilian aircraft in my time as i worked awhile at Hollywood/Burbank Calif at martin aviation during the time of the shunk works for the stealth aircraft a watching black c-5 galaxy land every other night during 1983-84 years so i know what to look for if something was man made this was not! and its been bugging me trying to come up with with a logical explanation of what i saw !and i dont have one two months later! Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 9, 2014 · 12:00 AM · SPHERE
Rutland, VT
Changed from red to orange going from south to northwest over the city was about 80 to 100 feet off ground then the four of us witnessed what looked like military jets circling the object then the object disappeared. People were stopping and asking us if they was really seeing what we was seeing we told them yes we are seeing the same thing...
September 7, 2014 · 9:24 PM · SPHERE
Salem, OR
I was laying in my backyard stargazing when I saw this unusually big glowing sphere appear in the sky, it hovered for a moment before dimming slightly and then brightening again. It then made its way off in a different direction, dimming and glowing as it went until I lost sight of it behind some trees. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 7, 2014 · 8:15 PM · SPHERE
Hull, MA
My wife and I parked in a lot by the ocean in hull we spotted an orange light the size of a planes landing light it was moving slow and seemed to be low in the air. As we watched, it stopped over the water, and then slowly changed direction slightly, stopped and remained motionless for a few seconds, then got smaller and smaller, then suddenly shrunk and disappeared. A little over an hour later, we witnessed the same thing it was in the same airspace as we saw the same stars and it was a cloudless sky and lit by an almost full moon. This object as it disappeared then flashed a quick flash of orange light and was gone. This object made no sound and was not a plane. I was in the Air Force for 8 years I know an aircraft.
September 7, 2014 · 1:00 PM · SPHERE
Natuashish (Canada), NL · Canada
They took a picture, I have a copy of the pic. Should I email the pic? It's on daytime.
September 7, 2014 · 11:00 AM · SPHERE
Chelsea, MI
27 year old daughter saw what appeared to be 3 very close objects emitting short thick plumes behind them. Pulled vehicle over so I could look but the object(s) were heading away to the east toward Detroit. First impression was a asteroid, but when my daughter and her boyfriend put their binocs on them they thought they looked like 3 orbs. Could not tell if they were joined or not. Could distinctly see 3 plumes. Military bomber perhaps? Never saw plane like that before if it was. It kept flying at altitude at a steady rate of speed. Hopefully more people noticed it. Weather was clear and sunny.
September 6, 2014 · 10:30 PM · SPHERE
Ken Caryl, CO
My wife and I saw a red orb with a fuzzy aura around it. No noise could be heard. I got pictures and a video on my iPhone. Orb was still then moved quickly to the North along the foothills. We watched it for about a minute. Can't say what it was other than it was not a plane or helicopter.
September 6, 2014 · 9:20 PM · SPHERE
Debert (Canada), NS · Canada
Large bright orange object moving from west to east. Similar look of a meteor, however, no tail and had a slower movement similar to the space station when viewed from earth. First spotted by my daughter at approx 21:15 (AST) and disappeared approximately 4 mins later. No noises or occurrences during sighting
September 6, 2014 · 9:06 PM · SPHERE
Lakeland, FL
At 9:06 pm My family and I witnessed a bright orange fireball like object flying in the sky we watch object fly towards us and stop and hovered for just a few min off in the distance when the object suddenly turned the light dimmed a little and then just disappeared. We were able to capture 3 pictures